12/31/2020 - Hour 4 - Spoiler Alert
The Ben Maller Show
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4.8 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Bernie Fratto discusses the best bets heading into week 17 to play spoiler alert to teams that need to win to get in. Bernie talks about the Bengals ruining the Ravens season a few years ago and the Cardinals doing the same to the Vikings to give us a reminder of the latest spoiler alerts that covered the spread on the final week of the season. Plus, Bernie and the crew discuss whether the Padres big moves are enough to surpass the Dodgers in the west and caps things off with MacKenzie Rivers!
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| 0:28.4 | We're back on Fox Sports Radio. I'm Bernie Frato. Yes, I'm in for the indefatigable Ben Mallor. |
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| 0:45.3 | You know, the ponderies, they made two incredible deals here inside of 24 hours. |
| 0:50.5 | And A.J. Preller is, man, he ain't been playing for the last year. |
| 0:54.1 | I think he's serving. |
| 0:55.6 | The Dodgers got served. |
| 0:56.9 | But I'm going to back that up a bit. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm going to back that up to closer to the bottom of the hour because I want to bring in the crew and see what their thoughts are a little bit later on whether the ponderies are really going to challenge the Dodgers or not. |
| 1:11.7 | And before we do that, I'll make my case as to why they're in the conversation now. |
| 1:15.8 | But I want to circle back to the NFL because week 17 for me is one of the more interesting and provocative opportunities for betters if you pay attention to |
| 1:30.4 | these things because it's interesting things are not always what do they seem to be you get you get |
| 1:36.0 | a team who's got seemingly nothing to play for right and they get in the ring they get on the |
| 1:41.9 | field with a team that needs to win and get into the playoffs. |
| 1:45.4 | Or they not only need to win, they need help of the loss, and they're playing a team with zero incentive. |
| 1:50.9 | And this is what I call that, you know, things aren't always what they appear to be in life. |
| 1:55.6 | You know, there was a game, a major league baseball game played in Toronto many years ago, |
| 2:01.0 | and Dave Winfield was still playing right field for the New York Yankees, |
| 2:05.3 | and Billy Martin was managing. |
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