May 4, 2021 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks calling Russell Westbrook the 2nd greatest point guard in the history of the NBA, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our number two,
the Ben Maller Radio program, recorded in the overnight and
repackaged in the podcast format in this hour a basketball hour.
Some interesting comments coming out of our nation's capital, unless
you're in Canada or New Mexico, that it's just the
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capital of the United States. But Scott Brooks, head coach
of the Wizards, that's some very interesting things to say
about Russell Westbrook, calling him the second greatest point guard
in NBA history. Blasphemy, we say, hyperbole, for sure. We
will parse the words of Scottie Brooks, the head coach,
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about Russell Westbrook. That and more. It's coming your way
right now in our number two, an NBA ranking ruckus say, well,
well come, in the beginning of yet another hour of
the Ben Maller Show. We are together in the air
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Hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Hopeball
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as well with you, and I am saving you from
the lebron James Mallard monologue. I was gonna do Lebron
monologue and then at the last minute I saw something
that caught my attention and I said, wait a minute,
did that guy say the thing that I think he said?
And it happened, And our lead this hour coming from
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the NBA. It's the team we don't often focus too
much on, certainly not mallar monologue worthy, the Washington Wizards.
And now this is a story that is worthy of
conversation and a few good minutes on the radio. So
Washington their star guard they picked up as a giveaway
by the Houston Roquetts. Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook, he made
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some history against the Indiana Pacers, and that was a
ridiculously high scoring game and nobody decided to play any
defense in that game, but the Pacers were the opponent.
Washington won the game and Russell Westbrook dished out twenty
four assists, he had twenty one rebounds in thirty nine minutes.
And by doing that, having those combination of stats, he
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has become the first player ever in the NBA with
multiple twenty assists twenty rebound games. Not Wilt Chamberlain, no
him by himself on an island by himself. Now, that
led to some over the top HYPERBA league from Scottie Brooks,
the former UC Irvine ant Eater back in the day
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and a journeyman NBA coach. Did you see what Scott
Brooks had to say? You did not? All right, maybe
you missed it. So Scott Brooks, who coached Russell Westbrook
with Oklahoma City and is coaching him again now with Washington,
he was asked about Westbrook and his status, and Scott
Brooks said that he thinks Russell Westbrook is the second
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best point guard ever, that only Magic Johnson is ahead
of Russell Westbrook. He said, point guards don't do what
he does. Point guards don't do what he does. Yeah. Now,
as you might imagine, this quote ruffled some feathers around
the basketball world where everyone loves to rank everything, this,
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that and the other. So we we're not going to
give you any the other quotes from Scott Brooks because
that's the money quote. And I was told by a
program director, Ben, when you get the money quote, don't
don't go with the other nonsense. Nobody cares about the
other nonsense. Just just focus on the money quote. That's
the money quote that Scott Brooks thinks that Russ Westbrook
is the second best point guard ever behind Magic Johnson.
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So the question, it's not brain surgery, it's sports talk radio.
The question, in your opinion, is Russell Westbrook just a
whisker behind Magic Johnson the second greatest point guard in
NBA history? Shaking my head, no no, no, no, no, no,
no no. All right, now I've got my observation. So
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if you've got Looney Tunes, moonshine, and bandit, and we
will combine all of these things together into an adequate,
an adequate mala monologue and number one Russell Westbrook. We
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have said this before, we will repeat it now it
bears repeating. Russell Westbrook is an acquired taste. He's not
for everyone, and my taste buds are not there with
Russell Westbrook. Now, we pick him all the time when
we play the NBA pick because as a fantasy basketball player, Wow,
he's the Bee's knees man. He's amazing, unbelievable, unreal great.
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But in terms of actual NBA I was concerned. I
was worried there. I was biting my nails. I was
thinking that the Clippers were rumored to get Russell Westbrook,
and I was concerned he was gonna end up with
the Clippers and then I'd have to reevaluate my position.
Fortunately that did not happen. But Russell Westbrook, We've said
it many times, he plays with a reckless abandon which
works really well for ninety five percent of a basketball game.
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It's the other five percent which is problematic. And that's
why you cannot, if you're being authentic, put Russell Westbrook
second to Magic Johnson. If he was a Warner Brothers cartoon,
and if he was one of the Looney Tunes, he
would be the Tasmanian devil. Is who Russell westbould beat.
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That's how he plays. He's the whirling dervish. And we
meant in this the other day the law of the instrument.
If the only tool you have, the only tool that
you have is the hammer, then you're gonna treat everything
as if it were a nail, right, because I'll you
got your hammer for better or worse. That is the
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way that Russell Westbrook plays basketball. He's the hammer. Now
the second thing, you're Scott Brooks, who's it's very very
clear what's going on here. It's transparent what's going on.
Scott Brooks is desperately trying to curry favor from Russell
Westbrook and also Bradley Beale, but mostly Russell Westbrook so
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he can keep his job, you know, and I know
what the stakes are here. He's buttering the biscuits. It
also sounded when I saw the quotes coming out of
the Wizard's locker room from Scott Brooks, it sounded like
he's drinking gallons of moonshine, right, because he's tossing out
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these verbal books with one hand, and then you know,
he's got the rose pedals in front of Westbrook's feet
in the other hand. Really, really, even NBA veteran Ron
Hollywood Harper, what are the Clipper Greats of all time?
Ron Harper? Even he said that Scott Brooks is just
happy to keep his job, and that's what was going on.
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And listen, Brooks has not guaranteed of that. He's on
thin ice. And even with all the statistical greatness that
Russell Westbrook has put up, and I imagine years from
now will have endless numbers of who am I game
and Insta trivia questions based on Russell Westbrook and the
statistics he's put up during his career, and he got
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Bradley Beale over there, a couple of studs, a couple
of absolute studs, and Washington spoiler alert. They've got a
losing record. They're losers as a team. They are only
in position, only in position to be in the playoffs.
Because of the generosity of the NBA's expand did postseason field.
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They went to twenty teams, sixty six percent. Sixty six
percent of NBA teams qualified for the postseason. You have
to be a total stumble bum to miss out. And
now keep in mind, I have a bet our colleague year,
Rob Parker. I have a bet with Rob, and I
was very bullish that the Wizards would make the playoffs.
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I still think that's going to happen, and right now
they would be in the play in tournament. They'd be
able to make at least the first opening salvo in
the playoffs, but I'm not going any further than that.
I figure with that level of talent, you should be
able to get to the playoffs. The fact that the
Wizards were buried and they're still under five hundred, even
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though they've been one of the better teams in the NBA.
The last couple of weeks tells you all you need
to know, all right, the alarm, that's right, Rob, all right,
final point here, So Magic Johnson, I think we're gonna
agree he's the gold standard at point guards. So that's fine.
No no argument with Scott Brooks on that. But after that,
to me, there's no debate that John Stockton is the
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number two guy and his salad days with Carl Malone
and the Utah Jazz. I think Stockton is the all
time leader in assists and also in steels, at least
he was. I'm pretty sure he's right there in the
top in both those categories. And then it comes down
after that. It's like personal preference. Right, you can debate
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westbrook He's a name, but he's he's not number three
in my book. And there's a bunch of players, depending
on how old you are, you might say Jason Kidd,
you might say Steve Nash. I'm sure there's some someone
I've not met. These people say Chris Paul. I'm not
in that camp. Isaiah Thomas, the Pistons, Isaiah Thomas, Bob Kuzy.
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We can go on and on. There's old school sixer
fans that will argue that Mo Cheeks one of the
greats of all time, and we have never been particularly
giddy for Russell Westbrooks game. And again I go back,
I'm gonna circle back to what we had said in
fantasy basketball terminology. He is the Wilt Chamberlain of his day. Now,
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that being said, in the category of wins and losses.
Wins and losses, right, if that's the category, most games
are close. Most games are closed. Teams are separated by inches,
and that's the problem. It's that final push down the stretch.
