May 6, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller discusses if the Lakers have an Austin Reaves problem in the playoffs following his dud in the Lakers Game 1 loss to the Thunder, SGA saying that Game 1 for the Thunder was "very simple", what the NBA accomplished by fining Jaylen Brown, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka Laca. It's our nameber One. As we look
to hit down a money ball, I'm known as moneyball Maler.
So here in our number one do the Lakers have
an Austin Reeves problem? In the playoffs, they were run
off the court by Oklahoma City. Also as Ga, the
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former Clipper said, Game one for the Thunder was quote
very simple against Lebron's Lakers. How do you parse these words?
We'll also get into Lebron planting, the excuses for the
lakers pathetic offensive performance, and what did the NBA accomplish
by fighting the Celtics Jalen Brown for a live stream
(00:46):
rant at the NBA officials. We'll talk about all of
that and more as we cut and run right here
in our number one. Well that went about as expected. Well,
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so our lead this hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball
Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy. Yeah, so
I think you know where're gonna start. As that time
of the year, this is what we do this time
of the year. It's all right. There was some playoff games.
We don't pay attention to the regular season in Pro
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bouncy Ball. The playoffs we pay attention. So away we go.
We start out in the dust bowl where the reigning
champions of Pro Bouncy Ball reside. And it ain't the Lakers,
the Thunder and Lakers having a hoe down in Oklahoma. Now,
I don't know if you saw this game or not,
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possibly possibly not. They got to get some better b roll.
You know how they come back from commercials. It was
on it was an NBC or Pete Cock one of
thostenings and came back from comercial and they showed downtown Oklahoma, City,
which you know, it's not it's not, you know, not
that great to look at. You know, maybe build some
more skyscrapers or something, I don't know, or show a
(04:11):
cowboy or something like that or something, you know, Oklahoma stuff.
The skyline of Oklahoma City not not all that great anyway.
Chet Holmgren had twenty four points and twelve rebounds, the
guy that looks like Skeletor and Oklahoma City who didn't
play at their peak, and they still stopped the Lakers
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one oh eight to ninety and in that game one
of the Western Conference semi finals. Now Shay Jiogis, Alexander
the former Clipper, and A. J. Mitchell each had eighteen
points as well for the Thunder. The Thunder now have
played five playoff games, and they have won five playoff
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games this year, five and zero in the playoffs, despite
missing Jalen Williams, oh my, it didn't go whammy. I
can't play though, thirst straight game he has missed. Oklahoma
City will host Game two, which way will also win comfortably.
That'll be on Thursday. The better story, though, is in
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the losing locker room. The better story in the losing
the locker room. So Lebron James, as he has been
known to do when his team loses, he storms off
the court has a conniption fit before the game's over. Yep, Lebron,
he didn't stick around for the end of it. He
walked off the court as they were about twenty seconds
or so to go in the game. And Lebron is
much too important, much too important to stay on the
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court until the end of the game. What do you
expect from Lebron now? The better story, as I said
losing locker room. Popular opinion by popular people is that
Austin Reeves, who had an absolute clunker, was the driving
force behind the Lakers being spanked. In Game one, Reeves
took sixteen shots. He missed thirteen of the sixteen. That
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is a shooting percentage of less than twenty percent. He
did not make a three point shot. I'm told that
is not good. Reeves finished with eight points, turned the
ball over four times, and played like he should be
back somewhere in Oklahoma playing pickup basketball. Now at a
that's a good jumping out points. So let us discuss
the question do the Lakers have an Austin Reeves problem
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in the playoffs? So I've got Scooby Doo, Hasbro and Jaywalking,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to be moonstruck, is what we're going
to be. We're going to be moonstruck. So a to
answer the question, do the Lakers have an Austin Reeves
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problem in the playoffs? I am nodding my head. Yes. Now.
A lot of new geniuses told me I was out
of my bloody mind last year when I pointed out
how ineffective and how overwhelmed Austin Reeves played for the
Lakers against Minnesota in the playoffs. You said, you're just
a Laker hater. Okay, well, let's look at this again.
So the Lakers don't just have an Austin Reeves problem.
(07:09):
They have an Austin Reeves in the playoffs problem. That's
what they've got. Let's be real. Playoff Austin is officially
a thing. Okay. You might not want to admit it.
You're in denial. That's fine. It's a thing, okay, And
it's not the kind of thing you have any chance
of going very far in and being considered a legitimate contender.
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If he's one of your top rung players, and this
is now back to back years and we have a
sample size that tells the story now and we have
seen it in these playoff environments. He's overmatched. He's not
that good. He didn't just have a bad night. Austin
Reeves submitting a formal application to be the new playoff
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liability and the numbers tell the tale of a person
with multiple personalities, much blind Scott that calls the show,
and he's got multiple personalities. Austin Reeves. Now his playoff
efficiency drops noticeably. He is not very good shooting the basketball.
He often vanishes from behind the three point line, and
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when the lights get pretty bright, he's not wearing sunglasses.
So Reeves he doesn't get that whole playoff Harden level
heat because James Harden's resume is like a novel, and
if you look at Reeves his his resume, his pro
basketball reference page is like a pamphlet. So that's how
you juxtaposed playoff Harden and playoff Reeves. It's a Scooby
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Dooby do special. It's a Scooby Dow special that Austin
Reeves is a glorified role player. He's a supporting actor
who's masquerading as a co star and here we've seen
it in the postseason, much like every episode of Scooby Do,
the mass gets ripped off and you're like, I wouldnt
have gotten away with any if it wasn't for Upesky
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playoff games. Now, the rumors have been out there for
some time that Reeves is on track to get a massive,
five year, two hundred and forty one million dollar contract extension.
And listen, you know how I feel about the Lakers here,
but every Laker historian might want to go out and
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get a barth bag. If you do that, Oh my god,
that would be so great. I will celebrate Austin Reeves
getting a two hundred and forty one million dollar extension
because he is making every possible argument he does not
deserve that. Signing that check would be an epic mistake.
And I don't know about you, but I'm all for it.
