April 15, 2026 • 47 mins
Big Ben talks about NFL Insider Dianna Russini resigning from The Athletic amid the scandal with Patriots coach Mike Vrabel, the Hornets defeating the Heat in the NBA Play-In and Erik Spoelstra saying LaMelo Ball should have been ejected, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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So our lead this hour is from Human Resources. What
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the bleepity blee? What is this? Follow up? Follow up?
Major update on the NFL insider floozy and the football coach.
If you have not heard, If you have not heard,
the eagle has landed. The eagle has landed, and not
a Philadelphi eagle. Diana Russini, Bye bye. She's the insider
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lady caught in a hot tub with Patriots head coach
Mike Vrabel in Sedona, Arizona, last month, and she has
now quit her job. She resigned. Finizio done out of here,
Bye bye Athletic, She's out of there. Russini submitted a
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public letter of resignation to her now former employer, saying
that she had handled her responsibilities with professionalism and dedication.
She did look dedicated in that hot dump, she said.
Throughout her career, she stands by every story featuring her byline.
She clearly earned those scoops. Diana, seeming with a straight face,
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that she's leaving not because she did anything wrong, no no, no,
no no, but because of the self feeding speculation that
is simply unmoored from the facts. And so the note continued.
But wait, there's more, she said. I have no interest
in submitting to any public inquiry that has already caused
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far more damage than I am willing to accept. Interesting.
I wonder if she's holding Varibel's hands while she typed
that with her other hand. Maybe possibly, I don't know.
Rather than allowing this to continue, I have decided to
step aside now, she claimed, before my current contract expires
on June thirtieth. I do I do so not, she continued,
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because I accept the narrative that has been constructed around
this episode. But you know what that means. But because
I refuse to lend it further oxygen or to let
it define me or my career. A right, So that's
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss lots to
unpack here. And the question, now that we know the
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conclusion of this part of the story here, what's the
deal with Diana Rossini's resignation letter? What does it tell you?
All right? What does this tell you? So I've got
Caesar's Palace, Capitol Hill, and Star Wars, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we're going to
make this Mallard monologue one hundred and ten proof is
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what we're going to do. Yes, very strong, very strong,
all right? So ay, my first thought is the G word,
gobbledee gook. That's what I thought of when I read this.
Diana Rossini has given the story which she claimed has
no credibility, credibility. Congratulations, Abra cadabra. There you go. Now,
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Rassini said she won't let lend oxygen to this story.
Yet by doing what she did, she's pouring unleaded gasoline
all over it. Burn baby, burn, if you will, and
leaving before it's it's finished. Wouldn't it be easy? I'm
just asking the question if you were with a bunch
of girls on your girlfriends there on the trip. One
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thing I know about women, they love taking photos, They
love taking ath So wouldn't you think there'd be a
bunch of photos of all the girls and her? And well,
you no problem, and you just send that over to
the athletic. Okay, we got your good job by you. Okay,
you're good. What happened? Maybe somebody had leaded all her photos?
Is that possible? So how do you square I stand
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by my work with I'm leaving before my contract expires.
The math the mal or math ain't math on that.
And so what she's done here and then the other
part of it, which just rubbed me the wrong way,
is she's got her deck of Caesar's Palace playing cards,
and she pulled the victim hood card from the bottom
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of the deck right there, and a masterclass in avoiding accountability.
I am going to avoid the accountability. Uh. And so
this is damage control dressed up as martyrdom. She really
the victim. I know that's very popular. There's a cottage industry.
You get a lot of that faux sympathy. Oh victim,
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tell me more, tell me more. Uh yeah, all right.
So I looked at it's like gas lighting one on one,
gaslighting one on one, the old misdirection, misdirection play. If
you will, you feed false information, you're trying to hornswaggle
the public to question what they know to be true,
like looking at the photographs. Uh. And the thing about it,
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she's claiming she was the victim when we are one
of literally a handful of shows that we're talking about this.
I was getting message in people who work in the business.
Why are you talking about that? You know you're never
going to get a daytime show. You talk, that's why
you're on nights. You talk. And these guys all look
like donkeys, every single one of them. Every one of
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those mainstream daytime guys looked like donkeys. Radio silent. You know,
we do overnights obviously here at Fox, and we're not
part of the machine. We sneak in, we commandeer the
microphones overnight. The daytime radio and television. They got a
lot of egg on their face on this story, a
lot of egg on their face. The establishment mouthpieces in
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the media business did not touch this. They didn't how
about the NFL insider crowd, nothing Buppkus squad, douche from
Adam Schefter and the rap sheet and all those guys.
They shut it up. They got nothing but scoops. But
I guess they ran out of ice cream on this one.
No scoopage, No scoopage here. And then the other part
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of is that Diana Rassini went down to home depot.
I don't know why she'd go there, but she went
down to home depot and she picked up some ballerina nails. Now,
why did she pick up ballerina nails? Because those are
the ones she made her bed with and the bed
of nails and just like a coffin right there, boom.
As far as NFL insider, that's it now, keeping it going,
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keeping the beat going. So the question now is if
she's if she did nothing wrong, If she did nothing wrong,
why did the now for former Athletic NFL insider Diana
Russini resign from a really good gig. We are told
she was the highest paid employee at the Athletic, which
blows my mind, but that's what Who knows if that's true.
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I read that on the internet. Might not be true.
But I read that, so I believe it because I've
read it on the internet, so it must be true.
So why did you resign? Now that's the quest, and
so giving this one little side eye, it's a little
bit of side I hear. And the question you ask
in these situations is did she jump or was she pushed?
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And it is more likely than not, based on all
of these circumstantial evidence and years and years of story
similar to this in the past, that it's more likely
than not that this was a preemitive eject button pressed.
Let me press the button. Okay, press the button. Boom,
there you go. Her deal was up June thirtieth. And
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this smells, yeah, it smells like the media version of
you can't fire me, I quit. Now, you do understand
who your employer is when you work for the under
the umbrella of the old Gray Lady, When your employer
is the old Gray Lady, all stuffy and all that
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stuff the New York Times, the Old Gray Lady, the
optics matter more than oxygen. I wonder if the editor
also got whacked at the Athletic the dumbass who came
out fully supporting Diana Russini before getting any information my god. Anyway,
So when you work for the New York Times, you can't.
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You can't get away with this. You can't. So now,
if she worked at Barstool, she'd probably get a raise, different,
more money, But not at the New York Times, not
there at all. So on the Malard scale of scandal,
the Malor scale of scandal, spin.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You know the lines she used, I refuse to lend
this oxygen. That is first ballot Hall of Fame deflection.
It is rubber stamped, rubber stamped by the boys on
Capitol Hill, textbook crisis management. And it's where you resign
early on in the scandal. You control the narrative, you
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get your word out, you avoid the public guillotine. Of course,
on this case it's a little rough. Although she did
do something we'll talk about a little bit later that
lends you to believe, lends you to believe that there's
more to the story. But nonetheless, the translation of all
that is you exit stage left before they give you
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the Gong show treatment and get you off the stage
and all that. And so the athletic quietly is like,
all right, listen, we're gonna get rid of you, and
we're going to allow you, though, to make it seem
like you're the one leaving and we're gonna even let
you write your own goodbye poem. Yeah, you know, is
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it fiction or nonfiction? Well, this is like reading Harry Potter.
That's what it sounds like to me. You read this
note here, and so now let's look at let's circle back.
The word. One of the words she used was unmoored,
and for those with the lexicon issues, that word means unfettered,
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essentially like a goose chase, like there was some kind
of witch hunt, if you will, And so she was
attempting it would appear whoever wrote that letter. I don't
if she wrote the letter or not, but some lawyer
likely vetted or wrote most of it. Fine, because there
there could be some lawsuits. These things usually lead the lawsuits.
That being said, playing scrabble, here's the fun fact. Do
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you know the word I believe I'm correct on this is?
I play a lot of scrabble. Do you know the
word that has the highest point value in scrabble? It's
a word that I use a lot on the show.
Do you know what you don't know what it is?
I'm and you can check check me on this, but
I believe I'm right. I looked this up a while back.
The word that has the highest point total un scrabble
is rasmataz. That's the words worth Yes, it's worth forty
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eight points by itself. Forty eight points by itself is
rasmataz because it's got the four z's in it and
not the four tops the four z. So I believe
that is the word worth the most. So she could
have used that, put a little rathmataz in there. That
would have been a good word. It's fun word, we
said all the times. Great word. You know, people smile
when they ear rasmatas. Razzle dazzles another fun word. All right, Now,
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last part of this. Now we know it takes two
to tango and she was in the hot tub with
an NFL coach, Hello, Mike Rabel. Now we circle back
and look at what Mike Rabel said when the story
first came out in the New York Post. Because that
reads like comedy gold Rabel said it was quote laughable
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to consider the picks showed anything but an innocent interaction. Oops.
All right, question for the esteem panel. So the question is,
how does coach Mike Rabel walk into the Patriots facility,
like nothing happened when the reporter that he was in
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the hot tub with just resign from a great job.
So my theory is that Rabel grew up a fan
of Star Wars. He's a big fan of Star Wars.
