July 11, 2023 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about Alex Rodriguez suggesting the Angels should trade both Ohtani and Mike Trout, Damian Lillard reportedly having no interest in the Clippers or Celtics, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Harrison Ford Edition, and much more!
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They had the twenty twenty three home run Derby on
Monday night in Seattle, a gaggle of the top home
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run hitters in baseball. We're all hanging out there, and
in the end, Lottie Guerrero Junior, the younger version Vladimir
Guerrero of Toronto, edged out Randy Aros Arena of the
Rays to win the crown, spoiling the ready made storyline
for Major League Baseball. Julio Rodriguez would win in his
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home ballpark for the Mariners. It did not happen. More
on that in a minute. But we have a story
is better talk radio, and we're doing talk radio, talk talk, talk,
talk talk. So you gotta go and play the hits, MA, man,
play the hits in the home run derby. Not a
great hit not I mean won home run derby more
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home runs than the other guy. What worked? He added that,
But good talk radio provided by and courtesy of Alex Rodriguez,
better known by his nickname A rod In A bomb
from a Rod. So Alex Rodriguez, in a roundtable on
Fox on FS one was giving advice. They were asked
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about the panel, the distinguished Panel, which included Derek Jeter
and Big Poppy, and they had a Rod there. They
got as many guys as they could get that made
tons of money in the past and put them on
television to talk baseball. And so the round robin topic
was the future of Sho Hao Tani in Anaheim and
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how that was going to go. And a Rod filled
up the content kitty and then went above and beyond
the cost. So if you didn't see this, he gave
advice to the Halos, maybe you missed it. So with
the MLB trade deadline right around the corner, if you
look around the corner, you can see it. Yeah, I'm serious,
it's right there. Even blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan can
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see it. It's that close. It's right there. And so
we're not that far away from the trade deadline. And
Sho Hao Tani said to become a free agent after
the season, he will be no longer contractually obligated to
stay with the Angels. So A Rod has made a
proposal that the Organiza Sean in Anaheim trade showtime, but
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not only showtime. A Rod said, get rid of all
of them, get rid of Mike Trout. That's right. He
said it. He said it on television. He said it
on FS one, was broadcast ahead of the home run derby.
And we actually do we have the a Rod comments.
I think we have the a Rod coments just to
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prove I'm not lying. Let's see if we have the
a Rod audio talking about the Angels and what they
should do.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think the Angels kb win a World championship in
five years five years? Do this, Okay, First you trade Atani, Yeah,
then you trade Trout and you try to get five
or six players, load up with first rounders. And the
next thing that you have to do is bring in
a guy like theo Epstein, give him ownership and let
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him run the shop. And that move has to come first,
and then follow up. I don't think you have the time,
but that would be the move.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Okay. So he just that's something that's impossible to happen. Okay,
but that's fine. We'll go with it anyway. So the
question is we discussed the question on this one. Do
you fancy a thought on Alex Rodriguez saying that the
Angels will win the World Series if they trade O'tani
and Trout and bring in theo Epstein as the GM.
So I've got Sleeping Beauty's Castle, Sainthood and house Hunters,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a spicy hot Tamali, which
is what Otani's going to be over the next couple
weeks before the trade deadline, and then as we head
into the Hot Stove League way down the line, way
down the line at the end of the year. But
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to answer the question, you have a thought on a
Rod and his commentary, So Alex Rodriguez, I will give
him a gold star. Okay, that a little gold star
near his name there for an original take. That was
an original take by Alex Rodriguez. So you can pump
your chest out a little bit if you want. If
you're a Rod. You can flex, you can smile, you
can wink at the camera, you can do all of that.
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And I'll even give you an extra slice of pie
at the commissary. That's how great a take that was.
But it's not based in reality. That's the problem. Like
a Rod, he's mixing football, basketball and baseball and really
more I would say more basketball than football because and
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I know he owns part of the Timberwolves allegedly, But
this would be troubling if you're in Minnesota, because this
is like, well, just trade, trade everyone, and then just
get a bunch of draft picks. Does a Rod understand
that draft picks don't often work out the way they're
supposed to? Is he aware of that concept? Like I
would be all for it if you were sure you
were gonna win and get players that were gonna dominate.
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But the way I look at it, this is a
sleeping beauty's castle take by a Rod. What I mean
by that is he's living in fantasyland if he thinks
it's going to work out that way, and the Angels
would be selling for pennies on the dollar. If they're
gonna trade Otani, they should have done it last year
at the trade deadline because he had another year and
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a half to go. They didn't do that. They decided
to gamble. The move here for the Angels is you
you make your last and final offer, your last, best
and final offer to Otani, and if he wants to stay,
he'll take it, and if not, you can send him
on his merry way. But the idea of the Angel
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will train. Let's say it traded Otani for seven minor
league players and Trout for five. So under this scenario,
they got twelve blue chip minor league players in return
for Trout and Otani. We'll just go. Just go with us. Okay,
just play with us. It's sports radio. So you trade
Otani and Trout, you get twelve minor league players from
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the Yankees and the Mets, we'll just say, or the
Phillies and the Mets, whatever combination of teams you want.
You go to your Baseball America handbook, You go to
your nerd websites, the grade the minor league players, and
every player is gonna be an all around great player
and an all star level pitcher. And this guy throweth
one thousand miles an hour. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Right, so you read all that
stuff now based on I'm gonna I'm gonna look at
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this like insurance. You know the comps in insurance, and
the way they do, like life insurance, is they're betting
you're going to live if you're of a certain age,
and then when you get older, they're counting on you dying, right,
But life insurance is cheaper when you're younger because they
think you're gonna live. Uh and and so you look
at the comps on that based on general population things
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like that. So of twelve minor league players right off
the top, you trim six off. They say they'll be
absolute failures, abject failures. So now you're down to six
of those six, maybe three of them are average major
league baseball players, fringe starter, not an all star relief pitcher,
maybe out of the middle, relief, out of the bullpen.
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So then you've got three others. Out of those three,
maybe they're all good, maybe they're really good. But are
they going to win an MVP Award? Because Trout and
Otani have four MVPs combined, are they going to lead
a rotation which Otani is doing right now for the Angels.
So the chances are Slim and Nunski that that is
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going to be the case, and you have the centerpiece
of a great lineup. I think the attitude should be, hey,
we're gonna resign. If I'm not an Angel fan, but
the attitude should be, hey, we're gonna keep Otani, and
all we have to do is fill out the roster.
Shouldn't that be easier? Shouldn't it be easier to fill
out the roster? I'm talking about getting players around, secondary
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supporting actors around Otani and Chuck Cleary. It hasn't been easy.
Those guys have been together for a number of years
and they've failed to do it. They've had multiple executives,
they've had multiple managers in Anaheim and it hasn't worked.
But in theo Epstein, the outside the box GM, theo
Epstein who found Peyterr with the Cubs and the Red Sox,
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who's currently not anywhere in terms of running a team,
And so you're just gonna give him ownership of a
team and knock yourself out on that? Sure? Why not?
