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Every once in a while in life, you need a
little extra help, a little extra help. We saw some
of that catching your breath if you will, NBA style Welcome.
In the beginning of the Ben Maller Show, we are
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rate quote. If you thought that Cleveland was gonna lose
the first two games of the opening round playoff series

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at home, then you are a loser. Is the NBA
Playoffs continue to be going on for the next six months,
says Still early in the NBA real season, when the
players actually plausibly attempt to play in every game, Well,
Lebron James put up forty six points at twelve rebounds. Man,
that's a stat line like from a video game. And

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the Cavaliers on slot started very early was pretty much
a one man band. Kevin Love and Kyle Korver were
the only other players on the Calfs to get to
double figures. And that's it. Other than that. Zippo across
the board as far as getting to even ten points
in the game. So what does that mean? The Eastern
Conference first round series now tied up at a winner piece.

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Now they will shift to Indianapolis. But I wanted to
talk about this now rather than get to the story
after the game, which is one of the more absurd
things I've seen. We'll get there, we'll work our way there.
But there's something that is not being talked about, which
is an avenue we can take. Because we're on late

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at night, we have an opportunity to bring something up
that's being overlooked by the mainstream sports media. But we'll
propose the question here. Are you at all surprised that
the Cavaliers were victorious? The way I will answer this,
If you are surprised that the Cavaliers won this game,

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you are a rube. You really are right. I mean,
you might have been born yesterday. You might have been
born yesterday. My perspective on this, you've got stern tastic
degree of difficulty and myth making. You've got those three
things will link them all together. Now, Hey, this game
had a throwback field to it. If you're a longtime

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NBA fan, Adam Silver did his old boss proud all right,
Adam Silver and the officials here, they took a page
out of David Sterns old playbook. This goes back to
the good old days and the bygone era of the NBA,
realizing that Cleveland likely needed a little bit of an
extra push here. It's kind of like when you're teaching

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a kid how to ride a bike. They have these
things called training wheels. You've heard about that, Yeah, you've
heard remember training So it helps, right, get the confidence going,
put the kid on the bike, and get the training
wheels there. It's wonder the NBA equivalent of that in
a postseason situation. Let's just say that those judgment calls

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that could go either way, many of them seemed to
go the way of Lebron and the Cavaliers, and especially
when it mattered right, that's the key to this. When
it matters, those calls go that way. It was a
stern tastic officiating job. Victor Oladipo, who was marvelous in game,

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was it was great. He immediately got into what yeah
you saw the game right, foul trouble early foul trouble.
And the Pacers as a team only attempted twelve shots
from the charity stripe the entire game, and in a
game that was won by three points by Cleveland, the
Cavaliers were plus six from the line, outscoring the Indiana

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Pacers fifteen to nine at the foul line. So Indiana
they never let in this game. And somewhere in some
back alley gutter in the wrong part of town, Tim
Donnahey is smiling. He is smiling right now? Man? Is
he happy now? Part B of this. From the pacer perspective,

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this is going to be the ultimate uphill battle the Calves.
Were they more aggressive in this game? Absolutely? Did they
get an assist from the officials. I don't know how
you can say it any other way. I think we
can all agree on that Cleveland came out much more focused,
but they also got the help there and your star play.

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Indiana didn't have a lot of good players. One of
their good players take him out the top player and
essentially make him a newtered option for Cleveland, who shot
seventy percent in the first quarter and outscored Indiana by
fifteen points. Lebron James did he go into cheat code moture,
especially in the first quarters? Thirteen points right Cleveland was

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up sixteen to one, thirteen for Lebron to start the
game sixteen to one, and that's it. I mean Indiana,
as we said, they never had the lead in this game.
There was no real need to watch. I hope Indiana
was hanging around right either, Well maybe yeah, right, the
self proclaimed king he had twenty points in the first

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twelve minutes, right, so the first thirteen and with twenty
points at twenty six in the other three quarters, you're
talking about stuffing the box, right, the stat sheet, But wait,
there's more, right, it was the degree of difficulty here
for the Indiana Pacers. I'm not talking about playing team basketball,

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doing things the right way and all that. They can
do all that, and it doesn't matter in basketball. It
doesn't matter. A pair of early foul calls against Victor Oladipot.
He played three minutes in the first quarter, and again
the end of the first quarter was a fifteen point
spread in favor of the Cavaliers, and you're on you're

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on the road, your your star player, and he got
another foul in the in the second quarters. So that's it.
Uh that You know, you got to think objectively here
and say, despite the Pacers winning in several key areas.
They dominated the paint. The Pacers outscored the Cavaliers by
thirty two points in the paint, and they were heading

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fast breakpoints assist turnover ratio Indiana one that that's usually
an indicator of whether you're gonna win the game or not.
But there's there's nothing there for the officiating, right the
officiating Indiana was called uh, they were called for four
more fouls and so most of those stats are very encouraging.
But again it's the judgment calls. It's when the fouls

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are called in the game and it's not good. Listen,
are they going to say, well, well, this is a
rig job. No, they're not gonna say that. Of course
they're not gonna say that's not how it works. All right,
it's not worse, it's all bad. Break just happened randomly.
The officials decided we're gonna screw over Victor Oladipo in
the first quarter of the game and give a huge
competitive advantage to Cleveland, who, by the way, needed it.

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Here's Nate McMillan, who has aged I remember, well, Nate
looked a lot better years ago. He's aged a lot.
I guess coaching the Pacers does that too. But here's
the Nate McMillan who will sing the company line. Yes,
them coming out aggressive with something we expected. We knew
that they would come out playing with the sense of urgency. Basically,
they put shooters out. Lebron was going to put his

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head down and go to the basket. We didn't do
a good job tonight of keeping the ball in front
of us standard boring coachbeak is what that was. I
don't know why we played it. Uh, here's one. Let's
hear the last one from Oladipo. Here, who's trying to
spin spin this? He's he's also going to go to
the bag of cliches. Here, Victor Oladipo. Obviously we're upset

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about the loss, just like the first game was just
one game, one lost, Yes, so we had a chance
to tie, it had a chance to win. We feel
confident going home. Someone let Victor know they don't play
two games in one day in the NBA, so you're
not gonna so you can't come out as well. It's
two losses today, we lost two. That's never happened before.

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They've never done doubleheader action, not a day night doubleheader,
not a back to back. No, there's never been a
double header. So you're not gonna get Hey, we lost
two games today. We're really screwed. You're not going to
get that. The last thing here, the last thing now,
Indiana should be able to extend the Cavaliers deep into
the series. I think it's kind of obviously where the

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first two games have gone. However, there is ultimately a
glass ceiling, and it's very unlikely the Pacers will be
able to crack that glass ceiling. The Pacers are going
to be shorthanded when it matters most you know, any actions. Certainly,
win Game three, they can take a two to one
leading series. They could even win Game four and go

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up with one win needed to advance to the second
round of the NBA Playoffs. But ultimately it's going to
have to be a five on eight situation. If the
Pacers are going to win this series, their five guys
are going to have to outscore, outwork, out, hustle, out muscle.
The eight guys on the court were in calves uniforms.
Three of them will have a whistles and the other

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five will be wearing the traditional Cavalier uniform. That is
the reality right now, all of this, all of this
helps the myth making of Lebron James, who is passes
prime now heroic putting the team on his back and
leading the Cavaliers. Oh my goodness, how amazing was that?
And yes, yes, and and the legend. I love the storytelling.

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I always get a kick out of the storytelling right
because the way the story is being portrayed is that
ty Ron Lou, right, Tyronleu, the coach, tylu urge urge
the Cavaliers to come out and be more aggressive, in
particular Lebron James and listening to that brilliant XS and
O strategy. Waa, Lebron came out and was amazing. Did

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anyone believe that? Does anyone believe that that coach Lou
had anything to do with it? I'm yeah, I am.
I'm gonna say no on that. Say no. In that department.
We say hello to Edmund Dallas, team boat, Willie Judas

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garcia Is. I believe he's here somewhere. I am here,
Barry Is. I can't see you, but you're being very
quiet hiding today, Eddie. I don't see you at all.
I hear in my usual spot for every show. You're
in nothing unusual. I'm in the main dining room, you're
in the kitchen. We are broadcasting from an old Denny's.
I would say, well, that's true, it is true. I

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don't know where I am. You're in the back, you're
in the kitchen where they prepare the Grand Slam breakfast
that area, and I am over here. What's what racist?
I don't know. I have no idea these it's very offensive. Yeah, yeah,
come on, well, that's where the kitchen was when it
was Denny's. Here. I know what you're saying. I understand

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you guys are Yeah, sure, he's in the kitchen. You're
a patron. Well, no, no, I'm I'm the major d
that's what I'm the man. Yeah, that's wrong with Danny.
I love Danny. I say. When I was a bachelor, okay,
and I did the weekend overnight show, me and my
producer at the time, Julio, Me and Julio down by
the Denny's. We would go to the Denny's down the

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street here in Sherman Oaks and I get off the air.
We got out the here like three in the morning.
We would be there till seven in the morning. Some
weekends we would see all the prostitutes from the hotel
it was near the Denny's coming in, we would see
all the hookers come come in there. No, it's always
interesting to see the people that came in there at
like four thirty in the morning or four in the morning.

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It was fascinating crowd of de generates that would come
into the Denny's. It was amazed. Did you eat stacks
and stacks of pancakes? Well, I went for the chicken fingers, which,
of course, yeah, that was my my go too. And yeah,
I'm not a big pancake. I don't mind pancakes. Remember ever,
dabbling moons over my hammy, I've not done that, you know,

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You've not always always uh chuckle at the menu though
that has that is that still it's got to be
still there, right, it's a staple of Denny Denny's in
a while. I don't know when's the last time you
were at Denny's. Within the last year for sure? Really?
Oh yeah, when my when my howe weeks ago, when
my house was remodeled, we went everywhere. We picked out

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a different place every night because we had no we
had no kitchen, so kind of hard to prepare food
when you don't have a kitchen. Years ago, I was
traveling and they they gave us. They didn't give us
per diem. It was not but they gave. What they
did is they said, well, we have a deal with
with Danny's and you can eat it was I was
in Hawaii. Actually it was in Hawaii and I was covering.

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I think it was a Pro Bowl and they had
to deal with the Dennis where we could eat. We
could not deal with the devil and deal with the Dennys.
So we could eat Denny's and I didn't wouldn't get
charged for it. So I'm in Hawaii and I ate
Danny's pretty much, you know, lunch and dinner every day
because I didn't have to pay for it. So well,
if I didn't have to pay for it, i'd do
that as well. Tell you the food of all the

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states I've been to, the worst food is in Hawaii.
Terrible food, great beaches, wonderful people. The food sucks. They've
got to get better food in Hawaii. I shouldn't go.
I could open up a restaurant. I'd make a killing
in Hawaii. I opened up a restaurant there. They need
some good food. They don't have good food there benz
lu Al Shack there about off the beach. I see
these Hawaiian barbecue places. I always point my drive with

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my wife there's a Hawaiian barbecue. We're not going there.
If it's like athenic Hawaiian food. I am not eating
that Hawaiian barbecue. No, that's the one we go to.
Two of my five worst meals I've ever eaten were
in Hawaii. They I went to a Chinese restaurant in
Hawaii and they claimed it was chicken that I was eating.

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I don't know that it ever was a chicken. I
don't know what it was and what they whatever kind
of animal was. They just put batter all over it
and tossed it in the deep friar, then put it
on the plate and then here you go. They didn't
cut the bones out or anything. I don't know that
buck buck chicken. It's not really necessary. I'm doing a

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professional that was not necessary, not at all. It's a
bad job. Like to thank my message, I did my
shout out yesterday. I was complaining about the the road
conditions and sure enough, no problems smooth sailing. The message
was heard the power of the bully pulpit of the

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absolutely correct. I condemned some people heads were aw next thing,
you know, no problem, no traffic break, no cone zone,
none of that. Smooth sailing smooth. And yet we still
have the garbage in here every weekend and you you
complain about that all, Well, that's because they don't listen
to the Sunday and the Monday show. So I have

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to do that during the week to complain about the garbage.
You know what my new strategy is gonna be, Eddy,
I've determined I can't wait to hear it. I'm going
to tweet out photos of the garbage. That's gonna be
my my new move. That's not a bad strategy called
garbage shaming. And I believe if I do that enough,
either the garbage will be moved before I get here,
or they might or our whole show will be moved

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to another network. Yeah, well we our boss is on Twitter.
Will you include him in the tweet? Oh? I won't
put other people will, so I don't have to do it.
The big, big fans of the show, they'll do it
for me, so I don't have to. I don't have
to do that. Your minions. Yeah, they do my dirty
work for me, all right, eight seven seven ninety nine
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six nine. We're also on Twitter at Ben Maller. That's
at Ben Maller. Now, I think I'm the only guy
on this side of the issue. I want to get
into a conversation about what many people have been talking
about in the NBA, because I think it is the
most ridiculous thing. The coverage on this is over the top.
We'll get into that and we will do it next.

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right Cephalosa. That's not his name, Jeff boy Ard, that's
Chef Cephalosa, and I'll live from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio studios. It's Ben Maller. So one of the big
stories in the NBA tonight after the Cavaliers game, when
Lebron was doing an interview. They had just beaten the

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Indiana Pacers with a lot of help from the officials,
a lot of help from the referees, and so Lebronzunia's
postgame interview and the way that it was presented on
television made it seem like this, who's this Ali Leforce,
whoever that had it, I don't know who that is,
but she did this interview with Lebron James and shed

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The presentation made it seem like she let Lebron know
that Greg Popovitch's wife had died and that she was
trying to get that immediate reaction. And really what they
were going forward is obvious. I mean TNT wanted Lebron
to cry, right, That's what they wanted. That's good television.
They were trying to get good television. And that's the
way that it was presented. Here's how it sounded. This

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is what everyone's been talking about throughout the throughout the
night during this gastating news officially passed away. I know
you're close with Pop, any words or thoughts you'd like
to share with him? It starts to the seven man.

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I'm allesme. I'm a huge pop fan. I love pop Um,
that's that's such a tragedy. And you know, my best
wishes goes out to to Pop in his family. Uh,
I know that's that's devastating news. And um um there's

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a lot. I mean, the NBA family, we all sit together.
I know we can beat every night. Um, but something
like this happens if it was everything in perspective. So um,
you know, I send my I tell my my my
well wishes and my prayers up to the heavens above.
I know the man above never makes a mistake, even
when you sometimes have to, um ask why. But that's

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just terrible news. And Pop Man and then everybody in
San Antonio, the hole Spurs family. That's all I can say. Allie,
all right, so that was that was Lebron there doing
his thing, King James with Alie la Force. Now the

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big takeaway, there's a couple of things here on this
all right, Ali La Force just got roasted. There was
a mob attacking her because it was the most ridiculous
thing you've seen, right, I mean, it's completely unnecessary for
this to be done, and there it was right there,
it was right there, big big to do. It got

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so bad. TNT was getting roasted. They were being barbecued
for this because they were doing some grave dancing, is
what they were doing. Right, Hey, we got somebody die.
We gotta do a little TV on this. And Ernie
Johnson gets on television to announce that Alie la Force
told Lebron James about Aaron Popovitch's passing before the interview, right,

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I mean, so that that was the way it was,
that Ali the Force told Lebron before the interview that
this this was going he was gonna ask she was
gonna ask about it, all right, so fine, So that
means then that what you just heard there was acting
by Lebron the two cursed where he cursed twice in
that sound bite, and he made it seem like he

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he just that was the first time asked that question.
I know there was a little bit of gap time
between the interview, but my main complaint is the whole coverage,
not just with TNT, but they're really the most guilty.
But there's so many people in the media. The media
so the people I work with is so disgusting. They
love this. Now. First of all, my condolence is to
Greg Popovitch, his wife, though was not a public figure,

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she's not. And when I found out about this, I didn't,
you know, I didn't know really much about her. So
I went to Google images and I typed in Aaron Popovitch,
I want to see a picture of what she looked like.
And when I went there, and I was changed a
little bit because there's some images that have popped up
in the hours since this was announced. But the image
that popped up when I first went there, after Woad

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sent out a tweet announcing that she had passed away,
was that of, well, how should I describe what I saw?
I told Danny G. I showed Danny G with the
the image. Let's just say it was not It was
about as far away from from that Aaron Popovich as
you can get. And so so you have here someone
who's not a public figure, who clearly was living a

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private life. That was her choice. Whatever the case might be,
it's not none of my business. There this also a
personal matter for Greg Popovitch. And there's so many people
in the media who are well, they were obviously pandering
because they were trying to get people to watch t
NT or listen to their stupid radio shows or whatever
and talk about and many of these people are plete phonies.

