May 14, 2024 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about the Mavericks losing at home and letting the Thunder even the series at 2-2, the Celtics victory over the Cavaliers to secure a 3-1 lead, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Cate Blanchett Edition, and more!
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But the Mallard meet and greet and why I was
away from my post for an entire week of radio shows.
But we are back at it again, and nobody wants
to hear about that right now, give me the sports
I need the sports tanks. I need my sports taks,
all right. So yes, even Lorena, who couldn't tell you
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give me sports takes.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
She gave me a pep talk before Is that right?
Pep talk before the show?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Well, here we are.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Our lead this hour from the Western Conference of the
Basketball Pro Bouncy Ball playoffs. There we head to Big
d and that was the location the MAVs and the
Thunder And I've never wanted to see the Thunder do
well because I missed the Sonics the SuperSonics, and they're
the old SuperSonics. Some oil Baron bought them and moved
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them to Oka se But that that aside. That was
the matchup game four Dallas looking to take a three
games to one lead. That was the setup.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Did you watch? Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Probably not, but I watched because I have no life.
I'm back to having no life. I had a life
last week. I'm back to having no life. So I
was watching and former Clipper Shay gelgis Alexander thirty four
points and Oklahoma puts Dallas in the dust ball one
hundred to ninety six to the final and they have
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evened up that semi final Western Conference Playoff series two
to chet Holmgren, who I'm surprised he hasn't broken yet
looking at his body. Chet Holmgren and loud Dort, the
Great loud Dort, each hit big three point shots late
in that game in the wins. So the teams end
up splitting a pair on each other's home court Game
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five on hump Day back in Oklahoma City. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. Better stories in losing
locker room. So that's where we will begin. And the question,
as we discuss the question is what the heck went
wrong for the Mavericks in this loss at home? They
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were up most of the game. They had control, not
control of the game, but they had a decent lead.
They kept the the thunder at bay until the late
stages of the fourth quarter. So I've got earth, porky
pig and only fans, and we will combine all of
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these things together and we are going to make a rocket,
which is what many of the Dallas players were riding
a little more of a comet, the vomit comet there
late in that game. And for some of these guys,
the entire game. So a the Mavericks. You don't need
me to tell you that if you're someone who cares
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about that team, they suffered a power outage in this game.
Kyrie Irving and Luca the two big headliners. They get
paid a lot of money to dribble dribbled dribble the basketball.
So these two guys sucked at a time. You cannot
suck the entire game. The entire game. Now, if you're
a box score reader said, well, what are you talking about, Mallard,
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You didn't play in the NBA. Luc don Chick had
a triple double. Well, I'm not a stat humper. So
if you're a stat humper, you're excited about that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Wee what p dam knew? He had a triple double.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Lot of emptiness, a lot of emptiness in that triple
double for Luca. He shot thirty percent, for example, from
the fourth third percent. Now, if you make three out
of every ten shots, that ain'try. If you're a baseball player,
a Hall of famer. If you're a basketball player and
you make three out of every ten shots, you've done
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something terribly wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
And that was Luca in this game. And not one,
not two, not three, not four, not five.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
How about seven turnovers, seven of them and down the stretch,
this is when the thing fell apart, came a part
of the seams for Dallas. The Mavericks had a six
point lead. Now that's not a massive lead. That's not
a huge lead, six point leader. It's eighty six to
eighty at the five thirty mark of the fourth quarter.
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Closed the game out right and go back and forth
the end of the game. The final five and a
half minutes, Luca and Kyrie scored one total point. The
final five and a half minutes up six was zero
for four combined oh for four from the floor, and
Kyrie Irving in particular, played like his worldview on the earth.
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Kyrie played like he thinks the earth is. It was
a World b flat for Kyrie Irving there a clunker,
a dreadful performance. Irving passive, not aggressive, not passive aggressive,
he was just passive. And he finished the game with
nine points. Took eleven shots, only made four of them.
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And Genghis Alexander, the former Clipper, was good. He was
the top player on the court to close out the game.
He had eight points in that stretch, while Kyrie and
Luca combined for one points. Now, speaking of trust, you're
gonna leave the Dallas OKC series, We're gonna put off
the side because the other series in the Western Conference,
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the other side of the Western bracket. Now, when I
was last year, Minnesota was kicking ass. Minnesota was doing
very well, and then they went out on their home
court and gagged. They channeled some of the great debacles
in Timberwolf history there as they lose at home back
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to back and really not even that close to Denver. Now,
I bring this up because Michael Malone, that's a told
the basketball coach, Michael Malone made a disc track of
his own team, and he had DeAndre Jordan who was
like a like a like a trophy kind of like
a mascot for the Nuggets at this point, DeAndre Jordan
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like he passed it out to the team, but the
Nuggets Michael Malone signed his name on it, and it
was a you know, all the rage to distrack and
it had people like Stephen A. Smith and Arles Barkley
and other television pundits who ripped the Nuggets and slammed
them after the first two games. And then Denver came
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back and won. So the question they won the last two.
So the question is how much of the Nuggets. How
much of the Nuggets media disc track from Michael Malone
fueled the Kohli Jokic and the comeback against Minnesota. So
I've seen a lot of things written about this. I've
seen a lot of things said about this the last
couple of days.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Here. This makes for a good story.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It also makes it I'm gonna go zero percent, zero
percent rights how much of the Nuggets rallying back was
because of a clip that was passed around on people's
phones of national punnits ripping the Denver basketball team. I
go zero percent. You gotta be the joker if you
think otherwise. Here now, Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic were
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able to flip the script with a third wing that
came on here. They held them out. But to me,
that's not the story. The story here, and I have
a theory that Anthony Edwards Aunt Edwards, the star who
had a massive stat line in the last game, but
his teammates in Minnesota. You watched the way they played
the last couple of games of this series, and it
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was back to timber puffs, Timber goes to the basketball
team there.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They were caught nibbling.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And there's an old line that's been passed from generation
to generation in sports.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
It's don't eat the cheese. You've heard it before, don't
eat the cheese. Minnesota, it was like porky pig gobbling.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They weren't just nibbling, they were gobbling the rat poison
is what they were doing. They were celebrated the arrival
of the Minnesota basketball team there for their play, and
they got caught staring right at their own reflection in
the mirror.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Boy, do I look good? Look at me in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And then they went out and got punched by Denver
in those last couple of games. So now that's the
best of three situation, and who has the road court
advantage where that would be Minnesota in the next game,
they have the road court advantage.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Now, while we're at it, we're gonna move.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Away from pro bouncy ball because there's a story that
I was observing while I was making my way back
to the West coast there and we're gonna spend off
to Cincinnati NFL style here to Cincinnati, and I was
reading on the plane because I had a lot of
time to kill. I was reading a story about Joe Burrow.
