March 22, 2023 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about Japan defeating the USA in the WBC on a Shohei Ohtani strikeout of Mike Trout, Damian Lillard going on a frustrated rant in Portland, Maller to the Third Degree, Cooking w/ Roberto, Password, and more!
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open at the top of the hour, how great was that?
Don't get those very often, so it's nice when they happen.
So our lead coming from Baseball. That's right, A baseball
mallar monologue before opening Day. Very rare, rare and appropriate
by request. I have been badgered by seamheads who are
demanding hot World Baseball Classic conversation. Now my rebuttal is
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I have done multiple mallar monologues over the last couple
of weeks about the World Baseball Classic. One of them
involved snapcraft go pop to the New York Mets closer
Edwin Diez. The other one was a shot in Freud,
a heavy mallar monologue as we celebrated the punishment finally,
a two month punishment for that cheater, Jose al Bouve
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of the Astros. But this is a little different, so
bear with me. Major League Baseball has been hyping up
what they're calling one of their showcase events. It's a
global marketing opportunity. The maide for TV moment took place
on Tuesday night. It was on FS one. I don't
know if you watched it or not, maybe not. And
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you had two of the stars of baseball who never
play in the postseason. They were eye to eye, belly
to belly, mono to model, whatever you want to say.
Ninth dinning World Baseball Classic in Miami. You knew it
wasn't a Marlins game because there are actually people in
the crowd and a World Baseball Classic there Tuesday night,
South Florida and the team of Japan trying to close
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out a win in the title game. On one side,
you had show Hey oh Tani, who was brought in
for the ninth inning, Japan holding on to a one
run lead barely. And on the other side you had
his angel teammate who you don't see unless you go
to a regular season game, Mike Trout. Now he was
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up third in the inning and the game on the line.
The leadoff batterer McNeil of the Mets walked, and then
Mookie Bets, saving his big hits for the playoffs, the
real playoffs, not this who gaze the event. Mookie Bets
hit a tailor made four six three double play, So
that set up Mike Trout, who had worked the count full,
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and then saw wingbada, saw wingbada. He struck out on
a slighter Bi Tanti and that propelled the team from
Japan to a three to two victory over Team USA
in the World Baseball Classics, so they get the title.
Let us discuss the question, what did you think of
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the conclusion the crescendo of the World Baseball Classics. So
I've got Billy May's science fiction film and Agent K
and we'll toss some fat into the fire and we'll
get the party started. So this did appear like it
was a scripted reality simulated reality there, and maybe we're
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just all non playable characters. But to set up a
scenario in the ninth inning with the game on the
line and you had Otani on the mound and Mike
Trout at the plate, that does not typically take place
in baseball. It's one of the problems with baseball. Unlike
basketball and football. If you have a star quarterback, you
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know this. The quarterback, if you're down in the fourth quarter,
will have his hands on the ball. In basketball, if
you're down in a few seconds to go, you can
manipulate it where your star player has the game in
his hands. In baseball, that's not typically how it goes.
And that's why you see teams that aren't as talented
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winning baseball because you have teams that you have players
at the bottom of the lineup that are just as
important in the key moments as players that are making
all the money. But in this case that a side
right show Otani, for multiple reasons, can truly smile from
ear to ear to the victor goes the spoils. He's
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the big winner in more ways than one in this
head to head matchup. In the big picture, the World
Baseball Classic, Let's be honest, in this country it's a
relatively low level of importance to the sports fan. Globally
it's got more meaning. But for Otani this was a
herculean moment in the business of baseball. The people involved
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in that business we're watching and Otani closing things out
like a thoroughbread This tournament was essentially an infomercial for
show hail Tani and his pending free agent campaign following
the upcoming regular season. It is a set it and
forget it situation, a license to print even more money.
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Now he's already got the international Man of mystery behind him,
but we might as well bring in the ghost of
Billy Mays. Are you tired of your star baseball players
not living up to the hype? Do you wish that
your big name stars would have global appeal. Well, Hi,
I'm Billy Mays here with show hail Tani. The fastest
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easiest way to solve your baseball blues is with Otani
guaranteed order. Right now, operators are standing by. That's the pitch,
right He's He was already heading towards a record paid
and this only enhances it. Now, there's still a lot
of baseball to go, and you could have a snap
crackle pop situation which would change things. But in this moment,
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we do the show today. We don't do the show
to marrow. We do the show today, And in this moment,
Shohei Oltani is richie rich, even more richie rich than before,
in large part because of the afterglow of this particular tournament.
Now turning the page, all right, page two, who gets
to wear the goat horns? Because the better story is
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in the losing locker room. That would be the Team
USA locker room at the World Baseball Classics. So at
this moment it is Oltani's teammate. Now I realize that
many bleeding heart Bruce Springsteen loving baseball writers and bloggers
have lamented for many years the fact that Mike Trout
plays off the grid. That he's pretty much off in
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the woods and the boondocks of baseball, stuck in purgatory,
playing meaningless game after meaningless game at Anaheim, away from
the spotlight. But way back. I'm barely old enough to
remember this. I was a little child in twenty fourteen,
and Mike Trout appeared in three playoff games for the Halos.
This is so long ago. The Royals were in the postseason,
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and good, good and Anaheim went over for three and
Trout went one for twelve. And I remember correctly the
one hit, which was a home run. The Angels were
down by a gazillion runs at the time he hit
the home run in Game three, if I remember correctly.
So here was a partial opportunity, not a full opportunity.
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It's not October baseball, it's March baseball. But it's better
than spring training, is better than a regular season game.
You're in the pressure cooker. And how did that turn out?
Mike Trout at the end there disintegrated into pieces. By
the time the World Baseball Classic had ended yet again,
starring in a remake of a classic science fiction film,
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The Incredible Shrinking Man, Now what is my evidence, not
only the eyeball test, but the numbers. Mike Trout at
the end of this thing, fucking in the shorts. It's
a small world, after all, it's a small small world.
In his three final appearances the World Baseball Classic, Trout
was a deer. Maybe not a deer in the headlight.
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It's more like a rob deer. If you're an old
school baseball fan, you know who that is. Played for
the Brewers and a bunch of other teams back in
the day. But he sucked at a time you cannot
suck Trout. Not only did he with at the end
against Otani, but the final three games, Trout had fifteen
at bats. He went three for fifteen. That's a two
hundred batting average, struck out nine of the fifteen at
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bats over the final three games for the USA team,
and had one stink in RBI and one walk over
the final three games. Keep in mind that the pitching
in the World Baseball Classic, overall, top to bottom, was
not world class. These were not the top pitchers. Certainly
the major league pitchers, many of them cowardly, they would
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not take part in is afraid of it More than that.
In his sec But Mike Trout closing it out three
for fifteen and the final three games there, that is
not going to get it done. All right, last word here,
So Bozo the clown has entered the chat. Otherwise known
as the Commissioner of Baseball, Rob Manford. We'd like to
call him Manfraud. But Rob Manford said that the World
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Baseball Classic will one hundred percent return in twenty twenty six.
He pointed that out. Now, I'm gonna address that and
then we'll get the other things that he said. So
do I believe it's one hundred percent. No, I don't
believe it's one hundred percent the World Baseball Classic will return.
