June 26, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about why so many NBA executives are praising Bronny James, which veteran players are expect to be moved, the level of interest for the NBA Draft, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one. As we
kick off the hump day edition of the podcast, Happy Wednesday.
It's the twenty sixth day of June. Big night in
pro bouncy ball, the job fair today the NBA Draft.
That's where we're gonna start here in our one. Why
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are so many NBA executives praising Bronnie James and his
draft status? Also, which veteran players do you expect to
be moved? He already saw one relatively big trade between
the Knicks and the Nets. And what is your give
a crap meter? Your mallard, give a crap meter on
the twenty twenty four NBA draft. We'll discuss all those
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things on a Newbie Night, hol right for Newbie Night.
Here it is our number one, Brown the down. We're
gonna find out how big a down he is.
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a Wednesday tyract dot com. The Way tirebuind Shoe be
in our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball. The
Silly Season cranking up. Should be a big day for
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the Silly season. Should be. The NBA Finals ended a
few days ago. They had a massive parade in Boston.
That's what you do when you win. And now the
curtain has gone up on the job fair, the basketball
job fair. If you're looking for work, you've missed the
cutoff to get employment, it'll be a two day job fair.
You're on Wednesday night, you've got the first round and
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then they've turned this into a two day event. It's
actually texting somebody from the NBA world and we're like, boy,
I bet the NBA wishes they could go back to
when they had an eight round draft, or at least
a four round draft, so they could melk this into
a three day event because the NFL does three days.
The NFL Draft is three days. This is the first
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time the NBA has gone to the two day format.
They have the first round and then they have this
second round. But he used to the draft used to
go on. The draft was so long in the NBA.
How long was it. It was so long that teams
would like draft relatives. I'm not kidding. They would try
to draft relatives and celebrities because they didn't have anyone
else to draft, and so it was ridiculous. Anyway, two
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day affair, and in the lead up to the Baffosako event,
much of the noise, much of the noise has been
about the spawn of bron The spawn of bron Now,
I don't know if you've been paying any attention to this.
I don't know how you could have avoided it if
you're consuming sports content, which you clearly are at this time,
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but maybe you missed it. So Bronnie James continues to
be the most interesting man in the world, at least
in the eyes of many. He's someone that is in
the spectrum of notability because a lot of these guys
you don't know who they are. But if you look
around and on the big board, the big board, you
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look around the big board, his name is Prome men
in all these mock drafts, all of them, which is
wild when you consider he's a bit player. He's too
small for the NBA. He averaged less than five points
a game at SC in the old Pac twelve last year.
There is nothing that oozes up saying draft this guy.
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In fact, the only thing that would tell you to
draft this guy is his DNA. That's it, period, stop,
that's all. And he's the bell of a ball, or
is he? So I did some research. Some call it
due diligence, and I was digging around. I have nothing
but time, and I was digging around and I saw
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the latest comments by the Toronto basketball team, the Raptors,
who said that they have interest in Bronnie James. And
I have yet to find anyone on the record, any team,
anyone who works for a team that has gone on
the record to say negative stuff and put their name
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on it about lebron James kids. So let us discuss
the question why are so many who are employed in
the NBA either praising Bronnie James draft status or just
saying nothing at all, which is akin to praising. So
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I've got Reynolds, rap six pack and agricultural and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some some cookies, because I made cookies.
So that's why, all right now, A I know this
from watching mob movies over the years, many of them.
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They don't make them as much now as they used
to it, but back in the day they're very popular
mob movies. I know from my experience watching mob movies.
You're never supposed to publicly trash the mob boss and
Lebron in this little story, this little ditty, if you will,
Lebron Jamesiams is the dawn of the league, and you
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cannot point out the flaws of the godfather and that
his kid, his DNA, is not going to be a
prodigy and shouldn't even be drafted. I mean, that's the reaction.
Should not even be drafted here, And it goes against
the decorum of the NBA to point this out. Now,
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what a quagmire you've got. So instead, what ends up
happening here when people are talking about Brownie James, You
get the Reynolds wrap. You know, the aluminum foil that
has the tool, the middle part there.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The role.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's hollow, right, they put the foil around it. They
wrap the foil around it. It's hollow. Nonsense, is what
it is. You whisper sweet nothings publicly. Oh, we really
lyng Drew he was compared to Drew Holliday. I think
it'd be like Drew Holliday. That was one of the comparaives.
There's been a bunch of other ridiculous comparisons that have
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been out there. Everything has, every word, every word has
been sugarcoated about Scronnie Bronni And you point that out.
It is the paragod of nepotism that we're even having
this conversation on the eve of the NBA Draft that
Bronnie James in a just world where if you're just
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judged off the body of your work and your skill set,
you're not drafted. Brinnie James is not drafted. But you
think Bronnie James is going to not be drafted because
I don't. I hope I'm wrong, but I believe he's
gonna get drafted in Round one. I think at the
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end of round one, someone's gonna take Bronnie James, and
if not, he'll definitely be picked in the second round,
because he'd better be picked in the second round because
if he's not picked, Lebron will turn into a fire
breathing dragon. You better not embarrass Lebron James, and King
James will make some phone calls and if you embarrass him,
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watch out, right, watch out, He'll bring in the goons.
You don't want to mess with. Now, page two, here
we open up the trading post. We had a first trade.
First trade went down on Tuesday night the Brooklyn basketball team.
The Nets sent McHale Bridges across the Williamsburg Bridge to
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Manhattan to join the Knickerbockers. That's convenient, you don't have
to move. I think he stays there during the offseason, though,
so I'll stay in the New York area. Bridges goes across, Well,
he might take the George Washington Bridge, but I would
think the Williamsburg Bridge would be the way to go
into Manhattan. Now, the Nets in return got Bojan Bogdanovich.
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He goes to Brooklyn and a grab bag of scratcher tickets.
You just hold one of them, hits grab bag of
scratcher tickets, including four unprotected first round picks, a pick swap,
and a partridge in a pear tree. And with that
it's the backdrop. Which veteran players? Which veteran players do
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you expect to be moved between now and the end
of the weekend. Now, the draft goes today here on
this our Wednesday show and then also on Thursday, but
they'll be more wheeling and dealing throughout the weekend. So
on Big Ben's Big Board. To answer the question, I
have a six pack, a six pack of players that
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are going to be moved now Karl Anthony Towns after
the end the meek ending for the Minnesota basketball team.
That is expected to be a move. That's not an
outrageous position that Karl Anthony Towns can be yours if
the price is right. Trey Young, the Hawks who have
the number one overall pick. The Atlanta also looking to
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deal Trey Young. The thing that would be interesting if
he went to Orlando, Like I could see that working
out pretty well because Ortlanta as a team there, they're
on the c as they say in gambling, they're not
quite there. And then Trey Young good offensive player, although
coach Killer, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets. His name also will
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be tossed about in trade speculations. My guy, Paul George,
by George, and some of you have been emailing me.
You're gonna be really concerned. Paul George is gonna request
I'm not concerned. Steve Balmer will replace him with someone
who's about as good, if not better. So when you
have the richest owner in basketball, you don't worry about
a guy who hasn't gotten it done leaving who cares
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Donovan Mitchell I still believe there's a world where he
gets traded out of Cleveland. Brandon Ingram will also most
likely say bye bye to the buyo. And so those
are players that have some brand value. We know who
they are, and I expect at least two of those
players out of the six pack to enter the transfer
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port go somewhere else, all right, now, last word, we
go to the wide ingle LANs, as we are known
to do heading into a round one of the draft.
