June 13, 2026 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about 49ers WR Brandon Aiyuk taking to social media to put pressure on the team to trade him while wearing a Commanders hat, the San Antonio Spurs giving up the biggest blown lead in NBA Finals history to the Knicks in Game 4, Maller's Mountain of Money: Kanye West Edition, and more!
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What a story. This is what a gift content hand
delivered from one of the great malcontents in the NFL
dateline social media where wide receiver Brandon ioc yept that
guy got paid and forgot how to play. Brandon iok
is public feud with the forty nine ers escalating, which
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is always good talk radio, the building blocks of good
talk radio. A standoff at the spoiled athlete corral, and
that's what we have here. So let me give you
the brief thumbnail recap and then we'll start attacking here.
In a cryptic video on the gram over the weekend,
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Brandon Ayuck wearing a Washington Commander's hat. Mind you, he plays,
but not that he's played in a while. But he's
property of the forty nine ers, and he was wearing
that ugly commander's hat, and he compared himself to a toy,
compared himself to a toy that the forty nine ers
don't know how to use properly. Of course, the Niners
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have washed their hands with him, they just haven't gotten
rid of him. Now. He suggested the wide receiver Brandon
Ayuck suggested another team would make better use of him
and directly called out the Niners as scared. Yeah, they're
scared to let him go, according to the player, and
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that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question is rather simple. What is forty nine Ers
wide receiver Brandon Iuc actually hoping to accomplish with his
latest social media rant? All right, so on this one,
we've got legos, brisket and Margarita's and we'll combine all
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of these things together and we'll go ABC and one,
two three. You always start though, at number one? What
number one?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Number?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
What number number one? So it's it's simple. This one's
not that hard. It's an Okham's razor situation. The simplest
answer is the right answer here. He is getting frustrated
the player is frustrated. He is annoyed. The NFL season
begins in ninety four days or so, give or take.
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Training camp begins in about a month and a couple
of days. So we're getting closer, and he is stuck
at Loggerheads Brandon Ayuk with the forty nine ers here,
and so he's trying to expedite his departure. He wants
an on time departure from the forty nine ers here.
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And it's like he's a guy passionately banging the closed
door button on the elevator. You know, He's like, I closed,
the door will not close. I want to close the
door on the niners that you kept hitting the button. Yeah,
the same thing at the cross rock. If you're ever
wading around in a city and you hit the crosswalk button.
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I remember there was a story a few years back
that said those buttons don't do anything, that it's a
waste of time in most cities, that they don't activate anything.
That the signals are all programmed to be on a
certain time, and it doesn't matter how many times he
hit that. I don't know about the elevator. I think
the elevator things legit. Anyway, this is not a football
story at this point. The reason it's not a football
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story is because Brandon Ioks not a football player. He's
a former football player who hasn't played in a long time.
This has become a daytime talk show from back when
they used to have good daytime talk shows back in
the day, except they're wearing shoulder pads, although he's not
even knowing that, because that would mean Brandon IoK's out
there playing and we know he's not doing that. Of course,
there's also the active arrest warrant for speed racing around
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the forty nine Ers stadium and then making sure to
record it in four D so everyone could see it
and all that. So calling himself a toy is kind
of an interesting position to take, and I'd like to
expand on that. The Niners, I'm pretty sure, stopped playing
with him as the toy a couple of Christmas as ago.
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So it's been a minute. It's been a minute here,
and Brandon Iok he's not really negotiating. We're past the
point of negotiation here. He's at this point having a
temper tantrum, throwing his leg off the wall hoping they
bounce over, and then John Lynch and Shanahan will step
on them with their bare feet. That's what he's hoping
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happens here. And he's been ghosting. By all accounts, Brandon
Auck has been ghosting the big shots in San Francisco
so long? How long? Thanks for asking? So long? That
this is like the NFL's version. It's like changing the
relationship status to It's complicated at this particular point, it's complicated.
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The Commander's remain the overwhelming favorite to acquire the services
of Brandon Ayuck from the forty nine ers. He played
college ball with Jayden Daniels, who was at Arizona State
with the Sun Devils and Tim b where all the
beautiful people are before going off to baton rouge. They're
not ugly there either. And Washington, if you look at
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their depth chart, there's not a lot there. They need
a wide receiver too, right next to Terry McLaurin. I
need a guy to slot in there. And John Lynch
already made it clear, already made it clear that IUC
has played his last snap in the Bay Area and
this is just the world's slowest breakup. I love the
fact that he went on I assume NFL shop dot
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com ioke to buy a hat or did Jayden Daniels
give him that hat? You think that was like a
freebee he got from Jayden Daniels. He didn't actually go
and buy it himself. It's possible now Page two. Keeping
the good times rolling on here, all right? So the
other question I had is why are the forty nine ers.
Why are the forty nine ers here holding tightly to
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Brandon Iock. Why are they holding onto this guy when
he didn't want to be there. He hasn't played in
a long time, and he's now going around wearing merch
from other NFL teams while he is technically property of
the forty nine ers. So they're calling it the Niners
have let their beat. Guys know, whether it's a salary
cap situation, it's all because of the capt'n Remember the
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salary cap is the ultimate excuse for anything that you do.
You blame it on the cap. It's all I we'd
love to have done that, but it's the cap. And
that's what's coming to major League Baseball. You people that
love your little salary caps. When your team doesn't acquire someone,
they're gonna say it's because of the cap. Just like
NFL teams do. And in the NFL it's bullshoy, is
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what it is. In the NFL, it's always the cap, cap,
cap cap. The cap is crap, The cap is crap.
The cap is crap, The cap is crap. That's the cap.
So in any other industry, in any other industry, at
this point you'd call it hr waiting for the paperwork
to clear. The Niners are like, well, now it's the cap.
And he remains on the reserve left squad list, which
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is apparently a thing Brandon Ayuk reserved left squad list,
we are told, meaning the forty nine ers are not
paying him, so he's not getting the salary. He's stuck
on the knotty list. IOK is on the natty list
there with the Ford now is more importantly a gigantic
chunk of that one hundred and twenty million dollar contract
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that he signed a couple of years ago. The extension
he signed back in twenty twenty four, continues to pro
rate against the salary cap as long as he's on
the roster. So there's some legal gymnastics, are not legal
mathematical gymnastics that you have to jump through. We have
Malard math. So we're good on that now. That said,
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really they're just keeping my belief. This is the Mallard
conspiracy theory, the Illuminati. The Illuminati tells me they're keeping
him to send a message. And you rattle the snake,
you get stung. That's the message. You rattle the snake,
you get stung, and I rattle it. And John Lynch
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is happily holding the anti venom, saying, ha ha, I've
got the anti venom. You don't. So this is a
warning shot, and they're trying to make an example out
of Brandon. Iok to forty nine ers that hey, listen
down the line, maybe two years, three years, five years,
ten years, there'll be another player that comes along that's
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in a similar situation, that signs a contract and then
they decide they don't want to play, and they cause
all these problems and all that stuff. And so they're
sending the message like this, don't mess with us. The
message is rather simple. And so John Lynch is slow
cooking this thing, this release or trade. Like a brisket.
You got to put a brisket in the oven, a
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nice Sunday brisket, but you got to put that in
there a couple of days before. Make that slow cook
for hours and hours and hours and hours, low heat,
all right, long, wait there, put some potatoes around that thing,
little garlic and maximum tenderness, chef's kiss. So that's for
the forty nine ers, of course, not for the player.