There's a lot of time between now and then. There's
a lot of things that can take place between now
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and then, and you can't get past the fact. We
can't get past the fact because of the level of
injury to big money players and the amount of money
that baseball is gonna have to pay in future World
Baseball Classics, this becomes a problem. So I'm not I
don't think it's one hundred percent now. I also so,
I believe it's more than than sixty five percent that
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this thing's going to be back, but it's not one
hundred percent. Now. Manford also groaned to the assembled media
that he would like to see more star pitchers in
the tournament. We just mentioned, there were not many big
name pitchers that were part of this thing. He said, quote,
I'd like to see pitching staffs that are on the
same of the same quality as our position players. And
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he said Baseball will attempt to convince the teams, the
league officers will attempt to convince the teams to be
more supportive and more cooperative with their pitchers at future events. Now, Manford,
he said, he's not lobbying, but he's a weasel, so
of course he's gonna have to lob a lobby. He said,
it's having facts. Manford claims he's got the facts to
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support that that pitching in high leverage situations like these
these games, he said, actually helps players develop. So one
of the odds that Major League Baseball is going to
be able to convince more star pitchers to take part
in the World Baseball Classic. So we are setting the
Mallorus Sportsbook odds at plus two thousand, which is a
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less than five percent chance. So again, just in case
you're keeping track, so I think there's an over sixty
five percent chance of the thing's back. But as far
as more star pitchers, the volume of pitchers taking part,
it's less than five percent. You have a lot of
fires you got to put out. Not only do you
have to convince the teams, but you also have to
twist the arms of the pitchers. Now, considering the interest
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that Diaz and al boove, the owners are not going
to be bending over and just handing you whatever you want.
As far as the big ticket items are concerned, they
have never cared about the marketing of the game. That's
why baseball has become a regional sport. It's the leadership
of baseball. They have failed the sport and they at
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one point had a choke hold on popularity and they
gave it back and other people took it. And as
far as the plan, here may we reckon men that
the Commissioner's office bring in Asian k and the neuralizer
for men in black there and if you use the neuralizer,
you have the ability to wipe the mind of anybody
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who sees that flash. And once you've been neuralized, baseball
can then replace the erased memories and son, and then
maybe you could work that out. As far as the
pictures are concerned. As it grew, pitchers are near the
very top of the food chain when it comes to
entitled and babied. They remind me of your NBA superstar.
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They hold up about as well as warm cookie dough.
And you have a vast assortment of delicate flowers, right
the pussy willow flower, for example, And Major League Baseball
is going to have to fight the woo woo pseudo
science which is out there. See Manford's like, well, yeah,
you know, the facts support my argument high leverage situations.
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By the way, I hate to say this, but I
actually agree with Rob Manford what the reality is. That's
not how it is perceived. Pitchers are taught. They've been
taught this for at least a decade that you only
have a certain number of high leverage pitches in you
per year, and the more high leverage innings you pitch,
the more likely you are to have some kind of
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major injury. They've been told that, they've been brainwashed into that.
Good luck, you've got a couple of years to change that.
I'm not holding my breath. Be sure to catch live
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hour comes from pro Bouncy Ball. We will get back
to the World Baseball Classic that saw the team from
Japan swashbuckle their way past Team USA to win that event.
So it happened in Miami, and it ended with the
great Otani striking out Mike Trout. And so that's how
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that ended. But basketball the focus here. We have a
sulking star. Damian Lillard is not happy, and if he's
not happy, that's worthy of a malor monologue. If you
have not heard, possibly not now Dame Lillard recently ranting
about the sorry state of the Portland basketball team and
pretty much out of playoff or even play in contention,
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which seemingly is hard to do. It's just about everyone
is invited to that. Everyone's just about invited that. So
he also addressed the chances of him exiting early. There's
been some talk that he's gonna shut it down, and
we actually have some audio here, so as Warner Wolf
would say, let's go to the audio tape. Here is
Damian Lillard on the possibility of maybe cutting things a
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little earlier this season. We've pretty much fallen out of
the race for the temp spot, you know, unless we
go out there and win every game when you really
look around and really look at it truthfully. So I mean,
right now, I'm just not ready to not play. Last season,
I missed I think fifty two games or something like that.
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So I love a play I love a competition, and
you know, I just haven't been ready to give that up.
But it does come up a point in time where
you look around and you like, you know, when do
you stop putting your competitive nature out front and look
at you know, what what a game of chess would
look like at that point? You know you So he
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kind of cut off weird at the end, but he
worked himself from I'm not ready to give up to
you know, maybe maybe I'll do it. You know, I'm possible,
I think about it, all right, So let us discuss
the question why why did Damian Lillard, one of the
top ten players in the NBA go on the mini
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soapbox rant? So I've got spinach, Greek tragedy, and Kevin
Bacon and we will lock all of these things together,
all of these things together, and we are going to
make a wonderful, wonderful dish of bab a ganoose is
what we're gonna be now number one. So everyone has
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a breaking point. Damian Lillard appears to have reached his
after weeks of sustained suckage, continual suckage. He has become
the cantankerous Star. And I endorse this message from Damian
Lillard running out of patients, Annoyed that Portland has puked
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for almost a third of the basketball season, and we're
talking about the last nineteen games. They're five and fourteen
over their last nineteen games. They find themselves four games
out of the playing spot with eleven games to go,
and so Portland on a collision course to miss the
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postseason entirely in a league that is set up to
make the place. You have sixty six percent chance if
you're in that business of the at least the play
and tournament, to at least qualify for the play and
tournament that is. That's hard to do. But here we
are as a result Damian Lillard cracking open a can
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of spinach and he went Popeye the sailor man. That's
all I can stands, and I can't stands no more,
giving his harsh rebuke. Now, page two, should Damian Lillard
shut things down? Now? He started out by saying no
in the SoundBite that we played, and then he worked
himself into a lather. He brought up chess. But I
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am shaking my head, no, I don't agree with that part.
And Lillard has been one of those guys that stands
out in a torrential downpour of I don't want to play,
I'm tired of this and all that. That's the guy
that goes out there and has had that old school
mentality that he roars like a lion, he fights like
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a tiger. It is disappointing, disp wanted to hear him.
Maybe I'll go on holiday a little early. At the
end of that, he's the guy. He's supposed to be different, right,
human honey badger, fearless, doesn't worry himself with the standing's
buzzing around like a murder hornet out on the court.
And you're paid to play whether your team. I believe
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this is true. Maybe I'm wrong on this. I just
did the Overnight show, but I think you're paid to
play whether your team is in contention or not. Unless
there is fine print that we don't know of, and
maybe that is lost in translation there and there's some
language down in the minutia that we don't know about
that allows him to do that. But what are you doing?
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And by the way, this is not some kind of
Greek tragedy. Nobody was blindsided. Damian Lillard is not an
innocent bystander. He knew exactly what he was getting in
for and signing up. He's the star guard. He signed
the Max contract I believe it was the last last summer.
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It was not that long ago. He signed the max contract.
He knew the situation in Portland, and to his credit,
he's like, hey, I'm loyal. I want to be here.
I don't want to be like all these other losers
in this business. I want to stay with one team.
He took the bag of money and he's making forty
two point four million this season on the max contract.
He's the fifth highest paid player in the NBA. And
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good for him, right, he's one of the better players.
He earns the money. He shows up most of the time.