Give me your give a crap meter? What is your
give a crap meter? On the twenty twenty four NBA
draftee Mather give a crap Meter? So I'll tell you this.
If I was working as a truck driver, if I
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was working as a dishwasher, if I was making donuts,
if I'm working security, my give a crap meter on
this would be off the charts. As in or go.
I would rather sit on the throne if I had
a job like that, I would rather sit on the
throne with hemorrhoids and try to empty the bowl. Okay,
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at that point that said, I don't do that. I
don't have those jobs. I have a job behind a microphone.
I have the tools of ignorance, a microphone, headphones, and
an on air light. And for some reason, even though
I'm doing talk radio, camera's in here, so my give
a crap meter. I look at this like agriculture, all right, agriculture,
because when you're in my position, what you're doing, to
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quote JJ Ruddick, you're doing engagement farming, which is what
you're supposed to do. Right. I'm in the farming industry,
the engagement farming industry, and this is an important crop,
very important. A lot of Euros I've never heard of
are going to be drafting the lottery. I've watched some
of these YouTube videos, read some of the scouting reports
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not that interesting. Don't recommend it, pretty boring. So I've
studied up on the draft. But in terms of the names,
we want to see the names. You have to be relatable.
So the people that we kind of know either because
of their family or whatnot. We mentioned Bronnie James. And
as far as the other draft, the only other player
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that I'm really mildly interested in is a John R.
Wooden Award voter over the years. Here is Zach Edie
from Purdue. Will he end up saying oh coda as
he is from Canada? And the Raptors are said to
be interested in the Giant Center from Purdue sick and
tired of losing at purduey all the trades, also all
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the trades, all right? It is the ben mal short
is a new mee night not speak easy rules. What
that means is if you're not a regular. And if
you're not a regular, the regulars are the people that
call up all the time. We know their story. We
know Jed who FLEs out in the woods doing drugs.
We know Tony in the Bay Area has got wild dreams,
calls up and says bad words. Mark the full name
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guy goes on these giant rants for no apparent reason,
and hates the Dodgers in Oregon. We know Redbreast Paul
calls up once in a while from Rhode Island, completely schnockered.
Blind Scott will call up with some agenda about something.
These are people that we know, hollering James hollering James
will call up mention Tamian, Montana. But those people have
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the night off and we want new people. So if
you're intimidated by those that have called up, you do
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On a newbie night, all new callers, all the time.
These speakeasy rules not in affect to night, Cowboy Drew,
he's the video game guy, says JABBRONI isn't NBA worthy
and Tua isn't worth the money. Dude's brain as much
back to logging, got a clear land for a past year. Well,
you're doing God's work on the game, Cowboy Drew. Good job,
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Good job, Robbie. The Meri defense says, the schmuck of
the week is me for starting to believe in the
Mariners this season. Robbie, it's the mid season, Malay's Robbie,
it's the mid season, malays. They'll suck you back in
and then they'll spitch you back out. That's what's gonna happen.
Femi from the Twinsys met him at the Mall of
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Meet and Greet the Mermaid. While back, he says, Ben
and no hope for Katie coming to the Timberwolves to
guarantee us a championship. He's wasting away in Phoenix, says Femi.
I don't know about wasting away, and last I checked,
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he didn't win in Brooklyn, he didn't win in Phoenix,
he didn't win in Oklahoma City. The only place he
won was where Steph Curry and Klay Thompson before he
got hurt. Were in that Draymond kicking guys in the
nuts and all that chip in the Ques, writes In,
says a plus on the mal of monologue. Obviously, the
only reason any team would waste any draft choice on
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Bronni is for the extra national attention. Also, if they
think they'll be able to get Daddy James to join
their team, that is still on the table. I've not
totally discounted that that is still an option on the table.
That one of these teams thinks that Lebron's gonna opt
out of his contract, and the Lakers are all horny
for Lebron. There's talk of them offering him a three
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year extension so they can pay him fifty eight million
dollars a year. Is like a lifetime achievement award when
he's in his late fifties or late fifties. In his
late late thirties, which is this year, he turns forty,
I believe in December, so be in his early forties.
Last year of the deal with forty two. Fergdog says
is newby Knight only for the callers or social media too.
Am I still allowed to give all my hard sports takes. Yes,
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we've only done it for the calls. Some of requested
that we do it on social media also, but to
this point it's only been the people that call up
on new by Night Late Night. Drug Tester says. The
only two drafts, he says that that matter, The only
two drafts matter this week, the NHL Draft at the
Spear in Vegas and whatever is on tap at your
favorite bar is the is the draft is in Vegas?
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Is that correct this week?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Yeah? I remember I was hoping we would coincide it
with the meetup so I could go to both.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Sorry I didn't work out for Eddie. Yeah, are you
going to? Are you going to go to the draft though?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Right? No?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Why not? What do you you can go? It's a
sh a suburb of La Eddy. Just drive over there.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah, why why are.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You not going? What else are you doing this weekend?
I mean we didn't.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
I didn't get a credentials for it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh that's the problem. You could probably call him upt
the last minute. They'll let you in, right, they know
he finds a big shot like dun Ben. Don't they
know who you are? Eddie? Probably not? Everyone lets me
except the Dodgers because of Otani. If I was in Token,
i'd be in.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
But they want the Angels, and the Angels didn't let
you either.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But they got rid of a Tani, so now they
let me. But they're so bad. I don't even want
to go. I mean, they're so terrible. I don't want
to go. I could go any time I want, I
don't want to go. That's how pathetic. I'm like Coop,
I'm boycotting the Angels. That is such a bad product.
I don't want to waste the most valuable thing. I
have my time to watch that terrible team. Nick writes
and he says, Hey, Ben, buddy, this is Nick the
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Windy's guy. How I remember Nick? This a legend, Lorraina,
this is Nick the Wendy's guy. All right, you don't
know who that is, but this guy's a made man. Okay,
if you ever need Wendy's and you're in Minnesota, this
guy hook you up. Okay, I need it now, you
got to go to Minnesota anyway, says I think the
Timberwolves should do everything they can to keep the core three,
Cat and Man and Rudy. They should build around these
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guys and go out and get another player, make the
big three even bigger, says Nick, the Windy's guy. I say, well,
let's go to the phones. It's a newbie night art
out with Gary in Michigan. He's in the leadoff chair
on a newbie night. Hello Gary, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Gary? Not Gary?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What did I say, Coops?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I thought it was Gary, Jerry with the J.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I called you.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
I said your name was Gary, though he's saying it's Jerry.
You know it sounds like saying Gary every time.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Oh maybe it's my phone. I don't know with Jerry.
But anyway, all right, hold.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
On, let me let me redo this. I will clean
this up in post. Let's go. Let's go to Jerry
in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Hello, Jerry, Welcome, Gooy Gary wonderful. I had a couple
of questions there. Okay, I've been meaning to bring this up,
and I'm sure Coop's gonna hate me for this, but
you always talk about Lebron and the bubble and the
championship and all that stuff, and I've always been wanting
to call and talk to about this, and like I
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said's gonna hate me, but sorry, Coop. Anyway, Uh, before
they went to that bubble and No one ever mentioned
that A D was hurt and he got all that
time off.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's right, and that you know what, he did not hurt.