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And my theory has been the Niners are going to
wait to the very last minute. They're gonna see if
he shows up or not the training camp, and then
if he shows up, at that point, they'll say, turn
out the lass, the party's over, get out of here,
all right, And then they're gonna wait. The reason you
wait is you want to stick it to the player.
So everyone will have spent their allotted money. There won't
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be much money left on the market for the player
to get and he'll be paid peanuts. Now, he could
end up in Washington. He'll he'll just not get much money.
And the Niners are playing this to their absolute advantage,
as you would expect, because they feel like they were
screwed over by the employee, and they'll do something at
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the very last second. That's what they that's how they
should play this. We'll see if I'm right. It'll be
interesting to see if he does actually report and how
they they handle that at that point. Now, final point,
we go to the Bahamas, the Bahama, Mama we Go
and Fox sideline reporter Aaron Andrews is some serious flack.
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What did Aaron Andrews do? The Fox sideline reporter, Well,
she posted some vacation photos which wouldn't have been a
problem if she wasn't on a vacation with Matthew Stafford,
the Rams quarterback and his family. Huh say what? Yes
Andrews along with Kelly Stafford, that annoying podcast woman Matthew Stafford.
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Now we should also point out Aaron Andrews husband was
there as well, that old hockey guy that was washed up?
Who else Carissa Thompson who also works does TV And
they were all vacationing apparently together in the Bahamas, the
Baker's Bay area if you're familiar with the Bahamas. Now
photos have been bouncing around from the boat trip there
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in the Bahamas, showing the group together, smiling, having a
great time. Andrews even shared one of the photos on
her Instagram page, and the critics, of course, have attacked
the journalistic ethics of a NFL sideline reporter vacationing in
the Bahamas alongside a starting quarterback, the most valuable player
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in the NFL. So the question should should an NFL
sideline reporter like Aaron Andrews, who seemingly covers the NFL
be vacationing with the MVP of the NFL Rams, quarterback
Matthew Stafford and his fam all lait. All right, so
everyone involves. My part of the story that I'm fashionated
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by is the people involved in this, all the actors
in this little play, seem genuinely shocked that anyone would
dare question this activity. To me, that's the root of
the problem. Like they don't seem to understand, like, this
doesn't seem to look very good. They don't have a
problem with it, that's the thing. They don't seem to
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have an issue with it. And of course the reason
is they're not. Aaron Andrews is not a journalist. Of
these people are journalists that work in the NFL. They're
not I And they don't see this as an issue
because they're like, what's the problem. We're just all friends
here and how do you of course, the obviously, if
you were to objectively cover like Matthew Stafford right, a
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terrible couple of games during the season, whatever happens, then okay,
you can't cover him. If you're sipping margaritis with him
on a boat. It's very difficult when your buddy buddy.
Of course, you don't have objectivity. If that is the
case here, and if you're vacationing with the people who
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you supposedly cover, you're not reporting on the NFL. You're
participating in the NFL. There is a slight difference there.
And this, of course, is how they make the sausage.
You're not supposed to see how they make the sausage.
The lines get blurred. Ask Diana Russini about that. They
often get erased. And it's all one big buddy buddy,
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country club, family friends and football retreats where they all
hang out together. And if you want to know who
the mark is, look in the mirror. You're the mark.
If you think otherwise, you are the absolute mark. Imagine
back in the day, I remember when I was a kid,
I heard stories about the old days and journalism. They
covered the president. Reporters. It was a very serious job.
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Imagine like if Walter Cronkite considered the greatest TV guide
reporter of his generation, if he was like sunbathing ends
with Richard Nixon. They were putting sun tan on each
other's backs like they would be. Understand, it's not the
White House, it's just football. I get it. I understand. However,
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that's what we are now, that's where we are now,
and the NFL at one point there was some of that.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Now everyone's in bed with everyone else and so it's
just like a nice trip to the theme park. The
NFL and the reporters are just cast members. That's what
they are, and you have to accept it because that's
the reality of the situation. And if anything really negative
comes out, they just ignore it. For example, Diana Russini,
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that story seemingly problematic to the integrity of the NFL media,
and the NFL media world didn't have a comment because
they didn't know. This goes on apparently all the time.
Everyone's in bed with everyone else or on boats in
the Bahamas having a great time. So here you go.
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is this a great night to roast like a pig
at a luau traditional Hawaiian lua the San Antonio spurs.
What a gag. We'll have fun with that all night.
And also, as promised and was a great idea by
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the late night drug tester, the World Cup pick them now.
The hopper is not in the studio with me. The
hoppers in the green room right now that we're going
to bring the hopper out, and we need if my
math is correct, we need to get four rounds in
each hour for this to work. There's forty eight teams
at this start of the World Cup, and a bunch
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of these teams are not very good. And they suck
and they'll be kicked out and all that. But we'll
do all forty eight. We'll explain more about that coming
up in a little bit. Big night, I mean really
just we're globe trekkers here with the World Cup. Pick
them so freaking exciting. We were fired up, however, our lead,
so don't bear the lead. My man, Oh what a
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night now. As we often point out, and again got
an email from a listener in the New York area,
New Jersey who was like, oh man, you must be
fired up then to get in there and talk about
the game. And I'm like, and my reaction is always
the same to this, because we get paid this. It's like,
we don't get paid extra if the game's good or
if there's something that's like really amazing that happens, we
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get paid the same. Where there's no gifts. We did
it during the pandemic there were no games. We were
talking about marble racing and it was the same thing.
But our lead this hour is from New York City,
right above Penn Station. That was the Hippodrome for game
number four of the NBA. That's right, the NBA Finals.
Now Wemby and San Antonio trying to square the books
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up against Jalen Brunson and the Knicks, and were you watching?
Perhaps not, maybe you were watching, you turned it off. Well,
if you did, bad job by you. The Knickerbockers came
back and back and back and all the way back,
as they had a record setting night down twenty nine
points on multiple occasions, and they are now on the
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brink of a civil unrest in New York when the
lunatic Nick fans start celebrating there. But the first Championships
at nineteen seventy three is in the on deck circle
as the Knicks a rally back for a one oh
seven to one oh six win in a game that
will be remembered for a long time until we all die,
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and then it will be forgotten. The game was decided
by og Annaobi, who was not blocked out by the
San Antonio Spurs who were caught napping. He ran all
the way in and tippy mctip and the miss of
Jalen Brunson's three ball temp with one point two seconds remaining,
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and that the kill shot as the Knicks get a
three to one lead now in the NBA Finals, that
means they have three chances not to f this up
and win the championship. Jalen Brunson helping bring the Knicks
back with thirty six points and og Nnobi had thirty three. Now,
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the better story is in the losing locker room the Spurs,
who somehow had a twenty nine point lead and looked
like they'd win by seventy. They had a twenty seven
point halftime lead, they went up by twenty nine, a
couple points in the third quarter, and it all went away,
all went to hell right there. And that is a
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good jumping off point. So let us discuss. Now the question,
which is rather obvious, is who gets the blame for
Wemby's Spurs on a historical twenty nine point blown lead
in the NBA Finals. Holy crap on a cracker. So
my thoughts on this, I've got speak easy, Sergeant Pepper
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and leftover Lasagna, and we're gonna put all of these
things together and we're going to choke on some Texas toast,
which I think is what the Spurs did. So first
of all, welcome to CSI MSG. It's as CSI MSG.
Doctor Mahler is in and we are now performing a
forensic pathology report the autopsy on the corpse of the
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San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs didn't just blow a twenty
nine point NBA Finals lead, they donated it to charity.
