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May 6, 2021 • 39 mins

Ben Maller breaks down the reporting that LeBron James' ankle won't be healthy until next season, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bird two, our number
two of our radio show, The King is a hobbling
Lebron James. We're hearing whispers that Lebron will never be
healthy the rest of this season. In the postseason, if

(00:21):
that is true, the Lakers are obviously cooked. We'll get
into that and more. It's coming your way right now
in our number two, The King is Hobbling. Well, come,
in the beginning of another hour the Ben Mathers Show.

(00:41):
We are in the air everywhere as we speechify coast,
the coast, border, the water in beyond on the vast
and very powerful microphones of fs are emanating live from
the flight deck soaring on the Red Eye all night

(01:01):
long here hanging out in the Fox Sports Radio studios.
And good to have you along for the journey. And
so we begin this particular hour yapping about pro bouncy ball. Now,
I could do an homage to a certain NBA rookie

(01:22):
who put up a bunch of points for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
But I've been warned by management if I spent too
much time talking about the Minnesota Timberwolves, I get in trouble.
But Annon Edwards, well a great game, amazing stat line
for him in Minnesota's game there, he had forty two points,
eight three pointers. Forty two points, eight three pointers and

(01:44):
rarely missed, rarely missed for a bad Minnesota Timberwolves team.
But that doesn't really need to be said, that qualifier,
because they've been bad our entire lives, they've been bad forever.
But our lead does come from that sport, specifically someone
who we are allowed to talk about endlessly, Lebron James.

(02:05):
Lebron James. Now, Lebron James came back from injury. He
has not been playing this week. He's taking the week off, right,
taking the week off. He's popped up a lot in
the political world over the last couple of weeks. And
this is basketball monologue, it's plausibly a sports show. But
we are told Lebron James, who's likely not going to

(02:26):
play in the next couple of Laker games. He's afraid
of the Clippers, so he's dodging them on Thursday night
and he's gonna miss the Lakers next game following that.
But Lebron, according to what we're being told here, will
not likely be healthy until the off season. He's got
that ankle injury that he suffered back all the way

(02:46):
back in March, and here we are in May. Now
Woge informs us that Lebron is going to have to
play with discomfort in the postseason. The Lakers have already
been on in ice for over a month, slipping into mediocrity,
in danger, the danger zone of having to participate in

(03:09):
that gaysy NBA playing tournament. How embarrassing would that be
from champions Granted it was a fake championship in the bubble,
but then to have to play in the playing tournament, man,
that is a humiliation situation. So let us discuss the
question what do you make of the latest chatter about

(03:30):
Lebron James and his ankle conundrum. So my take, I've
got pep boys, wishful thinking, and apple seed, and we
will combine all of these things together. They are the
ingredients that will form when they fuse together, a malar
monologue which will not be as effective as phase out

(03:54):
in the bleachers at Wrigley Field Heckling Mookie bets. But
I digress. So we lead off with if the report
has any credibility, and we think it does, the Lakers
are cooked. They're done. I eliminated. They are facing a
standing eight count team has already been exposed. The secondary

(04:16):
players are not good, certainly not as good as people thought.
They were scratched, cracked, and warped would be terms that
we can use to describe what's going on. And really
it's just a matter of opening your eyes. Anthony Davis
came back, and people made a big deal about Anthony Davis.
After a win the other night against the nug As,
Anthony Davis shouted, We're back, right, We're back. That is

(04:41):
a premature celebration. There is a pill for that. We
probably sell it here in the overnight. But Anthony Davis
is back. He's back to being a ticking time bomb,
the player that he had been in New Orleans, and
that Achilles heel oh ready to pop, ready to pop,

(05:03):
made out of paper machine. And then you got Lebron
James in this latest speculation. He's got old man ankles
thirty six. He's suffered out in two of the last
three years, season altering injuries for Lebron James. People like
to talk about this because don't bring that up. You're

(05:24):
not supposed to say that. Now. The big beneficiary of
that bubble ball was Lebron. He had extra time off
for rest and relaxation, no travel, and he got his
little Mickey Mouse ring. The Lakers need a tune up
at this particular point, and I recommend going to pet boys, Manny,
Moe and Jacky. That's what they need at this point.

