October 23, 2024 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about the passing of Fernando Valenzuela at 63 years old, the start of the NBA season with LeBron James & Bronny James playing together, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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The end of a legend.
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We're gonna lead with baseball because to me, this story
is more important. I have the editorial control of the show.
There'll be plenty of opening nights in the NBA, and
there'll be plenty of more contrived events by Adam Silver
and the writers over at the NBA that suckers will
fall for. But the depth of a legend assume you've
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heard by now, but maybe not. A pitcher Fernando Valenzuale,
baseball icon from back in his day many years ago,
guy that won a lot of awards early on in
his career and had a cult following with the Dodgers,
has died. He was only sixty three years old. Fernando
won the cy Young Award and the Rookie of the
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Year way back in the Hot Up Time Machine the
year nineteen eighty one, and the only pitcher to still
to this day have won the cy Young and the
Rookie of the Year in the same year. Obviously, only
do that one time in your career. And Fernando did it.
The Dodgers released a statement on Tuesday night that Fernando,
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who I had heard a couple months back, was not
doing well. He died at a hospital in Los Angeles.
Not a lot of details to provide, but only sixty
three years old and had been in some poor health,
lost a lot of weight last time we had seen him.
Death comes just on the tip of the World series here,
which begins on Friday night. We'll talk more about that
in a minute, but the Dodgers and Yankees, a world
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series that Fernando in his day knew a thing or
two about pitching against the Yankees in the Fall Classic.
So let us discuss the question, how are you going
to remember Fernandovilenzuela the life of Fernando. Obviously we do
a sports radio show, so his time with the Dodgers,
but just in general. So I've got Spengali, country, cousins,
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and soul food, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna win your heart over. You see,
Fernando Vileinzuela was able to win the hearts, the minds
and the souls of many many a fan, and over
the years, I have spent a lot of time, not recently.
I'm not really welcome a stadium much these days because
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of Atani, But when I was out there, and I
was very fortunate to be around Fernando at the end
of his career as a player, and he works as
a broadcaster for many years and held court in the
media dining room at Dodger Stadium with all the scribes
hangout and the radio slobs, and just one of the
guys hanging out. But as far as Fernando the baseball player,
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how you gonna remember Fernando the magical delivery, looking towards
the heavens, the screwball, and in the big picture, he
played eleven season, which is a good run. He played
seventeen years, I believe in the big leagues, but eleven
years with the Dodgers, pitched in over three hundred games
in l and then bounced around at the end of
his career for teams like the Padres and the Phillies
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and teams like that. But regardless of all that, Fernando
a Dodger, threw and through And I have said this,
and I said it while he was alive. I'll say
it now. Certainly it gets amplified and this is not hyperbole.
Fernando Venezuela is the single most important player in the
Los Angeles era of the Dodgers. They've changed owners a
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bunch over the years, the players have changed, and he said, well,
Jackie Robinson, but Jackie Robinson was a Brooklyn Dodger. I'm
talking about the La vintage of the Dodgers. Fernando by
far head and show not even close secretariat compared to
every other Dodge That includes legends like the current Dodgers
with Otani and going back to Mike Piazza when he
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was the most popular guy, and everyone else. Fernando Valnce
I'll tell you why. It's rather obvious here, but you're
a little slow. No player, no player had the Bengali
effect that still to this day is alive and well
because of what they did in this case over forty
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years ago. But we know Fernando's store right. Mexican born phenom,
he inspired Fernando Mania in the early nineteen eighties. He
made his debut in nineteen eighty, but it was Night
eighty one where all the madness began and Dodger baseball
because of that in the early eighties has become in
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many ways a religion in large parts of the Mexican
American Comunity in southern California, and Chavezervin is the cathedral,
And you can directly go back to Fernando Vealnezuela and
his story and what that meant. And the Dodgers are
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still reaping the benefits of Fernando Mania all these years later.
He grew up in an impoverished town in western Mexico,
the son of farmers, and became this bigger than life
hero for the Dodgers in the days before social media,
when it just mattered a little more. Things were not
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watered down the way they often are now and everything
everyone's a TikTok star and all that. And in Tribua now,
Fernidra is not a Hall of Famer. He wasn't a
Hall of Fame player, but he's the first. He was
the first Dodger player to have his number retired without
reaching the Hall of Fame. It had been standard protocol
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to get in the Hall of Fame you had to
have or get your number tired. Rather, you had to
have your Hall of Fame status, and Fernando did not.
But they retired as number thirty four and also inspired
one of the great calls of Vin Scully's career. If
you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky. Rest
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in peace. Fernando Vevenezuela and just amazing run in his
career and died way too soon in his early sixties,
had many, many more years to live. But we send
our condolences to the people that knew him and people
that enjoyed enjoyed watching him in the whole story. All right, now,
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there's some other things I want to get too quickly,
and we'll talk about that. If you want to share
some thoughts about Fernando, we'll be here all night. As
far as the World Series itself is concerned, get a
lot of downtime before that. The Dodgers in their fourth
World Series in eight years. The Yankees have not gone
since way back in nine. That led to a storyline
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that has been pumped up over the last twenty four hours.
Max Mounsey was asked about all that. He said he
does not think experience will be a factor in the
twenty twenty four World Series. He said, you're talking about
a team that plays in New York. Is State's not
gonna be too big for them, I'm paraphrasing, So does
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let's just address well, dress it right now, because I
know this is gonna pop up the next couple of days.
Does the Dodgers vast World Series experience matter at all?
And I'm gonna answer that by shaking my head. No, Jamo,
and I would advise you to not fall for the
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okie dokee. Now we talk about this every postseason, in
every sport, these same storylines get tossed out, and my
position has been very consistent on postseason experience, playoff experience,
or in this case, World Series experience is a country
cousin of some other things that annoy me. Momentum uncle mo,
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home field advantage, locker room chemistry, savvy veterans, championship pedigrade,
bulletin board material. These are all things that are pet
peeves of mind, and World Series experience is on the
big board here. It's mainly used to set a game
up and to tell you what's supposed to happen, and
then also to explain the outcome of the game. Of course,
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it's forgotten when the unexpected result happens. Meeting that home
field or meeting that championship. Experience didn't matter at all,
and it's just who handles the immense pressure. The matchups
don't matter, the film doesn't matter, none of it matter.
