April 18, 2025 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about Aaron Rodgers breaking his silence and talking about his NFL future, Adam Silver claiming that he has no power to intervene in the Luka Doncic trade, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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our lead this hour as we are just getting started
to be here till the wee hours of the morning.
And I'm not sure exactly win the wee hours of
the morning on, but we'll be here till the Maybe
it is the wee hours of the morning right now,
but we'll be here throughout the overnight and the comedy
club will open up an hour number three, we'll have
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lame jokes of the week. We got Sports Jeopardy on
the docket for later on, so if you're with us
for the full red Eye flight. But our lead this
hour is from an ongoing saga the year twenty twenty five.
We have spent more time talking about this particular washed
up player than anyone else in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I think you know where we're going with this.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That would be the mouth of Aaron Rogers. Now he
has spoken, he has blessed us with a paid appearance.
Rogers getting paid a lot of money to play grab
ass with his buddies, and good for him. He spoke
for the first time since being fired by the Jets
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last month, and he was on for about forty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh, he must have gotten paid a lot for that. Right.
It was a million.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Dollars plus you get extra if you go forty five
minutes or more. Anyway, he was on with that YouTuber
Pat McAfee. I don't know if you hurt any of
this or not. Perhaps not. But Aaron Rodgers, let me
give you the highlights here he has announced. Have you
heard the news? No, Aaron Rodgers announced that he is
taking his talents to the land of the undecided. That's right.
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Aaron Rodgers decided he doesn't have a decision. He is
an undecided voter at this point. He can't make his
mind up. Oh so sad. He doesn't know what will
he do. He didn't rule out the possibility of retiring.
Now a lot of unpack the money quote. The money
quote from Aaron Rodgers was, I'll set it all straight
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from the jump. He said, I'm in a different phase
in my life. I'm forty one years old. I'm in
a serious relationship. I have personal commitments that I've made,
and people in my inner circle are battling difficult stuff
to make.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
A commitment to a team is a big thing. Close quote.
All right, So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
How did Aaron Rodgers comments on the NFL and his
future sound to you. So I've got Batman and care Bear,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are gonna throw some fries on top of your sandwich.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And that's a Pittsburgh sandwich.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
They just put the fries on top, and it's a
Pittsburgh samwich. So a Aaron Rodgers clearly suffering from brain fog,
a right brain fog. Like I know, in the history
of the NFL, there's never been a quarterback who's been
forty one who's played. And there's a rule, actually, if
you're in a serious relationship in the NFL, you cannot play.
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You have to retire because you God forbid you, multitesk.
You can't be in a relationship and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Play in the end. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Playing the NFL and be in a relationship, Have you
lost your bloody mind? Oh my god? And personal commitments,
come on now, what are you talking about. You can't
have any other personal commitments. You're playing in the NFL
and people battling difficult stuff. Well that's a that's over.
It's all over at that particular point. Why is this
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always a Shakespearean drama? Well, somebody else can answer that.
But the vibe by God from Aaron Rodgers was the classic.
When when I was watching some of the clips that
were going by of Rogers, I got the vibe. I
thought I was watching a concert from It'sack Pearlman and
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he was playing the world's smallest violin. Here, it's it's
hard to really wrap your hands around the nonsense here,
Like it's either you want to play, or you don't
want to play, or you're waiting for some kind of
cosmic event. So you're old, okay, congratulations. Yeah, you're in
a relationship. Whoop damn new somebody in your circles battling stuff.
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You have personal commitments. Okay, that's life. That's what life is.
That's what happens. You get older, people get sick, you
get older, you get in relationships.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It's the circle of life.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And as the great Lou Holtz famously said, he said,
remember if you have problems, if you have paraphrasms, but
you have problems in your life. Okay, Now, the old
Notre Dame coach said, it's your problem, all right, it's
not anyone else's problem. Is your problem. You solve your problem.
You don't blame other people. You don't burden people with
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your complaints because ninety percent of people you come across
don't care about your issues your problems, and the other
ten percent are glad that you have. And now I
would argue that the percentages are more than that now
that it's more like I would say maybe forty percent
of people they don't care about your troubles, but I
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would say about sixty percent are glad that Aaron Rodgers
has problems. Now, if you're thinking about retirement, it has
long been the belief that you're already retired. If you're thinking, boy,
how great would it be just to lay in a
hammock and drink ayahuasca and smoke cigars and just have
a good time, Then there you go, all right now
flipping the page, but not too far away. So Aaron
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Rodgers addressed the popular opinion of many that he craves,
he has an addiction to the spotlight, that he is
your classic attention.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Whore, that he needs the spotlight on him.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Now, Rogers says that he went to Pittsburgh and tried
to do that as quietly as possible.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
He said, very quiet, like a cloak and dagger.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Mission to Pittsburgh and Rogers said, you know a lot
of people think I'm desperate for attention, even though I
haven't talked to you or anybody else in three months,
Rogers claim. So Aaron says he attempted to hornswaggle the media.
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That's my word, hornswaggle, not his. But he attempted to
fool the media by flying into a different airport and
driving a Chevy Malibu.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
To these Steelers for silly.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, I can you can only imagine the hardship of
having to drive a Chevy mautain. Well, let's get that
guy a purple heart. He had to drive a Chevy
Malibu rental car, Oh my god, just to avoid being photographed.
We always know the paparazzo is very big in Pittsburgh.
The Inzer paparazzi is tremendous. So what is the word?
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What is the word for Aaron Rodgers being perplexed by
the many accusations out there that he is desperate for attention?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So my word is pushcart?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
That is my word, as in a pushcart of passive,
aggressive goodies.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It is on brand Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
He is the maestro when it comes to this kind
of activity. Rodgers is like a batman super villain, the Riddler.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That is his essence. He is the Riddler.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He likes to drop vague, cryptic remarks, give backhanded jabs
during his media available knowing that it is going to
stir the pot. And I am convinced that Rogers loves
to watch the reaction. He loves to watch the cockroaches
run across the floor. Can't get enough of it. Aaron
really is the Riddler. He is the mastermind. He incorporates
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the many puzzles and riddles and throws them out there
into his schemes and leaving them as clues to the
football media and the fans to solve, saying calculate, but
still poking the bear poke poke, poke poke, just like
that now, Aaron Rodgers, tell him if I'm wrong on this?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Does he not relish? Does he not relish? Keeping everyone guessing?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And then of course when you call him on it,
he gets very prickly when you dare push back?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Who are you to push back? Boo hoo hoo.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You see it when he's playing grab ass, you know,
and they're just you know, smooching each other on the
McAfee show, and and how he handles pretty much everything.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's the same playbook, day after day after day. All right,
now the.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Last word here. So Aaron Rodgers was upset with how
his time ended with the Jets. This was also part
of this long manifesto rant, this paid appearance paid to
play Rogers on the YouTuber show. So Rogers said he
didn't feel respected enough when meeting with Aaron Glenn. Aaron
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Glenn is the coach of the Jets. You don't need
to know his name because that's a temporary job. And
when you're coaching the Jets, you're not there more than
just a blink in the eye, just to blink in
the eye. But Aaron Glenn's there, and Rogers was not pleased.