Not for him, of course, for him, it would be
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wonderful for everyone else involved who's wearing that uniform. My god,
the classic regular season mirage looks great until the games
actually matter. And the nickname his nickname, Austin Reeves Hillbilly Kobe,
has never been more accurate. Regular season occasionally puts up
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stats that reminds you of Kobe Bryant postseason. He plays
like you picked up a hillbilly hitch hiking on the
side of a country road, and until proven otherwise, this
is simply who he is. If you pay him like
a superstar, you're buying a ticket to an early playoff
heartache for half a decade. And you combine it's my
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favorite backcourts that the Lakers have ever put out in
the playoff game. Got Austin Reeves and Marcus Smart, who
somehow is still in the NBA. I thought he would
be out by now he's still there. So Marcus Smart
and Austin Reeves you've got. We call it the Freemason backcourt.
And they took thirty one shots. They missed twenty four
of them, which, again, I who am I to criticize
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I did not play in the NBA. I just I
guess I'm being mean. I don't think that's good. Well,
here's Lebron. You're the question and the answer. It was
not a very good offensive performance. Lebron's numbers were fine,
but the rest of the team not that good. Here
is Lebron, who left the court early before the game
huffing and puffing. You'll hear the question and the answer
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about the offense. Take a listen, where do you think
the offense are issues are coming from?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Obviously that's a grant of issues coming from.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, we have the guy averaged thirty seven in the game.
What are you thirty five.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
This year three and a half?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I mean, what do you what are you asking?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, well I'm asking.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I mean, like you, there's the issues right there? Are
we playing against the number one defensive team in the
NBA when you play against the world champions and having
a guy that averages thirty four and beat special.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
All right, so we now know what Lebron is going
to use when the Lakers are swept by the thunder.
He's given you a preview of his concession speech. Okay,
so Luca's not going to play. What remember those stories
that they Luca up his agents planted as people planted
in the media about how it was the greater shape
of his life and all this stuff. And then they
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planted some more stories that he went to Europe went
back home for special treatment so he'd be ready to
go for the Lakers. The way that Tarico and Reggie
Miller were talking. They it sounded like they were told
he ain't playing in the series. Yeah, he's just there
as a Laker girl on the sidelines. Rah rah go Lakers. Uh,
it's so great. And Brody's already sounded like he's already beaten,
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Like what happened to the attitude? Hey, we don't have him,
other guys are gonna step off. We're gonna get it done. No, no,
it's well booooo, we don't have Luca. Were well, well,
well where so pathetic?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Now on the winning side. Shade jogis Alexander, the former Clipper,
was asked about the test or whether it wasn't much money.
It wasn't much of a test against the Lakers. Uh
for the thunder, SGA said, quote tonight was very simple.
Multiple bodies that means multiple open or multiple people are open,
was what he said postgame on I don't know I
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was NBC or Pete Cock. I don't know. I really
don't know what I'm watching. I just try to find
the game until I find it and then I settle
in and that's it, all right. So the question, SGA said,
game number one of the he said it was quote
very simple based on how the Lakers were playing defense.
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So how do you parse these words from Sga, the
former Clipper. So Shay jogis Alexander calling game one simple
is adorable. My word is adorable. He's being polite. The
real word he should have used is effortless. He basically said, listen,
we didn't even play that well, and the Lakers suck
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so much that they still needed a search party. Okay,
look at the tape. Sga had more turnovers than assist
and he didn't really seem to break much of a
sweat in this game. And the Lakers weren't just beaten,
they were sculpted, reshaped, and set aside. The Lebron's crew
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got the Hasbro treatment, meaning they were molded like a
big pile of purple and gold. Plato and just the
Thunder were a bunch of board preschoolers, and then they
just left it out to dry. Oklahoma City never trailed
in the second half. They shot almost fifty percent from
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the field, knocked down thirty money balls, and played what
amounted to it seemed like half energy kind of a
walk through. They had some referees out there. So the
Thunder are so deep that they can play their sea
level and the Lakers are so pathetic, and Oklahoma City
still wins by eighteen covers a massive point spread, just
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a massive point spread. It wasn't a contest. It was
you know, it actually could have been a lot worse.
The firepower that the thunder have. And you've got Lebron
already playing the victim. He knows, Lebron knows it's over.
That sounded like a beaten man. Lebron James knows the
Lakers are toast and he's preparing all of its excuses.
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It's never his fault. It's never, no, no, no, You've
gotta have a fall guy. I Meanwhile, speaking of fall guys,
we go to Boston. The Celtics are not in the
NBA playoffs anymore. However, they did make some news. All
star Jalen Brown, one of the great space cadets in
the NBA, Jalen Brown has been fined fifty thousand for
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public criticism of game officials. This following what he had
said the other night. We talked about it in named
Malvin Monologue. In a previous episode of the show, Brown
was on a live stream he hosted not I don't
believe with Blake Snell, the twitch guy that occasionally pitches
for the Dodgers. So Jalen Brown in a live stream
(15:55):
he hosts, coming on game officials, he commented, He said,
clearly had in a gen in the series against the
seventy six ers, so they had an agenda to call
fouls against him, Jalen Brown for pushing off when he
drove towards the basket while handling the ball. He said,
there's some referees that need to be investigated. He says,
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every good basketball player does this, and then he claimed
that he was told by some of the referees that
this was a point of emphasis to screw over Jalen
Brown of the Celtics. All right, so the question what
did the NBA accomplish by fighting the Celtics Jalen Brown. So,
the NBA didn't accomplish much by finding Jalen Brown, unless
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the goal was to have a Neon yellow highlighter and
drag it across every word that he said. I did
some malor Matthew. Now, granted it's my version of math.
I believe I am correct on this. You can fact
check me if you want, if you want, and there's
nothing the consumer of audio content loves more than fact
checking the clown the train seal on the radio. I
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did some maln maass. So a fifty thousand dollars fine
to Jalen Brown. He makes fifty three million a year.