We had no problem with that, but but now all
of a sudden, it's like, I'm like, I tucked the contract,
but now I want out. You know what it reminds
me of a bit is that creepy quarterback DeShawn Watson
or Deshaun Watson signed an extension with the Houston Texas
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and then almost immediately started complaining about Bill O'Brien, who
was the coach at the time, even though O'Brian was
there when he signed the extension. He's like, well, I
signed the contract, and then then the walls started caving
in on the Sean now final point, So where is
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this Damian Lillard story headed? So I would like you
to get out your treasure map app on your phone.
So if you get your treasure map out on your
phone and you download that, if you don't have it,
and this, you don't have to be a distant relative
of Nostredamus or friend of no Stredinus. I happen to
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be those things. I happen to be those things. I
have a crystal ball and I look into it. And
when we get to the part of the calendar and
the point on the map that says silly season of
the NBA, and we're on a collision course. You've heard
of the Summer of Love, how about the summer of Lillard?
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And he will attempt to leave the Oregon trail. Now,
whether he's the one pulling the strings or more likely
there are people in the media that will be desperately
trying to get this to happen. Lillard's contract can be traded.
He has a no trade clause unless he doesn't. From
my understanding, mid July July ninth, Damian Lillard is free
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to be repackaged around the NBA, and I will get
run f and tu that the flea market of basketball
will feature Damian Lillard being shopped here, there, and everywhere.
Deal of the century. And you might know that parlor
game with Kevin Bacon, right, the six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
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Forget about Kevin Bacon. We will be playing the game
known as the Six Degrees of Dame Lillard, and you
can connect the dots. There's a story brewing out of
Boston that I was debating doing involving Jaylen Brown, who
did an interview with The New York Times and seemed
to plant the seed that he's looking to be traded
that even though the Celtics have had a great season
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and everything's going well up until the last last couple
of weeks, they have not played particularly great. But Jaylen
Brown's unhappy being in the shadow of Jason Tatum, and
he's bitching about playing in Boston, And so that's a
possible So how about Damian Lillard to the Celtics for
Jalen Brown? All right now? To make this more believable
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for those that like the rumor mongering and the weasel words,
League sources not close to the situation tell me, by
the way, that's a voice in my head that Dame
Lillard would look good in a Celtic uniform, and the
Blazers would love to have Jalen Brown. And then you'll
have the usual suspects. Lillard will be connected to the Clippers,
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to the Lakers, to the Warriors, his old stopping grounds.
How about the knicker Bockers. Why not win in doubt
throwing out what the heck? And it's so much fun.
You can go to the rumor machine and knock your
socks off. You'll have a grand old time. You will
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get your podcast. It's maller. How about that to the
third degree. This is one big band gets grilled. Coop
go loud, Ben. We already heard that Russell Wilson is
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on a one year audition with Sean Payton. Now there
are reports that Peyton could sit Wilson mid season in
favor of Jared Stidham. If yea, if Wilson struggles as
badly as he did last season, Ben, do you think
he would actually bench Russell Wilson. Absolutely if the Broncos
blow and Russell Wilson's terrible. You know how I know?
Terry Bradshot told me. He told the world that Sean
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Payton was not gung hole to coach Russell Wilson. But
that was the price of admission. And the Bronco ownership
can afford to make this problem go away. But they're
giving it one more goal with Russell Wilson and they
hope that he hits the ground running. If he does not,
all options are on the table. And I don't know
whether Jared Stidham can play or not. He looked good
for one game against the forty nine ers with the Raiders,
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he hasn't played all that much. But yes, if Russell
Wilson stinks and Sean Payton, he has the authority to
get rid of him and go blue. Yes. Next, it's
being reported that Kevin Durant is now expected to return
to the Suns at the end of March or beginning
of April. Ben How important is it for Durant to
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get time in with the team before the playoffs. It
doesn't matter, it's irrelevant. I'll tell you why. It's the NBA.
They don't want to play. Kevin Durant is so fragile.
This man got hurt in a pregame layup line, all right,
this guy hyper extended his finger I think while sending
a tweet one time years ago. The Sons are going
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to be biting their fingernails as they attempt to figure
this thing out, to navigate the obstacle course in the playoffs.
Playoffs with Kevin duran who hasn't really played any meaningful
minutes with those guys. But if the matchups hold, the
Sons will be heading into the eye of the hurricane
the four or five matchup with the great Kawhi Leonard
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and Paul George will be back by then. I'm sure
it's just a minor injury and the People's team, So
good luck for the Sons on that next new Lions
defensive backs. TJ. Gardner Johnson said in his introductory press
conference that the Lions actually have a bit more talent
than his previous team, the Eagles. Ben your thoughts, well,
of course he's gonna say, I love that. CJ. Gardner
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Johnson is following the script. He's saying, Hey, I'm getting
paid now by the team that wears Honolulu Blue and silver,
So now I'm all about Detroit football, and I guarantee
you I'll guaran f into you that if CJ. Gardner
Johnson had signed a contract with the Atlanta Falcons or
the Houston Texans, or the Browns or the Bucks, he
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would have said the same thing about any one of
those teams. It's whoever signs the check that's the more
talented team. The Lions a fun team to watch last year.
They're trying to get their act together. Defensively, they played
better at the end of last year. And all of this,
like the whole talent evaluation, is subjective anyway. It's subjective
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versus objective, which is measurable facts. And C J. Gardner
Johnson's a great example. This guy was a fourth round
pick of the Saints and he's played much better than
a fourth round pick for New Orleans last year in Philadelphia.
So I loved it. I thought it was hilarious. Anyway,
how did we do it? As Mallard of the third
to grade Cumalo pass this edition? That is a wren
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That's right, big man. They we're gonna make some come
out on La or in English Mexican devil, Mexican Devil's trimp.
Now is it true, Roberto? I heard a rumor in
the building that you are doing this too, because you're
upset Mexico lost to Japan the other day blew the lead.
So this will make you feel better? Is that true? No? No, no, no,
not not really, no, totally, you know, Okay, it's it's
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also lent Lenten season for me, so I gotta like
on Fridays, I gotta find some stuff to make yeah, Friday.
I try to be a good cathach sometimes. So so
you know when Peto the O'Malley family own the Dodgers,
every Friday, they only serve fish in the that's that's wow.
That's that's wow. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy, and I hated
it because I don't know. Yeah, that's that's that's crazy. Anyway.
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That's I assume we need shrimp. You know, we need
one and a half pounds of large raw shrimp, all right,
dry a dried guahilo peppers, rints and the stamps and
seeds removed, three cheeta, the elbow peppers, rints and stamps
and seeds removed, three roma tomatoes, one one and a
half pounds can of chipoila peppers, and a dooble sauce.
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You can toss away the peppers, all right, so it
won't be so spicy. You can keep the peppers up
to you and make sure you keep that sauce. That
sauce is really good. All right. Five clothes of garlic,
uh about one one large brown onion or a half
of brown, depending how what you love onion. I'll use
a whole onion, all right, and one table spoon the
coosher salt, and salt and pepper to taste. Very simple,
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all right. All right? So the first step here and
these these peppers. You can find them online, all right
or your local wal Mart store. All right, Guahio peppers.
And she did the Arba peppers. He took guahio and
also the can of Chippola peppers also. He took guahio
and chip the alba peppers and a cast iron skin.