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Didn't even know who this woman was. I mean, you
know that Greg Poppas had been married, but they didn't
know who she was. And they're doing them. As I said,
the second thing, you're the grave dancing, and it really
is part of the human condition. Though us talking to
Looney in the parking line, I actually saw him for
the first time in like three months. He must have
his car, his car must have broken down. We were

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talking about this and the fact that it is crazy
when someone dies. People love to text other people post
stuff on social media, even people they don't even know,
and it's it's like it's we're all wired like that.
It's like, can't this is the one thing People said, Oh,
you do a negative show, you know you rip athletes

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and stuff like that. Of course, studies have proven people
listen more to negativity. They don't listen to positive stuff.
That's a different conversation. But this is the one thing.
This is one thing I've not gotten into. I've never done,
like the big death shows. There's some guys at this
really good, but in this case, in particular, I just
didn't think it was I didn't get it. I mean,

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the whole night, I was like, what the heck is
going on? Am I missing? So I'm very you know,
it's sad anytime someone dies. Is it any more sad
that Greg Popovitch's wife passed away as somebody else's wife
who's not famous. It's sad, but it's sad when people die.
It happens. But are we I just did? The coverage
was totally as I keep going back to that word pandering,
because that's the word that applies any disagreement on that day.

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You're very quiet here, anyone. I'm just trying to absorb
everything that you're saying here. Would you look, I do
you have ever seen anything about Aaron Popovitch before tonight? No?
Not nothing? Okay, No, didn't even know her name. I
just assumed I didn't know he was married. I assumed
he was I didn't know. I don't know any much
about the personal life of Greg Popovitch. I don't know

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how many kids he has, so on and so forth.
Um so feel more? I mean, should this get the
amount of media coverage it's getting? You think this is
worthy of that someone who's not a public figure, who
we don't know anything really about. Is this worthy of this?
Level of sports media coverage. Do you think this is

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the proper amount or is it pandering? Well, I mean
I've I've seen obviously things on social media, and you
know how that is with social media these days. I mean,
those things kind of catch fire, and what's the same
thing outside. When someone dies, people love to run to
social I suppose I understand that it does seem like
this is getting a lot of coverage, and yet, I mean,

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I think it is something that if you're a sports fan,
you would probably share with another sports fan, if you
were just talking with you, would you tune into the
TNT basketball coverage to get information on this when you
know anything about this person, I don't. I just don't
get it. Maybe I'm missing something here. Help me out
on you would agree, great Popovich is a very high

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profile head coach, and when you tune into Eddie, he
didn't die, He's still alive. Yeah, I understand that. But
when you tune into a major NBA broadcast, this is
the thing that's being talked about. When I see you
are well, Greg pop listen, it's his hurts. I don't
know their situation. I don't think about it, and it's
sad as I said, anytime someone dies, it's just an

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awkward thing to me, because Mike, when I see Greg
Popovitch on TV, he's being an a hole to the
media and ripping Donald Trump. That's when I see Greg
Popovitch on TV. I don't I don't know anything about
else about the guy. I don't know anything about him
other than that I see him ripping the ripping Trump
talking about you know, the whatever, the political issue that
he fits, his agenda or whatever, and he takes shots

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at the media. That's what he does. I don't anything
else about the guy. That's it. Do you know anything
else about Greg popa I know he's in there. He
was in the Air Force years ago. I know that. Yeah,
I knew that. What else you know? That's about it? Okay,
So we're on the same page on this. Oh I
I don't know. I'm not sure where I am on this.
I don't have a don't I don't want them to
make it more than it is. But I do understand

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bringing up the topic on a show or something like that.
You mention it and then you move on, right, wouldn't
that be the way you were doing? You mentioned it, okay,
and then you talk about the games or whatever the
other issues are. I would tend to move more to
that side than the other side. You do, but you
do think you have to bring it up though, because
people say you don't bring it up. But the amount

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of it just seemed like completely over the top, like
they were like, hey, we can get people to watch. Well,
I guess, I guess they're in the ratings business. I
understand that, but this is when they've never again, I've
not been wired that way to say, all right, somebody dies,
we got a show tonight. We're gonna do a whole
you know, the whole thing on it. All right, we'll
talk more about that. Eight seven, seven ninety nine. Fox
were very late, but it's not too late at all. No,

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it's not. Let's find out what's trending. Here's Eddie well
Beadlesition caught up on the playoff action from last night.
We'll start in the NBA where the Cavaliers hold off
the Pacers for a one hundred to ninety seven victory.
Lebron James scored the team's for sixteen points, finished with
forty six points as that series is outside at a
game of piece Jazz over the Thunder in Oklahoma City
one h two to ninety five Oklahoma Cities three stars,

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Russell Westbrook, Paul George camel the over fourteen shooting in
the fourth quarter. That series is tied and one apiece.
Rockets over the Timberwolves one O two to eighty two.
Houston has a two oh series advantage. NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs,
Sharks beat the Ducks two to one. San Jose sweep
set series in four games. They'll face Vegas and round
number two. Penguins blanked the Flyers on the road five nothing.
Pittsburgh has a three one series edge. Lightning over the

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Devil's in New Jersey three one. Tampa Bay, top seed
in the East, the three one series lead, and the Predators,
the top seed in the West, beat the Avalanche in
Colorado three two. Nashville has a three one series advantage.
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(27:41):
talking a lot about NBA and NHL playoffs. But of
course baseball is going on and that big series in
Anaheim so far, and I know you're gonna enjoy this.
It's not been much of a competition so far. Let
me take some any Cooper was right. The Angels are good.
I know that is a quality baseball team, and they
and they take something that series prove. That's a vindication

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for the Angels. They legit well, Boston won the first
game ten to one. They won the game last night
nine to nothing. Many Why are you gonna be so
negative and give the score. Why don't you just say
the Angels one, that's my job game. Mitch Morland homer
for RBI at water New Year's Ford runs driven in
Boston's now scored the Angels nineteen to one in the
first two games. That's you know what, The Angels are
trying really hard. I learned that from the show Hee

(28:24):
Otani Fanboys, that they're trying really hard. It's okay, it's interesting.
That's interesting. I'm gonna get into that later. That's going on.
One of those things that popped up in mind. I
figured you would. Yeah, well, not necessarily the Angel game,
but just the general mindset. There's an interesting the dichotomy
that's taking place here among among fans in general. I

(28:48):
did notice, though, I was very impressed that an Angels
starting pitcher got she lacked by the Red Sox and
didn't leave the game because of a blister. If Tyler
Skaggs was a bigger name, they would have come up
with a you know, some kind of horrific blister. When
is Otani going on the DL? Do you know when
Otani's going on the DL, he's gonna miss a start,

(29:08):
right because he's you got a bad blister? I don't
know that he's really Yeah, what what did they see
like a medical you know, some witch doctor or something
to put a voodoo spell or something on that blister
to make it better. Sure he left a start. I'm
sure he probably has to go on the DL. Otani
with that kind of an injury. Think, no, we'll see Ben.

(29:29):
I'm not sure. I haven't ever heard no news on
No news all right, so the Ben Mallers show on Fox. Uh, well,
let's get him on. We'll get him off because he
don't want to stand all he said. Weed Man is back,
but he's one call, hang up and gone now We're
done with him. He's too stressed out. He was triggered
by staying on hold for all these hours, so we'll
get him on and get him off. Hello, weed man, hippie,

(29:54):
we're good. No, no, we're not good. No no, I
don't need all these tweets about how you don't respect me,
you don't like me. We give you more airtime than
any other dopey person that calls this show. And you
are ungrateful. You are ungrateful. You are ungrateful. You are.
I'll leave you on hold for the entire show if
I want. How about that? I will do that. And

(30:16):
maybe I'll choose not to go to you. How about that.
I understand that. Stay in your lane, weed man. I
mean no mood for this week. Okay, there you all right,
there we go. I missed a spot. All right, now,
we're good. If I want you know, wait, let me

(30:38):
tell you something. I call you up at home and
I say, weed man, I want to feel like I'm
on the air. I'm gonna put you on hold. You
stay on hold, okay, all right? Good that night. I
might call you on Saturday. I am my day off.
I might call you up and say, weed man, I
want to pretend like it's the two am hour on
the show. I'm gonna put you on hold and you

(31:00):
will stay all right, what do you have? I fell
asleep that night and that's what upset me then, more
than anything. You never went to me and I was sleeping.
I yell at your cars. You have warm re sponsibility
if you call could stay away. Well that's actually not

(31:20):
See the goal doesn't sound like this because the calls
have been like worse than ever lately. But the goal
is actually if you're gonna call up like you're taking
valuable airtime were it doesn't seem like this. We are
broadcast on for some reason, hundreds of radio stations carry
this show. And we had a guy play the game
last night. Well, yeah, you know crazy, you're maller math

(31:44):
thousands if you use mallar math. So but anyway, no, no,
So last night we had a guy playing I think
he was from the La County Morgue and he called
up to play the game. Show was amazing. It was.
He was actually in the little box there and he called.
I don't know how you got the phone to work.
He was able to dial It was amazing. Am No,
we hung up on you ten minutes ago. We got

(32:07):
rid of you. Hello, yeah, hello, All right time Now
for the who am I game? O? Yeah yeah, that's right, Well,
the MLB pick him. Here's the who am I? Game? Now?
I have some some quirks to my game. However, I

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am the only pitcher to start at least thirty games
in each of the past ten Big league seasons. Again,
I have some quirkiness to my my game of baseball. However,
I am the only pitcher to start at least thirty
games in each of the past ten seasons. Who am I?
The answer and your calls and all of this next?

(32:53):
All right time, now for the who am I game?
Who am I? Game? Here we go? Now, I have
some quark keyness to my game. However, I am the
only pitcher to start at least thirty games in each
of the past ten seasons. That's a long run, long run?
Who am I? Moe is going with Bruce the Barber

(33:15):
beef kick. I think you got that first name wrong.
I think that's a bad job by You's pruduce you
moron A Popeye Jones guest by Mike always a great name.
The Happy Bong Poker checks in with Steve Carlton. Bubba
says the late great Mark the Bird Fidgid Detroit Tiger Legend,
New York. Bozo checks in with Bartolo Cologne. Ernie says

(33:35):
it's Bullet. Joe Bush mentioned an athlete named nicknamed Bullet. Today.
Oh my, there'd be people protesting outside the stadium on
social media. Mister nice guy says Colonel Mustard is the answer.
Billy Blanks from the Little Troller, Derek Doobie Tooker tossed
out by Stoner, Marvin Vida Blue from Captain Cliche, Bobby Cox.

(33:57):
That's the guests of Cardiac. Stanley Rank is going. Ted
Lily always fun to hear the name ted Lily. Mike
from the LBC. He's raising the white flag. He usually cheats.
I guess you couldn't cheat on this one. Any Messersmith
was his guest. One of the great free agent signings
of all time in baseball history before my time, of course,
Who Yeah, Bugs Bunny from Daniel, Who else do we have? You?

(34:21):
Do you have an answer? Eddie? Do you have an answer?
Was Tippy Martinez, the Great Tippy Martinez as another name
you will not hear much these days now that is incorrect.
The correct answer. He's very unconventional. He's had the yips
over the years throwing the ball to first base. Yeah
that's right. John Lester of the Chicago Cummies easily answer

(34:46):
right there. Let's go back to the phones that we'll
have coming up in a couple of minutes, the MLB
Pickham Daily Fantasy Baseball. We each picked three players and
whoever gets to the most fantasy points is declared the winner.
The standings are updated day. All right, let's say hello
to Coulton, who's in Salt Lake on Fox Sports Radio.
Hello Coulton, Hey, how you doing? Can you hear me? Coulton?

(35:08):
If I was any better, I'd be the Thunder, but
not the Oklahoma City Thunder because they lost at home
to your Utah Jazz. Yes they did. I was pretty
excited about that. And I like Inside the NBA. It's
one of my favorite shows on T and T. And
after the game, I'm tuning in to see their input
on the Jazz beating the Thunder. And I'm gonna have
to support your statements that they are way over broadcasting

(35:31):
this Papovitch and his wife. And now I don't want
to sound insensitive, but no one knows who she is.
You're absolutely right when you say that their phonies when
they're acting like they knew her and they're feeling bad
for and you know, yeah, I feel bad to Papovich,
but no one really knows her at all. They don't
need to be fake about it. Give me some basketball, please,
and Lebron James stopped being fake. We know you don't

(35:52):
really care or really know. Um, I don't know. That's
my opinion. I just wanted to support. Yes, that was
some five Colton, you just poured gasoline or that was
that was you're delivering verbal Haymakers. How about that from
Colton in Salt Lake City coming in there like the
heavyweight champion in the world. That's like a one two combo,

(36:15):
more like a bacon and eggs combo. One of the
great moments in jazz history, I would say the greatest
moments in jazz history. Last year beating the Clippers in
Game seven, that would be the most important moment in
jazz history. And then when they had car Malone and
John Stockton and they got to the NBA fizz. That's
behind beating the Clippers in the playoffs clearly, but this
is like a big deal for them, right, the Jazz

(36:35):
won a game. I wasn't on TNT. It was on
state run NBA TV. But if you're a Jazz fan,
you're tuned in. You're like, I want to hear about
Donovan Mitchell. I want to hear about that fourth quarter,
Ricky Rubio actually made a big shot late in the game.
And instead I turn on a TNT and and it's that.
I mean, that's just come on, Well, maybe they got
great ratings. I hope TNT got great ratings. I hope

(36:57):
it was worth it for him. I hope they and
you know, Lebron on his acting job after that, it
was just the whole thing. All right, let's get to it.
Here we go. Time now for the MLB Pick Up,
our daily fantasy game talking bays Fall. That's how we
do it and the Cooper Loop. Who's gonna go first

(37:18):
here on this award winning edition of the MLB Pick
That would be Eddie Garcia. All right, now, Eddie, you
should just pick Red Sox because the angel they got
one more game in Anaheim. Just pick Redston. Well, I'm
not gonna lie. There are several Red Sox on my list,
but not at the top of my list. That would
be Javier Bias of the great Chicago Cuttings, Great Javier Bias.
All right, Cooper, you've got the second pick. Cooper Lo

(37:39):
I'm gonna go with Aaron Judge. All right, you're gonna
have Aaron Judge. I will go with the better pick
up of the offseason. People talk about gian Carlos Stanton
right now. J D. Martinez is the mayor. I'll take JD.
Martinez of the Boston My Red Sox, My Boston Red Sox.
Danny g the back to back. All right, I'm gonna
block Cooper. Everybody going with Mike Trout. Good good, Mookie

(38:01):
bets nice. It's a good for you that whatever. He's close.
H Goldie Paul gold Schmidt of the Diamond Batch. Coach,
go ahead, Coop, knock it out of the park, Cooper
Loo Espies, Yeah, all right, and Eddie the back to back.
Let's go with Gary Sanchez, okay, and Hanley Ramirez handling.

(38:25):
He must be in a contract here. He's playing good baseball.
He doesn't do that when he's not in the contract here.
All right, Yes, he is actually in the contract here.
Back to Coop. He goes MLB pick him. I'll go
with Jean Sagura. It's not excited about that unless you
don't let me go to Baltimore and give me Adam
Jones or the Orioles. Hey, whatever happened to helmet Man.

