February 5, 2026 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about the Dallas Mavericks trading Anthony Davis to the Wizards, starter Framber Valdez signing with the Detroit Tigers, Maller to the Third Degree, another edition of #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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So we have made our way the never ending journey.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We've arrived here from a very secret location somewhere in
northern California, not far away. We're not actually at Radio Row.
We're not allowed at Radio Row. They won't allow me
in there. I'll be there during the day, but at
night they don't want the riffraff. The overnight crowd not
permitted at Radio Row. That is taboo. So we are
at a secret location with very high ceilings here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I understand that tomorrow it'll sound better, will be in
a different location, but for tonight you just have to
put up with it. Not anything's that bad. I don't
think it's that bad at the proper microphone. So the
show goes on. We're excited to be here, and there's
not too much going on with the Super Bowl. I
wish there was, but there's just not a lot of
great stories. These teams aren't that interesting, that they don't
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have dynamic personalities, and there's really no star power on
either team, which is problematic if you do a talk
radio show.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
The good news is that pro Bouncy Ball has been
very active and the trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now it's still late on a Wednesday on the West Coast,
but we're sliding into a Thursday.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Everyone will be into a Thursday shortly.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And yet again, the NBA trade deadline has upstaged super
Bowl Week and proven to be more fruitful than the
unwatchable product they put on the court most nights in
the NBA. Now, we'll get into the NBA once the
playoffs come around. Playoffs, as Fox Sports radio legend Jim
Morris said back in the day, but a lot of
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back room wheeling and dealing has continued, and we are monitoring,
even in this remote studio, we are monitoring all activity.
If anything happens, if there's a trade two hours from now,
we are gonna be all over it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
We're gonna give you the inside skinny on that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now, with the trade deadline music coming to a stop
later on Thursday afternoon, the mav Rex did some last
minute I guess it's not spring, so it wasn't spring cleaning.
They just decided to do some cleaning here in early February.
And I assume you've heard by now, but maybe not.
Maybe you've been down by the river and you haven't
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been paying attention. But the Mavericks have dumped Anthony David. Yep,
Anthony that guy, I know, Anthony Davis, along with some
spare parts like D'Angelo Russell. Boy, that guy gets shipped around.
Don't you like a fruitcake? They all go to the
Wizards in an eight player mega deal.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
In exchange, the mav Rex received Chris Middleton, Chris Middleton
and spare parts plus two first round draft picks.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Who cares about that? Those come via the Wizards.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
They get one from Oklahoma City, which will be next draft.
That'll probably be the last pick, and then a twenty
to thirty pick by Golden State. They might be back
to the Donald Foyle Warriors. They made a trade as well.
We'll get to that in a minute, but that's a
Warriors pick in twenty thirty and I gaggle of second
round picks. Now that is a good jumping off point,
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so let us discuss. We're going to keep this simple.
No need to get too difficult on this. So the
question you make the call who wins the Anthony Davis
trade to Washington? As this is the second consecutive here
almost to the day that Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Has been traded.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He went from the Lakers to Dallas in one of
the darkest moments in Maverick's history and really embarrassing for
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And then Davis now goes to Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So my thoughts on this, I've got beater car, PB
and C and whaling and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Some delicious, delicious.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Garlic onion pizza is what we're gonna make. I drove
through on my way here. I didn't fly I'm an
overnight guy and I'm fly drive, and I drove through Gilroy,
which is one of my favorite spots. I didn't get
to stop there, unfortunately, because I was on a tight schedule.
But the Garlic Mecca, the Holy Land of the Garlic.
Oh so good Town smells like garlic. I should just
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move there.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It smells like garlic anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So who wins? You make the call? Who wins the
Anthony davistrade to Washington. So on this one, we're gonna
flip a We're gonna flip the magical coin, and we
look at this unlike Benny versus the penny, which is
now up. You can watch the super Bowl thing. Don't
do it now though, because we're doing the radio shows.
So wait till the show's over. They can watch it.
But we flip the magical coin up, the malord magical coin,
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and it lands heads. You lose tails, You also lose,
so lose lose. This is you get root canal. You
get root canal. Everyone gets root canal. However, if you
put a butcher knife to my neck and forced me
to pick, it is Dallas by default. Dallas wins this
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trade by default. It's not exactly a moral you know,
a celebratory moment, victory parade. Now my word for all
of this, the reason I'm giving the edge to the
Dallas Mavericks on the Anthony Davis trade to Washington, the
word is therapeutic.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
This is the.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Dallas Mavericks walking into group therapy group of counseling and saying.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Hey, yeah, we got a problem, we got a problem.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And Anthony Davis, I know he didn't play because he's
you know, nicknamed street clothes.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Why would he play.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But when he does show up and sit on the bench,
it is a painful reminder of the systemic incompetence of
the reign of terror by Nico Harrison that they just
gave Luca away. He gave him to the Lakers for
that stiff Anthony Davis. Davis is an emotional splinter, and
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I saw.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It, you know what it's like.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's like having you know, every not every neighborhood has this,
but some neighbors I used to live in one, and
they you go down the street and then there's a
couple of people that are just hoarders and they have
like those junk beater cars on wooden blocks out in
front of their house on the driveway, and there's like
mosque growing on it. There's a family of raccoons that
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are living inside. It's it's a pest motel, all kinds
of vermin, and you end up lowering the property values.
The unibrow I think the number I read was twenty
nine games in one year in Dalla us the most
fragile man.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
They should change the beer commercials, stay thirsty or just
stay sitting on your took us. So Dallas turned this
into a salvage and recovery mission. I love the fact
that the trade they got with Washington, the featured player
or the featured item is former Bucks supporting actor Chris Middleton,
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who is an extra with the speaking line. And that's
who the Mavericks got back. And I said, listen, they
got the kid, the prodigy from Maine. That's who the
Mavericks are building around. And it's his world now and
the flag is up. But the return this was a
hoarders paradise. You've got Florida ceiling role players, has bins
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and never wears bingo cards masquerading his draft picks.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And the point is.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Though, that this is is addition by subtraction. You won't
have to stare at Anthony Davis sitting there with a
day's look on his face on the bench because he
can't play because he's always hurt. So Dallas didn't win
because of talent. I don't care about draft picks. You do,
that's your michig Os.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I'm over it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I've grown up. I don't care about draft picks. I
hate them. So the Dallas won, they won some relief. Now, Meanwhile,
it takes two to tango, I'm told in the NBA
trading game unless you just trade and release people, which
there are a couple of trades that have happened this
week where you just traded for a player not to
keep them.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It blows me away that still goes on in the NBA. Anyway.
The question on this one.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Why why would the Wizards, knowing what we know about
the Unibrow, why would the Wizards sign up for the
Anthony Davis Experience?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Like, seriously, why would they do that? Well, I have a.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Theory on this after a minute long Mallard deliberation. It
is because this is what bad teams do when they
finally lose their appetite of sucking. Washington has been playing
Dungeons and Dragons for years. They're stuck in the dungeon
the cellar, and they're they're rolling the dice and they're
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searching for a dragon. They can't find a fire breathing dragon.
They can't even find any dragons. The dragon never shows up.
At some point you look down and realize that for
almost a decade you have been eating PB and C sandwiches.
Not PB and J those are good. You've been eating
PB and C sandwiches. That's peanut butter and crap jelly
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sandwiches for eight straight seasons.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Everybody beats the Wiz.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
There used to be a great ad campaign when I
would visit my brother in New York, and it was
nobody beats the Wiz. But this is a updated Everyone
beats the Whiz. So they finally hit the inflection point,
the breaking point, if you will. You can only get
vaporized so many years in a row before you say,
you know what, I'd rather be medio than a punching bag.
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And that's what to me, that is what this symbolizes.