It's taxed to doctor book. Congratulations. Now, they were up
eighty one p fifty two with nine on the clock
above the Mecca in the third quarter, and that is
about the point Mitch Johnson. Listen, Mitch Johnson became Professor Doom,
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teaching a disaster class as coach. Over the final twenty
one plus minutes, San Antonio fell like they were at
the Alamo. That didn't end well. People hear the Alamo.
The ending was not good for the people of the
Alamo outscored fifty five to twenty five from the nine
to forty mark of the third quarter to the end
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of the game. And why well, they have an addiction
problem addicted to the three ball. Live by the three,
Die by the three. The Spurs Biblical meltdown, which this
was they messed with the basketball gods with all the
moneyballs they kept shooting. The basketball gods giveth and the
basketball gods taketh away. The Spurs offending the mojo of basketball.
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They shot a horrific two of fifteen, and I'm just
talking about the stretch where they blew the twenty nine
point leads. So the rest of the game the numbers
were different. But two of fifteen from up twenty nine
to losing by one, that's thirteen point three percent, my computer,
like brain tells me. And from downtown and they from
the floor took thirty five shots when they went up
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by twenty nine, they only made six of them seventeen
point one percent on two pointers. Throw in eight turnovers
and four assists, and you have the collapse combo meal
that is fully complete and supersized there for san Antonio
and I didn't play in the NBA. I just don't
think that's good. Oh, your mean malor your mean maller.
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Why would you say that, I mean, what would you think?
You think it's easy to shoot? Yeah, seventeen point one percent.
They shot seventeen point one percent for the four thirteen
point three percent from three point range to close out
the game, up twenty nine to lose. Now, Mitch Johnson,
who should be fired at this point. I'd fire him
right now. I'd fire him in the middle of the series.
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What are you doing? What are you doing? Anyway, here's
mis Johnson that plausibly for now, the coach of the Spurs,
trying to explain how he just was on the sidelines
for the single greatest suck in the history of basketball.
Take a listen. Yeah, I mean at the top.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Of it, just in terms of obviously the circumstances and
the stakes of what we're playing for, and to put
as much good work into that first half as we
did and get the lead that we had and now
finish a job as dress I want to say the least.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah. He also said that they needed tough minded plays.
He said they needed some tough minded plays. Now that
part of it is coach speak for my guys turned
into jet puff marshmallows. Yeah. In fact, just to prove
I'm not making that up, here's the coach here, Mitch Johnson,
and talking about tough minded plays.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Listen, I mean, honestly, is tough. He felt the momentum
too much, Truvor Coom. I didn't feel that until the
clock hit Zeros. I mean there was times where again
I felt was part of that third quarter, and then
some part probably early mid and the fourth quarter again
where we just we got away from playing the Brandon
basketball got us the lead, and then you saw the
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times aggressiveness and the just conviction that we played with
early on dissipated a little bit and they made some
shots and that's where you felt the momentum a little bit.
We just needed a few more tough minded plays to
finish the job.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah. Again, that's him calling his team soft. That's the
coach calling his players soft, and he's not wrong. That
was marshmellow soft. We talked about the fluffer nutter this week.
That's a fluffer nutter for San Antonio. Now, Victor Wembanyama,
this is on his resume. Wemby officially earned his pilot's license.
Congratulations Wemby, you are now qualified to fly the vomit
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comet choking away the game. Now mentioned, all these numbers
are when the Spurs went up by twenty nine to me.
That's obviously the twenty point From that point on, Spurs
up twenty nine to the end of the game, Wenby
took twelve shots. He made two of them, two of
twelve in the final twenty one minutes plus and he
went zero of two from missed a couple of big
shots from the charity Strap and then you've got the
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Fox oh man making our radio network look bad. Daron Fox,
once a Sacramento King, always a Sacramento King. Foxy went
one of seven from the floor with four turnovers in
that fateful stretch from nine to forty to go in
the third quarter to the end of the game, including
the bone headed play of the day. That's right, the
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boneheaded play the day, which will be discussed and analyzed
and all that up one spurs up one thirteen seconds left,
and this is one of those you make the call moments. Okay,
so you're de Aaron Fox. You have options. You could
dribble it out, force the Knicks to foul. You play
the foul game and they got a foul you because
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the time's gonna run out. Or you could call a
timeout and reset and run and play that way. Well,
the Aaron Fox decided, I don't want to dribble out
and get fouled, and I want to call a time
out instead. I'm gonna choose option C. I'm going to
force a layup attempt against a shadow defender og an
Anobi who's draped all over me. And what does Anonobe do?
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He goes mutambo. We used to say back in the
day and swats it away, and that set up New
York for what turned out to be the game winning possession.
And again, the basketball gods giveth, the basketball gods taketh away.
And now that said, it's not all bad news for Wemby,
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Foxy and Mitch, because these boys have earned the secret
password to the speakeasy at the Sports Suck Bar and
they can now have cocktails with other choke artists. For example,
the Dirty Birds. I see Matt Ryan over there, Julio Jones,
coach Dan Quinn at the speakeasy of Sports Suck. They're
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all in there. Members of that Yankee team that blew
it against the Red Sox and the American League Championship Series.
Those guys are in there as well, having a grand
old time. Now. Secondly, on the New York side of things,
here the question how much credit do Jalen Brunson's knicks
get for the comeback? So on the Malar big board,
not a list on the big board, I'm giving them
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five percent. They didn't come back. I'm not going to
call this a comeback. They just waited for the Spurs
to choke on their own puke. And that's exactly what
the Spurs did. And yet the Knicks are getting I've
seen some of the coverages. They're getting a media tongue bath.
It is. This tongue bath is so deep, I think
we need to call in a lifeguard for safety reason. Now,
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Brunson and og N Andobi they played well, obviously down
the stretch, and they combined to score thirty three of
the fifty five points in the twenty nine point comeback
from that point, and they shot twelve of eighteen and
that was obviously great. In fact, it's sixty six point
six percent, which is a sign of the devil, which
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is who the Spurs are hanging out with. After that performance,
Brunson and og look like the adults in the room,
and the Spurs looked like the kids in the back
of the room that eat glue. That's what they look like.
And so you give the Knicks a little bit of
credit for not throwing in the sponge and so they
kept scratchy and clonging. I believe that's worth five percent. However,
the garage band started here and it was Sergeant Pepper's
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Lonely Hearts Club band. It is mathematically impossible, mathematically impossible,
to rally back from twenty nine points down against a
smart basketball team, against a team that just plays fundamental basketball.
The way that you are able to come back from
twenty nine down, you can't do it without a little
help from my friends or in this case, the Spurs
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acting like the Beatles. They were accomplices. Most games are lost,
they're not one. This is a textbook example. As we said,
it's a disaster class, absolute disaster class by the Knickerbockers.
Now the final thought here, big picture, big picture. The
Spurs are facing elimination. Things are not going well. Here's
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Victor Wembanyama on the state of the Spurs. What's going
through my mind right now? I think he's going to
go one of two ways, one of two ways and
a bad one and a good one.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And I know the bad one.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Would be giving up. The good one would be getting
struggling through this, getting more together, and I know this
is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Want to bet on that question? Is this NBA Finals
in the fridge for Jalen Brunson and the Knicks up
three games to one. So I'm nodding my head, Yes,
this is shocking up. There is no such thing as momentum,
so it's not like the knicker. You just gotta have
all the momentum going into the next game. I saw something.
I saw a sign that I'll get to in a second.
(29:31):
But as Chicky Baby, this old you don't even know
this guy's before you were alive. There was this guy
named chick Hern who broadcast the Laker games. Actually liked him.
