April 17, 2026 • 42 mins
Brian Noe in for Ben Maller and discusses LaMelo Ball only being fined for his actions during the NBA Play in Tournament, & the overall product the NBA Play In Tournament + why not everything needs to be seen as sexist after a press conference took place earlier in the day in the WNBA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Hey, what's going on? Welcome in happy.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Late Thursday early Friday, depending on where you're listening in
the country. Appreciate you checking out the show. I'll tell
you what. I'm just gonna come right right out and
say it. Melard Militia, I was lost in the world
on Thursday night with no NBA, had no NBA going on.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm like, what am I.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Gonna do with myself? There was Puck going on, But
if you know me, I'm not the biggest fan of Puck.
I'll dabble. I'll dabble every now and then, you know,
the bigger matches, bigger games, I'll watch. I'll watch a
little you know, gold medal hockey action. I'll be there
for that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I'm basically what I hate when it comes to like
the like dip your big toe in the in the
waters of heavy metal. That's basically what I am with
with uh with hockey, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, Like you know those fans that are like, oh yeah, man,
Metallica enter sand Man and I'm just like, oh my gosh,
just stop talking please. That's how I am with hockey.
That's anything I say about hockey. I feel like every hockey,
like true fan is like, oh this freaking guy again.
Now I'll watch the gold medal Olympic stuff. I'll watch
(01:46):
I'll watch the Stanley Cup playoffs. I'll watch the Stanley
Cup final. I'll get into that. End of the regular season. No,
thank you, not interested. So I was watching UFL That's
why it was on in the background. I'm preparing for
the Ben Malors Show. Oh little fill in extravaganza. These
late night hours, it's all I had. So I'm aching
(02:06):
for the NBA to be back. I'm not aching for
the NBA to be back on Amazon in particular, but
I am aking for the association to be back, and
it will be back in sort of full force on
Friday night. That is the last installment of the play
in Tournament, so we will have the final two teams
(02:28):
that will make it into the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's either gonna be the Warriors.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Or Suns, or it's gonna be the Hornets or the Magic.
And I think the play in Tournament, if you're gonna
be fair about this, I think it shows the best
and the worst of Adam Silver all at the same time. Okay,
so let's start with the good. There is some good,
believe it or not. With Adam Silver. I would argue
(02:54):
that playing tournament has been fantastic. Playing tournament this year
has been awesome, and we've had four games so far.
Unfortunately they've been on Amazon. So that's a strike against
Adam Silver. I know he's trying to line the NBA's pockets,
but meanwhile, the NBA fans have to suffer through technical
difficulties at a crucial stage of the Hornets game on Tuesday,
(03:19):
and it's like, what what do you mean technical difficulties?
That's still a thing like this is an important stretch
at the end of the game over here. Yeah, it
was terrible with the Miami heat going on there, So
I'm not a fan of it being on Amazon. So's
it's lame to me. Thank goodness, we still have Inside
the NBA. If we lost you know, Ernie and Shaq
(03:42):
and Kenny and Charles, if we lost that show because
they decided to just take the Amazon loot, I would
be even more heated about this. Thankfully we still have
Inside the NBA on ESPN. But this whole Amazon thing,
I don't want to sound like the get off my
lawn guy, old guy who just text messaging what's that?
(04:04):
I don't want to sound like that. But I can't
be the only one who hates this on Amazon. Man,
Like I like flipping channels, Yeah, you can't flip if
there's a game on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It is a no flip situation, no flipping tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
You can't search something else, you can't flip over to
something else in a commercial. Nope, it's just on Amazon
the whole time. It doesn't look quite right, you know,
it's not as clear. Some people have brought that up,
Others push back on it, so I can't tell the difference.
I don't think your eyes are that good at this stage.
It's clearly a difference. It's not nearly as clear as
(04:40):
it is on like an ESPN or you know, NBC
or whatever. It's just not the same picture, man, and
to have technical difficulties.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So I'm not a fan of the NBA being on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I don't have a problem streaming stuff on a tablet,
you know, I have no problem with it on my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I do that all the time. Not a huge issue.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I do love to flip around, and streaming is not
flip friendly. But man, when you put it on your TV,
I am not a fan whatsoever. So strike against Adam
Silver for having the NBA on Amazon. Not a fan whatsoever.
Huge strike against Adam Silver for what's happened with LaMelo Ball.
(05:27):
So you know, we wouldn't have had this whole LaMelo
Ball fiasco if we didn't have the play in tournaments, right, So,
I think the playing tournament has been fantastic. I will
give Adam Silver before I crush this freaking I will
give Adam Silver a little bit of kudos because I
think the play in tournament has been fantastic. And this
(05:47):
hasn't been the only year that it's been really good,
but this year in particular, we've had four games so
far and three of them have been classics.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
We're talking like overtime games.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
The Blazers pulled one out against the Suns that was insane.
That that overtime game where the Hornets pulled it out
with dirty Lamello ball and his cheap shot tactics against
BAM and Miami, there's still a great game. It goes
into overtime, just craziness ensued at the end of regulation.
At the end of overtime, it's a great basketball game,
(06:21):
highly entertaining.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And last night with Chef Curry doing.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
His thing against the Clippers, man, it's gonna be hard
to be a Clippers fan. My gosh, what keeps you
going at this point? But the Playing Tournament has been fantastic.
So that was the brainchild of Adam Silver. It happened
under his watch, so you gotta give him credit for that.
I don't know who is still like, oh, the Playing Tournament.
You've had three out of four games that have been
(06:47):
awesome and the one game that wasn't truly awesome was
still okay, the Sixers in Magic that's still a close
game with about three minutes left. So it has been
a great play in tournament this year. So props to
Adam Silver for that. Now, when it comes to roasting
Adam Silver. This Lamello Ball situation is just a joke, man.
(07:09):
So LaMelo Ball, you go way back to Tuesday night.
It seems like two weeks ago at this point, right,
You go back to Tuesday night and LaMelo Ball intentionally
grabs the leg of Bam out of Bayo and just
yanks it back.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Poor Bam falls right to the floor, hard, bruised back.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's got a contusion over here, right, doesn't finish the game,
can't get back into the game early in the second quarter.
No more Bam and LaMelo Ball. No officials saw it.
They can't review it. More on that in the second
and so LaMelo Ball finishes the game. He scores the
winning basket, and the Hornets win, and the Miami Heat
(07:55):
season is over. Just done, pack it in one, two, three,
can coon?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It's over. And so the league was reviewing this whole thing.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Should we suspend LaMelo Ball for the next game that's
gonna be on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
When the playing tournament, you know, picks back up again.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
So should LaMelo Ball be out there when the Hornets
are taken on the Magic And so shockingly, the league
reviews this all right, it's dot the i's crossed, the
t's up thirty five thousand dollars fine, no suspension. It's
been upgraded to a flagrant two foul. By the way,
(08:33):
So if they caught this during the game, that would
have meant LaMelo would have been ejected at that point,
which is absolutely what should have happened. Who that watches
the NBA with any regularity or anyone who just pays
attention to like NBA headlines, who's surprised that Adam Silver
(08:54):
did not drop the hammer? That would be no one
is surprised. No one is surprised whatever, because he never
does it.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It's so weird.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Man like he came in with an iron fist, Donald
Sterling get the hell out of here, and we're like,
whoa new sheriff in town. Since then, he has been
a lamb. He has been a substitute teacher.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
No. And it makes me think of David Stern.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Right, David Stern, I think would have suspended LaMelo ball.
