July 22, 2025 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about Jerry Jones saying that he has thought about stepping away from Cowboys GM duties, the most puzzling thing about the WNBA All-Star's "pay us" activism, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Willem Dafoe Edition, and more!
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we are in the afterglow of the twenty twenty five
Mallard Palooza. I waited until just before the show and
we posted it. You can vote for the final four.
There are four acts that reached the pinnacle of the
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We had a bunch of acts, some of them good,
some of them will try to pretend didn't happen. And
we made it through the night. We survived. We hope
for better in the future, but we did it, and
we thank you for participating those of you that did.
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And we'd like to have less comedy and more impersonations
and some other stuff. So nonetheless, our lead this out
not from me, Mallord palooza. No, no, no, it is
all about Jerry's world. It's all about Jerry's world. So
the Dallas Cowboys are back. You'd expect daily Cowboy updates?
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Why why not? What the hell? Right? So, if you
have not been following the football news of the day
is we are in the training camp portion of the
schedule with a hardrey of teams with rookies, some veterans
with certain teams have arrived. So if you haven't been
following all this, perhaps not. The Dallas Cowboys always good
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at feeding the content machine in these parts, and they
have done it yet again, so Jerry Jones admitted recently,
In fact, in a gaggle with reporters, he admitted that
there have been moments that he thought about stepping away.
He has been the Dallas Cowboys GM my entire life,
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close to it, But Jerry Jones said there were moments
he thought about stepping away as the general manager of
the Cowboys. But not very long, he said, not very long,
small fractions of seconds, Jerry said. Jerry says he remains
committed to winning a Super Bowl. All right, exciting and
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he knows that now these of course older, it's in
his eighties. Now, he says, I'm living for now. Jerry
Jones said, So let us discuss the question. Jerry Jones
going on the record, Jerry Jones saying that he thought
about stepping away from the Cowboy GM duties. Is this
a big deal, a little deal or no deal? Now?
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That is the question. What is the answer. So I've
got Johnny Walker, Blue Pontoon boat, and casting call, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make a delicious banana cream pie, homemade banana
cream pie chef's kiss. So a to answer the question,
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this is no deal, right, this is no deal now,
Jerry said small fractions of seconds when claiming that he
did contemplate stepping away as the GM of the Dallas Cowboys.
That is not a reflection. Okay. That's like indigestion. It's
like I ate a little too fast, you know, and
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I eat frozen food, I eat ice cream or something
like that. Sometimes I'll that's sometimes it happens all the time.
I'll eat it too fast and then I get that
ice cream headache. You know, you got it. It's just terrible.
And then it goes away in like thirty seconds and
you go right back to doing what you were doing.
And so Jerry Jones saying, well, you know, it was
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small fractions of a second, the seconds that I thought
about no longer being the Cowboys GM. That is the
It's like the moment between eating taking a bite of
a pastrami sandwich and realizing you didn't take the napkin
and there's some mustard coming off the pastrami sandwich and
it's gonna get all over you and it's a problem.
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It is, right, But Jerry Jones has been the Cowboys
general manager since Ronald Reagan was the president. He's not
stepping down. He's not. He's just doubling down, is what
he is. And he's picking the groceries. And I don't
people goof on Jerry Jones and all. That's fine to
goof on him, because the Cowboys have been an embarrassment
for over a generation. If I bought an NFL team
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and I was in charge of the NFL, that's the
fun part. Who doesn't want to do the fun part.
I don't want to sit there and just hang out
a cocktail parties. I want to pick the players. And
Jerry gets to do that. He gets to pick the groceries,
the famous old line by Bill Parcells years ago. And
he gets to rearrange the pantry and all that and
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gives a chef's kiss when things go well, and when
things don't go well, he points at is his other
people in the kitchen and blames them. Jerry Jones, the
idea that he would give up the general manager duties
a non starter, right, it's a non starter. That is
his identity. It is you know it, and I know it.
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He is the owner, he's the GM. I'm pretty sure
he takes care of the catering. They have a catering
business there. And I would imagine that Jerry goes into
the locker roo woman decides what ply toilet paper? What
ply toilet paper do we give the cowboy players in
the locker room? Because really, any think about it, that's
an expense that you could use that cheap one ply
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toilet paper where you end up having to use an
entire role for one flush, and then you can use
like the really high end product you can get at Costco,
which will cost you a little bit more, and it
adds up. Now. Jerry Jones also said, as we told you,
he's committed to winning the Super Bowl and says he's
living for now. So what does that mean? So let's
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try to decipher that part of the rhetoric from Jerry Jones.
So it's an encrypted message. Jerry saying I'm eighty two.
He's saying I'm eighty two and I think I can
out scout half of the NFL is essentially what Jerry
is saying. And he's not going to use AI. He's
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not going to use the NERD numbers. He's gonna go
with binoculars and gut feeling. That is what's gonna He's
not uneed AI, no point dexter, no analytics. Jerry's got
his binoculars and he's looking around and he's got he's
probably got a clipboard in a whistle and a number
two pencil, and that's how he does it. Because Jerry
Jones is from the old country. Jerry's from the old country.
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He's the kind of guy who watches a college football game,
like he'll watch an SEC game on a Saturday afternoon
and says, you know, I think that kid, that number
fifty six has got brass balls. I like the way
that guy plays, and I'm gonna draft that guy. Even
though he's not projected to be drafted anywhere near the
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top of the jet. I'm gonna take him in the
third round because he's got a handshake like a linebacker
is supposed to have, and that's what I want for
the Dallas Cowboys. It is ceremonial cosplay is what it is.
And know he's doubling down on all this, which is
fine for my job here. I have to fill four
hours of airtime every night, so thank god for that.
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But Jerry is the last of the Mohicans. You think
about Jerry Jones his place in the football world, Jerry Jones,
the last owner GM. All right with the Cowboy. This
is a throwback to an era when it was a
mom and pop business and teams did not have world
class gymnasiums and training equipment and all that stuff. No, no,
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there was a time I remember we used to have
Fred Dryer in here, was an NFL player for the
Rams and was a TV star. And Fred would tell
stories about when he was practicing with the La Rams
back in the old days, and before practice, the players
on the team would have to go pick up trash
on the field so the field was usable. At some
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local high school in La. They were practicing it. Do
you imagine going to an NFL locker room and saying,
all right, buys, you got to clean up the rubbish
on the field. We got some debris out there so
we can practice. Are you kidding me? Do you know
who I am? I can't be bothered? What's wrong with you?
So it's obviously the ruld. But Jerry Jones is eight
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throwback to when the NFL is a mom and pop
business and he'll be riding off into the sunset someday
with the draft board in one hand and a bottle
of Johnny Walker Blue in the other. And he loves it.
We all know he loves it. The chaos, the drama,
o rama, which is what he's all about. And in
many ways, Jerry's not just the last of the mom
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and pop NFL ownership GM groups, but he's also the
last of the football romantics. He is, right, I think
Jerry Jones, we think about retirement for Jerry Jones, right,
That is a dirty word. That is like you might
as well say delegation. That is no. I think Jerry
thinks delegation is like a French pastry or something like that. Now,
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page two so Micah Parsons, he's also out there the
cows waiting to the very end there. Will they pay
Michah Parsons or not? Now my belief is they'll wait
till the eleventh hour and then they'll sign Micah Parsons.
But the standoff is continuing and it's good for business
for the Dallas Cowboys. So the standoff Jerry Jones on
one side, Michah Parsons on the other, and it's a
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urinating match right now. So Micah Parsons reposted on the
Socials some criticism by Jane Jay Want that's a terrible
broadcaster ex jock, claiming the Cowboys owner took a shot
at both Micah Parsons and Dak Prescott for getting hurt.
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So where are you at on this one? All right?
So this is the give me a break? All right?
This is that, Please give me a break? What is
wrong with you? Michah Parsons. He's out there acting If
I'm reading the room the right way, Michael Parson's out
there acting like Jerry Jones just insulted his mother, his siblings,
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his dog. I'm sure he's got some anime. He loves
all of that, just taking shots at all of those
things that are very important to Micah Parsons. Uh. And
really all the guy did say was what he said, Hey,
we paid Dak he got hurt. We might pay Micah
and he also got hurt last year. So where I
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come from, that's not a personal attack. Now maybe for
you it's a personal thing. For me, it's not a
personal attack. That's Jerry Jones doing what Jerry Jones does
better than anyone when it comes to running your mouth.
He is usane Bolt when it comes to running running
his mouth.
