1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Talking Bays Ball. It's our number one, our one of 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: the original recipe podcasts. We stayed up all night, literally 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: all night till the early morning hours to provide you 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: with fresh pod and you found the show and we 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: thank you for that. It is the Ben Mathers Show. 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: And here in hour one of original audio content with 7 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 1: Tucson Baseball. Does this win against Cincinnati last night count 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: as a statement victory for the Dodgers? Also thumbs upper, 9 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: thumbs down? Does Aaron Boone deserve to be char broiled 10 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: for his decision to take Max Freed out of a 11 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: game the Yankees bullpen would go on to blow against 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: the Red Sox. And what are some of the other 13 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: takeaways from the game ones between the Cubs and the 14 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: Podres and the Cleveland team formerly known as the Indians 15 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: as they took on the Detroit baseball team formerly known 16 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: as the Tigers. We'll talk about all of those storylines 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: and more right now here. It is our number one, 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: back to being the big Blue wrecking crew. Welcome in 19 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: the beginning of another night of the Ben Mahlor Show. 20 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 1: We are in the air everywhere, chilling in the audio 21 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: world as we deal with fools and trolls on a 22 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: nightly basis coast the coast, border to border and beyond. 23 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: On the vast and emphatically powerful microphones of fs are 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: amminating live food, live the slam, the grand Salami of 25 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: sports yapp here from the world famous Fox Sports Radio Studios, 26 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 1: as approved by not A Burner and Manuel in Guardina. 27 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: They both give the old thumbs up on that this 28 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: portion of the Ben Malor Show on Fox made possible 29 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: by our friends at ti iraq. 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The flag is 39 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: up and we're off to the races. We'll start out 40 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: our in depth team coverage, which is me and my 41 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: many personalities, and we'll start out in Los Angeles. It 42 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: was the wild Card Round. It was an all day situation, 43 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: starting at one o'clock eastern ten am on the West coast, 44 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: baseball action all the way into the wee hours of 45 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: the night. Well actually we're on in the wee hours 46 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 1: of the night. But the Wildcard Round we had games 47 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: starting in Cleveland. There were four games, two in the 48 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: American League, two in the National League. Baseball action underway, 49 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,839 Speaker 1: and so we'll start with the last game. I don't 50 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: know if you saw it or not. It ended not 51 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: that long ago. Perhaps you were not watching, if you 52 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: had something else going on. I don't know, but don't worry. 53 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: We watched so you would not have to. I wasted 54 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: an entire day of my life watching these Wildcard games. 55 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: So anyway, now, show hey, Otani, show, I'll be bet 56 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: on two home runs. Otani and Tao Hernandez each had 57 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: two home runs. And that schmuck Blake smell a Snell 58 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: who smells Blake Snell fits seven innings of quality ball. 59 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: The Dodgers molly wopped the reds Now. The final score 60 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: was ten to five. The Dodgers was the perfect game 61 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: for the Dodgers because it was a ten to five game. 62 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: They were up. It was ten to two at one point, 63 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: and they allowed the Reds to get some runs. There. 64 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: More on that in a second. But the wildcard game 65 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: game one, it's best of three. Remember, so if you 66 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: win the first game, you only have to win one 67 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: of the next two and you have advanced into the 68 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: divisional round of the playoffs. These Fugasey playoffs, they added 69 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: some extra teams years ago, and they continued to do that. 70 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: So let us discuss question. Does this domination count as 71 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: a statement victory for the Dodgers? All right, so on 72 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: this one, I've got windmills, dirty water, and ringworm, and 73 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we 74 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: are going to make some soggy ballpark nachos. So I 75 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: opened up my my inbox, which is a you know, 76 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: generally a mistake to open up the EMFO. I finally 77 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: had to block someone who just was harassing me via email, 78 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: just a loser. So I blocked that. Finally able to 79 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: get through my email, which is good, and I was 80 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 1: getting the huh, you're gonna apologize, Ben? You see the 81 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: Dodgers a big deregive apologize. Yeah, A bunch of Andrews 82 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: and baker Field in Bakersfield, out there doing this not 83 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: just so hey. To answer the question, does this count 84 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: as a statement win? The Dodgers getting ten runs, fifteen hits, 85 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: never in any real danger against the Cincinnati Reds in 86 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: Game one of the Wildcard Round, My answer is three words, no, no, 87 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: and no. That's my answer. All right, stop it just stop? 88 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: Is it amateur hour? Is that what we're doing now? 89 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: It's not a statement that was a formality. That was 90 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: a formality. When you're the heavyweight champion of the World, 91 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: the raining World Series champion, and you're walking and here's 92 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: the Dodge is walking in to the ring, and the 93 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: Reds in this matchup are glass Joe. That's who the 94 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds are. They're glass Joe. They're playing with house money. 