He said, quote, I felt there wasn't an ample amount
of respect in the in that meeting. Rogers said, riespect okay,
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So he was upset by the lack of respect. Rogers
went on, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised based
on some things I saw over two years. So that's
that is a full body blow on the Jets franchise.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Body blow, body blow, body blow.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
All right, So let's get down to the meat and potatoes.
Here does Aaron Rodgers have a legitimate griight with the
Jets cross country pink slip that he flew to meet
with the Jets, and he made sure to point out
he paid his own ticket and he went to meet
with the Jets. So does Rogers have a legitimate grid
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with the Jets? Cross country pink slip. So I say
this is actually warranted, like this part of it.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'll be fair here.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I'm on the side of Rogers on that as someone
that has lost you for the show. I've lost my
share of radio jobs over my career, And from the
way Rogers is positioning this, he's He's like, well, listen,
he thought that he could work something out with the Jets.
The jets new regime, led by the new coach Aaron
Glenn there I had publicly stated the public opinion they
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had given the impression that they were open to keeping
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
They had tossed that possibility out.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So if you were done with him, if you didn't
want Rogers, then why would you allow him to fly
there and meet with you if you had no intention
of allowing him the opportunity to sway you and continue
on with his jest. Now, why Rogers would want to
play for the Jets anymore is beyond me. But clearly
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he had some intention, some intention. And the other part
of this is when you think about Rogers and going
to meet with the Jets and what that must have
been like, and as far as the like, the argument
for the Jets is, well, they're doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
They told him to his face. I say folly. I
say folly to that.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
As someone again in the radio business that has been
whacked from many a job, many different ways, I think
that's just nonsense. Rogers claimed that he had roughly a
twenty second meeting before Aaron Glenn said, we're going a
different direction. But this is really a teachable moment. It's
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a teachable moment, and in the future, my advice is
to follow the wisdom of the care bear. My former
colleague here at Fox Sports Radio, the great Karen k
KK who's now not in the business anymore, but KK
Karen k back in the day when we were doing
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a show together and we knew because of a story
in the New York Post that we were getting whacked
the next day, like we knew we were on the
air and we knew we're getting whacked.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I mean We're done. That's it. Guillotine time. We're cooked,
we're out, We're done.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And we got a memo that we had a mandatory
meeting the following day in the afternoon, which meant driving
in rush hour Los Angeles traffic. And I'll never forget
talking to KK the last night that I think that
might be the last night I saw her, and she
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she's she says, I'm not going in.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I said, well you can't. You got to a meeting.
You got to show up.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And he said, well, they're going to fire us. Why
would Why would I show up to the meet. She
had a great point. I showed up like an idiot,
you know. I walked right in there, and man, they
gassed me. But I walked right in and she didn't.
She's like, hey, listen, I'm not wasting the gas over
my time.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And that's it. She refused to drive in for the slaughter.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So Aaron Rodgers, you know, he should have been smarter
enough to understand the Jets didn't want him back.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
That's number one.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Number two, the Jets should have if they didn't let
him know, they should have advised him, and that meeting
should never have happened.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Just do it on the phone, or now you get
the zoom, you can do it on the zoom. So
way to go.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
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Speaker 1 (15:04):
So our lead this hour is from the mouth of
the nb A pro bouncy Ball. Now, there was no
play in basketball on Thursday, nothing to break down. The
arenas were dark, no lights were on anywhere, and then
we will resume activity later on.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Today there's double barrel action playing style.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Unfortunately, the commissioner filled the void, filled the void on
this stuff. You didn't didn't hear what he had to say,
or maybe you missed this. The commissioner of the NBA
from another part of the galaxy, I think might be
even way beyond the Milky Way way out there, Adam Silver.
So Adam Silver decided to address the HeLa monster.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
In the room.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
He said, nothing else going on, I'm gonna talk about
the HeLa monster the room. So that's exactly what he did.
He said he did not have any role in the
Luca trade. And there are many conspiracy there is that
either the Mavericks owner is trying to move the team
to Vegas and they want to undermine the fan base.
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Or Adam Silver conspired with TV people who were shocked
at how pathetic the product was and how bad the
ratings were, and said we got to spice this up,
crank this up a couple of notches, and make sure
this happened. So Adam Silver's like, hey, listen, I didn't
have any role in it, he said. Quote the commissioner
does not have the right to block a trade, he said,
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telling YouTuber Pat McAfee this. Now, Silver has stated in
this interview and at other times that he does not
does not have the authority to veto or to block
a trade between teams. He claims that the bylaws, the
league rules of the NBA do not grant the commissioners
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such powers.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
To intervene in a trade, even.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
If they are controversial, unless unless they violate the CBA
or some other special regulation. So let us discuss the
question for the esteem panel, which you are part of
the question, how do you categorize Adam Silver the commissioner,
making mcclaim that he was essentially helpless to do anything
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to stop the Luka Doncik trade.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
So my observations on this.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I've got Silver, Bullet, Cult Classic and Motley Crue, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
To bock bock like a chicken. We're gonna bok bok
I a chicken, all.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Right, So.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Numb ber, can I get a number? So I saw
the clip.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's making its way around the clip artist, the engagement
artist on social media.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
So the way I interpreted it's like fine art.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
The way I interpreted this clip from Adam Silver is
I wanted to go to my garage and I wanted
to get a shovel, and I then wanted to fill
the shovel with manure, and then I would have recreated
what I was hearing from Adam Silver.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
It's just not true. It's just not true.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
In my humble opinion, if you do your due diligence,
Adam Silver doing a Pinocchio impersonation on this one, he
absolutely could have hit the kill button on the trade. Now,
what is my supporting evidence? My supporting evidence, Let's go
way back. Donald Sterling, a notorious figure in the NBA.
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Donald Sterling. Over ten years ago. Donald Sterling was taken
down by Adam Silver. The NBA took the Clippers away
from Donald Sterley. And how did the Commissioner, Adam Silver
do that?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Do you remember it? Because I remember he used.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
What is the NBA Commissioner's silver bullet aka Article twenty four?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Article?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Do it?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Google it?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Article twenty four? Now Article twenty four of the NBA Constitution.