When I first met theo Epstein, he was an intern
for the San Diego Padres. He was handing out press
notes at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego when I
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was doing my thing down there back in the day.
I think he's had slightly more success than I've had,
But you know he's throwing all right now. Meanwhile, how
about Pete Alonzo making his sales pitch to sho Hey
Otani at the All Star Game to join the Metropolitans.
He was making the rounds doing the interviews, and he
made his sales pitch there, he said, not a great
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sales pitch. He said, it's a great city to live in,
talking about the big Apple there and city feels a
really fun place to play. Really Okay. That was his
sales pitch. That was That was his sales pitch. Okay.
So what is your take on Pete Alonzo attempting to
recruit Shoel Tani to the Mets. So you gotta do
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better than that. That does not budge at all, That
does not move the needle at all. So my advice,
if I was Pete Alonzo, here's my advice to show
Heyotani to join the Mets. The guy that owns the team,
Steven Calling, is worth seventeen billion dollars. Okay. He will
give you a piece of Wall Street, a literal piece
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of Wall Street, like the stock market. He will give
you some of the stock market to come to New York.
Will get you a place out in Connecticut, out in
the sticks. You never have to see a skyscraper other
than the back of the limo that will take you
to the ballpark and the Mets fans are so diabolical
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that and they're all over the media. They'll kiss your ass.
You'll be on the path to sainthood if you play
for the Mets. That's the way that goes. That's the
sales pitch. Not New York's a great city and the
ballpark's fun. That's not a good sales pitch. You play
for the Mets, you win with the Mets, you get canonized,
you do. Those eighty six Mets are a bunch of
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old dudes now, and they still are worshiped by the
Met fan. They're still worshiped Lenny Dykstra, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden,
all of those players that were part of Mookie Wilson,
part of that eighty six Mets. Not a long time
ago now, all right, lastly, let's get to the home
run derby Homer derby in Seattle. How would you rate
the home run derby? So? I watched the whole thing.
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Why there was nothing else to watch. That's why I
had no other options. I guess I could watched some
streaming crap, but I don't know. For some reason, I
think I need to have like sports on. So I
watched the home run derby. I give it on the
Mallord report card. I am going to give it a B.
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I'm giving it a B. I can't give it an A.
And I'll tell you why I can't give it an A.
I've seen too many home run derbys. I'm too jaded
when it comes to the home run derby. I've seen
too many of these events. It's lost its charm for me.
I don't have the eyes of a child anymore. Boy,
I wish I did. I wish I had the hearing
of a child. That's what I really wish. That would
be nice. And the taste buds. You know, taste buds
die as you get older. Do you know that? It's
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one of the great things about getting older. You lose
your joy of taste. It gets a little worse each year.
But anyway, as a cynical and jaded gas bag and
blowhard here, I didn't hate the home run derby. Didn't
hate it. I was a little what's the word I'm
trying to think of here. I didn't need all of
the launch angle and exit velocity. But I'm just I
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guess I'm being old. I don't know. I don't need that.
They made a big deal about it. Watching the homeown
there's oh the launch angle on that, oh the exit velocity.
I'm I go o, who gives a crap? Did it
go over the fence or not? So you know, there
you are in the formula for the Homer Derby. I'll
give this to Major League Baseball listening. He started in
nineteen eighty five at the Metrodome with Dave Parker winning
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the home Run Derby. Here we are all these years later.
It's like watching HGTV Love It or Listed. They've got
this thing down pat They follow a very strict formula
and every episode it's like I Love It or Listed Right,
Every episode's the same. Wants Hillary to renovate their home
and it's got to be within budget. And then David
shows a bunch of houses on the market, some over budget,
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some at budget, and then one person on the show
does not want to move, and the other person does
want to move, and inevitably Hillary does not have enough
money to fix the house properly. She runs out of
money because of some unforeseen, very dramatic problem. The Home
Run Derby is similar in the way that it's portrayed here.
They've had this head to head competition for a number
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of years. They have the bonus time, which is increasing,
the drama the bonus time, and Vladimir Guerrero, the dramas
was he gonna wear out, is gonna be too tired
because he had to go back to back in the
semi finals and in the final round if you're watching that.
But it is like house Hunters in many ways. The
home run Derby and the other thing about the home
run Derby two, which I get a kick out of
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every year. I'm sure somebody's already writing their column online
their blog there's lott of Guerrero set up to fail
in the second half because the pressure of the home
run derby. Uh, screw you. Whoever writes that story, screw you.
It has been proven that it does not matter. All
this is is an alibi if Latti Guerrero does not
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perform well. But there have been studies done on players
that have won the home run Derby, participated in the
home run Derby. Doesn't mess up your swing, and if
it does, you're a Dodo bird. So that's on you, right,
It's an urban legend. It's been debunked. I realize the
man that shot Liberty Bolence when the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend. I get all that, but hey,
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it was fun. Good for Laddie Rover, a bunch of
home runs. God the show was Julio Rodriguez. He didn't win.
It reminds me of Josh Hamilton years ago when he
hit a gazillion home runs. I think I was at
Yankee Stadium if I remember, I don't. I think it
was Yankee State. He made a bunch of home runs
and he didn't win either.
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our lead this hour coming from pro Bouncy Ball. That's right.
A lot of dirt flying around the association, much of
it involves in the summertime, a certain guard from the
Pacific Northwest. Consider this our obligatory Mallard monologue about the
disgruntled Dame time and if you've not heard the latest,
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perhaps not another day, another plot twist in the Damian
Lillard story. So here's the latest. Dame Lillard has rebuffed
rebuffed interest from the Austin Celtics the LA Clippers, both
teams said to have inquired about the availability of Dame
Lillard and the playability, meaning that Dame Loarded was okay
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with heading to Boston or Los Angeles, and the Celtics
and the Clippers were both told no, a resounding no.
According to Sham's Sharania, the man that has all the
answers unless Woge has them and says that Lillard continues
to want to be in Miami, and I don't want
to be anywhere else. I want to be in Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami.
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All right, So let us discuss the question on this one.
Why why is Dame Lillard not interested in joining the
Clippers or the Celtics, considering both teams pretty good team,
pretty good teams. So I've got KFC deputized and indictment,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make a set puss, which is
what Dame Lillard has on his face right now, thinking
about only going to Miami and nowhere else so number one,
Dame Lillllard right now is following the script. If you
watch pro bouncy ball, you know that many people believe,
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with their tinfoil hats on that all of this is
scripted reality. That is professional wrestling. Everything is planned out
in advance. And so Dame Liard wants to play for
the Heat, come hell or high water, and he that's it.
