May 21, 2025 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about the OKC Thunder destroying the Timberwolves in the 2nd half of Game 1 and who is to blame for Minnesota, the Mets manager coming out in defense of Juan Soto, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, and more!
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the day, we have the meal of the day, we
have the dessert of the day. All of that all
of that for you. Now, the main course here in
our number, I said our number. Yes, the main course
here is our lead in the dust bowl. That's where
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we go here. And that was the stage four. A
island game. An island game, there is a standalone event,
a standalone event, the lid lifter on the Conference finals.
The curtain goes up. And I would not say much anticipated.
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I do not believe that's true. I believe that would
be fake to say it is much anticipated. But Anthony
Edwards in the well rested timber Wolves visiting Sga and
Okase in Game one of the Western Finals. So I
don't know if you watched it or not. Maybe you were
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doing something else and you didn't get to watch it.
Not your cup of tea. I watched it either, mute button.
You know certain broadcasters. I just can't. I can't do it.
I try, I can't do it. So no words. We
watched so you would not have to. It is our
good mitzvah of the day, and good news. You did
not miss anything that game. It was a dud dud
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dud dud. Shake jigis Alexander, who did not play particularly
well through the first twenty four minutes of the game,
and his team was trailing at halftime in a very
unentertaining first half of basketball, and then in the second
half he scored twenty of his thirty one points. I'm
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told that's good. I didn't play in the NBA, but
I'm told that's good. And the top seed there, Oklahoma City,
took out the butcher knife and butchered off some wolf
and they had that for dinner as they win going
away one fourteen to eighty eight in Game one of
the Western Finals. So jogis Alexander eight of fourteen in
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the second half from the floor. I think that's good.
And Julius Randall did all of his damage mostly in
the first half. He had twenty eight points, just eight
points in the second half when it was blow out City. Now,
Game two is on Thursday, Thursday Thursday, as the Eastern
Conference will take the center stage in the game coming
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up here on a Wednesday night. But let's discuss Game
one of the Western Conference Finals and the question who
wears the Dunce cap of shame for the Minnesota Timberwolves
getting smoked in the second half of this game run
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off the court. So my thoughts on this I've got
Mickey Gambler's Fallacy and Pink Floyd, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some amazing, amazing Baba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make.
We're gonna make the babaganuse Shirley. We normally make the
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Baba goose later, We're gonna make the babag Ganu Shirley.
So my first thought on this a nothing has changed
more in my lifetime than halftime adjustments. Now, this is
a line one of my old radio friends, part of
the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. I used to do
a very popular Sunday show until the company canceled it.
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And we used to screw around with all the cliches
and sports and we love the halftime adjustments and how
dumb fans oh halftime adjustments, Oh my god, like you
wait till halftime to make some kind of amazing adjustments.
But anyway, Minnesota's up by four. Good halftime. I'm trying
to stay awake, right, I got an overnight show to do.
(06:36):
I'm trying to I mean, this was not entertained. Was
anyone entertained?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Were you not entertained? I don't know anyone that was
entertained with the first half, but it it was within
the margins. They're like, okay, so it's not a great game. However,
if it's close with five minutes to go or four
minutes to go, there's something there. There's something there. Okay,
I can deal with that. I can navigate that. But
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to answer the question, who wears the Dunce cap of
shame for the Minnesota Timberwolves, let's go to the very
top here. The CEO, as Anthony Edwards, did the thing
you can't do at the time, you can't do it.
He decided to go surfing. Anthony Edwards. Now, if you've
ever been to Oklahoma, that is mission impossible to go
surfing in Oklahoma. Cow ubunga dude, as Anthony Edwards went
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out there as a surfer and wiped out. That was
a total wipeout in the second half, blown off the map.
How bad was it? Thanks for asking? How bad was it? Was?
So bad? Okay? Ant man went Mickey and I'm not
talking Mickey Mouse. I think somebody might have slipped him
a Mickey at halftime there. Oh Mickey, you're so fine,
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unless you're not Holy crap. Did he suck in the
second half? Did he need a nap? Maybe he needed
a nap the way he played two of six in
the second half. Five point. I mean to give you
have numbers. The numbers. I don't think you have had
to have seen it. The numbers are bad. His his
performance was actually worse.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
He ended up with five points in the second half,
a couple of assists, a couple of fouls. And keep in mind,
going to the fourth quarter, the Wolves were down by ten,
So ten is not an insurmountable at least five possessions
five to two point baskets. But the NBA now is
Papa Shot and so it's just shoots may three pointers.
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So that's that's like three and and a half possessions
and you and you have the lead in the NBA.
And he in the fourth quarter down ten. Going to
the fourth quarter, Anthony Edwards the face of the franchise,
well face on this night, certainly not. He pitched a shutout,
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very rare to see a shutout these days, and did
not even need to go to the bullpen. As Anthony
Edwards the final twelve minutes, as the joker would say,
he got zero zip zilch nada And as my grandfather
would say, buppkis is what he got in the fourth
quarter of that game as Minnesota got run off the
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court there by Oklahoma City. So the question as we
turn the page here, the next question to address was
the Oklahoma City domination situation with schae Jogis Alexander. Was
Oklahoma City so good, so amazing that this series is
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now over after one game? Is this Western Conference Finals?
Can you now start to write the eulogy for Minnesota
and the concession speech for Minnesota to give to Oklahoma City?
Was it that bad a performance by the Wolves that
this is a futile effort by Minnesota. So I'm shaking
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my head. No here, I don't believe that. And as
pat Riley taught me when I was a little boy,
the playoffs, they don't start until the home team loses
at home. So last I checked, Oklahoma City was favored.
They won the game at home. Okay, so they they
did what they were supposed to do. Congratulations, what be
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damn do? But I would also advise you to not
be a prisoner of the moment. And one of the
reasons that the sportsbooks do so well is the gambler's
fallacy that the low information fan believes that whatever they
just saw is going to continue forever and effort and
effort and effort, and well, Minnesota's just not very good
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and they don't match up well with Oklahoma City, and
so this is just gonna the way it's going to go,
and the series will be over maybe five games. It'll
be a gentleman's sweep. And that's that's that. I have
learned that life generally does not work that way. Assuming
Minnesota doesn't doesn't quit, some of these NBA teams have
a propensity to quit. As we learn from Aaron Gordon
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to the Nuggets, the players are very tired and they
need a lot of time. Didn't Aaron Gordon tell us
the Nuggets genius, the mensa there for the Nuggets. Didn't
he tell us that if the NBA wanted to prevent blowouts,
they need more time off between games. Well, Minnesota had
more time off. They got run off the court in
the second half. So I guess that kills that hypothesis
from Aaron Gordon. Anyway back to this, So, one of
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the reasons that many people seem to enjoy the pro
bouncy ball is the chess match, right that that's the
selling point. It's a chess match on hardwood, and we've
all heard that, and you make your move and then
there's a counter move, and so that is where we are, right,
that is where we are at this point. For Minnesota,
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they got embarrassed in the second half and Chris Finch
and the Wolves half, so I'm explaining to do. I
would recommend getting out the mop and the bucket and
do it with a little scrub, a dub dub, and
that's what I recommend there. Minnesota. They also lost their
marbles a bit as they were doing what all NBA
players do and their things are not going well. They
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bitch and complained to the officials that's what always happens.
Always we're not getting the whistles. They seemed very upset
that that Shae juggas Alexander was being able to bait
players into fouls early in the game. And I think
you would expect that. That's how the NBA has been
my entire life. I'm getting old and it's always been
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this way, like the star player is able to bait
get the officials to call fouls. Here's Chris Finch the
Minnesota coach, commenting on that hullabaloo, take a listen, because
you sent some of the frustrations that some of your
players had with some of the calls that Shaye was
able to drive.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, there was a lot of frustration out there. But
we got to we know, we talked about that before
the series started, and you know, we got we have
to be able to uh to put that aside and
get on with the next play mentality.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay, well they didn't do that, coach, they you might
have told them to do that. They're not listening. You
might want to get them a QTE tip and clean
out their ears because there's some orange goo in their ears.
I would say either. I mean the scouting guide, which
tells you what has happened now is going to happen
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coming into this game. The argument was that this is
a mismatch because Minnesota is a reckless team with the basketball.