I was around him a little bit back in the
day when I was a young lad, and he would say,
this series is in the refrigerator, the doors closed, the
lights are out, the eggs are cool, and the butter's
getting hard and the jello's jiggling. This thing appears to
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be vacuum sealed, time stamped, and shoved behind the leftover
lasagna that you had back in April. Body language. That's
to me the tell for the Spurs, Big body language, guy,
Benny body language. I saw the surrender cobra. I saw
the surrender cobra. That is a universal sign. Universal hands
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atop the head, pose all right, hands atop the head.
As you realize defeat is inevitable, and you put your
hands above your head like that. The math ain't math
in here. The only path for san Antonio back involves
twisted ankles, divine intervention, and some kind of clerical error.
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And forget just the nuns that they have in San Antonio.
If the Spurs want to flip this, they need more
than just holy water I'm talking about. They should bring
in a rabbi, a priest, a shaman, voodoo dolls, bags
of garlic, bulbs, the whole thing. San Antonio needs a
(30:58):
total spiritual reboot to ward off the bag juju me.
They they should call the Ghostbusters. Who are you gonna call?
Call the Ghostbusters.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
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Speaker 1 (31:14):
Let's welcome to architestas we have Andy in Venice Beach,
Beautiful Venice Beach. I spent many a day in Venice
back in the day. Hello, Andy, welcome, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Ben? Are you hearing me?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Loud and clear?
Speaker 5 (31:29):
There?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
All right? This is very exciting. It sounds like you're driving,
which means you're not in Venice Beach, You're going somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Yes, I somehow you've pinpointed my location, leaving Guardena heading
to Venice Beach, and that is a very accurate, okay,
description of me driving the highway.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I hope you can find parking in Venice. This is
a little rocky around it. All right, well you're gonna
play the game. Who do you want to partner up with? Andy?
You got me, Ben, Lorena or Coop? Okay, all right,
hold on a second. So Andy, he's driving through Guardiana
making his way to Venice Beach. Now, let's say hello
to Austin, who's in in the field in bakers Field. Hello, Austin,
(32:14):
Welcome and Ben.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I are going.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
If I was any better, I would be a blaze,
but not a Bakersfield blaze, because that's the minor league
baseball team that left Austin. We closed that team down.
We threw out the first pitch there years ago, and
that team went bankrupt. They had been there for one
hundred years, Austin one hundred years and bakers stuff telling man, Okay,
who do you want to partner up with? Austin? Who
(32:39):
do you want to partner up with? All right, Lorena?
You got picked? Lorena excited, excited? Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I don't want you to lose. All right, I'm your partner, Austin.
You get so upset. I don't because you're trying to
cheat again, not trying to cheat. Mallard's Mountain of Money.
This is the Kanye West edition. He turned forty nine
on Monday. All right, what an old fart?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
All the categories are family Business, Touch the Sky, Homecoming
and thirty Hours. Andy, you were on first? Which category
would you like to Touch the sky? All right? And Austin,
how about you? The category family Business, homecoming or thirty
hours Homecoming?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All right? All right, very good? Everyone, hold on, hold
the line, Hold the line. The cougars are coming. The
cougars are coming. Ok, very good. So that'll that'll be
the matchup. We have Andy, assuming he doesn't hang up
on his way to Venice Beach, and Austin is in Bakersfield.
It's me Ben with Andy and Coop, and Austin will
(33:45):
have in his entirety Mallards Mountain of Money. We'll get
to that and we will do it neck.
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Speaker 1 (34:16):
Let's so here we go. We welcome in Architestas. We
have Andy, who's heading to Venice Beach. He said, I
should be almost there. And Austin in Bakersfield and he's
with Coop and I'm with Andy. Are you there? Andy,
I'm okay, very exciting. Let's get started here, Andy, and
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you're gonna play the game we have. But what do
we have here? We have touch the sky? Touch this guy.
These athletes are so tall. How tall are they? They're
so tall they can seemingly touch the sky. Do you
understand the concept?
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Andy, I'm ready to win this a mount of money.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, Yes, here we go, it's fake money. Here we go.
Give me forty five seconds on the clock. We need
the first and last name, and we're on our way.
Go Center for the San Antonio Spurs, right now. Center
for the Spurs, right now from France. Yeah. The captain
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of the Yankees, number ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Not dark Carloon.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
No, the big unit for the Seattle Mariners, pitcher Randy Darkin. Yes,
football player in the nineteen seventies for the Cowboys, nickname
too Tall. What's his first name?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
That's correct. All right, center from Purdue. He's places for
the Memphis Grizzlies. He won the Wooden Award. He's an
NBA player, seven foot four guy. Yeah, good job, baby,
that was one hundred pointer. All right, Austin, we have homecoming?
How many we get?
Speaker 6 (35:59):
Lorain Austin homecoming? These athletes all returned to their original team.
Are you ready, Austin?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
All right?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Forty five seconds, let's begin. He's the king. He's on
the Lakers right now. Yes, this guy was the tight
end for the Denver Broncos. He won Super Bowls with
John Elway. He's on TV's got a horse face. Yes,
this guy was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks.
He's one of the best point guards of all time. Yes,
(36:28):
this guy's nickname was the Professor pitcher for the Cubs.
Carry No, all right, uh this one. This was a
defensive end for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
He was bald.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
He's in the Hall of Fame, Taylor. Yes, this guy
was a slugger for the Nationals and Yankees. He was
like a five tool player.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
He was. That was a tough one. That wasright, Austin.
All right?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Greg Maddox was who were missing there, Coop, you want
to just give up, Austin. Do you want thirty hours
or family business?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Thirty hours? Thirty hours? All right?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
These athletes all war or war number thirty forty five seconds.
Next begin splash brother on the Warriors right now. Yes,
this guy was the running back for the Denver Broncos
John Elway. Yes, this guy is the all time strikeout
king in baseball.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I meanel Ryan.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Yes, this guy was a running back for the Saint
Louis Rams and the La Rams. His nickname, his last
name's kind of feminine.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Wow, that's offensive. I don't know, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
This guy was a power forward for the Blazers and
the Pistons.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
He's a tech tech king.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Yes, this guy was scoring leader for the Knicks back
in the day in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I don't know, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
This guy was a based stealer.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He left cocaine. Tim twenty both round two forty together.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Tim Rains, Bernard King, what else? Todd Gurley number thirty
Todd Gurley, All right, Well, well we still have to go, Andy.
We have a family business, I believe.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yes, all right, Andy, these sports figures have all followed
in their father's footsteps. Okay, are you ready, Andy, I'm
going through the pun now. So all right, let's get
let's get, let's get going. All right. He's the head
coach of the forty nine ers right now. His dad
coach the Broncos and the Raider. Yeah, there you go.
(38:39):
That's a winner. We'll keep going. Broadcaster for the Saint
Louis Cardinals, and his son is the broadcaster on what
was on Fox. He's on ESPN right now. No, that
is completely wrong. Raiders star Howie's son he played for
the Bears.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Off.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Oh, I know that his son now, But we've already
won the game. It's a it's a it's already other.
Go all right, well, Andy, you get a golden ticket,
You get a gold got a win for me, Coop
you lost the game. Coop again won in a week,
all time win, King Baby
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What a story. This is what a gift content hand
delivered from one of the great malcontents in the NFL
dateline social media where wide receiver Brandon ioc yept that
guy got paid and forgot how to play. Brandon iok
is public feud with the forty nine ers escalating, which
(00:53):
is always good talk radio, the building blocks of good
talk radio. A standoff at the spoiled athlete corral, and
that's what we have here. So let me give you
the brief thumbnail recap and then we'll start attacking here.