It on meat and heat for about two minutes. Make
sure you don't burn them. We just want to. We
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just want toast them a little bit, all right, just
toast them up. Don't burn the bad boys. Okay, Well
you could burn them, you could burn them on. Yeah,
it's not gonna be so good. You wanted to take you,
I don't want to. Yeah it tastes. Wouldn't that be good? Exactly?
All right? Remove the peppers with some tongs and add
them to his saucepan of boiling water to stop to
soften them. We can do that for about fifteen minutes,
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right them soften, stop them a bad boys up, so
we get a good sauce. You do not want them hard, No,
he don't want it hard, not not not for the sauce. No, no,
all right, that's other things. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Adds
a foil to the cast iron skillet. Use some other
mits while adding the foil so you don't get burned.
All right. Next, add the three romo tomatoes and roll
roast them until they have softer completely. All right, they're
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soft all over. And also you can roast the garlic
and onions as well, all right, all right, all right,
very simple stuff. Using a slot of spoon, transfer the
soft and chiless to a large blender. Add the tomatoes, garlic, onion,
and salt, and also add the chipola peppers and the
adoble sauce from the from the when they can't have
chipola peppers. All right, pure rain to a completely smooth taste.
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That's a big word, yeah, baby, pure. Get yourself a
good blender. Invests in a great blender. All right, you
need a blender, all right, go on, what do you recommend?
What blendmex A lot of money, but it's worth it.
I don't think I have an it's a pictures. Get
the vitomex. It's beautiful. It's worth it, all right, Yeah,
yes you do. I saw that a Costco. Yes, you
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get it at Costco. Tastes season with more soft necessary.
If the sauce too spicy, add more tomatoes. All right.
This is the fine tuning process. Yeah, that's right, fine
tuning the dish, right, or it's just rights. He did.
Large saute pans or skillet or medium high heat at
olive oil and shrimp. Cook shrimp for women in per CiU.
To shrimp is lightly pink, all right, Add the red
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chilla sauce to the pan or skill it and mixed
together to coat the shrimp. Lord the heat to medium
and cook for about three to five minutes. All right,
doesn't need a lot, all right, don't over cook the
shrimp three or five minutes to the sauces bubbling in hot.
Remove the pan or skin it from the heat and
serve alone as an appetizer or with some you know,
some Mexican rice. Or you can make even a burrito
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and dis chips. Yeah, exactly. Just I thought you got
some authetic Mexican devil shrimp baby cook here, yeah, baby.
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Everyone,
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the password is password, you idiot, password the word Game
of the Stars. Here's Ben Miller, and it is time
happen pass with the word Game of the Stars. Every
single week at about this time. We have some fun.
That's welcome in our contestants for today's edition of password.
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Let's see who do we have here. Let's say hello
to milk Man Mike in Colorado. Hello, melk Man Mike, Hey,
good mile hig morning to you and the crew. Thanks
for letting me in the play. All right, Mike, you're in.
You've made the cut, and I'll let Eddie pick the
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other guy. We have one, two or three Eddie number two,
Oh boy, Justin in Cincinnati, you have picked appropriately number two,
Justin in Cincinnati, Hello Justin, Welcome, good job Eddie fub Coff.
All right, thank you for that. Yes, let's play the
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game here. It's a hot take right there. You don't
get that take just about anywhere else from Justin and Cincinnati. Milkman, Mike,
which combatant would you like to partner up with? Mike? Oh,
let's stargo with Eddie goes here? All right? And Justin
and Cincinnati, who would you like to partner up with? Oh? God,
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I guess you. All right, we're gonna do an. Don't
take the game, Justin, don't take the game. Well, if
you lose, he's gonna why are you high? Are you drawnk?
What are you no? Are you sure about that? Oh?
You're working? Okay, Well that doesn't mean any I know
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people that worked it, you know. Anyway, all right, let's
play the game. Milkman Mike, you were on the air first.
You matched up with Eddie. Pick a number, please, one
to ten? One to ten. It's past word, the word
game of the Stars. You gotta figure out the word
we're trying to get. We use obviously clues along the way.
We can't use proper names, et cetera. All right, let's
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go with let's go with number four. That's a bad choice, Eddie. Yeah, uh,
number four, that's what he said. Yeah. Uh, let's go
with particles dust. Oh wow, he cheated. You could tell
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he cheated. He cheated that pause. He was googling it.
He was he was cheating. I could tell he was cheating.
It sounded like he was exciting. You would not. I
just googled particles. Dust does not come up. It does
come up. Absolutely. I go ahead there, justin coops lying,
go ahead, Justina? What do you say? It's at number nine?
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All right? Uh? I couldn't use actually the Mallam maneuver
on this, but I don't think I need to. Uh,
let's go with you know what, I'm gonna try the
Mallam maneuver. I'm feel a little frisky. All right, are
you ready? You know the Malam maneuver? Right obvious from jacket?
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All right, here we go. Enchanted? Oh boy, enchanted? I
mean Christ almighty? Uh what I enchanted? It's a terrible
Manet maneuvers. It's a great, wonderful use terrible. Come on, justin,
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bring it home, justin, come on even Oh, Mike, that's
not a phrase. That's not a phrase. That the evening. Yeah,
that is a phrase. That is not a phrase. The
one I'm looking and the one we were looking for.
Everyone knows, no one that knows. All right, milkman, Uh,
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I don't even know if I should, if you should
remember that clue? Like, yeah, ignore the let's go Oh
my god, let's go with um Woodland. Yes, yeah, he
got it because he's clue Mike, did you not get
my clue? Two for two? Googled it again? I googled it. Yeah,
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you did, exactly. See, he's admitting he's cheating, Eddie. The
man's admitted it. Chanted forest. Everyone knows in chanted. Well,
Justin has no culture, he doesn't know that, but everyone
else knows enchanted. Did you not see Robin Hood? What's
wrong with you? The enchanted forest and Robin Hood? Yes,
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they did, they did the enchanted forest? Well, no, they
enchanted forest is like everyone everyone knows that phrase. All right,
keep going, Please hurry up. Pick a number there, Mike,
all right, let's go number six. All right, okay, um,
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hurry up. Eddy, come on, chop chop chop chop. Can
I use uh the other languages? No, you can't. Yes,
let's go with you can't. You can't. Let's go with yes,
you know you can't do No, I know that one
sleep No your face. Let's go with what what do
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you say? No? He said, no, No, you can't. I
didn't even give a clue. That just no, justin, you
supposed to wait for me to give a clue. All
I wanted to actually get it right though. A yeah,
you embarrass yourself. You embarrass yourself. We're out of time.
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The game again and no man, Mike cheating. He googled
the gust one. He googled that. That's a Google cheating.
Another cheating, scans a lot of murder. Gotta go, it's embarrassing.
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Don't get those very often, so it's nice when they happen.