This is a great yep.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Had they did not hurt, he would never and it
was normal season season going into the playoffs, he wouldn't
even been able to play, and they wouldn't have won
that championship.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
You don't want to fluff nutter in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Get you know Harry first, you're the leadoff.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I wouldn't have been going to the playoffs.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
It was a shortened season, so they would have been
for him to recover anyway, and all the other teams did.
All the other teams have the same amount of time off.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I'm giving him a golden ticket. He gets a goal,
Give a gold ticket a goal. The ticket I got cats, I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I understand who. But if they didn't have that time
off to get better to go into the playoffs, he
never would have been they they wouldn't have got that
far to even get there.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
So exactly, and look at the results.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
When the results I candies and nuts, then.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
That's the most fraudulent, most fraudulent championship.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Of all time.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
You can bring this the bait up all the time
about it, and that is a big point, and you
have to point out that's a.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Great So what about the point that throughout you know,
the last ten years, the Dodgers have famously sputtered as
the as the postseason goes on, and so the year
that they won it, it was you know, shortened, and
so they didn't have time to sputter out.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
They played two teams that cheated the A holes the
ass one one thousand holes and they the Red Sox
also cheat. We don't talk about that as much with
the Red Sox cheated in twenty eighteen. Also, so they
they that's two championships they won, uh and then a
third and twenty twenty. This is a freaking dynasty, the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I didn't call the call about the baseball I was
I was thinking a point about the.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That's a great point. Gar. You've already gotten the golden ticket.
You've already played you punk Kooper loop.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
You're right. Well you're an idiot, Gary, you should have never.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's a great job by you.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I want to hug you. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
This is Gary or Jerry, oh, Jerry Jack, whatever his
name is.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well, it doesn't matter who Gary y change it. He
called it. Put him Gary on the board, So I
called him Gary. But to Jerry, like Ben and Jerry,
maybe it was Barry. Do not throw that out? Is
it possible? Do not do? Shame on you.
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Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
We talked about the Nixon Nets making a trade first
time since nineteen eighty three. I was in the eighth
grade last time they made a deal that trade. As
we all, I'm sure no saw the Nets ship len
Elmore to the Knicks. I remember him as a broadcaster
for a nineteen eighty four second round pick, which turned
out to be the legendary Tom Solby, whoever one clearly
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remembers as a star at Notre Dame. He went on
to play an amazing thirty one games in the NBA
for the Dallas Mavericks. So that was the last trade
with h the Nicks and Nets len Elmore to New
York for a draft pick.
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Fun fun Fund, Mallard fun Fact, A Newbie Night, All
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New Callers, All New Callers at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. And this is an unverified fun fact,
but it comes from our friend mad Jack. Matt Jack
has offered to host an upcoming Mallard meet and greet
at a later date. We have the next Mallor meet
greet we do will be in Vegas. That'll be coming
up in August, early August. But matd Jack says, the Dodgers,
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the Doyers. Miguel Rojas. He has hit in twenty three
different games this season, and the Dodgers in those games
are twenty three and zero. When Miguel Rojas has a hit,
that's fun. But let's give you another fun fact. Bonus
fun fact, malor fun fact. So Connor McDavid took home
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the NVP of the postseason in hockey, but his team
did not win, even though they outscored the inferior Florida
Panthers in that series. But That means there has still
not ever been a player making over ten million dollars
in average annual value to win the Stanley Cup. It
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has yet to happen. Now, Sergei, Bobrovski and Barkoff there
joined Jack Eichel as the only players at ten million
to win. But nobody making more than that has ever
been on a Stanley Cup winning team. So that is
the cutoff. That is the threshold. That is it. Let's
go to the falls. We'll say hello. That's a fun fact.
Let's say hello to Brian, who's deep in the heart
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of Texas.
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Hello, Brian, Hey, how you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
It's a newbie night.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Time caller. I appreciate that. I really do welcome. I
don't know, like you know, going into this NBA draft,
I'm thinking that the Spurs are gonna like do something.
And what I'm thinking is that Popovich has something to
do with the Twin Towers. So you know, maybe you
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go get that guy from Purdue and then get some
They got a lot of money. They got a lot
of money, so I'm thinking they're gonna go get Trey Young.
I'm thinking they may go get somebody like Paul George
or something just kind of sure things up. He wants
to win. Now. The guy is what seventy seven seventy eight.
You know, I grew up a Spurs fan. I grew
up a Rocket fan. I'm north to Dallas. All I'm
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saying is that they they have the money, and I
think that if they can deflect the punishment.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That yeah, all right, well, I hear what you're saying,
and this will test the theory that we've been hearing
that people want to go play for Wemby and then
he's so good every people are going to go to
San Antonio. Who wouldn't normally go to San Antonio. Popovich's
seventy five years only be seventy six in January during
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the season, So he's.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Getting yet him getting.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Up there though, Papovich, he's getting up there. I thought
he was gonna leave a couple years ago, and then
he's still hanging on. I think he's gonna he's going
to coach there until it's lights out. I think he'll
just stay as long as and they'll have him forever,
so he'll just stick around. So absolutely, all right, Well,
so who do you want? I don't think Trey Young
does not seem like that would be a good that
would be oil.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
It's not a good fit for the first but I mean,
everybody's blown up this whole nick straight and I got
to tell you personally, I think it's a good fit.
I really do. But you know all these villain of
the guys that are together, it's hitting man, So I
don't what do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Well, I'm looking forward to trades more than the draft.
I'll leave it there, thank you. Brian. On a newbie night,
let's say hello to Brandon. Like, I'll have the draft
what I normally do with these things as I watch,
like the first maybe ten picks, but this I'll keep
on a little bit longer just because of the Brownie
James factor. I'll have it on the background. But you
really don't need to watch anyway, because anything that happens
(28:24):
you'll hear about and then you can react. You With
the first five to ten picks, you're like, Okay, I
should watch that, but after that it's throwing darts blindfolded.
Brandon is in the Valley of the Sun. Hello Brandon,
you're on a newbie night. Hello Brandon?
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Are we doing?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
It's going on? Welcome?
Speaker 10 (28:41):
What's up, thank you, thank you. Hey, So I got
two things. The first thing is I want to double
down on the caller earlier with the Bubble Championship with Lebron.
The time off doesn't just play into Anthony Davis's hands
here Lebron James. If you look at his tenure with
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the Lakers, he hasn't been able to stay healthy either.
So what are we talking about here?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's it's the most fraudulent thing in sport and it's
a great job.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Hey, Brandon, can I ask you something? Yes, sir h
Kawhi Leonard is the injury prone?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Paul George is the injury prone?
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 6 (29:23):
So did they not get the same amount of time off?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Brandon? Is it is?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
It? Is?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
It an amazing Brandon? It always goes back to the Clippers. No, No,
I want to know.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I want to know he's back to the Clippers. What
do you mean it's back to the Clippers logic, he
was having a conversation about the Lakers. You brought up.
But the points you're trying to make you like the Clippers. Listen,
you're a Clipper fame. Listen, Who's who's your brain? If
he's saying that it gave the advantage to the Lakers.
If the Clippers are just as injury prone, how does
it not give that none? You're making a the Lakers.
