April 17, 2026 • 40 mins
Brian Noe fill in for Big Ben and talk about LaMelo Ball only being fined $60K after the play-in tournament fiasco involving Bam Adebayo & the differences between Adam Silver as commissioner & if David Stern would have handled the punishment the same way. Brian dives into why the NFL draft has similarities to March Madness + an fishy edition of the Who Am I game!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hell, what's going on? Welcome in Happy late Thursday, early Friday,
depending on where you're listening in the country. Appreciate you
checking out the show. I'll tell you what. I'm just
gonna come right right out and say it. Melard Militia,
I was lost in the world on Thursday night with
no NBA, had no NBA going on. I'm like, what
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am I gonna do with myself? There was puck going on.
But if you know me, I'm not the biggest fan
of I'll dabble. I'll dabble every now and then, you know,
the bigger matches, bigger games, I'll watch. I'll watch a
little you know, gold medal hockey action. I'll be there
for that.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'm basically what I hate when it comes to like
the uh like dip your big toe in the in
the waters of heavy metal. That's basically what I am
with with uh with hockey, you know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah,
Like you know those fans that are like, oh yeah, man,
Metallica enter sand Man and I'm just like, oh my gosh,
(01:31):
just stop talking, please. That's how I am with hockey.
That's anything I say about hockey. I feel like every hockey,
like true fan is like, oh this freaking guy again.
Now I'll watch the the gold medal Olympic stuff. I'll
watch I'll watch the Stanley Cup playoffs. I'll watch the
Stanley Cup Final. I'll get into that. End of the
regular season. No, thank you, not interested. So I was
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watching UFL That's why it was on in the background.
I'm preparing for the Ben Malors Show, a little fill
in extravaganza these late night hours. It's all I had.
So I'm aching for the NBA to be back. I'm
not aching for the NBA to be back on Amazon
in particular, but I am aching for the association to
be back, and it will be back in sort of
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full force on Friday night. That is the last installment
of the play in tournament, so we will have the
final two teams that will make it into the playoffs.
It's either gonna be the Warriors or Suns, or it's
gonna be the Hornets or the Magic. And I think
the play in tournament, if you're gonna be fair about this,
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I think it shows the best and the worst of
Adam Silver all at the same time. Okay, so let's
start with the good. There is some good, believe it
or not. With Adam Silver. I would argue that playing
tournament has been fantastic. Playing tournament this year has been awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
We've had four games so far. Unfortunately they've been on Amazon.
So that's a strike against Adam Silver. I know he's
trying to line the NBA's pockets, but meanwhile, the NBA
fans have to suffer through technical difficulties at a crucial
stage of the the Hornets game on Tuesday, and it's like,
what what do you mean technical difficulties? That's still a
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thing like this is an important stretch at the end
of the game over here. Yeah, it was terrible with
the Miami heat going on there. So I'm not a
fan of it being on Amazon. So's it's lame. To me,
Thank goodness, we still have Inside the NBA. If we
lost you know, Ernie and Shaq and Kenny and Charles,
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if we lost that show because they decided to just
take the Amazon loot, I would be even more heated
about this. Thankfully we still have Inside the NBA on ESPN.
But this whole Amazon thing, I don't want to sound
like the get off my lawn guy, old guy who
just text messaging what's that? I don't want to sound
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like that. But I can't be the only one who
hates this on Amazon. Man, Like I like flipping channels, Yeah,
you can't flip if there's a game on Amazon. It
is a no flip situation, no flipping tonight. You can't
search something else, you can't flip over to something else
in a commercial. Nope, it's just on Amazon the whole time.
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It doesn't look quite right, you know, it's not as clear.
Some people have brought that up, Others pushed back on it,
so I can't tell the difference. I don't think your
eyes are that good at this stage. It's clearly a difference.
It's not nearly as clear as it is on like
an ESPN or you know, NBC or whatever. It's just
not the same picture, man, and to have technical difficulties.
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So I'm not a fan of the NBA being on Amazon.
I don't have a problem streaming stuff on a tablet,
you know, I have no problem with it on my phone.
I do that all the time. Not a huge issue.
I do love to flip around, and streaming is not
flip friendly. But man, when you put it on your TV,
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I am not a fan whatsoever. So strike against Adam
Silver for having the NBA on Amazon. Not a fan whatsoever.
A huge strike against Adam Silver for what's happened with
LaMelo Ball. So you know, we wouldn't have had this
whole Lamello ball fiasco if we didn't have the play
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in tournament, right, So, I think the play in tournament
has been fantastic. I will give Adam Silver before I
crush this freaking I will give Adam Silver a little
bit of kudos because I think the play in tournament
has been fantastic. And this hasn't been the only year
that it's been really good, but this year in particular,
we've had four games so far, and three of them
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have been classics. We're talking like overtime games the Blazers
pulled one out against the Suns. That was insane. That
that overtime game where the Hornets pulled it out with
dirty Lamello ball and his cheap shot tactics against BAM
and Miami. There's still a great game. It goes into overtime,
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just craziness ensued at the end of regulation. At the
end of overtime, it's a great basketball game, highly entertaining.
And last night with Chef Curry doing his thing against
the Clippers, man, it's gonna be hard to be a
Clippers fan. My gosh, what keeps you going at this point?
But the Playing Tournament has been fantastic. So that was
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the brainchild of Adam Silver. It happened under his watch,
so you gotta give him credit for that. I don't
know who is still like, oh, the Playing Tournament. You've
had three out of four games that have been awesome
and the one game that wasn't truly awesome was still okay,
the Sixers in Magic that's still a close game with
about three minutes left. So it has been a great
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play in tournament this year. So props to Adam Silver
for that. Now, when it comes to roasting Adam Silver.
This Lamello Ball situation, it's just a joke, man. So
LaMelo Ball, you go way back to Tuesday night. It
seems like two weeks ago at this point, right, You
go back to Tuesday night and LaMelo Ball intentionally grabs
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the leg of Bam out of Bayo and just yanks
it back. Poor Bam falls right to the floor, hard,
bruised back. It's got a contusion over here, right, doesn't
finish the game, can't get back into the game early
in the second quarter. No more Bam and LaMelo Ball.
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No officials saw it. They can't review it. More on
that in a second. And so LaMelo Ball finishes the game.
He scores the winning basket, and the Hornets win, and
the Miami Heat season is ova just done? Pack it
in one, two, three, can coon? It's over. And so
the league was reviewing this whole thing. Should we suspend
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LaMelo Ball for the next game that's gonna be on
Friday night when the playing tournament, you know, picks back
up again. So should LaMelo Ball be out there when
the Hornets are taken on the Magic? And so shockingly
the league reviews this all right, it's dot the I's crossed.
The t's up thirty five thousand dollars fine, no suspension,
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it's been upgraded to a flagrant too foul by the way,
So if they caught this during the game, that would
have meant Lamello would have been ejected at that point,
which is absolutely what should have happened. Who that watches
the NBA with any regularity or anyone who just pays
attention to like NBA headlines, who's surprised that Adam Silver
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did not drop the hammer? That would be no one
is surprised. No one is surprised whatsoever, because he never
does it. It's so weird, man like he came in
with an iron fist, Donald Sterling get the hell out
of here, and we're like, whoa new sheriff in town.
Since then, he has been a lamb. He has been
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a substitute teacher. No. And it makes me think of
David Stern. Right, David Stern, I think would have suspended
LaMelo ball. I don't know for sure if that would
have happened, but I do think it would have. I
feel like it would have because you go back remember
the series between the Suns and the Spurs, and this
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was after the malice in the Palace and Adams I'm sorry,
David Stern was anti fighting, anti skirmishes, no bad blood.