(38:49):
We haven't heard from him in a while? All right, guy, Danny,
who you got there? Racking up the RBI? George Springer,
George the great George Springer. There it is the MLB picking.
I was thinking of all the people that have the
greater Baltimore area, does anyone leave their house in full
Orio uniform when they're not going to an oil game
with the batting helmet on? Like our friend Helmetman, there's

(39:09):
no one He walks around the streets of LA in
that outfits amazing. It really is. The Rockets launching in
the NBA playoffs, Houston up two old in their opening
around series. But it's how they got there that is interesting.
We will discuss welcome in the beginning of another hour.
It's the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air

(39:33):
everywhere the vast Fox Sports Radio network, emanating live from
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(39:53):
the MBA plus we had three games, three games on
the night. The winners were Cleveland, Uta. We'll get to
that game and the game we're gonna talk about here
at the top. That would be the Houston Roquets who
get a twenty point win as they slayed the Minnesota Timberwowls.
This was a beat down situation, an absolute beat down

(40:17):
situation by the Houston Rockets. As for about the first
a few man not even the whole first quarter, but
a good chunk of the first quarter, Minnesota was doing
all right. In fact, they had the lead, the lead,
and then whatever pep talk coach Tibbs gave the Timberwolves
at the end of the first quarter really worked, really

(40:40):
resonated with the players, and they said that's it, we
are done, get us the hell out of here. And
for the rest of the game they were outscored by
twenty five points the final three quarters of that game.
So the Rockets get the twenty point win. As I said,
Chris Paul did play very well in this game. Twenty

(41:00):
seven points and eight assists, kind of throwback to the
good old days when he was really good every night.
Chris Paul and Harden was terrible. But they didn't really
I mean the stats in this game. The game was
over midway through the third quarter. It really actually at halftime.
For all intensive purposes, the game was over with the
lack of energy, the lack of movement from the Minnesota Timberwoolves,

(41:24):
who not only were an NBA team, they were lousy
in this game. But let's talk about it. Now, what's
the big takeaway from the rockets twenty point win being
up now two oh. There's a couple of thoughts that
I have in this. I've got confirmation, misconduct, and continuation. Right,

(41:45):
we'll tie all this together. And now, first of all,
the Rockets. This is where you need nuance. Okay, this
is where you need nose. To the average low information
basketball fan. They're gonna see this and say, oh my god,
the Rockets are as good as they were during the
regular season. They won this game by twenty points. They're
up to oh in the series. There's not a single
thing about the Rockets to be worried about. This is

(42:07):
where you tune into a radio show to hear nuance. Okay,
if you're a Rocket fan, listen very closely. You should
have an ulcer right now. And I know if you
could eavesdrop in the walls the Rockets facility. The people
that work for the team know what's going on. The
people with high basketball IQ's, they know what's going on
all right. Two games in and everything I talked about

(42:30):
leading up to the postseason has already come true. This
is vindication, right, This is it's confirmation, is what it
is as well that our analysis of the Rockets was
not wrong. It was not James Harden two days after
Charles Barkley said was unguardable had a classic hardened postseason

(42:53):
Hohodini Act, vintage vintage James Harden. He was a no show.
Reminded me of that playoff game last year against the
Spurs when Harden didn't show up. Now, because of the
body spray of victory, many people won't bring that up.
They'll just overlook that. So who cares. They win the
game by twenty points, And that is true. They didn't

(43:15):
win the game by twenty points, but James Harden took
eighteen shots. Again, a player that Hall of Famer Charles
Barkley said was unguardable two of eighteen from the floor.
It's embarrassing. It's humiliating, is what that is. For James Harden.
I've gotten a lot of blowback from a bunch of
country Bumpkin Rocket fans here that where's ad you see

(43:38):
Chris Paul Man, he was great, Oh he was wonderful,
on and on and on, and he was very good
in this game, There's no question about it. But it
doesn't change the narrative, right The narrative is you cannot
rely on Chris Paul. We're two games in, he said,
one stink bomb and one good game. I believe that
is the definition of unreliable when one night you're good

(43:58):
and the next night you suck, or vice versa. And
no matter how far the Rockets go in the playoffs,
this cloud is gonna hang over the Rockets, the cloud
of whether or not Chris Paul is going to fall apart.
He's made out of paper machee and he's gonna get injured.
He's got the age factors, so he's got things working
against him. And at any given moment that could happen

(44:22):
on one side and then on the other side, you've
got James Harden who could just mentally check out and
not be interested. And what do you do. You lose.
I guess a good team, you lose. I guess a
good legitimate NBA opponent, you lose. Fortunately, this is much

(44:42):
like we talked about with soft launches. We talked last
night about Shoheo Tani who got two starts against the
Oakland A's and that was a soft launch for him,
and then he faced a real team and pete his pants. Well,
the Rockets get a soft launch against Minnesota in the playoffs.
Eventually he'll get to the where they played a good team,
and if these things continue, the Rockets will exit the

(45:04):
NBA playoffs. And you heard it here first. Now that
the second thing is misconduct, all right, shout out to
the Minnesota Timberwolves. And I keep flashing back. There used
to be this coach of the Raiders, coach Callahan, and
he ranted it was only great rants in NFL history
about how that Raider team had to be the dumbest

(45:24):
team in America. And I would challenge this Minnesota Timberwolves
team right now, in the here and now with a
wink in a nod to Oklahoma City, which we'll get
to in a moment, for being the dumbest team in America.
The Minnesota Timberwolves complete basketball in competence. We've got to
be the dumbest team in America. Yeah, it's I don't

(45:48):
even I'm overwhelmed here. I'm over I'm like a fat
kid in a pie shop. I don't know where to
go here. I don't know what to do with this.
Where do we begin the entire team just to get
some might have fluid and toss a match in there.
Maybe the insurance will cover. I mean, by goodness, my
good Let's hear from coach Tibbs, right, Tom Thibodeau, the

(46:10):
head coach in Minnesota, who points out that that first
quarter wasn't so bad, but then yeah, after that, not
so much. I like the first quarter, and then we
went straight downhill from there. You know, James still because
of you know who he is. He still puts a
lot of pressure on you. And that's the great value
of having a guy like Chris Paul coupled with him.

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You know, Chris had an unbelievable game. Yeah that was
that was slaver slab slaber Oliver. Chris Pauls. What that was,
was he slabbering over Chris Paul after Game one when
Paul almost gave the game to the Minnesota timproles. Was
he slabbering all over and then yeah, okay, here's more. Well,
I guess we should focus in on Karl Anthony Towns,
who this was supposed to be his coming out party, right.

(46:53):
I mean, all this is talk about number one pick
in the draft few years back and put up great stats,
double double guy and all that for the last couple
of year in the NBA and two games into his
postseason career. It's like a dirty diaper, Karl Anthony Towns
in the playoffs. You have five points in this game
when they needed him early, right when they when the

(47:14):
seams started ripping apart for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Did Carl
Anthony Towns rise up? Now? He did not. I was terrible,
all right. So let's hear from the Wolves coach. Let's
see hear the question and the answer about the disappearing,
vanishing Abrick Cadabra center of the Timberwolves. Why hasn't Town's
been able to get going at all in this series?

(47:35):
They're doing a good job on him double team in him.
He has to play with energy. He's you know, he's
got to run the floor, he's got to get it deep.
You got to be moving around an offensive rebound, kickout, repost.
That's an energy game. That's what we got to do.
So the coach, that's that's listening between the words. The
coach just said, he's a dog, right? Is that? I mean?
How else do you take that? Right? He's not playing hard,

(47:56):
he's not playing with energy. He's a dog. That's essentially
what he said. Am I wrong in that? How else
do you interpret that? Do you think that any star
player plays without being double team? Maybe in Golden State
they can play without being a double team. But isn't
that how it goes if you're a star? You're telling
me in the regular season, Karl Anthony Towns didn't get
double team. Come on, that's a cop out. Of course

(48:16):
he got double team. It happened. It happened. He was
able to overcome again. Wow, it's like he took a
vow of silence for the postseason. Man, all right, here's more,
let's hear from Karl Anthony Towns. Carl, you must be
very proud of your performance. You've made your family look good.
Everyone who knows you, you're very proud of you. Yes,

(48:39):
can't be frustrated. There's no time to be frustrated. Too
much focus and energy, positive energy has a goal to
the right way. So there ain't no time for negativity,
and there ain't no time for a frustration. There ain't
no time to hang your head down. We gotta move on,
truglet to the next game, Yes, and then after that
move on to the last game, and then you'll move
on to vacation. Will it be a Caribbean vacation? Will

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it be a Hawaiian vacation? Will he go to Vegas?
Where will Carl Anthony Town's be going on vacation? Right?
For those that pointed out there's a possibility that Minnesota
could flip the switch. That certainly doesn't seem like that's
going down. If there is a switch, they don't know
where it is. They're blindfolded and they don't have Kramer

(49:24):
blind Scott seeing eye dog to find the switch, which
is problematic. That's out of sync and soon to be
out of the playoffs. And the frustrating part is that again,
any other good team would would have won at least
one of these games in Houston, with Chris Paul being
a no show in Game one, Harden doing the Houdini

(49:45):
Act in Game two, and still that was the only
way Minnesota could win in this series. Right. We talked
about that when the end of the regular season, these
things have happened and Minnesota has not taken advantage, and
that brings up the final point that this is a
continuation of the regular season missed opportunities. They played about
ten good minutes. Maybe I'm giving them too Maybe it

(50:08):
was nine minutes, because I believe the Timberwolves missed their
last nine shots in the first quarter of this game,
and they still had a five point lead at the
end of the first twelve minutes. But I believe it's
forty eight minutes. My man, Zach Randolph, Yeah, I wish
we had this sound bite from years ago. We had
it in the system. He got deleted. But Zach Randoff,

(50:29):
who famously said we got to play well for forty
two minutes. It's one of my favorite soundbites. He said
it at Madison Square Garden after he was playing for
Memphis and he was trying to be in sports cliche
mode and he just went on this big rant and
he forgot the amount of minutes in the NBA game.
It was just awesome. It was just wonderful. Anyway, So
I bet Maller's show on Fox will work our way

(50:52):
towards the jazz in the thunder. A little bit later,
we say hello to Edmund Dallas steam boat, Willie Judas
cars CEOs right over there. Well, hello, back to you,
Ben Maller. I've got a tweet here from a listener
who wants to know, h Well, you want to know
if if tonight was a newbie night, and clearly it's not.

(51:14):
By now, we're playing next week, next week, okay, all right,
For some reason we need lots of lead time on that.
I don't know why we don't have promotion imaging the
incredible promotion that, yes, exactly promotion. What's the other thing
you want to know we're doing? Are we doing? Ask Ben? Later?
We're doing? Ask Ben? Your questions are answer. I love
ask Ben. It's always fun. It's one of my favorites.
Warn you don't know what's coming Coopers, got stand your toes. Yeah,

(51:39):
if you want to submit questions for that, Twitter, Facebook,
plenty of places for you to do that if I
had said to you before the playoffs, Eddie, that Derek
Rose would have outscored Carl Anthon Towns for Minnesota get bad.
Would you have said, boy, Derek Rose, it must be great,
or would you say, what the hell's going on with
Carl any dads? I would say that was a really
really bad sign for the Minnesota Timbers that I think

(52:00):
you're onto something. There was a really tough five points
for Karl Anthony Buss. There's no time for negativity, Eddie.
There's no time, no time. Well, you know if there's
no time, there's no time for five point games in
the playoffs from one of your star players. That's what
I don't do. A negative show. He tried. Okay, what
do you want the guy to do? I don't know.
Did he try? He's gonna get a participation ribbon, Yes,

(52:24):
that will all he'll He'll get on. Absolutely, he tried
his best. Can't be critical of a guy like that,
Come on, Yeah, I don't. I don't know that he
tried his best. I hope he didn't try his best,
because if he did, that's a really bad sign. Well,
Barkley unloaded on you probably weren't when they when they
weren't doing the pandering on TNT, they Barkley did actually
talk occasionally. He mixed in basketball commentary, and he when

(52:47):
they talked about Carl Anthony Towns, he said limited offensive,
which I think is an understatement, right, I think that's
an understatement on that maybe did he mean his game
tonight or last night or on the whole? I mean,
let's see, he's got thirteen points in two playoff games.
If my Mallard math is correct, that's an average of
six and a half points. Is that right? It's good.
I was told there would be no math, But yeah,

(53:09):
I think you're right about that. You're in the ball
park pretty good. Yeah, not really, No, again, he's trying
really hard, he really is. He better try a little
bit harder goof on him at all? Absolutely not, you see.
Not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to add up.
That's very true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, we'll

(53:29):
take your phone calls if you would like to be
part of the number eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven ninety nine six six three six nine.
To the phones, we get to the Sniger calling here.
What do you think absolutely right to getting the Okay,
let's go to Chris Andy Houston who's on Fox Sports Radio. Hello,
Chris well Being, it sounds like the triggered. Are you triggered? No,

(53:53):
I'm just doing the show like I normally did. Nothing
be triggered about being the hater. Mallard. Well, you're just
waiting on that moment. Huh. Ever since christ Paul left
the Clippers, you just wanted your bag on the guy
bag on. You just can't get a blake hump you.
I'm fine, I listen. It is Everything that I said

(54:15):
was gonna happen has happened. So I'm I'm perfectly fine
with this. I am perfectly Again, that's a red herring
we're talking about. I know that's hard. You don't want
to talk about the rockets because they're kind of boring.
But we're talking about the Rocket Wolves game. That's what
we're talking about. Stay focused on this, you guys, stay focused.
We could sit rocket talking, but that's that's the way

(54:35):
he talk about. No, no, no, that's actually not You
don't know the definition of a red herring. That is
not a red herring. That's what I just did. A
monologue on the rockets in the Timberwold. I didn't mention
the Clippers one time in that monologue, not once. I
know I would say that you are triggered by the Clippers,
that you want everything. It's like six degrees of the Clippers.

(54:56):
I'm moved on. I'm moving on. They're done that. They
gotta get for the draft. That's it, They're over. You know,
you gotta let it go. You gotta let it go, Chris.
You gotta let it go. You got it. You got
an older point guard who's injury prone. Didn't You didn't
get it done with Chris, Chris? Did I Let's go
through a little exercise, Chris. Did I not say for
like the last two months that the Rockets are not

(55:18):
gonna win because James Harden will disappear at times and
Chris Paul is an older point guard, he's injury prone.
Did I not say both? Both those things have already
happened two games into the playoffs. Both those things have
come true. That's I'm two, and oh that's right. Ben
Maller is two, and Oh is analysis I should replace

(55:39):
Woa the other one can. I'm gonna They're gonna get
rid of Shack. I'll be on TNT instead of Shack.
I will be on there. I would like to see that.
They will they are, they will burn up the television,
those hot takes, they will man burn hot roasting. I
thought I thought we Man Hippy had put the show

(56:01):
when we had a new weed Man Hippy from North Florida.
I was listening. Yeah, we had a comedian, right man, Yeah,
the comedian from Jacksonville. Yeah, well, weed Man has a
temper tantrum about once a month. I don't know how
that works out. Once a month and then he's just odd,
it's a coincidence, and he quits the show. And then
he comes back the next day and kisses has to
kiss the rings. That's because you've coddled him, being just

(56:23):
like you toddle. Anybody that kiss your toes? No, no,
no one kisses my toes. That's incorrect. You got that
one of the Rachel from Manabello. Where's he've been? I
haven't heard. I have not heard from Rachel. I hope
our friend Rachel is okay. She's she's likely performing her
new musical. Actually, she's in rehearsal right now, so she's
trying to perfect it before she calls it all right,

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I gotta go, Chris, listen, just take the loss. I
was right, you were wrong. We thank you, But you can't.
You can't be right all the time. I'm right all
the time, but you cannot be It's unfortunate how that
works out. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox seven
seven nine six six three six nine. So you're saying,
there's a chance we'll get to that. We'll do it next.

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So you're saying, there's a chance we'll get to that.
Back to the NBA conversation as well. Now, I have

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been overwhelmed with this story because I've been doing some
moonlighting the last a few months in Boston, and this
has been like the number one story. It's gronk in
tom Brady. What's gonna happen with those two knuckles? Yes,
ratings came out number one in the ratings, Thank you
very much. So. One of the online sports books put
up gambling odds because what else you gonna do on

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whether or not Tom Brady will announce his retirement from
the National Football League before the start of the twenty
eighteen NFL regular season. Now, this is a story that
will not die. This is a zombie story. It keeps
coming back, and you think you've killed it, you haven't
killed It keeps coming back. And Adam Schefter when he's
looking for something to throw something out there, and just

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because it's a slow day, he'll toss this story out.
So the odds are plus five hundred that Tom Brady
will retire from the NFL before the start of next season.
What does that mean in real numbers if you're not
a gambler and you don't know what that means the
implied odds. When you're plus five hundred, that says there

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is a sixteen percent chance that Tom Brady is going
to retire. That is way too high. It's much lower
than unless he gets in some kind of accident jumping
off a cliff in Brazil or something like that, and
he's injured. He's going to be back. He's gonna be
back with the Patriots. But he can bet on it.
If you want to hand over your money, you can

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go to one of the online books and you can
post your money there, send your money in, You're good
to go. How cool is it gonna be supposed to be?
Later this year, the Supreme Court of the United States
is going to liberate sports wagering and they're supposed to
make it a state rights issue. Now, depending on where
you I guess if you live in the Bible Belt,

(59:44):
you're not gonna you're not gonna be able to do
it still. But in a lot of places you'll be
able to wage your llegal. You're not gonna have to
go to some shady online sports book or go to
Vegas or whatever. You can just do it from your house.
What should be What is the temperature for such thing?
In California where we live, Well, they love taxing. If
they can tax, they should do it right. If Governor

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Jerry Brown can put a nice tax on it, they'll
be all about it. Right. See, you would think like
it's odd. I've got friends of mine who work in
the gambling business, and you think that people in Vegas
would be like, I don't want this, you know, a
sports in Nevada in general. But from what I understand,
they're for it. And the reason they're for it, I'll
tell you why they think they're gonna run it. That

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these states are gonna hire people from the sports operations
in Nevada and they'll run the individual states gambling for
a while. Well yeah, exactly for a while, and then
someone else will come in and then that's that's generally
how it works, all right. So Ben Maller Show on
Fox on Fox, we'll take some phone calls eight seven
seven ninety nine of Fox. We'll get to the phone

(01:00:49):
calls in a minute, and also a little bit later
on we're gonna have Mallard to the third degree and
a big name has a murger for the New York
Knickerbocker coaching job. You get to that as well. Right now, though,
Eddie Garcia is here and he will give you the
latest Eddy Hobel since you updated on all of the

(01:01:10):
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the Cavaliers get by the Pacers one hundred to ninety seven.
Cleveland needed and got a big game from Lebron James.
He scored the team's for sixteen points in the game,
finished with forty six points help even up that series.
In a game of piece, Jazz over the Thunder one
o two to ninety five. Oklahoma City stars Russell Westbrook,

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Paul George, and Cardinal Anthony were combined over fourteen shooting
in the fourth quarter. As that series is tied at
a game apiece, and the Rockets be the Timberwells one
two eighty two Houston with the two oh series advantage.
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Sharks down the Ducks two
to one. San Jose sweeps that series in four games.
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than huge news from the NFL. Huge are you sitting down?
Hold on? Yeah, they are changing the kickoff times for
primetime games in two eighteen Monday Night Football will start

(01:02:33):
fifteen minutes earlier. That will make all the difference fifteen
pm Eastern time. Thursday Night Football will begin at eight
twenty That is minutes early. Oh my god, Eddie for
our brothers and sisters on the Eastern seaboard, this is
a game. What will they do with an extra fifteen minutes?

