February 18, 2025 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about the Bengals planning to use the non-exclusive franchise tag on Tee Higgins, an anonymous NBA GM calling out Adam Silver for being too in-love with tournaments, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Dr. Dre Edition, and more!
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So our lead this out.
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We're gonna start out with a topic of conversation that
will be near and dear to my heart and in
your heart as well for the coming days, coming weeks.
That would be tag you're it, Who's getting tagged, who's
not getting tagged? NFL free agents always an important day,
the tag day. I don't know about you, but in
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my house we circle that day. It's very important. Who's
getting tagged and who's not getting tagged.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh my, the drama.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So there are reports out of Cincinnati that a decision
hasn't been made on the future of T Higgins, many
anticipating T Higgins changing teams. Well, if you didn't see this,
maybe not a surprise. Surprise, not a surprise, say what?
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So we are told the ben Gals, the Ben Gals
plan to use the dreaded franchise tag on T Higgins.
If that sounds like a doppelganger of a year ago,
that is because that is exactly what happened last year.
That would be the second straight offseason that the Cincinnati
football team has used the franchise tag on T Higgins. Now,
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the story says that the Higgins camp. Now, you know
you're big when you have a camp. I don't have
a camp. There's no camp. There's no Mallard camp. I
don't have a camp.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know you're.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Important you have a camp, You've arrived. If you have
a camp. How many people are in a camp? Could
you have like two people in a camp? Does it
have to be three? How about how many? Four?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Five?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How many people in camp? I'd like to know when
does one become a camp because I don't have a camp.
I'd like to have a camp, but I don't have
a camp. How do you get a camp? How do
people know when you have a camp? Do you announce you.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Have a camp?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Do you say, hey, I have a camp? Like who
determines the camp? And what if it's a fake camp?
What happens then? I need answers. Anyway, So Higgins expects
to be tagged, and that would be mean that he
would play yet again in Theory in Cincinnati and would
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not hit the free agent market. Now, the reason today
is an important day. This is our Tuesday show. It's
still late on the West Coast on Monday. Hey, but
we live in the world of Tuesday because this our
Tuesday Show. So the tag window officially opens. Is everyone ready?
Four pm Eastern, one o'clock Pacific? Whoa yeahoo, man alive.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Tag Day. It's Tag Day, kids, It's Tag. No one
go to school.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's Tag Day now. That begins at four pm. It'll
last until March fourth. Wow, that's all. That's a big
period of time. March fourth at four pm. So you
can do the math on that. But that's the period
of time. So let us discuss the question the Bengals
planning to use the non exclusive, non exclusive franchise tag
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on wide receiver T Higgins for the second consecutive year.
Can you decipher what this actually means? So I've got vegetables, Batman,
and paradise, and we will combine all of these things
together and we'll take a dive off a boat, is
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what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So ay, I will solve the Rubik's cube.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I have all of the powers invested in me by
the mighty powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio. And I
will use football jargon. I will keep it simple, stupid.
I will relate to the common man. And here's the
story on T. Higgins and the franchise tag with the Bengals.
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The Bengals are proudly accepting the yellow flag for delay
of game. Delay of game in football jargon a five
yard penalty, move the chains back. It is a procrastination
situation for the Cincinnati football team. Now what reports say
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that they want to extend T.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I'm sure they do wink wink, nod nod, and they
would like to have him under contract long term. We
are skeptics. I much like the Great State of Missouri
may show me state of mind. It is more likely
than not that there are ulterior motives in play here.
That the Bengals are doing what I did when I
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was a kid. My mom would yell at me to
finish my food, and I would play with my vegetables.
The Bengals are playing with their vegetables. They are more
than content to go year to year to year to
year with Higgins, and Cincinnati would love for a team
like the Chargers or the Patriots to step in there
and negotiate a long term contract with T. Higgins and
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work out a trade. Now, they're not going to get
two first round picks for T.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The way this usually works in the past is you
agree to a contractor, Higgins finds a team he wants
to play for, and then they drop the tag, and
then Higgins gets traded for less than two first round picks,
and there will be some kind of compensation agreement. He'll
work out some kind of goodie bag that will go
to Cincinnati. Now, as for the play, you talk about hardship.
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I don't know about you, but man, can we all
say a prayer for T. Higgins because this now guarantees
him If this does happen the way it's said to happen,
and his camp thinks that's going to happen, that means T.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Higgins will make at the.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Very worst, twenty six point one million dollars in twenty
twenty five on the franchise tag. So he's he's buying eggs.
He's buying the eggs, and he'll buy eggs for everybody.
All right, Now to Minunes doa we go home of
an epic Malard meet and greet. A couple of years
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back there it was wonderful, The Mermaid met so many
great supporters of the show that night.
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But we go to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That as where a star wide receiver, Justin Jefferson is
publicly recruiting a new teammate, which is not his teammate yet,
but he is making the effort to acquire Brown's defensive star,
Miles Garrett wants him to come to the Vikings. So
how much juice does that have? How much juice does
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that have? So if you look at the glass of juice,
the glass is ep date. It is update and from
the Great Batman cartoons, the character known as the Joker,
if you might remember that back in the day, the
Joker would say something along the lines of zero zip, zilch, nada. Yes,
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it is nothing more than wishful thinking by Justin Jefferson.
The reason I bring this up is because I was
contacted by more than one die hard Minnesota Viking fans says, hey,
you should talk about this tonight in the show and.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Clearly not paying attention.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Every other time an athlete says I'm going to public
recruit another athlete, and I roll my eyes in the
back of my head. No differ, And here all Jefferson
does is win some Brownie points with the electorate in Minnesota.
Good for him. Other than that, it is meaningless, meaningless, meaningless, meaningless.
I mean, I'm sure it's cool if you're Miles Garrett,
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to get some kind of handwritten note, maybe a FaceTime
call from Justin Jefferson kissing your ass and saying how
wonderful you are and you feel the love and admiration.
And that's great public displays of affection. Wonderful, wonderful, very flattering.
It's very flattering. But this in between bizarro world where
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some people are convinced that this stuff actually matters, I
am not, I am not. Ultimately comes down to money, money, money.
It's always about money. That's number one. Number two would
be location. Some people actually say they want to win,
but really just want to be closer to some relative
or something like that. So there's other variables in play there.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And why would you want if you if you're Miles Garrett,
you got one spin of the wheel, one shot, Why
would you pick the Minnesota Vikings. That's not the Vikings
are bad. They're not bad. The Vikings are a playoff team. However,
the Vikings also don't have a quarterback. They didn't have
one last year. They won a bunch of games, but
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they were exposed when they played down the stretch against
the Lions and then Rams and the playoffs, and now
they're going to turn to another question mark from Sam Darnold.
They go to JJ McCarthy, who did not play it
down what was supposed to be his rookie year, and
he takes over center in Minnesota. So the Great Unknown.
So if you're Miles Garrett, why would you sign up
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for that, the Great Unknown?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You'd go to the Lions or the Eagles, or the Chiefs,
maybe Buffalo. But who knows what Cleveland would would and
wouldn't do in terms of the trades. But all the
indications are also that the Clean Browns think that Miles
Garrett is lying and they're gonna call his bluff the
Cleveland Browns. There's some some chatter the streets are talking.