We're not escalating anything. If any player on the bench
walks onto the court when there's an altercation, you are suspended,
no questions asked. And there was a situation in that
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Spurs Sun series where there were a couple of Sons
players literally had like a big toe barely on the court,
and David Stern's like that, sorry, you know the rules
suspense shown. So I think that David Stern would have
suspended LaMelo Ball. But Adam Silver, no, no suspension from
Adam Silver. Adam Silver is like, well, I don't know.
(10:18):
That seems like a little bit too much over here,
and let's just air on the side of leniency. Let's
just do that. So if you're keeping score, LaMelo Ball,
find thirty five thousand dollars for a quote, unnecessary and
reckless contact with Bam out of bio. So he was
fined for unnecessary and reckless contact. And then he was
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fined twenty five thousand dollars for dropping an F bomb
in the postgame in the postgame interview, So thirty five
g's for intentionally tripping Bam out of Bio or grabbing
his leg to make him fall, and then twenty five
thousand dollars for dropping a F bomb. So in the
NBA's finding right here, they're saying that the tripping of
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Bam out to Bio causing him to fall straight to
the floor, bruising his back not being able to continue
in the game, that's like marginally a little bit worse
than dropping an F bomb, is what the NBA is saying,
which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. So this is the
bad with Adam Silver. The good. Hey, we get a
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play in tournament. It's been fantastic, all right, cool, it's
on Amazon. Well that sucks. That's on Adam Silver. And
the Lamello thing where he's allowed to play on Friday
is a joke and it shows that we still have
a substitute teacher that's calling the shots and has really
no backbone whatsoever. It does remind me, is it Melissa McCarthy.
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I think she's in the heat. You ever see the Heat, Lorena,
it's with a Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. I think
I'm saying shooting people. Yeah, yeah, it's like, uh no, Yeah,
you're right. It's the heat, the heat right where they're
kind of like undercover and they're trying to figure out Yeah. Yeah,
but there's a scene where Melissa McCarthy is talking to
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the captain and she's trying to find his balls, and
I swear, I think of Adam Silver. I think of
Adam Silver every time I grabbed the audio for you.
Here's Melissa McCarthy in the heat.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Hey, if anyone seems the captain's balls, let me know.
They're about this big, a lot tinier. They're like a
pee or like a like a ball bearing or like
if you've ever seen a mouseball about half that size,
incredibly tiny. They're like really really tiny little girl balls
if little girls had balls. So you can find little
tiny girl balls that are so tiny and shriveled up,
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let me know, because I'll put them right back up.
He strolled them.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I swear, if you like, you just make that whole
speech about Adam Silver. I think it's on point. I
think it does a great job describing what we've had,
largely from him as the NBA commissioner. Little mouse balls, Yeah, totally,
it's totally what it's been. Now. The funny thing at
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the end of this. So Eric Spolstra, the head coach
of the Miami Heat, Now I'm gonna take you back
to Tuesday because it matters for the here and now. Okay,
I know Tuesday feels like ancient history, but this was
Spoe after the game on Tuesday, right, Miami loses, They
lose by one point in overtime. Their season is over,
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and he is not pleased. He's not pleased that LaMelo
Ball wasn't kicked out of the game for what he
did to Bam. This is what Eric spolsterra said on Tuesday.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I don't think it's cute. I don't think it's funny.
I think it's a stupid play. It's a dangerous play.
Obviously our best players out. I'm not making an excuse.
So the Hornets played great, you know, and they made
those plays down the stretch. We had opportunities to win.
I just that's a shame. You know, he should be
penalized for that. I don't think think that belongs in
the game. You know, tripping guys, you know shenanigans, and
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you know Curtis was there. It's his responsibility to see that.
And if it's not his responsibility. Then Zach's got to
see it. If you know, somebody has got to see that,
and that, you know, he should have been thrown out
of the game, you know for that.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, So that's what Eric Sposter said on Tuesday. Now
this is what he said on Thursday. He said, I
didn't think that he needed to be penalized more moving forward.
So like in terms of he thought that LaMelo should
have been kicked out of the game on Tuesday against
the Miami Heat. But as far as hey, should LaMelo
be suspended for Friday's game against the Magic, Eric Sposters says, no,
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I don't think he needed to be penalized more moving forward.
I don't think that would make sense. He went on
to say, I don't think he's a dirty player. I
just think in that moment all things can be true.
It was a dirty play and a dangerous play. It
should have been caught at that moment, but it wasn't,
and then you know, you move on. Just like, Okay,
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so I I sort of get where he's coming. What
he's basically saying is what good does that do the
Miami Heat? Now, right, the mellow should have been it
should have been a flagrant too in that game. He
should have been kicked out of the game against the
Miami Heat. Now we're talking about suspending him for the
next game against Orlando, and Spoe was like, nah, let
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him play against Orlando. What do I care about. I
think he's just he's got tunnel vision in thinking about
the Miami Heat and that's that. But I'll tell you
what should have happened in this whole thing. You need
to go to replay. You gotta have the ability to
go to replay if you can see it like once
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or twice at home and you're like, wow, that is
such a dirty play, Like that's there's no place in
the game for that. Why can't the NBA officials go
to the monitor or like the NFL does it, they're
gonna they're as I think they're implementing that this season,
is they can they can basically be radioed in right
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when it comes to replay assist replay assist, I believe
we'll have the ability to kick a guy out if
he did something improper. Like it doesn't have to be
a whole thing. You don't have to have the officials
in the NBA go to the monitor, turn it around like,
it's not nineteen ninety eight anymore. You should just have replay,
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assist catch that, and then figure it out from there.
Streamline it. Let's move this along. It shouldn't take a
day and a half, but you should have the ability
to review it right then and there and to come
up with any punishment that you see fit right then
and there. It doesn't do any good after the game
(16:48):
to say we've upgraded it to a flagrant two and
he's not suspended for the next game. That does absolutely
no good whatsoever. You find him a little bit more
more than the amount of the fine for him dropping
an F bomb. It's just so silly. You've got to
have the ability to replay these things that impact games.
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LaMelo Ball shouldn't have continued playing that game against the
Miami Heat. He was allowed to, and it's a crock.
So I think that Adam's sover is weak and spineless
and has little girl balls. Just like Melissa McCarthy said,
I think LaMelo should be suspended for the upcoming game.
There's no place in the game for what he did,
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but what really should have happened. You have to have
the ability to go to replay and punish him in
that specific game. It doesn't do the Miami Heat any good.
If he suspended against the Magic, it does the Heat
some good. If LaMelo was kicked out of the game
on Tuesday against the the Heat, that's exactly what should
have happened. All right, eight seven to seven ninety nine
on Fox. That is your phone number. We are often
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running here, militia. We got a lot to get to.
I'll tell you what. Getting fired up. We got ball
to talk about. Lots of ball on the menu tonight,
of course, meaning football. We'll get back to the Association
NBA playoffs right around the corner. I'm excited for the
play in tournament, the last installment here. A couple of
things to get to. There's some crazy stories also. There's
(18:14):
one story that is so ridiculous it almost seems completely
made up. We got a former football player posing as
NFL players to get about twenty million dollars in loans.
Crazy like, it doesn't even sound real. But I will
get to that as the evening rolls along as well.
Coming up next, Rolling Rolling, Wow. You know what it
(18:36):
reminds me. You know, there's this burlesque show in Vegas,
Lorrena called The Empire Strips back, you know, and when
they did because Roland makes me think of Limp Biscuit
and uh, it was another Limp Biscuit song called nookie
(18:58):
Ye and they switch it to I Did It All
for the Wookie right, because it's the Empire Strips bag,
It's the whole you know, Star Wars theme. Crazy. Would
you ever want to go see that show, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Yeah, I feel like I feel like I've seen it
in a dream before.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd go check it out. I
definitely would be up for something like that for sure.
But uh, yeah, I have time. You're in Vegas next time?
All right? That sounds good to me? Coming up next?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Is it me? Or?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Is this huge sporting event a lot like March Madness?
You might agree, you might not agree. Well, we'll throw
it against the wall, see what happens. That's on the way.