(05:46):
And life moves pretty fast. It moves pretty fast, and
I gotta tell you right now, it's moving too fast
for the Lakers. Now. Furthermore, the tinfoil hat crowd, let
me give you the other side of the aisle. The
tinfoil hat crowd, they say, hey, wait a minute, wait
a minute, now, stop, stop, pump the brakes, pump the brakes.

(06:08):
They've got a different narrative and I'll give it to
you in a nutshell here that their argument is that
this is all a strategic move. The tinfoil high crowds,
don't worry, do not worry, don't don't don't do, don't worry.
Lebron James just has to rest up before the playoffs,
and he doesn't want to get criticism, you know, since
Lebron took a strong anti load management position, even though

(06:32):
he practiced load management in Miami and Cleveland. But now
he's let no anti load mintum. So he's just playing
everyone in the media and the fans. And he doesn't
want the blemish of load management being used by the
critics against him, so he's instead instead embellishing an injury. Now,

(06:53):
this side of the aisle argues that his ankle is
enough to worry about. It's simply a smokescreen to hide
a little vacation. Now, I'm not buying that straw man argument.
I'm not buying it. I believe that would be wishful thinking.
Remember that in that particular sport, more than other sports,

(07:17):
titles are one not by the top team, but by
the healthiest team. And just ask the Golden State Warriors
about that. Against the Toronto Raptors a couple years ago
in the NBA Finals, A snap crackle pop. Every team
who makes the playoffs is just a couple of sprained
ankles or broken legs away from losing or winning, depending

(07:42):
on whose legs and ankles go. Snap crackle pop. All right,
last thing here, So Lebron James, who is the big
beneficiary of this well timed, well placed report about the
health of his ankle. Now, one thing's always been to
you and I like the BA. No, people will give
me a hard time. They bust my balls. Why are
you talking about the NBA. Nobody wants to talk about

(08:04):
the NBA. I like basketball, some days I like it
more than others. But the NBA is all about building
up the myth and the legend. I'm very good at
it over the years. And Lebron James in this particular story,
he is the Johnny apple Seed, right, He really, in
many ways the Johnny apple Seed. To his day, he
travels around throughout the NBA landscape planting seeds. And if

(08:29):
he should stub his toe, which we all hope happens,
I think real basketball fans would love to see the
Lakers eliminated right away. I think it'd be great for
the NBA to see the Lakers limited. I think you'd
agree with me on that. But if Lebron does do
that and Stubb is towing the plus, no problem, right
you know Lebron and say, listen, I was damaged goods.
You saw the story. Bad ink, not my fault. Plausible

(08:52):
the liability. Now if it goes the other way and
the Lakers end up defying the odds, even though they're favorite,
if they defy the odds and go on to win
a championship. Then King James is heroic overcoming a gruesome
injury that would have stopped and derailed mirror mortals, but
not Lebron. So this is what's known as a win

(09:14):
win situation. Either way, Lebron's covered his bases a right.
Either way, now we know the guy plays by a
different set of rules, that he's insulated by the stool
pigeons of the media who basketball media and also the
political world as well. It's it's unreal, and he continues
to go about it. And we've highlighted the hypocrisy of

(09:38):
Lebron James many, many times, the famous interaction with a
famous soccer player when he said, I do my homework
and then a couple of months later had his pants
pulled down because he didn't do his homework. But that's
the life of Lebron, all right. Is the Ben Maller Show.
If you would like to talk about that or any

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anything else, you can join us here. We'll take your
phone calls. The lines are open for business at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six sixty three six nine, and we will have the
obligatory malam monologue on the cheating Strows and the Yankee

(10:21):
fans were back, not quite as loud, but still very
saucy with the language there, and it was more rhythmic
chanting for jose Albouve by the Yankee fans as the
astros are not handling this very well, and we will
address that in a future hour. I would also like