If you're the Washington Wizards, if you're Rick and Maryland,
he said morning time, right, So they trade for Anthony
Davis soon to be thirty three next month, Happy early birthday.
The injury report. I looked this up. It's amazing. You
can look it up on Wikipedia. Anthony Davis's injury report
is longer than a filibuster on the Senate floor, and
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people still grumble. I did an entire podcast, my Fifth
Hour podcast, which I know you listen to because you're
not a fraud, fake p one, You're a real p one.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
So you listen to the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I know Alf's shaking his head or nodding his head,
and so's Fergduck and malor Propkay.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, So we did a whole rant about all the
injuries the most.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He literally is the most injured man in the NBA.
And you know, spoiler for the Wizards rebuilding forever. Tanking
and drafting is not a plan. It is a lifestyle choice.
Is not a good lifestyle choice. The Wizards chose adult
and they get to pair Anthony Davis for once. He
play twenty five percent of the games. Congratulations, twenty five
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percent of the games with Trey Young. You raise the
floor for those games. You sell maybe a few tickets.
Some of those hacked politicians in DC will go watch
you play, and you play a better brand of basketball.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Is it risky? Well? Is it really?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I mean I guess to some degree. Right, tanking though,
is a slow death. It's a slow death, and this
is at least a different kind of pain. It's still
pain because Anthony Davis is a heartbreaker. He doesn't play,
he doesn't like basketball. He's always hurt. Just I guess bad.
It's good genetics, and Bade, it's good genetics because he's
a professional athlete and he's massively built to play in
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the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Ain't bad because he can't play.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's like mid level misery beats bottom feeding humiliation.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
And that is the whole story. Now the last word here.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
We go now head to the Bay Area where we're
broadcasting from. Golden State has entered the flea market, and
we have learned a trade that happened not that long
ago before we cracked the microphones here on Fox Sports
Radio on the Ben Malors Show, Atlanta and Golden State
have gotten together and they are sending Chris stops.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Porzingis to the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Atlanta is for Jonathan Kaminga and Buddy Ball Buddy Healed.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The Unicorn is headed to San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So the question, what is your assessment of Chris stops
porzingis a trade that went down not that long ago.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
As he is headed to Golden State. All right, so
this is this.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I love the spin job, and you always go with
the spin job and say, well that's not true, you.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Go with the spin job.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The Warriors for the last two months have been connected
to who connect the dots? Giannis adent to Coombo. Now Yannis,
unless it just happened, has not been traded. He's still
property of the Milwaukee Bucks, not playing also as he
has a protest there in the land of the Cheese.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So the Warriors, they went out whaling.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
They were hoping to catch the big blue whale or
in this case, the green whale, and they had a
yacht sized net out. The Golden State Warriors did. And
they came back and they looked at what they had caught,
and it wasn't a blue whale. It wasn't any kind
of whale. They had a nice can of sardines.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's what they got. They got a can of sardines.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So instead of the Greek freak, they land Chris tops Porzingis.
This is known as the better Luck Next Time bundle. Well,
I didn't want that bundle, but you got the bundle.
You got the better Luck Next Time bundle. This is
the thanks for Trying gift bag. We really do thank
you for trying. It's really cool that you tried. And
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here's a nice gift back. Zingis isn't bad. He's not bad.
But let's call it what it is. This is a
poor man's Anthony Davis. We just did about ten minutes
fifteen minutes on Anthony Davis. When he plays much like Davis.
When Porzingis can shoot, he in theory, would be the
perfect addition to what the Warriors playoffensively. He can stretch
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the floor, he can score. It's the when part of it.
That is the Komodo dragon in the room and Steve
Kerr swing back swing bat well, he swung big and
he missed and the mighty curR struck out. And now
I guess they want applause for landing the consolation prize. Eh,
give you a golf clap, give you that. And so
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this is an expiring contract, so it's low risk. Okay,
I don't really care about that. That's that's your deal.
I don't work on Wall Street. That's a count and talk.
That's bean counter talk. And this doesn't scare anybody when
May gets around, because they know porzing this is going
to break down. Now he is reunited with his old
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pow from the Celtics, Al Horford. I'm sure that all
feels great. Reunited it feels so good. Cute little story,
zero intimidation. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Jonathan Kaminga escapes Steve kurrz doghouse.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
He gets a fresh start, a bigger role, and another.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
One of these guys where you're like, Okay, is this
the guy?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Is this the guy? Can't he be the man?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You're never going to be the man when Steph Curry
is the man in Golden State. And you might remember
a couple of years ago, the Golden State Warriors had
another player. All Right, this guy's pretty good, but he's
being held back. Not a fan favorite for Draymond Green.
Not a fan favorite for Draymond Green. But you might
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remember the Warriors they traded into Washington. He end up stinking,
ended up stinking there in Washington. We'll see what happens
with Kaminga in Atlanta. And he's not had the opportunity
to be the alpha. There's no alphas in Atlanta. They
all stink the Hawks. I guess if he turns out
to be good, fine, I'm buddy, heal Its just a
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he might be traded again by before the deadline. He's
just a shooter, that's it. One, not a five skill player.
Is a one skill player. So again the Warriors tried
to get Giannis and they wanted the crown jewel and
they ended up getting costume jewelry is what they got.
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Speaker 1 (17:40):
Arlie, this hour is from Motown. We go to Motown
where the music hasn't been good in a while, and
the Tigers have decided to make a splash splash in
free agency. Say what you're talking baseball? It's Super Bowl
We I'm telling you this is how dull these teams are.
The Patriot it's in the Seahawks. We're talking about Detroit
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Tiger baseball. Baby, because some news came out, We've learned
that a this is a follow up to a mile
of monologue that we gave you the other day. Free
agent pitcher Framburg Valdez, late of the cheating as Rose,
and he has agreed to terms with the Detroit Tigers
on a one hundred and fifteen million dollars three year contract.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
A little birdie was chirping, trip trip, trip trip.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Now Liberty says it will be the highest average annual
value aa V, as the kids like to say, for
a left handed pitcher in baseball history. So take that,
Sandy Kofax and all you other losers, this Framber Valdez,
the highest paid on a single year average in baseball history.
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Now Valdez, who has been somewhat durable, but he's a
place for the cheaters.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He has played for the cheers.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So now he will take his talents to the Detroit
Tigers rotation, which is currently anchored by the top pitcher
in baseball American League, Cy Young winner Trek Scouoble, a
multi time Platinum Trek Scooble, who is still hanging out
in Motown. He's also going to arbitration. That ruling should
be down soon, and you gotta think he's gonna win that. However,
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stranger things have happened. Human beings are involved anyway. So
the story here is that Framber Valdez, it looked like
nobody wanted him, and he ends up getting a contract.
I of course immediately got an email from a how
should I say it? I want to keep my job,
A deplorable a hole fan? How about that from Houston?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So you were wrongballer. You did twenty minutes on Frambervelt
Dees and he designed with the Tigers and you don't
know what you're talking about. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I'm glad that you emailed me, and I did. I
right back to this guy. Now, why would I write back?
I have the bully pulpit. I can bury the guy
right here. Okay, I can bear the guy right here.
So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question what is your knee jerk reaction to starting
pitcher Franbur Valdez heading to the Detroit Tigers Big Baseball
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signing there? Spring training starts in less than two weeks.
Less than two weeks, all right, So my observations, I've
got bowling ball, porterhouse, steak, and wandering officer, and we
will lock all of these things together and we are
going to play Connect three is what we're.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Going to play. So this is number one. All right?
This is a late night TV commercial. Wait, there's more.
All right. Operators are standing by right now.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You can pull out props and be like a prop
comedian or a late night infomercial and drop a bowling
ball on a pillow, A my pillow. It's a my
pillow contract, no bound. So I was actually right about this.