So that is the equivalent if you made fifty thousand
dollars a year and you illegally cross the street and
some cop with a stick up their tooks gave you
a ticket, a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket, that would
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be the same thing. So if you make fifty grand,
a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket is the same to
a fifty thousand dollars fine for a guy making fifty
three million, which is a small price to pay forgetting
to use the Zebras as a fall guy. And honestly,
Jalen's livestreams had less like analysis and more like the
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closing argument in a case of the missing accountability. The
Celtics blew a three to one lead lost Game seven
at home against a ragtag Sixers team that the very
next game went out lost by almost forty to the Knickerbockers,
And you're gonna blame the referees. What are you doing
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if there was an agenda, don't you think based on
the popularity index that if there was an agenda, it
probably would have been by the referees. Let's see how
many wide open you know, looks the Celtics can can
get here and miss. Maybe we should help them out
because they can't make anything, all right, because you think
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from a ratings standpoint, the Celtics have more fans than
the Sixers and all that. But the investigation should not
start with the officiating. It should start with the fact
that Celtics, they're so stubborn and they kept shooting three
point shots start twenty six percent from three point land
in that closeout game at home where they were eliminated
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Saturday so today Our wednesday show still Late tuesday in The,
West But wednesday the, sixth and On friday the, eighth
we'll be hanging out The Red sox, game and then
after that arout ten o'clock we'll beat The Mighty squirrel
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tap room steps away From Finway. Squirrel, yeah we'll be
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lorena and. Everybody then On saturday we hang out THE wuss,
game weather, permitting supposed to throw out the first, pitch
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Fan and, yes your comments can and we'll be used
against you in the court of the mallor, Militia dan writes.
In dan writes. In he, Says Austin reeves doing his
Best James harden no show and disappearing in the. Playoffs
(24:00):
that's a good call by, You. DAN i thought you
would say something, else but you you nailed it on
that no. Question Late Night drug tester says the only
question isn't will The lakers win a? Game it's how
high can they make the spread for the rest of the.
Games may not be high. Enough, well that's a great,
point late night drug, tester AND i, believe IF i
am not, mistaken that leads us to the amazing fun
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fact of the. Hour are you ready for the fun
fact of the? Hour right? Away in malor fun? Fact
heading Into tuesday, Night Lebron james had played one nine
and TWENTY nba games that includes the playoffs during his.
Career the game On tuesday night was the first time
in his career that his team had been an underdog
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of more than fifteen, points And lebron couldn't even cover the.
Spread it sucks so. Great, Oh i've loved. IT i
am loving. It every sh out Of, luca every shot
Of luca there sitting on the, Bench i'm, like, boy
he's a really good cheerleader for The. Lakers i'm so
glad they picked up a nice little. Cheerleader is it
(25:10):
possible when The lakers hornswaggled The mavericks or THE nba
orchestrated That Luca dotic. Trade to compensate for the, trade they, Say, Hey,
luka we're gonna give You Anthony davis's. Superpower where your street.
Clothes we're Gonna we're gonna make that your your deal is? That?
No all? Right? Uh? Shane and the moyin says it
(25:33):
was great to hear truck stop fungus call, in and
then he says he's blocked me ON. X, Okay, WELL
i don't know what's going on with, that BUT i.
DON'T i don't get into these junior high school. Debates
not my jam Ferg dog writes in from that winter
wonderland Of, fortunite just be a. Winter did you see
The denver in just outside them with that fifteen inches of?
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Snow fifteen It's, may Early, may and fifteen inches of.
Snow let it, Snow let it, Snow let it, Snow
let it snow over a foot in the. Mountains and just,
man some of the. Photos that sounds. Horrible to check
in with the. Milkman major, springstorm they, say by the
(26:19):
time it's done. NOW i looked at the weather. Earlier
they said like fifteen, inches but they said could be
bring up to that's a weasel, term up to twenty
four inches of snow To. Colorado, wow it's. Impressive that
is some serious late winter whiplash type weather. There and
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then the cool thing is our friends In Denver point
out like it could, snow and then two days from
now it'll be like perfectly fine and it'll be nothing
to worry, about and it'll be seventy five. Degrees so
it's the magic of the weather patterns In. Colorado we still.
Haven't When roberto quit radio for his dream job of
being a school bus, driver he left behind His doppler
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two thousand. Radars so we do have The Mexican doppler
two thousand radar that he left. Behind so we have
that ready to, go and let's go to the. Fons
let's say, Hello Eeny, Meani Miny, moe who's in the leadoff.
Chair let's say hello To Lucky tony in The Bay. Area,
Hello Lucky, Tony, Welcome my doubler don't, work hey.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
MAN a couple of years AGO i called in and
the next caller Was Angry, bill and he said THAT
i was certified AND i wear that as a badger.
Honor and what DID i say WHEN i paid at the?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Brothel what did you say when you paid at the
brothel in Uh? NEVADA i don't. Know what did you?
Say what did you?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Say what about a nineteen year old?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Girl?
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Thanksvan, okay there you.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
GO i think you have to say that Before wells
Because Angry. Bill of, course that was where he became
famous on the Show what about a now Ye? Girl
that was back WHEN i, said how. RIDICULOUS i still
believe it's it's still ridiculous that they have the netting
around the. STADIUMS i know why they did. IT i
understand it was a liability and they were getting sued
(28:11):
because people were no one's paying attention when they go
to baseball. Games everyone's on their phone and they're, watching
and so they get joinked in the head with the
baseball and some people were getting. HURT i think an
old woman died as a result of. It so that's
why they put the netting. Up it's still. Dumb for
one hundred years they were able to have baseball without
netting wrapping around the entire lower deck of the. Stadium
(28:33):
but that was When Angry bill called all, upset and you,
know he, screaming reading me The Riot. Act you, know
what about the? Kids what about the? Children what about
the let's go back to the phones And Niini, Meanie, Mine,
moe pick a caller by their. Name let's go to
hunter In North, Carolina, Hello, hunter, Welcome hey.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
MAN i was wondering as As Michael leprechaun informed, you
who's throwing out the first Pitch? Friday?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Uh, WELL i know he is. NOT i don't know
had The Red sox, GAME i not THE Wu sox.
GAME i, Know, yeah who's who's at the Game?
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Friday, WELL i know how you feel about retired, numbers
BUT i heard an interview With Wade boggs, yesterday and
all the surviving members with retired numbers will be throwing
out the first pitch for some.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
ANNIVERSARY i can't remember what the anniversary is In, Boston
so is that?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Right?
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to take them, first but there you. Go THERE'S i
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a guy in town who would send us once a,
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but it was. Wonderful when it, lasted we were very.
