May 10, 2024 • 38 mins
Bernie Fratto is in for Ben Maller and talks about the punishments handed down by the NBA for Jamal Murray & Patrick Beverley, has a discussion with Mark Medina on the NBA playoffs, What Kind of Brand New Fool Are You, What My Name, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
A basketball player by the name of Patrick Beverley, I'm
sure you know who he is, was today it was
announceday it was suspended for four games without pay for
throwing up basketball not once but twice at a fan
at a painting customer, and then Coote having an inappropriate
interaction with an ESPN producer after they lost a game
(00:56):
to the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
What the first round of the NBA player he's out
of the playoffs, right, What a dumb thing to do.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, that wouldn't have done anything like this.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Mom and Dan were here.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Wow, that's nicely done. Lorena.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That's going way to the cookie jar. That's I believe
it's to leave it to beaver. I believe that's leave
it to beaver.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Episode.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
But that nicely done. Help yourself to some cookies at
a petty cash. Let me say this, as Richard Nixon
one said, let me say this about that. So I
was at the Palace Mounts to the Palace November nineteen,
two thousand and four. We're coming up on the twenty
year anniversary, and it all started. There was bad blood
by the way, Rick Carlile was coaching Dan and Pacers
(01:38):
even then. Yes, bad blood between the two teams round
our test files Ben Wallace.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yump up up Papa.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
All of a sudden, an empty beer cup thrown by
a gentleman infanty. He became infamous in Detroit. His name
is John Green, comes flying out of the stands hits
round our test. After that, you know what happened. All
hell broke loose, and I mean all hell broke loose.
It was absolutely indescribable. And to be there in the
Urenia and see it. We were doing a radio remote.
I went out during a break to watch it. It was indescribable.
(02:05):
Coming up in the twenty year aniversary. Now, why don't
I invoke that because spontaneous combustion could happen. Patrick Beverly
throws a basketball at somebody, and fortunately, frankly, nothing really happened.
It didn't light a fuse for what could have been
a much larger fracas you know, leading up to and
(02:26):
maybe equal to what happened at the Palace at Auburn
Hills in November nineteenth, twenty oh four.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
The camera showed the ball hitting someone in.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The head, and then after BEV Pat Bev after the
ball back and had a thrown back to him, he
fired it back at the fan.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Again. Well, it's not over.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Police, by the way, have said in a news release
that the case has been forwarded due to detectives and
they're currently investigating the situation and they're taking all accusations. Seriously,
what the hell's to investigate? It's right there in video
through basketball twice. And by the way, what can someone
explain to me, what is the breakdown for the suspension?
(03:14):
He got four games?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
What is it like?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
One and a half games for the first throw, one
and a half games for the second throw, and then
one for the being rude to the ESPN reporter.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
You know, what is Adam Silver? All right? Forget Adam Silver.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Then Pat Bev goes on a podcast and he's talking
out both sides with Huha.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
He said, you know, he realizes.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
His own actions were still cool and inexcusable, but he
was called a word that he had never been called before.
Could you please maybe take a minute and break the ice, Pat,
feel free to tell us exactly what the hell that
word was, so maybe we'll get a little bit of clarity. Hello,
(04:06):
don't you know? Don't keep it a secret now. Then
Pat Bev goes on Okay, so he basically says his
actions weren't excusable, but they were justified because he'd never
been called his word before. He says, but I will
be better. I have to be better. I will be better.
That never should have happened, regardless of what was said.
(04:27):
That never should have happened, simple as that. Now, many
many years ago, Dennis Rodman that Dennis Rodman, uh, don't
for a ball out of bounds got in the way
of a cameraman and the camera gotten away to him
and Rodmin kicked the guy in another region. Rodman was
suspended twelve games. That was under a different commissioner. I
(04:48):
often wonder, I often wonder what what would Pat Bev
have been suspended if if the old commissioner was still in.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Charge right now.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
And by the way, if the cops are going to
talk to Pat Beev, it raises another question, fair question.
Remember Pat Beev wouldn't talk to the reporter, the ESPN
reporter after the game, because when he inquired as to
whether or not she subscribed to his podcast, she said no, Well,
(05:24):
what if the cops don't subscribe to Pat Beev's podcast,
you're not gonna not talk to them as well. Well,
after the game again got worse. Beverly wouldn't allow Adams
to ask him a question in a group interview. Said
it was because he didn't subscribe to his podcast. Then
he told her to get the microphone out of his
face and eventually asked her to leave the circle. Dude's
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on a minimum contract this season with the Philadelphia seventy
six ers and then the Bucks, and then he'll be
an unrestricted free agent this summer.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Gotta believe you know.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
His value is probably dropping. I would say just a
little bit. But what I don't understand is yeah, I
don't either. I don't understand the the the NBA and
their soft policy when it comes to these things. And oh,
by the way, we're gonna have Mark Medina coming up
after Eddie's update at the bottom of the ar we
(06:19):
got a lot of stuff to get to get to
the Jamal Murray situation. But well, what's interesting is that
Tim Frank, who's the NBA's senior vice president of League
Operations Communications, he said a statement that quote Patrick Beverly's
behavior towards ESPN producer Melinda Adams was an acceptable, unprofessional
(06:40):
and field to meet the standards that the NBA players
consistently meeting their interactions with the media.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Unquote, what about the fan.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You're gonna go to a game tonight, do you have
it on your binger card You're gonna have a ball
fired at your head?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Not once, but twice.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And oh, by the way, we still don't know well
what this fan allegedly said. We were told initially that
the fan, as it appeared obviously that the Bucks were
gonna lose, the fan simply said one, two, three, can kun,
which is a legendary reference, an infamous reference from Nick
Van Exel that Lakers fans will remember going back to
(07:19):
the nineteen ninety eight playoffs when the Lakers were young,
upcoming a young Kobe and the team that wasn't quite
as good as they wanted to be that they were
getting swept. I believe, I don't recall the opponent, and
Nick van Exel was in the back of the huddle,
and when the Lakers started to say one to two
to three, clap and say Lakers. They said one two three,
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and Nick van Xel said, can kun. Allegedly that's what
the fan said to Pat Beverly. Doesn't sound that egregious
to me. Maybe that's the thing. He had never been
called before. By the way, as you probably already know,
Pat Beverly has designs on being in the media. He
did some media work last summer. You don't say, yeah,
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gotta believe they're probably not gonna They're probably gonna scratch
you off the dance card this year. And oh, by
the way, for scoring on home again, and hope you are.
This isn't the first time that Pat Beverly, who you know,
this guy is not. This is not his first barbecue.
He's been in the NBA twelve years. He knows how
the game works. He just completed his twelve season, and
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he's been hit with things like this before. In twenty
twenty one, Pat bev was hit with a one game
suspension while he was playing for the Clippers, after he
shoved Chris Paul in the back when both players were
just simply walking to their respective benches during a time out.
Yeah that was a blowout. Yeah that was the fourth quarter.
That was a frustrating situation. He served that suspension. It
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was a one game suspension during the opener of the
twenty twenty one twenty two season. Well, anyway, BEV turns
thirty six. He suspended four games. I am baffled. I
don't want to make a federal case out of this,
but when you start talxing objects at paying customers, and
(09:08):
I just got done telling you what happened at the
Malice at the Palace. I was there November nineteen, two
thousand and four. We're coming up on the twenty year anniversary.