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And uh.
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And then of course about Micah can't help it, and
he's got to get in on this, so he clicks
the repost and then it's like he's filing a grievance
with hr. Are you kidding me? Like, sirih, are you
kidding me here? Like this is the NFL. It's not
some group therapy session. We just sit around the campfire
and roast marshmallows and sing Kumbaya and all that. You're
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supposed to be a pass rushing beast. Micah Parsons, right,
defensive freak of nature. I remember after two games a
couple of years ago in the Cowboys season when they
played the Jets and the Giants. The media had decided
that Michaeh. Parsons was the second Coming, the reincarnation of
Lawrence Taylor, and then they had to play the rest
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of the games. So we got this guy who's a
freak on the field, and you're gonna let your feelings
get bent out of shape because an eighty two year
old owner say, hey, you missed some games, which, by
the way, you did, so I would advise you to
try to grow a spine. I think you can probably
take a pill or a supplement that will grow a spine.
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That would be the way to go. I might want
to get some thicker skin and all that stuff. We
know that Jerry Jones is not buddy buddy. He's buddy,
but he's not buddy buddy with the player. So he's buddy,
but he's the boss. There's that separation between management and
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the players and all this. I mean, Jerry's always just
fishing for headlines anyone, That's what this is all about.
And I am right there. Jerry's on a pontoon boat
and he's got a cooler full of cores light and
he is just loving this. He is loving it, all
of it. He can't get enough of it. And so
on this one mission accomplished, Mission accomplished. Michael Parsons weaponizing, Like,
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we know what he's doing. He's weaponizing. This is what
he's doing, right, because he's stirring the pot, and he's all,
this is so offensive to me. This is not right.
He's stirring the pot because he's going to use the
cowboy fanboys. He's going to use them to start screaming
pay Micah, you must pay michaeh Oh my god. And
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of course Jerry will eventually eventually pay Michael Parsons. We
know that's going to happen. It's just gonna grab more headlines.
It's like stacking hotcakes on top of each other. There's
gonna be a headline. It's gonna be a headline. And
I said this in the past and I will repeat
it for those that are new to the store and
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welcome into our store. We're open all night, we don't close.
There are no locks on the door. But here's the thing.
So Jerry must have been a huge Bond fan James
Bond and Goldfinger James Bond. Remember the scene is the
classic scene, wasn't the first I think it was I
forget who it was somebody else that they came up
(15:34):
with this scene, but it's been copied a million times
in Hollywood where in this one James Bond and Goldfingers
handcuffed to the Death and Destruction machine and the clock
is ticking down until kaboom and then of course, shockingly,
the machine of death, the Death and Destruction Machine stops
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with own only seconds left on the clock, and there
we go. We stopped. Fade to black well that Michael
Parsons is like, that's what's gonna be. The Cowboy's gonna
wait till the very end is gonna come down? Is
it gonna be right before the first game. It'll be
one of those Jay Glazers stories on the NFL on
Fox pregame where it's like, oh, the Cowboys have announced
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they will announce today that Michael Parsons has agreed to
a new contract and there you go, all right, last
word quickly. So former Bill's running back Nahim Heinz is
back in the NFL. Now he became infamous for doing
the wrong thing at the wrong time. So Nahim heimes
heines running back playing with the Coles. Also, he has
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reached agreement on a contract with the Chargers. Show me
your lightning bolt. And so what stands out about this one?
So this is the classic interchangeable parts because it's not
just a depth move by the Chargers. It's not that
this is a neon lit billboard flashing the neon. Woo,
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that's what neon sounds like. Wooo. Just like that, the
neon is flashing and it's Naji Harris. Naji Harris's injury
is really bad. Bad, bad to the eyeball, bad to
the eyeball. Now, remember that was the big offseason edition
running back one was Naji Harris from Pittsburgh. He is
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already damaged. You don't go fishing for a guy like Hines,
Nahiem Hines. You don't go fishing for a guy like
that who's been out of the NFL for not one
but two two years, right, because you're like, well, you know, listen,
we just thought we'd add another extra running but no,
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this guy went full evil Knievel when he was in
Buffalo on a jet ski. This is a panic move
by the Chargers. Jim Harbaughs looking at the depth chart,
He's like, man, I want to run the ball. I
want to run first, I'm a running coach, and our
running backs I don't trust him. I don't trust him.
And so he's panicking. He's got a smile on his face.
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He's hiding behind a curtain looking out on the practice field,
and he's looking at the depth chart and it's like
it's like a receipt from CBS. Right. He keeps going
and going and going. Not all of quality. There's a
lot of stuff in there. The Chargers, by my count,
have seven running backs. Now that is not running back
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by committee. Seven running backs. That is a casting call
for dancing with the depth chart, is what Jim Harbaugh
is doing on this. And again I go back to
Naji Herris, because that's really what this is, is a
dad giveaway that Naji Harris. We had heard reports as
I was all messed up sucks messing around with fireworks
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on the fourth July and the thing went wrong, ended
up in the hospital in Northern California at Stanford, and
the agent's all, he'll be all, he'll be okay, he'll
be ready to go. Well, if it's a superficial eye
injury and you already have a bunch of running six
running backs now five, you're gonna add another running back.
Come on, superficial, My fat ass, that superficial. So that
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is a PR spin job spin spin, spin, his PR spin.
It is PR spin for we are not ready to
admit how bad it is. And so enter to the
chat Nahem Hines, who has not played in the NFL
since twenty twenty two. So it's been a minute. That
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again jet ski accident where he collided and it did
not go well there he shredded his knee. We are
told his knee looked like pulled pork by the time
they put that thing back together. And so now he's
trying to try to come back with the Chargers. He
did try to come back with the Cleveland Browns and
never saw the field, never saw the field. So this
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is again reached of desperation. Hins was a pretty good
ball player with the Colts back in the day and
showed a few flashes with Buffalo, but that was before
the old pork knee popped up.
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with this the protest department. I was told by several
p ones that I let down my guard in the
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previous edition of the show. We were so hyper focused
on the Mallard palooza. We had lean and mean, lean
and mean malar monologues, and several of you knuckleheads said, well,
how could you know talk about the story was the
biggest story in sports that you didn't talk about it.
You should have talked about it. Why didn't you talk
about it? Those angry women? You should have talked about
the angry women. I was like, well, I don't really
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talk about that sport other than Caitlin Clark, but if
you want me to talk about it, I will talk
about it. So your dreams have come true. Your dreams
have come true. So I think you might know where
I'm going with this, but maybe not so. Over the weekend,
I did not see this. Why would I watch it.
There's no reason for me to watch. I'm not a fan.
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I don't really care. Apparently, the two teams representing the
WNBA All Star Game wore protest shirts saying, hey us,
what you owe us? Okay. That was in response to
the ongoing negotiation and the blowback. These angry women here
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very upset that the WNBA is not paying them the
riches of Solomon, and so the players wore the shirts
during warm ups. They later apparently held up hey, the
player signs okay, well that's it. I'm sure the owners
were like, well, we're not gonna We're not gonna do this.
But once we saw those T shirts, we're in. I
mean that, come on, we got to pay them. We
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weren't gonna pay them, but those T shirts were done.
So the the w NBA, which is a fledgling operation
with literally a few people watching. Uh, they've got this
labor dispute going on, and of course all of this
is getting overshadowed by the dog pile of people that
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cannot believe what they're witnessing, Like what are we doing here?
They're really doing this now. Caitlin Clark the only person
worth watching in the entire w NBA. She did not
play in the game, apparently I was told I didn't
watched the game. But she was an honorary coach and
she also took part in the protests, so there is
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that as well. So let us discuss the question. Question
is what is the most puzzling What is the most
puzzling thing about the WNBA All Star pay us activism
with the shirts at the All Star Game. So I've
got ubering, Donnie Brasco and Designer label and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make some homemade chocolate chip cookie soft and chewy,
gooey chewy goodness. So number said number one number. So
this is rich. I don't mean as in the players
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are getting rich. It is just rich. And I would
argue that hutzba, which is a very enjoyable word to say,
the word hutsba, that does not quite cover the basis
on this one. Using the word hutzba, this is delusion.
Delusion is what this is there? So where do we start?
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Why don't we start with this? How about we'll start
with this? So owe you? What is the question? What
exactly are you owed as a WNBA player? Last I checked?