They are not someone that protects the ball. They turn
the ball over a lot, They make a lot of
self inflicted mistakes, and you combine that with a team
that does force mistakes and you take advantage of that,
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and that's a huge problem. And so that was a
problem in this game, as Oklahoma City was plus twenty
one on points off turnovers, they outscored Minnesota by twenty
one points on points off turnovers. So that is I
didn't play in the amba. Not a coach. I think
that's an issue. You know, you're so hard on the
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Minnesota team. But give him a break, Okay, all right,
I'll give him break, give him a rick and go out.
I think you can get this on Amazon. Buy some
smelling salts and at halftime and whatever Anthony Edwards was doing.
You know, we made a joke about a mickey. But
give him some smelling salts, wake him up a little bit,
give him some caffeine or something to get him going
there at halftime. That would help, and remind joyous Randall
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that he does need to play the full game. Not
part of the game. Now, the story within the story though,
happened on the TV broadcast I mentioned I have the
sound down. There's a certain broadcaster that I always mute
when I hear their voice. I just like nails on
a truck board. So but the other stuff, which is
also terrible by it, But God is TNT so much
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better than the ESPN. My guy, Well, you just work
at Fox. No, I work at iHeart Fox. Whatever it is,
it just sucks. I mean they are so bad, Holy crap,
are they bad? Do they try to be bad? Do
they have like production meetings saying how bad can we
be at television? I might, Oh my god, it is unwatchable,
but it's so bad they bring in random guest commentaries.
(15:10):
Did Michael Malone and the former Nuggets coach, popped up
on TV in the conference finals and he ended up
actually making some news? Now, how on God's Green Earth
could Michael Malone, the old Nuggets coach, makes some news.
Let me let me explain here. So I think we
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do we have the audio on this, and we we
have this all I think we have both. No, we
don't have it. Oh okay, I sent you to Actually
I sent you to two clips. All right, Well, I
guess we don't have it. But Malone two months ago
as coach of the Denver Nuggets, was waxing loquacious about
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about his guy at the time, Nicola Jokicic, and he
was laying it on thick Take a listen, we have
it our two months ago. Here is Michael Malone, as
Denver Nuggets head coach, talking about the MVP race, and
at that time he was talking mostly about a guy
named the Joker. Take a Liz, My thing is this.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
You know, if you didn't know that Nicola won three MVPs,
and I put player A and player B on paper,
and you had no idea that the guy who's averaging
a triple double, the guy who's top three in the
three major statistical categories, things that no one's ever done,
he wins the MVP ten times out of ten.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, so boom perfect, that's your MVP. Well, here's Michael
Malone on television on ESPN ABC a few hours ago.
Take a listen and then shake gilgis Alexander. He showed
he's the MVP. All right, So there you go, Michael Malone.
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In the span of a short period of time, Shade
Jogis Alexander showed why he's the MVP. Do you find
that meaningful? Yes? To infinity and beyond yes, I find
it meaningful. The plot thickens, The plot thickens. Okay. Malone
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was on the campaign trail. We played some of it
when he was in Denver there and he was essentially
wearing knee pads for Nikola Jokic as the MVP. Keep
in mind, they haven't even named the MVP. It's like,
it's not like SGA won the award on Monday. They
haven't even announced who the MVP is. But this is
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what's known as say it with me now, kids, a
dead give way. It is a dead give way. It
is a dead giveaway because it's rather obvious. I mean,
you could see this from outer space, right it's I
don't even know, I mean it was. It's kind of
like in sometimes in music there'll be a subliminal message.
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I don't know how subliminable this is. Sometimes there's messages
hidden deep in songs. A lot of you have. You're
an old timer. Remember back in the day, Pink Floyd
famously had a backward saying in empty spaces in the
saying was congratulations, you have just discovered the secret message.
So Michael Malone is telling you without telling you, that
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Nicole Kch is a coach killer. That Nicolekch is why
Michael Malone is not the coach of the Denver Noggiates.
And it's rather obvious, like unless you're just a country bumpkin,
it's right there, it's right there. Michael Malone TV. Michael
Malone is announcing, Hey, this guy is by saying SGAMBB
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the way he said it, that is a tail. It
is an absolute teal. And Malone's been around long enough.
We know how this. When you're the star player, franchise player,
all right, franchise play. If you want the coach, the
coach stays. If you don't want the coach, or you
don't give an opinion on it, coach, the coach goes,
So to me, this is there's no debate. Like it's over.
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Nikola Jokic is a coach killer. He did not advocate
for Michael Malone. And that is why Michael Malone's not
doing bad television right there.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
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buying should be. We're back at it again. If you're
still hanging out, you're loitering, and you want to yap
about the Western Finals, We're not gonna say no to that. However,
while that game was not good talk radios, Oklahoma City
pulled away in the second half and blew the doors
off Minnesota. There is great talk radio fodder coming out
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of a team with high expectations that had been living
up to those expectations lately. Not so much in the
epicenter of the baseball world. Not Chavez Ravine, not Dodger Stadium.
No No, it's over in Queens, New York. That's where
the drama is the Mets Traveling road Show, still hanging
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out in Boston at Finnway Park and another game, another loss.
The Red Sox pitcher Walker Bueler got ejected. He left
in like the third inning and the Mets still lost
the game. That sucks. But the buzz, that's what it
sounds like. This actual sound of buzz. Just like that.
The buzz continues around the highest paid baseball player of
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all time. And if you have not been following, we
did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode of the show.
There are some new developments, so consider this a no
sweat situation. We've got you covered. We update the story.
Metropolitans manager Carlos Mendoza has provided a status update, status
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update on one Soto after his lack of effort and
poor decisions on and off the field. All right, so
what's the latest on this. Mendoza got out a very
small violin, a very small violin, and started singing a song,
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a sob story for Mendoz or Mendoza four Soto. He said, quote,
he's human, he's twenty six man. The Mets manager said,
He's going to be fine. He's one Soto. Yeah, now,
that came just a few days after he was called
out by the manager. Juan Soto called out, described by
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some as being miserable with the Mets that the only
time he smiled recently is when he was playing grab
ass with Aaron Judge during batting practice and futson around
with Aaron Boone during BP. He was also called out
for being an absolute dog not hustling and then said
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he was hustling when there's video of him not hustling,
and the Mets manager said he's not hustling. So again,
just to recap, you have, in the span of a
day and a half, the Mets manager calling out the player.
You now have the Mets manager massaging the player. So
you have both sides of the mouth covered, both sides
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of the mouth covered. So let us discuss the question
where do you stand? Where do you stand on the
Mets manager saying that both one Soto is not hustling, right,
and they were gonna have little chit chat, and now
saying one Soto is going to be fine because he's
one Sodo all right. So I've got rubber stamping, iverson
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and winery, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are gonna make a dirty water dog.
What we're gonna make because the Mets have just been
dirty water. They haven't been the dog part. Well, I
guess Juan Soto's been playing like a dog, not hustled.
All right, So number W number, Then I get a
number W. Alright, So talk about a quick about face.
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Holy Canoli, my man. So in the span of a
day and a half again, I'd say less than forty
eight hours, less than forty eight hours, the Mets manager
went from the arsonist to the firefighter.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
He had the flamethrower out and he was making sure
the flames got everywhere. And then he came back with
a fire truck, like a water not even a fire truck.
He had a water dropping helicopter throwing water down on
the fire. So he went from the gasoline on top
to the nice water. And so Soto a day and
a half ago was a laggert, was floating on an
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inner tube on the lazy river. And then after that
he took out a fire hose to put out the fire.