(10:44):
to let you know in a couple of minutes, I
want to post this. I failed to do it. Bad
job by me, but we've got asked Ben. Now that's
coming up live on this radio show. Live on this
radio show is ask Ben. That'll be coming up in
a little bit. But if you are listening live to
the show or on the podcast for that matter, when
we rebroadcast this show later on in the podcast format,

(11:04):
I will post in a few minutes here on the
Facebook page. So we do need some questions for the
mailbag on that podcast, which will be up this weekend.
So if you want to send a question and we
might use that on the podcast this weekend, I'm going
to post that here in a couple of minutes. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety
nine six sixty three six nine. It was sarcasm, but

(11:28):
there was honesty in the sarcasm. It's all about effort.
It's all about effort. We'll talk about that. We'll also
have chump change chump change as well, which and I'm
not talking about my salary chump change. We'll go there.
We will do it. Nags. You know I've seen Peter
King is underwear. Do you know that? Hey? Come down.

(11:51):
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(12:33):
and all from the Fox Sports Radio studios. It's Ben Maller.
All right, good news, Eddie. I have posted it over
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We have asked Ben coming up next hour the podcast
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Mallers show on Facebook's right there at the top of

(12:54):
the page. Good luck, good luck to James, the machinist writes,
Since says another Lakers monologue, I even know it's a
Lebron monologue, not a Laker minogue. I'd rather hear about
the timber pups rookie. The Lakers have stories to talk
about for years, whereas the Wolves will head to Seattle

(13:17):
sooner than later, shameless Wolves fan, so says James. Well,
I don't know about that. The NBAI here is going
to expand they're gonna add more team. It's just what
we need. So it's conceivable that the Timberwolves will stay
in Minnesota and Seatt'll get their own team, which should
be called the Sonics. And just that's it. And when

(13:40):
baseball expands, it puts a team back in Montreal. They
should be called the Xpos. That's it. There's no other answer,
There's no other acceptable answer. Matt writes, and he says,
is that a freaking Pawtucket Red Sox hat you are
wearing on your podcast clip thingies talking about Tibo and
al Tube. If it is, then it's badass. Well no, no, no, no,
this is even better than that. No, no, not that

(14:02):
I anything against the pass socks. But this is a Portland,
Maine triple a or double a rob double a baseball
game from a hat benefactor who we hung out with
in Boston, had had a wonderful time, had a had
a wonderful time hanging out there at the Mallard meet

(14:24):
and green awhile back. So that's what that is. But
I am equal opportunity hat. Where absolutely who else do
we have? Let's see page Dan can't read that. When
Mark's still sending these lunatic messages about the Dodgers. He's
so excited, so excited. The Dodgers have had a rough
patch here and and they're they're not playing very good baseball.

(14:48):
They're losing right left, and you name it all. Let's
say some phone calls eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox if you would like to be part eight seven,
seven nine nine six sixty three six nine as I
reset my board. Uh, it is all about effort. It
is all about effort. And I love the comment that

(15:11):
came from Joe L. Nbad, who is known to dabble
in sarcasm. He's known to dabble in sarcasm. So Joel
Embiid talking about defending perimeter players, big guys on the
perimeter set quote. I am better than any bigs when
I really try. See when I when I I love that,

(15:37):
when I have ambition, when I make the effort, when
I you know, when I say you know what I'm
gonna do, I am going to dominate. I dominate. But
when I don't have those aspirations, when I don't have
to fire in my belly, no no, no, no no no.
I have to have the uh what's the uh, the
moxie to try to try to want to over achieve.

