July 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about whispers that NBA owners secretly love the 2nd apron of the salary cap and have no plans to change it, DeAndre Ayton saying he hasn't spoken to LeBron James yet, why the show wasn't led off with Cooper Flagg, and much more!
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He we go. Welcome, It's our numb b one, our
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But here in our number one whispers that NBA owner
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secretly love Love the second apron of the dreaded salary
cap and have no serious plans to dramatically change it,
buy or sell that line of thinking. Also, DeAndre Ayton
says he still hasn't spoken with Lebron James, but Luca
texts him after he joined the Lakers. What do you
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read into this and why why did we not lead
the show with Cooper Flag of the mav Rex versus
the NEPO Baby Brownie James Summer League matchup. We will
explain why that did not interest us all that much.
We'll get to all of it right now. Give it
up to our number one, Always about the apron. It's
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showb So we're back at it the double dip here
and our lead this hour begin the night is from
pro Bouncy Vault, but I'm not gonna start with that.
I'm not starting with you think I'm starting with I'm
gonna keep you off balance. So a lot of chatter
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in the last couple of weeks, really since the NBA
Finals when we had that dud of an NBA Finals
with OKC in Indiana, a bit of poison for pro basketball.
So a lot of noise about the salary cap and
it's not right. They gotta change it. It's ugly, and
they gotta do something, this hardline cap. So I was
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somewhat recently contacted by someone who knows a thing or
two about the workings of the business of basketball and
very knowledgeable in that department. They know what they're talking about.
And of course they know a thing or two because
they've seen a thing or two. And this particular person,
we'll just say, has given me some good intel in
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the past. Now, this person does not bat a thousand. However,
if they were a baseball player, they'd be like mister
Podre Tony Gwinn, so pretty good batting average. Get to
the point, please, all right, So let me boil this down.
So the word on the street is that despite the
public opinion that the big market team like the Celtics
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and the Lakers and the Clippers and the NIXT teams
like that Warriors. Despite the the buzz that the big
market owners do not like this, they're trying to change
the salary cap because it is so aggressive towards teams
that spend a lot of money. Well, it turns out,
according to my insider, that the owners actually love the
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hard cap, the hard line cap. They like the apron,
and the reason they like that is it gives them
a for something like we have an arnswer, the golden ticket.
If you will to keep calls down right, you get
a golden ticket. So let us discuss the question with
these whispers that NBA owners actually love the second apron
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of the salary cap and they have no serious plans
to dramatically change it, despite speculation to the contrary. Do
you buy or sell this? You buy or sell this.
So I've got my observations on this. I've got loaded Dice, Gumbo,
and Coachella, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are going to make a brick house,
is what we're going to make. So number why, I
said number why? That's right? So I am buying this.
I'm not selling it. I'm buying it, and I believe
the the fix is in, if you will. Not to
be too dramatic, but the NBA's billionaire boys club, the
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owners of the NBA are grinning from ear to ear.
They have a cheshire cat smile. Uh, just can't get
enough of this. And the reason why the secret on
this is the as we talked about, the owners like
it that the cap is the built in get out
of jail free card. It's kind of like if you're
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in high school and you're you know, one of your
parents is a cop, and you're getting trouble, say oh, yeah,
I might so, and so I give you a break
on this, you know. And so the oligarchs and the
aristocrats are popping champagne over the second apron chokeold right,
you talk about paying dividends and they don't get to
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keep everything, but they get to keep a lot more, right,
and their wallets fatter and all that stuff. So I'd
buy this conspiracy. I would say, don't be hornswaggled by
all the rhetoric that the NBA owners toss out and
the friends of the league in the media about competitive balance.
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They give these sermons about that and the brutal penalties.
And there are penalties, a loss of draft picks, no
mid level exception, things like that, and not to get
into the minutia, but the trade market is limited. But
this is all about the green but not the green team,
the green Backs, And it's not about winning, not about that.
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You know what it is. It's a classic sports radio
caller to this show from about twenty years ago. A
guy named zig Zag used to call the show. One
of my regular callers. One of the great characters on
the show, Zigzag, and then unfortunately he grew up and
no longer was Zigzag. But this is a misdirection play, right.
The NBA owners are playing with loaded dice. That dice
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are loaded. The robber barons set the rules, and if
you cross this magic line, I think it's like one
hundred and ninety something million dollars or whatever, then all
of a sudden, there's like alarm bells that go off
and that all it. And now for some owners they
don't give a crap. Like Steve Balmer, he goes to
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the bathroom his morning bowol movement and he makes enough
money to cover all of the fees and all that stuff,
and Joe lacub with the Warriors doesn't seem to care
too much. He's not really sweating, and so they've got
all the cash they could possibly want. However, for the
others if they want, if they choose to play this card,
they can dump players, avoid big signings, like, for example,
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the Boston Celtics are doing that right now. And at
the same time they can cry wolf it's just unsustainable
the salaries, polaise, I say, polaise. They are pocketing massive
profits and the owners, you know, they're having a yacht
party and they're laughing at all the commoners. Right, they
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get the private jets all that, and they've got the money.
Good for them. And we want to keep the players,
and oh yeah, we want to keep that player. But
I'm sorry, that's actually more of an asset than a player.
And everyone wants to play the victim. They all play
the victim. Players want to play the victim. Owners want
to play the victim. But in terms of the owners
spoiler alert, they are the architects of this, and they've
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done this to inflate the profit margin and also give
them plausible deniability when they get rid of a player.
Deem po All right, now pachdo to La La Land
we go a big story the last couple of weeks
in the NBA, malcontent, overrated stiff DeAndre Ayton joining the
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Lakers after being fired by the Portland Trailblazers and dumped
by the Phoenix Suns. So DeAndre Ayton was recently asked
if he had heard from Lebron James or Luca Danci
and he revealed, well, let's go to the audio tape.
Here's what DeAndre had to say. Take a list. Hey DeAndre,
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have you have you spoken to Lebron? Have you spoken
to Luca?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Not really yet, but I've definitely got a text from Luca.
I know how to off season go. You know, this
is not my first rodio.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
People are probably busy and you know, training and even
times with their families.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
But I'm just waiting.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I'm just really just trying to integrate.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Myself with the team and get to know everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All right. That was I think that was our buddy Saddona, right,
used to work here Fox Sports Radio alumni guy. So Dona,
uh the seven to ten over there, all right? So
he said, if you didn't understand what DeAndre a and said,
he said listen, I'm still waiting on Lebron. Lucas sent
a text though, and then DeAndre made a bunch of
excuses about the off season and all that. So that's
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a great jumping off point. That is a great jumping
off point. So DeAndre Ayton says he still hasn't spoken
with Lebron James, but Luca text him after his Laker
agreement there, So what do you read into this? What
are you reading this? So if you cut through the Hayes,
people in La call it Hayes, other people call it smag.