I don't know for sure if that would have happened,
but I do think it would have. I feel like
it would have because you go back remember the series
between the Suns and the Spurs, and this was after
the malice in the palace and Adams I'm sorry. David
Stern was anti fighting, anti skirmishes, no bad blood. We're
(09:44):
not escalating anything. If any player on the bench walks
onto the court when there's an altercation, you are suspended,
no questions asked. And there was a situation in that
Spurs Sun series where there were a couple of Sons
players who literally had like a big toe barely on
the court, and David Stern's like that, sorry, you know
(10:07):
the rules suspense shown. So I think that David Stern
would have suspended LaMelo Ball. But Adam Silver, no, no
suspension from Adam Silver. Adam Silver is like, well, I
don't know. That seems like a little bit too much
over here, and let's just air on the side of leniency.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Let's just do it. So if you're keeping score.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
LaMelo Ball fined thirty five thousand dollars for a quote,
unnecessary and reckless contact with Bam out of bio. So
he was fined for unnecessary and reckless contact. And then
he was fined twenty five thousand dollars for dropping an
F bomb in the postgame in the postgame interview, So
(10:49):
thirty five g's for intentionally tripping bam by to Bio
or grabbing his leg to make him fall, and then
twenty five thousand dollars for dropping an F bomb.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
So in the NBA's finding.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Right here, they're saying that the tripping of bam Out
to Bio causing him to fall straight to the floor,
bruising his back not being able to continue in the game.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That's like marginally a little.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Bit worse than dropping an F bomb, is what the
NBA is saying, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. So
this is the bad with Adam Silver. The good, Hey,
we get a play in tournament. It's been fantastic, all right, cool,
it's on Amazon. Well that sucks. That's on Adam Silver.
And the LaMelo thing where he's allowed to play on
Friday is a joke and it shows that we still
(11:41):
have a substitute teacher that's calling the shots and has
really no backbone whatsoever. It does remind me, is it
Melissa McCarthy. I think she's in the heat. You ever
see the Heat, Lorena, it's with a Sandra Bullock and
Melissa McCarthy.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
I think I'm saying the one where they're like shooting
people yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, it's like, uh, or is it the fuzz?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
No, yeah, you're right, it's the heat, the heat, right,
or they're kind of like undercover and they're trying to
figure out Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's a scene where
Melissa McCarthy is talking to the captain and she's trying
to find his balls, and I swear, I think of
Adam Silver. I think of Adam Silver every time I
grabbed the audio for you. Here's Melissa McCarthy in the heat.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Have anyone seen the captain's balls? Let me know, they're
about this big, a lot tinier. They're like a pee
or like a like a ball bearing or like if
you've ever seen a mouseball got half that size. Incredibly tiny.
They're like really really tiny little girl balls, and little
girls had balls, So I can find little tiny girl
(12:45):
balls that are so tiny and shriveled up.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Let me know, because I'll put them right back up.
He strode them.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I swear, if you like, you just make that whole
speech about Adam Silver. I think it's on points. I
think it does a great job describing what we've had,
largely from him as the NBA commissioner.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Little mouse balls, Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's totally what it's been. Now.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
The funny thing at the end of this, so Eric Spolstra,
the head coach of the Miami Heat, Now I'm gonna
take you back to Tuesday because it matters for the
here and now. Okay, I know Tuesday feels like ancient history,
but this was Spoe after the game on Tuesday, right,
Miami loses, They lose by one point in overtime. Their
(13:32):
season is over, and he is not pleased. He's not
pleased that LaMelo Ball wasn't kicked out of the game
for what he did to Bam.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
This is what Eric Spolster said on Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
I don't think it's cute. I 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 played great, you know, and they made those
plays down the stretch. We had our opportunities to win.
I just that's a shame. You know, you should be
penalized for that. I don't think that belongs in the game.
You know, tripping guys, you know shenanigans, and you know
(14:05):
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.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Okay, So that's what Eric Sposter said on Tuesday. Now,
this is what he said on Thursday. He said, I
didn't think that he needed to be penalized more moving forward.
So like, in terms of he thought that LaMelo should
have been kicked out of the game on Tuesday against
the Miami Heat. But as far as hey, should LaMelo
be suspended for Friday's game against the Magic, Eric Sposter says, no,
(14:43):
I don't think he needed to be penalized more moving forward.
I don't think that would make sense. He went on
to say, I don't think he's a dirty player. I
just think in that moment all things can be true.
It was a dirty play and a dangerous play. It
should have been caught at that moment, but it wasn't,
and then you know, you move on. It's just like, okay,
(15:05):
so I I sort of get where he's coming. What
he's basically saying is what good does that do the
Miami Heat Now right, the mellow should have been it
should have been a flagrant too. In that game, he
should have been kicked out of the game against the
Miami Heat. Now we're talking about suspending him for the
next game against Orlando, and Spoe was like, nah, let
(15:25):
him play against Orlando.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
What do I care about.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I think he's just he's got tunnel vision in thinking
about the Miami Heat and that's that. But I'll tell
you what should have happened in this whole thing. You
need to go to replay. You gotta have the ability
to go to replay if you can see it like
once or twice at home and you're like, wow, that
is such a dirty play, Like that's there's no place
(15:50):
in the game for that. Why can't the NBA officials
go to the monitor or like the NFL does it,
They're gonna they're as I think they're implementing that this
this season. Is they can they can basically be radioed
in right when it comes to replay assist replay assist,
I believe we'll have the ability to kick a guy
(16:14):
out if he did something improper, Like it doesn't have
to be a whole thing. You don't have to have
the officials in the NBA go to the monitor, turn
it around like it's not nineteen ninety eight anymore. You
should just have replay assist catch that, and then figure
it out from there.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Streamline it. Let's move this along.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
It shouldn't take a day and a half, but you
should have the ability to review it right then and
there and to come up with any punishment that you
see fit right then and there. It doesn't do any
good after the game to say we've upgraded it to
a flagrant two and he's not suspended for the next game.
(16:54):
That does absolutely no good whatsoever. You find him a
little bit more than the amount of the fine for
him dropping an F bomb.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's just so silly. You've got to.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Have the ability to replay these things that impact games.
LaMelo Ball shouldn't have continued playing that game against the
Miami Heat. He was allowed to, and it's a crock.
So I think that Adam's sover is weak and spineless
and has little girl balls. Just like Melissa McCarthy said,
I think LaMelo should be suspended for the upcoming game.
(17:27):
There's no place in the game for what he did.
But what really should have happened. You have to have
the ability to go to replay and punish him in
that specific game. It doesn't do the Miami Heat any good.
If he suspended against the Magic, it does the Heat
some good. If LaMelo was kicked out of the game
on Tuesday against the Heat, that's exactly what should have happened.
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All right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That
is your phone number. We are often running here, militia.
We got a lot to get to. I'll tell you what.
Getting fired up. We got ball to talk about. Lots
of all on the menu tonight, of course, meaning football.
We'll get back to the Association NBA playoffs right around
the corner. I'm excited for the play in tournament. The
(18:09):
last installment here. A couple of things to get to.
There's some crazy stories also. There's one story that is
so ridiculous it almost seems completely made up. We got
a former football player posing as NFL players to get
about twenty million dollars in loans. Crazy like, it doesn't
even sound real. But I will get to that as
(18:29):
the evening rolls along as well. Coming up next, Keep rolling, rolling, rollin' Wow.
You know what it reminds me. You know, there's this
burlesque show in Vegas, Lorena is called the Empire Strips Back,
you know, and when they did because Roland makes me
(18:50):
think of Limp Biscuit, and it was another Limp Biscuit
song called Nookie Yeah, and they switch it to I
did it All for the Wookie right, because it's the
Empire Strips Bag.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
It's a whole you know, Star Wars theme. Crazy. Would
you ever want to go see that show, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yeah, Like I feel like I've seen it in a
dream before.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd go check it out. I
definitely would be up for something like that for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
But uh yeah, I have next time here in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Next time, all right? That sounds good to me? Coming
up next?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Is it me?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Or?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Is this huge sporting event a lot like March Madness?