The Mets manager in the span of a day and
a half, I think I got all that right. That's
how I understand it. Anyway, So make it make sense,
all right, Carlos Mendoza, It is rather clear to this
particular gas bag that the Mets manager was called into
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the principal's office, say colloquial term, it was a text message,
might have been a text message, could have been a
tap on the shoulder, and someone who's in a position
higher up the food chain there with the Mets said
its nay on the talkie, a no negativity, No, we
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must put the kebash on that. And so he went
from tough love manager admitting his players lazy, which everyone saw,
even our blindlisters realized he was lazy. You went from that,
and then all of a sudden you pulled out the
rubber stamp and you wrote, rubber stamp a love note
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with little love stickers, those huffy stickers that smell in
the love note, and you rubber stamped all that, and
you sent that out there, and Mendoza saying that Juan
Soto cares a lot. He cares a lot amid the
criticism and the guy's competing. He's competing, Okay, that is
capital o optimistic, capital o optimistic. Now, assuming that because
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Juan Soto has a strong brand, the Mets believe in
that brand. They gave him half of Lower Manhattan to
get him there, so they believe in the brand. They
love the track record of the player and all that,
so they think he's equipped to handle the challenges. Sounds
like though he's not equipped with thick skin. If the
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span of two days, the manager of the Mets must
have been called out right. The only reason you would
walk back on what you said when everyone saw the
player not being, not hustling and being lazy, and then
you're like trying to unring the bell. You don't do
that unless somebody contacted you, and you don't do that
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at that point unless somebody realizes Juan Soto is a
mister softy and he can't handle the criticism. So okay,
and now they're all of a sudden giving him the
benefit of doubt the Soto had I believe he had
a hit in the game last night at Finway, and
he is still on pace for twenty six home runs
and sixty six RBIs. You could have gotten a guy
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out of the Mexican League did twenty six home runs
and drive in sixty six runs. So I l stinko
for Juan Soto. Now page two. So while the Mets
are dealing with that hullabaloo, the Red Sox, even though
they've won a couple games in a row. Now the
Red Sox have their own issues. An interesting story here.
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The manager of the Boston baseball team has a shovel
trying to dig himself out of a hole. Say what
so Alex Cora, who was one of the masterminds behind
the cheating Astros. So Alex Cora standing by his decision?
What was this decision? He skipped a work assignment. He
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skipped a game Alex Cora against the New York Mets
to attend a celebratory dinner for his daughter's graduation from
Boston College. Okay, so this, this, I guess, has been
the local. So several of you sent this to me,
some of you guys that listened to the Ben Maler
show on the sports up out of the Boston area,
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and did you see what's going on here? Okay, so
you said it, I mean, okay, that's fine. So Alex
Cora said, I quote, I made the best decision for
my daughter. We all know what the word best me.
So what does here's the question, what does Alex Corra's
decision to skip a game to go to a dinner
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for his daughter about his priorities when it comes to
the Red Sox, the team that he's plausibly working for.
So clearly Cora is a work life balance guy. You
know that's that's his mantra. I guess it's the mantra
of the Red Sox as I understand it, though, And
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several of you mentioned this to me, Well two people,
I say several. Two's that's not several, that's two. You
said that The story is that Cora's daughter graduated in
the morning from Boston College and the game was not
until nighttime, and he still chose not to show up
because they had a dinner. Now I don't know if
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that's true or not. That's what you were telling me
that that's that's what happened. So I'm getting that secondhand.
I was not there. I was not invited. But we're
going to assume that's true because two people who I
believe were not related. I don't think they don't have
the same last name. So unless I'm getting punked, they're
not related. So he skipped out on a a work
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thing for a celebratory feast, and so in my head
listening to Alic Korra talk about well I made the
best decision for my daughter rights. That's known as playing
the kid card from the bottom of the deck. Right,
you play the kid card. You can't question that. Well,
you can because it wasn't the graduation, it was the dinner.
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And then in my head I think of Alec Kora
being like Alan Iverson and we're sitting in here. I'm
supposed to be the manager of the Red Sox and
we in here talking about a family graduation dinner. I mean, listen,
we're talking about a family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation,
not an actual graduation, not an actual graduation. We're in
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here talking about a family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation. So, okay,
Cora makes eight million, and you could have done like
a brunch. That's kind of cool, like a graduation brunch.
That sounds pretty good, right, go ahead and eat all day.
And the great thing about being manager is you don't
really have to show up to batting practice. You can
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show up. They'll give you a solid show up right
before the game. Nobody will care. You know, it's not
it's not crucial that you're there. From batting practice, but
the game somewhat important and all that. And that's again
it's it's all about mindset and the mindset is is
it important to you to do it? Can you do both?
And you show your players you're supposed to be the
(31:28):
leader and all that stuff, and you have to make sacrifices. Again,
this is I know, I'm dating myself. Oh you're an
old boomer.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I'm not a boomer, but I'm getting old. Like I
was taught, like you have to sacrifice things for the job,
and if you really love the job, that's what you
gotta do. And you know, of course done a long time,
so I burned out. You know, it's like just kind
of I've got the contract. I'm making eight million dollars
a year. I guess he doesn't get enough time off
in the off season when this, you know, the Red
Sox I don't normally make the playoffs anymore. So you
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got October, November, December, in January, it seemed pretty good,
four months nothing spring training. In February, you lay back
there in Florida for a month and then part of March,
and then at the end of March you start the
baseball scene. It seems like a pretty good life, but
I guess he needs more time off. I got it,
and you're getting it. Good for you, Good for you,
(32:18):
And that's you know, you're the example. And so when
your players do the same thing, you can't complain, you know,
an it's I'm told it was not the graduation. You're
telling me that it was the dinner. The graduation was
in the morning, the dinner was it night. So okay,
all right, final point to the Windy City we go
where the Chicago White Sox. It's something they don't normally do.
(32:40):
They won a game, but we're not going to talk
about that, because why on God's green Earth we talked
about the Chicago White Sox. There's no reason. I don't.
I don't think Tree wants us to talk about the
Chicago White Sox. He's driving around Chicago, right, don't, dude,
bead No, I won't. But the White Sox have given
a rather unique tribute to their most sacred fun boy,
(33:03):
the Pope Pope Leo the team in their corporately named stadium,
which used to be called Kmisky Park, the Chicago White
Sox put up a like a mural graphic mural type
thing with a photo of the Pontiff and they've got
the Chicago skyline in the background. It's essentially for Instagram.
(33:28):
It's really just for the Internet, like you do this
stuff for the Internet. So people take photos and that's it.
And so it's in the section appropriately enough where Pope
Leo when he was a civilian before he became the Pontiff.
Pope Leo sat when he was just a mere mortal,
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and he was at the World Series twenty years ago
when the White Sox ended an eighty eight year World
Series drive back in five. So give me your reaction
to the White Sox fully embracing all immersive the Pope
Leo fandom. All right, So I saw this, and this
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does count as an official blessing for the Chicago White Sox.
The product is unwatchable. That the Mariners lost the Mariner
should That'd be seven losses for the Mariners to lose
the White Socks in that game. But this is not
about that, all right. Having the Pope, having the Pope
support your team is It's like going to the winery
(34:31):
and turning water into wine is essentially what is It's
it's a pr miracle. It is an absolute pr miracle.
Somebody asked the question. I think this was on one
of the other social medias, but somebody sent me the questions,
what is the more impressive fan for the White Sox?
(34:52):
Like where the rankage of the fan here? And you know,
is it a bigger deal that the president president? Because
Obama claimed to be a White Sox fan, but people
question whether it was actually a White Sox fan or not.
But anyway, so what's bigger having a president or having
the Pope? And the answer is clearly the k even close,
(35:14):
it's the Pope. Come on, get out the Pope mobile
right now, it's obviously the Pope. Now America, last I checked,
there's about three hundred and forty something million people they
claim they being the powers that we live in the America,
United States. Three hundred and forty million. That is split
down party lines. So at any time, whoever the president is,
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half the people don't like the president. In theory, now,
most people are a political they don't give a crap
about politics, and so they don't really have a strong opinion.
But for those that are politically engaged, half the people
hate the president at any time the pope, and I
am certainly not Catholic, but as I understand it, the
Pope that is the leader of one point four billion
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Catholics worldwide, so that it's not even close President on
one side Pope on the other. It's obviously the Pope
and the White Sox are leaning heavily into this. And
you cannot blame the White Sox because there's not a
single player on that team that is worthy of your
money to watch play baseball. They all sucked, and the
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ones that don't suck blow They're terrible, right, they're garbage.
The White Sox. So the Pope who's living in the Vatican,
all right, that is more just that he might maybe
watch a game is more interesting than anything in the
White Sox are putting on the field here. And they
even have set up and this is smart. They figured
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out what seat. Imagine trying to find out what seat
somebody sat in twenty years ago at a baseball game.