No one could have possibly saw that coming. And there
was only one humorous aspect of the entire Malice at
the Palace Ordeal two story. After run Our Test and
Company caused that melee. Well, in the locker room after
(09:32):
the game, ron Our Tests looked at Steven Jackson, his teammate,
in the face with a straight face, and said, you
think we're in trouble, go back and research. You could
Wikipedia the damn thing. The suspensions defines all the stuff
our test had to come back and do public service.
By the way, it was great. I would just say this,
(09:54):
I don't think the Indiana Pacers ever as a franchise,
have ever recovered from that incident in twenty Tell me
did they? How many championships have they won?
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Speaker 3 (10:52):
From let's go to our guest. Welcome in a gentleman.
He's with me every Saturday night at midnight, Little Medina
Magic are in a Fox Sports radio. NBA grew never
a shortage of things to talk about. Say hello to
Mark Mandina, Mark, how are you, bud?
Speaker 8 (11:06):
I am doing well? So I used the midnight segment.
Well we'll make eleven thirty segment just as epooch.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That's a big world. It must be midnight somewhere, Markta,
I gotta say, it's kind of like the midnight hour
for some of these players. I think we're gonna do
Mark is, have a little fun tonight.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Let's do a.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Little forget Ward association. Let's do a little number association.
And I'll start with the elephant in the room, the
number four, the amount of games that Pat Beverly has
been suspended. Just what the hell is your major malfunction.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Mister commissioner?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
How could you only give him four games? I was
at the mouse of the palace. It takes very little
to spark a riot.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Yeah, well, do you want me to answer this as
if I'm Adam Silver?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, ask answers if you're Mark Medina, because we'll do both.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I'll tell you what do both?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
If I'm answering at Adam Silver, It's like, look, I'm
a commissioner that has two objectives. I want to make
a lot of money for the league and a lot
of owners. That's goal number one and goal number two.
I want the players to like me. So that's that's
the whole reason here. But as you know, my reporter
(12:19):
hat I'll put on is that you know they they
equated this obviously to much less severity because there wasn't
fan behavior in the stands where he's going into the stands.
But I would argue that it's just as irresponsible just
as they're inexcusable. I thought that at least it should
be just south of the double digits suspensions, but for
(12:43):
just reeks of the slap on the wrist. And I
think on top of that, there should have been even
more games at it because of his disrespectful, unprofessional, sexist,
misogynistic what's for more adjectives there about his behavior toward
ESPN's but into Adams by refuse to answer her question
just because she doesn't subscribe to his terrible podcast. So yeah,
(13:08):
it was disappointed all the way around. The only thing
that was more disappointed is that Jamal Murray didn't get
any suspension at all, despite the fact that he threw
a heat pack onto the floor and could have caused
a lot of danger there.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, my goodness, gracious, Yes, the fan could have gotten hurt.
You never know if you throwed out the wrong guy,
he might charge the floor. It's happened before. There were
fans that came on the floor during the Mouse of
the Palace. Or we'll move on from that. I think
you've you've pretty much covered it. We understand the multa
separandi and the persona that Adam Silver wants to portray.
(13:45):
Let's go to another number, association. One hundred thousand. That's
the amount Jamal Murray has been fined. I'm glad he
wasn't suspended during the playoffs. He could have suspended him
next year. Is that adequate for what he did? Throwing
a heat pack on the floor during play And I
know nothing happened, but it could have.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
It could have happened, And I look, I do get
the sensibilities that you don't want to affect the playoff series,
but you know, why are we holding these guys INDs
there's no excuse for someone to throw a heat pack
onto the floor, and yeah, no damage was caused, but
it could have happened. And that's besides the point. The
other thing that's inexcusable. I'm not going to ever cry
(14:23):
conspiracy theories about the refs or whine and moan and say, hey,
there are twenty nine calls that the refsmissed with the
Indiana Pacers like Rick Carlisle did. But for Mark Davis
to concede that the entire officiating courage just to not
see it happened is inexcusable. I mean, come on, guys,
(14:43):
that's why you have a multi man crew because you're
looking at every single angle of the court. So yeah,
disappointing across the board here from the league and the
officials with that one.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, and you know, I know, the world is a
vexing enough place without getting too deep deep into hypotheticals,
would you imagine if cat or and you know, one
of the Timberwolves players had stepped on the heat pack
and rolled an ankle in the rock?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Yeah, I mean you talk about the delicacy of the
suspension effecting a game of a playoff series, how about
a potential injury, and again nothing happened, but it shouldn't
have to lead to that point. It's the action and
there's just no excuse for Jamal Murray to throw the
heat pack. I think the other thing is clearly Jamal
Murray didn't feel any sort of accountability here because you know,
(15:34):
first of all, he didn't talk to reporters after the game,
and then secondly when he talked today, he didn't show
any apology. And he was starting to get a little
prickly when some reporters were asking repeated questions about the
answer and say, hey, do we have any basketball questions? Well,
how about this for a basketball question. He threw something
in a basketball game that could have affected basketball players.
(15:58):
So yeah, it's just all the stuff's nonsensical here.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
And these are the headlines this week. Okay, these are
headlines not a good look for the NBA. Tay, what
else is not a good look. And I think we've
come full circle now because the coach on the floor
November nineteenth, two thousand and four, Males of the Palace,
Indiana Pacers while I was there, one Rick Carlisle. Rick
Carlisle still the coach and apparently the operative number is
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seventy eight. Seventy eight missed calls REP violations that the
Indiana Pacers have issued to the league as a complaint.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Your thoughts, mart, Well, let me be clear here for
some contexts. Most teams file, you know, calls at the
end of games. They filed in conjunction with the other teams,
which they did with the Nicks, and usually it's you know, yeah,
they're complaining about calls, but it's a series of themes
that they've gathered and they want to get feedback on,
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you know, why was this a foul, why wasn't it
and that that could help, you know, the process, the
collaboration and the communication. But yeah, he was very specific,
identifying twenty nine calls from game one, forty nine calls
from game two. I think this is obviously the playoff
game has been shipping. You know, you throw in his
comment about small market teams deserve an equal shot, but
(17:18):
I think if you talk to the rest of the Pacers,
I mean, tyres Helliburn was the first to tell you
the outcome didn't come down to the game or the
outcome didn't call come down to officiating, came down to
their play and I think with the Rick carl in particular,
he's a great coach, but if you're going to microanalyze plays,
you know, how about you know, not having Andrew and
imphart on Joan Brunson at the end of the game
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that could have made a difference. So, yeah, it's playoff gamesmanship.
I don't take anything more than that, but yeah, I
philosophically there's usually ninety nine percent of the case basketball
outcomes are decided because of basketball plays, not officiating. But
that being said, as we've discussed in this segment, that
doesn't main officials are about criticism.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Well, and I think to context your lize Rick Carlisle's
somewhat whiny comments. He talked about the NBA having it
in for small market teams and you know, okayc in
Minnesota seed to be doing just fine.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
We don't need to go down that road.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I just felt the context, and you are right, you know,
the employee video men that send these things to the
lead to keep the league on their toes, this one
just felt a little over the top, and I thought
he diminished his team's performance. And frankly, Rick Carlisle might
have made some adjustments. Somebody helped the Steam win. But
that's the story for a different day. I talked with
Mark Medina or Fox Sports Radio NBA guru. Mark, here's
(18:40):
another number. There's two numbers, four and seven, the number
of coaches the Lakers will have since Lebron got there,
and the numbers since Phil Jackson left. I am not
going to ask you to speculate who win or why.