Say what Yeah, so Rabel trying the Jedi mind trick
and these aren't the droids you're looking for. These aren't
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the droids you're looking for, trying to sell calm. Everything's
good here while the building smells like burnt toast. Man,
smell that burnt toast. Now, he would have gotten away
with it if it weren't for you meddling PI private
investigator whoever ended up taking the story. There'll be some
Netflix docu series on this in about a year and
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it'll be really good, and we'll find out how the
photos were taken and who took them and who sold
them and the whole thing that'll be coming out before
you know it. Yeah, the person you said there's nothing,
nothing hanky panky going on here, the person you were
in the hot tub with resigning in a blaze of
glory from her job. So Diana Rassini might not be
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on the NFL payroll, She's not technically, however, she swims
in that ecosystem, and that obviously matters. That's a big
part of it. And canoodling with a vendor slash client
is problematic. I know this because I have graduated every
year for the last ten years or so from iHeart University,
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and I have had the extreme training online courses. It's
like going to traffic school every year. So I tell
my boss, say, I didn't get a traffic ticket. Why
don't have to go to traffic school. Way you got't
do what ever here, I said, But I didn't get
a ticket, but you got to do the thing. So
I've learned over the years. You know, these vendors, you
can't you can't fool around, can't do it. That's HR
one oh one, page forty five of the HR Handbook
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in bold print, unless, of course, you've got a force
field of football privilege. So there's a big push now
to see Mike Rabel punished by the Patriots and to
have something happen to Vrabel that he is culpable here
because he was doing the doing the naddy whatever that means.
And we went in the bedroom. But certainly seems like
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the way they were holding hands, it was more than
just reporter coach relationship. So either way, the reason it's
next is there the odds of getting any in any
real trouble are less than five percent, less than five percent.
And the reason is because he's got the anti person.
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He's got, not old spies, not he's got w spice
is what he's got. Because in the NFL, winning is
the most amazing deodorant. And if this was Gerard Mayo
or some Jabbroni coaching the Patriots, and they have had
some before, Belishick, there were many Jibbronis, although Gerard Mayo
was the last one. He was won and done in
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ji Broni. If you bring somebody like that in, that
person would have been escorted out of the Patriots facility
already in a timely manner with a cardboard box holding
their half eaten bag of skittles from their office. That's
how that would have gone down. Coach of the year,
You're in the Super Bowl, Okay, we can look the
other way. It's all good here, it's all we're all
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good now. Rabel's got some things he's got an answer
to at his house. I would think, who knows what's
going on they go the wild swing lifestyle. I don't know,
but otherwise they got some explaining to do. All it
is the Ben Malor show your thoughts on what is
for now the conclusion of this story. Also, where does
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Diana Russini en up? I know our guy? I guess
somebody's send me an email saying Stu Gott's offered her
job here at this company. Really, okay, I didn't know
you had that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Is that a joke?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I don't know. I thought he was joy, but I don't.
Somebody send me your guys. Stu Gotts offered her job,
You're gonna have to be working with rus. First of all,
even if she got a job here, she'd worked during
the day and I would never see her.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I would love to meet her.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I would never see her in one my idol. Now
you might be your hero. Yeah, and she definitely went
above and beyond the call due to get scoops anyway, apparently,
what do I know? Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
I bet she gets you know, she'll do a podcast.
Everyone nobody listens to most of these podcasts. She'll do
a podcast, or she'll work at bars podcast. Hello, Hello,
the hot Top the Sedona Podcast, you could call it. Yeah, anyway,
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I'm sure she'll be fine. And she she's now infamous,
and in some ways she's more famous now than she's ever. Actually,
most of the way she's more famous now she ever
would have been just being a regular run of the
mill like seventh or eighth most popular NFL insider like.
She didn't reach the upper echelon of NFL insider despite
going to great lengths to try to go in the
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upper echelon, she did not reach that level. Now she
has in terms of infamy.
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story from pro Bouncy Ball, the story everyone's talking about.
Everyone's got an opinion on this from uptown Charlotte, not
downtown Uptown Charlotte Baby and the only mascot named after
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a flying insect. The Charlotte Hornets were in action there.
And the fake playoffs, so it's not really the playoffs,
it's not the regular season. It's the twilight zone.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Do do do do?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Do do do do? Stats that go into a vacuum.
That's where we're at. So were you watching of this?
The games were both close, like to say bye to
the Suns, they were eliminated. A nice choke job there
laid against the Portland Trailblazers, so they're out. And the
game we're going to talk about, though Eacher here involves
(19:02):
the Hornets in the heat and it went to overtime,
a little overtime action. Kobe White had a big shot
to send the game into an overtime situation, but LaMelo
Ball having a ball, LaMelo Ball making a layup with
less than five seconds on the clock, four point seven
seconds left in overtime, and then Miles Bridges somehow able
(19:26):
to leap up despite having all that baggage, Miles Bridges
able to block the Davion Mitchell attempt. He went coast
to coast to try to lay it up and win
the game for Miami. Keyword there, try at the buzzer
block shot. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. And
from Miami, Nana na na nanaaa hey go bye? Is
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the Hornets win? The Hornets win? They couldn't make a
three point shot. There are two big guys. Could not
make a three point shot. But they went anyway. Won
twenty seven to one to twenty six to the final
in a wacky beginning to the play in and then
the Portland Trailblazers taking the late game. But Charlotte will
play the loser of the seventy six years Magic Game
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in the playoffs, the real playoffs. And despite the late
fireworks and the dramatic the block shot, the layup to
win the game for the Charlotte Hornets. Despite all that,
the subplot which everyone's yapping about, well, it happened earlier
in the game. The Heat played much of the game
without their star center. As the season wrapped up for Miami,
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bam out of Bio. Yeah yeah, we know who he is. Yeah,
so Bam out of Bio suffered a back injury. Oh
my aching back back injury. First half. And that's where
the controversy is. And I learned this in sports talk
radio Clown College. You focus in on the controversy because
everyone has a hot take on the controversy. So here's
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the hot take, or here's the play, and then we'll
get to the hot take. So there was a incident late.
It was in the first half, so it's a second quarter,
a second quarter, and Lamello Ball was falling down, down, down, down,
and on the slow motion replay, it appeared that he
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reached out to grab the ankle of Bam outa Bio.
Now that led to a nuclear reaction from Eric Spolstra.
I don't know if the editors got this or not.
I imagine they didn't because they normally don't get these things.
But it was really good audio, really good audio. Spolstra
(21:44):
was asked about the play Lamello Ball reaching out as
he was falling down there said he should have been
ejected by what he said was a dangerous play. He said, quote,
I don't this is Eric Spolstra. I don't think it's cute.
I don't think it's funny. I think it's just stupid play.
Spoilster tall report, All right, well, I guess we have
I was playing that we have it. I didn't think
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we had it. Here we go, here's the Eric Spolster.
Oh Coop found it. And of course the editors don't
they in their back having a social hour. All right,
go ahead, but hit that hit the button, see.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
It, but that. I don't think it's cute. Don't think
it's funny. I think it's a stupid play. It's a
dangerous play. Obviously our best players out. I'm not making
an excuse the Hornets. Uh e great, they made those
plays down the stretch. We we had our opportunities to win.
I just that's a shame. You know, he should be
penalized for that. I don't think that belongs in the game.
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You know, tripping guys, you know Shenanigans, and you know
Curtis was there. It's his responsibility to see that. And
if it's not his responsibility, then Zach's got to see it.
If you know, somebody has got to see that, and that,
you know, he should have been thrown out of the game,
you know, for that I don't know him from you know, anyone.
I just there's no place in the game for that, obviously. Uh,
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you know it took bam out of the game.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Right. There's Eric Spolstra there, and I think it's cute.
I don't think it's funny, dangerous play, all of that,
all right, So good jumping off point. Let us discuss
as you heard there the Heat coach Eric Spolstra saying
that LaMelo Ball should have been injected, get out of here,
get out of here, for what he called a dangerous play,
causing the bam ade bio back injury. So where does
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your mind go on this one? Where does your mind
going this one? So I've got cosmic brass bonanza and
the Philly fanatic and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to take a shot
in the dark, is what we're going to do, because
that's what we do now, number one one. So this
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is a feeding frenzy. And it's also a bit of
an overreaction. It's a bit of an overreaction. I realize
I'm an age where I grew up watching basketball at
a different time. I do chuckle considering the things that
have happened in NBA games and the over the top
feeding frenzy, the attack on lamellow ball, It's like slow down. Now.
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When I heard the rant, which we were able to
play for you because Coop found it, the Spoe rant
I expected, I went back and I watched it, cause
I watched it in real time. I was like, Okay,
I expected a felony. I expected a felony, not a
relatively routine play, A little on the edge, a little
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on the edge of things. But it was not. This
does not deserve a courtroom drama O rama. It does
not deserve that. And it also feels like selective ouverage.
If you asked me, do you have any kind of
empathy for Eric Spolster, who sounded like a broken man
talking about this play, the answers no. The answer is no.