95 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: The Reds are not even supposed to be here. The 96 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 1: only reason that got in is because the Mets blow 97 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: and lost their final game against the Marlins. So you're 98 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 1: supposed to land a bunch of haymakers, and the Dodgers did. 99 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: It's the equivalent of announcing to the world I've won 100 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: the Masters. WHOA I won the Masters? All right? And 101 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: then you look at the details you're like, well, you 102 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: won the Masters, but it was at a pitch and 103 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: putt course and there were lots of windmills and fake volcanoes. 104 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: Whoop de damn do congratulating like the Dodgers are the 105 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: gambling favorites here. They have a roster that is a 106 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: galactic empire type roster when you look at the payroll 107 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 1: and who they've got. If anything, though, this was the 108 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: perfect kind of a night if you're doing talk radio. 109 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: Because the Dodgers won. I don't want the Dodgers to lose. 110 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 1: I like them to win. I don't think they have 111 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: any chance going forward with the way this team is 112 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: set up because they have a fatal flaw and they 113 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: don't avoid the fatal flaw. The underlying condition popped up 114 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: in this game, so that will could it pop up 115 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: if you didn't watch The game was ten to five 116 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: Dodgers one. They were never really in any danger but 117 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,119 Speaker 1: that bullpen. If they were a professional arrest of the bullpen, 118 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: their name would be el Stinko, the Dodger bullpen. They 119 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: walked in two runs. They have no balls. The Dodger 120 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 1: bullpen has no ball. They're afraid to throw strikes when 121 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: they have an eight run lead. What the f is 122 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: wrong with those losers? You walked in two runs in 123 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: the eighth inning, two different relief pitchers. The game was 124 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: already over at that point, and the bullpen said, wait, 125 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: don't forget about us. Here we are. That is the 126 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: soft underbelly. That is the soft underbelly. That is the 127 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: leaky faucet of the Dodgers. That's dripping that Your water 128 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: bill's so high because that bullpen that is the weak spot. 129 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: It is glaring. It is absolutely glaring. And so you 130 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: know what's coming up. The winner of this series is 131 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: gonna take on the Philadelphia Phillies. If you look at 132 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: your playoff bracket, yeah, there's actually a playoff bracket. The 133 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: winner will take on the Philadelphia Phillies in the next round. 134 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: And if you're the Phillies, all right, that's working. We'll 135 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: find out whether or not this continues or not. We'll 136 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: find out whether or not these guys actually grow a 137 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: spine and grow some balls and get hair on their 138 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: chest and all that stuff in the next round. But 139 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: the Dodgers look like a really hollow team, a hollow bunny. 140 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: The Dodgers, right, it is shiny and pretty on the 141 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: outside looks all good. You bite into it and you're like, 142 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: oh man, that sucks, Whereas I thought that was solid chocolate. 143 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: You know. In the Phillies, good luck on. You know, 144 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: the Phillies are legit that offense. But again, Cincinnati, it's 145 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: like a scrimmage. It's like a scrimmage. You play Cincinnati 146 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: batting practice. The real test will be when you've got 147 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: Bryce Harper there and you've got Kyle Schwarber hitting bombs 148 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: and all that and doing his thing. That's the real test. 149 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: And we'll see if the Dodgers end up being again 150 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: like the chocolate bunny that's hollow, or or if they're 151 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,959 Speaker 1: actually a brick house as the old song goes there. 152 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: But Game one of the Dodgers and Reds it I 153 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: call it a water works game. What does that mean? 154 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: It means the Dodgers' offense was the fire hose, So 155 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: that's the water on that side. But then the bullpen 156 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: was the drippy, leaky faucet, and so that's the other side, 157 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: as we pointed out, And it's nothing more than that. 158 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: It's just you know, they can still lose the next 159 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: two games. That shouldn't They shouldn't lose one game to 160 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 1: the Reds, but you can't get a state in victory, 161 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: like I don't understand, like the mind sid you guys 162 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: were such you were trying to troll me so hard. 163 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: You know who you are, who sent me the emails? 164 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: You know you are. You're trying to bust my balls 165 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: that you didn't even factory in the opponent. You played 166 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: a bunch of little leaguers, the Cincinnati Reds here, and 167 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: you came in there and your arsenate arsonist in the 168 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: bullpen came in there facing a bunch of Cincinnati hitters, 169 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: and we're afraid to throw strikes right, And now you 170 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: got later on, assuming you don't screw this thing up, 171 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: You've got the Phillies and the lumber company from Philadelphia. 172 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: Good luck in a bandbox of a ballpark, all right. Now, 173 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: turning the page, we had Yankees and Red Sox. Yankees 174 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: and Red Sox. Garrett Crochet getting her done there for 175 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: the Red Sox. He had seventeen consecutive batters retired. I 176 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: didn't play professional baseball. I'm told that's good. When you 177 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: get seventeen consecutive batters out, I'm told that's good. And 178 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: it was a s performance as he had last shine 179 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: here at Crochet in that one. And then it was 180 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: a pinch hitter Masataka Yoshida who lined a two run 181 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: ribby single off the woe begone Yankee reliever Luke Weaver. Well, 182 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: that guy sucks u and that was the big hit there. 