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But if you cut through that, Luca the He's the
new golden boy, right, Luca's the new golden boy for
the Lakers and all that. And so he found time
to tap tap tap a text. Meanwhile, Lebron, he's so
busy in his offseason he can be bothered to send
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a measly emoji. I mean, I don't know. It takes
a lot of time to grab your phone. You gotta
futs around with your phones. You gotta go to the
message thing, you gotta find the number, and then you
got to click the proper emoji to you, the smiley emoji.
Do you do the crying emoji, like which emoji do
you do? And then you've got to click send on it,
and that's a lot of work. That is a lot
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of work for Lebron. I understand, the man's in his
forties now, he could injure a fingernail and we don't
want that. We do not want that, all right, So
here's the deal. That is not obviously an oversight after
several minutes of deliberation. That is a statement by Lebron James. Now,
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the rumor has it that Lebron not exactly doing cartwheels
about the possibility of playing with DeAndre eight. And as
I learned years ago when I first got into the
radio world, that silent is golden, but not if you're
doing a talk show. It suggests that Lebron's not buying in.
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But it's also bigger than that if you think of
it in terms of gumbo, think of it in terms
of gumbo. So the word on the street is King
James is still stewing like gumbo over the cloud, that
he still has some but not that much, and that
the Lakers it's like they started dating the new girl,
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the new hot girls, Luca, and he's the old woman,
you know, and then he's like, well, I've been around
for a while, but no, no, we like Luca. Luca's hotter,
and lucas the one that's now got the keys. So
this is the theory. And so Lebron's like, ah, this
is this blows and it feels like a rental car
and the Lakers are Luca's team, and Lebron he's not
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Blind Scott or Inka Terror or blind Emmett or Stevie
Meatballs or any of the other blind listeners. So he
sees the writing on the wall and the writing is
in Slovenian, and it's like, the Lakers are so into
Luca at this moment. I wouldn't be shocked if Luca
does a podcast with somebody, the Lakers fire JJ Reddick
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and hire whoever Luca gets the host of podcasts with him,
because that's what they did with JJ Reddick, right, So
file this at this point. File this as a quiet
protest against the Laker front office and the shifting in allegiances.
And Lebron he's got the pp right, He's pouting and plotting.
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He's pouting and plotting at this point. Stay tuned. More
developments to come in the off season. Soap opera from
pro pouncy Ball. All right, now, final point. So I
got a bunch of emails, I say a bunch, I
got three emails. You're going to start to show with
that game in Vegas. I know you are. No. No.
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In fact, I didn't even want to talk about this,
but I will address it, and I will address the
question of why we did not begin this extra spicy
Mallard monologue with the let me check my notes here
Summer League matchup between Cooper Flag of the mav Recks
and Bronnie James the Nefo Baby. So why did we
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not begin the night with that? So the reason we
did not my belief. And I've been to the Summer League.
It used to be in LA I was in Irvine
at one Plains, a long beach. So I've been to
the Summer League in years past, many years ago. The
NBA Summer League is the equivalent of trying to pass
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off a night like a Friday night karaoke as going
to Coachella. Well it's the same thing, you know, it's
the same, and they're just doing lip syncing. But it's
the say, you know, you're drinking beer. It's cheaper there's
no dirt. It's like going to Coachella. I mean, come on,
and we're talking about in the summer league. The dudes
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who won't Most of them won't make the rotation, most
will never sniff any meaningful minutes in the NBA. Half
of them won't even make an NBA roster. Maybe they'll
play in Europe, or they'll be selling real estate before
the next NBA season. It's amateur out. You know where
the megastars are in the NBA. They're either golfing in
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Lake Tahoe or they're getting suntan lotion on and they're
eating appetizers and drinking cocktails on megayachts in the South
of France. And now other people, well, it's player development, Ben,
You just don't get it. And to that, I say,
it's nonsense. Right, if we wanted to watch the developmental project,
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then would they sell tickets to go to like a
middle school science fair or something like that. And you
if you watch it, if you watch it, enjoy it, fine,
do whatever you gotta do. I just don't believe it's
worthy of breaking it down a full fledged Mallard monologue
on the bully pulpit that we have here and we
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don't even talk I was thinking about this earlier. We
don't even talk about the NBA regular season games until
it used to be Christmas. We used to always kid, wow,
don't we don't talk basketball till Christmas? Like the games
because nobody pays attention. But now we've moved all the
way past, all the way past New Year's We're now
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about Valentine's Day. It's like the Valentine's Day massacres, Like, well,
we'll talk about it Valentine's Day. And why is that? Well,
load management and these games are glorified cardio games before that,
So we're not going to talk about regular season, regular
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season NBA games, Then why would we talk about a
knockoff version. It's like back in the old days, you'd
come across, if you're of a certain age, you know
what I'm about to say here, you'd come across a
bootleg DV that you'd find in a parking lot at
a quickie mart. You know, he said, Okay, if you
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want me to break down something in Vegas, I would
much rather talk about the fact that Penn and Teller
are able to sell sell tickets and make illusions in
their seventies. They have a stage show in Vage. How
about Caratap who has continued to sell tickets doing prop
comedy and has his own Vegas residencies, had it for
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years right, So to recap, we do not do full
malle monologues on the Vegas Summer League because we respect
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confirmation situation, the mistaken confirmation situation. We'll get to all
of those stories coming up a little bit later in
the hour. We began with a pro bouncy ball monologue.
A person that knows a lot tells me that the
owners actually like the salary caps set up they put
in because they have an excuse to not spend money
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and to make more money. And a lot of dumb
fans they don't get it. They're like, oh, this is
this is not You'd spend the money if you could,
but you can't do it. Milkman Mike in Colorado, He
writes in with his hands around some utters, he says,
great openly monologue, gave four out of five teats. He says,
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as we tread through the molasses time of the year
in sports, with so much mediocrity at the mall man,
most of us will end up snoring like hollering James, Yeah,
the great hollering James. Imagine having the ability his superpower
is to snore. Spocks Weed. Spocks Weed writes in on
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the Oregon Trail, he says, so, Ben put forth the
premise that Steve Balmer earns one hundred and ninety million
dollars in the time he takes to have a morning
bowel movement. Inquiring minds would like to know how long
he spends on the toilet? Is it five or fifteen minutes?
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Any further information, then, well, Steve's kind of a large fellow.
He's a chunky fellow. It seems like he eats a
lot of good food, Steve Balmer, And I'm guessing he's
got gold plated heated toilets, with those heated toilet seats
made out of solid gold, and then probably got to do.
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I think he's got the squirt what's that thing? That
squirt squirt thing day the day? I bet you he's
a day guy. Yeah, hey, I'm on team today. But
the day is a good way to go. It's very effeminine.