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That's a quarterback for the Cincinnati team. Joe Burrow has
spent the past several months since his season ended prematurely
because of injury. Joe Burrow spent several months focusing on
weight training and nutrition. And this is a story that
was being written. That it was written, I read it,
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and as a result, he is said to be quote
definitely bigger this offseason. So Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow getting
stronger as he works on his chiseled body this offseason.
Is that a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
So I'll go first. I'm gonna put this in the
no deal with a shoulder shrug. So not only is
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it no deal, but you shrug your shoulders. That's what
I'm doing with that. And we still have by my count,
we still have roughly two months before training camp opens
up in mid July. So this story is it's premature.
That's the first thought I have. Secondly, the other thought
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is it's a spring training like storyline that we get
off and in baseball, one of those annoying, meaningless rituals
associated with the off season.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
But no, typically we don't get this until the start
of training camp.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
But maybe I'm wrong on this, but as a pro athlete,
you're kind of like an OnlyFans model or a hooker.
You're selling your body. That's no one thinks you that's smart. Yeah,
you're an athlete. They think of you as someone that
has great physical attributes, right, just in general. So Joe Burrow,
nobody's gonna say Joe Burrow is going to be a mensa.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
He's not. He happens to be good at throwing a
football around. So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And the professional athlete, you sell your body for money,
and some people love the applause, but most just love
the money. The expectation is, and this is just across
the board, is that you will stay in shape, you'll
be in top physical condition and you don't have to
be Chisen out of stone. But you can't be a
big fat you know, blob, can't be that. Now, when
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you do radio, you can be whatever you want. As
long as the pipes are working, you're good to go.
But we like Joe Burt. We do like Joe Burr.
I just loathe these type of stories. And I saw
this and I kept realize that, well, it's got to
be a gag this game.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know, its May. What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It's a May story, But it's usually a story we
get in July when you've got to fill time before
exhibition games happen and people start getting hurt. But if
plays well, I'll tell you how this can play out.
If Joe Burrow goes out there and plays well, he
will be celebrated after the fact for this. He'll be like, oh, see,
the reason Burrow's playing well is because he worked out
and got in shape and blah blah. He's bigger and
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stronger and faster and all that. Now, if he goes
out and struggles, he should have. He spent too much
time in the weight room, he's too strong, he overdid it.
So guarantee that's how this can play out.
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pretty neat. So our lead this hour we go to
pro bouncy ball in Cleveland, the Eastern Conference, the Early
Fight on the fight card there the Early Fight and
that was the site Cleveland of the Celtics and the Cavaliers.
Did you watch? Were you enthralled with this game? Jason
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Tatum was there. He didn't have a great shooting performance
in the second half, but he did finish with thirty
three points and that was enough to help Boston beat
the severely shorthanded Cleveland basketball squad one oh nine to
one O two the final. And that means now that
the Seas have taken a three to one lead in
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the Eastern Conference semi finals, which if you look at
the comps, they tell you what has happened, not what's
going to happen. Ninety five percent of the time a
team that's up three to one, ends up winning the series.
Jalen Brown, who was much better down the stretch and
game twenty seven points for the Celtics, who can close
out Cleveland and turn out the last the parties over
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if they can win Game five. The problem is that's
at the arena there in Boston, the Garden on Wednesday night,
and the Celtics, even though they have home court advantage
and play all that well at home, so the Cavs
are on the brink of elimination. Let us discuss the
question your thoughts on the Celtics and their victory over.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
The Cadavers in this game. So I've got.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Jukebox, panhandling, and Boogeyman, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a headache,
a Migrain headache, which is what the Cavaliers had at
the end of this game because the way the Celtics played.
My first thought here, the way the Celtics played that
was a game where if some and butts were candy
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and nuts and Donovan Mitchell plays, then the Cavaliers win
that game.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
The Celtics were just going through the motions. They were
going through the motions in this game.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
And you don't get extra flowers if you're Boston, because
you do what you're supposed to do. Cleveland without two
of their top players, the top player Donovan Mitchell with
a calf injury, Oh my calf, he couldn't play, and
Jared Allen had the rip problem. And so those guys
sat out the game. And instead of this being another
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blowout the Cavaliers, they were.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Hanging around, hanging around.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
The Celtics unable to close the gap and blow out
Cleveland by twenty five points. I think he won most
of their games, the Celtics by double digits. But in
the fourth quarter, Jalen Brown, he was better. He was
better in the fourth quarter, and he put up a
couple of shekels into the jukebox there, and they cranked
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up the old Canadian rock group a bach Bin Turner Overdrive,
cranked up taking care of Business, who Home down the stretch.
It was a box checking exercise, is what it was.
The Celtics did not run away with the cadavers though
that's the key part of this year. They failed to
cover a sizable twelve point spread in Cleveland with a
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bunch of nobody's knocking down outside shots for a good
stretch in that game. The biggest lead, I believe was
fourteen points. I think that's it for the Celtics all
right now, Page two here. Since the game itself was
a bit of a dud, it was lackluster.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Between Boston and Cleveland, we have.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
The subplot and a guy that doesn't play for Boston.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Or Cleveland, Lebron James. Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
What did you make of Lebron James with his wife
and agent attending and sitting courtside there attending the game
in Cleveland getting a standing ovation standing ovation.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
During the Cavs Celtic playoff game.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So I got a couple of us on one hand,
Lebron in the crowd. There a strategic move by Lebron
being in the crowd there. It's attention seeking one oh
one by Lebron James. Nobody has been talking all that
much about Lebron recently. Because the Lakers were exterminated from
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the postseason. Lebron is free to roam around the NBA.
He's got the player option in the contract, and so
he needs to be put on the pedestal. And what
better way to be put on the pedestal. If you're
Lebron James, then to go to your old stopping rounds
in Cleveland. Now on the other side, for the Cleveland fans,
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what they're doing there that is like weed man hippie
panhandling is what they're doing. They're begging Lebron, come back, Lebron,
come back. Oh almighty Lebron, we need you come back
and save us. So the fans, they're putting on their
knee pads and giving Lebron a very public tongue bath
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for the world to see there as they sucked up
awkward and that's not your typical etiquette. Lebron broke etiquette
by going to that game when your team is not
good enough to advance in the plaus Generally speaking, they
don't treat it like an all star game the players
and they don't go hang out and watch other teams play.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
That's not normal etiquette in pro bouncy ball.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So Lebron doing things his way because he needed to
have his ass kissed, and he knew if he showed
up to the game, he'd have his ass kissed and
idiots like me would talk about him.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
So here we are. I thought the whole thing was
rather pathetic.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
All right, Now, final point, we pivot to the Big
Apple and what happened to the Knickerbockers. The Knickerbocker roster
crumbling of late. They didn't play, they did not participate
on the NBA card on Monday. But right now, the
back to back and belly to belly wins in that series,
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and so the series tied up to two. Game five
will be coming up on Tuesday night in Midtown Manhattan.
