June 3, 2025 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about reports that the Toronto Raptors and Giannis Antetokounmpo have 'mutual interest' and if the Raptors should go all-in to get him, why people are upset with Joe Flacco for saynig he's "not a mentor" in the Browns' QB competition, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Dana Carvey Edition, and more!
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I'd be so our lead this hour. I was debating
going with baseball. We did that the other day and
I got several complaints. What just do with baseball? It's
only June. I don't understand me. My God didn't play
million more types. So shut up. I'm gonna tell you
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on a sport, they're not even gonna play this. Well,
there's a couple of basketball games no one will be
watching this week starting on Thursday, but no games until
late in the year, late in the year. But our
lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball. Pro bouncy Ball. Now,
we got a bunch of downtime before the matchup with
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the Cornfield versus the Soybean in the NBA Finals. Now,
to fill the void, we have cranked up the rumor machine.
It has been working over time and serving up some
Greek food. That's right, a little Greek food on that.
And if you have not been following, it's a bad
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job by you. Some chatter that the Milwaukee Bucks superstar,
the man that held up the championship trophy a couple
of years ago. Giannis Adenta Cumbo has a wondering eye
and he has been and looking north of the border.
Ah ca eyem Toronto, the Raptors there is said to
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be in breathless reporting mutual interest. Mutual interest between the Bucks,
Giannis adent to Cumbo and Toronto. So Giannis who's won
not one, but two Most Valuable Player awards, So I'm
told that's pretty good. I'm playing the NBA and the
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championship and all that stuff. And it has been widely
speculated that he is considering a relocation situation. The Bucks
have had not one, not two, but three consecutive first
round departures from the postseason. They have been decommissioned in
the first round three years in a row. And you
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compound that with not having a coach. They're the headless deer.
Doc Rivers. I'd rather have an actual doctor as my
coach then a fake doctor, Doc Rivers. When you hire Doc,
you're not trying to win. You're not When you hire
Doc Rivers, you're trying to give good soundbites to the
media and have nice things said about you. Because it's
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Doc Rivers. Everyone loves Doc. He's Devin Air. He's got
the smile, everyone loves them. Can't coach his way out
of a wet paper bag. That's a side. Then you've
got the Dame train which has gone off the tracks,
and the Dame enjoying a steady diet of rice crispy, snap,
crackle and pop, and the Achilles there. So those are
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all the ingredients that have gotten to this point. Now
you know that Toronto, they're out there kicking the time.
They need that headline. They're not anybody, not that we
talk much Raptors basketball here, but they don't. So Milwaukee's
championship windows seems to close, and it seems to be
done dead bolted.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
See it later.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It's not even a window anymore. It's like a wall
at this point. So let us discuss the question you
make the call? You make the call question, if you're
the Raptors, do you go all in for Giannis a
Dentakuombo and do you actually have a chance to get
the player? So my thoughts on this, I've got da Vinci,
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saber tooth, tiger, and slow churned and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some ice. Ice baby, is what we're gonna make.
So a to answer the question, if you're the Raptors,
you go all in, Yes, I'm not in my head,
yes of course. Now do you have a chance to
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actually get the player? Well, that's where things get a
little foggy. That's where things get a little foggy. But
from the Toronto site, it's a no brainer, right, It's
an absolute no brainer. Well, it is generally considered taboo
for any star players to sign with the Toronto Raptor.
You can be traded there, but to actually sign now,
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and this would be a trade. This would be a trade,
but it's kind of trade where the player wants to
go there, So it's a fake trade, like a real
trade is the player doesn't want to go there, you
trade him anyway, This would be a faux trade. Toronto
for big names in the NBA is seen as a
barren wasteland. You just don't go there, and you can
get players in the draft. You can have a bunch
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of no name, no brand type players. And Yannis though,
the reason that there's something there, the reason I'm buying
that there's something there is Yannis is a different breed
a kittie cat, a different breed of kitty cat here,
and doesn't seem like he needs the suntan lotionan the
bikini bottoms.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That you get in La or Miami or anything like that.
But much like.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Da Vinci or Michelangelo, a renaissance man to a point,
I do believe the last couple of years since winning
the championship that Yannis has more more into line with
all the other a holes in the NBA. He still
got that international flavor, flavor flavor. He's got that going
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for him, and he could be convinced that hey, I
can go and enjoy maple syrup, powdered powered snowblowers.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And maybe he always wanted to play near the CN
Tower and that he really wanted that. And yeah, and
there's a great Greek town. One of our listeners that
met at the meet and greets, well, Toronto's got there's
a big Greek population there and they've got a great
Greek town, all right, joannest Is, I believe under contract,
if I'm not mistaken, for another couple of seasons, so
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that it would have to be a trade and the
bucks I am told will demand a king's ransom.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You also have the meddling NBA power brokers.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Who are going to try to encourage encourage a Yannis
to go to a big, big, big, big big market.
The usual suspects LA Miami, New York, and those are
the usual. Maybe Golden State, maybe a Golden State gets
mixed in there, and he's a known commodity. Though you're
the raptors and you're trying to get that big guy.
That's a guy you can actually get, and you're gonna
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have to give up a bunch of promissory notes and
you get a proven star who's in the near end
of his prime. A couple more years of Giannis and
then it's a slow decline. All right now, turning the
page the round mound of Rebound when he was known
as that when he played Charles Barkley making some news.
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He's announced that he has it all mapped out, his
great escape from television, appearing right here on Fox Sports
Radio with Dan Patrick, who also's got it all mapped out.
Dan's got a plan to retire, so Charles Barkley revealed
that he only intends to work two more years. That's it.
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He's got a two hundred million dollar contract. But here's
Barkley explaining what his plan is is. He's still with
Warner Brothers. It's kind of weird, but it's it's gonna
be on ESPN, but he's not gonna really be an
ESPN and play anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Listen, here's what Barkley had to say.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I actually have seven years left on my contract. Like, yeah,
there's no way I'm working seven years, I says. You know,
I'm gonna be a good soldier for Kenny, Ernie and
Shack and the people I work with, because I love
the people I work with, especially behind the scenes. I said,
But the best I can do is two years.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All right, So he said two years. He says also concerned.
He says, if ESPN overworks him, even though he's gonna
be working for Turner, he said, he'll just go home.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
He said, He'll just go home.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So let us discuss how much stark how much DOK
do you give Charles Barkley, the greatest ex jock turned
player that Jockocracy usually produces crap with former players on television,
but Charles Barkley is not that he is at the
very top of the food chain when he comes to broadcasting.
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So how much doc do you give Charles Barkley as
he has announced he is planning to retire from TV
in two years. So after a thorough deliberation of the
available information, we have given this a solid zero. A
solid zero. So Charles Barkley and one thing I've come
to know over the last ten plus years of talking
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about Charles Barkley, and it's been longer than that, but
just the last decade plus, Charles Barkley loves a saber
tooth tiger. But really what he loves is saber rattling.
He loves saber rattling when talking about his future. I
guess everyone all worked up into a nice tizzy and
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likes Barkley is the guy that will spit in your
pocket and announce that it's raining. As he's spitting a
nice thick loogie in your pocket, he'll announce its rain. Now,
we went back to the copious amounts of notes that
we do on a daily basis for these Mallard monologues,
and we went all the way back, back, back back
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back back in the hot top time machine to twenty twelve,
and we then searched keywords and we determined that Charles
bark has publicly discussed or announced he's done with television
six times since twenty twelve. Six times I'm out, And
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every time Barkley's continue to work. Every time we in
our notes we had twenty twelve, twenty fifteen, twenty eighteen,
twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty four,
and now we can add twenty twenty five. Although he
didn't announce he's gonna quit right away, he says going
to be a couple of years and all that. And
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every time he's announced this, every single time he has
continued to work. He signed new contracts, and he has
reversed those retirement plans. But wait, there's more. Barkley also
loved in the past claiming he was going to become
the governor of Alibe, Obama. This was a big thing
that Barkley brought up many times. There were four times
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that goes back to the nineties where Barkley announced that
he was going to be the governor of his home state,
his native state of Alabama. He did that in the
nineties six as well, eight and actually twice in eight
he announced he was going to become the governor of Alabama,
and either time or all the times, I should say
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all the times he failed. Barkley failed to actually run
for governor of Alabama.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And never did it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
He always abandoned that plan and his political ambitions were bullshoy.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
We're absolutely bullshoy.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Now there is an aide situation which is a factor,
but only a little bit. Barkley is now sixty two,
so's he's at the point he's got a lot of money,
and he's got a lot of money because of television.