But I like the bday.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's feminine to be clean, Ben.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It is. It is feminine. Men like to be dirty,
But I like the I admit it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Have you used it?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
But yes, I actually have it here. I did not
buy it.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
The but you have one in the malor mansion.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well, the wife decided that was an important investment. I
pushed back on it until I used it, and then
I said, you know, this is a that she's not bad.
This is there are worse things to have in life.
So let's try to do the math. So one hundred
and ninety million, and let's see if we can figure
out the math on this. Will they said there would
be no math, but I'm gonna I'm not gonna do
real math. I'm gonna do malor math. So if Steve Balmer,
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if my math is correct, that Steve Balmer makes one
hundred and ninety million, and so that's a lot of zeros, right,
that's a lot of zeros. And then we'll keep adding zeros.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And we'll know how many zeros that is. But I
have a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
It's a lot. And then per let's say and you
divide that. I guess you just have to do. You
don't have to do the full amount. Hold on, you
listen to our live coverage as I attempt to talk
and do some math. And then let's see here I
think that would be would that be twelve I'd mean
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more than that. I have twelve point six million a minute,
But that's not right because twelve point six million per minute,
and then if it was a fifteen minute trip to
the bathroom, that would why is you that would work? Right?
I think that would be about one hundred and ninety
million a lesson than Yeah, I don't know. So he'd
have to he'd have to spend like, he'd have to
spend fifteen and a half minutes on the toilet and
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then he'd be okay. So I think that's the magic number.
So Bomber in the morning, as long as he spends
fifteen and a half minutes on the toilet, good, He's good. Hey,
if you made that kind of money, I would just
spend all day on the toy I'd get hemorrhoids from
sitting on the toilet. That's what I would do. But yeah,
you do you boo ferg dog rights and says you
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and Jonas killed it earlier. Unfortunately you also killed lee Elia.
But other than that great show, here you go. Yeah,
we were randomly talking about. I filled in locally on
AM five seventy in LA, the flagship of Fox Sports Radio.
They invited me in. You're the bend that he went
on with, and so I went on with Jonas and
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then and so we were together and we just randomly
played this lee Ilia sound bite, which we're gonna do
a full eulogy because when soon important dies like that
a legend in sports. I mean, this is he's in
the same department as Jordan lee Ilia. He's in the
same department as Tom Brady, Babe Ruth. Yeah, so he died,
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but we didn't know he had died. We played it,
and then we found out that we might have been
responsible for the demise of lee Ilia. We just randomly, randomly, randomly,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
You talked about him for the first time in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And then yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, the day he died.
I mean, we didn't know at the time we were
talking about him that that was the end of it.
But that was that was it, right there, So lights out,
game over. Femi, the number one driver in Minnesota, writes
and says ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben
Ben ben Ben. Take it easy on Lebron. It won't
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be long before he gets his aa ARP invitation. I'm
sure what else Keith and Norcow writes, since says Lebron
has mastered the art of load and management, even during
the offseason. After his fingers are arrested, he will send
a well composed text to DeAndre Ayton. I'm sure that
will happen. I will take some calls. It is a
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call in show, very exciting, I know. Try to try
to remain calm. We'll take your calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. And let's see here. Who
do we have? Let who do you want to start?
Let's go to Justin. Who's in la? What's going on? Justin? Welcome?
What does Ben Maller at Tom blake Is have in common?
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Let's see, I don't know that's I've heard that name
in a while. What do we have in common? They both? Okay,
thank you? Weird So you didn't hang up on me,
just say you would have allowed him to say what
he was about to say.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I mean, I was curious as to what he was
about to say.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I don't think I've ever been compared to Tom Likeas.
But I bet Lorena you don't even know who that is,
do you?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
No, of course not. Tom Likeas was a huge radio star,
and I think he I don't know what. I think
he retired, he's like living just he made a lot
of money, and he was always a hero of mine,
like his because not that I ever met him, Rana,
I didn't know him, but Tom did like guy talk.
And he signed a massive, like a five year contract
(28:35):
for ridiculous money with CBS to do a radio show.
And it was like a year into the deal and
they changed the format and they whacked him. So the
deal was he got the money, but he couldn't do radio.
If he did radio, he voided the contract. He sat
out for like three years or three or four years,
(28:56):
I think, and collected every single dollar and just few money,
just absolutely a few money, as I remember the story.
So uh, good, good for him.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, streamed his last show May fifteenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
That's it. There you go. I don't really know how
you retire from this job though. It's like it's kind
of a weird job to retire. I mean, you're talking.
You can't really. It's like it's like people that retire
from golf. As long as you're healthy, you can keep golfing,
Like are you gonna stop talking? You know? That's how
he said. It's a weird.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Maybe his voice is gone.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
No, I don't. I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I have no idea. I don't know what happened. Good
for him. I hope he's enjoying his retirement. Whatever he's
he's doing. So all right, boy, that was a great start.
Let's go back to the phones, because I'm a glutton
for punishment. Let's say hello, we go from we go
from Justin, Let's go to Anthony in Louisiana, one of
our favorites. Hello Anthony, welcome, Hey man, how you doing?
(29:54):
Oh man? You are? You know what Anthony? I I
hear your voice. I smile from EADI you gotta you
got a great set of pipes. You do, hey, Narina,
I also love your voice.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Vacation, it wasn't a vacation, but I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I miss you. Do you miss me when I'm not here?
Do you, Anthony? When I'm away? Do you miss me? Yeah?
I miss you too? Okay, Well that's good. That's good
to know, pretty much. To Zepicon do well, I'm not
as I'm not as Dad. I don't know. I can
ask him later. I'm sure he'll call in later. He's
(30:32):
listening right now. You know. Michael Lepperton told me that
he actually asked He has a notepad and he actually
writes down notes during the show, so he'll write down
a note to thank you. You tell him, I say, hello,
will you talk to him? Yeah? Yeah, for sure, Yeah,
I'll love him. Know, and we should tell my other
friend Adrian. I said, hey, when you when you.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Talk to it? So I say, hey, oh Adrien, you
know Adrien, I'll do you.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Oh Andrea? Okay, Andrey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, I
got you. I got you. So you're a fan? Are
you into astrology? Yeah? Okay, I'm gonna make a note
right now. I'm gonna I'm gonna okay, So, Andrew, if
you're listening the astrology Insider, Anthony's a fan of yours.
(31:23):
He's in Louisiana and his birthday is October what nineteenth?
October nineteen, right around Halloween. From okay, thank you, Anthony,
take care? Okay, all right until next time. Man that
(31:46):
had nothing to say, he decided to call it nothing
going on and said, I I want to be part
of the show, and he called it so is it
true that there has been a two months warning issued?
So shams or shams or I don't know how to
say that. Insider guy that replaced woj says that the
(32:08):
Lakers and Lebron James may may part ways within two months.