I mean, he wants to play there. He don't want
to play anywhere else. And in order to force the
Blazer's hands, he has to be a tough ombre. He
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has to do it right. In fact, in many respects,
he's going full KFC here. You don't have to be
a tough ombre to eat a KFC. But he's going
KFC because he's he's getting that double down sandwich, which
is occasionally on the menu there at KFC's doing the
double down sandwich is what he's doing there. No potato wedges,
just the double down sandwich. And no wavery, no wavering,
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no no, no, no no no. Lillard would be better
off with the Clippers or the Celtics. He would both
those teams have solid rosters. Now that Miami was in
the NBA Finals, but that was a bit of a
fluky thing, right that Miami got to the NBA Finals.
The hate culture and all that. But if you look
around Jimmy Butler, both teams have solid rosters, but Jimmy
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Butler is not going to give up his alpha position. Hey,
I'm the alpha. He ain't given up the alpha position,
Jimmy Butler, So he's the alpha. And you look at
Jason Tatum with the Celtics and Kawhi Leonard with the Clippers.
These guys are much more passive. I think every man,
woman and child can agree with that, and they would
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be more inclined to sit in the passenger seat or
even the back seed while Dame Lillard does his thing
and Jimmy Buckets his hard wired with Java. He's got
the battery acid and he does not genuineflect to anyone,
whether it's Damian Lillard or anyone else. He's not gonna
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sit in the passenger seat ride shotgun. Of course, the
only one in the NBA that's really allowed to ride
shotgun is Jama Rant, but hey, lame jokes are on Friday.
But Jimmy Buckets, he doesn't back down, and shams tells
us the framework of a Lithard trade is in place,
but it's up to the Miami Heat to trade some
of their players that the Blazers don't want to get
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more draft picks, so they can then flip those draft
picks down the Oregon Trail and have Dame time, go
to Eastern Standard time and play for the Miami Heat.
Now turning the page, dateline New Orleans, the Bayou we
Go and the Pole Boys of the NBA. The Pelicans
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making some headlines here Zion Williamson. He's back in the
news as they're more baby Mama drama. Uh, nothing new
on that. Of course, the young lady who started all
of that has been banned banished from Twitter. Maybe she's
on threads now. So now is we advanced the story?
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Zion Williamson's game is getting attacked, His skill set is
being attacked. NBA insider and occasional Fox Sports Radio contributor
Rick Buker, discussing the Pelican Star, recently questioned whether or
not whether or not Zion Williamson is developing skills outside
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of dunking and overpowering defenders on the Blox and the
longtime NBA gas bag, Rick Buker said, what about the floaters.
Of course, he might have floaters in his eyes for
all I know, But he said, what about the floaters,
the under the up and under layups, the pull up
jumpers from the elbow, and all of that he wants
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him to bring the dipsy do is what he wants.
And so is it true? Is it true that Zion
Williamson has shown no interest in developing his game? So
now I don't know whether it's true or not. We
do not know whether it's true or not. But my
opinion piece on this is that the New Orleans Brass
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what they did here. And I've been around enough to
know when I when I can kind of kind of
sniff this stuff out and I sniff it doesn't smell good.
That is a plant that somebody I don't know who
for the Pelicans. That sounds like it came from an
executive for the Pelicans, that this right here. They deputized
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Rick Buker and they said, Okay, I want you to
toss this out and here's the story. We want Zion
to work on all these things. He's not doing it enough,
and so we want you to put this out there
in the media, and we want him to go into
the laboratory and start developing the raw ingredients to become
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a powerhouse. But they're using the media to motivate Zion Williamson.
Why because the Pelicans brass know when Zion is not
scanning booty models on OnlyFans that he loves the socials
right as our friend LeVar Arrington likes to talk about,
he's part of the zombie generation that are always on
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the video games and the phones and that's all they do.
And so they're using the Pelicans a cloak and dagger
way to get under the skin of Zion to try
to motivate him, to make Rick Buker look like a
country bumpkin. And final point, all right, let's go to
Los Angeles. Hello, Los Angeles. The People's Team, Paul George
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by George, Paul George filling up the content machine on
the show. We thank Paul George for that he is
going gga, not Lady God Got, He's going gaga for
Russell west Brook, that he is back in Clipperland for
another year to play in front of Clipper Darryl. He
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talked about how happy he was, Paul George to have
his buddy Russell Westbrook back together there and how much
he means to the team. And then he dropped something,
which is what we call in the radio business, the
money quote. We got the money quote? All right, what's
the money quote? Here's the money quote. So Paul George said,
just that small stint that he Westbrook had with us Bro,
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he just changed the whole culture. Yeah, whole culture. He
played like a very small percentage of the NBA season
last year. So what is your viewpoint? Here's the question,
what is your viewpoint on Paul George saying that Russell
Westbrook changed the quote whole culture with the Clippers. So
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this is not just an indictment, this is a scathing
indictment on podcast p Does he even realize what he's
doing here? Now? I know you're trying to slobber all
over Russell Westbrook and slap a slap a slaber and
given him the manny and the petty and talk about
how wonderful he is. I get that, But is PG.
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Thirteen obtuse? Seriously, I don't understand he and Kawhi Leonard.
Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are the culture of the Clippers.
They've been there for several years. Kawhi and PG thirteen
have created the antithesis of heat culture. Heat culture is
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all about hard work, blue collar, all that crap. Now
I was overdosed. I overdosed on heat culture during the
NBA Finals run for Miami. Now that we're past that,
I can get back to that. And everyone in the
organization they have this chip on their shoulder and they
want to overachieve and they want to show everyone that
they're better. The Clippers are the complete opposite of that.
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They're the epitome whatever the opposite is. The Clippers have
a roster of spoiled stars who are entitled and they
like to float on the lazy river. That's the Clippers
under Kawhi, Leonard and Paul George tremendously talented, but they
don't give a damn. How do I know they don't
give a damn. They coast through regular season games. They
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even this playoff games when they could play playoffs, right.
Leonard and George have been the tent poles for several
years in Clipperland. And if Russell Westbrook changed the whole culture,
he was merely cleaning up the mess that Podcast p
and Kawhi the Claw left in their wake right last spot,
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we go to Vegas quickly, the NBA Summer Pro League,
the Wemby Show has been canceled. You know how certain
times Vegas shows. There's seventy six Vegas shows every night?
Do you know that Friday Saturday sunder there's seventy six
shows in Vegas comedy, magic and dancing and gymnastics and
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other seventy six shows on a given weekend night in Vegas.