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Investing involves risk. For more information, visit we bowl dot
com slash disclosures. Is this uh Wookie or Nookie from
uh olymp Biscuit there, Lorraine?
Speaker 7 (20:59):
This is the original Nookie version unfortunately, right.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
So you're more Wookie than Nookie? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
I would definitely put myself on Team Wookie.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Team Wookie.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Definitely Wookie for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Wookie? Are you a Star Wars fan, bree.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I am. Actually that was the only reason I wanted
to go to Disneyland last year was because of Star
Wars Land opening, so that was the joy.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Okay, well good, I'm actually trying to convince Free to
get a season pass. It's it's looking a little more likely.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Yeah, I'm gonna go broke. But it's fine dark side.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, converted right there a little bit.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
There's so much good food and drinks over there, So
I'm gonna get really like Disney and it has security.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Nice. Do you get anything from that, Lorena? If you
like refer a friend, do you get.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Unfortunately, no, I do not get any per man.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That's messed up. You should get something for that, right,
Yeah you think?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I feel like you should something.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Make a free pretzel or a cheru.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Something churro at least, you know, gotta have something like
that one. Yeah. Let me go out to the phones here.
I want to go straight to Louisiana. Anthony is first
up in these wee hours. What's going on, Anthony? You're
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Hey, bruh, how you doing pretty good?
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Man?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah? Have been though? He's up today?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Huh yeah, yeah, big Ben's out. Coops out too crazy? Huh,
I say hello, I can do that.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Hey, hey cou what up Anthony?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Hey Bury?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
She said, Hi, she's on the phone. She waved it.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yeah, it's good to hear from you, Lorana.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
It's good to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
You send that. I gott a joke for you, Loraine.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
I love that joke. Let me what you got this nail?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
This nail was walking down the road, just a joke
I made us and the other kad touched it behind,
took his veh pos and it still used. Say Pope,
call nine one one and the policer will the police
saying what happened? Give him to see you.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I don't know what did the snail say?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I don't know. You haven't told Fang.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You know, Anthony, I was saying, and you might disagree
with this, but I lived in lived in New Orleans
for a couple of months, Anthony, and I thought it
was gonna be friendlier than it was. I'm not saying
it was unfriendly, but I felt like they're like tourists.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh, Anthony doesn't care.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
He doesn't care about you New Orleans story.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
He didn't care about anything. He just cares about Lorena. Okay,
we appreciate you checking in. Thanks for the joke Anthony
as well. You know, Anthony just wants to you know,
crush on the rain. I guess you didn't care about
what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
I'm a hot commodity.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You know what's funny is uh, I was driving around
a little bit. I think Anthony not paying attention was
a good example of, you know, how fired up the
militia is for you know, fill in night, you know.
But I was, I was driving around. I thought it
was funny. I was driving around today and I was
flipping around and The Herd was on, and so I'm like, oh,
let's see what Colin's talking about today. And then the
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the you know, the the speaker guy was like in
for the Herd Jason MacIntyre, and I was like, ah, week,
no Herd today. And I still listened for a little
while and it was fine. But you know, my initial
reaction was like I was, I was ready for the Herd. Brian, No,
(24:47):
I'm fine with j Mac. I just wanted to hear
what the Herd had to say.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Right when you're in the mood for one show and
you turn it on and your person's not there. It's
a little you know.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, yeah, And so I thought it was funny. I'm like,
I should really give Jason a show tonight. I feel like,
you know, if I'm like, ah Week MacIntyre and they
just flip, you know, I feel like that's what the
militia is gonna do when I'm filling in for Big Ben.
So I'm like, you know what, I gotta support my
fellow fill in hosts.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Do not forget Brian. You were filling of the Year
last year on Ben Maller's show. So the militia loves you.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, congratulations, thank you. I think they just felt sorry
for me, and they were bummed, you know that there
was no Jonas, there was no Mansi. They're like, oh gosh,
I guess I guess now or never. For No, I
think it was more like a pity vote. I think
that's what it was. Oh No, definitely not I think
(25:42):
it was. I would think it was totally out of
pity right there. But hey, whatever, give it whatever gets
us to the top. You know, I just got to
outlast Knocks and Bolano so over here, you know, and
I get a shot, get a shot at the big
time I'm gonna get back to the calls in a second.
Let me pay this off. You might not agree with this,
some of you will. But I got to thinking about
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the NFL Draft coming up. I can't wait for it.
I'm an NFL junkie, but I'd be lying to you
if I said I was just engrossed in all things draft.
This year, it's lacked a lot of buzz. We don't
have that one I don't know, that one draft pick,
that one story where everybody has an opinion about it.
You know, we just don't have that this year. And
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think about what we had last year with the Chaduur
Sanders situation. Everybody had an opinion on Shaduur Sanders, whether
he should be a first round pick, he falls to
the fifth round, and it was just nothing but opinions, opinions, opinions,
opinions on Chaudeur. Why did he drop so far? What's
going on? What's the reason for this? Everyone had an
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opinion about it. Who's the player in this draft that
everyone has an opinion on, who's the guy? There isn't
that guy. There isn't a guy that's really driving conversation
and all of that. I got to thinking where I
think the NFL Draft. I think the build up is
week this year, but I think the draft itself will
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be fantastic, And that reminds me of March Madness quite
a bit. A lot of people won't buy this because
the draft isn't an actual game, right. It's a sporting event,
but it's not a game. March Madness is a bunch
of games, so some like that comparison will throw people off.
But what I really mean by that is if you
(27:30):
really think about March Madness, there isn't a ton of
build up leading up to games, whether it's the first round,
second round, you know, we're leading up to the final four.
There isn't the type of hype and the type of
build up that you would think for something that's that big,
(27:51):
Like you'll preview games and you'll talk about it here
and there, but it's not going to just drive opinions
and drive conversation, and it just doesn't happen year after year.
That's the case. You're not gonna get people calling in
with these strong opinions about Arizona versus Michigan. They'll watch
the game, they'll be excited for it. If you're a
(28:13):
college hoops fan, if you're a basketball fan, but you're
not gonna be most likely like pounding the table with
some fierce opinion about what's going to happen or whatever
the case may be. It just doesn't drive conversation. And
I feel like that's what the NFL Draft is this season,
at least leading up to it. The storylines don't drive conversation.
(28:37):
It isn't driving opinions. But I think the draft itself
will be a lot of fun. Might get some trades
when we might get someone who falls, there's a team
that's gonna do something stupid. They're gonna reach for a player,
like what are they doing? There're gonna be plenty of
storylines and plenty of things to react to and talk about,
(28:57):
but it's just lacking a lot of sizzle eating up
to it. And in my mind, you you might see
it differently, and that's fine, But in my mind, I
think it's a lot like March Madness and really sort
of like the college football playoff in ways as well,
because the build up, at least to me and listen,
I host shows, and I know, I'm like, all right,
(29:19):
we can talk about these games, and there are certainly
points to bring up, and I've got some opinions, but
it's not gonna drive anything. People aren't, you know, like
just I don't know this, Like who's the guy?
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I don't know Yaxel Lendeborg or is it uh CoA
Pete from Arizona who's gonna have the bigger game? And
people are just engrossed in that, like it's gonna be
Co or it's gonna be Lendeborg. It's not like that.
It just doesn't drive excitement and doesn't drive conversation. But
the games are awesome and we react to them like crazy,
(29:56):
It'll drive conversation afterward. I feel like that's what the
Draft is gonna be this year. It's gonna drive conversation afterward.
It's gonna be more reaction than preview. It's gonna be
more reaction than hype leading up to it. That's just
the way it's playing out this season. But I think
there are plenty of things to be excited about, and
(30:17):
when it finally does get here, if you're an NFL fan,
I think he'll be into it. And certainly they're gonna
be a ton of stories to react to and a
lot of things will drive opinions. I don't think we're
gonna have anything close to the Shador Sanders thing this season.