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The Browns seem to think that Miles Garrett is full
of crap, much like the Cleveland Brown locker room, and
that if they just throw money at him, he'll just
shut up and agree to playing Cleveland for the rest
of his career. That they'll offer him some monstrous amount
of money and then all of a sudden, I'll say, well,
I really want to go from Cleveland to Canton. That's
really what I want to do. Stay tuned, developing hot
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dot dot dot. Now last word, we go to New York,
New York with airon Rodgers done.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
With the Jets, done with it? What's being the jet?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
You see that plane flip over in Toronto? How crazy
was that man?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
That was nuts? That video? Wow?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Anyway, uh so, as far as the actual football Jets,
which are not real Jets and cannot flip over, although
they do fall on their face pretty much every every
single Sunday during the football season. So Aaron Rodgers done
with the Jets. They need a quarterback and they are
said to be I love this, not a sleeper, sell
a sleeper option for the Jets, and that is justin
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fields in free agency, so there's said to be mutual
interest between both parties. So thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up,
thumbs down. Would justin fields make sense for the j
e ts suck Suck, Suck Jets. So I'm gonna go
thumbs down on this. I'm gonna go thumbs down on this.
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You're talking about a two time loser, now that makes
him the perfect Jets some would say, But if you're
trying to actually turn this thing around, I would run
the other direction away. From Justin Field. He was a
bust with the Bears, right, he sucked with the Bears.
He was benched the biggest crime of all in Pittsburgh
with a good team, a good team around him, I
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supposely winning environment in Pittsburgh and a better coaching staff
with Mike Tomlin and Justin Fields could not hold on
to the starting job and was benched in favor of
a second rate tird like Russell Wilson. That is a
referendum on Justin Fields. That Mike Tomlin thought so little
of Justin Fields that he would rather play the rodding
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carcass of Russell Wilson than play Justin Fields down the
stretch and on cue, Russell Wilson collapsed, and still Mike
Tomlin did not go back to Justin Fields in any
meaningful way. That tells you all you need to know
about Justin Fields. So why would you go down that road.
It's a paradise, It's a fool's paradise, right, what's the
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old line go, You fool me once and that shame
on you. Fool me twice, Shame on me, and fool
me three times, shame on both of us. And that's
the NFL in general, Fields has just not been very
good other than spot moments here and there, and he's
been in the NFL from more than a minute now.
He has You know, he's the hot girl at the
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bar that you keep buying drinks and she flirts with
you and she teases you and then she leaves with
somebody else. That's That's essentially what Fields is, although I
don't know if he leaves with anybody. He just kind
of goes home by himself. At this point, feels is
a long shot. If you were betting money, if I
gave you one thousand dollars of house money and I said,
what is going to happen to justin feels the rest
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of the way, is he going to be anything more
than just a gadget guy? I would bet on gadget guy.
My money would be on gadget guy. I'd go gadget guy.
That would be my money. He's nothing more than a
gadget guy. Like occasionally they'll put him out there'll run
around a little bit and that's it, but not a
full time starter on a playoff team.
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This hour is from the day after and the days
of Our Lives drama the day after Here the All
Star Game post mortem, the autopsy on the All Star Game.
Commissioner on blast, on blast for the fugsey, the dingle
Berry edition of the All Star Game. The only one
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I know who likes it other than the commissioner is
Andre and his dog willis from the Commonwealth. So over
the All Star weekend, we had a cheating scandal in
a skills challenge with Wemby, the next face of the
NBA and Chris Paul. You had Lebron James show up
late on Saturday and he couldn't be bothered to put
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on his uniform for the team photo, and then an
hour or so before the game, skipped out on playing
in the All Star Game. Rather than allowing someone else
the opportunity to play in the All Star Game if
he had done it the right way and announced, I
don't know Thursday or Friday he wasn't going to play
in the All Star Game. And then you had the
game interrupted because of a Mister Beast challenge. The All
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Star Game, you also had an interruption for a very
public eulogy for the TNT broadcast crew, which A is
not dead and B will be broadcasting NBA games next year.
But they paused all of that. Now, if you have
not heard the latest on this, it gets even better.
I think this is a great story, and I have
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the editorial control over the microphones right now the bully play.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So perhaps you didn't see this, maybe not.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
An anonymous NBA general manager The anonymous The anonymous NBA
general manager calling out Adam Silver, unfiltered commentary quote, Adam
Silver is obsessed with tournaments play in in season now
All Star They've not proven to benefit our league. Close quote. Okay, then,
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how do you really feel? That's what we call kids?
The money quote? I know you're excited by that. You
knew that was the money quote. Of course it is,
So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
This anonymous NBA executive calling out Adam Silver, the face
of the NBA leadership the Commissioner's office in Midtown Manhattan,
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there saying, quote, Adam Silver is obsessed with tournaments play
in in season now All Star. They have not proven
to benefit our league. What is your initial reaction to that?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Grasshopper, cake and balloons and Wendy's and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a forty first point which could not have been scored.
Could not have been scored in the All Star Game
because they stopped playing at forty in each game. Could
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not have gone to forty one. So my first thought,
na Burn, I said nab Burn, the comment from the
unknown executive, I would say, it hit the bullseye.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
It hit the bullseye.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
If it was a lego, it snapped together with another lego,
it worked. And Adam Silver has been infatuated with this
michigas of these tournaments. And it's because of football. That's
why European basketball. But football has had a lot of
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success with friendlies and these type of things. And so
Adam Silver it's his life's passion. He has a grasshopper
up his tushy for more tournaments. He thinks this is
the path to the yellow brick road, that here's a tournament,
there's a tournament, everyone gets a tournament. We now, there
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is no evidence that any of this is helping the
business of basketball. It's not the funny thing about the
tournament thing. There is one tournament I will garren to
you that would be a success for the NBA, would
be a money maker for the NBA, would be great
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for basketball. And Adam Silver and the leadership in the
NBA don't want to do it because it goes against
the core values.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Of the NBA.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
What is that that is NBA Star in America versus
the World Stars.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Wouldn't really be a tournament, more like a one on one,
you know, team All Star game.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
We have the US All Stars versus the World Stars.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And from what I have deciphered from people that I've
spoken to, they don't want to do it because they
would have to wrap themselves in pro America because there's
nothing the American sports fan loves more. And really, anywhere
wherever you're from, you love wrapping yourself in patriotism for
your country. And the NBA has long stood anti America stuff.
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They love that.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, they've done a lot of anti American things
over the years.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So for them to all of a sudden wrap themselves
around the flag and be like, all right, this is
organ We're gonna have a World Stars Versus American Stars
and all the marbles. Be a massive success, huge ratings,
be great. But somebody might wrap themselves in the flag,
and that would go against the core principles of the NBA,
so they won't do that. Instead, we have this lame,
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oh in season tournament, lame to the membrane. You have
the All Star Tournament, which is unnecessary. You've got the
playing Tournament, which is ridiculous. You already have an eighty
two game play in tournament to decide who's in the playoffs,
but then you have to give some of the losers
an extra chance to try to get in the playoffs.
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And so we have all this, but wait, there's more.
I'm not done. You think I'm done, but I'm not done.