He's got money because of TV, not because of basketball,
because of basketball and TV. But Charles Barkley is a
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TV commentator. He's not a former player. He's a TV guy.
And it really isn't work. Like I've been lucky enough
last couple years. I had a TV show and like
this has worked, like the radio shows where I do
everything for the show, put it all together. Like the
TV show, there's people that help you. There's like support staff,
producers and directors and people that make you look good
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and it helps out a lot, and it's wonderful to
be in that environment. So if you're doing TV like Barkley,
I mean, you got a million people helping you. You
just show up and you don't have to worry about
putting monologues together and doing all the other You don't
worry about it, right because you know people actually help
you out. It's amazing thing. And Barkley's getting twelve and
a half million dollars per year and he has earned
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a massive amount more as a TV guy than a player.
In fact, I went back, I look Barkley when he
played for the Sixers and the Suns and bounced around
the NBA a little bit, mostly the Suns the Sixers,
but Charles Barkley played with the rocketsallz. But his total
earnings like forty million, which is a lot of money.
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Let's hold old money. Forty million as a player. He
has made it's estimated close to two hundred million as
a broadcaster, So forty million is a player. I think
it's like one hundred and seventy hundred and seventy five
million something like in that ballpark, which is a good ballpark.
And that does not even include like the endorsement stuff
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that he's he's got, So he's cashing it in now.
Last word, speaking of the jockocracy of basketball, flipping the
page here, Warriors star Stephen.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Curry making some news recently.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He's not retiring from the NBA, not yet, however, he
told CNBC. He said, Liz, I got it all mapped out.
I got this whole plan right, this whole plan mapped
out right, and and so what is that?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
What is the man?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, so he mentioned to c NBC that TV broadcasting
he's thinking about doing that. He's got team ownership and
possibly playing on the PGA Tour Championship champions Tour for
the PGA toy They got all the map, all right.
So to me, the most interesting thing, you know, athlete
owns a team. We've seen that with Jordan, We've seen
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you know, stars run teams like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Uh And so that doesn't really interest me. The TV thing,
because we just talked about Barkley that interesting. So would
Steph Curry be a good TV broadcast?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
All right?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So let's go to the wheel of fortune here. Can
I get an N? And can I I'd like an N?
And can I buy a vowel?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I would like an Oh? I would like it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
That would be no. He is going to be terribles,
I said, broches my god. Uh So let's break this
down unscientifically. Now, Steph Curry is seen as a charming individual,
He is seen as smart, he is seen as well spoken,
and those are all positive attributes. They're all positive. Blah
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blah blah blah. All that that does not mean that
he is cut out to sit in a broadcast booth
or in a studio and commentate on pro bouncy ball,
because Steph Curry is like slow churned vanilla bean ice
cream when it comes to the things he says. He
just is you need an edge. You need an edge
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to be good. You need to tell it like it is.
You need to goof around, have self deprecating humor like
Charles Barkley. And when a player goes out there and
is a brick house and just blows and everyone knows
the players can't hit a jumper save his life, plays
El Mattador defense.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And you get on.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
There and make excuses for that player or downplay it,
You've lost all credibility.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Your fraud is what you are.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And Steph Curry as a broadcaster, barring some kind of
shocking renaissance, milk toast, that's what you read, milk toast,
And mister you know, oh, you know, gee, golly. I
love golf. I love my family and all that stuff.
It's very nice. It's nice to love golf. It means
you've got money. I don't anyone poor that likes golf.
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I've never met anyone poor in my life that likes
golf and is able to play golf. Rich people like golf,
and super rich Pele love golf. They play it all
the time. Right, He's much too polished Steph Curry to
be any good as Rochester. Now, that doesn't mean he's
not gonna get a chance. Because of the jockocracy, which
has been around since the eighties. There's this old sportscaster
you've never heard of named Howard Cosell who knew right away.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
What was going on.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
But you know everything Curry says now, and I don't
think it's gonna change much. Every take that Curry has
is dipped in sugar and then rolled in sprinkles, So
you got the sugar, you got the sprinkles and all that.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
And he I get it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He's been the golden child for many in the NBA
for over a decade and the media has been licking
his toes for a long time here, and you know,
give me someone who's not not afraid to ruffle some
feathers and is not trying to stay in the upper crust.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Of the oligarchy of the NBA.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And because I courage, just gonna be like a sleep
aid is what he's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
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So our lead this hour is from football.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Who's no football?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Well, it's actually from Cleveland where they haven't had football
since Jim Brown played. Well, maybe Bernie Kozar, good old
Bernie back in the It's been a while. It's been
a while. So the Browns are bad. They're not boring. Though,
you can be bad as long as you're interesting, and
so the Browns are bad interesting as a opposed to
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bad and boring the Killer Bees.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You can't be both.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So to prove my point, take a look at the
burgeoning quarterback battle Royale, which for my purpose is is
picture perfect. Now we know whoever wins the job is
going to suck as the Browns quarterback.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We know that to be true.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
But Cleveland's got a very crowded, very busy quarterback room.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Now Here are the actors.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You've got Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and rookie Shooter Sanders.
Also Dylan Gabriel, another rookie, and so those guys are
the new actor Kenny Pickett, Gabriel and Sanders. Now Flacco
was there, he had left and now he's back, so
they're all kind of new. They're all kind of new,
but somewhere old and all that. Now one storyline stands
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out head and shoulders above all the rest, which is
really good talk radio and really good talk radio. So
that would be I believe he's forty now, Joe Flacco
elite quarterback. Joe flaccom ever in sports talk radio conversation
back in the day, is Joe Flacco an elite quarterback?
Well he was for a month and a half and
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that's all he had to beat to get a big contract.
He was elite for a month and a half. Jump
Ball Joe used to call him jump ball Joe. Just
throw the ball up and let the receiver jump. Get
that pass interference call first down for the old Baltimore Ravens.
So forty year old Joe Flacco is by far the
oldest of the quarterback room those that are in the competition.
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But he does not, he will not. He wants nothing
to do with the very thought that he is going
to go in there and mentor the young quarterbacks for
the Cleveland football team. Flacco, you see this, No, you
didn't see this. So Flacco has said this in the past,
but he doubled down on it yet again. Flacco made
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it perfectly clear at the Browns OTAs that's organized team
activities that he is solely focused on winning the starting
job for the Browns and that he's not worried about
helping anyone out and make them a better player and
all that stuff. Now, this, as you might imagine, has
not gone over well. There is nothing that upsets a
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high percentage of sports blowhards and gas bags than a
quarterback saying I am not going to help some other
young quarterback. I am not going to be a mentor.
I am not going to teach them all of my secrets.
This drives people nuts. In the media.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You get very upset.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So let's discuss the question question on this one. We're
gonna frame it like this. Why We'll get to the
white Why are people so upset with Joe Flacco for
saying he is not a mentor in the Browns quarterback competition.
So I've got Mickey Mouse, cliff notes, and bubble wrap,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
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we are going to make a tissue so we can
clean out those I buggers. You know, when you sleep,
eat that dried mucus and clean that out, all right,
So number I said number on my theory as to
why people have been worked into a lather because Joe
Flacco is not willing to give his wisdom away to
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someone else, it's because many generations of sports fans have
been indoctrinated. It's kind of like the NC double A.