We might not have something close to that. For a
long time, that was that was something that everybody was
(30:40):
reacting to everyone. I don't know they're gonna have that
this year, but I think you're gonna have a lot
more storylines, you know, to react to than to preview
the potential and listen. A lot of times the potential
is really interesting, I do. I'm not telling you there's
not anything to be hyped up about or interested in
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leading up to it. I'm just saying it lacks a
lot of sizzle. There's gonna be more sizzle afterward than
there is leading up to it. With that, let me
get out to the phones. Dave is in Ohio. He
wants to check in here. What what's going on? Dave?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Hey, what's up, mister Brian. I'm just saying he made
fun of miss mister Berlin. Can bang that bass? I
know you can have the tool. My dogs are backing
me up, but you can't hear me.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Dog is hyped up, man, I like this. We're pro animals.
It's fine. Let them go.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah, they were Mallard doesn't like when I put him
on speaking he says a big time and I have
to get you off the speaker. But yeah, mister Boylan
is a bad manma Jama. So you can't I mean
they when they do. Have you seen them live, because
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
You know what's funny? I saw them at oz Fest
forever ago.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It was when they were like, OK, hop it around
the bunny suit. Was that? I guess cool? You know?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
You know, hey, listen, West got a lot of good stuff. Man,
he's got some catchy riffs.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I mean, den he jam out with old Danni jam
Out and Vella Revolver.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I don't know that he did. He might have. I'm
not sure about that.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
It was either he's either the Vellar Revolver or one
of the other ones. But he damn he had. He
had a comeback when one of those. But either way,
but either way, back to the back of the sports.
Got to look out for our boy in San Antonio.
San Antonio is gonna rock and roll. Baby. Speaking of
rock and roll, that young man, that alien is unstoppable.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Who's gonna stop him?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Tell me? I'm waiting the thunder gonna stop them. I
think the Spurs are gonna stop themselves. I don't believe
in them at all. I hate to disagree with you, Dave,
but listen, man, the Alien, full respect for the Alien,
for they got a lot of talent. They're not going
from doing nothing to winning at all. It's ridiculous, Like
we need to stop with this. It's not the the
NBA works ever, it never works like that.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
What powder is a magical thing?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Hey man? Like listen, Alien is fantastic. It got great tay,
But hey man, you gotta walk before you can you
can sprint. They're trying to go from walking to sprinting.
I don't think it's happening.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
You know. You know, Andyana's not too far. You can
come to the Mallard meet and greet.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
When's the next one?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
It's on the twenty fifth, man, and since Cincinnati it's
at the brick Oven. Well it's technically in Newport, Kentucky,
but hop on down there, man, everybody.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The next one they're doing on the twenty fifth of April.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
I'm not going to that one, So don't go to
that one.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Go to the one in Boston. Don't be a hater.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
I'm not being a hater, but he you know, if
he's gonna go to one, he should go to the
one that me and Cooper at too, because you know
that just makes sense.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
He's slowly and now you're taking Brian. What. Wow? All right,
I'm not one.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I'm out my.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's top notch call right there, mate? What is going
on with Ben? How many meet and greets is he
organizing over here?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:15):
It's meet and great season right now?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
He's making the rounds. Props to him. Wow, Kentucky, I
thought you just were in Boston, were you not?
Speaker 7 (34:24):
No, that's the one that's coming up.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Oh wow, it hasn't even happened yet.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
That's what I told you about.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I thought it already. I thought it happened last time.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
You can still drive there.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
So which one was last weekend? Was it Miami? Where
were you guys last weekend?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I don't think we had one last weekend?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
You didn't have one? Wow, it's a missed opportunity. I
think got a lot of them.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
I don't know what one in Southern California yet.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Either.
Speaker 7 (34:49):
We need to get on that.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
What what Red Sox game are you trying to go to?
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
I don't really care as long as they get to
eat the poutine. I want to try the lobster poutine.
It has like chowder and stuff on it or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I went to one Red Sox game a long time ago,
and it was funny.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
It was, uh, will you go if we go to
a Red Sox game.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I would go to a Red Sox Red Sox game again,
absolutely yeah. But the one I went to, it was
one of my buddies. I worked in Fresno for a while,
so it was a friend of mine from Fresno, and
he would do this from time to time. He'll just
pick a city and he'll go to like four sporting
events or like make a weekend out of it or what.
He's like, Hey, come over to Boston. So I did.
(35:32):
I went to a Red Sox game with him, and
he was in the Army, so he had some of
his army buddies with him. And this one dude from
Philly was hilarious. But he was obnoxious, shockingly and there
was a girl that got outrageously mad at something that
he said. I can't remember for the life of me
what he said, but it was very funny, very funny.
She was she's quite upset. She was not happy, but
(35:53):
it was a good time. Hey, you can stream the
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up at the top of your screen. Beautiful stuff. Now,
in honor of Big Ben, the who Am I? Game?
Huh so we had Mike Trout went crazy against the Yankees.
The man hit five home runs in the four game series.
He's the only guy to hit five home runs in
(36:35):
a four game road series at Yankee Stadium. That is
Michael Trout. Who he did that?
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Never heard of him?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
I am the first guy to do it against the Yankees,
which is hit five home runs in a single series.
Who am I?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Who?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Answer? Along the way? Hit us up at the no show.
If you want to get in your who am I?
Or just hashtag who am I? You know, get on
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Speaker 1 (37:52):
Swing the line, drive and the ride ketling on up
for the ball, great racing them out, third turn the
points time, good start.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Tigers win.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Oh man, I like that call. Very good call by
the Tigers radio network. Tigers win the game ten to nine.
Bullpen issues all over Major League Baseball for a lot
of teams craziness, but shout out to the Tigers getting
that win. And it goes right into the who am
I game? How about this a little bit of baseball
back to back here. So Mike Trout of the Angels,
(38:30):
he hit five home runs against the Yankees in a
four game road series at Yankee Stadium. He is the
only man to hit five home runs in a road series?
Who against the Yankees? Now he is the what the
fourth player to hit five home runs in a series
(38:54):
against the Yankees? And uh, we're looking for the man
who did it the first? Who is the guy who
hit five home runs in a series against the Yankees.
So we go out to the tweets over here, JJ
says Mike Cameron. Good guess right there, analog al Joe
pettibone be pepitone. Goodness, I messed that up. Donkey Sausage
(39:19):
says Randy Cabbage. I like he's got the great Randy. Uh,
the macho Man's all cabbage over here, very well, sausage. Yeah,
love uh love macho man. Yeah you gotta love that,
Josh says cecil or Prince fielder. Just give me one
of the fielders right there. Okay, Big Lou checks in,
(39:40):
my man, Big Lou. I met Big Lou at one
of the meet and greets. Great dude, he says, Yankee
great George hallis you see that? Lorena? It it does.
It does a lot of good to go to these
meet and greets, you know, meet.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
The militias where you met at right.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
That's right, that's right, Yeah, big lou man of the
people right there. Eloy from Compton, he says, Uh, it's
a ricky wild thing. Vaughn, I like that, Yes, doing
a little show. Hey o Tani, you know, hitting, pitching,
the whole thing. Oh, Gunner, I got a shout out
a twin, he says. The answer is Byron Buxton. No,
(40:17):
you gotta all the way back, all the way back
to nineteen thirty three. That would be Jimmy Fox. He
is the first man to hit five home runs in
a series against the Yankees. Darrel Evans also did it.
George Bell did it. Mike Trout is the latest guy
to do it. So there you go, very nice, nicely done, militia.
(40:40):
Appreciate all the guesses like you do. I do too.
Coming up next,
Hey, thanks for listening to the Ben Maler Show podcast.
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hell, what's going on? Welcome in Happy late Thursday, early Friday,
depending on where you're listening in the country. Appreciate you
checking out the show. I'll tell you what. I'm just
gonna come right right out and say it. Melard Militia,
I was lost in the world on Thursday night with
no NBA, had no NBA going on. I'm like, what
(00:53):
am I gonna do with myself? There was puck going on.