You might agree, you might not agree. Well, we'll throw
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(20:45):
play this song early in the show, and then you
got it done right here with h don't impress me much.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Some of my songs in the system, they're like ghost buttons, right,
so it's like, oh, this is a song, but there's
no audio attached to it. Uh huh, that's what happened
with the last one.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You must have really wanted to play this to remember.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
You know, it's one of a you know, one of
the artists that we've bonded with.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, this doesn't sound like the original.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Am I here? Is my hearing wrong?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Or why does it sound like the new like sort
of ed m version, you know what I mean? Like
it seems dressed up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Does it not? Okay, maybe it doesn't seem like the
original to me? Is this the original? It sounds dressed
a little bit. It's the original. Wow, I didn't realize
it sounded like that.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Wow, I have no it sounds way poppier than the
original to me, sounded a lot more country.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Maybe I have it cranked up at full volume when
I listened to and that's a little quieter.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Maybe it is.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
That could have been it, That definitely could have been it.
Let me get to the militia here in a minute.
I do have an idea. Okay, I want you guys
to tell me if I'm onto something here. You think
I'm just you know, stupid with this observation. So there
have been a couple of contracts in the WNBA. Bear
with me, it's another WNBA thing. But I'll make it
(22:11):
quick and painless, and you might even agree with me.
So Asia Wilson with the Las Vegas Aces, she's fantastic.
She just signed a three year, five million dollar supermax contract.
Three years, five million dollars Supermax. Okay, the FISA Collier.
There was news on Thursday night she's staying with the
(22:34):
Minnesota Lynx, a one point four million dollar supermax deal.
One year, one point four million dollars supermax. I think
the WNBA needs to avoid using that word supermax.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That's not smart at all. Now follow me on this one. Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Celtic star Jason Tatum, he signed a three hundred and
fifteen million dollar super max contract. Okay, now that that's
a supermax. Okay, one point four million dollars Supermax.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Like, the point is, you don't want to make your
own league seem small.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Just don't do that. Here's my idea, Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
And I'm not expecting the WNBA to have the same
amount of money that the NBA has. The NBA has
had far more years to grow the game, grow the money.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's a work in progress. With the WNB.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
They're making significant strides, but no one in their right
mind would expect the WNBA to be on the same
level as the NBA ratings wise, financially, attendance, all that stuff,
TV ratings, all of that. Okay, I'm not this is
the thought. Isn't to like hammer the NBA for not
being on the same level. That would be a stupid takeaway.
(24:04):
The takeaway is when someone hears super Max contract, they're
used to hearing numbers in the high two hundred million
dollar range, the three hundred million dollar range. There's been
a lot of super Max contracts in the in the NBA.
So when you hear the WNBA, Nafisa Collier, who's magnificent,
(24:27):
one of the faces of the league, one point four
million dollars Supermax deal, Like, that's just just a punchline.
It's a joke. There are comments left and right on
X where it's like Supermax I fell over when I
heard that.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
You just don't want to put yourself in that position.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
If you're the w and WNBA. Here's my thought, here's
what I think they should use instead. Okay, you tell
me if you think I'm ridiculous or not. Premiere Premiere contract,
different terminology. It doesn't have the same takeaway. When you
if if if the headline is the real headline.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Let's just doctor it a little bit.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Sources the FISA, Collier signs with Links on a one
point four million dollar premiere contract. I think that lands
so much better. You don't have the takeaway of super Max.
Oh at one point four super mas.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Wow, you don't have that. That's better for the WNBA,
is it not?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
I that's what you're saying. That makes perfect sense. Thank
you don't highlight how small your league is?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yes, right, you're you're putting a gigantic spotlight on We
don't have hardly any money.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I mean that's pennies compared to those other contracts that
you mentioned.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Yes, yes, Why would you use the same terminology?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Why you need to highlight how much your league is growing?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yes, exactly, that's right. And instead you're using the same
terminology service.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
It's not good. It's not smart.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
And just back up a word that it means the
same thing as Supermax. But you're not saying Supermax. It
lands totally differently.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
What about Wumbo Jumbo I'd be good.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Okay, let's try it.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Asia Wilson, the WNBA's first four time MVP, has signed
a three year, five million dollar Wumbo Jumbo contracts.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Wow, what do you think? I mean, I think it's
better than super Max.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I think you could throw almost anything but Supermax and
it would be an improvement. My idea is Premiere Lorraina
goes with Wumbo jumbo. I think either way you got
a winner right.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
There, you got anything Brie.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
You're throwing a phrase, a catch word. What do you
think off the top of your head?
Speaker 8 (26:58):
I was just gonna say, win is the w n
b A. Actually, ever, like followed through with being smart
with their any business and financial and verbiage communication decision.
So what expectations do you really have when it comes
to them actually like being very you know, thoughtful about
what they're saying.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
So well, hey, that's true, that's absolutely true. But it's
it's a new day. It's a new it's a new day.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
You know. We gotta correct.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Some stuff over here. They've stepped in it before in
the past. It's all about the here and now it's
about the future. We gotta we gotta tighten some screws
around here, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So let's make a good decision or something.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Yeah, but get away from super Max. That it's horrible terminology.
It just turns your league into a punchline. Why would
you do that to yourself?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Why?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Like, at least the the NBA, And it took some time,
but they've tried to really hammer home that, uh, the
that ownership owners are. They don't refer to them as owners,
they refer to them as governors.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
A lot of people think that's stupid, but they've they've
tried to hammer that home for a number of years.
It's like trying to turn like change the terminology. It's
not gonna be like a snap of the fingers and
everybody falls in line. But if I'm the WNBA, I
would make it abundantly clear. I would actually put it
in my CBA. I'd be like, that's the actual terminology
(28:25):
the media would follow if the media work up, sorry,
if the WNBA worked with their media partners of like, listen, ESPN.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Here's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Okay, when we say super max, it sounds like a
joke because the FISA Collier signs for.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
One point four million dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
People are used to hearing Jason Tatum signing for three
hundred and fifteen million dollars. Okay, so we're not gonna
use Supermax. We're gonna go get away from that terminology.
We're gonna create something different. We're just gonna call it
a premier deal. It means the same thing, but it
sounds different, it lands differently, So we'd appreciate it if
you just when you put it out, there's premier deal.
(29:03):
It's in our CBA. That's what it's actually referred to
as NBA has a Supermax deal. We don't have that.
We have a premiere contract. Like that's basically a max deal,
but we're not saying max because it makes it sound
like small potatoes, cool cool, way better, way, better approach
night and day, better than using the same terminology. Like
(29:26):
you could play games with what what percentage is one
point four million dollars of you know, three hundred and
fifteen million dollars. I don't even know. I don't know
how to find that out. I have to google things.
It would be a whole thing. I can't find it
on the fly. But it's like, I don't know, in
the neighborhood of two hundred and seventy percent less or
(29:47):
something just insanely.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Crazy, like, well, why would you do that? You just
sound small. It's not smart, not smart at all all. Right,
let me get out to the phones.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Here the militias lined up. They want to check in.
I believe I guy jameson Taco was out there. I
want to hear what James has to say. What's going on, James,
you're on Fox Sports Radio. I don't know.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
I don't know if you saw what happened Baltimore last
night baseball game between Baltimore and Cleveland. But Baltimore was
behind ninth inning, four zero and the picture for Cleveland
had no hitter going through eight idots. Yeah, So to
Baltimore home crowd of Baltimore, they turned against their own team.
They start cheering for the Cleveland picture because any wanted
(30:28):
to win this of no hitter in person? Yeah, So
by character for you, have you ever turned against your
own team if opportunity to witness history being made in person?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Wow, it's a great question, James, that really and I
saw what you're talking about. Just like to put a
bow on what you're talking about. So the Cleveland picture
he's trying to he's trying to get a no hitter
for the first time forever. Right, I think they're the
last They're the longest drought. Now is the Cleveland Guardians
now since their last no hitter, it's been forever, and
(31:04):
he didn't get it done, you know, he gave up
a hit. And then Baltimore made it interesting, right, they
had they scored two runs, they had two runners on base,
and it looked like they're maybe gonna get a base
hit and tie the thing up. And the second baseman
made a nice play and the Guardians won the game.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
But that's a brilliant question.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I no, man, I can't think off the top of
my head. I'll put it this way. I'm a Saint
Louis Cardinals fan. We'll keep it with baseball, especially baseball.