We come, right down the stretch we come, which is problematic,
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and that has been the bugaboo for Russell Westbrook. And
that's why you cannot, if you're being fair and balanced,
put Russell Westbrook in the number two position. He is
a classical bandit. He's a stat bandit, right, and kind
of like Bamboo at the end of games. Now, I
like bamboo. Bamboo's pretty solid, but Bamboo's also hollow, all right,
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And that's how Westbrook plays. That's how he performs at
the end of games. He's got those zombie stats. And
Russell Westbrook is a liability in crunch time He's a
terrible outside shooter, and yet he continues to shoot from
the outside, and you can defend him. I have limited
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knowledge as a basketball coach. They didn't call me back
in the day when I played basketball moneyball Mallard. But
you can leave him wide open and he'll shoot. In fact,
if you remember last year with the Rockets Russell Westbrook
inside the Fugazi bubble against the Lakers, that's exactly what
the Lakers were doing. They were just not even pretending
like they cared about Russell Westbrook at all, and he
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kept shooting and missing and shooting and missing over and over.
He never got the message. And that's been the case
all the way since the early days of his NBA sojourn.
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we just did a rant about Russell Westbrook and pretty
much summed up the fact that he is a liability
at the end of games, that he plays hero ball
at the end of the game as well. He's gonna
have to get in line. There another young star in
the NBA is being called out for his hoggish ways.
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We'll get to that and we will do it next delicious.
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More amazing answers just like that coming up an hour
three in Maller's Mountain of Money and our live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios. It's Ben Maller. Justin in
Cincinnati says another great Russell Westbrook monologue. Keep them coming,
Justin and Cincinnati says, well, I will do my best. Justin.
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I'm on the pulse of the people. Craig says, Russell
Westbrook is the triple double goat. Yeah. Just Josh in
Cincinnati pointing out Russell Westbrook is like that really nice
sports car on the floor. It's flashy and fast, but
it's got one flaw. No breaks there you go. I'm
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not sure it's equipped with airbags either, according to you.
Just Josh, the late night drug tester from Parts Unknown,
says great monologue, also approving to the Laker historians, you
are not biased against their team by saying Magic is
the greatest point guard of all the time. That's correct. Yes,
I am neutral. I am fair and neutral, and listen
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that's how I operate. You hear the show. You know
what's going on. Trucker Joe writes and says, speaking of
moonshine bend, did you ever try the one I sent you?
Did you mix it with something as I recommended? I
did try it. I did not mix it with anything.
I actually have some of it left in the liquor
cabinet here at the Mallard Mansion Trucker Joe, so I
have a little bit left. We did not have the
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ugly Sweater party last year. I was planning on franking it.
Then Sam in DC Wright Sin says better than Isaiah
Thomas and his two championships. I think I don't think so. Yeah,
no way, Uh well, I'm not gonna go there. By
the way you spelled Isaiah like the other Isaiah, the
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guy with the Celtics. He's got a few less letters there.
The Isaiah Thomas with the Pistons. Not that I'm nitpicking,
but I like Isaiah Thomas is a great player, uh
with the with the Pistons. But John Stockton. I would
put Stockton as the number two. Since we're doing list radio,
which I can't stand. And that's that's what we're doing.
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All right, Let's go to the faults. And who do
we have here? Any meany mnie mo uh pick ache
caller by their name? Who do we have here? We
have someone? Christ and Houston? Is that we have christ
and Houston? Hello Christopher? Who rs Ben. You know you
pick the right person to talking about the old Russell Westbrick.
It's one of your guys, man, Chris, that's the old.
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That's one of your guys. Guy, that's one of your guys.
Come out. That was one of those horrible trays that
Darren Moore made before he ran town and ran for
another team. Man, I'm gonna tell you, man, look him,
Russell Westbrick. The best I ever seen this guy ever
played was when Oklahoma City went a three one against
Golden State and then all the wheels fell off. It's
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easy this guy here. Man, I'm telling you, man, just
sit at the basket and just camp out there. Let
him shoot as many jump shots as he wont Yeah,
that guy then can't hit the side of a barn
when he wanted to. I'm telling you, man, No, I listen.
I agree. I said it in the monologue. Listen. He's
a terrible outside shooter. That's the kryptonite in his game.
And even in this statistically dominant season by Russell Westbrook,
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when he when he's shooting mid range jump shots, he's
shooting thirty seven percent uh sixteen foot to three point range.
He's shooting thirty eight percent, So he's still he's not
he's not doing well. Thirty one percent from three point range. Terrible.
That's not that's not it either. Ben. You gotta remember
he can't dribble working linked either in a half court.
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If you get him in a half court on a
one on one, he can't cross over his crossover weekend
in yo jump shot, well he will. He will run
you over like a ball though. He will run like
a bull. But yeah, I just standing there and take
the offensive foul, that's all I mean. You know, guys
don't do that very often though, Chris, that's old school.
You know, the guys in the NBA don't offense. There's
not many guys that take these. I asked my buddy
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the other day, did he's just cheapen the triple double?
I mean, the triple double was something that was unique,
and now this guy just put those in up there,
and I mean thanks to Oklahoma City and Stephen Adams
running away from the basketball game. Just guys, all of
a sudden, now his nitch, you know. I mean, he
will be known, he will be known for a long
time as mister triple double guy. But he's a choke artist.
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He had Kevin de Wint, who basically wakes up and
shoot jumps outs out of just I mean out of Spike.
I mean he's at James Harden. And I always said,
if you, if you, if you're pad them together, if you,
if you take James hard as a game and Russell
Westbrook's hard, you have an ultimate basketball player. But hey,
you know, yeah, well I'm glad you, Chris. I'm glad
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you brought up the video from Oklahoma City when he
the first season that Russell Westbrook if you haven't seen
that video still on YouTube when he got the triple
double and you saw not just Steven Adams the Kiwi,
but other players who treated the basketball like it was
a hand grenade and they didn't want to touch it.
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It's like hot, It's like a hot potato or a
cannon ball, and it was hilarious. And I mean, I
know you have have you talked to the Laker fans,
I know what we were talking about, Russell Will. Have
you talked to your Laker historians over there about Anthony
Davis and them Ankles, how long he's gonna laught? No,
They're they're feeling good because they beat the Nouggets and
now they're feeling good. And that's boy, that's did you
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see the end of that game Austin Rivers. Oh my,
that is the full Austin Rivers experience. I hope our
friends in Denver are used to that. I saw Austin
Rivers with the Clippers, and you saw him with the Rockets.
Chris not a high basketball IQ guy there that he's
going to screw you. He's screwed up at the end
of that game. Ready, he gets paid. Man, he's been
getting contract out, the contract out the contract and I
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even get back the well. Yeah, similar JJ JJ Reddicks
like Russell Westbrook. He'll hit a shot for the first
three quarters and then in the fourth quarter, forget about it.
When the game games on the line. You don't want
JJ Reddick taking a big shot for you. That Clippers
curse though, you know, that's not a Clipper curse. He
played for a bunch of the teams point the Clippers.
It's not a Clipper curse. You know what's a curse?
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Houston Spurts. Houston Sports. My voodoo, the Mallard Voodoo doll
that I bought on Amazon for Houston Sports continues to
pay off, amazing dividends the snake bit Houston sports scene
right now. And when are you going to beg for forgiveness, Chris,
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so the Houston teams can start being relevant again. We
don't even we don't even need a off the Clippers again,
it's not about the Clippers were talking about. We moved
on from that. The conversation has moved on to the
voodoo involving the Houston cheating, a Stros who are looking
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up at the Athletics no longer a first place team,
the Astros, the Texans who are drafting second rate quarterbacks
in the third round. We can go online, all right,
thank you, Chris, go away. Now I mentioned Russell Westbrook.
We ranted about that, and he's basically a hero ball
guy at the end of games. Well, another young star
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in the NBA being called out, Colins Sexton, who he
plays for the Cleveland Cadavers. So they've been eliminated from
the playoffs, which is hard to do when over sixty
five percent of teams qualify at least in the top
ten spots in each conference. Well, reports coming out recently
out of Cleveland say that a number of teammates of
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Colin Sexton are very frustrated by their guard and how
dominant he is. What a ballhog? He is. My favorite
part of this and I did a double take when
I saw it. I thought, this is hilarious, this is great.
