June 19, 2024 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about Jaylen Brown & Jayson Tatum taking shots at Celtics critics, baseball legend Willie Mays passing away at age 93, Maller to the Third Degree, Queen of Hearts w/ La Reina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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d the number ten thousand. So Willie May has passed
away that news came down. He was in poor health.
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He was in his nineties. We will talk about Willy's
life and times coming up a little bit later. But
I wanted to start with this pro bouncy ball. The
day after, which is now the day after The day
after twas the title one in Boston, not all quiet
in the land. Just thirteen hours after the confetti fell
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at the Garden, the Celtic players and coaches bordered a
private chartered flight bound for Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami. Did
they want to go hang out with Jimmy Buckets in
the heat?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Apparently not. They wanted to do party. This is a
shot at the nightlife in Boston that the Celtics decided
to travel to Miami. I guess it was too far
to get to Vegas and back, so they went to
Miami instead. But the seas Conceibovie will spent a couple
of nights there in South Florida running up the booze account,
and then head back for the championship duck Boat Parade,
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which will be on Friday morning, so they could even
leave Friday morning. If they won't, I don't have to
leave Thursday. They could leave on Friday morning. And so
the booze is a flowing in the air and in
the belly everywhere. But the smack a root talk continues
inside the Green team, so if you know what I mean,
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maybe not, I don't know if you're paying attention to
this or not. But the Celtics social media, they sent
out a sizzle reel which is now become common. Every
once in a while, I end up in one of
these things. So I think the Arizona Diamondbacks last year
did one when they got to the World Series, and
they included to me, and there've been a few other
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teams over the years they have done. I didn't make
the one with the Celtics because I picked the Celtics. See,
if you want to get in those you have to
pick against the team that wins. That's the rule there,
and if you do that, sometimes they'll put you in there,
which I had no problem with. I'm fine with that.
But Jason Tatum, we talked a little bit about this
in a previous episode of the show, but I wanted
to get into it again here. Jason Tatum basking in
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the Celtics win by doing a couple of things here
which were awkward. Is kind of a weird dude. He's
good at basketball, a little bit of a weirdo. So
he sent Jason Tatum a post out said what they
gonna say now on social media. That was the first thing,
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and he did a couple of other things We'll get
to in a second now. Jalen Brown, who after the
Celtics won and he was named the most Valuable Player
of the Finals, Jalen Brown came out and said he
didn't really care about the critics and all that. Well,
then Jalen Brown revealed that the Celtics win. He went
on Instagram after the Celtics had won the day after
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and all that had some time to calm down, and
he shared a post that stated eighty nine percent of
the bets placed on the NBA Finals were indeed on
the Dallas basketball team to win. Wellough, I don't believe
that is factually correct. I believe it was the game
one matchup of the Finals. Game one, the media was
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pumping the tires on Luka Doncic and the Mavericks and
they got most of the bets, if I remember correctly,
it was not overall for the finals. So let us
discuss the question can you make sense of Jalen Brown
and Jason Tatum taking turns poking the critics of the
Boston Celtics. So I've got Winchals, Disney's Aladdin, and Treasure Chest,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a hangover, which is what
just about every single Celtic player we'll be dealing with.
Although we have heard from listeners to the show, if
you just don't stop drinking, you don't have to worry
about having a hangover. You just continue on and on.
So my first thought on this whole thing was it
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was cringe worthy by both Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum,
because overall, the Celtics were a humongous favorite in the
NBA Finals. Most people were picking the Celtics win. They
were the better team and they were supposed to win,
and that's exactly what they did. But this whole situation
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with Tatum posting a bunch of stuff and some of
the things he said after the Celtics won, and then
Jaylen Brown, it really is more for my purposes. I'm
gonna make it all about me. I'm gonna pull a
Tom Looney and make it all about me. It is validation.
It's hot take validation because I have been screaming from
the bully pulpit for many, many years. It is not
the fan. It is not the family, It is not
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the teammates. It is not the coach that matter the most.
They don't matter. The person that matters the most is
the critic. The critic is the one that moves the
needle and the big mouth, blow hard, gas bag, whoever
you want to how we want to phrase it right,
any of those terms. The one that ruffles the feathers
by not saying the thing you want them to say
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at the time you want them to say it. That
is the powerful person. That is the person that gets
mentioned after every re championship, even when you're a presumptive
favorite and all the polling stations say you're going to win,
it doesn't matter. That's the spark plug. The critic. The
critic is the motivator. That's the critic you saw after
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the Celtics one. The first commercial they aired was a
Nike commercial that was in the can for Jason Tatum
and the Nike marketing people talking about proving the doubters wrong,
which is the standard fare. And had the series gone
on and Dallas said one, we would have gotten a
commercial with Luka Natchik saying the same crap. It would
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have been the same. All of this is a trip
to Winchell's or in this case, Walter Winchell, long ago
radio man Walter Winchell, who pointed out that the same thing,
the same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to
different people. In this case, the same thing happened this
year that happened in previous years, just to different different athletes.
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Like the Nuggets, we're doing they nobody thought we could
do it last year, and now it's the Celtics turn,
and next year it'll be tm X. And even when
teams are big favorites like Boston, they still do the
same thing. But I want to go back to Jason Tatum,
because in the case of Tatum, he was doing a
lot of copying and pasting, like you were doing your phone,
your computer whatever. He tried to recreate right after the game.
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I didn't notice this at the time, because you know,
I don't have a file of these things, but thank
God for the Internet sluice that do so side by side.
I watched the video and he recreated or attempted to
recreate Kevin Garnett after the Celtics one and oh eight
anything is possible, the anything possible speech, and he did that.
Tatum also said, what are they going to say?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That was the money quote, which is the same exact
thing that Steph Curry had said when the Warriors won
in twenty twenty two and he was the MVP. So
he plagiarized Steph Curry. Now turning the pager, let's move
away from the Celtics because the silly season underway in
the NBA, and there are reports that say JJ Reddick
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was quote very impressive during his recent sore an interview
with the Lakers there, So where does that leave things
at this particular point. The draft is coming up in
like a week a little less than that, I believe,
So it's in the hands of lawyers. It's in the
hands of lawyers. Here's here's where we are right now
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with Reddick. They're crunching the numbers and the lawyers are
trying to figure out It's like parachute shopping. I'll call
like this. The analogy is it's like shopping for a parachute.
I don't even know where you would buy a parachute,
but it's like trying to buy a parachute. And the
question is how big of a golden parachute do the
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Lakers want to give JJ? Because they're nevitely going to
fire him in a coupley. Lebron's gonna pay maybe one
or two years more and that's it, and he'll go
away and then they'll have to get rid of JJ Reddick.
Is the only reason they hired JJ Reddick was because
of a Lebron but Bus. If you look at this
chapter of the book, Genie Bus is like Genie from
Disney's Aladdin, and she's telling Lebron James right now, Lebron,
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yet again, your wish is my command. Lebron. You want
your podcast pal to be the coach. Okay, I can
make that happen. Sure that'll guarantee Lebron comes back. You
can't not come back to the Lakers if your podcast
BFF is the coach of the team masquerading as the coach.
We know Lebron's always the coach. Hey, you want your
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kid to be a Laker. We're working on that. Yeah,
we'll get Bronni Scrottie Bronni. We'll bring him in. Sure,
why not, We'll sell a few more tickets. We'll draft.