Injuries don't matter. The Dodgers are on their fifth and
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sixth level pitching at this point. All that matters is
who goes out starting on Friday night and does better
in that moment. Who doesn't urinate down their leg and
who doesn't suck at a time you cannot suck. That's
what matters now. Final thought and starrs the World Series
is concerned. We found out that Jack Flaherty will get
the start in game number one of is that the
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right call by Dave Roberts. So on this one, I
am agnostic. I would have gone with the Oceanomu Yabamoto
in game one. I would have started Dawn Momoto in
Game one. Flarity absolutely poop the bed. There was feces
in the air everywhere. His last start against the Mets
in the NLCS, and it is important for him. I
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get it to start at Dodger Stadium. That's the sole food,
the home cooking. You don't trust him on the road.
He's not in the bubble of trust anymore. But I
would have started Yamamoto in Game one because the Dodgers
are unwilling to have players go above and beyond the
call of duty because you know, it's the World Series
and the playoffs and all that, so they're not gonna
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push anyone. Old school baseball would be all right. They
got to try to win a championship. Let's let's have
your pitch when you don't normally pitch and see if
you can test the boundaries of the human body. Yamamoto's
not willing to do that, from what we understand, and
so you're gonna start him in game one, and then
you'd get extra rest because he can only pitch twice
that way, assuming the series goes that long. But now
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you start him in game two, I don't even know
if he's gonna be able to pitch in another game
in the World Series. He's that soft, you know. Starting
him in game one would have given you a little
more time down the backside. And as far as Flaherty,
who knows, I mean, the way he pitched against the
Mets gives you pause. He has not had any real
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test against the Yankees, had one start with the Cardinals
a couple of years ago, or I guess last year,
and they didn't have Aaron Judge or gian Carlos Stanton
the lineup didn't pitch against the Yankees as a Tiger
this year, So to my knowledge, unless I'd missed it,
I don't think he's faced Judge or gian Carlo Stanton,
and he has had some success against Juan Soto, but
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it's a small sample size, and we do know the
Dodgers are going with Walker Buehler. Buehler in one of
the games in the Bronx, and another one of the
games will be the dreaded bullpen game in the Bronx,
So that's how it sets up, and Garrett Cole will
start Game one for the Yankees.
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beginning of the days. I love basketball is the Big
Soy Pro bouncy Ball and that got upstags by the
passing the death of Fernando Valenzuela, but the and did
go up on the seventy ninth season of NBA basketball,
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and I'd like to alert all the affiliates that we'll
talk some basketball about games the first couple of nights
and that's about it. There'll be some stories that pop
up that get my attention, but it's just not a
compelling product. It's not a good product. But over the
next one hundred and seventy three days between now and
mid April, thirty teams will play eighty two games each.
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They will complain about how grueling it is draconian. There
will be many injuries, there will be lots of drama
players that ask to be traded, there will be coaches
that are fired. But it all began with a twin
bill on a random Tuesday in October, the Knickerbockers and
the Celtics. Now was the early game, the Wolves and
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Lakers in the nightcap, and we will start with the
Lake game because that happened sooner and you probably were
not watching. This is not the most compelling television Anthony Davis,
remember him, the Uni Brown. Yeah, well he went out
and with all the pop and circumstance about his teammates,
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he had thirty six points, sixteen rebounds, four assists, and
a partriyed to a pear tree as the Lakers were
never really in danger in the second half. A bad
opening act for Minnesota, Lakers win by seven. The subplot
got all the talk, and that is where we will
talk here with you, Lebron James. Not that this has
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been planned for months, but Lebron and Bronny, the spawned
Lebron Lebron James Kid, Bronny James, the NEPO baby became
the first father and son duo to play in the
NBA at the same time, let alone on the same team.
So let us discuss the question were you mesmerized? Were
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you mesmerized by Lebron Andie playing together? So my thoughts
on this, I've got Phantom of the Opera, Courthouse Square,
and Magic Dragon, and we will tie all of these
things together, and we're gonna tie some loose ends. So
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my first thought here, I would not use the word
mesmerized to describe my reaction watching Lebron and Bronni play.
I believe that this whole thing is bull pucky. Now
you can say I'm dancing at the hater's ball all
you want, but I'm gonna tell you why. Watching all
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of this play out over the last couple of months,
and this is really a couple of months since the
NBA Draft, and even before the NBA Draft, I feel
like I'm on Broadway and it's like an old showing
of Phantom of the Opera. The choreography that went into
this next level, they should win a Tony Award. It
was not organic, it was scripted reality. Did Andrew Lloyd
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Weber do the musical score for this game? I mean
this was schedule. It was playing and it happened. It
was reported it's gonna happen in the second quarter, and
on que you had thirty nine year old Lebron and
twenty year old twenty year old son the NEPO baby,
who played all most two and a half minutes together
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late in the first half, and that was it. That
was Brownie's debut. They spawn of Bron. Now, how did
Scrownie James do? Some people are ripping Lebron's kid Brone James.
I'm gonna praise him because it's very hard to have
a triple zero in your NBA debut, and he did it.
He pitched a shutout, very rare to have a shutout.
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He did it. No points, no rebounds, no assist, oh
for one shooting. I think the kids call that a
cardio game, although it didn't get much cardio because he
wasn't in the game very long. The whole thing, though,
it isn't my position, and you judged the pose what
happened with they had Griffy Junior and his old man
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were there. I'm told for a Nike commercial. This whole
thing was for a Nike commercial. The whole event was
for a Nike commercial. But Bronni did not earn this.
He was given this because of his daddy. And I
saw Lebron interviewed after the game and he he thanked
the man upstairs. I think he was talking about Adam
Silver for going along with his plan. I think that's
what he was talking about. Now, Page two. So as
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far as the game on the court, where do you
have this year's vintage of the Lebron Lakers. So they
won the first game of the year, but ultimately they
are a middleweight. So do not get hornswaggled by the
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wind lackluster effort by Minnesota. There if you go up
to a plane thirty thousand feet in the sky and
you look at the Purple and Gold, they are stuck
in this massive gridlock of teams that are right in
the middle. You got the snarl of flawed teams. Golden
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State used to be good, but they're a fraud. The
Clippers have the curse of Kawhi Leonard, but they've got
a lot of urinals, so they've got that going for him.
The Suns, you don't really take seriously. The Mavericks. They
were in the finals, but does anyone think they'll get back?
Probably not. And then you have a team like Denver
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that won a championship a couple years ago. They have
the top player in the NBA, n Koleyjokic, and yet
everyone's forgetting about them. But all of these teams are
bunched up, but the Lakers in particular are like It's
like Courthouse Square on the back lot at Universal Studios.
It is a facade in terms of being a championship team.
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Reality is much different. They're phony. The verdict is they
are a Fox contender going into the season. Now, what
is my Evans? You've got father time knocking on the door.