O m gee, that's from the mouth of Shams, says
la Lakers and Lebron James may go their separate ways
within two months. So let's do two months. We got
(32:34):
so July eleventh, show, it's still July tenth on the
West coast. But if you go out two months, so
let's let's do the math on this. So obviously you
move ahead, that's that would be August, and then the
month after August. If I'm correct here, I believe that
would be September. Thank you for that. And September tenth,
(32:57):
I believe is the magic day. That is is a Wednesday,
September tenth, So let's mark that him. I'm gonna mark
that on my calendar. Going to Schams. By September tenth,
Lebron and the Lakers going to divorce court. Okay, very
very exciting, mistaken confirmation situation. Say what? So? Steph Curry,
(33:26):
while making his own update on when he will retire
from the Golden State Warriors, indirectly confirmed that the Golden
State Warriors have agreed to a deal with Average al
average Al Horford. Wow, yeah, he broke the story. Steph
(33:46):
Curry confirming the Warriors are signing al Horford moments after
he answered a question about his own career and retirement.
And it appears it's all deal. There is all the
big aristocrats and sports all getting together playing grab ass
in Lake Tahoe. Happens every year. And if you're you're
(34:09):
in a sports memorabilia that is like the super Bowl
for sports memorabilia, where all the autograph hounds converge on
Lake Tahoe to get all the autographs and photos and
all of that. All of that, we have the play
of the night in the big bad world of sports.
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So there's games every night everywhere, but the tire i Rack.
Only one play can be the tire Iraq play of
the night. The New York Yankees, we're getting no hit
for a good chunk of their game against the Seattle Mariners.
They came back, they tied the game, and then the
game ended on the most exciting play in baseball with
(34:52):
Aaron Judge at the plate basis fall, tenth inning, five
to five, Game one one judge, high fly ball center field.
Will it be deep enough?
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Rodriguez comes in makes the cash both be tags go
home on the line.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Tag say god yeah, Aaron's judge goin game on a
bang bang play at the play. Oh man, does it
get any better than a sack fly to win a game? Hell?
Holy crap, Holy crap. Great moments in Mariner baseball. That
was Aaron Judge beating the Seattle Mariners. Who This was
(35:27):
a big week, right, This was a week for cal
Raley to impress the New York media establishment. There for
the Mariners to flex some muscle, and they got kicked
in the nuts all week by the Yankees. And so
the Yankees win on that Aaron Judge sackfly, and that,
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Be.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
So the Yankees come all the way back. They win
six to five over the Seattle Manners, who only three
games above five hundred's. That's all they want to be,
they don't They don't want to be really good. They
just don't want to be really bad. They want to
be right in the middle. That's it, that's all they want.
They're getting what they want. Time now for the who
am I? Game? And here it is Chicago, come phenom
and that makes you Femi very happy. And Eugene in
(36:32):
Chicago and Tree in Chicago. They all love this guy.
Pete crow Armstrong. So Pete crow Armstrong became the fourth
fastest player in Big League history to reach the twenty
five homer twenty five steele mark in an individual season.
Doing it is ninety second game. I though still hold
the record by getting that record accomplished the quickest. Who
(36:55):
am I? The answer, We'll do it, will do it next.
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Time now for the big Baffosco payoff on the who
Am I? Game? So he is the phenom of Wrigleyville,
the outfielder who came over from the Mets us in
(38:11):
the Mets minor league system. Pete crow Armstrong, the son
of Hollywood people actors in Hollywood. Pete crow Armstrong actually
grew up right near the Fox Sports Radio studios. But
Pete Crow Armstrong of the Cubs became the fourth fastest
player in Major League history to hit twenty five home
runs twenty five steals in a season. He did it
(38:34):
in his ninety second game. However, I still hold the
record by getting it done the quickest in a single
season in baseball history. Well that's the question. See that's
the gimmick. Who am I? And let's see does anyone
know the answer? Page down Let's see here wild Southern boy.
(39:00):
Mister Blunt, it says here, I don't know who that is?
Says it is Lebron James, who wishes he could play
for the Clippers. Who else do we have the freeze?
Unleash the freeze? That is from Malard prop Guy Alf
says Dale Murphy rest in peace, the great Spokkane Gary
(39:23):
a great Dale Murphy and Spokane Gary who we lost.
Spokane Gary a long time was one of the star
callers of the show, and Gary's mission in life was
to get Dale Murphy into the Hall of Fame. Didn't
quite work out. Mister Irrigation, says La Mayor Kevin Bass,
I don't think that's the right name. Who else me
A Bobby in Florida says Lorena's new bff Tammy in Montana.
(39:48):
Is quite a rivalry going there, milkman Mike in Colorado
says the first Ghostbusters? Yeah? Who else do we have
page down? Uh? Lauren Sanchez from mister Niska. Wow, that
is uh yeah, Well, I mean I knew her when
(40:08):
she looked then I didn't know the now I knew that.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Then you knew when when she was still organic?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yes? Wow, Is that real? Is that? Yeah? That's really
what she looks like. Yeah. Uh, no, you don't. It
looks like a mask like wow. Uh And she married
the richest guy in the world. Okay, good for a
mister potato head guessed by King Rory. Let's see here,
(40:33):
Ferg Dog says, call her fifty eight way to make
Kevin figures work. Yeah, that's right, Ferg Dog in the
LBC from Just Josh, that's his answer. Uh. Fox Sports
Radio sidekick Hall of Famer Scott lynn Yeah, legend, the
great Scott Lynne with the zabe with his ab back
in the day. Who else do we have? Jim Leland
from Shane and des Moines. These guys are legends, all right, Lrea,
(40:56):
do you have an answer to the to the who
am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
There's only one man who could be fast, sir, and
that's the Flash Ben the Flash.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
All right, No, that is incorrect. The only person faster
to get to twenty five home runs in twenty five
steals in a single season was Cincinnati Reds legend Eric
Davis back in nineteen eighty nine sixty nine games. Eric
Davis
He we go. Welcome, It's our numb b one, our
number one of the original Recipe podcast, the one and
only Ben Malers Show. But you already knew that, and
we're hanging out on this Friday, July eleventh. Programming note
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But here in our number one whispers that NBA owner
(00:42):
secretly love Love the second apron of the dreaded salary
cap and have no serious plans to dramatically change it,
buy or sell that line of thinking. Also, DeAndre Ayton
says he still hasn't spoken with Lebron James, but Luca
texts him after he joined the Lakers. What do you
(01:04):
read into this and why why did we not lead
the show with Cooper Flag of the mav Rex versus
the NEPO Baby Brownie James Summer League matchup. We will
explain why that did not interest us all that much.
We'll get to all of it right now. Give it
up to our number one, Always about the apron. It's
(01:31):
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showb So we're back at it the double dip here
and our lead this hour begin the night is from
pro Bouncy Vault, but I'm not gonna start with that.