Joyous Randall, Bojon Vaijanovich, and Mitchell Robinson out for the playoffs,
and og and Enobi with a bad hamstring. He's also
out for Game five, but not for the Plus Jalen
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Brunson's dinged up. All of that led to a former
NBA player, a player named Chandler Parsons. You probably don't
know who that is because he wasn't very good, but
Chandler Parson's blaming the Knickerbocker coach Tom Thibodeau for the
many injuries that New York has had. Back the quote
here he said, Chandler Parsons, he said, quote this is
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why the player's poll came out with guys that don't
want to play for Thibodeau because it doesn't last. Chandler
Parsons said, you can't sustain it in such a long
season to get out the little tiny violin. What a
sob story this is having to play.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You had to play too many minutes, says Chandler Parsons.
So how do you evaluate?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Washed up has been Chandler Parsons blaming Tom Thibodeau for
the many injuries the Knicks have had here in the postseason.
So this is a trip down the river, the lazy
river is what this is? My god, Chandler Parsons, I'm
getting old. I remember watching Chandler Parsons play. Chandler Parsons
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of the personification of a ham burglar as he stole.
He stole a sports racketeering for Chandler Parsons, he averaged
less than thirteen points a game, had a one playoff
I remember he had one playoff series where he played
pretty well for Dallas. He then got a massive contract
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and that was the end of Chandler Parson. One hundred
and twenty seven million for less than thirteen points per game.
Now New York coach Tom Thibodeaux, the bullseye on coach
Tibbs is a popular punching bag by people trying to
reason with what has happened with the New York roster
falling apart. He's the boogeyman, the boogeyman for the uneducated
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fan and.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
The media hanks you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
But the injuries, if you look at it case by case,
most of these injuries were on court injuries where players
collided with the nick player and there were fluky things
that happened. It wasn't because they're playing twenty minutes. It
is such a lazy, lazy river take. It is so pathetic.
It's not because it tips like things happen. Usually the
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team that wins is the team that has the least
knee injuries and shoulder problems and elbow problems and all that.
And by the way, for the mister softy crowd, the
pearl clutching crowd that's out there.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Oh, it's so start righting these players. Oh my god,
they gotta plague too much. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
For years, that was the norm, back in the Stone Age.
That was the normal, big minutes, big volume of action.
You were expected it was a forty eight minute game.
You were expected to play forty plus minutes and nobody
had to go dramatic here that there's not a Shakespearean
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drama playing out was not a Greek tragedy because you
had to play forty plus minutes.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
That was called normal.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And oh, by the way, with all of the money
spent on sports medicine and all the money invested in
protecting the assets, as they say, the human beings that
are playing.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Back in the day, when the guys would go out.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And go to the waffle house and load up at
three in the morning after a game, they weren't getting hurt.
They weren't missing as many games as they are today.
So you explained that to me, playing that, to me,
how is it that these NBA guys and all these
people that are the jock sniffing crowd that are out there,
they get so upset. It's, oh my god, thefaws. I
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can't believe these players are being expected to play this
many minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
It's so terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And yet back in the way, when they did play
those minutes, it was expected and you just did it,
and that's.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
How it worked. You had a job to do, and
you did the job. And yet they didn't get hurt
nearly as often as they do today.
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Speaker 4 (25:33):
Game this is one gets crack and the Cup Dull.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
The Atlanta Hawks will have the number one pick in
the NBA Draft, despite only having a three percent chance
in the lottery. Now, the question is with two max
stars already on the team, while the Hawks look to
trade the pick, I when I ask their GM essentially
side step the question. I've even heard they might use
it on Bronnie James. That's that's been floating out. What
do you think, Ben, should they trade the pick now?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
From a bus? That's this standpoint. If lebron wants to
go to Atlanta. They have a great airport in Atlanta,
wonderful airport. That's not a reason to go play in
a city is because they have a good airport. But yeah,
you trade the pick. This is a this is a dog.
It's projected to be a dog. Now there will be
a player in this NBA draft this summer that turns
out to be a Hall of famer. But there's a
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lot of Jags lot not Jacksonville Jags.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Just a guy, a lot of just the guys out there.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
So if you're Atlanta and they can, there's a lot
of chatter they're going to trade their big headliner. You
mentioned the possibility of a major transaction with that lottery pick,
and yeah, I think you trade, you package the number
one pick and you see what you can get for it.
Because this is they were the tenth team of the East.
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The East stunk and they were the ten team of
the East, So absolutely you make a move next.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Brendan Rice, the son of Jerry Rice, mentioned that his
dad was hot over his draft slide right, so was
expected to be a mid round draft pick but instead
fell to the Chargers in the seventh round. But do
you think Rice will outplay his draft position.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well, he should be happy, Jerry Rice should be happy.
The Chargers have no wide Eddie's on the depth chart
at wide. Have you seen the Chargers depth chart.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
There's no one there that can catch the football, at
least that has done it consistently. So Brennan Rice has
an opportunity to go into the Chargers' locker room and
be in the regular wide receiver rotation. That's how bad
it is there. For the Bolts, there's just no name Balus.
So this is one of those things where you get
initial pain for long term gain because you're going to
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a team that needs help at the wide receiver position.
So I don't think he outplayed his draft. You will
he outplays drafts. He's got a great chance to do
it because he was a seventh round pick. But you
know you're drafted where you're supposed.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
To be drafted. That's how worth next.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Former MLB slugger Chris Davis announced his retirement this week,
saying there was no more opportunity for him in baseball,
and he revealed that he will be starting a new
career as a mechanic.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Good and if there was no more opportunity for you
in radio, what would you do?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I would move to a BUCkies location and I would
work at BUCkies, is what I would do. I would
I would be at the brisket table at BUCkies, or
I'd make those pecans that they with the sugar all
over them. You gotta go to BUCkies cool, I'm telling you, man,
it's amazing. That's why I go to work for BUCkies. Anyway,
how did we know you pass that? I want the guy?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I want the guy. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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Speaker 4 (28:42):
Let's introduce our contestants to the game. Who do we
have you? Let's say hello to Robbie the Mariner fan. Hello, Robbie,
tell you what's welcome? Robbie. You should have been in
the at the game on Monday night.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You could have You could have got those two foul
balls that that guy got.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
You could have got.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, I've never I've been in a lot of baseball games.