It is known in the colloquial sense as the best
interest of the association clause.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And what does that mean? It grants the commissioner.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Bad authority to act when a situation arises that is
not covered by the league's constitution and bylaw.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
So you say, well, this is covered by the rules
of the NBA and the bylaw.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So you're wrong, Ben, You don't know what you're talking about. Okay, dummy,
Read the fine print. Read the fine print because Article
twenty four could have been applied since the trade, if
you look at the language here, harmed the integrity of
the NBA and hurt public confidence in the NBA. Does anyone,
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does anyone anywhere think this trade did not hurt the
integrity of basketball? And it was such a terrible trade,
public confidence in the product is gone. It was such
a ridiculous, atrocious lopsided transaction. The league has lost credibility,
and a real commissioner with balls, a real commissioner would
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have done something about it, and Adam Silver clearly lost
his balls somewhere along the way.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Maybe you can go buy some basketballs.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
He didn't do that, and that is the kind of
thing that feeds the conspiracy theory that oh, I couldn't
do it, that he was complicit, that he didn't stop it.
You know, if you're in a situation where everyone agrees
that something is completely ridiculous and broken, you might want
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to do a double check on that because it might
be you know, if you're in something where it's just
so over the top. Now, Adam Silver additionally, he admitted
that Luka Danci trade drove up NBA ratings this season, right,
which also kind of feeds into that narrative that the
NBA powerbrokers behind the scenes were encouraging this to happen
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and he didn't stop it. Why didn't he stop it?
He could have stopped it Article twenty four. If the
commissioner didn't stop it, could it be because he was
encouraging it to happen behind the scenes like the puppet
master Now patt It. As for the relocation chatter, the
commissioner Adam Silver explained, he said the Mavericks quote aren't
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going anywhere, is what he said.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Aren't going anywhere. Those are his words, not mine, his words.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Because they are trying to build a new arena in
Dallas and there were quote no ulterior motives, no ulterior
motives behind the transaction to give away the family jewels
or a broken down basketball player, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
So thumbs up or thumbs down.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Thumbs up, thumbs down on the mavreck fans being able
to trust Adam Silver when he says that the Mavericks
aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
So this is a rather easy thumbs down. Thumbs down
on this side. Thumbs down.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Here's why. Think of the cult classic. Brad Pitt was
in it. Cult classic from Hollywood back when they used
to make decent movies. Welcome to fight Club. The first rule,
you know what it is, the first rule of fight club.
You do not talk about fight club.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You don't do it. You don't do it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
The second rule of fight club is you don't talk
about fight club. Historically, my entire life, there have been
teams that have moved all over since I was a
little bully watching sports, and the one constant historically has
been the commission of the Sports League. They always put
on their tap dance shoes. They sidestep confirmation, They claim
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that there is no funny business going on. They don't
do any of that until the deal. Until the deal's done,
they don't talk about it until it's all finalized. I'll
give you an example, Roger Goodell. Everyone and their uncle
knew that the Raiders were done in Oakland, they were
moving to Vegas. You remember, this is going back a
few years twenty seventeen, back when the Astros were cheating
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in baseball. But Roger Goodell was very vague when everyone
was aware the Raiders are going to be leaving to
Nevada from northern California until it became official.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And then when it became official, all of a sudden,
you know, there you go. And so guys like Adam.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Silver, they always prioritize I get it, diplomacy.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Ray, you don't want to fan the flames.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You talk about these conversations like their explorations, and there's
things probably gonna happen, and these are business decisions and
all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
And then you allow whoever the owner is, to take
the trapnel. And the pattern is not just a.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Basketball story or a football story. It is across the board,
across the board.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You do not admit intent. You don't admit it.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Do not admit intent early on because you don't want
to alienate people and complicate things and things like that.
Right now, final point, So, looking down on the rain
of Adam Silver, what is the soundtrack? I think the
soundtrack is of Adam Silver and his time as commissioner.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Mister commissioner.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So at this point, I know there's a lot of
basketball media that get down and pray at the altar
of Adam Silver. But on this side of the microphone,
the soundtrack of Adam Silver's time as commissioner is a
Mott Cruz song doctor feel good Like He's the one
that makes you feel good, Adam Silver. Right the players,
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Adam Silver is a pushover. He's like a doormat. Everyone
walks over Adam Silver. The NBA is suffering from a
blank spot, a theoretical mass in the Commissioner's office at
this particular point, where have you gone, David Stern? A
basketball nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Unfortunately, David
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has moved on.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
He's been traded behind the pearly gates. He's not coming back.
But David Stern.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I was thinking about this when I was walking into
the studio to do the show, like, David Stern is
really the last commissioner that had machismo?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Is that a fair statement or not a fair statement?
That may make my elevator pitch.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And I'll give you my supporting evidence why I believe
David Stern was the last commissioner that actually had balls
Because David Stern was willing to make bold, polarizing moves.
He was willing to upset people who played in the NBA.
He was willing to upset teams in the NBA. You
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remember the malice at the Palace, the punishment to my
former colleague here at Fox Sports Radio, Rod our Tests
who worked here.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
There was the dress code enforcement.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
When David Stern went nuts because people were freaking out
because the players were wearing clown costumes on the court
with the shorts, that getting upset by that.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And then to me, the biggest sign that David Stern
was the last.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Commissioner that had balls was the whole load management era
and the foresight that David Stern had.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
He knew right away this is poison. This is poison.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And it's much like when you get cancer. You got
to get the cancer out of your body. Right you
have a dead wood, you get cut the dead wood out.
And right away, immediately David Stern said, all my god,
this is going to kill our business. And what does
a real boss do. A real boss does something, right,
They put on their big boxer shorts on, they go
out there and they do something. And David Stern, he
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knew the San Antonio Spurs brought the poison to the NBA.
They contaminated the NBA and the Spurs they sent home.
They're playing in Florida. They sent home four key players
and I think most of them are all of them
if I remember the story. They flew home on Southwest
Airlines and it was for a nationally televised game, and
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David Stern.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Just lost it. He fined the Spurs two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. He bemoaned this.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
And since he left, you know, million years ago, his commissioner,
but Adam Silver replaced him. Under Adam Silver's watch, well,
he's been in the big chair the infestation that David
Stern tried to stop of load management has gotten so bad?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
How bad is it?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Got in a league with four hundred and fifty plus
players and the bare minute you gotta play sixty five
games certain minute requirements. Out of four hundred and fifty players,
only eighty four of them had enough guts to actually
play sixty five games and be eligible for awards. And
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David Stern knew that was coming. He knew that was coming.