183 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: The Red Sox get past the Yankees three game, three 184 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: to one the finals. So it's game one. All these 185 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: games played at Yankee Stadium there and so we'll see 186 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: how this goes here. But the game had some dramatics 187 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: there late as the Red Sox led three to one, 188 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: he saw it. New York loaded the bases single single single, 189 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: had the bases loaded, nobody out down two a raw. 190 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 1: This Chapman on the mound, all star closer, former Yankee, 191 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: longtime multi time Yankee, Raldis Chapman, and he was able 192 00:10:57,559 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: to get out of the jam, did not give up 193 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: a run despite single single single. The start things here. 194 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: So Boston improves now. But another win against the Angle, 195 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: I think ten and four versus the Yankees there and 196 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 1: there need one more win, one more win to advance. 197 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: But the better story, you know where, that's right, The 198 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room, and so 199 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: that is where we are going to go in the story. 200 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: Everyone is talking about here the decision. Was it made 201 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: by Aaron Boone? Was it made by Dorksville, USA and 202 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: the Bronx? Who knows? But well, Game two is later 203 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: on on Wednesday night. We must go back and focus 204 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: on what happened as the Yankees and Red Sox the 205 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: the better story in the losing locker room. So the 206 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 1: big moment was when Aaron Boone decided to pull Max Freed, 207 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: who was pitching a masterpiece. Masterpiece. Now again, this is 208 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: something I know. I'm gonna date myself with my generation. 209 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: I grew up like this was playoff baseball, great pitchers. 210 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: This is why you have great starting pitching. You let 211 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: them go out there and just deal. And it's a 212 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,599 Speaker 1: different style of play in the playoffs. I don't know. 213 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: Now we're heading into October. This was the last day 214 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: of September on Tuesday. But my god, it's so stupid. 215 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: So Aaron Boone decides to pull Max Freed, who was 216 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: pitching a great game. He had pitched I believe, six 217 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: and a third shutout innings of baseball, and he had 218 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: thrown one hundred and two pitches. So I guess his 219 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: arm was going to be amputator if he threw one 220 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: hundred and three pitches. They were going to have to, 221 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:35,839 Speaker 1: literally right on the mount at Yankee Stadium, front of 222 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: all the men, women and children, cut his arm off. 223 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: Just tragedy if he had thrown one hundred and third pitch. 224 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: So they took him out. And here is Aaron Boom. 225 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: You hear the question and the answer here as he 226 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: was asked about the big decision that blew up in 227 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: his face. Take a liss, Aaron. Maxfreed was dealing tonight. 228 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 1: What was the thought process behind taking them out to 229 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: go on the end? There? With nobody on and one 230 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 1: out in the seventh. 231 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 2: They pressured him pretty good in the fourth, fifth, sixth. 232 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 2: You know, I had a couple of bits each inning, 233 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 2: so I felt like he kind of cruised through the 234 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 2: first few, and obviously he ends up pitching great, but 235 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 2: I felt like he had to work pretty hard, and 236 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 2: I was gonna have the six b at the end. 237 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 2: But once we got the double we finished with the 238 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 2: double play, I wanted to go out and get Duran 239 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 2: and then felt like we were lined up all right. 240 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: So there's the quote from mister Boone. But jeez, it's 241 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: like the Yankees are the East Coast Dodgers and then 242 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: the Dodgers of the West Coast Yankees. It's the same 243 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: bull crap. It is the same prepackaged bull crap. It's 244 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: listening to Aaron Boone is like listening to Dave Roberts. 245 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: It's fascinating. It's just wild, all right. So Max Freed 246 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: was asked about all this. Max Fried was asked if 247 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: he had more left to give on the mound after 248 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: one hundred and two pitches. He said, well, here's what 249 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: he said, Tiglas, Max, I definitely. 250 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 3: Felt felt good at the end. Yeah, you know, coming out, 251 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:06,239 Speaker 3: coming out feeling. 252 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: Good, would you have liked to have stayed in longer? 253 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I'm gonna stand until I get the 254 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 3: ball taken from me. 255 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: I'm you know, I want, I want to pitch. 256 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 4: As long as I possibly can, and uh, you know, 257 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 4: when when the ball gets taken out of my hands. 258 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 2: Is you know that's where it was? Next? 259 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 4: Did you feel like you had more left? 260 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: Uh? 261 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I definitely felt I felt good. 262 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: I felt like, I, you know, whatever, whatever the team needed. 