And you really have to suck to get canceled. Well,
Wemby did not suck, but he has been canceled off
the Vegas Strip there as the Spurs announcing he will
not play any more Summer Pro League games. So how
do you react to San Antonio shutting down Victor Wembanyama
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for the rest of the summer league. So this fits
the image of the modern NBA. Just the other day,
Wemby was complaining about he just wants to play basketball
and he has to do all this other stuff. So
of course the Spurs two days later said no more
basketball for you, no more games for you, And of
course Wenby probably loves it. He's nineteen years old. He
grew up where every player was softer than the other
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and that's just the way. That's all. He knows that
there's no celebration in hard work and perseverance and that
kind of thing. And so even in the summer Pro League,
where you can improve your craft and game situations, no, no, no,
out of an abundance of caution. Out of an abundance
of caution, we can't do that. Do the minimum. That's
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the NBA way, even in the summer Pro League. It
is the Bean Mather Show. If you would like to
be part, I got a line open for the first
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The NBA in season tournament has been rumored for years now,
and over the weekend it became a fishial.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Oh thank god.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Now, any fan of the show knows that you aren't
a fan of this idea, But how do you think
it'll be received in terms of viewership ratings?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
So it doesn't matter what happens. The NBA will spin
this as a success. They will say was wonderful, the
international audience loved it, and it's it's takes time to
get its footing and all that. They will manipulate the
numbers one way or another. They'll say the algorithms on
Twitter in their favor or whatever. But we will find
out how enthusiastic your average NBA player is and your
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star NBA play. These guys don't like to play in
regular season games. These are regular season games. They're making
this fugase playing tournament. And if I'm not mistaken, It's
going to take place in early December, right, isn't it
the plan? I think it is. It's before Christmas, That's
when normally people start watching. But even the NFL's entered
into the fray with Christmas the last couple of years,
so I have little hope that this will be a
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success and the NBA will spin it and it is next.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
What also became official over the weekend was a new
five year contract for Greg Popovich worth eighty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Is he gonna go? Is he gonna go anywhere else?
Did he are gonna go coach the Celtics?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I don't know. Van.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
What are the chances that pop serves the entirety of
that contract?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I'm gonna go three percent, three percent Greg Popovich. His
birthday is in January. Till turned seventy five during the
next NBA season. That would mean he's gonna coach until
he's in his eightieth year on the planet. The older
you get, the herder the travel becomes. Even though the
NBA uses first class planes, trains, and autmobiles, it really
comes down to whether Victor Wemba Yama is as good
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as advertised. If he's as good as advertised the Spurs
will win. The moment they start losing, Greg Popovich is like,
well they're losing. Popovich is old and they'll blame him.
They'll be agism next.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
John Lynch made it into the Pro Football Hall of
Fame a couple of years ago, but according to Terrell Owens,
he shouldn't have made it in before cowboy safety Darren Woodson.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Ben is he right?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I worked with John Lynch's father in San Diego. He
owned a radio station there, So I'm not gonna it's
a non sequor. What does John Lynch have to do
with Darren Wotson should be in the Hall of Fame?
Is there some kind of cowboy bias? Every year there's
a cowboy that gets in the Hall of Fame. We're
supposed to believe there's anti cowboy rhetoric. Stop, how'd we do? Kobolo?
You pass? That is a what I won the game?
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I won the game. That's the way.
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You ready to do this, Philip?
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I'm ready?
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All right? Very good? And what brings you to the show?
What are you doing up late here? Oh?
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Just you know in my recliner.
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Just relaxing. There you go, Dollard and relax with me. Oh,
thank you? How dare you? That's wonderful? All right, very relaxing,
very calming. Show. Hold on a second, Philip, we have
a blind Emmett, the Seahawks man. Hello, blind Emmett.
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What's going on? Big Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Are you prepared? Blind Emmett? These are all people from
before you were alive? Are you prepared?
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Depends on the sport?
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Okay, all right, very good? Hold on a sec here,
put you on the air. That you on the air,
all right, Philip, you were on the air first. Do do
you want to partner up with Philip? Uh? You can?
Howard Stern? Who else do we have? Art Bell? I
don't think he's around anymore? Uh boie, that's a good one,
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babb a boy. Doctor Laura Jim Rome, Steve Harvey Ill. Okay,
very good, Jim Rome, thank you for that. Blind Who
who would you like to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Blind?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Emmy, I'll go with Justin Cooper, Oh, the Cooper Loop.
All right, very good? And going to play the Jim
I don't know, I don't know. You're the host of
the show. Whatever. I'll play the damn role of Jim.
Grab a mine. I don't care. I'll do it. I'll
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do it. I'll win the game. I mean you're about
three feet taller than Jim Rome. I think you do
have the the age advantage here. Wow, you're talking about
Philip contestant. Yes, of course, not me, right young?
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Eighty one.
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Yes, The categories are as follows. We've got Star Wars,
the Last Crusade, Air Force one and crossing Over. Philip,
you were on the Air Force, which category would you like?
Let's do over crossing over?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
All right? And EMMITTT how about you?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Air Force one?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Air Force one? Alright?
Speaker 5 (36:28):
So Ben and Philip are up first with crossing Over Remember,
you need to say the first and last name of
the athlete in order to get points. You're gonna have
forty five seconds on the clock. Crossing over. These athletes
all crossed over into the media. Forty five seconds begin
all right.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
He played for the Cowboys. He's on Monday Night Football now,
is an analyst, Philip he was just oh god, god, alright, okay,
a single season. Sach King played for the New York Giants.
He's hosted a talk show. He's on Fox quite a bit.
Got a gap to he he yes, LT has a
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gap to.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Dollars pyramid.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
That doesn't really help. Nickname nickname the goose for the
Ravens in the two thousands, Uh all right, nicknamed Dandy
Cowboys quarterback in the seventies, eighties, TV guy Monday Night Football.
It's a party too late, shocking.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
We shouldn't en get the hundred points because like you goose,
the nickname, it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
That's that's his point. Well, no, that's his name. That's allowed.
It doesn't say no nicknames. It's you said you can't
say the guy's name. Of his name, it's not part
of his names. That's not it's g U s. A.
It's I'm not you can it's turn your mic off
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and he go eat another cookie.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
You can have that hundred points, Emmett and I are
gonna mop the floor.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah right, good luck all right with that. If you
get that, I'll make cookies.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
For everybody to all right, air Force one. These athletes
all wore air Force ones. Forty five seconds in the clock.
Begin the round mound of rebound. Yes, uh, raptors dunker
he he won? Yes, all right, let's skip over to
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uh this. This guy's got the same name as the
biblical character that uh uh, you know, save the the
the Jews going Bible? All right, power forward with the
uh Phoenix suns with Steve Nash.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I think he's also Jewish.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Yes, oh, defensive guy for the Lakers back in the eighties,
shares the same last name as me.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
What's this something Cooper? All right?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Let me we mean out of time?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
But but Lakers player nicknamed Silk.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, no chance, man, all right, So how many points
we have any you've got?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Ninety?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Okay? All right? Star Wars or last Crusade.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
All right? Uh. Quarterback for the Rams, Matthew, We're out
of time. Your trow. We're out of time. We win
the game, win the game. We're out of We didn't
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have time. We had finished. I got a golden that
was gold. You a get a tie. You got to
kiss your sister. You gotta tie.