He tried to stop it. And Adam Silver has essentially
been a matador oleole. He's like the guy at the
NASCAR race waving the white flags and here we go, boys,
let's get going.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
No more alpha commissioners. Every commissioner is a beta.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Every single commissioner is a is a beta at this point,
I mean good down list. Like Roger Goodell at one
point used to punish players.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
He hadn't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He hadn't everyone. You know, Rot Goodell's just tody that
all he is. And rob manfraud. He had a team
cheating the Commissioner of Baseball under his nose, caught red handed,
and he then protected them, didn't punish them. And when
people said, hey, you should take that trophy at a
(29:17):
bogus stroke.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's just a hunk of metal.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Every team in baseball is playing for a hunk of
metal because you have the Omega commissioner there.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Oh my god, it it is wild the era that
we're in right now.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We need someone to take over that actually has a
backbone as a commissioner.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
We really do.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
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How about that? To the third degree. This is one
big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Goober Loop and The New York Giants general manager told
reporters in a pre traft news conference that the team
has received a number of calls from other teams about
the number three overall pick. He would not rule out
trading down in the draft for the right deal. But
would you be surprised if the Giants traded away the
number three.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
No, because they don't want a quarterback. There's really no
quarterback to take.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The consensus is cam Ward it's going to be number
one overall, and then after that there's going to be
a big gap between quarterbacks being picked or at least
there should be.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It sounded to me listening between the words that Joe.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Shane was trying to speak a trade into reality that
he's trying to he said, Ah, we maybe won't we
won't draft a quarterback, and that's just the player that
might be there is up Dual Carter. So they figured
somebody might be willing to trade up to get up
Dual Carter. So that's the guy they'll be willing to
trade next.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Trade rumors around TJ.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Watt continue to heat up the longer he and the
Steelers go without reaching an extension agreement. However, one Steelers
insider said this week that there just isn't much of
a market for a one hundred and sixty million dollars
thirty one year old Ben Do you agree.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Any player with that kind of money is not going
to have a huge market.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
But all it takes is one aristocrat, one robber baron
owner to say, all right, this is the guy.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
We want, and that kind of player gets traded via
an owner.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's not a trade that happens based on like some
nerd that went to Yale or Harvard that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Is in the front office.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So yeah, it's a small market. But it's not just
because of the age. It's like everything together and it's
like there's a lot of money. It's like guys get
hurt all the time to even TJ Wat's got hurt
quite a bit. And the Steelers are so buttoned up unstealer,
like you trade him next.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Fox Sports Radio um Jim Bowden insinuated this week that
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde is already on the hot seat
and could be gone by the All Star break without
a major turnaround in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Ben are things already that serious?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
The Orioles are a bad baseball team, and they had
a terrible offseason and I've watched a few of their
games and they have looked like they haven't practiced at all.
And yeah, I think he's been there a long time.
They did, they haven't won in the playoffs. There's absolutely
Brandon Hyde.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I'd buy it he's not long for that job. How
do we know you pass this edition? That is a
weird cummer on the.
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So I won at the wind, I won the game.
I won the game.
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We blame week too.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. We still
can't get an S in the image. We cannot get
an S. But we do have Weed Man, our buddy
in Miami.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Oo.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
We love so much. He's got his own every all right.
I didn't call in this week to promote the bit Weed.
Learn what happened? You were busy? All right, get me
out of here.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I canched. There's this guy get place to live?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
All right?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
We man is used to call up and beg for money,
and you know now you're begging just to find a
place to live. It's things that that pack. Yeah, okay,
we men would like a new place to live. Very
other than that. Everything good. How many hours a day
do you spend in that place? Dude, man?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Too many?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Too many? Okay, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners. We normally start
with lizo jokes, but let's change it up a little
bit this week and we'll do some random jokes. What
is the only sport that blind Scott can play? Every
day even though he's blind.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
What pocket pool? That's from my brand on Boston.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Why was why was whoopee Pie Blair celebrating last weekend?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Why it was Palm Sunday. That's a big holiday for him.
That's Eric.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Eric. And what do Blair in Maine's podcast and Love
Life have in common? What they have both suffered failed
soft launches?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
They have both suffered.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Uh, these are actual jokes by actual listening to the show.
Where does Jed who Fled? Get all of his news?
Where from the huff Ington Post? That's from Gordon and Marie.
Gordon and Marie in Tacoma. It took two people to
write that joke. What is the best way to understand
(34:37):
Jed who Fled's phone calls? What Rosetta Stoned? That's a
chip chip in Maine. Here's a dad joke. Do you
know what we can call Aaron Rodgers if he doesn't
show up to lambeau Field this week? What a draft Dodger?
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That's uh yeah, Kathy Kathy in Madison. When does Luca hit.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The lane hard?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
When well, when he's in the wind, he's drive through lane.
That's when that's Tony in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Love love Tony.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
What does radio guy David Vesse have in common with
weed Man's Easter basket?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
No, no way, boss, that's Tony in the Bay Area.
There they do, uh Tony. Well, Lorena recently asked how
to clean balls? You hear about that? How do you
clean balls? She asked about that? Weed Man? Yeah, well,
actually it's funny enough. You the renowned golfer weed Man says,
just jumping upond That's how I clean mine. That's Darryl.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Daryl from Ozark sent that. How will we man, Hippie?
How will we man hippy lose two hundred pounds overnight
when you throw your roommate out the window as he's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
That's how.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That's Eric Kansas. Good job, Kansas, Eric from Kansas. What
are weed Man in the Easter Bunny have in common?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
What? They are? Both hair brained? Both hair brained from
e and Rose of Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Why is weed Man hoping marijuana is never legalized in Florida?
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Why because a night in the clink beats a day
with his roommate. That's why. That's Terry in Saint Paul.
What is weed Man's favorite time of the day? What
high noon, high Dude, there's a chip, chip and main.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
But we Man Hippi's real estate agent. Right there, there's
your shoe. But weed Man, Hippi's real estate agent wants
to help him move into a new place, but cannot
understand the lack of funds.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Man, there's a big story, weed Man.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Remember that the real estate The real estate agent said
what did you do with all the tooth fairy money?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
They wanted to know?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, there you go. Do you know that weed Man
has repeated lys been suspended from high school for showing off?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, apparently not everyone is double jointed. That's Drew in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Why was weed man camping near a forest fire? Why
you love smoking trees? That's crew in Minnesota. Big bes,
lame jokes, say good weed Man.
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our lead this hour as we are just getting started
to be here till the wee hours of the morning.