263 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: All right. So that was Max Freed. I think I 264 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: was somebody was talking about here, but I think he 265 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: said at the end there I had enough in the 266 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 1: tank that that was one of the quotes that I 267 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: saw bouncing around. I had enough in the tank, he said. 268 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: I felt good. We heard that in the SoundBite. So question, 269 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down? 270 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: Does Aaron Boone deserve to be char broiled? Char broiled 271 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: for this lost taking Max Fred out against the Yankees. 272 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go two thumbs way up, two thumbs 273 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: way up on this one. Go to it. Aaron Boone 274 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: should be cooked, not charbrooth. I know that's too extreme. 275 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: That's too extreme. Aaron Boone should be cooked like a 276 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: dirty water dog. You know you're in New York, those 277 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: dirty water dogs in that disgusting water at the hot 278 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: dog stands there. Yeah, that should be cooked like a 279 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: dirty water dog. Aaron Boone. Max freedz out there like 280 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: Picasso on the mound, and you're like, ah, you know what, 281 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: we have this luxury brand. We've gone over to Madison Avenue. 282 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: We've got a two thousand dollars Gucci suit on Madison Avenue, 283 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: and we don't need that suit anymore. We've worn that suit. 284 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: So why don't we go down to the discount been 285 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: at Walmart and we'll put Luke Weaver in in a 286 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: playoff game. Playoffs. Yeah, that's your twenty twenty five Yankees 287 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: in a nutshell right there. They have become a parody 288 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: of themselves, much like the Dodgers. Right The Yankees, in 289 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: their own way, have become a parody of themselves. There. 290 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: You don't manage a game anymore. It's been this way 291 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: for years. I still complain about it. You just follow 292 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: the prompts on your iPad. You just follow the prompts. 293 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: Green button pull, Max Freed done, a red button, Bring 294 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: in Luke Weaver. Press that button. Boom, Luke Weaver comes 295 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 1: in and then the shocker, the red Sox tee off 296 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: on Luke Weaver. Who could have seen that coming. Just 297 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: another case, just another example of the revenge of the nerds, 298 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: the IVY League dwebs who have taken over this invasive 299 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: species in baseball that have taken over, who are playing 300 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: fantasy baseball just like they were back in the in 301 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: the Ivy League, crunching numbers and all that stuff, and 302 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: now they're calling the shots at a bunch of major 303 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: league teams. This happens to be the Yankees there in 304 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: the Bronx, and they think that relief pitchers and starting 305 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: pitchers are just like you know what, they're like. They're 306 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: like apps. You just close the Max Freed app and 307 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: then you open the Luke Weaver app and it's just 308 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: a different app. That's all it is. It's like some 309 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: kind of Microsoft word thing they've got going on. And 310 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: then but happens to be a wild card playoff game 311 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: and it blows up in your face and it just 312 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: blows me away because they never factor in the human element. 313 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: They never fact in well, some guys are better in 314 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: the moment than others. Some guys tighten up, get tight, 315 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 1: took a syndrome, as we like to call it. There 316 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: ride the vomit comet. And they don't ever factor that in. 317 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 1: They don't factor that in because there's no way to 318 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: measure that stuff. That's that's a real manager that has 319 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: you know, has some houtzpah, that knows his players. They 320 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: don't fact they could. Dave Roberts doesn't do that with 321 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: the Dodgers, neither does Aaron Boone. They don't They don't 322 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: do that. It's geeked them. Geeked them, USA is what 323 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 1: it is. And Aaron Boone sitting there in that dugout 324 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 1: smiling like a sock puppet, just smiling right there. He 325 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: is a sock puppet. The front office, what do they do? 326 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 1: They tug the strings and he's just you know, he's like, 327 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: he's like a bobblehead. He just shakes his head. Yes, 328 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: that's the Aaron Boone bobblehead in the dugout. And he's 329 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: become like a tenured professor, Aaron Bode. He's either too 330 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: dumb or too soft, or a little bit of both 331 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: to ever push back on anything. And Max Freed is 332 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: just I'd rather have Max Freed at pitch one oh three. 333 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 1: He's better at pitch one o three than ninety ninety 334 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: five percent of the relief pitchers. But alas did not happen, 335 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: the Nerds medal again, and the Yankees are on the 336 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: brink of elimination. The Red Sox need one more win. 337 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: Probably should win Game two though, because I don't even 338 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: know who's starting Game three for the for the Red Sox, 339 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: as somebody I've never heard of. So the Red Sox 340 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: halfway to advancing now quickly the last word here, the 341 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: last word. So, what are some of the other takeaways? 