(16:00):
And if I don't have that, forget about it. That's
a good quote. It's funny, it's accurate, and you know,
many other players in the NBA, like a Carmelo Anthony's
the same. Carmelo Anthon's the top ten scores in NBA history.
But it's a guy. Watch Carmelo, even in his glory
days back in his the housey on time with the
Knicks and the Nuggets, some nights just didn't have the

(16:25):
enthusiasm and determination. The drive was lacking, and it was
just kind of going through the motions. That section calls here,
let's say hello to Blind Scott, who's in Boston. Hello,
Blind Scott. Hey, that's a Portland seat. One's stated business
sidelined about another team while always known about him. They're

(16:46):
called the Somerset Patriots. They're a Triple A affiliated North
Jersey for the Yankees. I got friends that are fans
of those. Dude. Uh, I'm listening to Jim Grays audiobook.
It's called talking to Ghost, you know, for those of
you that lived on stuff. He's not actually talking to
go and it's called Greatest of All Times. But I
don't like this Mac. I don't like this match. I
only dude that puts the pistos. I don't want any

(17:07):
quarterbacks from Alabama playing finaling the Patriot teams that they're
like the least it's art to stay in the Union,
and um, you know, I wanted a guy from up
north to play for the Patriots. Like a nice main
kid or something, you know what I mean. I would
thinking if I'm moving to Portland, Maine before, but it's
really eerie there and kind of creepy. And um, I
didn't get qualified to move into the retirement at home.

(17:27):
I didn't pass the background check, so I'll be staying
put here. And um, you know, so you're not now
are you were planning on retiring, Blind Scott. We haven't
not talked to you in a long time, Blind Scott.
You've been persona on Gratta on the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you just haven't taking a break. Um, I didn't like
being in the fame so much, but now I'm back
to feel some of the spotlights. Um I've been So

(17:47):
how is this now, Blind Scott? How is the show?
The fame of being a celebrity caller, how is that
affecting your life in negative ways? Well? Well, I just
got too much attention, Like even around here, everybody knows
me from the show. I kind of want to stay
into the radar like in the past. He's to go
these crazy bits for the show, and I like being
a crazy wild man and everything, but sometimes you just
don't want to be that person, Like there's not always you.

(18:09):
You can't always recreate that every year. I mean, like,
look what happened at Real Talk. The guy's got classroom
and burned out with his ass and now he has
a kid and a wife now and a father in law,
and he's a loser. He don't call the show anymore.
He's makes bad kids jokes and he calls up, you
know what I mean. So I didn't want that to
happen to me. I want to stay relevant, Like I've
been collaborating with the younger generation, like I'm the blind

(18:30):
Seahawks fan. Sometimes I write some of the jokes that
he calls up on the show and says, and I
write his calls and we team up together and I
we might stop a little thing. So really, you are
you are writing material for Emma. Now some have said
that Emma is going to replace you as the top
blind caller on the show, that he's going to be
number one when it comes to blind callers. Well they

(18:51):
might not be true, actually, because next year he's going
to be a senior in high school and you do
the lectric school full time, so he's not gonna going
to call the show. But you know, you never know.
Nobody can beat out Blind Scott. I have the hardest
sports stakes on the network, and I'm one of the
best college And if I wasn't so busy in my
regular life, I'd probably have the mid Days show because
I just I make so much content. I'm on Instagram

(19:13):
a blinder to Boston to find me there, and I'm
getting a lot offer. I'm gonna I'm not going for
a commercial right now with maybe Tube dot Com or Truepanion.
I'm you know, I got this big egg right now
because I hit my head office stage and say a
construction stagent. But other than that, everything's really going great
for me. Things are really taking off the blind Scott
and you know, he can't be denied. Even though he

(19:33):
didn't get into the retirement home, there's a lot of
opportunities for him down the road. Blind Scott, you're you're
not even like forty, right, how old are you? You're
not thirty, you're thirty. Ye, you're not even forty yet
forty Yet you got you got a way used to
go to go to the retirement home. Yeah, yeah, well
I wanted to get reduce friend and um, you know
some good deos. You know a nice big old place.