H me shouldn't even be drafted. We'll draft and why not?
All right? Last word, we now go to the bean
counters department. The numbers have been added up here on
this and we have been told that the Golden State
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basketball team and the People's team in Los Angeles are
both staring down the barrel of the national debt. Basketball.
It's not as much as the US national debt, which
is insane. They just keep pretty money. But the NBA
luxury tax bills are expected to exceed what was the
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salary cap in the twenty twenty three to twenty twenty
four season. Let me repeat that for those who in
the back of the room. The Golden State franchise and
the Clips are going to have luxury tax bills that
are higher than the entire salary cap. I'm anti cap anyway.
The luxury tax payments for Golden State one hundred and
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seventy six point nine million, and then the Clippers are
one hundred and forty two point four million. The cap
was at one hundred and thirty six million. It was
told by a program directory years ago. You never supposed
to give too many numbers out on the radio, So
I just gave a bunch of numbers. But Golden State,
let's just focus on the WARRIORSA Golden State with an
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NBA high luxury tax payment almost one hundred and seventy
seven million dollars. That is blank. That is my word
for this, and I'll keep it simple. I'll keep it simple.
Is Bravo is my word. Tip of the cap to
Joel Aacub and to Steve Balmer. I know we're talking
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more about Golden State here, but both owners may every man,
woman and child, at least when they grow up, have
a boss with this kind of treasure chest. Think of
the treasure chest. This is not a family business. It's
not You don't give out that kind of money if
it's a family business. The aristocrats, these guys have so
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much money, so much money that they can't take it
with them. This is not like the Egyptians. You know
the legend. I don't think it's true, but the Egyptians
were buried at legend has it with vast amounts of
treasure in the Pyramids and the tombs of Egyptian people
would raid them. That's the all the movies. May it
seem like that happen. I don't think it's actually true, though,
But the Robber Barons are blowing it. They're blowing it
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on their expensive toy, their NBA team and Joe lakebough.
In this equation, it's hard to say a guy worth
two point one billion is a daredevil, but side by
side Pepsi challenge, absolute daredevil. He's worth two point one billion.
Steve Balmer has a net worth of one hundred and
thirty billion. I mean, it's insane, insane. He didn't invent Microsoft.
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He just worked for Microsoft and he's got He left
and he got one hundred thirty billion now. And by
the way, a source tells me that both Golden State
and the Clippers still will turn a profit even with
that insane balloon payment. Let that settle in. Imagine how
much the other teams are making. If they're making money
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even with that expense.
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to baseball and the news that came down the pike,
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news that came down the pike on Tuesday night, Tuesday night,
watching some baseball saw Actually I was watching Hockey's what
I was watching. But I saw this, and I flipped
over to a baseball game, and I flipped back to
the hockey game. But our lead this hour is from baseball.
A bigger than life ballplayer has crossed over the pearly gates.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Here.
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We assume you've heard by now, but perhaps not. Willie
Mays has died. Died of heart failure. He was ninety three.
He's been in poor hell. He was the oldest living
Hall of Fame player in the sport of baseball. I'm
not sure who replaced him, not that it really matters,
but all kinds of tributes have come in from dignitaries,
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people that think they're dignitaries, people that think they're important.
All those type of people have issued various statements giving
respect tributes to Willie Mays. Now Mays, if you assume
you know about his carewer. But some people don't they
Like I thought he was ikedaw people posting things, so
I thought he was already. He passed away years ago,
but Willy Mays at age ninety three, he had joined
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the Giants, the New York Giants in nineteen fifty one.
He played twenty two seasons, made twenty four All Star
Games because they had multiple All Star games some of
the years, he made all of them twenty two seasons,
twenty four All Star Games, and he is recognized by
many as the greatest player of all time. Others say
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he's in the top five greatest players or top three
and whatever your big board might be. All but his
final two seasons were with the Higantes, mostly New York,
but he was there when they moved to the west
and headed out to San Francisco. Dodgers and Giants went
together to play each other so they could cut down
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on travel. Had to have two teams head to the
West coast the New York Giants. Imagine two teams leaving
New York now, But Willie Mays was part of that
and the team relocated in nineteen fifty seven. So I
actually spent most of his time with the San Francisco Giants,
but the romanticism is from the early days with the
New York Giants. The question is this, how are you
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going to remember Willie Mays? How are you gonna remember
Willie Mays? And so you have the micro and the
macro on this, I've got Johnny Appleseed, Creamery and Stairway,
and we'll combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a nice tribute to these say
hey kids. So, first of all, I looked at Willie
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May's through the eyes of someone who didn't see him play.
I didn't watch him play, I believe it or not.
You might think I'm old, but I'm not that old.
So I never saw Willie Mays play. I just saw highlights.
And I didn't even see highlights on YouTube, because when
I was a kid, there was no YouTube. My experience
with Willie Mays was highlights that were on This week
in Baseball was is this half hour syndicated show with
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mel Allen I used to watch when I was a kid.
But the thing about it is it's like a time
warp situation, because the thing about Willie Mays is he
seemed like he wasn't even a real person as a
child growing up I love baseball as a kid, played
it all the time, loved watching games and hearing about games,
and the whole thing and my entire child that was
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regaled was stories. He was one of the players that
I was regaled with stories about Willie Mays and the brilliance.
And so I consider him in the athletic context, Willie
Mays to be like baseball's Johnny Appleseed, an American folk
hero Williams. Everyone's got a story. I've heard a bunch.
I was lucky I got to hear Vin Scully tell
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so many stories over the years when the Dodgers and
Giants would play, and they would play each other a
gazillion times every year, and so he would go on
and on about that Vin Scully grew up a Giants fan.
No one's perfect, and he would tell stories and wax
poetic about to say, hey, kid, and what it was
like in those days in New York, and the stories
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of Willie Mays as a young player with the Giants
out in Harlem playing stickball with the neighborhood kids. Sure
that Shoheo Tani on his mansion with his gates and
security guards, goes out and plays stickball with the kids
unless he does it, but there was at different times.
And that's what Willie Mays dead. It's one of the
great stories here and and we've told this so I
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think we just told the story a few days back
that Willie was on that short list of people back
in I think it was the eighties, early eighties that
bought a lifetime ticket airline ticket where he could fly
anywhere he wanted for the rest of his life. And
he had that until the end. And I remember the
stories from Mel Allen this week in baseball, but the
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thing I remember most was the catch. They showed the
catch quite a bit, the famous catch in the World
Series where it was running and his back was away
from from the ball and he turned around and he
caught the ball at the Polo Grounds, and thereat the
greatest catch. I don't know if anything's better than that,
but the greatest catch at the time, and I don't
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think anything's trumped it in my lifetime. And the other
thing about Willie Mays too that I'll recall is at
the end of his career, will he kept playing and
I get older and things generally don't work out so well.
He didn't work out well for Willie mayst couple years
of his career and I know hearing stories about his
days with the Mets. He had gone back to the
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Mets at the end of I think it was the
seventy two season, then he seventy three, which they actually
made the World Series with Yogi Bearra as the manager.
We just talked about that on my podcast this past weekend.
That's the seventy three Mets had Willie Mays, who was
the epitome of washed up at that point in his career.