(01:02:53):
Of course, it's bad news for people on the West
coast that are stuck in rush hour traffic trying to
get home to watch those games. But who cares. I'm
sure Rob Manford is very jealous. Yeah, well he's jealous
because people still occasionally go to NFL games. Well, you know,
gonna make these games shorter and earlier and all kinds
of stuff. Yeah, very very bizarre. You see that Fox

(01:03:16):
announced Michael Straighthand most the Thursday night pregames. Yes, it's
gonna be him and Howie and Terry. I don't get this,
like like they're moving that show to New York because
Straighthand does Good Morning America because he really that good.
I don't get it. I don't thrilled. Yeah, I mean

(01:03:36):
if he must be really upstat that's his gig, right,
that's it there. Yeah, so so do the Thursday show
from New York. Straighthand will then get up early do
Good Morning America. I mean really, he's paving roads in
the summertime. Then he'll get on a plane Friday afternoon
and fly to Los Angeles, maybe Saturday, fly to LA.
He'll he's gonna he's gonna fly, you know, like coach though, right, yes, exactly.

(01:03:59):
Maybe he'll take a bus, a Greyhound bus. He'll come
to LA, he'll do the Sunday morning show, and then
he'll get out of LA probably on like a five
o'clock fight LA time, back to New York. So he'll
get in late. He'll get in late to New York
and then he'll have to take some caffeine and get
up early. And do the show that's out. It's gonna work.
Am I run on it? Oh yeah, absolutely yeah. Now,

(01:04:21):
obviously we don't watch Good Morning America. We are no,
that's I've never seen never I've seen the clips of
Good Morning America. I've never seen the show. I guess
we don't know. If he's good on it. Maybe he's
killing it. He must be killing it that he's must
be doing amazing. No one else can host that pregame show,
by the way. That's what I've ted. They've got to

(01:04:42):
make sure straight hands on it. It's very important. But
this is good for that. Well, that's really more about entertainment, right,
That's not about No one's tuning into an NFL pregame
show for football news. You go on you know, radio
to hear it on the radio to talk about or
go on social media or whatever. You're not going on that, right,
You're not going I would think so, But I don't know.

(01:05:03):
I don't. I don't find any of those shows very entertaining,
to be totally honest with you, I don't, right, I
don't watch any of them. So I take from Eddie
Garcia right there. Well, speaking of television, speaking of sports, television.
A big name has emerged as a candidate for the
New York Knickerbocker coaching job. Reports in the nighttime hours
here indicating that the long time sidekick of Charles Barkley

(01:05:27):
on inside the NBA, Kenny Smith, is going to interview
for the Knickerbocker coaching job on Friday. Don't do it.
Don't do it, I say, do it? Why not? You
know why you take Let me tell you why. I think,
get the money for a couple of years and go

(01:05:48):
back to TV so that what you're saying, you go
you just give it in say, there's two reasons to
take the job. First of all, for some reason, Kenny
he even though this is like the Peter principal, he's
reached his highest level of incompetence, which I think is
racing shock to that big board on the inside the
NBA show. So like he's done this for someone. It's
been like fifteen years or longer than that that he's

(01:06:10):
done this. Right, He's been on inside the NBA with Barkley,
has been doing it for fifteen years, so you'd assume
Kenny Smith has been there that whole time. He really
wants to coach. He's He's applied for other jobs, He's
tried to get head coaching jobs. He wants to do it.
It's like Barry Melrose. Remember Barry Melrose coach the Tampa
Bay Lightning for about a week and everyone thought how
Grady would be because he had used to be a

(01:06:30):
coach and he was on you know, he was on
TV all those years, and yeah, it just was terrible.
And I think he also realized, screw this, this is
too much work. I'm just gonna go back be on
TV for a few hours and go home. I think
it'd be great, though, Kenny Smith could instead of like
they make this seem like it's you got to be
a brain surgeon to coach in the NBA. You don't, okay,

(01:06:52):
it's it's been realistic about this. Kenny seems like he's
got a really good personality. It doesn't matter. They could
Jesus Christ coach the Nicks. They wouldn't win. They have
a terrible roster, all right, it is terrible. They're not
gonna win anything. So why not give Kenny Smith the opportunity.
He'll make a bunch of money and then he'll come
back in two years and he'll be right there. And
Charles Barkley will still be on inside the NBA. There

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you go, Bump. No, there's no downside for Kennyson. Would
you like us to tweet that out about Jesus? Yes,
that'll go very well. Yeah, absolutely, Lord Lord in Lords
giving a sermon an hour number five, I will be
evangelizing on what record would But who would Jesus draft
number one in the NFL draft? That's a different that's

(01:07:36):
a that's tomorrow's topic an hour number five. Yes, all right,
spend out of the show on Fox Whoopie Pie. Blair
is in Maine and he is licking his wounds right
now on Fox Sports Radio. He's very excited. His angels
are looking great. They Blair, much like Cooper Loop. You
absolutely nailed it. You are right, good job by your halos.

(01:07:58):
Shut up, they're still first place. It's not very nice.
I think I was praising your squad. Shut up, you
shut up? How about you shut up your moron? How
about that stupid you're an idiot? Right, yeah, fantastic. Do

(01:08:19):
you think who would win a name calling contest like
you think Blair or me? What do you think would happen?
FCC or no, FCC, I would win. I'll take you
right down. You are You are a punk. You are
a loser, and I'm not gonna put up with you. Right.
You are from the land of the week. Do you
understand that the land of the week, that is where

(01:08:39):
you're from. No, I'll come back to I'm coming back
to California. I'll yeah, let's go right there. Yeah, your
phone calls, your phone calls have been compared to explosive diarrhea.
When you call up, it's like projectile vomiting on the radio.
When you call in here. You know that I think
you were in the wrest match. I'll win, Blair. I

(01:09:03):
could be blindfolded with one of my legs tied to
a post and I would still beat you. I'll beat
you like blind Scott. That's strong. Wow, will you win?
I mean that's I don't know how to come back
with that one. I mean, that's you're not a dope.
So I don't know what to say about those Angels

(01:09:25):
after this. When nine zero like, oh we go, well
the Angels are good, there's still in first place, I'm like,
holy go, the Angels are a hell of a team
and they really they are still good. But they are good. Yeah,
no they are. I think I really enjoyed these last
couple of games here, haven't I have? I've been great.

(01:09:46):
I love competitive baseball, and the pitching has been wonderful
and the offense is really clicked. There's nothing not to
what's not to like? The way you don't like it?
A little? A little? You just drop a little Spanish
on you. I don't. I didn't. I wasn't listening. What
did you say? What I thought? He told you to
shut up in Spanish? Did you tell me to shut

(01:10:07):
up in Spanish? I wasn't listening. Is that what you
told me? Of course? How much Spanish? You know? Something else?
But I don't know what you guys can read a
Spanish Spanish words. I'm shocked, shocked that you can. Do
you know any Yiddish? Uh? No, you're not. You know

(01:10:28):
buff kiss when it comes to I know Yiddish, I
don't know that. I have a lot of footspud to
talk in Spanish? Here? You do? Hey, guess what we're
going to get? Better? Go back to blow up? Final
words here you are? Oh, thank you, Danny. You saved
me on that. That would have been horrible if that

(01:10:51):
word had gotten on the air. Oh my god, what
a nut nick. That guy is right there, Blair Man,
all right, so talking to say anything I wanted Yidish,
all the Yiddish words I learned from my grandfather when
I was growing up. I can just throw those out
and then we're good, right, right. What a schmendric, What
an absolute schmendrick. That guy he has no idea see that.
He thinks that's a good thing. Right, but Blair thinks

(01:11:11):
that's a good thing. Most people don't know what I
don't know what it means. I'm guessing it's not flattering, though,
say yeah, well yeah, it's you another way. I don't want.
It's more fun that Blair doesn't know. If I say,
I'll tell you off there. Okay, yeah, all right, we
will continue. It is the Ben Maller Show on Fox.
We're gonna have another edition of Mallard to the thirty

(01:11:32):
three three Bits, one segment, Mallard to the third Degree.
I'll win another game I gave you. I'm giving money away.
I had the Dodgers yesterday, easy win. I'll give you
another easy winner. All I do is give out winners.
You get a winner, you get a winner, you get
a winner. That's how I do. Yeah, you want to
boat keep listening, you want to pay your mortgat Now,
all right, here's the instante. I love those those gambling,

(01:11:53):
degenerate infomercials on the radio, but just scumbag those guys
are all right. Anyway, here we go. Here's the instant trivia.
We'll go baseball. In his rookie season, Philly slugger Reese
Hoskins hit eighteen home runs in just fifty games. That
was last year. Prior to that, the most home runs
by a player who played in fifty or fewer games

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was fourteen, done by blank. Again, Reese Hoskins of Philadelphia
had eighteen home runs in just fifty games. Prior to that,
the most home runs by a player who played in
fifty or fewer games was fourteen in baseball history, done
by blank. That's the instant trivia. The answer next, we

(01:12:36):
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(01:13:03):
one segment. Let's get started. Here we go the Insta trivia.
Instant trivia. In his rookie season, Philadelphia's Reese Hoskins hit
eighteen home runs. He'd played just fifty games. Prior to that,
the most home runs by a player who played in
fifty or less games was fourteen, done by Blank. That

(01:13:25):
is the insta trivia. What is the answer that se
did anyone get it right? The dope is such a dope?
He went with one in Carnasson, Not to be confused
with our friend Edwin got a Nazi girl? Ken Landrow
from the Happy Bong Tooker. Who else do we have here?

(01:13:46):
The Rifleman Chuck Conners tossed out by the Cowboy Killer
The Rooster says it's got to be former saddleback gaucho
Nick Pounto. As his answer, Daniel says, pee wee Herman.
Dave Kingman from Robin, Minnesota. Mike from the LBC oh
for two losing your way with Ken Griffey Jr. Arturo says,
was it Homer Simpson when he played for mister Burns

(01:14:09):
softball team? Bam Bam Bigelow from Rob and Vegas, the
crime Dog Fred McGriff from Sean Eddie. Do you know
the answer? Ben? The answer is Rico the Great Rico Bronia,
Philly met legend. Rico Bronia. Oh that's a good name.
I remember going to see the Dodgers play the Mets

(01:14:29):
at Chase Stadium and Rico Bronia was the starting first
baseman for the Mets, and I knew the Mets were
not trying to win in back in those days. All Right,
I know the correct answer. Sam Horn nineteen eighty seven, Well,
he looked like he was gonna be her. They projected
him on the fast track to the Hall of Fame.

(01:14:52):
Now he's more known. There's an internet group, the Sons
of Sam that's still around. Is that's still the thing?
I think it is. I don't know, but I have
definitely heard of them. Yeah, they been around for a while.
Let's go all in. Here we go three. It's Ben
Mahler and he's going I'm gonna go all in. All in.

(01:15:12):
All I do is give you winners, unbelievable. Gave it
the Dodgers yesterday. How the rest of you guys do?
I was the only loser, Ben All right, So here
we go. You're not supposed to been on bad teams,
but when they're playing bad teams, you can bet on
bad teams. I'm gonna take the Baltimore Orioles with Alex
Cobb at minus one eighteen as a small road favorite

(01:15:35):
over Jordan Zimmerman and the Tigers. It's a day game,
so get it in early one ten, first pitch. I'm
all in with the Orioles, Eddie Ben, I have not
lost in my Stanley Cup playoff predictions so far. So
the pressures on Boston versus Toronto over under of sixes,
I'm taking the OVA Pies will win that game. And
what about you there, Danny G. Houston. At Seattle, the

(01:15:56):
great Marco Gonzalez is on the mound for the Mariners
who were thirty seven. It's a lie. Marco Gonzales bandings
no better than that in Seattle. So yeah, that's got
upset written all over it. Over the world champs all
in on Seattle. Who who you got? That's a terrible pick.
I'm going there, thank you. Opposite way, Charlie Morton has

(01:16:17):
been on fire so far this season. They're gonna light
him up. Well, we'll guaranteed to have a winner and
a loser. I'm all in on the Astroc. Charlie Morton
has been good for the Astros. But you know he's
gonna peak too soon, is what he's gonna do. All right,
let's get to it. Here we go, let's do it. Yeah,
it's Meller. How about that? To the third degree? This

(01:16:38):
is one big band gets grilled three bits one segment,
justin Cooper Now. After another over from Jehan Carlos Stanton.
On Tuesday, Yankees manager Aaron boons that he is considering
dropping Stanton in the lineup, but not too far though. Okay,
you don't want to hurt his confidence. Ben, Do you
think that could shake things up in a good way. Well,
I'm gonna rant more about Jean Carlos Stanton coming up

(01:17:00):
in a few minutes. But my thoughts on this, something
radical needs to be done, right. You're not gonna do
the status quote. It's not working. It's only been a
few weeks, but you're not gonna do the status quote. Hey,
Gian Carlos Stanton has been poisoned at Yankee statum. It's
very odd. He's like the cowardly lion when he's in
the Bronx. It's been an obstacle course for him, and

(01:17:21):
on the road he's fine. It's a bizarre situation and
be any time a player stinks in New York, they
always bring up one name and it goes back like
almost forty years Edwardson, right, the legend of Edwards. Edwardson
was so infected with this disease playing for the Yankees.

(01:17:43):
He got into a fight with Billy Martin, who didn't
the manager in those days. And there's amazing stories. It
was so bad that they wouldn't pitch Edwardson at Yankee Stadium.
They only pitched him on the road. He was that
But we're not there yet with gian Carlos Stanton. But yeah,
I endorse moving him down on the lineup next now.
In a recent interview, Jason Witten said that he has
committed to football and would like to play until he's forty.

(01:18:06):
Benny turns thirty six next month. Do you think he
can make it? Well, the odds are against him. The
odds are against him, but he does have a better
chance than the most, So I say yes. Number one.
Jason Witten is a large part of Jerry's world. That
helps Right now, what does that mean. It means he
is going to get preferential treatment as long as his

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production doesn't completely fall off the table. The last three years,
his yards has gone down, his reception total has gone
down the last three years, so he's going the wrong direction.
And Number two, if Jason Witten can avoid the devastating injury,
he stays relatively healthy, he will get a chance to
play till his forty. Until he's forty, Tony Romo would
still be playing if he hadn't had the back injury,

(01:18:48):
and that opened the door to Dak Prescott. So he's
gonna get a chance because he's one of the inner
circle guys with Jerry Jones. Jason Witten is next. DeAndre
Hopkins is telling everyone that he and Deshaun will be
quote the best duo in the NFL next season. Ben,
who's the best duo right now? And can Watson and
Hopkins overtake that? Well? Listen, No, I like to the
bravado in the confidence, but no Tom Brady and Gronkowski.