342 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 1: There were two other games that were not featuring here. 343 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:51,959 Speaker 1: What were some of the other takeaways from game number 344 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 1: one of the wild Card round here? So Saya Suzuki 345 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: a big time home run. This shit go Cups get 346 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: her done three to one over the Podreys at Wrigley 347 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: Field in game one of that particular series there. Now, 348 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 1: I loved watching Fernando Tatisse go zero for four for 349 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: the pod squad. How great was that? You know what 350 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: he needs? He needs a special shipment of ringworm medication 351 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: because he's really good. When he's got the ring worm medication, 352 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: he gets like fourteen year contracts. How about Manny Machado, Yeah, 353 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: good old Manny playoff Manny Machado, Oh for three for 354 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: the Padres and that pop gun podre offense. Now they 355 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: if you go back, they've now mustered one run in 356 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 1: their last thirty three postseason innings. I'm told that's not good. 357 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: I'm told that's not good. And what happened to the 358 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 1: the belly gazing Podrays didn't play with that swagger, did 359 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: not have that swagger all right me in Cleveland. Another 360 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: dominating pitching performance, Trek Scouogble tying the postseason record with 361 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,239 Speaker 1: fourteen strikeouts four strikeouts. The Tigers beat up the I 362 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: say beat up. They beat the Guardians, dude one. Although 363 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: watching the Guardians play offense, holly crap, do they suck? 364 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: My god? How did they come back? The fact that 365 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: they were able to outplay the Tigers the last month 366 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: of the year and win the division's fascinating. This is 367 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: one of the worst offensive teams of all time to 368 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: make the plowseason. In my opinion, it's a fact here 369 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: and the I mean the Guardians, and they're not bad offense, 370 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: they're historically bad. In fact, in this game they were 371 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: been draggled. The Guardians got out of thirty three played appearances, 372 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 1: four balls left the infield, four out of thirty three, 373 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: four out of thirty three. Hodgepodge of nothingness. The Cleveland 374 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: Guardians there and you kind of expected it. That to 375 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: twenty six batting average, the worst all time, the worst 376 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,239 Speaker 1: batting average of all time for a playoff team, not 377 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: counting the shortened pandemic season, and also the worst on 378 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: base percentage ever for a playoff team. The Cleveland Guardians 379 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: and the lowest slugging percentage going all the way back 380 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: to nineteen eighty eight. So that's that's a long time. Now, 381 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: what does all this mean? Game one winner, Game one winner, 382 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: small sample sized Game one winner, Wildcard Round. They have 383 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: advanced in all twelve all twelve of the Wildcard series, 384 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: ten of them have been sweeps. So based on that, 385 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: the Red Sox, Tigers, Cubs, and Dodgers are in really 386 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: good shape. We'll take your calls the great test. Do 387 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: you actually have a passion to talk playoff baseball? We 388 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: will find out. 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Next hour 430 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 1: I'll have Malardly third Degree, the Insta Trivia, and then 431 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: later on too Much or Not Enough also Queen of 432 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: Hearts with Lorena and Password in hour for all that 433 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 1: to look forward to as we continue on here. It 434 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: is the Ben Males Show. I had an All Star 435 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: who went from Hey, I'm in the All Star Game too, 436 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: I'm in the doghouse art. We'll get to that, but 437 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: some playoff baseball right now, everyone's loving it. Roberto the 438 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: bus driver rights in. He used to work here, but 439 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: he left for the riches of bus driving. He is 440 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: very confident the Dodgers are going to win twelve more 441 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: games now. Roberto upset. I was texting Roberto I don't 442 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 1: go on social media much anymore except for the show. 443 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: But I do text people. I know that, you know, 444 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: I'm old people I used to work here, which is 445 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: a lot of my friends used to work here. They 446 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: don't work here anymore. They've moved on to other things, 447 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: or people I worked with at other places. And Roberto, 448 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 1: I was texting him. I was like, this dodge of 449 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: bullpen sucks. He's, oh, oh, they're going. But I think 450 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: Roberto was like like a case into Medello or something. 451 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: I don't know what he was doing, but he was. 452 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 1: He's so confident. I was like, dude, what is wrong 453 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 1: with you? He was annoying me. And and the thing 454 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: that really upset me about Roberto, and I know I 455 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: shouldn't gives up on this. He was with me. He 456 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: was he was my guy as my engineer when the 457 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 1: whole Blake Snell thing happened, and during the pandemic, I 458 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: ain't playing unse I got mine, bra I'm risking my 459 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: live braw, you know, the whole thing like that, How 460 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: stupid he looked what a schmuck, what a schmucky was 461 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 1: and and you know all the drops that we played 462 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: for years, we don't really play them anymore. But Roberto 463 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,719 Speaker 1: was like, he played those and now he's like, I 464 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: love Blake Snell. What's wrong with you? Shame on you. 465 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 1: Spos Weed rides in. He's deep down the Oregon Trail 466 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: and he says, well, a class Joe takes me back. 467 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: The first opponent you have in Mike Tyson's punch out. Yeah, 468 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: that's why I brought him up, he says. Spos Weed says, 469 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: I stuffed envelopes for that game as a temp after 470 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: getting fired from my first job post college at a 471 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: toy store. That's