But Yogi Berra was a manager, and that's when Yogi
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used the it ain't over till it's over phrase for
the first time. Was not as a player for the Yankees,
but it was managing Willie Mays and the Mets, and
they actually did make the playoffs, made the World Series
that year with a basically a five hundred team. But
he lived a long, full life, and while it's sad
when someone dies, he lived to be ninety three years old.
Willie Mays saw a lot of crazy stuff, saw a
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lot of good stuff, a lot of bad stuff, And
from what I understand, he was in relatively good health
up until a couple of years ago, and I know
he turned ninety and the Giants, I remember they put
him on a golf court and they drove him around
on for his ninetieth birthday and all that. But the
rest in peace to Willie Mays. All right, now, I'll
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turn the pat here and there's a couple of things
loosely related in baseball, because they're baseball, so loosely related.
And the next stop is the Pinstripe Paloosa, the Pinstripe Paloosa.
And that is where airin Judge, not Aaron Rodgers, Air
and Judge and the Yankees. They were in Baltimore, actually,
but the Yankees seemed to think everything is good here,
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that they have avoided the worst of the worst. This
after Aaron Judge was drilled. Where have we seen this before?
I think I've seen this A lot drilled with a
pitch in the mid to high nineties. There left hand?
Was it snap? Crackle pop? For Aaron Judge. It does
not appear to be the case. Judge claimed that the
X rays and the CT scan came back negative following
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the game. So what is the lesson for the Yankees
is they appear to have dodged one with Aaron Judge
a near miss. What's the lesson here? So on this one,
you're at the creamer. When you have Aaron Judge on
your team. You're at the creamery, and eventually the flavor
of the month is going to come up and it's
going to be Rocky Road. It appears it is not
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right now Rocky Road, but eventually it is going to
be Rocky Road. And it goes with the real estate.
It is the full Air and Judge experience. It's not
a matter of if, it's a matter of when Aaron
Judge is going to go down. He has a very
impressive resume of hitting moonshots, but he also has an
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impressive resume of getting hit with pitches and other random
things where he ends up getting hurt and he broke
his wrist. He got hit by a pitch a couple
years back. I remember he broke his wrist. That's one
of his many injuries. At a side injury So he'll
int a moonshot for you to the moon. He'll in
the moonshot, Aaron Judge, and he'll also need a shot
of pain killers because something will be messed up. He'll
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be in the injury tent and all that. Now the
early reports here late night and now into the overnight
out of Baltimore from the Yankee camp is that Judge
just has some swelling and he may even be back
in the lineup for the Yankees later on on Wednesday.
We don't buy that. We don't believe it. He's a
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baseball player. We would be surprised if he plays there,
because when baseball players have these kind of things happen,
they go on a sabbatical. And I wouldn't even be
shocked if Aaron Judge doesn't end up on the injured
list here because they said, well, he's got swelling and
there's there's a bruise, and he needs time to heal,
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and we're gonna put him on the shelf for a
little bit. All right. Final thought, We round the basis
to the boondocks of hardball. The boondocks of hardball, we
are told that the triple A, the Triple A baseball
folks will soon be shifting to automated balls and strikes.
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Let me repeat that for the people a little slow
in the back of the room. Major League Baseball is
going all in on big tech, all in all in here,
what does this move tell us? So this is the
next step in this evolution by Rob Manfraud the Commissioner
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of Baseball. As they are on the stairway, not the
stairway to heaven. They are on the stairway to the
android takeover of Major League Baseball. Watch out, there is
no stopping it. They continue to do the beta testing.
Now they're going to triple A the ABS system, as
it's called the and that's a nice way of not
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announcing it what it really is. People here ABS are like,
well ABS, it's like ABC.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
ABS is automated balls and strikes and that's coming Rob
Manford again, helbent. He's hell bent on bringing the big
tech strike zone. And spoiler. Here's the thing. I pointed
this out. I had a revelation while back, and maybe
I'm nuts. You can tell me I'm nuts if you want.
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But the people who are banging the drum like they
play for the A holes in Houston back in the day,
and the people that seem to think well this will
end bad umpiring. No, And you're not even taking the
human element out of the equation because some human being,
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some human being has to program the automated balls and strikes.
So they're gonna come up with it. Is it gonna
be more biased to pitchers that throw the ball up
in the zone or down in the zone? Right? Is
it gonna change? Is it gonna be the same, Will
it be different? Are they still gonna show the strike
zone on television the way they do when you watch
games these days? So all this really does is fog
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up add another layer of bureaucracy. So instead of knowing
who to complain to, the homeplate umpire in this case,
which is the human being, now you've got to complain
to like big tech, big Baseball, some schmock in a
office building in Manhattan at MLB headquarter, Like, that's who
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you have to complain to, because they're the ones that
decide the automated strikes.
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How about that to the third degree? This is one
big Ben gets great.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
One of the storylines after the Celtics won their championship
was that Al Horford finally has a ring, breaking Gary
Payton's record for most playoff games played before winning a championship.
Ben does this championship change Horford's legacy at all?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
What legacy exactly is the change coup al Horford A
solid question. No. The answer no, it doesn't change it.
He made a few All Star Games and all that
his nickname of the Celtics' is average. He'll make the
Hall of Fame because everyone makes the Basketball Hall of Fame.
But it doesn't change things. He wasn't the reason they won.
He was on the team when they went next.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
MLB tweeted out an update on All Star voting Monday,
and many fans were shocked to see Phillies' third basement
Alex Bam having more votes than Shohey Otani in the
National League.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Ben, can you explain this?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yes, because his interpreter that's going to jail was the
one that was voting for Otani all those times, and
now the guy's in jail, So now he needs somebody
else to fill the ballot and stuff the ballot box.
How do I so?
Speaker 5 (28:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Maybe nobody in Japan can vote. They cut off the
voting in Japan next.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
It is being reported that the Pelicans don't want to
give Brandon Ingram a MAX extension and could look to
trade him before letting him get the free agency. But
do you think someone will give Ingram max money.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, but he's like Luka Doncik in the respect. He's
not as good an offensive player as Luca, but he's
a one trick pony. He'll get you twenty or twenty
five points. He's not gonna play much defense. He'll take
a bunch of knights off. He's your standard run the
middle NBA player. But somebody will pay him because they're
desperate in their horny to get better. How did we
know you fail? Man?
Speaker 8 (29:06):
That is a win.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I want.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Thank you very much, Eddie said, I want. That's a
win for me, just like the Edmonton Oilers a win.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
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Speaker 8 (29:31):
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Speaker 9 (29:48):
You heard the man, It's time for love on the
Ben Malor Show. That's good, right, No, it's great.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I like the fact that this was the temporary open
and we're still using it though. I like love it. Yeah,
you know, I get your fan.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
I sing it all right when i'm actually I guess
it's in the daytime, when I'm going to bed.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
During the day with the sun's up. Yes, okay, ye
are you ready? If you have you prepared? Are you
going to do your best?
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Always? Okay, I'm super arrested too.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Did you drug yourself or something?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No, how much sleep did you get?
Speaker 9 (30:23):
I think I got like ten hours today I have.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I think I get ten hours total during the week.
How do you get ten hours?
Speaker 10 (30:32):
I was left from seven to noon, and then from
one to four, and then from seven thirty to nine thirty.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That is a lot of sleep. Yeah, all right. I
forty in says should a guy be appreciative if their
girl has a boudoir as I say, bo U d
o I R boudoir boudoir budoir a portrait done for them?