(30:04):
It's not about the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
You are so dumb.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Where were the Clippers in the bubble?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
What do you mean there were the clippers and Clippers
were hurt by the bubble. They actually were hurt by
the bull How how is it papers? Because they hate
each other and they had to live in that resort
in Orlando. Okay, so they don't like they don't like
each other, and that's why if they have been able
to go to their home.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
All right, so we lost the argument. It's okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Getting killed here, you're getting cooked for You're the newbies
hate you. Cooper theop Thank god, good job, Brandon. You
know what, I'll give you a golden ticket to brand
you get a golden this great take. God wish you
(30:54):
could one of these newbie nights. You guys are so good.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
Hey newbies, if you call up and say and agree
with Ben on the Lakers, you're gonna old and take it.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Can give out seventy five golden takes tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Maybe I will it's a great take, and I should
celebrate the take. You know, I'm surrounded by sloppy takes
and two calls this hour. Great takes.
Speaker 11 (31:16):
The first hate each other. That's that's his response. Well, good, Moneoplo,
just take the l coup again. Baseball harder in twenty twenty.
Basketball easier four months.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Off before the playoffs. That is no road games. Oh
my god, that is so easy. That is so simple.
And in baseballs it well it's a neutral site, yes,
but the team that bats last, they home road, right,
so you were designated the home team. Should you get
the bat last, So it's still a disadvantage. It is
(31:48):
still a disadvantage when you're the designated.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Road The dams have a problem lasting over the course
of the entire season, and then they got an.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
A science act.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
It's harder on baseball. It is not harder because the
can look at the recent years.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Why am I fighting with it with you? It makes
no sense because I'm right, you're wrong.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
And if the last sixty game season every year, the
Dodgers win the championship every year and last year undred
and sixty two games, the point Coop that last year
it's harder.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
What they did. No, how was it harder? The Texas
Rangers last year wouldn't have made the playoffs. After sixty
games they won the World Series. Philadelphia Phillies the year
before wouldn't have made the playoffs sixty games. They again,
They made the World Series, then win it. The Atlanta
Braves prior they got to the World Series and won
it after Ronald Lacuno Junior got hurt. The Washington Nationals
also in the last five six years, won a World Series.
(32:44):
They won where they were around five hundred mid season.
So it's because those teams know they have time. But
the Dodgers had no margin for error. No margin for error. Man,
this could be the greatest newbie net we've ever had,
all right, but we do not have time for the
We'll push back the audio on the schmuck of the
(33:06):
of the week. We'll get to that ton. Now for
the who am I? Game? Entering play on Tuesday, Boston's
Jaron Duran had twenty three doubles and ten triples, both
leading the American League. I'm the last player to lead
either the AL or the NL in doubles and triples
in the same season. Who am I? The answer? We'll
(33:27):
get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (34:01):
It's Ben Meller spocks Weed enjoying the newby Knights says,
congrats to the newbies on the getting those golden tickets
well earned. Freddie says, I also agreed the Lakers championship
does not count. Everyone's on the right side of history.
That's the way it is. Time now for the who
Am I Game? Red Sock Jaron Duran. He has twenty
(34:21):
three doubles ten triples, both led the American League entering
play on Tuesday. I am the last player to lead
the league in both doubles and triples in the same season.
Who am I? That's the question? What's the answer? James
going with Carney Lansford as his answer. Slim Tim says
the Keebler Elf, Garrett Coles spin doctor from mad Jack,
(34:43):
Rod Carew from rob in Minnesota. Who is the answer?
Who else is the answer? Willie Wilson Royal legend from
GM Manage in Chicago, Page Down, Jamal Bowman from Robbie
the Mariner fan now Hall of Fame snub Al Oliver
from Jordan Mark Grace a saddleback College legend guests by
(35:06):
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Tim Dwight former Iowa Hawk Guy
from Sheene in Des Moines, The Golden Child from Milkman
Mike in Colorado. Who else do we have? King Roy
says those beautiful twenty twenty Dodger World Series rings. Tom
Pushorik from I forty Ian Wimpy is the answer and
that was enjoyable broadcast him and Hawk Harrison in the
(35:30):
White Size when they would lose, because he'd get really upset.
Hawk Harrelson would get all depressed. Who else do we have?
Ariana Grande? Who's thirty one today Late night drug tester
Hot Nuts from Away. Remember that guy hot Nuts that
used to call this sh That's when the Ostrich sent
that in Hot Nuts. Remember the guy he lost his
cell phone, he said in a pit of oil or
something like that. Ridiculously, Razor shines. There's a great name
(35:53):
from Alf the Alien Opiner coming from the top rope,
Frosty the Snoweman from Rob the Ambassador of Bakersfield, Baby
Yoda from Cowboy Killer. That's his answer. All right, Eddie,
what say you? It is the who am I? Game?
It is not the Panda Pablo Sandoval, but the Red
Sox Jared duran As twenty three doubles ten triples entering
(36:16):
play on Tuesday led the American League in both categories.
I'm the last player to lead either league in both
doubles and triple.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
I'm gonna go with Cincinnati Red's pitcher Hunter Green, who
literally puked on the mountain and we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
More about that later. No, it is Stan the Man
usual who did it four times four times. Last time
I was in nineteen forty nine. Music do we have
that audience? Play this real quick? So this is the
head baseball coach at Texas A and M. The other day,
and he was asked a question about whether he would
(36:47):
stay at Texas Andy and let's let's peek in and
take a listen the rumor circulating today about a specific
job opening.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
What you have to say about your future in Aggie Land.
Speaker 12 (36:57):
Yeah, I mean, I think he's pretty selfish of you'd
ask me that question. To be honest with you, but
I left my family to be the coach at Texas
A and M. I took the job at Texas A
and M to never take another job again, and that
hasn't changed in my mind. That's unfair to talk about
(37:19):
something like that. They'd be like you asking Montgomery if
he's going to sign in the draft. But I understand
you got to ask the question. But I gave up
a big part of my life to come take this job.
And I've poured every ounce of my soul in this job,
and I've given this job every single ounce I can
possibly give it.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah, I like that. The reason he's the schmuck of
the week is less than twenty four hours after a
question the integrity of the reporter, calling the reporter selfish,
he left Texas A and M to coach Texas. The
guys are schmuck, and these coaches lie all the time,
and I got these fanboys. I've been dealing with this
my entire career. Remember when years ago Nick Saban was
(37:59):
coaching the Miami Dolphins and there were all kinds of
people saying he's gonna go to Alabama. Saban was that
I'm not coaching Alabama. I don't know, what do you
want to say, I'm not gonna be coach at Alabama.
It came like the greatest coach in Alabama history other
than Bear Bright. Right, So these guys lie all the time,
but you call the reporter selfish and you're on your
way out. What a loser. I hope you lose every
(38:21):
game with the Longhorns.
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one. As we
kick off the hump day edition of the podcast, Happy Wednesday.
It's the twenty sixth day of June. Big night in
pro bouncy ball, the job fair today the NBA Draft.
That's where we're gonna start here in our one. Why
(00:21):
are so many NBA executives praising Bronnie James and his
draft status? Also, which veteran players do you expect to
be moved? He already saw one relatively big trade between
the Knicks and the Nets. And what is your give
a crap meter? Your mallard, give a crap meter on
the twenty twenty four NBA draft. We'll discuss all those
(00:43):
things on a Newbie Night, hol right for Newbie Night.