In a cryptic video on the gram over the weekend,
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Brandon Ayuck wearing a Washington Commander's hat. Mind you, he plays,
but not that he's played in a while. But he's
property of the forty nine ers, and he was wearing
that ugly commander's hat, and he compared himself to a toy,
compared himself to a toy that the forty nine ers
don't know how to use properly. Of course, the Niners
(01:35):
have washed their hands with him, they just haven't gotten
rid of him. Now. He suggested the wide receiver Brandon
Ayuck suggested another team would make better use of him
and directly called out the Niners as scared. Yeah, they're
scared to let him go, according to the player, and
(01:57):
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question is rather simple. What is forty nine Ers
wide receiver Brandon Iuc actually hoping to accomplish with his
latest social media rant? All right, so on this one,
we've got legos, brisket and Margarita's and we'll combine all
(02:25):
of these things together and we'll go ABC and one,
two three. You always start though, at number one? What
number one?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Number?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
What number number one? So it's it's simple. This one's
not that hard. It's an Okham's razor situation. The simplest
answer is the right answer here. He is getting frustrated
the player is frustrated. He is annoyed. The NFL season
begins in ninety four days or so, give or take.
(02:58):
Training camp begins in about a month and a couple
of days. So we're getting closer, and he is stuck
at Loggerheads Brandon Ayuk with the forty nine ers here,
and so he's trying to expedite his departure. He wants
an on time departure from the forty nine ers here.
(03:19):
And it's like he's a guy passionately banging the closed
door button on the elevator. You know, He's like, I closed,
the door will not close. I want to close the
door on the niners that you kept hitting the button. Yeah,
the same thing at the cross rock. If you're ever
wading around in a city and you hit the crosswalk button.
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I remember there was a story a few years back
that said those buttons don't do anything, that it's a
waste of time in most cities, that they don't activate anything.
That the signals are all programmed to be on a
certain time, and it doesn't matter how many times he
hit that. I don't know about the elevator. I think
the elevator things legit. Anyway, this is not a football
story at this point. The reason it's not a football
(04:02):
story is because Brandon Ioks not a football player. He's
a former football player who hasn't played in a long time.
This has become a daytime talk show from back when
they used to have good daytime talk shows back in
the day, except they're wearing shoulder pads, although he's not
even knowing that, because that would mean Brandon IoK's out
there playing and we know he's not doing that. Of course,
there's also the active arrest warrant for speed racing around
(04:26):
the forty nine Ers stadium and then making sure to
record it in four D so everyone could see it
and all that. So calling himself a toy is kind
of an interesting position to take, and I'd like to
expand on that. The Niners, I'm pretty sure, stopped playing
with him as the toy a couple of Christmas as ago.
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So it's been a minute. It's been a minute here,
and Brandon Iok he's not really negotiating. We're past the
point of negotiation here. He's at this point having a
temper tantrum, throwing his leg off the wall hoping they
bounce over, and then John Lynch and Shanahan will step
on them with their bare feet. That's what he's hoping
(05:10):
happens here. And he's been ghosting. By all accounts, Brandon
Auck has been ghosting the big shots in San Francisco
so long? How long? Thanks for asking? So long? That
this is like the NFL's version. It's like changing the
relationship status to It's complicated at this particular point, it's complicated.
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The Commander's remain the overwhelming favorite to acquire the services
of Brandon Ayuck from the forty nine ers. He played
college ball with Jayden Daniels, who was at Arizona State
with the Sun Devils and Tim b where all the
beautiful people are before going off to baton rouge. They're
not ugly there either. And Washington, if you look at
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their depth chart, there's not a lot there. They need
a wide receiver too, right next to Terry McLaurin. I
need a guy to slot in there. And John Lynch
already made it clear, already made it clear that IUC
has played his last snap in the Bay Area and
this is just the world's slowest breakup. I love the
fact that he went on I assume NFL shop dot
(06:15):
com ioke to buy a hat or did Jayden Daniels
give him that hat? You think that was like a
freebee he got from Jayden Daniels. He didn't actually go
and buy it himself. It's possible now Page two. Keeping
the good times rolling on here, all right? So the
other question I had is why are the forty nine ers.
Why are the forty nine ers here holding tightly to
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Brandon Iock. Why are they holding onto this guy when
he didn't want to be there. He hasn't played in
a long time, and he's now going around wearing merch
from other NFL teams while he is technically property of
the forty nine ers. So they're calling it the Niners
have let their beat. Guys know, whether it's a salary
cap situation, it's all because of the capt'n Remember the
(06:58):
salary cap is the ultimate excuse for anything that you do.
You blame it on the cap. It's all I we'd
love to have done that, but it's the cap. And
that's what's coming to major League Baseball. You people that
love your little salary caps. When your team doesn't acquire someone,
they're gonna say it's because of the cap. Just like
NFL teams do. And in the NFL it's bullshoy, is
(07:21):
what it is. In the NFL, it's always the cap, cap,
cap cap. The cap is crap, The cap is crap.
The cap is crap, The cap is crap. That's the cap.
So in any other industry, in any other industry, at
this point you'd call it hr waiting for the paperwork
to clear. The Niners are like, well, now it's the cap.
And he remains on the reserve left squad list, which
(07:45):
is apparently a thing Brandon Ayuk reserved left squad list,
we are told, meaning the forty nine ers are not
paying him, so he's not getting the salary. He's stuck
on the knotty list. IOK is on the natty list
there with the Ford now is more importantly a gigantic
chunk of that one hundred and twenty million dollar contract
(08:08):
that he signed a couple of years ago. The extension
he signed back in twenty twenty four, continues to pro
rate against the salary cap as long as he's on
the roster. So there's some legal gymnastics, are not legal
mathematical gymnastics that you have to jump through. We have
Malard math. So we're good on that now. That said,
(08:29):
really they're just keeping my belief. This is the Mallard
conspiracy theory, the Illuminati. The Illuminati tells me they're keeping
him to send a message. And you rattle the snake,
you get stung. That's the message. You rattle the snake,
you get stung, and I rattle it. And John Lynch
(08:50):
is happily holding the anti venom, saying, ha ha, I've
got the anti venom. You don't. So this is a
warning shot, and they're trying to make an example out
of Brandon. Iok to forty nine ers that hey, listen
down the line, maybe two years, three years, five years,
ten years, there'll be another player that comes along that's
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in a similar situation, that signs a contract and then
they decide they don't want to play, and they cause
all these problems and all that stuff. And so they're
sending the message like this, don't mess with us. The
message is rather simple. And so John Lynch is slow
cooking this thing, this release or trade. Like a brisket.
You got to put a brisket in the oven, a
(09:34):
nice Sunday brisket, but you got to put that in
there a couple of days before. Make that slow cook
for hours and hours and hours and hours, low heat,
all right, long, wait there, put some potatoes around that thing,
little garlic and maximum tenderness, chef's kiss. So that's for
the forty nine ers, of course, not for the player.
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And my theory has been the Niners are going to
wait to the very last minute. They're gonna see if
he shows up or not the training camp, and then
if he shows up, at that point, they'll say, turn
out the lass, the party's over, get out of here,
all right, And then they're gonna wait. The reason you
wait is you want to stick it to the player.
So everyone will have spent their allotted money. There won't
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be much money left on the market for the player
to get and he'll be paid peanuts. Now, he could
end up in Washington. He'll he'll just not get much money.