They would say, hey, it's a student athlete, which was
a term they made up to get out of paying
a workers comp claim. So they just cooked up the
term as a weasel term student athlete. They were never
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athletes or never students. They were athletes. They were the
top football and basketball players. So they came up with that,
and they just kept using it in all the marketing,
and dumb people.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Say, oh, they should it. It must be true, they're student athletes.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, over the years, as observers of sports, we have
been taught, we've been indoctrinated. If you're an older player,
you have to give away all your secrets, all your
secrets to someone younger than you. That's the way it works.
And so Flacco he has been called, among other things,
tone deaf, tone deaf, Joe, outdated, boomer, old head, embarrassing,
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all those things. So these dopes who believe that mentoring
is part of the job, they believe that mentoring is
part of the job, whether you like it or not, period,
end of story. There's a lot of people that believe that,
and we say we have an un popular opinion. Not
so fast, my friend, unpopular opinion alert Joe Flacco, and
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I went back and I checked. When he agreed to
return to the Browns, Joe Flacco was not was not
hired as a camp counselor. He was not a career counselor.
When he was hired, he was brought back to Cleveland as,
wait for it, a quarterback, a contingency plan, not a
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muse for Shader Sanders. And so the people that are flustered,
they're bedraggled that Joe Flacco would.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Dare say this.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I love his honesty, that's my first I love his
honesty my first thought. And the people that are really upset,
they're projecting this into some kind of hokey Disney movie
where you know, it's a Mickey Mouse idea. It's a
Mickey mouse idea that the veteran has to do this.
You're romanticizing and you're not living in in reality, Like
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in what other business does that happen? Is there another
business that that happened? I don't know one, and you
don't owe anyone mentorship. Now, if Joe Flacco decides he
wants to do it, that's fine. That's on him. And
if he doesn't want to do it, that's also perfect.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Fine.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
If Cleveland wants to hire Joe Flacco as a quarterback
coach and pay him an extra salary as a quarterback coach,
and he's okay with it, He's fine with it. Oh fine,
Otherwise forget about it. Forget about it, right, Joe Flacco,
he said the quiet part out loud, and he's just
keeping it real now. Speaking of keeping it real, lot
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of noise coming out of Pittsburgh. Not about Aaron Rodgers.
This is not an Aaron Rodgers monologue.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Notice not.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
However, it is about another big name and more reporting
over the last few hours here that there's an expectation
the team that sells terrible towels, the Petsburgh Steelers, the
Pittsburgh a rival I say rival of the Browns, but
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the Browns lose to the Steelers all the time, so
not really much of a rival. And when the Browns
win once every couple of years, they celebrate like they've
won the super Bowl, like they did remember the snow
Game in Cleveland. Yeah. Anyway, So the expectation is that
linebacker t J. Watt will have a new contract agreement
with the Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow, Black and
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Yellow prior to the start of the regular season.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
That's going to happen. So now, TJ.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Watt, we know there is a big money offer, big money,
big money, big money, no way, I mean stop. So
there's big money offer on the table from the Pittsburgh Steelers,
but no deal yet. There is no deal yet. So
what is going on with this situation? You got reports
saying it's gonna happen, It's gonna happen, It's gonna happen.
It's gonna happen, much like the Aaron Rodgers store. There's
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an offer, there's big money, but no deal. But we're
focusing in on TJ.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Watts. So what is going on here?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So it's rather clear on this one that the offer
is big. And you know that came from the Steelers.
That didn't come from TJ. Watts camp. That came from
the Steelers. They use their useful idiots in the media
to get that message out. It's a big offer. It's
not big enough. And now how do I know that? Well,
I am a distant relative of Nostradamis and friend of Nostradinas.
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He lives in Seattle, although did not come to the
meet and greet in Vancouver, which is just a relative
short drive from Seattle.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
So not a big friend of mine anymore because he
did not make the trip.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
But anyway, that aside, all right, as a distant relative
of Nostradamis and friend of Nostradena's the offer not big
enough because nothing has been signed. There's no docu sign,
not a cricket's it's a we'll see situation. It's a
we'll see what's going on situation. Now, what is following
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the outline to a t the cliff notes on how
to let the world know you are not happy and
you're belly aching, you want more money, you want to
weaponize the fan base to attack the team. And he's
following all of the key points he's checking all the boxes.
(29:25):
What are the boxes? Skip OTAs, check dropping cryptic Instagram
posts that can be interpreted multiple ways, check check. Deputizing
his brother a relative in this case, JJ Watt to
publicly nudge the team to get a bigger offer, which
(29:49):
is akin to pouring gas on the fire. Check check check.
But wait, there's more. You've now created a media circus.
Check check check check. That's four checks, so we get it. TJ.
Watt has been the last several years in Pittsburgh. He's
not just your normal, generic brand player. He has been
(30:11):
a game changer. In fact, you would argue he is
the most famous player on the Steelers, and it's really
not even close. They don't have anyone that's that famous
on all offense down. They could get Aaron Rodgers, they
likely will, but Rogers is old, he's washed up. He's
more worried about where his next dose of ayahuasca is
coming from than his next big win. And so you
got a guy here is a game shit big time players,
(30:34):
we said, and the identity of that team and someone
that it would appear, wakes up in the morning and
he does not eat a normal breakfast. He just like
eats offensive lineman for breakfast offensive tackles. He just enjoys that.
And the only reason, the only reason that there would
be any kind of hesitation for the Pittsburgh Steelers here
(30:56):
is because of the age. TJ. Watt is thirty. He's
had a lot of injuries because he's a football player,
a lot of bumps and bruises.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It's like, well, he's only gonna get hurt more.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
There's a lot of money, but you can't not sign
him because if you have, boy, you're screwed either way.
You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
All right, final point, we stay in the Keystone State,
but we go all the way across. And I've made
that drive.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I've made.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I've made drive from Philly to Pittsburgh. Beautiful country, beautiful forest,
not a lot in between, not like one big city
in between.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
That's it anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So running back Sequan Barkley, the cover boy for Madden
NFL twenty six, that report was announced that Saquon Barkley
he's got a deal. So question should the Marching and
Shouder Society of the Eagle fan base, the Neanderthal fan
base of the Philadelphia Eagles be concerned about the hecks?
(31:54):
Should they be concerned about the hecks? So I'll answer
this by notting my head aggressively. You can't see me
unless you're watching on the YouTube. I'm yes, I'm nodding
my head aggressively. Yes, Because what they have done is
put the Voodoo Bugaloo right on top of Sequon Barkley
(32:16):
and also the Lombardi Trophy. You might as well bubble
wrap Barkley right now. Put Sequon in bubble wrap. Why
the double whammy? You've got the double whammy? Now, let's
start with the time tested in Madden cover jins. He said, well,
it's only happened a few times. So if you look
at the data and you go back in the modern
(32:38):
era of the Madden Game, we have a lot of
data that confirms this is not just urban legend, this
is not just folklore. There's a there there, there's a
Bermuda triangle situation here, and if you do the math
on it, since nineteen ninety nine, that's a long time.
(32:58):
That's a generation. So the last generation with the Madden Game,
that's twenty six years a little over generation. Since nineteen
ninety nine, what percentage of the Madden cover athlete has
suffered a serious injury the season they appeared on the
cover the following season, you have a You have a guess.
(33:21):
Is it you think it's A thirty percent, B ten
percent or C five percent or D none of the above?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Since night lock? Your answer, don't cheat? Do not cheat?
All right? Survey says D none of the above. The
answer sixty point seven percent. Sixty seven percent. You just
said if I told you to invest in something that
paid back sixty percent dividends, Holy crap, you'd be rich.
(34:04):
Sixty a six hundred batting average sixty point seven percent
of Madden cover athletes since nineteen ninety nine, there have
been twenty eight seventeen out of the twenty eight set
because a couple of years they had more than one.
