May 30, 2024 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about Mets pitcher Jorge Lopez having a tantrum and throwing his glove into the crowd, Kyrie Irving saying that Karl-Anthony Towns has been getting unfairly criticized, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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A metropolitan meltdown for the ages. Welcome in beginning of
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lead this hour coming from baseball. I want you to
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know that when I woke up and started futzing around
trying to figure out what I wanted to talk about,
I had to watch games and things like that. I
had no no intention, no intention of including the Dodgers
and the Mets game that was aa a late afternoon
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game on the East Coast, and b I already met
my quota of Mets talk. I'm not my guy Jason
Smith here, he's a Mets guy. He talks a lot
of Mets.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I don't talk a lot of Mets. I get bored
with that. They're boring to me. But this was not boring.
This was not boring. So wild scene. Maybe you haven't
been listening. I don't know what you got going on
in your world, but a wild scene in Queens. Now,
the Dodgers beat the pulp out of the Mets. That's
not the story. Don't bear the lad by man. That
was expected. Dodgers to win big, that was expected. It
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was the extra curricular activity that was not on the
script for the game. Now, if you didn't see this
and hear about it, maybe not. There's a reliever I'd
never heard of before a few hours ago and named
Jorge Lopez, and he's a pitcher for the Mets. He
was not happy with the way things were going in
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the game. How do we know that because he took
his glove off and tossed it like a discus over
the netting that was installed for years back to protect
the fans who don't pay attention with their games, and
it went flying into the crowd right there near the
home dugout at City Field. Now, this is after he
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was ejected. Lopez, the relief picsher was ejected. He argued
a zech swing Freddie Freeman of the Dodgers at a
check swing in the eighth inning. He did not appreciate
the third base umpire, so he gave him the business,
and then the umpire ejected him. Now, Lopez then had
a very bizarre postgame interview with reporters in which he
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expressed zero zero regrets for calling the Mets the worst
team in baseball. Now, he had no we're guests, we're
throwing the glove in the air. But he talked about
the Mets being the worst team in baseball, and we
have the audio just to prove I'm not making this up.
Let's go to the audio tape. Listen very closely. Here,
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you pay close attentions. See if you got great hearing.
I'm moren't headphones. It's hard for me understand, but but
trust me. Let's go to the audio step. Here's Jorgey
Lopez of the Mets. Carlos Mendoza said that he understands
the emotion, but that that particular action of throwing your
glove into the standard is unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Looking back on it, do you regret doing that?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
No, No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I don't regret it. I think I've been looking the
worst team in probably in the whole MLB set.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Whatever happened happened. So whatever they want to do this,
I'll be tomorrow here if they want me, you know,
whatever they want to do. So I'm gonna keep doing
this thing, you know, so I'm healthy on whatever, you know,
whatever to do. You know, I'm you know, I'm ready
to come back tomorrow and the day one may be here,
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so I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah. Well we'll get to that in a second. So
he was later asked to clarify if he meant the
Mets were indeed the worst team in baseball and Lopez, Yeah,
probably it looked like it. Now. About an hour after that,
the aforementioned pitcher Jorge Lopez was designated for assignment, which
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is a politically correct way to say you're fired, Get
out of here, see you later, Sayanara, Nana, nana, Hey, hey,
go ahdbye, get out of here. All right, now, let's
discuss the question, how do you classify the New York
Mets former relief pitcher JORYE. Lopez throwing his glove in
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the crowd. So I've got jumping Jack's planes, trains and
automobiles and rubber stamp and we'll connect all of these
things together and we will be of the same mind,
is what We're going to be of the same mind. So,
first of all, say what you want about Hory Lopez,
and I have a lot to say. I have a
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whole monologue mostly about him. But this guy does care.
I watched the Met this week and I see a
lot of guys that don't appear to care. You're not
supposed to say that. It's taboo, that's what they look like.
Is he unprofessional?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Are you supposed to have good decorum? Absolutely, you're supposed
to control yourself and not have a conniption fit while
you're on the mound. Yes, However, that glove toss after
a psycho analysis, a malor analysis here, that glove toss
over the netting was a crime of passion reminded me
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years ago there was an old football coach named Mike
Singletary who was a great player, coaching the forty nine ers,
and he had one of the great sound bites of
all time. I want winners, I want people that want
to win, and that's the vibe guy from Horehelop. He's
sick and tired of this pathetic team. So he had
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a Southwest Airlines want to get away moment there, and
he got what he wanted. He got his departure. Now,
this was a light version of Antonio Brown. It was
Antonio Brown like. The only thing missing was the jumping
jacks as he walked off the field, go full a
b and it's a guy. Let's call what it is.
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He's a roster spam. He's a relief pitcher. He's got
an ERA of over five in his career. He's not
very good, but he fills out a bullpen and he
can throw hard enough. He's got major League ability on
the mound. He doesn't get guys out very often. So
Horey Lopez went from a nobody to somebody, at least
for twenty four hours. I'm sure I'll forget about him
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by the weekend, but for now I know who he is,
and if the Mets really want to punish Lopez, force him.
The joke is forced him to stay there, because, my god,
of all the teams that are actually trying to compete,
like there's some teams that aren't, like the Sacramento Athletics,
teams like that that aren't even trying. But among the
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teams that are actually trying, the Mets are in a
class by themselves for suckage. It's pretty impressive. It is,
all right now. Secondly, speaking of problems, Francisco Lindor of
the Metropolitans decided it was time. After the Dodgers swept
the Mets, it was time to get together and sit
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around in a circle and tell stories. They held a
team meeting following the Old Kick and the Nuts by
the Dodgers. So the question is will this jump start
the Metropolitans shaking my head no, can't see me shaking
my head.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
These team meetings. I have said this for years and years.
If you've been with me on this journey into audio madness,
I have been very consistent that the team meeting is
all about optics. It's strike a pose. You're playing to
the cameras, and you never hear in the game of
professional sports, people get in together players only meetings when
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everything is going great. They never get together say you
know you're really doing good, you are so great, I
love you, you know that you played such a great game.
They don't do that. And as I've talked to coaches
over the years, when back when I was out a
lot on the stadiums and arenas and whatnot, and the
consensus among the people that coach, at least back in
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those days, I don't know about now, things have changed
the bait, but player only meetings are a staple. It
is the epitome of suck. You know you suck based
on how many player only meetings you have. And every
losing team and every sport has these meetings. It is
an enduring tradition that goes back to the beginning of
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big time professional sports in this country. And I don't
follow sports really many other places, but I bet you
it happens everywhere. One of the silliest things that we
have that we discuss here. And here's why. Let me
tell you why, because I know this is gonna blow
your mind. Has ever thought of this? The players meet
by themselves all the time, planes, trains, automobiles, you name it,
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weight room, having the team meal. These guys spend more
time together than they do with their own families, and
yet they have to have a special meeting. They have
to have a we have a special meeting. We're going
to get together and have a grand time. So to
rephrase this, they have ample opportunity to chit chat among themselves.
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There's no need to have a team meeting. Your entire
life is a team meeting. Now, if you work a
regular job, it's different. Even in my job, I come in,
we have the night shift here. You think I ever
see Colin Cowherd, No, I don't. I mean I never.
I did see him a couple times at a golf
event I had to go to years ago for the company.
That's about it. We work different shifts. But everyone in
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professional sports who's on a team, hello, they're all together
all the time. So it's absolute bull crap and it's
something that low information fans eat off. Say, we're trying
to win. We're gonna have a team inning. Now, this guy,
Carlos Mendoza, I would not like to have stock in him.
He's the manager of the Mets, because this guy is cooked.
He is absolutely cooked. As manager of the Mets, he
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might want to go out and grab a bite to
eat because he's not long to manage the Mets. And somewhere.
I think he lives in the Dallas area, but I
don't know. Buck Showalter has a cheshire cat smile. Ear
to ear, He's like, yep, gotta get rid of me.
You had to get rid of me. I was too
hard on the players. You had to bring in a
nice guy. You got mister nice Carlos Mendoza, and the
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whole thing goes cow boom.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
For the Mets.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
All right, finally we're gonna pie it away from baseball. Briefly,
he moved to a hybrid story, a crossover story involving
sport and legality. A major your update on what for
one weekend was Golf's bad boy, bad boy, bad boy.