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They had the twenty twenty three home run Derby on
Monday night in Seattle, a gaggle of the top home
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run hitters in baseball. We're all hanging out there, and
in the end, Lottie Guerrero Junior, the younger version Vladimir
Guerrero of Toronto, edged out Randy Aros Arena of the
Rays to win the crown, spoiling the ready made storyline
for Major League Baseball. Julio Rodriguez would win in his
(02:02):
home ballpark for the Mariners. It did not happen. More
on that in a minute. But we have a story
is better talk radio, and we're doing talk radio, talk talk, talk,
talk talk. So you gotta go and play the hits, MA, man,
play the hits in the home run derby. Not a
great hit not I mean won home run derby more
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home runs than the other guy. What worked? He added that,
But good talk radio provided by and courtesy of Alex Rodriguez,
better known by his nickname A rod In A bomb
from a Rod. So Alex Rodriguez, in a roundtable on
Fox on FS one was giving advice. They were asked
(02:45):
about the panel, the distinguished Panel, which included Derek Jeter
and Big Poppy, and they had a Rod there. They
got as many guys as they could get that made
tons of money in the past and put them on
television to talk baseball. And so the round robin topic
was the future of Sho Hao Tani in Anaheim and
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how that was going to go. And a Rod filled
up the content kitty and then went above and beyond
the cost. So if you didn't see this, he gave
advice to the Halos, maybe you missed it. So with
the MLB trade deadline right around the corner, if you
look around the corner, you can see it. Yeah, I'm serious,
it's right there. Even blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan can
(03:27):
see it. It's that close. It's right there. And so
we're not that far away from the trade deadline. And
Sho Hao Tani said to become a free agent after
the season, he will be no longer contractually obligated to
stay with the Angels. So A Rod has made a
proposal that the Organiza Sean in Anaheim trade showtime, but
(03:51):
not only showtime. A Rod said, get rid of all
of them, get rid of Mike Trout. That's right. He
said it. He said it on television. He said it
on FS one, was broadcast ahead of the home run derby.
And we actually do we have the a Rod comments.
I think we have the a Rod coments just to
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prove I'm not lying. Let's see if we have the
a Rod audio talking about the Angels and what they
should do.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think the Angels kb win a World championship in
five years five years? Do this, Okay, First you trade Atani, Yeah,
then you trade Trout and you try to get five
or six players, load up with first rounders. And the
next thing that you have to do is bring in
a guy like theo Epstein, give him ownership and let
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him run the shop. And that move has to come first,
and then follow up. I don't think you have the time,
but that would be the move.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Okay. So he just that's something that's impossible to happen. Okay,
but that's fine. We'll go with it anyway. So the
question is we discussed the question on this one. Do
you fancy a thought on Alex Rodriguez saying that the
Angels will win the World Series if they trade O'tani
and Trout and bring in theo Epstein as the GM.
So I've got Sleeping Beauty's Castle, Sainthood and house Hunters,
(05:10):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a spicy hot Tamali, which
is what Otani's going to be over the next couple
weeks before the trade deadline, and then as we head
into the Hot Stove League way down the line, way
down the line at the end of the year. But
(05:31):
to answer the question, you have a thought on a
Rod and his commentary, So Alex Rodriguez, I will give
him a gold star. Okay, that a little gold star
near his name there for an original take. That was
an original take by Alex Rodriguez. So you can pump
your chest out a little bit if you want. If
you're a Rod. You can flex, you can smile, you
can wink at the camera, you can do all of that.
(05:52):
And I'll even give you an extra slice of pie
at the commissary. That's how great a take that was.
But it's not based in reality. That's the problem. Like
a Rod, he's mixing football, basketball and baseball and really
more I would say more basketball than football because and
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I know he owns part of the Timberwolves allegedly, But
this would be troubling if you're in Minnesota, because this
is like, well, just trade, trade everyone, and then just
get a bunch of draft picks. Does a Rod understand
that draft picks don't often work out the way they're
supposed to? Is he aware of that concept? Like I
would be all for it if you were sure you
were gonna win and get players that were gonna dominate.
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But the way I look at it, this is a
sleeping beauty's castle take by a Rod. What I mean
by that is he's living in fantasyland if he thinks
it's going to work out that way, and the Angels
would be selling for pennies on the dollar. If they're
gonna trade Otani, they should have done it last year
at the trade deadline because he had another year and
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a half to go. They didn't do that. They decided
to gamble. The move here for the Angels is you
you make your last and final offer, your last, best
and final offer to Otani, and if he wants to stay,
he'll take it, and if not, you can send him
on his merry way. But the idea of the Angel
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will train. Let's say it traded Otani for seven minor
league players and Trout for five. So under this scenario,
they got twelve blue chip minor league players in return
for Trout and Otani. We'll just go. Just go with us. Okay,
just play with us. It's sports radio. So you trade
Otani and Trout, you get twelve minor league players from
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the Yankees and the Mets, we'll just say, or the
Phillies and the Mets, whatever combination of teams you want.
You go to your Baseball America handbook, You go to
your nerd websites, the grade the minor league players, and
every player is gonna be an all around great player
and an all star level pitcher. And this guy throweth
one thousand miles an hour. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Right, so you read all that
stuff now based on I'm gonna I'm gonna look at
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this like insurance. You know the comps in insurance, and
the way they do, like life insurance, is they're betting
you're going to live if you're of a certain age,
and then when you get older, they're counting on you dying, right,
But life insurance is cheaper when you're younger because they
think you're gonna live. Uh and and so you look
at the comps on that based on general population things
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like that. So of twelve minor league players right off
the top, you trim six off. They say they'll be
absolute failures, abject failures. So now you're down to six
of those six, maybe three of them are average major
league baseball players, fringe starter, not an all star relief pitcher,
maybe out of the middle, relief, out of the bullpen.
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So then you've got three others. Out of those three,
maybe they're all good, maybe they're really good. But are
they going to win an MVP Award? Because Trout and
Otani have four MVPs combined, are they going to lead
a rotation which Otani is doing right now for the Angels.
So the chances are Slim and Nunski that that is
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going to be the case, and you have the centerpiece
of a great lineup. I think the attitude should be, hey,
we're gonna resign. If I'm not an Angel fan, but
the attitude should be, hey, we're gonna keep Otani, and
all we have to do is fill out the roster.
Shouldn't that be easier? Shouldn't it be easier to fill
out the roster? I'm talking about getting players around, secondary
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supporting actors around Otani and Chuck Cleary. It hasn't been easy.
Those guys have been together for a number of years
and they've failed to do it. They've had multiple executives,
they've had multiple managers in Anaheim and it hasn't worked.
But in theo Epstein, the outside the box GM, theo
Epstein who found Peyterr with the Cubs and the Red Sox,
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who's currently not anywhere in terms of running a team,
And so you're just gonna give him ownership of a
team and knock yourself out on that? Sure? Why not?
When I first met theo Epstein, he was an intern
for the San Diego Padres. He was handing out press
notes at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego when I
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was doing my thing down there back in the day.
I think he's had slightly more success than I've had,
But you know he's throwing all right now. Meanwhile, how
about Pete Alonzo making his sales pitch to sho Hey
Otani at the All Star Game to join the Metropolitans.
He was making the rounds doing the interviews, and he
made his sales pitch there, he said, not a great
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sales pitch. He said, it's a great city to live in,
talking about the big Apple there and city feels a
really fun place to play. Really Okay. That was his
sales pitch. That was That was his sales pitch. Okay.