It's funny because I kept some notes. I went back
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and I recall a couple of years back, I don't
remember Eric spols For giving a sermon about Caleb Martin,
who was playing for him at the time, a similar
play on Jason Tatum. If my notes are correct, I
don't recall Eric Spolstra saying that there's no place in
the game for this, and you know you gotta be
kicked out, gotta be suspended, all that stuff. No, so
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spare me, spare me. You're on the other side all
of a sudden, Oh, this is not right. I can't
believe this is Oh my god. Now I have an
unpopular opinion. I have an unpopular pin. I had to
share with the class, an unpopular pin. My hand, my
hand is raised. I might share an unpopular opinion. So
Spoe shouldn't be mad at LaMelo ball? Why not?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Bam and the ball got hurt.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Couldn't be very upset? Shout up? All right, Spoe should
not be upset with LaMelo ball. He should be filing
a complaint in the court of karma, as in karma
with a capital k erg cosmic justice. Cosmic justice. Now
(25:59):
I go back and for on this, and my counselor,
Andrea in the Bay Area, the astrology Insider, can help
me out on this. But this certainly seems like cosmic justice.
I'll tell you why. The basketball gods also keep notes.
They keep notes, and Miami turns out they got some
debt they had to pay. Well, what did they do?
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You're making things up? There's no car over the Miami Heat.
Shut up. They stage dah, they staged they eighty three
point farcical. You remember that that circus under the Big
Top there in Miami. I remember it against the Wizards.
That was some bad sorceries. What that was. We're going
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full wwe like writing and you do that and expect
no blowback. You don't think the universe is gonna bite
your ass back when you do that kind of bull
crap in an NBA game. Yeah, well guess what it happened.
It's not that complicated. It really isn't that complicated. The
universe saw Eric Spolstra giggling and laughing. Remember they were
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intentionally fouling the Washington Wizards so they could get more possessions,
so Bam out of Bayo could get the eighty three
point game. So that happened. That kind of funny business.
And this was just a nice little reminder. Hey, remember
remember the cosmic basketball gods. Well we're still here. Balance
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has been restored, so enjoy your off season. You live
in Miami, So what do you go on vacation when
you live in Miami. It's to stay in Miami because
that's where everyone goes on vacation. So you just stay
there all right. Now, Pat you're speaking of the heat
from thirty thousand feet up in the sky, the big
picture and the better story from the losing locker room.
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So with it, game over for the Miami Heat. They
lost a bunch of games to end the year, and
that's why they ended up in the situation. They were
in the plant anyway. So what is the master plan
to turn around a franchise which is stuck in the
mud the Miami Heat. Things not going so well for Miami,
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So what is the what is the master plan? So
you got pat Riley, who's in the big chair. Pat
Riley is behind the plate there and he's at he's
behind the wheel. He's at the wheel. Riley and the
Heat are out. They're looking out on the horizon. They're
in a boat and they're looking for a whale. They're
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trying to find a whale. And the problem is it
has been many years since they caught a whale. They
haven't actually been able to harpoon a whale for some time.
It's a problem, and so they're trying to get that
where's the whale? We need a whale? Can I get
a whale? Riley's looking around. And so now yet again
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another season has fizzled away for the Miami Heat, and
yet again they are going full Hartford Whalers brass bonanza
if you know, you know, brass bonanza, dreaming of dragging
in the freak. Let's get freaky as in Giannisi Denta Kumbo,
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the Greek Freak. And every squabble involving a superstar player
in the last twenty years, every squabble involving a star
player in the NBA turns into a carnival. For the
Miami Heat, it's either the Lakers or the Heat. It's
always those teams. Everyone's gonna go to those teams. And
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so it's often been more smoke without fire. Normally there's
not smoke without fire. Somehow there is regarding this and
so this is not just a fish story. It's not
just any fish storre. I mean, there's a lot of
fish stores. But this is the one that Riley's been chasing,
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and he had it years ago with Chris Bosh and
Lebron James and has been unable to recreate that magic,
has been unable to recreate that magic, and he's trying,
and he's out there and it's like, oh, we got it,
we gotta do it, we gotta make this happen. And sure, Giannis,
certainly with Milwaukee, it feels shakier than ever and we've
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heard this song and dance before and nothing's happened as
of yet. A year after year Miami, they line up
the harpoon, they're ready to go, and they come back
with the big thing of sardines. While we didn't want sardines,
but that's all you got. You didn't get the whale. Well,
why didn't you get the whale? Well, I don't know.
We tried to get the whale, but we just ended
up with these sardines. And there's a lot of them. Yeah,
(30:38):
So close unfortunately does not conquer kingdoms or the NBA.
It does not do that. And so here's the gut check.
Pat Riley does he still have the magic pixie dust
at age eighty one or is this just what pat
Riley was and is just some memories of the legend
of Ryles, who's been in Miami seemingly forever. But if
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he misses again, if Giannis ends up on the Knickerbockers
or somewhere else and doesn't go into to Miami. This
franchise will continue to be on the hamster wheel of mediocrity.
And the Heat haven't been catching whales. They've been chasing
a lot of ghosts. Though a lot of ghosts. All right,
Now we move on. The sneaker heads would like to
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chime in on this.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I am not a sneaker. I'm not not really a
car guy, not a sneaker guy. I'm just a guy,
that's all I am. I'm a headphone guy. Oh, I'm
at Yeah, I'm a hack guy. I'm a heck guy.
That's my thing. That's right. I'm a hat guy. I
do like cats, but if I had a full head
of hair, I don't think I would. I would be
a hat guy, you know. I think that's more of
(31:42):
a byproduct of my situation. Like to blame my parents anyway,
So a sneaker guy. Interesting story. Now, I got sent
this by a listener. I did not see this on
my own. I am not keeping up on the sneaker world.
I know a lot of you boys love sneakers. Good
for you. A way to go, I remember, I think
I know Rob Parker's got a great collection. Bobo on
(32:05):
the radio. I love Bubbo. Bobo had an epic collection
of sneakers. And I see Bobo usually once a year
at the holiday party, the Ugly Sweater Party. I always looked
forward seeing Bobo. Good, good dude. I loved when he
worked on the show. And Bubbo he had a huge
I remember, massive collection to match every out he had one.
All right, So get to the point, all right, I
get to the poet. So Nike has unveiled a new sneaker. Now,
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normally this does not reach the level of malat monologue.
Times are a changing. Did you see this? Nike is
giving a sneaker too, Bronnie James, Yes, not lebron Bronnie James.
Yep that Bronnie James. Yes, Nike has introduced the Lebron
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nine witness whatever thing that is. Nike said, the shoe
is quote inspired by Bronni's recovery and journey back to
the court. All right, question, what is the word? What
is the word for Lakers benchwarmer Bronnie James? What is
the word for Lakers bench warmer Bronnie James getting his
(33:13):
own sneaker? So I have two words stolen valor are
my my two words? Basketball? Stolen valor. This is not
a shoe drop, if you will, for Bronnie James. It
is a participation trophy with laces. Congratulations. Well why does
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it have laces. Well, it's a trophy, but it's got
the laces. I don't understand. So this is the greatest
case of NBA hype inflation since years ago when some
of you idiots tried to tell me that Kyle Kuzma
was the next big thing in the NBA. I remember,
you just don't understand. You're a Laker hater. Kyle Kuzma
is going to be so good. You're You're just a hater.
(33:56):
That's what you're doing the Overnight Show. Okay, how's Kyle
kho'sman doing. Is he's even still in the NBA anyway? Yeah,
I know he is. I know he is. So let's
keep this real here, just between me and you, let's
keep this real. This is the first sneaker, the Bronnie
James sneaker, inspired by a player's journey to ride his
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daddy's coattails to the bench. That's about It's about where
we are. That's about where we are at this particular point.
Even sneaker heads are tapping out they're like, hey, I
can't even defend this, like this is really bad. You know,
this is like the Laker historians like, Okay, that's a
little too far. It's a little too far, Like what
(34:37):
are you doing now? I gotta tell you. When I
got sent this, I thought, Okay, this guy's trying to
punk me. I think the guy's name is Mike. He
did not say where he's from, so I don't know.
I assume he's from southern California, but who knows. H
So he sent me, you know, I was like okay.
So I clicked on it, and I was like, okay,
I thought this must be satire. This guy's gonna bust
my balls and he wants me to do something on this.
So I checked and it's apparently not. It's like legit,
(34:58):
Nike sent this out on their own accounts. You think
they kind of keep that on the DL. They did not,
And so I thought, well, this is satire Sports Talk
Barry Butt Crack Sports, one of those deals NBA sentel.
And then I thought, well, this must be Nike trolling.
It's not satire, but they're troll No, No, it wasn't
(35:19):
that Wasn't that just some good old fashioned nepotism with
a swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. Yeah, if my dad played in
the NBA, I'd have my own shoe too. Think about
while lebron James plays the puppet master, Bronnie James putting
up video game tutorial numbers. He's averaging in his career
less than three points a game, less than three points
(35:41):
a game, and he's a career thirty seven percent shooter.
He's essentially the Philly fanatic mascot wearing a Laker jersey
is what he is. Yeah, this isn't marketing, it's propaganda.