So our lead coming from Baseball. That's right, A baseball
mallar monologue before opening Day. Very rare, rare and appropriate
by request. I have been badgered by seamheads who are
demanding hot World Baseball Classic conversation. Now my rebuttal is
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I have done multiple mallar monologues over the last couple
of weeks about the World Baseball Classic. One of them
involved snapcraft go pop to the New York Mets closer
Edwin Diez. The other one was a shot in Freud,
a heavy mallar monologue as we celebrated the punishment finally,
a two month punishment for that cheater, Jose al Bouve
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of the Astros. But this is a little different, so
bear with me. Major League Baseball has been hyping up
what they're calling one of their showcase events. It's a
global marketing opportunity. The maide for TV moment took place
on Tuesday night. It was on FS one. I don't
know if you watched it or not, maybe not. And
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you had two of the stars of baseball who never
play in the postseason. They were eye to eye, belly
to belly, mono to model, whatever you want to say.
Ninth dinning World Baseball Classic in Miami. You knew it
wasn't a Marlins game because there are actually people in
the crowd and a World Baseball Classic there Tuesday night,
South Florida and the team of Japan trying to close
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out a win in the title game. On one side,
you had show Hey oh Tani, who was brought in
for the ninth inning, Japan holding on to a one
run lead barely. And on the other side you had
his angel teammate who you don't see unless you go
to a regular season game, Mike Trout. Now he was
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up third in the inning and the game on the line.
The leadoff batterer McNeil of the Mets walked, and then
Mookie Bets, saving his big hits for the playoffs, the
real playoffs, not this who gaze the event. Mookie Bets
hit a tailor made four six three double play, So
that set up Mike Trout, who had worked the count full,
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and then saw wingbada, saw wingbada. He struck out on
a slighter Bi Tanti and that propelled the team from
Japan to a three to two victory over Team USA
in the World Baseball Classics, so they get the title.
Let us discuss the question, what did you think of
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the conclusion the crescendo of the World Baseball Classics. So
I've got Billy May's science fiction film and Agent K
and we'll toss some fat into the fire and we'll
get the party started. So this did appear like it
was a scripted reality simulated reality there, and maybe we're
(04:34):
just all non playable characters. But to set up a
scenario in the ninth inning with the game on the
line and you had Otani on the mound and Mike
Trout at the plate, that does not typically take place
in baseball. It's one of the problems with baseball. Unlike
basketball and football. If you have a star quarterback, you
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know this. The quarterback, if you're down in the fourth quarter,
will have his hands on the ball. In basketball, if
you're down in a few seconds to go, you can
manipulate it where your star player has the game in
his hands. In baseball, that's not typically how it goes.
And that's why you see teams that aren't as talented
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winning baseball because you have teams that you have players
at the bottom of the lineup that are just as
important in the key moments as players that are making
all the money. But in this case that a side
right show Otani, for multiple reasons, can truly smile from
ear to ear to the victor goes the spoils. He's
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the big winner in more ways than one in this
head to head matchup. In the big picture, the World
Baseball Classic, Let's be honest, in this country it's a
relatively low level of importance to the sports fan. Globally
it's got more meaning. But for Otani this was a
herculean moment in the business of baseball. The people involved
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in that business we're watching and Otani closing things out
like a thoroughbread This tournament was essentially an infomercial for
show hail Tani and his pending free agent campaign following
the upcoming regular season. It is a set it and
forget it situation, a license to print even more money.
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Now he's already got the international Man of mystery behind him,
but we might as well bring in the ghost of
Billy Mays. Are you tired of your star baseball players
not living up to the hype? Do you wish that
your big name stars would have global appeal. Well, Hi,
I'm Billy Mays here with show hail Tani. The fastest
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easiest way to solve your baseball blues is with Otani
guaranteed order. Right now, operators are standing by. That's the pitch,
right He's He was already heading towards a record paid
and this only enhances it. Now, there's still a lot
of baseball to go, and you could have a snap
crackle pop situation which would change things. But in this moment,
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we do the show today. We don't do the show
to marrow. We do the show today, And in this moment,
Shohei Oltani is richie rich, even more richie rich than before,
in large part because of the afterglow of this particular tournament.
Now turning the page, all right, page two, who gets
to wear the goat horns? Because the better story is
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in the losing locker room. That would be the Team
USA locker room at the World Baseball Classics. So at
this moment it is Oltani's teammate. Now I realize that
many bleeding heart Bruce Springsteen loving baseball writers and bloggers
have lamented for many years the fact that Mike Trout
plays off the grid. That he's pretty much off in
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the woods and the boondocks of baseball, stuck in purgatory,
playing meaningless game after meaningless game at Anaheim, away from
the spotlight. But way back. I'm barely old enough to
remember this. I was a little child in twenty fourteen,
and Mike Trout appeared in three playoff games for the Halos.
This is so long ago. The Royals were in the postseason,
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and good, good and Anaheim went over for three and
Trout went one for twelve. And I remember correctly the
one hit, which was a home run. The Angels were
down by a gazillion runs at the time he hit
the home run in Game three, if I remember correctly.
So here was a partial opportunity, not a full opportunity.
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It's not October baseball, it's March baseball. But it's better
than spring training, is better than a regular season game.
You're in the pressure cooker. And how did that turn out?
Mike Trout at the end there disintegrated into pieces. By
the time the World Baseball Classic had ended yet again,
starring in a remake of a classic science fiction film,
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The Incredible Shrinking Man, Now what is my evidence, not
only the eyeball test, but the numbers. Mike Trout at
the end of this thing, fucking in the shorts. It's
a small world, after all, it's a small small world.
In his three final appearances the World Baseball Classic, Trout
was a deer. Maybe not a deer in the headlight.
(09:14):
It's more like a rob deer. If you're an old
school baseball fan, you know who that is. Played for
the Brewers and a bunch of other teams back in
the day. But he sucked at a time you cannot
suck Trout. Not only did he with at the end
against Otani, but the final three games, Trout had fifteen
at bats. He went three for fifteen. That's a two
hundred batting average, struck out nine of the fifteen at
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bats over the final three games for the USA team,
and had one stink in RBI and one walk over
the final three games. Keep in mind that the pitching
in the World Baseball Classic, overall, top to bottom, was
not world class. These were not the top pitchers. Certainly
the major league pitchers, many of them cowardly, they would
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not take part in is afraid of it More than that.
In his sec But Mike Trout closing it out three
for fifteen and the final three games there, that is
not going to get it done. All right, last word here,
So Bozo the clown has entered the chat. Otherwise known
as the Commissioner of Baseball, Rob Manford. We'd like to
call him Manfraud. But Rob Manford said that the World
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Baseball Classic will one hundred percent return in twenty twenty six.
He pointed that out. Now, I'm gonna address that and
then we'll get the other things that he said. So
do I believe it's one hundred percent. No, I don't
believe it's one hundred percent the World Baseball Classic will return.