Seventeen out of the twenty eight have suffered injuries the
season following the cover appearance, Most recently Christian McCaffrey. And
(34:28):
I remember doing this very monologue last year. Christian McCaffrey
found himself it wouldn't hurt anymore with the Niners. McCaffrey
the latest he missed forty nine er games, multiple games
in the twenty twenty four season, he missed the first
game because of an achilles injury and then missed the
last several games of the regular season with knees brands.
But even when he was playing, he had multiple injuries
(34:50):
and missed chunks of games. You won one hundred percent.
So you mix in the fact. Now I mentioned the
double whammy, So you've got the time tested in Madden Jinx.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
The voo Doo bugaloo. So you've got that.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
But then also you have the fact that Sequon Barkley
went out last season and let's just call it like
it is. He painted the Starry Night last season in Philadelphia.
It was a work of art. It was a masterpiece
that he put together and wasn't all him with the
offensive line hurts. It was a cacophony of amazing plays
(35:26):
in the backfield. So what happens after you paint your
starry Night and the next couple of paintings not that good?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
So expect a regression to the mean. A regression to mean.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Extreme outcomes are followed by more moderate ones. Yeah, so
that is code for the data evens out, which means
Barkley is going to go down. His performance will not
be as good, and then you've got the self fulfilling
prophecy of the Madden Hex the Jinx.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
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Speaker 4 (36:06):
It's mallard.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Grail all right?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Thirty three time here cool.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
The Arizona Cardinals took a step forward as a team
last year, winning eight games, but still were not able
to make the playoffs. Ben, the over underwin total in
Vegas for the Cardinals is set to eight and a half.
Does Arizona take another step forward?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
No, and they don't because they don't have a quarterback.
Alligator arms Murray. You know what you're gonna get. Alligator
arms Murray falls apart. He's good for about seven or
eight weeks, and then the last part of the year
his body falls apart.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
He's not productive. It's happened year after year.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
So they'll be a middling team until they get a
real quarterback, not a fun sized quarterback. Next.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Yesterday you talked about how the Knicks overachieved to get
as far as they did in these playoffs.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Now, Ben, what moves do they need? To make in
order to get to the next level.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Well, the obvious one would be to get Yannis, and
this rumors that New York. We talked about Toronto, but
the NBA would like Giannis to play with the Knickerbockers.
The problem is, the whole dynamic is Jalen Brunson. He
is the head of the pyramid and he's not gonna
want to take a back seat to Giannis adent to Koombo.
So they're gonna have to find other support players that
(37:18):
don't vanish, like og and Enobi and some of these
other guys that at times just disappeared next.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Now, the Basketball Hall of Fame seems to let everyone in,
but apparently not Robert Orri. TMZ caught up with Ori
this past weekend, who told him that he belongs in there,
does he ben.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Well, he does, only because it's the basketball Hall of Fame.
If it was the Baseball Hall of Fame, you'd say
absolutely not. But in basketball you look at who's in there.
In fact, I think alf the alien Opiner was inducted
a couple of years ago in BA and nobody noticed.
But yeah, Robert, Robert Orri had seven or eight of
the biggest shots in his era of the NBA. Absolutely,
(37:56):
how did we know he passes on the ball? Twitter?
I won, Poppy, I won Poppy.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
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Speaker 3 (38:27):
Holy crap. That's like talk radio one one.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
They've had a delay in talk radio since the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
All right, try get are you there, Mike? Oh crap?
All right, Well let's try Kelly in Des Moines. Maybe
that'll work.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
See Kelly in the moin Hello, Kelly, Hi Man, Hello Kelly, Welcome.
You're gonna play mallus amount of Money. Who would you
like to partner up with our friend Kelly.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Man.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I'm gonna go with you, all right. We're in it
to win it, all right, And you're already in the
league because you know that there's a delay and you
can't have your audio turned all the way up, So
you're in the lead, and we've got Mike in boss
of CVS. There.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Hello, Mike, Hi, Sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Bad job by you. All right, Mike, who do you
want to partner up with? Mike?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
All right? Well you good choice, Mike pickled. One are
the categories? This go quickly? Quickly, quickly, quickly. It's Malar's
Mountain of Money.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
Gentlemen, this is the Mallards mount of Money. Dana Carvey edition.
He turned seventy years old on Monday.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Oh my god, no, church lady.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
All right, the categories aren't This is spinal tap, Opportunity,
knocks Moving, and Wayne's World.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Kelly, which category would you You're like? Hold on?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Hold on, sake me, punch this guy?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Go ahead. Oh that's not Kelly.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Go ahead, Kelly.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
I would like to go Wayne Wayne's World, Wayne'sworth.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Okay, good choice.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
What about you, Mike? This is spinal tap?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Okay, those are the categories. Everyone, Hold on, do not
hang up. We are gonna have Malars mount of mine.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Who's gonna win?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Get your bets in, Get your bets in, Go over
to DraftKings, get your bets in. We're gonna have it.
Kelly in the Moines she's gonna win. So she's steaming
with me and then Mike in Boston with Coop.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
who Mailor's Mountain of money?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Let's do here we go. The matchup is set Kelly
in the Moines formerly in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
She is.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Canoodling with a fellow listening to the show The Power
Couple of Eye where she and and the Moine and Kelly.
Everything good with you two kids? Kelly?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yes, yes, it's amazing, Ben, thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Wonderful outside maslet all right, and my in Boston is
teamed up with Cooper Loop. The Dana Carvey Edition turned
seventy on Monday. And you're up first, Kelly, you picked
Wayne's World? Is that correct? Correct? Okay, we got forty
five seconds. These athletes have all been considered sidekicks. We
(41:17):
need the first and last name. Are you ready, Kelly? Yes?
Speaker 3 (41:21):
All right, forty five seconds. We're on our way.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Go.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Michael Jordan's right hand man for the Bulls. Yes, tight
end for the Patriots with Tom Brady, white guy right, Yes,
running back for the Broncos. Some say he was the
sidekick to John Elway. Others say he was the main
player for those great Bronco teams. Oh, okay, Carl Malone's
(41:46):
sidekick with the Utah Jazz John Yes, Barry Bonds sidekick,
although he won an MVP with the San Francisco Giants
a second baseman. White guy wore a porn mustache. Oh
all right. The other wide receiver for the forty nine
ers in the eighties. Next to you had Jerry Rice
on one side and this guy on the other. Come on, sorry,
(42:11):
that was a pretty good clue.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
Jeff, all right, she was a hole to Okay, I
got seventy points.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
All right, Mike, you didn't get John Taylor either.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Oh that's who was the other and.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Terrell Davis is the running back it is, thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
It doesn't help now, Mike, Uh we have this is
spinal tap.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
These athletes were all in a band at one point
in their life.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Mike, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (42:46):
All right, forty five seconds let's begin. Super Bowl winning
quarterback for the Cowboys. Yes, uh, this guy was one
of the best dunkers of his time. Started with the Raptors.
He yes, this guy was a catcher for the Dodgers.
He got traded to the Mets. That's correct. This guy
(43:06):
was a center fielder for the Yankees in the in
the nineties when they won all their chimpions. Yes, this
guy was a linebacker for the Patriots in the nineties
and two thousands.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
White guy.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Yes, this guy was a shortstop for a bunch of teams. Uh,
the Indians, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
And this guy was a Hall of Fame quarterback for
the Brown Kay. All right, all right, what was that, Kelly?
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yes, Ben, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Don't break my heart.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
She's already about come on. How did he get from
that clue? Probably cheating? You're cheating? Okay, okay, all right,
you just tell you you're losing to a guy.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
That soundgory, Kelly. Opportunity knocks are moving?
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
What were the options?
Speaker 5 (44:09):
I'm sorry, take your time, opportunity knocks or moving opportunity?
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
These athletes all started as backups and became stars. Forty
five seconds on the clock, we're on our way.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Go.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Greatest quarterback in NFL history for the Patriots. He was
a quarterback for the forty nine Ers. He took a
knee during the national anthem. Yes French point guard for
the Great Spurs teams of the two thousands. Tony kukok
no wow you okay no, the Iron Horse for the Yankees.