Or be upset that someone other then them saw the
(31:02):
goods asking for a friend.
Speaker 10 (31:04):
Oh my gosh, if your woman gets a badoir shoot done,
just know that, you know, it's where they're like sexy photos.
They can be half naked, they can be fully naked,
they can be in lingerie, so porn kind of, but
it's more empowering. So it's supposed touring. Yeah a lot, well,
so a lot of women. They don't show it to everyone, obviously,
they keep it for themselves. But one day when they're
(31:25):
old and wrinkley, they want to look back and be like,
look at what a piece I was. So I think
you should be thankful that your woman is sexy enough
to be able to do something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Okay, King Roy writes, since is my wife and I
were invited to a social gathering and I'm not the
outgoing type welcome to the club, but my wife thinks
I it would be fun and good to meet new people.
They claim there will be dancing since it's a swingers party.
What do you say, Lorain or should we go?
Speaker 9 (31:53):
Wait a second?
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Okay, So if it's a swingers party, I think you
have to go obligated.
Speaker 9 (31:58):
Yeah, it's an obligated couple thing.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Don't send women are allowed to go alone to that.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
But I think don't send your wife alone to that?
What if all this sausage comes at her like you
don't want that? No one wants.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
What do you mean nobody wants that.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I'm sure nobody at the party would be complaining.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Well then if that's what you want
her to do, then yes, but I I you know,
for other regular events.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
No, she shouldn't force you to go.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Late night, drug Tester writes, and he says, better to
surprise your girlfriend with flowers at work or at home.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Flowers at work, flower pedals at home.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Leading somewhere. Yeah, right to the kitchen. No, that's what
Eddie said. What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Some love?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Ferg Dog says. Do some women actually like sports or
are they all pretending? Hello, missus Garcia. Hello, Well, I
don't think ferg Dog knows, missus Garcia. I don't know.
I don't want to speak, but I can't.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
Speak for every girl, but I know a lot of
women actually do love sports and it has nothing to
do with their men or their man So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
It depends how you were raised, you know, yeah, all stereotyp.
A lot of men are more into sports. So if
you're like a daddy's girl and all that, exactly sports
with your dad, like going to a baseball game. Oh cute,
let's say some calls here. Get ready, Lorraino art puffing right, saying,
you know it's big with art Puffin calling and hello
(33:26):
Art Puffin?
Speaker 5 (33:28):
What's Ben? How do everythink if I was any.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Better, I'd be at BUCkies? But now I wouldn't mean
because you're close to BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
You know, I'm not close to BUCkies.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
It's Boosies, Ben, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
All I know is is good. I don't care what
you call it. They got that brisket sandwich. That's a solid.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
Yeah, Puffin. You ever take a date to Boosy's BUCkies?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
People going do.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
No but a date to me?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You know that's a keeper when they take you to
get that.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
Oh my gosh, what if you found love at Boozy's
Like you were in their shopping for jerky and they're like,
oh my god, that's my favorite too.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
No way, whatever you want everything?
Speaker 10 (34:12):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, what is your question?
Speaker 8 (34:14):
Art?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
What do you have here? All right?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
My question's a little bit more on a serious tip here.
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
So I met.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
I met a woman maybe like four four months ago,
going off four months. She told me in the beginning
right as she was into the open relationship thing, but
like we, uh, we have so much in common and
I'm kind of falling for now, So what should I
do and what should I do here?
Speaker 10 (34:44):
Well, you know what it is when you started, right,
so you kind of know where her mind is at.
I would remind her that you do have feelings that
are growing intentionally. Also, you need to protect yourself and
if you feel like it's going too strong and she's
not willing to give you her all, then maybe so
up away from it and figure out what you really
want in the relationship.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Or my advice is just wait till she gets old
and then she won't have other options and she'll just
you know.
Speaker 9 (35:08):
Yeah, you wait. The waiting game works a lot too.
Got to see what you want?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Been aging? I've been aging? Good?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Sound young inspry there you go?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
You got pay before before?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
What's that? What's our art? Puffing?
Speaker 8 (35:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Art puffing?
Speaker 5 (35:23):
What did you like my uh maner haiku?
Speaker 6 (35:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Absolutely?
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Was it about love? Then let's talk about it later.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
What's our next question? All right? Wow? She blew you off?
Or all right, y' let's go to hollering?
Speaker 9 (35:39):
James, I was waiting for this one. I saw his
name on there.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yeah James, James, go ahead, James, I gotta let you
know this what if her band is over the aggressive
that cares about it, but he shows her too much
aggressive this or she just thinks she wants to drift
away for a while.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
This woman be when this woman be Tammy in Montana.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
James, she was like.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That, here's you're so hurt.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
You know, just you know, maybe one will hear you.
I know she knows that you think about her.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
So the problem is, James, you have too much free time.
Speaker 9 (36:16):
She's got too much, too much time to thoughts.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yeah, daydreaming exactly. The mind. The mind is directed at
one place. Hi'm Malor.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
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Speaker 1 (36:41):
No time for small talk. Let's get right to the game.
And we've got weed man Nicki in Montana, who's teamed up? Yes,
Eddie teamed up with me and Eddie is teamed up
with Chris in Boston. All right, nick I have a
list of words here, Hi, number one to ten, Nikki
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one to ten? What do you say?
Speaker 8 (37:11):
Six?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
All right? Okay, speak up, You're on the radio talk
with your all right, that's fine, let's go with but
uh legal legal.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Uh tender No, I did not.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Use the malamanu. But go ahead, Eddie please?
Speaker 7 (37:37):
How about.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Hurry off?
Speaker 7 (37:41):
How about legislation? Boyer?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, how about judge jury?
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Well, this is going very well, Eddie, go ahead, Eddy
please down to two points?
Speaker 7 (38:03):
How about hurry op statute? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, four points? That's a terrible What was that? Three points?
It was the word was law? Okay, let's move on.
Picking number please, Chris. One to ten, but not six,
number one. That's easy.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Cosmetics.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Yes, that was child's play. Let's pick it up, Nikki.
Pick a number, not one, not six, but anything else
up until ten, number two, number two. All right, I'm
gonna use the I'm gonna use the I'm gonna use
the Mallard maneuver. I hope this doesn't Oh here we go,
(38:48):
all right, standing up for this. You know the mal
of maneuver, Nikki, yes, negative, But oh my god, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Know the maneuver.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
I can't do the matter most of the time.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Man, it's like four in the morning.