It's propaganda, is what it is. In the tagline, inspired
by irrelevance, Inspired by irrelevance, And at this rate, doesn't
(36:05):
Nike have to hook up some other insider basketball friend guy,
Like if you give it to Bronnie James, If you
hook Bronnie James up and say, okay, you're gonna get
a shoe because your dad, you know who the comps
are to Bronnie James, there's no real great comp The
closest I could come up with is Isaiah Wong of
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the Hornets and Deuce McBride, a guy named Deuce for
the I believe, the place with the Knicks. So unfortunately,
Isaiah Wong's daddy did not run Nike or did not
have a ownership share like lebron does, and so does
not get a shoe and Deuce McBride, that would be
a fun name. Let's buy the Deuce be a fun
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name for a shoe. Are they gonna get shoes? Probably not?
Probably not not gonna get shoes. So Bronnie will be
the first player I believe in history whose sneaker comes
with a disclaimer. You now, what does the disclaimer say?
The disclaimer will say warning, wearing these sneakers will cause
(37:09):
your performance to decline. That because there's always like you want.
Only a few guys got basketball sneaker deals. And I
know as a kid because I was of the age
when this kind of became a thing, although even before
it became a thing, like Converse had Larry Bird and
Magic Johnson and guys like that. But he as a kid,
(37:29):
You're like, Okay, through the eyes of a child, if
I put on these shoes, I'm going to play as
well as that player. I'm gonna have superpowers. In this case,
you could likely play as well as Brownie James you
could likely play as well.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
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Speaker 1 (37:47):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go quickly,
Chris Maller, how about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 6 (37:54):
Longtime forty nine Ers full back Kyle Yuscheck made a
radio appearance this week where he said about brock Perney,
I don't know what it is, what it's going to
take for this guy to finally get the respect I
think he truly deserves.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Then what will it take?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
He's already got it. He signed a massive contract. He
signed a two hundred and sixty five million dollar contract.
He's he got a forty million dollar Jake, one hundred
and eighty two million. That is respect. I want that
kind of respect. Did me put some respect in my name?
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Next, it was supported over the weekend that X Miami
defensive end Reuben Bain Junior was involved in a fatal
car accident back in twenty twenty four. He was initially
charged with reckless driving, but those charges were dismissed.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Ben, he's a top prospect. Do you think this will
hurt his draft position?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Ah? If he's good. It won't hurt him. And it's
very odd. This story randomly popped up on a very
slow NFL news day, almost like somebody was trying to
bring it back to get some engagement online. No, he's
if he's good, he's like, well, he's just he's learning
to drive. If not, and they'll say that's why he
didn't get draft, He'll be fine next.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
Anthony Davis this week acknowledged that it would be extremely
difficult for the Wizards to go from worse to first,
but vowed to build a winning culture with Washington. But
any think the Wizards will at least have a winning
record next season, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I think Anthony Davis is gonna look great sitting on
that Wizard's bench. He is going to get all the
top fashion awards in the NBA sitting his ass down
there watching the Wizards play basketball. How do we do? Kooblo?
He passes that as I went Street Coast, Anthony Davis,
Street Coast, Street Coast.
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Dear ry you.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
Heard the man. It's time for love here on the
Ben Mallards Show.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Who Yes, Lorena, you have an opening love thought here.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
You know, just don't be too overwhelming with your advances.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Oh is that? Are people overwhelming? Are they a little
over the top there? Yeah, they don't know any property.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
I'm sure you communicate. Communication is key.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Well, some guys like to make a splash entry. They
like to be like the kool Aid man.
Speaker 7 (40:14):
I love a good surprise splash like.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
They like to break through the wall right now, because
you know, they figure a lot of guys will hit
on good looking women, so they try to make their
mark a different way, you know.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yuck. Anyways, all right, what have we got?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I ferg Dog says, I'm making dinner at home for
a first date this weekend, and I need to know
do girls prefer the peanut butter on top or bottom
of the PBN J Okay.
Speaker 7 (40:43):
Well, your first mistake is having someone over for a
first date at your house. I've been watching a lot
of TikTok videos of girls who go on first dates
at homes to specifically steal from men. So you go
to the bathroom and they take your airfrac Really, there's
a girl.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Who has a whole that's hard to say, yes, And
how do you steal an air fryer in the purse?
Speaker 7 (41:02):
You unplug it and you walk out with it. You
don't got to take it in your par They wait
till you're in another room. Your video game consoles, DVD players.
Be careful in fighting random strangers into your head.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, no, you know you can't. Guys do that?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Really?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Women come over? I thought women. You know, any woman
that will come to your back in my day, I
don't know about now. You know it's been years, but
any woman that would come to your house right away
was generally not their long term if you know what
I mean. You know what I'm saying, And usually had
it took a while for that to happen. Yeah, a
lot of public appearances for that to happen, because I
never had to worry about someone coming to my house
to steal anything. So anyway, that's very impressive for it.
(41:40):
Mentionine Ferdduck picking up chicks. Yeah, I'm gonna cook for
you Okay, that's exciting. I want to surprise you. Okay,
even better. And then they come over and it's a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
Sounds delicious.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Actually, Now the.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Key, Lorraine, as you know, is you can't cut it.
When you cut the peanut butter the other sandwich, you
can't get it down the middle cutting at an angle.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
The diagonal exactly.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, it is a.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
More impressive sand which when you cut diagonally. Mike writes
in he says, what if right after your work your
boss asked you to go to the big game? Would
you be careful not to have too much fun in
case you showed up on the kiss fan cam. That's
the question.
Speaker 7 (42:15):
I'm gonna go with my motto, you know you only
live every day?
Speaker 1 (42:19):
That's true, yo ed or something like only only yoli ed?
All right, Mike the Leprechaun. Michael Different. Michael writes and says, Lorrain,
if you had an expansion sports team, what would you
name it? Great question, Michael, great question. What would you
(42:40):
name a sports team? Loraina?
Speaker 6 (42:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Good love advice.
Speaker 7 (42:42):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Actually we could he Oh, you would you go with
something unique?
Speaker 7 (42:51):
It could be like the love gamblue team.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Is named after socks. Imagine how exciting the world was
when we said we'll name our team the White Sox
or the Red Sox.
Speaker 7 (42:58):
What if we named it? I don't know if I
can say this.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
If you went in doubt, leave it out of the
panty hose. Let's go with the hose, the panty hose.
We'll say it all all right, very good? Shane and
de Moyes, says Lorena, Who are some of your female crushes?
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (43:18):
Of women that I love? Anna Hathaway, Oh, I love
her to death. Britney Spears used to be one, but
now I worry about her.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
She needs your love more now than never.
Speaker 7 (43:29):
A social distancing hug for her.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Okay, I might get some penicillin after you huggers, I understand.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
Oh my gosh. Who else do I love right now?
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (43:40):
Me Aubrey Plaza, I love Aubrey Pla JT.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
The Wingman writes, Sin says, I'm trying to up my
game with the lady. Should I take advice from hollering
James or Anthony and Louisiana?
Speaker 7 (43:51):
I would probably do Anthony Anthony.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Okay, all right. Miranda's black boyfriend quickly says, Miranda is
my Tony Romo. Lorena is my Dak Prescott. How about that.
That's a legend from me back in the day. I
haven't heard from that account in a while. What he
means by that, I'll tell you off here.
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Speaker 1 (44:24):
Here's Ben mellin testing the lexicon of the average consumer
of sports talk radio for many, many years. As welcome
our contestants. We have Austin who's in Maine. Who's gonna
play password? Hello Austin, welcome, Hey, good morning. All right,
I see a big Red Sox guy, Jared Durand just
(44:44):
gave you the bird, so there you go. All right,
he gave a Twins fan of bird last night. Anyway, Austin,
who do you want to partner up with? You got
me Ben? You got Lorraine or the Koubaloo. I'll go
with you.
Speaker 7 (44:57):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (44:58):
All right? We're in we are in it to win
it very nice and uh one or three? Lorena number one?
You have picked Brandon in cans Uh City Ello, Brandon Brandon,
I don't hear man.
Speaker 7 (45:16):
There's no place like home. He's flown off and all.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Let me see if I put this guy home brand.
Are you there? Brandon? Huh? And I don't hear him?
Are you there? Wake up?
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Brandon?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Brandon? Okay, I don't want to know what he was doing.
Let's go to Mark on the north end. Mark, would
you like to play? Mark? Yeah, my own, I'm popping off.
All right, who do you want to partner up with? Quickly?
I'll pick Coop. All right, Coop, you're in it. Lorena,
you're out of the show. All right. List of words here, Austin,
take a number one to ten, Austin, Devin quickly, number seven.
(45:53):
All right, let's go with there's a couple of ways
I can do this. Let's go with calendar, Uh, seasonal? No?
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Cool, Let's go with uh an engagement anniversary.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
No, let's go with Oh I got it, I got
it a day.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Uh Kurt?
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (46:25):
All right, Mark, you think you have it, but I'm
gonna give you a clue. Anyway. Let's go with rendezvous.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
That would be yeah, go ahead, pick another number, hurry up,
pick a number. Pick a number Mark, number one, number one.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
All right, let's go with vegetables.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Green.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
No, let's go with Oh boy, I don't know what
you do. You screwed up. I was going a different
way on that coop.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
But you can still go a different way.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
No, let's let's go. We'll go carrots.
Speaker 6 (47:00):
Uh, I don't know, Mark, Let's let's go with fruit.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Yeah, it's only because I got Brandon wasn't there. It's
because Brandon
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So our lead this hour is from Human Resources. What
(00:53):
the bleepity blee? What is this? Follow up? Follow up?