There's a lot of time between now and then. There's
a lot of things that can take place between now
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and then, and you can't get past the fact. We
can't get past the fact because of the level of
injury to big money players and the amount of money
that baseball is gonna have to pay in future World
Baseball Classics, this becomes a problem. So I'm not I
don't think it's one hundred percent now. I also so,
I believe it's more than than sixty five percent that
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this thing's going to be back, but it's not one
hundred percent. Now. Manford also groaned to the assembled media
that he would like to see more star pitchers in
the tournament. We just mentioned, there were not many big
name pitchers that were part of this thing. He said, quote,
I'd like to see pitching staffs that are on the
same of the same quality as our position players. And
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he said Baseball will attempt to convince the teams, the
league officers will attempt to convince the teams to be
more supportive and more cooperative with their pitchers at future events. Now, Manford,
he said, he's not lobbying, but he's a weasel, so
of course he's gonna have to lob a lobby. He said,
it's having facts. Manford claims he's got the facts to
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support that that pitching in high leverage situations like these
these games, he said, actually helps players develop. So one
of the odds that Major League Baseball is going to
be able to convince more star pitchers to take part
in the World Baseball Classic. So we are setting the
Mallorus Sportsbook odds at plus two thousand, which is a
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less than five percent chance. So again, just in case
you're keeping track, so I think there's an over sixty
five percent chance of the thing's back. But as far
as more star pitchers, the volume of pitchers taking part,
it's less than five percent. You have a lot of
fires you got to put out. Not only do you
have to convince the teams, but you also have to
twist the arms of the pitchers. Now, considering the interest
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that Diaz and al boove, the owners are not going
to be bending over and just handing you whatever you want.
As far as the big ticket items are concerned, they
have never cared about the marketing of the game. That's
why baseball has become a regional sport. It's the leadership
of baseball. They have failed the sport and they at
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one point had a choke hold on popularity and they
gave it back and other people took it. And as
far as the plan, here may we reckon men that
the Commissioner's office bring in Asian k and the neuralizer
for men in black there and if you use the neuralizer,
you have the ability to wipe the mind of anybody
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who sees that flash. And once you've been neuralized, baseball
can then replace the erased memories and son, and then
maybe you could work that out. As far as the
pictures are concerned. As it grew, pitchers are near the
very top of the food chain when it comes to
entitled and babied. They remind me of your NBA superstar.
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They hold up about as well as warm cookie dough.
And you have a vast assortment of delicate flowers, right
the pussy willow flower, for example, And Major League Baseball
is going to have to fight the woo woo pseudo
science which is out there. See Manford's like, well, yeah,
you know, the facts support my argument high leverage situations.
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By the way, I hate to say this, but I
actually agree with Rob Manford what the reality is. That's
not how it is perceived. Pitchers are taught. They've been
taught this for at least a decade that you only
have a certain number of high leverage pitches in you
per year, and the more high leverage innings you pitch,
the more likely you are to have some kind of
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major injury. They've been told that, they've been brainwashed into that.
Good luck, you've got a couple of years to change that.
I'm not holding my breath. Be sure to catch live
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hour comes from pro Bouncy Ball. We will get back
to the World Baseball Classic that saw the team from
Japan swashbuckle their way past Team USA to win that event.
So it happened in Miami, and it ended with the
great Otani striking out Mike Trout. And so that's how
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that ended. But basketball the focus here. We have a
sulking star. Damian Lillard is not happy, and if he's
not happy, that's worthy of a malor monologue. If you
have not heard, possibly not now Dame Lillard recently ranting
about the sorry state of the Portland basketball team and
pretty much out of playoff or even play in contention,
(16:14):
which seemingly is hard to do. It's just about everyone
is invited to that. Everyone's just about invited that. So
he also addressed the chances of him exiting early. There's
been some talk that he's gonna shut it down, and
we actually have some audio here, so as Warner Wolf
would say, let's go to the audio tape. Here is
Damian Lillard on the possibility of maybe cutting things a
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little earlier this season. We've pretty much fallen out of
the race for the temp spot, you know, unless we
go out there and win every game when you really
look around and really look at it truthfully. So I mean,
right now, I'm just not ready to not play. Last season,
I missed I think fifty two games or something like that.
(16:57):
So I love a play I love a competition, and
you know, I just haven't been ready to give that up.
But it does come up a point in time where
you look around and you like, you know, when do
you stop putting your competitive nature out front and look
at you know, what what a game of chess would
look like at that point? You know you So he
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kind of cut off weird at the end, but he
worked himself from I'm not ready to give up to
you know, maybe maybe I'll do it. You know, I'm possible,
I think about it, all right, So let us discuss
the question why why did Damian Lillard, one of the
top ten players in the NBA go on the mini
(17:40):
soapbox rant? So I've got spinach, Greek tragedy, and Kevin
Bacon and we will lock all of these things together,
all of these things together, and we are going to
make a wonderful, wonderful dish of bab a ganoose is
what we're gonna be now number one. So everyone has
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a breaking point. Damian Lillard appears to have reached his
after weeks of sustained suckage, continual suckage. He has become
the cantankerous Star. And I endorse this message from Damian
Lillard running out of patients, Annoyed that Portland has puked
(18:29):
for almost a third of the basketball season, and we're
talking about the last nineteen games. They're five and fourteen
over their last nineteen games. They find themselves four games
out of the playing spot with eleven games to go,
and so Portland on a collision course to miss the
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postseason entirely in a league that is set up to
make the place. You have sixty six percent chance if
you're in that business of the at least the play
and tournament, to at least qualify for the play and
tournament that is. That's hard to do. But here we
are as a result Damian Lillard cracking open a can
(19:11):
of spinach and he went Popeye the sailor man. That's
all I can stands, and I can't stands no more,
giving his harsh rebuke. Now, page two, should Damian Lillard
shut things down? Now? He started out by saying no
in the SoundBite that we played, and then he worked
himself into a lather. He brought up chess. But I
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am shaking my head, no, I don't agree with that part.
And Lillard has been one of those guys that stands
out in a torrential downpour of I don't want to play,
I'm tired of this and all that. That's the guy
that goes out there and has had that old school
mentality that he roars like a lion, he fights like
(19:57):
a tiger. It is disappointing, disp wanted to hear him.
Maybe I'll go on holiday a little early. At the
end of that, he's the guy. He's supposed to be different, right,
human honey badger, fearless, doesn't worry himself with the standing's
buzzing around like a murder hornet out on the court.
And you're paid to play whether your team. I believe
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this is true. Maybe I'm wrong on this. I just
did the Overnight show, but I think you're paid to
play whether your team is in contention or not. Unless
there is fine print that we don't know of, and
maybe that is lost in translation there and there's some
language down in the minutia that we don't know about
that allows him to do that. But what are you doing?
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And by the way, this is not some kind of
Greek tragedy. Nobody was blindsided. Damian Lillard is not an
innocent bystander. He knew exactly what he was getting in
for and signing up. He's the star guard. He signed
the Max contract I believe it was the last last summer.
(20:59):
It was not that long ago. He signed the max contract.
He knew the situation in Portland, and to his credit,
he's like, hey, I'm loyal. I want to be here.
I don't want to be like all these other losers
in this business. I want to stay with one team.
He took the bag of money and he's making forty
two point four million this season on the max contract.
He's the fifth highest paid player in the NBA. And
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good for him, right, he's one of the better players.
He earns the money. He shows up most of the time.
We had no problem with that, but but now all
of a sudden, it's like, I'm like, I tucked the contract,
but now I want out. You know what it reminds
me of a bit is that creepy quarterback DeShawn Watson
or Deshaun Watson signed an extension with the Houston Texas
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and then almost immediately started complaining about Bill O'Brien, who
was the coach at the time, even though O'Brian was
there when he signed the extension. He's like, well, I
signed the contract, and then then the walls started caving
in on the Sean now final point, So where is
(22:02):
this Damian Lillard story headed? So I would like you
to get out your treasure map app on your phone.