Here it is our number one, Brown the down. We're
gonna find out how big a down he is.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
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a Wednesday tyract dot com. The Way tirebuind Shoe be
in our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball. The
Silly Season cranking up. Should be a big day for
(02:11):
the Silly season. Should be. The NBA Finals ended a
few days ago. They had a massive parade in Boston.
That's what you do when you win. And now the
curtain has gone up on the job fair, the basketball
job fair. If you're looking for work, you've missed the
cutoff to get employment, it'll be a two day job fair.
You're on Wednesday night, you've got the first round and
(02:33):
then they've turned this into a two day event. It's
actually texting somebody from the NBA world and we're like, boy,
I bet the NBA wishes they could go back to
when they had an eight round draft, or at least
a four round draft, so they could melk this into
a three day event because the NFL does three days.
The NFL Draft is three days. This is the first
(02:55):
time the NBA has gone to the two day format.
They have the first round and then they have this
second round. But he used to the draft used to
go on. The draft was so long in the NBA.
How long was it. It was so long that teams
would like draft relatives. I'm not kidding. They would try
to draft relatives and celebrities because they didn't have anyone
else to draft, and so it was ridiculous. Anyway, two
(03:15):
day affair, and in the lead up to the Baffosako event,
much of the noise, much of the noise has been
about the spawn of bron The spawn of bron Now,
I don't know if you've been paying any attention to this.
I don't know how you could have avoided it if
you're consuming sports content, which you clearly are at this time,
(03:35):
but maybe you missed it. So Bronnie James continues to
be the most interesting man in the world, at least
in the eyes of many. He's someone that is in
the spectrum of notability because a lot of these guys
you don't know who they are. But if you look
around and on the big board, the big board, you
(03:57):
look around the big board, his name is Prome men
in all these mock drafts, all of them, which is
wild when you consider he's a bit player. He's too
small for the NBA. He averaged less than five points
a game at SC in the old Pac twelve last year.
There is nothing that oozes up saying draft this guy.
(04:19):
In fact, the only thing that would tell you to
draft this guy is his DNA. That's it, period, stop,
that's all. And he's the bell of a ball, or
is he? So I did some research. Some call it
due diligence, and I was digging around. I have nothing
but time, and I was digging around and I saw
(04:40):
the latest comments by the Toronto basketball team, the Raptors,
who said that they have interest in Bronnie James. And
I have yet to find anyone on the record, any team,
anyone who works for a team that has gone on
the record to say negative stuff and put their name
(05:00):
on it about lebron James kids. So let us discuss
the question why are so many who are employed in
the NBA either praising Bronnie James draft status or just
saying nothing at all, which is akin to praising. So
(05:21):
I've got Reynolds, rap six pack and agricultural and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some some cookies, because I made cookies.
So that's why, all right now, A I know this
from watching mob movies over the years, many of them.
(05:43):
They don't make them as much now as they used
to it, but back in the day they're very popular
mob movies. I know from my experience watching mob movies.
You're never supposed to publicly trash the mob boss and
Lebron in this little story, this little ditty, if you will,
Lebron Jamesiams is the dawn of the league, and you
(06:03):
cannot point out the flaws of the godfather and that
his kid, his DNA, is not going to be a
prodigy and shouldn't even be drafted. I mean, that's the reaction.
Should not even be drafted here, And it goes against
the decorum of the NBA to point this out. Now,
(06:24):
what a quagmire you've got. So instead, what ends up
happening here when people are talking about Brownie James, You
get the Reynolds wrap. You know, the aluminum foil that
has the tool, the middle part there.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The role.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's hollow, right, they put the foil around it. They
wrap the foil around it. It's hollow. Nonsense, is what
it is. You whisper sweet nothings publicly. Oh, we really
lyng Drew he was compared to Drew Holliday. I think
it'd be like Drew Holliday. That was one of the comparaives.
There's been a bunch of other ridiculous comparisons that have
(06:59):
been out there. Everything has, every word, every word has
been sugarcoated about Scronnie Bronni And you point that out.
It is the paragod of nepotism that we're even having
this conversation on the eve of the NBA Draft that
Bronnie James in a just world where if you're just
(07:19):
judged off the body of your work and your skill set,
you're not drafted. Brinnie James is not drafted. But you
think Bronnie James is going to not be drafted because
I don't. I hope I'm wrong, but I believe he's
gonna get drafted in Round one. I think at the
(07:39):
end of round one, someone's gonna take Bronnie James, and
if not, he'll definitely be picked in the second round,
because he'd better be picked in the second round because
if he's not picked, Lebron will turn into a fire
breathing dragon. You better not embarrass Lebron James, and King
James will make some phone calls and if you embarrass him,
(08:00):
watch out, right, watch out, He'll bring in the goons.
You don't want to mess with. Now, page two, here
we open up the trading post. We had a first trade.
First trade went down on Tuesday night the Brooklyn basketball team.
The Nets sent McHale Bridges across the Williamsburg Bridge to
(08:21):
Manhattan to join the Knickerbockers. That's convenient, you don't have
to move. I think he stays there during the offseason, though,
so I'll stay in the New York area. Bridges goes across, Well,
he might take the George Washington Bridge, but I would
think the Williamsburg Bridge would be the way to go
into Manhattan. Now, the Nets in return got Bojan Bogdanovich.
(08:43):
He goes to Brooklyn and a grab bag of scratcher tickets.
You just hold one of them, hits grab bag of
scratcher tickets, including four unprotected first round picks, a pick swap,
and a partridge in a pear tree. And with that
it's the backdrop. Which veteran players? Which veteran players do
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you expect to be moved between now and the end
of the weekend. Now, the draft goes today here on
this our Wednesday show and then also on Thursday, but
they'll be more wheeling and dealing throughout the weekend. So
on Big Ben's Big Board. To answer the question, I
have a six pack, a six pack of players that
(09:27):
are going to be moved now Karl Anthony Towns after
the end the meek ending for the Minnesota basketball team.
That is expected to be a move. That's not an
outrageous position that Karl Anthony Towns can be yours if
the price is right. Trey Young, the Hawks who have
the number one overall pick. The Atlanta also looking to
(09:49):
deal Trey Young. The thing that would be interesting if
he went to Orlando, Like I could see that working
out pretty well because Ortlanta as a team there, they're
on the c as they say in gambling, they're not
quite there. And then Trey Young good offensive player, although
coach Killer, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets. His name also will
(10:11):
be tossed about in trade speculations. My guy, Paul George,
by George, and some of you have been emailing me.
You're gonna be really concerned. Paul George is gonna request
I'm not concerned. Steve Balmer will replace him with someone
who's about as good, if not better. So when you
have the richest owner in basketball, you don't worry about
a guy who hasn't gotten it done leaving who cares
(10:35):
Donovan Mitchell I still believe there's a world where he
gets traded out of Cleveland. Brandon Ingram will also most
likely say bye bye to the buyo. And so those
are players that have some brand value. We know who
they are, and I expect at least two of those
players out of the six pack to enter the transfer
(10:56):
port go somewhere else, all right, now, last word, we
go to the wide ingle LANs, as we are known
to do heading into a round one of the draft.