(19:54):
But um, yeah, you have to be like fifty. I
didn't you have to be like at least fifty five
to go to a retire Yeah yeah, but if you
have a disability, they side in the playing a disability
card from the bottle deck. Now now, blind Scott, how's
your member? Do you remember when when we got together
in Boston a couple of years ago, we were running
away from Wayne and Southey and we had Aliyah and

(20:17):
Paul were with us. We had the guy, our buddy
from Toronto, and we sprinted out. Yeah, we sprinted out.
We ran away and we were trying to get away
from Wayne, from Southey, Aliah and Paul actually they were
the hat benefactors. That was like almost a year ago,
two years ago. It was two years ago. Now I
know he's dead now DMX he was that that was

(20:39):
his night. I know that's right. The Mallard militia people
were scared at the DMX crowd. They were running away.
He was. He was the only one. I gotta go,
blind Scott, thank you, Budy. That was a wild night.
Let's go to Ian who's in New Mexico and Ian

(21:00):
his next what's going on? I and you you were
in a hole for two hours yesterday and your buddy
called up and complained. So I slid you up a
little higher there. Hello Ian, Hello Ben, I am doing well.
I hope you are as well. Yeah, I heard Michael's
call him. I'd like to thank Michael for sticking up
for me. He didn't have to do that. But he's

(21:22):
a good boy. We like him now, now you do
like him, and so he's now it's very difficult when
you have a daughter and he's out out dating guys
and whatnot. And uh so, but you're cool with him, righty,
and you're you're okay with Yeah. You know, if Michael
were to ever ask for my blessing, he would have it. No,

(21:44):
that's we're breaking news here. We are breaking news here
on the b and putting pressure on Michael. No, no, no, no,
no pressure. Tweet that out cool, tweet that out. Ian
in New Mexico says that Michael will have his blessing
if he chooses to go down in the marriage wedding

(22:05):
bliss with his daughter. That's big news. Tweeting it out right. Now,
there a couple of a couple of good kids, you know,
living in the you know metropolis of Los Cruces, New Mexico. Yes,
the big city of Los Crucis. Hey. You know I
had called you yesterday because I didn't know this. You
know who Larry Elder is. I'm sure I do know Larry.

(22:28):
I don't know Larry Elder, but I'm aware of Larry Elder. Sure. Well,
you two have something in common, you he, You and
he both have Dick in Dayton as a caller. Is
that right? Dick and Dayton calls Larry Elder? Is that correct? Wow?
I was listening to I was listening to Larry Show
last night. Andy. Larry said, let's go to Dick and Dayton,

(22:53):
And I said, I chuckled a little bit thinking about
Dick will not be denied. Yeah, And all of a
sudden it was Dick. Now did Dick start his phone
call the way he does on Arshoal? And said, yeah,
I was listening to Ben over there on Fox Larry
and and uh and you know and Eddie and Coop
and Roberto and did he do that? There? There is

(23:15):
more to Dick than just Cleveland and Cincinnati. He was
discussing the intricacies of infrastructure spending. No way really getting no,
We're getting out a joke phone call. Now I know

(23:39):
Dick and Dayton. I've heard him. I've told the story before.
I was back on the East coast, driving through Pennsylvania
late at night, you know, doing it. I was kind
of jones and out as a radio nerd. I was
scanning the dial and I heard this station from Ohio
and one of the callers was Dick and Dayton, and
I had a big smile. And he loves calling radio shows.
People think we're making that up when we do that bit.

(24:00):
How many calls have you made? We always say sports radio.
I guess we should include political radio also because he
loves calling political radio. Yeah. Well, you know, and if
anybody ever says that your callers are somehow paid actors,
I can attest that Dick and Dayton is not a
paid actor. Well unless Larry Elder's paying him. I don't know.
Maybe he's paying him and we're paying him. Who you
have never no idea? All right, I gotta go thank
you Ian for dropping that bombshell. Two bombshells. I mean,

(24:23):
not only does he and say that if Michael is
good to go with the wedding, he's good to go
with that as well, that's big and then that Dick
and Dayton are a famous caller from the final hour
of this show every day for every other day calling
political talk radio. Be sure to catch live editions of

(24:44):
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(25:04):
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get your podcast. Ben. I saw this tweet from Adam Schefter.
I thought it was interesting and figured I'd run it
by you to get your thoughts. All right. Chefty usually

(25:27):
sends out like the breaking news stuff and all that,
but he had he was pumping up one of his
colleagues at ESPN, he wondered aloud why mel Kiper Junior
is not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Now,
it might catch some people off guard, but mel Carper
Junior has been doing this draft thing for forty three years.