But if you know me, I'm not the biggest fan
of I'll dabble. I'll dabble every now and then, you know,
the bigger matches, bigger games, I'll watch. I'll watch a
little you know, gold medal hockey action. I'll be there
for that.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'm basically what I hate when it comes to like
the uh like dip your big toe in the in
the waters of heavy metal. That's basically what I am
with with uh with hockey, you know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah,
Like you know those fans that are like, oh yeah, man,
Metallica enter sand Man and I'm just like, oh my gosh,
(01:31):
just stop talking, please. That's how I am with hockey.
That's anything I say about hockey. I feel like every hockey,
like true fan is like, oh this freaking guy again.
Now I'll watch the the gold medal Olympic stuff. I'll
watch I'll watch the Stanley Cup playoffs. I'll watch the
Stanley Cup Final. I'll get into that. End of the
regular season. No, thank you, not interested. So I was
(01:54):
watching UFL That's why it was on in the background.
I'm preparing for the Ben Malors Show, a little fill
in extravaganza these late night hours. It's all I had.
So I'm aching for the NBA to be back. I'm
not aching for the NBA to be back on Amazon
in particular, but I am aching for the association to
be back, and it will be back in sort of
(02:19):
full force on Friday night. That is the last installment
of the play in tournament, so we will have the
final two teams that will make it into the playoffs.
It's either gonna be the Warriors or Suns, or it's
gonna be the Hornets or the Magic. And I think
the play in tournament, if you're gonna be fair about this,
(02:42):
I think it shows the best and the worst of
Adam Silver all at the same time. Okay, so let's
start with the good. There is some good, believe it
or not. With Adam Silver. I would argue that playing
tournament has been fantastic. Playing tournament this year has been awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
We've had four games so far. Unfortunately they've been on Amazon.
So that's a strike against Adam Silver. I know he's
trying to line the NBA's pockets, but meanwhile, the NBA
fans have to suffer through technical difficulties at a crucial
stage of the the Hornets game on Tuesday, and it's like,
what what do you mean technical difficulties? That's still a
(03:22):
thing like this is an important stretch at the end
of the game over here. Yeah, it was terrible with
the Miami heat going on there. So I'm not a
fan of it being on Amazon. So's it's lame. To me,
Thank goodness, we still have Inside the NBA. If we
lost you know, Ernie and Shaq and Kenny and Charles,
(03:42):
if we lost that show because they decided to just
take the Amazon loot, I would be even more heated
about this. Thankfully we still have Inside the NBA on ESPN.
But this whole Amazon thing, I don't want to sound
like the get off my lawn guy, old guy who
just text messaging what's that? I don't want to sound
(04:05):
like that. But I can't be the only one who
hates this on Amazon. Man, Like I like flipping channels, Yeah,
you can't flip if there's a game on Amazon. It
is a no flip situation, no flipping tonight. You can't
search something else, you can't flip over to something else
in a commercial. Nope, it's just on Amazon the whole time.
(04:27):
It doesn't look quite right, you know, it's not as clear.
Some people have brought that up, Others pushed back on it,
so I can't tell the difference. I don't think your
eyes are that good at this stage. It's clearly a difference.
It's not nearly as clear as it is on like
an ESPN or you know, NBC or whatever. It's just
not the same picture, man, and to have technical difficulties.
(04:49):
So I'm not a fan of the NBA being on Amazon.
I don't have a problem streaming stuff on a tablet,
you know, I have no problem with it on my phone.
I do that all the time. Not a huge issue.
I do love to flip around, and streaming is not
flip friendly. But man, when you put it on your TV,
(05:11):
I am not a fan whatsoever. So strike against Adam
Silver for having the NBA on Amazon. Not a fan whatsoever.
A huge strike against Adam Silver for what's happened with
LaMelo Ball. So you know, we wouldn't have had this
whole Lamello ball fiasco if we didn't have the play
(05:33):
in tournament, right, So, I think the play in tournament
has been fantastic. I will give Adam Silver before I
crush this freaking I will give Adam Silver a little
bit of kudos because I think the play in tournament
has been fantastic. And this hasn't been the only year
that it's been really good, but this year in particular,
we've had four games so far, and three of them
(05:54):
have been classics. We're talking like overtime games the Blazers
pulled one out against the Suns. That was insane. That
that overtime game where the Hornets pulled it out with
dirty Lamello ball and his cheap shot tactics against BAM
and Miami. There's still a great game. It goes into overtime,
(06:15):
just craziness ensued at the end of regulation. At the
end of overtime, it's a great basketball game, highly entertaining.
And last night with Chef Curry doing his thing against
the Clippers, man, it's gonna be hard to be a
Clippers fan. My gosh, what keeps you going at this point?
But the Playing Tournament has been fantastic. So that was
(06:35):
the brainchild of Adam Silver. It happened under his watch,
so you gotta give him credit for that. I don't
know who is still like, oh, the Playing Tournament. You've
had three out of four games that have been awesome
and the one game that wasn't truly awesome was still okay,
the Sixers in Magic that's still a close game with
about three minutes left. So it has been a great
(06:59):
play in tournament this year. So props to Adam Silver
for that. Now, when it comes to roasting Adam Silver.
This Lamello Ball situation, it's just a joke, man. So
LaMelo Ball, you go way back to Tuesday night. It
seems like two weeks ago at this point, right, You
go back to Tuesday night and LaMelo Ball intentionally grabs
(07:21):
the leg of Bam out of Bayo and just yanks
it back. Poor Bam falls right to the floor, hard,
bruised back. It's got a contusion over here, right, doesn't
finish the game, can't get back into the game early
in the second quarter. No more Bam and LaMelo Ball.
(07:42):
No officials saw it. They can't review it. More on
that in a second. And so LaMelo Ball finishes the game.
He scores the winning basket, and the Hornets win, and
the Miami Heat season is ova just done? Pack it
in one, two, three, can coon? It's over. And so
the league was reviewing this whole thing. Should we suspend
(08:05):
LaMelo Ball for the next game that's gonna be on
Friday night when the playing tournament, you know, picks back
up again. So should LaMelo Ball be out there when
the Hornets are taken on the Magic? And so shockingly
the league reviews this all right, it's dot the I's crossed.
The t's up thirty five thousand dollars fine, no suspension,
(08:29):
it's been upgraded to a flagrant too foul by the way,
So if they caught this during the game, that would
have meant Lamello would have been ejected at that point,
which is absolutely what should have happened. Who that watches
the NBA with any regularity or anyone who just pays
attention to like NBA headlines, who's surprised that Adam Silver
(08:53):
did not drop the hammer? That would be no one
is surprised. No one is surprised whatsoever, because he never
does it. It's so weird, man like he came in
with an iron fist, Donald Sterling get the hell out
of here, and we're like, whoa new sheriff in town.
Since then, he has been a lamb. He has been
(09:14):
a substitute teacher. No. And it makes me think of
David Stern. Right, David Stern, I think would have suspended
LaMelo ball. I don't know for sure if that would
have happened, but I do think it would have. I
feel like it would have because you go back remember
the series between the Suns and the Spurs, and this
(09:34):
was after the malice in the Palace and Adams I'm sorry,
David Stern was anti fighting, anti skirmishes, no bad blood.
We're not escalating anything. If any player on the bench
walks onto the court when there's an altercation, you are suspended,
no questions asked. And there was a situation in that
(09:56):
Spurs Sun series where there were a couple of Sons
players literally had like a big toe barely on the court,
and David Stern's like that, sorry, you know the rules
suspense shown. So I think that David Stern would have
suspended LaMelo Ball. But Adam Silver, no, no suspension from
Adam Silver. Adam Silver is like, well, I don't know.