I do have a question, though, why when NBA coaching
giants come up, is Mark Jackson never never mentioned?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Well? I think he's certainly mentioned, but he's just never
really considered. I think that, you know, the longer you're
out of the coaching game, that hurts you. I think,
you know, even when he was highed with Golden State,
there was a thought about even though yes he's a
former player, he's one of the all time great point guards,
high on the all time assistant lists, you don't have
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any coaching experience, you know, as far as being an
assistant coach. He wants to jump right into the seat.
I think the way his time in Golden State ended
also doesn't help either, because there's no doubt he'll be
the first to tell you and it's true, like he
did play a role in the Warriors dynasty with really
revamping their defense, you know, fueling a lot of confidence
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in Steph Curry and Klay Thompson for claiming them to
be the best you know, shooting back court in all time,
and that now it's an obvious statement, but when he
said it more than a decade ago, it was almost blasphemous.
And you know, he knew how to get to motivate players,
but there was a feeling that a few that he
didn't make enough adjustments. The offense was stagnant, and he
(20:08):
didn't treat certain people well, whether it was on his
coaching staff or you know, team staff members, and so
I think that those things have all contributed to him
not getting any head coaching jobs elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Well, you covered a lot of good ground there is
it seemed like it's a fad of complete Well, we
never see Mark Jackson gracing a sideline again as a
head coach.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
It's hard for me to say never say never with anything,
but I would be very surprised.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Finally, mark the last number in our number Association game
twenty four. The Celtics lose at home tonight by twenty four.
Jason Smith brought up a great point in his show.
You know what, I don't think anybody really fears the Celtics.
I think that might be a valid statement, not that
they can't come back and win the championship, but something
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is missing. And when Boston did what they did the
night at home against Cleveland, it just underscores that narrative.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Yeah, and I think that there's two troubling trends here.
The longer Chris os Porzingis is out, the more you
can't help but think, Okay, this is going to be
a serious injury. And this is what he was having
in New York and Dallas. I know that talking to him,
you know, and just seeing the availability. It's so much
improved in Washington and in Boston with just different work,
(21:25):
you know, with his trainers to improve his durability, stability,
get off excess weight, more work on his joints, all
that stuff. But the second part is they seem to
play to their competition and they don't have this killer instinct.
I think that when you look at their regular season success. Yes,
Jason Tatum, he's been a more efficient player. Jalen Brown
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same thing. They've been a better you know, pairing as
a duo. When you add in Porzingis, they've been a
really great trio. They have a great starting lineup, but
you got to have that killer instinct and you can't
play with your few in the playoffs. And I still
think the Celics beat the Cavs in this playoff series.
But the longer you have you know, a playoff series extend,
(22:09):
at some point you worry does attrition eventually catch up
to you? And I think with that, assuming they get
to the finals, which I think will happen, they could
be vulnerable to any team that they face in the West,
whether it's Denver getting their act together, or if it's
Minnesota showing they're the real deal, Oklahoma City or Dallas.
I really think that basically whoever comes out of the
(22:29):
West is going to win the NBA Finals because those
teams are really good, but also because I don't think
Boston has what it takes to beat those teams.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Mark great stuff. As always, we'll talk to you Saturday night.
There'll be plenty more news headlines and hopefully they'll be
on the floor as these playoff series takes you continue
to take shape.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
I appreciate Jah more. One more number for this Game twelve.
That means midnight on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Right, that's right, my man, Mark Medina Medina Magic on
the Bernie Fraders Show Saturday nights. Good stuff, mar Us
my man. All right, thanks Powell. That is Mark Medina,
our Fox Sports Radio guru.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I have a little fun Saturday nights on my show
because what we do is we try to observe Yogi
Berra once said you can observe a lot by watching
across this great land.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Of our sea, to Oily Sea, and.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Certainly around the globe. Well, people they do things. They
simply engage in activities which well, sometimes they're just kind
of silly and stupid, innocuous and not very dangerous. Other
times they're far more dangerous than many times they end
up breaking the law, and other times, well they can
even land you in jail. But anyway you slice it,
(23:49):
any way, you characterize it, any way you describe it,
the behaviors that these people engage in, they always leave
you scratching your head and asking yourself, what kind of.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Brand new fool of you? So what kind of brand
new fool, are you.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
This one's kind of a doozy, And it almost plays
into the roundtable discussion we had about an hour ago
because it takes place outside of a grocery store and
god only knows. Perhaps the young lady was maybe returning
her cart to the proper receptacle, if you call it that.
(24:28):
But whatever happened, she returned to find out her car
had been stolen. That in and of itself is bad enough,
but the poor young lady had left her young son
in the car. So it happened Saturday morning in front
of a bunch of people. She panicked as anybody would.
(24:52):
She was driving a silver Honda. She left the engine running.
We don't know. I don't know those details. But here's
where the story gets interesting, and it took place in Beaverton, Oregon.
So usually I have the name of the individual who
is partaken in this stupid act, but in this particular case,
(25:14):
the name has been withheld by the Beaverton Police Department.
Just as the lady was about to lose her mind,
her Honda comes speeding back around the corner. The man
who stole the car proceeded to scold the lady how
could you leave your son in a car by yourself?
Get him out of the car. And then as she
(25:35):
got her son out of the car, he took off
with the car again and stole it again. He got
away for a while, but he was eventually caught in
a nearby parking lot and the police apprehended him, at
which point he was still criticizing the woman for leaving
her son in the car. Can't make the stuff of folks.
(26:01):
The stolen Honda Pilot was finally recovered Saturday night, and
unnamed person in Beaverton, Oregon, who stole the car but
was nice enough to return the son to her mother
is in big trouble. Unknown man in Beaverton. All I
can say is, what kind of brand new fool? Are you?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
All right?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That bit now allows us to segue into our second favorite,
which we lovingly refer to as what my Name? And
of course Eddie and the crew have excelled at this game,
and so we will pick up right where we left off,
all right.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I currently hold the New York.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Knicks franchise record for most points in a single playoff game.
Eddie Garcia, what my Name?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Let's go with Patrick Ewing not a.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Bad guess, but Patrick Ewing, I hold the New York
Knicks franchise record for the most points in a playoff game. Coop,
what my name Jalen Brunson. It is, in fact Jalen Brunson.
Nicely done. Out of the gate, stay in New York.
(27:21):
This is fairly random, believe it or not. As a
Major League baseball player, I have struck out more times
than any other player in Major League baseball history.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Lorena Peterson, what my name?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Who's that one guy?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Babe ruth Hey, that's not a bad guess. He struck
out thirteen hundred times. And wow, believe it or not,
it's not him, not him, But you're not that far off,
all right, in the history of Major League Baseball. I
have struck out more times than any other player in
Major League baseball history.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
That's the department of the Dunbascy department. And it got
to see what my name did you say? It was
a met it was he's a New York player, I did.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
That's that's a fy okay. Darryl Strawberry not a.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Bad guess, Not a bad guess. Not Darryl Strawberry in
the history of Major League Baseball. I have struck out
more times than any other player in Major League Baseball history.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Coop, what my name? Uh?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
She is a New York player.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I'm gonna give all three clues so you could yell
it out. First, he had a candy bar named after him,
Babe Ruth. You know I actually give you that. You
know what, Go ahead, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Reggie Jackson, it's Reggie.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
I didn't need a job on you. Coop. There did
I figured out? He's right? It's Reggie. A plus to you, Lorana,
because what's interesting?