All right, Adam Silver wants to add another tournament to
the All Star Game, a one on one tournament.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
That's right. There's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Chatter that Adam next year at the All Star Game,
a one on one action with a one million dollar prize,
which for me would be life changing. I imagine for
you if you got a million dollar prize and after
taxes that's about one hundred thousand. But still it's a
lot of money, a lot of money, right, and they
want this one on one thing. But the problem is
the biggest stars in the NBA they won't do it.
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And b don't need that money because they're all making
forty fifty sixty million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So what do they care.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
They wiped their ass and they make a million dollars
when they flush the toilet paper down the commode there
that they make a million dollars, So what do they care?
By one on one tournament? And somebody needs to send
Adam Silver to a twelve step program at this point, okay,
and he is obsessed with these tournaments. It's not working
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for the customer. It's not any thinks, Well, I just keep.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Doing it, you know, be the way to go.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You're handing out a championship. This in season thing that's
like the lamest of them all, Like no one's watching
before Christmas. So let's have an in season tournament and
we'll hang a banner, dum du dumb, dumb dum mar
right now pay two. So Kevin Durant went off unhinged
All Star Kevin Durant. He will parts the words of Durant.
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He went on a rant on social media. You didn't
see this, Durant, I will, I will pretend I'm Kevin Durant.
I'm not Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant said, I quote, I
think it's more fun to complain about the NBA than
to actually watch it, meaning the NBA crazy cancel All
Star weekend, Kevin Durant said, And let's just give everybody
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a break since we're so miserable around this time. Well
that is another money quote. Yeah, that's a great quote.
Now Durant's complaining because people complain about them playing and
how bad the product is. So how do you process?
Here's the question, how do you process Kevin Durant, many
time All Star Hall of Fame player, Kevin Durant, one
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of the great ball players of his generation. Kevin Durant
saying it's more fun to complain about the NBA than
to actually watch the NBA. So obviously there was some
sarcasm in play here, as someone that dabbles in the
ancient arts of sarcasm. I understand that, but someone should
buy KD Cake and balloons, Cake and balloons because he
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is having a pity party. He's having a pity party, right,
there's sarcasm, but there's some truth in that. He's like,
he's a nooy, he's like anyone out there to play
in the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And he bothers him that.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
People don't appreciate the fact that he's playing in the
All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Boohoo hoo.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
The customers are complaining, which is actually a good thing.
That means that they want to like your product. And
I go back to the most powerful thing that you
have as a consumer, whether it's buying products, whether it's
watching sports. It's the a word not ass apathy. And
if you show apathy and you just don't care and
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you don't watch and you don't consume, that is poison,
that is asbestos that.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Will do them in.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
But as long as you care and you're upset, that
means you want to like the product. So it's actually
a good thing that many people are upset with the
NBA product. And I look at it this this way.
I'll use an analogy like you're in a restaurant, you're
in a deli, and they say you're running a deli.
You have a forty eight page menu at the dela.
It's a pretty big menu, forty eight pages, and you
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open the deli and people seem to enjoy pretty much
everything in the menu, all forty eight pages. People like
the menu. You've got a good variety of items, and
people are ordering things from all forty eight pages of
the menu. So things are going well. For years, people
enjoy the variety of foods. But over time customers start
not enjoying the vast majority of the pages of the
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menu at the deli and instead they order they only
like like three things.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
So how do you handle that situation? You run the deli,
what do you do well? Kevin Durant says, nothing good happens,
nothing good enough happens for the fans right now, He said,
the only thing they enjoy is playoffs, trade deadline, free agency,
and when players beef with each other. And that is true.
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And the reason all of that is true is because
it's compelling. All of that is entertaining. You know, it's
not entertaining. Load management on a random Tuesday night in
the NBA. That's not entertaining, that's not right, And those
things that Durant mentioned are all interesting and it creates engagement.
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Playoff basketball players actually try. They take pride in that
it's a big deal that matters. Trade deadline and free
agency are captivating because your mind wanders, what's the team
going to be like now with the new player and
you get to see the players in their new uniforms,
and that's exciting players. Grumbling is always fun. Who doesn't
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like a nice workplace? Debate if you will solid right
a regular seasons? Not entertaining the All Star Game sucks,
and on and on. So rather than improve the ingredients,
Kevin Durant's argument is, hey, let's just let's just get
We'll just get rid of it. Let's take a vacation,
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go go wherever Paul George is. Put some suntan locehan on.
All right, now, final point. We now have the tail
of the tape, the tale of the tape. Just how bad,
how terrible was the new look NBA All Star Game?
For the viewer of the All Star Game, I remember
we took a call from Andre and the Commonwealth, who
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loved the All Star Game. He thought it was great,
but for everyone else and their mother, they were like, man,
this blows all right, so just how terrible the New
Look All Star Game was the tail of the tape.
It was like watching a commercial for Windy's back in
the day. Where's the beef? Where is the beef? Where
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is it? Or in this case, where's the basketball? They've
done the math. The broadcast had forty two minutes of
actual basketball over three games, with one hundred and thirty
eight minutes of commercials. Let me repeat that for those
of you that are inebriated, So forty two minutes of
actual basketball, one hundred and thirty eight minutes of commercials
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or filler like mister Beast and Charles Barkley and Shaq
and Kenny Smith being eulogized like they've just dropped dead
when they're still very much alive. And we'll be calling
NBA games next year. If you want to break down
my computer, like brain tells me using malor math, that
works out to seventy six point six percent filler, seventy
(29:34):
six point six percent filler. Eighty minutes were straight commercials.
Eighty minutes were straight commercials. Nothing but commercials, and I
love commercials, but that means, if you do the math
on this, the actual basketball for the All Star Game
was twenty three point three percent and the advertisements were
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forty four point four percent. The math I ain't mathin
on that. The numbers just don't add up. Whoever signed
off on that being an upgrade? Who goofed? I've got
to know should be sent out to Siberia is where
they should be said, like, what are you doing here?
That's your showcase event and it's twenty three per point
(30:17):
three percent basketball and then there's whatever that mister Beast
thing was, and then forty four point four percent commercial.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
May be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
To the third degree, this is one big event.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Gets here we go, Let's go over to Kooper Loop
the reading of the questions on Malard to the third Degree.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
The Washington Commanders are currently the betting favorite to land
discgruntled Brown star Miles Garrett. Now Benwood landing Garrett close
the gap between the Commanders and the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh yeah, obviously, yes he's a good player. Yes, so yeah,
you add another good player. That's a nice edition. And
Miles Garrett. He hasn't closed the gap for the Cleveland
Browns because they don't have a quarterback. They have bad
players all over the place. But the big thing here
is what happens to the Commanders now that they came
out of nowhere and they got to the NFC Championship game.
(31:14):
Now they've got a bullseye on him. So how do
they handle that and all the immense pressure. But yes,
adding Miles Garrett where he could make three or four
impact plays per game that could turn a game in
your favor, could kill the other team's drives, absolutely, that
would be a massive pickup for the Commanders.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Next, along with hating on the All Star game format,
Draymond Green also announced that the Warriors would win another
championship this year with Jimmy Butler. Yes, Ben, what is
the actual ceiling for the Warriors?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
No, I agree.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I think as long as they stick to video games,
the Golden State Warriors can win a championship this year.