So Colin Sexton is such a big ball hog. According
to the reporting coming out of Cleveland, how big a
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ball hog is he. He's such a big ball hog
that when the Cavaliers are on offense, the opposing players
taunt the players they're guarding during games by saying, you know,
he's not going to pass you the ball as they're
running around trying to get open. That is outstanding. Oh,
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that's like a basketball comedy. That is That is great.
Imagine you're on the cash, you're running around, you're trying
to get open, and you're the guy's supposedly guarding you
plousibly trying to stop. He was like, no, don't worry
about that. You know you're not gonna get the ball anyway.
He's not gonna pass the ball. Sexon's got the ball.
That's like the black hole man. You pass him the
ball and Elphing's coming out of there and he's gonna
shoot the ball. That's how that's gonna work. So just
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deal with it, all right. It is the Ben Mallard Show.
We're gonna have Mallard to the third degree and Colin Sexon.
I guess if you're the Cavaliers, just one final point
and then if you're If you're the Cavaliers, you're like
all right. At least Sexon will put up some stats
and then people will think he's better than he is.
Although be careful because remember the Minnesota Timberwolves. A certain
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guy named Wiggins put up some numbers there and it
turned out to be a total fraud. So just because
you put up stats, anybody can put up numbers on
a bad team. I saw it firsthand. I covered some
terrible NBA teams early on when I was a radio order,
and they always had guys, a couple of guys that
would put up great numbers, they being the Clippers so
and they were terrible, they were god awful. But somebody
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asked to score. You can score a hundred points, see
if you're a bad team, so somebody's got to score
one hundred points, and so you put up some empty numbers.
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your podcast. But then I mentioned the NHL there for
a moment. There's a big story brewing out of the
National Hockey League where a player that even if you're
not a big hot keefen, you may know about because
of his checkered past. His name is Tom Wilson. It's
a generic name, but he plays for the Washington Capitol
He's actually a pretty good player, an important player for
the team, but he always is getting suspended. He's been
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suspended five times since twenty seventeen. He was hit with
a seven game suspension earlier this season, and he was
involved in a bit of an altercation in the Capital's
win over the Rangers last night. He shoved one of
the Rangers players heads into the ice, which you know,
the NHL, you know, in sports these days, the head
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contact they stuff with the head they're trying to outlaw.
And then after some of the Rangers players came to
their players defense, he then raggedaled one of the star players,
maybe the biggest star player for the Rangers are Timmy
Panner and threw him to the ice. Napaneran's helmet had
flown off and he banged his head on the ice,
which injured him and did not look good at all.
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So Wilson got a bunch of penalties a misconduct thing
like that, and the NHL is pretty big on punishing
repeat offenders. Now, the Capitals have four games left in
the regular season, will the NHL will suspend Tom Wilson
for any playoff games. That will be interesting to watch
here in the next couple of days because he did
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it against the New York Rangers, which is, you know,
obviously a big team that has a big following, and
the man in New York will be screaming about it.
The Rangers. I guess a coach his named David Quinn unloaded.
He saw clip going around social media. He was unloading
on Tom Wilson. Dirty? Is he the dirtiest guy in hockey? Eddie?
Tom Wilson, He's one of them? Yeah, he's one of
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them for sure. Is he the worst? Though? Who's the worst?
Who's worse than him? Name him, Eddie? Who's worse? Who's dirtier?
Had he's the worst? I would say he's the worst.
Who's second worst? Boy? Where have you gone? Thy DOOMI Oru?
Now Tidmi's son plays in the league. Don't say that.
I don't want to hear that. I know, well that
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went to the great Marty mcsorty. Oh yeah, Marty mcsorders
And also I saw Marty not too long ago here
in Los Angeles. He's more tired life, if you know
what I mean. We need more thugs in hockey. Eddy
as well. Yeah, it's not, it's not. It's it's moving
the other way then it's not, is it? Yeah? Okay?
Maybe maybe Ryan Reeves in Vegas he's another guy gets
his nose dirty alive. Was mcsorty, the guy who slashed
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the dude behind the behind the head, Yes, that was
It was that the one in Vancouver where there was
Donald Yeah, I remember that. Great moments in hockey, our reactions.
All right, we got Mallard to the third degree. It's
currently warming up. It's on the stove right now. We
have mascot madness. Mascot Madness, one of the longest tenured
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mascots in sports. One of the og mascots is selling
out the Gorilla, the Sun's mascot, the Gorilla. I saw
this story. It was It was actually sent to me
by a couple of listeners who know I'm obsessed with mascots.
It's my weird michigas. But the Phoenix Suns gorilla mascot
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has signed the first ever team mascot athletic endorsement deal.
You heard that correct. The person that plays the Gorilla
for the Suns will be outfitted by a local Phoenix
streetwear boutique and they will outfit him with rare sneakers
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and clothing for Suns home games. So I guess that
means now that the Gorilla, the Sun's mascot is going
to have to walk down like you know how the
players come into the NBA. It's like the red carpet.
They're on the catwalk and they do a little pirouette,
and so now the gorilla is going to have to
walk down and do the pirouette and all that stuff
that has been the mascot since nineteen eighty for the
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for the Phoenix Suns. So I hope that we don't
see the Philly Fanatic do that, Chuck the Condor. I
don't want to see Chuck the Condor. The great mascots
of our time, Wally the Green Monster, just leave that
all alone, all right. Let leave the endorsement deals to
the gorilla. Of course, it would be impossible. If you've
ever seen the Philly Fanatic, who is the size of
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our guy Fats in Philly, it would be impossible for
the fanatic to have the proper wardrobe because it's too big.
You'd have to be plus size, by king size or
something like that. Would have to be the product sponsor there.
All right, it's the Ben Maller Seawan Fox. Let's go
to the phones. We'll say hello to corn Dog in Milwaukee,
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a fan favorite. Hello corn Dog, Big Ben Maller, How
the heck are you? And the group? My man, my man,
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have any left. But it's outstanding. I know you have.
I could send you something. You know. It's so good.
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It's quality product and uh it's a little sweet. As
we try, we were trying to figure out I remember
that's the Secret Stadium Sauce there, and we were trying
to figure out what it was, and we I think
we determined it was like a mix of barbecue and
like kind of honey mustard. Figured I figured it was
like a one sauce and ketchup kind of mixed up.
That's a lot of ketchup to a little ketchup to it. Yeah,
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pretty good though, so good for grilling. I got my
my Finway Monster dogs from the hot dog benefactor there,
so I'm ready to go for the summer. From Phil Well,
I just figured i'd check in because you know, I
always listen. I usually I hit if I'm in bed,
I hit the snooze button in for an hour. I
had listened to you guys, and sometimes you put me
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to sleep or sometimes you know what really put sleep dog?
What monologues put you right to bed? Corn Dog? What
really bores the hello? Well, what team bore the hell
out of me? Was the l A LA Dodgers this week?
Because the Brewers beat up on your LA Dodgers. Then
what happened on Sunday? Tough guy? What happened on Sunday?
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We let you win that one because you're gonna play
the Cubs to get you guys warm back up again
the Clay the Cubs, but then you got rained out.
So it's all on you guys. You guys gotta take
care of you know what happened to the Brewers against
the Phillies? Man, you got nightmares by the fighting pills
and under five hundred team? What's up with that? That
was an ordeal? I know we are dealing with injuries.
I don't know what's going on. Stop with the injuries.
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Not the former MVP gone right now, Bellinger, he's out.
May it's a May Day for the dog. We'll do
the May Day Mile are coming up in a few
minutes here. And the Dodgers losing the great young pitcher,
the Red Bomber. Oh yeah, that guy that's that's a
that's a bad injury. That's a bomb. Your brewers, man,
I blame the brewers. It happened in Milwaukee. Bad job
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by you. We probably had a bad sausage before the game,
dustin May, and he went out there and he injured
his arm. He probably should have had some stadium sauce
and loop that arm before he went out there and stuff. Now,
he should have, let me tell you something, he should
have rubbed that sauce all over his arms. What he
should have done. Yeah, it's as red as his hair.