This is a pillow contract. And bring in Mike Lindell
and all that. Not the five to six year contract
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that Valdez wanted for the schmuck a astro fan astro fan.
He wanted a five or six year deal. Nobody offered
him that. This is now, it's a pillow contract. It's
a luxury pillow with an opt out tag that's still
attached to it. He's got a lot of cash per year, however,
just not the full price that he wanted. And so
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Valdez will stay for two years. It's got two years,
and then he can hit the eject button and go
back into the transfer portal, go back to the market,
hit the snooze button, and of course if he doesn't pitch, well,
if he doesn't pitch, well, he's going to continue to
winter in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Like he's spent his summer in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And don't forget also that Framberg got a little He's
still got a little bit of that funky funky bo
from Houston on him hanging out all those years with
the cheating you know who, the cheating you know who,
banging on trash cans and blowing into whistles.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Hey, I check them for the buzzer, checking for the buzzer. Now.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He also last season famously during a game this made
for good talk radio. It was taboo in the community
of baseball. He called out his catcher and went deeper
than that. So despite this big AAV average annual value Framberg,
he's going to a team where he's not going to
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be the alpha in Motown.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
He is not. He is the sidekick.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
He's the Robin to Trek Schouble as batman, which in
theories like, well, you're not the number one guy, there's
limited pressure in that. You slide in as the number
two and you pitch in October and then you're hiding
out behind school ball. Let the Tigers do the heavy
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lifting and all that stuff. Detroit's loaded. Legit loaded the
world like World Series loaded? And Toronto are they? Are
they going to replace Toronto as the American League team
in the World Series? Because it's really the Dodgers have
already won the National League pennant.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I don't know if you know that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The Dodgers wrapped up the National League pennant, and so
we're just waiting to find out who's gonna win the
American League pennant.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Uh and so again, But the wider angle lens, the
wider angle lens on this it's a, it's a game
of back back Chicken and Valdez Framber Valdez flinched. He
should have taken the Council of the Malar Think Tank
and waited, uh, once arms start popping, we mentioned rice
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crispy snap crackle pop, and it's gonna happen in less
than two weeks. In the Cactus League and the Grapefruit League,
prices go up, teams get desperate, and instead he said,
you know what I want, A nice pillow right now.
I hope it's a memory foam pillow. That's what I
hope for you. Fram Burg, All right now, page two
we go to La speaking of Sho hal Tani and
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he shall appear. So the Dodgers superstar, the face of Baseball,
Sorry Aaron Judge, Global Baseball Shoe Haotani. Dodgers are the
most popular team at Shoe Heotani. So, Shoeotani admitted recently
did an interview. He doesn't do a lot of interviews,
but he admitted that he likes the team. This is
going to shock you. He likes the team. Spending spree
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the Dodgers over the last couple of off seasons. And yeah,
they've they've been getting a lot of pushback. You know,
a lot of you people are losers and you push
back against the Dodgers. So Otani said, he believes that
the Dodgers massive spending spree is good for baseball. Third rail, momaam,
that's the third rail, he said. Quote this is a
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quote from Otani translated. He said, yeah, I think with
what the ownership group has done, it's great.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Otani said.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I mean, obviously the fans pay money, they buy tickets,
and they you know, he said, they come to the game.
So I think that the money is being used back
to sign these great players and put up and put
out a winning product on the field.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
All right, question shoe Aotani says the Dodgers spending spree
is good for baseball.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
How is that going over? How is this going over?
These comments by Otani.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
So this is after a two minute, not three minute,
not one minute, two minute, two minute investigation, This is
actually a penalty, and in the eyes of the baseball community,
it's an instigator penalty. And Otani actually has to go
to the penalty box for two minutes, two minutes instigator
penalty for show ALTONI. This is Otani lighting a cigar.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Lighting a cigar with a double double wrapped hundred dollar
bills and right in front of the poverty franchises in Major.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
League Baseball is what he's doing. And the thing that
blows me away.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
And I've talked about this in the past, but there's
new people listening all the time to The Ben Mathershow,
and we thank you for that. Tell a friend, these
loser fans who don't have the fighting spirit. It's bad enough,
they're teams that they follow have no guts. Right, the
fan bases have embraced that. It blows me away. Why
(26:31):
are you like that? You don't want to be the
team that beats Goliath? Apparently, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
For my entire life growing up, it was always.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Man, you want to take down that big, powerful, dominant team, Right,
you wanted to beat whenever the Yankees had a dynasty.
You want to be the team that took down the Yankees, Right,
you want to take them down and all that. In
this case, though, it's like, well, it's a Dodgers and
we can't beat them, so we'll run from the grind
and instead we just want Major League Baseball to cut
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the blue Dodger balls off and give them real blue balls,
no balls.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
So Otani what he does? What he did here?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Otani tossed a porterhouse steak into a hungry lion's den.
It's sea salt on an open wound. It's also hilarious
seeing the reaction, the feeding frenzy from fans of suck
bag teams who aren't trying to win, and they're already
bleeding and all that. And Otani strolls in there wearing
a blue and gold iron Man armor outfit and says, hey.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
This is great, man? Is this great? What did you
expect him to say? You expect? Well, I'm a little embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
The Dodgers spend too much money and I happen to
be one of the players that's on the team. And
please Gougenheim group, tighten the purse strings, Please don't spend
this money.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Come on, no, come on, the Dodgers spoil these players.
They travel better than all the other American sports athletes.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
And I believe globally there might be some soccer team,
but from what I heard, they're the only team that segregates.
The players have one plane, and the media, the trainers,
the coaching staff, all the supports staff there have a
different plane. That's how spoiled the rotten These Dodgers are right,
And you want Otani to say, nah, we don't need that.
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This is the Gilded Age. It's what it is, and
he's the king. This is Rockefeller, like vibes. If you've
studied American history, it's Rockefeller. Otani's living in Baseball's taj Mahal.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
And all these people are out there.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Protesting, saying, you gotta you can't be doing that, Oh
my god, and Otani basically says, suck it to the trolls.
And I love it, right, I love it. It's great. The
fans get gouge Dodger fans with overprized merch and overpriced
snacks and all that ticket price is parking the whole thing.
And at least the ownership group they spend, they spend,
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and good for them.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
So that's it. That's the sales pitch.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
The fans overpay for this junk the owners spends, and
that's what's supposed to happen. In other places, that's not
the case. And if you sign with the Dodgers, you
get the red carpet, not a coupon book like you're
playing for the Pirates or the Rays or the A's.
It's capitalism with pine tar all over it. Here's the truth.
(29:23):
Nobody wants to say out loud. This isn't about baseball health.
It's about cheap owners getting exposed.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Is what it is, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Meanwhile, final point, we go to the NFL. That's right,
we go from baseball to the NFL. I had to
mention this. Go to Arizona. The Cardinals. I don't know if
you saw this or not. They agreed to a deal
with Nathaniel Hackett as their offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yep, yep, that's.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
The same guy. That's not you know, he thought he
might have changed his name. Nathaniel Hackett. He's in his
mid forties. He was an offensive coordinator for Matt LeFleur
in Green Bay. He was in Jacksonville. He's bounced around
the NFL. He's not good at his job. He also
failed spectacularly with the Broncos. And now Nathaniel Hackett will
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team up with the other Lafleur. That's how he's known,
Mike LeFleur in Arizona. So the question for the esteem panel,
Nathaniel Hackett picks up the keys to the Cardinals offense.
How on God's green Earth does Nathaniel Hackett keep getting
these gigs? Seriously? So it's not and I knew this
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going in. It's not what you know because he's pretty
bad at his job. It's who you know. And Nathaniel
Hackett is a NEPO baby. He was he was born
into a coaching family. I covered the University of Southern
California Trojans'. His dad, Paul Hackett, was the coach, not
a good one back in the day. And so Nathaniel
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Hackett's that's the family business in coaching, and that helps out.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Now I should be clear.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Hackett, Nathaniel Hackett is not going to be calling the
plays for the Cardinals, And so that means this is
one of those plum gigs. You get the title, you
get the corner office. It's a smile and just nod
in the meetings. Make sure you bring the right donuts.