What they're gonna do? Yeah, well, what they're gonna do
(12:08):
when they come for you what you're gonna do when
they come for you. The Kentucky prosecutor, if you have
not heard, has decided, you know, on second thought, I'm
gonna drop all of the charges, every single charge. I'm
gonna give you nothing in terms of criminal charges. All
those charges have been filed against the number one golfer
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in the world, Scotty Scheffler. The case has now been
resolved less than two weeks after a really nutso arrest,
a very high profile case.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Here.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Scheffler was facing four criminal charges, including a felony after
a police officer said that the road was closed and
Scotti Scheffler ran over. The police officer disregarded the officer's command,
dragged him, ripped his eighty dollars pants while Scheffler was
attempting to enter Valhalla Golf Club for the second round
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of the PGA Championship. They're in Kentucky. So the question
is why did the prosecutor wait two weeks to drop
all charges against Scottie scheffer So Scotty Scheffler got the
get out of jail free card, but first he had
to give the rubber stamp. And this is as I
understand it, a little Birdie with a very loud chirp
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tells me that the people of that part of Louisville
would not agree to drop the charges unless Scottie Scheffler
agreed to not sue them. And then, as I understand it,
Scheffler's attorney said, okay, but what do we get. We
can't be sued either. So then they had to go
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to the cop and say, well, you can't sue either,
and so everyone signed off on it. And when the
rubber stamp went through, the get out of jail free,
get out of prosecution Carr came through and that was that.
And it's another example. Scottie Scheffler is a world class golfer.
If this was someone who is of average means, they
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would have been vaporized by the court system. But instead,
this is just good pr We talked about this in
a previous episode of the show. You try to pacify
the PGA. They don't want their golfers arrested. It's a
bad look for the PGA. More importantly, for the business
community in Louisville. You keep the negative publicity away and
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you want other big events to come back to that area.
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In headline pro bouncy Ball. We go to the Twin Cities.
They had a travel day in the Western Finals. They
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traveled by stagecoach from Dallas to Minnesota. Unless they didn't.
But the festivities will continue two nights. It is game
number five on this Thursday night, last Thursday of the
month of May, Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota basketball team
opened up a four point favorite over Lukea the turnover
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machines Mavericks. Now the latest line last night checked Minnesota
favored by four and a half four and a half. Now,
this comes after Carl Anthony Towns Kitty Kat dominated in
Game four. His performance sparked a mini rant from Kyrie.
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And you know, we're all open to that. We're all
open to that. We're all used to that. So if
you didn't see this or hear about it now Kyrie
Irving talking about the performance of Karl Anthony Towns back
in Game number four, Kyrie Irving said, despite the unfair
criticism that he has received. His quote, despite the unfair
criticism that he's received. Kat He's a great player. Close quote.
(17:34):
All right, So let's discuss the question the Maverick guard
Kyrie Irving saying that Karl Anthony Towns of Minnesota basketball
team has received unfair criticism. Is that based in any reality?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Is it any.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Reality at all? So I've got Tony Award, Centaur and Hogwarts,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to have a fire breathing dragon pop
up right here in the magic radio box, a fire
breathing dragon. So to answer the question, was the criticism
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of Karl Anthony Towns unfair? According to Kyrie Irving, it
was so. Kyrie Irving has long been against the cartel
of basketball. His soundtrack is a rage against the machine.
And like many of his commentaries over the years, Kyrie
Irving is misguided on this one. Also misguided on this one.
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It is ridiculous, right, absolutely ridiculous. Now we will give
Kyrie Irving a Tony Award for his latest bad take,
and I'll tell you why, because much like the Broadway musical,
it's all about the Jersey Boys. That is my theory,
all right, that's my theory on Kyrie Irving, Uncle Drew
and his commentary. Because Kyrie Irving and and Karl Anthony
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Towns both are kids that grew up in northern New Jersey.
They were both drafted number one over. They grew up
in town separated by about twenty miles as the crow Flies,
so they've lived similar lives. They're in the same demographic
in terms of four years apart, or so four or
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five years apart. But the level of scrutiny, and maybe
I'm crazy, what do I know, I just do the
Overnight Show. But the level of scrutiny that an elite
NBA player faces is always going to be high, right,
It's always going to be high, especially in the Hello,
the playoffs, playoffs. But nobody's being unfair. Carl Anthony Towns
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was historically horrible for three games in a row in
the Western Finals. That's not my opinion. That is fact.
It's on the public record, it's on the interweb. How
bad Carl Anthony Towns. It was. Then he showed up.
He's late to the party, but he looked wonderful in
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game four, Mazletov, he looked great. But you play well,
it's not that hard. This is not solving big time
problems in the world. You play well and they will
kiss your tushi. You play poorly and they will give
you a noggie. That's what they will do, a metaphorical noggie,
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a knuckle right to the head right there, all right now,
page two. So, speaking of Karl Anthony Towns, Minnesota has
a shovel in their hand right now. I don't know
if you know this or not. They have a shovel
in their hand, and they are trying to dig their
way out of a rather sizable hole that they created
by being unable to close games against the Dallas basketball team.
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And while the Mavericks are sitting pretty and Kyrie Irving's
talking about just another game and for the Wolves it's
a super Bowl. But if Minnesota doesn't make history, if
they do lose and go down to defeat, here, what
happens next. With out a doubt, you and I both
know every man wanted child knows that what happens next
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is the vultures come out. They start circling the rotting
carcass of the other team. And Carl Anthony Towns, even
though he is maddeningly inconsistent, you just put your hair
out the inconsistencies of Carl Anthony Towns. He is still
on the wish list of teams looking to shuffle the deck.
So what are the odds? What are the odds that
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the Minnesota basketball team would end up training Carl Anthony
Towns after the playoffs? So the mather of sportsbook odds
on Kitty Kat being traded, I have it at plus
one point fifty. That is a forty chance. That implies
a forty percent chance that Towns will go out of
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town from the Minnesota basketball team. And here's why. To me,
when I analyze what's going to happen in the dimension
where the Wolves lose, this comes down to the centaur,
half man, half horse, Alex Rodriguez A Rod. A Rod
is in a legal brew haha. It is a battle
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for the purse strings of the Wolves. He's fighting Glenn Taylor,
who foolishly worked out an agreement to sell the Minnesota
timber Wolves and then realized the team was worth a
hell of a lot more money than he was getting
for the team. So he said, wait a minute, I
don't want to sell the team anymore. But A Rod's like, hey,
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we've got a deal. A deal's a deal. We came
up with the money, we get the team. So it's
up to the legal system. It's up to attorneys to
figure out what's going to happen and arbitration and all
that stuff. But the chatter that we hear is that
if a Rod wins the team, he is going to
be a slum lord owner, all right. He is going
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to run on a bare bones budget because a Rod
doesn't actually have the money to run a professional sports
franchise properly. And so what he's going to do, and this,
according to the word on the street, is that a
Rod is going to just use the money that would
have gone to players and pocket the extra money, which
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you know a lot of people will do the same thing,
but that maybe you don't want your owner of your
team to do that. Now. Glenn Taylor, he's invested more
money recently. I assume if he got the team back,
he would just sell it to somebody else who would
have deeper pockets than a Rod. But if a Rod
gets the Timberwolves, it's not only Karl Anthony Towns. You're
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going to see a mass exodus of big money players.
They'll repackage Rudy gobaar and get rid of a bunch
of those guys. All right, last word here by request,
I am told it is time now for our obligatory
portion of the mal of monologue about the People's seem
the most interesting team in the entire NBA. Now, how
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do I know that anytime the Clippers do anything, I
don't even have to I don't have to look it up.
I don't even have to pay attention because I'll have
eighty five people tell me, Oh, you see what they did? Oh,
that's such a bad move. Okay, like that loser Tom Brady,
roast fan Matt all his teams have left. Every one
of his teams is relocated. You know that every one
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of his teams is relocated. Anyway, the People's team, the Clippers.