Wouldn't right in. Yeah, with a camouflage, it would have been.
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They thought it would have been part of the uniform,
like he had like an elbow sleeve on or something
like that. Yeah, all right, corn Dog, you were checking in.
I'm glad you're alive. Corn Dog. We were worried that
you may be passed away. But you're very much alive,
so I go away, all right. It is the band
Mallards show, the show that listeners call up just to
check in on let us know that they're they're alive.
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That's that's a wonderful thing about the show checking in there.
All right. Let's see page down here, who do we have?
Jay in Florida formally in Pennsylvania, formerly in Michigan says,
it's like Horsey sauce. Yeah, we thought that dude, that
stadium sauce from Milwaukee Dolls. It's it's like Arby's sauce
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a little bit too, the Arby sauce It there. Yeah.
J D in Boston is listening. He says, can we
make a mascot for the Ben Maller Show? What animal
would it be? Maybe a dragon or something like that. Well,
outside of Chuck the Condor, great question, j D. Outside
of Chuck the Condor. To me, the greatest mascots are
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morbidly obese. You gotta have a fat mascot. Benny the Bull,
fat mascot, right, love him, Philly Fanatic, fat mascot, Billy Themarlin,
fat mascot. These are all great mascots. So you gotta
have some plumpness to your mascot. I think I think
our mascot also would need to be drunk. Yes, that
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would be true. Bottle of booze constantly in his hand.
He liked. He would like naps a lot would catch
him sleeping instead of doing some hygiens. But when he talks,
he would scream like Hollering James and then be dressed
like the drag queen Felexus in Buffalo. Hell, let's be honest,
Hollerween James could be the mascot, is true? That is true.
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We don't really know what Hallween James looks like. JD says.
Maybe beer drinking Brian and a half pint could be
like Wally and Tessie, the mascots of the Ben Mallor show. Yeah,
or like mister Mett and Missus Mett. Don't they have
they have a girl met mascot, don't they? I think
they do? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. All right, it's
a great id, JD. A great idea. We can get
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some Mallard bobble heads going, and with the mascot bobble heads,
that's the way to go. I'm all for it. All right.
We will press on here, and we do have coming
up in a couple of minutes, we will have Mallard
to the third degree. Mallard of the third degree. Time
now for the in style trivia. So we'll go back
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in honor of corn Dog, who just called up and
was talking about how the brewers owned the Dodgers prior
to Sunday. Before Dodgers Aj Pollock and Matt Beatty did
it this weekend, the Texas Rangers duo of Blank and
Blank were the last set of teammates to have seven
plus runs batted in in a game since the RBI
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became an official statistic. Hasn't happened all that offense you
might imagine, But prior to LA's Aj Pollock and Matt
Beaty over the weekend against the Brewers, the Texas Rangers
duo of Blank and Blank were the last set of
teammates that ended up with seven or more runs batted
in in a single game since the RBI became an
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Here's the instance trivia before the Dodgers, AJ Pollock and
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Matt Beaty did it over the weekend the Texas Rangers
duo of Blank and Blank, where the last set of
teammates with seven plus runs batted in in a game
since the RBI became an official statistic. All right, that's
it right there, You gotta figure it out. Jay Ian
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Florida says, who is Andre the Giant? Mister nice guys
going with the Ben and Dave Show, The original Ben
and deb Show with Ben Maller and David Smith, Pete
and Cavilia and Ruben Sierra from Miguel on Fire, Christopher
the Custodians going with Abbott and Costello. Who else do
we have? Lloyd McClendon and Bobby Valentine guests by Oscar
(35:54):
Mork and Mindy from Richard some good names here? Who
else do we have? Manic Mike cheated, he got a
right bad job by you? Luke the Vending Guys going
with Greg d Hammer Valentine as his answer. Noel Ryan
and Benny the Bopper from Jay Dot You are Skeeter
in Montana and Sleazy Cheese guests by the Late Night
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Drug tester Alphie Alien Opiner is going with Statler and
Waldorf as the selection. Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris Walker
Texas Ranger is the guest by just Josh, Chris and
Houston or Christen de Moine rather Christian de Moin. Boy,
that's a Freudian slip. Christ and Demoine says, Odobie McDowell
and Doug Strange the correct answer. Who else do we have?
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Sandford and son from Troy and Seattle, Buddy Bell and
Doyle Alexander from bread Man Bill occasional marginal show contributor
bread Man Bill, inca Terror from New York is going
with Sonny and Share as his answer. Who else you have?
Peaches and Earth from Big Rig, Rob Heckel and Jeko
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from David in Seattle. You have an answer, Eddie, Yes,
I did. Ben. I'm gonna go with Larry Parrish and
Toby Harra. A couple of legends. It was a Texas
Ranger duo, the duo of Ramone Vasquez and Jared Sultalamachia.
Who that was when the Rangers beat the Oriols thirty
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to three. Thirty to three was the final and that
random American League game back in the first decade of
the two thousands, and they each had seven plus RBIs,
And that leads us into it's maller. How about that
to the third degree, this is one big band gets grilled.
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Coop do Loop. So Vic Fangio told reporters over the
weekend that Drew Locke and Teddy Bridgewater will see equal
reps with the first team offense during training camp, indicating
that it'll be a true quarterback competition. Now, Ben, let's
assume that the Broncos don't land Aaron Rodgers, who is
starting for them week one. All right, So, first of all,
I believe this is a bogey statement by Vic Fangio,
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and I've heard similar comments coming out of the front
office of the Broncos. The Broncos are going to start
Teddy Bridgewater. If they thought that Drew Locke was going
to be the guy, that Teddy Bridgewater would not be here.
Makes no sense, right Bridgewater, Unless Bridgewater gets hurt, he's
going to be the quarterback. And secondly, Denver, I hate
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to say it, cool, but it's true. They've become a
halfway house for shaky quarterbacks. The Broncos are just essentially
twiddling their thumbs at some point, whether it's Aaron Rodgers
or drafting a quarterback at the very top, They're going
to have to make a move there. They're just treading
water right now. Next, the new regime Atlanta Falcons sent
a message that they weren't interested in a rebuild by
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restructuring Matt Ryan's contract and by drafting Kyle Pitts with
the fourth overall pick. Ben How do you think the
Falcons will do this season? Well, the Kyle Pitts, we
think he's gonna be great. We love the guy. I
think will be very good in the NFL. But remember
that the guy he's compared to, Calvin Megastron Johnson put
up great stats and the Lions were terrible most of
the years, and the Falcons have a mishmash of a roster.
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They got a new coach, Arthur Smith, who knows how
he's gonna do. I say the Falcons at best, if
everything goes right, they win seven games to go seven
and ten or eight and nine. Next. Stefan Digs took
to Twitter this weekend to go on a rant about water.
He said he doesn't care what anyone thinks. Water has
a taste and that Dasani tastes like someone dropped a
penny in it. Ben, I know you're a big water drinker.
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Does it have a taste? In which bottled brand is
your favorite? Well, most water does not have a taste.
I love water, It's zero calorie my favorite brand. I'm
willing to drink any water, but Kirkland brand water from
Costco is my favorite. How do we do Kopa loop?
You passed us there? It is. That's because that's the
right answer. You guys are shaming me, But Kirkland Brand's
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the way to go.
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our number two,
the Ben Maller Radio program, recorded in the overnight and
repackaged in the podcast format in this hour a basketball hour.
Some interesting comments coming out of our nation's capital, unless
you're in Canada or New Mexico, that it's just the
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capital of the United States. But Scott Brooks, head coach
of the Wizards, that's some very interesting things to say
about Russell Westbrook, calling him the second greatest point guard
in NBA history. Blasphemy, we say, hyperbole, for sure. We
will parse the words of Scottie Brooks, the head coach,
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about Russell Westbrook. That and more. It's coming your way
right now in our number two, an NBA ranking ruckus say, well,
well come, in the beginning of yet another hour of
the Ben Maller Show. We are together in the air
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everywhere as we pontificate coast to coast, border to order
and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR
ammanating live from under the moonlight, camouflaged by the darkness.
Hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Hopeball
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as well with you, and I am saving you from
the lebron James Mallard monologue. I was gonna do Lebron
monologue and then at the last minute I saw something
that caught my attention and I said, wait a minute,
did that guy say the thing that I think he said?
And it happened, And our lead this hour coming from
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the NBA. It's the team we don't often focus too
much on, certainly not mallar monologue worthy, the Washington Wizards.
And now this is a story that is worthy of
conversation and a few good minutes on the radio. So
Washington their star guard they picked up as a giveaway
by the Houston Roquetts. Russell Westbrook. Russell Westbrook, he made
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some history against the Indiana Pacers, and that was a
ridiculously high scoring game and nobody decided to play any
defense in that game, but the Pacers were the opponent.
Washington won the game and Russell Westbrook dished out twenty
four assists, he had twenty one rebounds in thirty nine minutes.
And by doing that, having those combination of stats, he
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has become the first player ever in the NBA with
multiple twenty assists twenty rebound games. Not Wilt Chamberlain, no
him by himself on an island by himself. Now, that
led to some over the top HYPERBA league from Scottie Brooks,
the former UC Irvine ant Eater back in the day
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and a journeyman NBA coach. Did you see what Scott
Brooks had to say? You did not? All right, maybe
you missed it. So Scott Brooks, who coached Russell Westbrook
with Oklahoma City and is coaching him again now with Washington,
he was asked about Westbrook and his status, and Scott
Brooks said that he thinks Russell Westbrook is the second
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best point guard ever, that only Magic Johnson is ahead
of Russell Westbrook. He said, point guards don't do what
he does. Point guards don't do what he does. Yeah. Now,
as you might imagine, this quote ruffled some feathers around
the basketball world where everyone loves to rank everything, this,
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that and the other. So we we're not going to
give you any the other quotes from Scott Brooks because
that's the money quote. And I was told by a
program director, Ben, when you get the money quote, don't
don't go with the other nonsense. Nobody cares about the
other nonsense. Just just focus on the money quote. That's
the money quote that Scott Brooks thinks that Russ Westbrook
is the second best point guard ever behind Magic Johnson.
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So the question, it's not brain surgery, it's sports talk radio.
The question, in your opinion, is Russell Westbrook just a
whisker behind Magic Johnson the second greatest point guard in
NBA history? Shaking my head, no no, no, no, no, no,
no no. All right, now I've got my observation. So
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if you've got Looney Tunes, moonshine, and bandit, and we
will combine all of these things together into an adequate,
an adequate mala monologue and number one Russell Westbrook. We
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have said this before, we will repeat it now it
bears repeating. Russell Westbrook is an acquired taste. He's not
for everyone, and my taste buds are not there with
Russell Westbrook. Now, we pick him all the time when
we play the NBA pick because as a fantasy basketball player, Wow,
he's the Bee's knees man. He's amazing, unbelievable, unreal great.
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But in terms of actual NBA I was concerned. I
was worried there. I was biting my nails. I was
thinking that the Clippers were rumored to get Russell Westbrook,
and I was concerned he was gonna end up with
the Clippers and then I'd have to reevaluate my position.
Fortunately that did not happen. But Russell Westbrook, We've said
it many times, he plays with a reckless abandon which
works really well for ninety five percent of a basketball game.
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It's the other five percent which is problematic. And that's
why you cannot, if you're being authentic, put Russell Westbrook
second to Magic Johnson. If he was a Warner Brothers cartoon,
and if he was one of the Looney Tunes, he
would be the Tasmanian devil. Is who Russell westbould beat.
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That's how he plays. He's the whirling dervish. And we
meant in this the other day the law of the instrument.
If the only tool you have, the only tool that
you have is the hammer, then you're gonna treat everything
as if it were a nail, right, because I'll you
got your hammer for better or worse. That is the
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way that Russell Westbrook plays basketball. He's the hammer. Now
the second thing, you're Scott Brooks, who's it's very very
clear what's going on here. It's transparent what's going on.
Scott Brooks is desperately trying to curry favor from Russell
Westbrook and also Bradley Beale, but mostly Russell Westbrook so
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he can keep his job, you know, and I know
what the stakes are here. He's buttering the biscuits. It
also sounded when I saw the quotes coming out of
the Wizard's locker room from Scott Brooks, it sounded like
he's drinking gallons of moonshine, right, because he's tossing out
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these verbal books with one hand, and then you know,
he's got the rose pedals in front of Westbrook's feet
in the other hand. Really, really, even NBA veteran Ron
Hollywood Harper, what are the Clipper Greats of all time?
Ron Harper? Even he said that Scott Brooks is just
happy to keep his job, and that's what was going on.
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And listen, Brooks has not guaranteed of that. He's on
thin ice. And even with all the statistical greatness that
Russell Westbrook has put up, and I imagine years from
now will have endless numbers of who am I game
and Insta trivia questions based on Russell Westbrook and the
statistics he's put up during his career, and he got
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Bradley Beale over there, a couple of studs, a couple
of absolute studs, and Washington spoiler alert. They've got a
losing record. They're losers as a team. They are only
in position, only in position to be in the playoffs.
Because of the generosity of the NBA's expand did postseason field.
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They went to twenty teams, sixty six percent. Sixty six
percent of NBA teams qualified for the postseason. You have
to be a total stumble bum to miss out. And
now keep in mind, I have a bet our colleague year,
Rob Parker. I have a bet with Rob, and I
was very bullish that the Wizards would make the playoffs.
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I still think that's going to happen, and right now
they would be in the play in tournament. They'd be
able to make at least the first opening salvo in
the playoffs, but I'm not going any further than that.
I figure with that level of talent, you should be
able to get to the playoffs. The fact that the
Wizards were buried and they're still under five hundred, even
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though they've been one of the better teams in the NBA.
The last couple of weeks tells you all you need
to know, all right, the alarm, that's right, Rob, all right,
final point here, So Magic Johnson, I think we're gonna
agree he's the gold standard at point guards. So that's fine.
No no argument with Scott Brooks on that. But after that,
to me, there's no debate that John Stockton is the
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number two guy and his salad days with Carl Malone
and the Utah Jazz. I think Stockton is the all
time leader in assists and also in steels, at least
he was. I'm pretty sure he's right there in the
top in both those categories. And then it comes down
after that. It's like personal preference. Right, you can debate
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westbrook He's a name, but he's he's not number three
in my book. And there's a bunch of players, depending
on how old you are, you might say Jason Kidd,
you might say Steve Nash. I'm sure there's some someone
I've not met. These people say Chris Paul. I'm not
in that camp. Isaiah Thomas, the Pistons, Isaiah Thomas, Bob Kuzy.
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We can go on and on. There's old school sixer
fans that will argue that Mo Cheeks one of the
greats of all time, and we have never been particularly
giddy for Russell Westbrooks game. And again I go back,
I'm gonna circle back to what we had said in
fantasy basketball terminology. He is the Wilt Chamberlain of his day. Now,
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that being said, in the category of wins and losses.
Wins and losses, right, if that's the category, most games
are close. Most games are closed. Teams are separated by inches,
and that's the problem. It's that final push down the stretch.
We come, right down the stretch we come, which is problematic,
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and that has been the bugaboo for Russell Westbrook. And
that's why you cannot, if you're being fair and balanced,
put Russell Westbrook in the number two position. He is
a classical bandit. He's a stat bandit, right, and kind
of like Bamboo at the end of games. Now, I
like bamboo. Bamboo's pretty solid, but Bamboo's also hollow, all right,
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And that's how Westbrook plays. That's how he performs at
the end of games. He's got those zombie stats. And
Russell Westbrook is a liability in crunch time He's a
terrible outside shooter, and yet he continues to shoot from
the outside, and you can defend him. I have limited
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knowledge as a basketball coach. They didn't call me back
in the day when I played basketball moneyball Mallard. But
you can leave him wide open and he'll shoot. In fact,
if you remember last year with the Rockets Russell Westbrook
inside the Fugazi bubble against the Lakers, that's exactly what
the Lakers were doing. They were just not even pretending
like they cared about Russell Westbrook at all, and he
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kept shooting and missing and shooting and missing over and over.