If if my team was pretty much out of contention,
I would think in the ninth inning, James, if my
team were down four to nothing, right and I had
(31:46):
a chance.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
To see a no hitter.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
And there are other dynamics like, for instance, this year,
the Saint Louis Cardinals are going no where. Okay, if
I were in attendance, what I like you said on
my team, I really wouldn't even look at it like that.
I'd be like, I'm a fan of baseball and not
just a fan of the Saint Louis Cardinals. I would
like to see history being made. I probably would in
(32:11):
that in that scenario.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Yeah. Now, if this is.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
A a arrive like I hate the Chicago Cubs, I do.
No way I would ever root for them ever, ever,
ever like being in attendancying history. No, I'm rooting against
you every single time. Sorry, So I have limits. And
if this is an important game, Saint Louis needs to
win it, you know they're they're in a Pennant chase
like no way, no, but in a lost season where
(32:37):
they're really going nowhere, Yeah, I would, would you?
Speaker 10 (32:40):
Yeah? I would?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah? Yeah, No, good stuff, great question, James, very good.
I like that. I like how you put that. Would
you turn on your on your team?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
You know I I I disagreed with my guy Arne
Arnie Spanier. Arnie does a great job. I call him
chef boy Arnie. That's my silly nickname for Arnie. But
Arnie's a great dude. I visited him in Vermont with
my World Travels, went to his place, you know, watch
hoops with Arney's an awesome dude, awesome, awesome guy, and
(33:19):
we disagreed on one thing. He was hammering the Saint
Louis Cardinals for cheering Albert Poolholes. So Albert Pooholes was
a member of the Angels at the time, and he
was back in Saint Louis, and Saint Louis gave him
a crazy ovation. You can imagine, right, this is Albert Poolholes,
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like three time NLMVP the first ten seasons. He's averaging
a three hundred batting average, thirty home runs, one hundred RBIs.
It's like clockwork, you know, all time Cardinal great one rings.
He's got numerous championship right like, and he goes back
(34:02):
to Saint Louis and the Saint Louis fans cheer him
like crazy, and Arnie was.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Just like, oh, you're turning on your team. What do
you doing? What?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
I thought he was freaking crazy. I still think he's crazy.
You could absolutely cheer a former player who starred for
your team. You're just showing appreciation for the guy. You're
not turning on your team and saying, go Angel screw
the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You're not saying that at all.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
But yeah, some fans they look at it like that.
They get really territorial. But that's an awesome question by James.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I put it like this, if it.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
If it put my team at a disadvantage, then no,
I wouldn't do that. But if it really didn't put
my team at a disadvantage, would I root for another
team to do something historic against my favorite team?
Speaker 10 (34:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:59):
I would.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I would do that.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I think baseball lends itself to that more than any sport.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Think about that. You got one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Two games, you know what I mean, Like, you drop
a game in April, there's so much runway right left
to go to make that up, Like, oh yeah, it's yeah.
You got a chance to see a no hitter. I'd
say a perfect game. Perfect game is almost a no brainer.
You've got like twenty five ish of those in MLB history.
(35:33):
You got a chance to witness a perfect game, and
you turn that down. Like I'd be like, you know,
if I'm not outright going like, come on, guy, let's
go get another out against my favorite team, internally, I'd
be like, I kind of hope he gets another out here.
It was amazing. What's going on here? It's a great
(35:53):
question by James, really good stuff. Yeah, shame on me.
My job as a show host, I should be coming
up with stuff like that instead, I've I've got you know,
premiere contract for the w NBA. That's what I brought
to the table here tonight. Man, small potatoes compared to James.
James brought his A game here. You know, he's crushing it.
(36:14):
Very nice. Let me go to Cardiac Stanley. He's been
hanging with me from Ohio. I appreciate your patient's Cardiac Stanley,
what's on your mind these early morning hours.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
I wouldn't do that, but if it really didn't put
my team at a disadvantage for what, I root for
another team to do something historic?
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, I would do that.
Speaker 10 (36:38):
I think baseball that more than any sport to think about.
He got one hundred and sixty two games me.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Cardiac Stanley's replaying. I was agreeing with myself until I
realized it's me.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, like.
Speaker 10 (36:55):
Yeah, a chance, perfect game, perfect games almost no greater.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Let's as random call ever, let me hold on back up,
let me try to disagree with myself and you turn
that down? Turn that down? Yeah you sound ridiculous, right.
Speaker 10 (37:23):
Like kind of Let me get to this mother out here.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Man, No, I wouldn't be hoping. No, that's I didn't
think it was that great of a question.
Speaker 10 (37:32):
James show I should be coming up with stuff. Okay,
I've got I did.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I did.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I brought premiere contract to the table. I think that's fine.
You know, I brought the crazy story to the table
about the dude impersonating NFL players.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
That was strong.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You know, I'm gonna have to disagree with myself. I
do think I brought it tonight. Who here's the question, though,
who who calls in to just play audio of the host?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
I didn't even know that.
Speaker 8 (38:07):
Was happening for like ten seconds.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I was like, I didn't either.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
I didn't either, And I'm like, wait a minute, that
sounds strangely familiar. What how do I know this voice?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, that's me. That's what's happening.
That's kind of odd.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Hmm. That's a new one right there. No one's ever
done that I've had.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
We have a wide range of colors over the years,
man wide range. The most random. Oh, I'll tell you
one of my most random stories. I gotta tell you
one of my most random stories happened in Portland. Okay,
do I have time for this now or should I
do it on the other.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Side and a half minutes, hold on, kick you out?
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Speaker 3 (39:05):
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Speaker 4 (39:07):
Buying should be. Okay, here's my story. So he's doing
radio in Portland and we had this event. It was
like the NBA Draft or something. So some other guys
were doing their show there. So I went there and
just hung out, just hanging out watching my coworkers do
their show, and this girl.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Walks into me from behind. Oh.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I'm just standing there like, you know, against the wall,
and this girl just boomed, like just nailed, like walks
into me from behind.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
I kind of looked at her and I was like,
what was that about?
Speaker 9 (39:41):
You know?
Speaker 4 (39:42):
And so after after the show ends, I see this
girl and she's there and we were just talking. She's
there with her brother, I believe, And it turns out
they told me they were big Philadelphia Eagles fans and
they were upset that I said, the Eagles who had
(40:03):
just won a Super Bowl. This is like the Nick
Foles Super Bowl. They beat the Patriots, and I said
the next season they wouldn't even make the playoffs. And
they were mad about my prediction that they wouldn't make
the playoffs. And so what they did. Her brother was
recording this whole thing. He's recording his sister walking into
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me because they're upset about my prediction, and they were
trying to bait me. They were trying to bait me
into whatever, doing something inappropriate, like yelling at her.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Yeah, they're trying to set a bear trap that I
did not walk into because they were mad about an Eagles.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Prediction of mine.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
And I was like, you guys are psychotic. You're psychotic
right now.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
That's crazy. What's wrong with you guys? It's a prediction.
Who cares? Yeah, And they took it to that level.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
So I've had some random experiences, but I've never had
an experience where someone replayed my own sports takes from
like five minutes prior.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
That's a new one.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Man, he's gonna replay it when he goes to bed.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
He might, yeah, he might. That was good. Hey.
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Hey, what's going on? Welcome in happy.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Late Thursday early Friday, depending on where you're listening in
the country. Appreciate you checking out the show. I'll tell
you what. I'm just gonna come right right out and
say it. Melard Militia, I was lost in the world
on Thursday night with no NBA, had no NBA going on.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm like, what am I.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Gonna do with myself? There was Puck going on, But
if you know me, I'm not the biggest fan of Puck.