Speaker 6 (28:43):
How dare you give that as a hint and it
not be him? Well, the kilbar actually wasn't named after
baby He's right, Coop is right?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Coop, I'll let you tell the story since you know
the story. It has to do with the president.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, the president's daughter's name was Ruth, Baby Ruth, and she.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Was enjoying this candy bar so much they called it
a Baby Ruth. But it's sort of one of those
apocryphal urban legends. But Lorena, you get points for just
I mean, I like the way he did that. All right,
we're back in Eddie's wheelhouse. In the history of the NHL,
I've won nine Stanley Cuffs more than any other coach
(29:18):
in NHL history.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Scotti Boman, Scottie Bowman, the great Scottie Bowman, Scotty not Onalie?
Did it? My god, it's correct, It's correct. Sorry, my bad, Well, Scott.
He not only did it, Eddie, he did it with
three different teams in three different eras. And when I
(29:41):
was in Detroit there were three different goalies. That's saying something. Osgood,
Chris Osgood, Mike Vernon and Dominic hashing great stuff, great stuff. Okay,
moving right along before Doc rivers over for the Bucks.
(30:02):
I actually led the team to a thirty and thirteen
record this season. Coop, what my name?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Adrian Griffin?
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Is that Adrian griffind nice? Don coup nicely done? All right?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
This past season in the National Basketball Association, it became
the first player in NBA history to average thirty points
a game while shooting sixty percent.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
From the floor. Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I think it was Lorraine's turn.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I think it was it is your turn, Lorraine. I apologize.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Well, John James, not Lebron James, but I like the
way you're in there fighting the whaler.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Any I'm very impressed.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
That wasn't a bad guess.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
But well, not at all.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
In the history of the National Basketball Association, I became
the first player to average thirty points a game, all
shooting sixty percent for the floor for a season.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Nikola Jokicic?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Not a bad guess, so excellent guess it's actually turns
out it's it's uh, it's gianass and tenakoopo.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
All right. We just had the Kentucky Derby last week.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
And Justify won it. Oh my god, did I just
completely biff that. The question was going to be I
haven't even been drinking, folks. The question was going to
be mister Dan wanted but who now he'll have a
chance to win the Triple Crown? Who was the last
horse to win the Triple Crown? Of course it was
(31:29):
just Justify in twenty eighteen. Goodnight, folks, You've been a
great audience. I screwed that up. Let's move along, all right.
I now have hit more home runs in the history
of Major League Baseball than any other Japanese born player, Uh, Coop,
what my name?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Pechero Suzuki.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
This sets not a bad guess, not a bad It's
not him, though I've hit more home runs than any
other Japanese born Major League based I'm.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Just kidding that.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
It's way too easy of a question. Bernie.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
It's okay, you got it. You were right. I'll tell
you what. We're gonna morph into the second question. I
know it's Verena's turn. We'll come back.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Around because Lorena question, would you have got that?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Lorena? I would have gotten that.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
One.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Man, I only know.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I only know two Japanese players names.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Who's who's the other one?
Speaker 6 (32:26):
I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
One. You'll think of it. You'll think of it in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, here's the thing, though, Sho Hay had to break
somebody's record, So show hey broke my record for most
lifetime home runs hit by a Japanese born MLB player.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Lorena Peterson, what my name? Oh, I'm so bad at this.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Let's go with Mookie Bets. Good guys, Mookie Bets from
from Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
I got nothing there, folks, I got nothing.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
It's a good guess.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
It was a good guests. Randy, you're you're you're in
there fighting away. You're in there fighting away, all right,
shoe Hey broke my record for most lifetime home runs
by a Japanese born Major league player.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Eddie Garcia. What my name? He Decie Matsui, the.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Great New York Yankee and an absolute gentleman. We recently
had the NFL Draft. JJ McCarthy, a Michigan quarterback, was
drafted in the first round. But before JJ McCarthy, I'm
actually the last Michigan quarterback to be drafted in the
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first round of the NFL drafts Coop, what my name?
Speaker 6 (33:48):
That's a tough one. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
All right, problems go ahead, Eddie? Is it Jim Harbaugh
is in fact Jim Harbaugh?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
James Joseph Harball. Moving along.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
In nineteen eighty nine, I hit thirty two home runs
during my Major league baseball season, and then I proceeded
to average five point five yards per carry in the
fall played in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Lorena Peterson, what my name?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
No, can I can I make up?
Speaker 5 (34:33):
As you know?
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Yeah, there's a clue. There's a clue. What's what's my clue?
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yeah, she knows.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
He'll tell you. What how about it? Gave me the
first name. The first name is Bull. What's his last name,
Oh Bo Jackson.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeahs, Lorena, we knew you had it.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
We knew you had it. Do you remember that, Lorena?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Were you?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Were you old enough to remember that?
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Bow?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Now those commercials? No, I don't think I'm old, callout
you koop? Remember those commercials?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Bow nos t too?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, No, one's old were chronologically accomplished. Those were pretty
good commercials.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I remember remember Eddie when he uh he was fanning
playing hockey and grit.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
She goes, no, no, yeah, yeah that commercial with Bo Diddley.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Yeah, it's playing the guitar. All right.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
A couple of football ones here. This one goes back
into the cookie jar. But you'll be kicking yourself if
you don't get it. I'm actually the first ever NFL
quarterback to throw for four thousand yards in a season. Well,
in professional football, Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Wait a minute, you just threw me off with that
little professional football. Well you're talking about saying not college football?
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It's professional foot Well, there's a twist that I'll glue
it together. It's definitely professional football. I'm the first ever
quarterback to throw for four thousand yards in a season
in professional football.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
You're gonna get it.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Hold on a second, was it Jim Kelly Uh not.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Jim Kelly Moon These are a really good choice. Here's
the Actually you want to take a shot at it.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Uh Patrick Mahomes. Not Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
But I like that You're just sitting there, plugging away.
So here's where the question gets sketchy.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
I was actually thinking Jim Kelly USFL.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah, Houston Gamblers, boy.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I saw him light it up one day in the
coliseum and beyond it's actually Joe Namath.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
But see here's the kicker.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
He did it the year before the NFL and AFL
actually merged the AFL. So if I say NFL, I
screwed up. All right, I'm the first quarterback to ever
throw for five thousand yards. Let's go back to you,
Edi Garcia with my name.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
And this is an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
NFL Yeah, in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Now, yeah, hmm, let's go with Dan Marino.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
It is absolutely Dan Marino. Nicely, I was so sure
you got that.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
Why, I know the.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Lorena's gonna get this one.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Okay, we're gonna make sure of it, all right, after
all the after all these years, this will be our
final one. After all these years, I still hold the
NBA playoff record for sixty three points in a single game.
Lorena Peterson, What my.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Name Michael Jordan's Sam? Damn?
Speaker 5 (37:41):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
I don't even care if you had help for Google.
There's no rules, guy, I knew that.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
What do you mean.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
I did not mean to cast aspersions. I did not
mean to cast his versions. Lorrena, you know what, just
for the hell of it, let's have a really obscure one.