And I'm not sure exactly win the wee hours of
the morning on, but we'll be here till the Maybe
it is the wee hours of the morning right now,
but we'll be here throughout the overnight and the comedy
club will open up an hour number three, we'll have
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lame jokes of the week. We got Sports Jeopardy on
the docket for later on, so if you're with us
for the full red Eye flight. But our lead this
hour is from an ongoing saga the year twenty twenty five.
We have spent more time talking about this particular washed
up player than anyone else in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I think you know where we're going with this.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That would be the mouth of Aaron Rogers. Now he
has spoken, he has blessed us with a paid appearance.
Rogers getting paid a lot of money to play grab
ass with his buddies, and good for him. He spoke
for the first time since being fired by the Jets
(02:38):
last month, and he was on for about forty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh, he must have gotten paid a lot for that. Right.
It was a million.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Dollars plus you get extra if you go forty five
minutes or more. Anyway, he was on with that YouTuber
Pat McAfee. I don't know if you hurt any of
this or not. Perhaps not. But Aaron Rodgers, let me
give you the highlights here he has announced. Have you
heard the news? No, Aaron Rodgers announced that he is
taking his talents to the land of the undecided. That's right.
(03:08):
Aaron Rodgers decided he doesn't have a decision. He is
an undecided voter at this point. He can't make his
mind up. Oh so sad. He doesn't know what will
he do. He didn't rule out the possibility of retiring.
Now a lot of unpack the money quote. The money
quote from Aaron Rodgers was, I'll set it all straight
(03:31):
from the jump. He said, I'm in a different phase
in my life. I'm forty one years old. I'm in
a serious relationship. I have personal commitments that I've made,
and people in my inner circle are battling difficult stuff
to make.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
A commitment to a team is a big thing. Close quote.
All right, So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
How did Aaron Rodgers comments on the NFL and his
future sound to you. So I've got Batman and care Bear,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are gonna throw some fries on top of your sandwich.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
And that's a Pittsburgh sandwich.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
They just put the fries on top, and it's a
Pittsburgh samwich. So a Aaron Rodgers clearly suffering from brain fog,
a right brain fog. Like I know, in the history
of the NFL, there's never been a quarterback who's been
forty one who's played. And there's a rule, actually, if
you're in a serious relationship in the NFL, you cannot play.
(04:35):
You have to retire because you God forbid you, multitesk.
You can't be in a relationship and.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Play in the end. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Playing the NFL and be in a relationship, Have you
lost your bloody mind? Oh my god? And personal commitments,
come on now, what are you talking about. You can't
have any other personal commitments. You're playing in the NFL
and people battling difficult stuff. Well that's a that's over.
It's all over at that particular point. Why is this
(05:03):
always a Shakespearean drama? Well, somebody else can answer that.
But the vibe by God from Aaron Rodgers was the classic.
When when I was watching some of the clips that
were going by of Rogers, I got the vibe. I
thought I was watching a concert from It'sack Pearlman and
(05:23):
he was playing the world's smallest violin. Here, it's it's
hard to really wrap your hands around the nonsense here,
Like it's either you want to play, or you don't
want to play, or you're waiting for some kind of
cosmic event. So you're old, okay, congratulations. Yeah, you're in
a relationship. Whoop damn new somebody in your circles battling stuff.
(05:47):
You have personal commitments. Okay, that's life. That's what life is.
That's what happens. You get older, people get sick, you
get older, you get in relationships.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
It's the circle of life.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And as the great Lou Holtz famously said, he said,
remember if you have problems, if you have paraphrasms, but
you have problems in your life. Okay, Now, the old
Notre Dame coach said, it's your problem, all right, it's
not anyone else's problem. Is your problem. You solve your problem.
You don't blame other people. You don't burden people with
(06:17):
your complaints because ninety percent of people you come across
don't care about your issues your problems, and the other
ten percent are glad that you have. And now I
would argue that the percentages are more than that now
that it's more like I would say maybe forty percent
of people they don't care about your troubles, but I
(06:40):
would say about sixty percent are glad that Aaron Rodgers
has problems. Now, if you're thinking about retirement, it has
long been the belief that you're already retired. If you're thinking, boy,
how great would it be just to lay in a
hammock and drink ayahuasca and smoke cigars and just have
a good time, Then there you go, all right now
flipping the page, but not too far away. So Aaron
(07:00):
Rodgers addressed the popular opinion of many that he craves,
he has an addiction to the spotlight, that he is
your classic attention.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Whore, that he needs the spotlight on him.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Now, Rogers says that he went to Pittsburgh and tried
to do that as quietly as possible.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
He said, very quiet, like a cloak and dagger.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Mission to Pittsburgh and Rogers said, you know a lot
of people think I'm desperate for attention, even though I
haven't talked to you or anybody else in three months,
Rogers claim. So Aaron says he attempted to hornswaggle the media.
(07:46):
That's my word, hornswaggle, not his. But he attempted to
fool the media by flying into a different airport and
driving a Chevy Malibu.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
To these Steelers for silly.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Well, I can you can only imagine the hardship of
having to drive a Chevy mautain. Well, let's get that
guy a purple heart. He had to drive a Chevy
Malibu rental car, Oh my god, just to avoid being photographed.
We always know the paparazzo is very big in Pittsburgh.
The Inzer paparazzi is tremendous. So what is the word?
(08:17):
What is the word for Aaron Rodgers being perplexed by
the many accusations out there that he is desperate for attention?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So my word is pushcart?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
That is my word, as in a pushcart of passive,
aggressive goodies.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It is on brand Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
He is the maestro when it comes to this kind
of activity. Rodgers is like a batman super villain, the Riddler.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
That is his essence. He is the Riddler.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
He likes to drop vague, cryptic remarks, give backhanded jabs
during his media available knowing that it is going to
stir the pot. And I am convinced that Rogers loves
to watch the reaction. He loves to watch the cockroaches
run across the floor. Can't get enough of it. Aaron
really is the Riddler. He is the mastermind. He incorporates
(09:16):
the many puzzles and riddles and throws them out there
into his schemes and leaving them as clues to the
football media and the fans to solve, saying calculate, but
still poking the bear poke poke, poke poke, just like
that now, Aaron Rodgers, tell him if I'm wrong on this?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Does he not relish? Does he not relish? Keeping everyone guessing?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
And then of course when you call him on it,
he gets very prickly when you dare push back?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Who are you to push back? Boo hoo hoo.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You see it when he's playing grab ass, you know,
and they're just you know, smooching each other on the
McAfee show, and and how he handles pretty much everything.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's the same playbook, day after day after day. All right,
now the.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Last word here. So Aaron Rodgers was upset with how
his time ended with the Jets. This was also part
of this long manifesto rant, this paid appearance paid to
play Rogers on the YouTuber show. So Rogers said he
didn't feel respected enough when meeting with Aaron Glenn. Aaron
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Glenn is the coach of the Jets. You don't need
to know his name because that's a temporary job. And
when you're coaching the Jets, you're not there more than
just a blink in the eye, just to blink in
the eye. But Aaron Glenn's there, and Rogers was not pleased.