The White Sox claim that they know the exact seat
the Pontiff sat. His Holy tukis on the seat, like
they know the seat. It's if you go to the
White Sox game, it's Section one, forty row nineteen, seat two.
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So they're thinking they can get certain percentage of the
one point four billion Catholics to make a pilgrimage to
the South side of Chicago, the baddest part of town
and go to a White Sox game so they can
look at the seat the Pope sat in twenty years
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ago when he wasn't the Pope and probably didn't think
he was gonna ever become the Pope. And but there
you go. I'm also I'm informed via video that on
the Pope the first day that Pope Leo got in
the popemobile, he always remembers your first time in the popemobile.
(37:48):
That must be man, who is the first pope with
a popemobile? Do we know? We don't know anyway, So
the Pope pop Leo got in the popemobile. He's riding
at THEA so they're recording this because you know, it's
the Pope and the somebody in the crowd. I don't
know if you've seen this or not have heard it.
So somebody in the crowd while the Pope's going through there,
(38:11):
you know, doing his pope things, waving at the people,
somebody says, hey, I'm from Chicago. White Sox go. White
Sox like heckling the Pope about the white side.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
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Speaker 1 (38:28):
Here we go, we Smeller? How about that job? Here?
We got? This one gets grill good.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
It was reported on Monday that the Browns coaching staff
is planning a four way quarterback competition that will give
all four quarterbacks Flaco Picket, Dylan Gabriel, and Sadur Sander
is a fair chance to earn the starting job, Ben,
who do you think is under center?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Week one? All right? So the good news is this
is not the most depressing quarterback room in the NFL.
That's the New Orleans States, So you're you're not the worst,
all right? The Saints are worse than the Browns. It's
going to beat Joe Flacco unless there's owner interference. Unless
the meddling owner comes in. Joe Flacco's the safe choice.
Kenny Pickett blows he can't play. If the owner steps in,
(39:13):
it will be Shudhara Sanders. I don't see how Dylan
Gabriel fits into this at all? Rightn't isn't that the
guy that complained about cold weather and all that like, Hello,
it's Cleveland. Next.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Trevor Lawrence spoke with the media Monday and said that
he really likes the direction that the team is headed.
He went on to say that he loves the people
that they have there now. He loves the staff, the
guys that they brought in, and the guys that were
already there. Ben, how much of an improvement do you
expect for the Jaguars next season.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
I think they'll be where they have been recently. They'll
be mediocre to bad. And if I was making the
kind of money that Trevor Lawrence is making, I would
say the same exact thing that he is saying. So
I don't think they're gonna be much better at all.
I think he's got a tour a seventy five million dollar contract.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
Next, Ben, where are you on the thought that Julius
Randall has successfully rewritten the narrative of his career?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
No, he has. I mean the game last night's a
great example. He played really well in the first half
and then you didn't do much in the second half.
He's helped it, but he hasn't rewritten it. It's still
a work in progress. How do we do you pass? Say? Way?
Put her on the bar. I will right, thank you, Lid.
She's clapping for me. I appreciate that. You don't need
(40:23):
to clap. It's very kind. I appreciate that, very nice
of you.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
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It's time for love here on the Ben Malae Show.
We've had some really good questions lately. I want to
make sure we keep that momentum up.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
There's no such thing as momentum, Lorena. But you know
there's not, not in not in sports, and not in
a radio bit. But I think this is a great
love question. We've never gotten this one before, and it's
from a woman, So yeah, it's here for the ladies.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
Women. Okay, what is it?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Eileen writes in, says Lorena, what is your favorite ride
at Disneyland?
Speaker 7 (41:24):
Oh gosh, that's a hard one, Ileen.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Hardest question you've ever been asked.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's not as easy as love. It's probably
Winny the Pooh.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
That's a terrible answer. Yeah, it's the og.
Speaker 7 (41:39):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
It's the Pirates life for me. It's a Pirates life
for me.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
Pirates is good.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Caribbean.
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Come.
Speaker 7 (41:45):
I like the smell.
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The smells good, relaxing.
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You can sleep in there.
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Exactly only a couple drops. It's classic.
Speaker 7 (41:54):
That's a good one.
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All right, let's see King Roy writes in says, is
it wise to have a adult relationship with my wife?
Wal She is taking care of business each month, Lorraine,
I guess it's a thing that happens to.
Speaker 7 (42:13):
Oh yeah, no.
Speaker 8 (42:14):
If you guys are down and chilling, you know, it's
it's your life. Do as you please, man, whatever works
for you.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
He says, keep it clean. He had some other suggestions there.
Ferg Dog says, do you know a better way to
get out of paying alimony besides faking my own death?
Speaker 8 (42:37):
Oh my gosh, Well, maybe don't get.
Speaker 7 (42:43):
No, maybe maybe don't get married.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
I thought Ferg Dog was married to a stuffed animal.
How can how do you have to pay alimony to
a stuffed animal? Yeah, a stuffy you know.
Speaker 7 (42:53):
Sometimes you get yourself in a really bad situation.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Well, here's a great question, Deacon from he you're listen
to our live coverage, by the way, live coverage. You
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the Queen of Hearts with Loreina. Deacon writes, it is
this the guy from Houston says, how do I confess
my love of pantyhose to my partner and not freaker out.
Speaker 7 (43:18):
Send her a whole box of pantyhose?
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Does he wear them on his head? Or like, is
he like Oscar de la Joya with the fishnet stocking pantyhose?
Speaker 8 (43:25):
Maybe he just likes to rip them, you know, like
get all aggressive and tear the pantyhose off.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Very aggressive panty hose. Where our pantyhose still popular? I
feel like that's a dated thing.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
I feel like that's a they are kind of dated.
I wear pantyhose.
Speaker 8 (43:41):
I know that sounds crazy, but like it protects your
legs for one, okay, for two. It also makes it
to where like if you do get out of a car,
you don't have a Lindsay lowhand moment.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Hello. Yeah, Now, I remember when I was a kid.
I feel like they're popular, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
I mean, I'm not really out think there.
Speaker 7 (43:57):
I think they're just classier.
Speaker 8 (43:58):
And then you don't see all the marks and blemishes
on your legs either if you have bruises or whatever.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
More deception by women.
Speaker 7 (44:04):
Yeah, we'd love to deceive, yes, Shane.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
In ne mooin right, since says I have talked to Kelly.
That's his lady friend who he met from the show
The Great Kelly Donut Kelly. I've talked to Kelly's dad,
sister in law, and step mom. Should I now wait
for family to reach out to me, to meet and talk,
to make the first contact with the rest of the family,
all right?
Speaker 8 (44:27):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not good with meeting families
in this situation. You guys have been together for a while,
so definitely meeting everyone is good, But I don't know
how much family time is necessary at this point.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Mike the Leprechaun writes in Your Friends, besides separate beds
TVs because of hollering James story, what other precautions should
his girlfriend take before becoming more attached to him?
Speaker 7 (44:50):
You mean, before she murders you.
Speaker 9 (44:56):
Oh gosh, yeah, getting attached is really hard to especially
if you guys are spending a lot of quality time
together and making intimate connections as well.
Speaker 7 (45:07):
So make sure if you're.
Speaker 8 (45:09):
Not wanting to have her be too attached, you're making
sure that you are communicating that to her.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Super Marcus Steve says, is there something that used to
annoy you about one of your former partners that now
you no longer have? Have it in your life? You
miss it?
Speaker 8 (45:26):
You know, I was thinking about one of my exes.
His laugh used to irritate me.
Speaker 7 (45:29):
Beyond belief, like absolutely killed me.
Speaker 8 (45:33):
And I do not miss it at all, to be
honest with you, I was thinking about that the other day.
Speaker 7 (45:36):
I think, oh, yeah, no, but I.
Speaker 9 (45:40):
That is, and I'm glad I got rid of it.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
But that's the opposite of what he had. You answered
the opposite.
Speaker 7 (45:46):
Sometimes if it bugs you, you just gotta let it go.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Ben, right, man, that's not what he asked, He didn't.
Super Marios Stephen asked that
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Well that was not the Big Bad Wolf. No, no, no,
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So I have to send the rundown. I don't send
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And I clicked the post here and then it'll go
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the day, we have the meal of the day, we
have the dessert of the day. All of that all
of that for you. Now, the main course here in
our number, I said our number. Yes, the main course
here is our lead in the dust bowl. That's where
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we go here. And that was the stage four. A
island game. An island game, there is a standalone event,
a standalone event, the lid lifter on the Conference finals.