I'm not starting with you think I'm starting with I'm
gonna keep you off balance. So a lot of chatter
(02:58):
in the last couple of weeks, really since the NBA
Finals when we had that dud of an NBA Finals
with OKC in Indiana, a bit of poison for pro basketball.
So a lot of noise about the salary cap and
it's not right. They gotta change it. It's ugly, and
they gotta do something, this hardline cap. So I was
(03:20):
somewhat recently contacted by someone who knows a thing or
two about the workings of the business of basketball and
very knowledgeable in that department. They know what they're talking about.
And of course they know a thing or two because
they've seen a thing or two. And this particular person,
we'll just say, has given me some good intel in
(03:41):
the past. Now, this person does not bat a thousand. However,
if they were a baseball player, they'd be like mister
Podre Tony Gwinn, so pretty good batting average. Get to
the point, please, all right, So let me boil this down.
So the word on the street is that despite the
public opinion that the big market team like the Celtics
(04:01):
and the Lakers and the Clippers and the NIXT teams
like that Warriors. Despite the the buzz that the big
market owners do not like this, they're trying to change
the salary cap because it is so aggressive towards teams
that spend a lot of money. Well, it turns out,
according to my insider, that the owners actually love the
(04:25):
hard cap, the hard line cap. They like the apron,
and the reason they like that is it gives them
a for something like we have an arnswer, the golden ticket.
If you will to keep calls down right, you get
a golden ticket. So let us discuss the question with
these whispers that NBA owners actually love the second apron
(04:48):
of the salary cap and they have no serious plans
to dramatically change it, despite speculation to the contrary. Do
you buy or sell this? You buy or sell this.
So I've got my observations on this. I've got loaded Dice, Gumbo,
and Coachella, and we will combine all of these things
(05:09):
together and we are going to make a brick house,
is what we're going to make. So number why, I
said number why? That's right? So I am buying this.
I'm not selling it. I'm buying it, and I believe
the the fix is in, if you will. Not to
be too dramatic, but the NBA's billionaire boys club, the
(05:32):
owners of the NBA are grinning from ear to ear.
They have a cheshire cat smile. Uh, just can't get
enough of this. And the reason why the secret on
this is the as we talked about, the owners like
it that the cap is the built in get out
of jail free card. It's kind of like if you're
(05:53):
in high school and you're you know, one of your
parents is a cop, and you're getting trouble, say oh, yeah,
I might so, and so I give you a break
on this, you know. And so the oligarchs and the
aristocrats are popping champagne over the second apron chokeold right,
you talk about paying dividends and they don't get to
(06:14):
keep everything, but they get to keep a lot more, right,
and their wallets fatter and all that stuff. So I'd
buy this conspiracy. I would say, don't be hornswaggled by
all the rhetoric that the NBA owners toss out and
the friends of the league in the media about competitive balance.
(06:35):
They give these sermons about that and the brutal penalties.
And there are penalties, a loss of draft picks, no
mid level exception, things like that, and not to get
into the minutia, but the trade market is limited. But
this is all about the green but not the green team,
the green Backs, And it's not about winning, not about that.
(06:55):
You know what it is. It's a classic sports radio
caller to this show from about twenty years ago. A
guy named zig Zag used to call the show. One
of my regular callers. One of the great characters on
the show, Zigzag, and then unfortunately he grew up and
no longer was Zigzag. But this is a misdirection play, right.
The NBA owners are playing with loaded dice. That dice
(07:20):
are loaded. The robber barons set the rules, and if
you cross this magic line, I think it's like one
hundred and ninety something million dollars or whatever, then all
of a sudden, there's like alarm bells that go off
and that all it. And now for some owners they
don't give a crap. Like Steve Balmer, he goes to
(07:42):
the bathroom his morning bowol movement and he makes enough
money to cover all of the fees and all that stuff,
and Joe lacub with the Warriors doesn't seem to care
too much. He's not really sweating, and so they've got
all the cash they could possibly want. However, for the
others if they want, if they choose to play this card,
they can dump players, avoid big signings, like, for example,
(08:06):
the Boston Celtics are doing that right now. And at
the same time they can cry wolf it's just unsustainable
the salaries, polaise, I say, polaise. They are pocketing massive
profits and the owners, you know, they're having a yacht
party and they're laughing at all the commoners. Right, they
(08:27):
get the private jets all that, and they've got the money.
Good for them. And we want to keep the players,
and oh yeah, we want to keep that player. But
I'm sorry, that's actually more of an asset than a player.
And everyone wants to play the victim. They all play
the victim. Players want to play the victim. Owners want
to play the victim. But in terms of the owners
spoiler alert, they are the architects of this, and they've
(08:50):
done this to inflate the profit margin and also give
them plausible deniability when they get rid of a player.
Deem po All right, now pachdo to La La Land
we go a big story the last couple of weeks
in the NBA, malcontent, overrated stiff DeAndre Ayton joining the
(09:13):
Lakers after being fired by the Portland Trailblazers and dumped
by the Phoenix Suns. So DeAndre Ayton was recently asked
if he had heard from Lebron James or Luca Danci
and he revealed, well, let's go to the audio tape.
Here's what DeAndre had to say. Take a list. Hey DeAndre,
(09:33):
have you have you spoken to Lebron? Have you spoken
to Luca?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Not really yet, but I've definitely got a text from Luca.
I know how to off season go. You know, this
is not my first rodio.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
People are probably busy and you know, training and even
times with their families.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
But I'm just waiting.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I'm just really just trying to integrate.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Myself with the team and get to know everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All right. That was I think that was our buddy Saddona, right,
used to work here Fox Sports Radio alumni guy. So Dona,
uh the seven to ten over there, all right? So
he said, if you didn't understand what DeAndre a and said,
he said listen, I'm still waiting on Lebron. Lucas sent
a text though, and then DeAndre made a bunch of
excuses about the off season and all that. So that's
(10:17):
a great jumping off point. That is a great jumping
off point. So DeAndre Ayton says he still hasn't spoken
with Lebron James, but Luca text him after his Laker
agreement there, So what do you read into this? What
are you reading this? So if you cut through the Hayes,
people in La call it Hayes, other people call it smag.
(10:40):
But if you cut through that, Luca the He's the
new golden boy, right, Luca's the new golden boy for
the Lakers and all that. And so he found time
to tap tap tap a text. Meanwhile, Lebron, he's so
busy in his offseason he can be bothered to send
(11:01):
a measly emoji. I mean, I don't know. It takes
a lot of time to grab your phone. You gotta
futs around with your phones. You gotta go to the
message thing, you gotta find the number, and then you
got to click the proper emoji to you, the smiley emoji.