(01:19:11):
Of the top duo, you'd put the several other Ben Roethlisberger,
Antonio Brown. The problem with Watkins and Hopkins is you
cannot rely on in Deshaun Watson. He's injury prone, so
I don't see that happening there. It is Mallard of
the third degree. How do we do? Benny fails? That
is a win for me. That's a win. I won
the game. I want what happens when your honeymoon period

(01:19:36):
is one day? One day? Well, it took place in
Major League Baseball. It's a bit of a conundrum in
the early weeks of the baseball season involving one of
the biggest players in the game. We will discuss welcome
in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Mallers Show,

(01:19:56):
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do a long tribute to the Boston Red Sox, who

(01:20:20):
are fifteen and two and just beat the Angels the
smither Rings. I'm not going to do that. I don't
need to do that. People know the Red Sox of
the top team in baseball. I don't need to remind
you of that. If you don't know that, then you're
just not paying attention. It's a bad job by you.
But the story that caught my attention, I want to
pause this basketball pulloser that we've been on through the

(01:20:43):
late night hours here for one of the odd storylines.
It's an oddball storyline from the baseball season. Now it
mostly involves Jean Carlos Stent, but it's not just him.
It's not just him. There's some ten to this story.
Now he's the lead on it, but it's not just

(01:21:03):
a Yankee story. But we'll start with that. Right, If
you've not been paying attention for whatever reason, to the
baseball season, I'll catch you up to speed on this.
Now there's this growing outrage. It's Yankee fan on Yankee
fan outrage as Giancarlo continues to drown at Yankee Stadium. Now,

(01:21:27):
if you look at the baseball scoreboard, the Yankees did
they play yesterday? No, they didn't play game yesterday, the
day off, and the Yankees currently are a five hundred
baseball team. They're eight up and eight down. That is
their record. They're sitting six and a half games behind
the top team in baseball, the Boston Red Sox. But

(01:21:49):
the debate among the Yankee fan is whether or not
it's the age old question. To boo or not to
boo goes back to many, many years in the history
of the world. Now, much to my surprise, there has
been a ground swell of support in the anti boom movement,

(01:22:14):
and I wanted to talk about this. So let's discuss
now the question here in a general sense. One of
the things that brings us all together here to the
radio is at some point we either played sports, we
like sports, We're interested in this stuff. Right. We all
have that in common. Whatever our backgrounds are, whatever jobs

(01:22:35):
we do, we all have that in common. So what
do you make of this story where Yankee fans are
split on what to do with John Carlos stan Not,
whether to get rid of him or keep him, whether
or not they should give him a hard time when
he can't make contact at home play. Now, my viewpoint
on this, you've got a generational divide, participation, trophies, and

(01:22:59):
super extreme tribalism, and we'll bind all this stuff together. Now,
First of all, much to my surprise, this is a
partisan issue. And I've done a thorough investigation, and when
you tune in to this late night time slide. You'd

(01:23:19):
think whether it would be no such thing as a
thorough investigation. But I have determined that the question of
whether or not to boo or not to boo Giancarlos
Stanton essentially comes down to your age. Now, let me explain.
This is a generational divide. I would say the cutoff
point is right around I'll say the age of thirty,

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right that that is the point of demarcation. And if
you're over the age of thirty, you believe that it
comes with the territory. That's the camp. I'm it that
you were raised that when you watch sports on the
professional level, if you perform, you get all of the trimmings.
You get the applause, you get the big contract, you

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get the celebration, people lick your toes. And on the
other side, when you stink and you smell like one
of Blair and Maine's phone calls, the opposite happens, right,
The opposite takes place there. Right, It's not complex, It's
really not that complex. Gian Carlos Stanton's performance. Let me

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be very clear, he deserves to be booed. He deserves
to be drowned out in a chorus of booze at
Yankee Stadium. The man is hitting O eighty six in
the Bronx. He's had thirty five at bats and twenty
of them have resulted in strikeouts in the home pin stripes.

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If that doesn't demand a heckel, what the hell does
are you supposed to be complimentary to Giancarlo because at
least he's held onto the bat and hasn't killed any
fan and throwing the bat into the crowd. It's like,
it's bizarro world here. What's going on? It's absolutely bizarre
world now. Secondly, and this is where it gets interesting

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to me, if you are under the age of again,
at that point of demarcation, the age of thirty, you
are more likely to be on the other side of
the aisle. And what I've gotten, I've gotten some feedback
on this. You're offended, right, You're offended at your other
Yankee fans who are booing John Carloston. And this is
a byproduct, I'm convinced of it, of growing up with

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participation trophies. Right, I've dubbed it the curse of participation awards.
You were raised more likely than not if you're under
that age and you played sports, you were raised with
everyone's a winner, and booing is seen as a form
of bullying. Bullying. I'm not joking. It sounds so ridiculous,

(01:25:54):
it sounds so sick. It's head spinning, is what it is.
It's just so stupid. But that mindset of should you
boo or not boo? Right, It's like, well, no, you
shouldn't boo. You should help the Yankees out right. This
is a not a damsel industress, it's a Yankee industriss.
And if you boo, you're a hater. Oh and that's

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the worst thing you can be as a hater, right,
John Carlos Staton knows he's struggling. Right, that's the counter argument.
Why would you boom? He knows he's bad. You don't
need to remind them of it. You need to encourage him. No,
negativity'd be positive. That is kind of hate. See, this
is a foreign concept to me, this mindset. That's not

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how I was raised as a sports fan. Right. We're
not talking about little league or t ball baseball, We're not.
It is professional sports. There's a lot of money involved.
They charge a great amount of money. They assisted Now
in some ballparks have to beg people to come out,
and the results matter. If you truly have a investment

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of your time, of your money, you're making a financial investment.
And even if you got the tickets for free because
of some corporation that you work for, your friends work for,
and you're out there, you didn't pay for the tickets,
you're still investing your time. Your time is short, right,
we know how much time we've got, and you want
to go out there, you want to boo and give
a hard time, and you can't do it. It's ridiculous.

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So my rebuttal would be to these people, go change
your diaper. I mean, it's so stupid. It's so ridiculous,
these people. And the final thing on this, because I've
heard it from the Angel fans who are also of
that age. I did a compelling Mala monologue last night
about Joe he Otani, who certainly deserved to be criticized
for a gutless effort against the Boston Red Sox, and

(01:27:44):
the reaction I got again it if you were someone
over the age of thirty, it was like, hey, you know, yeah,
he wasn't very good. That's admitting he sucked. If you're
under the age of thirty say, oh, how dare you said?
It's kill the messenger, right, shoot the messenger. That's the strategy.
And it's a combination of, as I said, the participation trophies.

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But it's something more than that. Right, It's gonna be
very interesting as the years go by here and this
becomes the majority, right, the majority of people. How is
this going to change? Right? We heading to a point
where you're not You just can't boom anymore, You can't
do it. Does that become the new normal at stadiums

(01:28:25):
and arenas and just shows like this and sports talk
radios have to change because your God forbid you do
negative radio? How dare you? It's the extreme tribalism also right,
where you have to blindly worship the players they are God.
It's called hero worship. It's a disease that many people have.

(01:28:47):
I have been able to watch sports and I don't
put put the pedestal up there, and I can observe things,
don't have to say, oh God, I can rip people
when they deserve to rip. Now it seems like that's
going away. Right. You can provide some raspberries when someone
plays atrocious, and when they play well, you can point
that out, much like my commentary about Chris Paul. We

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played terrible in game one, we ripped him. In game two,
he pointed out he played better, but we were fair.
We were absolutely fair. And it's like, now you're supposed
to provide a nurturing voice of encouragement. Disgusting, it's absolutely
discuss it really is. I mean, am I wrong on
this though? This is the sense I get, and I
am deep in the forest. I admit that I am

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very deep in the forest. And maybe you're not as deep,
and maybe you see things differently through your eyes than
I see in through my eyes, and you hear things
differently than I hear with my ears. What's going on?
And we've got a lot of the younger guys that
are in the media now and they're essentially fanboys. They're
pr people for the athletes and the teams, and they
come up with excuses when players don't perform well. And

(01:29:53):
the default position for years back in the day was no,
you don't. You're not there to make uses. You're not
the public relations guy for the team. You point out
when someone doesn't play well and you describe it. And
instead it's like, well, this guy didn't play well. But
it's like John Carlos Stanton, Well, he didn't play, but
he's a street hitter, you know, it's the Yeah, but yeah,

(01:30:15):
but he's a street hitter. Yeah but you know he'll
get hot when the weather gets better. Yeah, but he's
still finding his way in New York. Yeah, but it's
a big adjustment. Yeah, but give him time. Yeah but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's what happens. Channeling my inner Mike Martin. Yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah yeah, yeah, but yeah it
Now we will see how real those excuses are for

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John Carlin. Now do I anticipate that John Carlos Stanton
is going to figure things out? Of course I do.
I don't see this becoming a disaster zone. That said,
there are some red flags to keep an eye on.
He should hit a bunch of home runs, But is
he gonna hit a bunch of home runs in bat
two thirty or is he gonna be hit a bunch

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of home runs in bat two seventy two eighty and
drive in a bunch of runs. He is an injury risk.
He's been hurt a lot, and you figure he'll put
up at least if he has a bad year, he'll
put up thirty five home runs, but will you get
to ninety RBIs and is he gonna go down down
down the lineup and end up batting in the seventh

(01:31:18):
spot by the time this is all done. I mean,
those are some some questions to toss out. I want
to know what you think about this, because I think
I'm onto something. I don't hear anyone else talking about this,
but I want to. I want to know what you
think eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
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That's at Ben Maller and our Facebook page Ben Mallers Show,
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Here's a perfect example, perfect as I was doing the
Mallard model logue, Eddie, We'll bring in Edmund Dallas Steamboat Willie,
Judas Garth. You. This guy rides and he says, what

(01:32:02):
do you have against so Tani the dude had a
bad game. It happens to everyone. He hasn't done anything
to warrant to hate. That is the class. That's exactly
what I was talking about. That's exactly what I was
talking about, and as I was talking, this dope sent
it in. Well, I look, I don't think there's anything
wrong with booing necessarily. I boo occasionally. I'm not a

(01:32:25):
big booer when I go as a fan of games.
Usually it's mostly about you know, a referees call or
something like that. But you know, I mean, if it's warranted.
If if something like John Carlos Stanton was your example,
I mean, I have no problem booing him. I mean,
he's say he's underperforming is a gross understatement. But if
one guy, I mean, if a guy is usually a

(01:32:48):
good player and seems to give a you know, a
good effort most of the time, and has a bad
game here or there, then I'm not gonna, you know,
destroy him for that. It's the wrong Outlook, No, it's
not bad instincts. Boo boo boo boo, boo, boo boo.
Not for me boo first and ask questions later. Well,
I'm not surprised, dear you say that, because you're a
very negative person. Again, everyone's negative, Eddie, No, not everyone

(01:33:12):
is negative. I'm glad you brought this up because I
actually was talking to somebody in the business about that.
As there's a couple of people I was talking to
and I have this reputation people like yourself like to
spread fake news about me being negative, and I keep
going back. There was a study done a couple of
years I actually sent this to somebody to night and
it's something I reference and it was it was done

(01:33:33):
in the BBC published a story on this a couple
of years ago, and it's essentially outlining the falsehood of Oh,
I don't like negative, like you try to position yourself
as mister positive over there, any right, as you like
to try to sell yourself as the voice of positive.
Is that correct? Would you agree? Well, I'm not afraid
to give somebody accolades when I feel like they've earned it,
all right. I feel like you will look for any

(01:33:55):
excuse to rip a guy rather than to give him
some credit. I know. I know. You could talk about
how people respond more to negative radio and all that
kind of stuff. That's fine, but don't say that you're
not negative when that's just human nature. People respond to negativity.
The reason that TV stations and radio stations and websites
put negative stories up is because that's what people want
to hear and there was a study I don't watch

(01:34:15):
the local news because it's just you're God. I know,
you're so better than everything. But in in twenty fourteen,
there was a study dumb it's actually it's from the BBC,
but it was done by McGill University in Canada. I
know of it, and the researchers there they did some
experiments to determine what's going on because they kept hearing
people say, we don't like we don't like negative stories, right,

(01:34:38):
so they studied these volunteers came out. They studied eye
tracking and some other things to kind of find out
where people were on stories. And so I don't have
time to go into the whole thing, but what they
discovered was that they asked these people, people involved in
the survey, they said do you prefer good news? And

(01:34:59):
on average, the people said yes, I prefer good news.
I want good news. But when they did the study,
the people responded more to bad news, the same people
that said they want good news. And in the coding
of their research it's they they responded their their reaction,

(01:35:21):
they gravitated towards the negative news. That's believable and probably true,
but is different than what we're talking about. People gravitate
talking to you, Coop. You just turn your mic on
without saying who you are. There are people that don't
know who you are that listening. Everybody knows. No one
knows who you are. You got to say your name.
The new people. I know, we only have like seven
people that usually call the show, but we like to

(01:35:42):
think there's new people that driving on some country road.
That's weird. I've been cracking my mic without saying my
name for five years on this. It's always bothered always,
It's always bothered me anyway. Yeah, there's people gravitate towards
negative stories, Danny. They don't like negative people. Just wanted
to try it again. You're wrong. I'm a very positive person. God,

(01:36:08):
I hate my job. I'm surrounded I go on Boston Radio,
I get so much more support. I'm surrounded by some
of the worst people. Not like how I all ball
wash you there. You don't like it, really, I actually
do like it a lot. It's so much easier to
do my job on fawning over you no, because they
actually do it the way you're supposed to radio. You guys,
I'm fighting you just you just said that people like

(01:36:31):
to listen to negativity, so why would we be all
positive and blowing shine up? It is one on three
every night. When I do this is I am literally
fighting the people I work with do the radio show. God,
he's unbelievably get out, violent, dramatic. The great thing about

(01:36:51):
none of you prepare for the show. Cooper Loop sleeps
in the parking lot before the show. I come in
here to me. I Danny shows up five minutes before
the show. He same time. Yeah, I was in the
parking lot talking to Tom Looney for twenty minutes. I've
been here. Here's my lot in life. I do a

(01:37:13):
radio I prepare all day for the radio show. I
get guys that come in five minutes before the show
and give me a hard time and try to bust
my balls during the show. It's fascinating the dynamic that
takes place here. It's just absolutely good show. So anyway,
there was a study by McGill University was a negativity
bias thing and they determined through that people like Cooper

(01:37:35):
Looper frauds and Adi Garcia are frauds. Right, that's very positive, yes, exactly.
So anyway, take your phone calls because I'd rather talk
to you eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
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the last time Coop said, Hey, well I want to
talk about this tonight. Or Hey, here's some sound I
heard this on the internet. Why don't we play that

(01:37:56):
on the show. It's never happened that, never has it
happened before. Anyway, we'll take your phone calls the whole thing.
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(01:38:38):
Ali from the Guico Fox sports radio studios. It's Ben
Maller Well a cup of joe. Yesterday the Tigers, who
are terrible at baseball, they actually won a game, which
doesn't happen very often. They played the Orioles and someone
named Dixon Machado. No idea who that is, but he

(01:38:58):
hit a walk off home run in the bottom of
the ninth inning. And guess who didn't go out and
celebrate with his Tiger teammates. Mcguel Cabrera was nowhere to
be found. He did not decide to go out. I
didn't want to celebrate with his teammates there. So they said,
what the hell's going on? Are are you being a malcontent?
How dare you're You're the highest paid player the only
one that anyone's ever heard of on the Tigers? Where

(01:39:20):
were you? And Cabrera, because he's like the old dude,
he announced that it was cold in Detroit, and so
he decided to go into the clubhouse to have a
cup of coffee because he was getting chilly. And while
he was in the clubhouse having a cup of coffee,
the game ended. But he did say he jumped up
and down in the clubhouse, but he didn't want to

(01:39:41):
run down. It's a big big to do to get
down on the field. Doesn't he have people to get
his coffee he's a big star or likes to brew
his own coffee? What other did they drink coffee like
on the sidelines in the NFL and in basketball? Is it?
Is it only in baseball you can sit back and
have a cup of joe and relax during a game?

(01:40:02):
I would say most likely, yeah, I would have to
be well, maybe halftime of a football game. I could
see guys doing in a really cool game, But during
a game, I don't really see that happening. Like in
the NBA's Lebron's sipping a cup of coffee on the
bench while he's doing this thing. Then who was you
will know this? Who was the baseball player who would
have like seven cups of coffee before? Was that Turk Windell?