And the Niners are playing this to their absolute advantage,
as you would expect, because they feel like they were
screwed over by the employee, and they'll do something at
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the very last second. That's what they that's how they
should play this. We'll see if I'm right. It'll be
interesting to see if he does actually report and how
they they handle that at that point. Now, final point,
we go to the Bahamas, the Bahama, Mama we Go
and Fox sideline reporter Aaron Andrews is some serious flack.
(11:02):
What did Aaron Andrews do? The Fox sideline reporter, Well,
she posted some vacation photos which wouldn't have been a
problem if she wasn't on a vacation with Matthew Stafford,
the Rams quarterback and his family. Huh say what? Yes
Andrews along with Kelly Stafford, that annoying podcast woman Matthew Stafford.
(11:24):
Now we should also point out Aaron Andrews husband was
there as well, that old hockey guy that was washed up?
Who else Carissa Thompson who also works does TV And
they were all vacationing apparently together in the Bahamas, the
Baker's Bay area if you're familiar with the Bahamas. Now
photos have been bouncing around from the boat trip there
(11:47):
in the Bahamas, showing the group together, smiling, having a
great time. Andrews even shared one of the photos on
her Instagram page, and the critics, of course, have attacked
the journalistic ethics of a NFL sideline reporter vacationing in
the Bahamas alongside a starting quarterback, the most valuable player
(12:08):
in the NFL. So the question should should an NFL
sideline reporter like Aaron Andrews, who seemingly covers the NFL
be vacationing with the MVP of the NFL Rams, quarterback
Matthew Stafford and his fam all lait. All right, so
everyone involves. My part of the story that I'm fashionated
(12:32):
by is the people involved in this, all the actors
in this little play, seem genuinely shocked that anyone would
dare question this activity. To me, that's the root of
the problem. Like they don't seem to understand, like, this
doesn't seem to look very good. They don't have a
problem with it, that's the thing. They don't seem to
(12:54):
have an issue with it. And of course the reason
is they're not. Aaron Andrews is not a journalist. Of
these people are journalists that work in the NFL. They're
not I And they don't see this as an issue
because they're like, what's the problem. We're just all friends
here and how do you of course, the obviously, if
you were to objectively cover like Matthew Stafford right, a
(13:17):
terrible couple of games during the season, whatever happens, then okay,
you can't cover him. If you're sipping margaritis with him
on a boat. It's very difficult when your buddy buddy.
Of course, you don't have objectivity. If that is the
case here, and if you're vacationing with the people who
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you supposedly cover, you're not reporting on the NFL. You're
participating in the NFL. There is a slight difference there.
And this, of course, is how they make the sausage.
You're not supposed to see how they make the sausage.
The lines get blurred. Ask Diana Russini about that. They
often get erased. And it's all one big buddy buddy,
(13:59):
country club, family friends and football retreats where they all
hang out together. And if you want to know who
the mark is, look in the mirror. You're the mark.
If you think otherwise, you are the absolute mark. Imagine
back in the day, I remember when I was a kid,
I heard stories about the old days and journalism. They
covered the president. Reporters. It was a very serious job.
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Imagine like if Walter Cronkite considered the greatest TV guide
reporter of his generation, if he was like sunbathing ends
with Richard Nixon. They were putting sun tan on each
other's backs like they would be. Understand, it's not the
White House, it's just football. I get it. I understand. However,
(14:42):
that's what we are now, that's where we are now,
and the NFL at one point there was some of that.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Now everyone's in bed with everyone else and so it's
just like a nice trip to the theme park. The
NFL and the reporters are just cast members. That's what
they are, and you have to accept it because that's
the reality of the situation. And if anything really negative
comes out, they just ignore it. For example, Diana Russini,
(15:11):
that story seemingly problematic to the integrity of the NFL media,
and the NFL media world didn't have a comment because
they didn't know. This goes on apparently all the time.
Everyone's in bed with everyone else or on boats in
the Bahamas having a great time. So here you go.
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is this a great night to roast like a pig
at a luau traditional Hawaiian lua the San Antonio spurs.
What a gag. We'll have fun with that all night.
And also, as promised and was a great idea by
(16:25):
the late night drug tester, the World Cup pick them now.
The hopper is not in the studio with me. The
hoppers in the green room right now that we're going
to bring the hopper out, and we need if my
math is correct, we need to get four rounds in
each hour for this to work. There's forty eight teams
at this start of the World Cup, and a bunch
(16:45):
of these teams are not very good. And they suck
and they'll be kicked out and all that. But we'll
do all forty eight. We'll explain more about that coming
up in a little bit. Big night, I mean really
just we're globe trekkers here with the World Cup. Pick
them so freaking exciting. We were fired up, however, our lead,
so don't bear the lead. My man, Oh what a
(17:08):
night now. As we often point out, and again got
an email from a listener in the New York area,
New Jersey who was like, oh man, you must be
fired up then to get in there and talk about
the game. And I'm like, and my reaction is always
the same to this, because we get paid this. It's like,
we don't get paid extra if the game's good or
if there's something that's like really amazing that happens, we
(17:28):
get paid the same. Where there's no gifts. We did
it during the pandemic there were no games. We were
talking about marble racing and it was the same thing.
But our lead this hour is from New York City,
right above Penn Station. That was the Hippodrome for game
number four of the NBA. That's right, the NBA Finals.
Now Wemby and San Antonio trying to square the books
(17:52):
up against Jalen Brunson and the Knicks, and were you watching?
Perhaps not, maybe you were watching, you turned it off. Well,
if you did, bad job by you. The Knickerbockers came
back and back and back and all the way back,
as they had a record setting night down twenty nine
points on multiple occasions, and they are now on the
(18:16):
brink of a civil unrest in New York when the
lunatic Nick fans start celebrating there. But the first Championships
at nineteen seventy three is in the on deck circle
as the Knicks a rally back for a one oh
seven to one oh six win in a game that
will be remembered for a long time until we all die,
(18:37):
and then it will be forgotten. The game was decided
by og Annaobi, who was not blocked out by the
San Antonio Spurs who were caught napping. He ran all
the way in and tippy mctip and the miss of
Jalen Brunson's three ball temp with one point two seconds remaining,
(18:58):
and that the kill shot as the Knicks get a
three to one lead now in the NBA Finals, that
means they have three chances not to f this up
and win the championship. Jalen Brunson helping bring the Knicks
back with thirty six points and og Nnobi had thirty three. Now,
(19:18):
the better story is in the losing locker room the Spurs,
who somehow had a twenty nine point lead and looked
like they'd win by seventy. They had a twenty seven
point halftime lead, they went up by twenty nine, a
couple points in the third quarter, and it all went away,
all went to hell right there. And that is a
(19:38):
good jumping off point. So let us discuss. Now the question,
which is rather obvious, is who gets the blame for
Wemby's Spurs on a historical twenty nine point blown lead
in the NBA Finals. Holy crap on a cracker. So
my thoughts on this, I've got speak easy, Sergeant Pepper
(20:01):
and leftover Lasagna, and we're gonna put all of these
things together and we're going to choke on some Texas toast,
which I think is what the Spurs did. So first
of all, welcome to CSI MSG. It's as CSI MSG.
Doctor Mahler is in and we are now performing a
forensic pathology report the autopsy on the corpse of the
(20:25):
San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs didn't just blow a twenty
nine point NBA Finals lead, they donated it to charity.