So if you get your treasure map out on your
phone and you download that, if you don't have it,
and this, you don't have to be a distant relative
of Nostredamus or friend of no Stredinus. I happen to
(22:23):
be those things. I happen to be those things. I
have a crystal ball and I look into it. And
when we get to the part of the calendar and
the point on the map that says silly season of
the NBA, and we're on a collision course. You've heard
of the Summer of Love, how about the summer of Lillard?
(22:45):
And he will attempt to leave the Oregon trail. Now,
whether he's the one pulling the strings or more likely
there are people in the media that will be desperately
trying to get this to happen. Lillard's contract can be traded.
He has a no trade clause unless he doesn't. From
my understanding, mid July July ninth, Damian Lillard is free
(23:09):
to be repackaged around the NBA, and I will get
run f and tu that the flea market of basketball
will feature Damian Lillard being shopped here, there, and everywhere.
Deal of the century. And you might know that parlor
game with Kevin Bacon, right, the six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
(23:30):
Forget about Kevin Bacon. We will be playing the game
known as the Six Degrees of Dame Lillard, and you
can connect the dots. There's a story brewing out of
Boston that I was debating doing involving Jaylen Brown, who
did an interview with The New York Times and seemed
to plant the seed that he's looking to be traded
that even though the Celtics have had a great season
(23:52):
and everything's going well up until the last last couple
of weeks, they have not played particularly great. But Jaylen
Brown's unhappy being in the shadow of Jason Tatum, and
he's bitching about playing in Boston, And so that's a
possible So how about Damian Lillard to the Celtics for
Jalen Brown? All right now? To make this more believable
(24:14):
for those that like the rumor mongering and the weasel words,
League sources not close to the situation tell me, by
the way, that's a voice in my head that Dame
Lillard would look good in a Celtic uniform, and the
Blazers would love to have Jalen Brown. And then you'll
have the usual suspects. Lillard will be connected to the Clippers,
(24:36):
to the Lakers, to the Warriors, his old stopping grounds.
How about the knicker Bockers. Why not win in doubt
throwing out what the heck? And it's so much fun.
You can go to the rumor machine and knock your
socks off. You'll have a grand old time. You will
be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
(24:57):
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(25:21):
Listen to This League Uncut with Chris Haynes and Mark
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get your podcast. It's maller. How about that to the
third degree. This is one big band gets grilled. Coop
go loud, Ben. We already heard that Russell Wilson is
(25:43):
on a one year audition with Sean Payton. Now there
are reports that Peyton could sit Wilson mid season in
favor of Jared Stidham. If yea, if Wilson struggles as
badly as he did last season, Ben, do you think
he would actually bench Russell Wilson. Absolutely if the Broncos
blow and Russell Wilson's terrible. You know how I know?
Terry Bradshot told me. He told the world that Sean
(26:05):
Payton was not gung hole to coach Russell Wilson. But
that was the price of admission. And the Bronco ownership
can afford to make this problem go away. But they're
giving it one more goal with Russell Wilson and they
hope that he hits the ground running. If he does not,
all options are on the table. And I don't know
whether Jared Stidham can play or not. He looked good
for one game against the forty nine ers with the Raiders,
(26:28):
he hasn't played all that much. But yes, if Russell
Wilson stinks and Sean Payton, he has the authority to
get rid of him and go blue. Yes. Next, it's
being reported that Kevin Durant is now expected to return
to the Suns at the end of March or beginning
of April. Ben How important is it for Durant to
(26:48):
get time in with the team before the playoffs. It
doesn't matter, it's irrelevant. I'll tell you why. It's the NBA.
They don't want to play. Kevin Durant is so fragile.
This man got hurt in a pregame layup line, all right,
this guy hyper extended his finger I think while sending
a tweet one time years ago. The Sons are going
(27:09):
to be biting their fingernails as they attempt to figure
this thing out, to navigate the obstacle course in the playoffs.
Playoffs with Kevin duran who hasn't really played any meaningful
minutes with those guys. But if the matchups hold, the
Sons will be heading into the eye of the hurricane
the four or five matchup with the great Kawhi Leonard
(27:31):
and Paul George will be back by then. I'm sure
it's just a minor injury and the People's team, So
good luck for the Sons on that next new Lions
defensive backs. TJ. Gardner Johnson said in his introductory press
conference that the Lions actually have a bit more talent
than his previous team, the Eagles. Ben your thoughts, well,
of course he's gonna say, I love that. CJ. Gardner
(27:52):
Johnson is following the script. He's saying, Hey, I'm getting
paid now by the team that wears Honolulu Blue and silver,
So now I'm all about Detroit football, and I guarantee
you I'll guaran f into you that if CJ. Gardner
Johnson had signed a contract with the Atlanta Falcons or
the Houston Texans, or the Browns or the Bucks, he
(28:14):
would have said the same thing about any one of
those teams. It's whoever signs the check that's the more
talented team. The Lions a fun team to watch last year.
They're trying to get their act together. Defensively, they played
better at the end of last year. And all of this,
like the whole talent evaluation, is subjective anyway. It's subjective
(28:34):
versus objective, which is measurable facts. And C J. Gardner
Johnson's a great example. This guy was a fourth round
pick of the Saints and he's played much better than
a fourth round pick for New Orleans last year in Philadelphia.
So I loved it. I thought it was hilarious. Anyway,
how did we do it? As Mallard of the third
to grade Cumalo pass this edition? That is a wren
(28:55):
just like Golconnie, I'm a winner like Oltannie. Fox Sports
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listen live and into the kitchen we go. We most
(29:16):
talk about most downloaded cooking segment in overnight sports radio.
Nobody else has this. We're the only one. You gotta
download it. You gotta take notes, listen closely. You'll be
the star of your own house. And that's what's more important.
You want to be the king or the queen or
whatever in your own house in the kitchen cooking with Roberto.
(29:39):
That's right, big man. They we're gonna make some come
out on La or in English Mexican devil, Mexican Devil's trimp.
Now is it true, Roberto? I heard a rumor in
the building that you are doing this too, because you're
upset Mexico lost to Japan the other day blew the lead.
So this will make you feel better? Is that true? No? No, no, no,
not not really, no, totally, you know, Okay, it's it's
(30:02):
also lent Lenten season for me, so I gotta like
on Fridays, I gotta find some stuff to make yeah, Friday.
I try to be a good cathach sometimes. So so
you know when Peto the O'Malley family own the Dodgers,
every Friday, they only serve fish in the that's that's wow.
That's that's wow. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy, and I hated
it because I don't know. Yeah, that's that's that's crazy. Anyway.
(30:25):
That's I assume we need shrimp. You know, we need
one and a half pounds of large raw shrimp, all right,
dry a dried guahilo peppers, rints and the stamps and
seeds removed, three cheeta, the elbow peppers, rints and stamps
and seeds removed, three roma tomatoes, one one and a
half pounds can of chipoila peppers, and a dooble sauce.
(30:47):
You can toss away the peppers, all right, so it
won't be so spicy. You can keep the peppers up
to you and make sure you keep that sauce. That
sauce is really good. All right. Five clothes of garlic,
uh about one one large brown onion or a half
of brown, depending how what you love onion. I'll use
a whole onion, all right, and one table spoon the
coosher salt, and salt and pepper to taste. Very simple,
(31:07):
all right. All right? So the first step here and
these these peppers. You can find them online, all right
or your local wal Mart store. All right, Guahio peppers.