Make sure you bring the right donuts. Want the glazed donuts,
A couple of Long Johns, a bear claw and an
(31:23):
apple fritter, and you got to go to the meetings.
Make sure that those again bear claw, apple fritter, glazed donuts.
And then you bring those to the meeting and don't
touch anything else. Don't touch the overhead projector don't do it,
don't do not do it. And Hackett is like, you know,
he's like, he's like that degenerate cousin that nobody trusts
(31:47):
with the car keys. However, you feel bad for him.
It's like a friend of the family. And so I
guess the Flair family. They keep letting him crash on
the couch and he smells, he doesn't shower, he's got
disheveled the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Wow, So seriously, why.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Does Hackett keep landing chops? Now my theory on this,
I've got free words. Uh, barbecue pit boss are my
three words. In Green Bay, they swore up and down
that this guy could smoke meat like a wizard. Okay,
he was the wizard of smoked meat. Forget red zone efficiency.
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Who cares about that? This guy his offense is a
mean brisket. And if you've ever had properly cooked brisket,
it's one of the great things about being alive. You
never want to die because of the brisket. You want
to live forever, so you're gonna have more brisket. You
do even if you're a vegan, you want more brisket.
It's that good. So Hackett is wandering. He's you know what,
(32:51):
He's a wandering officer. And I believe that's the phrase,
wandering officer, drifting from team to team and the personal
the personnel file is sealed and failures are buried under experience.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
He's experienced. He's really good with a side of.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Cow and protected by the good old boys network of coaching.
And they're desperate and they just keep hiring these same people.
This isn't innovation, it's football nepotism. And there are some
sauce stains from the brisket.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
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Speaker 3 (33:37):
It's Mallar how about that? To the third degree? This
is one big vent gets grilled ululoo.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
On Tuesday, new Cardinals head coach Mike Lafleur had his
introductory press conference and revealed that the team is undecided
on the future of Kyler Murray.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Ben, do you think Murray is in Arizona at the
start of the season.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Oh, he might be there to play video games, but
he's not gonna be playing quarterback for the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Now he will be traded.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And when you say you're when you say you're undecided,
you're not bringing him back. He's They got to find
a sucker to take it. Maybe the Steelers will take him.
The little fella alligator arms right.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Next, it was reported this week that before getting dealt
to the Rockets, Kevin Durant veto to trade to the Timberwolves.
Rockets are playoff contenders in the West at thirty one
and seventeen, Wolves aren't far behind. Ben, do you think
Minnesota is better off not having gotten Durant?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, they seem like they're doing Okay. We'll find out
in the playoffs. I guess Durant didn't want the cold weather.
He wanted to hang on Houston. I guess that's the thing.
But for now we'll soo cokay. I mean, it's really
just how you play that two months stretch in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Next, Michael Porter Junior made a recent podcast appearance where
he said that he believes Jamal Murray is underappreciated and
has his reputation hurt by playing alongside Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Do you think that's true?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Uh, yeah, Yeah, I think that's true. I think he
was thought of as a weaker player because that how
we do kopol Loop.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
How'd we do?
Speaker 6 (34:53):
You passed this edition?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
That is it? When put her on the board right there?
You can't?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, I mean porters. You know you play with Jokics.
It's all about right, It's all about Yokis. So it's
all about.
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Speaker 1 (35:26):
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Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
These are actual questions by actual listeners sent in using
the hashtag ask Ben. And now over to the Kooper
Loop with the reading of the questions.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Donkey Sausage. Hi, Donkey, he wants to know are
you doing anything special for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I have not spent one second thinking about that, although
I probably should. It's ten days away. I didn't even realize.
I'm just trying to make it through the day. Donkey sausage.
I haven't thought about that. What about you? Big plans?
Mark and Coop mark Valentine's Day and then go work
your magic somewhere.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
Yes, zero plans, all right, Coop?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Any big plans there?
Speaker 6 (36:20):
I have dinner reservations.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Oh you already have reservations. That's planning ahead.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Did you make them? Or did she make them?
Speaker 6 (36:27):
I made them?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Okay, I did that? Do you want to go there
more than she does? Or does she want to go
there more.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Than you do? We both chose the place.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Oh you like the restaurant? I got you? What's next?
Just ask man? Your questions are answers right now?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
What day of the week is Saturday?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I was a Saturday? Oh good, Okay, we're not We're
not working that day.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
Yeah, all right?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
What's next?
Speaker 6 (36:48):
All right?
Speaker 5 (36:49):
The King Rory? Two good questions here from the King Rory.
Let's go with what is your favorite type of soup?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Favorite type of soup? Let's see your favorite type of soup. Well,
I love mazzi ball soup like chicken massible soup. I
also love French onion those are the big two. A
good French onion, which is hard to find.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Great? What about you mark just.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
Your average chicken noodle soup?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
You know you're just a basic? Uh, you know what?
Speaker 7 (37:20):
Basic? And some crackers. I'm a big fan of crackers.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
What about what about the bagel chips? It's a form
of a cracker. You know, it's a bagel. You ever
had those?
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Never heard of them?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Really?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
You gotta go over well, you go to Langers, or
you go in l A here, you can go to
any of the big delis.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Have about cool? What about you coop?
Speaker 7 (37:41):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
I like pretty much all soup, but if I had
to pick a favorite, I think I'd.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Have to go with clam chowder.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Clam chatta, Yeah, sucking up to the people in Boston.
I see what you're doing there. What's next year in
New England? Clam chowder?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:57):
All right, let's see. Lady Sideburns.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Hi, Lady Sideburns. My favorite lady with sideburns is Lady Sideburns.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Likes to know when strolling through the grocery store, you
spot a loaf of bread that had fallen on the floor.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Do you pick it up and put it back? Or
do you pretend that you never even saw it.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, So it depends if I'm in a hurry or not.
Usually I'll try to help out and pick it up.
There have been times, I'm not gonna lie. There have
been times where I'm in.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
A hurry and I do not do that.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And there have been times I walk through the grocery
store I'm like, how did this happen? Like there's a
ton of stuff on the floor, Like it's like it's amazing.
But I usually, if it's like one thing and I
am not in a hurry, I'll help out.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
What about you, Mark, I'll pick it up and make
sure the name shows you know you put it put
it back properly.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Oh, you'll put it professionally.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
I do what I can.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yes, giving back to the community and supermarket. Steve thanks
you in advance. He does, he does.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Yeah, all right, what's next year? It's ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour
hashtag ask band. And we do have a lot of
people working at grocery stores that listen to the show.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Third Dog would like to know, yer, have you ever
turned off the Big Game because it was a blowout?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Not turn it off? But I've not paid attention. It's
in the background. It's really lopsided. All not really like
the Chiefs game last year with the Eagles and Chiefs
was a blowout.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I didn't really pay attention in the fourth quarter. What
about you, Mark, No, I'll leave.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
It on just so I could see what happens to
the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I got you, all right, cool.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
I have never turned it off, but I do specifically
remember that my dad and I both fell asleep during
the Raiders Tampa Bay Super Bowl back in the day.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
That was the Rich Gannon special there with all the interceptions. Yes,
Barrett Robbins going to Tijuana, that's right, Yeah, all right,
what's next year?
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Gunnar wants to know do you like what do you
like more? Fishing or hunting?
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Fishing? What about you, Mark?
Speaker 7 (39:56):
I like buying my food, all right.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Yeah, I've never gone hunting, and fishing kind of sucks.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah, well, fishing
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
So we have made our way the never ending journey.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We've arrived here from a very secret location somewhere in
northern California, not far away. We're not actually at Radio Row.