(10:18):
That seems like a little bit too much over here,
and let's just air on the side of leniency. Let's
just do that. So if you're keeping score, LaMelo Ball,
find thirty five thousand dollars for a quote, unnecessary and
reckless contact with Bam out of bio. So he was
fined for unnecessary and reckless contact. And then he was
(10:42):
fined twenty five thousand dollars for dropping an F bomb
in the postgame in the postgame interview, So thirty five
g's for intentionally tripping Bam out of Bio or grabbing
his leg to make him fall, and then twenty five
thousand dollars for dropping a F bomb. So in the
NBA's finding right here, they're saying that the tripping of
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Bam out to Bio causing him to fall straight to
the floor, bruising his back not being able to continue
in the game, that's like marginally a little bit worse
than dropping an F bomb, is what the NBA is saying,
which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. So this is the
bad with Adam Silver. The good. Hey, we get a
(11:28):
play in tournament. It's been fantastic, all right, cool, it's
on Amazon. Well that sucks. That's on Adam Silver. And
the Lamello thing where he's allowed to play on Friday
is a joke and it shows that we still have
a substitute teacher that's calling the shots and has really
no backbone whatsoever. It does remind me, is it Melissa McCarthy.
(11:50):
I think she's in the heat. You ever see the Heat, Lorena,
it's with a Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. I think
I'm saying shooting people. Yeah, yeah, it's like, uh no, Yeah,
you're right. It's the heat, the heat right where they're
kind of like undercover and they're trying to figure out Yeah. Yeah,
but there's a scene where Melissa McCarthy is talking to
(12:13):
the captain and she's trying to find his balls, and
I swear, I think of Adam Silver. I think of
Adam Silver every time I grabbed the audio for you.
Here's Melissa McCarthy in the heat.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Hey, if anyone seems the captain's balls, let me know.
They're about this big, a lot tinier. They're like a
pee or like a like a ball bearing or like
if you've ever seen a mouseball about half that size,
incredibly tiny. They're like really really tiny little girl balls
if little girls had balls. So you can find little
tiny girl balls that are so tiny and shriveled up,
(12:48):
let me know, because I'll put them right back up.
He strolled them.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I swear, if you like, you just make that whole
speech about Adam Silver. I think it's on point. I
think it does a great job describing what we've had,
largely from him as the NBA commissioner. Little mouse balls, Yeah, totally,
it's totally what it's been. Now. The funny thing at
(13:12):
the end of this. So Eric Spolstra, the head coach
of the Miami Heat, Now I'm gonna take you back
to Tuesday because it matters for the here and now. Okay,
I know Tuesday feels like ancient history, but this was
Spoe after the game on Tuesday, right, Miami loses, They
lose by one point in overtime. Their season is over,
(13:33):
and he is not pleased. He's not pleased that LaMelo
Ball wasn't kicked out of the game for what he
did to Bam. This is what Eric spolsterra said on Tuesday.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I don't think it's cute. I don't think it's funny.
I think it's a stupid play. It's a dangerous play.
Obviously our best players out. I'm not making an excuse.
So the Hornets played great, you know, and they made
those plays down the stretch. We had opportunities to win.
I just that's a shame. You know, he should be
penalized for that. I don't think think that belongs in
the game. You know, tripping guys, you know shenanigans, and
(14:05):
you know Curtis was there. It's his responsibility to see that.
And if it's not his responsibility. Then Zach's got to
see it. If you know, somebody has got to see that,
and that, you know, he should have been thrown out
of the game, you know for that.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, So that's what Eric Sposter said on Tuesday. Now
this is what he said on Thursday. He said, I
didn't think that he needed to be penalized more moving forward.
So like in terms of he thought that LaMelo should
have been kicked out of the game on Tuesday against
the Miami Heat. But as far as hey, should LaMelo
be suspended for Friday's game against the Magic, Eric Sposters says, no,
(14:43):
I don't think he needed to be penalized more moving forward.
I don't think that would make sense. He went on
to say, I don't think he's a dirty player. I
just think in that moment all things can be true.
It was a dirty play and a dangerous play. It
should have been caught at that moment, but it wasn't,
and then you know, you move on. Just like, Okay,
(15:04):
so I I sort of get where he's coming. What
he's basically saying is what good does that do the
Miami Heat? Now, right, the mellow should have been it
should have been a flagrant too in that game. He
should have been kicked out of the game against the
Miami Heat. Now we're talking about suspending him for the
next game against Orlando, and Spoe was like, nah, let
(15:24):
him play against Orlando. What do I care about. I
think he's just he's got tunnel vision in thinking about
the Miami Heat and that's that. But I'll tell you
what should have happened in this whole thing. You need
to go to replay. You gotta have the ability to
go to replay if you can see it like once
(15:45):
or twice at home and you're like, wow, that is
such a dirty play, Like that's there's no place in
the game for that. Why can't the NBA officials go
to the monitor or like the NFL does it, they're
gonna they're as I think they're implementing that this season,
is they can they can basically be radioed in right
(16:07):
when it comes to replay assist replay assist, I believe
we'll have the ability to kick a guy out if
he did something improper. Like it doesn't have to be
a whole thing. You don't have to have the officials
in the NBA go to the monitor, turn it around like,
it's not nineteen ninety eight anymore. You should just have replay,
(16:28):
assist catch that, and then figure it out from there.
Streamline it. Let's move this along. It shouldn't take a
day and a half, but you should have the ability
to review it right then and there and to come
up with any punishment that you see fit right then
and there. It doesn't do any good after the game
(16:48):
to say we've upgraded it to a flagrant two and
he's not suspended for the next game. That does absolutely
no good whatsoever. You find him a little bit more
more than the amount of the fine for him dropping
an F bomb. It's just so silly. You've got to
have the ability to replay these things that impact games.
(17:09):
LaMelo Ball shouldn't have continued playing that game against the
Miami Heat. He was allowed to, and it's a crock.
So I think that Adam's sover is weak and spineless
and has little girl balls. Just like Melissa McCarthy said,
I think LaMelo should be suspended for the upcoming game.
There's no place in the game for what he did,
(17:29):
but what really should have happened. You have to have
the ability to go to replay and punish him in
that specific game. It doesn't do the Miami Heat any good.
If he suspended against the Magic, it does the Heat
some good. If LaMelo was kicked out of the game
on Tuesday against the the Heat, that's exactly what should
have happened. All right, eight seven to seven ninety nine
on Fox. That is your phone number. We are often
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running here, militia. We got a lot to get to.
I'll tell you what. Getting fired up. We got ball
to talk about. Lots of ball on the menu tonight,
of course, meaning football. We'll get back to the Association
NBA playoffs right around the corner. I'm excited for the
play in tournament, the last installment here. A couple of
things to get to. There's some crazy stories also. There's
(18:14):
one story that is so ridiculous it almost seems completely
made up. We got a former football player posing as
NFL players to get about twenty million dollars in loans.
Crazy like, it doesn't even sound real. But I will
get to that as the evening rolls along as well.
Coming up next, Rolling Rolling, Wow. You know what it
(18:36):
reminds me. You know, there's this burlesque show in Vegas,
Lorrena called The Empire Strips back, you know, and when
they did because Roland makes me think of Limp Biscuit
and uh, it was another Limp Biscuit song called nookie
(18:58):
Ye and they switch it to I Did It All
for the Wookie right, because it's the Empire Strips bag,
It's the whole you know, Star Wars theme. Crazy. Would
you ever want to go see that show, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Yeah, I feel like I feel like I've seen it
in a dream before.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd go check it out. I
definitely would be up for something like that for sure.
But uh, yeah, I have time. You're in Vegas next time?
All right? That sounds good to me? Coming up next?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Is it me? Or?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Is this huge sporting event a lot like March Madness?
You might agree, you might not agree. Well, we'll throw
it against the wall, see what happens. That's on the way.