So what is your take on Pete Alonzo attempting to
recruit Shoel Tani to the Mets. So you gotta do
(10:56):
better than that. That does not budge at all, That
does not move the needle at all. So my advice,
if I was Pete Alonzo, here's my advice to show
Heyotani to join the Mets. The guy that owns the team,
Steven Calling, is worth seventeen billion dollars. Okay. He will
give you a piece of Wall Street, a literal piece
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of Wall Street, like the stock market. He will give
you some of the stock market to come to New York.
Will get you a place out in Connecticut, out in
the sticks. You never have to see a skyscraper other
than the back of the limo that will take you
to the ballpark and the Mets fans are so diabolical
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that and they're all over the media. They'll kiss your ass.
You'll be on the path to sainthood if you play
for the Mets. That's the way that goes. That's the
sales pitch. Not New York's a great city and the
ballpark's fun. That's not a good sales pitch. You play
for the Mets, you win with the Mets, you get canonized,
you do. Those eighty six Mets are a bunch of
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old dudes now, and they still are worshiped by the
Met fan. They're still worshiped Lenny Dykstra, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden,
all of those players that were part of Mookie Wilson,
part of that eighty six Mets. Not a long time
ago now, all right, lastly, let's get to the home
run derby Homer derby in Seattle. How would you rate
the home run derby? So? I watched the whole thing.
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Why there was nothing else to watch. That's why I
had no other options. I guess I could watched some
streaming crap, but I don't know. For some reason, I
think I need to have like sports on. So I
watched the home run derby. I give it on the
Mallord report card. I am going to give it a B.
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I'm giving it a B. I can't give it an A.
And I'll tell you why I can't give it an A.
I've seen too many home run derbys. I'm too jaded
when it comes to the home run derby. I've seen
too many of these events. It's lost its charm for me.
I don't have the eyes of a child anymore. Boy,
I wish I did. I wish I had the hearing
of a child. That's what I really wish. That would
be nice. And the taste buds. You know, taste buds
die as you get older. Do you know that? It's
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one of the great things about getting older. You lose
your joy of taste. It gets a little worse each year.
But anyway, as a cynical and jaded gas bag and
blowhard here, I didn't hate the home run derby. Didn't
hate it. I was a little what's the word I'm
trying to think of here. I didn't need all of
the launch angle and exit velocity. But I'm just I
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guess I'm being old. I don't know. I don't need that.
They made a big deal about it. Watching the homeown
there's oh the launch angle on that, oh the exit velocity.
I'm I go o, who gives a crap? Did it
go over the fence or not? So you know, there
you are in the formula for the Homer Derby. I'll
give this to Major League Baseball listening. He started in
nineteen eighty five at the Metrodome with Dave Parker winning
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the home Run Derby. Here we are all these years later.
It's like watching HGTV Love It or Listed. They've got
this thing down pat They follow a very strict formula
and every episode it's like I Love It or Listed Right,
Every episode's the same. Wants Hillary to renovate their home
and it's got to be within budget. And then David
shows a bunch of houses on the market, some over budget,
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some at budget, and then one person on the show
does not want to move, and the other person does
want to move, and inevitably Hillary does not have enough
money to fix the house properly. She runs out of
money because of some unforeseen, very dramatic problem. The Home
Run Derby is similar in the way that it's portrayed here.
They've had this head to head competition for a number
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of years. They have the bonus time, which is increasing,
the drama the bonus time, and Vladimir Guerrero, the dramas
was he gonna wear out, is gonna be too tired
because he had to go back to back in the
semi finals and in the final round if you're watching that.
But it is like house Hunters in many ways. The
home run Derby and the other thing about the home
run Derby two, which I get a kick out of
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every year. I'm sure somebody's already writing their column online
their blog there's lott of Guerrero set up to fail
in the second half because the pressure of the home
run derby. Uh, screw you. Whoever writes that story, screw you.
It has been proven that it does not matter. All
this is is an alibi if Latti Guerrero does not
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perform well. But there have been studies done on players
that have won the home run Derby, participated in the
home run Derby. Doesn't mess up your swing, and if
it does, you're a Dodo bird. So that's on you, right,
It's an urban legend. It's been debunked. I realize the
man that shot Liberty Bolence when the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend. I get all that, but hey,
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it was fun. Good for Laddie Rover, a bunch of
home runs. God the show was Julio Rodriguez. He didn't win.
It reminds me of Josh Hamilton years ago when he
hit a gazillion home runs. I think I was at
Yankee Stadium if I remember, I don't. I think it
was Yankee State. He made a bunch of home runs
and he didn't win either.
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up for other people to win the Talent Show. But
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our lead this hour coming from pro Bouncy Ball. That's right.
A lot of dirt flying around the association, much of
it involves in the summertime, a certain guard from the
Pacific Northwest. Consider this our obligatory Mallard monologue about the
disgruntled Dame time and if you've not heard the latest,
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perhaps not another day, another plot twist in the Damian
Lillard story. So here's the latest. Dame Lillard has rebuffed
rebuffed interest from the Austin Celtics the LA Clippers, both
teams said to have inquired about the availability of Dame
Lillard and the playability, meaning that Dame Loarded was okay
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with heading to Boston or Los Angeles, and the Celtics
and the Clippers were both told no, a resounding no.
According to Sham's Sharania, the man that has all the
answers unless Woge has them and says that Lillard continues
to want to be in Miami, and I don't want
to be anywhere else. I want to be in Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami.
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All right, So let us discuss the question on this one.
Why why is Dame Lillard not interested in joining the
Clippers or the Celtics, considering both teams pretty good team,
pretty good teams. So I've got KFC deputized and indictment,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make a set puss, which is
what Dame Lillard has on his face right now, thinking
about only going to Miami and nowhere else so number one,
Dame Lillllard right now is following the script. If you
watch pro bouncy ball, you know that many people believe,
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with their tinfoil hats on that all of this is
scripted reality. That is professional wrestling. Everything is planned out
in advance. And so Dame Liard wants to play for
the Heat, come hell or high water, and he that's it.
I mean, he wants to play there. He don't want
to play anywhere else. And in order to force the
Blazer's hands, he has to be a tough ombre. He
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has to do it right. In fact, in many respects,
he's going full KFC here. You don't have to be
a tough ombre to eat a KFC. But he's going
KFC because he's he's getting that double down sandwich, which
is occasionally on the menu there at KFC's doing the
double down sandwich is what he's doing there. No potato wedges,
just the double down sandwich. And no wavery, no wavering,
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no no, no, no no no. Lillard would be better
off with the Clippers or the Celtics. He would both
those teams have solid rosters. Now that Miami was in
the NBA Finals, but that was a bit of a
fluky thing, right that Miami got to the NBA Finals.
The hate culture and all that. But if you look
around Jimmy Butler, both teams have solid rosters, but Jimmy
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Butler is not going to give up his alpha position. Hey,
I'm the alpha. He ain't given up the alpha position,
Jimmy Butler, So he's the alpha. And you look at
Jason Tatum with the Celtics and Kawhi Leonard with the Clippers.