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of The dodger. DOG i believe it's. Overrated that's. It
what do we? Have Ryan wrights and, says are The
clippers currently in the? Playoffs Damn at least The lakers
(31:32):
won a playoff. Series, okay, there you put that on
a t. Shirt at least The lakers won a playoff.
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you never read my. Tweet you just use my city
to pivot to. WEATHER i want to. Refight, okay that's. Right,
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said this series is in the. Refrigerator The thunder were
in cruise control from the opening tip and still not
FROM i think it was seven to nothing at the
start from the opening, tip and still easily cover the.
Fifteen as she was up to, sixteen they still covered.
That lebron's matt At or style defense is going to
cut it against the actual. Competition So i've now read your.
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from parts. Unknown he, says ten out of ten on
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resort to Starting bronnie this. SERIES i did see that
the podcaster Podcaster reddick burned through a bunch of timeouts
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in the second quarter and then didn't have much in
the fourth. QUARTER i don't even know. That, like to,
me THESE nba timeout things just bull. Crap there are
so many automatic. Timeouts if you go to AN nba
GAME tv, timeouts burn through all your timeouts because you
got all these free. Timeouts, anyway you you got a
lot going on. There, yeh Super Mark steve, says what
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do you like? More pooping on Playoff harden or pooping
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sophie's choice. Situation actually it's the opposite of sophie's. Choice
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HOUSTON i think he wants me to talk about A
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korea listening to us on the, stream, says even If
luca walks back through that, door The lakers still look
like a team trying to fix a flat tire with
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bron's co workers say, What, uh, Yeah, yeah, yeah so
someone Named cuffs The. Legend who the hell is? THIS
(34:58):
i don't does anyone know who this? Is, no he,
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GREAT i am really enjoying. This can they do a
best of eleven and so The thunder can win six
games against The. Lakers it's gonna be so. Fun we
(36:06):
already Have lebron, Speech we already have. That wealf only
we Had, luca we'd be in good. Shape but we
don't Have. Luca so that's why we're in. Trouble blah blah,
blah blah blah. Blah all, right is The ben Mahlerd
show time now for the Who AM? I? Game and
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Dwayne wade and me for most turnovers in the first
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So here in our number one do the Lakers have
an Austin Reeves problem? In the playoffs, they were run
off the court by Oklahoma City. Also as Ga, the
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former Clipper said, Game one for the Thunder was quote
very simple against Lebron's Lakers. How do you parse these words?
We'll also get into Lebron planting, the excuses for the
lakers pathetic offensive performance, and what did the NBA accomplish
by fighting the Celtics Jalen Brown for a live stream
(00:46):
rant at the NBA officials. We'll talk about all of
that and more as we cut and run right here
in our number one. Well that went about as expected. Well,
come in not beginning of another night of the Ben
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so our lead this hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball
Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy. Yeah, so
I think you know where're gonna start. As that time
of the year, this is what we do this time
of the year. It's all right. There was some playoff games.
We don't pay attention to the regular season in Pro
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bouncy Ball. The playoffs we pay attention. So away we go.
We start out in the dust bowl where the reigning
champions of Pro Bouncy Ball reside. And it ain't the Lakers,
the Thunder and Lakers having a hoe down in Oklahoma. Now,
I don't know if you saw this game or not,
(03:49):
possibly possibly not. They got to get some better b roll.
You know how they come back from commercials. It was
on it was an NBC or Pete Cock one of
thostenings and came back from comercial and they showed downtown Oklahoma, City,
which you know, it's not it's not, you know, not
that great to look at. You know, maybe build some
more skyscrapers or something, I don't know, or show a
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cowboy or something like that or something, you know, Oklahoma stuff.
The skyline of Oklahoma City not not all that great anyway.
Chet Holmgren had twenty four points and twelve rebounds, the
guy that looks like Skeletor and Oklahoma City who didn't
play at their peak, and they still stopped the Lakers
(04:32):
one oh eight to ninety and in that game one
of the Western Conference semi finals. Now Shay Jiogis, Alexander
the former Clipper, and A. J. Mitchell each had eighteen
points as well for the Thunder. The Thunder now have
played five playoff games, and they have won five playoff
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games this year, five and zero in the playoffs, despite
missing Jalen Williams, oh my, it didn't go whammy. I
can't play though, thirst straight game he has missed. Oklahoma
City will host Game two, which way will also win comfortably.
That'll be on Thursday. The better story, though, is in
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the losing locker room. The better story in the losing
the locker room. So Lebron James, as he has been
known to do when his team loses, he storms off
the court has a conniption fit before the game's over. Yep, Lebron,
he didn't stick around for the end of it. He
walked off the court as they were about twenty seconds
or so to go in the game. And Lebron is
much too important, much too important to stay on the
(05:36):
court until the end of the game. What do you
expect from Lebron now? The better story, as I said
losing locker room. Popular opinion by popular people is that
Austin Reeves, who had an absolute clunker, was the driving
force behind the Lakers being spanked. In Game one, Reeves
took sixteen shots. He missed thirteen of the sixteen. That
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is a shooting percentage of less than twenty percent. He
did not make a three point shot. I'm told that
is not good. Reeves finished with eight points, turned the
ball over four times, and played like he should be
back somewhere in Oklahoma playing pickup basketball. Now at a
that's a good jumping out points. So let us discuss
the question do the Lakers have an Austin Reeves problem
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in the playoffs? So I've got Scooby Doo, Hasbro and Jaywalking,
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to be moonstruck, is what we're going
to be. We're going to be moonstruck. So a to
answer the question, do the Lakers have an Austin Reeves
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problem in the playoffs? I am nodding my head. Yes. Now.
A lot of new geniuses told me I was out
of my bloody mind last year when I pointed out
how ineffective and how overwhelmed Austin Reeves played for the
Lakers against Minnesota in the playoffs. You said, you're just
a Laker hater. Okay, well, let's look at this again.
So the Lakers don't just have an Austin Reeves problem.
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They have an Austin Reeves in the playoffs problem. That's
what they've got. Let's be real. Playoff Austin is officially
a thing. Okay. You might not want to admit it.
You're in denial. That's fine. It's a thing, okay, And
it's not the kind of thing you have any chance
of going very far in and being considered a legitimate contender.