He never got the message. And that's been the case
all the way since the early days of his NBA sojourn.
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we just did a rant about Russell Westbrook and pretty
much summed up the fact that he is a liability
at the end of games, that he plays hero ball
at the end of the game as well. He's gonna
have to get in line. There another young star in
the NBA is being called out for his hoggish ways.
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We'll get to that and we will do it next delicious.
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He was a pitcher for the Yankees Rocket in the Mountain.
More amazing answers just like that coming up an hour
three in Maller's Mountain of Money and our live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios. It's Ben Maller. Justin in
Cincinnati says another great Russell Westbrook monologue. Keep them coming,
Justin and Cincinnati says, well, I will do my best. Justin.
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I'm on the pulse of the people. Craig says, Russell
Westbrook is the triple double goat. Yeah. Just Josh in
Cincinnati pointing out Russell Westbrook is like that really nice
sports car on the floor. It's flashy and fast, but
it's got one flaw. No breaks there you go. I'm
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not sure it's equipped with airbags either, according to you.
Just Josh, the late night drug tester from Parts Unknown,
says great monologue, also approving to the Laker historians, you
are not biased against their team by saying Magic is
the greatest point guard of all the time. That's correct. Yes,
I am neutral. I am fair and neutral, and listen
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that's how I operate. You hear the show. You know
what's going on. Trucker Joe writes and says, speaking of
moonshine bend, did you ever try the one I sent you?
Did you mix it with something as I recommended? I
did try it. I did not mix it with anything.
I actually have some of it left in the liquor
cabinet here at the Mallard Mansion Trucker Joe, so I
have a little bit left. We did not have the
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ugly Sweater party last year. I was planning on franking it.
Then Sam in DC Wright Sin says better than Isaiah
Thomas and his two championships. I think I don't think so. Yeah,
no way, Uh well, I'm not gonna go there. By
the way you spelled Isaiah like the other Isaiah, the
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guy with the Celtics. He's got a few less letters there.
The Isaiah Thomas with the Pistons. Not that I'm nitpicking,
but I like Isaiah Thomas is a great player, uh
with the with the Pistons. But John Stockton. I would
put Stockton as the number two. Since we're doing list radio,
which I can't stand. And that's that's what we're doing.
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All right, Let's go to the faults. And who do
we have here? Any meany mnie mo uh pick ache
caller by their name? Who do we have here? We
have someone? Christ and Houston? Is that we have christ
and Houston? Hello Christopher? Who rs Ben. You know you
pick the right person to talking about the old Russell Westbrick.
It's one of your guys, man, Chris, that's the old.
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That's one of your guys. Guy, that's one of your guys.
Come out. That was one of those horrible trays that
Darren Moore made before he ran town and ran for
another team. Man, I'm gonna tell you, man, look him,
Russell Westbrick. The best I ever seen this guy ever
played was when Oklahoma City went a three one against
Golden State and then all the wheels fell off. It's
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easy this guy here. Man, I'm telling you, man, just
sit at the basket and just camp out there. Let
him shoot as many jump shots as he wont Yeah,
that guy then can't hit the side of a barn
when he wanted to. I'm telling you, man, No, I listen.
I agree. I said it in the monologue. Listen. He's
a terrible outside shooter. That's the kryptonite in his game.
And even in this statistically dominant season by Russell Westbrook,
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when he when he's shooting mid range jump shots, he's
shooting thirty seven percent uh sixteen foot to three point range.
He's shooting thirty eight percent, So he's still he's not
he's not doing well. Thirty one percent from three point range. Terrible.
That's not that's not it either. Ben. You gotta remember
he can't dribble working linked either in a half court.
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If you get him in a half court on a
one on one, he can't cross over his crossover weekend
in yo jump shot, well he will. He will run
you over like a ball though. He will run like
a bull. But yeah, I just standing there and take
the offensive foul, that's all I mean. You know, guys
don't do that very often though, Chris, that's old school.
You know, the guys in the NBA don't offense. There's
not many guys that take these. I asked my buddy
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the other day, did he's just cheapen the triple double?
I mean, the triple double was something that was unique,
and now this guy just put those in up there,
and I mean thanks to Oklahoma City and Stephen Adams
running away from the basketball game. Just guys, all of
a sudden, now his nitch, you know. I mean, he
will be known, he will be known for a long
time as mister triple double guy. But he's a choke artist.
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He had Kevin de Wint, who basically wakes up and
shoot jumps outs out of just I mean out of Spike.
I mean he's at James Harden. And I always said,
if you, if you, if you're pad them together, if you,
if you take James hard as a game and Russell
Westbrook's hard, you have an ultimate basketball player. But hey,
you know, yeah, well I'm glad you, Chris. I'm glad
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you brought up the video from Oklahoma City when he
the first season that Russell Westbrook if you haven't seen
that video still on YouTube when he got the triple
double and you saw not just Steven Adams the Kiwi,
but other players who treated the basketball like it was
a hand grenade and they didn't want to touch it.
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It's like hot, It's like a hot potato or a
cannon ball, and it was hilarious. And I mean, I
know you have have you talked to the Laker fans,
I know what we were talking about, Russell Will. Have
you talked to your Laker historians over there about Anthony
Davis and them Ankles, how long he's gonna laught? No,
They're they're feeling good because they beat the Nouggets and
now they're feeling good. And that's boy, that's did you
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see the end of that game Austin Rivers. Oh my,
that is the full Austin Rivers experience. I hope our
friends in Denver are used to that. I saw Austin
Rivers with the Clippers, and you saw him with the Rockets.
Chris not a high basketball IQ guy there that he's
going to screw you. He's screwed up at the end
of that game. Ready, he gets paid. Man, he's been
getting contract out, the contract out the contract and I
(19:26):
even get back the well. Yeah, similar JJ JJ Reddicks
like Russell Westbrook. He'll hit a shot for the first
three quarters and then in the fourth quarter, forget about it.
When the game games on the line. You don't want
JJ Reddick taking a big shot for you. That Clippers
curse though, you know, that's not a Clipper curse. He
played for a bunch of the teams point the Clippers.
It's not a Clipper curse. You know what's a curse?
(19:48):
Houston Spurts. Houston Sports. My voodoo, the Mallard Voodoo doll
that I bought on Amazon for Houston Sports continues to
pay off, amazing dividends the snake bit Houston sports scene
right now. And when are you going to beg for forgiveness, Chris,
(20:09):
so the Houston teams can start being relevant again. We
don't even we don't even need a off the Clippers again,
it's not about the Clippers were talking about. We moved
on from that. The conversation has moved on to the
voodoo involving the Houston cheating, a Stros who are looking
(20:30):
up at the Athletics no longer a first place team,
the Astros, the Texans who are drafting second rate quarterbacks
in the third round. We can go online, all right,
thank you, Chris, go away. Now I mentioned Russell Westbrook.
We ranted about that, and he's basically a hero ball
guy at the end of games. Well, another young star
(20:53):
in the NBA being called out, Colins Sexton, who he
plays for the Cleveland Cadavers. So they've been eliminated from
the playoffs, which is hard to do when over sixty
five percent of teams qualify at least in the top
ten spots in each conference. Well, reports coming out recently
out of Cleveland say that a number of teammates of
(21:14):
Colin Sexton are very frustrated by their guard and how
dominant he is. What a ballhog? He is. My favorite
part of this and I did a double take when
I saw it. I thought, this is hilarious, this is great.