Do you do the crying emoji, like which emoji do
you do? And then you've got to click send on it,
and that's a lot of work. That is a lot
(11:22):
of work for Lebron. I understand, the man's in his
forties now, he could injure a fingernail and we don't
want that. We do not want that, all right, So
here's the deal. That is not obviously an oversight after
several minutes of deliberation. That is a statement by Lebron James. Now,
(11:43):
the rumor has it that Lebron not exactly doing cartwheels
about the possibility of playing with DeAndre eight. And as
I learned years ago when I first got into the
radio world, that silent is golden, but not if you're
doing a talk show. It suggests that Lebron's not buying in.
(12:09):
But it's also bigger than that if you think of
it in terms of gumbo, think of it in terms
of gumbo. So the word on the street is King
James is still stewing like gumbo over the cloud, that
he still has some but not that much, and that
the Lakers it's like they started dating the new girl,
(12:30):
the new hot girls, Luca, and he's the old woman,
you know, and then he's like, well, I've been around
for a while, but no, no, we like Luca. Luca's hotter,
and lucas the one that's now got the keys. So
this is the theory. And so Lebron's like, ah, this
is this blows and it feels like a rental car
and the Lakers are Luca's team, and Lebron he's not
(12:52):
Blind Scott or Inka Terror or blind Emmett or Stevie
Meatballs or any of the other blind listeners. So he
sees the writing on the wall and the writing is
in Slovenian, and it's like, the Lakers are so into
Luca at this moment. I wouldn't be shocked if Luca
does a podcast with somebody, the Lakers fire JJ Reddick
(13:14):
and hire whoever Luca gets the host of podcasts with him,
because that's what they did with JJ Reddick, right, So
file this at this point. File this as a quiet
protest against the Laker front office and the shifting in allegiances.
And Lebron he's got the pp right, He's pouting and plotting.
(13:37):
He's pouting and plotting at this point. Stay tuned. More
developments to come in the off season. Soap opera from
pro pouncy Ball. All right, now, final point. So I
got a bunch of emails, I say a bunch, I
got three emails. You're going to start to show with
that game in Vegas. I know you are. No. No.
(13:58):
In fact, I didn't even want to talk about this,
but I will address it, and I will address the
question of why we did not begin this extra spicy
Mallard monologue with the let me check my notes here
Summer League matchup between Cooper Flag of the mav Recks
and Bronnie James the Nefo Baby. So why did we
(14:22):
not begin the night with that? So the reason we
did not my belief. And I've been to the Summer League.
It used to be in LA I was in Irvine
at one Plains, a long beach. So I've been to
the Summer League in years past, many years ago. The
NBA Summer League is the equivalent of trying to pass
(14:42):
off a night like a Friday night karaoke as going
to Coachella. Well it's the same thing, you know, it's
the same, and they're just doing lip syncing. But it's
the say, you know, you're drinking beer. It's cheaper there's
no dirt. It's like going to Coachella. I mean, come on,
and we're talking about in the summer league. The dudes
(15:02):
who won't Most of them won't make the rotation, most
will never sniff any meaningful minutes in the NBA. Half
of them won't even make an NBA roster. Maybe they'll
play in Europe, or they'll be selling real estate before
the next NBA season. It's amateur out. You know where
the megastars are in the NBA. They're either golfing in
(15:24):
Lake Tahoe or they're getting suntan lotion on and they're
eating appetizers and drinking cocktails on megayachts in the South
of France. And now other people, well, it's player development, Ben,
You just don't get it. And to that, I say,
it's nonsense. Right, if we wanted to watch the developmental project,
(15:45):
then would they sell tickets to go to like a
middle school science fair or something like that. And you
if you watch it, if you watch it, enjoy it, fine,
do whatever you gotta do. I just don't believe it's
worthy of breaking it down a full fledged Mallard monologue
on the bully pulpit that we have here and we
(16:06):
don't even talk I was thinking about this earlier. We
don't even talk about the NBA regular season games until
it used to be Christmas. We used to always kid, wow,
don't we don't talk basketball till Christmas? Like the games
because nobody pays attention. But now we've moved all the
way past, all the way past New Year's We're now
(16:27):
about Valentine's Day. It's like the Valentine's Day massacres, Like, well,
we'll talk about it Valentine's Day. And why is that? Well,
load management and these games are glorified cardio games before that,
So we're not going to talk about regular season, regular
(16:47):
season NBA games, Then why would we talk about a
knockoff version. It's like back in the old days, you'd
come across, if you're of a certain age, you know
what I'm about to say here, you'd come across a
bootleg DV that you'd find in a parking lot at
a quickie mart. You know, he said, Okay, if you
(17:08):
want me to break down something in Vegas, I would
much rather talk about the fact that Penn and Teller
are able to sell sell tickets and make illusions in
their seventies. They have a stage show in Vage. How
about Caratap who has continued to sell tickets doing prop
comedy and has his own Vegas residencies, had it for
(17:31):
years right, So to recap, we do not do full
malle monologues on the Vegas Summer League because we respect
your time and the value and the power the almighty
microphones of FSR. So that's the inside skinny on that.
As we begin the Festival of Talk. Now, if you
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We got you covered, So just settle in now. The
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Takes a lot of work, a lot of work to
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Queen and Coop Bronco Fan. Your c much cannon will
be used against you in the court of sports radio.
(21:06):
And now back to it, right back to it. We
go fired up to be here, happy that you're hanging
out with us. Otherwise we're just I'm just talking to
myself and that sucks. Doing that. Don't want to do
that at all. We have the two month warning, the
two month warning. We'll get to that. Also, the mistaken
(21:27):
confirmation situation, the mistaken confirmation situation. We'll get to all
of those stories coming up a little bit later in
the hour. We began with a pro bouncy ball monologue.
A person that knows a lot tells me that the
owners actually like the salary caps set up they put
in because they have an excuse to not spend money
(21:49):
and to make more money. And a lot of dumb
fans they don't get it. They're like, oh, this is
this is not You'd spend the money if you could,
but you can't do it. Milkman Mike in Colorado, He
writes in with his hands around some utters, he says,
great openly monologue, gave four out of five teats. He says,
(22:10):
as we tread through the molasses time of the year
in sports, with so much mediocrity at the mall man,
most of us will end up snoring like hollering James, Yeah,
the great hollering James. Imagine having the ability his superpower
is to snore. Spocks Weed. Spocks Weed writes in on
(22:34):
the Oregon Trail, he says, so, Ben put forth the
premise that Steve Balmer earns one hundred and ninety million
dollars in the time he takes to have a morning
bowel movement. Inquiring minds would like to know how long
he spends on the toilet? Is it five or fifteen minutes?
(22:57):
Any further information, then, well, Steve's kind of a large fellow.
He's a chunky fellow. It seems like he eats a
lot of good food, Steve Balmer, And I'm guessing he's
got gold plated heated toilets, with those heated toilet seats
made out of solid gold, and then probably got to do.