We're not allowed at Radio Row. They won't allow me
in there. I'll be there during the day, but at
night they don't want the riffraff. The overnight crowd not
permitted at Radio Row. That is taboo. So we are
at a secret location with very high ceilings here.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I understand that tomorrow it'll sound better, will be in
a different location, but for tonight you just have to
put up with it. Not anything's that bad. I don't
think it's that bad at the proper microphone. So the
show goes on. We're excited to be here, and there's
not too much going on with the Super Bowl. I
wish there was, but there's just not a lot of
great stories. These teams aren't that interesting, that they don't
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have dynamic personalities, and there's really no star power on
either team, which is problematic if you do a talk
radio show.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
The good news is that pro Bouncy Ball has been
very active and the trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now it's still late on a Wednesday on the West Coast,
but we're sliding into a Thursday.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Everyone will be into a Thursday shortly.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And yet again, the NBA trade deadline has upstaged super
Bowl Week and proven to be more fruitful than the
unwatchable product they put on the court most nights in
the NBA. Now, we'll get into the NBA once the
playoffs come around. Playoffs, as Fox Sports radio legend Jim
Morris said back in the day, but a lot of
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back room wheeling and dealing has continued, and we are monitoring,
even in this remote studio, we are monitoring all activity.
If anything happens, if there's a trade two hours from now,
we are gonna be all over it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
We're gonna give you the inside skinny on that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now, with the trade deadline music coming to a stop
later on Thursday afternoon, the mav Rex did some last
minute I guess it's not spring, so it wasn't spring cleaning.
They just decided to do some cleaning here in early February.
And I assume you've heard by now, but maybe not.
Maybe you've been down by the river and you haven't
(02:40):
been paying attention. But the Mavericks have dumped Anthony David. Yep,
Anthony that guy, I know, Anthony Davis, along with some
spare parts like D'Angelo Russell. Boy, that guy gets shipped around.
Don't you like a fruitcake? They all go to the
Wizards in an eight player mega deal.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
In exchange, the mav Rex received Chris Middleton, Chris Middleton
and spare parts plus two first round draft picks.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Who cares about that? Those come via the Wizards.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
They get one from Oklahoma City, which will be next draft.
That'll probably be the last pick, and then a twenty
to thirty pick by Golden State. They might be back
to the Donald Foyle Warriors. They made a trade as well.
We'll get to that in a minute, but that's a
Warriors pick in twenty thirty and I gaggle of second
round picks. Now that is a good jumping off point,
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so let us discuss. We're going to keep this simple.
No need to get too difficult on this. So the
question you make the call who wins the Anthony Davis
trade to Washington? As this is the second consecutive here
almost to the day that Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Has been traded.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He went from the Lakers to Dallas in one of
the darkest moments in Maverick's history and really embarrassing for
the NBA.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And then Davis now goes to Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So my thoughts on this, I've got beater car, PB
and C and whaling and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Some delicious, delicious.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Garlic onion pizza is what we're gonna make. I drove
through on my way here. I didn't fly I'm an
overnight guy and I'm fly drive, and I drove through Gilroy,
which is one of my favorite spots. I didn't get
to stop there, unfortunately, because I was on a tight schedule.
But the Garlic Mecca, the Holy Land of the Garlic.
Oh so good Town smells like garlic. I should just
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move there.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It smells like garlic anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So who wins? You make the call? Who wins the
Anthony davistrade to Washington. So on this one, we're gonna
flip a We're gonna flip the magical coin, and we
look at this unlike Benny versus the penny, which is
now up. You can watch the super Bowl thing. Don't
do it now though, because we're doing the radio shows.
So wait till the show's over. They can watch it.
But we flip the magical coin up, the malord magical coin,
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and it lands heads. You lose tails, You also lose,
so lose lose. This is you get root canal. You
get root canal. Everyone gets root canal. However, if you
put a butcher knife to my neck and forced me
to pick, it is Dallas by default. Dallas wins this
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trade by default. It's not exactly a moral you know,
a celebratory moment, victory parade. Now my word for all
of this, the reason I'm giving the edge to the
Dallas Mavericks on the Anthony Davis trade to Washington, the
word is therapeutic.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
This is the.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Dallas Mavericks walking into group therapy group of counseling and saying.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Hey, yeah, we got a problem, we got a problem.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And Anthony Davis, I know he didn't play because he's
you know, nicknamed street clothes.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Why would he play.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But when he does show up and sit on the bench,
it is a painful reminder of the systemic incompetence of
the reign of terror by Nico Harrison that they just
gave Luca away. He gave him to the Lakers for
that stiff Anthony Davis. Davis is an emotional splinter, and
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I saw.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It, you know what it's like.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
It's like having you know, every not every neighborhood has this,
but some neighbors I used to live in one, and
they you go down the street and then there's a
couple of people that are just hoarders and they have
like those junk beater cars on wooden blocks out in
front of their house on the driveway, and there's like
mosque growing on it. There's a family of raccoons that
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are living inside. It's it's a pest motel, all kinds
of vermin, and you end up lowering the property values.
The unibrow I think the number I read was twenty
nine games in one year in Dalla us the most
fragile man.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
They should change the beer commercials, stay thirsty or just
stay sitting on your took us. So Dallas turned this
into a salvage and recovery mission. I love the fact
that the trade they got with Washington, the featured player
or the featured item is former Bucks supporting actor Chris Middleton,
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who is an extra with the speaking line. And that's
who the Mavericks got back. And I said, listen, they
got the kid, the prodigy from Maine. That's who the
Mavericks are building around. And it's his world now and
the flag is up. But the return this was a
hoarders paradise. You've got Florida ceiling role players, has bins
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and never wears bingo cards masquerading his draft picks.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And the point is.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Though, that this is is addition by subtraction. You won't
have to stare at Anthony Davis sitting there with a
day's look on his face on the bench because he
can't play because he's always hurt. So Dallas didn't win
because of talent. I don't care about draft picks. You do,
that's your michig Os.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I'm over it.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I've grown up. I don't care about draft picks. I
hate them. So the Dallas won, they won some relief. Now, Meanwhile,
it takes two to tango, I'm told in the NBA
trading game unless you just trade and release people, which
there are a couple of trades that have happened this
week where you just traded for a player not to
keep them.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
It blows me away that still goes on in the NBA. Anyway.
The question on this one.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Why why would the Wizards, knowing what we know about
the Unibrow, why would the Wizards sign up for the
Anthony Davis Experience?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Like, seriously, why would they do that? Well, I have a.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Theory on this after a minute long Mallard deliberation. It
is because this is what bad teams do when they
finally lose their appetite of sucking. Washington has been playing
Dungeons and Dragons for years. They're stuck in the dungeon
the cellar, and they're they're rolling the dice and they're
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searching for a dragon. They can't find a fire breathing dragon.
They can't even find any dragons. The dragon never shows up.
At some point you look down and realize that for
almost a decade you have been eating PB and C sandwiches.
Not PB and J those are good. You've been eating
PB and C sandwiches. That's peanut butter and crap jelly
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sandwiches for eight straight seasons.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Everybody beats the Wiz.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
There used to be a great ad campaign when I
would visit my brother in New York, and it was
nobody beats the Wiz. But this is a updated Everyone
beats the Whiz. So they finally hit the inflection point,
the breaking point, if you will. You can only get
vaporized so many years in a row before you say,
you know what, I'd rather be medio than a punching bag.
(10:02):
And that's what to me, that is what this symbolizes.
If you're the Washington Wizards, if you're Rick and Maryland,
he said morning time, right, So they trade for Anthony
Davis soon to be thirty three next month, Happy early birthday.