And I don't think I'm wrong on this, But as
I understand the economics of the WNBA, the league exists
not because of overwhelming public demand, not because of amazing
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ticket sales, not because of massive television ratings. No, no, no, no, no,
none of those things, none of those things. It turns
out that the WNBA exists because the NBA works as
a wait for it, sugar daddy. That's right. The NBA
is the sugar daddy. They are the ones keeping those
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checks coming in there and keeping the lights on and
all that stuff. So it is a league that has
been on life support for some time, subsidized by the
sugar Nady Adam Silver and Basketball atm Adams over and
the people that own the NBA. And it's a little
money here, little money there, and it's actually a lot
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of money, and they don't get a lot of bang
for their buck. There's not a lot of bang for
the buck there. And if the WNBA was a standalone
business and they had to make it on their own,
hear me, roar, they would have been so far gone.
Like the people that are complaining about this now, they
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wouldn't even know the WMA existed because it would have
gone away before they were born. Okay, so it would
have been buried in a popper's grave there decades ago.
But somehow, somehow, some way, the players, because of social media,
they believe they're getting short changed. They're getting the old
screw job here, the WNBA players, and it's just wild
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to me. It blows me away the sports economy, what's popular,
what's not popular? Like they live in a parallel dimension.
Maybe I'm living in a parallel demension, but it just
seems crazy that this is a league being propped up
by the NBA and these women are out there complaining
that they need to get more money without the NBA
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paying the bill, Without the sugar daddy NBA paying the bill,
these teams, they wouldn't be flying charter, they wouldn't be
flying commercial, they wouldn't be flying at all. They'd be
nowhere to fly to, okay. These women would be ubering
to the why. To play pickup basketball is what they'd
be doing, okay, And they'd have the same amount of
people that care at the why as they do now.
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The average WNBA player, the average NBA player thinks and
I don't know. Again, it's just because of social media.
They've convinced themselves that they are part of some kind
of cultural revolution. But in reality, it's Caitlin Clark and
one hundred and fifty six other people who are writing
her coattails. Okay, that's what's going on here, And so
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she is the lottery ticket. Caitlin Clark is we've talked about.
She's the show, she's the draw, she's the anomaly. And
even when she plays poorly she has in some recent games,
apparently it doesn't matter because when the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend and the man that shot
Liberty balance the legend of Caitlin Clark, even if she
has terrible stat lines, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
And the rest of the WNBA, it is a collection
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of flotsam and jetsam, is what it is. Okay, that's
what it is. It's swirling around in her wake. There's
Caitlin Clark and all these other players are swirling around,
and it's there's a scientifical term for this. It's mistaking
relevance by association. You think you're relevant by the people
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you hang out with, but no, it's their relevance. You're
not relevant. You don't have any actual relevance at all.
You don't. And so Caitlyn Clark, she's out there doing
her thing whatever, and really the other players are weighing
her down more than anything. Right, if the NBA, and
they ask you this, if the WNBA went away today.
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Later day when the sun comes up, they announced the
NBAA said we're pulling the plug. X nay on the
money A We're out, no more checks, Sugar, Daddy's done.
Bye bye. If the WNBA went away, poof just vanished
in the thin air, just gone see you later. Would
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you notice how many people would really care? I don't
not many. I know there'd be some woke journalists out
there that'd write think pieces on the internet, Oh my god,
this is the worst stuck in the world. Of course,
those people have the very long bios about how great
they are and all that stuff, and there'd be a
handful of lunatics out there complaining on I guess cable
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news or whatever. But other than that, that's about it.
So again, if you want fairness, if we strive for fairness,
and you look at the economics here, the WNBA lost,
according to multiple sources, forty million dollars last year. They
were going to lose fifty They made up ten millions.
They lost forty million dollars last year. So let's do
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some back of the napkin malar map. So roughly one
hundred and fifty six players in the WNBA divide the
forty million loss by those one hundred and fifty six players.
So each player would then have to cut a check
for over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That would
be fair. Do you think that's going to happen? I
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don't think so. Yeah, I think we know the answer
to that. Now, Page two, let's transition to a sport
people actually do care about pro bouncy ball, the men's version.
And after weeks of chatter, chitter, chatter, weeks and weeks
of chatter, the deal is now done. The deal is
now done. What is it? C P three? Going back
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to the people's team, So question, what are your expectations
for Chris Paul and his return to the Clippers for
a last dance in La La Land. So I'm gonna
tackle it this way. There's a lot of unknowledgeable people
out there, like Rico and some others who seem to
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think that Chris Paul's going to go in there and
be a thirty five to forty minute a night player.
This one we call low information fan. It's a low
information fan. Am I excited about Chris Paul going to
the Clippers? No, not particularly, I'm not I know he's
gonna be a bit player. He's gonna be like kind
of a trophy, a mascot. He can hang out with
Chuck the Condor, they can do bits at halftime. So
(32:39):
I look at it like Chris Paul's treating the Clippers like, Hey,
I want to be in La. My family's in La now,
my life is in La. So I'm gonna treat the
Clippers like a nostalgia museum. And the Clippers are, okay,
we'll take that. We're fine. If you give us fifteen
minutes a game or whatever. We're in cahoots. Now. My
expectation is Chris Paul's gonna play a little. He'll win
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a couple of games from him, He'll get hurt and
that's it. But it's like, I have no real expectations
for Chris Paul doing anything. Why would I, Because when
the moment's the biggest, he comes up the smallest. That's
what Chris Paul's always done. And you ever hang on.
I don't know how old you are, but if you
have that T shirt, that really comfortable t shirt, maybe
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it's a pair of boxer shorts or whatever that you
had maybe back in college, and you hold on to
it because it's just wonderful and it brings back fond memories.
It's got sentimental value, and you're like, well, this is
pretty cool. That's essentially what CP three is. He's an
old pair of boxer shorts with holes in them, and
the clippers kind of like it. If you want to
use a food analogy to the impact Chris Paul is
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going to have, it's like going through the drive through
at McDonald's and you order the big mac combo meal
from McDonald's and you go through the bag. At the
very bottom of the bag, you've taken the items out
of the bag and you take a look and there's
an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. Now,
(34:03):
you didn't ask for an extra fry. You said, I
don't need an extra fy. I mean, I got enough,
But you look, it's right there, and it's kind of
an older fry, maybe got caught in something in the
machine and all that, and it's getting kind of soft
and soggy and all that, and it's not that good,
but it's still food. You know. It's like, okay, technically,
you know you didn't ask for it, you didn't expect it,
(34:25):
but this gets to be a nonsense. This is what
I loath these retirement tours. You don't announce your retirement,
you just retire. Now I'm retiring, Just step away. Do
what Tim Duncan did. Just put on some dad jeans
and that's it. Go away. But instead it's gonna be
one video tribute after another. Every city goes to Chris Paul.
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Like I said, be hanging out with Chuck the Condor.
He'll be hanging out at halftime of games. He'll be
kissing babies, taking photos with fans. They should have a
photo booth with Chris Paul. So there's that. And it's
like the Farewell Tour sponsored by AARP, which is a
sponsor of the Washington Nationals. By the way, I was
watching the Nationals game with the Reds last night and
(35:11):
they had on the field AARP, which I'm sure Baseball's
marketing people love because they try to trying to get
a younger crowd, so they have AARP as their sponsor. Anyway,
it's kind of like a restaurant to use a different
approach to this Chris Paul to the Clippers, it's like
a restaurant trying to revive its business by bringing back
a popular waiter they got rid of thirty years ago.
(35:34):
This bring that waiter back. Then people like that waiter.
We'll bring the waiter back. But Chris Paul used to
be a big deal, and I love the Lob City.
The Lob City days were fun. I don't hate the
Lob City days. I hate Doc Rivers, I hate Blake
Griffin and those guys, But the Lob City is that
was the arrival. That was the birth of the Clippers.
They were irrelevant, they didn't matter. Now they run La
La runs through the Clippers because of the Lob City days.
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Ever since then, they're one of the top teams in
the NBA. The Lakers have been ambarrassment. No championships since
Kobe Bryant and the Clippers got to a Final Four.
In that time, it's been wonderful. It's been wonderful. But
in terms of him being a leading actor, Chris Paul
with the Clippers, to quote Donnie Brasco, forgot about it.
Remember that only forgot about it. Come on, if the
Clippers playoff fortunes are dependent on CP three stepping his
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game up in a key Malmot in the spring. In
the summer of twenty twenty six, they're porked. They're done.
That's it, see you later, all right, now, final point.