I've never even I mean one did almost, don't mean,
but besides that, I've never caught one.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah, all right, you go for batting. The best time
for me back in the day was batting practice. You
get there early, go out in the bleachers, and you
plan it out.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
But that's where you gotta go. That's it, Robbie, all right, rober.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Who do you want to partner with the in the
effort to expedite the process or process? Who would you
like to partner up with? Robbie the Meriton fan. You
got me Ben, Eddie or Coop?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I mean the smart money to Eddie, but I'll go
with you.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
There was a rather offensive thing that you just said, Robbie.
Maybe maybe I'll tank the game.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Whatever, Hold on, and we have Jed, who fled?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Who's going to play? Hello, Jed? We should start chicken tinners,
chicken testicles.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Call them f o w L foul balls.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Who you missed?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That?
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Didn't you? Ben?
Speaker 5 (29:58):
No?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
I heard I'm saying tim when you were gone? Oh
I did? Yeah? I thought he might show up, but
there were other people from Florida that showed up. But
he didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Jed?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Would you like to play? Jed?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I'll show up for the show, Ben.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Uh No, Actually I don't discover. Oh all right, Eddie,
you're out of the game. What are the categories here
at coop?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Uh? This is Malard's Mountain of Money Kate Blanchette edition.
She turns fifty five years old today. The categories are
the Lord of the Rings, the Aviator, The Curious Case
of Benjamin Button, and Ocean's Eight.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Robbie, which category would you.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Like bestow all time?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Lord of the Rings?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
All right, Jed? How about you?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Women?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Room and everything?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Oceans?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Date?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
All right? All right? Everyone, Hold don't hang off, We'll
put you on hold. They're very nice you're on port.
Jed's breathing very heavily, very heavily. Right now, we will
have Mallard's Mountain of Money. It's entirety. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Fox Sports Radio has the sports talk lineup in the nation.
Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com
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Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Hey, No way we goes Malos amount of money. We
have our contestants ready to go. Robbie the Mariner fan,
longtime contributor and one of the real heavyweights on the show.
And he'll be playing with me Ben and we've got
Jed who fled and he's in Florida teaming up with
the Kooper Loop.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Robbie definitely gonna be quiet with It's not my turn
for sure.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
All right? Are you ready to go, Robbie?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Kate Blanchett edition and the category you picked, the Lord
of the Rings?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Is that correct? All right?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
These athletes all have at least a handful of championships.
Lorena's hit the clock to forty five seconds. We're on
our way and go show time Lakers star point guard. Yes,
the big fundamental for the Spurs in the nineties. Yes,
the iron horse for the New York Yankees. Yes, the
(32:13):
greatest winning Celtic of all time. Yes, a big shot
for the Lakers Rockets.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Forty nine er cowboy defensive end. He won a bunch
of Super Bowls in the eighties and the nineties. Number
ninety four. All right, Sunday Night baseball commentator to play
for the Mets and the Yankees starting pitcher, white guy.
That is correct again, forty nine cowboy defensive end. A
little bit on the crazy side.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Charles Haley. Charles Haley was two and sixty fours. That's
a good score. That's a good score. We got that,
all right.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Good.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
My handicap would be pretty hig Guys.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
On the way wingers, okay, Jed, we have oceans eight
these at leats all war number eight, forty five seconds
on the clock begin.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
He died in a helicopter crash.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
He is the current quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens. Yes,
this guy has the streak for most consecutive games played
in baseball. He was on the Orioles. Yes, this guy
was Peyton and Eli's dad or is. Yes, this hockey
(33:27):
player is gonna pass Wayne Gretzky's record.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Yes, let's go. This guy was a Red Sox for
twenty three years. His kid is on the Giants right now.
Oh man, I don't know, all right. The best punter
of all time, he was on the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
He's like the only punter in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
All right.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
It is Carlstromsky's grandson who's playing in baseball right now,
Carlsky and Ray. Yeah, but still one hundred and sixty points,
So one hundred behind Ben.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
You're losing, Jay, You're losing. You're losing, all right, j Yeah,
we're up again.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Do you want the Aviator or the Curious Case of
Benjamin Button?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I want to say the easier one, but I'm gonna
go with the Curious Dates of Beams? All right? That
was not the easier one. Well, too late, now you figured.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
I want to go, But whatever did?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I'll take it, Okay, all right, Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
These athletes seem to get better as they got older.
Forty five seconds begin, there was just a roast about
him on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Tom Brady, the all time home run king.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Did steroids, Yes uh, the Golden Bear, the golfer he yes.
This guy was the quarterback for the Raiders when they
went to the Super Bowl against the Bucks.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Jeff Danis No, yes, uh. This guy was a lead
a white wide receiver for the Vikings. He now on
the Panthers.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Adam Yes, uh.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
This guy is a hockey player that had a mullet.
He's like fifty and he's still playing. Holy god, he's checked. Okay,
all right, defensive end for the Eagles. He made a
huge play stripsack of Tom Brady in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Oh, you did not know your mar yogurt or.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
But you have to.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Fast out feelings for you.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
That's a friend of mine. Three hundred and thirty points.
So you were in the league. And by the way,
you didn't know about the hiding game. He had to
tell you about the hide game.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Yes, so seventy points to tie over more than that
to win for you.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Ben, Robbie, let's let's let's show them how it's done.
Are you ready, Robbie? Ye?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
All right, put forty five. These athletes all have had
mental health issues. Let's go for the win right now.
African Americans starting pitcher for the Marlins, the old Florida Marlins.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Oh wait to show them, Robbie.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
How about the Cleveland Cavalier player supposedly slept with Lebron
James mother with the cat choking, Robbie, you're chicking Kansas
City Royal pitchers.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
He's pitched since I think the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
One of Cy Young played for the Angels, Dodgers, Brewers, Astros,
white guys starting pitcher.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Yes, that is correct. Marlin's pitcher.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Show, Robbie Show, Delonte West, Don Trout.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Willis good strategy. He started the toughest. I figured Robbie
is a baseball guy. How do you not know?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Doc true?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Willis. That's embarrassing. Robbie's you just choked. You shouldn't ha
shot the sausage bat job by him,
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We will get to it later this hour. I will
be grilled.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But the Mallard meet and greet and why I was
away from my post for an entire week of radio shows.