Lebron turns forty in late December. He'll be forty by
next postseason. I don't care what kind of magic beans
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he's taking. He's forty. Anthony Davis, while he played well
in the opener, continues to be a paper mache player.
You don't trust him. He missed so many games for
so long. I don't who He played a lot of games.
Plus you, I don't care. The Lakers are a joke.
They hired a podcaster as their coach. That tells you
they're not trying to win. That Douche Canoe, JJ Reddick.
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You just want to see a guy like that fail,
don't you You just hope that JJ Reddick fails miserably.
You really want that to happen. That would be some
good karma. And they drafted Lebron's kid, who was a
backup on a bad usc basketball team, for a Nike commercial. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,
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unless it's not all right. Last word, We're gonna go
to the early game in Boston. That's where Jason Tatum
court in thirty seven points, made eight of the Celtics
record time twenty nine to three pointers, tied the Bucks
for the all time record. I'm surprised the record isn't
forty or fifty three point shots as often as these
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teams shoot three pointers. But Boston humiliated the Knickerbockers won
thirty two to one oh nine. On opening night. They
raised their most recent eighteenth championship banner. Now crowd went wild,
but Boston they led by as many as thirty five points,
and it was so funny in the fourth quarter. The
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game was over about halftime, but in the fourth quarter,
Kevin Harlan's doing the play by play on Turner and
the Celtics knew they needed one more three pointer. They
had a bunch of scrubs and they need one more
three pointer to set the record, So they took thirteen
to three point shots. It was Papa shot. It was
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like being at Dave and Busters playing Papa shot trying
to break the record and Clank Brick was hilarious. As
far as the Knicks are concerned, you'll answer the question
about the Knicks and what was going on with that
the Knickerbockers. Your early impressions on the Knicks, Well, my
impression on the Knicks not ready for prime time. The
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Knicks played like old fashioned potato salad. They were creamy
and soft, no perimeter defense, no attention to detail. Normally,
Tom Thibodeau teams have defense and attention to detail. And
Karl Anthony Towns that was the guy that people goofed
on in Minnesota for being passive, and he'll get his
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numbers on random nights, but he just wasn't there all
around the Knickerbockers, a smoldering pile of turds is the
way they played in this particular game. And don't tell
me the Celtics are just that much better. If you
play some defense, you're gonna be in position to not
lose by thirty plus points. You'd be down by thirty
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five points. Now, TNT's Reggie Miller. If you're watching this game,
Reggie Miller announced that on his big board, the Knickerbockers
are the NBA's second best team behind the Celtics. So
how does that one hit you? So it hits me
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like what was hitting Reggie Miller and likely somewhere in
his body puffed the magic dragon. In terms of hyping
up the Knickerbocker there's some players in the Knicks that
we like. We like Jalen Brunson, we like Tom Timoda
the coach, for example. But if you look at the Knickerbockers,
you can't trust Carl Anthony Towns. It's a blueprint, is
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what it is. It's not a finished product, and so
it's a premature take. Carl Anthony Towns is he's a dog,
but not a doll. Right, He's a dog with fleas,
he's a dog with you need dog dawg, and he's
d og often right, And so it's a bit of
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a toss up. The next will win a bunch of
games because it's a regular season all about what you
do from mid April until the end of the NBA
Finals sometime and I don't know the following year when
the NBA playoffs, And.
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Brock, how about hey Man? Third Degree? And Patrick ball
Is one gets grailled.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Brian dave All explained to the media on Monday that
he benched Daniel Jones in an attempt to provide a
spark for the offense when they were down twenty eight
to three in the fourth quarter. However, he did say
that Jones will be the starter moving forward. Ben, do
you think Jones finishes the season as QB one?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
No? I don't. However, what a referendum on Drew Locke
the backup? He must really blow if the Giants aren't
going to turn to Drew Locke after the way Daniel
Jones has played recently. The way this plays out, though,
once we get late in the season and the Giants
have officially been eliminated from playoff contention, they will shut
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Daniel Jones down because they don't want to get hurt.
There's some language offset language in the contract. If he
gets hurt, he gets certain amount of guaranteed money, so
they'll shut him down late in the year, but for now,
I guess they want to make their fans suffer some more.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Next, Antonio Piers told the media that the Raiders are
not tanking and that they are trying to be the
best team they can.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Really, it doesn't look like it.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Ben, Do you think that this means Max Crosby isn't
going anywhere?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well? No, I mean the trade deadline is November fifth.
There's some kind of election that day as well. But
the simple truth is it's up to Max Crosby. He's
from Michigan, he said, family wants him to play for
the Lions and all that. He's been getting texts and
people from other fan bases have been reaching out to him.
On the surface, he's the perfect Raider, he should be
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a lifetime Raider. But if Max Frosby goes to the
Raiders and says, you know, I think I should play
somewhere else. I don't want to be here anymore, then
what are they gonna do. They're gonna trade him, so
it's up to him. Next.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Former All Star Baron Davis said in a recent interview
that he thinks that this will be a bounce back
season for the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Ben, do you think he's right? Well? I think that
he works on a podcast for Draymond Green. I believe
he was hired, wasn't he? Is it Draymond Green's podcast?
He was hired as a co host, and he is
a former Golden State Warrior player. So I take everything
he says with the grand AsSalt. I look at Golden
State and the naked truth is they're about where they
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were last year without Klay Thompson. He sucked last year.
They're a fringe playoff like playing type team. That's where
Golden State is. And there it is mal to the
third degree? How did we do? He passes in a
show that is an a buzzer.
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Ben? Yeah, you gotta have more masculine.
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I'm gonna get it real low this segment.
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The fans of the Cheating a Holes want you to
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actual listeners for Lorraine. And we'll take some calls as well.
Coop will give me the updated phone board. But right now,
Shane from Australia writes, and he says, if you buy
a house and your axe wants to live there until
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she finds another place, do you letter now? Of course,
what do you think Lorraine is gonna say?
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Come on, I think that that's a horrible idea and
squatters are such a horrible problem right now and where
she moves in her new guy?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Huh would you have to be rules? You would have
to have rules that would not be allowed obviously not
allowed that I don't know.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
Sounds like a messy situation.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well absolutely, But I.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Guess if you want to be nice, and maybe if
you want to be in her good graces or just
around her some most of the time more than you
would otherwise, then yeah, you do you move?