Anybody that can get that just blurted out, because you
are a true You are a true officionado. I am
(38:16):
a relatively famous, perhaps infamous NFL quarterback, and I hail
from a place called Santa Claus, Indiana.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
What my name, Jay Cutler?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
It is Jay Culor.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Nice nicely done, Eddie, nicely done.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
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A basketball player by the name of Patrick Beverley, I'm
sure you know who he is, was today it was
announceday it was suspended for four games without pay for
throwing up basketball not once but twice at a fan
at a painting customer, and then Coote having an inappropriate
interaction with an ESPN producer after they lost a game
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to the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
What the first round of the NBA player he's out
of the playoffs, right, What a dumb thing to do.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, that wouldn't have done anything like this.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Mom and Dan were here.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Wow, that's nicely done. Lorena.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That's going way to the cookie jar. That's I believe
it's to leave it to beaver. I believe that's leave
it to beaver.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Episode.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
But that nicely done. Help yourself to some cookies at
a petty cash. Let me say this, as Richard Nixon
one said, let me say this about that. So I
was at the Palace Mounts to the Palace November nineteen,
two thousand and four. We're coming up on the twenty
year anniversary, and it all started. There was bad blood
by the way, Rick Carlile was coaching Dan and Pacers
(01:38):
even then. Yes, bad blood between the two teams round
our test files Ben Wallace.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yump up up Papa.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
All of a sudden, an empty beer cup thrown by
a gentleman infanty. He became infamous in Detroit. His name
is John Green, comes flying out of the stands hits
round our test. After that, you know what happened. All
hell broke loose, and I mean all hell broke loose.
It was absolutely indescribable. And to be there in the
Urenia and see it. We were doing a radio remote.
I went out during a break to watch it. It was indescribable.
(02:05):
Coming up in the twenty year aniversary. Now, why don't
I invoke that because spontaneous combustion could happen. Patrick Beverly
throws a basketball at somebody, and fortunately, frankly, nothing really happened.
It didn't light a fuse for what could have been
a much larger fracas you know, leading up to and
(02:26):
maybe equal to what happened at the Palace at Auburn
Hills in November nineteenth, twenty oh four.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
The camera showed the ball hitting someone in.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The head, and then after BEV Pat Bev after the
ball back and had a thrown back to him, he
fired it back at the fan.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Again. Well, it's not over.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Police, by the way, have said in a news release
that the case has been forwarded due to detectives and
they're currently investigating the situation and they're taking all accusations. Seriously,
what the hell's to investigate? It's right there in video
through basketball twice. And by the way, what can someone
explain to me, what is the breakdown for the suspension?
(03:14):
He got four games?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
What is it like?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
One and a half games for the first throw, one
and a half games for the second throw, and then
one for the being rude to the ESPN reporter.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
You know, what is Adam Silver? All right? Forget Adam Silver.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Then Pat Bev goes on a podcast and he's talking
out both sides with Huha.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
He said, you know, he realizes.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
His own actions were still cool and inexcusable, but he
was called a word that he had never been called before.
Could you please maybe take a minute and break the ice, Pat,
feel free to tell us exactly what the hell that
word was, so maybe we'll get a little bit of clarity. Hello,
(04:06):
don't you know? Don't keep it a secret now. Then
Pat Bev goes on Okay, so he basically says his
actions weren't excusable, but they were justified because he'd never
been called his word before. He says, but I will
be better. I have to be better. I will be better.
That never should have happened, regardless of what was said.
(04:27):
That never should have happened, simple as that. Now, many
many years ago, Dennis Rodman that Dennis Rodman, uh, don't
for a ball out of bounds got in the way
of a cameraman and the camera gotten away to him
and Rodmin kicked the guy in another region. Rodman was
suspended twelve games. That was under a different commissioner. I
(04:48):
often wonder, I often wonder what what would Pat Bev
have been suspended if if the old commissioner was still in.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Charge right now.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
And by the way, if the cops are going to
talk to Pat Beev, it raises another question, fair question.
Remember Pat Beev wouldn't talk to the reporter, the ESPN
reporter after the game, because when he inquired as to
whether or not she subscribed to his podcast, she said no, Well,
(05:24):
what if the cops don't subscribe to Pat Beev's podcast,
you're not gonna not talk to them as well. Well,
after the game again got worse. Beverly wouldn't allow Adams
to ask him a question in a group interview. Said
it was because he didn't subscribe to his podcast. Then
he told her to get the microphone out of his
face and eventually asked her to leave the circle. Dude's
(05:46):
on a minimum contract this season with the Philadelphia seventy
six ers and then the Bucks, and then he'll be
an unrestricted free agent this summer.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Gotta believe you know.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
His value is probably dropping. I would say just a
little bit. But what I don't understand is yeah, I
don't either. I don't understand the the the NBA and
their soft policy when it comes to these things. And oh,
by the way, we're gonna have Mark Medina coming up
after Eddie's update at the bottom of the ar we
(06:19):
got a lot of stuff to get to get to
the Jamal Murray situation. But well, what's interesting is that
Tim Frank, who's the NBA's senior vice president of League
Operations Communications, he said a statement that quote Patrick Beverly's
behavior towards ESPN producer Melinda Adams was an acceptable, unprofessional
(06:40):
and field to meet the standards that the NBA players
consistently meeting their interactions with the media.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Unquote, what about the fan.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
You're gonna go to a game tonight, do you have
it on your binger card You're gonna have a ball
fired at your head?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Not once, but twice.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
And oh, by the way, we still don't know well
what this fan allegedly said. We were told initially that
the fan, as it appeared obviously that the Bucks were
gonna lose, the fan simply said one, two, three, can kun,
which is a legendary reference, an infamous reference from Nick
Van Exel that Lakers fans will remember going back to
(07:19):
the nineteen ninety eight playoffs when the Lakers were young,
upcoming a young Kobe and the team that wasn't quite
as good as they wanted to be that they were
getting swept. I believe, I don't recall the opponent, and
Nick van Exel was in the back of the huddle,
and when the Lakers started to say one to two
to three, clap and say Lakers. They said one two three,
(07:41):
and Nick van Xel said, can kun. Allegedly that's what
the fan said to Pat Beverly. Doesn't sound that egregious
to me. Maybe that's the thing. He had never been
called before. By the way, as you probably already know,
Pat Beverly has designs on being in the media. He
did some media work last summer. You don't say, yeah,
(08:03):
gotta believe they're probably not gonna They're probably gonna scratch
you off the dance card this year. And oh, by
the way, for scoring on home again, and hope you are.
This isn't the first time that Pat Beverly, who you know,
this guy is not. This is not his first barbecue.
He's been in the NBA twelve years. He knows how
the game works. He just completed his twelve season, and
(08:24):
he's been hit with things like this before. In twenty
twenty one, Pat bev was hit with a one game
suspension while he was playing for the Clippers, after he
shoved Chris Paul in the back when both players were
just simply walking to their respective benches during a time out.
Yeah that was a blowout. Yeah that was the fourth quarter.
That was a frustrating situation. He served that suspension. It
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was a one game suspension during the opener of the
twenty twenty one twenty two season. Well, anyway, BEV turns
thirty six. He suspended four games. I am baffled. I
don't want to make a federal case out of this,
but when you start talxing objects at paying customers, and
(09:08):
I just got done telling you what happened at the
Malice at the Palace. I was there November nineteen, two
thousand and four. We're coming up on the twenty year anniversary.