Speaker 10 (39:00):
I didn't think it was newbe night shut.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
All right, Chris, alright, all right.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
I knew we should call this.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I think the fight on Glove fights over Eddie. Let's go,
let's go with let's go with explosion.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Dynamite.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
This might be a little bit much. I'm gonna go
for it. How about how about ordnance?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
What annoy?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
How about I use that use. I'm gonna use the
mallet maneuver. Oh, I'll go here.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
I got it, I got it, new clear.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
I want.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
We got any if you, if you score the last bat,
I'm that Mike's still on
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He was in his nineties. We will talk about Willy's
life and times coming up a little bit later. But
I wanted to start with this pro bouncy ball. The
day after, which is now the day after The day
after twas the title one in Boston, not all quiet
in the land. Just thirteen hours after the confetti fell
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at the Garden, the Celtic players and coaches bordered a
private chartered flight bound for Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami. Did
they want to go hang out with Jimmy Buckets in
the heat?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Apparently not. They wanted to do party. This is a
shot at the nightlife in Boston that the Celtics decided
to travel to Miami. I guess it was too far
to get to Vegas and back, so they went to
Miami instead. But the seas Conceibovie will spent a couple
of nights there in South Florida running up the booze account,
and then head back for the championship duck Boat Parade,
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which will be on Friday morning, so they could even
leave Friday morning. If they won't, I don't have to
leave Thursday. They could leave on Friday morning. And so
the booze is a flowing in the air and in
the belly everywhere. But the smack a root talk continues
inside the Green team, so if you know what I mean,
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maybe not, I don't know if you're paying attention to
this or not. But the Celtics social media, they sent
out a sizzle reel which is now become common. Every
once in a while, I end up in one of
these things. So I think the Arizona Diamondbacks last year
did one when they got to the World Series, and
they included to me, and there've been a few other
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teams over the years they have done. I didn't make
the one with the Celtics because I picked the Celtics. See,
if you want to get in those you have to
pick against the team that wins. That's the rule there,
and if you do that, sometimes they'll put you in there,
which I had no problem with. I'm fine with that.
But Jason Tatum, we talked a little bit about this
in a previous episode of the show, but I wanted
to get into it again here. Jason Tatum basking in
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the Celtics win by doing a couple of things here
which were awkward. Is kind of a weird dude. He's
good at basketball, a little bit of a weirdo. So
he sent Jason Tatum a post out said what they
gonna say now on social media. That was the first thing,
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and he did a couple of other things We'll get
to in a second now. Jalen Brown, who after the
Celtics won and he was named the most Valuable Player
of the Finals, Jalen Brown came out and said he
didn't really care about the critics and all that. Well,
then Jalen Brown revealed that the Celtics win. He went
on Instagram after the Celtics had won the day after
(04:36):
and all that had some time to calm down, and
he shared a post that stated eighty nine percent of
the bets placed on the NBA Finals were indeed on
the Dallas basketball team to win. Wellough, I don't believe
that is factually correct. I believe it was the game
one matchup of the Finals. Game one, the media was
(04:56):
pumping the tires on Luka Doncic and the Mavericks and
they got most of the bets, if I remember correctly,
it was not overall for the finals. So let us
discuss the question can you make sense of Jalen Brown
and Jason Tatum taking turns poking the critics of the
Boston Celtics. So I've got Winchals, Disney's Aladdin, and Treasure Chest,
(05:23):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a hangover, which is what
just about every single Celtic player we'll be dealing with.
Although we have heard from listeners to the show, if
you just don't stop drinking, you don't have to worry
about having a hangover. You just continue on and on.
So my first thought on this whole thing was it
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was cringe worthy by both Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum,
because overall, the Celtics were a humongous favorite in the
NBA Finals. Most people were picking the Celtics win. They
were the better team and they were supposed to win,
and that's exactly what they did. But this whole situation
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with Tatum posting a bunch of stuff and some of
the things he said after the Celtics won, and then
Jaylen Brown, it really is more for my purposes. I'm
gonna make it all about me. I'm gonna pull a
Tom Looney and make it all about me. It is validation.
It's hot take validation because I have been screaming from
the bully pulpit for many, many years. It is not
the fan. It is not the family, It is not
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the teammates. It is not the coach that matter the most.
They don't matter. The person that matters the most is
the critic. The critic is the one that moves the
needle and the big mouth, blow hard, gas bag, whoever
you want to how we want to phrase it right,
any of those terms. The one that ruffles the feathers
by not saying the thing you want them to say
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at the time you want them to say it. That
is the powerful person. That is the person that gets
mentioned after every re championship, even when you're a presumptive
favorite and all the polling stations say you're going to win,
it doesn't matter. That's the spark plug. The critic. The
critic is the motivator. That's the critic you saw after
(07:15):
the Celtics one. The first commercial they aired was a
Nike commercial that was in the can for Jason Tatum
and the Nike marketing people talking about proving the doubters wrong,
which is the standard fare. And had the series gone
on and Dallas said one, we would have gotten a
commercial with Luka Natchik saying the same crap. It would
(07:36):
have been the same. All of this is a trip
to Winchell's or in this case, Walter Winchell, long ago
radio man Walter Winchell, who pointed out that the same thing,
the same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to
different people. In this case, the same thing happened this
year that happened in previous years, just to different different athletes.
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Like the Nuggets, we're doing they nobody thought we could
do it last year, and now it's the Celtics turn,
and next year it'll be tm X. And even when
teams are big favorites like Boston, they still do the
same thing. But I want to go back to Jason Tatum,
because in the case of Tatum, he was doing a
lot of copying and pasting, like you were doing your phone,
your computer whatever. He tried to recreate right after the game.
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I didn't notice this at the time, because you know,
I don't have a file of these things, but thank
God for the Internet sluice that do so side by side.
I watched the video and he recreated or attempted to
recreate Kevin Garnett after the Celtics one and oh eight
anything is possible, the anything possible speech, and he did that.
Tatum also said, what are they going to say?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That was the money quote, which is the same exact
thing that Steph Curry had said when the Warriors won
in twenty twenty two and he was the MVP. So
he plagiarized Steph Curry. Now turning the pager, let's move
away from the Celtics because the silly season underway in
the NBA, and there are reports that say JJ Reddick
(09:03):
was quote very impressive during his recent sore an interview
with the Lakers there, So where does that leave things
at this particular point. The draft is coming up in
like a week a little less than that, I believe,
So it's in the hands of lawyers. It's in the
hands of lawyers. Here's here's where we are right now
(09:24):
with Reddick. They're crunching the numbers and the lawyers are
trying to figure out It's like parachute shopping. I'll call
like this. The analogy is it's like shopping for a parachute.
I don't even know where you would buy a parachute,
but it's like trying to buy a parachute. And the
question is how big of a golden parachute do the
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Lakers want to give JJ? Because they're nevitely going to
fire him in a coupley. Lebron's gonna pay maybe one
or two years more and that's it, and he'll go
away and then they'll have to get rid of JJ Reddick.
Is the only reason they hired JJ Reddick was because
of a Lebron but Bus. If you look at this
chapter of the book, Genie Bus is like Genie from
Disney's Aladdin, and she's telling Lebron James right now, Lebron,
(10:09):
yet again, your wish is my command. Lebron. You want
your podcast pal to be the coach. Okay, I can
make that happen. Sure that'll guarantee Lebron comes back. You
can't not come back to the Lakers if your podcast
BFF is the coach of the team masquerading as the coach.
We know Lebron's always the coach. Hey, you want your
(10:30):
kid to be a Laker. We're working on that. Yeah,
we'll get Bronni Scrottie Bronni. We'll bring him in. Sure,
why not, We'll sell a few more tickets. We'll draft.
H me shouldn't even be drafted. We'll draft and why not?
All right? Last word, we now go to the bean
counters department. The numbers have been added up here on
this and we have been told that the Golden State
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basketball team and the People's team in Los Angeles are
both staring down the barrel of the national debt. Basketball.
It's not as much as the US national debt, which
is insane. They just keep pretty money. But the NBA
luxury tax bills are expected to exceed what was the
(11:14):
salary cap in the twenty twenty three to twenty twenty
four season. Let me repeat that for those who in
the back of the room. The Golden State franchise and
the Clips are going to have luxury tax bills that
are higher than the entire salary cap. I'm anti cap anyway.