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If he's one of your top rung players, and this
is now back to back years and we have a
sample size that tells the story now and we have
seen it in these playoff environments. He's overmatched. He's not
that good. He didn't just have a bad night. Austin
Reeves submitting a formal application to be the new playoff
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liability and the numbers tell the tale of a person
with multiple personalities, much blind Scott that calls the show,
and he's got multiple personalities. Austin Reeves. Now his playoff
efficiency drops noticeably. He is not very good shooting the basketball.
He often vanishes from behind the three point line, and
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when the lights get pretty bright, he's not wearing sunglasses.
So Reeves he doesn't get that whole playoff Harden level
heat because James Harden's resume is like a novel, and
if you look at Reeves his his resume, his pro
basketball reference page is like a pamphlet. So that's how
you juxtaposed playoff Harden and playoff Reeves. It's a Scooby
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Dooby do special. It's a Scooby Dow special that Austin
Reeves is a glorified role player. He's a supporting actor
who's masquerading as a co star and here we've seen
it in the postseason, much like every episode of Scooby Do,
the mass gets ripped off and you're like, I wouldnt
have gotten away with any if it wasn't for Upesky
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playoff games. Now, the rumors have been out there for
some time that Reeves is on track to get a massive,
five year, two hundred and forty one million dollar contract extension.
And listen, you know how I feel about the Lakers here,
but every Laker historian might want to go out and
(09:22):
get a barth bag. If you do that, Oh my god,
that would be so great. I will celebrate Austin Reeves
getting a two hundred and forty one million dollar extension
because he is making every possible argument he does not
deserve that. Signing that check would be an epic mistake.
And I don't know about you, but I'm all for it.
Not for him, of course, for him, it would be
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wonderful for everyone else involved who's wearing that uniform. My god,
the classic regular season mirage looks great until the games
actually matter. And the nickname his nickname, Austin Reeves Hillbilly Kobe,
has never been more accurate. Regular season occasionally puts up
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stats that reminds you of Kobe Bryant postseason. He plays
like you picked up a hillbilly hitch hiking on the
side of a country road, and until proven otherwise, this
is simply who he is. If you pay him like
a superstar, you're buying a ticket to an early playoff
heartache for half a decade. And you combine it's my
(10:30):
favorite backcourts that the Lakers have ever put out in
the playoff game. Got Austin Reeves and Marcus Smart, who
somehow is still in the NBA. I thought he would
be out by now he's still there. So Marcus Smart
and Austin Reeves you've got. We call it the Freemason backcourt.
And they took thirty one shots. They missed twenty four
of them, which, again, I who am I to criticize
(10:52):
I did not play in the NBA. I just I
guess I'm being mean. I don't think that's good. Well,
here's Lebron. You're the question and the answer. It was
not a very good offensive performance. Lebron's numbers were fine,
but the rest of the team not that good. Here
is Lebron, who left the court early before the game
huffing and puffing. You'll hear the question and the answer
(11:12):
about the offense. Take a listen, where do you think
the offense are issues are coming from?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Obviously that's a grant of issues coming from.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, we have the guy averaged thirty seven in the game.
What are you thirty five.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
This year three and a half?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I mean, what do you what are you asking?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, well I'm asking.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I mean, like you, there's the issues right there? Are
we playing against the number one defensive team in the
NBA when you play against the world champions and having
a guy that averages thirty four and beat special.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
All right, so we now know what Lebron is going
to use when the Lakers are swept by the thunder.
He's given you a preview of his concession speech. Okay,
so Luca's not going to play. What remember those stories
that they Luca up his agents planted as people planted
in the media about how it was the greater shape
of his life and all this stuff. And then they
(12:06):
planted some more stories that he went to Europe went
back home for special treatment so he'd be ready to
go for the Lakers. The way that Tarico and Reggie
Miller were talking. They it sounded like they were told
he ain't playing in the series. Yeah, he's just there
as a Laker girl on the sidelines. Rah rah go Lakers. Uh,
it's so great. And Brody's already sounded like he's already beaten,
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Like what happened to the attitude? Hey, we don't have him,
other guys are gonna step off. We're gonna get it done. No, no,
it's well booooo, we don't have Luca. Were well, well,
well where so pathetic?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Now on the winning side. Shade jogis Alexander, the former Clipper,
was asked about the test or whether it wasn't much money.
It wasn't much of a test against the Lakers. Uh
for the thunder, SGA said, quote tonight was very simple.
Multiple bodies that means multiple open or multiple people are open,
was what he said postgame on I don't know I
(13:07):
was NBC or Pete Cock. I don't know. I really
don't know what I'm watching. I just try to find
the game until I find it and then I settle
in and that's it, all right. So the question, SGA said,
game number one of the he said it was quote
very simple based on how the Lakers were playing defense.
(13:28):
So how do you parse these words from Sga, the
former Clipper. So Shay jogis Alexander calling game one simple
is adorable. My word is adorable. He's being polite. The
real word he should have used is effortless. He basically said, listen,
we didn't even play that well, and the Lakers suck
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so much that they still needed a search party. Okay,
look at the tape. Sga had more turnovers than assist
and he didn't really seem to break much of a
sweat in this game. And the Lakers weren't just beaten,
they were sculpted, reshaped, and set aside. The Lebron's crew
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got the Hasbro treatment, meaning they were molded like a
big pile of purple and gold. Plato and just the
Thunder were a bunch of board preschoolers, and then they
just left it out to dry. Oklahoma City never trailed
in the second half. They shot almost fifty percent from
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the field, knocked down thirty money balls, and played what
amounted to it seemed like half energy kind of a
walk through. They had some referees out there. So the
Thunder are so deep that they can play their sea
level and the Lakers are so pathetic, and Oklahoma City
still wins by eighteen covers a massive point spread, just
(14:54):
a massive point spread. It wasn't a contest. It was
you know, it actually could have been a lot worse.
The firepower that the thunder have. And you've got Lebron
already playing the victim. He knows, Lebron knows it's over.
That sounded like a beaten man. Lebron James knows the
Lakers are toast and he's preparing all of its excuses.