I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Malor. Keep it
locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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Investing involves risk. For more information, visit we bowl dot
com slash disclosures. Is this uh Wookie or Nookie from
uh olymp Biscuit there, Lorraine?
Speaker 7 (20:59):
This is the original Nookie version unfortunately, right.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
So you're more Wookie than Nookie? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
I would definitely put myself on Team Wookie.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Team Wookie.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Definitely Wookie for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Wookie? Are you a Star Wars fan, bree.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I am. Actually that was the only reason I wanted
to go to Disneyland last year was because of Star
Wars Land opening, so that was the joy.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Okay, well good, I'm actually trying to convince Free to
get a season pass. It's it's looking a little more likely.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Yeah, I'm gonna go broke. But it's fine dark side.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah, converted right there a little bit.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
There's so much good food and drinks over there, So
I'm gonna get really like Disney and it has security.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Nice. Do you get anything from that, Lorena? If you
like refer a friend, do you get.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Unfortunately, no, I do not get any per man.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That's messed up. You should get something for that, right,
Yeah you think?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I feel like you should something.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Make a free pretzel or a cheru.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Something churro at least, you know, gotta have something like
that one. Yeah. Let me go out to the phones here.
I want to go straight to Louisiana. Anthony is first
up in these wee hours. What's going on, Anthony? You're
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Hey, bruh, how you doing pretty good?
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Man?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah? Have been though? He's up today?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Huh yeah, yeah, big Ben's out. Coops out too crazy? Huh,
I say hello, I can do that.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Hey, hey cou what up Anthony?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Hey Bury?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
She said, Hi, she's on the phone. She waved it.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yeah, it's good to hear from you, Lorana.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
It's good to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
You send that. I gott a joke for you, Loraine.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
I love that joke. Let me what you got this nail?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
This nail was walking down the road, just a joke
I made us and the other kad touched it behind,
took his veh pos and it still used. Say Pope,
call nine one one and the policer will the police
saying what happened? Give him to see you.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
I don't know what did the snail say?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I don't know. You haven't told Fang.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You know, Anthony, I was saying, and you might disagree
with this, but I lived in lived in New Orleans
for a couple of months, Anthony, and I thought it
was gonna be friendlier than it was. I'm not saying
it was unfriendly, but I felt like they're like tourists.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh, Anthony doesn't care.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
He doesn't care about you New Orleans story.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
He didn't care about anything. He just cares about Lorena. Okay,
we appreciate you checking in. Thanks for the joke Anthony
as well. You know, Anthony just wants to you know,
crush on the rain. I guess you didn't care about
what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
I'm a hot commodity.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You know what's funny is uh, I was driving around
a little bit. I think Anthony not paying attention was
a good example of, you know, how fired up the
militia is for you know, fill in night, you know.
But I was, I was driving around. I thought it
was funny. I was driving around today and I was
flipping around and The Herd was on, and so I'm like, oh,
let's see what Colin's talking about today. And then the
(24:27):
the you know, the the speaker guy was like in
for the Herd Jason MacIntyre, and I was like, ah, week,
no Herd today. And I still listened for a little
while and it was fine. But you know, my initial
reaction was like I was, I was ready for the Herd. Brian, No,
(24:47):
I'm fine with j Mac. I just wanted to hear
what the Herd had to say.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Right when you're in the mood for one show and
you turn it on and your person's not there. It's
a little you know.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, yeah, And so I thought it was funny. I'm like,
I should really give Jason a show tonight. I feel like,
you know, if I'm like, ah Week MacIntyre and they
just flip, you know, I feel like that's what the
militia is gonna do when I'm filling in for Big Ben.
So I'm like, you know what, I gotta support my
fellow fill in hosts.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Do not forget Brian. You were filling of the Year
last year on Ben Maller's show. So the militia loves you.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah, congratulations, thank you. I think they just felt sorry
for me, and they were bummed, you know that there
was no Jonas, there was no Mansi. They're like, oh gosh,
I guess I guess now or never. For No, I
think it was more like a pity vote. I think
that's what it was. Oh No, definitely not I think
(25:42):
it was. I would think it was totally out of
pity right there. But hey, whatever, give it whatever gets
us to the top. You know, I just got to
outlast Knocks and Bolano so over here, you know, and
I get a shot, get a shot at the big
time I'm gonna get back to the calls in a second.
Let me pay this off. You might not agree with this,
some of you will. But I got to thinking about
(26:03):
the NFL Draft coming up. I can't wait for it.
I'm an NFL junkie, but I'd be lying to you
if I said I was just engrossed in all things draft.
This year, it's lacked a lot of buzz. We don't
have that one I don't know, that one draft pick,
that one story where everybody has an opinion about it.
You know, we just don't have that this year. And
(26:27):
think about what we had last year with the Chaduur
Sanders situation. Everybody had an opinion on Shaduur Sanders, whether
he should be a first round pick, he falls to
the fifth round, and it was just nothing but opinions, opinions, opinions,
opinions on Chaudeur. Why did he drop so far? What's
going on? What's the reason for this? Everyone had an
(26:47):
opinion about it. Who's the player in this draft that
everyone has an opinion on, who's the guy? There isn't
that guy. There isn't a guy that's really driving conversation
and all of that. I got to thinking where I
think the NFL Draft. I think the build up is
week this year, but I think the draft itself will
(27:09):
be fantastic, And that reminds me of March Madness quite
a bit. A lot of people won't buy this because
the draft isn't an actual game, right. It's a sporting event,
but it's not a game. March Madness is a bunch
of games, so some like that comparison will throw people off.
But what I really mean by that is if you
(27:30):
really think about March Madness, there isn't a ton of
build up leading up to games, whether it's the first round,
second round, you know, we're leading up to the final four.
There isn't the type of hype and the type of
build up that you would think for something that's that big,
(27:51):
Like you'll preview games and you'll talk about it here
and there, but it's not going to just drive opinions
and drive conversation, and it just doesn't happen year after year.
That's the case. You're not gonna get people calling in
with these strong opinions about Arizona versus Michigan. They'll watch
the game, they'll be excited for it. If you're a
(28:13):
college hoops fan, if you're a basketball fan, but you're
not gonna be most likely like pounding the table with
some fierce opinion about what's going to happen or whatever
the case may be. It just doesn't drive conversation. And
I feel like that's what the NFL Draft is this season,
at least leading up to it. The storylines don't drive conversation.
(28:37):
It isn't driving opinions. But I think the draft itself
will be a lot of fun. Might get some trades
when we might get someone who falls, there's a team
that's gonna do something stupid. They're gonna reach for a player,
like what are they doing? There're gonna be plenty of
storylines and plenty of things to react to and talk about,
(28:57):
but it's just lacking a lot of sizzle eating up
to it. And in my mind, you you might see
it differently, and that's fine, But in my mind, I
think it's a lot like March Madness and really sort
of like the college football playoff in ways as well,
because the build up, at least to me and listen,
I host shows, and I know, I'm like, all right,
(29:19):
we can talk about these games, and there are certainly
points to bring up, and I've got some opinions, but
it's not gonna drive anything. People aren't, you know, like
just I don't know this, Like who's the guy?
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I don't know Yaxel Lendeborg or is it uh CoA
Pete from Arizona who's gonna have the bigger game? And
people are just engrossed in that, like it's gonna be
Co or it's gonna be Lendeborg. It's not like that.
It just doesn't drive excitement and doesn't drive conversation. But
the games are awesome and we react to them like crazy,
(29:56):
It'll drive conversation afterward. I feel like that's what the
Draft is gonna be this year. It's gonna drive conversation afterward.
It's gonna be more reaction than preview. It's gonna be
more reaction than hype leading up to it. That's just
the way it's playing out this season. But I think
there are plenty of things to be excited about, and
(30:17):
when it finally does get here, if you're an NFL fan,
I think he'll be into it. And certainly they're gonna
be a ton of stories to react to and a
lot of things will drive opinions. I don't think we're
gonna have anything close to the Shador Sanders thing this season.