Big coaching news here. The Clippers have locked up Tyleru.
He's staying around five years seventy million. One report said,
so Tyleru keeping his job as coach of the Clippers.
Is this a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
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For the Clippers? So financially and for Tylu it's a
massive amount of money. They're moving into the taj Mahal,
greatest arena in the history of the world. That'll be
happening next NBA season for the people's team. But in
real okay, in terms of wins and losses, as the
late Tony Phillips told me old baseball player, wins and losses,
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wins and blankety blank losses. This is a little deal.
It's not no deal. It's not no deal. It's a
little deal. And well, I do think Tyler is pretty
good at what he does. I also am of the
belief NBA coaching can only really hurt you and can't
help you that much, and it's the players stupid. My
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evidence on this, let me even my evidence. I'm gonna
make my elevator pitch why I believe that to be true.
I think what's left in the playoffs is a great example.
You've got three teams left. Does anyone think the Dallas
Mavericks are in the position they're in because of the
brilliant coaching of Jason Kidd. How about let him play
Joe Joe Missoula in Boston. You talk about getting a
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sweetheart deal. The other coach was stooping one of the
assistants for the Celtics. So Joel Missoula gets promoted and
now he's about to win a championship. But do you
think Joe Mazzulla is the reason why the Celtics are
where they are? And how about Chris Finch who's injured
and has to sit behind the Minnesota bench? Are those
all great coaches? Methinks not so much. And so TYLERU
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good tactician, solid with the media, that good SoundBite, knows
how to talk in sound bites. Nevertheless, if I'm Steve Balmer,
if I'm the richest fat cat owner in the entire
world of the NBA, you know what I do. If
I'm Balmer, I said, you know, I don't really need
ty Lou. I'm gonna go over to Hogwarts for my
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next coach. I am going to pay someone I'm not
sure who at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
I'm gonna get one of those protection spells. Because it
doesn't matter. You could have Phil Jackson in his prime,
a Red Arbach, the great Bill Fitch Hall of Fame,
any of those guys. Kawhi Leonard goes into an injury
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and hibernates every postseason, every postseason, and there's a bunch
of media lap dogs that slobber all over us. Oh,
it's not as fall be fun, So get one of
those dumb protection spells and it doesn't. You can hire
my fat ass as coach and the Clippers would win.
If Kawhi is healthy. Everyone knows they've got the top
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team of Kwais. You never have a that's the fatal
flaw in the people's team. So Tyleru staying as coach
doesn't move the needle at all. At least it's not
Doc Rivers right. Could have been worse. It could have
been Doc Rivers coming back to coach. Always got a job,
not a good one in Wisconsin.
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Here we Go, Here we Go, Here we got that
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right now.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Speaking of the lowly Clippers, reports say that they could
target DeMar de Rosen this offseason if they're unable to
retain Paul George.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Then do you think they'll retain Paul George.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I do believe they're gonna keep Paul George. I think
he will be back. But if they lose him, I'm
not gonna lose any sleep. Paul George has for the
most part been a disappointment in big spots for the Clippers.
They did get to the Final Four a couple of
years ago, but other than that, he breaks your heart.
And Demartin Rosen is a pretty similar player, not as
good all around as Paul George, but it's not really
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that big a drop off, so that would be fine.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Next Viking Zicon Jared Allen spoke with the media on
Tuesday and said that the team needs to back the
truck up for Justin Jefferson. He said the team should
do whatever it takes because he is a game changer.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Do you agree, Ben, Well.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
He's going to get the highest contract of a wide receiver,
but I mean he wants quarterback money. I wouldn't pay
a wide receiver quarterback money. But it's the NFL. They
do crazy things in the NFL. Justin Jefferson's gonna get
ridiculous Money's just how ridiculous What level of ridiculous is
gonna get? By the way, shocking a former player would
want to see another player get paid a lot of money.
That never happens, and I know that doesn't happen in radio.
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We never cheer for other radio people get paid a
lot of money.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Next, Will Levis sat in a recent interview that he
is intent on making sure that he proves the Titans
right for believing in him.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Ben, what are the chances that he proves him right?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So you know on a like though, was it Tinder
you swipe right or your swipe left? It's undecided. At
this point. I would say the odds of Will Levis
being the quarterback of the Tennessee Titans three years from
now are about twenty percent. Not good. Not good. How
did we do?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Kouplo you pass this edition?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
That is a win because I said the Clippers in
the Final four that took me over the top.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
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Speaker 1 (29:56):
It's now time for time, Harry Harry Hovey.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
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Speaker 8 (30:04):
And the way we go ask bet your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour. The reading of
the questions and listeners like yourself who used to hashtag
asked Ben on X to the Kobaloup.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
This is a weird one, but Art Puffin would like
to know, high Art, what is the most gratifying public
restroom you've ever been in?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Gratifying?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Oh, I got a good one.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
So this would be the opposite of what we usually
talk about on the show, the most disgusting public bathroom
that you've nothing's coming to my head. I mean most
of the bathrooms are pretty normal. I don't recall. I
don't think I have one. I mean maybe some a
few nice hotels in New York or whatever that had
really nice bathrooms, But I mean I didn't really take
inventory of it, Eddie anything.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
The only thing that pomps in my mind is I
went to La King's like kind of private fan event,
and they had these like they brought in these like
luxurious portapot It was like a trailer and you went
into it and it was really nice. It was like
the nicest, you know, hortable bathroom I've ever been in.
It was crazy. So I guess I'd go with that.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Okay, a very nice porta potty. What about you, Lorraina?
Speaker 10 (31:16):
For me, Ben, I do a lot of trips to
Oregon and This is my favorite rest stop on the
way up. It's in Santanella at Pea Soup Anderson's. They
have the nicest bathroom. I always stopped there. Sometimes I'm like,
I should take a nap because they got this real
nice day bed in there.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I have fond memories of Anderson's Peace Soup. I stopped
at one of buelet In quite a bit. There's one
on the way to San Diego, and my mom, Restro
Soul had me if he convinced me if I ate
the pea soup, I would get a surprise. And the
surprise was that stupid cartoon drawing at the bottom of
the bowl.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
I'm still kissed at my mom.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Anyway, cool, I would have to say, Eddie's World on
the way to Las Vegas has fantastically clean restrooms.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
It's got like you.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Haven't been to BUCkies yet. That's next level. They got it.
They got a person in there going around non stop
cleaning the toilets. But Eddie, Eddie World. It should be
Eddie's World.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's called Eddie worlds Oh, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Yeah, Well I was next Kelly and Ashville would like
to know I Kelly if you had to give up
either sugar, caffeine, or meat, which would you pick?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I would go caffeine. I don't drink coffee, and every
once in a while I take a caffeine supplement, but
most of my life I use with it. I don't
use caffeine. So I love sugar and I love meat,
so I get rid of caffeine.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
Eddie, Oh, it's definitely caffeine. I don't give a crap
about caffeine. I could never have caffeine again.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
I'd be fine, Okay, Lorena, Yeah, I don't drink caffeine either.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Look at that. We're team no caffeine of cool.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Well, I think I would also have to choose caffeine
out of those three. I do love my diet, Doctor Pepper,
it is my life blood. But I think if I
switched to like caffeine free, you know, Dr Pepper.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
You have a similar experience.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I wouldn't really like when I missed the caffeine that much.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I don't think so, yeah, yeah, probably not. All right,
what is next is ask Ben? Your question is all
answers for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
All right, Uh, let's go with this one. Have any
of you doublew Mexican wants to know. Have any of
you ever tried or learned how to surf?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
No, I was seeing boogie board I'm a I'm a
prolific boogie boarder, but no, never, I never saw I'm
too I was too fat as a kid to surf.
You gotta you gotta be in shape, and you know
you can't you see any fat people surfing? No, no, no, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
No, no surfing for me either.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
It looks like on a surfing where you grew up at.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
No, definitely was in farm country.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
So no.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, Loraina, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:57):
I'm terrified of water and drowning and I hate being colds.
No surfing for me, Ben.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Okay, hard to surf in Oregon too, A lot of
rocky beaches. What about you? What about you?