(01:40:25):
Is that? Who was? You know? Who was? I think
it was Troy Perceval? True Perceval? Is that right? Coop?
You remember that he would have like, no, all right,
maybe everyone I thought it was Tyson might be right,
but true I thought Turk Wendell did the liquorice. Yeah,
he was an odd guy. I thought he had a
lot of coffee. Maybe not. Maybe you're right, Maybe you're right.
I don't know anyway. So the Ben Maller Show on

(01:40:45):
Fox to the Phones we go. Blind Scott is in
Boston on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Blind Scott, Hey, what's up.
I got a message for Tom Kelly if he's listening.
And I think he used to manage the Twins. Man.
This guy was an idiot. Players used to not even
want to play from The Twins could have had the
best player in baseball, David Ortiz. Man. What a change

(01:41:08):
of events that would have been if the Twins had
David Ortiz and the Red Sox never got him. The
Twins might have had all those championships, but they don't
have them, you know, And we got them all here,
and that's why the Twins are such trash, and the
calls from Minnesota trash and stuff. But hey, you know,
I hate it when the peasants revolt over here too.
I was just upstairs having a smoke and I came
back down and Kramer was laying on the couch. I

(01:41:29):
don't like that, you know, he lays on the ground
on the subway. The other day he was in my bed.
I'm waiting for Sally to come over to do my
laundrying everything, clean up my bed and stuff, you know,
because I just can't have this stuff. I took him
to getting shots today. We were on the subway and
the subway change directions and then I went to get
off and had me on the wrong side of the platform,
so I didn't know what to do, so I actually

(01:41:50):
stood was out on the street, so I stood in
the middle of the subway track, so the subway couldn't leave,
so they had to get out of the subway and
walked me around on the other side. You know, I'm
I'm pretty important. I'm a pretty important Yeah. Yeah, I'm
all about this being blind thing. I you know, if
somebody's gonna have a problem with me, then that's the
end of the world. Is there anybody that I can
tune up on hold right now that wants a h Yeah,

(01:42:12):
hold on, I say they you see uh? Line one?
Are you there? Line one? However? All right, angry Bill,
you want to talk to blind Scott? Angry Bill? Hey, Hey,
hey Bill, how those Yankees doing? Man? Oh man? They
think you're stuck down in Jacksonville. A Yankees fan, A
loser with no life that sits on hold all night
while my Red Sox are fifteen and two. Well, I'm

(01:42:34):
making twelve grand in the stock market this year. This week.
You know, nobody listens to blind Scott. I could do
this show. Let's talking about David Ortiz. You guys traded
with Babe Ruth, you moron, blind, stupid ass. Oh yeah,
well that's when we had all the racists. Like, that's
when your time, when everybody was racist. They didn't know
what was going on. You know, I mean Tennison the

(01:42:54):
Yankees one because you traded Babe Ruth, you stupid blind thing.
Go to your mother and go to the storm by
yourself up pampers. Yeah, that was a bag. That was
last time you could get it up when Babe Ruth
played for the Red Sox. You know. Hey, But anyways, Bill,
I don't know what we're gonna do about these Yankees
this year. They just don't caught it. They just didn't
sign the right players in the off season. You know,

(01:43:15):
next time Ben goes on vacation, I'm gonna do the
show because I know the whole format of it. I
can handle it, and I'll tell you the floor. I'll
teach him here we go, Here we go. He's out
of he's out of all right. I thank you, you know.
I don't know anyone I've ever talked to the at

(01:43:37):
least publicly announced their more into bestiality than Angry Bill.
He's he's all about it. It's very open about it
to most people would be if they are into that,
would be very quiet about it. I don't want to know,
but not my man, Angry Bill. It's loud and proud,
loud and proud, all right. Ben Mather's show on Fox

(01:43:59):
on Fox. Very rarely does breaking NFL news happen at
an airport, but we actually had breaking NFL news in
an airs Usually not good news either. Yeah, we'll get
to that coming up here in a minute right now though,
Eddie Garcia I'm also have asked Ben in a few minutes.
Right now, Eddie is here and he will give you
the latest, Eddie. In the NBA Playoffs, the Cavaliers beat
the Pacers one hundred ninety seven. Cleveland star Lebron James

(01:44:21):
scored the teams for sixteen points and route to a
forty six point night, helping the team to even that series.
At a game of piece Jazz over the Thunder in
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City Stars Russell Westbrook, Paul Georgie and Carmelo Anthy combined
went over fourteen shooting in the fourth quarter. That series
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(01:44:42):
to eighty two. Paul excuse me, Chris Paul with twenty
seven points for Houston as they have a two of
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All face Vegas in Round number two. Penguins shut out
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(01:45:26):
in most of the nineties, But I didn't watch it,
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would you know who I was talking about? Vaguely? All right? Well,
season nine, Elaine's boyfriend was David Putty. He was a
big New Jersey Devils fan, and they went to a
hockey game and he painted his face red. It was
a very famous episode. Well, last night, Putty, also known

(01:45:50):
as actor Patrick Warburton, was at the Lightning Devil's game
in full face paints and everything. Only twenty three years
after the episode. But the Devil's haven't been the plounce
in a while. But he was back in action at
the Devil's game and they lost to Tampa Bay. But
if you're a Seinfeld fan, that was something that was
interesting or amusing perhaps all so, there's no one else,

(01:46:13):
no one else in Newark, New Jersey, who's they could
find in that guy in the last twenty years. Well,
let's see the guy from the Sopranos passed away. He
was probably the biggest New Jersey James Gande sucks. They
were how set with those people for two reasons. They
liked the guy, but they were gonna make a Seinfeld movie.

(01:46:34):
They or not Seinfeld Sopranos movie. They're gonna make. That
was like in the works. Can't make it because you
know I'm making some can't. Yeah, that's that's a tough one.
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So today in Jacksonville, with much fanfare, the Jags are
going to announce their new uniforms. Big news, right, NFL
team uniform changes, new helmet, the whole, the whole, she bank. Well,
there's a problem. The problem is if you went to

(01:47:19):
the airport in Jacksonville yesterday, the crew at the airport
was putting up a new advertisement and it had a
picture was a big picture of several prominent Jacksonville players,
including Jalen Ramsey, Leonard fournette Kalaias Campbell, who happened to
be wearing just by coincidence, the new uniforms that have

(01:47:42):
yet to be revealed officially by the team. Yeah, the
workers at the airport apparently either there's two one of
two possibilities, right, the Jacksonville football team screwed up and
they put this ad up and they put the wrong date,
or the people at the airport screwed up and they
put this up before they were supposed to be either way,

(01:48:03):
like the uniforms all over the place. But I think
I've seen these photos of these uniforms before, like this
leaked on the internet a couple of weeks ago. I
saw the Tennessee Titans uniforms before they were announced. So
you can see the photo. Well, the NFL was launching
an investigation into that, if you remember the Titans. Are
they going to investigate the construction crew at the Jacksonville
airports got to come on and my there's one word

(01:48:26):
to describe. And I'm very good at fashion when it
comes to fashion and whatnot. In the NFL. We all are.
I mean, yeah, I can see us. We were dressed
right now. Well, I know what's in vogue. I know
the prevailing taste and all that and what comes in style.
And I've done the catwalk thing before, done all that
many many years in the modeling industry before I said it,

(01:48:47):
get in radio. And these are the word for these
uniforms is bland. Bland kind of which is what are they?
Did you see a picture of this I saw in
the airport. What the hell to me? It's all about
what do the helmets look like? I think I'll get
that helmet. I don't see that. I actually, you know
I do, and just a little part of the helmet that. Yeah,

(01:49:09):
they're gett rid of that. It's gonna be an all
black helmet. They have three different uniforms. They have the
traditional all black. They have the teal uniform highlight that's
my favorite. I'm a proteal guy. And then they have
the all white racist, which they will not be wearing
because that's white privilege, So they will not be wearing that,
but they will be one of the other uniforms. H

(01:49:31):
So those are the three uniforms that they have. Yeah,
so it's pretty good though, And there's odd this this guy.
If you see the photo going around not not hard
to find there's this guy who looks like weed Man
Hippie's uncle. He's wearing blue jeans, a red shirt. He
kind of looks like a mix between weed Man Hippie

(01:49:51):
and Charles Manson, the late Charles Manson. And it looks
like his legs have vanished in the photo. There's like
this optical illusions odd, very odd in the in the
photo there he's wearing a Harley Davidson. Yeah. Yeah, he's
got the sunglasses, he's got the full full beard. Who's
the cartoon character that he looks like. There's also a
cartoon character that he looks like, Yosebody Sam No caveman

(01:50:15):
captain kid, Yeah, something like that. It's like kind of
a caveman biker caveman looked to him. Hard to believe
that guy would be in Jacksonville. Yeah, you don't see
that usually in jackson Let's say he's flew in from
somewhere else. That's why he's he's not like a local
Duval County guy. He flew in from somewhere Else's dude. Yeah,

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real quick, Matt in Pittsburgh, we're gonna have asked Ben.
Your questions are answers. Hello, Matt, Hey Ben, it's Matt
from Pittsburgh. Are you talking to me? Yes, Pete, how
you doing, buddy? Yeah, you keep bringing his name up.
That's nice to you to give him a free shout
out every now and again. But you know it's Matt.
I know, you know. Come on, I'm honored because we
talked like twenty years ago, Pete, and the fact that
you're coming back, but you don't want to admit your

(01:50:57):
coming back. Yeah, I'm flattered. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you
are two top of my name. I appreciate that. Matt
in Pittsburgh. Yes, par your barrier. Bill. What are we
calling you now? Bill? Bill? Bill Miller, Yeah, Bill Miller.
After you know your little bromance. You look up to
Bill Belichick. I'm sure, well actually looks up to me.

(01:51:17):
I'm taller than him, so he actually looks up to him. Oh,
I see, I don't know what you look like. You
said you're one tenth, so you can't be that tall.
So you're lying about your way to you're lying to me.
I'm honest with you all the time. Now, I'm very
I'm very Yeah, it's hard to find out what I
look like. I don't put any pictures on the Internet.
There's no way you can find out what I look like.
Why would I look at you on the internet when
there's all these other things that you look at the

(01:51:37):
Come on, you looking at me on the internet. Yes,
I'm stocking you right now. How good I looking today, Buddy?
I got my hordernized football jacket. Aren't still fit? Talk
about that? You're a big pig. You got to lose
some weight. Hunt there you? Yeah, it's about two twenty five. Brother. Yeah,
I'm moving. Don't you worry. I'm kind of grass for
living again, So don't you worry. I find I find
you in rehab. You're not supposed to cut grass when
you're in rehab. I'm in recovery. Brother. I was and

(01:52:00):
Rea thirty four days. I made them keep me there
for free. I know what I'm doing. Well, you awarded
the state when you were in that sitution. Yeah, well
I got that good state insurance because of Fortunately I
don't play much income, if you know what I mean.
I get ye. Hey, hey, Pete, we have advertisers or
whatever whatever you want me to call you. Can you
can you pretend like you actually have money? Can you

(01:52:21):
pretend like you because we have advertisers that actually spend
money on commercials. Can you pretend like you actually have
money to buy the products they advertise? Can you pretend
that yeah, Oh I'm sorry, Yeah, I do have money.
I didn't bury it in my yard. I have a
pool in my backyard. Oh you're a fool. You have
no money, but you have a pool. You're interested? Yes, yeah,
it's green. I inherited the house. I found my father
dead back in two thousand and seven. Hound, I'm dead,

(01:52:43):
so I hired. How the parents were the more exact day?
Were sad about that? Or my condolences? Eleven years later?
My condolence? Thank you? Well, you know what's weird about that, Pete?
You keep mentioning it. His father my father were good friends,
and the insurances. That's how we know each other. I've
known him since he's eight years old. I'm sure. I'm
sure you guys know each other very well, very very well.

(01:53:04):
In fact, you can almost say you're the same person.
You you say, we're the same person. I know who
I am, and Pete knows who he is. Trust Pete
knows and his club members they know who I am too. Guy.
How come we're tracing the phone call, and it's Pete's number.
How about that? Because you're full crap because I know
my number and I know pete number. Right here, your
number came up as Pete's number. He saved it wrong.

(01:53:26):
That's why you saved it as Pete's number, because you
think I'm Pete, but I'm not. I know Pete's number.
You know Pete. I don't know to talk about Pete.
I thought we weren't talking about Pete. Why are we
talking about Pete? I didn't bring up I brought up Pete.
Your name is Pete. I brought up your name. Your
name says Pete here, your name is Pete. Well, you
guys can tell your goons that they don't know how
to program things correctly. Who's up at? Who's on first?

(01:53:46):
What's on what's on third? I don't know second base? Good?
That's gracious, Thank you man. So Ben Mallows showing Fox.
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(01:54:32):
ask Ben your questions and our answers and the reading
of the questions the coop. The This question comes from
James on Facebook. Ben, When do chicken fingers cease to
be an appetizer and become a meal? Well, it depends
on the thickness the quality of the chicken finger. All right,

(01:54:53):
and now I always might go to is the chicken
finger as them? So the questions when does it become? That?
Was that what you were asking? When does it go
cease to be an appetizer and become It's got to
have a basket of French fries. That's a given. If
you're a restaurant and you serve chicken fingers without French fries,
you're fraudulence. Okay, you should be. The Health Department should

(01:55:16):
come shut down your restaurant for it's ridiculous. So it's
got to have a proper basket of French fries, good honey, mustard,
and barbecue sauce, no ranch, no ranch on the side,
but I always might go to is in Kansas City
at the landing the Ben Mallard chicken fingers, so I
it's always as as long as you have the French

(01:55:36):
fries a right next. All right, This is from Scott Haynes,
also on Facebook. Scott, Ben, you mentioned your two bad
Hawaiian meals. What are the other? What is another top
worst meal of all time for you? That's a good question.
Now I've had the two meals in Hawaii are like
right at the top. But if my other terrible meals
I've had in my life. In New York City it

(01:55:59):
was my brother and there was an Italian restaurant, you
think New York Italian food. My god, I think they
poisoned the fetteccini alfredo, which I didn't even get chicken,
which I don't know how something in the sauce. I
ended up a very ill and spent a good amount
of time in my hotel room on the throne. So yeah.

(01:56:26):
Also had bad fetichini alfredo at a place in Glendale,
and I was told by our friend, I think one
of the guys in Kansas City that they there's a
way if you cook the Alfredo sauce just the wrong way,
it has this kind of burnt, nasty taste to it. Yeah,
I don't know. All right. Next, this is for the
whole crew. Now, I believe this question has been asked before,

(01:56:46):
but I don't think it ever made it on air.
This is from Jose on Facebook, Hia Jose for the
whole crew, what are your thoughts on going number one
in the shower? I'm all for it. I fully support it.
If you have a good flow of water, there's nothing
wrong with it. It's to me, it's no different than
in the urinal all for it. I'm definitely against it.

(01:57:08):
There's a place for that. It's called the toilet. I
don't pee in the sink. I don't be in the
shower or the tub. You wash it down. You have
a notes there. Everyone everyone's pee in the shower at
one point or another. Everyone's done it. Danny. Yeah, I
don't know if I have a strong position for against it.
But I go to the bathroom prior to jump in
into the shower, so well, it's not it's not that's

(01:57:29):
the room to be. Maybe clarify It's not like I
look forward to doing it. Like, no, But if I
happen to need to do it at that time, I'm
not gonna get out of the shower and be like, oh,
I can't do it here. This is a holy place. No,
it's a damp shower. Cool. See I just did this
for the very first time, like maybe about three weeks,

(01:57:50):
waiting for a special moment I'm liberating. Well, I mean
it is kind of it was. It was. It was
like a little bit of a rush, like being outdoors
when you're camping. I've been of a rush. I had
read an article that if you actually, if you do
that like a you know, at least a couple of
times a week, you saved some ridiculous amount of water
over the course of a year. You see that. So

(01:58:12):
it's actually like you're encouraged to do this. I've done
this off and on. I'm gonna try this tomorrow. Yeah,
it's very wasteful what you do, Danny, right before you
get in the shower. Hey, we're in a drought all
the time. You're not worried about water. I am. I'm
a better person, all right. Next, All right, now this
is for the whole crew. Is from Bill on Facebook.

(01:58:34):
What's your favorite color of shirt to wear, whatever's clean,
but I don't. I go in there usually though I
try to take like a ten fifteen minute nap before
I leave to go to work, and I just go
in there and the first thing I grab. I don't know.
Sometimes I even know what I'm wearing when I leave
the house, but it doesn't really matter. I don't care.
I guess blue, I guess, but I don't really care.

(01:58:54):
What about you. My wife gives me a hard time
because I have no color in my wardrobe. It's always
black or gray. So that there's your answer, man black,
man in black, and and same answer for me, silver
and black, lots of dark colors. I envision your your
your closet being nothing but one side Lakers, one side Raiders,
the Dodgers, the Dodgers. All right, Coop, I'm the same.

(01:59:17):
I'd say about ninety percent of my shirts are black. Yeah,
I have some different colors, but I don't know. It's slimming,
is it? The man in black? Yeah? All right? Very good.
Well there it is asked Ben, your questions and our answers.
We do it every week at about this time. Some
good questions this week. I don't know how that happened,
but thank you pushing the envelope. Welcome in the beginning

(01:59:42):
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(02:00:06):
rate quote. I don't know if you realize this, but
we are a week away from the twenty eighteen NFL Draft.
Week from today, they will pick names at Jerry's World
and we will be on our way for a weekend
of NFL draft conversation. It's prime time for scandalous football gossip.