The curtain goes up. And I would not say much anticipated.
(03:20):
I do not believe that's true. I believe that would
be fake to say it is much anticipated. But Anthony
Edwards in the well rested timber Wolves visiting Sga and
Okase in Game one of the Western Finals. So I
don't know if you watched it or not. Maybe you were
(03:42):
doing something else and you didn't get to watch it.
Not your cup of tea. I watched it either, mute button.
You know certain broadcasters. I just can't. I can't do it.
I try, I can't do it. So no words. We
watched so you would not have to. It is our
good mitzvah of the day, and good news. You did
not miss anything that game. It was a dud dud
(04:08):
dud dud. Shake jigis Alexander, who did not play particularly
well through the first twenty four minutes of the game,
and his team was trailing at halftime in a very
unentertaining first half of basketball, and then in the second
half he scored twenty of his thirty one points. I'm
(04:30):
told that's good. I didn't play in the NBA, but
I'm told that's good. And the top seed there, Oklahoma City,
took out the butcher knife and butchered off some wolf
and they had that for dinner as they win going
away one fourteen to eighty eight in Game one of
the Western Finals. So jogis Alexander eight of fourteen in
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the second half from the floor. I think that's good.
And Julius Randall did all of his damage mostly in
the first half. He had twenty eight points, just eight
points in the second half when it was blow out City. Now,
Game two is on Thursday, Thursday Thursday, as the Eastern
Conference will take the center stage in the game coming
(05:14):
up here on a Wednesday night. But let's discuss Game
one of the Western Conference Finals and the question who
wears the Dunce cap of shame for the Minnesota Timberwolves
getting smoked in the second half of this game run
(05:34):
off the court. So my thoughts on this I've got
Mickey Gambler's Fallacy and Pink Floyd, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some amazing, amazing Baba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make.
We're gonna make the babaganuse Shirley. We normally make the
(05:55):
Baba goose later, We're gonna make the babag Ganu Shirley.
So my first thought on this a nothing has changed
more in my lifetime than halftime adjustments. Now, this is
a line one of my old radio friends, part of
the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. I used to do
a very popular Sunday show until the company canceled it.
(06:15):
And we used to screw around with all the cliches
and sports and we love the halftime adjustments and how
dumb fans oh halftime adjustments, Oh my god, like you
wait till halftime to make some kind of amazing adjustments.
But anyway, Minnesota's up by four. Good halftime. I'm trying
to stay awake, right, I got an overnight show to do.
(06:36):
I'm trying to I mean, this was not entertained. Was
anyone entertained?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Were you not entertained? I don't know anyone that was
entertained with the first half, but it it was within
the margins. They're like, okay, so it's not a great game. However,
if it's close with five minutes to go or four
minutes to go, there's something there. There's something there. Okay,
I can deal with that. I can navigate that. But
(07:03):
to answer the question, who wears the Dunce cap of
shame for the Minnesota Timberwolves, let's go to the very
top here. The CEO, as Anthony Edwards, did the thing
you can't do at the time, you can't do it.
He decided to go surfing. Anthony Edwards. Now, if you've
ever been to Oklahoma, that is mission impossible to go
surfing in Oklahoma. Cow ubunga dude, as Anthony Edwards went
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out there as a surfer and wiped out. That was
a total wipeout in the second half, blown off the map.
How bad was it? Thanks for asking? How bad was it? Was?
So bad? Okay? Ant man went Mickey and I'm not
talking Mickey Mouse. I think somebody might have slipped him
a Mickey at halftime there. Oh Mickey, you're so fine,
(07:49):
unless you're not Holy crap. Did he suck in the
second half? Did he need a nap? Maybe he needed
a nap the way he played two of six in
the second half. Five point. I mean to give you
have numbers. The numbers. I don't think you have had
to have seen it. The numbers are bad. His his
performance was actually worse.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
He ended up with five points in the second half,
a couple of assists, a couple of fouls. And keep in mind,
going to the fourth quarter, the Wolves were down by ten,
So ten is not an insurmountable at least five possessions
five to two point baskets. But the NBA now is
Papa Shot and so it's just shoots may three pointers.
(08:32):
So that's that's like three and and a half possessions
and you and you have the lead in the NBA.
And he in the fourth quarter down ten. Going to
the fourth quarter, Anthony Edwards the face of the franchise,
well face on this night, certainly not. He pitched a shutout,
(08:53):
very rare to see a shutout these days, and did
not even need to go to the bullpen. As Anthony
Edwards the final twelve minutes, as the joker would say,
he got zero zip zilch nada And as my grandfather
would say, buppkis is what he got in the fourth
quarter of that game as Minnesota got run off the
(09:14):
court there by Oklahoma City. So the question as we
turn the page here, the next question to address was
the Oklahoma City domination situation with schae Jogis Alexander. Was
Oklahoma City so good, so amazing that this series is
(09:34):
now over after one game? Is this Western Conference Finals?
Can you now start to write the eulogy for Minnesota
and the concession speech for Minnesota to give to Oklahoma City?
Was it that bad a performance by the Wolves that
this is a futile effort by Minnesota. So I'm shaking
(09:58):
my head. No here, I don't believe that. And as
pat Riley taught me when I was a little boy,
the playoffs, they don't start until the home team loses
at home. So last I checked, Oklahoma City was favored.
They won the game at home. Okay, so they they
did what they were supposed to do. Congratulations, what be
(10:21):
damn do? But I would also advise you to not
be a prisoner of the moment. And one of the
reasons that the sportsbooks do so well is the gambler's
fallacy that the low information fan believes that whatever they
just saw is going to continue forever and effort and
effort and effort, and well, Minnesota's just not very good
(10:44):
and they don't match up well with Oklahoma City, and
so this is just gonna the way it's going to go,
and the series will be over maybe five games. It'll
be a gentleman's sweep. And that's that's that. I have
learned that life generally does not work that way. Assuming
Minnesota doesn't doesn't quit, some of these NBA teams have
a propensity to quit. As we learn from Aaron Gordon
(11:04):
to the Nuggets, the players are very tired and they
need a lot of time. Didn't Aaron Gordon tell us
the Nuggets genius, the mensa there for the Nuggets. Didn't
he tell us that if the NBA wanted to prevent blowouts,
they need more time off between games. Well, Minnesota had
more time off. They got run off the court in
the second half. So I guess that kills that hypothesis
from Aaron Gordon. Anyway back to this, So, one of
(11:28):
the reasons that many people seem to enjoy the pro
bouncy ball is the chess match, right that that's the
selling point. It's a chess match on hardwood, and we've
all heard that, and you make your move and then
there's a counter move, and so that is where we are, right,
that is where we are at this point. For Minnesota,
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they got embarrassed in the second half and Chris Finch
and the Wolves half, so I'm explaining to do. I
would recommend getting out the mop and the bucket and
do it with a little scrub, a dub dub, and
that's what I recommend there. Minnesota. They also lost their
marbles a bit as they were doing what all NBA
players do and their things are not going well. They
(12:11):
bitch and complained to the officials that's what always happens.
Always we're not getting the whistles. They seemed very upset
that that Shae juggas Alexander was being able to bait
players into fouls early in the game. And I think
you would expect that. That's how the NBA has been
my entire life. I'm getting old and it's always been
(12:32):
this way, like the star player is able to bait
get the officials to call fouls. Here's Chris Finch the
Minnesota coach, commenting on that hullabaloo, take a listen, because
you sent some of the frustrations that some of your
players had with some of the calls that Shaye was
able to drive.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, there was a lot of frustration out there. But
we got to we know, we talked about that before
the series started, and you know, we got we have
to be able to uh to put that aside and
get on with the next play mentality.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay, well they didn't do that, coach, they you might
have told them to do that. They're not listening. You
might want to get them a QTE tip and clean
out their ears because there's some orange goo in their ears.
I would say either. I mean the scouting guide, which
tells you what has happened now is going to happen
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coming into this game. The argument was that this is
a mismatch because Minnesota is a reckless team with the basketball.