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She's an ex though, Cowboy Killer writes and says, if
a guy buys a woman to drink, is she obligated
to talk to him? This is always a tough decision
to guy, you buy a woman to drink, get the bar,
and then you know, you feel like a total moron
if she doesn't give you the time of day.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Right, Well, there should never be obligation involved. It's more
of a gesture, like it's a kind gesture. You look thirsty.
I thought i'd get you this drink and then give
her no, you know, the chance to you know, wave
and say hi and thank you or not, or you know,
you can go up and approach her too. I got
this drink for you, but don't hand it to her
because a lot of people drug things lately, So make
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sure it comes from the bartender so that she feels safe.
And yeah, if she doesn't seem interested, don't be a
creeper and don't linger that's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
How about a second drink? How about a second Maybe
the second one will work. The first one didn't, but
the second.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Keep trying buy one for her friend too.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, No, definitely not the friend, the friends of the one.
And that's the one that blocks you the friends, the
one that blocks king Rory writes in says, is a
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Halloween parties this weekend. Is a Halloween party a good
place to pick up chicks, says the King Rory.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Halloween part can be very interesting places to meet people
because they're all on everyone's on a different level of intoxication.
You could have someone be completely sober, you could have
someone be completely schnockered. So depending on your you know,
you could meet someone who's really friendly and then meet
them on a regular day and it's they're just not
that interesting. Also, a lot of makeup is born those days,
(30:20):
so be cautious. They could seem real pretty and then
they turn out to be a butterface.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You don't want that. I hate to tell you, Lorena,
but that is always a concern that men have. You
do not know, depending on the environment you're in, what
you're getting.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
Oh yeah, the amount of magic women can work on
their faces is pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
There's a lot of deception, a lot of deception, and
I think all women should be fans of the Astros
because of that activity. It's my opinion. Bake, Well, it's
an illusion, it's oh yeah, Ferg Dog writes in Ferg
Dog's about forty years old. He says, do you have
any tips on how to ask a girl to prom?
(31:00):
Should I be romantic or funny?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Well, if you're thinking about asking someone to go to prom,
you should probably be in jail.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But I don't know how you.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
No idea if you are forty? No, I'm kidding. If
I like the grand proposals for prom, like if you.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Can over the top, Yeah, have.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
A row of rose petals leading from her classroom out
to the main courtyard where everyone can see.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
And about having somebody big gesture. How about having one
of your friends just ask your head. This guy wants
to take it from you.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Could do that, or you could show up on a
horse like a knight in shining armor.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, this is a spoiler alert. This is not a movie.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Oh but it could be. Ben. That's the cool part
about life. We don't think big enough. We need to
think bigger.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 7 (31:49):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
All right? Anka Terror writes in from New York. He says,
have you heard of the six six six dating rule?
And what are your thoughts on it?
Speaker 7 (32:00):
The six six six dating rule? No, I have not
heard about that at all, and I'm quite curious.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
He does not expand on what that is.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Maybe you need to date six women for six months
six nights.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
According to the Internet, the six six six rule refirst
to seeking a man who is at least six feet tall,
has six pack abs and figures.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Yeah, okay, that makes sense. You're you're shooting real high,
you're aiming real far.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
That's the woman that, unfortunately will be alone for a
long time, the future.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Cat ladies of the world.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah. I hate to say it, but at some point
you have to You have to bring back your expectations.
Am I wrong to say that? Lorena?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Know?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Your beggars can't be choosy?
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Even if you found someone who's six sixty six, one day,
they might, you know, get a kink in their back
and they might have to stand at like five four
and there they're going to turn into beer guts. And
I know, thereir six figures are be going to become
a retirement pension And are you still going to be happy?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, JT the wing man says, is it more romantic
to kiss her on the forehead or give her a
big hunk?
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Keep your distance, So no forehead or home.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Not coming in for a kiss.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Don't try so, just stay away. JT. Do not touch,
do not look at, do not We're a burka on
I like that Burka.
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Speaker 1 (33:46):
Hey, we'll get to the game here in a moment.
I did want to mention Baker Mayfield was caught on
camera during the Bucks game on Monday night, bad enough
that he played terribly for most of that game, but
the cameras they are caught good old Baker on the
side lines, and I guess he needed a little bit
of a pick me up, so he had one of
those you know, those zen things, those nicotine things. He
(34:08):
had one on the silence during the game. And I
think he's the second NFL player this year that's been
taught on camera. What'son around with that? I guess it's
not illegal. I get it. I don't do whatever you want.
Knock yourself out. If you did a lot of cocaine,
I think you'd be in trouble, but that's that's a lot.
Let's welcome in our contestants. We have Daniel from Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniel,
(34:30):
Good morning man, everyone's favorite crossing guard. And Daniel, you're
ready to play. Who do you want to partner up with? Daniel?
And I'm going with you because you're in it to
win it. You're a smart man. And we have milkman
Mike in Colorado, milkman, welcome.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Hey, good male, high morning.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Good to have you, milk man. Who do you want
to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
The winner?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Let's go with Eddie.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Eddie's got got terrible record.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
He's lying, Ben mallor right there, no lies.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
All fall lies. Let's play the game. What do you said?
We have a list of words, yes, one to ten
and let's see here, Daniel, you were on the air.
First pick a number one to ten, Daniel, one to ten.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I want to take the lead, not take a seed
number three?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
All right, he had that line saved. I believe I
think he had that line saved. All right, let's go
with a couple of ways I can go on this.
See what do I think you will get? Let me
choose here? How about calculate math? Now how about tabulate
(35:54):
the same. Now, let's go with addition.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Tally.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
All right, this is gonna be a how about how
about total cancer? All right, let's go with.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
Al right, scoreboard numbers, how about tally?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
He just no, all right, this is a never use
this word again. The word was count counts? Was the word?
All right? You gotta pick a number, milk man, one
to ten? Please, number six, number six? All right, let's
go with vacation. Hurry up, hurry up? No, all right, Daniel,
(37:09):
all right, you hear what what Eddie said. I'm gonna
go with. I'm using the Mallard maneuver. All right, here
we go roaw yeah, nine, nothing. We get to go again, Daniel,
pick a number one to ten, but not number what three?
Or number six?
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
No? Number one? Should I go with?
Speaker 9 (37:40):
Let's go with the Beast's over.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Was lose? Did not lose
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We're gonna lead with baseball because to me, this story
is more important. I have the editorial control of the show.