But you didn't Steph Curry like laugh at that. Even
like Steph was laughing at that, he thought that was
like comedy. Like Draymond was working material for his podcast
or something like that. No, I love Jimmy Butler, I
don't love as much because of the shenani as he
pulled in Miami and all that he got into a
beef with Riley. I don't know what really happened there.
(32:05):
But the Warriors are good. They're old, though, and old
teams break down, and they will break down, and so
because of that, the ceiling is the second round of
the playoffs next.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Justin Verlander and Max Schurz are both in their forties
and nearing the ends of their illustrious careers. They're number
ten and number eleven, respectively on the all time strikeout
leaders list, separated by only nine strikeouts?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Ben, Who do you think finishes the career higher on
the list. So I'm gonna go with Verlander because I
just don't trust Sures. I mean, they both hurt a lot.
They're both passed the expiration date.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
But Verlander with the Agantes for half a year until
he's traded to a good team.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I'll go Verlander. How do we know you pass the day?
Another win?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I've got more wins than anybody at this game.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I'm the only one that plays. Really.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
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have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Not?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
All right, let's do it. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
It's Malard's amount of Money. And let's welcome in our
contestants for this game. We have Kyle in Boston, who's
going to play. Hello, Kyle, Welcome, Hey, what's going on?
Good to have your Kyle. You sound like you're driving
around you ready to play the game here, Kyle?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
What are you up to? You working and you're driving
to work. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Getting out of work.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I work at the at the car dealers, so I'm
just getting out all right.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Look at that people out there playing some cards and
this guy was helping them out.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
All right? Who do you want to partner up with? Kyle?
You got me Ben or the Kobloop.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I'm gonna partner up with you.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
All right, Kyle. That's a good choice. We're in it
to win it. Kyle. Hold on a second, and we
have let's go see you now.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I think with Isaiah, Isaiah, are you there, Isaiah?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I am look.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
At that unbelievable all right? You're in Minnesota? Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And are you working right now or what's going on
with you?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I'm driving into work right now.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Oh man, brutal hours, all right, driving into What kind
of work you do?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I make a sour cream at a factory?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Wow? Very specific? All right? You like sour cream, Coop?
I love sour Okay, then you'll you're gonna I don't
know the name of it here.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, sounds bad, all right, Isaiah? Do you eat a
lot of sour cream because you work and make sour cream?
Or do you hate sour cream because you make sour cream?
Speaker 4 (34:38):
I'm actually lactose intolerant.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
That's great, all right, that's outsteading. All right, you're gonna
team up with Coop? What are the categories are?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Cooper? Lou What are we at? All right? Gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (34:50):
This is Malard's mountain of money? The doctor dre addition,
he turned sixty years old later today or at some
point today?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah? Today?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
All right?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
The category are straight out of Compton nothing but a
g thang. The next episode and forgot about dre. Uh Kyle,
you were on the air first.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Him up? Hold on a second touch? Gout there you are, Kyle?
Held on which category would you like? Yeah, that's right,
we're straight out of copy. That's how we roll here.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Coop Isaiah, do you want nothing but a g thang
the next episode?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Or forgot about Dre?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Let's go what I forgot about?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Gray?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Alright, okay, we'll start with you, Kyle. We'll put forty
five seconds on the clock. We need the first and
last answer and the first and last name. First right,
first name. That's the first and last answer, first and
last name. These athletes are all from Los Angeles, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
But are you ready? All right? Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
All right, all right, forty five second here we go.
Start for the Clippers. He's often heard he played for
the Toronto Raptors, won a champion wh Yes, star tight
end for Kansas City. He's on CBS's NFL coverage. I
think he's on Amazon now. One of the great tight ends.
Played for the Atlanta Falcons. Also, yes, star for the
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New York Yankees. Who's often hurt? Not Aaron Judge, the
Big D eight for the Yankees. Yeah, all right, mister
Podre he's passed away. The greatest Podre of all time,
outfielder number nineteen, Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yes, a hero for the Angels third basement. Damn all right,
not bad. One hundred points.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Under points, all right, didn't get Troy Gloss. I didn't
get it out.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Yeah, Isaiah, we've got forgot about Dre. These athletes all
won a Comeback Player of the Year award. Forty five seconds.
Let's begin. Current quarterback for the Bengals. Uh, Joe Burrow, Yes, uh,
the kid in baseball played for the Seattle Mariners. Ah,
(37:10):
I'm gonna let you down, all right, we'll pass uh
Colts quarterback.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
He retired early. He looked like a Civil War Yes. Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
This guy was the Sandman closer for the Yankees, all right.
This guy was a linebacker for the Patriots. His last
name was nickname for a beer.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Oh god, shoot path.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Oh all right, catcher for the Kansas City Royals. Right now,
he's been there forever.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Oh man, Only the answers were aw you would have
done very well.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
You would have gotten him, all right. If the answers
had been off. How many points did we have? But
I don't know. I think you.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Got forty forty. All right, well we got to go
back at it again and earn some more points. Isaiah,
would you here for them?
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Will ray it? What's wrong? Would you cheer for me
and Kyle? Don't cheer for Isaiah? Oh? Go as Isaiah?
Do you want?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Do you want nothing but a g thing? Or the
next episode?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
All right? Good luck, Coop, God bless you.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Well there's there's not as much baseball on this one,
so all right, next episode. These athletes all have fathers
that were also athletes. Well, hold on forty five seconds,
let's begin, all right. He is the sheriff for the
Colts and the Broncos quarterback. His nickname is the Sheriff.
His brother is eli Oh Peyton.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
First of yes, he is the current running back for
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
His dad was ed Ed McCaffrey. No, what's what's the
son's name?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Mc?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Uh, this guy is Dion's son. He's gonna be maybe
the number one pick. Yes, this guy is a sharp
shooter for he used to be on the Warriors, now
on the Mavericks. His dad was Michael.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Shop Kyle, shut yo, Kyle, what do you know? What
do you win me? What do you do? What do
you how many fights? I don't know how many, Kyle God?
How Isaiah God? I don't know. Ninety that's not enough, No.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
It's it's total.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
We have one hundred and thirty thirty, so you.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Got to get thirty to ornament. Nothing but a g thing?
Is that what we're doing here?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
A thing?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
These athletes last names all start with G. Are you ready, Kyle?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Yes? I'm ready?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
All right?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Uh? The big ticket when the Celtics won a championship
about fifteen years ago from Minnesota. Yes, a tight end
for the Patriots. He's on Fox right now. Yeah, good job, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
How about this the.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Ice the iceman for the Spurs back in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
And the eighties. You know who that is? Nah, Yeah,
it's George Gerbin. It doesn't matter, No, George German, it
doesn't matter. We won the game, Golden good game.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Good job, Isaiah lactose in tolerant Isaiah.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
And there's Kyle right there. We won
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So our lead this out.
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We're gonna start out with a topic of conversation that
will be near and dear to my heart and in
your heart as well for the coming days, coming weeks.