He said, quote, I felt there wasn't an ample amount
of respect in the in that meeting. Rogers said, riespect okay,
(10:56):
So he was upset by the lack of respect. Rogers
went on, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised based
on some things I saw over two years. So that's
that is a full body blow on the Jets franchise.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Body blow, body blow, body blow.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
All right, So let's get down to the meat and potatoes.
Here does Aaron Rodgers have a legitimate griight with the
Jets cross country pink slip that he flew to meet
with the Jets, and he made sure to point out
he paid his own ticket and he went to meet
with the Jets. So does Rogers have a legitimate grid
(11:32):
with the Jets? Cross country pink slip. So I say
this is actually warranted, like this part of it.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'll be fair here.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I'm on the side of Rogers on that as someone
that has lost you for the show. I've lost my
share of radio jobs over my career, And from the
way Rogers is positioning this, he's He's like, well, listen,
he thought that he could work something out with the Jets.
The jets new regime, led by the new coach Aaron
Glenn there I had publicly stated the public opinion they
(12:02):
had given the impression that they were open to keeping
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
They had tossed that possibility out.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
So if you were done with him, if you didn't
want Rogers, then why would you allow him to fly
there and meet with you if you had no intention
of allowing him the opportunity to sway you and continue
on with his jest. Now, why Rogers would want to
play for the Jets anymore is beyond me. But clearly
(12:31):
he had some intention, some intention. And the other part
of this is when you think about Rogers and going
to meet with the Jets and what that must have
been like, and as far as the like, the argument
for the Jets is, well, they're doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
They told him to his face. I say folly. I
say folly to that.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
As someone again in the radio business that has been
whacked from many a job, many different ways, I think
that's just nonsense. Rogers claimed that he had roughly a
twenty second meeting before Aaron Glenn said, we're going a
different direction. But this is really a teachable moment. It's
(13:18):
a teachable moment, and in the future, my advice is
to follow the wisdom of the care bear. My former
colleague here at Fox Sports Radio, the great Karen k
KK who's now not in the business anymore, but KK
Karen k back in the day when we were doing
(13:39):
a show together and we knew because of a story
in the New York Post that we were getting whacked
the next day, like we knew we were on the
air and we knew we're getting whacked.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I mean We're done. That's it. Guillotine time. We're cooked,
we're out, We're done.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And we got a memo that we had a mandatory
meeting the following day in the afternoon, which meant driving
in rush hour Los Angeles traffic. And I'll never forget
talking to KK the last night that I think that
might be the last night I saw her, and she
(14:14):
she's she says, I'm not going in.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I said, well you can't. You got to a meeting.
You got to show up.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And he said, well, they're going to fire us. Why
would Why would I show up to the meet. She
had a great point. I showed up like an idiot,
you know. I walked right in there, and man, they
gassed me. But I walked right in and she didn't.
She's like, hey, listen, I'm not wasting the gas over
my time.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And that's it. She refused to drive in for the slaughter.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So Aaron Rodgers, you know, he should have been smarter
enough to understand the Jets didn't want him back.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
That's number one.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Number two, the Jets should have if they didn't let
him know, they should have advised him, and that meeting
should never have happened.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Just do it on the phone, or now you get
the zoom, you can do it on the zoom. So
way to go.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
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Speaker 1 (15:04):
So our lead this hour is from the mouth of
the nb A pro bouncy Ball. Now, there was no
play in basketball on Thursday, nothing to break down. The
arenas were dark, no lights were on anywhere, and then
we will resume activity later on.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Today there's double barrel action playing style.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Unfortunately, the commissioner filled the void, filled the void on
this stuff. You didn't didn't hear what he had to say,
or maybe you missed this. The commissioner of the NBA
from another part of the galaxy, I think might be
even way beyond the Milky Way way out there, Adam Silver.
So Adam Silver decided to address the HeLa monster.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
In the room.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
He said, nothing else going on, I'm gonna talk about
the HeLa monster the room. So that's exactly what he did.
He said he did not have any role in the
Luca trade. And there are many conspiracy there is that
either the Mavericks owner is trying to move the team
to Vegas and they want to undermine the fan base.
(16:14):
Or Adam Silver conspired with TV people who were shocked
at how pathetic the product was and how bad the
ratings were, and said we got to spice this up,
crank this up a couple of notches, and make sure
this happened. So Adam Silver's like, hey, listen, I didn't
have any role in it, he said. Quote the commissioner
does not have the right to block a trade, he said,
(16:37):
telling YouTuber Pat McAfee this. Now, Silver has stated in
this interview and at other times that he does not
does not have the authority to veto or to block
a trade between teams. He claims that the bylaws, the
league rules of the NBA do not grant the commissioners
(16:58):
such powers.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
To intervene in a trade, even.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
If they are controversial, unless unless they violate the CBA
or some other special regulation. So let us discuss the
question for the esteem panel, which you are part of
the question, how do you categorize Adam Silver the commissioner,
making mcclaim that he was essentially helpless to do anything
(17:28):
to stop the Luka Doncik trade.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
So my observations on this.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I've got Silver, Bullet, Cult Classic and Motley Crue, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
To bock bock like a chicken. We're gonna bok bok
I a chicken, all.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Right, So.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Numb ber, can I get a number? So I saw
the clip.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's making its way around the clip artist, the engagement
artist on social media.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
So the way I interpreted it's like fine art.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
The way I interpreted this clip from Adam Silver is
I wanted to go to my garage and I wanted
to get a shovel, and I then wanted to fill
the shovel with manure, and then I would have recreated
what I was hearing from Adam Silver.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
It's just not true. It's just not true.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
In my humble opinion, if you do your due diligence,
Adam Silver doing a Pinocchio impersonation on this one, he
absolutely could have hit the kill button on the trade. Now,
what is my supporting evidence? My supporting evidence, Let's go
way back. Donald Sterling, a notorious figure in the NBA.
(18:51):
Donald Sterling. Over ten years ago. Donald Sterling was taken
down by Adam Silver. The NBA took the Clippers away
from Donald Sterley. And how did the Commissioner, Adam Silver
do that?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Do you remember it? Because I remember he used.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
What is the NBA Commissioner's silver bullet aka Article twenty four?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Article?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Do it?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Google it?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Article twenty four? Now Article twenty four of the NBA Constitution.