But we are back at it again, and nobody wants
to hear about that right now, give me the sports
I need the sports tanks. I need my sports taks,
all right. So yes, even Lorena, who couldn't tell you
the difference between football and a tomato, she was like streaming,
(02:04):
give me sports takes.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
She gave me a pep talk before Is that right?
Pep talk before the show?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Well, here we are.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Our lead this hour from the Western Conference of the
Basketball Pro Bouncy Ball playoffs. There we head to Big
d and that was the location the MAVs and the
Thunder And I've never wanted to see the Thunder do
well because I missed the Sonics the SuperSonics, and they're
the old SuperSonics. Some oil Baron bought them and moved
(02:35):
them to Oka se But that that aside. That was
the matchup game four Dallas looking to take a three
games to one lead. That was the setup.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Did you watch? Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Probably not, but I watched because I have no life.
I'm back to having no life. I had a life
last week. I'm back to having no life. So I
was watching and former Clipper Shay gelgis Alexander thirty four
points and Oklahoma puts Dallas in the dust ball one
hundred to ninety six to the final and they have
(03:08):
evened up that semi final Western Conference Playoff series two
to chet Holmgren, who I'm surprised he hasn't broken yet
looking at his body. Chet Holmgren and loud Dort, the
Great loud Dort, each hit big three point shots late
in that game in the wins. So the teams end
up splitting a pair on each other's home court Game
(03:30):
five on hump Day back in Oklahoma City. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. Better stories in losing
locker room. So that's where we will begin. And the question,
as we discuss the question is what the heck went
wrong for the Mavericks in this loss at home? They
(03:51):
were up most of the game. They had control, not
control of the game, but they had a decent lead.
They kept the the thunder at bay until the late
stages of the fourth quarter. So I've got earth, porky
pig and only fans, and we will combine all of
(04:13):
these things together and we are going to make a rocket,
which is what many of the Dallas players were riding
a little more of a comet, the vomit comet there
late in that game. And for some of these guys,
the entire game. So a the Mavericks. You don't need
me to tell you that if you're someone who cares
(04:35):
about that team, they suffered a power outage in this game.
Kyrie Irving and Luca the two big headliners. They get
paid a lot of money to dribble dribbled dribble the basketball.
So these two guys sucked at a time. You cannot
suck the entire game. The entire game. Now, if you're
a box score reader said, well, what are you talking about, Mallard,
(04:58):
You didn't play in the NBA. Luc don Chick had
a triple double. Well, I'm not a stat humper. So
if you're a stat humper, you're excited about that.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Wee what p dam knew? He had a triple double.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Lot of emptiness, a lot of emptiness in that triple
double for Luca. He shot thirty percent, for example, from
the fourth third percent. Now, if you make three out
of every ten shots, that ain'try. If you're a baseball player,
a Hall of famer. If you're a basketball player and
you make three out of every ten shots, you've done
(05:31):
something terribly wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
And that was Luca in this game. And not one,
not two, not three, not four, not five.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
How about seven turnovers, seven of them and down the stretch,
this is when the thing fell apart, came a part
of the seams for Dallas. The Mavericks had a six
point lead. Now that's not a massive lead. That's not
a huge lead, six point leader. It's eighty six to
eighty at the five thirty mark of the fourth quarter.
(06:00):
Closed the game out right and go back and forth
the end of the game. The final five and a
half minutes, Luca and Kyrie scored one total point. The
final five and a half minutes up six was zero
for four combined oh for four from the floor, and
Kyrie Irving in particular, played like his worldview on the earth.
(06:23):
Kyrie played like he thinks the earth is. It was
a World b flat for Kyrie Irving there a clunker,
a dreadful performance. Irving passive, not aggressive, not passive aggressive,
he was just passive. And he finished the game with
nine points. Took eleven shots, only made four of them.
(06:45):
And Genghis Alexander, the former Clipper, was good. He was
the top player on the court to close out the game.
He had eight points in that stretch, while Kyrie and
Luca combined for one points. Now, speaking of trust, you're
gonna leave the Dallas OKC series, We're gonna put off
the side because the other series in the Western Conference,
(07:07):
the other side of the Western bracket. Now, when I
was last year, Minnesota was kicking ass. Minnesota was doing
very well, and then they went out on their home
court and gagged. They channeled some of the great debacles
in Timberwolf history there as they lose at home back
(07:28):
to back and really not even that close to Denver. Now,
I bring this up because Michael Malone, that's a told
the basketball coach, Michael Malone made a disc track of
his own team, and he had DeAndre Jordan who was
like a like a like a trophy kind of like
a mascot for the Nuggets at this point, DeAndre Jordan
(07:48):
like he passed it out to the team, but the
Nuggets Michael Malone signed his name on it, and it
was a you know, all the rage to distrack and
it had people like Stephen A. Smith and Arles Barkley
and other television pundits who ripped the Nuggets and slammed
them after the first two games. And then Denver came
(08:10):
back and won. So the question they won the last two.
So the question is how much of the Nuggets. How
much of the Nuggets media disc track from Michael Malone
fueled the Kohli Jokic and the comeback against Minnesota. So
I've seen a lot of things written about this. I've
seen a lot of things said about this the last
couple of days.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Here. This makes for a good story.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
It also makes it I'm gonna go zero percent, zero
percent rights how much of the Nuggets rallying back was
because of a clip that was passed around on people's
phones of national punnits ripping the Denver basketball team. I
go zero percent. You gotta be the joker if you
think otherwise. Here now, Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic were
(08:54):
able to flip the script with a third wing that
came on here. They held them out. But to me,
that's not the story. The story here, and I have
a theory that Anthony Edwards Aunt Edwards, the star who
had a massive stat line in the last game, but
his teammates in Minnesota. You watched the way they played
the last couple of games of this series, and it
(09:16):
was back to timber puffs, Timber goes to the basketball
team there.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They were caught nibbling.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And there's an old line that's been passed from generation
to generation in sports.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
It's don't eat the cheese. You've heard it before, don't
eat the cheese. Minnesota, it was like porky pig gobbling.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
They weren't just nibbling, they were gobbling the rat poison
is what they were doing. They were celebrated the arrival
of the Minnesota basketball team there for their play, and
they got caught staring right at their own reflection in
the mirror.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Boy, do I look good? Look at me in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And then they went out and got punched by Denver
in those last couple of games. So now that's the
best of three situation, and who has the road court
advantage where that would be Minnesota in the next game,
they have the road court advantage.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Now, while we're at it, we're gonna move.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Away from pro bouncy ball because there's a story that
I was observing while I was making my way back
to the West coast there and we're gonna spend off
to Cincinnati NFL style here to Cincinnati, and I was
reading on the plane because I had a lot of
time to kill. I was reading a story about Joe Burrow.