That would be tag you're it, Who's getting tagged, who's
not getting tagged? NFL free agents always an important day,
the tag day. I don't know about you, but in
(01:59):
my house we circle that day. It's very important. Who's
getting tagged and who's not getting tagged.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh my, the drama.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
So there are reports out of Cincinnati that a decision
hasn't been made on the future of T Higgins, many
anticipating T Higgins changing teams. Well, if you didn't see this,
maybe not a surprise. Surprise, not a surprise, say what?
(02:30):
So we are told the ben Gals, the Ben Gals
plan to use the dreaded franchise tag on T Higgins.
If that sounds like a doppelganger of a year ago,
that is because that is exactly what happened last year.
That would be the second straight offseason that the Cincinnati
football team has used the franchise tag on T Higgins. Now,
(02:55):
the story says that the Higgins camp. Now, you know
you're big when you have a camp. I don't have
a camp. There's no camp. There's no Mallard camp. I
don't have a camp.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know you're.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Important you have a camp, You've arrived. If you have
a camp. How many people are in a camp? Could
you have like two people in a camp? Does it
have to be three? How about how many? Four?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Five?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How many people in camp? I'd like to know when
does one become a camp because I don't have a camp.
I'd like to have a camp, but I don't have
a camp. How do you get a camp? How do
people know when you have a camp? Do you announce you.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Have a camp?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Do you say, hey, I have a camp? Like who
determines the camp? And what if it's a fake camp?
What happens then? I need answers. Anyway, So Higgins expects
to be tagged, and that would be mean that he
would play yet again in Theory in Cincinnati and would
(03:52):
not hit the free agent market. Now, the reason today
is an important day. This is our Tuesday show. It's
still late on the West Coast on Monday. Hey, but
we live in the world of Tuesday because this our
Tuesday Show. So the tag window officially opens. Is everyone ready?
Four pm Eastern, one o'clock Pacific? Whoa yeahoo, man alive.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Tag Day. It's Tag Day, kids, It's Tag. No one
go to school.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's Tag Day now. That begins at four pm. It'll
last until March fourth. Wow, that's all. That's a big
period of time. March fourth at four pm. So you
can do the math on that. But that's the period
of time. So let us discuss the question the Bengals
planning to use the non exclusive, non exclusive franchise tag
(04:45):
on wide receiver T Higgins for the second consecutive year.
Can you decipher what this actually means? So I've got vegetables, Batman,
and paradise, and we will combine all of these things
together and we'll take a dive off a boat, is
(05:05):
what we're going to do.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So ay, I will solve the Rubik's cube.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I have all of the powers invested in me by
the mighty powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio. And I
will use football jargon. I will keep it simple, stupid.
I will relate to the common man. And here's the
story on T. Higgins and the franchise tag with the Bengals.
(05:31):
The Bengals are proudly accepting the yellow flag for delay
of game. Delay of game in football jargon a five
yard penalty, move the chains back. It is a procrastination
situation for the Cincinnati football team. Now what reports say
(05:53):
that they want to extend T.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I'm sure they do wink wink, nod nod, and they
would like to have him under contract long term. We
are skeptics. I much like the Great State of Missouri
may show me state of mind. It is more likely
than not that there are ulterior motives in play here.
That the Bengals are doing what I did when I
(06:16):
was a kid. My mom would yell at me to
finish my food, and I would play with my vegetables.
The Bengals are playing with their vegetables. They are more
than content to go year to year to year to
year with Higgins, and Cincinnati would love for a team
like the Chargers or the Patriots to step in there
and negotiate a long term contract with T. Higgins and
(06:39):
work out a trade. Now, they're not going to get
two first round picks for T.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Higgins.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The way this usually works in the past is you
agree to a contractor, Higgins finds a team he wants
to play for, and then they drop the tag, and
then Higgins gets traded for less than two first round picks,
and there will be some kind of compensation agreement. He'll
work out some kind of goodie bag that will go
to Cincinnati. Now, as for the play, you talk about hardship.
(07:06):
I don't know about you, but man, can we all
say a prayer for T. Higgins because this now guarantees
him If this does happen the way it's said to happen,
and his camp thinks that's going to happen, that means T.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Higgins will make at the.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Very worst, twenty six point one million dollars in twenty
twenty five on the franchise tag. So he's he's buying eggs.
He's buying the eggs, and he'll buy eggs for everybody.
All right, Now to Minunes doa we go home of
an epic Malard meet and greet. A couple of years
(07:44):
back there it was wonderful, The Mermaid met so many
great supporters of the show that night.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But we go to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
That as where a star wide receiver, Justin Jefferson is
publicly recruiting a new teammate, which is not his teammate yet,
but he is making the effort to acquire Brown's defensive star,
Miles Garrett wants him to come to the Vikings. So
how much juice does that have? How much juice does
(08:14):
that have? So if you look at the glass of juice,
the glass is ep date. It is update and from
the Great Batman cartoons, the character known as the Joker,
if you might remember that back in the day, the
Joker would say something along the lines of zero zip, zilch, nada. Yes,
(08:37):
it is nothing more than wishful thinking by Justin Jefferson.
The reason I bring this up is because I was
contacted by more than one die hard Minnesota Viking fans says, hey,
you should talk about this tonight in the show and.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Clearly not paying attention.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Every other time an athlete says I'm going to public
recruit another athlete, and I roll my eyes in the
back of my head. No differ, And here all Jefferson
does is win some Brownie points with the electorate in Minnesota.
Good for him. Other than that, it is meaningless, meaningless, meaningless, meaningless.
I mean, I'm sure it's cool if you're Miles Garrett,
(09:15):
to get some kind of handwritten note, maybe a FaceTime
call from Justin Jefferson kissing your ass and saying how
wonderful you are and you feel the love and admiration.
And that's great public displays of affection. Wonderful, wonderful, very flattering.
It's very flattering. But this in between bizarro world where
(09:39):
some people are convinced that this stuff actually matters, I
am not, I am not. Ultimately comes down to money, money, money.
It's always about money. That's number one. Number two would
be location. Some people actually say they want to win,
but really just want to be closer to some relative
or something like that. So there's other variables in play there.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And why would you want if you if you're Miles Garrett,
you got one spin of the wheel, one shot, Why
would you pick the Minnesota Vikings. That's not the Vikings
are bad. They're not bad. The Vikings are a playoff team. However,
the Vikings also don't have a quarterback. They didn't have
one last year. They won a bunch of games, but
(10:21):
they were exposed when they played down the stretch against
the Lions and then Rams and the playoffs, and now
they're going to turn to another question mark from Sam Darnold.
They go to JJ McCarthy, who did not play it
down what was supposed to be his rookie year, and
he takes over center in Minnesota. So the Great Unknown.
So if you're Miles Garrett, why would you sign up
(10:42):
for that, the Great Unknown?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
You'd go to the Lions or the Eagles, or the Chiefs,
maybe Buffalo. But who knows what Cleveland would would and
wouldn't do in terms of the trades. But all the
indications are also that the Clean Browns think that Miles
Garrett is lying and they're gonna call his bluff the
Cleveland Browns. There's some some chatter the streets are talking.