It is known in the colloquial sense as the best
interest of the association clause.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And what does that mean? It grants the commissioner.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Bad authority to act when a situation arises that is
not covered by the league's constitution and bylaw.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
So you say, well, this is covered by the rules
of the NBA and the bylaw.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So you're wrong, Ben, You don't know what you're talking about. Okay, dummy,
Read the fine print. Read the fine print because Article
twenty four could have been applied since the trade, if
you look at the language here, harmed the integrity of
the NBA and hurt public confidence in the NBA. Does anyone,
(20:07):
does anyone anywhere think this trade did not hurt the
integrity of basketball? And it was such a terrible trade,
public confidence in the product is gone. It was such
a ridiculous, atrocious lopsided transaction. The league has lost credibility,
and a real commissioner with balls, a real commissioner would
(20:28):
have done something about it, and Adam Silver clearly lost
his balls somewhere along the way.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Maybe you can go buy some basketballs.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
He didn't do that, and that is the kind of
thing that feeds the conspiracy theory that oh, I couldn't
do it, that he was complicit, that he didn't stop it.
You know, if you're in a situation where everyone agrees
that something is completely ridiculous and broken, you might want
(20:59):
to do a double check on that because it might
be you know, if you're in something where it's just
so over the top. Now, Adam Silver additionally, he admitted
that Luka Danci trade drove up NBA ratings this season, right,
which also kind of feeds into that narrative that the
NBA powerbrokers behind the scenes were encouraging this to happen
(21:21):
and he didn't stop it. Why didn't he stop it?
He could have stopped it Article twenty four. If the
commissioner didn't stop it, could it be because he was
encouraging it to happen behind the scenes like the puppet
master Now patt It. As for the relocation chatter, the
commissioner Adam Silver explained, he said the Mavericks quote aren't
(21:41):
going anywhere, is what he said.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Aren't going anywhere. Those are his words, not mine, his words.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Because they are trying to build a new arena in
Dallas and there were quote no ulterior motives, no ulterior
motives behind the transaction to give away the family jewels
or a broken down basketball player, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
So thumbs up or thumbs down.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Thumbs up, thumbs down on the mavreck fans being able
to trust Adam Silver when he says that the Mavericks
aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
So this is a rather easy thumbs down. Thumbs down
on this side. Thumbs down.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Here's why. Think of the cult classic. Brad Pitt was
in it. Cult classic from Hollywood back when they used
to make decent movies. Welcome to fight Club. The first rule,
you know what it is, the first rule of fight club.
You do not talk about fight club.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You don't do it. You don't do it.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
The second rule of fight club is you don't talk
about fight club. Historically, my entire life, there have been
teams that have moved all over since I was a
little bully watching sports, and the one constant historically has
been the commission of the Sports League. They always put
on their tap dance shoes. They sidestep confirmation, They claim
(23:08):
that there is no funny business going on. They don't
do any of that until the deal. Until the deal's done,
they don't talk about it until it's all finalized. I'll
give you an example, Roger Goodell. Everyone and their uncle
knew that the Raiders were done in Oakland, they were
moving to Vegas. You remember, this is going back a
few years twenty seventeen, back when the Astros were cheating
(23:29):
in baseball. But Roger Goodell was very vague when everyone
was aware the Raiders are going to be leaving to
Nevada from northern California until it became official.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
And then when it became official, all of a sudden,
you know, there you go. And so guys like Adam.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Silver, they always prioritize I get it, diplomacy.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Ray, you don't want to fan the flames.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
You talk about these conversations like their explorations, and there's
things probably gonna happen, and these are business decisions and
all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
And then you allow whoever the owner is, to take
the trapnel. And the pattern is not just a.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Basketball story or a football story. It is across the board,
across the board.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You do not admit intent. You don't admit it.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Do not admit intent early on because you don't want
to alienate people and complicate things and things like that.
Right now, final point, So, looking down on the rain
of Adam Silver, what is the soundtrack? I think the
soundtrack is of Adam Silver and his time as commissioner.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Mister commissioner.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
So at this point, I know there's a lot of
basketball media that get down and pray at the altar
of Adam Silver. But on this side of the microphone,
the soundtrack of Adam Silver's time as commissioner is a
Mott Cruz song doctor feel good Like He's the one
that makes you feel good, Adam Silver. Right the players,
(25:08):
Adam Silver is a pushover. He's like a doormat. Everyone
walks over Adam Silver. The NBA is suffering from a
blank spot, a theoretical mass in the Commissioner's office at
this particular point, where have you gone, David Stern? A
basketball nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Unfortunately, David
(25:32):
has moved on.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
He's been traded behind the pearly gates. He's not coming back.
But David Stern.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I was thinking about this when I was walking into
the studio to do the show, like, David Stern is
really the last commissioner that had machismo?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Is that a fair statement or not a fair statement?
That may make my elevator pitch.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And I'll give you my supporting evidence why I believe
David Stern was the last commissioner that actually had balls
Because David Stern was willing to make bold, polarizing moves.
He was willing to upset people who played in the NBA.
He was willing to upset teams in the NBA. You
(26:12):
remember the malice at the Palace, the punishment to my
former colleague here at Fox Sports Radio, Rod our Tests
who worked here.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
There was the dress code enforcement.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
When David Stern went nuts because people were freaking out
because the players were wearing clown costumes on the court
with the shorts, that getting upset by that.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And then to me, the biggest sign that David Stern
was the last.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Commissioner that had balls was the whole load management era
and the foresight that David Stern had.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
He knew right away this is poison. This is poison.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
And it's much like when you get cancer. You got
to get the cancer out of your body. Right you
have a dead wood, you get cut the dead wood out.
And right away, immediately David Stern said, all my god,
this is going to kill our business. And what does
a real boss do. A real boss does something, right,
They put on their big boxer shorts on, they go
out there and they do something. And David Stern, he
(27:12):
knew the San Antonio Spurs brought the poison to the NBA.
They contaminated the NBA and the Spurs they sent home.
They're playing in Florida. They sent home four key players
and I think most of them are all of them
if I remember the story. They flew home on Southwest
Airlines and it was for a nationally televised game, and
(27:33):
David Stern.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Just lost it. He fined the Spurs two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. He bemoaned this.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
And since he left, you know, million years ago, his commissioner,
but Adam Silver replaced him. Under Adam Silver's watch, well,
he's been in the big chair the infestation that David
Stern tried to stop of load management has gotten so bad?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
How bad is it?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Got in a league with four hundred and fifty plus
players and the bare minute you gotta play sixty five
games certain minute requirements. Out of four hundred and fifty players,
only eighty four of them had enough guts to actually
play sixty five games and be eligible for awards. And
(28:27):
David Stern knew that was coming. He knew that was coming.