They are not someone that protects the ball. They turn
the ball over a lot, They make a lot of
self inflicted mistakes, and you combine that with a team
that does force mistakes and you take advantage of that,
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and that's a huge problem. And so that was a
problem in this game, as Oklahoma City was plus twenty
one on points off turnovers, they outscored Minnesota by twenty
one points on points off turnovers. So that is I
didn't play in the amba. Not a coach. I think
that's an issue. You know, you're so hard on the
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Minnesota team. But give him a break, Okay, all right,
I'll give him break, give him a rick and go out.
I think you can get this on Amazon. Buy some
smelling salts and at halftime and whatever Anthony Edwards was doing.
You know, we made a joke about a mickey. But
give him some smelling salts, wake him up a little bit,
give him some caffeine or something to get him going
there at halftime. That would help, and remind joyous Randall
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that he does need to play the full game. Not
part of the game. Now, the story within the story though,
happened on the TV broadcast I mentioned I have the
sound down. There's a certain broadcaster that I always mute
when I hear their voice. I just like nails on
a truck board. So but the other stuff, which is
also terrible by it, But God is TNT so much
(14:48):
better than the ESPN. My guy, Well, you just work
at Fox. No, I work at iHeart Fox. Whatever it is,
it just sucks. I mean they are so bad, Holy crap,
are they bad? Do they try to be bad? Do
they have like production meetings saying how bad can we
be at television? I might, Oh my god, it is unwatchable,
but it's so bad they bring in random guest commentaries.
(15:10):
Did Michael Malone and the former Nuggets coach, popped up
on TV in the conference finals and he ended up
actually making some news? Now, how on God's Green Earth
could Michael Malone, the old Nuggets coach, makes some news.
Let me let me explain here. So I think we
(15:31):
do we have the audio on this, and we we
have this all I think we have both. No, we
don't have it. Oh okay, I sent you to Actually
I sent you to two clips. All right, Well, I
guess we don't have it. But Malone two months ago
as coach of the Denver Nuggets, was waxing loquacious about
(15:51):
about his guy at the time, Nicola Jokicic, and he
was laying it on thick Take a listen, we have
it our two months ago. Here is Michael Malone, as
Denver Nuggets head coach, talking about the MVP race, and
at that time he was talking mostly about a guy
named the Joker. Take a Liz, My thing is this.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
You know, if you didn't know that Nicola won three MVPs,
and I put player A and player B on paper,
and you had no idea that the guy who's averaging
a triple double, the guy who's top three in the
three major statistical categories, things that no one's ever done,
he wins the MVP ten times out of ten.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, so boom perfect, that's your MVP. Well, here's Michael
Malone on television on ESPN ABC a few hours ago.
Take a listen and then shake gilgis Alexander. He showed
he's the MVP. All right, So there you go, Michael Malone.
(16:52):
In the span of a short period of time, Shade
Jogis Alexander showed why he's the MVP. Do you find
that meaningful? Yes? To infinity and beyond yes, I find
it meaningful. The plot thickens, The plot thickens. Okay. Malone
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was on the campaign trail. We played some of it
when he was in Denver there and he was essentially
wearing knee pads for Nikola Jokic as the MVP. Keep
in mind, they haven't even named the MVP. It's like,
it's not like SGA won the award on Monday. They
haven't even announced who the MVP is. But this is
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what's known as say it with me now, kids, a
dead give way. It is a dead give way. It
is a dead giveaway because it's rather obvious. I mean,
you could see this from outer space, right it's I
don't even know, I mean it was. It's kind of
like in sometimes in music there'll be a subliminal message.
(17:53):
I don't know how subliminable this is. Sometimes there's messages
hidden deep in songs. A lot of you have. You're
an old timer. Remember back in the day, Pink Floyd
famously had a backward saying in empty spaces in the
saying was congratulations, you have just discovered the secret message.
So Michael Malone is telling you without telling you, that
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Nicole Kch is a coach killer. That Nicolekch is why
Michael Malone is not the coach of the Denver Noggiates.
And it's rather obvious, like unless you're just a country bumpkin,
it's right there, it's right there. Michael Malone TV. Michael
Malone is announcing, Hey, this guy is by saying SGAMBB
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the way he said it, that is a tail. It
is an absolute teal. And Malone's been around long enough.
We know how this. When you're the star player, franchise player,
all right, franchise play. If you want the coach, the
coach stays. If you don't want the coach, or you
don't give an opinion on it, coach, the coach goes,
So to me, this is there's no debate. Like it's over.
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Nikola Jokic is a coach killer. He did not advocate
for Michael Malone. And that is why Michael Malone's not
doing bad television right there.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
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still hanging out, you're loitering, and you want to yap
about the Western Finals, We're not gonna say no to that. However,
while that game was not good talk radios, Oklahoma City
pulled away in the second half and blew the doors
off Minnesota. There is great talk radio fodder coming out
(20:52):
of a team with high expectations that had been living
up to those expectations lately. Not so much in the
epicenter of the baseball world. Not Chavez Ravine, not Dodger Stadium.
No No, it's over in Queens, New York. That's where
the drama is the Mets Traveling road Show, still hanging
(21:16):
out in Boston at Finnway Park and another game, another loss.
The Red Sox pitcher Walker Bueler got ejected. He left
in like the third inning and the Mets still lost
the game. That sucks. But the buzz, that's what it
sounds like. This actual sound of buzz. Just like that.
The buzz continues around the highest paid baseball player of
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all time. And if you have not been following, we
did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode of the show.
There are some new developments, so consider this a no
sweat situation. We've got you covered. We update the story.
Metropolitans manager Carlos Mendoza has provided a status update, status
(22:05):
update on one Soto after his lack of effort and
poor decisions on and off the field. All right, so
what's the latest on this. Mendoza got out a very
small violin, a very small violin, and started singing a song,
(22:25):
a sob story for Mendoz or Mendoza four Soto. He said, quote,
he's human, he's twenty six man. The Mets manager said,
He's going to be fine. He's one Soto. Yeah, now,
that came just a few days after he was called
out by the manager. Juan Soto called out, described by
(22:48):
some as being miserable with the Mets that the only
time he smiled recently is when he was playing grab
ass with Aaron Judge during batting practice and futson around
with Aaron Boone during BP. He was also called out
for being an absolute dog not hustling and then said
(23:08):
he was hustling when there's video of him not hustling,
and the Mets manager said he's not hustling. So again,
just to recap, you have, in the span of a
day and a half, the Mets manager calling out the player.
You now have the Mets manager massaging the player. So
you have both sides of the mouth covered, both sides
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of the mouth covered. So let us discuss the question
where do you stand? Where do you stand on the
Mets manager saying that both one Soto is not hustling, right,
and they were gonna have little chit chat, and now
saying one Soto is going to be fine because he's
one Sodo all right. So I've got rubber stamping, iverson
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and winery, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are gonna make a dirty water dog.
What we're gonna make because the Mets have just been
dirty water. They haven't been the dog part. Well, I
guess Juan Soto's been playing like a dog, not hustled.
All right, So number W number, Then I get a
number W. Alright, So talk about a quick about face.
(24:16):
Holy Canoli, my man. So in the span of a
day and a half again, I'd say less than forty
eight hours, less than forty eight hours, the Mets manager
went from the arsonist to the firefighter.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
He had the flamethrower out and he was making sure
the flames got everywhere. And then he came back with
a fire truck, like a water not even a fire truck.
He had a water dropping helicopter throwing water down on
the fire. So he went from the gasoline on top
to the nice water. And so Soto a day and
a half ago was a laggert, was floating on an
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inner tube on the lazy river. And then after that
he took out a fire hose to put out the fire.