(11:10):
The Browns seem to think that Miles Garrett is full
of crap, much like the Cleveland Brown locker room, and
that if they just throw money at him, he'll just
shut up and agree to playing Cleveland for the rest
of his career. That they'll offer him some monstrous amount
of money and then all of a sudden, I'll say, well,
I really want to go from Cleveland to Canton. That's
really what I want to do. Stay tuned, developing hot
(11:33):
dot dot dot. Now last word, we go to New York,
New York with airon Rodgers done.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
With the Jets, done with it? What's being the jet?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
You see that plane flip over in Toronto? How crazy
was that man?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
That was nuts? That video? Wow?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Anyway, uh so, as far as the actual football Jets,
which are not real Jets and cannot flip over, although
they do fall on their face pretty much every every
single Sunday during the football season. So Aaron Rodgers done
with the Jets. They need a quarterback and they are
said to be I love this, not a sleeper, sell
a sleeper option for the Jets, and that is justin
(12:13):
fields in free agency, so there's said to be mutual
interest between both parties. So thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up,
thumbs down. Would justin fields make sense for the j
e ts suck Suck, Suck Jets. So I'm gonna go
thumbs down on this. I'm gonna go thumbs down on this.
(12:35):
You're talking about a two time loser, now that makes
him the perfect Jets some would say, But if you're
trying to actually turn this thing around, I would run
the other direction away. From Justin Field. He was a
bust with the Bears, right, he sucked with the Bears.
He was benched the biggest crime of all in Pittsburgh
with a good team, a good team around him, I
(12:57):
supposely winning environment in Pittsburgh and a better coaching staff
with Mike Tomlin and Justin Fields could not hold on
to the starting job and was benched in favor of
a second rate tird like Russell Wilson. That is a
referendum on Justin Fields. That Mike Tomlin thought so little
of Justin Fields that he would rather play the rodding
(13:20):
carcass of Russell Wilson than play Justin Fields down the
stretch and on cue, Russell Wilson collapsed, and still Mike
Tomlin did not go back to Justin Fields in any
meaningful way. That tells you all you need to know
about Justin Fields. So why would you go down that road.
It's a paradise, It's a fool's paradise, right, what's the
(13:41):
old line go, You fool me once and that shame
on you. Fool me twice, Shame on me, and fool
me three times, shame on both of us. And that's
the NFL in general, Fields has just not been very
good other than spot moments here and there, and he's
been in the NFL from more than a minute now.
He has You know, he's the hot girl at the
(14:03):
bar that you keep buying drinks and she flirts with
you and she teases you and then she leaves with
somebody else. That's That's essentially what Fields is, although I
don't know if he leaves with anybody. He just kind
of goes home by himself. At this point, feels is
a long shot. If you were betting money, if I
gave you one thousand dollars of house money and I said,
what is going to happen to justin feels the rest
(14:25):
of the way, is he going to be anything more
than just a gadget guy? I would bet on gadget guy.
My money would be on gadget guy. I'd go gadget guy.
That would be my money. He's nothing more than a
gadget guy. Like occasionally they'll put him out there'll run
around a little bit and that's it, but not a
full time starter on a playoff team.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
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Called to the hardwood, not the carpet, the hardwood. Well
come in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Show.
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This hour is from the day after and the days
of Our Lives drama the day after Here the All
Star Game post mortem, the autopsy on the All Star Game.
Commissioner on blast, on blast for the fugsey, the dingle
Berry edition of the All Star Game. The only one
(16:46):
I know who likes it other than the commissioner is
Andre and his dog willis from the Commonwealth. So over
the All Star weekend, we had a cheating scandal in
a skills challenge with Wemby, the next face of the
NBA and Chris Paul. You had Lebron James show up
late on Saturday and he couldn't be bothered to put
(17:09):
on his uniform for the team photo, and then an
hour or so before the game, skipped out on playing
in the All Star Game. Rather than allowing someone else
the opportunity to play in the All Star Game if
he had done it the right way and announced, I
don't know Thursday or Friday he wasn't going to play
in the All Star Game. And then you had the
game interrupted because of a Mister Beast challenge. The All
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Star Game, you also had an interruption for a very
public eulogy for the TNT broadcast crew, which A is
not dead and B will be broadcasting NBA games next year.
But they paused all of that. Now, if you have
not heard the latest on this, it gets even better.
I think this is a great story, and I have
(17:56):
the editorial control over the microphones right now the bully play.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So perhaps you didn't see this, maybe not.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
An anonymous NBA general manager The anonymous The anonymous NBA
general manager calling out Adam Silver, unfiltered commentary quote, Adam
Silver is obsessed with tournaments play in in season now
All Star They've not proven to benefit our league. Close quote. Okay, then,
(18:31):
how do you really feel? That's what we call kids?
The money quote? I know you're excited by that. You
knew that was the money quote. Of course it is,
So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
This anonymous NBA executive calling out Adam Silver, the face
of the NBA leadership the Commissioner's office in Midtown Manhattan,
(18:51):
there saying, quote, Adam Silver is obsessed with tournaments play
in in season now All Star. They have not proven
to benefit our league. What is your initial reaction to that?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So I've got.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Grasshopper, cake and balloons and Wendy's and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a forty first point which could not have been scored.
Could not have been scored in the All Star Game
because they stopped playing at forty in each game. Could
(19:26):
not have gone to forty one. So my first thought,
na Burn, I said nab Burn, the comment from the
unknown executive, I would say, it hit the bullseye.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
It hit the bullseye.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
If it was a lego, it snapped together with another lego,
it worked. And Adam Silver has been infatuated with this
michigas of these tournaments. And it's because of football. That's
why European basketball. But football has had a lot of
(20:05):
success with friendlies and these type of things. And so
Adam Silver it's his life's passion. He has a grasshopper
up his tushy for more tournaments. He thinks this is
the path to the yellow brick road, that here's a tournament,
there's a tournament, everyone gets a tournament. We now, there
(20:26):
is no evidence that any of this is helping the
business of basketball. It's not the funny thing about the
tournament thing. There is one tournament I will garren to
you that would be a success for the NBA, would
be a money maker for the NBA, would be great
(20:47):
for basketball. And Adam Silver and the leadership in the
NBA don't want to do it because it goes against
the core values.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Of the NBA.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
What is that that is NBA Star in America versus
the World Stars.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
And you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Wouldn't really be a tournament, more like a one on one,
you know, team All Star game.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
We have the US All Stars versus the World Stars.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And from what I have deciphered from people that I've
spoken to, they don't want to do it because they
would have to wrap themselves in pro America because there's
nothing the American sports fan loves more. And really, anywhere
wherever you're from, you love wrapping yourself in patriotism for
your country. And the NBA has long stood anti America stuff.
(21:34):
They love that.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, they've done a lot of anti American things
over the years.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So for them to all of a sudden wrap themselves
around the flag and be like, all right, this is
organ We're gonna have a World Stars Versus American Stars
and all the marbles. Be a massive success, huge ratings,
be great. But somebody might wrap themselves in the flag,
and that would go against the core principles of the NBA,
so they won't do that. Instead, we have this lame,
(22:01):
oh in season tournament, lame to the membrane. You have
the All Star Tournament, which is unnecessary. You've got the
playing Tournament, which is ridiculous. You already have an eighty
two game play in tournament to decide who's in the playoffs,
but then you have to give some of the losers
an extra chance to try to get in the playoffs.
(22:21):
And so we have all this, but wait, there's more.