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He had the all time most consecutive games played until
cal Ripken broke his streak. Okay White quarterback from the
eighties Giants. He replaced Phil Simms. He also had a
porn mustache and won a Super Bowl with the New
York Giants in the mid nineteen.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Eighties or nineties early nineties.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
You got the first name writing was Tony Parker, Tony Well.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Tony Kukocks was a player for the Bulls.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Did not Kelly, you broke my heart?
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Kelly, hurry then, lou Gerig, I'm devastated.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Kelly, you won.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Mike, Now figure out the delay on your radio. You
gotta golden. Take a you gotta golden. I got a golden.
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I'd be so our lead this hour. I was debating
going with baseball. We did that the other day and
I got several complaints. What just do with baseball? It's
only June. I don't understand me. My God didn't play
million more types. So shut up. I'm gonna tell you
(02:02):
on a sport, they're not even gonna play this. Well,
there's a couple of basketball games no one will be
watching this week starting on Thursday, but no games until
late in the year, late in the year. But our
lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball. Pro bouncy Ball. Now,
we got a bunch of downtime before the matchup with
(02:23):
the Cornfield versus the Soybean in the NBA Finals. Now,
to fill the void, we have cranked up the rumor machine.
It has been working over time and serving up some
Greek food. That's right, a little Greek food on that.
And if you have not been following, it's a bad
(02:43):
job by you. Some chatter that the Milwaukee Bucks superstar,
the man that held up the championship trophy a couple
of years ago. Giannis Adenta Cumbo has a wondering eye
and he has been and looking north of the border.
Ah ca eyem Toronto, the Raptors there is said to
(03:10):
be in breathless reporting mutual interest. Mutual interest between the Bucks,
Giannis adent to Cumbo and Toronto. So Giannis who's won
not one, but two Most Valuable Player awards, So I'm
told that's pretty good. I'm playing the NBA and the
(03:30):
championship and all that stuff. And it has been widely
speculated that he is considering a relocation situation. The Bucks
have had not one, not two, but three consecutive first
round departures from the postseason. They have been decommissioned in
the first round three years in a row. And you
(03:51):
compound that with not having a coach. They're the headless deer.
Doc Rivers. I'd rather have an actual doctor as my
coach then a fake doctor, Doc Rivers. When you hire Doc,
you're not trying to win. You're not When you hire
Doc Rivers, you're trying to give good soundbites to the
media and have nice things said about you. Because it's
(04:12):
Doc Rivers. Everyone loves Doc. He's Devin Air. He's got
the smile, everyone loves them. Can't coach his way out
of a wet paper bag. That's a side. Then you've
got the Dame train which has gone off the tracks,
and the Dame enjoying a steady diet of rice crispy, snap,
crackle and pop, and the Achilles there. So those are
(04:33):
all the ingredients that have gotten to this point. Now
you know that Toronto, they're out there kicking the time.
They need that headline. They're not anybody, not that we
talk much Raptors basketball here, but they don't. So Milwaukee's
championship windows seems to close, and it seems to be
done dead bolted.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
See it later.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
It's not even a window anymore. It's like a wall
at this point. So let us discuss the question you
make the call? You make the call question, if you're
the Raptors, do you go all in for Giannis a
Dentakuombo and do you actually have a chance to get
the player? So my thoughts on this, I've got da Vinci,
(05:16):
saber tooth, tiger, and slow churned and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some ice. Ice baby, is what we're gonna make.
So a to answer the question, if you're the Raptors,
you go all in, Yes, I'm not in my head,
yes of course. Now do you have a chance to
(05:39):
actually get the player? Well, that's where things get a
little foggy. That's where things get a little foggy. But
from the Toronto site, it's a no brainer, right, It's
an absolute no brainer. Well, it is generally considered taboo
for any star players to sign with the Toronto Raptor.
You can be traded there, but to actually sign now,
(06:00):
and this would be a trade. This would be a trade,
but it's kind of trade where the player wants to
go there, So it's a fake trade, like a real
trade is the player doesn't want to go there, you
trade him anyway, This would be a faux trade. Toronto
for big names in the NBA is seen as a
barren wasteland. You just don't go there, and you can
get players in the draft. You can have a bunch
(06:21):
of no name, no brand type players. And Yannis though,
the reason that there's something there, the reason I'm buying
that there's something there is Yannis is a different breed
a kittie cat, a different breed of kitty cat here,
and doesn't seem like he needs the suntan lotionan the
bikini bottoms.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That you get in La or Miami or anything like that.
But much like.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Da Vinci or Michelangelo, a renaissance man to a point,
I do believe the last couple of years since winning
the championship that Yannis has more more into line with
all the other a holes in the NBA. He still
got that international flavor, flavor flavor. He's got that going
(07:07):
for him, and he could be convinced that hey, I
can go and enjoy maple syrup, powdered powered snowblowers.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And maybe he always wanted to play near the CN
Tower and that he really wanted that. And yeah, and
there's a great Greek town. One of our listeners that
met at the meet and greets, well, Toronto's got there's
a big Greek population there and they've got a great
Greek town, all right, joannest Is, I believe under contract,
if I'm not mistaken, for another couple of seasons, so
(07:41):
that it would have to be a trade and the
bucks I am told will demand a king's ransom.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You also have the meddling NBA power brokers.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Who are going to try to encourage encourage a Yannis
to go to a big, big, big, big big market.
The usual suspects LA Miami, New York, and those are
the usual. Maybe Golden State, maybe a Golden State gets
mixed in there, and he's a known commodity. Though you're
the raptors and you're trying to get that big guy.
That's a guy you can actually get, and you're gonna
(08:10):
have to give up a bunch of promissory notes and
you get a proven star who's in the near end
of his prime. A couple more years of Giannis and
then it's a slow decline. All right now, turning the
page the round mound of Rebound when he was known
as that when he played Charles Barkley making some news.
(08:30):
He's announced that he has it all mapped out, his
great escape from television, appearing right here on Fox Sports
Radio with Dan Patrick, who also's got it all mapped out.
Dan's got a plan to retire, so Charles Barkley revealed
that he only intends to work two more years. That's it.
(08:53):
He's got a two hundred million dollar contract. But here's
Barkley explaining what his plan is is. He's still with
Warner Brothers. It's kind of weird, but it's it's gonna
be on ESPN, but he's not gonna really be an
ESPN and play anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Listen, here's what Barkley had to say.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I actually have seven years left on my contract. Like, yeah,
there's no way I'm working seven years, I says. You know,
I'm gonna be a good soldier for Kenny, Ernie and
Shack and the people I work with, because I love
the people I work with, especially behind the scenes. I said,
But the best I can do is two years.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
All right, So he said two years. He says also concerned.
He says, if ESPN overworks him, even though he's gonna
be working for Turner, he said, he'll just go home.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
He said, He'll just go home.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So let us discuss how much stark how much DOK
do you give Charles Barkley, the greatest ex jock turned
player that Jockocracy usually produces crap with former players on television,
but Charles Barkley is not that he is at the
very top of the food chain when he comes to broadcasting.
(09:57):
So how much doc do you give Charles Barkley as
he has announced he is planning to retire from TV
in two years. So after a thorough deliberation of the
available information, we have given this a solid zero. A
solid zero. So Charles Barkley and one thing I've come
to know over the last ten plus years of talking
(10:19):
about Charles Barkley, and it's been longer than that, but
just the last decade plus, Charles Barkley loves a saber
tooth tiger. But really what he loves is saber rattling.