tough. You're not the only one that's 472 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: lost a gig at a toy store. You can remember 473 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: weed Man Hippie, the famous weed Man Hippie ended up 474 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: losing everything at a toy store. Barbecuing Lynn disagrees with 475 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: the male monologue at the top of the hour. He says, 476 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: you are wrong about the Dodger's bullpen. He says, barbecuing 477 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: Lynn claims that they have a set of balls for 478 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: every batter, two sets, in fact, for every batter for four. 479 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: Take your base. That's not wrong. Nature boy rights, since 480 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: says the Reds backed into the wild card. The Dodgers 481 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: should have had a bye with that lineup. What if 482 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: one of the stars gets injured and a meaningless game 483 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: in a meaningless thing, Well, you can play the what 484 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 1: if game if you want, Like nature Boy, what if 485 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: the Dodger bullpen actually pitches like they're supposed to pitch, 486 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 1: at least their baseball reference page says they're going to pitch, 487 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: and they actually dom An eighteen. Do the what if game? Now? Jill, 488 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: long suffering Yankee fan, I say, long suffering. It's been 489 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:10,400 Speaker 1: way back to nine. The last time the Yankees won 490 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: the World Series was nine. I was barely alive in 491 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,959 Speaker 1: O nine. Oh my god, poor Jill. Uh and she's upset. 492 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: Fat Daddy says, great baseball monologue to start the postseason. 493 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: You're right, big Ben, the Reds are pathetic. They don't 494 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 1: deserve to be in the wild Card. They haven't done nothing. 495 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: They're under man Yeah, David writes, And you're very optimistic, 496 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: big fan of the show. David says, So this guy 497 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 1: Mallard and his team are highly underrated. He said he's 498 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 1: made a career out of the overnight shift. But he 499 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: says Fox used to have Greg Guttfeld in the late 500 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: shift on Red Eye. He moved in there, he's now 501 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: number one. There you go. So a great idea, David. 502 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: If somebody wants to pay me lots and lots of 503 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: money and overpay me, I'm right there. I'm sign me 504 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 1: up for that. Jill the Yankee fan says the current 505 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: mood is I think she's going deaf con one. I 506 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 1: believe Jill's going deaf con one on the Yankees. The 507 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: nature one rights in again. He says, I would have 508 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: left Max freed in that game Ben until he reached 509 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: two hundred pitches, just like the old school Warriors back 510 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: in the day. And then he points out that in 511 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: a random July game in the nineteen sixties at Candlestick Park, 512 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: a pitcher named Juan Marischal, a legend of that era, 513 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:32,639 Speaker 1: pitched sixteen innings two hundred and twenty seven pitches. Warren 514 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: Spawn pitched two hundred and one pitches wow, in that game, 515 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: fifteen and a third innings of baseball there. And it 516 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: is interesting to know. I was having some conversations in 517 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: the hallways here. We were talking about pitch counts, and 518 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: it's it's one of these things about round numbers, and 519 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: I don't want to give you a full rant because 520 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: ferg Doog will yell at man. I don't want ferk 521 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: dog to yell at me, because he's heard this a 522 00:28:58,120 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: lot now will be upset with me. I don't want alpha. 523 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: But I pointed out that this fascination we have with 524 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 1: round numbers, it's something that human beings have. We love 525 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: round numbers. People really get excited about one hundred. They 526 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: don't get excited about ninety nine. You think you're getting 527 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: a better deal. It's like the price of gas, right, 528 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: they think you're getting a better deal because it's it's 529 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: ninety nine at the end there you think, well, this 530 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: is great, I'm getting a wonderful deal. It's just this 531 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: little mind hacked. We all have it. You know, we're 532 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: all built the same way, right in different backgrounds or whatever. 533 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: The genetics are the same on that. And they decided, 534 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: and again this is the nerd stuff, like again, I 535 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 1: can just bash nerds. And they decided that one hundred 536 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: pitches that's it. And Max Freed had pitched one hundred 537 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,239 Speaker 1: and two pitches, and again, if he'd gone to one 538 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: hundred and three, they would have had to take a 539 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: surgeon right on the mount of Yankee Stadium they would 540 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: have had meatball surgery and literally had to cut his 541 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: arm off, ah Nut, and it would have been a 542 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: tracked experience for everyone at Yankee Stadium. They would have 543 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 1: had to go to commercial, could not have shown it 544 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: on TV because literally a hundred and three pitches they 545 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: would have to cut his arm off. I think that 546 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: turned on and scared me. The other issue is that 547 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 1: while we're all cut out of the same basic cloth, 548 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: there are some that are able to give you a 549 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: little more. I give you more, and it fascinates me. 550 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: I've been ranting on the same mountain. I don't know 551 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: if you can see me up on the peak of 552 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: the mountain, but I'm standing on top of the mountain. 553 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: I'm screaming down to the village that every great pitching 554 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:36,479 Speaker 1: accomplishment in the postseason would be impossible today. Like whatever. 