There'll be plenty of opening nights in the NBA, and
there'll be plenty of more contrived events by Adam Silver
and the writers over at the NBA that suckers will
fall for. But the depth of a legend assume you've
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heard by now, but maybe not. A pitcher Fernando Valenzuale,
baseball icon from back in his day many years ago,
guy that won a lot of awards early on in
his career and had a cult following with the Dodgers,
has died. He was only sixty three years old. Fernando
won the cy Young Award and the Rookie of the
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Year way back in the Hot Up Time Machine the
year nineteen eighty one, and the only pitcher to still
to this day have won the cy Young and the
Rookie of the Year in the same year. Obviously, only
do that one time in your career. And Fernando did it.
The Dodgers released a statement on Tuesday night that Fernando,
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who I had heard a couple months back, was not
doing well. He died at a hospital in Los Angeles.
Not a lot of details to provide, but only sixty
three years old and had been in some poor health,
lost a lot of weight last time we had seen him.
Death comes just on the tip of the World series here,
which begins on Friday night. We'll talk more about that
in a minute, but the Dodgers and Yankees, a world
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series that Fernando in his day knew a thing or
two about pitching against the Yankees in the Fall Classic.
So let us discuss the question, how are you going
to remember Fernandovilenzuela the life of Fernando. Obviously we do
a sports radio show, so his time with the Dodgers,
but just in general. So I've got Spengali, country, cousins,
(03:38):
and soul food, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna win your heart over. You see,
Fernando Vileinzuela was able to win the hearts, the minds
and the souls of many many a fan, and over
the years, I have spent a lot of time, not recently.
I'm not really welcome a stadium much these days because
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of Atani, But when I was out there, and I
was very fortunate to be around Fernando at the end
of his career as a player, and he works as
a broadcaster for many years and held court in the
media dining room at Dodger Stadium with all the scribes
hangout and the radio slobs, and just one of the
guys hanging out. But as far as Fernando the baseball player,
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how you gonna remember Fernando the magical delivery, looking towards
the heavens, the screwball, and in the big picture, he
played eleven season, which is a good run. He played
seventeen years, I believe in the big leagues, but eleven
years with the Dodgers, pitched in over three hundred games
in l and then bounced around at the end of
his career for teams like the Padres and the Phillies
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and teams like that. But regardless of all that, Fernando
a Dodger, threw and through And I have said this,
and I said it while he was alive. I'll say
it now. Certainly it gets amplified and this is not hyperbole.
Fernando Venezuela is the single most important player in the
Los Angeles era of the Dodgers. They've changed owners a
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bunch over the years, the players have changed, and he said, well,
Jackie Robinson, but Jackie Robinson was a Brooklyn Dodger. I'm
talking about the La vintage of the Dodgers. Fernando by
far head and show not even close secretariat compared to
every other Dodge That includes legends like the current Dodgers
with Otani and going back to Mike Piazza when he
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was the most popular guy, and everyone else. Fernando Valnce
I'll tell you why. It's rather obvious here, but you're
a little slow. No player, no player had the Bengali
effect that still to this day is alive and well
because of what they did in this case over forty
(05:48):
years ago. But we know Fernando's store right. Mexican born phenom,
he inspired Fernando Mania in the early nineteen eighties. He
made his debut in nineteen eighty, but it was Night
eighty one where all the madness began and Dodger baseball
because of that in the early eighties has become in
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many ways a religion in large parts of the Mexican
American Comunity in southern California, and Chavezervin is the cathedral,
And you can directly go back to Fernando Vealnezuela and
his story and what that meant. And the Dodgers are
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still reaping the benefits of Fernando Mania all these years later.
He grew up in an impoverished town in western Mexico,
the son of farmers, and became this bigger than life
hero for the Dodgers in the days before social media,
when it just mattered a little more. Things were not
(06:53):
watered down the way they often are now and everything
everyone's a TikTok star and all that. And in Tribua now,
Fernidra is not a Hall of Famer. He wasn't a
Hall of Fame player, but he's the first. He was
the first Dodger player to have his number retired without
reaching the Hall of Fame. It had been standard protocol
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to get in the Hall of Fame you had to
have or get your number tired. Rather, you had to
have your Hall of Fame status, and Fernando did not.
But they retired as number thirty four and also inspired
one of the great calls of Vin Scully's career. If
you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky. Rest
(07:35):
in peace. Fernando Vevenezuela and just amazing run in his
career and died way too soon in his early sixties,
had many, many more years to live. But we send
our condolences to the people that knew him and people
that enjoyed enjoyed watching him in the whole story. All right, now,
(07:59):
there's some other things I want to get too quickly,
and we'll talk about that. If you want to share
some thoughts about Fernando, we'll be here all night. As
far as the World Series itself is concerned, get a
lot of downtime before that. The Dodgers in their fourth
World Series in eight years. The Yankees have not gone
since way back in nine. That led to a storyline
(08:20):
that has been pumped up over the last twenty four hours.
Max Mounsey was asked about all that. He said he
does not think experience will be a factor in the
twenty twenty four World Series. He said, you're talking about
a team that plays in New York. Is State's not
gonna be too big for them, I'm paraphrasing, So does
(08:43):
let's just address well, dress it right now, because I
know this is gonna pop up the next couple of days.
Does the Dodgers vast World Series experience matter at all?
And I'm gonna answer that by shaking my head. No, Jamo,
and I would advise you to not fall for the
(09:03):
okie dokee. Now we talk about this every postseason, in
every sport, these same storylines get tossed out, and my
position has been very consistent on postseason experience, playoff experience,
or in this case, World Series experience is a country
cousin of some other things that annoy me. Momentum uncle mo,
(09:28):
home field advantage, locker room chemistry, savvy veterans, championship pedigrade,
bulletin board material. These are all things that are pet
peeves of mind, and World Series experience is on the
big board here. It's mainly used to set a game
up and to tell you what's supposed to happen, and
then also to explain the outcome of the game. Of course,
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it's forgotten when the unexpected result happens. Meeting that home
field or meeting that championship. Experience didn't matter at all,
and it's just who handles the immense pressure. The matchups
don't matter, the film doesn't matter, none of it matter.
Injuries don't matter. The Dodgers are on their fifth and
(10:11):
sixth level pitching at this point. All that matters is
who goes out starting on Friday night and does better
in that moment. Who doesn't urinate down their leg and
who doesn't suck at a time you cannot suck. That's
what matters now. Final thought and starrs the World Series
is concerned. We found out that Jack Flaherty will get
the start in game number one of is that the
(10:36):
right call by Dave Roberts. So on this one, I
am agnostic. I would have gone with the Oceanomu Yabamoto
in game one. I would have started Dawn Momoto in
Game one. Flarity absolutely poop the bed. There was feces
in the air everywhere. His last start against the Mets
in the NLCS, and it is important for him. I
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get it to start at Dodger Stadium. That's the sole food,
the home cooking. You don't trust him on the road.