No one could have possibly saw that coming. And there
was only one humorous aspect of the entire Malice at
the Palace Ordeal two story. After run Our Test and
Company caused that melee. Well, in the locker room after
(09:32):
the game, ron Our Tests looked at Steven Jackson, his teammate,
in the face with a straight face, and said, you
think we're in trouble, go back and research. You could
Wikipedia the damn thing. The suspensions defines all the stuff
our test had to come back and do public service.
By the way, it was great. I would just say this,
(09:54):
I don't think the Indiana Pacers ever as a franchise,
have ever recovered from that incident in twenty Tell me
did they? How many championships have they won?
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Speaker 8 (11:06):
I am doing well? So I used the midnight segment.
Well we'll make eleven thirty segment just as epooch.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
That's a big world. It must be midnight somewhere, Markta,
I gotta say, it's kind of like the midnight hour
for some of these players. I think we're gonna do
Mark is, have a little fun tonight.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Let's do a.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Little forget Ward association. Let's do a little number association.
And I'll start with the elephant in the room, the
number four, the amount of games that Pat Beverly has
been suspended. Just what the hell is your major malfunction.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Mister commissioner?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
How could you only give him four games? I was
at the mouse of the palace. It takes very little
to spark a riot.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Yeah, well, do you want me to answer this as
if I'm Adam Silver?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, ask answers if you're Mark Medina, because we'll do both.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
I'll tell you what do both?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
If I'm answering at Adam Silver, It's like, look, I'm
a commissioner that has two objectives. I want to make
a lot of money for the league and a lot
of owners. That's goal number one and goal number two.
I want the players to like me. So that's that's
the whole reason here. But as you know, my reporter
(12:19):
hat I'll put on is that you know they they
equated this obviously to much less severity because there wasn't
fan behavior in the stands where he's going into the stands.
But I would argue that it's just as irresponsible just
as they're inexcusable. I thought that at least it should
be just south of the double digits suspensions, but for
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just reeks of the slap on the wrist. And I
think on top of that, there should have been even
more games at it because of his disrespectful, unprofessional, sexist,
misogynistic what's for more adjectives there about his behavior toward
ESPN's but into Adams by refuse to answer her question
just because she doesn't subscribe to his terrible podcast. So yeah,
(13:08):
it was disappointed all the way around. The only thing
that was more disappointed is that Jamal Murray didn't get
any suspension at all, despite the fact that he threw
a heat pack onto the floor and could have caused
a lot of danger there.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, my goodness, gracious, Yes, the fan could have gotten hurt.
You never know if you throwed out the wrong guy,
he might charge the floor. It's happened before. There were
fans that came on the floor during the Mouse of
the Palace. Or we'll move on from that. I think
you've you've pretty much covered it. We understand the multa
separandi and the persona that Adam Silver wants to portray.
(13:45):
Let's go to another number, association. One hundred thousand. That's
the amount Jamal Murray has been fined. I'm glad he
wasn't suspended during the playoffs. He could have suspended him
next year. Is that adequate for what he did? Throwing
a heat pack on the floor during play And I
know nothing happened, but it could have.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
It could have happened, And I look, I do get
the sensibilities that you don't want to affect the playoff series,
but you know, why are we holding these guys INDs
there's no excuse for someone to throw a heat pack
onto the floor, and yeah, no damage was caused, but
it could have happened. And that's besides the point. The
other thing that's inexcusable. I'm not going to ever cry
(14:23):
conspiracy theories about the refs or whine and moan and say, hey,
there are twenty nine calls that the refsmissed with the
Indiana Pacers like Rick Carlisle did. But for Mark Davis
to concede that the entire officiating courage just to not
see it happened is inexcusable. I mean, come on, guys,
(14:43):
that's why you have a multi man crew because you're
looking at every single angle of the court. So yeah,
disappointing across the board here from the league and the
officials with that one.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, and you know, I know, the world is a
vexing enough place without getting too deep deep into hypotheticals,
would you imagine if cat or and you know, one
of the Timberwolves players had stepped on the heat pack
and rolled an ankle in the rock?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Yeah, I mean you talk about the delicacy of the
suspension effecting a game of a playoff series, how about
a potential injury, and again nothing happened, but it shouldn't
have to lead to that point. It's the action and
there's just no excuse for Jamal Murray to throw the
heat pack. I think the other thing is clearly Jamal
Murray didn't feel any sort of accountability here because you know,
(15:34):
first of all, he didn't talk to reporters after the game,
and then secondly when he talked today, he didn't show
any apology. And he was starting to get a little
prickly when some reporters were asking repeated questions about the
answer and say, hey, do we have any basketball questions? Well,
how about this for a basketball question. He threw something
in a basketball game that could have affected basketball players.
(15:58):
So yeah, it's just all the stuff's nonsensical here.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
And these are the headlines this week. Okay, these are
headlines not a good look for the NBA. Tay, what
else is not a good look. And I think we've
come full circle now because the coach on the floor
November nineteenth, two thousand and four, Males of the Palace,
Indiana Pacers while I was there, one Rick Carlisle. Rick
Carlisle still the coach and apparently the operative number is
(16:25):
seventy eight. Seventy eight missed calls REP violations that the
Indiana Pacers have issued to the league as a complaint.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Your thoughts, mart, Well, let me be clear here for
some contexts. Most teams file, you know, calls at the
end of games. They filed in conjunction with the other teams,
which they did with the Nicks, and usually it's you know, yeah,
they're complaining about calls, but it's a series of themes
that they've gathered and they want to get feedback on,
(16:54):
you know, why was this a foul, why wasn't it
and that that could help, you know, the process, the
collaboration and the communication. But yeah, he was very specific,
identifying twenty nine calls from game one, forty nine calls
from game two. I think this is obviously the playoff
game has been shipping. You know, you throw in his
comment about small market teams deserve an equal shot, but
(17:18):
I think if you talk to the rest of the Pacers,
I mean, tyres Helliburn was the first to tell you
the outcome didn't come down to the game or the
outcome didn't call come down to officiating, came down to
their play and I think with the Rick carl in particular,
he's a great coach, but if you're going to microanalyze plays,
you know, how about you know, not having Andrew and
imphart on Joan Brunson at the end of the game
(17:41):
that could have made a difference. So, yeah, it's playoff gamesmanship.
I don't take anything more than that, but yeah, I
philosophically there's usually ninety nine percent of the case basketball
outcomes are decided because of basketball plays, not officiating. But
that being said, as we've discussed in this segment, that
doesn't main officials are about criticism.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Well, and I think to context your lize Rick Carlisle's
somewhat whiny comments. He talked about the NBA having it
in for small market teams and you know, okayc in
Minnesota seed to be doing just fine.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
We don't need to go down that road.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I just felt the context, and you are right, you know,
the employee video men that send these things to the
lead to keep the league on their toes, this one
just felt a little over the top, and I thought
he diminished his team's performance. And frankly, Rick Carlisle might
have made some adjustments. Somebody helped the Steam win. But
that's the story for a different day. I talked with
Mark Medina or Fox Sports Radio NBA guru. Mark, here's
(18:40):
another number. There's two numbers, four and seven, the number
of coaches the Lakers will have since Lebron got there,
and the numbers since Phil Jackson left. I am not
going to ask you to speculate who win or why.