So Colin Sexton is such a big ball hog. According
to the reporting coming out of Cleveland, how big a
(21:36):
ball hog is he. He's such a big ball hog
that when the Cavaliers are on offense, the opposing players
taunt the players they're guarding during games by saying, you know,
he's not going to pass you the ball as they're
running around trying to get open. That is outstanding. Oh,
(22:01):
that's like a basketball comedy. That is That is great.
Imagine you're on the cash, you're running around, you're trying
to get open, and you're the guy's supposedly guarding you
plousibly trying to stop. He was like, no, don't worry
about that. You know you're not gonna get the ball anyway.
He's not gonna pass the ball. Sexon's got the ball.
That's like the black hole man. You pass him the
ball and Elphing's coming out of there and he's gonna
shoot the ball. That's how that's gonna work. So just
(22:23):
deal with it, all right. It is the Ben Mallard Show.
We're gonna have Mallard to the third degree and Colin Sexon.
I guess if you're the Cavaliers, just one final point
and then if you're If you're the Cavaliers, you're like
all right. At least Sexon will put up some stats
and then people will think he's better than he is.
Although be careful because remember the Minnesota Timberwolves. A certain
(22:46):
guy named Wiggins put up some numbers there and it
turned out to be a total fraud. So just because
you put up stats, anybody can put up numbers on
a bad team. I saw it firsthand. I covered some
terrible NBA teams early on when I was a radio order,
and they always had guys, a couple of guys that
would put up great numbers, they being the Clippers so
and they were terrible, they were god awful. But somebody
(23:07):
asked to score. You can score a hundred points, see
if you're a bad team, so somebody's got to score
one hundred points, and so you put up some empty numbers.
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your podcast. But then I mentioned the NHL there for
a moment. There's a big story brewing out of the
National Hockey League where a player that even if you're
not a big hot keefen, you may know about because
of his checkered past. His name is Tom Wilson. It's
a generic name, but he plays for the Washington Capitol
He's actually a pretty good player, an important player for
the team, but he always is getting suspended. He's been
(24:12):
suspended five times since twenty seventeen. He was hit with
a seven game suspension earlier this season, and he was
involved in a bit of an altercation in the Capital's
win over the Rangers last night. He shoved one of
the Rangers players heads into the ice, which you know,
the NHL, you know, in sports these days, the head
(24:33):
contact they stuff with the head they're trying to outlaw.
And then after some of the Rangers players came to
their players defense, he then raggedaled one of the star players,
maybe the biggest star player for the Rangers are Timmy
Panner and threw him to the ice. Napaneran's helmet had
flown off and he banged his head on the ice,
which injured him and did not look good at all.
(24:55):
So Wilson got a bunch of penalties a misconduct thing
like that, and the NHL is pretty big on punishing
repeat offenders. Now, the Capitals have four games left in
the regular season, will the NHL will suspend Tom Wilson
for any playoff games. That will be interesting to watch
here in the next couple of days because he did
(25:16):
it against the New York Rangers, which is, you know,
obviously a big team that has a big following, and
the man in New York will be screaming about it.
The Rangers. I guess a coach his named David Quinn unloaded.
He saw clip going around social media. He was unloading
on Tom Wilson. Dirty? Is he the dirtiest guy in hockey? Eddie?
Tom Wilson, He's one of them? Yeah, he's one of
(25:40):
them for sure. Is he the worst? Though? Who's the worst?
Who's worse than him? Name him, Eddie? Who's worse? Who's dirtier?
Had he's the worst? I would say he's the worst.
Who's second worst? Boy? Where have you gone? Thy DOOMI Oru?
Now Tidmi's son plays in the league. Don't say that.
I don't want to hear that. I know, well that
(26:02):
went to the great Marty mcsorty. Oh yeah, Marty mcsorders
And also I saw Marty not too long ago here
in Los Angeles. He's more tired life, if you know
what I mean. We need more thugs in hockey. Eddy
as well. Yeah, it's not, it's not. It's it's moving
the other way then it's not, is it? Yeah? Okay?
Maybe maybe Ryan Reeves in Vegas he's another guy gets
his nose dirty alive. Was mcsorty, the guy who slashed
(26:24):
the dude behind the behind the head, Yes, that was
It was that the one in Vancouver where there was
Donald Yeah, I remember that. Great moments in hockey, our reactions.
All right, we got Mallard to the third degree. It's
currently warming up. It's on the stove right now. We
have mascot madness. Mascot Madness, one of the longest tenured
(26:51):
mascots in sports. One of the og mascots is selling
out the Gorilla, the Sun's mascot, the Gorilla. I saw
this story. It was It was actually sent to me
by a couple of listeners who know I'm obsessed with mascots.
It's my weird michigas. But the Phoenix Suns gorilla mascot
(27:13):
has signed the first ever team mascot athletic endorsement deal.
You heard that correct. The person that plays the Gorilla
for the Suns will be outfitted by a local Phoenix
streetwear boutique and they will outfit him with rare sneakers
(27:35):
and clothing for Suns home games. So I guess that
means now that the Gorilla, the Sun's mascot is going
to have to walk down like you know how the
players come into the NBA. It's like the red carpet.
They're on the catwalk and they do a little pirouette,
and so now the gorilla is going to have to
walk down and do the pirouette and all that stuff
that has been the mascot since nineteen eighty for the
(27:59):
for the Phoenix Suns. So I hope that we don't
see the Philly Fanatic do that, Chuck the Condor. I
don't want to see Chuck the Condor. The great mascots
of our time, Wally the Green Monster, just leave that
all alone, all right. Let leave the endorsement deals to
the gorilla. Of course, it would be impossible. If you've
ever seen the Philly Fanatic, who is the size of
(28:20):
our guy Fats in Philly, it would be impossible for
the fanatic to have the proper wardrobe because it's too big.
You'd have to be plus size, by king size or
something like that. Would have to be the product sponsor there.
All right, it's the Ben Maller Seawan Fox. Let's go
to the phones. We'll say hello to corn Dog in Milwaukee,
(28:41):
a fan favorite. Hello corn Dog, Big Ben Maller, How
the heck are you? And the group? My man, my man,
my man. If I was any better, I'd be that
Secret Stadium sauce. But no, I wouldn't because I don't
have any left. But it's outstanding. I know you have.
I could send you something. You know. It's so good.
(29:02):
It's quality product and uh it's a little sweet. As
we try, we were trying to figure out I remember
that's the Secret Stadium Sauce there, and we were trying
to figure out what it was, and we I think
we determined it was like a mix of barbecue and
like kind of honey mustard. Figured I figured it was
like a one sauce and ketchup kind of mixed up.
That's a lot of ketchup to a little ketchup to it. Yeah,
(29:24):
pretty good though, so good for grilling. I got my
my Finway Monster dogs from the hot dog benefactor there,
so I'm ready to go for the summer. From Phil Well,
I just figured i'd check in because you know, I
always listen. I usually I hit if I'm in bed,
I hit the snooze button in for an hour. I
had listened to you guys, and sometimes you put me
(29:44):
to sleep or sometimes you know what really put sleep dog?
What monologues put you right to bed? Corn Dog? What
really bores the hello? Well, what team bore the hell
out of me? Was the l A LA Dodgers this week?
Because the Brewers beat up on your LA Dodgers. Then
what happened on Sunday? Tough guy? What happened on Sunday?
(30:05):
We let you win that one because you're gonna play
the Cubs to get you guys warm back up again
the Clay the Cubs, but then you got rained out.
So it's all on you guys. You guys gotta take
care of you know what happened to the Brewers against
the Phillies? Man, you got nightmares by the fighting pills
and under five hundred team? What's up with that? That
was an ordeal? I know we are dealing with injuries.
I don't know what's going on. Stop with the injuries.
(30:29):
Not the former MVP gone right now, Bellinger, he's out.