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It's never his fault. It's never, no, no, no, You've
gotta have a fall guy. I Meanwhile, speaking of fall guys,
we go to Boston. The Celtics are not in the
NBA playoffs anymore. However, they did make some news. All
star Jalen Brown, one of the great space cadets in
the NBA, Jalen Brown has been fined fifty thousand for
(15:34):
public criticism of game officials. This following what he had
said the other night. We talked about it in named
Malvin Monologue. In a previous episode of the show, Brown
was on a live stream he hosted not I don't
believe with Blake Snell, the twitch guy that occasionally pitches
for the Dodgers. So Jalen Brown in a live stream
(15:55):
he hosts, coming on game officials, he commented, He said,
clearly had in a gen in the series against the
seventy six ers, so they had an agenda to call
fouls against him, Jalen Brown for pushing off when he
drove towards the basket while handling the ball. He said,
there's some referees that need to be investigated. He says,
(16:16):
every good basketball player does this, and then he claimed
that he was told by some of the referees that
this was a point of emphasis to screw over Jalen
Brown of the Celtics. All right, so the question what
did the NBA accomplish by fighting the Celtics Jalen Brown. So,
the NBA didn't accomplish much by finding Jalen Brown, unless
(16:38):
the goal was to have a Neon yellow highlighter and
drag it across every word that he said. I did
some malor Matthew. Now, granted it's my version of math.
I believe I am correct on this. You can fact
check me if you want, if you want, and there's
nothing the consumer of audio content loves more than fact
checking the clown the train seal on the radio. I
(17:01):
did some maln maass. So a fifty thousand dollars fine
to Jalen Brown. He makes fifty three million a year.
So that is the equivalent if you made fifty thousand
dollars a year and you illegally cross the street and
some cop with a stick up their tooks gave you
a ticket, a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket, that would
(17:23):
be the same thing. So if you make fifty grand,
a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket is the same to
a fifty thousand dollars fine for a guy making fifty
three million, which is a small price to pay forgetting
to use the Zebras as a fall guy. And honestly,
Jalen's livestreams had less like analysis and more like the
(17:44):
closing argument in a case of the missing accountability. The
Celtics blew a three to one lead lost Game seven
at home against a ragtag Sixers team that the very
next game went out lost by almost forty to the Knickerbockers,
And you're gonna blame the referees. What are you doing
(18:06):
if there was an agenda, don't you think based on
the popularity index that if there was an agenda, it
probably would have been by the referees. Let's see how
many wide open you know, looks the Celtics can can
get here and miss. Maybe we should help them out
because they can't make anything, all right, because you think
(18:26):
from a ratings standpoint, the Celtics have more fans than
the Sixers and all that. But the investigation should not
start with the officiating. It should start with the fact
that Celtics, they're so stubborn and they kept shooting three
point shots start twenty six percent from three point land
in that closeout game at home where they were eliminated
(18:46):
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Got the big meet and greet this weekend in the
Boston area, a couple of nights there, so we're looking
forward to that. In the meantime, though, if you want
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Lebron james absolutely annihilating one Of lebron's Teammates insider friendly
fire and what did they? Say who was it? About
whose Team lebron upset? With we'll get to the bottom
of that, mystery BECAUSE i know you're dying to know
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who someone very close To lebron is. ATTACKING i, KNOW i,
Know we'll get to that and we will do it.
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Podcasts Bill miller and. You it is The Ben Mallor.
Show the season Of Malor meet And greets is upon.
Us what a great. TIME a couple weeks back In
kentucky And, Ohio cincinnati And, Newport, kentucky and this weekend
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we head to The commonwealth and this will be a
bigger and maybe better. EVENT i don't, know No dick And. Dayton,
instead we've Got mike The, Leprechaun alf The Alien, Opiner
Danny DeVito the Trash, man and who knows who else
is going to show. Up some big. Names rumors That
jerry From Rhode, island she's going to make a celebrity
appearance as. Well so these are some big time players
(21:50):
and The Mallard. Militias two nights one takeover The commonwealth
belongs to The Ben mallor show at least On friday And.
Saturday so today Our wednesday show still Late tuesday in The,
West But wednesday the, sixth and On friday the, eighth
we'll be hanging out The Red sox, game and then
after that arout ten o'clock we'll beat The Mighty squirrel
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tap room steps away From Finway. Squirrel, yeah we'll be
hanging out with squirrels and everyone will be, There, Coop
lorena and. Everybody then On saturday we hang out THE wuss,
game weather, permitting supposed to throw out the first, pitch
and then The Malart meet and greet At Bowin's Irish
bar and, patio private, room live, band amazing. Food you
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don't need an, invitation you don't need a, password there's
no cover. Charge just show up and hang out and
you might even have a good. Time don't tell anybody
you have a good. Time tell me how a terrible.
Time it was just horrific and all that back to,
it back to it talking TO nba here and if
you'd like to be part of the show eight, seven
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seven ninety nine On. Fox that's eight seven and seven nine, nine,
six six three sixt. Nine also available for you on
x At Ben mallard for THE. Nba, yeah, no not.
Really and Then lorraine uh THE fsr tech Queen Hi,
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bell who's going to Be i'm assuming That lorena will
fall in love With salem and might even become a
witch while In, salem might might happen find. Roots you're
gonna go over, There i'm sure at some point this.
Weekend And Koober loop at A bronco. Fan that's A bronco,
(23:39):
Fan and, yes your comments can and we'll be used
against you in the court of the mallor, Militia dan writes.
In dan writes. In he, Says Austin reeves doing his
Best James harden no show and disappearing in the. Playoffs
(24:00):
that's a good call by, You. DAN i thought you
would say something, else but you you nailed it on
that no. Question Late Night drug tester says the only
question isn't will The lakers win a? Game it's how
high can they make the spread for the rest of the.
Games may not be high. Enough, well that's a great,
point late night drug, tester AND i, believe IF i
am not, mistaken that leads us to the amazing fun
(24:24):
fact of the. Hour are you ready for the fun
fact of the? Hour right? Away in malor fun? Fact
heading Into tuesday, Night Lebron james had played one nine
and TWENTY nba games that includes the playoffs during his.
Career the game On tuesday night was the first time
in his career that his team had been an underdog
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of more than fifteen, points And lebron couldn't even cover the.