The luxury tax payments for Golden State one hundred and
(11:36):
seventy six point nine million, and then the Clippers are
one hundred and forty two point four million. The cap
was at one hundred and thirty six million. It was
told by a program directory years ago. You never supposed
to give too many numbers out on the radio, So
I just gave a bunch of numbers. But Golden State,
let's just focus on the WARRIORSA Golden State with an
(11:56):
NBA high luxury tax payment almost one hundred and seventy
seven million dollars. That is blank. That is my word
for this, and I'll keep it simple. I'll keep it simple.
Is Bravo is my word. Tip of the cap to
Joel Aacub and to Steve Balmer. I know we're talking
(12:18):
more about Golden State here, but both owners may every man,
woman and child, at least when they grow up, have
a boss with this kind of treasure chest. Think of
the treasure chest. This is not a family business. It's
not You don't give out that kind of money if
it's a family business. The aristocrats, these guys have so
(12:40):
much money, so much money that they can't take it
with them. This is not like the Egyptians. You know
the legend. I don't think it's true, but the Egyptians
were buried at legend has it with vast amounts of
treasure in the Pyramids and the tombs of Egyptian people
would raid them. That's the all the movies. May it
seem like that happen. I don't think it's actually true, though,
But the Robber Barons are blowing it. They're blowing it
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on their expensive toy, their NBA team and Joe lakebough.
In this equation, it's hard to say a guy worth
two point one billion is a daredevil, but side by
side Pepsi challenge, absolute daredevil. He's worth two point one billion.
Steve Balmer has a net worth of one hundred and
thirty billion. I mean, it's insane, insane. He didn't invent Microsoft.
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He just worked for Microsoft and he's got He left
and he got one hundred thirty billion now. And by
the way, a source tells me that both Golden State
and the Clippers still will turn a profit even with
that insane balloon payment. Let that settle in. Imagine how
much the other teams are making. If they're making money
(13:52):
even with that expense.
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to baseball and the news that came down the pike,
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news that came down the pike on Tuesday night, Tuesday night,
watching some baseball saw Actually I was watching Hockey's what
I was watching. But I saw this, and I flipped
over to a baseball game, and I flipped back to
the hockey game. But our lead this hour is from baseball.
A bigger than life ballplayer has crossed over the pearly gates.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Here.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
We assume you've heard by now, but perhaps not. Willie
Mays has died. Died of heart failure. He was ninety three.
He's been in poor hell. He was the oldest living
Hall of Fame player in the sport of baseball. I'm
not sure who replaced him, not that it really matters,
but all kinds of tributes have come in from dignitaries,
(16:27):
people that think they're dignitaries, people that think they're important.
All those type of people have issued various statements giving
respect tributes to Willie Mays. Now Mays, if you assume
you know about his carewer. But some people don't they
Like I thought he was ikedaw people posting things, so
I thought he was already. He passed away years ago,
but Willy Mays at age ninety three, he had joined
(16:49):
the Giants, the New York Giants in nineteen fifty one.
He played twenty two seasons, made twenty four All Star
Games because they had multiple All Star games some of
the years, he made all of them twenty two seasons,
twenty four All Star Games, and he is recognized by
many as the greatest player of all time. Others say
(17:11):
he's in the top five greatest players or top three
and whatever your big board might be. All but his
final two seasons were with the Higantes, mostly New York,
but he was there when they moved to the west
and headed out to San Francisco. Dodgers and Giants went
together to play each other so they could cut down
(17:32):
on travel. Had to have two teams head to the
West coast the New York Giants. Imagine two teams leaving
New York now, But Willie Mays was part of that
and the team relocated in nineteen fifty seven. So I
actually spent most of his time with the San Francisco Giants,
but the romanticism is from the early days with the
New York Giants. The question is this, how are you
(17:52):
going to remember Willie Mays? How are you gonna remember
Willie Mays? And so you have the micro and the
macro on this, I've got Johnny Appleseed, Creamery and Stairway,
and we'll combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a nice tribute to these say
hey kids. So, first of all, I looked at Willie
(18:15):
May's through the eyes of someone who didn't see him play.
I didn't watch him play, I believe it or not.
You might think I'm old, but I'm not that old.
So I never saw Willie Mays play. I just saw highlights.
And I didn't even see highlights on YouTube, because when
I was a kid, there was no YouTube. My experience
with Willie Mays was highlights that were on This week
in Baseball was is this half hour syndicated show with
(18:36):
mel Allen I used to watch when I was a kid.
But the thing about it is it's like a time
warp situation, because the thing about Willie Mays is he
seemed like he wasn't even a real person as a
child growing up I love baseball as a kid, played
it all the time, loved watching games and hearing about games,
and the whole thing and my entire child that was
(18:59):
regaled was stories. He was one of the players that
I was regaled with stories about Willie Mays and the brilliance.
And so I consider him in the athletic context, Willie
Mays to be like baseball's Johnny Appleseed, an American folk
hero Williams. Everyone's got a story. I've heard a bunch.
I was lucky I got to hear Vin Scully tell
(19:19):
so many stories over the years when the Dodgers and
Giants would play, and they would play each other a
gazillion times every year, and so he would go on
and on about that Vin Scully grew up a Giants fan.
No one's perfect, and he would tell stories and wax
poetic about to say, hey, kid, and what it was
like in those days in New York, and the stories
(19:40):
of Willie Mays as a young player with the Giants
out in Harlem playing stickball with the neighborhood kids. Sure
that Shoheo Tani on his mansion with his gates and
security guards, goes out and plays stickball with the kids
unless he does it, but there was at different times.
And that's what Willie Mays dead. It's one of the
great stories here and and we've told this so I
(20:01):
think we just told the story a few days back
that Willie was on that short list of people back
in I think it was the eighties, early eighties that
bought a lifetime ticket airline ticket where he could fly
anywhere he wanted for the rest of his life. And
he had that until the end. And I remember the
stories from Mel Allen this week in baseball, but the
(20:24):
thing I remember most was the catch. They showed the
catch quite a bit, the famous catch in the World
Series where it was running and his back was away
from from the ball and he turned around and he
caught the ball at the Polo Grounds, and thereat the
greatest catch. I don't know if anything's better than that,
but the greatest catch at the time, and I don't
(20:44):
think anything's trumped it in my lifetime. And the other
thing about Willie Mays too that I'll recall is at
the end of his career, will he kept playing and
I get older and things generally don't work out so well.
He didn't work out well for Willie mayst couple years
of his career and I know hearing stories about his
days with the Mets. He had gone back to the
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Mets at the end of I think it was the
seventy two season, then he seventy three, which they actually
made the World Series with Yogi Bearra as the manager.
We just talked about that on my podcast this past weekend.
That's the seventy three Mets had Willie Mays, who was
the epitome of washed up at that point in his career.
But Yogi Berra was a manager, and that's when Yogi
(21:28):
used the it ain't over till it's over phrase for
the first time. Was not as a player for the Yankees,
but it was managing Willie Mays and the Mets, and
they actually did make the playoffs, made the World Series
that year with a basically a five hundred team. But
he lived a long, full life, and while it's sad
when someone dies, he lived to be ninety three years old.