(10:30):
That's a quarterback for the Cincinnati team. Joe Burrow has
spent the past several months since his season ended prematurely
because of injury. Joe Burrow spent several months focusing on
weight training and nutrition. And this is a story that
was being written. That it was written, I read it,
(10:50):
and as a result, he is said to be quote
definitely bigger this offseason. So Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow getting
stronger as he works on his chiseled body this offseason.
Is that a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
So I'll go first. I'm gonna put this in the
no deal with a shoulder shrug. So not only is
(11:13):
it no deal, but you shrug your shoulders. That's what
I'm doing with that. And we still have by my count,
we still have roughly two months before training camp opens
up in mid July. So this story is it's premature.
That's the first thought I have. Secondly, the other thought
(11:34):
is it's a spring training like storyline that we get
off and in baseball, one of those annoying, meaningless rituals
associated with the off season.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
But no, typically we don't get this until the start
of training camp.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
But maybe I'm wrong on this, but as a pro athlete,
you're kind of like an OnlyFans model or a hooker.
You're selling your body. That's no one thinks you that's smart. Yeah,
you're an athlete. They think of you as someone that
has great physical attributes, right, just in general. So Joe Burrow,
nobody's gonna say Joe Burrow is going to be a mensa.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
He's not. He happens to be good at throwing a
football around. So congratulations.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And the professional athlete, you sell your body for money,
and some people love the applause, but most just love
the money. The expectation is, and this is just across
the board, is that you will stay in shape, you'll
be in top physical condition and you don't have to
be Chisen out of stone. But you can't be a
big fat you know, blob, can't be that. Now, when
(12:36):
you do radio, you can be whatever you want. As
long as the pipes are working, you're good to go.
But we like Joe Burt. We do like Joe Burr.
I just loathe these type of stories. And I saw
this and I kept realize that, well, it's got to
be a gag this game.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You know, its May. What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
It's a May story, But it's usually a story we
get in July when you've got to fill time before
exhibition games happen and people start getting hurt. But if
plays well, I'll tell you how this can play out.
If Joe Burrow goes out there and plays well, he
will be celebrated after the fact for this. He'll be like, oh, see,
the reason Burrow's playing well is because he worked out
and got in shape and blah blah. He's bigger and
(13:13):
stronger and faster and all that. Now, if he goes
out and struggles, he should have. He spent too much
time in the weight room, he's too strong, he overdid it.
So guarantee that's how this can play out.
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pretty neat. So our lead this hour we go to
pro bouncy ball in Cleveland, the Eastern Conference, the Early
Fight on the fight card there the Early Fight and
that was the site Cleveland of the Celtics and the Cavaliers.
Did you watch? Were you enthralled with this game? Jason
(15:24):
Tatum was there. He didn't have a great shooting performance
in the second half, but he did finish with thirty
three points and that was enough to help Boston beat
the severely shorthanded Cleveland basketball squad one oh nine to
one O two the final. And that means now that
the Seas have taken a three to one lead in
(15:45):
the Eastern Conference semi finals, which if you look at
the comps, they tell you what has happened, not what's
going to happen. Ninety five percent of the time a
team that's up three to one, ends up winning the series.
Jalen Brown, who was much better down the stretch and
game twenty seven points for the Celtics, who can close
out Cleveland and turn out the last the parties over
(16:07):
if they can win Game five. The problem is that's
at the arena there in Boston, the Garden on Wednesday night,
and the Celtics, even though they have home court advantage
and play all that well at home, so the Cavs
are on the brink of elimination. Let us discuss the
question your thoughts on the Celtics and their victory over.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
The Cadavers in this game. So I've got.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Jukebox, panhandling, and Boogeyman, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a headache,
a Migrain headache, which is what the Cavaliers had at
the end of this game because the way the Celtics played.
My first thought here, the way the Celtics played that
was a game where if some and butts were candy
(16:54):
and nuts and Donovan Mitchell plays, then the Cavaliers win
that game.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
The Celtics were just going through the motions. They were
going through the motions in this game.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
And you don't get extra flowers if you're Boston, because
you do what you're supposed to do. Cleveland without two
of their top players, the top player Donovan Mitchell with
a calf injury, Oh my calf, he couldn't play, and
Jared Allen had the rip problem. And so those guys
sat out the game. And instead of this being another
(17:26):
blowout the Cavaliers, they were.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Hanging around, hanging around.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
The Celtics unable to close the gap and blow out
Cleveland by twenty five points. I think he won most
of their games, the Celtics by double digits. But in
the fourth quarter, Jalen Brown, he was better. He was
better in the fourth quarter, and he put up a
couple of shekels into the jukebox there, and they cranked
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up the old Canadian rock group a bach Bin Turner Overdrive,
cranked up taking care of Business, who Home down the stretch.
It was a box checking exercise, is what it was.
The Celtics did not run away with the cadavers though
that's the key part of this year. They failed to
cover a sizable twelve point spread in Cleveland with a
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bunch of nobody's knocking down outside shots for a good
stretch in that game. The biggest lead, I believe was
fourteen points. I think that's it for the Celtics all
right now, Page two here. Since the game itself was
a bit of a dud, it was lackluster.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Between Boston and Cleveland, we have.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
The subplot and a guy that doesn't play for Boston.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Or Cleveland, Lebron James. Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
What did you make of Lebron James with his wife
and agent attending and sitting courtside there attending the game
in Cleveland getting a standing ovation standing ovation.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
During the Cavs Celtic playoff game.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So I got a couple of us on one hand,
Lebron in the crowd. There a strategic move by Lebron
being in the crowd there. It's attention seeking one oh
one by Lebron James. Nobody has been talking all that
much about Lebron recently. Because the Lakers were exterminated from
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the postseason. Lebron is free to roam around the NBA.
He's got the player option in the contract, and so
he needs to be put on the pedestal. And what
better way to be put on the pedestal. If you're
Lebron James, then to go to your old stopping rounds
in Cleveland. Now on the other side, for the Cleveland fans,
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what they're doing there that is like weed man hippie
panhandling is what they're doing. They're begging Lebron, come back, Lebron,
come back. Oh almighty Lebron, we need you come back
and save us. So the fans, they're putting on their
knee pads and giving Lebron a very public tongue bath
(20:03):
for the world to see there as they sucked up
awkward and that's not your typical etiquette. Lebron broke etiquette
by going to that game when your team is not
good enough to advance in the plaus Generally speaking, they
don't treat it like an all star game the players
and they don't go hang out and watch other teams play.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
That's not normal etiquette in pro bouncy ball.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
So Lebron doing things his way because he needed to
have his ass kissed, and he knew if he showed
up to the game, he'd have his ass kissed and
idiots like me would talk about him.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
So here we are. I thought the whole thing was
rather pathetic.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
All right, Now, final point, we pivot to the Big
Apple and what happened to the Knickerbockers. The Knickerbocker roster
crumbling of late. They didn't play, they did not participate
on the NBA card on Monday. But right now, the
back to back and belly to belly wins in that series,
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and so the series tied up to two. Game five
will be coming up on Tuesday night in Midtown Manhattan.