Major update on the NFL insider floozy and the football coach.
If you have not heard, If you have not heard,
the eagle has landed. The eagle has landed, and not
a Philadelphi eagle. Diana Russini, Bye bye. She's the insider
(01:18):
lady caught in a hot tub with Patriots head coach
Mike Vrabel in Sedona, Arizona, last month, and she has
now quit her job. She resigned. Finizio done out of here,
Bye bye Athletic, She's out of there. Russini submitted a
(01:39):
public letter of resignation to her now former employer, saying
that she had handled her responsibilities with professionalism and dedication.
She did look dedicated in that hot dump, she said.
Throughout her career, she stands by every story featuring her byline.
She clearly earned those scoops. Diana, seeming with a straight face,
(02:01):
that she's leaving not because she did anything wrong, no no, no,
no no, but because of the self feeding speculation that
is simply unmoored from the facts. And so the note continued.
But wait, there's more, she said. I have no interest
in submitting to any public inquiry that has already caused
(02:25):
far more damage than I am willing to accept. Interesting.
I wonder if she's holding Varibel's hands while she typed
that with her other hand. Maybe possibly, I don't know.
Rather than allowing this to continue, I have decided to
step aside now, she claimed, before my current contract expires
on June thirtieth. I do I do so not, she continued,
(02:48):
because I accept the narrative that has been constructed around
this episode. But you know what that means. But because
I refuse to lend it further oxygen or to let
it define me or my career. A right, So that's
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss lots to
unpack here. And the question, now that we know the
(03:13):
conclusion of this part of the story here, what's the
deal with Diana Rossini's resignation letter? What does it tell you?
All right? What does this tell you? So I've got
Caesar's Palace, Capitol Hill, and Star Wars, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we're going to
make this Mallard monologue one hundred and ten proof is
(03:34):
what we're going to do. Yes, very strong, very strong,
all right? So ay, my first thought is the G word,
gobbledee gook. That's what I thought of when I read this.
Diana Rossini has given the story which she claimed has
no credibility, credibility. Congratulations, Abra cadabra. There you go. Now,
(03:57):
Rassini said she won't let lend oxygen to this story.
Yet by doing what she did, she's pouring unleaded gasoline
all over it. Burn baby, burn, if you will, and
leaving before it's it's finished. Wouldn't it be easy? I'm
just asking the question if you were with a bunch
of girls on your girlfriends there on the trip. One
(04:20):
thing I know about women, they love taking photos, They
love taking ath So wouldn't you think there'd be a
bunch of photos of all the girls and her? And well,
you no problem, and you just send that over to
the athletic. Okay, we got your good job by you. Okay,
you're good. What happened? Maybe somebody had leaded all her photos?
Is that possible? So how do you square I stand
(04:42):
by my work with I'm leaving before my contract expires.
The math the mal or math ain't math on that.
And so what she's done here and then the other
part of it, which just rubbed me the wrong way,
is she's got her deck of Caesar's Palace playing cards,
and she pulled the victim hood card from the bottom
(05:05):
of the deck right there, and a masterclass in avoiding accountability.
I am going to avoid the accountability. Uh. And so
this is damage control dressed up as martyrdom. She really
the victim. I know that's very popular. There's a cottage industry.
You get a lot of that faux sympathy. Oh victim,
(05:25):
tell me more, tell me more. Uh yeah, all right.
So I looked at it's like gas lighting one on one,
gaslighting one on one, the old misdirection, misdirection play. If
you will, you feed false information, you're trying to hornswaggle
the public to question what they know to be true,
like looking at the photographs. Uh. And the thing about it,
(05:47):
she's claiming she was the victim when we are one
of literally a handful of shows that we're talking about this.
I was getting message in people who work in the business.
Why are you talking about that? You know you're never
going to get a daytime show. You talk, that's why
you're on nights. You talk. And these guys all look
like donkeys, every single one of them. Every one of
(06:07):
those mainstream daytime guys looked like donkeys. Radio silent. You know,
we do overnights obviously here at Fox, and we're not
part of the machine. We sneak in, we commandeer the
microphones overnight. The daytime radio and television. They got a
lot of egg on their face on this story, a
lot of egg on their face. The establishment mouthpieces in
(06:28):
the media business did not touch this. They didn't how
about the NFL insider crowd, nothing Buppkus squad, douche from
Adam Schefter and the rap sheet and all those guys.
They shut it up. They got nothing but scoops. But
I guess they ran out of ice cream on this one.
No scoopage, No scoopage here. And then the other part
(06:49):
of is that Diana Rassini went down to home depot.
I don't know why she'd go there, but she went
down to home depot and she picked up some ballerina nails. Now,
why did she pick up ballerina nails? Because those are
the ones she made her bed with and the bed
of nails and just like a coffin right there, boom.
As far as NFL insider, that's it now, keeping it going,
(07:11):
keeping the beat going. So the question now is if
she's if she did nothing wrong, If she did nothing wrong,
why did the now for former Athletic NFL insider Diana
Russini resign from a really good gig. We are told
she was the highest paid employee at the Athletic, which
blows my mind, but that's what Who knows if that's true.
(07:32):
I read that on the internet. Might not be true.
But I read that, so I believe it because I've
read it on the internet, so it must be true.
So why did you resign? Now that's the quest, and
so giving this one little side eye, it's a little
bit of side I hear. And the question you ask
in these situations is did she jump or was she pushed?
(07:52):
And it is more likely than not, based on all
of these circumstantial evidence and years and years of story
similar to this in the past, that it's more likely
than not that this was a preemitive eject button pressed.
Let me press the button. Okay, press the button. Boom,
there you go. Her deal was up June thirtieth. And
(08:15):
this smells, yeah, it smells like the media version of
you can't fire me, I quit. Now, you do understand
who your employer is when you work for the under
the umbrella of the old Gray Lady, When your employer
is the old Gray Lady, all stuffy and all that
(08:37):
stuff the New York Times, the Old Gray Lady, the
optics matter more than oxygen. I wonder if the editor
also got whacked at the Athletic the dumbass who came
out fully supporting Diana Russini before getting any information my god. Anyway,
So when you work for the New York Times, you can't.
(08:58):
You can't get away with this. You can't. So now,
if she worked at Barstool, she'd probably get a raise, different,
more money, But not at the New York Times, not
there at all. So on the Malard scale of scandal,
the Malor scale of scandal, spin.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
You know the lines she used, I refuse to lend
this oxygen. That is first ballot Hall of Fame deflection.
It is rubber stamped, rubber stamped by the boys on
Capitol Hill, textbook crisis management. And it's where you resign
early on in the scandal. You control the narrative, you
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get your word out, you avoid the public guillotine. Of course,
on this case it's a little rough. Although she did
do something we'll talk about a little bit later that
lends you to believe, lends you to believe that there's
more to the story. But nonetheless, the translation of all
that is you exit stage left before they give you
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the Gong show treatment and get you off the stage
and all that. And so the athletic quietly is like,
all right, listen, we're gonna get rid of you, and
we're going to allow you, though, to make it seem
like you're the one leaving and we're gonna even let
you write your own goodbye poem. Yeah, you know, is
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it fiction or nonfiction? Well, this is like reading Harry Potter.
That's what it sounds like to me. You read this
note here, and so now let's look at let's circle back.
The word. One of the words she used was unmoored,
and for those with the lexicon issues, that word means unfettered,
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essentially like a goose chase, like there was some kind
of witch hunt, if you will, And so she was
attempting it would appear whoever wrote that letter. I don't
if she wrote the letter or not, but some lawyer
likely vetted or wrote most of it. Fine, because there
there could be some lawsuits. These things usually lead the lawsuits.
That being said, playing scrabble, here's the fun fact. Do
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you know the word I believe I'm correct on this is?
I play a lot of scrabble. Do you know the
word that has the highest point value in scrabble? It's
a word that I use a lot on the show.
Do you know what you don't know what it is?
I'm and you can check check me on this, but
I believe I'm right. I looked this up a while back.
The word that has the highest point total un scrabble
is rasmataz. That's the words worth Yes, it's worth forty
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eight points by itself. Forty eight points by itself is
rasmataz because it's got the four z's in it and
not the four tops the four z. So I believe
that is the word worth the most. So she could
have used that, put a little rathmataz in there. That
would have been a good word. It's fun word, we
said all the times. Great word. You know, people smile
when they ear rasmatas. Razzle dazzles another fun word. All right, Now,
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last part of this. Now we know it takes two
to tango and she was in the hot tub with
an NFL coach, Hello, Mike Rabel. Now we circle back
and look at what Mike Rabel said when the story
first came out in the New York Post. Because that
reads like comedy gold Rabel said it was quote laughable
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to consider the picks showed anything but an innocent interaction. Oops.
All right, question for the esteem panel. So the question is,
how does coach Mike Rabel walk into the Patriots facility,
like nothing happened when the reporter that he was in
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the hot tub with just resign from a great job.
So my theory is that Rabel grew up a fan
of Star Wars. He's a big fan of Star Wars.