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I was also a boogie border so.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Do the boogy?
Speaker 9 (34:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah? What's the next ask? Ben? Your questions are answers.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Mason and Huntington Beach would like to know.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I'm Mason.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
What's the most you've ever lost gambling?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I've met him. I don't talk about my losses. I
talked about my wins, Mason, but let's just say I
still have evil memories of Will Clark, not as a giant,
but of a Saint Louis Cardinal, as a Saint Louis
card I loaded up on the Atlanta Braves one year
when they had Maddix Clavin and Small's three Hall of
Fame pitchers, and they were playing a Cardinal team that
had all these injuries, and these effing Cardinals beat the Braves.
(34:43):
And I'm still feeling the effects of that. That in
the famous Music City Miracle, which was a fraud forward
illegal pass edny any big. You don't gamble though, you're
not really the person.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Not much A couple hundred bucks. Yeah, that's it, Lorrain.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Now you gambler, Lorrena.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
Do you gamble a little bit? But I have a
strict rule. I only play with fifty dollars. If I win,
I keep going. If I lose, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay, So when you what you should do is when
you win, you take that money out, go back to
the fifty dollars and then start over. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
I try to do that, but you don't.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That's why the casinos are so big. Kople Loop, you
are a gambler, coop a Loop. Most of your lost
playing poker.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Now do you think he meant like in one session.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Or like I'll just do one session, like one.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
One poker session, like a couple, grand couple grand.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, all right, going for it, Coopleop, what is next?
It's ask Ben, no red herrings. Your questions are answers.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Cowboy killer would like cowboy Killer. Did you ever have
a crush on any of your teachers?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
No? I had what I felt, we're very unattractive teachers
and uh no any any now, all.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
My teachers were like old librarian, I had.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
The same, We're close to same, Adria al lorraina signor Herbert.
Speaker 10 (36:04):
You are still in my memory.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
So wow, oh Cooper Cooper, Yeah, miss Sinkler, we missed out.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
It were Sinkler.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We didn't have any hot teachers, Eddie, but they did.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
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Speaker 1 (36:25):
Let's put the worldld right now, we heat over two
the zamboni on the microphone, Eddie Garcy, All.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Right, thanks Ben.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
The commence finals are both through four games, and both
series are even at two games apiece in the East
after the Panthers three to overtime win in Game four
it is a best of three. Last three games of
the series all decided in overtime, so obviously it's been
a very competitive series. Game five coming up in New
York Tonight. Rangers and Panthers in the West, also now
(36:55):
best of three. After the Oilers rally passed the Stars
five to two, Dallas had a two nothing lead before
I'd been to scored. The next five Game five will
be Friday in Dallas. Scott arneill As, the new head
coach of the Winnipeg Jets, had been an assistant under
Rick Bonas, who retired at the end of the season.
Arniel was drafted as a player by the original Winnipeg
Jets in nineteen eighty one played six seasons there. Takes
over a Jets team to finish second in the Central
(37:17):
Division one hundred and ten points, but lost in the
first round of the playoffs. The Seattle of Kracker named
Dan Bilesma as their second coach in franchise history. Spent
the last two years as the head coach of their
AHL affiliate in the Coachella Valley Catchella Valley Firebirds.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Biles mc guid to.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
The Pittsburgh peg Arena.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
It's nice, yeah, I've been by.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
That's pretty nice right near the highway there.
Speaker 9 (37:36):
Biles mc guiy to the Pittsburgh Penguin to the Stanley
Cup title in two thousand and nine, earned the Jack
Adams Orders Coach of the Year in twenty eleven. San
Jose Sharks the only team left in the NHL looking
at Philly a head coaching vacancy. It's reportedly between assistant
Ryan Korsowski and former Red Wings head coach Jeff Blaschal.
The Columbus Blue jag is named Don Woodell as their
new general manager and president of hockey Operations after he
(37:56):
stepped down his gam with the Carolina Hurricanes after his
contract set to expire. Hurricanes reached the playoffs and won
at least one series in each of his six seasons.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
On the job.
Speaker 9 (38:05):
He's also former GM of the expansion Atlanta Thrashers. Takes
over a Blue Jackets franchise that in twenty three seasons
of existence, have made it just six times into the
playoffs that have never gotten past the second round. Now,
we have not been mandated by management to give women's
professional hockey scores. Why not, But if we were, I'd
have to tell you that Minnesota beat Boston to win
the Professional Women's Hockey League's inaugural championship. They skated around
(38:29):
with the Walter Cup. Do you know who who Walter is?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Walter Berry? It's Mark Walter. Do you know who that is?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Oh? The Dodgers?
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Though, yeah, I didn't know the Dodgers had an owner,
but I mean he.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Runs the investment company.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
That owns there you go go.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Apparently he's a nice guy, but he will.
Speaker 9 (38:47):
Well, they must love him because he apparently put millions
of dollars into this women's professional hockey league and they
just had their inaugural.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Championship, the Walter Cup.
Speaker 9 (38:55):
Rick Tuckett of the Vancouver Canucks ran away with the
Jack Adams Award as NHL Coach of the Year. Got
eighty two first place votes. Deserve to win the award
that he's voted on by the media. Now, your boy,
John Tortorella, who had the awful rebuilding Philadelphia Flyers fighting
for a playoff spot until late in the year, got
how many votes?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
How many?
Speaker 7 (39:14):
Three?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
What?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
No first place votes? And again it's voted on by
the media.
Speaker 9 (39:19):
So I'm gonna say they had a grudge against against
the John.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Tortorella he definitely deserved more than three damn votes. He did.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
He did a job towarts all right, Tots.
Speaker 9 (39:32):
Utah Jazz and New Utah NHL team owner Rights made
a call to the Pat McAfee.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Show, I was hoping you would get to this.
Speaker 9 (39:39):
Saying that there are four finalists for the name of
the new NHL Utah team, and he singled out two names.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah Mammoth and Yeah yeie. Yeah, the Yeti's in the
final shot. Ye he's in the final four. Uh, here
we go, yey, here we go. Yeah, it's got to
be Hey. I'll be a fan of the Yeti. Even
Eddie'll be Yedi'll move to Utah and do the play
(40:06):
by play for the YETIP with you in Salt Lake.
By the way, the latest betting odds, the favorite is Yetti.
You can bet on these things. That Yeti is plus
three hundred, Mammoth is plus five twenty. Those are two
of the three favorites. The other one is Outlaws at
(40:27):
plus three point thirty. I like the Yetti, So does
vote again? Now? I don't know, not yet, No, No,
I think they're Ultimately they're they're going to the side.
I think they're gonna have one more round of voting.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
I heard there's no competition.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, it's gotta be.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
Yet I did have someone on Twitter say that Yeti
was a dumb name because the Yeti is from the
Himalayan Mountains, which I didn't know. And then I said, well,
wait a minute, there's no such thing as it yet
So is it really from the Helai Mountains?
Speaker 5 (40:54):
If it doesn't really exist.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
You can't go mammoth. Now you say, well, willy mammoth,
but I think mammoth. I think of California, right, Mammoth mountains?
What I think a ski resort? You can't call a
team and you taw the mammoth, But.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
You tell Yetti it just flows.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Come on, Yeaty, here we go, Yeaty, got your maskcot
ready to go, You got your big mascot and all that.
Good to go.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
Loraina has never been more excited about hockey in her life.
Speaker 10 (41:21):
I'm already imagining the little plush they're gonna make too,
because they're.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Gonna have it.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Do you want a jersey or a plush?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
I want a jersey?
Speaker 9 (41:27):
Okay, yeah, You've been promised her that if you tell YETI,
I will buy her a hockey Jersey, Okay?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Are you gonna buy her an authentic one or a
cheap ripoff?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Wanted, which ever looks better?
Speaker 5 (41:39):
What you want your name on the back, you want
a number, you want the whole.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Well you there's, yeah, there is yea queen.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
What would be your number?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Lorena twenty seven? For sure, go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Else with that, but very I don't know.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
And that's your puck.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
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know that when I woke up and started futzing around
trying to figure out what I wanted to talk about,
I had to watch games and things like that. I
had no no intention, no intention of including the Dodgers
and the Mets game that was aa a late afternoon
(02:01):
game on the East Coast, and b I already met
my quota of Mets talk. I'm not my guy Jason
Smith here, he's a Mets guy. He talks a lot
of Mets.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I don't talk a lot of Mets. I get bored
with that. They're boring to me. But this was not boring.