He loves saber rattling when talking about his future. I
guess everyone all worked up into a nice tizzy and
(10:41):
likes Barkley is the guy that will spit in your
pocket and announce that it's raining. As he's spitting a
nice thick loogie in your pocket, he'll announce its rain. Now,
we went back to the copious amounts of notes that
we do on a daily basis for these Mallard monologues,
and we went all the way back, back, back back
(11:02):
back back in the hot top time machine to twenty twelve,
and we then searched keywords and we determined that Charles
bark has publicly discussed or announced he's done with television
six times since twenty twelve. Six times I'm out, And
(11:24):
every time Barkley's continue to work. Every time we in
our notes we had twenty twelve, twenty fifteen, twenty eighteen,
twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty four,
and now we can add twenty twenty five. Although he
didn't announce he's gonna quit right away, he says going
to be a couple of years and all that. And
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every time he's announced this, every single time he has
continued to work. He signed new contracts, and he has
reversed those retirement plans. But wait, there's more. Barkley also
loved in the past claiming he was going to become
the governor of Alibe, Obama. This was a big thing
that Barkley brought up many times. There were four times
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that goes back to the nineties where Barkley announced that
he was going to be the governor of his home state,
his native state of Alabama. He did that in the
nineties six as well, eight and actually twice in eight
he announced he was going to become the governor of Alabama,
and either time or all the times, I should say
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all the times he failed. Barkley failed to actually run
for governor of Alabama.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And never did it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
He always abandoned that plan and his political ambitions were bullshoy.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
We're absolutely bullshoy.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Now there is an aide situation which is a factor,
but only a little bit. Barkley is now sixty two,
so's he's at the point he's got a lot of money,
and he's got a lot of money because of television.
He's got money because of TV, not because of basketball,
because of basketball and TV. But Charles Barkley is a
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TV commentator. He's not a former player. He's a TV guy.
And it really isn't work. Like I've been lucky enough
last couple years. I had a TV show and like
this has worked, like the radio shows where I do
everything for the show, put it all together. Like the
TV show, there's people that help you. There's like support staff,
producers and directors and people that make you look good
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and it helps out a lot, and it's wonderful to
be in that environment. So if you're doing TV like Barkley,
I mean, you got a million people helping you. You
just show up and you don't have to worry about
putting monologues together and doing all the other You don't
worry about it, right because you know people actually help
you out. It's amazing thing. And Barkley's getting twelve and
a half million dollars per year and he has earned
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a massive amount more as a TV guy than a player.
In fact, I went back, I look Barkley when he
played for the Sixers and the Suns and bounced around
the NBA a little bit, mostly the Suns the Sixers,
but Charles Barkley played with the rocketsallz. But his total
earnings like forty million, which is a lot of money.
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Let's hold old money. Forty million as a player. He
has made it's estimated close to two hundred million as
a broadcaster, So forty million is a player. I think
it's like one hundred and seventy hundred and seventy five
million something like in that ballpark, which is a good ballpark.
And that does not even include like the endorsement stuff
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that he's he's got, So he's cashing it in now.
Last word, speaking of the jockocracy of basketball, flipping the
page here, Warriors star Stephen.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Curry making some news recently.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
He's not retiring from the NBA, not yet, however, he
told CNBC. He said, Liz, I got it all mapped out.
I got this whole plan right, this whole plan mapped
out right, and and so what is that?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
What is the man?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, so he mentioned to c NBC that TV broadcasting
he's thinking about doing that. He's got team ownership and
possibly playing on the PGA Tour Championship champions Tour for
the PGA toy They got all the map, all right.
So to me, the most interesting thing, you know, athlete
owns a team. We've seen that with Jordan, We've seen
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you know, stars run teams like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Uh And so that doesn't really interest me. The TV thing,
because we just talked about Barkley that interesting. So would
Steph Curry be a good TV broadcast?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
All right?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
So let's go to the wheel of fortune here. Can
I get an N? And can I I'd like an N?
And can I buy a vowel?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I would like an Oh? I would like it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
That would be no. He is going to be terribles,
I said, broches my god. Uh So let's break this
down unscientifically. Now, Steph Curry is seen as a charming individual,
He is seen as smart, he is seen as well spoken,
and those are all positive attributes. They're all positive. Blah
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blah blah blah. All that that does not mean that
he is cut out to sit in a broadcast booth
or in a studio and commentate on pro bouncy ball,
because Steph Curry is like slow churned vanilla bean ice
cream when it comes to the things he says. He
just is you need an edge. You need an edge
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to be good. You need to tell it like it is.
You need to goof around, have self deprecating humor like
Charles Barkley. And when a player goes out there and
is a brick house and just blows and everyone knows
the players can't hit a jumper save his life, plays
El Mattador defense.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
And you get on.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
There and make excuses for that player or downplay it,
You've lost all credibility.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Your fraud is what you are.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And Steph Curry as a broadcaster, barring some kind of
shocking renaissance, milk toast, that's what you read, milk toast,
And mister you know, oh, you know, gee, golly. I
love golf. I love my family and all that stuff.
It's very nice. It's nice to love golf. It means
you've got money. I don't anyone poor that likes golf.
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I've never met anyone poor in my life that likes
golf and is able to play golf. Rich people like golf,
and super rich Pele love golf. They play it all
the time. Right, He's much too polished Steph Curry to
be any good as Rochester. Now, that doesn't mean he's
not gonna get a chance. Because of the jockocracy, which
has been around since the eighties. There's this old sportscaster
you've never heard of named Howard Cosell who knew right away.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
What was going on.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
But you know everything Curry says now, and I don't
think it's gonna change much. Every take that Curry has
is dipped in sugar and then rolled in sprinkles, So
you got the sugar, you got the sprinkles and all that.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
And he I get it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He's been the golden child for many in the NBA
for over a decade and the media has been licking
his toes for a long time here, and you know,
give me someone who's not not afraid to ruffle some
feathers and is not trying to stay in the upper crust.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Of the oligarchy of the NBA.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And because I courage, just gonna be like a sleep
aid is what he's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
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So our lead this hour is from football.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Who's no football?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Well, it's actually from Cleveland where they haven't had football
since Jim Brown played. Well, maybe Bernie Kozar, good old
Bernie back in the It's been a while. It's been
a while. So the Browns are bad. They're not boring. Though,
you can be bad as long as you're interesting, and
so the Browns are bad interesting as a opposed to
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bad and boring the Killer Bees.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You can't be both.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
So to prove my point, take a look at the
burgeoning quarterback battle Royale, which for my purpose is is
picture perfect. Now we know whoever wins the job is
going to suck as the Browns quarterback.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We know that to be true.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
But Cleveland's got a very crowded, very busy quarterback room.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Now Here are the actors.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You've got Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and rookie Shooter Sanders.
Also Dylan Gabriel, another rookie, and so those guys are
the new actor Kenny Pickett, Gabriel and Sanders. Now Flacco
was there, he had left and now he's back, so
they're all kind of new. They're all kind of new,
but somewhere old and all that. Now one storyline stands
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out head and shoulders above all the rest, which is
really good talk radio and really good talk radio. So
that would be I believe he's forty now, Joe Flacco
elite quarterback. Joe flaccom ever in sports talk radio conversation
back in the day, is Joe Flacco an elite quarterback?
Well he was for a month and a half and
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that's all he had to beat to get a big contract.
He was elite for a month and a half. Jump
Ball Joe used to call him jump ball Joe. Just
throw the ball up and let the receiver jump. Get
that pass interference call first down for the old Baltimore Ravens.
So forty year old Joe Flacco is by far the
oldest of the quarterback room those that are in the competition.
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But he does not, he will not. He wants nothing
to do with the very thought that he is going
to go in there and mentor the young quarterbacks for
the Cleveland football team. Flacco, you see this, No, you
didn't see this. So Flacco has said this in the past,
but he doubled down on it yet again. Flacco made
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it perfectly clear at the Browns OTAs that's organized team
activities that he is solely focused on winning the starting
job for the Browns and that he's not worried about
helping anyone out and make them a better player and
all that stuff. Now, this, as you might imagine, has
not gone over well. There is nothing that upsets a
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high percentage of sports blowhards and gas bags than a
quarterback saying I am not going to help some other
young quarterback. I am not going to be a mentor.
I am not going to teach them all of my secrets.
This drives people nuts. In the media.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You get very upset.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
So let's discuss the question question on this one. We're
gonna frame it like this. Why We'll get to the
white Why are people so upset with Joe Flacco for
saying he is not a mentor in the Browns quarterback competition.