Say what Yeah, so Rabel trying the Jedi mind trick
and these aren't the droids you're looking for. These aren't
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the droids you're looking for, trying to sell calm. Everything's
good here while the building smells like burnt toast. Man,
smell that burnt toast. Now, he would have gotten away
with it if it weren't for you meddling PI private
investigator whoever ended up taking the story. There'll be some
Netflix docu series on this in about a year and
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it'll be really good, and we'll find out how the
photos were taken and who took them and who sold
them and the whole thing that'll be coming out before
you know it. Yeah, the person you said there's nothing,
nothing hanky panky going on here, the person you were
in the hot tub with resigning in a blaze of
glory from her job. So Diana Rassini might not be
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on the NFL payroll, She's not technically, however, she swims
in that ecosystem, and that obviously matters. That's a big
part of it. And canoodling with a vendor slash client
is problematic. I know this because I have graduated every
year for the last ten years or so from iHeart University,
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and I have had the extreme training online courses. It's
like going to traffic school every year. So I tell
my boss, say, I didn't get a traffic ticket. Why
don't have to go to traffic school. Way you got't
do what ever here, I said, But I didn't get
a ticket, but you got to do the thing. So
I've learned over the years. You know, these vendors, you
can't you can't fool around, can't do it. That's HR
one oh one, page forty five of the HR Handbook
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in bold print, unless, of course, you've got a force
field of football privilege. So there's a big push now
to see Mike Rabel punished by the Patriots and to
have something happen to Vrabel that he is culpable here
because he was doing the doing the naddy whatever that means.
And we went in the bedroom. But certainly seems like
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the way they were holding hands, it was more than
just reporter coach relationship. So either way, the reason it's
next is there the odds of getting any in any
real trouble are less than five percent, less than five percent.
And the reason is because he's got the anti person.
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He's got, not old spies, not he's got w spice
is what he's got. Because in the NFL, winning is
the most amazing deodorant. And if this was Gerard Mayo
or some Jabbroni coaching the Patriots, and they have had
some before, Belishick, there were many Jibbronis, although Gerard Mayo
was the last one. He was won and done in
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ji Broni. If you bring somebody like that in, that
person would have been escorted out of the Patriots facility
already in a timely manner with a cardboard box holding
their half eaten bag of skittles from their office. That's
how that would have gone down. Coach of the year,
You're in the Super Bowl, Okay, we can look the
other way. It's all good here, it's all we're all
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good now. Rabel's got some things he's got an answer
to at his house. I would think, who knows what's
going on they go the wild swing lifestyle. I don't know,
but otherwise they got some explaining to do. All it
is the Ben Malor show your thoughts on what is
for now the conclusion of this story. Also, where does
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Diana Russini en up? I know our guy? I guess
somebody's send me an email saying Stu Gott's offered her
job here at this company. Really, okay, I didn't know
you had that kind of money.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Is that a joke?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I don't know. I thought he was joy, but I don't.
Somebody send me your guys. Stu Gotts offered her job,
You're gonna have to be working with rus. First of all,
even if she got a job here, she'd worked during
the day and I would never see her.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I would love to meet her.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I would never see her in one my idol. Now
you might be your hero. Yeah, and she definitely went
above and beyond the call due to get scoops anyway, apparently,
what do I know? Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
I bet she gets you know, she'll do a podcast.
Everyone nobody listens to most of these podcasts. She'll do
a podcast, or she'll work at bars podcast. Hello, Hello,
the hot Top the Sedona Podcast, you could call it. Yeah, anyway,
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I'm sure she'll be fine. And she she's now infamous,
and in some ways she's more famous now than she's ever. Actually,
most of the way she's more famous now she ever
would have been just being a regular run of the
mill like seventh or eighth most popular NFL insider like.
She didn't reach the upper echelon of NFL insider despite
going to great lengths to try to go in the
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upper echelon, she did not reach that level. Now she
has in terms of infamy.
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story from pro Bouncy Ball, the story everyone's talking about.
Everyone's got an opinion on this from uptown Charlotte, not
downtown Uptown Charlotte Baby and the only mascot named after
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a flying insect. The Charlotte Hornets were in action there.
And the fake playoffs, so it's not really the playoffs,
it's not the regular season. It's the twilight zone.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Do do do do?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Do do do do? Stats that go into a vacuum.
That's where we're at. So were you watching of this?
The games were both close, like to say bye to
the Suns, they were eliminated. A nice choke job there
laid against the Portland Trailblazers, so they're out. And the
game we're going to talk about, though Eacher here involves
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the Hornets in the heat and it went to overtime,
a little overtime action. Kobe White had a big shot
to send the game into an overtime situation, but LaMelo
Ball having a ball, LaMelo Ball making a layup with
less than five seconds on the clock, four point seven
seconds left in overtime, and then Miles Bridges somehow able
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to leap up despite having all that baggage, Miles Bridges
able to block the Davion Mitchell attempt. He went coast
to coast to try to lay it up and win
the game for Miami. Keyword there, try at the buzzer
block shot. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. And
from Miami, Nana na na nanaaa hey go bye? Is
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the Hornets win? The Hornets win? They couldn't make a
three point shot. There are two big guys. Could not
make a three point shot. But they went anyway. Won
twenty seven to one to twenty six to the final
in a wacky beginning to the play in and then
the Portland Trailblazers taking the late game. But Charlotte will
play the loser of the seventy six years Magic Game
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in the playoffs, the real playoffs. And despite the late
fireworks and the dramatic the block shot, the layup to
win the game for the Charlotte Hornets. Despite all that,
the subplot which everyone's yapping about, well, it happened earlier
in the game. The Heat played much of the game
without their star center. As the season wrapped up for Miami,
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bam out of Bio. Yeah yeah, we know who he is. Yeah,
so Bam out of Bio suffered a back injury. Oh
my aching back back injury. First half. And that's where
the controversy is. And I learned this in sports talk
radio Clown College. You focus in on the controversy because
everyone has a hot take on the controversy. So here's
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the hot take, or here's the play, and then we'll
get to the hot take. So there was a incident late.
It was in the first half, so it's a second quarter,
a second quarter, and Lamello Ball was falling down, down, down, down,
and on the slow motion replay, it appeared that he
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reached out to grab the ankle of Bam outa Bio.
Now that led to a nuclear reaction from Eric Spolstra.
I don't know if the editors got this or not.
I imagine they didn't because they normally don't get these things.
But it was really good audio, really good audio. Spolstra
(21:44):
was asked about the play Lamello Ball reaching out as
he was falling down there said he should have been
ejected by what he said was a dangerous play. He said, quote,
I don't this is Eric Spolstra. I don't think it's cute.
I don't think it's funny. I think it's just stupid play.
Spoilster tall report, All right, well, I guess we have
I was playing that we have it. I didn't think
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we had it. Here we go, here's the Eric Spolster.
Oh Coop found it. And of course the editors don't
they in their back having a social hour. All right,
go ahead, but hit that hit the button, see.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
It, but that. I don't think it's cute. Don't think
it's funny. I think it's a stupid play. It's a
dangerous play. Obviously our best players out. I'm not making
an excuse the Hornets. Uh e great, they made those
plays down the stretch. We we had our opportunities to win.
I just that's a shame. You know, he should be
penalized for that. I don't think that belongs in the game.
(22:33):
You know, tripping guys, you know Shenanigans, and you know
Curtis was there. It's his responsibility to see that. And
if it's not his responsibility, then Zach's got to see it.
If you know, somebody has got to see that, and that,
you know, he should have been thrown out of the game,
you know, for that I don't know him from you know, anyone.
I just there's no place in the game for that, obviously. Uh,
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you know it took bam out of the game.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Right. There's Eric Spolstra there, and I think it's cute.
I don't think it's funny, dangerous play, all of that,
all right, So good jumping off point. Let us discuss
as you heard there the Heat coach Eric Spolstra saying
that LaMelo Ball should have been injected, get out of here,
get out of here, for what he called a dangerous play,
causing the bam ade bio back injury. So where does
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your mind go on this one? Where does your mind
going this one? So I've got cosmic brass bonanza and
the Philly fanatic and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to take a shot
in the dark, is what we're going to do, because
that's what we do now, number one one. So this
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is a feeding frenzy. And it's also a bit of
an overreaction. It's a bit of an overreaction. I realize
I'm an age where I grew up watching basketball at
a different time. I do chuckle considering the things that
have happened in NBA games and the over the top
feeding frenzy, the attack on lamellow ball, It's like slow down. Now.
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When I heard the rant, which we were able to
play for you because Coop found it, the Spoe rant
I expected, I went back and I watched it, cause
I watched it in real time. I was like, Okay,
I expected a felony. I expected a felony, not a
relatively routine play, A little on the edge, a little
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on the edge of things. But it was not. This
does not deserve a courtroom drama O rama. It does
not deserve that. And it also feels like selective ouverage.
If you asked me, do you have any kind of
empathy for Eric Spolster, who sounded like a broken man
talking about this play, the answers no. The answer is no.