These guys are much more passive. I think every man,
woman and child can agree with that, and they would
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be more inclined to sit in the passenger seat or
even the back seed while Dame Lillard does his thing
and Jimmy Buckets his hard wired with Java. He's got
the battery acid and he does not genuineflect to anyone,
whether it's Damian Lillard or anyone else. He's not gonna
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sit in the passenger seat ride shotgun. Of course, the
only one in the NBA that's really allowed to ride
shotgun is Jama Rant, but hey, lame jokes are on Friday.
But Jimmy Buckets, he doesn't back down, and shams tells
us the framework of a Lithard trade is in place,
but it's up to the Miami Heat to trade some
of their players that the Blazers don't want to get
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more draft picks, so they can then flip those draft
picks down the Oregon Trail and have Dame time, go
to Eastern Standard time and play for the Miami Heat.
Now turning the page, dateline New Orleans, the Bayou we
Go and the Pole Boys of the NBA. The Pelicans
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making some headlines here Zion Williamson. He's back in the
news as they're more baby Mama drama. Uh, nothing new
on that. Of course, the young lady who started all
of that has been banned banished from Twitter. Maybe she's
on threads now. So now is we advanced the story?
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Zion Williamson's game is getting attacked, His skill set is
being attacked. NBA insider and occasional Fox Sports Radio contributor
Rick Buker, discussing the Pelican Star, recently questioned whether or
not whether or not Zion Williamson is developing skills outside
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of dunking and overpowering defenders on the Blox and the
longtime NBA gas bag, Rick Buker said, what about the floaters.
Of course, he might have floaters in his eyes for
all I know, But he said, what about the floaters,
the under the up and under layups, the pull up
jumpers from the elbow, and all of that he wants
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him to bring the dipsy do is what he wants.
And so is it true? Is it true that Zion
Williamson has shown no interest in developing his game? So
now I don't know whether it's true or not. We
do not know whether it's true or not. But my
opinion piece on this is that the New Orleans Brass
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what they did here. And I've been around enough to
know when I when I can kind of kind of
sniff this stuff out and I sniff it doesn't smell good.
That is a plant that somebody I don't know who
for the Pelicans. That sounds like it came from an
executive for the Pelicans, that this right here. They deputized
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Rick Buker and they said, Okay, I want you to
toss this out and here's the story. We want Zion
to work on all these things. He's not doing it enough,
and so we want you to put this out there
in the media, and we want him to go into
the laboratory and start developing the raw ingredients to become
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a powerhouse. But they're using the media to motivate Zion Williamson.
Why because the Pelicans brass know when Zion is not
scanning booty models on OnlyFans that he loves the socials
right as our friend LeVar Arrington likes to talk about,
he's part of the zombie generation that are always on
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the video games and the phones and that's all they do.
And so they're using the Pelicans a cloak and dagger
way to get under the skin of Zion to try
to motivate him, to make Rick Buker look like a
country bumpkin. And final point, all right, let's go to
Los Angeles. Hello, Los Angeles. The People's Team, Paul George
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by George, Paul George filling up the content machine on
the show. We thank Paul George for that he is
going gga, not Lady God Got, He's going gaga for
Russell west Brook, that he is back in Clipperland for
another year to play in front of Clipper Darryl. He
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talked about how happy he was, Paul George to have
his buddy Russell Westbrook back together there and how much
he means to the team. And then he dropped something,
which is what we call in the radio business, the
money quote. We got the money quote? All right, what's
the money quote? Here's the money quote. So Paul George said,
just that small stint that he Westbrook had with us Bro,
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he just changed the whole culture. Yeah, whole culture. He
played like a very small percentage of the NBA season
last year. So what is your viewpoint? Here's the question,
what is your viewpoint on Paul George saying that Russell
Westbrook changed the quote whole culture with the Clippers. So
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this is not just an indictment, this is a scathing
indictment on podcast p Does he even realize what he's
doing here? Now? I know you're trying to slobber all
over Russell Westbrook and slap a slap a slaber and
given him the manny and the petty and talk about
how wonderful he is. I get that, But is PG.
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Thirteen obtuse? Seriously, I don't understand he and Kawhi Leonard.
Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are the culture of the Clippers.
They've been there for several years. Kawhi and PG thirteen
have created the antithesis of heat culture. Heat culture is
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all about hard work, blue collar, all that crap. Now
I was overdosed. I overdosed on heat culture during the
NBA Finals run for Miami. Now that we're past that,
I can get back to that. And everyone in the
organization they have this chip on their shoulder and they
want to overachieve and they want to show everyone that
they're better. The Clippers are the complete opposite of that.
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They're the epitome whatever the opposite is. The Clippers have
a roster of spoiled stars who are entitled and they
like to float on the lazy river. That's the Clippers
under Kawhi, Leonard and Paul George tremendously talented, but they
don't give a damn. How do I know they don't
give a damn. They coast through regular season games. They
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even this playoff games when they could play playoffs, right.
Leonard and George have been the tent poles for several
years in Clipperland. And if Russell Westbrook changed the whole culture,
he was merely cleaning up the mess that Podcast p
and Kawhi the Claw left in their wake right last spot,
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we go to Vegas quickly, the NBA Summer Pro League,
the Wemby Show has been canceled. You know how certain
times Vegas shows. There's seventy six Vegas shows every night?
Do you know that Friday Saturday sunder there's seventy six
shows in Vegas comedy, magic and dancing and gymnastics and
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other seventy six shows on a given weekend night in Vegas.