Give me your give a crap meter? What is your
give a crap meter? On the twenty twenty four NBA
draftee Mather give a crap Meter? So I'll tell you this.
If I was working as a truck driver, if I
(11:17):
was working as a dishwasher, if I was making donuts,
if I'm working security, my give a crap meter on
this would be off the charts. As in or go.
I would rather sit on the throne if I had
a job like that, I would rather sit on the
throne with hemorrhoids and try to empty the bowl. Okay,
(11:40):
at that point that said, I don't do that. I
don't have those jobs. I have a job behind a microphone.
I have the tools of ignorance, a microphone, headphones, and
an on air light. And for some reason, even though
I'm doing talk radio, camera's in here, so my give
a crap meter. I look at this like agriculture, all right, agriculture,
because when you're in my position, what you're doing, to
(12:04):
quote JJ Ruddick, you're doing engagement farming, which is what
you're supposed to do. Right. I'm in the farming industry,
the engagement farming industry, and this is an important crop,
very important. A lot of Euros I've never heard of
are going to be drafting the lottery. I've watched some
of these YouTube videos, read some of the scouting reports
(12:27):
not that interesting. Don't recommend it, pretty boring. So I've
studied up on the draft. But in terms of the names,
we want to see the names. You have to be relatable.
So the people that we kind of know either because
of their family or whatnot. We mentioned Bronnie James. And
as far as the other draft, the only other player
(12:48):
that I'm really mildly interested in is a John R.
Wooden Award voter over the years. Here is Zach Edie
from Purdue. Will he end up saying oh coda as
he is from Canada? And the Raptors are said to
be interested in the Giant Center from Purdue sick and
tired of losing at purduey all the trades, also all
(13:11):
the trades, all right? It is the ben mal short
is a new mee night not speak easy rules. What
that means is if you're not a regular. And if
you're not a regular, the regulars are the people that
call up all the time. We know their story. We
know Jed who FLEs out in the woods doing drugs.
We know Tony in the Bay Area has got wild dreams,
calls up and says bad words. Mark the full name
(13:32):
guy goes on these giant rants for no apparent reason,
and hates the Dodgers in Oregon. We know Redbreast Paul
calls up once in a while from Rhode Island, completely schnockered.
Blind Scott will call up with some agenda about something.
These are people that we know, hollering James hollering James
will call up mention Tamian, Montana. But those people have
(13:55):
the night off and we want new people. So if
you're intimidated by those that have called up, you do
not have to be intimidated. All the lines are open
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(14:16):
lil weasel, you lil weasel. My nomination for the biggest
schmuck of the week. And I don't know how you
beat this one. I don't know how you beat this one.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (15:49):
On a newbie night, all new callers, all the time.
These speakeasy rules not in affect to night, Cowboy Drew,
he's the video game guy, says JABBRONI isn't NBA worthy
and Tua isn't worth the money. Dude's brain as much
back to logging, got a clear land for a past year. Well,
you're doing God's work on the game, Cowboy Drew. Good job,
(16:12):
Good job, Robbie. The Meri defense says, the schmuck of
the week is me for starting to believe in the
Mariners this season. Robbie, it's the mid season, Malay's Robbie,
it's the mid season, malays. They'll suck you back in
and then they'll spitch you back out. That's what's gonna happen.
Femi from the Twinsys met him at the Mall of
(16:33):
Meet and Greet the Mermaid. While back, he says, Ben
and no hope for Katie coming to the Timberwolves to
guarantee us a championship. He's wasting away in Phoenix, says Femi.
I don't know about wasting away, and last I checked,
(16:53):
he didn't win in Brooklyn, he didn't win in Phoenix,
he didn't win in Oklahoma City. The only place he
won was where Steph Curry and Klay Thompson before he
got hurt. Were in that Draymond kicking guys in the
nuts and all that chip in the Ques, writes In,
says a plus on the mal of monologue. Obviously, the
only reason any team would waste any draft choice on
(17:14):
Bronni is for the extra national attention. Also, if they
think they'll be able to get Daddy James to join
their team, that is still on the table. I've not
totally discounted that that is still an option on the table.
That one of these teams thinks that Lebron's gonna opt
out of his contract, and the Lakers are all horny
for Lebron. There's talk of them offering him a three
(17:36):
year extension so they can pay him fifty eight million
dollars a year. Is like a lifetime achievement award when
he's in his late fifties or late fifties. In his
late late thirties, which is this year, he turns forty,
I believe in December, so be in his early forties.
Last year of the deal with forty two. Fergdog says
is newby Knight only for the callers or social media too.
Am I still allowed to give all my hard sports takes. Yes,
(18:00):
we've only done it for the calls. Some of requested
that we do it on social media also, but to
this point it's only been the people that call up
on new by Night Late Night. Drug Tester says. The
only two drafts, he says that that matter, The only
two drafts matter this week, the NHL Draft at the
Spear in Vegas and whatever is on tap at your
favorite bar is the is the draft is in Vegas?
(18:25):
Is that correct this week?
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Yeah? I remember I was hoping we would coincide it
with the meetup so I could go to both.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Sorry I didn't work out for Eddie. Yeah, are you
going to? Are you going to go to the draft though?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Right? No?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Why not? What do you you can go? It's a
sh a suburb of La Eddy. Just drive over there.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Yeah, why why are.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You not going? What else are you doing this weekend?
I mean we didn't.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
I didn't get a credentials for it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh that's the problem. You could probably call him upt
the last minute. They'll let you in, right, they know
he finds a big shot like dun Ben. Don't they
know who you are? Eddie? Probably not? Everyone lets me
except the Dodgers because of Otani. If I was in Token,
i'd be in.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
But they want the Angels, and the Angels didn't let
you either.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But they got rid of a Tani, so now they
let me. But they're so bad. I don't even want
to go. I mean, they're so terrible. I don't want
to go. I could go any time I want, I
don't want to go. That's how pathetic. I'm like Coop,
I'm boycotting the Angels. That is such a bad product.
I don't want to waste the most valuable thing. I
have my time to watch that terrible team. Nick writes
and he says, Hey, Ben, buddy, this is Nick the
(19:25):
Windy's guy. How I remember Nick? This a legend, Lorraina,
this is Nick the Wendy's guy. All right, you don't
know who that is, but this guy's a made man. Okay,
if you ever need Wendy's and you're in Minnesota, this
guy hook you up. Okay, I need it now, you
got to go to Minnesota anyway, says I think the
Timberwolves should do everything they can to keep the core three,
Cat and Man and Rudy. They should build around these
(19:49):
guys and go out and get another player, make the
big three even bigger, says Nick, the Windy's guy. I say, well,
let's go to the phones. It's a newbie night art
out with Gary in Michigan. He's in the leadoff chair
on a newbie night. Hello Gary, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Gary? Not Gary?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What did I say, Coops?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I thought it was Gary, Jerry with the J.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I called you.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
I said your name was Gary, though he's saying it's Jerry.
You know it sounds like saying Gary every time.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Oh maybe it's my phone. I don't know with Jerry.
But anyway, all right, hold.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
On, let me let me redo this. I will clean
this up in post. Let's go. Let's go to Jerry
in Michigan.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Hello, Jerry, Welcome, Gooy Gary wonderful. I had a couple
of questions there. Okay, I've been meaning to bring this up,
and I'm sure Coop's gonna hate me for this, but
you always talk about Lebron and the bubble and the
championship and all that stuff, and I've always been wanting
to call and talk to about this, and like I
(20:55):
said's gonna hate me, but sorry, Coop. Anyway, Uh, before
they went to that bubble and No one ever mentioned
that A D was hurt and he got all that
time off.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's right, and that you know what, he did not hurt.