It's funny because I kept some notes. I went back
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and I recall a couple of years back, I don't
remember Eric spols For giving a sermon about Caleb Martin,
who was playing for him at the time, a similar
play on Jason Tatum. If my notes are correct, I
don't recall Eric Spolstra saying that there's no place in
the game for this, and you know you gotta be
kicked out, gotta be suspended, all that stuff. No, so
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spare me, spare me. You're on the other side all
of a sudden, Oh, this is not right. I can't
believe this is Oh my god. Now I have an
unpopular opinion. I have an unpopular pin. I had to
share with the class, an unpopular pin. My hand, my
hand is raised. I might share an unpopular opinion. So
Spoe shouldn't be mad at LaMelo ball? Why not?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Bam and the ball got hurt.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Couldn't be very upset? Shout up? All right, Spoe should
not be upset with LaMelo ball. He should be filing
a complaint in the court of karma, as in karma
with a capital k erg cosmic justice. Cosmic justice. Now
(25:59):
I go back and for on this, and my counselor,
Andrea in the Bay Area, the astrology Insider, can help
me out on this. But this certainly seems like cosmic justice.
I'll tell you why. The basketball gods also keep notes.
They keep notes, and Miami turns out they got some
debt they had to pay. Well, what did they do?
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You're making things up? There's no car over the Miami Heat.
Shut up. They stage dah, they staged they eighty three
point farcical. You remember that that circus under the Big
Top there in Miami. I remember it against the Wizards.
That was some bad sorceries. What that was. We're going
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full wwe like writing and you do that and expect
no blowback. You don't think the universe is gonna bite
your ass back when you do that kind of bull
crap in an NBA game. Yeah, well guess what it happened.
It's not that complicated. It really isn't that complicated. The
universe saw Eric Spolstra giggling and laughing. Remember they were
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intentionally fouling the Washington Wizards so they could get more possessions,
so Bam out of Bayo could get the eighty three
point game. So that happened. That kind of funny business.
And this was just a nice little reminder. Hey, remember
remember the cosmic basketball gods. Well we're still here. Balance
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has been restored, so enjoy your off season. You live
in Miami, So what do you go on vacation when
you live in Miami. It's to stay in Miami because
that's where everyone goes on vacation. So you just stay
there all right. Now, Pat you're speaking of the heat
from thirty thousand feet up in the sky, the big
picture and the better story from the losing locker room.
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So with it, game over for the Miami Heat. They
lost a bunch of games to end the year, and
that's why they ended up in the situation. They were
in the plant anyway. So what is the master plan
to turn around a franchise which is stuck in the
mud the Miami Heat. Things not going so well for Miami,
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So what is the what is the master plan? So
you got pat Riley, who's in the big chair. Pat
Riley is behind the plate there and he's at he's
behind the wheel. He's at the wheel. Riley and the
Heat are out. They're looking out on the horizon. They're
in a boat and they're looking for a whale. They're
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trying to find a whale. And the problem is it
has been many years since they caught a whale. They
haven't actually been able to harpoon a whale for some time.
It's a problem, and so they're trying to get that
where's the whale? We need a whale? Can I get
a whale? Riley's looking around. And so now yet again
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another season has fizzled away for the Miami Heat, and
yet again they are going full Hartford Whalers brass bonanza
if you know, you know, brass bonanza, dreaming of dragging
in the freak. Let's get freaky as in Giannisi Denta Kumbo,
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the Greek Freak. And every squabble involving a superstar player
in the last twenty years, every squabble involving a star
player in the NBA turns into a carnival. For the
Miami Heat, it's either the Lakers or the Heat. It's
always those teams. Everyone's gonna go to those teams. And
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so it's often been more smoke without fire. Normally there's
not smoke without fire. Somehow there is regarding this and
so this is not just a fish story. It's not
just any fish storre. I mean, there's a lot of
fish stores. But this is the one that Riley's been chasing,
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and he had it years ago with Chris Bosh and
Lebron James and has been unable to recreate that magic,
has been unable to recreate that magic, and he's trying,
and he's out there and it's like, oh, we got it,
we gotta do it, we gotta make this happen. And sure, Giannis,
certainly with Milwaukee, it feels shakier than ever and we've
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heard this song and dance before and nothing's happened as
of yet. A year after year Miami, they line up
the harpoon, they're ready to go, and they come back
with the big thing of sardines. While we didn't want sardines,
but that's all you got. You didn't get the whale. Well,
why didn't you get the whale? Well, I don't know.
We tried to get the whale, but we just ended
up with these sardines. And there's a lot of them. Yeah,
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So close unfortunately does not conquer kingdoms or the NBA.
It does not do that. And so here's the gut check.
Pat Riley does he still have the magic pixie dust
at age eighty one or is this just what pat
Riley was and is just some memories of the legend
of Ryles, who's been in Miami seemingly forever. But if
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he misses again, if Giannis ends up on the Knickerbockers
or somewhere else and doesn't go into to Miami. This
franchise will continue to be on the hamster wheel of mediocrity.
And the Heat haven't been catching whales. They've been chasing
a lot of ghosts. Though a lot of ghosts. All right,
Now we move on. The sneaker heads would like to
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chime in on this.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I am not a sneaker. I'm not not really a
car guy, not a sneaker guy. I'm just a guy,
that's all I am. I'm a headphone guy. Oh, I'm
at Yeah, I'm a hack guy. I'm a heck guy.
That's my thing. That's right. I'm a hat guy. I
do like cats, but if I had a full head
of hair, I don't think I would. I would be
a hat guy, you know. I think that's more of
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a byproduct of my situation. Like to blame my parents anyway,
So a sneaker guy. Interesting story. Now, I got sent
this by a listener. I did not see this on
my own. I am not keeping up on the sneaker world.
I know a lot of you boys love sneakers. Good
for you. A way to go, I remember, I think
I know Rob Parker's got a great collection. Bobo on
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the radio. I love Bubbo. Bobo had an epic collection
of sneakers. And I see Bobo usually once a year
at the holiday party, the Ugly Sweater Party. I always looked
forward seeing Bobo. Good, good dude. I loved when he
worked on the show. And Bubbo he had a huge
I remember, massive collection to match every out he had one.
All right, So get to the point, all right, I
get to the poet. So Nike has unveiled a new sneaker. Now,
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normally this does not reach the level of malat monologue.
Times are a changing. Did you see this? Nike is
giving a sneaker too, Bronnie James, Yes, not lebron Bronnie James.
Yep that Bronnie James. Yes, Nike has introduced the Lebron
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nine witness whatever thing that is. Nike said, the shoe
is quote inspired by Bronni's recovery and journey back to
the court. All right, question, what is the word? What
is the word for Lakers benchwarmer Bronnie James? What is
the word for Lakers bench warmer Bronnie James getting his
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own sneaker? So I have two words stolen valor are
my my two words? Basketball? Stolen valor. This is not
a shoe drop, if you will, for Bronnie James. It
is a participation trophy with laces. Congratulations. Well why does
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it have laces. Well, it's a trophy, but it's got
the laces. I don't understand. So this is the greatest
case of NBA hype inflation since years ago when some
of you idiots tried to tell me that Kyle Kuzma
was the next big thing in the NBA. I remember,
you just don't understand. You're a Laker hater. Kyle Kuzma
is going to be so good. You're You're just a hater.
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That's what you're doing the Overnight Show. Okay, how's Kyle
kho'sman doing. Is he's even still in the NBA anyway? Yeah,
I know he is. I know he is. So let's
keep this real here, just between me and you, let's
keep this real. This is the first sneaker, the Bronnie
James sneaker, inspired by a player's journey to ride his
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daddy's coattails to the bench. That's about It's about where
we are. That's about where we are at this particular point.
Even sneaker heads are tapping out they're like, hey, I
can't even defend this, like this is really bad. You know,
this is like the Laker historians like, Okay, that's a
little too far. It's a little too far, Like what
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are you doing now? I gotta tell you. When I
got sent this, I thought, Okay, this guy's trying to
punk me. I think the guy's name is Mike. He
did not say where he's from, so I don't know.
I assume he's from southern California, but who knows. H
So he sent me, you know, I was like okay.
So I clicked on it, and I was like, okay,
I thought this must be satire. This guy's gonna bust
my balls and he wants me to do something on this.
So I checked and it's apparently not. It's like legit,
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Nike sent this out on their own accounts. You think
they kind of keep that on the DL. They did not,
And so I thought, well, this is satire Sports Talk
Barry Butt Crack Sports, one of those deals NBA sentel.
And then I thought, well, this must be Nike trolling.
It's not satire, but they're troll No, No, it wasn't
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that Wasn't that just some good old fashioned nepotism with
a swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. Yeah, if my dad played in
the NBA, I'd have my own shoe too. Think about
while lebron James plays the puppet master, Bronnie James putting
up video game tutorial numbers. He's averaging in his career
less than three points a game, less than three points
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a game, and he's a career thirty seven percent shooter.
He's essentially the Philly fanatic mascot wearing a Laker jersey
is what he is. Yeah, this isn't marketing, it's propaganda.
It's propaganda, is what it is. In the tagline, inspired
by irrelevance, Inspired by irrelevance, And at this rate, doesn't
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Nike have to hook up some other insider basketball friend guy,
Like if you give it to Bronnie James, If you
hook Bronnie James up and say, okay, you're gonna get
a shoe because your dad, you know who the comps
are to Bronnie James, there's no real great comp The
closest I could come up with is Isaiah Wong of
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the Hornets and Deuce McBride, a guy named Deuce for
the I believe, the place with the Knicks. So unfortunately,
Isaiah Wong's daddy did not run Nike or did not
have a ownership share like lebron does, and so does
not get a shoe and Deuce McBride, that would be
a fun name. Let's buy the Deuce be a fun
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name for a shoe. Are they gonna get shoes? Probably not?