(25:47):
He's basically created a career for himself to many copycats
now that are draft experts, when he was the first
one kind of ever to really do it, at least
as far as on a broadcasting level. Do you think
mel Kiper Junior has done enough as a broadcaster promoting
the NFL in the draft to actually get into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame? Yes, I would put mel Kiper.

(26:09):
And he has created a spectacle out of the NFL draft.
And he said, well, it's not all mel Kiper, but
a whole industry has been created, the draft nick industry.
Melk Kiper was the first. Remember we told the story
last weekend when the NFL Draft started. It was on
a Tuesday morning at was it eight o'clock in the morning,

(26:31):
in a ballroom at a hotel in Manhattan, like Pete
Roselle smoking a cigarette announcing the yeah, and you know,
and that wasn't all Kuiper. But if you talk about
having an impact on the game of football, and you
know how much money the NFL makes on an off season,
non regular season event. It was just, you know, a
random day in April, late April, they had the NFL Draft,

(26:52):
and it's gotten bigger and bigger, and I believe in
large part because of the contribution of mel Kiper. So, yeah,
I think that's not an outrageous take. That's a good
take by Adam Schefer. I have to admit when I
first saw it, I had that were taken aback. I
never thought of that that he could be, you know,

(27:13):
his contributions could get him in the Hall of Fame.
But after thinking about it, I agree with you. I
think he's just as deserving as a lot of other
you know, media people that have made it into these
I don't know how it works as much in in
the Pro Football Hall of Fame and all Baseball's got
they've got the actual Hall of Fame. Then they have
like the secat Queen. I don't know, you've been to
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. How's that work? I

(27:34):
don't know. I honestly never saw the maybe I g yeah,
I'm sure it's there, but I didn't you know. It
wasn't something that I was looking to see, which is
I guess it's not just the It's weird like because
it's not just the NFL Hall of Fame, right, I
think Football Hall of Fame, Yes, the prof not the NFL,
just like the NBA doesn't have their own Hall of
Fame Pro Football. So does that mean there's like CFL

(27:56):
guys in there? And you know, I think Football League.
I don't think that there are, but I think there
could be, you know what I mean? Like I think
Warren Moon's CFL career definitely helped him get in the
Pro Football Hall of Fame. I don't think he would
have gotten in he he never played for the Oilers
or But who's this I'm trying to think, like I
know Madden, John Madden the Hall of Fame, but the

(28:17):
Hall of Fame coach are there broadcast? I don't know
how that works. I I gotta look into that. I
really never paid attention, but I'm assuming, like Pat Summer,
all who played in the Hall of Fame is Joe
Buck in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He made
some Hall of Fame. I think they announced it during
an NFL game this year, and a lot of people thought,

(28:38):
oh my god, you kidding me, this guy's going I'm
almost positive they announced this year that Joe buck was
going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But okay,
so if Joe Bucks in, you know, I'll do respected Joe.
If Joe Bucks in the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
then Mel Kiper should be in the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. And also all these other hacks that have
come along to make their money and send me their
draft guys every year, should you send a send a

(28:59):
thank you to Mel Kiper for creating the industry. And
he's also had some great moments. Remember that Bill Polian
blow up at the NFL dry There was some great
where Kiper just got just punched in the face by
NFL executives verbally of course. Anyway, all right, it is
the Ben Maller Show as we press on, So we

(29:20):
have aspend coming up next hour, and you can submit
a question to the Facebook page for this weekend's mailbacks.
You might under that's the podcast. That's a standalone podcast.
Mister nice guy says mel Kiper's hair should be in
the Hall of Fame. He's what he says, and phase
in Chicago is still sending me random videos from him

(29:42):
sitting out in the bleachers heckling Mookie Bets as the
Cubs played the Dodgers. Robbie the Mariner fan says, it
sounds like Dick and Dayton is a true infrastructure expert.
Can we replace the Secretary of Transportation mayor Pete with Dick?