We turned the page. After a brief sojourn with the Clippers,
the former number one overall pick NBA draft, the Aussie
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muffed it Ben Simmons, making all Ben's look bad. So
Ben Simmons is looking for a gig. We are told
now the Boston Celtics, the Phoenix Suns, the New York Knickerbockers,
and the Sacramento Kings have all kicked the tires on
Ben Simmons. So how do you process a failed best
ketball player that has not one, not two, not three,
(37:02):
but four teams that he's drawing interest from around the NBA?
So your thoughts on on this? So Ben Simmons continues
to be tantalizing because people are stuck in a different era, right,
That's the problem in the league. They say this in
all sports, but in football and basketball you never give
(37:23):
up on talent. Every coach thinks they have the magic
recipe to unlock the higher ability of a player. And
so Ben Simmons is like the ultimate what if What
if he stayed healthy, what if he found a love
for basketball, What if he found a jump shot. What
if you could convince him that anything outside the painted
(37:46):
area is not lava and you can actually go out
there and shoot the basketball. And it's the ultimate what if,
Like if only he got his confidence? What about this?
What about that? What about? What about? What about? What about?
What about? What about? What about? What about?
Speaker 4 (37:59):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
It's? What about? Is them? So really the Celtics, the
Knicks and these other teams that have been mentioned in
the Gossip, what they are doing is they're going HGTV.
They're doing the Beach Front bargain hunt. They're trying to
find a bargain, Like, how can we do this Ben Simmons.
It's like what Rob Parker does. Our friend Rob when
(38:21):
he goes shopping. Rob tries to find the designer label
on a clearance rack, and that's Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons
was a designer label. He was a prodigy, he was
international man of mystery. He was all of that and
a bag of chips and he's none of that anymore. However,
(38:42):
at the time you can sell it. You said, well,
this guy was the number one pick and all this stuff.
But he's on the discount rack right now and he
fits the mold for these teams, the teams that are
all trying to throw darts blindfolded at the board, hoping
to land a competent of the rotation player like Ben Simmons.
(39:03):
And if only the light bulb goes off? What about?
What about? What about? What about? What about? What about?
What about? What about? What about? What about? What about
all that? Yes? Now, if not, you're out? What the
veteran's minimum? Whoopedee? Damn? Do who care? They flush that
down to toilet that money.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
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Grilled gool rasheet.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Rice has yet to be punished by the NFL, but
it's it's coming. Now that his court case is settled,
the NFL will move forward with their own disciplinary actions.
How long of a suspension do you think Rice will get?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Ben? Well, you go by the comps on this, and
the NFL has gone softer recently. Roger Goodell player empowerment, player,
friendly guy. So even though it embarrassed the NFL, I'm
gonna say two to four games. I'm going two to
four games at the most for Rice on ice for
(40:10):
Kansas City. Next, with another gem.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
From Derek scuogl the Tiger snapped a six game losing
streak and became the first team to sixty wins. Now,
he said he won't be satisfied until Detroit wins a championship. Ben,
do you think they have a shot. Well, I think
the Lions have a chance.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I think the things go right for the Lions in
the playoffs, they can win. I mean, the Pistons played
better last year the Tigers. No, they have a cheating
a holes manager.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Next, in an attempt to get Mookie Betts out of
a season long slum, Dave Roberts putting Mooky in the
leadoff and moved to Tanny to the two spot. Ben,
do you think this can help Mookie get back on track?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
No, Mookie sucked all year. All right, It's one excuse
after another, and it's just not his year. They got
to figure it out. They're paying him for the next
like fifteen years. Mookie Betts, he's not going anywhere. He's
gonna be there. How did we do pass on the
board a win?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
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Speaker 6 (41:27):
Not?
Speaker 1 (41:28):
All right, Right to the game we go. Let's welcome
in our contestants. We have Ronnie from Cannes, U City. Hello, Ronnie,
Welcome then, ma, How you doing?
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (41:39):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Are you the guy that I met? Ronnie? Is that you?
Are you the same guy?
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Is that the I am the guy who makes bullets?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I am the guy I remember you, this guy I
know Ronnie, I know you guys? All right now, Ronnie,
it's good to talk to you again. Ron Who you
like to partner up with on the on the big show?
Speaker 4 (41:54):
Here, Ronnie, let's go bober that choice.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
This guy? Obviously, we will crush you. Ronnie's a stud.
He's tougher than you. He makes bullets all night. And
we have Mike in Boston, who's gonna play. Hello, Mike, Welcome. Hey,
I hear a lot of ambient noise. Do we want
a lot of ambient noise? Do we need a lot
of ambient noise make your game better? All right?
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
All right, Mike, you want to team up with Coop
as whom your work right now? Or you're just wandering
around the streets of Boston.
Speaker 6 (42:30):
I'm driving to work.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
I got you, all right? What kind of work do
you do?
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Kyle?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Uh? Like your high end marble? Yeah? Nice? All right, Well,
let's play the game Coop quickly please?
Speaker 4 (42:44):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malardsmount of Money, the Willem
Dafoe edition. He turns seventy years old today.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
The categories are the Boondocks, Saints, Spider Man, Finding Nemo,
and the Florida Project. Ronnie, you were on first? Which
category would you like?
Speaker 1 (43:01):
The quart Project?
Speaker 4 (43:03):
All right? And Mike, how about you?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
All right? All right, We'll put forty five seconds in
the clock, and these athletes were all born in Florida.
Pull that, Ronnie? You ready? Ronnie's all right? Here we
go forty five seconds, we run away go two time
MVP for the Baltimore Ravens their quarterback. Yes, quarterback for
the Raiders right now. He came over from Seattle. Yes,
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all time leading rusher in NFL history for the Cowboys Smith. Yes,
third baseman for the Padres. He played with the Orioles
for a long time. Yes, Chocolate Thunder nineteen seventies, eighties
NBA player known for his hammer dunks. No Phoenix Suns
(43:51):
player played with the Knicks, became Jewish. Black guy became
Jewish with the Knicks. Two thousands. All right, a third
baseman for the Brewers play with the Dodgers. And this
last one.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
Gary Sheffield, Gary Sheffield and uh Amari Stottenmeyer and Darryl Dawkins.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Chocolate Thunder darryld Dog. All right, let's what is that?
Speaker 4 (44:15):
A hundred points?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
That's fine?
Speaker 4 (44:18):
All right, Mike, we have we have finding nemo.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
These athletes all went or go missing in the playoffs.
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (44:28):
All right, forty five seconds, let's begin.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
He is the current star on the Yankees. Slugger Aaron Jdge.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Yes uh.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
This guy is the mailman from the Utah Jazz. All right.
This guy was the quarterback for the Chargers for a
long time.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Philip.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Yes uh. This guy is a picture for the Dodgers.
He disappears in the playoffs. Yes uh. This guy was
the point guard for the Raptors a long time, alongside
DeMar de Rosen.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Kyle.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
Yes, this guy was a point guard for the Knicks.
He had like a discount shoe brand. He was famous
in China. Stefan Yes, Yes, this guy was a sight
young winner for the Padres.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
The hundred point question and you should have led with
he was drafted by the Celtics. Stefan Marber.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
Well he still got it.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, two points? All right, Well, Ronnie, we are back
up here. Ronnie. Which academy of Spider Man and was
the Boondocks Saints? Is that yep? Spider Man, spider Man,
spider Man?
Speaker 5 (45:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Well, these athletes became famous in high school. Put forty
five seconds on the clock. Here we go. Ronnie from Akron, Ohio.
He plays for the Yes running back for the forty
nine ers. His dad played in the NFL. He's yes,
the big ticket for the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Celtics
won a championship there. Yeah, was the number one pick
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for the Chicago Bulls. Big center you but no. No.
A black guy in the two thousands, uh pitcher for
the Red Sox. His last name was a baseball publication
for trading cards. Won a World Series with the Marlins,
played with the Red Sox. All right, our quarterback for
the Cleveland Browns from Kentucky. Out of Kentucky, was the
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number one pick.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
In the Drowndlet's do at a time, we win.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
Good job, Mike, Ronnie, Come on, Ronnie, Ronnie.
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That was Eddie Curry, Josh Becker, Tim Couch. Ronnie. Get
back to making those bullets, Ronnie,
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we are in the afterglow of the twenty twenty five
Mallard Palooza. I waited until just before the show and
we posted it. You can vote for the final four.