So I've got Mickey Mouse, cliff notes, and bubble wrap,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
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we are going to make a tissue so we can
clean out those I buggers. You know, when you sleep,
eat that dried mucus and clean that out, all right,
So number I said number on my theory as to
why people have been worked into a lather because Joe
Flacco is not willing to give his wisdom away to
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someone else, it's because many generations of sports fans have
been indoctrinated. It's kind of like the NC double A.
They would say, hey, it's a student athlete, which was
a term they made up to get out of paying
a workers comp claim. So they just cooked up the
term as a weasel term student athlete. They were never
(24:05):
athletes or never students. They were athletes. They were the
top football and basketball players. So they came up with that,
and they just kept using it in all the marketing,
and dumb people.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Say, oh, they should it. It must be true, they're student athletes.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, over the years, as observers of sports, we have
been taught, we've been indoctrinated. If you're an older player,
you have to give away all your secrets, all your
secrets to someone younger than you. That's the way it works.
And so Flacco he has been called, among other things,
tone deaf, tone deaf, Joe, outdated, boomer, old head, embarrassing,
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all those things. So these dopes who believe that mentoring
is part of the job, they believe that mentoring is
part of the job, whether you like it or not, period,
end of story. There's a lot of people that believe that,
and we say we have an un popular opinion. Not
so fast, my friend, unpopular opinion alert Joe Flacco, and
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I went back and I checked. When he agreed to
return to the Browns, Joe Flacco was not was not
hired as a camp counselor. He was not a career counselor.
When he was hired, he was brought back to Cleveland as,
wait for it, a quarterback, a contingency plan, not a
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muse for Shader Sanders. And so the people that are flustered,
they're bedraggled that Joe Flacco would.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Dare say this.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I love his honesty, that's my first I love his
honesty my first thought. And the people that are really upset,
they're projecting this into some kind of hokey Disney movie
where you know, it's a Mickey Mouse idea. It's a
Mickey mouse idea that the veteran has to do this.
You're romanticizing and you're not living in in reality, Like
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in what other business does that happen? Is there another
business that that happened? I don't know one, and you
don't owe anyone mentorship. Now, if Joe Flacco decides he
wants to do it, that's fine. That's on him. And
if he doesn't want to do it, that's also perfect.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Fine.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
If Cleveland wants to hire Joe Flacco as a quarterback
coach and pay him an extra salary as a quarterback coach,
and he's okay with it, He's fine with it. Oh fine,
Otherwise forget about it. Forget about it, right, Joe Flacco,
he said the quiet part out loud, and he's just
keeping it real now. Speaking of keeping it real, lot
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of noise coming out of Pittsburgh. Not about Aaron Rodgers.
This is not an Aaron Rodgers monologue.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Notice not.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
However, it is about another big name and more reporting
over the last few hours here that there's an expectation
the team that sells terrible towels, the Petsburgh Steelers, the
Pittsburgh a rival I say rival of the Browns, but
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the Browns lose to the Steelers all the time, so
not really much of a rival. And when the Browns
win once every couple of years, they celebrate like they've
won the super Bowl, like they did remember the snow
Game in Cleveland. Yeah. Anyway, So the expectation is that
linebacker t J. Watt will have a new contract agreement
with the Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow, Black and
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Yellow prior to the start of the regular season.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
That's going to happen. So now, TJ.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Watt, we know there is a big money offer, big money,
big money, big money, no way, I mean stop. So
there's big money offer on the table from the Pittsburgh Steelers,
but no deal yet. There is no deal yet. So
what is going on with this situation? You got reports
saying it's gonna happen, It's gonna happen, It's gonna happen.
It's gonna happen, much like the Aaron Rodgers store. There's
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an offer, there's big money, but no deal. But we're
focusing in on TJ.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Watts. So what is going on here?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
So it's rather clear on this one that the offer
is big. And you know that came from the Steelers.
That didn't come from TJ. Watts camp. That came from
the Steelers. They use their useful idiots in the media
to get that message out. It's a big offer. It's
not big enough. And now how do I know that? Well,
I am a distant relative of Nostradamis and friend of Nostradinas.
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He lives in Seattle, although did not come to the
meet and greet in Vancouver, which is just a relative
short drive from Seattle.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
So not a big friend of mine anymore because he
did not make the trip.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
But anyway, that aside, all right, as a distant relative
of Nostradamis and friend of Nostradena's the offer not big
enough because nothing has been signed. There's no docu sign,
not a cricket's it's a we'll see situation. It's a
we'll see what's going on situation. Now, what is following
(29:03):
the outline to a t the cliff notes on how
to let the world know you are not happy and
you're belly aching, you want more money, you want to
weaponize the fan base to attack the team. And he's
following all of the key points he's checking all the boxes.
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What are the boxes? Skip OTAs, check dropping cryptic Instagram
posts that can be interpreted multiple ways, check check. Deputizing
his brother a relative in this case, JJ Watt to
publicly nudge the team to get a bigger offer, which
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is akin to pouring gas on the fire. Check check check.
But wait, there's more. You've now created a media circus.
Check check check check. That's four checks, so we get it. TJ.
Watt has been the last several years in Pittsburgh. He's
not just your normal, generic brand player. He has been
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a game changer. In fact, you would argue he is
the most famous player on the Steelers, and it's really
not even close. They don't have anyone that's that famous
on all offense down. They could get Aaron Rodgers, they
likely will, but Rogers is old, he's washed up. He's
more worried about where his next dose of ayahuasca is
coming from than his next big win. And so you
got a guy here is a game shit big time players,
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we said, and the identity of that team and someone
that it would appear, wakes up in the morning and
he does not eat a normal breakfast. He just like
eats offensive lineman for breakfast offensive tackles. He just enjoys that.
And the only reason, the only reason that there would
be any kind of hesitation for the Pittsburgh Steelers here
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is because of the age. TJ. Watt is thirty. He's
had a lot of injuries because he's a football player,
a lot of bumps and bruises.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It's like, well, he's only gonna get hurt more.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
There's a lot of money, but you can't not sign
him because if you have, boy, you're screwed either way.
You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
All right, final point, we stay in the Keystone State,
but we go all the way across. And I've made
that drive.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
I've made.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I've made drive from Philly to Pittsburgh. Beautiful country, beautiful forest,
not a lot in between, not like one big city
in between.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
That's it anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So running back Sequan Barkley, the cover boy for Madden
NFL twenty six, that report was announced that Saquon Barkley
he's got a deal. So question should the Marching and
Shouder Society of the Eagle fan base, the Neanderthal fan
base of the Philadelphia Eagles be concerned about the hecks?
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Should they be concerned about the hecks? So I'll answer
this by notting my head aggressively. You can't see me
unless you're watching on the YouTube. I'm yes, I'm nodding
my head aggressively. Yes, Because what they have done is
put the Voodoo Bugaloo right on top of Sequon Barkley
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and also the Lombardi Trophy. You might as well bubble
wrap Barkley right now. Put Sequon in bubble wrap. Why
the double whammy? You've got the double whammy? Now, let's
start with the time tested in Madden cover jins. He said, well,
it's only happened a few times. So if you look
at the data and you go back in the modern
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era of the Madden Game, we have a lot of
data that confirms this is not just urban legend, this
is not just folklore. There's a there there, there's a
Bermuda triangle situation here, and if you do the math
on it, since nineteen ninety nine, that's a long time.
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That's a generation. So the last generation with the Madden Game,
that's twenty six years a little over generation. Since nineteen
ninety nine, what percentage of the Madden cover athlete has
suffered a serious injury the season they appeared on the
cover the following season, you have a You have a guess.
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Is it you think it's A thirty percent, B ten
percent or C five percent or D none of the above?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
All right?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Since night lock? Your answer, don't cheat? Do not cheat?
All right? Survey says D none of the above. The
answer sixty point seven percent. Sixty seven percent. You just
said if I told you to invest in something that
paid back sixty percent dividends, Holy crap, you'd be rich.