(30:02):
That's what he wants to know. Are justin and Cincinnati says,
I've got Dick in Dayton winning a debate on infrastructure
against anyone CNN has to offer. So he says malpropo. Yeah,
absolutely is malarprop guy right, and says, I like blind Scott, however,
I'm worried about him. He says, I have victory over pride.

(30:25):
I know I'm the best of more concern. He alternates
between first and third person. Yeah, we know another self
appointed king who does this. Yeah, Blin was blind Scott
was pretty mellow compared We've we've gotten crazy blind Scot.
Remember when he went nutso on us, Eddie, Uh, And

(30:47):
I was sending me I think I sent you guys
some of the emails he was sending me, just horrible emails,
just over the top, just vicious the worst of the worst.
And uh, and he's still on the show. We haven't
we haven't been in him, we haven't banned him from
the show. He's still part of the show. Fats from
Philly says, I'm getting ready to leave for Boston. Tell
Blind Scott to lay off the coke. I'll be in

(31:09):
Finnway Park for first pitch at one oh five, says
Fats in Philly. We like to alert the authorities there
that Fats is coming to town, so be careful on that.
So from the chump Change department, kay Re Irving, Kyrie

(31:29):
Irving has been not the most talkative fellow with the
media recently, not that you've really probably paid attention to that.
So the NBA has decided to punish Kyrie for skipping
out on these zoom interviews that he is contractully obligator
to remember in the standard NBA contract, media accessibility is
part of the contract. He signed the contract. It's in

(31:51):
the contract. But Kyrie doesn't want to do it. He's
a looney tone and so he's saying no, and the
NBA find him and the Brooklyn nets thirty five thousand
dollars each, which is outstanding when you consider that Kyrie
Irving's salary is thirty three point four million dollars. Thirty

(32:15):
three point four million dollars, and so he gets fined
thirty five thousand. I hope be able to still pay
his mortgage, in his car payments and things like that.
We wish him the best of luck to Kyrie. There. Wow,

(32:35):
And what would it take for Kyrie? I mean, I
don't think it's allowed, right, What would it take for
him to actually be suspended and miss miss act. I
don't think you can do that. I mean, that's not
in the NBA doesn't operate that way. That's not how
they roll. So I don't even think that's a question
that can be asked. All right, spend Mallar's show on Fox.
We are going to have Mallard to the third degree.

(32:58):
Here's the in style TRIVIAE. So the White Sox pitcher
Dylan Cease becoming only the second American league pitcher since
the advent of the designated hitter. He did this the
other night in nineteen seventy three, the DH started to
have a three hit game. So this pitcher from the
White Sox, Dylan Cease, and he's only the second American

(33:18):
league pitcher since the beginning of the Designated Hitter which
started it's almost been fifty years nineteen seventy three to
have a three hit game. He joins blank. He joins blank,
that's the Insta Trivia the answer and Mallard of the
third degree. Next, Oh bab what a drop machine? Marcel Is.

(33:45):
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can't he take home? He dominates the air wits from

(34:08):
Miami to Man. The Ben Mallow Show is scientifically proven
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We have a track record of almost twenty years there.
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Radio studios. It's Ben Malharts. You say tick and day

(34:29):
and I say that it's Jonas Nives. I've can listening
to rass Crone all night long, but I'll be fired
of any day time. Now for the instad Trivia, So
the Chicago White Sox pitcher Dylan Cease is only the
second American League pictures to the advent of the designated

(34:51):
hitter in nineteen seventy three to have a three hit game.
He joins, blank, that is the question. What's the answer,
Hobby Bab He's going with Nolan Ryan David. Who knows
where all the good restaurants are in Seattle? Says Diego
Sagee Mariner legend is the answer. Rob the Goatman checks
in with the mad Hungarian Al Herboski. Who else do