The injury report. I looked this up. It's amazing. You
can look it up on Wikipedia. Anthony Davis's injury report
is longer than a filibuster on the Senate floor, and
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people still grumble. I did an entire podcast, my Fifth
Hour podcast, which I know you listen to because you're
not a fraud, fake p one, You're a real p one.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
So you listen to the Fifth Hour podcast.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I know Alf's shaking his head or nodding his head,
and so's Fergduck and malor Propkay.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, So we did a whole rant about all the
injuries the most.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He literally is the most injured man in the NBA.
And you know, spoiler for the Wizards rebuilding forever. Tanking
and drafting is not a plan. It is a lifestyle choice.
Is not a good lifestyle choice. The Wizards chose adult
and they get to pair Anthony Davis for once. He
play twenty five percent of the games. Congratulations, twenty five
(11:08):
percent of the games with Trey Young. You raise the
floor for those games. You sell maybe a few tickets.
Some of those hacked politicians in DC will go watch
you play, and you play a better brand of basketball.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Is it risky? Well? Is it really?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I mean I guess to some degree. Right, tanking though,
is a slow death. It's a slow death, and this
is at least a different kind of pain. It's still
pain because Anthony Davis is a heartbreaker. He doesn't play,
he doesn't like basketball. He's always hurt. Just I guess bad.
It's good genetics, and Bade, it's good genetics because he's
a professional athlete and he's massively built to play in
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the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Ain't bad because he can't play.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's like mid level misery beats bottom feeding humiliation.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
And that is the whole story. Now the last word here.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
We go now head to the Bay Area where we're
broadcasting from. Golden State has entered the flea market, and
we have learned a trade that happened not that long
ago before we cracked the microphones here on Fox Sports
Radio on the Ben Malors Show, Atlanta and Golden State
have gotten together and they are sending Chris stops.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Porzingis to the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Atlanta is for Jonathan Kaminga and Buddy Ball Buddy Healed.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
The Unicorn is headed to San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So the question, what is your assessment of Chris stops
porzingis a trade that went down not that long ago.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
As he is headed to Golden State. All right, so
this is this.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I love the spin job, and you always go with
the spin job and say, well that's not true, you.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Go with the spin job.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
The Warriors for the last two months have been connected
to who connect the dots? Giannis adent to Coombo. Now Yannis,
unless it just happened, has not been traded. He's still
property of the Milwaukee Bucks, not playing also as he
has a protest there in the land of the Cheese.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So the Warriors, they went out whaling.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
They were hoping to catch the big blue whale or
in this case, the green whale, and they had a
yacht sized net out. The Golden State Warriors did. And
they came back and they looked at what they had caught,
and it wasn't a blue whale. It wasn't any kind
of whale. They had a nice can of sardines.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
That's what they got. They got a can of sardines.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So instead of the Greek freak, they land Chris tops Porzingis.
This is known as the better Luck Next Time bundle. Well,
I didn't want that bundle, but you got the bundle.
You got the better Luck Next Time bundle. This is
the thanks for Trying gift bag. We really do thank
you for trying. It's really cool that you tried. And
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here's a nice gift back. Zingis isn't bad. He's not bad.
But let's call it what it is. This is a
poor man's Anthony Davis. We just did about ten minutes
fifteen minutes on Anthony Davis. When he plays much like Davis.
When Porzingis can shoot, he in theory, would be the
perfect addition to what the Warriors playoffensively. He can stretch
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the floor, he can score. It's the when part of it.
That is the Komodo dragon in the room and Steve
Kerr swing back swing bat well, he swung big and
he missed and the mighty curR struck out. And now
I guess they want applause for landing the consolation prize. Eh,
give you a golf clap, give you that. And so
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this is an expiring contract, so it's low risk. Okay,
I don't really care about that. That's that's your deal.
I don't work on Wall Street. That's a count and talk.
That's bean counter talk. And this doesn't scare anybody when
May gets around, because they know porzing this is going
to break down. Now he is reunited with his old
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pow from the Celtics, Al Horford. I'm sure that all
feels great. Reunited it feels so good. Cute little story,
zero intimidation. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Jonathan Kaminga escapes Steve kurrz doghouse.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
He gets a fresh start, a bigger role, and another.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
One of these guys where you're like, Okay, is this
the guy?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Is this the guy? Can't he be the man?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You're never going to be the man when Steph Curry
is the man in Golden State. And you might remember
a couple of years ago, the Golden State Warriors had
another player. All Right, this guy's pretty good, but he's
being held back. Not a fan favorite for Draymond Green.
Not a fan favorite for Draymond Green. But you might
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remember the Warriors they traded into Washington. He end up stinking,
ended up stinking there in Washington. We'll see what happens
with Kaminga in Atlanta. And he's not had the opportunity
to be the alpha. There's no alphas in Atlanta. They
all stink the Hawks. I guess if he turns out
to be good, fine, I'm buddy, heal Its just a
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he might be traded again by before the deadline. He's
just a shooter, that's it. One, not a five skill player.
Is a one skill player. So again the Warriors tried
to get Giannis and they wanted the crown jewel and
they ended up getting costume jewelry is what they got.
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Speaker 1 (17:40):
Arlie, this hour is from Motown. We go to Motown
where the music hasn't been good in a while, and
the Tigers have decided to make a splash splash in
free agency. Say what you're talking baseball? It's Super Bowl
We I'm telling you this is how dull these teams are.
The Patriot it's in the Seahawks. We're talking about Detroit
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Tiger baseball. Baby, because some news came out, We've learned
that a this is a follow up to a mile
of monologue that we gave you the other day. Free
agent pitcher Framburg Valdez, late of the cheating as Rose,
and he has agreed to terms with the Detroit Tigers
on a one hundred and fifteen million dollars three year contract.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
A little birdie was chirping, trip trip, trip trip.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Now Liberty says it will be the highest average annual
value aa V, as the kids like to say, for
a left handed pitcher in baseball history. So take that,
Sandy Kofax and all you other losers, this Framber Valdez,
the highest paid on a single year average in baseball history.
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Now Valdez, who has been somewhat durable, but he's a
place for the cheaters.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He has played for the cheers.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So now he will take his talents to the Detroit
Tigers rotation, which is currently anchored by the top pitcher
in baseball American League, Cy Young winner Trek Scouoble, a
multi time Platinum Trek Scooble, who is still hanging out
in Motown. He's also going to arbitration. That ruling should
be down soon, and you gotta think he's gonna win that. However,
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stranger things have happened. Human beings are involved anyway. So
the story here is that Framber Valdez, it looked like
nobody wanted him, and he ends up getting a contract.
I of course immediately got an email from a how
should I say it? I want to keep my job,
A deplorable a hole fan? How about that from Houston?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
So you were wrongballer. You did twenty minutes on Frambervelt
Dees and he designed with the Tigers and you don't
know what you're talking about. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I'm glad that you emailed me, and I did. I
right back to this guy. Now, why would I write back?
I have the bully pulpit. I can bury the guy
right here. Okay, I can bear the guy right here.
So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question what is your knee jerk reaction to starting
pitcher Franbur Valdez heading to the Detroit Tigers Big Baseball
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signing there? Spring training starts in less than two weeks.
Less than two weeks, all right, So my observations, I've
got bowling ball, porterhouse, steak, and wandering officer, and we
will lock all of these things together and we are
going to play Connect three is what we're.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Going to play. So this is number one. All right?
This is a late night TV commercial. Wait, there's more.
All right. Operators are standing by right now.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You can pull out props and be like a prop
comedian or a late night infomercial and drop a bowling
ball on a pillow, A my pillow. It's a my
pillow contract, no bound. So I was actually right about this.
This is a pillow contract. And bring in Mike Lindell
and all that. Not the five to six year contract
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that Valdez wanted for the schmuck a astro fan astro fan.