I'll dabble. I'll dabble every now and then, you know,
the bigger matches, bigger games, I'll watch. I'll watch a
little you know, gold medal hockey action. I'll be there
for that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I'm basically what I hate when it comes to like
the like dip your big toe in the in the
waters of heavy metal. That's basically what I am with
with uh with hockey, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, Like you know those fans that are like, oh yeah, man,
Metallica enter sand Man and I'm just like, oh my gosh,
just stop talking please. That's how I am with hockey.
That's anything I say about hockey. I feel like every hockey,
like true fan is like, oh this freaking guy again.
Now I'll watch the gold medal Olympic stuff. I'll watch
(01:46):
I'll watch the Stanley Cup playoffs. I'll watch the Stanley
Cup final. I'll get into that. End of the regular season. No,
thank you, not interested. So I was watching UFL That's
why it was on in the background. I'm preparing for
the Ben Malors Show. Oh little fill in extravaganza. These
late night hours, it's all I had. So I'm aching
(02:06):
for the NBA to be back. I'm not aching for
the NBA to be back on Amazon in particular, but
I am aking for the association to be back, and
it will be back in sort of full force on
Friday night. That is the last installment of the play
in Tournament, so we will have the final two teams
(02:28):
that will make it into the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
It's either gonna be the Warriors.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Or Suns, or it's gonna be the Hornets or the Magic.
And I think the play in Tournament, if you're gonna
be fair about this, I think it shows the best
and the worst of Adam Silver all at the same time. Okay,
so let's start with the good. There is some good,
believe it or not. With Adam Silver. I would argue
(02:54):
that playing tournament has been fantastic. Playing tournament this year
has been awesome, and we've had four games so far.
Unfortunately they've been on Amazon. So that's a strike against
Adam Silver. I know he's trying to line the NBA's pockets,
but meanwhile, the NBA fans have to suffer through technical
difficulties at a crucial stage of the Hornets game on Tuesday,
(03:19):
and it's like, what what do you mean technical difficulties?
That's still a thing like this is an important stretch
at the end of the game over here. Yeah, it
was terrible with the Miami heat going on there, So
I'm not a fan of it being on Amazon. So's
it's lame to me. Thank goodness, we still have Inside
the NBA. If we lost you know, Ernie and Shaq
(03:42):
and Kenny and Charles, if we lost that show because
they decided to just take the Amazon loot, I would
be even more heated about this. Thankfully we still have
Inside the NBA on ESPN. But this whole Amazon thing,
I don't want to sound like the get off my
lawn guy, old guy who just text messaging what's that?
(04:04):
I don't want to sound like that. But I can't
be the only one who hates this on Amazon. Man,
Like I like flipping channels, Yeah, you can't flip if
there's a game on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It is a no flip situation, no flipping tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
You can't search something else, you can't flip over to
something else in a commercial. Nope, it's just on Amazon
the whole time. It doesn't look quite right, you know,
it's not as clear. Some people have brought that up,
Others push back on it, so I can't tell the difference.
I don't think your eyes are that good at this stage.
It's clearly a difference. It's not nearly as clear as
(04:40):
it is on like an ESPN or you know, NBC
or whatever. It's just not the same picture, man, and
to have technical difficulties.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So I'm not a fan of the NBA being on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I don't have a problem streaming stuff on a tablet,
you know, I have no problem with it on my phone.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I do that all the time. Not a huge issue.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I do love to flip around, and streaming is not
flip friendly. But man, when you put it on your TV,
I am not a fan whatsoever. So strike against Adam
Silver for having the NBA on Amazon. Not a fan whatsoever.
Huge strike against Adam Silver for what's happened with LaMelo Ball.
(05:27):
So you know, we wouldn't have had this whole LaMelo
Ball fiasco if we didn't have the play in tournaments, right, So,
I think the playing tournament has been fantastic. I will
give Adam Silver before I crush this freaking I will
give Adam Silver a little bit of kudos because I
think the play in tournament has been fantastic. And this
(05:47):
hasn't been the only year that it's been really good,
but this year in particular, we've had four games so
far and three of them have been classics.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
We're talking like overtime games.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
The Blazers pulled one out against the Suns that was insane.
That that overtime game where the Hornets pulled it out
with dirty Lamello ball and his cheap shot tactics against
BAM and Miami, there's still a great game. It goes
into overtime, just craziness ensued at the end of regulation.
At the end of overtime, it's a great basketball game,
(06:21):
highly entertaining.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And last night with Chef Curry doing.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
His thing against the Clippers, man, it's gonna be hard
to be a Clippers fan. My gosh, what keeps you
going at this point? But the Playing Tournament has been fantastic.
So that was the brainchild of Adam Silver. It happened
under his watch, so you gotta give him credit for that.
I don't know who is still like, oh, the Playing Tournament.
You've had three out of four games that have been
(06:47):
awesome and the one game that wasn't truly awesome was
still okay, the Sixers in Magic that's still a close
game with about three minutes left. So it has been
a great play in tournament this year. So props to
Adam Silver for that. Now, when it comes to roasting
Adam Silver. This Lamello Ball situation is just a joke, man.
(07:09):
So LaMelo Ball, you go way back to Tuesday night.
It seems like two weeks ago at this point, right,
You go back to Tuesday night and LaMelo Ball intentionally
grabs the leg of Bam out of Bayo and just
yanks it back.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Poor Bam falls right to the floor, hard, bruised back.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's got a contusion over here, right, doesn't finish the game,
can't get back into the game early in the second quarter.
No more Bam and LaMelo Ball. No officials saw it.
They can't review it. More on that in the second
and so LaMelo Ball finishes the game. He scores the
winning basket, and the Hornets win, and the Miami Heat
(07:55):
season is over. Just done, pack it in one, two, three,
can coon?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
It's over. And so the league was reviewing this whole thing.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Should we suspend LaMelo Ball for the next game that's
gonna be on Friday night.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
When the playing tournament, you know, picks back up again.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
So should LaMelo Ball be out there when the Hornets
are taken on the Magic And so shockingly, the league
reviews this all right, it's dot the i's crossed, the
t's up thirty five thousand dollars fine, no suspension. It's
been upgraded to a flagrant two foul. By the way,
(08:33):
So if they caught this during the game, that would
have meant LaMelo would have been ejected at that point,
which is absolutely what should have happened. Who that watches
the NBA with any regularity or anyone who just pays
attention to like NBA headlines, who's surprised that Adam Silver
(08:54):
did not drop the hammer? That would be no one
is surprised. No one is surprised whatever, because he never
does it.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It's so weird.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Man like he came in with an iron fist, Donald
Sterling get the hell out of here, and we're like,
whoa new sheriff in town. Since then, he has been
a lamb. He has been a substitute teacher.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
No. And it makes me think of David Stern.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Right, David Stern, I think would have suspended LaMelo ball.
I don't know for sure if that would have happened,
but I do think it would have. I feel like
it would have because you go back remember the series
between the Suns and the Spurs, and this was after
the malice in the palace and Adams I'm sorry. David
Stern was anti fighting, anti skirmishes, no bad blood. We're
(09:44):
not escalating anything. If any player on the bench walks
onto the court when there's an altercation, you are suspended,
no questions asked. And there was a situation in that
Spurs Sun series where there were a couple of Sons
players who literally had like a big toe barely on
the court, and David Stern's like that, sorry, you know
(10:07):
the rules suspense shown. So I think that David Stern
would have suspended LaMelo Ball. But Adam Silver, no, no
suspension from Adam Silver. Adam Silver is like, well, I
don't know. That seems like a little bit too much
over here, and let's just air on the side of leniency.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Let's just do it. So if you're keeping score.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
LaMelo Ball fined thirty five thousand dollars for a quote,
unnecessary and reckless contact with Bam out of bio. So
he was fined for unnecessary and reckless contact. And then
he was fined twenty five thousand dollars for dropping an
F bomb in the postgame in the postgame interview, So
(10:49):
thirty five g's for intentionally tripping bam by to Bio
or grabbing his leg to make him fall, and then
twenty five thousand dollars for dropping an F bomb.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
So in the NBA's finding.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Right here, they're saying that the tripping of bam Out
to Bio causing him to fall straight to the floor,
bruising his back not being able to continue in the game.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That's like marginally a little.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Bit worse than dropping an F bomb, is what the
NBA is saying, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. So
this is the bad with Adam Silver. The good, Hey,
we get a play in tournament. It's been fantastic, all right, cool,
it's on Amazon. Well that sucks. That's on Adam Silver.