There are four acts that reached the pinnacle of the
Mallard Palooza. You can vote for your favorite there that
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will be the People's champ, the voice of the people,
and you can chime in on that if you listen
to the Mallar POLUSA, either live or on the podcast.
We had a bunch of acts, some of them good,
some of them will try to pretend didn't happen. And
we made it through the night. We survived. We hope
for better in the future, but we did it, and
we thank you for participating those of you that did.
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And we'd like to have less comedy and more impersonations
and some other stuff. So nonetheless, our lead this out
not from me, Mallord palooza. No, no, no, it is
all about Jerry's world. It's all about Jerry's world. So
the Dallas Cowboys are back. You'd expect daily Cowboy updates?
(02:49):
Why why not? What the hell? Right? So, if you
have not been following the football news of the day
is we are in the training camp portion of the
schedule with a hardrey of teams with rookies, some veterans
with certain teams have arrived. So if you haven't been
following all this, perhaps not. The Dallas Cowboys always good
(03:10):
at feeding the content machine in these parts, and they
have done it yet again, so Jerry Jones admitted recently,
In fact, in a gaggle with reporters, he admitted that
there have been moments that he thought about stepping away.
He has been the Dallas Cowboys GM my entire life,
(03:33):
close to it, But Jerry Jones said there were moments
he thought about stepping away as the general manager of
the Cowboys. But not very long, he said, not very long,
small fractions of seconds, Jerry said. Jerry says he remains
committed to winning a Super Bowl. All right, exciting and
(03:54):
he knows that now these of course older, it's in
his eighties. Now, he says, I'm living for now. Jerry
Jones said, So let us discuss the question. Jerry Jones
going on the record, Jerry Jones saying that he thought
about stepping away from the Cowboy GM duties. Is this
a big deal, a little deal or no deal? Now?
(04:18):
That is the question. What is the answer. So I've
got Johnny Walker, Blue Pontoon boat, and casting call, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make a delicious banana cream pie, homemade banana
cream pie chef's kiss. So a to answer the question,
(04:40):
this is no deal, right, this is no deal now,
Jerry said small fractions of seconds when claiming that he
did contemplate stepping away as the GM of the Dallas Cowboys.
That is not a reflection. Okay. That's like indigestion. It's
like I ate a little too fast, you know, and
(05:03):
I eat frozen food, I eat ice cream or something
like that. Sometimes I'll that's sometimes it happens all the time.
I'll eat it too fast and then I get that
ice cream headache. You know, you got it. It's just terrible.
And then it goes away in like thirty seconds and
you go right back to doing what you were doing.
And so Jerry Jones saying, well, you know, it was
(05:24):
small fractions of a second, the seconds that I thought
about no longer being the Cowboys GM. That is the
It's like the moment between eating taking a bite of
a pastrami sandwich and realizing you didn't take the napkin
and there's some mustard coming off the pastrami sandwich and
it's gonna get all over you and it's a problem.
(05:46):
It is, right, But Jerry Jones has been the Cowboys
general manager since Ronald Reagan was the president. He's not
stepping down. He's not. He's just doubling down, is what
he is. And he's picking the groceries. And I don't
people goof on Jerry Jones and all. That's fine to
goof on him, because the Cowboys have been an embarrassment
for over a generation. If I bought an NFL team
(06:09):
and I was in charge of the NFL, that's the
fun part. Who doesn't want to do the fun part.
I don't want to sit there and just hang out
a cocktail parties. I want to pick the players. And
Jerry gets to do that. He gets to pick the groceries,
the famous old line by Bill Parcells years ago. And
he gets to rearrange the pantry and all that and
(06:30):
gives a chef's kiss when things go well, and when
things don't go well, he points at is his other
people in the kitchen and blames them. Jerry Jones, the
idea that he would give up the general manager duties
a non starter, right, it's a non starter. That is
his identity. It is you know it, and I know it.
(06:50):
He is the owner, he's the GM. I'm pretty sure
he takes care of the catering. They have a catering
business there. And I would imagine that Jerry goes into
the locker roo woman decides what ply toilet paper? What
ply toilet paper do we give the cowboy players in
the locker room? Because really, any think about it, that's
an expense that you could use that cheap one ply
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toilet paper where you end up having to use an
entire role for one flush, and then you can use
like the really high end product you can get at Costco,
which will cost you a little bit more, and it
adds up. Now. Jerry Jones also said, as we told you,
he's committed to winning the Super Bowl and says he's
living for now. So what does that mean? So let's
(07:35):
try to decipher that part of the rhetoric from Jerry Jones.
So it's an encrypted message. Jerry saying I'm eighty two.
He's saying I'm eighty two and I think I can
out scout half of the NFL is essentially what Jerry
is saying. And he's not going to use AI. He's
(07:57):
not going to use the NERD numbers. He's gonna go
with binoculars and gut feeling. That is what's gonna He's
not uneed AI, no point dexter, no analytics. Jerry's got
his binoculars and he's looking around and he's got he's
probably got a clipboard in a whistle and a number
two pencil, and that's how he does it. Because Jerry
Jones is from the old country. Jerry's from the old country.
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He's the kind of guy who watches a college football game,
like he'll watch an SEC game on a Saturday afternoon
and says, you know, I think that kid, that number
fifty six has got brass balls. I like the way
that guy plays, and I'm gonna draft that guy. Even
though he's not projected to be drafted anywhere near the
(08:43):
top of the jet. I'm gonna take him in the
third round because he's got a handshake like a linebacker
is supposed to have, and that's what I want for
the Dallas Cowboys. It is ceremonial cosplay is what it is.
And know he's doubling down on all this, which is
fine for my job here. I have to fill four
hours of airtime every night, so thank god for that.
(09:05):
But Jerry is the last of the Mohicans. You think
about Jerry Jones his place in the football world, Jerry Jones,
the last owner GM. All right with the Cowboy. This
is a throwback to an era when it was a
mom and pop business and teams did not have world
class gymnasiums and training equipment and all that stuff. No, no,
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there was a time I remember we used to have
Fred Dryer in here, was an NFL player for the
Rams and was a TV star. And Fred would tell
stories about when he was practicing with the La Rams
back in the old days, and before practice, the players
on the team would have to go pick up trash
on the field so the field was usable. At some
(09:49):
local high school in La. They were practicing it. Do
you imagine going to an NFL locker room and saying,
all right, buys, you got to clean up the rubbish
on the field. We got some debris out there so
we can practice. Are you kidding me? Do you know
who I am? I can't be bothered? What's wrong with you?
So it's obviously the ruld. But Jerry Jones is eight
(10:10):
throwback to when the NFL is a mom and pop
business and he'll be riding off into the sunset someday
with the draft board in one hand and a bottle
of Johnny Walker Blue in the other. And he loves it.
We all know he loves it. The chaos, the drama,
o rama, which is what he's all about. And in
many ways, Jerry's not just the last of the mom
(10:32):
and pop NFL ownership GM groups, but he's also the
last of the football romantics. He is, right, I think
Jerry Jones, we think about retirement for Jerry Jones, right,
That is a dirty word. That is like you might
as well say delegation. That is no. I think Jerry
thinks delegation is like a French pastry or something like that. Now,
(10:55):
page two so Micah Parsons, he's also out there the
cows waiting to the very end there. Will they pay
Michah Parsons or not? Now my belief is they'll wait
till the eleventh hour and then they'll sign Micah Parsons.
But the standoff is continuing and it's good for business
for the Dallas Cowboys. So the standoff Jerry Jones on
one side, Michah Parsons on the other, and it's a
(11:19):
urinating match right now. So Micah Parsons reposted on the
Socials some criticism by Jane Jay Want that's a terrible
broadcaster ex jock, claiming the Cowboys owner took a shot
at both Micah Parsons and Dak Prescott for getting hurt.
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So where are you at on this one? All right?
So this is the give me a break? All right?
This is that, Please give me a break? What is
wrong with you? Michah Parsons. He's out there acting If
I'm reading the room the right way, Michael Parson's out
there acting like Jerry Jones just insulted his mother, his siblings,
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his dog. I'm sure he's got some anime. He loves
all of that, just taking shots at all of those
things that are very important to Micah Parsons. Uh. And
really all the guy did say was what he said, Hey,
we paid Dak he got hurt. We might pay Micah
and he also got hurt last year. So where I
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come from, that's not a personal attack. Now maybe for
you it's a personal thing. For me, it's not a
personal attack. That's Jerry Jones doing what Jerry Jones does
better than anyone when it comes to running your mouth.