He's not in the bubble of trust anymore. But I
would have started Yamamoto in Game one because the Dodgers
are unwilling to have players go above and beyond the
call of duty because you know, it's the World Series
and the playoffs and all that, so they're not gonna
(11:17):
push anyone. Old school baseball would be all right. They
got to try to win a championship. Let's let's have
your pitch when you don't normally pitch and see if
you can test the boundaries of the human body. Yamamoto's
not willing to do that, from what we understand, and
so you're gonna start him in game one, and then
you'd get extra rest because he can only pitch twice
that way, assuming the series goes that long. But now
(11:38):
you start him in game two, I don't even know
if he's gonna be able to pitch in another game
in the World Series. He's that soft, you know. Starting
him in game one would have given you a little
more time down the backside. And as far as Flaherty,
who knows, I mean, the way he pitched against the
Mets gives you pause. He has not had any real
(12:01):
test against the Yankees, had one start with the Cardinals
a couple of years ago, or I guess last year,
and they didn't have Aaron Judge or gian Carlos Stanton
the lineup didn't pitch against the Yankees as a Tiger
this year, So to my knowledge, unless I'd missed it,
I don't think he's faced Judge or gian Carlo Stanton,
and he has had some success against Juan Soto, but
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it's a small sample size, and we do know the
Dodgers are going with Walker Buehler. Buehler in one of
the games in the Bronx, and another one of the
games will be the dreaded bullpen game in the Bronx,
So that's how it sets up, and Garrett Cole will
start Game one for the Yankees.
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Way Tire Buying showb. So we were planning at the
beginning of the days. I love basketball is the Big
Soy Pro bouncy Ball and that got upstags by the
passing the death of Fernando Valenzuela, but the and did
go up on the seventy ninth season of NBA basketball,
(14:05):
and I'd like to alert all the affiliates that we'll
talk some basketball about games the first couple of nights
and that's about it. There'll be some stories that pop
up that get my attention, but it's just not a
compelling product. It's not a good product. But over the
next one hundred and seventy three days between now and
mid April, thirty teams will play eighty two games each.
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They will complain about how grueling it is draconian. There
will be many injuries, there will be lots of drama
players that ask to be traded, there will be coaches
that are fired. But it all began with a twin
bill on a random Tuesday in October, the Knickerbockers and
the Celtics. Now was the early game, the Wolves and
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Lakers in the nightcap, and we will start with the
Lake game because that happened sooner and you probably were
not watching. This is not the most compelling television Anthony Davis,
remember him, the Uni Brown. Yeah, well he went out
and with all the pop and circumstance about his teammates,
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he had thirty six points, sixteen rebounds, four assists, and
a partriyed to a pear tree as the Lakers were
never really in danger in the second half. A bad
opening act for Minnesota, Lakers win by seven. The subplot
got all the talk, and that is where we will
talk here with you, Lebron James. Not that this has
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been planned for months, but Lebron and Bronny, the spawned
Lebron Lebron James Kid, Bronny James, the NEPO baby became
the first father and son duo to play in the
NBA at the same time, let alone on the same team.
So let us discuss the question were you mesmerized? Were
(15:56):
you mesmerized by Lebron Andie playing together? So my thoughts
on this, I've got Phantom of the Opera, Courthouse Square,
and Magic Dragon, and we will tie all of these
things together, and we're gonna tie some loose ends. So
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my first thought here, I would not use the word
mesmerized to describe my reaction watching Lebron and Bronni play.
I believe that this whole thing is bull pucky. Now
you can say I'm dancing at the hater's ball all
you want, but I'm gonna tell you why. Watching all
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of this play out over the last couple of months,
and this is really a couple of months since the
NBA Draft, and even before the NBA Draft, I feel
like I'm on Broadway and it's like an old showing
of Phantom of the Opera. The choreography that went into
this next level, they should win a Tony Award. It
was not organic, it was scripted reality. Did Andrew Lloyd
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Weber do the musical score for this game? I mean
this was schedule. It was playing and it happened. It
was reported it's gonna happen in the second quarter, and
on que you had thirty nine year old Lebron and
twenty year old twenty year old son the NEPO baby,
who played all most two and a half minutes together
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late in the first half, and that was it. That
was Brownie's debut. They spawn of Bron. Now, how did
Scrownie James do? Some people are ripping Lebron's kid Brone James.
I'm gonna praise him because it's very hard to have
a triple zero in your NBA debut, and he did it.
He pitched a shutout, very rare to have a shutout.
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He did it. No points, no rebounds, no assist, oh
for one shooting. I think the kids call that a
cardio game, although it didn't get much cardio because he
wasn't in the game very long. The whole thing, though,
it isn't my position, and you judged the pose what
happened with they had Griffy Junior and his old man
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were there. I'm told for a Nike commercial. This whole
thing was for a Nike commercial. The whole event was
for a Nike commercial. But Bronni did not earn this.
He was given this because of his daddy. And I
saw Lebron interviewed after the game and he he thanked
the man upstairs. I think he was talking about Adam
Silver for going along with his plan. I think that's
what he was talking about. Now, Page two. So as
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far as the game on the court, where do you
have this year's vintage of the Lebron Lakers. So they
won the first game of the year, but ultimately they
are a middleweight. So do not get hornswaggled by the
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wind lackluster effort by Minnesota. There if you go up
to a plane thirty thousand feet in the sky and
you look at the Purple and Gold, they are stuck
in this massive gridlock of teams that are right in
the middle. You got the snarl of flawed teams. Golden
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State used to be good, but they're a fraud. The
Clippers have the curse of Kawhi Leonard, but they've got
a lot of urinals, so they've got that going for him.
The Suns, you don't really take seriously. The Mavericks. They
were in the finals, but does anyone think they'll get back?
Probably not. And then you have a team like Denver
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that won a championship a couple years ago. They have
the top player in the NBA, n Koleyjokic, and yet
everyone's forgetting about them. But all of these teams are
bunched up, but the Lakers in particular are like It's
like Courthouse Square on the back lot at Universal Studios.
It is a facade in terms of being a championship team.
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Reality is much different. They're phony. The verdict is they
are a Fox contender going into the season. Now, what
is my Evans? You've got father time knocking on the door.
Lebron turns forty in late December. He'll be forty by
next postseason. I don't care what kind of magic beans
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he's taking. He's forty. Anthony Davis, while he played well
in the opener, continues to be a paper mache player.