And the LaMelo thing where he's allowed to play on
Friday is a joke and it shows that we still
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have a substitute teacher that's calling the shots and has
really no backbone whatsoever. It does remind me, is it
Melissa McCarthy. I think she's in the heat. You ever
see the Heat, Lorena, it's with a Sandra Bullock and
Melissa McCarthy.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
I think I'm saying the one where they're like shooting
people yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, it's like, uh, or is it the fuzz?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
No, yeah, you're right, it's the heat, the heat, right,
or they're kind of like undercover and they're trying to
figure out Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's a scene where
Melissa McCarthy is talking to the captain and she's trying
to find his balls, and I swear, I think of
Adam Silver. I think of Adam Silver every time I
grabbed the audio for you. Here's Melissa McCarthy in the heat.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Have anyone seen the captain's balls? Let me know, they're
about this big, a lot tinier. They're like a pee
or like a like a ball bearing or like if
you've ever seen a mouseball got half that size. Incredibly tiny.
They're like really really tiny little girl balls, and little
girls had balls, So I can find little tiny girl
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balls that are so tiny and shriveled up.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Let me know, because I'll put them right back up.
He strode them.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I swear, if you like, you just make that whole
speech about Adam Silver. I think it's on points. I
think it does a great job describing what we've had,
largely from him as the NBA commissioner.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Little mouse balls, Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's totally what it's been. Now.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
The funny thing at the end of this, so Eric Spolstra,
the head coach of the Miami Heat, Now I'm gonna
take you back to Tuesday because it matters for the
here and now. Okay, I know Tuesday feels like ancient history,
but this was Spoe after the game on Tuesday, right,
Miami loses, They lose by one point in overtime. Their
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season is over, and he is not pleased. He's not
pleased that LaMelo Ball wasn't kicked out of the game
for what he did to Bam.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
This is what Eric Spolster said on Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
I don't think it's cute. I 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 played great, you know, and they made those
plays down the stretch. We had our opportunities to win.
I just that's a shame. You know, you should be
penalized for that. I don't think that belongs in the game.
You know, tripping guys, you know shenanigans, and you know
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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.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Okay, So that's what Eric Sposter said on Tuesday. Now,
this is what he said on Thursday. He said, I
didn't think that he needed to be penalized more moving forward.
So like, in terms of he thought that LaMelo should
have been kicked out of the game on Tuesday against
the Miami Heat. But as far as hey, should LaMelo
be suspended for Friday's game against the Magic, Eric Sposter says, no,
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I don't think he needed to be penalized more moving forward.
I don't think that would make sense. He went on
to say, I don't think he's a dirty player. I
just think in that moment all things can be true.
It was a dirty play and a dangerous play. It
should have been caught at that moment, but it wasn't,
and then you know, you move on. It's just like, okay,
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so I I sort of get where he's coming. What
he's basically saying is what good does that do the
Miami Heat Now right, the mellow should have been it
should have been a flagrant too. In that game, he
should have been kicked out of the game against the
Miami Heat. Now we're talking about suspending him for the
next game against Orlando, and Spoe was like, nah, let
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him play against Orlando.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
What do I care about.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I think he's just he's got tunnel vision in thinking
about the Miami Heat and that's that. But I'll tell
you what should have happened in this whole thing. You
need to go to replay. You gotta have the ability
to go to replay if you can see it like
once or twice at home and you're like, wow, that
is such a dirty play, Like that's there's no place
(15:50):
in the game for that. Why can't the NBA officials
go to the monitor or like the NFL does it,
They're gonna they're as I think they're implementing that this
this season. Is they can they can basically be radioed
in right when it comes to replay assist replay assist,
I believe we'll have the ability to kick a guy
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out if he did something improper, Like it doesn't have
to be a whole thing. You don't have to have
the officials in the NBA go to the monitor, turn
it around like it's not nineteen ninety eight anymore. You
should just have replay assist catch that, and then figure
it out from there.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Streamline it. Let's move this along.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
It shouldn't take a day and a half, but you
should have the ability to review it right then and
there and to come up with any punishment that you
see fit right then and there. It doesn't do any
good after the game to say we've upgraded it to
a flagrant two and he's not suspended for the next game.
(16:54):
That does absolutely no good whatsoever. You find him a
little bit more than the amount of the fine for
him dropping an F bomb.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's just so silly. You've got to.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Have the ability to replay these things that impact games.
LaMelo Ball shouldn't have continued playing that game against the
Miami Heat. He was allowed to, and it's a crock.
So I think that Adam's sover is weak and spineless
and has little girl balls. Just like Melissa McCarthy said,
I think LaMelo should be suspended for the upcoming game.
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There's no place in the game for what he did.
But what really should have happened. You have to have
the ability to go to replay and punish him in
that specific game. It doesn't do the Miami Heat any good.
If he suspended against the Magic, it does the Heat
some good. If LaMelo was kicked out of the game
on Tuesday against the Heat, that's exactly what should have happened.
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All right, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That
is your phone number. We are often running here, militia.
We got a lot to get to. I'll tell you what.
Getting fired up. We got ball to talk about. Lots
of all on the menu tonight, of course, meaning football.
We'll get back to the Association NBA playoffs right around
the corner. I'm excited for the play in tournament. The
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last installment here. A couple of things to get to.
There's some crazy stories also. There's one story that is
so ridiculous it almost seems completely made up. We got
a former football player posing as NFL players to get
about twenty million dollars in loans. Crazy like, it doesn't
even sound real. But I will get to that as
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the evening rolls along as well. Coming up next, Keep rolling, rolling, rollin' Wow.
You know what it reminds me. You know, there's this
burlesque show in Vegas, Lorena is called the Empire Strips Back,
you know, and when they did because Roland makes me
(18:50):
think of Limp Biscuit, and it was another Limp Biscuit
song called Nookie Yeah, and they switch it to I
did it All for the Wookie right, because it's the
Empire Strips Bag.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
It's a whole you know, Star Wars theme. Crazy. Would
you ever want to go see that show, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yeah, Like I feel like I've seen it in a
dream before.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd go check it out. I
definitely would be up for something like that for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
But uh yeah, I have next time here in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Next time, all right? That sounds good to me? Coming
up next?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Is it me?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Or?
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Is this huge sporting event a lot like March Madness?
You might agree, you might not agree. Well, we'll throw
it against the wall, see what happens. That's on the way.
I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Malor. Keep it
locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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play this song early in the show, and then you
got it done right here with h don't impress me much.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Some of my songs in the system, they're like ghost buttons, right,
so it's like, oh, this is a song, but there's
no audio attached to it. Uh huh, that's what happened
with the last one.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You must have really wanted to play this to remember.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
You know, it's one of a you know, one of
the artists that we've bonded with.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, this doesn't sound like the original.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Am I here? Is my hearing wrong?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Or why does it sound like the new like sort
of ed m version, you know what I mean? Like
it seems dressed up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Does it not? Okay, maybe it doesn't seem like the
original to me? Is this the original? It sounds dressed
a little bit. It's the original. Wow, I didn't realize
it sounded like that.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Wow, I have no it sounds way poppier than the
original to me, sounded a lot more country.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Maybe I have it cranked up at full volume when
I listened to and that's a little quieter.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Maybe it is.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
That could have been it, That definitely could have been it.