Joyous Randall, Bojon Vaijanovich, and Mitchell Robinson out for the playoffs,
and og and Enobi with a bad hamstring. He's also
out for Game five, but not for the Plus Jalen
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Brunson's dinged up. All of that led to a former
NBA player, a player named Chandler Parsons. You probably don't
know who that is because he wasn't very good, but
Chandler Parson's blaming the Knickerbocker coach Tom Thibodeau for the
many injuries that New York has had. Back the quote
here he said, Chandler Parsons, he said, quote this is
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why the player's poll came out with guys that don't
want to play for Thibodeau because it doesn't last. Chandler
Parsons said, you can't sustain it in such a long
season to get out the little tiny violin. What a
sob story this is having to play.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You had to play too many minutes, says Chandler Parsons.
So how do you evaluate?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Washed up has been Chandler Parsons blaming Tom Thibodeau for
the many injuries the Knicks have had here in the postseason.
So this is a trip down the river, the lazy
river is what this is? My god, Chandler Parsons, I'm
getting old. I remember watching Chandler Parsons play. Chandler Parsons
(22:34):
of the personification of a ham burglar as he stole.
He stole a sports racketeering for Chandler Parsons, he averaged
less than thirteen points a game, had a one playoff
I remember he had one playoff series where he played
pretty well for Dallas. He then got a massive contract
(22:57):
and that was the end of Chandler Parson. One hundred
and twenty seven million for less than thirteen points per game.
Now New York coach Tom Thibodeaux, the bullseye on coach
Tibbs is a popular punching bag by people trying to
reason with what has happened with the New York roster
falling apart. He's the boogeyman, the boogeyman for the uneducated
(23:22):
fan and.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
The media hanks you.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
But the injuries, if you look at it case by case,
most of these injuries were on court injuries where players
collided with the nick player and there were fluky things
that happened. It wasn't because they're playing twenty minutes. It
is such a lazy, lazy river take. It is so pathetic.
It's not because it tips like things happen. Usually the
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team that wins is the team that has the least
knee injuries and shoulder problems and elbow problems and all that.
And by the way, for the mister softy crowd, the
pearl clutching crowd that's out there.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Oh, it's so start righting these players. Oh my god,
they gotta plague too much. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
For years, that was the norm, back in the Stone Age.
That was the normal, big minutes, big volume of action.
You were expected it was a forty eight minute game.
You were expected to play forty plus minutes and nobody
had to go dramatic here that there's not a Shakespearean
(24:26):
drama playing out was not a Greek tragedy because you
had to play forty plus minutes.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
That was called normal.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And oh, by the way, with all of the money
spent on sports medicine and all the money invested in
protecting the assets, as they say, the human beings that
are playing.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Back in the day, when the guys would go out.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
And go to the waffle house and load up at
three in the morning after a game, they weren't getting hurt.
They weren't missing as many games as they are today.
So you explained that to me, playing that, to me,
how is it that these NBA guys and all these
people that are the jock sniffing crowd that are out there,
they get so upset. It's, oh my god, thefaws. I
(25:09):
can't believe these players are being expected to play this
many minutes.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
It's so terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And yet back in the way, when they did play
those minutes, it was expected and you just did it,
and that's.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
How it worked. You had a job to do, and
you did the job. And yet they didn't get hurt
nearly as often as they do today.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
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Speaker 4 (25:33):
Game this is one gets crack and the Cup Dull.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
The Atlanta Hawks will have the number one pick in
the NBA Draft, despite only having a three percent chance
in the lottery. Now, the question is with two max
stars already on the team, while the Hawks look to
trade the pick, I when I ask their GM essentially
side step the question. I've even heard they might use
it on Bronnie James. That's that's been floating out. What
do you think, Ben, should they trade the pick now?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
From a bus? That's this standpoint. If lebron wants to
go to Atlanta. They have a great airport in Atlanta,
wonderful airport. That's not a reason to go play in
a city is because they have a good airport. But yeah,
you trade the pick. This is a this is a dog.
It's projected to be a dog. Now there will be
a player in this NBA draft this summer that turns
out to be a Hall of famer. But there's a
(26:19):
lot of Jags lot not Jacksonville Jags.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Just a guy, a lot of just the guys out there.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
So if you're Atlanta and they can, there's a lot
of chatter they're going to trade their big headliner. You
mentioned the possibility of a major transaction with that lottery pick,
and yeah, I think you trade, you package the number
one pick and you see what you can get for it.
Because this is they were the tenth team of the East.
(26:46):
The East stunk and they were the ten team of
the East, So absolutely you make a move next.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Brendan Rice, the son of Jerry Rice, mentioned that his
dad was hot over his draft slide right, so was
expected to be a mid round draft pick but instead
fell to the Chargers in the seventh round. But do
you think Rice will outplay his draft position.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well, he should be happy, Jerry Rice should be happy.
The Chargers have no wide Eddie's on the depth chart
at wide. Have you seen the Chargers depth chart.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
There's no one there that can catch the football, at
least that has done it consistently. So Brennan Rice has
an opportunity to go into the Chargers' locker room and
be in the regular wide receiver rotation. That's how bad
it is there. For the Bolts, there's just no name Balus.
So this is one of those things where you get
initial pain for long term gain because you're going to
(27:35):
a team that needs help at the wide receiver position.
So I don't think he outplayed his draft. You will
he outplays drafts. He's got a great chance to do
it because he was a seventh round pick. But you
know you're drafted where you're supposed.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
To be drafted. That's how worth next.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Former MLB slugger Chris Davis announced his retirement this week,
saying there was no more opportunity for him in baseball,
and he revealed that he will be starting a new
career as a mechanic.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Good and if there was no more opportunity for you
in radio, what would you do?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I would move to a BUCkies location and I would
work at BUCkies, is what I would do. I would
I would be at the brisket table at BUCkies, or
I'd make those pecans that they with the sugar all
over them. You gotta go to BUCkies cool, I'm telling you, man,
it's amazing. That's why I go to work for BUCkies. Anyway,
how did we know you pass that? I want the guy?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I want the guy. Fox Sports Radio has the best
sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our
shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 4 (28:42):
Let's introduce our contestants to the game. Who do we
have you? Let's say hello to Robbie the Mariner fan. Hello, Robbie,
tell you what's welcome? Robbie. You should have been in
the at the game on Monday night.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You could have You could have got those two foul
balls that that guy got.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
You could have got.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, I've never I've been in a lot of baseball games.