I do have a question, though, why when NBA coaching
giants come up, is Mark Jackson never never mentioned?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 8 (19:01):
Well? I think he's certainly mentioned, but he's just never
really considered. I think that, you know, the longer you're
out of the coaching game, that hurts you. I think,
you know, even when he was highed with Golden State,
there was a thought about even though yes he's a
former player, he's one of the all time great point guards,
high on the all time assistant lists, you don't have
(19:22):
any coaching experience, you know, as far as being an
assistant coach. He wants to jump right into the seat.
I think the way his time in Golden State ended
also doesn't help either, because there's no doubt he'll be
the first to tell you and it's true, like he
did play a role in the Warriors dynasty with really
revamping their defense, you know, fueling a lot of confidence
(19:44):
in Steph Curry and Klay Thompson for claiming them to
be the best you know, shooting back court in all time,
and that now it's an obvious statement, but when he
said it more than a decade ago, it was almost blasphemous.
And you know, he knew how to get to motivate players,
but there was a feeling that a few that he
didn't make enough adjustments. The offense was stagnant, and he
(20:08):
didn't treat certain people well, whether it was on his
coaching staff or you know, team staff members, and so
I think that those things have all contributed to him
not getting any head coaching jobs elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Well, you covered a lot of good ground there is
it seemed like it's a fad of complete Well, we
never see Mark Jackson gracing a sideline again as a
head coach.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
It's hard for me to say never say never with anything,
but I would be very surprised.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Finally, mark the last number in our number Association game
twenty four. The Celtics lose at home tonight by twenty four.
Jason Smith brought up a great point in his show.
You know what, I don't think anybody really fears the Celtics.
I think that might be a valid statement, not that
they can't come back and win the championship, but something
(20:58):
is missing. And when Boston did what they did the
night at home against Cleveland, it just underscores that narrative.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
Yeah, and I think that there's two troubling trends here.
The longer Chris os Porzingis is out, the more you
can't help but think, Okay, this is going to be
a serious injury. And this is what he was having
in New York and Dallas. I know that talking to him,
you know, and just seeing the availability. It's so much
improved in Washington and in Boston with just different work,
(21:25):
you know, with his trainers to improve his durability, stability,
get off excess weight, more work on his joints, all
that stuff. But the second part is they seem to
play to their competition and they don't have this killer instinct.
I think that when you look at their regular season success. Yes,
Jason Tatum, he's been a more efficient player. Jalen Brown
(21:47):
same thing. They've been a better you know, pairing as
a duo. When you add in Porzingis, they've been a
really great trio. They have a great starting lineup, but
you got to have that killer instinct and you can't
play with your few in the playoffs. And I still
think the Celics beat the Cavs in this playoff series.
But the longer you have you know, a playoff series extend,
(22:09):
at some point you worry does attrition eventually catch up
to you? And I think with that, assuming they get
to the finals, which I think will happen, they could
be vulnerable to any team that they face in the West,
whether it's Denver getting their act together, or if it's
Minnesota showing they're the real deal, Oklahoma City or Dallas.
I really think that basically whoever comes out of the
(22:29):
West is going to win the NBA Finals because those
teams are really good, but also because I don't think
Boston has what it takes to beat those teams.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Mark great stuff. As always, we'll talk to you Saturday night.
There'll be plenty more news headlines and hopefully they'll be
on the floor as these playoff series takes you continue
to take shape.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
I appreciate Jah more. One more number for this Game twelve.
That means midnight on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Right, that's right, my man, Mark Medina Medina Magic on
the Bernie Fraders Show Saturday nights. Good stuff, mar Us
my man. All right, thanks Powell. That is Mark Medina,
our Fox Sports Radio guru.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I have a little fun Saturday nights on my show
because what we do is we try to observe Yogi
Berra once said you can observe a lot by watching
across this great land.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Of our sea, to Oily Sea, and.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Certainly around the globe. Well, people they do things. They
simply engage in activities which well, sometimes they're just kind
of silly and stupid, innocuous and not very dangerous. Other
times they're far more dangerous than many times they end
up breaking the law, and other times, well they can
even land you in jail. But anyway you slice it,
(23:49):
any way, you characterize it, any way you describe it,
the behaviors that these people engage in, they always leave
you scratching your head and asking yourself, what kind of.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Brand new fool of you? So what kind of brand
new fool, are you.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
This one's kind of a doozy, And it almost plays
into the roundtable discussion we had about an hour ago
because it takes place outside of a grocery store and
god only knows. Perhaps the young lady was maybe returning
her cart to the proper receptacle, if you call it that.
(24:28):
But whatever happened, she returned to find out her car
had been stolen. That in and of itself is bad enough,
but the poor young lady had left her young son
in the car. So it happened Saturday morning in front
of a bunch of people. She panicked as anybody would.
(24:52):
She was driving a silver Honda. She left the engine running.
We don't know. I don't know those details. But here's
where the story gets interesting, and it took place in Beaverton, Oregon.
So usually I have the name of the individual who
is partaken in this stupid act, but in this particular case,
(25:14):
the name has been withheld by the Beaverton Police Department.
Just as the lady was about to lose her mind,
her Honda comes speeding back around the corner. The man
who stole the car proceeded to scold the lady how
could you leave your son in a car by yourself?
Get him out of the car. And then as she
(25:35):
got her son out of the car, he took off
with the car again and stole it again. He got
away for a while, but he was eventually caught in
a nearby parking lot and the police apprehended him, at
which point he was still criticizing the woman for leaving
her son in the car. Can't make the stuff of folks.
(26:01):
The stolen Honda Pilot was finally recovered Saturday night, and
unnamed person in Beaverton, Oregon, who stole the car but
was nice enough to return the son to her mother
is in big trouble. Unknown man in Beaverton. All I
can say is, what kind of brand new fool? Are you?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
All right?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That bit now allows us to segue into our second favorite,
which we lovingly refer to as what my Name? And
of course Eddie and the crew have excelled at this game,
and so we will pick up right where we left off,
all right.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I currently hold the New York.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Knicks franchise record for most points in a single playoff game.
Eddie Garcia, what my Name?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Let's go with Patrick Ewing not a.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Bad guess, but Patrick Ewing, I hold the New York
Knicks franchise record for the most points in a playoff game. Coop,
what my name Jalen Brunson. It is, in fact Jalen Brunson.
Nicely done. Out of the gate, stay in New York.
(27:21):
This is fairly random, believe it or not. As a
Major League baseball player, I have struck out more times
than any other player in Major League baseball history.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Lorena Peterson, what my name?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Who's that one guy?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Babe ruth Hey, that's not a bad guess. He struck
out thirteen hundred times. And wow, believe it or not,
it's not him, not him, But you're not that far off,
all right, in the history of Major League Baseball. I
have struck out more times than any other player in
Major League baseball history.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
That's the department of the Dunbascy department. And it got
to see what my name did you say? It was
a met it was he's a New York player, I did.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
That's that's a fy okay. Darryl Strawberry not a.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Bad guess, Not a bad guess. Not Darryl Strawberry in
the history of Major League Baseball. I have struck out
more times than any other player in Major League Baseball history.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Coop, what my name? Uh?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
She is a New York player.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I'm gonna give all three clues so you could yell
it out. First, he had a candy bar named after him,
Babe Ruth. You know I actually give you that. You
know what, Go ahead, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Reggie Jackson, it's Reggie.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
I didn't need a job on you. Coop. There did
I figured out? He's right? It's Reggie. A plus to you, Lorana,
because what's interesting?