Willie Mays saw a lot of crazy stuff, saw a
(21:50):
lot of good stuff, a lot of bad stuff, And
from what I understand, he was in relatively good health
up until a couple of years ago, and I know
he turned ninety and the Giants, I remember they put
him on a golf court and they drove him around
on for his ninetieth birthday and all that. But the
rest in peace to Willie Mays. All right, now, I'll
(22:11):
turn the pat here and there's a couple of things
loosely related in baseball, because they're baseball, so loosely related.
And the next stop is the Pinstripe Paloosa, the Pinstripe Paloosa.
And that is where airin Judge, not Aaron Rodgers, Air
and Judge and the Yankees. They were in Baltimore, actually,
but the Yankees seemed to think everything is good here,
(22:33):
that they have avoided the worst of the worst. This
after Aaron Judge was drilled. Where have we seen this before?
I think I've seen this A lot drilled with a
pitch in the mid to high nineties. There left hand?
Was it snap? Crackle pop? For Aaron Judge. It does
not appear to be the case. Judge claimed that the
X rays and the CT scan came back negative following
(22:58):
the game. So what is the lesson for the Yankees
is they appear to have dodged one with Aaron Judge
a near miss. What's the lesson here? So on this one,
you're at the creamer. When you have Aaron Judge on
your team. You're at the creamery, and eventually the flavor
of the month is going to come up and it's
going to be Rocky Road. It appears it is not
(23:18):
right now Rocky Road, but eventually it is going to
be Rocky Road. And it goes with the real estate.
It is the full Air and Judge experience. It's not
a matter of if, it's a matter of when Aaron
Judge is going to go down. He has a very
impressive resume of hitting moonshots, but he also has an
(23:40):
impressive resume of getting hit with pitches and other random
things where he ends up getting hurt and he broke
his wrist. He got hit by a pitch a couple
years back. I remember he broke his wrist. That's one
of his many injuries. At a side injury So he'll
int a moonshot for you to the moon. He'll in
the moonshot, Aaron Judge, and he'll also need a shot
of pain killers because something will be messed up. He'll
(24:02):
be in the injury tent and all that. Now the
early reports here late night and now into the overnight
out of Baltimore from the Yankee camp is that Judge
just has some swelling and he may even be back
in the lineup for the Yankees later on on Wednesday.
We don't buy that. We don't believe it. He's a
(24:23):
baseball player. We would be surprised if he plays there,
because when baseball players have these kind of things happen,
they go on a sabbatical. And I wouldn't even be
shocked if Aaron Judge doesn't end up on the injured
list here because they said, well, he's got swelling and
there's there's a bruise, and he needs time to heal,
(24:43):
and we're gonna put him on the shelf for a
little bit. All right. Final thought, We round the basis
to the boondocks of hardball. The boondocks of hardball, we
are told that the triple A, the Triple A baseball
folks will soon be shifting to automated balls and strikes.
(25:03):
Let me repeat that for the people a little slow
in the back of the room. Major League Baseball is
going all in on big tech, all in all in here,
what does this move tell us? So this is the
next step in this evolution by Rob Manfraud the Commissioner
(25:24):
of Baseball. As they are on the stairway, not the
stairway to heaven. They are on the stairway to the
android takeover of Major League Baseball. Watch out, there is
no stopping it. They continue to do the beta testing.
Now they're going to triple A the ABS system, as
it's called the and that's a nice way of not
(25:44):
announcing it what it really is. People here ABS are like,
well ABS, it's like ABC.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
ABS is automated balls and strikes and that's coming Rob
Manford again, helbent. He's hell bent on bringing the big
tech strike zone. And spoiler. Here's the thing. I pointed
this out. I had a revelation while back, and maybe
I'm nuts. You can tell me I'm nuts if you want.
(26:11):
But the people who are banging the drum like they
play for the A holes in Houston back in the day,
and the people that seem to think well this will
end bad umpiring. No, And you're not even taking the
human element out of the equation because some human being,
(26:32):
some human being has to program the automated balls and strikes.
So they're gonna come up with it. Is it gonna
be more biased to pitchers that throw the ball up
in the zone or down in the zone? Right? Is
it gonna change? Is it gonna be the same, Will
it be different? Are they still gonna show the strike
zone on television the way they do when you watch
games these days? So all this really does is fog
(26:55):
up add another layer of bureaucracy. So instead of knowing
who to complain to, the homeplate umpire in this case,
which is the human being, now you've got to complain
to like big tech, big Baseball, some schmock in a
office building in Manhattan at MLB headquarter, Like, that's who
(27:16):
you have to complain to, because they're the ones that
decide the automated strikes.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Here we go, It's Maller.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
How about that to the third degree? This is one
big Ben gets great.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
One of the storylines after the Celtics won their championship
was that Al Horford finally has a ring, breaking Gary
Payton's record for most playoff games played before winning a championship.
Ben does this championship change Horford's legacy at all?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
What legacy exactly is the change coup al Horford A
solid question. No. The answer no, it doesn't change it.
He made a few All Star Games and all that
his nickname of the Celtics' is average. He'll make the
Hall of Fame because everyone makes the Basketball Hall of Fame.
But it doesn't change things. He wasn't the reason they won.
He was on the team when they went next.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
MLB tweeted out an update on All Star voting Monday,
and many fans were shocked to see Phillies' third basement
Alex Bam having more votes than Shohey Otani in the
National League.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Ben, can you explain this?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yes, because his interpreter that's going to jail was the
one that was voting for Otani all those times, and
now the guy's in jail, So now he needs somebody
else to fill the ballot and stuff the ballot box.
How do I so?
Speaker 5 (28:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Maybe nobody in Japan can vote. They cut off the
voting in Japan next.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
It is being reported that the Pelicans don't want to
give Brandon Ingram a MAX extension and could look to
trade him before letting him get the free agency. But
do you think someone will give Ingram max money.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, but he's like Luka Doncik in the respect. He's
not as good an offensive player as Luca, but he's
a one trick pony. He'll get you twenty or twenty
five points. He's not gonna play much defense. He'll take
a bunch of knights off. He's your standard run the
middle NBA player. But somebody will pay him because they're
desperate in their horny to get better. How did we
know you fail? Man?
Speaker 8 (29:06):
That is a win.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I want.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Thank you very much, Eddie said, I want. That's a
win for me, just like the Edmonton Oilers a win.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
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Speaker 8 (29:31):
It's Love It Buzz with Little Rain at ten nine,
clean Up, Hearts going to help You, gear Rye gear
Ride to Night, gear Rye to nine, Dear Ride.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
You heard the man, It's time for love on the
Ben Malor Show. That's good, right, No, it's great.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I like the fact that this was the temporary open
and we're still using it though. I like love it. Yeah,
you know, I get your fan.
Speaker 10 (30:03):
I sing it all right when i'm actually I guess
it's in the daytime, when I'm going to bed.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
During the day with the sun's up. Yes, okay, ye
are you ready? If you have you prepared? Are you
going to do your best?
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Always? Okay, I'm super arrested too.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Did you drug yourself or something?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
No, how much sleep did you get?
Speaker 9 (30:23):
I think I got like ten hours today I have.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I think I get ten hours total during the week.
How do you get ten hours?