555 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: I don't know how old you are, and I don't 556 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: know what your memory of baseball is, and we're all 557 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 1: different in that regard, but I have very fond memories 558 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 1: of epic pitching performances in the playoffs that would not 559 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: be allowed today out of an abundance of caution. Could 560 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: not do it, cannot do it, and it drives me insane. 561 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: It drives me insane because they have all the players 562 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 1: are coddled more than they've ever been before. Man is it? 563 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 1: It's they've got personal chefs and trainers up the up 564 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:11,360 Speaker 1: the tuk us, and they are coddled so much that 565 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: the players of the old generation were actually tougher. That 566 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 1: these are wusses, the modern athletes or us in baseball. 567 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: It's fascinating to me. It's wild. What else do we 568 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: have this page? 569 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 4: Then? 570 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: I can't read that on their supermarket? Steve writes in 571 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: from Sokal. He says, I cannot wait for the Dick 572 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: and Dayton phone call. He says, I bet, I bet you. 573 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 1: He says that the Reds and the Guardians need to 574 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: pitch better, hit better, and play better defense. Congratulations Dick. Yeah, 575 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: I don't know we have that drop, Lorna. I know 576 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: you're kind of new here, but we had Dick and 577 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: Dayton drop about what I think it was out the 578 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: Indians what they need to do to win. And he 579 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 1: pretty much just said that just you know, hit better 580 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: and play better defense and pitch better and uh and 581 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: that was pretty good. Dick's Keys the Winning Baseball from 582 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: Supermarket Steve not A Berner writes in he says, Tyreek, 583 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: He's talking about Tyreek Hill here away from the baseball stuff. 584 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: Says Tyreek seems to be very happy. He was seriously 585 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 1: hurt so he could finally be freed without demanding a trade. 586 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,200 Speaker 1: He collapsed and screams yes and gives gratitude to the 587 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: Lord above. Not the usual mannerisms from a disappointed player 588 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: who just got injured. We will talk about Tyreek Hill. 589 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: Some wild quotes about Tyreek Hill. Paul writes in from Minnesota, 590 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:29,240 Speaker 1: he says, Hey, Benjamin, big ben Mouth. I love the show. 591 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: I listened every night from Minnesota my little black sony 592 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: portable radio. I love it. Old school, old school. You're 593 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,240 Speaker 1: not on some app. You're not on the iHeart app 594 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: or any of that. You're doing it old school. King 595 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,600 Speaker 1: Rory writes, and he says, since sports are entertainment and 596 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: entertainment is scripted, I believe Major League Baseball has picked 597 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs to win it all, says King Roy. 598 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: With recent events and the loss of a mega fan, 599 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: major League Baseball believes that a Cubs World Series victory 600 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: will help you night the country. Hey, heartwarming India, Eh, 601 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: people said the same thing. I remember back years ago 602 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: there was this major terrorist event in New York and 603 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,960 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, in Washington, DC, and they said the Yankees 604 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 1: are gonna win the World Series. Twenty oh one. Yankees 605 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 1: are gonna win the World Series. And I believe I'm 606 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 1: not mistaken. The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in Game 607 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: seven as Luis Gonzalez screwed everything up there, and that 608 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: was that. Let's see here, Ferg Dog says Ben. I 609 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 1: think we have to admit Blake Snell doesn't suck. He's 610 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: a good pitcher, but he's an idiot. I wanted to 611 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: be the first in line to bash him, but he 612 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 1: won me over. Well, you're easily won over for Dog. 613 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: It's a bad job by you. Now, someone that was 614 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: not won over would be the All Star who's ended 615 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: up in the doghouse. Did you see that? Jazz Chisholm, 616 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: Junior of the New York Yankees, not in the starting 617 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: lineup for Game number one? Was not in the starting lineup. 618 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: Jazz was asked about that. He was visibly frustrated. He 619 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: had his back turned to reporters post game, and he 620 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: gave a dismissive interview. So problems for jazz chism problems 621 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,359 Speaker 1: in the Bronx. And here's the rub on this. The 622 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,840 Speaker 1: problem is jazz. They did it because of the splits 623 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,319 Speaker 1: and how jazz Chishlm is versus left handers versus right 624 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 1: right handers and all that. But a healthy jazz chism 625 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,760 Speaker 1: an all star was benched. And they're saying Aaron Boone 626 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: did it, but we know that Aaron Boone didn't do it, 627 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 1: that it was a decision made by the spreadsheet that 628 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 1: they looked at the ven diagram and all that, and 629 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 1: they said, okay, so we have Garrett Crochet and we 630 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: don't want to go We do not want to go 631 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 1: with with Jazz because he doesn't have good splits, so 632 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 1: we'll go with the other guy. And so they went 633 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 1: with the other guy. And I believe Jazz Chisholm is 634 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 1: a free agent at the end of the playoffs. And 635 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 1: it is interesting to know he did sign a one 636 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: year contract with the Yankees this