WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Emergency Maller Monologue! 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.479 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:30.640 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.840 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:40.040 Mahler and Danny g Radio and a happy Saturday to 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.479 you here. It is the eighteenth day of October. As 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.919 we are slicing and dicing the audio Sweatshop does not stop. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:48.560 Now. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.000 It's a blessing in a curse, Danny. The blessing is 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:56.560 that when something happens on a Friday night into the 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.280 weekend and we're not on the radio, the blessing is 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.000 we can come in here and talk about it. It's 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.399 also a curse because we. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.360 Can come in here and talk about it. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.399 But yeah, we're I think we're gonna just talk about 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.480 what happened last night at Dodgers Stadium as the Dodgers win, 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.400 the Pennant Dodgers win the pennant, they win the National 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:22.880 League pennant, and so this is the unofficial post post 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.240 post post look back last night in the League Championship 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.319 Series of the Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers and are 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.479 going back to the World Series yet again, to take 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.240 on either Toronto or Seattle. At this point, you'd say 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.800 Seattle because they're one went away. But that'll be the matchup. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.920 And if it is Seattle, Danny, everyone will be complaining 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.840 on the Eastern seaboard. Oh it's two West Coast teams. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.880 Who cares about that? But we'll worry about that when 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:49.960 we get to the World Series. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.200 But man, what a night. 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:56.480 Let's start with that the show. Hey Otani, game, plain 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.560 and simple. It's a shame that happened on Friday night 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.960 because it goes into a football weekend. But the Milwaukee Brewers, 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:09.160 I mean, my god, I mean's they got knocked out 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.200 in the first round. Otani hits the home run to 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.160 begin the game, ends up with three home runs, two 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.200 hit ball he pitched into the seventh inning, the first 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.880 leadoff homer by a pitcher in postseason history. Of course, 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.960 how many pitchers have batted leadoffs, So it's kind of 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.200 one of those weird things. But he was at one 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.440 man wrecking crew and it was it was an all 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.800 time game. I think the jumping off point here was 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.840 what Brian Anderson on Turner said. He said, it was 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.320 the greatest performance in Major League Baseball history. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.239 Who's a Brewers broadcaster, Brian Anderson. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.280 He works for the Brewers during the season, but he 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.200 does the Turner for the playoffs and all that. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.480 I didn't know he was a Brewers guy. I was 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.360 going to say, I thought he did a good job 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:53.320 during the series. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.400 Yeah, yeah, he's he does Milwaukee Brewers TV during the 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:57.280 during the season. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.160 But but that line, now, you know. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.480 Ron Darling also on the Turner broadcast last night, I 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.919 was like, yeah, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen, 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.640 and like the only nitpick thing I have on that 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.440 and listen, it was an amazing performance by Altani. But 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.680 it was the league championship series and it wasn't an 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.799 elimination game. It wasn't Game seven of the World Series 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:24.200 anything like that. So I do think context matters on that. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.800 You know, It's like if you drop a fifty burger 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.519 in the Eastern Conference Finals, it's not the NBA Finals. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.280 You know what I mean, So that does mean something. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.320 Yeah, although the Brewers had the best record in all 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:42.800 of baseball, nobody, including US Dodger Homer's expected a sweep. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.120 I think any Dodger your fan would be lying if 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.800 they said today, oh I thought we were going to 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.880 sweep them. No, none of us. I mean, I hear 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.640 what you're saying. But the stage it was on. I mean, 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.760 it's not Otani's fault that the Brewers were not hitting 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.600 the baseball, Well, it kind of was his fault during 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:00.800 its bitch performance. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.320 Yeah, listen, it was amazing. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.440 I mean the way the Brewers played and really the 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.640 the end of the Cup series. To remember those games 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.080 in Chicago, they were not competitive in the games at 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.720 Wrigley Field, they really got smashed, and then they came 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:16.560 back and they won and then they go to the 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.159 play the Dodgers. But it was like watching the way 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.480 the Brewers were playing here at the end, it was like, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.279 if you're old on us, remember when Mike Tyson would 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.640 fight some tomato can on a Tuesday in Atlantic City, 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.520 you know, before he became you know, Mike, the big 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.560 Mike Tyson. But the Brewers, Yeah, you're right, they had 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.479 the best record in baseball. That's true, but the way 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:40.039 they were playing recently, like traffic cones, and you know, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:45.640 it didn't even look fair. The Dodgers starting pitching versus 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.080 the Brewer it was like the adults versus children, and 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.760 I was very critical. I got a lot of crap. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.080 I'm still getting crap for my Kershaw monolog. By the way, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.520 Kershaw did not do anything in the league Championship series 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.039 because he wasn't there as far as playing, so I 0:04:59.080 --> 0:04:59.440 was right. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.080 Viewed him after the game. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.400 I know, I know why they do. 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.360 Remember also, by the way, Pedro Martinez was trying to 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.200 poke the Dodger fan be very worried about the Brewers. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:11.080 Remember he sent that. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:11.680 Comment on us. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.320 Yeah, yeah, I guess we were supposed to forget about 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.720 that because the Brewers didn't show up. But uh, this 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.479 was highlight reel versus practice state, right, like Otani was 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.159 toying with him and the fact that he wins the MVP. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.880 Remember the story a couple of days ago, Danny was, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.640 you know, Oti's got to take extra batting practice. What's 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.080 wrong with him? He's not a primetime playoff player. You 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.800 looked at his numbers and he was he didn't play 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.000 well in the World Series last year. You looked at 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.200 his postseason numbers, You're like, well, this is not good 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.080 at all, Like this is this is just gonna be 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.960 another guy that doesn't perform well in the playoffs and 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.760 then this happens, and no one's going to remember any 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.440 of that. No one's going to remember Otani taking extra 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:54.360 batting practice something he normally doesn't do, because that performance 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.040 is a myth making performance. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.880 That was Babe ruth in HD is what that. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.480 Man'? You and I we've both seen. I don't know 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.760 if you've seen it in person because it's only happened 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.719 a handful of times, and there's plaques out there. In fact, 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.480 it happened. Oh it was Schwarbs. He hit one where 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.680 they put a plaque out there. I don't know about you, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.400 but I've never seen somebody hit the ball out of 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.400 Dodger Stadium in that part of the park. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.600 Well, I've never seen it. Well, I'm trying to. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.040 I think I might have seen it in a game 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:30.840 when the steroid days. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:32.279 I'm trying to. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.279 I was going to say, I've seen a player pull 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:34.920 up baseball. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:35.960 You know what's amazing. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.920 When I was doing Dodger Talk in the nineties. They 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.240 had two players that was during batting practice, Danny Mike 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.720 Piazza and a guy named Billy Ashley, who both on 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.120 at least once every home stand would hit at least 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:55.279 one ball out of over the pavilion at Dodger Stam. 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.240 So I did see it behind the bat again, but 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.560 I never I almost say never in the game. I 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.239 think I saw one time and I don't even remember 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.120 who hit it. But the other thing is Babe Ruth, 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.000 I said, you know, Babe Ruth in HD. Babe Ruth 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.560 never played in the league championship series. You know that Danny, 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.280 he never played in the because there was no league championships. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.920 Yeah. Well, I saw a stat last night during the 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.640 game that said he never hit a home run while 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.280 he was also pitching a game. Oh okay in the postseason. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:25.680 Yeah. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.920 I mean it's like, what is the greatest people talk 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.600 about the Reggie Jackson was at three home runs three 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.360 pitches for the that was in the World Series against 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:38.480 the Dodgers. The greatest pitching performance in my lighte Tom, 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.680 I hate to say it, but Madison Bumgardner for the Giants, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.720 and uh, I think it was game seven. Remember that 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:50.880 was that was insane white thing flying at my face. Well, oh, Toni, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.320 this is the League Championship Series and it's not nothing, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.720 but the Dodgers gonna be in the World Series. If 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.880 he does that in the World Series, then oh my god. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.200 But it's you know, it's a. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.760 It was a nice wake up call I had to endure. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.480 First Steve Covino from Covino and Rich. He was piling 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.720 on Otani this past week because he's an Aaron Judge fan. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.080 He's a big Yankees honk, and so is Rob Parker. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.160 So I was sandwiched in between Steve Covino talking mess 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:28.040 about Otani's postseason into Rob Parker, who's been screaming anti 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.040 Otanni stats for the past two weeks on the network, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.240 and it was it was great Ben. After Otani hit 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.960 that four hundred and sixty nine foot moonshot, I texted 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.520 Rob and I said thank you for waking Otani up, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.360 and he sent a laughing of moji back. Rob Parker. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.160 I know he's happy he's not on the air. This 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.200 is what he tweeted. Don't be a prisoner of the moment. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.560 Amazing game by Otani, for sure, but he was hitting 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.040 one fifty in postseason with a ton of strike before tonight. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.360 Real assessment. Otani is a unicorn, but not the goat. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:11.120 Totally premature. So you know, you know Ben Rob's famous 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.000 for after a team loses a series or a big game, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.800 he'll tweet that it's so quiet in that city you 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.160 can hear a mouse urinating on fill in the blank. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:20.680 Yeah. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.520 Yeah, that was the first to comment, and I said, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.320 love your Rob, but it's so quiet right now in 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.880 your mansion that you can hear a mouse urinating on 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.680 your o Tani postseason notes. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.800 Yeah, it's that's sick. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.160 That home run, the four hundred and sixty nine foot 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.280 as you said, home run, that was like, did they 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.520 check with did that go through TSA? Did that get cleared? 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.480 I don't know if that was allowed in the airport. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.679 My god, but it's the Brewers. It was like they 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.439 were made out of blue and yellow. Play though in 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.400 this league championship and they DoD just starting pitching, and hey, 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.440 if your bullpen blows, just have your starting pitching dominate 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.520 the way the Dodgers did. And they molded, shape, squeezed, 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:09.080 and just mutilated the line up there and you've got 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:13.600 the pigeon. You've got the statue and the Dodgers my god. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.439 Uh and this is why everyone else hates the Dodgers 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.840 and all that. But for now, yeah, this is the 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.960 show hail tany game, and you know, the curtain is up. 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.960 The curtains down, the Brewers are done. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.440 And I because it's the league championship series, I put 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.520 a little bit of a caveat on that. It was ridiculous. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.920 It was awe inspire. It's one of those things ten 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.000 years from now, do you remember when Otani hit three 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.800 home runs and pitched into the seventh inning of the 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.160 of the game and all that stuff. So the Dodgers, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:43.720 what is it twenty sixth pennet? 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.560 Is that right? I think the twenty six penny. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.439 Check this out. You were talking about the starting pitching 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:53.720 the Dodgers starters era for the series point six y three. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:55.280 Yeah, it was crazy. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.280 They allowed two earned runs in twenty eight and two 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.360 thirds innings and had thirty five. And the thing that 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.560 made the Brewers great was that they were pesky, they 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:09.280 were opportunistic, they were disciplined, they played smart baseball. All 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.120 of that went out the window in this series and 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.240 the Dodgers, the thing is frustrating about the Dodgers is 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.880 they were supposed to play like this during the regular season. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.559 They really didn't. They were underachieving during the regular season, and. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.960 Those of us who watched the entire season, it was stressful. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.240 It was a long, stressful season. 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.920 Yeah, no, they were bad and I got crap for 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.160 ripping them, but they deserve to be ripped. We do 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.240 a daily talk show and we talk about it. That's 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.199 the job description. We react in real time as like 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.600 all these people send them hemil Well, I told you so. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.480 You should have just waited to the playoffs, Danny. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.839 Can you check with our bosses at Fox and can 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.600 you see if they'll allow us to wait to do 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.479 a talk show and give an opinion until after the playoffs. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.640 Can you check and see if that's okay, because I'm 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.080 pretty sure that's not the job description that we have here. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.520 I'm pretty sure it's a daily job where you go 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.080 in there and it's like it's like in sports, you 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.680 read and react. You read what the defense is doing, 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.080 you react to it. Well, in our job, you read 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.200 what's going on in sports that day and you react 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.080 to it. And just because the Dodgers apparently decided a 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.920 sandbag during the regular season. Congrat this is now two 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.800 years in a row, Danny, two years in a row 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:17.160 they did the same. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.520 Bull crap, No lie, no bs. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.240 Remember how torn up weather beating the Dodger pitching staff 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.720 was last season. And then they got the out of 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.480 body experienced by Walker Buller, who went back turned back 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.080 into a pumpkin this year for the Red Sox and 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.080 was with the Phillies. But my god, now on the 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.880 other side for the Brewers. How depressing if you're in Wisconsin. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:44.040 An absolute no show in the NLCS. And this was 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.040 not just a series. It wasn't It was a failure theater. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.160 It was like the Brewers with his traveling Broadway production 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.000 how not to hit a baseball? 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.320 I mean, my god, as you would say, this was 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.160 a rat kill. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.760 Yes, they made history, and not the good kind of history. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.000 For Games four and the Brewers managed fourteen inch. The 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.640 Dodgers scored more runs fifteen than the Brewers had hits 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.320 in the Nationally Championship Series. The Brewers batted one oh 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.160 eight in the NLCS. I am told that is a 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:20.960 Major League record for offensive futility. This was not just cold. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.520 This was rob Parker visiting Antarctica cold. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.160 This is what this was. This this is not a slump. 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:30.559 This is like Ted Williams head in a cryogenics chamber somewhere. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.600 And the kicker, you know, the Dodgers treating Milwaukee like 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.240 a chew toy, like a dog, my dog, Moxie. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.000 Would treat a chew toy. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.480 And you mentioned the starting pitching and all that, how 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.760 dominant they were was at zero point sixty three as 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:44.680 though you said, Danny. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.560 Do Yeah, yep, there's more to that stat really quick 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.360 here right. It says Dodger starters twenty eight and two 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:56.760 third innings, two runs allowed, nine hits thirty five case. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.400 Wow, it's insane. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.600 These are like, yeah, those are like video game stats. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.840 Oh yeah, that's like a major league baseball team playing 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.720 freshman high school baseball team, is what that is. That's 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.800 it's insane. I go back to what I said about 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.480 the Brewers just to finish up that point. Watching the 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.120 Brewers play and I got the you know, I got 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.520 the games, all the games during the season. I'm some 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.520 of the bets on some games from now and then 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.920 now and again, and I'll flip around and I'll watch 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.880 certain teams, and I'll watched the Brewers a lot because 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.480 they were on normally when I was settling in to 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.600 start preparing for the overnight show. The games would start 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.080 about five o'clock, and you know, it's around prep time 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.600 for me to start getting ready for the show. And 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.960 so the Brewers, I do believe, you know, Danny, I'm 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.720 a multiverse guy. Believe there's multiple dimensions in the multiverse. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.120 So there is a dimension where in Game one, the 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:49.600 turning point was that Bryce Terrain at bat in the 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.400 ninth inning, tying run at third, bases loaded, and he 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.320 decides to pogo stick out of the ray rather than 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.760 get hit by a pitch. Would have tied the game 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.960 and the crowds going wild. The Brewers would have been tied. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.920 They would have had the Dodger bullpen, the much ballyhooed 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:08.440 in a bad way Dodger bullpen. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.240 But he jumped out of the way. He then swung 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:10.720 in a pitch. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.400 A couple of weekends ago, you and I were on 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.960 this very podcast with our worries about the bullpen. But 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:18.560 how do you avoid that problem? 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.160 Yeah, well, they use it, but if you have six 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.680 plus innings of good starting pitching, chances are you going 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.240 to have the lead in every game, and when you 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.800 have the lead, that puts the pressure on the other team. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:34.640 But the Brewers just awkward check swings, just just a mess, 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.240 and the thing is crazy. Here's another fun fact. You 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.880 want a fun fact here, The Brewers have never never 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.760 had a four game stretch in the entire franchise history 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.680 with fewer hits, Not in the regular season, not in 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.960 the playoffs, not when they were an expansion team, not ever, 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.800 not when we were Seattle pilots. And you know, you 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.880 can dress this up and people are gonna say, well, 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.280 it's the Dodgers, they are a juggernaut, but we talked 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:00.840 about Danny. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.360 They hadn't been a juggernaut this year. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.240 But the Brewers hit one O eight if my math 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.200 is right here, my malor math one eight in the 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:10.880 National League Championship Series. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.560 Wow, that doesn't even sound real. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.400 And that the one highlight was Game one where they 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.640 had a chance and Bryce terrang, as we said, not 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:20.960 getting hit by the pitching Game one. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:21.920 That was the big moment. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.440 Yeah, Dave Parker is rolling in his grave over that play. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.200 Former guests, by the way, on this podcast, the Great 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.960 Dave Parker. Yeah, and again I understand the narrative people have, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.760 the small market team, you Cinderella run. It was a 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.520 good season for the Brewers and all that, but the 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.680 way they had played and they dominated the Dodgers during 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.000 the regular season, all that, and the Dodgers just twisted 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.280 them into a soft pretzel and made them into a 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.920 paper airplane, whatever analogy you want to use on that. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.600 And it's wild that a Brewers team that had been 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.320 that good. And I like Pat Murphy. I think he's 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:56.760 a good dude. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:57.960 It seems like the kind of guy want of a 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:59.280 beer with the Brewers. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.800 It's funny too in his press conferences. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.159 Yeah, I mean, the Brewers just didn't belong on the 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.199 same field with the Dodgers. And it was it was 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.800 a sweet but it was like it didn't seem other 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.639 than Game one. It didn't really get that dramatic. It 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.800 was really clinical. I felt like, I mean, it's like 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.880 the Brewers. Now all my friends from Chicago Danny are saying, hey, 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.679 you jinxed yourself because when the Brewers beat the Cubs, 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.920 they held up an L flag just mock the Cubs, 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.200 and it's like, now, you Brewer guys are going to 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.760 need an exorcism because you couldn't hit because you've you've 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.159 messed with the cub and so there you got your 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.840 own curse. Congratulations there and that's it. Now turn the 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.919 page on it. I didn't want to mention this. The 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.480 Dodgers won a lot the last couple of years, actually 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.760 the last ten years, they won a lot, and so 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.640 they punched their ticket to the Fall Classic. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.240 And then we get the postgame celebration. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.040 And I use that term loosely, Danny, because it's basically 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:57.840 a corporate commercial, now. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:02.120 Is it not? Kind of yeah, it's the sing did 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.320 like seeing Key k Hernandi is singing though, but it's 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:05.680 like the. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.959 Same damn thing every time. It's cookie cutter. It's on field. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.639 You got a hug fest, right, a little bit of 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.520 a dog pile, maybe a little champagne at some point 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:20.439 here cameras. You get the pre printed MLB caps and 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.040 shirts right with the logo. 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.119 You got that. The coach and the front office talking 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.879 head they all keep saying how we have the best 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.280 fans in all of basebook because they want to get 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:33.720 more cheers out of the crowd. 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.080 That's a little sort of thing. The sorta was famous 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:36.800 back in the day for that. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.680 But they have a it's like they're staging a catalog 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.800 shoot for postgame merch though after the game, and you're right, 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.320 and then they've got the thing that's really been popular 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.240 the last few years has been right in front of 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.320 the mound, the team does the posed class photo with 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.280 the sport in the background. It's like senior photo shoot, 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.000 except there's more bubbly guys with their shirts off. Although 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.360 I look at the Dodger looked like they all had 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.400 their merch their playoff merch on looked like they had 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.960 all that. So then you watch this, then they do 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.320 the trophy. After they do the photo on the field, 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.880 they then do, as you said, the trophy presentation. They've 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:17.080 got the portable stage. Somebody from the league there speaks, uh, 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.119 you know, it's like high school graduation. At this point 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.919 you mentioned, the manager comes up there kind of fake humble. Uh. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.159 You know, we love the fans. We couldn't do this 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:28.879 without you. This is a special group. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.199 You know. The players yell in the background, you know, 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.399 and you can practically hear the producer of the TV 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.720 broadcast saying, okay, Q, the Gatorage shower boys. You know, 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.399 let's get the or the champagne shower, and uh, they 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.320 nobody believed in us, which is always fun, but it's 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:50.080 just not organic. It's not It's like HG TV when 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:51.680 I when I watched Love It or list It. There's 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.359 a format to it, you know, it's like celebrate. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.760 But the Dodgers version of nobody believed in usay is, yeah, 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:00.840