The Mets manager in the span of a day and
a half, I think I got all that right. That's
how I understand it. Anyway, So make it make sense,
all right, Carlos Mendoza, It is rather clear to this
particular gas bag that the Mets manager was called into
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the principal's office, say colloquial term, it was a text message,
might have been a text message, could have been a
tap on the shoulder, and someone who's in a position
higher up the food chain there with the Mets said
its nay on the talkie, a no negativity, No, we
(25:37):
must put the kebash on that. And so he went
from tough love manager admitting his players lazy, which everyone saw,
even our blindlisters realized he was lazy. You went from that,
and then all of a sudden you pulled out the
rubber stamp and you wrote, rubber stamp a love note
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with little love stickers, those huffy stickers that smell in
the love note, and you rubber stamped all that, and
you sent that out there, and Mendoza saying that Juan
Soto cares a lot. He cares a lot amid the
criticism and the guy's competing. He's competing, Okay, that is
capital o optimistic, capital o optimistic. Now, assuming that because
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Juan Soto has a strong brand, the Mets believe in
that brand. They gave him half of Lower Manhattan to
get him there, so they believe in the brand. They
love the track record of the player and all that,
so they think he's equipped to handle the challenges. Sounds
like though he's not equipped with thick skin. If the
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span of two days, the manager of the Mets must
have been called out right. The only reason you would
walk back on what you said when everyone saw the
player not being, not hustling and being lazy, and then
you're like trying to unring the bell. You don't do
that unless somebody contacted you, and you don't do that
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at that point unless somebody realizes Juan Soto is a
mister softy and he can't handle the criticism. So okay,
and now they're all of a sudden giving him the
benefit of doubt the Soto had I believe he had
a hit in the game last night at Finway, and
he is still on pace for twenty six home runs
and sixty six RBIs. You could have gotten a guy
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out of the Mexican League did twenty six home runs
and drive in sixty six runs. So I l stinko
for Juan Soto. Now page two. So while the Mets
are dealing with that hullabaloo, the Red Sox, even though
they've won a couple games in a row. Now the
Red Sox have their own issues. An interesting story here.
(27:50):
The manager of the Boston baseball team has a shovel
trying to dig himself out of a hole. Say what
so Alex Cora, who was one of the masterminds behind
the cheating Astros. So Alex Cora standing by his decision?
What was this decision? He skipped a work assignment. He
(28:12):
skipped a game Alex Cora against the New York Mets
to attend a celebratory dinner for his daughter's graduation from
Boston College. Okay, so this, this, I guess, has been
the local. So several of you sent this to me,
some of you guys that listened to the Ben Maler
show on the sports up out of the Boston area,
(28:33):
and did you see what's going on here? Okay, so
you said it, I mean, okay, that's fine. So Alex
Cora said, I quote, I made the best decision for
my daughter. We all know what the word best me.
So what does here's the question, what does Alex Corra's
decision to skip a game to go to a dinner
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for his daughter about his priorities when it comes to
the Red Sox, the team that he's plausibly working for.
So clearly Cora is a work life balance guy. You
know that's that's his mantra. I guess it's the mantra
of the Red Sox as I understand it, though, And
(29:18):
several of you mentioned this to me, Well two people,
I say several. Two's that's not several, that's two. You
said that The story is that Cora's daughter graduated in
the morning from Boston College and the game was not
until nighttime, and he still chose not to show up
because they had a dinner. Now I don't know if
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that's true or not. That's what you were telling me
that that's that's what happened. So I'm getting that secondhand.
I was not there. I was not invited. But we're
going to assume that's true because two people who I
believe were not related. I don't think they don't have
the same last name. So unless I'm getting punked, they're
not related. So he skipped out on a a work
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thing for a celebratory feast, and so in my head
listening to Alic Korra talk about well I made the
best decision for my daughter rights. That's known as playing
the kid card from the bottom of the deck. Right,
you play the kid card. You can't question that. Well,
you can because it wasn't the graduation, it was the dinner.
(30:23):
And then in my head I think of Alec Kora
being like Alan Iverson and we're sitting in here. I'm
supposed to be the manager of the Red Sox and
we in here talking about a family graduation dinner. I mean, listen,
we're talking about a family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation,
not an actual graduation, not an actual graduation. We're in
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here talking about a family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation. So, okay,
Cora makes eight million, and you could have done like
a brunch. That's kind of cool, like a graduation brunch.
That sounds pretty good, right, go ahead and eat all day.
And the great thing about being manager is you don't
really have to show up to batting practice. You can
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show up. They'll give you a solid show up right
before the game. Nobody will care. You know, it's not
it's not crucial that you're there. From batting practice, but
the game somewhat important and all that. And that's again
it's it's all about mindset and the mindset is is
it important to you to do it? Can you do both?
And you show your players you're supposed to be the
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leader and all that stuff, and you have to make sacrifices. Again,
this is I know, I'm dating myself. Oh you're an
old boomer.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I'm not a boomer, but I'm getting old. Like I
was taught, like you have to sacrifice things for the job,
and if you really love the job, that's what you
gotta do. And you know, of course done a long time,
so I burned out. You know, it's like just kind
of I've got the contract. I'm making eight million dollars
a year. I guess he doesn't get enough time off
in the off season when this, you know, the Red
Sox I don't normally make the playoffs anymore. So you
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got October, November, December, in January, it seemed pretty good,
four months nothing spring training. In February, you lay back
there in Florida for a month and then part of March,
and then at the end of March you start the
baseball scene. It seems like a pretty good life, but
I guess he needs more time off. I got it,
and you're getting it. Good for you, Good for you,
(32:18):
And that's you know, you're the example. And so when
your players do the same thing, you can't complain, you know,
an it's I'm told it was not the graduation. You're
telling me that it was the dinner. The graduation was
in the morning, the dinner was it night. So okay,
all right, final point to the Windy City we go
where the Chicago White Sox. It's something they don't normally do.
(32:40):
They won a game, but we're not going to talk
about that, because why on God's green Earth we talked
about the Chicago White Sox. There's no reason. I don't.
I don't think Tree wants us to talk about the
Chicago White Sox. He's driving around Chicago, right, don't, dude,
bead No, I won't. But the White Sox have given
a rather unique tribute to their most sacred fun boy,
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the Pope Pope Leo the team in their corporately named stadium,
which used to be called Kmisky Park, the Chicago White
Sox put up a like a mural graphic mural type
thing with a photo of the Pontiff and they've got
the Chicago skyline in the background. It's essentially for Instagram.
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It's really just for the Internet, like you do this
stuff for the Internet. So people take photos and that's it.
And so it's in the section appropriately enough where Pope
Leo when he was a civilian before he became the Pontiff.
Pope Leo sat when he was just a mere mortal,
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and he was at the World Series twenty years ago
when the White Sox ended an eighty eight year World
Series drive back in five. So give me your reaction
to the White Sox fully embracing all immersive the Pope
Leo fandom. All right, So I saw this, and this
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does count as an official blessing for the Chicago White Sox.
The product is unwatchable. That the Mariners lost the Mariner
should That'd be seven losses for the Mariners to lose
the White Socks in that game. But this is not
about that, all right. Having the Pope, having the Pope
support your team is It's like going to the winery
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and turning water into wine is essentially what is It's
it's a pr miracle. It is an absolute pr miracle.
Somebody asked the question. I think this was on one
of the other social medias, but somebody sent me the questions,
what is the more impressive fan for the White Sox?
(34:52):
Like where the rankage of the fan here? And you know,
is it a bigger deal that the president president? Because
Obama claimed to be a White Sox fan, but people
question whether it was actually a White Sox fan or not.
But anyway, so what's bigger having a president or having
the Pope? And the answer is clearly the k even close,
(35:14):
it's the Pope. Come on, get out the Pope mobile
right now, it's obviously the Pope. Now America, last I checked,
there's about three hundred and forty something million people they
claim they being the powers that we live in the America,
United States. Three hundred and forty million. That is split
down party lines. So at any time, whoever the president is,
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half the people don't like the president. In theory, now,
most people are a political they don't give a crap
about politics, and so they don't really have a strong opinion.
But for those that are politically engaged, half the people
hate the president at any time the pope, and I
am certainly not Catholic, but as I understand it, the
Pope that is the leader of one point four billion
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Catholics worldwide, so that it's not even close President on
one side Pope on the other. It's obviously the Pope
and the White Sox are leaning heavily into this. And
you cannot blame the White Sox because there's not a
single player on that team that is worthy of your
money to watch play baseball. They all sucked, and the
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ones that don't suck blow They're terrible, right, they're garbage.
The White Sox. So the Pope who's living in the Vatican,
all right, that is more just that he might maybe
watch a game is more interesting than anything in the
White Sox are putting on the field here. And they
even have set up and this is smart. They figured
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out what seat. Imagine trying to find out what seat
somebody sat in twenty years ago at a baseball game.