I'm not done. You think I'm done, but I'm not done.
All right, Adam Silver wants to add another tournament to
the All Star Game, a one on one tournament.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
That's right. There's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Chatter that Adam next year at the All Star Game,
a one on one action with a one million dollar prize,
which for me would be life changing. I imagine for
you if you got a million dollar prize and after
taxes that's about one hundred thousand. But still it's a
lot of money, a lot of money, right, and they
want this one on one thing. But the problem is
the biggest stars in the NBA they won't do it.
(23:00):
And b don't need that money because they're all making
forty fifty sixty million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So what do they care.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
They wiped their ass and they make a million dollars
when they flush the toilet paper down the commode there
that they make a million dollars, So what do they care?
By one on one tournament? And somebody needs to send
Adam Silver to a twelve step program at this point, okay,
and he is obsessed with these tournaments. It's not working
(23:30):
for the customer. It's not any thinks, Well, I just keep.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Doing it, you know, be the way to go.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You're handing out a championship. This in season thing that's
like the lamest of them all, Like no one's watching
before Christmas. So let's have an in season tournament and
we'll hang a banner, dum du dumb, dumb dum mar
right now pay two. So Kevin Durant went off unhinged
All Star Kevin Durant. He will parts the words of Durant.
(23:58):
He went on a rant on social media. You didn't
see this, Durant, I will, I will pretend I'm Kevin Durant.
I'm not Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant said, I quote, I
think it's more fun to complain about the NBA than
to actually watch it, meaning the NBA crazy cancel All
Star weekend, Kevin Durant said, And let's just give everybody
(24:21):
a break since we're so miserable around this time. Well
that is another money quote. Yeah, that's a great quote.
Now Durant's complaining because people complain about them playing and
how bad the product is. So how do you process?
Here's the question, how do you process Kevin Durant, many
time All Star Hall of Fame player, Kevin Durant, one
(24:44):
of the great ball players of his generation. Kevin Durant
saying it's more fun to complain about the NBA than
to actually watch the NBA. So obviously there was some
sarcasm in play here, as someone that dabbles in the
ancient arts of sarcasm. I understand that, but someone should
buy KD Cake and balloons, Cake and balloons because he
(25:05):
is having a pity party. He's having a pity party, right,
there's sarcasm, but there's some truth in that. He's like,
he's a nooy, he's like anyone out there to play
in the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And he bothers him that.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
People don't appreciate the fact that he's playing in the
All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Boohoo hoo.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
The customers are complaining, which is actually a good thing.
That means that they want to like your product. And
I go back to the most powerful thing that you
have as a consumer, whether it's buying products, whether it's
watching sports. It's the a word not ass apathy. And
if you show apathy and you just don't care and
(25:43):
you don't watch and you don't consume, that is poison,
that is asbestos that.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Will do them in.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
But as long as you care and you're upset, that
means you want to like the product. So it's actually
a good thing that many people are upset with the
NBA product. And I look at it this this way.
I'll use an analogy like you're in a restaurant, you're
in a deli, and they say you're running a deli.
You have a forty eight page menu at the dela.
It's a pretty big menu, forty eight pages, and you
(26:11):
open the deli and people seem to enjoy pretty much
everything in the menu, all forty eight pages. People like
the menu. You've got a good variety of items, and
people are ordering things from all forty eight pages of
the menu. So things are going well. For years, people
enjoy the variety of foods. But over time customers start
not enjoying the vast majority of the pages of the
(26:33):
menu at the deli and instead they order they only
like like three things.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
So how do you handle that situation? You run the deli,
what do you do well? Kevin Durant says, nothing good happens,
nothing good enough happens for the fans right now, He said,
the only thing they enjoy is playoffs, trade deadline, free agency,
and when players beef with each other. And that is true.
(27:00):
And the reason all of that is true is because
it's compelling. All of that is entertaining. You know, it's
not entertaining. Load management on a random Tuesday night in
the NBA. That's not entertaining, that's not right, And those
things that Durant mentioned are all interesting and it creates engagement.
(27:22):
Playoff basketball players actually try. They take pride in that
it's a big deal that matters. Trade deadline and free
agency are captivating because your mind wanders, what's the team
going to be like now with the new player and
you get to see the players in their new uniforms,
and that's exciting players. Grumbling is always fun. Who doesn't
(27:43):
like a nice workplace? Debate if you will solid right
a regular seasons? Not entertaining the All Star Game sucks,
and on and on. So rather than improve the ingredients,
Kevin Durant's argument is, hey, let's just let's just get
We'll just get rid of it. Let's take a vacation,
(28:03):
go go wherever Paul George is. Put some suntan locehan on.
All right, now, final point. We now have the tail
of the tape, the tale of the tape. Just how bad,
how terrible was the new look NBA All Star Game?
For the viewer of the All Star Game, I remember
we took a call from Andre and the Commonwealth, who
(28:24):
loved the All Star Game. He thought it was great,
but for everyone else and their mother, they were like, man,
this blows all right, so just how terrible the New
Look All Star Game was the tail of the tape.
It was like watching a commercial for Windy's back in
the day. Where's the beef? Where is the beef? Where
(28:46):
is it? Or in this case, where's the basketball? They've
done the math. The broadcast had forty two minutes of
actual basketball over three games, with one hundred and thirty
eight minutes of commercials. Let me repeat that for those
of you that are inebriated, So forty two minutes of
actual basketball, one hundred and thirty eight minutes of commercials
(29:10):
or filler like mister Beast and Charles Barkley and Shaq
and Kenny Smith being eulogized like they've just dropped dead
when they're still very much alive. And we'll be calling
NBA games next year. If you want to break down
my computer, like brain tells me using malor math, that
works out to seventy six point six percent filler, seventy
(29:34):
six point six percent filler. Eighty minutes were straight commercials.
Eighty minutes were straight commercials. Nothing but commercials, and I
love commercials, but that means, if you do the math
on this, the actual basketball for the All Star Game
was twenty three point three percent and the advertisements were
(29:56):
forty four point four percent. The math I ain't mathin
on that. The numbers just don't add up. Whoever signed
off on that being an upgrade? Who goofed? I've got
to know should be sent out to Siberia is where
they should be said, like, what are you doing here?
That's your showcase event and it's twenty three per point
(30:17):
three percent basketball and then there's whatever that mister Beast
thing was, and then forty four point four percent commercial.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
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Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
To the third degree, this is one big event.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Gets here we go, Let's go over to Kooper Loop
the reading of the questions on Malard to the third Degree.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
The Washington Commanders are currently the betting favorite to land
discgruntled Brown star Miles Garrett. Now Benwood landing Garrett close
the gap between the Commanders and the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh yeah, obviously, yes he's a good player. Yes, so yeah,
you add another good player. That's a nice edition. And
Miles Garrett. He hasn't closed the gap for the Cleveland
Browns because they don't have a quarterback. They have bad
players all over the place. But the big thing here
is what happens to the Commanders now that they came
out of nowhere and they got to the NFC Championship game.