(35:13):
we have? Big Greg Rob from the Highways and Byways
of the Evergreen State going with Detroit Tiger leadoff legend
Brian L. Hunter as his selection. Matt the Warrior Raiders
fan clearly cheating. I got it right. Who else you have?
Justin in Cincinnati one of the Cincinnati Bros. Going with
Vince Wilfork And again the photography that you come up

(35:37):
with is amazing. Fire Lake DJ from Michigan gives us
Wilson Alvarez Rob Deep in the Woods in Minnesota, says
Wilbur Wood is the answer. Mel Kiper's hair from Terry
in England. Mallard prop guys going with Stephen Matts as
his answer. Inca terror who's in New York? The classically

(35:59):
trained me Ian says, my girl Tammy in Montana, whose
voice I have not heard in a while. Sounds like
he's requesting a phone call. Alfa Alien Opiner is going
with Gonzo as the answer, Rick Flair from Christopher the Custodian,
Luke the Vending Guy, giving us Bubba Ray Dudley as

(36:20):
his answer. The Cuban comment, Cuban comment, Minnie Minoso from
the Late Night Drug tester Eddie. Do you have an answer?
Eddie quickly yes, Former Friendslo State bulldog Tom Goodwin. Is
it Tom Goodwin? Is that the answer? No, it's not.
Robin Vegas's guest Doctor Death, Steve Williams the correct answer, Eddie.
I'm surprised Cooper Loop didn't scream in my ear. I

(36:42):
remember this from the old Anaheim Angels Jared Washburn in
twenty oh one for the Halos at coors Field in Denver.
It's maller how about that to the third degree. This

(37:06):
is one big band gets grilled Coop Dollop So. Marcus
Peters appeared on a Key to Leves podcast this week,
and he went full attack mode on the Rams. Peter
said he felt disrespected by the team after they traded
for Jalen Ramsey right after shipping him to Baltimore, and
he said the secondary wasn't the Rams problem and that
they probably would have won a Super Bowl have they

(37:26):
not dealt him? What do you think, Ben, Yeah, well,
I'm offended by the way Marcus Peters played with the Rams.
He's full of crap old. The reason the Rams traded
Marcus Peters is that he was getting burned more than
an eight year old playing with matches. When he was
playing in LA. He was an All Pro with the Chiefs.
He was I'm not kidding with the Rams. Pro Football
Focus said he was the worst defensive back in the sport.

(37:50):
So he's rewriting history. And listen, I totally get the
whole grudge. I have grudges. I get that he's from SoCal.
They traded him away, I understand, and but no, the
Rams were not gonna win the Super Bowl. They couldn't
have won because Sean McVay was following Belichick around like
a puppy dog and Jared Goff pooped the bed next.

(38:11):
There are reports out there that first year head coach
Nate Bjorkin's future with it yet? Do you know that
he was the head coach of the Pacers. I didn't,
but his future with the team is uncertain due to
issues with players and staff. Now it's his first year
as a head coach and technically the Pacers are still
in the playoff hunt. Would they be pulling the plug
too early? Now? It sounds like Nate Born has failed

(38:32):
the most important part of coaching in the NBA. As
the Great Casey Stangel said, you've got to keep the
five guys who hate you away from the four guys
who haven't made their mind up, and he apparently hasn't
done that any Indiana just doesn't have a good roster.
They don't have that Megas Star. They've got a lot
of Sheriff Woody types. They don't have buzz Lightyear. They
need a buzz Lightyear. Next. Ron Rivera spoke with the

(38:54):
media and revealed there were some quarterbacks in the draft
that Washington had discussed considering that they got to consider
trading up for, but they came off the board much
too early. He also went on to express confidence in
the quarterbacks that he has on the roster. Ben Our
Washington football team. Fans are going to be getting a
full season of Ryan Fitzpatrick. Well they should. Fitzmagic was
better than two a tongue of Iloa last year, and

(39:16):
I have Washington as the team to beat in that division.
Dak Prescott's injured Eagles stink. I'm going with them. How
do we do fail the division? He failed to win.
That is a win, he said when he whispered win win, win,
win win like the hotel in Vegas. Win
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