(23:20):
I think he's got the squirt what's that thing? That
squirt squirt thing day the day? I bet you he's
a day guy. Yeah, hey, I'm on team today. But
the day is a good way to go. It's very effeminine.
But I like the bday.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It's feminine to be clean, Ben.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
It is. It is feminine. Men like to be dirty,
But I like the I admit it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Have you used it?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
But yes, I actually have it here. I did not
buy it.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
The but you have one in the malor mansion.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well, the wife decided that was an important investment. I
pushed back on it until I used it, and then
I said, you know, this is a that she's not bad.
This is there are worse things to have in life.
So let's try to do the math. So one hundred
and ninety million, and let's see if we can figure
out the math on this. Will they said there would
be no math, but I'm gonna I'm not gonna do
real math. I'm gonna do malor math. So if Steve Balmer,
(24:12):
if my math is correct, that Steve Balmer makes one
hundred and ninety million, and so that's a lot of zeros, right,
that's a lot of zeros. And then we'll keep adding zeros.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
And we'll know how many zeros that is. But I
have a lot.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
It's a lot. And then per let's say and you
divide that. I guess you just have to do. You
don't have to do the full amount. Hold on, you
listen to our live coverage as I attempt to talk
and do some math. And then let's see here I
think that would be would that be twelve I'd mean
(24:53):
more than that. I have twelve point six million a minute,
But that's not right because twelve point six million per minute,
and then if it was a fifteen minute trip to
the bathroom, that would why is you that would work? Right?
I think that would be about one hundred and ninety
million a lesson than Yeah, I don't know. So he'd
have to he'd have to spend like, he'd have to
spend fifteen and a half minutes on the toilet and
(25:15):
then he'd be okay. So I think that's the magic number.
So Bomber in the morning, as long as he spends
fifteen and a half minutes on the toilet, good, He's good. Hey,
if you made that kind of money, I would just
spend all day on the toy I'd get hemorrhoids from
sitting on the toilet. That's what I would do. But yeah,
you do you boo ferg dog rights and says you
(25:37):
and Jonas killed it earlier. Unfortunately you also killed lee Elia.
But other than that great show, here you go. Yeah,
we were randomly talking about. I filled in locally on
AM five seventy in LA, the flagship of Fox Sports Radio.
They invited me in. You're the bend that he went
on with, and so I went on with Jonas and
(25:59):
then and so we were together and we just randomly
played this lee Ilia sound bite, which we're gonna do
a full eulogy because when soon important dies like that
a legend in sports. I mean, this is he's in
the same department as Jordan lee Ilia. He's in the
same department as Tom Brady, Babe Ruth. Yeah, so he died,
(26:21):
but we didn't know he had died. We played it,
and then we found out that we might have been
responsible for the demise of lee Ilia. We just randomly, randomly, randomly,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
You talked about him for the first time in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
And then yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, the day he died.
I mean, we didn't know at the time we were
talking about him that that was the end of it.
But that was that was it, right there, So lights out,
game over. Femi, the number one driver in Minnesota, writes
and says ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben
Ben ben Ben. Take it easy on Lebron. It won't
(26:56):
be long before he gets his aa ARP invitation. I'm
sure what else Keith and Norcow writes, since says Lebron
has mastered the art of load and management, even during
the offseason. After his fingers are arrested, he will send
a well composed text to DeAndre Ayton. I'm sure that
will happen. I will take some calls. It is a
(27:18):
call in show, very exciting, I know. Try to try
to remain calm. We'll take your calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. And let's see here. Who
do we have? Let who do you want to start?
Let's go to Justin. Who's in la? What's going on? Justin? Welcome?
What does Ben Maller at Tom blake Is have in common?
(27:42):
Let's see, I don't know that's I've heard that name
in a while. What do we have in common? They both? Okay,
thank you? Weird So you didn't hang up on me,
just say you would have allowed him to say what
he was about to say.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I mean, I was curious as to what he was
about to say.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I don't think I've ever been compared to Tom Likeas.
But I bet Lorena you don't even know who that is,
do you?
Speaker 2 (28:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
No, of course not. Tom Likeas was a huge radio star,
and I think he I don't know what. I think
he retired, he's like living just he made a lot
of money, and he was always a hero of mine,
like his because not that I ever met him, Rana,
I didn't know him, but Tom did like guy talk.
And he signed a massive, like a five year contract
(28:35):
for ridiculous money with CBS to do a radio show.
And it was like a year into the deal and
they changed the format and they whacked him. So the
deal was he got the money, but he couldn't do radio.
If he did radio, he voided the contract. He sat
out for like three years or three or four years,
(28:56):
I think, and collected every single dollar and just few money,
just absolutely a few money, as I remember the story.
So uh, good, good for him.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, streamed his last show May fifteenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
That's it. There you go. I don't really know how
you retire from this job though. It's like it's kind
of a weird job to retire. I mean, you're talking.
You can't really. It's like it's like people that retire
from golf. As long as you're healthy, you can keep golfing,
Like are you gonna stop talking? You know? That's how
he said. It's a weird.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Maybe his voice is gone.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
No, I don't. I don't think that.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I have no idea. I don't know what happened. Good
for him. I hope he's enjoying his retirement. Whatever he's
he's doing. So all right, boy, that was a great start.
Let's go back to the phones, because I'm a glutton
for punishment. Let's say hello, we go from we go
from Justin, Let's go to Anthony in Louisiana, one of
our favorites. Hello Anthony, welcome, Hey man, how you doing?
(29:54):
Oh man? You are? You know what Anthony? I I
hear your voice. I smile from EADI you gotta you
got a great set of pipes. You do, hey, Narina,
I also love your voice.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Vacation, it wasn't a vacation, but I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I miss you. Do you miss me when I'm not here?
Do you, Anthony? When I'm away? Do you miss me? Yeah?
I miss you too? Okay, Well that's good. That's good
to know, pretty much. To Zepicon do well, I'm not
as I'm not as Dad. I don't know. I can
ask him later. I'm sure he'll call in later. He's
(30:32):
listening right now. You know. Michael Lepperton told me that
he actually asked He has a notepad and he actually
writes down notes during the show, so he'll write down
a note to thank you. You tell him, I say, hello,
will you talk to him? Yeah? Yeah, for sure, Yeah,
I'll love him. Know, and we should tell my other
friend Adrian. I said, hey, when you when you.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Talk to it? So I say, hey, oh Adrien, you
know Adrien, I'll do you.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Oh Andrea? Okay, Andrey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, I
got you. I got you. So you're a fan? Are
you into astrology? Yeah? Okay, I'm gonna make a note
right now. I'm gonna I'm gonna okay, So, Andrew, if
you're listening the astrology Insider, Anthony's a fan of yours.
(31:23):
He's in Louisiana and his birthday is October what nineteenth?