(31:14):
Now they've got a bullseye on him. So how do
they handle that and all the immense pressure. But yes,
adding Miles Garrett where he could make three or four
impact plays per game that could turn a game in
your favor, could kill the other team's drives, absolutely, that
would be a massive pickup for the Commanders.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Next, along with hating on the All Star game format,
Draymond Green also announced that the Warriors would win another
championship this year with Jimmy Butler. Yes, Ben, what is
the actual ceiling for the Warriors?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
No, I agree.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I think as long as they stick to video games,
the Golden State Warriors can win a championship this year.
But you didn't Steph Curry like laugh at that. Even
like Steph was laughing at that, he thought that was
like comedy. Like Draymond was working material for his podcast
or something like that. No, I love Jimmy Butler, I
don't love as much because of the shenani as he
pulled in Miami and all that he got into a
beef with Riley. I don't know what really happened there.
(32:05):
But the Warriors are good. They're old, though, and old
teams break down, and they will break down, and so
because of that, the ceiling is the second round of
the playoffs next.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Justin Verlander and Max Schurz are both in their forties
and nearing the ends of their illustrious careers. They're number
ten and number eleven, respectively on the all time strikeout
leaders list, separated by only nine strikeouts?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Ben, Who do you think finishes the career higher on
the list. So I'm gonna go with Verlander because I
just don't trust Sures. I mean, they both hurt a lot.
They're both passed the expiration date.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
But Verlander with the Agantes for half a year until
he's traded to a good team.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
I'll go Verlander. How do we know you pass the day?
Another win?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I've got more wins than anybody at this game.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I'm the only one that plays. Really.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
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have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Not?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
All right, let's do it. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
It's Malard's amount of Money. And let's welcome in our
contestants for this game. We have Kyle in Boston, who's
going to play. Hello, Kyle, Welcome, Hey, what's going on?
Good to have your Kyle. You sound like you're driving
around you ready to play the game here, Kyle?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
What are you up to? You working and you're driving
to work. What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Getting out of work.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I work at the at the car dealers, so I'm
just getting out all right.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Look at that people out there playing some cards and
this guy was helping them out.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
All right? Who do you want to partner up with? Kyle?
You got me Ben or the Kobloop.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I'm gonna partner up with you.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
All right, Kyle. That's a good choice. We're in it
to win it. Kyle. Hold on a second, and we
have let's go see you now.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I think with Isaiah, Isaiah, are you there, Isaiah?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I am look.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
At that unbelievable all right? You're in Minnesota? Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And are you working right now or what's going on
with you?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I'm driving into work right now.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Oh man, brutal hours, all right, driving into What kind
of work you do?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I make a sour cream at a factory?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Wow? Very specific? All right? You like sour cream, Coop?
I love sour Okay, then you'll you're gonna I don't
know the name of it here.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, sounds bad, all right, Isaiah? Do you eat a
lot of sour cream because you work and make sour cream?
Or do you hate sour cream because you make sour cream?
Speaker 4 (34:38):
I'm actually lactose intolerant.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
That's great, all right, that's outsteading. All right, you're gonna
team up with Coop? What are the categories are?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Cooper? Lou What are we at? All right? Gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (34:50):
This is Malard's mountain of money? The doctor dre addition,
he turned sixty years old later today or at some
point today?
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah? Today?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (34:59):
All right?
Speaker 5 (34:59):
The category are straight out of Compton nothing but a
g thang. The next episode and forgot about dre. Uh Kyle,
you were on the air first.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Him up? Hold on a second touch? Gout there you are, Kyle?
Held on which category would you like? Yeah, that's right,
we're straight out of copy. That's how we roll here.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Coop Isaiah, do you want nothing but a g thang
the next episode?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Or forgot about Dre?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Let's go what I forgot about?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Gray?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Alright, okay, we'll start with you, Kyle. We'll put forty
five seconds on the clock. We need the first and
last answer and the first and last name. First right,
first name. That's the first and last answer, first and
last name. These athletes are all from Los Angeles, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
But are you ready? All right? Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
All right, all right, forty five second here we go.
Start for the Clippers. He's often heard he played for
the Toronto Raptors, won a champion wh Yes, star tight
end for Kansas City. He's on CBS's NFL coverage. I
think he's on Amazon now. One of the great tight ends.
Played for the Atlanta Falcons. Also, yes, star for the
(36:14):
New York Yankees. Who's often hurt? Not Aaron Judge, the
Big D eight for the Yankees. Yeah, all right, mister
Podre he's passed away. The greatest Podre of all time,
outfielder number nineteen, Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yes, a hero for the Angels third basement. Damn all right,
not bad. One hundred points.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Under points, all right, didn't get Troy Gloss. I didn't
get it out.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Yeah, Isaiah, we've got forgot about Dre. These athletes all
won a Comeback Player of the Year award. Forty five seconds.
Let's begin. Current quarterback for the Bengals. Uh, Joe Burrow, Yes, uh,
the kid in baseball played for the Seattle Mariners. Ah,
(37:10):
I'm gonna let you down, all right, we'll pass uh
Colts quarterback.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
He retired early. He looked like a Civil War Yes. Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
This guy was the Sandman closer for the Yankees, all right.
This guy was a linebacker for the Patriots. His last
name was nickname for a beer.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Oh god, shoot path.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Oh all right, catcher for the Kansas City Royals. Right now,
he's been there forever.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Oh man, Only the answers were aw you would have
done very well.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
You would have gotten him, all right. If the answers
had been off. How many points did we have? But
I don't know. I think you.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Got forty forty. All right, well we got to go
back at it again and earn some more points. Isaiah,
would you here for them?
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Will ray it? What's wrong? Would you cheer for me
and Kyle? Don't cheer for Isaiah? Oh? Go as Isaiah?
Do you want?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Do you want nothing but a g thing? Or the
next episode?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
All right? Good luck, Coop, God bless you.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Well there's there's not as much baseball on this one,
so all right, next episode. These athletes all have fathers
that were also athletes. Well, hold on forty five seconds,
let's begin, all right. He is the sheriff for the
Colts and the Broncos quarterback. His nickname is the Sheriff.
His brother is eli Oh Peyton.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
First of yes, he is the current running back for
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
His dad was ed Ed McCaffrey. No, what's what's the
son's name?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Mc?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Uh, this guy is Dion's son. He's gonna be maybe
the number one pick. Yes, this guy is a sharp
shooter for he used to be on the Warriors, now
on the Mavericks. His dad was Michael.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Shop Kyle, shut yo, Kyle, what do you know? What
do you win me? What do you do? What do
you how many fights? I don't know how many, Kyle God?
How Isaiah God? I don't know. Ninety that's not enough, No.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
It's it's total.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
We have one hundred and thirty thirty, so you.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Got to get thirty to ornament. Nothing but a g thing?
Is that what we're doing here?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
A thing?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
These athletes last names all start with G. Are you ready, Kyle?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Yes? I'm ready?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
All right?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Uh? The big ticket when the Celtics won a championship
about fifteen years ago from Minnesota. Yes, a tight end
for the Patriots. He's on Fox right now. Yeah, good job, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
How about this the.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Ice the iceman for the Spurs back in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
And the eighties. You know who that is? Nah, Yeah,
it's George Gerbin. It doesn't matter, No, George German, it
doesn't matter. We won the game, Golden good game.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Good job, Isaiah lactose in tolerant Isaiah.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
And there's Kyle right there. We won
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