Spread it sucks so. Great, Oh i've loved. IT i
am loving. It every sh out Of, luca every shot
Of luca there sitting on the, Bench i'm, like, boy
he's a really good cheerleader for The. Lakers i'm so
glad they picked up a nice little. Cheerleader is it
(25:10):
possible when The lakers hornswaggled The mavericks or THE nba
orchestrated That Luca dotic. Trade to compensate for the, trade they, Say, Hey,
luka we're gonna give You Anthony davis's. Superpower where your street.
Clothes we're Gonna we're gonna make that your your deal is? That?
No all? Right? Uh? Shane and the moyin says it
(25:33):
was great to hear truck stop fungus call, in and
then he says he's blocked me ON. X, Okay, WELL
i don't know what's going on with, that BUT i.
DON'T i don't get into these junior high school. Debates
not my jam Ferg dog writes in from that winter
wonderland Of, fortunite just be a. Winter did you see
The denver in just outside them with that fifteen inches of?
(25:56):
Snow fifteen It's, may Early, may and fifteen inches of.
Snow let it, Snow let it, Snow let it, Snow
let it snow over a foot in the. Mountains and just,
man some of the. Photos that sounds. Horrible to check
in with the. Milkman major, springstorm they, say by the
(26:19):
time it's done. NOW i looked at the weather. Earlier
they said like fifteen, inches but they said could be
bring up to that's a weasel, term up to twenty
four inches of snow To. Colorado, wow it's. Impressive that
is some serious late winter whiplash type weather. There and
(26:42):
then the cool thing is our friends In Denver point
out like it could, snow and then two days from
now it'll be like perfectly fine and it'll be nothing
to worry, about and it'll be seventy five. Degrees so
it's the magic of the weather patterns In. Colorado we still.
Haven't When roberto quit radio for his dream job of
being a school bus, driver he left behind His doppler
(27:04):
two thousand. Radars so we do have The Mexican doppler
two thousand radar that he left. Behind so we have
that ready to, go and let's go to the. Fons
let's say, Hello Eeny, Meani Miny, moe who's in the leadoff.
Chair let's say hello To Lucky tony in The Bay. Area,
Hello Lucky, Tony, Welcome my doubler don't, work hey.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
MAN a couple of years AGO i called in and
the next caller Was Angry, bill and he said THAT
i was certified AND i wear that as a badger.
Honor and what DID i say WHEN i paid at the?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Brothel what did you say when you paid at the
brothel in Uh? NEVADA i don't. Know what did you?
Say what did you?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
Say what about a nineteen year old?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Girl?
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Thanksvan, okay there you.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
GO i think you have to say that Before wells
Because Angry. Bill of, course that was where he became
famous on the Show what about a now Ye? Girl
that was back WHEN i, said how. RIDICULOUS i still
believe it's it's still ridiculous that they have the netting
around the. STADIUMS i know why they did. IT i
understand it was a liability and they were getting sued
(28:11):
because people were no one's paying attention when they go
to baseball. Games everyone's on their phone and they're, watching
and so they get joinked in the head with the
baseball and some people were getting. HURT i think an
old woman died as a result of. It so that's
why they put the netting. Up it's still. Dumb for
one hundred years they were able to have baseball without
netting wrapping around the entire lower deck of the. Stadium
(28:33):
but that was When Angry bill called all, upset and you,
know he, screaming reading me The Riot. Act you, know
what about the? Kids what about the? Children what about
the let's go back to the phones And Niini, Meanie, Mine,
moe pick a caller by their. Name let's go to
hunter In North, Carolina, Hello, hunter, Welcome hey.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
MAN i was wondering as As Michael leprechaun informed, you
who's throwing out the first Pitch? Friday?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Uh, WELL i know he is. NOT i don't know
had The Red sox, GAME i not THE Wu sox.
GAME i, Know, yeah who's who's at the Game?
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Friday, WELL i know how you feel about retired, numbers
BUT i heard an interview With Wade boggs, yesterday and
all the surviving members with retired numbers will be throwing
out the first pitch for some.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
ANNIVERSARY i can't remember what the anniversary is In, Boston
so is that?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah broage and first pitch Throwers?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Friday who is?
Speaker 7 (29:32):
That?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
So David? Ortiz that Means, Ortiz, Bogs, uh who? ELSE
i don't know how many other GUYS i can't.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Remember he listened a bunch and uh and and for
some REASON i can't remember them. All you, KNOW i
know they. Mentioned BUT i don't think he's still, alive is?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
HE i don't, KNOW i do. NOT i don't think
So i'm.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
NOT i THOUGHT i share that with, you AND i
was thinking about you, Guys so have a good, trip all.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Right thank?
Speaker 2 (29:58):
You.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
HUNTER i appreciate. That we'll check it to.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Look forward to the dogs.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Song i'm not, social all, Right, well we'll put a
bunch of pictures up. There once we have we have
to take them, first but there you. Go THERE'S i
want to get videos. Too are we doing? Video? YEAH
i do like a like a whole video collage type, thing,
cameo you can be. Fun coop doesn't want to be in.
Video he never wants to be in. Videos you just
(30:25):
want to do a video of you eating the what
is the the? Was definitely that's going to. Happen did
you see the sausage burger that someone posted To, NO
i have not had a big old smoked, sausage, Right,
goop kill bossa kill kill the. Boss, okay, no we.
See i'm pretty. SIMPLE i just want like like the
(30:49):
Fin way the Monster. Dog that's the way to. Go
that's better than like The. Finway, FRANK i don't. KNOW
i think call it Monster. DOG i don't face even
still have, it but it. Was we used to have
a guy in town who would send us once a,
year usually in the. Summer this guy would hook us
up with a big box filled with the Monster. Dogs
it was. Great we stopped getting those many years, ago
(31:11):
but it was. Wonderful when it, lasted we were very.
Grateful it was a great mitzvah and we loved it
So AND i had an unpopular, opinion the monster dog
better than A dodger. Dog i'm not a big fan
of The dodger. DOG i believe it's. Overrated that's. It
what do we? Have Ryan wrights and, says are The
clippers currently in the? Playoffs Damn at least The lakers
(31:32):
won a playoff. Series, okay, there you put that on
a t. Shirt at least The lakers won a playoff.