Speaker 6 (28:43):
How dare you give that as a hint and it
not be him? Well, the kilbar actually wasn't named after
baby He's right, Coop is right?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Coop, I'll let you tell the story since you know
the story. It has to do with the president.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, the president's daughter's name was Ruth, Baby Ruth, and she.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Was enjoying this candy bar so much they called it
a Baby Ruth. But it's sort of one of those
apocryphal urban legends. But Lorena, you get points for just
I mean, I like the way he did that. All right,
we're back in Eddie's wheelhouse. In the history of the NHL,
I've won nine Stanley Cuffs more than any other coach
(29:18):
in NHL history.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Scotti Boman, Scottie Bowman, the great Scottie Bowman, Scotty not Onalie?
Did it? My god, it's correct, It's correct. Sorry, my bad, Well, Scott.
He not only did it, Eddie, he did it with
three different teams in three different eras. And when I
(29:41):
was in Detroit there were three different goalies. That's saying something. Osgood,
Chris Osgood, Mike Vernon and Dominic hashing great stuff, great stuff. Okay,
moving right along before Doc rivers over for the Bucks.
(30:02):
I actually led the team to a thirty and thirteen
record this season. Coop, what my name?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
What's his name?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Adrian Griffin?
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Is that Adrian griffind nice? Don coup nicely done? All right?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
This past season in the National Basketball Association, it became
the first player in NBA history to average thirty points
a game while shooting sixty percent.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
From the floor. Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I think it was Lorraine's turn.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I think it was it is your turn, Lorraine. I apologize.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Well, John James, not Lebron James, but I like the
way you're in there fighting the whaler.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Any I'm very impressed.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
That wasn't a bad guess.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
But well, not at all.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
In the history of the National Basketball Association, I became
the first player to average thirty points a game, all
shooting sixty percent for the floor for a season.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Nikola Jokicic?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Not a bad guess, so excellent guess it's actually turns
out it's it's uh, it's gianass and tenakoopo.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
All right. We just had the Kentucky Derby last week.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
And Justify won it. Oh my god, did I just
completely biff that. The question was going to be I
haven't even been drinking, folks. The question was going to
be mister Dan wanted but who now he'll have a
chance to win the Triple Crown? Who was the last
horse to win the Triple Crown? Of course it was
(31:29):
just Justify in twenty eighteen. Goodnight, folks, You've been a
great audience. I screwed that up. Let's move along, all right.
I now have hit more home runs in the history
of Major League Baseball than any other Japanese born player, Uh, Coop,
what my name?
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Pechero Suzuki.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
This sets not a bad guess, not a bad It's
not him, though I've hit more home runs than any
other Japanese born Major League based I'm.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Just kidding that.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
It's way too easy of a question. Bernie.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
It's okay, you got it. You were right. I'll tell
you what. We're gonna morph into the second question. I
know it's Verena's turn. We'll come back.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Around because Lorena question, would you have got that?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Lorena? I would have gotten that.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
One.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Man, I only know.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I only know two Japanese players names.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Who's who's the other one?
Speaker 6 (32:26):
I don't remember.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
One. You'll think of it. You'll think of it in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, here's the thing, though, Sho Hay had to break
somebody's record, So show hey broke my record for most
lifetime home runs hit by a Japanese born MLB player.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Lorena Peterson, what my name? Oh, I'm so bad at this.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
Let's go with Mookie Bets. Good guys, Mookie Bets from
from Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
I got nothing there, folks, I got nothing.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
It's a good guess.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
It was a good guests. Randy, you're you're you're in
there fighting away. You're in there fighting away, all right,
shoe Hey broke my record for most lifetime home runs
by a Japanese born Major league player.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Eddie Garcia. What my name? He Decie Matsui, the.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Great New York Yankee and an absolute gentleman. We recently
had the NFL Draft. JJ McCarthy, a Michigan quarterback, was
drafted in the first round. But before JJ McCarthy, I'm
actually the last Michigan quarterback to be drafted in the
(33:43):
first round of the NFL drafts Coop, what my name?
Speaker 6 (33:48):
That's a tough one. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
All right, problems go ahead, Eddie? Is it Jim Harbaugh
is in fact Jim Harbaugh?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
James Joseph Harball. Moving along.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
In nineteen eighty nine, I hit thirty two home runs
during my Major league baseball season, and then I proceeded
to average five point five yards per carry in the
fall played in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Lorena Peterson, what my name?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
No, can I can I make up?
Speaker 5 (34:33):
As you know?
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Yeah, there's a clue. There's a clue. What's what's my clue?
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yeah, she knows.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
He'll tell you. What how about it? Gave me the
first name. The first name is Bull. What's his last name,
Oh Bo Jackson.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeahs, Lorena, we knew you had it.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
We knew you had it. Do you remember that, Lorena?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Were you?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Were you old enough to remember that?
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Bow?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Now those commercials? No, I don't think I'm old, callout
you koop? Remember those commercials?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Bow nos t too?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, No, one's old were chronologically accomplished. Those were pretty
good commercials.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
I remember remember Eddie when he uh he was fanning
playing hockey and grit.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
She goes, no, no, yeah, yeah that commercial with Bo Diddley.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Yeah, it's playing the guitar. All right.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
A couple of football ones here. This one goes back
into the cookie jar. But you'll be kicking yourself if
you don't get it. I'm actually the first ever NFL
quarterback to throw for four thousand yards in a season. Well,
in professional football, Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Wait a minute, you just threw me off with that
little professional football. Well you're talking about saying not college football?
Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It's professional foot Well, there's a twist that I'll glue
it together. It's definitely professional football. I'm the first ever
quarterback to throw for four thousand yards in a season
in professional football.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
You're gonna get it.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Hold on a second, was it Jim Kelly Uh not.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Jim Kelly Moon These are a really good choice. Here's
the Actually you want to take a shot at it.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Uh Patrick Mahomes. Not Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
But I like that You're just sitting there, plugging away.
So here's where the question gets sketchy.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
I was actually thinking Jim Kelly USFL.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah, Houston Gamblers, boy.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
I saw him light it up one day in the
coliseum and beyond it's actually Joe Namath.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
But see here's the kicker.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
He did it the year before the NFL and AFL
actually merged the AFL. So if I say NFL, I
screwed up. All right, I'm the first quarterback to ever
throw for five thousand yards. Let's go back to you,
Edi Garcia with my name.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
And this is an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
NFL Yeah, in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Now, yeah, hmm, let's go with Dan Marino.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
It is absolutely Dan Marino. Nicely, I was so sure
you got that.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
Why, I know the.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Lorena's gonna get this one.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Okay, we're gonna make sure of it, all right, after
all the after all these years, this will be our
final one. After all these years, I still hold the
NBA playoff record for sixty three points in a single game.
Lorena Peterson, What my.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Name Michael Jordan's Sam? Damn?
Speaker 5 (37:41):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
I don't even care if you had help for Google.
There's no rules, guy, I knew that.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
What do you mean.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
I did not mean to cast aspersions. I did not
mean to cast his versions. Lorrena, you know what, just
for the hell of it, let's have a really obscure one.
Anybody that can get that just blurted out, because you
are a true You are a true officionado. I am
(38:16):
a relatively famous, perhaps infamous NFL quarterback, and I hail
from a place called Santa Claus, Indiana.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
What my name, Jay Cutler?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
It is Jay Culor.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Nice nicely done, Eddie, nicely done.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Another rising edition of What kind of brand new fool You?
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