October nineteen, right around Halloween. From okay, thank you, Anthony,
take care? Okay, all right until next time. Man that
(31:46):
had nothing to say, he decided to call it nothing
going on and said, I I want to be part
of the show, and he called it so is it
true that there has been a two months warning issued?
So shams or shams or I don't know how to
say that. Insider guy that replaced woj says that the
(32:08):
Lakers and Lebron James may may part ways within two months.
O m gee, that's from the mouth of Shams, says
la Lakers and Lebron James may go their separate ways
within two months. So let's do two months. We got
(32:34):
so July eleventh, show, it's still July tenth on the
West coast. But if you go out two months, so
let's let's do the math on this. So obviously you
move ahead, that's that would be August, and then the
month after August. If I'm correct here, I believe that
would be September. Thank you for that. And September tenth,
(32:57):
I believe is the magic day. That is is a Wednesday,
September tenth, So let's mark that him. I'm gonna mark
that on my calendar. Going to Schams. By September tenth,
Lebron and the Lakers going to divorce court. Okay, very
very exciting, mistaken confirmation situation. Say what? So? Steph Curry,
(33:26):
while making his own update on when he will retire
from the Golden State Warriors, indirectly confirmed that the Golden
State Warriors have agreed to a deal with Average al
average Al Horford. Wow, yeah, he broke the story. Steph
(33:46):
Curry confirming the Warriors are signing al Horford moments after
he answered a question about his own career and retirement.
And it appears it's all deal. There is all the
big aristocrats and sports all getting together playing grab ass
in Lake Tahoe. Happens every year. And if you're you're
(34:09):
in a sports memorabilia that is like the super Bowl
for sports memorabilia, where all the autograph hounds converge on
Lake Tahoe to get all the autographs and photos and
all of that. All of that, we have the play
of the night in the big bad world of sports.
(34:30):
So there's games every night everywhere, but the tire i Rack.
Only one play can be the tire Iraq play of
the night. The New York Yankees, we're getting no hit
for a good chunk of their game against the Seattle Mariners.
They came back, they tied the game, and then the
game ended on the most exciting play in baseball with
(34:52):
Aaron Judge at the plate basis fall, tenth inning, five
to five, Game one one judge, high fly ball center field.
Will it be deep enough?
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Rodriguez comes in makes the cash both be tags go
home on the line.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Tag say god yeah, Aaron's judge goin game on a
bang bang play at the play. Oh man, does it
get any better than a sack fly to win a game? Hell?
Holy crap, Holy crap. Great moments in Mariner baseball. That
was Aaron Judge beating the Seattle Mariners. Who This was
(35:27):
a big week, right, This was a week for cal
Raley to impress the New York media establishment. There for
the Mariners to flex some muscle, and they got kicked
in the nuts all week by the Yankees. And so
the Yankees win on that Aaron Judge sackfly, and that,
believe it or not, is the ti Iraq play the knife.
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Speaker 3 (36:08):
Be.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
So the Yankees come all the way back. They win
six to five over the Seattle Manners, who only three
games above five hundred's. That's all they want to be,
they don't They don't want to be really good. They
just don't want to be really bad. They want to
be right in the middle. That's it, that's all they want.
They're getting what they want. Time now for the who
am I? Game? And here it is Chicago, come phenom
and that makes you Femi very happy. And Eugene in
(36:32):
Chicago and Tree in Chicago. They all love this guy.
Pete crow Armstrong. So Pete crow Armstrong became the fourth
fastest player in Big League history to reach the twenty
five homer twenty five steele mark in an individual season.
Doing it is ninety second game. I though still hold
the record by getting that record accomplished the quickest. Who
(36:55):
am I? The answer, We'll do it, will do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Be sure to catch the live editions of The Ben
Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Maler Show,
up all night, every every single night, and you can
watch this show. Be sure to check out the Fox
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Just search Fox Sports Radio on the YouTube. You'll see
(37:26):
a whole bunch of overpaid gas bags and blowhards and
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monologues and Fox Sports Radio videos on the YouTube. Everyone's
(37:51):
doing it, dude, Everyone's doing it. Oh my god, don't
miss out. It's in vogue. Back to it. Here we go.
Time now for the big Baffosco payoff on the who
Am I? Game? So he is the phenom of Wrigleyville,
the outfielder who came over from the Mets us in
(38:11):
the Mets minor league system. Pete crow Armstrong, the son
of Hollywood people actors in Hollywood. Pete crow Armstrong actually
grew up right near the Fox Sports Radio studios. But
Pete Crow Armstrong of the Cubs became the fourth fastest
player in Major League history to hit twenty five home
runs twenty five steals in a season. He did it
(38:34):
in his ninety second game. However, I still hold the
record by getting it done the quickest in a single
season in baseball history. Well that's the question. See that's
the gimmick. Who am I? And let's see does anyone
know the answer? Page down Let's see here wild Southern boy.
(39:00):
Mister Blunt, it says here, I don't know who that is?
Says it is Lebron James, who wishes he could play
for the Clippers. Who else do we have the freeze?
Unleash the freeze? That is from Malard prop Guy Alf
says Dale Murphy rest in peace, the great Spokkane Gary
(39:23):
a great Dale Murphy and Spokane Gary who we lost.
Spokane Gary a long time was one of the star
callers of the show, and Gary's mission in life was
to get Dale Murphy into the Hall of Fame. Didn't
quite work out. Mister Irrigation, says La Mayor Kevin Bass,
I don't think that's the right name. Who else me
A Bobby in Florida says Lorena's new bff Tammy in Montana.
(39:48):
Is quite a rivalry going there, milkman Mike in Colorado
says the first Ghostbusters? Yeah? Who else do we have
page down? Uh? Lauren Sanchez from mister Niska. Wow, that
is uh yeah, Well, I mean I knew her when
(40:08):
she looked then I didn't know the now I knew that.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Then you knew when when she was still organic?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yes? Wow, Is that real? Is that? Yeah? That's really
what she looks like. Yeah. Uh, no, you don't. It
looks like a mask like wow. Uh And she married
the richest guy in the world. Okay, good for a
mister potato head guessed by King Rory. Let's see here,
(40:33):
Ferg Dog says, call her fifty eight way to make
Kevin figures work. Yeah, that's right, Ferg Dog in the
LBC from Just Josh, that's his answer. Uh. Fox Sports
Radio sidekick Hall of Famer Scott lynn Yeah, legend, the
great Scott Lynne with the zabe with his ab back
in the day. Who else do we have? Jim Leland
from Shane and des Moines. These guys are legends, all right, Lrea,
(40:56):
do you have an answer to the to the who
am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
There's only one man who could be fast, sir, and
that's the Flash Ben the Flash.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
All right, No, that is incorrect. The only person faster
to get to twenty five home runs in twenty five
steals in a single season was Cincinnati Reds legend Eric
Davis back in nineteen eighty nine sixty nine games. Eric
Davis
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