year. See the Yankees 637 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: Dodgers in Red Sox. You always need them to bid 638 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 1: on you. So and that's the rubb. He might have 639 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: one more year of arbitration. There might be one more 640 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 1: year of arbitration, but I think he's coming up on 641 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,480 Speaker 1: free agency. Might be wrong on them, but I think 642 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,680 Speaker 1: it's either next this offseason or the following offseason for 643 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 1: Jazz Chism. It is the Ben Malich. We'll keep an 644 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: eye on that story. And it's not the first time. 645 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 1: It's not the last time a star player has been 646 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 1: benched for a playoff game. I remember when I was 647 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 1: covering baseball regularly back in the day, there was a 648 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 1: famous player who had played for the Montreal Expos, who 649 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 1: was on the Dodgers and got benched for a playoff game. 650 00:35:55,080 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 1: And my god, did he get upset very surly interviewing 651 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 1: him after that playoff game, actually before the playoff game. 652 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 1: All right, time now for the who am I? 653 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 4: Game? 654 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 1: And this is where I pretend to be somebody else else. 655 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 1: We call it who am I? Game? So Blake snelled 656 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: Bright play less, I get my I'm risking my live braw. 657 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 4: Well, clearly, bro, I'm risking life there. 658 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: It is right there. Well clearly if I say, gave 659 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 1: him a good breakfast, because Blake Snell went out there 660 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,600 Speaker 1: had nine strikeouts. Who this guy that does a Dodger 661 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 1: Propagander Show. But Blake Snell nine strikeouts, the second most 662 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: in LA Dodger history for a player making his first 663 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 1: postseason start with the Dodgers. I am the only LA 664 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:40,240 Speaker 1: pitcher who to have more strikeouts in their first postseason 665 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 1: game with the Blue Crew. Who am I? That's the 666 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: question to answer. We'll get to it and we will 667 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 1: do it next. 668 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller 669 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 4: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific Bill. 670 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: Miller, and you don't forget to check out that YouTube channel. 671 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:05,960 Speaker 1: That's right, go to YouTube dot com slash at Benmahlor 672 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,760 Speaker 1: Show and get all the radio show content for you. Also, 673 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,240 Speaker 1: if you want to get my handicapping on the NFL games, 674 00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 1: that's on the Benny versus the Penny channel, So YouTube 675 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 1: dot com slash at Bennievspenny, but subscribe to both channels 676 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,080 Speaker 1: get all the inside stuff. You have to have to 677 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,800 Speaker 1: be a real member the Mallard Militia sworn in member, 678 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,239 Speaker 1: got to subscribe and support the show. Back to it all, right, 679 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,200 Speaker 1: back to it we go, and we'll pay off the 680 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 1: who MI game. This is where we pretend to be 681 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:40,840 Speaker 1: somebody else. Let's we call it the who am I? 682 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:41,120 Speaker 2: Game? 683 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,840 Speaker 1: In a blatant attempt who to convince you to listen 684 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:50,600 Speaker 1: a little bit longer. So Blake Snell nine strikeout, second 685 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,439 Speaker 1: most in Los Angeles Dodgers history for a player making 686 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 1: his first postseason start. I am the only LA pitcher 687 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,000 Speaker 1: to have more in his first postseason game with the 688 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,640 Speaker 1: Blue Crow. So who am I? That is the question? 689 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: What is the answer? Does anyone know? We go to 690 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 1: the great Unwashed here to find out, and Alf the 691 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,920 Speaker 1: Alien opine A going with the iconic Jose Lima Lima time, 692 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: says alf Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota going with Jimmy 693 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:25,880 Speaker 1: Durante unless it's not Ferg Dog, says future Angels Hall 694 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:30,919 Speaker 1: of Famer Ron Washington. Yes. And former Angels manager mister 695 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,360 Speaker 1: nice guy going with Todd zeal As his answer to 696 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,200 Speaker 1: Keo Spikes from Scrooge. He's part of the younger demo 697 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,480 Speaker 1: in Northern California. Who else do we have? Page down? 698 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,320 Speaker 1: Mister Irrigation's going with one of Hollywood's all time greatest 699 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,759 Speaker 1: kit Keller, not the chunky third baseman. Who else? Charlie 700 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,440 Speaker 1: Bucket from King Rory? That's his answer. Robert Griffin. The 701 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:56,480 Speaker 1: third guest by Shane in des Moines, Pedro Ostasio from 702 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 1: Rob in Minnesota. Not a bad name. Claude Ostein from 703 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: JJ Tortilla Mantoni, the iconic Mariano Duncan, who I got 704 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 1: a hit off of in a Dodger media game. Mariano Duncan. 705 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,400 Speaker 1: That's uh, he did not sponsor Duncan Donuts. 706 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:13,000 Speaker 4: Uh. 707 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,040 Speaker 1: Let's see Benito. Long suffering cowboy fans says, the answer 708 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:20,399 Speaker 1: is my pastor, Charlie Sheen Todd Todd Van Poppeo from 709 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,440 Speaker 1: James Sandy Kovex. Guest by Steve Rick Honeysuckle from Gus 710 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,200 Speaker 1: It's honeycut Loredo. Do you have an answer? I'm gonna 711 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,320 Speaker 1: go with pee wee Reese. All right, No, that is incorrect. 712 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,919 Speaker 1: Here's another fun name though. In La Dodger history. The 713 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: most strikeouts in the playoff debut held by Tim Belcher. 714 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,399 Speaker 1: Tim Belcher in nineteen eighty eight against the New York 715 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,480 Speaker 1: Mets in the National League Championship Series Game two at 716 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:47,400 Speaker 1: Shay Stadium.