And she did the Arba peppers. He took guahio and
also the can of Chippola peppers also. He took guahio
and chip the alba peppers and a cast iron skin.
It on meat and heat for about two minutes. Make
sure you don't burn them. We just want to. We
(31:28):
just want toast them a little bit, all right, just
toast them up. Don't burn the bad boys. Okay, Well
you could burn them, you could burn them on. Yeah,
it's not gonna be so good. You wanted to take you,
I don't want to. Yeah it tastes. Wouldn't that be good? Exactly?
All right? Remove the peppers with some tongs and add
them to his saucepan of boiling water to stop to
soften them. We can do that for about fifteen minutes,
(31:49):
right them soften, stop them a bad boys up, so
we get a good sauce. You do not want them hard, No,
he don't want it hard, not not not for the sauce. No, no,
all right, that's other things. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Adds
a foil to the cast iron skillet. Use some other
mits while adding the foil so you don't get burned.
All right. Next, add the three romo tomatoes and roll
roast them until they have softer completely. All right, they're
(32:11):
soft all over. And also you can roast the garlic
and onions as well, all right, all right, all right,
very simple stuff. Using a slot of spoon, transfer the
soft and chiless to a large blender. Add the tomatoes, garlic, onion,
and salt, and also add the chipola peppers and the
adoble sauce from the from the when they can't have
chipola peppers. All right, pure rain to a completely smooth taste.
(32:33):
That's a big word, yeah, baby, pure. Get yourself a
good blender. Invests in a great blender. All right, you
need a blender, all right, go on, what do you recommend?
What blendmex A lot of money, but it's worth it.
I don't think I have an it's a pictures. Get
the vitomex. It's beautiful. It's worth it, all right, Yeah,
yes you do. I saw that a Costco. Yes, you
(32:55):
get it at Costco. Tastes season with more soft necessary.
If the sauce too spicy, add more tomatoes. All right.
This is the fine tuning process. Yeah, that's right, fine
tuning the dish, right, or it's just rights. He did.
Large saute pans or skillet or medium high heat at
olive oil and shrimp. Cook shrimp for women in per CiU.
To shrimp is lightly pink, all right, Add the red
(33:17):
chilla sauce to the pan or skill it and mixed
together to coat the shrimp. Lord the heat to medium
and cook for about three to five minutes. All right,
doesn't need a lot, all right, don't over cook the
shrimp three or five minutes to the sauces bubbling in hot.
Remove the pan or skin it from the heat and
serve alone as an appetizer or with some you know,
some Mexican rice. Or you can make even a burrito
(33:38):
and dis chips. Yeah, exactly. Just I thought you got
some authetic Mexican devil shrimp baby cook here, yeah, baby.
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Everyone,
(33:59):
the password is password, you idiot, password the word Game
of the Stars. Here's Ben Miller, and it is time
happen pass with the word Game of the Stars. Every
single week at about this time. We have some fun.
That's welcome in our contestants for today's edition of password.
(34:22):
Let's see who do we have here. Let's say hello
to milk Man Mike in Colorado. Hello, melk Man Mike, Hey,
good mile hig morning to you and the crew. Thanks
for letting me in the play. All right, Mike, you're in.
You've made the cut, and I'll let Eddie pick the
(34:42):
other guy. We have one, two or three Eddie number two,
Oh boy, Justin in Cincinnati, you have picked appropriately number two,
Justin in Cincinnati, Hello Justin, Welcome, good job Eddie fub Coff.
All right, thank you for that. Yes, let's play the
(35:04):
game here. It's a hot take right there. You don't
get that take just about anywhere else from Justin and Cincinnati. Milkman, Mike,
which combatant would you like to partner up with? Mike? Oh,
let's stargo with Eddie goes here? All right? And Justin
and Cincinnati, who would you like to partner up with? Oh? God,
(35:27):
I guess you. All right, we're gonna do an. Don't
take the game, Justin, don't take the game. Well, if
you lose, he's gonna why are you high? Are you drawnk?
What are you no? Are you sure about that? Oh?
You're working? Okay, Well that doesn't mean any I know
(35:47):
people that worked it, you know. Anyway, all right, let's
play the game. Milkman Mike, you were on the air first.
You matched up with Eddie. Pick a number, please, one
to ten? One to ten. It's past word, the word
game of the Stars. You gotta figure out the word
we're trying to get. We use obviously clues along the way.
We can't use proper names, et cetera. All right, let's
(36:10):
go with let's go with number four. That's a bad choice, Eddie. Yeah, uh,
number four, that's what he said. Yeah. Uh, let's go
with particles dust. Oh wow, he cheated. You could tell
(36:38):
he cheated. He cheated that pause. He was googling it.
He was he was cheating. I could tell he was cheating.
It sounded like he was exciting. You would not. I
just googled particles. Dust does not come up. It does
come up. Absolutely. I go ahead there, justin coops lying,
go ahead, Justina? What do you say? It's at number nine?
(37:03):
All right? Uh? I couldn't use actually the Mallam maneuver
on this, but I don't think I need to. Uh,
let's go with you know what, I'm gonna try the
Mallam maneuver. I'm feel a little frisky. All right, are
you ready? You know the Malam maneuver? Right obvious from jacket?
(37:28):
All right, here we go. Enchanted? Oh boy, enchanted? I
mean Christ almighty? Uh what I enchanted? It's a terrible
Manet maneuvers. It's a great, wonderful use terrible. Come on, justin,
(37:56):
bring it home, justin, come on even Oh, Mike, that's
not a phrase. That's not a phrase. That the evening. Yeah,
that is a phrase. That is not a phrase. The
one I'm looking and the one we were looking for.
Everyone knows, no one that knows. All right, milkman, Uh,
(38:18):
I don't even know if I should, if you should
remember that clue? Like, yeah, ignore the let's go Oh
my god, let's go with um Woodland. Yes, yeah, he
got it because he's clue Mike, did you not get
my clue? Two for two? Googled it again? I googled it. Yeah,
(38:41):
you did, exactly. See, he's admitting he's cheating, Eddie. The
man's admitted it. Chanted forest. Everyone knows in chanted. Well,
Justin has no culture, he doesn't know that, but everyone
else knows enchanted. Did you not see Robin Hood? What's
wrong with you? The enchanted forest and Robin Hood? Yes,
(39:02):
they did, they did the enchanted forest? Well, no, they
enchanted forest is like everyone everyone knows that phrase. All right,
keep going, Please hurry up. Pick a number there, Mike,
all right, let's go number six. All right, okay, um,
(39:24):
hurry up. Eddy, come on, chop chop chop chop. Can
I use uh the other languages? No, you can't. Yes,
let's go with you can't. You can't. Let's go with yes,
you know you can't do No, I know that one
sleep No your face. Let's go with what what do
(39:48):
you say? No? He said, no, No, you can't. I
didn't even give a clue. That just no, justin, you
supposed to wait for me to give a clue. All
I wanted to actually get it right though. A yeah,
you embarrass yourself. You embarrass yourself. We're out of time.
(40:09):
The game again and no man, Mike cheating. He googled
the gust one. He googled that. That's a Google cheating.
Another cheating, scans a lot of murder. Gotta go, it's embarrassing.
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