He is usane Bolt when it comes to running running
his mouth.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And then of course about Micah can't help it, and
he's got to get in on this, so he clicks
the repost and then it's like he's filing a grievance
with hr. Are you kidding me? Like, sirih, are you
kidding me here? Like this is the NFL. It's not
some group therapy session. We just sit around the campfire
and roast marshmallows and sing Kumbaya and all that. You're
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supposed to be a pass rushing beast. Micah Parsons, right,
defensive freak of nature. I remember after two games a
couple of years ago in the Cowboys season when they
played the Jets and the Giants. The media had decided
that Michaeh. Parsons was the second Coming, the reincarnation of
Lawrence Taylor, and then they had to play the rest
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of the games. So we got this guy who's a
freak on the field, and you're gonna let your feelings
get bent out of shape because an eighty two year
old owner say, hey, you missed some games, which, by
the way, you did, so I would advise you to
try to grow a spine. I think you can probably
take a pill or a supplement that will grow a spine.
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That would be the way to go. I might want
to get some thicker skin and all that stuff. We
know that Jerry Jones is not buddy buddy. He's buddy,
but he's not buddy buddy with the player. So he's buddy,
but he's the boss. There's that separation between management and
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the players and all this. I mean, Jerry's always just
fishing for headlines anyone, That's what this is all about.
And I am right there. Jerry's on a pontoon boat
and he's got a cooler full of cores light and
he is just loving this. He is loving it, all
of it. He can't get enough of it. And so
on this one mission accomplished, Mission accomplished. Michael Parsons weaponizing, Like,
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we know what he's doing. He's weaponizing. This is what
he's doing, right, because he's stirring the pot, and he's all,
this is so offensive to me. This is not right.
He's stirring the pot because he's going to use the
cowboy fanboys. He's going to use them to start screaming
pay Micah, you must pay michaeh Oh my god. And
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of course Jerry will eventually eventually pay Michael Parsons. We
know that's going to happen. It's just gonna grab more headlines.
It's like stacking hotcakes on top of each other. There's
gonna be a headline. It's gonna be a headline. And
I said this in the past and I will repeat
it for those that are new to the store and
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welcome into our store. We're open all night, we don't close.
There are no locks on the door. But here's the thing.
So Jerry must have been a huge Bond fan James
Bond and Goldfinger James Bond. Remember the scene is the
classic scene, wasn't the first I think it was I
forget who it was somebody else that they came up
(15:34):
with this scene, but it's been copied a million times
in Hollywood where in this one James Bond and Goldfingers
handcuffed to the Death and Destruction machine and the clock
is ticking down until kaboom and then of course, shockingly,
the machine of death, the Death and Destruction Machine stops
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with own only seconds left on the clock, and there
we go. We stopped. Fade to black well that Michael
Parsons is like, that's what's gonna be. The Cowboy's gonna
wait till the very end is gonna come down? Is
it gonna be right before the first game. It'll be
one of those Jay Glazers stories on the NFL on
Fox pregame where it's like, oh, the Cowboys have announced
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they will announce today that Michael Parsons has agreed to
a new contract and there you go, all right, last
word quickly. So former Bill's running back Nahim Heinz is
back in the NFL. Now he became infamous for doing
the wrong thing at the wrong time. So Nahim heimes
heines running back playing with the Coles. Also, he has
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reached agreement on a contract with the Chargers. Show me
your lightning bolt. And so what stands out about this one?
So this is the classic interchangeable parts because it's not
just a depth move by the Chargers. It's not that
this is a neon lit billboard flashing the neon. Woo,
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that's what neon sounds like. Wooo. Just like that, the
neon is flashing and it's Naji Harris. Naji Harris's injury
is really bad. Bad, bad to the eyeball, bad to
the eyeball. Now, remember that was the big offseason edition
running back one was Naji Harris from Pittsburgh. He is
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already damaged. You don't go fishing for a guy like Hines,
Nahiem Hines. You don't go fishing for a guy like
that who's been out of the NFL for not one
but two two years, right, because you're like, well, you know, listen,
we just thought we'd add another extra running but no,
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this guy went full evil Knievel when he was in
Buffalo on a jet ski. This is a panic move
by the Chargers. Jim Harbaughs looking at the depth chart,
He's like, man, I want to run the ball. I
want to run first, I'm a running coach, and our
running backs I don't trust him. I don't trust him.
And so he's panicking. He's got a smile on his face.
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He's hiding behind a curtain looking out on the practice field,
and he's looking at the depth chart and it's like
it's like a receipt from CBS. Right. He keeps going
and going and going. Not all of quality. There's a
lot of stuff in there. The Chargers, by my count,
have seven running backs. Now that is not running back
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by committee. Seven running backs. That is a casting call
for dancing with the depth chart, is what Jim Harbaugh
is doing on this. And again I go back to
Naji Herris, because that's really what this is, is a
dad giveaway that Naji Harris. We had heard reports as
I was all messed up sucks messing around with fireworks
(18:48):
on the fourth July and the thing went wrong, ended
up in the hospital in Northern California at Stanford, and
the agent's all, he'll be all, he'll be okay, he'll
be ready to go. Well, if it's a superficial eye
injury and you already have a bunch of running six
running backs now five, you're gonna add another running back.
Come on, superficial, My fat ass, that superficial. So that
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is a PR spin job spin spin, spin, his PR spin.
It is PR spin for we are not ready to
admit how bad it is. And so enter to the
chat Nahem Hines, who has not played in the NFL
since twenty twenty two. So it's been a minute. That
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again jet ski accident where he collided and it did
not go well there he shredded his knee. We are
told his knee looked like pulled pork by the time
they put that thing back together. And so now he's
trying to try to come back with the Chargers. He
did try to come back with the Cleveland Browns and
never saw the field, never saw the field. So this
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is again reached of desperation. Hins was a pretty good
ball player with the Colts back in the day and
showed a few flashes with Buffalo, but that was before
the old pork knee popped up.
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came here for in a minute but I'm gonna start
with this the protest department. I was told by several
p ones that I let down my guard in the
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previous edition of the show. We were so hyper focused
on the Mallard palooza. We had lean and mean, lean
and mean malar monologues, and several of you knuckleheads said, well,
how could you know talk about the story was the
biggest story in sports that you didn't talk about it.
You should have talked about it. Why didn't you talk
about it? Those angry women? You should have talked about
the angry women. I was like, well, I don't really
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talk about that sport other than Caitlin Clark, but if
you want me to talk about it, I will talk
about it. So your dreams have come true. Your dreams
have come true. So I think you might know where
I'm going with this, but maybe not so. Over the weekend,
I did not see this. Why would I watch it.
There's no reason for me to watch. I'm not a fan.
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I don't really care. Apparently, the two teams representing the
WNBA All Star Game wore protest shirts saying, hey us,
what you owe us? Okay. That was in response to
the ongoing negotiation and the blowback. These angry women here
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very upset that the WNBA is not paying them the
riches of Solomon, and so the players wore the shirts
during warm ups. They later apparently held up hey, the
player signs okay, well that's it. I'm sure the owners
were like, well, we're not gonna We're not gonna do this.
But once we saw those T shirts, we're in. I
mean that, come on, we got to pay them. We
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weren't gonna pay them, but those T shirts were done.
So the the w NBA, which is a fledgling operation
with literally a few people watching. Uh, they've got this
labor dispute going on, and of course all of this
is getting overshadowed by the dog pile of people that
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cannot believe what they're witnessing, Like what are we doing here?
They're really doing this now. Caitlin Clark the only person
worth watching in the entire w NBA. She did not
play in the game, apparently I was told I didn't
watched the game. But she was an honorary coach and
she also took part in the protests, so there is
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that as well. So let us discuss the question. Question
is what is the most puzzling What is the most
puzzling thing about the WNBA All Star pay us activism
with the shirts at the All Star Game. So I've
got ubering, Donnie Brasco and Designer label and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make some homemade chocolate chip cookie soft and chewy,
gooey chewy goodness. So number said number one number. So
this is rich. I don't mean as in the players
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are getting rich. It is just rich. And I would
argue that hutzba, which is a very enjoyable word to say,
the word hutsba, that does not quite cover the basis
on this one. Using the word hutzba, this is delusion.
Delusion is what this is there? So where do we start?
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Why don't we start with this? How about we'll start
with this? So owe you? What is the question? What
exactly are you owed as a WNBA player? Last I checked?