Probably not not gonna get shoes. So Bronnie will be
the first player I believe in history whose sneaker comes
with a disclaimer. You now, what does the disclaimer say?
The disclaimer will say warning, wearing these sneakers will cause
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your performance to decline. That because there's always like you want.
Only a few guys got basketball sneaker deals. And I
know as a kid because I was of the age
when this kind of became a thing, although even before
it became a thing, like Converse had Larry Bird and
Magic Johnson and guys like that. But he as a kid,
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You're like, Okay, through the eyes of a child, if
I put on these shoes, I'm going to play as
well as that player. I'm gonna have superpowers. In this case,
you could likely play as well as Brownie James you
could likely play as well.
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Speaker 6 (37:54):
Longtime forty nine Ers full back Kyle Yuscheck made a
radio appearance this week where he said about brock Perney,
I don't know what it is, what it's going to
take for this guy to finally get the respect I
think he truly deserves.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Then what will it take?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
He's already got it. He signed a massive contract. He
signed a two hundred and sixty five million dollar contract.
He's he got a forty million dollar Jake, one hundred
and eighty two million. That is respect. I want that
kind of respect. Did me put some respect in my name?
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Next, it was supported over the weekend that X Miami
defensive end Reuben Bain Junior was involved in a fatal
car accident back in twenty twenty four. He was initially
charged with reckless driving, but those charges were dismissed.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Ben, he's a top prospect. Do you think this will
hurt his draft position?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Ah? If he's good. It won't hurt him. And it's
very odd. This story randomly popped up on a very
slow NFL news day, almost like somebody was trying to
bring it back to get some engagement online. No, he's
if he's good, he's like, well, he's just he's learning
to drive. If not, and they'll say that's why he
didn't get draft, He'll be fine next.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
Anthony Davis this week acknowledged that it would be extremely
difficult for the Wizards to go from worse to first,
but vowed to build a winning culture with Washington. But
any think the Wizards will at least have a winning
record next season, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I think Anthony Davis is gonna look great sitting on
that Wizard's bench. He is going to get all the
top fashion awards in the NBA sitting his ass down
there watching the Wizards play basketball. How do we do? Kooblo?
He passes that as I went Street Coast, Anthony Davis,
Street Coast, Street Coast.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
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Speaker 3 (39:33):
It bys good little rain at nine clean up hearts.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
Going to help you gear Rye, gear rye and nine
gear right and nine.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Dear ry you.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
Heard the man. It's time for love here on the
Ben Mallards Show.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Who Yes, Lorena, you have an opening love thought here.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
You know, just don't be too overwhelming with your advances.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Oh is that? Are people overwhelming? Are they a little
over the top there? Yeah, they don't know any property.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
I'm sure you communicate. Communication is key.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Well, some guys like to make a splash entry. They
like to be like the kool Aid man.
Speaker 7 (40:14):
I love a good surprise splash like.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
They like to break through the wall right now, because
you know, they figure a lot of guys will hit
on good looking women, so they try to make their
mark a different way, you know.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yuck. Anyways, all right, what have we got?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I ferg Dog says, I'm making dinner at home for
a first date this weekend, and I need to know
do girls prefer the peanut butter on top or bottom
of the PBN J Okay.
Speaker 7 (40:43):
Well, your first mistake is having someone over for a
first date at your house. I've been watching a lot
of TikTok videos of girls who go on first dates
at homes to specifically steal from men. So you go
to the bathroom and they take your airfrac Really, there's
a girl.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Who has a whole that's hard to say, yes, And
how do you steal an air fryer in the purse?
Speaker 7 (41:02):
You unplug it and you walk out with it. You
don't got to take it in your par They wait
till you're in another room. Your video game consoles, DVD players.
Be careful in fighting random strangers into your head.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, no, you know you can't. Guys do that?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Really?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Women come over? I thought women. You know, any woman
that will come to your back in my day, I
don't know about now. You know it's been years, but
any woman that would come to your house right away
was generally not their long term if you know what
I mean. You know what I'm saying, And usually had
it took a while for that to happen. Yeah, a
lot of public appearances for that to happen, because I
never had to worry about someone coming to my house
to steal anything. So anyway, that's very impressive for it.
(41:40):
Mentionine Ferdduck picking up chicks. Yeah, I'm gonna cook for
you Okay, that's exciting. I want to surprise you. Okay,
even better. And then they come over and it's a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
Sounds delicious.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Actually, Now the.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Key, Lorraine, as you know, is you can't cut it.
When you cut the peanut butter the other sandwich, you
can't get it down the middle cutting at an angle.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
The diagonal exactly.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, it is a.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
More impressive sand which when you cut diagonally. Mike writes
in he says, what if right after your work your
boss asked you to go to the big game? Would
you be careful not to have too much fun in
case you showed up on the kiss fan cam. That's
the question.
Speaker 7 (42:15):
I'm gonna go with my motto, you know you only
live every day?
Speaker 1 (42:19):
That's true, yo ed or something like only only yoli ed?
All right, Mike the Leprechaun. Michael Different. Michael writes and says, Lorrain,
if you had an expansion sports team, what would you
name it? Great question, Michael, great question. What would you
(42:40):
name a sports team? Loraina?
Speaker 6 (42:41):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Good love advice.
Speaker 7 (42:42):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Actually we could he Oh, you would you go with
something unique?
Speaker 7 (42:51):
It could be like the love gamblue team.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Is named after socks. Imagine how exciting the world was
when we said we'll name our team the White Sox
or the Red Sox.
Speaker 7 (42:58):
What if we named it? I don't know if I
can say this.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
If you went in doubt, leave it out of the
panty hose. Let's go with the hose, the panty hose.
We'll say it all all right, very good? Shane and
de Moyes, says Lorena, Who are some of your female crushes?
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (43:18):
Of women that I love? Anna Hathaway, Oh, I love
her to death. Britney Spears used to be one, but
now I worry about her.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
She needs your love more now than never.
Speaker 7 (43:29):
A social distancing hug for her.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Okay, I might get some penicillin after you huggers, I understand.
Speaker 7 (43:37):
Oh my gosh. Who else do I love right now?
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (43:40):
Me Aubrey Plaza, I love Aubrey Pla JT.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
The Wingman writes, Sin says, I'm trying to up my
game with the lady. Should I take advice from hollering
James or Anthony and Louisiana?
Speaker 7 (43:51):
I would probably do Anthony Anthony.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Okay, all right. Miranda's black boyfriend quickly says, Miranda is
my Tony Romo. Lorena is my Dak Prescott. How about that.
That's a legend from me back in the day. I
haven't heard from that account in a while. What he
means by that, I'll tell you off here.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password, you idiot? Password the word
Game of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Here's Ben mellin testing the lexicon of the average consumer
of sports talk radio for many, many years. As welcome
our contestants. We have Austin who's in Maine. Who's gonna
play password? Hello Austin, welcome, Hey, good morning. All right,
I see a big Red Sox guy, Jared Durand just
(44:44):
gave you the bird, so there you go. All right,
he gave a Twins fan of bird last night. Anyway, Austin,
who do you want to partner up with? You got
me Ben? You got Lorraine or the Koubaloo. I'll go
with you.
Speaker 7 (44:57):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (44:58):
All right? We're in we are in it to win
it very nice and uh one or three? Lorena number one?
You have picked Brandon in cans Uh City Ello, Brandon Brandon,
I don't hear man.
Speaker 7 (45:16):
There's no place like home. He's flown off and all.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Let me see if I put this guy home brand.
Are you there? Brandon? Huh? And I don't hear him?
Are you there? Wake up?
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Brandon?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Brandon? Okay, I don't want to know what he was doing.
Let's go to Mark on the north end. Mark, would
you like to play? Mark? Yeah, my own, I'm popping off.
All right, who do you want to partner up with? Quickly?
I'll pick Coop. All right, Coop, you're in it. Lorena,
you're out of the show. All right. List of words here, Austin,
take a number one to ten, Austin, Devin quickly, number seven.
(45:53):
All right, let's go with there's a couple of ways
I can do this. Let's go with calendar, Uh, seasonal? No?
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Cool, Let's go with uh an engagement anniversary.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
No, let's go with Oh I got it, I got
it a day.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Uh Kurt?
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (46:25):
All right, Mark, you think you have it, but I'm
gonna give you a clue. Anyway. Let's go with rendezvous.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
That would be yeah, go ahead, pick another number, hurry up,
pick a number. Pick a number Mark, number one, number one.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
All right, let's go with vegetables.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Green.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
No, let's go with Oh boy, I don't know what
you do. You screwed up. I was going a different
way on that coop.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
But you can still go a different way.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
No, let's let's go. We'll go carrots.
Speaker 6 (47:00):
Uh, I don't know, Mark, Let's let's go with fruit.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Yeah, it's only because I got Brandon wasn't there. It's
because Brandon
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