It's taxed to doctor book. Congratulations. Now, they were up
eighty one p fifty two with nine on the clock
above the Mecca in the third quarter, and that is
about the point Mitch Johnson. Listen, Mitch Johnson became Professor Doom,
(20:51):
teaching a disaster class as coach. Over the final twenty
one plus minutes, San Antonio fell like they were at
the Alamo. That didn't end well. People hear the Alamo.
The ending was not good for the people of the
Alamo outscored fifty five to twenty five from the nine
to forty mark of the third quarter to the end
(21:13):
of the game. And why well, they have an addiction
problem addicted to the three ball. Live by the three,
Die by the three. The Spurs Biblical meltdown, which this
was they messed with the basketball gods with all the
moneyballs they kept shooting. The basketball gods giveth and the
basketball gods taketh away. The Spurs offending the mojo of basketball.
(21:38):
They shot a horrific two of fifteen, and I'm just
talking about the stretch where they blew the twenty nine
point leads. So the rest of the game the numbers
were different. But two of fifteen from up twenty nine
to losing by one, that's thirteen point three percent, my computer,
like brain tells me. And from downtown and they from
the floor took thirty five shots when they went up
(22:00):
by twenty nine, they only made six of them seventeen
point one percent on two pointers. Throw in eight turnovers
and four assists, and you have the collapse combo meal
that is fully complete and supersized there for san Antonio
and I didn't play in the NBA. I just don't
think that's good. Oh, your mean malor your mean maller.
(22:22):
Why would you say that, I mean, what would you think?
You think it's easy to shoot? Yeah, seventeen point one percent.
They shot seventeen point one percent for the four thirteen
point three percent from three point range to close out
the game, up twenty nine to lose. Now, Mitch Johnson,
who should be fired at this point. I'd fire him
right now. I'd fire him in the middle of the series.
(22:44):
What are you doing? What are you doing? Anyway, here's
mis Johnson that plausibly for now, the coach of the Spurs,
trying to explain how he just was on the sidelines
for the single greatest suck in the history of basketball.
Take a listen. Yeah, I mean at the top.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Of it, just in terms of obviously the circumstances and
the stakes of what we're playing for, and to put
as much good work into that first half as we
did and get the lead that we had and now
finish a job as dress I want to say the least.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah. He also said that they needed tough minded plays.
He said they needed some tough minded plays. Now that
part of it is coach speak for my guys turned
into jet puff marshmallows. Yeah. In fact, just to prove
I'm not making that up, here's the coach here, Mitch Johnson,
and talking about tough minded plays.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Listen, I mean, honestly, is tough. He felt the momentum
too much, Truvor Coom. I didn't feel that until the
clock hit Zeros. I mean there was times where again
I felt was part of that third quarter, and then
some part probably early mid and the fourth quarter again
where we just we got away from playing the Brandon
basketball got us the lead, and then you saw the
(23:55):
times aggressiveness and the just conviction that we played with
early on dissipated a little bit and they made some
shots and that's where you felt the momentum a little bit.
We just needed a few more tough minded plays to
finish the job.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah. Again, that's him calling his team soft. That's the
coach calling his players soft, and he's not wrong. That
was marshmellow soft. We talked about the fluffer nutter this week.
That's a fluffer nutter for San Antonio. Now, Victor Wembanyama,
this is on his resume. Wemby officially earned his pilot's license.
Congratulations Wemby, you are now qualified to fly the vomit
(24:28):
comet choking away the game. Now mentioned, all these numbers
are when the Spurs went up by twenty nine to me.
That's obviously the twenty point From that point on, Spurs
up twenty nine to the end of the game, Wenby
took twelve shots. He made two of them, two of
twelve in the final twenty one minutes plus and he
went zero of two from missed a couple of big
shots from the charity Strap and then you've got the
(24:50):
Fox oh man making our radio network look bad. Daron Fox,
once a Sacramento King, always a Sacramento King. Foxy went
one of seven from the floor with four turnovers in
that fateful stretch from nine to forty to go in
the third quarter to the end of the game, including
the bone headed play of the day. That's right, the
(25:13):
boneheaded play the day, which will be discussed and analyzed
and all that up one spurs up one thirteen seconds left,
and this is one of those you make the call moments. Okay,
so you're de Aaron Fox. You have options. You could
dribble it out, force the Knicks to foul. You play
the foul game and they got a foul you because
(25:33):
the time's gonna run out. Or you could call a
timeout and reset and run and play that way. Well,
the Aaron Fox decided, I don't want to dribble out
and get fouled, and I want to call a time
out instead. I'm gonna choose option C. I'm going to
force a layup attempt against a shadow defender og an
Anobi who's draped all over me. And what does Anonobe do?
(25:57):
He goes mutambo. We used to say back in the
day and swats it away, and that set up New
York for what turned out to be the game winning possession.
And again, the basketball gods giveth, the basketball gods taketh away.
And now that said, it's not all bad news for Wemby,
(26:18):
Foxy and Mitch, because these boys have earned the secret
password to the speakeasy at the Sports Suck Bar and
they can now have cocktails with other choke artists. For example,
the Dirty Birds. I see Matt Ryan over there, Julio Jones,
coach Dan Quinn at the speakeasy of Sports Suck. They're
(26:40):
all in there. Members of that Yankee team that blew
it against the Red Sox and the American League Championship Series.
Those guys are in there as well, having a grand
old time. Now. Secondly, on the New York side of things,
here the question how much credit do Jalen Brunson's knicks
get for the comeback? So on the Malar big board,
not a list on the big board, I'm giving them
(27:02):
five percent. They didn't come back. I'm not going to
call this a comeback. They just waited for the Spurs
to choke on their own puke. And that's exactly what
the Spurs did. And yet the Knicks are getting I've
seen some of the coverages. They're getting a media tongue bath.
It is. This tongue bath is so deep, I think
we need to call in a lifeguard for safety reason. Now,
(27:23):
Brunson and og N Andobi they played well, obviously down
the stretch, and they combined to score thirty three of
the fifty five points in the twenty nine point comeback
from that point, and they shot twelve of eighteen and
that was obviously great. In fact, it's sixty six point
six percent, which is a sign of the devil, which
(27:44):
is who the Spurs are hanging out with. After that performance,
Brunson and og look like the adults in the room,
and the Spurs looked like the kids in the back
of the room that eat glue. That's what they look like.
And so you give the Knicks a little bit of
credit for not throwing in the sponge and so they
kept scratchy and clonging. I believe that's worth five percent. However,
the garage band started here and it was Sergeant Pepper's
(28:08):
Lonely Hearts Club band. It is mathematically impossible, mathematically impossible,
to rally back from twenty nine points down against a
smart basketball team, against a team that just plays fundamental basketball.
The way that you are able to come back from
twenty nine down, you can't do it without a little
help from my friends or in this case, the Spurs
(28:30):
acting like the Beatles. They were accomplices. Most games are lost,
they're not one. This is a textbook example. As we said,
it's a disaster class, absolute disaster class by the Knickerbockers.
Now the final thought here, big picture, big picture. The
Spurs are facing elimination. Things are not going well. Here's
(28:51):
Victor Wembanyama on the state of the Spurs. What's going
through my mind right now? I think he's going to
go one of two ways, one of two ways and
a bad one and a good one.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
And I know the bad one.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Would be giving up. The good one would be getting
struggling through this, getting more together, and I know this
is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Want to bet on that question? Is this NBA Finals
in the fridge for Jalen Brunson and the Knicks up
three games to one. So I'm nodding my head, Yes,
this is shocking up. There is no such thing as momentum,
so it's not like the knicker. You just gotta have
all the momentum going into the next game. I saw something.