(02:00:33):
It never disappoints. Over the next week, you are going
to be all of your senses are going to be
overwhelmed with made up fairy tales and folklore of NFL
Draft trade conversation. I predict in the next week you'll
hear rumors of the Patriots working on a trade to

(02:00:54):
send Rob Gronkowski to the Rams of the Lions. Somewhere
along those lines, you'll hear wild speculation popping up again
about Odell Beckham and the Giants, Maybe there's a maybe
there's a mystery team involved in trade talks for Odell
Beckham and some other surprising names will pop up between

(02:01:15):
now in the NFL Draft. It always does, and the
same thing will happen this year as in years past.
Ninety nine percent of those trade rumors will not happen,
but one hundred percent of those trade rumors are fun
to talk about on the radio. Now, one of the
stories that popped up here, if you've not been paying
attention to the NFL gossip, involves Sequon Barkley. He's a

(02:01:39):
running back out a Penn State, and if you've not
been paying attention, you might have missed it. But the
word is that Sequon Barkley and his representation shout out
rock Nation. They want him to play in New York,
the big city, right, bright lights, big city and all that,
instead of that dump in Cleveland, which is not a surprise.

(02:02:00):
That part of the story is not a surprise. I
think anyone with half a brain would say, and we'd
all agree that's absolutely true. Any agent who's looking to
monetize an athlete would prefer that athlete is in the
New York market, even though the giants play New Jersey
just across the river then in Cleveland. Right, it's how
they are going about that which is the interesting part

(02:02:24):
of the store. It's raising some eyebrows, all right, So
let me walk you through this. Now we're told that
Sequon Barkley's agent has quote implored him to pull what's
known in the industry as the Eli Manning as we
call him Elijah, and demand demand that the Browns not drafted.

(02:02:47):
Now they believe the powers that be that Sequan can
become the face of the league in New York, according
to the story. So let's discuss. Now, Barkley's agent is
denying his manager, saying no, no, no, saying that's not
the truth. The truth why we've not advised the Browns
not to draft him. At least that's his public position.

(02:03:07):
But remember agents, by definition are equal parts liars and weasels.
So just because Sequon Barkley's agent says, hey, I've never
said that, that's his public position. Remember, these guys have
public and private positions, like slimy politicians. For the purposes
of this Mallard monologue, let's go with theory that that

(02:03:30):
initial report is true. Now, I believe it's true. I
think it makes a lot of sense that that's what
he would do. But the question is this, do you
support any athlete in this case, Sequon Barkley's strong arming
his way to a particular team, in this case the Giants.
Now I say no, absolutely no, I do not support

(02:03:53):
this activity. My observations, you've got cream, the evil Plan,
and fatalist, and we'll fasten all these things together. Now
we'll begin with the fact that this is a troubling
sign for those that think Sequon Barkley is a rising start.
He's gonna be on the top of the NFL mountain.
You don't get to pick who you play for. Now

(02:04:16):
we can sit here and debate the NFL draft. All
of these drafts. I think they're pretty silly at this point.
I've I've grown tired of them teams tanking to get
the number one pick. It doesn't happen as much in
the NFL, although I would argue the Cleveland Browns have
certainly been going down that road for several years, trying
to get the top pick in the draft, and they've
succeeded the last couple of years. But as long as

(02:04:37):
you have the draft process or process. It's not something
where the employee gets to pick the player. Now, the
draft started in the NFL draft starting because the Philadelphia
Eagles were so bad, How bad were the owner was
so frustrated. I think it was it Burt Bell, I
think is the name the old school NFL. He was

(02:04:57):
so upset with how bad and incompetent the Eagles were.
They finished in last place year after year. And all
of the top college players would go to the good
teams because why wouldn't you, right, if you're a good
college play, well, now you'd go to whever. But back
then they just go to the good teams. And so
they said, well, wait a minute, why don't we do
a draft to help out the bottom the bad teams?
And the NFL Draft was born, So we can get

(02:05:20):
this whole debate about that and all. That's a brief
history of the draft. But if you don't like the
NFL draft and you happen to be a football player,
then the way you can go about it is just
take your name out, go get a real job, right,
go go do something else right. And by the way,
if you're really God's gift to football, location shouldn't matter.

(02:05:44):
It shouldn't matter. Are there more marketing opportunities if you
play for a New York team? Of course, Madison Avenue
is in New York City. If Sequon Barkley, though, turns
the NFL on its side in a good way and
happens to be wearing that horrifically ugly Cleveland Brown uniform,
is he gonna get endorsements apps? Of course? Last I checked,

(02:06:06):
Lebron James for most of his career has played in Cleveland.
It's different in the NBA. It's different plays in Cleveland.
That no shortage of opportunities. And if Sequon Barkley is
that level of a talent in the NFL, then guess
what the same opportunities will be there for Sequon Barkley.
Has the Brown's locker room been compared by some radio

(02:06:26):
talk shows as the Bermuda Triangle. Absolutely, absolutely that's the case.
But again I keep going back to this, if Barkley
is the real McCoy, and I don't mean shady McCoy,
he's got that come by, all these draft scouting reports
are sloppering all over Sequon Barkley. I've been trying to

(02:06:47):
study up for the NFL Draft and it's one after another.
You could do this. He's got the speed and balance
and power coordination. Like he's like god. He's a god,
Sequon Barkley, So the cream should rise to the top. Right,
If that's the case, If all of that's accurate, We'll
point out that many of those same things were said

(02:07:10):
by running back out of Alabama a couple of years
ago named Trent Richardson. He did star. He was part
of a triple threat offense, but it was not with
the Indianapolis Colts or the Cleveland Browns. Now. In addition,
it is not and I say this with all sincerity,
not surprising, the agent denied the evil plan. I don't

(02:07:31):
believe him. Now, what is my evidence here? What is
my evidence to back up my doubt for this agent? Now,
Barkley was born in the Bronx. That doesn't mean he's
got New York bloodlines. That's fine. His father's a Jets fan.
I'm guessing his dad will give up on the Jets. Here.

(02:07:52):
Sequan ends up with the Giants. But the most damaging
piece of anecdotal evidence that I have for you is
Sequon Barkley photographed wearing a brand new Giants hoodie he
went to the barbershop and he had the New York
Giant emblem on a hoodie. Could he make it any

(02:08:15):
more obvious? It was like a photo op. It's like
a photo op. As I know, this will be on
the tabloids, will be all over us. The side show
is real, The sideshows real. Now, the last observation for
many many years here, if you've been with me a
long time on the radio, through all these years and
all the gas baggery that we've taken part in on

(02:08:37):
Fox Sports Radio, I have crucified Elijah Manning for his
silly power play to avoid the old San Diego charges.
I crowned him the punk called him that for many
many years with great success, and my position on that
kind of a power play has not changed. Now, do

(02:08:59):
I think that Sequon Barkley has enough juice? If the
Cleveland Browns say we want to take you with the
number one pick, He's gonna say, you know, no, no.
Last I checked, Barkley's dad is not part of the
royal family of the NFL. That's an advantage, a trump
card that Elijah Manning had. I can go to daddy,
and Daddy knows people, and you know that's the I

(02:09:21):
don't think Sequon Barkleys is in that that same rarefied air.
This is dad, isn't now? This this fatalist mindset. I've
said the same thing about the stories that Josh Rosen
didn't want to play for the Cleveland Browns, that mindset
that you know you're doomed if you go to the
wrong team. If I'm running one of these teos, I

(02:09:42):
would stay as far away as possible from people that
have what is a clear defeatist attitude. That's just that's terror,
it's pathetic. Do we sit here in poke fun at
the Browns. Of course, they've lost every game last year.
They deserve it. They deserve But if you're a play
and you think you're great and you're wonderful, why don't

(02:10:02):
you go You have the opportunity to change that. I
don't have the opportunity to change that. But if you
actually play for the team, you have the chance to
change that. Make them no longer the laughing stock of
the NFL. All right, So the Ben Maller Show on Fox.
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There you go, we say hello to Edmund Dallas steamboat
Willie Judas Garcia, who's rights over there hanging out. So

(02:10:47):
there was another story involving the Browns where apparently Jarvis
Landry you see this, the wide receiver just signed by
the team, trying to persuade his old LSU roomy Odell
becka junior to come to Cleveland, enjoined him. I thought
he gave up on that though. I thought he well
he was trying. He said he was done recruiting. Guess

(02:11:07):
it didn't go over very well. Shockingly, he claimed that
Beckham is going to be a giant. Hey, that's what
he said. Hard to believe he wouldn't want to go
to Cleveland. Who goes to Cleveland on vacation? Do you
know anyone that goes to I don't know anyone that
goes to Cleveland on vacation. I think yo, Kim Noah
does does he the gather? Does that? Is that his

(02:11:27):
whole vacation deal? Yeah? Well, good for him. Whatever happened
to him? Uh, he much liked the coaches that go
to the Knicks. He got a big contract with the Knicks,
and that that was the end of his career. That
was the absolute end of his Were they like suing
each other or the team was suing him, or he
was suing the team something like that. I don't recall that.

(02:11:48):
He might be right. So I have a proposal here
and now I saw this story, and I think that
we should bring this to America. I think we should
bring something from China to America. Did you see this story?
The Chinese traffic police are now letting offenders off. And
all you have to do in China if you if
you violated the traffic laws there, if you want to

(02:12:10):
get off the trouble, you have to post a confession online.
It's this not a great idea, right, and it has
to get enough likes. But if it gets enough likes,
you're done. You don't have to Isn't that wonderful? This
comes to us from the Star, a fine tabloid, right,
and the traffic police in southwestern China. As you know,

(02:12:32):
you look at your map at China there, Uh, they're
allowing minor offenses. Guys that commit minor offenses and girls
to avoid a fine as long as they confess and
they have to get twenty or more likes, that's nothing.
It's easy. We can do that, right, clear. We got
to bring this to America. That the people in China
are in this department, they're ahead of us. That's a

(02:12:54):
win for China. We got to bring that to America.
How can we do this? We've got to do this. Yes, yeah,
there's no chance it's going to happen. No, no, why not?
The taxation with representation, that's what we have here. That's
a good point. Fair enough, all right, So I like
the idea though, I think it's a wonderful as very nuance.

(02:13:16):
Somehow we can do it. I'm all for it. So
we like that in shine and remember what we like
in Europe. We want to bring to America from Europe.
That the three day weekend. Well, no, that's the holidays
all over the country. There they more vacation days. That's
very European international. But no is it relegation is all yeah, relegation,
we talked about that. We fully support relegation, getting rid

(02:13:38):
of the draft and having relegation, or just giving the
top teams the top pick how could the number one
pick goes to the Philadelphia Eagles. Here's the odd thing
about that, all right? I was thinking about this the
other day because we talked about on the show. Wouldn't
it kind of work out the same way? Like the

(02:13:59):
phil Enough Eagles don't need a quarterback, so they wouldn't
take a quarterback number one. They don't necessarily need a
running back either, so they would probably trade out right
like conceivably, so the top quarterbacks and running backs would
still end up with the crappy teams because the top
teams already have those positions filled. Does that make any sense?
Does that? Yes? All right, that's it. I'm done after

(02:14:23):
I got nothing else. But then you would have teams
like the Patriots, though, who still need you know, the
heir to to break you? So yeah, fine, So I mean,
I guess I still have to draft the right guy,
though they could draft you know who pick any of
these courts. I like Baker Mayfield. Does that mean Baker
Mayfield's gonna be good? He might say. You see that
story that he's going to the Jets to dun deal,

(02:14:45):
He's going to the Jets a week before the draft.
He's going to the Jets. You didn't see that. Oh yeah,
big story in NFL circles Baker Mayfield. He's gonna be
a Jet. He's gonna be a Jet. Eddie Man, we'll see. Yeah,
all right, I'm pulling for him. That is the curse

(02:15:05):
of the Ben Beano. My my record with quarterbacks on
the draft, I pick one every year. That's my My
quarterback hasn't gone so well. I want to I do
want to tip the microphone, though. Did you see Steve Kim?
You know who that is? How do you spell that
last name? K E? I am who? I don't know.

(02:15:27):
He's the general manager of the Arizona Card No wonder
I didn't know who he is. He's had some great
quotes over the years, has he Yes, he's been there
for a while. Uh yeah, he's been there for for
a good amount of time. Goods. Uh. One of my
favorite quotes which we use around this time of the year.
I'm sure I'll use it next week at some point. Yeah,
he said, Uh if what was? I want to get

(02:15:49):
the exact quote right? Oh see it, I'm having a mentable.
I had it now I forgot it, but it involves
um oh man, what was it was? The the guy
the famous movie character that eats people. You know, Hannibal Elector. Yeah, Hannibally. Yeah.
I said, if Hannibal Elector ran a fast enough forty,
they the NFL teams would diagnose him with an eating disorder.
And says, that's pretty good quote. That's a good quote. Ye.

(02:16:11):
So now time had the Cardinals had their predraft news conference,
and he got to the podium and he said, the
misinformation is flowing. He said, I don't expect the next
twenty minutes to be any different. Is that? That's how
he started his news just essentially announcing everything he's about
to say is completely bogus. That's how he started it. Yeah,
he's goods. He's upfront about it. Yeah, that's I liked that.

(02:16:34):
I thought that was funny. We'll have Eddie Garcia. He
will be here and he he heard him right there.
He'll have Puck the Eld. Now I have a hockey story.
Let's see if Eddie mentions the story that I want
to talk about in hockey. Will see if he gets
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(02:17:20):
Guy writes in from Salt Lake, Jeff, just check my
email and he says, well, how come you have not
talked You've talked about all of the NBA playoff games
played last night. You have not done a monologue on
the Jazz Thunder game, which is true. I have not
done that. Now, if I wanted to be a duche,
I could say we'll do that in an hour five Um,

(02:17:42):
But I know my thought. I was flipping around. I
didn't watch all of the Thunder Jazz game. The Jazz
won that game. My big two takeaways from that I
watching Carmelo Anthony take ill advised, reckless shots to me
is like comfort food. I can flash back in my

(02:18:02):
younger days watching him play for the Denver Nuggets and
doing that or with the Knicks. I mean, it's it's wonderful, right,
you can change the laundry, but the medley of mistakes
are still there. Carmelo was terrible. I also tweeted out
the fact that the Big Three at the time, the
thunder Goot Carmelo, Anthony and Paul George. They were like, hey,

(02:18:23):
I think it was Carmelo who compared them to the
Heatles with Lebron and Chris Bosh and Wade and and
all that. So my other takeaway was that those guys,
I know, it's one game, small sample size, but collectively
the Big Three, if you will, shot a robust thirty

(02:18:44):
two percent against the Jazz. The rest of Oklahoma City
shot fifty three percent. So that was interesting. And the
other thing about the Jazz is like they're not the
most talented team, which is a polite way of saying
they're very untalented, but they they're like Celtic, Like I
guess is the way like the Celtics. The brand of
basketball the Celtics are played in recent years where they

(02:19:05):
play team ball, and there's a talent shortage for the Jazz,
but they have that whole cliche of out working and
out hustling teams that approach. But there's a limit to that, right.
The NBA is a league design not where that wins.
You have to have firepower, you have to have artillery,
and they don't have that much of it. Donovan Mitchell

(02:19:27):
was very good in the game late in the game
last night. But you can push and shove and do
all that stuff, but if you don't have superstars, it's
not gonna matter an end. That doesn't mean they can't
beat Oklahoma City because Oklahoma City's yeah, they got a
high dope percentage in Oklahoma City. Of course, the way
they play anyway, All right, Eddie Garcias here is gonna

(02:19:47):
give you puck the world right now here we go.
Let's go around the NHL. Here we go, let's do it, Edie.
Hockey playoff action. Great job by the Ducks, by the way, wonderful.
Well that warmed my heart a little bit as a
King fan. But I gotta say the Stanley Cup Playoffs
officer my favorite time of the year. But so far,
the early story in the Stanley Cup Playoffs is lack

(02:20:08):
of competitiveness. We've seen two series go to the sweep
Vegas sweeping LA four zero, and last night Santos wrapped
up afore nothing sweep of the Anaheim Ducks. We've had
Nashville and Colorado. That's three one in favor of the Predators,
Winnipeg Minnesota, three one in favor of the Jets, Tampa
Bay leaves New Jersey three one, Pittsburgh Philadelphia three one.