Speaker 10 (30:32):
I was left from seven to noon, and then from
one to four, and then from seven thirty to nine thirty.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That is a lot of sleep. Yeah, all right. I
forty in says should a guy be appreciative if their
girl has a boudoir as I say, bo U d
o I R boudoir boudoir budoir a portrait done for them?
Or be upset that someone other then them saw the
(31:02):
goods asking for a friend.
Speaker 10 (31:04):
Oh my gosh, if your woman gets a badoir shoot done,
just know that, you know, it's where they're like sexy photos.
They can be half naked, they can be fully naked,
they can be in lingerie, so porn kind of, but
it's more empowering. So it's supposed touring. Yeah a lot, well,
so a lot of women. They don't show it to everyone, obviously,
they keep it for themselves. But one day when they're
(31:25):
old and wrinkley, they want to look back and be like,
look at what a piece I was. So I think
you should be thankful that your woman is sexy enough
to be able to do something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Okay, King Roy writes, since is my wife and I
were invited to a social gathering and I'm not the
outgoing type welcome to the club, but my wife thinks
I it would be fun and good to meet new people.
They claim there will be dancing since it's a swingers party.
What do you say, Lorain or should we go?
Speaker 9 (31:53):
Wait a second?
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Okay, So if it's a swingers party, I think you
have to go obligated.
Speaker 9 (31:58):
Yeah, it's an obligated couple thing.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Don't send women are allowed to go alone to that.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
But I think don't send your wife alone to that?
What if all this sausage comes at her like you
don't want that? No one wants.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
What do you mean nobody wants that.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I'm sure nobody at the party would be complaining.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Well then if that's what you want
her to do, then yes, but I I you know,
for other regular events.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
No, she shouldn't force you to go.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Late night, drug Tester writes, and he says, better to
surprise your girlfriend with flowers at work or at home.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Flowers at work, flower pedals at home.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Leading somewhere. Yeah, right to the kitchen. No, that's what
Eddie said. What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Some love?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Ferg Dog says. Do some women actually like sports or
are they all pretending? Hello, missus Garcia. Hello, Well, I
don't think ferg Dog knows, missus Garcia. I don't know.
I don't want to speak, but I can't.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
Speak for every girl, but I know a lot of
women actually do love sports and it has nothing to
do with their men or their man So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
It depends how you were raised, you know, yeah, all stereotyp.
A lot of men are more into sports. So if
you're like a daddy's girl and all that, exactly sports
with your dad, like going to a baseball game. Oh cute,
let's say some calls here. Get ready, Lorraino art puffing right, saying,
you know it's big with art Puffin calling and hello
(33:26):
Art Puffin?
Speaker 5 (33:28):
What's Ben? How do everythink if I was any.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Better, I'd be at BUCkies? But now I wouldn't mean
because you're close to BUCkies.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
You know, I'm not close to BUCkies.
Speaker 9 (33:39):
It's Boosies, Ben, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
All I know is is good. I don't care what
you call it. They got that brisket sandwich. That's a solid.
Speaker 9 (33:50):
Yeah, Puffin. You ever take a date to Boosy's BUCkies?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
People going do.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
No but a date to me?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You know that's a keeper when they take you to
get that.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
Oh my gosh, what if you found love at Boozy's
Like you were in their shopping for jerky and they're like,
oh my god, that's my favorite too.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
No way, whatever you want everything?
Speaker 10 (34:12):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, what is your question?
Speaker 8 (34:14):
Art?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
What do you have here? All right?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
My question's a little bit more on a serious tip here.
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
So I met.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
I met a woman maybe like four four months ago,
going off four months. She told me in the beginning
right as she was into the open relationship thing, but
like we, uh, we have so much in common and
I'm kind of falling for now, So what should I
do and what should I do here?
Speaker 10 (34:44):
Well, you know what it is when you started, right,
so you kind of know where her mind is at.
I would remind her that you do have feelings that
are growing intentionally. Also, you need to protect yourself and
if you feel like it's going too strong and she's
not willing to give you her all, then maybe so
up away from it and figure out what you really
want in the relationship.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Or my advice is just wait till she gets old
and then she won't have other options and she'll just
you know.
Speaker 9 (35:08):
Yeah, you wait. The waiting game works a lot too.
Got to see what you want?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Been aging? I've been aging? Good?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Sound young inspry there you go?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
You got pay before before?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
What's that? What's our art? Puffing?
Speaker 8 (35:22):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Art puffing?
Speaker 5 (35:23):
What did you like my uh maner haiku?
Speaker 6 (35:27):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Absolutely?
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Was it about love? Then let's talk about it later.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
What's our next question? All right? Wow? She blew you off?
Or all right, y' let's go to hollering?
Speaker 9 (35:39):
James, I was waiting for this one. I saw his
name on there.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yeah James, James, go ahead, James, I gotta let you
know this what if her band is over the aggressive
that cares about it, but he shows her too much
aggressive this or she just thinks she wants to drift
away for a while.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
This woman be when this woman be Tammy in Montana.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
James, she was like.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That, here's you're so hurt.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
You know, just you know, maybe one will hear you.
I know she knows that you think about her.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
So the problem is, James, you have too much free time.
Speaker 9 (36:16):
She's got too much, too much time to thoughts.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yeah, daydreaming exactly. The mind. The mind is directed at
one place. Hi'm Malor.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
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Speaker 1 (36:41):
No time for small talk. Let's get right to the game.
And we've got weed man Nicki in Montana, who's teamed up? Yes,
Eddie teamed up with me and Eddie is teamed up
with Chris in Boston. All right, nick I have a
list of words here, Hi, number one to ten, Nikki
(37:03):
one to ten? What do you say?
Speaker 8 (37:11):
Six?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
All right? Okay, speak up, You're on the radio talk
with your all right, that's fine, let's go with but
uh legal legal.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Uh tender No, I did not.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Use the malamanu. But go ahead, Eddie please?
Speaker 7 (37:37):
How about.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Hurry off?
Speaker 7 (37:41):
How about legislation? Boyer?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
No, how about judge jury?
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Well, this is going very well, Eddie, go ahead, Eddy
please down to two points?
Speaker 7 (38:03):
How about hurry op statute? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, four points? That's a terrible What was that? Three points?
It was the word was law? Okay, let's move on.
Picking number please, Chris. One to ten, but not six,
number one. That's easy.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Cosmetics.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Yes, that was child's play. Let's pick it up, Nikki.
Pick a number, not one, not six, but anything else
up until ten, number two, number two. All right, I'm
gonna use the I'm gonna use the I'm gonna use
the Mallard maneuver. I hope this doesn't Oh here we go,
(38:48):
all right, standing up for this. You know the mal
of maneuver, Nikki, yes, negative, But oh my god, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Know the maneuver.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
I can't do the matter most of the time.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Man, it's like four in the morning.
Speaker 10 (39:00):
I didn't think it was newbe night shut.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
All right, Chris, alright, all right.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
I knew we should call this.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I think the fight on Glove fights over Eddie. Let's go,
let's go with let's go with explosion.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Dynamite.
Speaker 7 (39:31):
This might be a little bit much. I'm gonna go
for it. How about how about ordnance?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
What annoy?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
How about I use that use. I'm gonna use the
mallet maneuver. Oh, I'll go here.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
I got it, I got it, new clear.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (39:51):
I want.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
We got any if you, if you score the last bat,
I'm that Mike's still on
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Ben Maller
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