You don't trust him. He missed so many games for
so long. I don't who He played a lot of games.
Plus you, I don't care. The Lakers are a joke.
They hired a podcaster as their coach. That tells you
they're not trying to win. That Douche Canoe, JJ Reddick.
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You just want to see a guy like that fail,
don't you You just hope that JJ Reddick fails miserably.
You really want that to happen. That would be some
good karma. And they drafted Lebron's kid, who was a
backup on a bad usc basketball team, for a Nike commercial. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,
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unless it's not all right. Last word, We're gonna go
to the early game in Boston. That's where Jason Tatum
court in thirty seven points, made eight of the Celtics
record time twenty nine to three pointers, tied the Bucks
for the all time record. I'm surprised the record isn't
forty or fifty three point shots as often as these
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teams shoot three pointers. But Boston humiliated the Knickerbockers won
thirty two to one oh nine. On opening night. They
raised their most recent eighteenth championship banner. Now crowd went wild,
but Boston they led by as many as thirty five points,
and it was so funny in the fourth quarter. The
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game was over about halftime, but in the fourth quarter,
Kevin Harlan's doing the play by play on Turner and
the Celtics knew they needed one more three pointer. They
had a bunch of scrubs and they need one more
three pointer to set the record, So they took thirteen
to three point shots. It was Papa shot. It was
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like being at Dave and Busters playing Papa shot trying
to break the record and Clank Brick was hilarious. As
far as the Knicks are concerned, you'll answer the question
about the Knicks and what was going on with that
the Knickerbockers. Your early impressions on the Knicks, Well, my
impression on the Knicks not ready for prime time. The
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Knicks played like old fashioned potato salad. They were creamy
and soft, no perimeter defense, no attention to detail. Normally,
Tom Thibodeau teams have defense and attention to detail. And
Karl Anthony Towns that was the guy that people goofed
on in Minnesota for being passive, and he'll get his
(22:50):
numbers on random nights, but he just wasn't there all
around the Knickerbockers, a smoldering pile of turds is the
way they played in this particular game. And don't tell
me the Celtics are just that much better. If you
play some defense, you're gonna be in position to not
lose by thirty plus points. You'd be down by thirty
(23:10):
five points. Now, TNT's Reggie Miller. If you're watching this game,
Reggie Miller announced that on his big board, the Knickerbockers
are the NBA's second best team behind the Celtics. So
how does that one hit you? So it hits me
(23:30):
like what was hitting Reggie Miller and likely somewhere in
his body puffed the magic dragon. In terms of hyping
up the Knickerbocker there's some players in the Knicks that
we like. We like Jalen Brunson, we like Tom Timoda
the coach, for example. But if you look at the Knickerbockers,
you can't trust Carl Anthony Towns. It's a blueprint, is
(23:53):
what it is. It's not a finished product, and so
it's a premature take. Carl Anthony Towns is he's a dog,
but not a doll. Right, He's a dog with fleas,
he's a dog with you need dog dawg, and he's
d og often right, And so it's a bit of
(24:16):
a toss up. The next will win a bunch of
games because it's a regular season all about what you
do from mid April until the end of the NBA
Finals sometime and I don't know the following year when
the NBA playoffs, And.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
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Speaker 1 (24:36):
Brock, how about hey Man? Third Degree? And Patrick ball
Is one gets grailled.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Brian dave All explained to the media on Monday that
he benched Daniel Jones in an attempt to provide a
spark for the offense when they were down twenty eight
to three in the fourth quarter. However, he did say
that Jones will be the starter moving forward. Ben, do
you think Jones finishes the season as QB one?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
No? I don't. However, what a referendum on Drew Locke
the backup? He must really blow if the Giants aren't
going to turn to Drew Locke after the way Daniel
Jones has played recently. The way this plays out, though,
once we get late in the season and the Giants
have officially been eliminated from playoff contention, they will shut
(25:24):
Daniel Jones down because they don't want to get hurt.
There's some language offset language in the contract. If he
gets hurt, he gets certain amount of guaranteed money, so
they'll shut him down late in the year, but for now,
I guess they want to make their fans suffer some more.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Next, Antonio Piers told the media that the Raiders are
not tanking and that they are trying to be the
best team they can.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Really, it doesn't look like it.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Ben, Do you think that this means Max Crosby isn't
going anywhere?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well? No, I mean the trade deadline is November fifth.
There's some kind of election that day as well. But
the simple truth is it's up to Max Crosby. He's
from Michigan, he said, family wants him to play for
the Lions and all that. He's been getting texts and
people from other fan bases have been reaching out to him.
On the surface, he's the perfect Raider, he should be
(26:12):
a lifetime Raider. But if Max Frosby goes to the
Raiders and says, you know, I think I should play
somewhere else. I don't want to be here anymore, then
what are they gonna do. They're gonna trade him, so
it's up to him. Next.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Former All Star Baron Davis said in a recent interview
that he thinks that this will be a bounce back
season for the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Ben, do you think he's right? Well? I think that
he works on a podcast for Draymond Green. I believe
he was hired, wasn't he? Is it Draymond Green's podcast?
He was hired as a co host, and he is
a former Golden State Warrior player. So I take everything
he says with the grand AsSalt. I look at Golden
State and the naked truth is they're about where they
(26:50):
were last year without Klay Thompson. He sucked last year.
They're a fringe playoff like playing type team. That's where
Golden State is. And there it is mal to the
third degree? How did we do? He passes in a
show that is an a buzzer.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
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Speaker 6 (27:23):
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Speaker 7 (27:37):
Oh yeah you heard the man is town for some
love Here on the Ben Mallor show. I'm your host, Lorena,
but this is your main host, Ben. Hi Ben? Sorry?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Ben? Yeah, you gotta have more masculine.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
I'm gonna get it real low this segment.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
The fans of the Cheating a Holes want you to
have a more masculine voice. These are actual questions by
actual listeners for Lorraine. And we'll take some calls as well.
Coop will give me the updated phone board. But right now,
Shane from Australia writes, and he says, if you buy
a house and your axe wants to live there until
(28:13):
she finds another place, do you letter now? Of course,
what do you think Lorraine is gonna say?
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Come on, I think that that's a horrible idea and
squatters are such a horrible problem right now and where
she moves in her new guy?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Huh would you have to be rules? You would have
to have rules that would not be allowed obviously not
allowed that I don't know.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
Sounds like a messy situation.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well absolutely, But I.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Guess if you want to be nice, and maybe if
you want to be in her good graces or just
around her some most of the time more than you
would otherwise, then yeah, you do you move?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
She's an ex though, Cowboy Killer writes and says, if
a guy buys a woman to drink, is she obligated
to talk to him? This is always a tough decision
to guy, you buy a woman to drink, get the bar,
and then you know, you feel like a total moron
if she doesn't give you the time of day.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Right, Well, there should never be obligation involved. It's more
of a gesture, like it's a kind gesture. You look thirsty.