This was not boring. So wild scene. Maybe you haven't
been listening. I don't know what you got going on
in your world, but a wild scene in Queens. Now,
the Dodgers beat the pulp out of the Mets. That's
not the story. Don't bear the lad by man. That
was expected. Dodgers to win big, that was expected. It
(02:33):
was the extra curricular activity that was not on the
script for the game. Now, if you didn't see this
and hear about it, maybe not. There's a reliever I'd
never heard of before a few hours ago and named
Jorge Lopez, and he's a pitcher for the Mets. He
was not happy with the way things were going in
(02:54):
the game. How do we know that because he took
his glove off and tossed it like a discus over
the netting that was installed for years back to protect
the fans who don't pay attention with their games, and
it went flying into the crowd right there near the
home dugout at City Field. Now, this is after he
(03:17):
was ejected. Lopez, the relief picsher was ejected. He argued
a zech swing Freddie Freeman of the Dodgers at a
check swing in the eighth inning. He did not appreciate
the third base umpire, so he gave him the business,
and then the umpire ejected him. Now, Lopez then had
a very bizarre postgame interview with reporters in which he
(03:39):
expressed zero zero regrets for calling the Mets the worst
team in baseball. Now, he had no we're guests, we're
throwing the glove in the air. But he talked about
the Mets being the worst team in baseball, and we
have the audio just to prove I'm not making this up.
Let's go to the audio tape. Listen very closely. Here,
(03:59):
you pay close attentions. See if you got great hearing.
I'm moren't headphones. It's hard for me understand, but but
trust me. Let's go to the audio step. Here's Jorgey
Lopez of the Mets. Carlos Mendoza said that he understands
the emotion, but that that particular action of throwing your
glove into the standard is unacceptable.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Looking back on it, do you regret doing that?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
No, No, I don't.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I don't regret it. I think I've been looking the
worst team in probably in the whole MLB set.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Whatever happened happened. So whatever they want to do this,
I'll be tomorrow here if they want me, you know,
whatever they want to do. So I'm gonna keep doing
this thing, you know, so I'm healthy on whatever, you know,
whatever to do. You know, I'm you know, I'm ready
to come back tomorrow and the day one may be here,
(04:49):
so I'll be here.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah. Well we'll get to that in a second. So
he was later asked to clarify if he meant the
Mets were indeed the worst team in baseball and Lopez, Yeah,
probably it looked like it. Now. About an hour after that,
the aforementioned pitcher Jorge Lopez was designated for assignment, which
(05:11):
is a politically correct way to say you're fired, Get
out of here, see you later, Sayanara, Nana, nana, Hey, hey,
go ahdbye, get out of here. All right, now, let's
discuss the question, how do you classify the New York
Mets former relief pitcher JORYE. Lopez throwing his glove in
(05:33):
the crowd. So I've got jumping Jack's planes, trains and
automobiles and rubber stamp and we'll connect all of these
things together and we will be of the same mind,
is what We're going to be of the same mind. So,
first of all, say what you want about Hory Lopez,
and I have a lot to say. I have a
(05:54):
whole monologue mostly about him. But this guy does care.
I watched the Met this week and I see a
lot of guys that don't appear to care. You're not
supposed to say that. It's taboo, that's what they look like.
Is he unprofessional?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Are you supposed to have good decorum? Absolutely, you're supposed
to control yourself and not have a conniption fit while
you're on the mound. Yes, However, that glove toss after
a psycho analysis, a malor analysis here, that glove toss
over the netting was a crime of passion reminded me
(06:32):
years ago there was an old football coach named Mike
Singletary who was a great player, coaching the forty nine ers,
and he had one of the great sound bites of
all time. I want winners, I want people that want
to win, and that's the vibe guy from Horehelop. He's
sick and tired of this pathetic team. So he had
(06:53):
a Southwest Airlines want to get away moment there, and
he got what he wanted. He got his departure. Now,
this was a light version of Antonio Brown. It was
Antonio Brown like. The only thing missing was the jumping
jacks as he walked off the field, go full a
b and it's a guy. Let's call what it is.
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He's a roster spam. He's a relief pitcher. He's got
an ERA of over five in his career. He's not
very good, but he fills out a bullpen and he
can throw hard enough. He's got major League ability on
the mound. He doesn't get guys out very often. So
Horey Lopez went from a nobody to somebody, at least
for twenty four hours. I'm sure I'll forget about him
(07:36):
by the weekend, but for now I know who he is,
and if the Mets really want to punish Lopez, force him.
The joke is forced him to stay there, because, my god,
of all the teams that are actually trying to compete,
like there's some teams that aren't, like the Sacramento Athletics,
teams like that that aren't even trying. But among the
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teams that are actually trying, the Mets are in a
class by themselves for suckage. It's pretty impressive. It is,
all right now. Secondly, speaking of problems, Francisco Lindor of
the Metropolitans decided it was time. After the Dodgers swept
the Mets, it was time to get together and sit
(08:18):
around in a circle and tell stories. They held a
team meeting following the Old Kick and the Nuts by
the Dodgers. So the question is will this jump start
the Metropolitans shaking my head no, can't see me shaking
my head.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
No.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
These team meetings. I have said this for years and years.
If you've been with me on this journey into audio madness,
I have been very consistent that the team meeting is
all about optics. It's strike a pose. You're playing to
the cameras, and you never hear in the game of
professional sports, people get in together players only meetings when
(08:59):
everything is going great. They never get together say you
know you're really doing good, you are so great, I
love you, you know that you played such a great game.
They don't do that. And as I've talked to coaches
over the years, when back when I was out a
lot on the stadiums and arenas and whatnot, and the
consensus among the people that coach, at least back in
(09:21):
those days, I don't know about now, things have changed
the bait, but player only meetings are a staple. It
is the epitome of suck. You know you suck based
on how many player only meetings you have. And every
losing team and every sport has these meetings. It is
an enduring tradition that goes back to the beginning of
(09:44):
big time professional sports in this country. And I don't
follow sports really many other places, but I bet you
it happens everywhere. One of the silliest things that we
have that we discuss here. And here's why. Let me
tell you why, because I know this is gonna blow
your mind. Has ever thought of this? The players meet
by themselves all the time, planes, trains, automobiles, you name it,
(10:10):
weight room, having the team meal. These guys spend more
time together than they do with their own families, and
yet they have to have a special meeting. They have
to have a we have a special meeting. We're going
to get together and have a grand time. So to
rephrase this, they have ample opportunity to chit chat among themselves.
(10:35):
There's no need to have a team meeting. Your entire
life is a team meeting. Now, if you work a
regular job, it's different. Even in my job, I come in,
we have the night shift here. You think I ever
see Colin Cowherd, No, I don't. I mean I never.
I did see him a couple times at a golf
event I had to go to years ago for the company.
That's about it. We work different shifts. But everyone in
(10:59):
professional sports who's on a team, hello, they're all together
all the time. So it's absolute bull crap and it's
something that low information fans eat off. Say, we're trying
to win. We're gonna have a team inning. Now, this guy,
Carlos Mendoza, I would not like to have stock in him.
He's the manager of the Mets, because this guy is cooked.
He is absolutely cooked. As manager of the Mets, he
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might want to go out and grab a bite to
eat because he's not long to manage the Mets. And somewhere.
I think he lives in the Dallas area, but I
don't know. Buck Showalter has a cheshire cat smile. Ear
to ear, He's like, yep, gotta get rid of me.
You had to get rid of me. I was too
hard on the players. You had to bring in a
nice guy. You got mister nice Carlos Mendoza, and the
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whole thing goes cow boom.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
For the Mets.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
All right, finally we're gonna pie it away from baseball. Briefly,
he moved to a hybrid story, a crossover story involving
sport and legality. A major your update on what for
one weekend was Golf's bad boy, bad boy, bad boy.