We might not have something close to that. For a
long time, that was that was something that everybody was
(30:40):
reacting to everyone. I don't know they're gonna have that
this year, but I think you're gonna have a lot
more storylines, you know, to react to than to preview
the potential and listen. A lot of times the potential
is really interesting, I do. I'm not telling you there's
not anything to be hyped up about or interested in
(31:01):
leading up to it. I'm just saying it lacks a
lot of sizzle. There's gonna be more sizzle afterward than
there is leading up to it. With that, let me
get out to the phones. Dave is in Ohio. He
wants to check in here. What what's going on? Dave?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Hey, what's up, mister Brian. I'm just saying he made
fun of miss mister Berlin. Can bang that bass? I
know you can have the tool. My dogs are backing
me up, but you can't hear me.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Dog is hyped up, man, I like this. We're pro animals.
It's fine. Let them go.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah, they were Mallard doesn't like when I put him
on speaking he says a big time and I have
to get you off the speaker. But yeah, mister Boylan
is a bad manma Jama. So you can't I mean
they when they do. Have you seen them live, because
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
You know what's funny? I saw them at oz Fest
forever ago.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
It was when they were like, OK, hop it around
the bunny suit. Was that? I guess cool? You know?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
You know, hey, listen, West got a lot of good stuff. Man,
he's got some catchy riffs.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I mean, den he jam out with old Danni jam
Out and Vella Revolver.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I don't know that he did. He might have. I'm
not sure about that.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
It was either he's either the Vellar Revolver or one
of the other ones. But he damn he had. He
had a comeback when one of those. But either way,
but either way, back to the back of the sports.
Got to look out for our boy in San Antonio.
San Antonio is gonna rock and roll. Baby. Speaking of
rock and roll, that young man, that alien is unstoppable.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Who's gonna stop him?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Tell me? I'm waiting the thunder gonna stop them. I
think the Spurs are gonna stop themselves. I don't believe
in them at all. I hate to disagree with you, Dave,
but listen, man, the Alien, full respect for the Alien,
for they got a lot of talent. They're not going
from doing nothing to winning at all. It's ridiculous, Like
we need to stop with this. It's not the the
NBA works ever, it never works like that.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
What powder is a magical thing?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Hey man? Like listen, Alien is fantastic. It got great tay,
But hey man, you gotta walk before you can you
can sprint. They're trying to go from walking to sprinting.
I don't think it's happening.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
You know. You know, Andyana's not too far. You can
come to the Mallard meet and greet.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
When's the next one?
Speaker 4 (33:27):
It's on the twenty fifth, man, and since Cincinnati it's
at the brick Oven. Well it's technically in Newport, Kentucky,
but hop on down there, man, everybody.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The next one they're doing on the twenty fifth of April.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
I'm not going to that one, So don't go to
that one.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Go to the one in Boston. Don't be a hater.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
I'm not being a hater, but he you know, if
he's gonna go to one, he should go to the
one that me and Cooper at too, because you know
that just makes sense.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
He's slowly and now you're taking Brian. What. Wow? All right,
I'm not one.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I'm out my.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's top notch call right there, mate? What is going
on with Ben? How many meet and greets is he
organizing over here?
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:15):
It's meet and great season right now?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
He's making the rounds. Props to him. Wow, Kentucky, I
thought you just were in Boston, were you not?
Speaker 7 (34:24):
No, that's the one that's coming up.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Oh wow, it hasn't even happened yet.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
That's what I told you about.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I thought it already. I thought it happened last time.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
You can still drive there.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
So which one was last weekend? Was it Miami? Where
were you guys last weekend?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I don't think we had one last weekend?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
You didn't have one? Wow, it's a missed opportunity. I
think got a lot of them.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
I don't know what one in Southern California yet.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Either.
Speaker 7 (34:49):
We need to get on that.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
What what Red Sox game are you trying to go to?
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
I don't really care as long as they get to
eat the poutine. I want to try the lobster poutine.
It has like chowder and stuff on it or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I went to one Red Sox game a long time ago,
and it was funny.
Speaker 7 (35:08):
It was, uh, will you go if we go to
a Red Sox game.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I would go to a Red Sox Red Sox game again,
absolutely yeah. But the one I went to, it was
one of my buddies. I worked in Fresno for a while,
so it was a friend of mine from Fresno, and
he would do this from time to time. He'll just
pick a city and he'll go to like four sporting
events or like make a weekend out of it or what.
He's like, Hey, come over to Boston. So I did.
(35:32):
I went to a Red Sox game with him, and
he was in the Army, so he had some of
his army buddies with him. And this one dude from
Philly was hilarious. But he was obnoxious, shockingly and there
was a girl that got outrageously mad at something that
he said. I can't remember for the life of me
what he said, but it was very funny, very funny.
She was she's quite upset. She was not happy, but
(35:53):
it was a good time. Hey, you can stream the
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(36:15):
Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app and it'll always pop
up at the top of your screen. Beautiful stuff. Now,
in honor of Big Ben, the who Am I? Game?
Huh so we had Mike Trout went crazy against the Yankees.
The man hit five home runs in the four game series.
He's the only guy to hit five home runs in
(36:35):
a four game road series at Yankee Stadium. That is
Michael Trout. Who he did that?
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Never heard of him?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
I am the first guy to do it against the Yankees,
which is hit five home runs in a single series.
Who am I?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Who?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Answer? Along the way? Hit us up at the no show.
If you want to get in your who am I?
Or just hashtag who am I? You know, get on
then in here and we'll get some of your your
your your fun responses here on X right around the corner.
I'm Brian knowing for Big Ben Malor. Keep it locked
right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (37:52):
Swing the line, drive and the ride ketling on up
for the ball, great racing them out, third turn the
points time, good start.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Tigers win.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Oh man, I like that call. Very good call by
the Tigers radio network. Tigers win the game ten to nine.
Bullpen issues all over Major League Baseball for a lot
of teams craziness, but shout out to the Tigers getting
that win. And it goes right into the who am
I game? How about this a little bit of baseball
back to back here. So Mike Trout of the Angels,
(38:30):
he hit five home runs against the Yankees in a
four game road series at Yankee Stadium. He is the
only man to hit five home runs in a road series?
Who against the Yankees? Now he is the what the
fourth player to hit five home runs in a series
(38:54):
against the Yankees? And uh, we're looking for the man
who did it the first? Who is the guy who
hit five home runs in a series against the Yankees.
So we go out to the tweets over here, JJ
says Mike Cameron. Good guess right there, analog al Joe
pettibone be pepitone. Goodness, I messed that up. Donkey Sausage
(39:19):
says Randy Cabbage. I like he's got the great Randy. Uh,
the macho Man's all cabbage over here, very well, sausage. Yeah,
love uh love macho man. Yeah you gotta love that,
Josh says cecil or Prince fielder. Just give me one
of the fielders right there. Okay, Big Lou checks in,
(39:40):
my man, Big Lou. I met Big Lou at one
of the meet and greets. Great dude, he says, Yankee
great George hallis you see that? Lorena? It it does.
It does a lot of good to go to these
meet and greets, you know, meet.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
The militias where you met at right.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
That's right, that's right, Yeah, big lou man of the
people right there. Eloy from Compton, he says, Uh, it's
a ricky wild thing. Vaughn, I like that, Yes, doing
a little show. Hey o Tani, you know, hitting, pitching,
the whole thing. Oh, Gunner, I got a shout out
a twin, he says. The answer is Byron Buxton. No,
(40:17):
you gotta all the way back, all the way back
to nineteen thirty three. That would be Jimmy Fox. He
is the first man to hit five home runs in
a series against the Yankees. Darrel Evans also did it.
George Bell did it. Mike Trout is the latest guy
to do it. So there you go, very nice, nicely done, militia.
(40:40):
Appreciate all the guesses like you do. I do too.
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