He wanted a five or six year deal. Nobody offered
him that. This is now, it's a pillow contract. It's
a luxury pillow with an opt out tag that's still
attached to it. He's got a lot of cash per year, however,
just not the full price that he wanted. And so
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Valdez will stay for two years. It's got two years,
and then he can hit the eject button and go
back into the transfer portal, go back to the market,
hit the snooze button, and of course if he doesn't pitch, well,
if he doesn't pitch, well, he's going to continue to
winter in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Like he's spent his summer in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And don't forget also that Framberg got a little He's
still got a little bit of that funky funky bo
from Houston on him hanging out all those years with
the cheating you know who, the cheating you know who,
banging on trash cans and blowing into whistles.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Hey, I check them for the buzzer, checking for the buzzer. Now.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
He also last season famously during a game this made
for good talk radio. It was taboo in the community
of baseball. He called out his catcher and went deeper
than that. So despite this big AAV average annual value Framberg,
he's going to a team where he's not going to
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be the alpha in Motown.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
He is not. He is the sidekick.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
He's the Robin to Trek Schouble as batman, which in
theories like, well, you're not the number one guy, there's
limited pressure in that. You slide in as the number
two and you pitch in October and then you're hiding
out behind school ball. Let the Tigers do the heavy
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lifting and all that stuff. Detroit's loaded. Legit loaded the
world like World Series loaded? And Toronto are they? Are
they going to replace Toronto as the American League team
in the World Series? Because it's really the Dodgers have
already won the National League pennant.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I don't know if you know that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The Dodgers wrapped up the National League pennant, and so
we're just waiting to find out who's gonna win the
American League pennant.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Uh and so again, But the wider angle lens, the
wider angle lens on this it's a, it's a game
of back back Chicken and Valdez Framber Valdez flinched. He
should have taken the Council of the Malar Think Tank
and waited, uh, once arms start popping, we mentioned rice
(23:50):
crispy snap crackle pop, and it's gonna happen in less
than two weeks. In the Cactus League and the Grapefruit League,
prices go up, teams get desperate, and instead he said,
you know what I want, A nice pillow right now.
I hope it's a memory foam pillow. That's what I
hope for you. Fram Burg, All right now, page two
we go to La speaking of Sho hal Tani and
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he shall appear. So the Dodgers superstar, the face of Baseball,
Sorry Aaron Judge, Global Baseball Shoe Haotani. Dodgers are the
most popular team at Shoe Heotani. So, Shoeotani admitted recently
did an interview. He doesn't do a lot of interviews,
but he admitted that he likes the team. This is
going to shock you. He likes the team. Spending spree
(24:34):
the Dodgers over the last couple of off seasons. And yeah,
they've they've been getting a lot of pushback. You know,
a lot of you people are losers and you push
back against the Dodgers. So Otani said, he believes that
the Dodgers massive spending spree is good for baseball. Third rail, momaam,
that's the third rail, he said. Quote this is a
(24:55):
quote from Otani translated. He said, yeah, I think with
what the ownership group has done, it's great.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Otani said.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I mean, obviously the fans pay money, they buy tickets,
and they you know, he said, they come to the game.
So I think that the money is being used back
to sign these great players and put up and put
out a winning product on the field.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Close quote.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
All right, question shoe Aotani says the Dodgers spending spree
is good for baseball.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
How is that going over? How is this going over?
These comments by Otani.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
So this is after a two minute, not three minute,
not one minute, two minute, two minute investigation, This is
actually a penalty, and in the eyes of the baseball community,
it's an instigator penalty. And Otani actually has to go
to the penalty box for two minutes, two minutes instigator
penalty for show ALTONI. This is Otani lighting a cigar.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Lighting a cigar with a double double wrapped hundred dollar
bills and right in front of the poverty franchises in Major.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
League Baseball is what he's doing. And the thing that
blows me away.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
And I've talked about this in the past, but there's
new people listening all the time to The Ben Mathershow,
and we thank you for that. Tell a friend, these
loser fans who don't have the fighting spirit. It's bad enough,
they're teams that they follow have no guts. Right, the
fan bases have embraced that. It blows me away. Why
(26:31):
are you like that? You don't want to be the
team that beats Goliath? Apparently, No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
For my entire life growing up, it was always.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Man, you want to take down that big, powerful, dominant team, Right,
you wanted to beat whenever the Yankees had a dynasty.
You want to be the team that took down the Yankees, Right,
you want to take them down and all that. In
this case, though, it's like, well, it's a Dodgers and
we can't beat them, so we'll run from the grind
and instead we just want Major League Baseball to cut
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the blue Dodger balls off and give them real blue balls,
no balls.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
So Otani what he does? What he did here?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Otani tossed a porterhouse steak into a hungry lion's den.
It's sea salt on an open wound. It's also hilarious
seeing the reaction, the feeding frenzy from fans of suck
bag teams who aren't trying to win, and they're already
bleeding and all that. And Otani strolls in there wearing
a blue and gold iron Man armor outfit and says, hey.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
This is great, man? Is this great? What did you
expect him to say? You expect? Well, I'm a little embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
The Dodgers spend too much money and I happen to
be one of the players that's on the team. And
please Gougenheim group, tighten the purse strings, Please don't spend
this money.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Come on, no, come on, the Dodgers spoil these players.
They travel better than all the other American sports athletes.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
And I believe globally there might be some soccer team,
but from what I heard, they're the only team that segregates.
The players have one plane, and the media, the trainers,
the coaching staff, all the supports staff there have a
different plane. That's how spoiled the rotten These Dodgers are right,
And you want Otani to say, nah, we don't need that.
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This is the Gilded Age. It's what it is, and
he's the king. This is Rockefeller, like vibes. If you've
studied American history, it's Rockefeller. Otani's living in Baseball's taj Mahal.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
And all these people are out there.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Protesting, saying, you gotta you can't be doing that, Oh
my god, and Otani basically says, suck it to the trolls.
And I love it, right, I love it. It's great. The
fans get gouge Dodger fans with overprized merch and overpriced
snacks and all that ticket price is parking the whole thing.
And at least the ownership group they spend, they spend,
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and good for them.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
So that's it. That's the sales pitch.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
The fans overpay for this junk the owners spends, and
that's what's supposed to happen. In other places, that's not
the case. And if you sign with the Dodgers, you
get the red carpet, not a coupon book like you're
playing for the Pirates or the Rays or the A's.
It's capitalism with pine tar all over it. Here's the truth.
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Nobody wants to say out loud. This isn't about baseball health.
It's about cheap owners getting exposed.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Is what it is, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Meanwhile, final point, we go to the NFL. That's right,
we go from baseball to the NFL. I had to
mention this. Go to Arizona. The Cardinals. I don't know if
you saw this or not. They agreed to a deal
with Nathaniel Hackett as their offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yep, yep, that's.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
The same guy. That's not you know, he thought he
might have changed his name. Nathaniel Hackett. He's in his
mid forties. He was an offensive coordinator for Matt LeFleur
in Green Bay. He was in Jacksonville. He's bounced around
the NFL. He's not good at his job. He also
failed spectacularly with the Broncos. And now Nathaniel Hackett will
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team up with the other Lafleur. That's how he's known,
Mike LeFleur in Arizona. So the question for the esteem panel,
Nathaniel Hackett picks up the keys to the Cardinals offense.
How on God's green Earth does Nathaniel Hackett keep getting
these gigs? Seriously? So it's not and I knew this
(30:36):
going in. It's not what you know because he's pretty
bad at his job. It's who you know. And Nathaniel
Hackett is a NEPO baby. He was he was born
into a coaching family. I covered the University of Southern
California Trojans'. His dad, Paul Hackett, was the coach, not
a good one back in the day. And so Nathaniel
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Hackett's that's the family business in coaching, and that helps out.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Now I should be clear.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Hackett, Nathaniel Hackett is not going to be calling the
plays for the Cardinals, And so that means this is
one of those plum gigs. You get the title, you
get the corner office. It's a smile and just nod
in the meetings. Make sure you bring the right donuts.