What they're gonna do? Yeah, well, what they're gonna do
(12:08):
when they come for you what you're gonna do when
they come for you. The Kentucky prosecutor, if you have
not heard, has decided, you know, on second thought, I'm
gonna drop all of the charges, every single charge. I'm
gonna give you nothing in terms of criminal charges. All
those charges have been filed against the number one golfer
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in the world, Scotty Scheffler. The case has now been
resolved less than two weeks after a really nutso arrest,
a very high profile case.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Here.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Scheffler was facing four criminal charges, including a felony after
a police officer said that the road was closed and
Scotti Scheffler ran over. The police officer disregarded the officer's command,
dragged him, ripped his eighty dollars pants while Scheffler was
attempting to enter Valhalla Golf Club for the second round
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of the PGA Championship. They're in Kentucky. So the question
is why did the prosecutor wait two weeks to drop
all charges against Scottie scheffer So Scotty Scheffler got the
get out of jail free card, but first he had
to give the rubber stamp. And this is as I
understand it, a little Birdie with a very loud chirp
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tells me that the people of that part of Louisville
would not agree to drop the charges unless Scottie Scheffler
agreed to not sue them. And then, as I understand it,
Scheffler's attorney said, okay, but what do we get. We
can't be sued either. So then they had to go
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to the cop and say, well, you can't sue either,
and so everyone signed off on it. And when the
rubber stamp went through, the get out of jail free,
get out of prosecution Carr came through and that was that.
And it's another example. Scottie Scheffler is a world class golfer.
If this was someone who is of average means, they
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would have been vaporized by the court system. But instead,
this is just good pr We talked about this in
a previous episode of the show. You try to pacify
the PGA. They don't want their golfers arrested. It's a
bad look for the PGA. More importantly, for the business
community in Louisville. You keep the negative publicity away and
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you want other big events to come back to that area.
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In headline pro bouncy Ball. We go to the Twin Cities.
They had a travel day in the Western Finals. They
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traveled by stagecoach from Dallas to Minnesota. Unless they didn't.
But the festivities will continue two nights. It is game
number five on this Thursday night, last Thursday of the
month of May, Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota basketball team
opened up a four point favorite over Lukea the turnover
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machines Mavericks. Now the latest line last night checked Minnesota
favored by four and a half four and a half. Now,
this comes after Carl Anthony Towns Kitty Kat dominated in
Game four. His performance sparked a mini rant from Kyrie.
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And you know, we're all open to that. We're all
open to that. We're all used to that. So if
you didn't see this or hear about it now Kyrie
Irving talking about the performance of Karl Anthony Towns back
in Game number four, Kyrie Irving said, despite the unfair
criticism that he has received. His quote, despite the unfair
criticism that he's received. Kat He's a great player. Close quote.
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All right, So let's discuss the question the Maverick guard
Kyrie Irving saying that Karl Anthony Towns of Minnesota basketball
team has received unfair criticism. Is that based in any reality?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Is it any.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Reality at all? So I've got Tony Award, Centaur and Hogwarts,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to have a fire breathing dragon pop
up right here in the magic radio box, a fire
breathing dragon. So to answer the question, was the criticism
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of Karl Anthony Towns unfair? According to Kyrie Irving, it
was so. Kyrie Irving has long been against the cartel
of basketball. His soundtrack is a rage against the machine.
And like many of his commentaries over the years, Kyrie
Irving is misguided on this one. Also misguided on this one.
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It is ridiculous, right, absolutely ridiculous. Now we will give
Kyrie Irving a Tony Award for his latest bad take,
and I'll tell you why, because much like the Broadway musical,
it's all about the Jersey Boys. That is my theory,
all right, that's my theory on Kyrie Irving, Uncle Drew
and his commentary. Because Kyrie Irving and and Karl Anthony
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Towns both are kids that grew up in northern New Jersey.
They were both drafted number one over. They grew up
in town separated by about twenty miles as the crow Flies,
so they've lived similar lives. They're in the same demographic
in terms of four years apart, or so four or
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five years apart. But the level of scrutiny, and maybe
I'm crazy, what do I know, I just do the
Overnight Show. But the level of scrutiny that an elite
NBA player faces is always going to be high, right,
It's always going to be high, especially in the Hello,
the playoffs, playoffs. But nobody's being unfair. Carl Anthony Towns
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was historically horrible for three games in a row in
the Western Finals. That's not my opinion. That is fact.
It's on the public record, it's on the interweb. How
bad Carl Anthony Towns. It was. Then he showed up.
He's late to the party, but he looked wonderful in
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game four, Mazletov, he looked great. But you play well,
it's not that hard. This is not solving big time
problems in the world. You play well and they will
kiss your tushi. You play poorly and they will give
you a noggie. That's what they will do, a metaphorical noggie,
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a knuckle right to the head right there, all right now,
page two. So, speaking of Karl Anthony Towns, Minnesota has
a shovel in their hand right now. I don't know
if you know this or not. They have a shovel
in their hand, and they are trying to dig their
way out of a rather sizable hole that they created
by being unable to close games against the Dallas basketball team.
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And while the Mavericks are sitting pretty and Kyrie Irving's
talking about just another game and for the Wolves it's
a super Bowl. But if Minnesota doesn't make history, if
they do lose and go down to defeat, here, what
happens next. With out a doubt, you and I both
know every man wanted child knows that what happens next
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is the vultures come out. They start circling the rotting
carcass of the other team. And Carl Anthony Towns, even
though he is maddeningly inconsistent, you just put your hair
out the inconsistencies of Carl Anthony Towns. He is still
on the wish list of teams looking to shuffle the deck.
So what are the odds? What are the odds that
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the Minnesota basketball team would end up training Carl Anthony
Towns after the playoffs? So the mather of sportsbook odds
on Kitty Kat being traded, I have it at plus
one point fifty. That is a forty chance. That implies
a forty percent chance that Towns will go out of
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town from the Minnesota basketball team. And here's why. To me,
when I analyze what's going to happen in the dimension
where the Wolves lose, this comes down to the centaur,
half man, half horse, Alex Rodriguez A Rod. A Rod
is in a legal brew haha. It is a battle
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for the purse strings of the Wolves. He's fighting Glenn Taylor,
who foolishly worked out an agreement to sell the Minnesota
timber Wolves and then realized the team was worth a
hell of a lot more money than he was getting
for the team. So he said, wait a minute, I
don't want to sell the team anymore. But A Rod's like, hey,
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we've got a deal. A deal's a deal. We came
up with the money, we get the team. So it's
up to the legal system. It's up to attorneys to
figure out what's going to happen and arbitration and all
that stuff. But the chatter that we hear is that
if a Rod wins the team, he is going to
be a slum lord owner, all right. He is going
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to run on a bare bones budget because a Rod
doesn't actually have the money to run a professional sports
franchise properly. And so what he's going to do, and this,
according to the word on the street, is that a
Rod is going to just use the money that would
have gone to players and pocket the extra money, which
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you know a lot of people will do the same thing,
but that maybe you don't want your owner of your
team to do that. Now. Glenn Taylor, he's invested more
money recently. I assume if he got the team back,
he would just sell it to somebody else who would
have deeper pockets than a Rod. But if a Rod
gets the Timberwolves, it's not only Karl Anthony Towns. You're
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going to see a mass exodus of big money players.
They'll repackage Rudy gobaar and get rid of a bunch
of those guys. All right, last word here by request,
I am told it is time now for our obligatory
portion of the mal of monologue about the People's seem
the most interesting team in the entire NBA. Now, how
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do I know that anytime the Clippers do anything, I
don't even have to I don't have to look it up.
I don't even have to pay attention because I'll have
eighty five people tell me, Oh, you see what they did? Oh,
that's such a bad move. Okay, like that loser Tom Brady,
roast fan Matt all his teams have left. Every one
of his teams is relocated. You know that every one
(24:24):
of his teams is relocated. Anyway, the People's team, the Clippers.
Big coaching news here. The Clippers have locked up Tyleru.
He's staying around five years seventy million. One report said,
so Tyleru keeping his job as coach of the Clippers.