Series that's, great absolutely, wonderful absolutely. Wonderful Ferk dog, says
you never read my. Tweet you just use my city
to pivot to. WEATHER i want to. Refight, okay that's. Right,
WELL i was distracted by the shiny Object Ferg. Dog he,
(31:54):
said this series is in the. Refrigerator The thunder were
in cruise control from the opening tip and still not
FROM i think it was seven to nothing at the
start from the opening, tip and still easily cover the.
Fifteen as she was up to, sixteen they still covered.
That lebron's matt At or style defense is going to
cut it against the actual. Competition So i've now read your.
(32:15):
Comments are you? Okay everything good? THERE jc rights in
from parts. Unknown he, says ten out of ten on
Your mallor. Monologue i'd imagine it was very triggering For.
Coop The lakers are simply, Outmatched will CRYING Jj reddick
resort to Starting bronnie this. SERIES i did see that
the podcaster Podcaster reddick burned through a bunch of timeouts
(32:40):
in the second quarter and then didn't have much in
the fourth. QUARTER i don't even know. That, like to,
me THESE nba timeout things just bull. Crap there are
so many automatic. Timeouts if you go to AN nba
GAME tv, timeouts burn through all your timeouts because you
got all these free. Timeouts, anyway you you got a
lot going on. There, yeh Super Mark steve, says what
(33:03):
do you like? More pooping on Playoff harden or pooping
On laker. Players that's A sophie's you, know that's a
sophie's choice. Situation actually it's the opposite of sophie's. Choice
you can't go wrong on that. Either. One the way
to Go Bagel boy rides in you called It reeves
sucks out. Loud there you. Go, absolutely i'ven the terrible In.
(33:24):
HOUSTON i think he wants me to talk about A
dodger cheating astro, series But I'm i'm good on that
And Monkey Big Monkey. Biz, doug who is In South
korea listening to us on the, stream, says even If
luca walks back through that, door The lakers still look
like a team trying to fix a flat tire with
(33:46):
a YouTube tutorial and no. Tools no, tools? Gotcha all?
Right very Nice scrooge says he's an the younger demos.
Iss finway used to have the best hot. Dogs they've
fallen off the last couple of. Years is that. True,
(34:07):
well that's. Disappointing that's that's. Unfortunate. Unfortunate Donkey sausage got
excited about the sandwich that The raina mentioned At. Finway
for some some, reason mister nice guy is jealous of
the attention That Ferg dog is. Getting he believes That
(34:30):
Ferg dog is an attention. Whore that is from mister nice.
Guy that just in The Ben maler, show SO i
Mentioned Team lebron not very happy with one of The
bron's co workers say, What, uh, Yeah, yeah, yeah so
someone Named cuffs The. Legend who the hell is? THIS
(34:58):
i don't does anyone know who this? Is, no he,
Says lebron's close, Friend cuffs The. Legend who the hell
Is cuffs The. Legend i'm sure he doesn't know WHO i,
am But i've NEVER i, mean how are you heard of?
(35:18):
Him my mama said there'd be days like. These you're
doing a talk show and you're talking About cuffs The,
legend criticizing friend Of, lebron it, says Criticizing lebron's Teammate
Jake La ravia as one of the great, Underperformers cuffs The, legend,
(35:44):
saying Send Jake La ravia To. Bangladesh that's so, good that's.
GREAT i am really enjoying. This can they do a
best of eleven and so The thunder can win six
games against The. Lakers it's gonna be so. Fun we
(36:06):
already Have lebron, Speech we already have. That wealf only
we Had, luca we'd be in good. Shape but we
don't Have. Luca so that's why we're in. Trouble blah blah,
blah blah blah. Blah all, right is The ben Mahlerd
show time now for the Who AM? I? Game and
here it. Is Caid cuttingham of The pistons has Tied
(36:26):
Dwayne wade and me for most turnovers in the first
eight games of a postseason who since they started being
tracked properly back in nineteen eighty. Four So Kid cunningham
of The Pistons detroit got By, cleveland But Kate cunningham
didn't play all that. Well cuttingham tied With Dwayne wade
and me for the most turnovers in the first eight
(36:49):
games of a postseason since they started being tracked properly
back in nineteen eighty. Four Who AM i the? Answer
we'll get to it and we will do it.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Next be sure to catch live editions Of The Ben
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we're gonna pay off the Who mi game in a.
Minute but let's get to the play of the. Day
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and as you, know it's never just the play of
the day because that would be too. Simple no, no, no, no,
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player of the. Day and we were gonna do, basketball
but this it's the second round of the. Playoffs who
the hell? Care it wasn't anything that exciting in THE
nba the two. Games, instead we go to, baseball The
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Cincinnati reds and The Chicago cubs at The Friendly confines
and it was a chubby cubby kind of Finished listen
one on pitch From maul To, bush pushy with a
chopper up the. Middle they come through the center. Field
danby's gonna.
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Score The cuts are gonna roof off The reds.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Two nights in a.
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Row tell The cruise plays this ball off to the.
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Side they got by it all, right comes ready and
Their cubs walk off The reds as you, heard second
night in a, row thirteen straight home, Win cincinnati's lost
five in a. Row they need me to come back
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it Is Caid cuttingham with The, pistons Tying Dwayne wade
and me for the most turnovers in the first eight
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games of a postseason since they started being tracked properly
back in nineteen eighty. Four that is the, Question and
what is the? Answer and who do we? Have Speedy
claxton from Burger, Man Dwayne, shinseius there's a good name From.
Paul who else do we? Have Kurt loder From rob
(39:44):
the Goat, Man Silver surfer tossed up By scrooge in
The Bay. Area coop The laker fan From femi In.
Minnesota Royce, smalley there's a good name by mister nice
Guy Naomi, scott who's thirty three. Today that's From Late
Night Drug. Test gandhi From alf The Alien, opiner The
Truth Paul pierce guessed By Just Josh robbie The mariner
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fan From shane In Des. Moines The pillsbury Dough boy
from The, Grill Sergeant Joe Joe white From Eileen Very
Good Street. Clothes Anthony davis From andy And Lino, Lakes.
Minnesota The Biggest Attention HORE i know me from Ferg
dog Also King roy same. Answer do you have an, Answer?
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