And I don't think I'm wrong on this, But as
I understand the economics of the WNBA, the league exists
not because of overwhelming public demand, not because of amazing
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ticket sales, not because of massive television ratings. No, no, no, no, no,
none of those things, none of those things. It turns
out that the WNBA exists because the NBA works as
a wait for it, sugar daddy. That's right. The NBA
is the sugar daddy. They are the ones keeping those
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checks coming in there and keeping the lights on and
all that stuff. So it is a league that has
been on life support for some time, subsidized by the
sugar Nady Adam Silver and Basketball atm Adams over and
the people that own the NBA. And it's a little
money here, little money there, and it's actually a lot
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of money, and they don't get a lot of bang
for their buck. There's not a lot of bang for
the buck there. And if the WNBA was a standalone
business and they had to make it on their own,
hear me, roar, they would have been so far gone.
Like the people that are complaining about this now, they
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wouldn't even know the WMA existed because it would have
gone away before they were born. Okay, so it would
have been buried in a popper's grave there decades ago.
But somehow, somehow, some way, the players, because of social media,
they believe they're getting short changed. They're getting the old
screw job here, the WNBA players, and it's just wild
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to me. It blows me away the sports economy, what's popular,
what's not popular? Like they live in a parallel dimension.
Maybe I'm living in a parallel demension, but it just
seems crazy that this is a league being propped up
by the NBA and these women are out there complaining
that they need to get more money without the NBA
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paying the bill, Without the sugar daddy NBA paying the bill,
these teams, they wouldn't be flying charter, they wouldn't be
flying commercial, they wouldn't be flying at all. They'd be
nowhere to fly to, okay. These women would be ubering
to the why. To play pickup basketball is what they'd
be doing, okay, And they'd have the same amount of
people that care at the why as they do now.
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The average WNBA player, the average NBA player thinks and
I don't know. Again, it's just because of social media.
They've convinced themselves that they are part of some kind
of cultural revolution. But in reality, it's Caitlin Clark and
one hundred and fifty six other people who are writing
her coattails. Okay, that's what's going on here, And so
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she is the lottery ticket. Caitlin Clark is we've talked about.
She's the show, she's the draw, she's the anomaly. And
even when she plays poorly she has in some recent games,
apparently it doesn't matter because when the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend and the man that shot
Liberty balance the legend of Caitlin Clark, even if she
has terrible stat lines, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
And the rest of the WNBA, it is a collection
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of flotsam and jetsam, is what it is. Okay, that's
what it is. It's swirling around in her wake. There's
Caitlin Clark and all these other players are swirling around,
and it's there's a scientifical term for this. It's mistaking
relevance by association. You think you're relevant by the people
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you hang out with, but no, it's their relevance. You're
not relevant. You don't have any actual relevance at all.
You don't. And so Caitlyn Clark, she's out there doing
her thing whatever, and really the other players are weighing
her down more than anything. Right, if the NBA, and
they ask you this, if the WNBA went away today.
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Later day when the sun comes up, they announced the
NBAA said we're pulling the plug. X nay on the
money A We're out, no more checks, Sugar, Daddy's done.
Bye bye. If the WNBA went away, poof just vanished
in the thin air, just gone see you later. Would
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you notice how many people would really care? I don't
not many. I know there'd be some woke journalists out
there that'd write think pieces on the internet, Oh my god,
this is the worst stuck in the world. Of course,
those people have the very long bios about how great
they are and all that stuff, and there'd be a
handful of lunatics out there complaining on I guess cable
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news or whatever. But other than that, that's about it.
So again, if you want fairness, if we strive for fairness,
and you look at the economics here, the WNBA lost,
according to multiple sources, forty million dollars last year. They
were going to lose fifty They made up ten millions.
They lost forty million dollars last year. So let's do
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some back of the napkin malar map. So roughly one
hundred and fifty six players in the WNBA divide the
forty million loss by those one hundred and fifty six players.
So each player would then have to cut a check
for over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That would
be fair. Do you think that's going to happen? I
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don't think so. Yeah, I think we know the answer
to that. Now, Page two, let's transition to a sport
people actually do care about pro bouncy ball, the men's version.
And after weeks of chatter, chitter, chatter, weeks and weeks
of chatter, the deal is now done. The deal is
now done. What is it? C P three? Going back
(31:52):
to the people's team, So question, what are your expectations
for Chris Paul and his return to the Clippers for
a last dance in La La Land. So I'm gonna
tackle it this way. There's a lot of unknowledgeable people
out there, like Rico and some others who seem to
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think that Chris Paul's going to go in there and
be a thirty five to forty minute a night player.
This one we call low information fan. It's a low
information fan. Am I excited about Chris Paul going to
the Clippers? No, not particularly, I'm not I know he's
gonna be a bit player. He's gonna be like kind
of a trophy, a mascot. He can hang out with
Chuck the Condor, they can do bits at halftime. So
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I look at it like Chris Paul's treating the Clippers like, Hey,
I want to be in La. My family's in La now,
my life is in La. So I'm gonna treat the
Clippers like a nostalgia museum. And the Clippers are, okay,
we'll take that. We're fine. If you give us fifteen
minutes a game or whatever. We're in cahoots. Now. My
expectation is Chris Paul's gonna play a little. He'll win
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a couple of games from him, He'll get hurt and
that's it. But it's like, I have no real expectations
for Chris Paul doing anything. Why would I, Because when
the moment's the biggest, he comes up the smallest. That's
what Chris Paul's always done. And you ever hang on.
I don't know how old you are, but if you
have that T shirt, that really comfortable t shirt, maybe
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it's a pair of boxer shorts or whatever that you
had maybe back in college, and you hold on to
it because it's just wonderful and it brings back fond memories.
It's got sentimental value, and you're like, well, this is
pretty cool. That's essentially what CP three is. He's an
old pair of boxer shorts with holes in them, and
the clippers kind of like it. If you want to
use a food analogy to the impact Chris Paul is
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going to have, it's like going through the drive through
at McDonald's and you order the big mac combo meal
from McDonald's and you go through the bag. At the
very bottom of the bag, you've taken the items out
of the bag and you take a look and there's
an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. Now,
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you didn't ask for an extra fry. You said, I
don't need an extra fy. I mean, I got enough,
But you look, it's right there, and it's kind of
an older fry, maybe got caught in something in the
machine and all that, and it's getting kind of soft
and soggy and all that, and it's not that good,
but it's still food. You know. It's like, okay, technically,
you know you didn't ask for it, you didn't expect it,
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but this gets to be a nonsense. This is what
I loath these retirement tours. You don't announce your retirement,
you just retire. Now I'm retiring, Just step away. Do
what Tim Duncan did. Just put on some dad jeans
and that's it. Go away. But instead it's gonna be
one video tribute after another. Every city goes to Chris Paul.
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Like I said, be hanging out with Chuck the Condor.
He'll be hanging out at halftime of games. He'll be
kissing babies, taking photos with fans. They should have a
photo booth with Chris Paul. So there's that. And it's
like the Farewell Tour sponsored by AARP, which is a
sponsor of the Washington Nationals. By the way, I was
watching the Nationals game with the Reds last night and
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they had on the field AARP, which I'm sure Baseball's
marketing people love because they try to trying to get
a younger crowd, so they have AARP as their sponsor. Anyway,
it's kind of like a restaurant to use a different
approach to this Chris Paul to the Clippers, it's like
a restaurant trying to revive its business by bringing back
a popular waiter they got rid of thirty years ago.
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This bring that waiter back. Then people like that waiter.
We'll bring the waiter back. But Chris Paul used to
be a big deal, and I love the Lob City.
The Lob City days were fun. I don't hate the
Lob City days. I hate Doc Rivers, I hate Blake
Griffin and those guys, But the Lob City is that
was the arrival. That was the birth of the Clippers.
They were irrelevant, they didn't matter. Now they run La
La runs through the Clippers because of the Lob City days.
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Ever since then, they're one of the top teams in
the NBA. The Lakers have been ambarrassment. No championships since
Kobe Bryant and the Clippers got to a Final Four.
In that time, it's been wonderful. It's been wonderful. But
in terms of him being a leading actor, Chris Paul
with the Clippers, to quote Donnie Brasco, forgot about it.
Remember that only forgot about it. Come on, if the
Clippers playoff fortunes are dependent on CP three stepping his
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game up in a key Malmot in the spring. In
the summer of twenty twenty six, they're porked. They're done.
That's it, see you later, all right, now, final point.