I saw a sign that I'll get to in a second.
(29:31):
But as Chicky Baby, this old you don't even know
this guy's before you were alive. There was this guy
named chick Hern who broadcast the Laker games. Actually liked him.
I was around him a little bit back in the
day when I was a young lad, and he would say,
this series is in the refrigerator, the doors closed, the
lights are out, the eggs are cool, and the butter's
getting hard and the jello's jiggling. This thing appears to
(29:52):
be vacuum sealed, time stamped, and shoved behind the leftover
lasagna that you had back in April. Body language. That's
to me the tell for the Spurs, Big body language, guy,
Benny body language. I saw the surrender cobra. I saw
the surrender cobra. That is a universal sign. Universal hands
(30:16):
atop the head, pose all right, hands atop the head.
As you realize defeat is inevitable, and you put your
hands above your head like that. The math ain't math
in here. The only path for san Antonio back involves
twisted ankles, divine intervention, and some kind of clerical error.
(30:36):
And forget just the nuns that they have in San Antonio.
If the Spurs want to flip this, they need more
than just holy water I'm talking about. They should bring
in a rabbi, a priest, a shaman, voodoo dolls, bags
of garlic, bulbs, the whole thing. San Antonio needs a
(30:58):
total spiritual reboot to ward off the bag juju me.
They they should call the Ghostbusters. Who are you gonna call?
Call the Ghostbusters.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
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Speaker 1 (31:14):
Let's welcome to architestas we have Andy in Venice Beach,
Beautiful Venice Beach. I spent many a day in Venice
back in the day. Hello, Andy, welcome, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Ben? Are you hearing me?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Loud and clear?
Speaker 5 (31:29):
There?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
All right? This is very exciting. It sounds like you're driving,
which means you're not in Venice Beach, You're going somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Yes, I somehow you've pinpointed my location, leaving Guardena heading
to Venice Beach, and that is a very accurate, okay,
description of me driving the highway.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I hope you can find parking in Venice. This is
a little rocky around it. All right, well you're gonna
play the game. Who do you want to partner up with? Andy?
You got me, Ben, Lorena or Coop? Okay, all right,
hold on a second. So Andy, he's driving through Guardiana
making his way to Venice Beach. Now, let's say hello
to Austin, who's in in the field in bakers Field. Hello, Austin,
(32:14):
Welcome and Ben.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I are going.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
If I was any better, I would be a blaze,
but not a Bakersfield blaze, because that's the minor league
baseball team that left Austin. We closed that team down.
We threw out the first pitch there years ago, and
that team went bankrupt. They had been there for one
hundred years, Austin one hundred years and bakers stuff telling man, Okay,
who do you want to partner up with? Austin? Who
(32:39):
do you want to partner up with? All right, Lorena?
You got picked? Lorena excited, excited? Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I don't want you to lose. All right, I'm your partner, Austin.
You get so upset. I don't because you're trying to
cheat again, not trying to cheat. Mallard's Mountain of Money.
This is the Kanye West edition. He turned forty nine
on Monday. All right, what an old fart?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
All the categories are family Business, Touch the Sky, Homecoming
and thirty Hours. Andy, you were on first? Which category
would you like to Touch the sky? All right? And Austin,
how about you? The category family Business, homecoming or thirty
hours Homecoming?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All right? All right, very good? Everyone, hold on, hold
the line, Hold the line. The cougars are coming. The
cougars are coming. Ok, very good. So that'll that'll be
the matchup. We have Andy, assuming he doesn't hang up
on his way to Venice Beach, and Austin is in Bakersfield.
It's me Ben with Andy and Coop, and Austin will
(33:45):
have in his entirety Mallards Mountain of Money. We'll get
to that and we will do it neck.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
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have what it takes to get to the top. Probably not.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Let's so here we go. We welcome in Architestas. We
have Andy, who's heading to Venice Beach. He said, I
should be almost there. And Austin in Bakersfield and he's
with Coop and I'm with Andy. Are you there? Andy,
I'm okay, very exciting. Let's get started here, Andy, and
(34:37):
you're gonna play the game we have. But what do
we have here? We have touch the sky? Touch this guy.
These athletes are so tall. How tall are they? They're
so tall they can seemingly touch the sky. Do you
understand the concept?
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Andy, I'm ready to win this a mount of money.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, Yes, here we go, it's fake money. Here we go.
Give me forty five seconds on the clock. We need
the first and last name, and we're on our way.
Go Center for the San Antonio Spurs, right now. Center
for the Spurs, right now from France. Yeah. The captain
(35:17):
of the Yankees, number ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
Not dark Carloon.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
No, the big unit for the Seattle Mariners, pitcher Randy Darkin. Yes,
football player in the nineteen seventies for the Cowboys, nickname
too Tall. What's his first name?
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
That's correct. All right, center from Purdue. He's places for
the Memphis Grizzlies. He won the Wooden Award. He's an
NBA player, seven foot four guy. Yeah, good job, baby,
that was one hundred pointer. All right, Austin, we have homecoming?
How many we get?
Speaker 6 (35:59):
Lorain Austin homecoming? These athletes all returned to their original team.
Are you ready, Austin?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
All right?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Forty five seconds, let's begin. He's the king. He's on
the Lakers right now. Yes, this guy was the tight
end for the Denver Broncos. He won Super Bowls with
John Elway. He's on TV's got a horse face. Yes,
this guy was the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks.
He's one of the best point guards of all time. Yes,
(36:28):
this guy's nickname was the Professor pitcher for the Cubs.
Carry No, all right, uh this one. This was a
defensive end for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
He was bald.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
He's in the Hall of Fame, Taylor. Yes, this guy
was a slugger for the Nationals and Yankees. He was
like a five tool player.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
He was. That was a tough one. That wasright, Austin.
All right?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Greg Maddox was who were missing there, Coop, you want
to just give up, Austin. Do you want thirty hours
or family business?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Thirty hours? Thirty hours? All right?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
These athletes all war or war number thirty forty five seconds.
Next begin splash brother on the Warriors right now. Yes,
this guy was the running back for the Denver Broncos
John Elway. Yes, this guy is the all time strikeout
king in baseball.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I meanel Ryan.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Yes, this guy was a running back for the Saint
Louis Rams and the La Rams. His nickname, his last
name's kind of feminine.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Wow, that's offensive. I don't know, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
This guy was a power forward for the Blazers and
the Pistons.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
He's a tech tech king.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Yes, this guy was scoring leader for the Knicks back
in the day in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I don't know, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
This guy was a based stealer.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He left cocaine. Tim twenty both round two forty together.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Tim Rains, Bernard King, what else? Todd Gurley number thirty
Todd Gurley, All right, Well, well we still have to go, Andy.
We have a family business, I believe.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yes, all right, Andy, these sports figures have all followed
in their father's footsteps. Okay, are you ready, Andy, I'm
going through the pun now. So all right, let's get
let's get, let's get going. All right. He's the head
coach of the forty nine ers right now. His dad
coach the Broncos and the Raider. Yeah, there you go.
(38:39):
That's a winner. We'll keep going. Broadcaster for the Saint
Louis Cardinals, and his son is the broadcaster on what
was on Fox. He's on ESPN right now. No, that
is completely wrong. Raiders star Howie's son he played for
the Bears.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Off.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Oh, I know that his son now, But we've already
won the game. It's a it's a it's already other.
Go all right, well, Andy, you get a golden ticket,
You get a gold got a win for me, Coop
you lost the game. Coop again won in a week,
all time win, King Baby
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