(02:20:29):
The other two series that will be going on later
tonight Boston Toronto that's two one in davor the Bruins
and they aren't. You supposed to say, well, that means
it's like the NCAA tournt of. That means later we'll
get better serious because all the top teams are winning well.
That means that we've seen usually the first round of
the Stanley Cup Playoffs is very good in the competitive
and compelling and not so competitive. So far, the best
series has been washed in Columbus. The Blue Jackets leave

(02:20:51):
that series right now two games to one, but all
three games have been decided in overtime. So that's been
the one series that's been really good. The rest of
them have been Okay, did you see Eddie? This is
gonna be the eighth time in NHL history, the second
time in the last twenty two years, that two teams
are gonna meet after they swept their previous round of

(02:21:11):
the playoffs. I did not see them. Yes, the Lightning
Sharks in the Golden Knights. That it's only happened twice
in the last twenty two years. Both those teams writing
very hot goaltenders right now. Mark Andre Flurry allowed three
goals in the four game series against La Martin Jones
or Santos. Four goals in four games against the Anaheim Ducks.

(02:21:33):
So goals maybe at a premium. Ye see your La Kings.
Did you see what they They had a message the Ducks.
Did you see what they said? Go to hell? No,
this was very polite of the Kings. They said, hey, hey,
Anaheim Ducks, we'll see you this weekend at Cochella. They
would have seen me at Cochella, but my tickets somehow
got lost in the mail. Eddie, I don't know how that.

(02:21:54):
Sorry to hear that. Yeah, Ben, we told you if
you paid attention, uh, that we went the entire regular
season of the NHL not one coaching change, which is shocking.
But on the last day of the regular season, after
the Rangers played, they let go of head coach a
Lane Vigno good then the Dallas Stars his name anyway, Yeah,
Dallas Stars head coach Ken Hitchcock retired this week. He

(02:22:16):
was coaching so long, Eddie, how long was he coaching?
When I covered the Mighty Ducks I interviewed Ken Hitchcock.
That's how long that guy was coaching in the NHL.
He just retired. And Glenn Gulletson of the kelgarn Flames
just got fired this week as well, So a couple
of openings there. The Vezina Trophy goes to the best

(02:22:37):
goaltender in the NHL. The finalists were named Pek Arena
of Nashville, Connor Hellabuck Winnipeg, and Andre Vassilevski Andrea Tampa
day Lightning. It was your finalists. When he bes in
the trophy, the music ran out. I know, I think
that's ever happened before. What was your NHL story? You
wanted to share them? I threw two of them in.
I mean, I'm dressing up, you're working, No, but this

(02:22:59):
is uh a se know in Vegas. Now, this is
how confident the casino is that Vegas, the Vegas Golden
Knights aren't gonna win. The station's casino is giving away
a free wager, free wager to one hundred and fifty
thousand of their loyalty members on the Golden Knights to

(02:23:20):
win the Stanley Cup. You can bet anywhere between five
and two hundred and fifty dollars. This is with house money, Eddie.
The bet will pay out well, gee, I guess I'll
bet max fort Well, I guess it depends how much
you gamble. That's your loyalty program. I would assume I
don't know if that for sure, but the bet would
pay out four to one. All right, redemption for the
bet in person on April twenty third. You have to

(02:23:44):
be there in the casino. But this is comin it.
This is obviously they they're relatively calm. They're not giving out.
This was before the playoffs started, right, I'm not sure
about because a small samples says, I don't care. They
were Domino samples. They were. They look really good right now,
if an expansion team wins the Stanley Cup, there will

(02:24:08):
be bedlam at the league meetings. You can't have an
expansion team win the Stanley Cup. Yeah, And if you're
the commissioner, you say, did your check cash for number
of million dollars. The way the way it works, your
expansion team, you're a doormat. Remember they're gonna do it
again in two years of Seattle. They've already announced it.
Recall when Scottie Farrell was the play by play guy

(02:24:29):
the Atlanta Thrashers. How horrible, how horrible the Atlanta Thrashers were,
Remember that terrible? All the recent expansion tea so terrible,
the Docs, Tampa Bay, Ottawa. They left Atlanta after how
many years were they in Atlanta? Only a couple of
years ago? No, they're actually there for ten years. Really,
they lasted ten years in Atlanta. Yeah, the NHL really
wanted to succeed there and it just wasn't gonna happen. Yeah,

(02:24:51):
I got you all right show on Fox on Fox,
And if you would like to be one of our
celebrity judges, we're gonna play fact or fiction. I see, Well,
you get some big name judges, big big name judges.
We'll get to all that and we'll do it here,
Mama Telly. Right now, Eddie Garcia's here, He'll give you
a little ladies. Well, Ben, let us go to the
NBA Playoffs where the Cavaliers beat the Pacers one hundred

(02:25:14):
ninety seven and Lebron James had a big game. They
needed it though, by getting that three point victory. Lebron
scored the team's for sixteen points finished with forty six
points to help even that series at a game apiece.
Jazz over the Thunder one O two to ninety five.
Utah's Rickie the Year candidate Donovan Mitchell had twenty eight
points to win for Oklahoma City. Their stars Russell Westbrook,
Paul Georgian and Carlo Anthony over fourteen shooting in the

(02:25:35):
fourth quarter. That series is tied at one. Rockets top
to Timberwolves one O two to eighty two. Chris Paul
twenty seven points for Houston from Minnesota. Carl Anthony Towns
had five points. Houston with a two series lead. We
mentioned it, but real quick again. NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs,
Sharks beat the Ducks two one. San Jose sweeps a
series four nothing, Penguins over the Flyers five nothing to
take a three one series lead, Lightning down the Devil's

(02:25:56):
three to one Tampa Bay with a three one series advantage,
and the Predators beat the Avalanche three two Nashville with
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back to the NBA. Remember Joel Mba to the Philadelphia
seventy six ers I've never heard of. After that Game

(02:26:18):
two loss, Remember he tweeted out that he was effing
sick and tired of being babied as he's trying to
come back from that concussion. Man of god, I don't
use that kind of language. Well, there were speculation that
that would somehow get him in the lineup sooner rather
than later. But there are reports at Philadelphia that he
is not going to play in Game three tomorrow against
the Heats. So that means if the Heat win, the

(02:26:40):
game will get the volcano and bead, which will send
hot lava all over social media. Well that'll be good. Yeah,
we look forward to that. Yeah we will. All right,
it's very good, Thank you for that. It is the
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The tweets never end. Here's a guy, Bill, Now, this
is like a parody account. This is this guy really
doesn't work at a TV station in Indianapolis. He's just

(02:27:23):
pretending to work at a TV station Indianapolis. Am I correct?
I think I am? He says been. Anybody can pick
and analyze the first top ten picks in the draft,
but a real pro like you surely has the insight
and opinions on the nine hundred ninety nine pick of
this year's NFL the Draft. Yes I do, Bill, Yes
I do. I will break down every pick in the

(02:27:43):
NFL Draft, all seventeen rounds of the NFL Draft. That's right.
This year, it's back to seventeen rounds like it used
to be back in the old days. I'm so excited
about that. I cannot wait. It's gonna be awesome. It's
gonna be amazing, amazing, amazing. All right, so u Ben
Maller's show. Oh and let's let's let's see you. Yes, Oh,
we have a golden ticket, all right, justin in since

(02:28:05):
Cinnati is cashing his golden ticket, he's got you got
a golden ticket. Yeah, what's going on? Justin? Nothing? Man,
I just want to how it feels to win a
Marconi in that third hour monologue. Oh yeah, that was
my gian Carlos Stanton Yankee fan the Great Divide monologue. Yes,
I mean it's basically on its way to your home. Well,

(02:28:29):
thank you appreciate that. And I will put that right
next to my Philly fanatic bobble head. I will put
it right next to that. We'll look nice, will look nice,
it will look nice. I just want to call it
and congratulate you. Well, thank you. I appreciate that tremendous
use of a golden ticket. You agree with you because
you're you're like, you're closer to my age, and you've
seen what's happened. You've seen the bs justin? Have you not? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

(02:28:53):
I got you. It's it's a generational dividing, you know
it is. Wait till twenty years for now, see how
bad it will be. Oh, it's gonna be insane, and
oh can you imagine if it's bad? Now? Just think
what it's gonna be like, and not even you don't
have to wait twenty years, like within the next ten years.
Man awful. Yeah, all right, there you go, very positive.

(02:29:13):
Thank you for that. Yes, more positivity at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Let's go to Jason in Ottawa.
He is next on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Jason, Hello Ben.
Before we get started, I just want to thank give
a shout out to Eddie Garcia. Thank you for accepting
my prem requests on Facebook. That's very graces of you, Eddie.
Thank you only for you, only for special people like you.

(02:29:34):
Oh well, I appreciate that. Well. I've got three amazing
prop bets to captivate the imagination and capture the soul
of MLB fans as we have Big Band's Big League
prop bets, the Scooter Edition Older who can get on?
All right, very exciting. We'll go here. What do we have?
First propt? All right, First, we're going to New York
where the surprising Blue Jays are flying either at the Yankees.

(02:29:55):
So what happens first? Here? Hey, Aaron Boone delivers a
lou Jerk inspired pre game speech, declaring himself the luckiest
man in the world. He gifted this managerial job. B
CC Sabathia continues to resemble Shrek so much that he
has tracked down and captured by New York's own Guardian
Angels or C. John Sterling has one too many Connolis

(02:30:16):
and has a true wow there. I like Sterling. I
don't think he's ever watched a Yankee game actually on
the field. He watches him on TV, So I don't
want to see him at a story I could see
like a New Shrek movie with CC Sabathia. So I'm
gonna go with the Sabathia Eddie. I'm going stroke Okay,

(02:30:38):
called mean negative. You see, Sabathia is a huge Raider fan,
So not gonna go there. Let's see. Um, I love
Connoli's Ben who doesn't like a Conoli? Yeah go, Connoli's
all right cool. I was screening the costs. I didn't Carrett,
but I also love Cannoli, So whatever that answer is,
I'm I'm I mean Connoli's are the best. Yeah, what's

(02:31:00):
your fir? You like those those shells? You like the
everything about it that's shaved, the statios on the end
that gotch Okay, we need to do it deep of
all the dramatic things of Evan. All right, so we
go to the Keystone Seward State that dump in Pennsylvania.
We're surprising pirates in Philly's game. What happens first in
this one? Hey, but Hurdle puts the sea of brother

(02:31:20):
you love on no this and rants about tradition and
not tearing your city apart when you win a championship.
See Arietta, Jake Arietta and Shirley mark A compare blood
samples to see whose testosterone level is more elevated, or
see Geno stakes and build a new sandwich called the
Big Ben Beef and Coop Cheese Steaks Sandwich. Well, see
you options, see come on, obviously that's the That's easy, Eddie.

(02:31:45):
I'm unfriending you, by the way for your comments about
fine city of Pittsburgh, but I'll go with the uh
whever you He's not even listening, all right, Danny Arietta,
Arietta Coop's board with this. He's checked out. He's all right,
last one and quickly colonels that cubs the rivalry that
sickens most people. We hate both these teams. What happens first, Aye,

(02:32:06):
that weasel Yadier Molina bitches and moments about Joe Madden's glasses,
reflecting his signs and helping the Cubs steel signs. B.
Anthony Rizzo renegotiates his contract and not only play less games,
but to include the brand new Sleep Number BED as
a signing bonus or c John Lester's tickoff attempt is
so eric that it hits Loyal Chicago's sister Jean in

(02:32:26):
the head and kills her. Wow. Um, I'll go with
to John Lester when Eddie, I'll see Molina and the glasses. Okay,
Danny going with sister Jean. Sister Jean, all right, Coop
b B all right, whatever B is They all Sleep
number shout out to our friends at Sleep number all right, Well,

(02:32:48):
thank you Jason, good job by you. There you go.
All right, our friend Jason and Ottawa. We will get
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Here we go. Let's go right now, right about now? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
please Frans bit obedience? Is it fact for fiction? Let's

(02:33:35):
face some raw fact on the Ben Maller Show. Back
to fiction. Three stories. You know the drill. You gotta
figure out which of the three is not true, separating
fiction from fact. Our celebrity judges have lined up the
best and the brightest from all over the United States
and beyond. We say, hello, who do we have? Oh?

(02:33:56):
The power couple, Leslie and Jack the judge. Good morning
to Leslie. Good morning then, great show as usual. Well,
thank you, Leslie. I appreciate that everything good in your world? Yes, yes,
all all our teams winning, We're so happy. I know
my life as well. My team's never lose, never lose,
not nor should they Exactly exactly does Jack still go

(02:34:18):
to the dog track? Yes, yes, I've heard. Yeah, I
was gonna bring that up. We have to talk more
about that next time. Yeah, I've never been to the
dog track. It's not they don't have dog tracks so
where I live. But I'd like to experience. I love dogs.
I'd like to see him race. Yeah. Who else do
we have? Dominican Mike, my guy, Dominican Mike. Hello, Dominican

(02:34:40):
Mike in the Valley of the Sun. What's up? Let's
play the game? All right? Hold on and we have
I don't know what he said, Kelly in Pacady to Hello,
Kelly an our friend, Kelly. You're chef Kelly. It's not
necessarily wrong, are you fine? Fine? All right, Well, these

(02:35:04):
guys will never turn down a home cooked meal from
Kelly me a mean dish of Italian food, right there? Absolutely?
All right? Uh, let's say hello who weed Man wants
to play? Hello weed Man? He's not there? Oh oh no,

(02:35:25):
See now I'm gonna get a series of angry tweeds.
I look forward to this every week. I want to
say hi to Leslie and you won't let me play.
You know that's gonna happen, right, He's gonna have a
temperate tension's gonna have a hissy fit, pouty face? Is
he am? I not? Danny gy Dive him punched up right, Yeah,
I have it up. Oh, let me try this. Are

(02:35:46):
you there? Weed Man? Not there? All right? Hey gone?
That makes room for Mike in Minnesota. Hello Mike, Welcome Mike.
What's going on in the Twin Cities this morning? Well? Wow,
not too much, it's not snowing. But I think I
can explore more points than mister Towns last night. Yeah,

(02:36:08):
well you have more offensive moves in your repertoire. Yeah
there you go, Yeah, there you go exactly, and you
would have hustled the entire game, right mine. Oh yeah, definitely, yeah,
and definitely you would have scored more than five points.
A hold on, Hold on, Mike, Doc. Mike is in Chicago,
Hello Doc, Yeah, the Billy Goat is back. The Cubs

(02:36:31):
are floating up and everything. They're canceling your games and
well what sounds hospital? Now? What sound does the Billy
Goat make? See? You want to if you want to drop,
you go to document because Billy Goat beer is the
beer four losers. By the way, did you check your

(02:36:53):
computer to see if there were some comments on the
goathead hanging? Uh? Yeah, I didn't see any. I didn't
see this yet. There's still a ton of stories of
the Highway Department is on the alert, the goat watch
that they pick up your program, you know, and they
look for where the gold is and go pick it up. Yeah,

(02:37:14):
all right, so next year you'll just call me and
we won't talk about it. And then all right, who
is that? Surely no, it's weed man who called back? Hello?
Weed Man? I don't know the man changes the world? Okay?
Factor fiction three stories Manny Pacquiao entering the financial industry.

(02:37:40):
The currency industry's on cryptocurrency called pack coin. You hear
about this. Pack Coin will be released the second quarter.
And we traded exclusively on something called the g cox
platforms that I've never heard of it. All right, Story
number two, it is all about the food in Seattle.
The Mariners are but the food at Safecoal Park is

(02:38:05):
un real. Now they brought back the toasted grasshoppers, and
they've added a new dimension, a new exotic dish fried spider.
Apparently it's a delicacy in Cambodia. And they put deep
fried spiders non poisonous, and they put put garlic all
over him. Oh boy, on anything deep fried taste to say,

(02:38:26):
they put sugar in the holy all right. Story number three,
Dwayne the Rock Johnson looking to dominate your booze cabinet.
That's right, he's got his own line of tequila's getting
into the tequila business. There the spirit world with Wayne
the Rock Johnson. Why not? All right? Those are the
three stories. Which of these stories is not true? Separate

(02:38:48):
fact fixed, separate fiction from fact ventually. I get there,
all right, I don't know. Take two Leslie, Leslie and Bradenton, Florida,
one two or three? Leslie? Who you know what I
love about you? You're quick, You're right to the point.
You don't dilly dally. I like that. Have a great weekend.
Thank you, Leslie. Be good power couple checking in Dominican

(02:39:10):
Mike one two or three, number two number I knew that.
I mean, I don't know much, but I know that,
all right, Thank you, Dominican Mike and Kelly cooking Kelly
in Pasadena. I'm going number three, number three for our
friend Kelly. See who else do I weed? Man? What
you got? One two or three? Hey, all right, you're out.

(02:39:33):
You never play the Mike in Minnesota one two or three,
number two, number two and the last, but not least,
Doc Mike one, two, or three for eighty eight wins.
Number one, Number one, trying for win eighty eight. You're
not gonna get at the fake stories. Number two

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