May it's a May Day for the dog. We'll do
the May Day Mile are coming up in a few
minutes here. And the Dodgers losing the great young pitcher,
the Red Bomber. Oh yeah, that guy that's that's a
that's a bad injury. That's a bomb. Your brewers, man,
I blame the brewers. It happened in Milwaukee. Bad job
(30:51):
by you. We probably had a bad sausage before the game,
dustin May, and he went out there and he injured
his arm. He probably should have had some stadium sauce
and loop that arm before he went out there and stuff. Now,
he should have, let me tell you something, he should
have rubbed that sauce all over his arms. What he
should have done. Yeah, it's as red as his hair.
Wouldn't right in. Yeah, with a camouflage, it would have been.
(31:12):
They thought it would have been part of the uniform,
like he had like an elbow sleeve on or something
like that. Yeah, all right, corn Dog, you were checking in.
I'm glad you're alive. Corn Dog. We were worried that
you may be passed away. But you're very much alive,
so I go away, all right. It is the band
Mallards show, the show that listeners call up just to
check in on let us know that they're they're alive.
(31:35):
That's that's a wonderful thing about the show checking in there.
All right. Let's see page down here, who do we have?
Jay in Florida formally in Pennsylvania, formerly in Michigan says,
it's like Horsey sauce. Yeah, we thought that dude, that
stadium sauce from Milwaukee Dolls. It's it's like Arby's sauce
(31:58):
a little bit too, the Arby sauce It there. Yeah.
J D in Boston is listening. He says, can we
make a mascot for the Ben Maller Show? What animal
would it be? Maybe a dragon or something like that. Well,
outside of Chuck the Condor, great question, j D. Outside
of Chuck the Condor. To me, the greatest mascots are
(32:20):
morbidly obese. You gotta have a fat mascot. Benny the Bull,
fat mascot, right, love him, Philly Fanatic, fat mascot, Billy Themarlin,
fat mascot. These are all great mascots. So you gotta
have some plumpness to your mascot. I think I think
our mascot also would need to be drunk. Yes, that
(32:40):
would be true. Bottle of booze constantly in his hand.
He liked. He would like naps a lot would catch
him sleeping instead of doing some hygiens. But when he talks,
he would scream like Hollering James and then be dressed
like the drag queen Felexus in Buffalo. Hell, let's be honest,
Hollerween James could be the mascot, is true? That is true.
(33:01):
We don't really know what Hallween James looks like. JD says.
Maybe beer drinking Brian and a half pint could be
like Wally and Tessie, the mascots of the Ben Mallor show. Yeah,
or like mister Mett and Missus Mett. Don't they have
they have a girl met mascot, don't they? I think
they do? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. All right, it's
a great id, JD. A great idea. We can get
(33:23):
some Mallard bobble heads going, and with the mascot bobble heads,
that's the way to go. I'm all for it. All right.
We will press on here, and we do have coming
up in a couple of minutes, we will have Mallard
to the third degree. Mallard of the third degree. Time
now for the in style trivia. So we'll go back
(33:45):
in honor of corn Dog, who just called up and
was talking about how the brewers owned the Dodgers prior
to Sunday. Before Dodgers Aj Pollock and Matt Beatty did
it this weekend, the Texas Rangers duo of Blank and
Blank were the last set of teammates to have seven
plus runs batted in in a game since the RBI
(34:08):
became an official statistic. Hasn't happened all that offense you
might imagine, But prior to LA's Aj Pollock and Matt
Beaty over the weekend against the Brewers, the Texas Rangers
duo of Blank and Blank were the last set of
teammates that ended up with seven or more runs batted
in in a single game since the RBI became an
(34:31):
official statistic. That is the ins dot Trivia, the Answer,
and Mallard to the third degree nags. Fox Sports Radio
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Here's the instance trivia before the Dodgers, AJ Pollock and
(35:12):
Matt Beaty did it over the weekend the Texas Rangers
duo of Blank and Blank, where the last set of
teammates with seven plus runs batted in in a game
since the RBI became an official statistic. All right, that's
it right there, You gotta figure it out. Jay Ian
(35:33):
Florida says, who is Andre the Giant? Mister nice guys
going with the Ben and Dave Show, The original Ben
and deb Show with Ben Maller and David Smith, Pete
and Cavilia and Ruben Sierra from Miguel on Fire, Christopher
the Custodians going with Abbott and Costello. Who else do
we have? Lloyd McClendon and Bobby Valentine guests by Oscar
(35:54):
Mork and Mindy from Richard some good names here? Who
else do we have? Manic Mike cheated, he got a
right bad job by you? Luke the Vending Guys going
with Greg d Hammer Valentine as his answer. Noel Ryan
and Benny the Bopper from Jay Dot You are Skeeter
in Montana and Sleazy Cheese guests by the Late Night
(36:17):
Drug tester Alphie Alien Opiner is going with Statler and
Waldorf as the selection. Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris Walker
Texas Ranger is the guest by just Josh, Chris and
Houston or Christen de Moine rather Christian de Moin. Boy,
that's a Freudian slip. Christ and Demoine says, Odobie McDowell
and Doug Strange the correct answer. Who else do we have?
(36:39):
Sandford and son from Troy and Seattle, Buddy Bell and
Doyle Alexander from bread Man Bill occasional marginal show contributor
bread Man Bill, inca Terror from New York is going
with Sonny and Share as his answer. Who else you have?
Peaches and Earth from Big Rig, Rob Heckel and Jeko
(37:02):
from David in Seattle. You have an answer, Eddie, Yes,
I did. Ben. I'm gonna go with Larry Parrish and
Toby Harra. A couple of legends. It was a Texas
Ranger duo, the duo of Ramone Vasquez and Jared Sultalamachia.
Who that was when the Rangers beat the Oriols thirty
(37:23):
to three. Thirty to three was the final and that
random American League game back in the first decade of
the two thousands, and they each had seven plus RBIs,
And that leads us into it's maller. How about that
to the third degree, this is one big band gets grilled.
(37:44):
Coop do Loop. So Vic Fangio told reporters over the
weekend that Drew Locke and Teddy Bridgewater will see equal
reps with the first team offense during training camp, indicating
that it'll be a true quarterback competition. Now, Ben, let's
assume that the Broncos don't land Aaron Rodgers, who is
starting for them week one. All right, So, first of all,
I believe this is a bogey statement by Vic Fangio,
(38:07):
and I've heard similar comments coming out of the front
office of the Broncos. The Broncos are going to start
Teddy Bridgewater. If they thought that Drew Locke was going
to be the guy, that Teddy Bridgewater would not be here.
Makes no sense, right Bridgewater, Unless Bridgewater gets hurt, he's
going to be the quarterback. And secondly, Denver, I hate
(38:27):
to say it, cool, but it's true. They've become a
halfway house for shaky quarterbacks. The Broncos are just essentially
twiddling their thumbs at some point, whether it's Aaron Rodgers
or drafting a quarterback at the very top, They're going
to have to make a move there. They're just treading
water right now. Next, the new regime Atlanta Falcons sent
a message that they weren't interested in a rebuild by
(38:48):
restructuring Matt Ryan's contract and by drafting Kyle Pitts with
the fourth overall pick. Ben How do you think the
Falcons will do this season? Well, the Kyle Pitts, we
think he's gonna be great. We love the guy. I
think will be very good in the NFL. But remember
that the guy he's compared to, Calvin Megastron Johnson put
up great stats and the Lions were terrible most of
the years, and the Falcons have a mishmash of a roster.
(39:12):
They got a new coach, Arthur Smith, who knows how
he's gonna do. I say the Falcons at best, if
everything goes right, they win seven games to go seven
and ten or eight and nine. Next. Stefan Digs took
to Twitter this weekend to go on a rant about water.
He said he doesn't care what anyone thinks. Water has
a taste and that Dasani tastes like someone dropped a
penny in it. Ben, I know you're a big water drinker.
(39:33):
Does it have a taste? In which bottled brand is
your favorite? Well, most water does not have a taste.
I love water, It's zero calorie my favorite brand. I'm
willing to drink any water, but Kirkland brand water from
Costco is my favorite. How do we do Kopa loop?
You passed us there? It is. That's because that's the
right answer. You guys are shaming me, But Kirkland Brand's
(39:54):
the way to go.
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