Let me get to the militia here in a minute.
I do have an idea. Okay, I want you guys
to tell me if I'm onto something here. You think
I'm just you know, stupid with this observation. So there
have been a couple of contracts in the WNBA. Bear
with me, it's another WNBA thing. But I'll make it
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quick and painless, and you might even agree with me.
So Asia Wilson with the Las Vegas Aces, she's fantastic.
She just signed a three year, five million dollar supermax contract.
Three years, five million dollars Supermax. Okay, the FISA Collier.
There was news on Thursday night she's staying with the
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Minnesota Lynx, a one point four million dollar supermax deal.
One year, one point four million dollars supermax. I think
the WNBA needs to avoid using that word supermax.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That's not smart at all. Now follow me on this one. Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Celtic star Jason Tatum, he signed a three hundred and
fifteen million dollar super max contract. Okay, now that that's
a supermax. Okay, one point four million dollars Supermax.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Like, the point is, you don't want to make your
own league seem small.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Just don't do that. Here's my idea, Okay.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
And I'm not expecting the WNBA to have the same
amount of money that the NBA has. The NBA has
had far more years to grow the game, grow the money.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's a work in progress. With the WNB.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
They're making significant strides, but no one in their right
mind would expect the WNBA to be on the same
level as the NBA ratings wise, financially, attendance, all that stuff,
TV ratings, all of that. Okay, I'm not this is
the thought. Isn't to like hammer the NBA for not
being on the same level. That would be a stupid takeaway.
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The takeaway is when someone hears super Max contract, they're
used to hearing numbers in the high two hundred million
dollar range, the three hundred million dollar range. There's been
a lot of super Max contracts in the in the NBA.
So when you hear the WNBA, Nafisa Collier, who's magnificent,
(24:27):
one of the faces of the league, one point four
million dollars Supermax deal, Like, that's just just a punchline.
It's a joke. There are comments left and right on
X where it's like Supermax I fell over when I
heard that.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
You just don't want to put yourself in that position.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
If you're the w and WNBA. Here's my thought, here's
what I think they should use instead. Okay, you tell
me if you think I'm ridiculous or not. Premiere Premiere contract,
different terminology. It doesn't have the same takeaway. When you
if if if the headline is the real headline.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Let's just doctor it a little bit.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Sources the FISA, Collier signs with Links on a one
point four million dollar premiere contract. I think that lands
so much better. You don't have the takeaway of super Max.
Oh at one point four super mas.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Wow, you don't have that. That's better for the WNBA,
is it not?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
I that's what you're saying. That makes perfect sense. Thank
you don't highlight how small your league is?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yes, right, you're you're putting a gigantic spotlight on We
don't have hardly any money.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I mean that's pennies compared to those other contracts that
you mentioned.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Yes, yes, Why would you use the same terminology?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Why you need to highlight how much your league is growing?
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yes, exactly, that's right. And instead you're using the same
terminology service.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
It's not good. It's not smart.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
And just back up a word that it means the
same thing as Supermax. But you're not saying Supermax. It
lands totally differently.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
What about Wumbo Jumbo I'd be good.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Okay, let's try it.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Asia Wilson, the WNBA's first four time MVP, has signed
a three year, five million dollar Wumbo Jumbo contracts.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Wow, what do you think? I mean, I think it's
better than super Max.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I think you could throw almost anything but Supermax and
it would be an improvement. My idea is Premiere Lorraina
goes with Wumbo jumbo. I think either way you got
a winner right.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
There, you got anything Brie.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
You're throwing a phrase, a catch word. What do you
think off the top of your head?
Speaker 8 (26:58):
I was just gonna say, win is the w n
b A. Actually, ever, like followed through with being smart
with their any business and financial and verbiage communication decision.
So what expectations do you really have when it comes
to them actually like being very you know, thoughtful about
what they're saying.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
So well, hey, that's true, that's absolutely true. But it's
it's a new day. It's a new it's a new day.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
You know. We gotta correct.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Some stuff over here. They've stepped in it before in
the past. It's all about the here and now it's
about the future. We gotta we gotta tighten some screws
around here, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
So let's make a good decision or something.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Yeah, but get away from super Max. That it's horrible terminology.
It just turns your league into a punchline. Why would
you do that to yourself?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Why?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Like, at least the the NBA, And it took some time,
but they've tried to really hammer home that, uh, the
that ownership owners are. They don't refer to them as owners,
they refer to them as governors.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Right.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
A lot of people think that's stupid, but they've they've
tried to hammer that home for a number of years.
It's like trying to turn like change the terminology. It's
not gonna be like a snap of the fingers and
everybody falls in line. But if I'm the WNBA, I
would make it abundantly clear. I would actually put it
in my CBA. I'd be like, that's the actual terminology
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the media would follow if the media work up, sorry,
if the WNBA worked with their media partners of like, listen, ESPN.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Here's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Okay, when we say super max, it sounds like a
joke because the FISA Collier signs for.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
One point four million dollars.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
People are used to hearing Jason Tatum signing for three
hundred and fifteen million dollars. Okay, so we're not gonna
use Supermax. We're gonna go get away from that terminology.
We're gonna create something different. We're just gonna call it
a premier deal. It means the same thing, but it
sounds different, it lands differently, So we'd appreciate it if
you just when you put it out, there's premier deal.
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It's in our CBA. That's what it's actually referred to
as NBA has a Supermax deal. We don't have that.
We have a premiere contract. Like that's basically a max deal,
but we're not saying max because it makes it sound
like small potatoes, cool cool, way better, way, better approach
night and day, better than using the same terminology. Like
(29:26):
you could play games with what what percentage is one
point four million dollars of you know, three hundred and
fifteen million dollars. I don't even know. I don't know
how to find that out. I have to google things.
It would be a whole thing. I can't find it
on the fly. But it's like, I don't know, in
the neighborhood of two hundred and seventy percent less or
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something just insanely.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Crazy, like, well, why would you do that? You just
sound small. It's not smart, not smart at all all. Right,
let me get out to the phones.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Here the militias lined up. They want to check in.
I believe I guy jameson Taco was out there. I
want to hear what James has to say. What's going on, James,
you're on Fox Sports Radio. I don't know.
Speaker 10 (30:06):
I don't know if you saw what happened Baltimore last
night baseball game between Baltimore and Cleveland. But Baltimore was
behind ninth inning, four zero and the picture for Cleveland
had no hitter going through eight idots. Yeah, So to
Baltimore home crowd of Baltimore, they turned against their own team.
They start cheering for the Cleveland picture because any wanted
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to win this of no hitter in person? Yeah, So
by character for you, have you ever turned against your
own team if opportunity to witness history being made in person?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Wow, it's a great question, James, that really and I
saw what you're talking about. Just like to put a
bow on what you're talking about. So the Cleveland picture
he's trying to he's trying to get a no hitter
for the first time forever. Right, I think they're the
last They're the longest drought. Now is the Cleveland Guardians
now since their last no hitter, it's been forever, and
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he didn't get it done, you know, he gave up
a hit. And then Baltimore made it interesting, right, they
had they scored two runs, they had two runners on base,
and it looked like they're maybe gonna get a base
hit and tie the thing up. And the second baseman
made a nice play and the Guardians won the game.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
But that's a brilliant question.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
I no, man, I can't think off the top of
my head. I'll put it this way. I'm a Saint
Louis Cardinals fan. We'll keep it with baseball, especially baseball.
If if my team was pretty much out of contention,
I would think in the ninth inning, James, if my
team were down four to nothing, right and I had
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a chance.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
To see a no hitter.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
And there are other dynamics like, for instance, this year,
the Saint Louis Cardinals are going no where. Okay, if
I were in attendance, what I like you said on
my team, I really wouldn't even look at it like that.