I thought i'd get you this drink and then give
her no, you know, the chance to you know, wave
and say hi and thank you or not, or you know,
you can go up and approach her too. I got
this drink for you, but don't hand it to her
because a lot of people drug things lately, So make
(29:28):
sure it comes from the bartender so that she feels safe.
And yeah, if she doesn't seem interested, don't be a
creeper and don't linger that's weird.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
How about a second drink? How about a second Maybe
the second one will work. The first one didn't, but
the second.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Keep trying buy one for her friend too.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, No, definitely not the friend, the friends of the one.
And that's the one that blocks you the friends, the
one that blocks king Rory writes in says, is a
Halloween party a good place. So there's a lot of
Halloween parties this weekend. Is a Halloween party a good
place to pick up chicks, says the King Rory.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
Halloween part can be very interesting places to meet people
because they're all on everyone's on a different level of intoxication.
You could have someone be completely sober, you could have
someone be completely schnockered. So depending on your you know,
you could meet someone who's really friendly and then meet
them on a regular day and it's they're just not
that interesting. Also, a lot of makeup is born those days,
(30:20):
so be cautious. They could seem real pretty and then
they turn out to be a butterface.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You don't want that. I hate to tell you, Lorena,
but that is always a concern that men have. You
do not know, depending on the environment you're in, what
you're getting.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
Oh yeah, the amount of magic women can work on
their faces is pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
There's a lot of deception, a lot of deception, and
I think all women should be fans of the Astros
because of that activity. It's my opinion. Bake, Well, it's
an illusion, it's oh yeah, Ferg Dog writes in Ferg
Dog's about forty years old. He says, do you have
any tips on how to ask a girl to prom?
(31:00):
Should I be romantic or funny?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
Well, if you're thinking about asking someone to go to prom,
you should probably be in jail.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But I don't know how you.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
No idea if you are forty? No, I'm kidding. If
I like the grand proposals for prom, like if you.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Can over the top, Yeah, have.
Speaker 7 (31:22):
A row of rose petals leading from her classroom out
to the main courtyard where everyone can see.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
And about having somebody big gesture. How about having one
of your friends just ask your head. This guy wants
to take it from you.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
Could do that, or you could show up on a
horse like a knight in shining armor.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, this is a spoiler alert. This is not a movie.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
Oh but it could be. Ben. That's the cool part
about life. We don't think big enough. We need to
think bigger.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 7 (31:49):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
All right? Anka Terror writes in from New York. He says,
have you heard of the six six six dating rule?
And what are your thoughts on it?
Speaker 7 (32:00):
The six six six dating rule? No, I have not
heard about that at all, and I'm quite curious.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
He does not expand on what that is.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Maybe you need to date six women for six months
six nights.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
According to the Internet, the six six six rule refirst
to seeking a man who is at least six feet tall,
has six pack abs and figures.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Yeah, okay, that makes sense. You're you're shooting real high,
you're aiming real far.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
That's the woman that, unfortunately will be alone for a
long time, the future.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Cat ladies of the world.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah. I hate to say it, but at some point
you have to You have to bring back your expectations.
Am I wrong to say that? Lorena?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Know?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Your beggars can't be choosy?
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Even if you found someone who's six sixty six, one day,
they might, you know, get a kink in their back
and they might have to stand at like five four
and there they're going to turn into beer guts. And
I know, thereir six figures are be going to become
a retirement pension And are you still going to be happy?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, JT the wing man says, is it more romantic
to kiss her on the forehead or give her a
big hunk?
Speaker 7 (33:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Keep your distance, So no forehead or home.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Not coming in for a kiss.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Don't try so, just stay away. JT. Do not touch,
do not look at, do not We're a burka on
I like that Burka.
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Speaker 1 (33:46):
Hey, we'll get to the game here in a moment.
I did want to mention Baker Mayfield was caught on
camera during the Bucks game on Monday night, bad enough
that he played terribly for most of that game, but
the cameras they are caught good old Baker on the
side lines, and I guess he needed a little bit
of a pick me up, so he had one of
those you know, those zen things, those nicotine things. He
(34:08):
had one on the silence during the game. And I
think he's the second NFL player this year that's been
taught on camera. What'son around with that? I guess it's
not illegal. I get it. I don't do whatever you want.
Knock yourself out. If you did a lot of cocaine,
I think you'd be in trouble, but that's that's a lot.
Let's welcome in our contestants. We have Daniel from Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniel,
(34:30):
Good morning man, everyone's favorite crossing guard. And Daniel, you're
ready to play. Who do you want to partner up with? Daniel?
And I'm going with you because you're in it to
win it. You're a smart man. And we have milkman
Mike in Colorado, milkman, welcome.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Hey, good male, high morning.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Good to have you, milk man. Who do you want
to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
The winner?
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Let's go with Eddie.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Eddie's got got terrible record.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
He's lying, Ben mallor right there, no lies.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
All fall lies. Let's play the game. What do you said?
We have a list of words, yes, one to ten
and let's see here, Daniel, you were on the air.
First pick a number one to ten, Daniel, one to ten.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
I want to take the lead, not take a seed
number three?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
All right, he had that line saved. I believe I
think he had that line saved. All right, let's go
with a couple of ways I can go on this.
See what do I think you will get? Let me
choose here? How about calculate math? Now how about tabulate
(35:54):
the same. Now, let's go with addition.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Tally.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
All right, this is gonna be a how about how
about total cancer? All right, let's go with.
Speaker 8 (36:30):
Al right, scoreboard numbers, how about tally?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
He just no, all right, this is a never use
this word again. The word was count counts? Was the word?
All right? You gotta pick a number, milk man, one
to ten? Please, number six, number six? All right, let's
go with vacation. Hurry up, hurry up? No, all right, Daniel,
(37:09):
all right, you hear what what Eddie said. I'm gonna
go with. I'm using the Mallard maneuver. All right, here
we go roaw yeah, nine, nothing. We get to go again, Daniel,
pick a number one to ten, but not number what three?
Or number six?
Speaker 7 (37:31):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
No? Number one? Should I go with?
Speaker 9 (37:40):
Let's go with the Beast's over.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Was lose? Did not lose
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