Make sure you bring the right donuts. Want the glazed donuts,
A couple of Long Johns, a bear claw and an
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apple fritter, and you got to go to the meetings.
Make sure that those again bear claw, apple fritter, glazed donuts.
And then you bring those to the meeting and don't
touch anything else. Don't touch the overhead projector don't do it,
don't do not do it. And Hackett is like, you know,
he's like, he's like that degenerate cousin that nobody trusts
(31:47):
with the car keys. However, you feel bad for him.
It's like a friend of the family. And so I
guess the Flair family. They keep letting him crash on
the couch and he smells, he doesn't shower, he's got
disheveled the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Wow, So seriously, why.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Does Hackett keep landing chops? Now my theory on this,
I've got free words. Uh, barbecue pit boss are my
three words. In Green Bay, they swore up and down
that this guy could smoke meat like a wizard. Okay,
he was the wizard of smoked meat. Forget red zone efficiency.
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Who cares about that? This guy his offense is a
mean brisket. And if you've ever had properly cooked brisket,
it's one of the great things about being alive. You
never want to die because of the brisket. You want
to live forever, so you're gonna have more brisket. You
do even if you're a vegan, you want more brisket.
It's that good. So Hackett is wandering. He's you know what,
(32:51):
He's a wandering officer. And I believe that's the phrase,
wandering officer, drifting from team to team and the personal
the personnel file is sealed and failures are buried under experience.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
He's experienced. He's really good with a side of.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Cow and protected by the good old boys network of coaching.
And they're desperate and they just keep hiring these same people.
This isn't innovation, it's football nepotism. And there are some
sauce stains from the brisket.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
It's Mallar how about that? To the third degree? This
is one big vent gets grilled ululoo.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
On Tuesday, new Cardinals head coach Mike Lafleur had his
introductory press conference and revealed that the team is undecided
on the future of Kyler Murray.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Ben, do you think Murray is in Arizona at the
start of the season.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Oh, he might be there to play video games, but
he's not gonna be playing quarterback for the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Now he will be traded.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And when you say you're when you say you're undecided,
you're not bringing him back. He's They got to find
a sucker to take it. Maybe the Steelers will take him.
The little fella alligator arms right.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Next, it was reported this week that before getting dealt
to the Rockets, Kevin Durant veto to trade to the Timberwolves.
Rockets are playoff contenders in the West at thirty one
and seventeen, Wolves aren't far behind. Ben, do you think
Minnesota is better off not having gotten Durant?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, they seem like they're doing Okay. We'll find out
in the playoffs. I guess Durant didn't want the cold weather.
He wanted to hang on Houston. I guess that's the thing.
But for now we'll soo cokay. I mean, it's really
just how you play that two months stretch in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Next, Michael Porter Junior made a recent podcast appearance where
he said that he believes Jamal Murray is underappreciated and
has his reputation hurt by playing alongside Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Do you think that's true?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Uh, yeah, Yeah, I think that's true. I think he
was thought of as a weaker player because that how
we do kopol Loop.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
How'd we do?
Speaker 6 (34:53):
You passed this edition?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
That is it? When put her on the board right there?
You can't?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, I mean porters. You know you play with Jokics.
It's all about right, It's all about Yokis. So it's
all about.
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Speaker 1 (35:21):
Send us your questions on Twitter now and.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Way we go.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's another riving edition, a riveting edition of Ask Ben.
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
These are actual questions by actual listeners sent in using
the hashtag ask Ben. And now over to the Kooper
Loop with the reading of the questions.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Donkey Sausage. Hi, Donkey, he wants to know are
you doing anything special for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I have not spent one second thinking about that, although
I probably should. It's ten days away. I didn't even realize.
I'm just trying to make it through the day. Donkey sausage.
I haven't thought about that. What about you? Big plans?
Mark and Coop mark Valentine's Day and then go work
your magic somewhere.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
Yes, zero plans, all right, Coop?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Any big plans there?
Speaker 6 (36:20):
I have dinner reservations.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Oh you already have reservations. That's planning ahead.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Did you make them? Or did she make them?
Speaker 6 (36:27):
I made them?
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Okay, I did that? Do you want to go there
more than she does? Or does she want to go
there more.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Than you do? We both chose the place.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Oh you like the restaurant? I got you? What's next?
Just ask man? Your questions are answers right now?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
What day of the week is Saturday?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I was a Saturday? Oh good, Okay, we're not We're
not working that day.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
Yeah, all right?
Speaker 3 (36:47):
What's next?
Speaker 6 (36:48):
All right?
Speaker 5 (36:49):
The King Rory? Two good questions here from the King Rory.
Let's go with what is your favorite type of soup?
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Favorite type of soup? Let's see your favorite type of soup. Well,
I love mazzi ball soup like chicken massible soup. I
also love French onion those are the big two. A
good French onion, which is hard to find.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Great? What about you mark just.
Speaker 7 (37:12):
Your average chicken noodle soup?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
You know you're just a basic? Uh, you know what?
Speaker 7 (37:20):
Basic? And some crackers. I'm a big fan of crackers.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
What about what about the bagel chips? It's a form
of a cracker. You know, it's a bagel. You ever
had those?
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Never heard of them?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Really?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
You gotta go over well, you go to Langers, or
you go in l A here, you can go to
any of the big delis.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Have about cool? What about you coop?
Speaker 7 (37:41):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
I like pretty much all soup, but if I had
to pick a favorite, I think I'd.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Have to go with clam chowder.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Clam chatta, Yeah, sucking up to the people in Boston.
I see what you're doing there. What's next year in
New England? Clam chowder?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:57):
All right, let's see. Lady Sideburns.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Hi, Lady Sideburns. My favorite lady with sideburns is Lady Sideburns.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Likes to know when strolling through the grocery store, you
spot a loaf of bread that had fallen on the floor.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Do you pick it up and put it back? Or
do you pretend that you never even saw it.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, So it depends if I'm in a hurry or not.
Usually I'll try to help out and pick it up.
There have been times, I'm not gonna lie. There have
been times where I'm in.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
A hurry and I do not do that.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And there have been times I walk through the grocery
store I'm like, how did this happen? Like there's a
ton of stuff on the floor, Like it's like it's amazing.
But I usually, if it's like one thing and I
am not in a hurry, I'll help out.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
What about you, Mark, I'll pick it up and make
sure the name shows you know you put it put
it back properly.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Oh, you'll put it professionally.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
I do what I can.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yes, giving back to the community and supermarket. Steve thanks
you in advance. He does, he does.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Yeah, all right, what's next year? It's ask Ben.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour
hashtag ask band. And we do have a lot of
people working at grocery stores that listen to the show.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Third Dog would like to know, yer, have you ever
turned off the Big Game because it was a blowout?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Not turn it off? But I've not paid attention. It's
in the background. It's really lopsided. All not really like
the Chiefs game last year with the Eagles and Chiefs
was a blowout.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I didn't really pay attention in the fourth quarter. What
about you, Mark, No, I'll leave.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
It on just so I could see what happens to
the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I got you, all right, cool.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
I have never turned it off, but I do specifically
remember that my dad and I both fell asleep during
the Raiders Tampa Bay Super Bowl back in the day.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
That was the Rich Gannon special there with all the interceptions. Yes,
Barrett Robbins going to Tijuana, that's right, Yeah, all right,
what's next year?
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Gunnar wants to know do you like what do you
like more? Fishing or hunting?
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Fishing? What about you, Mark?
Speaker 7 (39:56):
I like buying my food, all right.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Yeah, I've never gone hunting, and fishing kind of sucks.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah, well, fishing
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