And you really have to suck to get canceled. Well,
Wemby did not suck, but he has been canceled off
the Vegas Strip there as the Spurs announcing he will
not play any more Summer Pro League games. So how
do you react to San Antonio shutting down Victor Wembanyama
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for the rest of the summer league. So this fits
the image of the modern NBA. Just the other day,
Wemby was complaining about he just wants to play basketball
and he has to do all this other stuff. So
of course the Spurs two days later said no more
basketball for you, no more games for you, And of
course Wenby probably loves it. He's nineteen years old. He
grew up where every player was softer than the other
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and that's just the way. That's all. He knows that
there's no celebration in hard work and perseverance and that
kind of thing. And so even in the summer Pro League,
where you can improve your craft and game situations, no, no, no,
out of an abundance of caution. Out of an abundance
of caution, we can't do that. Do the minimum. That's
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the NBA way, even in the summer Pro League. It
is the Bean Mather Show. If you would like to
be part, I got a line open for the first
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I don't know if he's gonna call. I don't know
if we have any international combatants in this thing, the
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Mallard Palooza. But if you want to be part of it,
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Hopefully we'll get the Boston Burper back in this But
the Mallard Palooza twenty twenty three is tomorrow night. Tomorrow night,
so after the All Star Game, end of the day
after the All Star Game, and we will have the mall.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Hey, it's Ben, host of The Fifth Hour with Ben
Mahler along with my trustee sidekick David Gascon. Would mean
a lot to have you join us on our weekly
auditory journey. You're asking, what in God's name is the
Fifth Hour. I'll tell you it's a spin off of
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Speaker 2 (31:04):
It's maller. How about that to the third degree. This
is one big fan gets grilled Kobalu.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
The NBA in season tournament has been rumored for years now,
and over the weekend it became a fishial.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Oh thank god.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Now, any fan of the show knows that you aren't
a fan of this idea, But how do you think
it'll be received in terms of viewership ratings?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
So it doesn't matter what happens. The NBA will spin
this as a success. They will say was wonderful, the
international audience loved it, and it's it's takes time to
get its footing and all that. They will manipulate the
numbers one way or another. They'll say the algorithms on
Twitter in their favor or whatever. But we will find
out how enthusiastic your average NBA player is and your
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star NBA play. These guys don't like to play in
regular season games. These are regular season games. They're making
this fugase playing tournament. And if I'm not mistaken, It's
going to take place in early December, right, isn't it
the plan? I think it is. It's before Christmas, That's
when normally people start watching. But even the NFL's entered
into the fray with Christmas the last couple of years,
so I have little hope that this will be a
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success and the NBA will spin it and it is next.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
What also became official over the weekend was a new
five year contract for Greg Popovich worth eighty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Is he gonna go? Is he gonna go anywhere else?
Did he are gonna go coach the Celtics?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I don't know. Van.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
What are the chances that pop serves the entirety of
that contract?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I'm gonna go three percent, three percent Greg Popovich. His
birthday is in January. Till turned seventy five during the
next NBA season. That would mean he's gonna coach until
he's in his eightieth year on the planet. The older
you get, the herder the travel becomes. Even though the
NBA uses first class planes, trains, and autmobiles, it really
comes down to whether Victor Wemba Yama is as good
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as advertised. If he's as good as advertised the Spurs
will win. The moment they start losing, Greg Popovich is like,
well they're losing. Popovich is old and they'll blame him.
They'll be agism next.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
John Lynch made it into the Pro Football Hall of
Fame a couple of years ago, but according to Terrell Owens,
he shouldn't have made it in before cowboy safety Darren Woodson.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Ben is he right?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
So?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I worked with John Lynch's father in San Diego. He
owned a radio station there, So I'm not gonna it's
a non sequor. What does John Lynch have to do
with Darren Wotson should be in the Hall of Fame?
Is there some kind of cowboy bias? Every year there's
a cowboy that gets in the Hall of Fame. We're
supposed to believe there's anti cowboy rhetoric. Stop, how'd we do? Kobolo?
You pass? That is a what I won the game?
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I won the game. That's the way.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
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what it takes to get to the top. Probably not.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And we welcome in architestas. We have Philip, who's in
southern California. Hello Philip, welcome.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Hey, how you doing? Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
You ready to do this, Philip?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
All right? Very good? And what brings you to the show?
What are you doing up late here? Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Just you know in my recliner.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Just relaxing. There you go, Dollard and relax with me. Oh,
thank you? How dare you? That's wonderful? All right, very relaxing,
very calming. Show. Hold on a second, Philip, we have
a blind Emmett, the Seahawks man. Hello, blind Emmett.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
What's going on? Big Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Are you prepared? Blind Emmett? These are all people from
before you were alive? Are you prepared?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Depends on the sport?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Okay, all right, very good? Hold on a sec here,
put you on the air. That you on the air,
all right, Philip, you were on the air first. Do do
you want to partner up with Philip? Uh? You can?
Howard Stern? Who else do we have? Art Bell? I
don't think he's around anymore? Uh boie, that's a good one,
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babb a boy. Doctor Laura Jim Rome, Steve Harvey Ill. Okay,
very good, Jim Rome, thank you for that. Blind Who
who would you like to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Blind?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Emmy, I'll go with Justin Cooper, Oh, the Cooper Loop.
All right, very good? And going to play the Jim
I don't know, I don't know. You're the host of
the show. Whatever. I'll play the damn role of Jim.
Grab a mine. I don't care. I'll do it. I'll
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do it. I'll win the game. I mean you're about
three feet taller than Jim Rome. I think you do
have the the age advantage here. Wow, you're talking about
Philip contestant. Yes, of course, not me, right young?
Speaker 5 (36:00):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malords Mountain of Money, the
Harrison Ford edition. He turns eighty one later this week,
eighty one years old.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Eighty one.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Yes, The categories are as follows. We've got Star Wars,
the Last Crusade, Air Force one and crossing Over. Philip,
you were on the Air Force, which category would you like?
Let's do over crossing over?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
All right? And EMMITTT how about you?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Air Force one?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Air Force one? Alright?
Speaker 5 (36:28):
So Ben and Philip are up first with crossing Over Remember,
you need to say the first and last name of
the athlete in order to get points. You're gonna have
forty five seconds on the clock. Crossing over. These athletes
all crossed over into the media. Forty five seconds begin
all right.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
He played for the Cowboys. He's on Monday Night Football now,
is an analyst, Philip he was just oh god, god, alright, okay,
a single season. Sach King played for the New York Giants.
He's hosted a talk show. He's on Fox quite a bit.
Got a gap to he he yes, LT has a
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gap to.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Dollars pyramid.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
That doesn't really help. Nickname nickname the goose for the
Ravens in the two thousands, Uh all right, nicknamed Dandy
Cowboys quarterback in the seventies, eighties, TV guy Monday Night Football.
It's a party too late, shocking.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
We shouldn't en get the hundred points because like you goose,
the nickname, it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
That's that's his point. Well, no, that's his name. That's allowed.
It doesn't say no nicknames. It's you said you can't
say the guy's name. Of his name, it's not part
of his names. That's not it's g U s. A.
It's I'm not you can it's turn your mic off
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and he go eat another cookie.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
You can have that hundred points, Emmett and I are
gonna mop the floor.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah right, good luck all right with that. If you
get that, I'll make cookies.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
For everybody to all right, air Force one. These athletes
all wore air Force ones. Forty five seconds in the clock.
Begin the round mound of rebound. Yes, uh, raptors dunker
he he won? Yes, all right, let's skip over to
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uh this. This guy's got the same name as the
biblical character that uh uh, you know, save the the
the Jews going Bible? All right, power forward with the
uh Phoenix suns with Steve Nash.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I think he's also Jewish.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Yes, oh, defensive guy for the Lakers back in the eighties,
shares the same last name as me.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
What's this something Cooper? All right?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Let me we mean out of time?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
But but Lakers player nicknamed Silk.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, no chance, man, all right, So how many points
we have any you've got?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Ninety?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Okay? All right? Star Wars or last Crusade.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
All right? Uh. Quarterback for the Rams, Matthew, We're out
of time. Your trow. We're out of time. We win
the game, win the game. We're out of We didn't
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have time. We had finished. I got a golden that
was gold. You a get a tie. You got to
kiss your sister. You gotta tie.
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