The White Sox claim that they know the exact seat
the Pontiff sat. His Holy tukis on the seat, like
they know the seat. It's if you go to the
White Sox game, it's Section one, forty row nineteen, seat two.
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So they're thinking they can get certain percentage of the
one point four billion Catholics to make a pilgrimage to
the South side of Chicago, the baddest part of town
and go to a White Sox game so they can
look at the seat the Pope sat in twenty years
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ago when he wasn't the Pope and probably didn't think
he was gonna ever become the Pope. And but there
you go. I'm also I'm informed via video that on
the Pope the first day that Pope Leo got in
the popemobile, he always remembers your first time in the popemobile.
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That must be man, who is the first pope with
a popemobile? Do we know? We don't know anyway, So
the Pope pop Leo got in the popemobile. He's riding
at THEA so they're recording this because you know, it's
the Pope and the somebody in the crowd. I don't
know if you've seen this or not have heard it.
So somebody in the crowd while the Pope's going through there,
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you know, doing his pope things, waving at the people,
somebody says, hey, I'm from Chicago. White Sox go. White
Sox like heckling the Pope about the white side.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
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Speaker 1 (38:28):
Here we go, we Smeller? How about that job? Here?
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Speaker 6 (38:38):
It was reported on Monday that the Browns coaching staff
is planning a four way quarterback competition that will give
all four quarterbacks Flaco Picket, Dylan Gabriel, and Sadur Sander
is a fair chance to earn the starting job, Ben,
who do you think is under center?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Week one? All right? So the good news is this
is not the most depressing quarterback room in the NFL.
That's the New Orleans States, So you're you're not the worst,
all right? The Saints are worse than the Browns. It's
going to beat Joe Flacco unless there's owner interference. Unless
the meddling owner comes in. Joe Flacco's the safe choice.
Kenny Pickett blows he can't play. If the owner steps in,
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it will be Shudhara Sanders. I don't see how Dylan
Gabriel fits into this at all? Rightn't isn't that the
guy that complained about cold weather and all that like, Hello,
it's Cleveland. Next.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Trevor Lawrence spoke with the media Monday and said that
he really likes the direction that the team is headed.
He went on to say that he loves the people
that they have there now. He loves the staff, the
guys that they brought in, and the guys that were
already there. Ben, how much of an improvement do you
expect for the Jaguars next season.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
I think they'll be where they have been recently. They'll
be mediocre to bad. And if I was making the
kind of money that Trevor Lawrence is making, I would
say the same exact thing that he is saying. So
I don't think they're gonna be much better at all.
I think he's got a tour a seventy five million dollar contract.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
Next, Ben, where are you on the thought that Julius
Randall has successfully rewritten the narrative of his career?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
No, he has. I mean the game last night's a
great example. He played really well in the first half
and then you didn't do much in the second half.
He's helped it, but he hasn't rewritten it. It's still
a work in progress. How do we do you pass? Say? Way?
Put her on the bar. I will right, thank you, Lid.
She's clapping for me. I appreciate that. You don't need
(40:23):
to clap. It's very kind. I appreciate that, very nice
of you.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
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Speaker 7 (40:45):
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Speaker 5 (40:50):
Dear ry.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
You heard the man.
Speaker 8 (40:54):
It's time for love here on the Ben Malae Show.
We've had some really good questions lately. I want to
make sure we keep that momentum up.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
There's no such thing as momentum, Lorena. But you know
there's not, not in not in sports, and not in
a radio bit. But I think this is a great
love question. We've never gotten this one before, and it's
from a woman, So yeah, it's here for the ladies.
Speaker 7 (41:18):
Women. Okay, what is it?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Eileen writes in, says Lorena, what is your favorite ride
at Disneyland?
Speaker 7 (41:24):
Oh gosh, that's a hard one, Ileen.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Hardest question you've ever been asked.
Speaker 8 (41:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's not as easy as love. It's probably
Winny the Pooh.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
That's a terrible answer. Yeah, it's the og.
Speaker 7 (41:39):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
It's the Pirates life for me. It's a Pirates life
for me.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
Pirates is good.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Come.
Speaker 7 (41:45):
I like the smell.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
The smells good, relaxing.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
You can sleep in there.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Exactly only a couple drops. It's classic.
Speaker 7 (41:54):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
All right, let's see King Roy writes in says, is
it wise to have a adult relationship with my wife?
Wal She is taking care of business each month, Lorraine,
I guess it's a thing that happens to.
Speaker 7 (42:13):
Oh yeah, no.
Speaker 8 (42:14):
If you guys are down and chilling, you know, it's
it's your life. Do as you please, man, whatever works
for you.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
He says, keep it clean. He had some other suggestions there.
Ferg Dog says, do you know a better way to
get out of paying alimony besides faking my own death?
Speaker 8 (42:37):
Oh my gosh, Well, maybe don't get.
Speaker 7 (42:43):
No, maybe maybe don't get married.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
I thought Ferg Dog was married to a stuffed animal.
How can how do you have to pay alimony to
a stuffed animal? Yeah, a stuffy you know.
Speaker 7 (42:53):
Sometimes you get yourself in a really bad situation.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Well, here's a great question, Deacon from he you're listen
to our live coverage, by the way, live coverage. You
can call in for this at eight seven seven ninety
nine and The Fox Real Quick, the live coverage of
the Queen of Hearts with Loreina. Deacon writes, it is
this the guy from Houston says, how do I confess
my love of pantyhose to my partner and not freaker out.
Speaker 7 (43:18):
Send her a whole box of pantyhose?
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Does he wear them on his head? Or like, is
he like Oscar de la Joya with the fishnet stocking pantyhose?
Speaker 8 (43:25):
Maybe he just likes to rip them, you know, like
get all aggressive and tear the pantyhose off.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Very aggressive panty hose. Where our pantyhose still popular? I
feel like that's a dated thing.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
I feel like that's a they are kind of dated.
I wear pantyhose.
Speaker 8 (43:41):
I know that sounds crazy, but like it protects your
legs for one, okay, for two. It also makes it
to where like if you do get out of a car,
you don't have a Lindsay lowhand moment.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Hello. Yeah, Now, I remember when I was a kid.
I feel like they're popular, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
I mean, I'm not really out think there.
Speaker 7 (43:57):
I think they're just classier.
Speaker 8 (43:58):
And then you don't see all the marks and blemishes
on your legs either if you have bruises or whatever.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
More deception by women.
Speaker 7 (44:04):
Yeah, we'd love to deceive, yes, Shane.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
In ne mooin right, since says I have talked to Kelly.
That's his lady friend who he met from the show
The Great Kelly Donut Kelly. I've talked to Kelly's dad,
sister in law, and step mom. Should I now wait
for family to reach out to me, to meet and talk,
to make the first contact with the rest of the family,
all right?
Speaker 8 (44:27):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm not good with meeting families
in this situation. You guys have been together for a while,
so definitely meeting everyone is good, But I don't know
how much family time is necessary at this point.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Mike the Leprechaun writes in Your Friends, besides separate beds
TVs because of hollering James story, what other precautions should
his girlfriend take before becoming more attached to him?
Speaker 7 (44:50):
You mean, before she murders you.
Speaker 9 (44:56):
Oh gosh, yeah, getting attached is really hard to especially
if you guys are spending a lot of quality time
together and making intimate connections as well.
Speaker 7 (45:07):
So make sure if you're.
Speaker 8 (45:09):
Not wanting to have her be too attached, you're making
sure that you are communicating that to her.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Super Marcus Steve says, is there something that used to
annoy you about one of your former partners that now
you no longer have? Have it in your life? You
miss it?
Speaker 8 (45:26):
You know, I was thinking about one of my exes.
His laugh used to irritate me.
Speaker 7 (45:29):
Beyond belief, like absolutely killed me.
Speaker 8 (45:33):
And I do not miss it at all, to be
honest with you, I was thinking about that the other day.
Speaker 7 (45:36):
I think, oh, yeah, no, but I.
Speaker 9 (45:40):
That is, and I'm glad I got rid of it.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
But that's the opposite of what he had. You answered
the opposite.
Speaker 7 (45:46):
Sometimes if it bugs you, you just gotta let it go.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Ben, right, man, that's not what he asked, He didn't.
Super Marios Stephen asked that
Speaker 2 (45:53):
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