He tried to stop it. And Adam Silver has essentially
been a matador oleole. He's like the guy at the
NASCAR race waving the white flags and here we go, boys,
let's get going.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
No more alpha commissioners. Every commissioner is a beta.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Every single commissioner is a is a beta at this point,
I mean good down list. Like Roger Goodell at one
point used to punish players.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
He hadn't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He hadn't everyone. You know, Rot Goodell's just tody that
all he is. And rob manfraud. He had a team
cheating the Commissioner of Baseball under his nose, caught red handed,
and he then protected them, didn't punish them. And when
people said, hey, you should take that trophy at a
(29:17):
bogus stroke.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's just a hunk of metal.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Every team in baseball is playing for a hunk of
metal because you have the Omega commissioner there.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Oh my god, it it is wild the era that
we're in right now.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
We need someone to take over that actually has a
backbone as a commissioner.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
We really do.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Get Smeller.
How about that? To the third degree. This is one
big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Goober Loop and The New York Giants general manager told
reporters in a pre traft news conference that the team
has received a number of calls from other teams about
the number three overall pick. He would not rule out
trading down in the draft for the right deal. But
would you be surprised if the Giants traded away the
number three.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
No, because they don't want a quarterback. There's really no
quarterback to take.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
The consensus is cam Ward it's going to be number
one overall, and then after that there's going to be
a big gap between quarterbacks being picked or at least
there should be.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
It sounded to me listening between the words that Joe.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Shane was trying to speak a trade into reality that
he's trying to he said, Ah, we maybe won't we
won't draft a quarterback, and that's just the player that
might be there is up Dual Carter. So they figured
somebody might be willing to trade up to get up
Dual Carter. So that's the guy they'll be willing to
trade next.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Trade rumors around TJ.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Watt continue to heat up the longer he and the
Steelers go without reaching an extension agreement. However, one Steelers
insider said this week that there just isn't much of
a market for a one hundred and sixty million dollars
thirty one year old Ben Do you agree.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Any player with that kind of money is not going
to have a huge market.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
But all it takes is one aristocrat, one robber baron
owner to say, all right, this is the guy.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
We want, and that kind of player gets traded via
an owner.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's not a trade that happens based on like some
nerd that went to Yale or Harvard that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Is in the front office.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So yeah, it's a small market. But it's not just
because of the age. It's like everything together and it's
like there's a lot of money. It's like guys get
hurt all the time to even TJ Wat's got hurt
quite a bit. And the Steelers are so buttoned up unstealer,
like you trade him next.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Fox Sports Radio um Jim Bowden insinuated this week that
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde is already on the hot seat
and could be gone by the All Star break without
a major turnaround in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Ben are things already that serious?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
The Orioles are a bad baseball team, and they had
a terrible offseason and I've watched a few of their
games and they have looked like they haven't practiced at all.
And yeah, I think he's been there a long time.
They did, they haven't won in the playoffs. There's absolutely
Brandon Hyde.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I'd buy it he's not long for that job. How
do we know you pass this edition? That is a
weird cummer on the.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Broad The thing the game?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
So I won at the wind, I won the game.
I won the game.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
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listen live Knock Knock. Who's there?
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Blame?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
We blame week too.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. We still
can't get an S in the image. We cannot get
an S. But we do have Weed Man, our buddy
in Miami.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Oo.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
We love so much. He's got his own every all right.
I didn't call in this week to promote the bit Weed.
Learn what happened? You were busy? All right, get me
out of here.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I canched. There's this guy get place to live?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
All right?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
We man is used to call up and beg for money,
and you know now you're begging just to find a
place to live. It's things that that pack. Yeah, okay,
we men would like a new place to live. Very
other than that. Everything good. How many hours a day
do you spend in that place? Dude, man?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Too many?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Too many? Okay, all right, very good.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners. We normally start
with lizo jokes, but let's change it up a little
bit this week and we'll do some random jokes. What
is the only sport that blind Scott can play? Every
day even though he's blind.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
What pocket pool? That's from my brand on Boston.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Why was why was whoopee Pie Blair celebrating last weekend?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Why it was Palm Sunday. That's a big holiday for him.
That's Eric.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Eric. And what do Blair in Maine's podcast and Love
Life have in common? What they have both suffered failed
soft launches?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
They have both suffered.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Uh, these are actual jokes by actual listening to the show.
Where does Jed who Fled? Get all of his news?
Where from the huff Ington Post? That's from Gordon and Marie.
Gordon and Marie in Tacoma. It took two people to
write that joke. What is the best way to understand
(34:37):
Jed who Fled's phone calls? What Rosetta Stoned? That's a
chip chip in Maine. Here's a dad joke. Do you
know what we can call Aaron Rodgers if he doesn't
show up to lambeau Field this week? What a draft Dodger?
(35:00):
That's uh yeah, Kathy Kathy in Madison. When does Luca hit.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
The lane hard?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
When well, when he's in the wind, he's drive through lane.
That's when that's Tony in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Love love Tony.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
What does radio guy David Vesse have in common with
weed Man's Easter basket?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
No, no way, boss, that's Tony in the Bay Area.
There they do, uh Tony. Well, Lorena recently asked how
to clean balls? You hear about that? How do you
clean balls? She asked about that? Weed Man? Yeah, well,
actually it's funny enough. You the renowned golfer weed Man says,
just jumping upond That's how I clean mine. That's Darryl.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Daryl from Ozark sent that. How will we man, Hippie?
How will we man hippy lose two hundred pounds overnight
when you throw your roommate out the window as he's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
That's how.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That's Eric Kansas. Good job, Kansas, Eric from Kansas. What
are weed Man in the Easter Bunny have in common?
Speaker 3 (36:14):
What? They are? Both hair brained? Both hair brained from
e and Rose of Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Why is weed Man hoping marijuana is never legalized in Florida?
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Why because a night in the clink beats a day
with his roommate. That's why. That's Terry in Saint Paul.
What is weed Man's favorite time of the day? What
high noon, high Dude, there's a chip, chip and main.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
But we Man Hippi's real estate agent. Right there, there's
your shoe. But weed Man, Hippi's real estate agent wants
to help him move into a new place, but cannot
understand the lack of funds.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Man, there's a big story, weed Man.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Remember that the real estate The real estate agent said
what did you do with all the tooth fairy money?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
They wanted to know?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, there you go. Do you know that weed Man
has repeated lys been suspended from high school for showing off?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, apparently not everyone is double jointed. That's Drew in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
All right.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Why was weed man camping near a forest fire? Why
you love smoking trees? That's crew in Minnesota. Big bes,
lame jokes, say good weed Man.
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