Is this a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
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For the Clippers? So financially and for Tylu it's a
massive amount of money. They're moving into the taj Mahal,
greatest arena in the history of the world. That'll be
happening next NBA season for the people's team. But in
real okay, in terms of wins and losses, as the
late Tony Phillips told me old baseball player, wins and losses,
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wins and blankety blank losses. This is a little deal.
It's not no deal. It's not no deal. It's a
little deal. And well, I do think Tyler is pretty
good at what he does. I also am of the
belief NBA coaching can only really hurt you and can't
help you that much, and it's the players stupid. My
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evidence on this, let me even my evidence. I'm gonna
make my elevator pitch why I believe that to be true.
I think what's left in the playoffs is a great example.
You've got three teams left. Does anyone think the Dallas
Mavericks are in the position they're in because of the
brilliant coaching of Jason Kidd. How about let him play
Joe Joe Missoula in Boston. You talk about getting a
(25:52):
sweetheart deal. The other coach was stooping one of the
assistants for the Celtics. So Joel Missoula gets promoted and
now he's about to win a championship. But do you
think Joe Mazzulla is the reason why the Celtics are
where they are? And how about Chris Finch who's injured
and has to sit behind the Minnesota bench? Are those
all great coaches? Methinks not so much. And so TYLERU
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good tactician, solid with the media, that good SoundBite, knows
how to talk in sound bites. Nevertheless, if I'm Steve Balmer,
if I'm the richest fat cat owner in the entire
world of the NBA, you know what I do. If
I'm Balmer, I said, you know, I don't really need
ty Lou. I'm gonna go over to Hogwarts for my
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next coach. I am going to pay someone I'm not
sure who at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
I'm gonna get one of those protection spells. Because it
doesn't matter. You could have Phil Jackson in his prime,
a Red Arbach, the great Bill Fitch Hall of Fame,
any of those guys. Kawhi Leonard goes into an injury
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and hibernates every postseason, every postseason, and there's a bunch
of media lap dogs that slobber all over us. Oh,
it's not as fall be fun, So get one of
those dumb protection spells and it doesn't. You can hire
my fat ass as coach and the Clippers would win.
If Kawhi is healthy. Everyone knows they've got the top
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team of Kwais. You never have a that's the fatal
flaw in the people's team. So Tyleru staying as coach
doesn't move the needle at all. At least it's not
Doc Rivers right. Could have been worse. It could have
been Doc Rivers coming back to coach. Always got a job,
not a good one in Wisconsin.
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Here we Go, Here we Go, Here we got that
to the third degree gets grilled cream of the crop
right now.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Speaking of the lowly Clippers, reports say that they could
target DeMar de Rosen this offseason if they're unable to
retain Paul George.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Then do you think they'll retain Paul George.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I do believe they're gonna keep Paul George. I think
he will be back. But if they lose him, I'm
not gonna lose any sleep. Paul George has for the
most part been a disappointment in big spots for the Clippers.
They did get to the Final Four a couple of
years ago, but other than that, he breaks your heart.
And Demartin Rosen is a pretty similar player, not as
good all around as Paul George, but it's not really
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that big a drop off, so that would be fine.
Speaker 7 (28:32):
Next Viking Zicon Jared Allen spoke with the media on
Tuesday and said that the team needs to back the
truck up for Justin Jefferson. He said the team should
do whatever it takes because he is a game changer.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Do you agree, Ben, Well.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
He's going to get the highest contract of a wide receiver,
but I mean he wants quarterback money. I wouldn't pay
a wide receiver quarterback money. But it's the NFL. They
do crazy things in the NFL. Justin Jefferson's gonna get
ridiculous Money's just how ridiculous What level of ridiculous is
gonna get? By the way, shocking a former player would
want to see another player get paid a lot of money.
That never happens, and I know that doesn't happen in radio.
(29:07):
We never cheer for other radio people get paid a
lot of money.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Next, Will Levis sat in a recent interview that he
is intent on making sure that he proves the Titans
right for believing in him.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Ben, what are the chances that he proves him right?
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
So you know on a like though, was it Tinder
you swipe right or your swipe left? It's undecided. At
this point. I would say the odds of Will Levis
being the quarterback of the Tennessee Titans three years from
now are about twenty percent. Not good. Not good. How
did we do?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Kouplo you pass this edition?
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That is a win because I said the Clippers in
the Final four that took me over the top.
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It's now time for time, Harry Harry Hovey.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Ask bad Twitter said, this is your questions on Twitter now.
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And the way we go ask bet your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour. The reading of
the questions and listeners like yourself who used to hashtag
asked Ben on X to the Kobaloup.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
This is a weird one, but Art Puffin would like
to know, high Art, what is the most gratifying public
restroom you've ever been in?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Gratifying?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Oh, I got a good one.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
So this would be the opposite of what we usually
talk about on the show, the most disgusting public bathroom
that you've nothing's coming to my head. I mean most
of the bathrooms are pretty normal. I don't recall. I
don't think I have one. I mean maybe some a
few nice hotels in New York or whatever that had
really nice bathrooms, But I mean I didn't really take
inventory of it, Eddie anything.
Speaker 9 (30:50):
The only thing that pomps in my mind is I
went to La King's like kind of private fan event,
and they had these like they brought in these like
luxurious portapot It was like a trailer and you went
into it and it was really nice. It was like
the nicest, you know, hortable bathroom I've ever been in.
It was crazy. So I guess I'd go with that.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Okay, a very nice porta potty. What about you, Lorraina?
Speaker 10 (31:16):
For me, Ben, I do a lot of trips to
Oregon and This is my favorite rest stop on the
way up. It's in Santanella at Pea Soup Anderson's. They
have the nicest bathroom. I always stopped there. Sometimes I'm like,
I should take a nap because they got this real
nice day bed in there.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I have fond memories of Anderson's Peace Soup. I stopped
at one of buelet In quite a bit. There's one
on the way to San Diego, and my mom, Restro
Soul had me if he convinced me if I ate
the pea soup, I would get a surprise. And the
surprise was that stupid cartoon drawing at the bottom of
the bowl.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
I'm still kissed at my mom.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Anyway, cool, I would have to say, Eddie's World on
the way to Las Vegas has fantastically clean restrooms.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
It's got like you.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Haven't been to BUCkies yet. That's next level. They got it.
They got a person in there going around non stop
cleaning the toilets. But Eddie, Eddie World. It should be
Eddie's World.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's called Eddie worlds Oh, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Yeah, Well I was next Kelly and Ashville would like
to know I Kelly if you had to give up
either sugar, caffeine, or meat, which would you pick?
Speaker 1 (32:31):
I would go caffeine. I don't drink coffee, and every
once in a while I take a caffeine supplement, but
most of my life I use with it. I don't
use caffeine. So I love sugar and I love meat,
so I get rid of caffeine.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
Eddie, Oh, it's definitely caffeine. I don't give a crap
about caffeine. I could never have caffeine again.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
I'd be fine, Okay, Lorena, Yeah, I don't drink caffeine either.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Look at that. We're team no caffeine of cool.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Well, I think I would also have to choose caffeine
out of those three. I do love my diet, Doctor Pepper,
it is my life blood. But I think if I
switched to like caffeine free, you know, Dr Pepper.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
You have a similar experience.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I wouldn't really like when I missed the caffeine that much.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I don't think so, yeah, yeah, probably not. All right,
what is next is ask Ben? Your question is all
answers for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
All right, Uh, let's go with this one. Have any
of you doublew Mexican wants to know. Have any of
you ever tried or learned how to surf?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
No, I was seeing boogie board I'm a I'm a
prolific boogie boarder, but no, never, I never saw I'm
too I was too fat as a kid to surf.
You gotta you gotta be in shape, and you know
you can't you see any fat people surfing? No, no, no, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
No, no surfing for me either.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
It looks like on a surfing where you grew up at.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
No, definitely was in farm country.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
So no.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah, Loraina, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:57):
I'm terrified of water and drowning and I hate being colds.
No surfing for me, Ben.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Okay, hard to surf in Oregon too, A lot of
rocky beaches. What about you? What about you?