I've never even I mean one did almost, don't mean,
but besides that, I've never caught one.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah, all right, you go for batting. The best time
for me back in the day was batting practice. You
get there early, go out in the bleachers, and you
plan it out.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
But that's where you gotta go. That's it, Robbie, all right, rober.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Who do you want to partner with the in the
effort to expedite the process or process? Who would you
like to partner up with? Robbie the Meriton fan. You
got me Ben, Eddie or Coop?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I mean the smart money to Eddie, but I'll go
with you.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
There was a rather offensive thing that you just said, Robbie.
Maybe maybe I'll tank the game.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Whatever, Hold on, and we have Jed, who fled?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Who's going to play? Hello, Jed? We should start chicken tinners,
chicken testicles.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Call them f o w L foul balls.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Who you missed?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
That?
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Didn't you? Ben?
Speaker 5 (29:58):
No?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
I heard I'm saying tim when you were gone? Oh
I did? Yeah? I thought he might show up, but
there were other people from Florida that showed up. But
he didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Jed?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Would you like to play? Jed?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I'll show up for the show, Ben.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Uh No, Actually I don't discover. Oh all right, Eddie,
you're out of the game. What are the categories here
at coop?
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Uh? This is Malard's Mountain of Money Kate Blanchette edition.
She turns fifty five years old today. The categories are
the Lord of the Rings, the Aviator, The Curious Case
of Benjamin Button, and Ocean's Eight.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Robbie, which category would you.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Like bestow all time?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Lord of the Rings?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
All right, Jed? How about you?
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Women?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Room and everything?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Oceans?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Date?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
All right? All right? Everyone, Hold don't hang off, We'll
put you on hold. They're very nice you're on port.
Jed's breathing very heavily, very heavily. Right now, we will
have Mallard's Mountain of Money. It's entirety. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Fox Sports Radio has the sports talk lineup in the nation.
Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com
and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to listen live. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Hey, No way we goes Malos amount of money. We
have our contestants ready to go. Robbie the Mariner fan,
longtime contributor and one of the real heavyweights on the show.
And he'll be playing with me Ben and we've got
Jed who fled and he's in Florida teaming up with
the Kooper Loop.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Robbie definitely gonna be quiet with It's not my turn
for sure.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
All right? Are you ready to go, Robbie?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Kate Blanchett edition and the category you picked, the Lord
of the Rings?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Is that correct? All right?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
These athletes all have at least a handful of championships.
Lorena's hit the clock to forty five seconds. We're on
our way and go show time Lakers star point guard. Yes,
the big fundamental for the Spurs in the nineties. Yes,
the iron horse for the New York Yankees. Yes, the
(32:13):
greatest winning Celtic of all time. Yes, a big shot
for the Lakers Rockets.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Forty nine er cowboy defensive end. He won a bunch
of Super Bowls in the eighties and the nineties. Number
ninety four. All right, Sunday Night baseball commentator to play
for the Mets and the Yankees starting pitcher, white guy.
That is correct again, forty nine cowboy defensive end. A
little bit on the crazy side.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
Charles Haley. Charles Haley was two and sixty fours. That's
a good score. That's a good score. We got that,
all right.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Good.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
My handicap would be pretty hig Guys.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
On the way wingers, okay, Jed, we have oceans eight
these at leats all war number eight, forty five seconds
on the clock begin.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
He died in a helicopter crash.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
He is the current quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens. Yes,
this guy has the streak for most consecutive games played
in baseball. He was on the Orioles. Yes, this guy
was Peyton and Eli's dad or is. Yes, this hockey
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player is gonna pass Wayne Gretzky's record.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Yes, let's go. This guy was a Red Sox for
twenty three years. His kid is on the Giants right now.
Oh man, I don't know, all right. The best punter
of all time, he was on the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
He's like the only punter in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
All right.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
It is Carlstromsky's grandson who's playing in baseball right now,
Carlsky and Ray. Yeah, but still one hundred and sixty points,
So one hundred behind Ben.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
You're losing, Jay, You're losing. You're losing, all right, j Yeah,
we're up again.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Do you want the Aviator or the Curious Case of
Benjamin Button?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I want to say the easier one, but I'm gonna
go with the Curious Dates of Beams? All right? That
was not the easier one. Well, too late, now you figured.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
I want to go, But whatever did?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
I'll take it, Okay, all right, Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
These athletes seem to get better as they got older.
Forty five seconds begin, there was just a roast about
him on Netflix.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Tom Brady, the all time home run king.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
Did steroids, Yes uh, the Golden Bear, the golfer he yes.
This guy was the quarterback for the Raiders when they
went to the Super Bowl against the Bucks.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Jeff Danis No, yes, uh. This guy was a lead
a white wide receiver for the Vikings. He now on
the Panthers.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Adam Yes, uh.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
This guy is a hockey player that had a mullet.
He's like fifty and he's still playing. Holy god, he's checked. Okay,
all right, defensive end for the Eagles. He made a
huge play stripsack of Tom Brady in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Oh, you did not know your mar yogurt or.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
But you have to.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Fast out feelings for you.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
That's a friend of mine. Three hundred and thirty points.
So you were in the league. And by the way,
you didn't know about the hiding game. He had to
tell you about the hide game.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Yes, so seventy points to tie over more than that
to win for you.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Ben, Robbie, let's let's let's show them how it's done.
Are you ready, Robbie? Ye?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
All right, put forty five. These athletes all have had
mental health issues. Let's go for the win right now.
African Americans starting pitcher for the Marlins, the old Florida Marlins.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Oh wait to show them, Robbie.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
How about the Cleveland Cavalier player supposedly slept with Lebron
James mother with the cat choking, Robbie, you're chicking Kansas
City Royal pitchers.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
He's pitched since I think the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
One of Cy Young played for the Angels, Dodgers, Brewers, Astros,
white guys starting pitcher.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Yes, that is correct. Marlin's pitcher.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Show, Robbie Show, Delonte West, Don Trout.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Willis good strategy. He started the toughest. I figured Robbie
is a baseball guy. How do you not know?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Doc true?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Willis. That's embarrassing. Robbie's you just choked. You shouldn't ha
shot the sausage bat job by him,
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