This is a great yep.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Had they did not hurt, he would never and it
was normal season season going into the playoffs, he wouldn't
even been able to play, and they wouldn't have won
that championship.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
You don't want to fluff nutter in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Get you know Harry first, you're the leadoff.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I wouldn't have been going to the playoffs.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
It was a shortened season, so they would have been
for him to recover anyway, and all the other teams did.
All the other teams have the same amount of time off.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I'm giving him a golden ticket. He gets a goal,
Give a gold ticket a goal. The ticket I got cats, I'm.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I understand who. But if they didn't have that time
off to get better to go into the playoffs, he
never would have been they they wouldn't have got that
far to even get there.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
So exactly, and look at the results.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
When the results I candies and nuts, then.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
That's the most fraudulent, most fraudulent championship.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Of all time.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
You can bring this the bait up all the time
about it, and that is a big point, and you
have to point out that's a.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Great So what about the point that throughout you know,
the last ten years, the Dodgers have famously sputtered as
the as the postseason goes on, and so the year
that they won it, it was you know, shortened, and
so they didn't have time to sputter out.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
They played two teams that cheated the A holes the
ass one one thousand holes and they the Red Sox
also cheat. We don't talk about that as much with
the Red Sox cheated in twenty eighteen. Also, so they
they that's two championships they won, uh and then a
third and twenty twenty. This is a freaking dynasty, the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I didn't call the call about the baseball I was
I was thinking a point about the.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That's a great point. Gar. You've already gotten the golden ticket.
You've already played you punk Kooper loop.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
You're right. Well you're an idiot, Gary, you should have never.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's a great job by you.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I want to hug you. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
This is Gary or Jerry, oh, Jerry Jack, whatever his
name is.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well, it doesn't matter who Gary y change it. He
called it. Put him Gary on the board, So I
called him Gary. But to Jerry, like Ben and Jerry,
maybe it was Barry. Do not throw that out? Is
it possible? Do not do? Shame on you.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
We talked about the Nixon Nets making a trade first
time since nineteen eighty three. I was in the eighth
grade last time they made a deal that trade. As
we all, I'm sure no saw the Nets ship len
Elmore to the Knicks. I remember him as a broadcaster
for a nineteen eighty four second round pick, which turned
out to be the legendary Tom Solby, whoever one clearly
(23:49):
remembers as a star at Notre Dame. He went on
to play an amazing thirty one games in the NBA
for the Dallas Mavericks. So that was the last trade
with h the Nicks and Nets len Elmore to New
York for a draft pick.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
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Fun fun Fund, Mallard fun Fact, A Newbie Night, All
(24:25):
New Callers, All New Callers at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. And this is an unverified fun fact,
but it comes from our friend mad Jack. Matt Jack
has offered to host an upcoming Mallard meet and greet
at a later date. We have the next Mallor meet
greet we do will be in Vegas. That'll be coming
up in August, early August. But matd Jack says, the Dodgers,
(24:46):
the Doyers. Miguel Rojas. He has hit in twenty three
different games this season, and the Dodgers in those games
are twenty three and zero. When Miguel Rojas has a hit,
that's fun. But let's give you another fun fact. Bonus
fun fact, malor fun fact. So Connor McDavid took home
(25:06):
the NVP of the postseason in hockey, but his team
did not win, even though they outscored the inferior Florida
Panthers in that series. But That means there has still
not ever been a player making over ten million dollars
in average annual value to win the Stanley Cup. It
(25:29):
has yet to happen. Now, Sergei, Bobrovski and Barkoff there
joined Jack Eichel as the only players at ten million
to win. But nobody making more than that has ever
been on a Stanley Cup winning team. So that is
the cutoff. That is the threshold. That is it. Let's
go to the falls. We'll say hello. That's a fun fact.
Let's say hello to Brian, who's deep in the heart
(25:52):
of Texas.
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Hello, Brian, Hey, how you guys doing.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
It's a newbie night.
Speaker 9 (26:00):
Time caller. I appreciate that. I really do welcome. I
don't know, like you know, going into this NBA draft,
I'm thinking that the Spurs are gonna like do something.
And what I'm thinking is that Popovich has something to
do with the Twin Towers. So you know, maybe you
(26:22):
go get that guy from Purdue and then get some
They got a lot of money. They got a lot
of money, so I'm thinking they're gonna go get Trey Young.
I'm thinking they may go get somebody like Paul George
or something just kind of sure things up. He wants
to win. Now. The guy is what seventy seven seventy eight.
You know, I grew up a Spurs fan. I grew
up a Rocket fan. I'm north to Dallas. All I'm
(26:46):
saying is that they they have the money, and I
think that if they can deflect the punishment.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That yeah, all right, well, I hear what you're saying,
and this will test the theory that we've been hearing
that people want to go play for Wemby and then
he's so good every people are going to go to
San Antonio. Who wouldn't normally go to San Antonio. Popovich's
seventy five years only be seventy six in January during
(27:16):
the season, So he's.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Getting yet him getting.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Up there though, Papovich, he's getting up there. I thought
he was gonna leave a couple years ago, and then
he's still hanging on. I think he's gonna he's going
to coach there until it's lights out. I think he'll
just stay as long as and they'll have him forever,
so he'll just stick around. So absolutely, all right, Well,
so who do you want? I don't think Trey Young
does not seem like that would be a good that
would be oil.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
It's not a good fit for the first but I mean,
everybody's blown up this whole nick straight and I got
to tell you personally, I think it's a good fit.
I really do. But you know all these villain of
the guys that are together, it's hitting man, So I
don't what do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Well, I'm looking forward to trades more than the draft.
I'll leave it there, thank you. Brian. On a newbie night,
let's say hello to Brandon. Like, I'll have the draft
what I normally do with these things as I watch,
like the first maybe ten picks, but this I'll keep
on a little bit longer just because of the Brownie
James factor. I'll have it on the background. But you
really don't need to watch anyway, because anything that happens
(28:24):
you'll hear about and then you can react. You With
the first five to ten picks, you're like, Okay, I
should watch that, but after that it's throwing darts blindfolded.
Brandon is in the Valley of the Sun. Hello Brandon,
you're on a newbie night. Hello Brandon?
Speaker 8 (28:39):
Are we doing?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
It's going on? Welcome?
Speaker 10 (28:41):
What's up, thank you, thank you. Hey, So I got
two things. The first thing is I want to double
down on the caller earlier with the Bubble Championship with Lebron.
The time off doesn't just play into Anthony Davis's hands
here Lebron James. If you look at his tenure with
(29:03):
the Lakers, he hasn't been able to stay healthy either.
So what are we talking about here?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's it's the most fraudulent thing in sport and it's
a great job.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Hey, Brandon, can I ask you something? Yes, sir h
Kawhi Leonard is the injury prone?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Absolutely?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Paul George is the injury prone?
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 6 (29:23):
So did they not get the same amount of time off?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Brandon? Is it is?