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Sixty a six hundred batting average sixty point seven percent
of Madden cover athletes since nineteen ninety nine, there have
been twenty eight seventeen out of the twenty eight set
because a couple of years they had more than one.
Seventeen out of the twenty eight have suffered injuries the
season following the cover appearance, Most recently Christian McCaffrey. And
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I remember doing this very monologue last year. Christian McCaffrey
found himself it wouldn't hurt anymore with the Niners. McCaffrey
the latest he missed forty nine er games, multiple games
in the twenty twenty four season, he missed the first
game because of an achilles injury and then missed the
last several games of the regular season with knees brands.
But even when he was playing, he had multiple injuries
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and missed chunks of games. You won one hundred percent.
So you mix in the fact. Now I mentioned the
double whammy, So you've got the time tested in Madden Jinx.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
The voo Doo bugaloo. So you've got that.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
But then also you have the fact that Sequon Barkley
went out last season and let's just call it like
it is. He painted the Starry Night last season in Philadelphia.
It was a work of art. It was a masterpiece
that he put together and wasn't all him with the
offensive line hurts. It was a cacophony of amazing plays
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in the backfield. So what happens after you paint your
starry Night and the next couple of paintings not that good?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
So expect a regression to the mean. A regression to mean.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Extreme outcomes are followed by more moderate ones. Yeah, so
that is code for the data evens out, which means
Barkley is going to go down. His performance will not
be as good, and then you've got the self fulfilling
prophecy of the Madden Hex the Jinx.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
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Speaker 3 (36:07):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Grail all right?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Thirty three time here cool.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
The Arizona Cardinals took a step forward as a team
last year, winning eight games, but still were not able
to make the playoffs. Ben, the over underwin total in
Vegas for the Cardinals is set to eight and a half.
Does Arizona take another step forward?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
No, and they don't because they don't have a quarterback.
Alligator arms Murray. You know what you're gonna get. Alligator
arms Murray falls apart. He's good for about seven or
eight weeks, and then the last part of the year
his body falls apart.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
He's not productive. It's happened year after year.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
So they'll be a middling team until they get a
real quarterback, not a fun sized quarterback. Next.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Yesterday you talked about how the Knicks overachieved to get
as far as they did in these playoffs.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Now, Ben, what moves do they need? To make in
order to get to the next level.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Well, the obvious one would be to get Yannis, and
this rumors that New York. We talked about Toronto, but
the NBA would like Giannis to play with the Knickerbockers.
The problem is, the whole dynamic is Jalen Brunson. He
is the head of the pyramid and he's not gonna
want to take a back seat to Giannis adent to Koombo.
So they're gonna have to find other support players that
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don't vanish, like og and Enobi and some of these
other guys that at times just disappeared next.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Now, the Basketball Hall of Fame seems to let everyone in,
but apparently not Robert Orri. TMZ caught up with Ori
this past weekend, who told him that he belongs in there,
does he ben.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Well, he does, only because it's the basketball Hall of Fame.
If it was the Baseball Hall of Fame, you'd say
absolutely not. But in basketball you look at who's in there.
In fact, I think alf the alien Opiner was inducted
a couple of years ago in BA and nobody noticed.
But yeah, Robert, Robert Orri had seven or eight of
the biggest shots in his era of the NBA. Absolutely,
(37:56):
how did we know he passes on the ball? Twitter?
I won, Poppy, I won Poppy.
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All right, try get are you there, Mike? Oh crap?
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Bad job by you. All right, Mike, who do you
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Speaker 1 (39:49):
Hold on, sake me, punch this guy?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Go ahead. Oh that's not Kelly.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Go ahead, Kelly.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
I would like to go Wayne Wayne's World, Wayne'sworth.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Okay, good choice.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
What about you, Mike? This is spinal tap?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Okay, those are the categories. Everyone, Hold on, do not
hang up. We are gonna have Malars mount of mine.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Who's gonna win?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Get your bets in, Get your bets in, Go over
to DraftKings, get your bets in. We're gonna have it.
Kelly in the Moines she's gonna win. So she's steaming
with me and then Mike in Boston with Coop.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
who Mailor's Mountain of money?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Let's do here we go. The matchup is set Kelly
in the Moines formerly in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
She is.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Canoodling with a fellow listening to the show The Power
Couple of Eye where she and and the Moine and Kelly.
Everything good with you two kids? Kelly?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yes, yes, it's amazing, Ben, thank you.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Wonderful outside maslet all right, and my in Boston is
teamed up with Cooper Loop. The Dana Carvey Edition turned
seventy on Monday. And you're up first, Kelly, you picked
Wayne's World? Is that correct? Correct? Okay, we got forty
five seconds. These athletes have all been considered sidekicks. We
(41:17):
need the first and last name. Are you ready, Kelly? Yes?
Speaker 3 (41:21):
All right, forty five seconds. We're on our way.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Go.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Michael Jordan's right hand man for the Bulls. Yes, tight
end for the Patriots with Tom Brady, white guy right, Yes,
running back for the Broncos. Some say he was the
sidekick to John Elway. Others say he was the main
player for those great Bronco teams. Oh, okay, Carl Malone's
(41:46):
sidekick with the Utah Jazz John Yes, Barry Bonds sidekick,
although he won an MVP with the San Francisco Giants
a second baseman. White guy wore a porn mustache. Oh
all right. The other wide receiver for the forty nine
ers in the eighties. Next to you had Jerry Rice
on one side and this guy on the other. Come on, sorry,
(42:11):
that was a pretty good clue.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
Jeff, all right, she was a hole to Okay, I
got seventy points.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
All right, Mike, you didn't get John Taylor either.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Oh that's who was the other and.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Terrell Davis is the running back it is, thank you.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
It doesn't help now, Mike, Uh we have this is
spinal tap.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
These athletes were all in a band at one point
in their life.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Mike, are you ready?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (42:46):
All right, forty five seconds let's begin. Super Bowl winning
quarterback for the Cowboys. Yes, uh, this guy was one
of the best dunkers of his time. Started with the Raptors.
He yes, this guy was a catcher for the Dodgers.
He got traded to the Mets. That's correct. This guy
(43:06):
was a center fielder for the Yankees in the in
the nineties when they won all their chimpions. Yes, this
guy was a linebacker for the Patriots in the nineties
and two thousands.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
White guy.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Yes, this guy was a shortstop for a bunch of teams. Uh,
the Indians, yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (43:31):
And this guy was a Hall of Fame quarterback for
the Brown Kay. All right, all right, what was that, Kelly?
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Yes, Ben, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Don't break my heart.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
She's already about come on. How did he get from
that clue? Probably cheating? You're cheating? Okay, okay, all right,
you just tell you you're losing to a guy.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
That soundgory, Kelly. Opportunity knocks are moving?
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
What were the options?
Speaker 5 (44:09):
I'm sorry, take your time, opportunity knocks or moving opportunity?
Speaker 3 (44:14):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
These athletes all started as backups and became stars. Forty
five seconds on the clock, we're on our way.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Go.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Greatest quarterback in NFL history for the Patriots. He was
a quarterback for the forty nine Ers. He took a
knee during the national anthem. Yes French point guard for
the Great Spurs teams of the two thousands. Tony kukok
no wow you okay no, the Iron Horse for the Yankees.
(44:45):
He had the all time most consecutive games played until
cal Ripken broke his streak. Okay White quarterback from the
eighties Giants. He replaced Phil Simms. He also had a
porn mustache and won a Super Bowl with the New
York Giants in the mid nineteen.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
Eighties or nineties early nineties.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
You got the first name writing was Tony Parker, Tony Well.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Tony Kukocks was a player for the Bulls.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Did not Kelly, you broke my heart?
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Kelly, hurry then, lou Gerig, I'm devastated.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Kelly, you won.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Mike, Now figure out the delay on your radio. You
gotta golden. Take a you gotta golden. I got a golden.
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