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I was also a boogie border so.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Do the boogy?
Speaker 9 (34:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah? What's the next ask? Ben? Your questions are answers.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Mason and Huntington Beach would like to know.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I'm Mason.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
What's the most you've ever lost gambling?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I've met him. I don't talk about my losses. I
talked about my wins, Mason, but let's just say I
still have evil memories of Will Clark, not as a giant,
but of a Saint Louis Cardinal, as a Saint Louis
card I loaded up on the Atlanta Braves one year
when they had Maddix Clavin and Small's three Hall of
Fame pitchers, and they were playing a Cardinal team that
had all these injuries, and these effing Cardinals beat the Braves.
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And I'm still feeling the effects of that. That in
the famous Music City Miracle, which was a fraud forward
illegal pass edny any big. You don't gamble though, you're
not really the person.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Not much A couple hundred bucks. Yeah, that's it, Lorrain.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Now you gambler, Lorrena.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
Do you gamble a little bit? But I have a
strict rule. I only play with fifty dollars. If I win,
I keep going. If I lose, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay, So when you what you should do is when
you win, you take that money out, go back to
the fifty dollars and then start over. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
I try to do that, but you don't.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
That's why the casinos are so big. Kople Loop, you
are a gambler, coop a Loop. Most of your lost
playing poker.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Now do you think he meant like in one session.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Or like I'll just do one session, like one.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
One poker session, like a couple, grand couple grand.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, all right, going for it, Coopleop, what is next?
It's ask Ben, no red herrings. Your questions are answers.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Cowboy killer would like cowboy Killer. Did you ever have
a crush on any of your teachers?
Speaker 1 (35:49):
No? I had what I felt, we're very unattractive teachers
and uh no any any now, all.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
My teachers were like old librarian, I had.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
The same, We're close to same, Adria al lorraina signor Herbert.
Speaker 10 (36:04):
You are still in my memory.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
So wow, oh Cooper Cooper, Yeah, miss Sinkler, we missed out.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
It were Sinkler.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
We didn't have any hot teachers, Eddie, but they did.
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Speaker 1 (36:25):
Let's put the worldld right now, we heat over two
the zamboni on the microphone, Eddie Garcy, All.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Right, thanks Ben.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
The commence finals are both through four games, and both
series are even at two games apiece in the East
after the Panthers three to overtime win in Game four
it is a best of three. Last three games of
the series all decided in overtime, so obviously it's been
a very competitive series. Game five coming up in New
York Tonight. Rangers and Panthers in the West, also now
(36:55):
best of three. After the Oilers rally passed the Stars
five to two, Dallas had a two nothing lead before
I'd been to scored. The next five Game five will
be Friday in Dallas. Scott arneill As, the new head
coach of the Winnipeg Jets, had been an assistant under
Rick Bonas, who retired at the end of the season.
Arniel was drafted as a player by the original Winnipeg
Jets in nineteen eighty one played six seasons there. Takes
over a Jets team to finish second in the Central
(37:17):
Division one hundred and ten points, but lost in the
first round of the playoffs. The Seattle of Kracker named
Dan Bilesma as their second coach in franchise history. Spent
the last two years as the head coach of their
AHL affiliate in the Coachella Valley Catchella Valley Firebirds.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Biles mc guid to.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
The Pittsburgh peg Arena.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
It's nice, yeah, I've been by.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
That's pretty nice right near the highway there.
Speaker 9 (37:36):
Biles mc guiy to the Pittsburgh Penguin to the Stanley
Cup title in two thousand and nine, earned the Jack
Adams Orders Coach of the Year in twenty eleven. San
Jose Sharks the only team left in the NHL looking
at Philly a head coaching vacancy. It's reportedly between assistant
Ryan Korsowski and former Red Wings head coach Jeff Blaschal.
The Columbus Blue jag is named Don Woodell as their
new general manager and president of hockey Operations after he
(37:56):
stepped down his gam with the Carolina Hurricanes after his
contract set to expire. Hurricanes reached the playoffs and won
at least one series in each of his six seasons.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
On the job.
Speaker 9 (38:05):
He's also former GM of the expansion Atlanta Thrashers. Takes
over a Blue Jackets franchise that in twenty three seasons
of existence, have made it just six times into the
playoffs that have never gotten past the second round. Now,
we have not been mandated by management to give women's
professional hockey scores. Why not, But if we were, I'd
have to tell you that Minnesota beat Boston to win
the Professional Women's Hockey League's inaugural championship. They skated around
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with the Walter Cup. Do you know who who Walter is?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Walter Berry? It's Mark Walter. Do you know who that is?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Oh? The Dodgers?
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Though, yeah, I didn't know the Dodgers had an owner,
but I mean he.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Runs the investment company.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
That owns there you go go.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Apparently he's a nice guy, but he will.
Speaker 9 (38:47):
Well, they must love him because he apparently put millions
of dollars into this women's professional hockey league and they
just had their inaugural.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Championship, the Walter Cup.
Speaker 9 (38:55):
Rick Tuckett of the Vancouver Canucks ran away with the
Jack Adams Award as NHL Coach of the Year. Got
eighty two first place votes. Deserve to win the award
that he's voted on by the media. Now, your boy,
John Tortorella, who had the awful rebuilding Philadelphia Flyers fighting
for a playoff spot until late in the year, got
how many votes?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
How many?
Speaker 7 (39:14):
Three?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
What?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
No first place votes? And again it's voted on by
the media.
Speaker 9 (39:19):
So I'm gonna say they had a grudge against against
the John.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Tortorella he definitely deserved more than three damn votes. He did.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
He did a job towarts all right, Tots.
Speaker 9 (39:32):
Utah Jazz and New Utah NHL team owner Rights made
a call to the Pat McAfee.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Show, I was hoping you would get to this.
Speaker 9 (39:39):
Saying that there are four finalists for the name of
the new NHL Utah team, and he singled out two names.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah Mammoth and Yeah yeie. Yeah, the Yeti's in the
final shot. Ye he's in the final four. Uh, here
we go, yey, here we go. Yeah, it's got to
be Hey. I'll be a fan of the Yeti. Even
Eddie'll be Yedi'll move to Utah and do the play
(40:06):
by play for the YETIP with you in Salt Lake.
By the way, the latest betting odds, the favorite is Yetti.
You can bet on these things. That Yeti is plus
three hundred, Mammoth is plus five twenty. Those are two
of the three favorites. The other one is Outlaws at
(40:27):
plus three point thirty. I like the Yetti, So does
vote again? Now? I don't know, not yet, No, No,
I think they're Ultimately they're they're going to the side.
I think they're gonna have one more round of voting.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
I heard there's no competition.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, it's gotta be.
Speaker 9 (40:42):
Yet I did have someone on Twitter say that Yeti
was a dumb name because the Yeti is from the
Himalayan Mountains, which I didn't know. And then I said, well,
wait a minute, there's no such thing as it yet
So is it really from the Helai Mountains?
Speaker 5 (40:54):
If it doesn't really exist.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
You can't go mammoth. Now you say, well, willy mammoth,
but I think mammoth. I think of California, right, Mammoth mountains?
What I think a ski resort? You can't call a
team and you taw the mammoth, But.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
You tell Yetti it just flows.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Come on, Yeaty, here we go, Yeaty, got your maskcot
ready to go, You got your big mascot and all that.
Good to go.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
Loraina has never been more excited about hockey in her life.
Speaker 10 (41:21):
I'm already imagining the little plush they're gonna make too,
because they're.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Gonna have it.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Do you want a jersey or a plush?
Speaker 3 (41:26):
I want a jersey?
Speaker 9 (41:27):
Okay, yeah, You've been promised her that if you tell YETI,
I will buy her a hockey Jersey, Okay?
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Are you gonna buy her an authentic one or a
cheap ripoff?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Wanted, which ever looks better?
Speaker 5 (41:39):
What you want your name on the back, you want
a number, you want the whole.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Well you there's, yeah, there is yea queen.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
What would be your number?
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Lorena twenty seven? For sure, go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Else with that, but very I don't know.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
And that's your puck.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
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