Speaker 8 (29:27):
It? Is?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
It an amazing Brandon? It always goes back to the Clippers. No, No,
I want to know.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I want to know he's back to the Clippers. What
do you mean it's back to the Clippers logic, he
was having a conversation about the Lakers. You brought up.
But the points you're trying to make you like the Clippers. Listen,
you're a Clipper fame. Listen, Who's who's your brain? If
he's saying that it gave the advantage to the Lakers.
If the Clippers are just as injury prone, how does
it not give that none? You're making a the Lakers.
(30:04):
It's not about the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
You are so dumb.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Where were the Clippers in the bubble?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
What do you mean there were the clippers and Clippers
were hurt by the bubble. They actually were hurt by
the bull How how is it papers? Because they hate
each other and they had to live in that resort
in Orlando. Okay, so they don't like they don't like
each other, and that's why if they have been able
to go to their home.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
All right, so we lost the argument. It's okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Getting killed here, you're getting cooked for You're the newbies
hate you. Cooper theop Thank god, good job, Brandon. You
know what, I'll give you a golden ticket to brand
you get a golden this great take. God wish you
(30:54):
could one of these newbie nights. You guys are so good.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
Hey newbies, if you call up and say and agree
with Ben on the Lakers, you're gonna old and take it.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Can give out seventy five golden takes tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Maybe I will it's a great take, and I should
celebrate the take. You know, I'm surrounded by sloppy takes
and two calls this hour. Great takes.
Speaker 11 (31:16):
The first hate each other. That's that's his response. Well, good, Moneoplo,
just take the l coup again. Baseball harder in twenty twenty.
Basketball easier four months.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Off before the playoffs. That is no road games. Oh
my god, that is so easy. That is so simple.
And in baseballs it well it's a neutral site, yes,
but the team that bats last, they home road, right,
so you were designated the home team. Should you get
the bat last, So it's still a disadvantage. It is
(31:48):
still a disadvantage when you're the designated.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
Road The dams have a problem lasting over the course
of the entire season, and then they got an.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
A science act.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
It's harder on baseball. It is not harder because the
can look at the recent years.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Why am I fighting with it with you? It makes
no sense because I'm right, you're wrong.
Speaker 8 (32:10):
And if the last sixty game season every year, the
Dodgers win the championship every year and last year undred
and sixty two games, the point Coop that last year
it's harder.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
What they did. No, how was it harder? The Texas
Rangers last year wouldn't have made the playoffs. After sixty
games they won the World Series. Philadelphia Phillies the year
before wouldn't have made the playoffs sixty games. They again,
They made the World Series, then win it. The Atlanta
Braves prior they got to the World Series and won
it after Ronald Lacuno Junior got hurt. The Washington Nationals
also in the last five six years, won a World Series.
(32:44):
They won where they were around five hundred mid season.
So it's because those teams know they have time. But
the Dodgers had no margin for error. No margin for error. Man,
this could be the greatest newbie net we've ever had,
all right, but we do not have time for the
We'll push back the audio on the schmuck of the
(33:06):
of the week. We'll get to that ton. Now for
the who am I? Game? Entering play on Tuesday, Boston's
Jaron Duran had twenty three doubles and ten triples, both
leading the American League. I'm the last player to lead
either the AL or the NL in doubles and triples
in the same season. Who am I? The answer? We'll
(33:27):
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
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Speaker 1 (34:01):
It's Ben Meller spocks Weed enjoying the newby Knights says,
congrats to the newbies on the getting those golden tickets
well earned. Freddie says, I also agreed the Lakers championship
does not count. Everyone's on the right side of history.
That's the way it is. Time now for the who
Am I Game? Red Sock Jaron Duran. He has twenty
(34:21):
three doubles ten triples, both led the American League entering
play on Tuesday. I am the last player to lead
the league in both doubles and triples in the same season.
Who am I? That's the question? What's the answer? James
going with Carney Lansford as his answer. Slim Tim says
the Keebler Elf, Garrett Coles spin doctor from mad Jack,
(34:43):
Rod Carew from rob in Minnesota. Who is the answer?
Who else is the answer? Willie Wilson Royal legend from
GM Manage in Chicago, Page Down, Jamal Bowman from Robbie
the Mariner fan now Hall of Fame snub Al Oliver
from Jordan Mark Grace a saddleback College legend guests by
(35:06):
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Tim Dwight former Iowa Hawk Guy
from Sheene in Des Moines, The Golden Child from Milkman
Mike in Colorado. Who else do we have? King Roy
says those beautiful twenty twenty Dodger World Series rings. Tom
Pushorik from I forty Ian Wimpy is the answer and
that was enjoyable broadcast him and Hawk Harrison in the
(35:30):
White Size when they would lose, because he'd get really upset.
Hawk Harrelson would get all depressed. Who else do we have?
Ariana Grande? Who's thirty one today Late night drug tester
Hot Nuts from Away. Remember that guy hot Nuts that
used to call this sh That's when the Ostrich sent
that in Hot Nuts. Remember the guy he lost his
cell phone, he said in a pit of oil or
something like that. Ridiculously, Razor shines. There's a great name
(35:53):
from Alf the Alien Opiner coming from the top rope,
Frosty the Snoweman from Rob the Ambassador of Bakersfield, Baby
Yoda from Cowboy Killer. That's his answer. All right, Eddie,
what say you? It is the who am I? Game?
It is not the Panda Pablo Sandoval, but the Red
Sox Jared duran As twenty three doubles ten triples entering
(36:16):
play on Tuesday led the American League in both categories.
I'm the last player to lead either league in both
doubles and triple.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
I'm gonna go with Cincinnati Red's pitcher Hunter Green, who
literally puked on the mountain and we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
More about that later. No, it is Stan the Man
usual who did it four times four times. Last time
I was in nineteen forty nine. Music do we have
that audience? Play this real quick? So this is the
head baseball coach at Texas A and M. The other day,
and he was asked a question about whether he would
(36:47):
stay at Texas Andy and let's let's peek in and
take a listen the rumor circulating today about a specific
job opening.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
What you have to say about your future in Aggie Land.
Speaker 12 (36:57):
Yeah, I mean, I think he's pretty selfish of you'd
ask me that question. To be honest with you, but
I left my family to be the coach at Texas
A and M. I took the job at Texas A
and M to never take another job again, and that
hasn't changed in my mind. That's unfair to talk about
(37:19):
something like that. They'd be like you asking Montgomery if
he's going to sign in the draft. But I understand
you got to ask the question. But I gave up
a big part of my life to come take this job.
And I've poured every ounce of my soul in this job,
and I've given this job every single ounce I can
possibly give it.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yeah, I like that. The reason he's the schmuck of
the week is less than twenty four hours after a
question the integrity of the reporter, calling the reporter selfish,
he left Texas A and M to coach Texas. The
guys are schmuck, and these coaches lie all the time,
and I got these fanboys. I've been dealing with this
my entire career. Remember when years ago Nick Saban was
(37:59):
coaching the Miami Dolphins and there were all kinds of
people saying he's gonna go to Alabama. Saban was that
I'm not coaching Alabama. I don't know, what do you
want to say, I'm not gonna be coach at Alabama.
It came like the greatest coach in Alabama history other
than Bear Bright. Right, So these guys lie all the time,
but you call the reporter selfish and you're on your
way out. What a loser. I hope you lose every
(38:21):
game with the Longhorns.
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