I'd be like, I'm a fan of baseball and not
just a fan of the Saint Louis Cardinals. I would
like to see history being made. I probably would in
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that in that scenario.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Yeah. Now, if this is.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
A a arrive like I hate the Chicago Cubs, I do.
No way I would ever root for them ever, ever,
ever like being in attendancying history. No, I'm rooting against
you every single time. Sorry, So I have limits. And
if this is an important game, Saint Louis needs to
win it, you know they're they're in a Pennant chase
like no way, no, but in a lost season where
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they're really going nowhere, Yeah, I would, would you?
Speaker 10 (32:40):
Yeah? I would?
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah? Yeah, No, good stuff, great question, James, very good.
I like that. I like how you put that. Would
you turn on your on your team?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
You know I I I disagreed with my guy Arne
Arnie Spanier. Arnie does a great job. I call him
chef boy Arnie. That's my silly nickname for Arnie. But
Arnie's a great dude. I visited him in Vermont with
my World Travels, went to his place, you know, watch
hoops with Arney's an awesome dude, awesome, awesome guy, and
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we disagreed on one thing. He was hammering the Saint
Louis Cardinals for cheering Albert Poolholes. So Albert Pooholes was
a member of the Angels at the time, and he
was back in Saint Louis, and Saint Louis gave him
a crazy ovation. You can imagine, right, this is Albert Poolholes,
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like three time NLMVP the first ten seasons. He's averaging
a three hundred batting average, thirty home runs, one hundred RBIs.
It's like clockwork, you know, all time Cardinal great one rings.
He's got numerous championship right like, and he goes back
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to Saint Louis and the Saint Louis fans cheer him
like crazy, and Arnie was.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Just like, oh, you're turning on your team. What do
you doing? What?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
I thought he was freaking crazy. I still think he's crazy.
You could absolutely cheer a former player who starred for
your team. You're just showing appreciation for the guy. You're
not turning on your team and saying, go Angel screw
the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You're not saying that at all.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
But yeah, some fans they look at it like that.
They get really territorial. But that's an awesome question by James.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I put it like this, if it.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
If it put my team at a disadvantage, then no,
I wouldn't do that. But if it really didn't put
my team at a disadvantage, would I root for another
team to do something historic against my favorite team?
Speaker 10 (34:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:59):
I would.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
I would do that.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I think baseball lends itself to that more than any sport.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Think about that. You got one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Two games, you know what I mean, Like, you drop
a game in April, there's so much runway right left
to go to make that up, Like, oh yeah, it's yeah.
You got a chance to see a no hitter. I'd
say a perfect game. Perfect game is almost a no brainer.
You've got like twenty five ish of those in MLB history.
(35:33):
You got a chance to witness a perfect game, and
you turn that down. Like I'd be like, you know,
if I'm not outright going like, come on, guy, let's
go get another out against my favorite team, internally, I'd
be like, I kind of hope he gets another out here.
It was amazing. What's going on here? It's a great
(35:53):
question by James, really good stuff. Yeah, shame on me.
My job as a show host, I should be coming
up with stuff like that instead, I've I've got you know,
premiere contract for the w NBA. That's what I brought
to the table here tonight. Man, small potatoes compared to James.
James brought his A game here. You know, he's crushing it.
(36:14):
Very nice. Let me go to Cardiac Stanley. He's been
hanging with me from Ohio. I appreciate your patient's Cardiac Stanley,
what's on your mind these early morning hours.
Speaker 10 (36:24):
I wouldn't do that, but if it really didn't put
my team at a disadvantage for what, I root for
another team to do something historic?
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, I would do that.
Speaker 10 (36:38):
I think baseball that more than any sport to think about.
He got one hundred and sixty two games me.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Cardiac Stanley's replaying. I was agreeing with myself until I
realized it's me.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, like.
Speaker 10 (36:55):
Yeah, a chance, perfect game, perfect games almost no greater.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Let's as random call ever, let me hold on back up,
let me try to disagree with myself and you turn
that down? Turn that down? Yeah you sound ridiculous, right.
Speaker 10 (37:23):
Like kind of Let me get to this mother out here.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Man, No, I wouldn't be hoping. No, that's I didn't
think it was that great of a question.
Speaker 10 (37:32):
James show I should be coming up with stuff. Okay,
I've got I did.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
I did.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I brought premiere contract to the table. I think that's fine.
You know, I brought the crazy story to the table
about the dude impersonating NFL players.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
That was strong.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You know, I'm gonna have to disagree with myself. I
do think I brought it tonight. Who here's the question, though,
who who calls in to just play audio of the host?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
I didn't even know that.
Speaker 8 (38:07):
Was happening for like ten seconds.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
I was like, I didn't either.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
I didn't either, And I'm like, wait a minute, that
sounds strangely familiar. What how do I know this voice?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, that's me. That's what's happening.
That's kind of odd.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Hmm. That's a new one right there. No one's ever
done that I've had.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
We have a wide range of colors over the years,
man wide range. The most random. Oh, I'll tell you
one of my most random stories. I gotta tell you
one of my most random stories happened in Portland. Okay,
do I have time for this now or should I
do it on the other.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Side and a half minutes, hold on, kick you out?
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Okay, all right, but first though, let me pay off
pay some bills right here, huh. For over forty years,
tire X has been helping customers find the right tires
for how, what and where they drive, ship fast and
read back by free road hazard protection with convenient installation
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Speaker 3 (39:05):
Iireck dot com the way tire.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Buying should be. Okay, here's my story. So he's doing
radio in Portland and we had this event. It was
like the NBA Draft or something. So some other guys
were doing their show there. So I went there and
just hung out, just hanging out watching my coworkers do
their show, and this girl.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Walks into me from behind. Oh.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I'm just standing there like, you know, against the wall,
and this girl just boomed, like just nailed, like walks
into me from behind.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
I kind of looked at her and I was like,
what was that about?
Speaker 9 (39:41):
You know?
Speaker 4 (39:42):
And so after after the show ends, I see this
girl and she's there and we were just talking. She's
there with her brother, I believe, And it turns out
they told me they were big Philadelphia Eagles fans and
they were upset that I said, the Eagles who had
(40:03):
just won a Super Bowl. This is like the Nick
Foles Super Bowl. They beat the Patriots, and I said
the next season they wouldn't even make the playoffs. And
they were mad about my prediction that they wouldn't make
the playoffs. And so what they did. Her brother was
recording this whole thing. He's recording his sister walking into
(40:26):
me because they're upset about my prediction, and they were
trying to bait me. They were trying to bait me
into whatever, doing something inappropriate, like yelling at her.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Yeah, they're trying to set a bear trap that I
did not walk into because they were mad about an Eagles.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Prediction of mine.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
And I was like, you guys are psychotic. You're psychotic
right now.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
That's crazy. What's wrong with you guys? It's a prediction.
Who cares? Yeah, And they took it to that level.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
So I've had some random experiences, but I've never had
an experience where someone replayed my own sports takes from
like five minutes prior.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
That's a new one.
Speaker 5 (41:15):
Man, he's gonna replay it when he goes to bed.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
He might, yeah, he might. That was good. Hey.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Right after the show, our podcast will be going up.
You can listen to you know me talking to me
from that call just a little bit ago. If you
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Speaker 3 (41:40):
Again. Just search Ben mallor wherever.
Speaker 4 (41:42):
You get your podcasts, and you'll find today's full show
and a best of version posted right after we get
off the air. All right, coming up next, we've got
we've got an apology right around the corner. Oh oh,
this is insanity over here. I can't believe this is
even a thing, and we have the Clippers to blame.
(42:05):
I'll get to that coming up. It is Fox Sports Radio.
I'm probably no infrom Big Ben mallor keep it locked
right here.
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Ben Maller
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