We turned the page. After a brief sojourn with the Clippers,
the former number one overall pick NBA draft, the Aussie
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muffed it Ben Simmons, making all Ben's look bad. So
Ben Simmons is looking for a gig. We are told
now the Boston Celtics, the Phoenix Suns, the New York Knickerbockers,
and the Sacramento Kings have all kicked the tires on
Ben Simmons. So how do you process a failed best
ketball player that has not one, not two, not three,
(37:02):
but four teams that he's drawing interest from around the NBA?
So your thoughts on on this? So Ben Simmons continues
to be tantalizing because people are stuck in a different era, right,
That's the problem in the league. They say this in
all sports, but in football and basketball you never give
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up on talent. Every coach thinks they have the magic
recipe to unlock the higher ability of a player. And
so Ben Simmons is like the ultimate what if What
if he stayed healthy, what if he found a love
for basketball, What if he found a jump shot. What
if you could convince him that anything outside the painted
(37:46):
area is not lava and you can actually go out
there and shoot the basketball. And it's the ultimate what if,
Like if only he got his confidence? What about this?
What about that? What about? What about? What about? What about?
What about? What about? What about? What about?
Speaker 4 (37:59):
What?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
It's? What about? Is them? So really the Celtics, the
Knicks and these other teams that have been mentioned in
the Gossip, what they are doing is they're going HGTV.
They're doing the Beach Front bargain hunt. They're trying to
find a bargain, Like, how can we do this Ben Simmons.
It's like what Rob Parker does. Our friend Rob when
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he goes shopping. Rob tries to find the designer label
on a clearance rack, and that's Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons
was a designer label. He was a prodigy, he was
international man of mystery. He was all of that and
a bag of chips and he's none of that anymore. However,
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at the time you can sell it. You said, well,
this guy was the number one pick and all this stuff.
But he's on the discount rack right now and he
fits the mold for these teams, the teams that are
all trying to throw darts blindfolded at the board, hoping
to land a competent of the rotation player like Ben Simmons.
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And if only the light bulb goes off? What about?
What about? What about? What about? What about? What about?
What about? What about? What about? What about? What about
all that? Yes? Now, if not, you're out? What the
veteran's minimum? Whoopedee? Damn? Do who care? They flush that
down to toilet that money.
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Here we go, It's mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Grilled gool rasheet.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Rice has yet to be punished by the NFL, but
it's it's coming. Now that his court case is settled,
the NFL will move forward with their own disciplinary actions.
How long of a suspension do you think Rice will get?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Ben? Well, you go by the comps on this, and
the NFL has gone softer recently. Roger Goodell player empowerment, player,
friendly guy. So even though it embarrassed the NFL, I'm
gonna say two to four games. I'm going two to
four games at the most for Rice on ice for
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Kansas City. Next, with another gem.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
From Derek scuogl the Tiger snapped a six game losing
streak and became the first team to sixty wins. Now,
he said he won't be satisfied until Detroit wins a championship. Ben,
do you think they have a shot. Well, I think
the Lions have a chance.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I think the things go right for the Lions in
the playoffs, they can win. I mean, the Pistons played
better last year the Tigers. No, they have a cheating
a holes manager.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Next, in an attempt to get Mookie Betts out of
a season long slum, Dave Roberts putting Mooky in the
leadoff and moved to Tanny to the two spot. Ben,
do you think this can help Mookie get back on track?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
No, Mookie sucked all year. All right, It's one excuse
after another, and it's just not his year. They got
to figure it out. They're paying him for the next
like fifteen years. Mookie Betts, he's not going anywhere. He's
gonna be there. How did we do pass on the
board a win?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
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listen live. Now, Mailer's Mountain of Money? Hell, do you
have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 6 (41:27):
Not?
Speaker 1 (41:28):
All right, Right to the game we go. Let's welcome
in our contestants. We have Ronnie from Cannes, U City. Hello, Ronnie,
Welcome then, ma, How you doing?
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (41:39):
Man?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Are you the guy that I met? Ronnie? Is that you?
Are you the same guy?
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Is that the I am the guy who makes bullets?
Speaker 1 (41:45):
I am the guy I remember you, this guy I
know Ronnie, I know you guys? All right now, Ronnie,
it's good to talk to you again. Ron Who you
like to partner up with on the on the big show?
Speaker 4 (41:54):
Here, Ronnie, let's go bober that choice.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
This guy? Obviously, we will crush you. Ronnie's a stud.
He's tougher than you. He makes bullets all night. And
we have Mike in Boston, who's gonna play. Hello, Mike, Welcome. Hey,
I hear a lot of ambient noise. Do we want
a lot of ambient noise? Do we need a lot
of ambient noise make your game better? All right?
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
All right, Mike, you want to team up with Coop
as whom your work right now? Or you're just wandering
around the streets of Boston.
Speaker 6 (42:30):
I'm driving to work.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
I got you, all right? What kind of work do
you do?
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Kyle?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Uh? Like your high end marble? Yeah? Nice? All right, Well,
let's play the game Coop quickly please?
Speaker 4 (42:44):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malardsmount of Money, the Willem
Dafoe edition. He turns seventy years old today.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
The categories are the Boondocks, Saints, Spider Man, Finding Nemo,
and the Florida Project. Ronnie, you were on first? Which
category would you like?
Speaker 1 (43:01):
The quart Project?
Speaker 4 (43:03):
All right? And Mike, how about you?
Speaker 1 (43:07):
All right? All right, We'll put forty five seconds in
the clock, and these athletes were all born in Florida.
Pull that, Ronnie? You ready? Ronnie's all right? Here we
go forty five seconds, we run away go two time
MVP for the Baltimore Ravens their quarterback. Yes, quarterback for
the Raiders right now. He came over from Seattle. Yes,
(43:30):
all time leading rusher in NFL history for the Cowboys Smith. Yes,
third baseman for the Padres. He played with the Orioles
for a long time. Yes, Chocolate Thunder nineteen seventies, eighties
NBA player known for his hammer dunks. No Phoenix Suns
(43:51):
player played with the Knicks, became Jewish. Black guy became
Jewish with the Knicks. Two thousands. All right, a third
baseman for the Brewers play with the Dodgers. And this
last one.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
Gary Sheffield, Gary Sheffield and uh Amari Stottenmeyer and Darryl Dawkins.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Chocolate Thunder darryld Dog. All right, let's what is that?
Speaker 4 (44:15):
A hundred points?
Speaker 1 (44:17):
That's fine?
Speaker 4 (44:18):
All right, Mike, we have we have finding nemo.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
These athletes all went or go missing in the playoffs.
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (44:28):
All right, forty five seconds, let's begin.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
He is the current star on the Yankees. Slugger Aaron Jdge.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Yes uh.
Speaker 4 (44:37):
This guy is the mailman from the Utah Jazz. All right.
This guy was the quarterback for the Chargers for a
long time.
Speaker 2 (44:46):
Philip.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Yes uh. This guy is a picture for the Dodgers.
He disappears in the playoffs. Yes uh. This guy was
the point guard for the Raptors a long time, alongside
DeMar de Rosen.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Kyle.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
Yes, this guy was a point guard for the Knicks.
He had like a discount shoe brand. He was famous
in China. Stefan Yes, Yes, this guy was a sight
young winner for the Padres.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
The hundred point question and you should have led with
he was drafted by the Celtics. Stefan Marber.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
Well he still got it.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Yeah, two points? All right, Well, Ronnie, we are back
up here. Ronnie. Which academy of Spider Man and was
the Boondocks Saints? Is that yep? Spider Man, spider Man,
spider Man?
Speaker 5 (45:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Well, these athletes became famous in high school. Put forty
five seconds on the clock. Here we go. Ronnie from Akron, Ohio.
He plays for the Yes running back for the forty
nine ers. His dad played in the NFL. He's yes,
the big ticket for the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Celtics
won a championship there. Yeah, was the number one pick
(46:00):
for the Chicago Bulls. Big center you but no. No.
A black guy in the two thousands, uh pitcher for
the Red Sox. His last name was a baseball publication
for trading cards. Won a World Series with the Marlins,
played with the Red Sox. All right, our quarterback for
the Cleveland Browns from Kentucky. Out of Kentucky, was the
(46:22):
number one pick.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
In the Drowndlet's do at a time, we win.
Speaker 6 (46:27):
Good job, Mike, Ronnie, Come on, Ronnie, Ronnie.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
That was Eddie Curry, Josh Becker, Tim Couch. Ronnie. Get
back to making those bullets, Ronnie,
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