May 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben calls out Steve Kerr for failing to manage the roster with Curry out of the lineup. Draymond Green pulls the race card after another technical. Ant Man tries to solve the Timberwolves riddle, the ‘Who am I?’ game and much more!
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He we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, It's our number one, our number one, as we
talk the talk, and it's all about the pro bouncy
ball playoffs here in our number one.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
As Minnesota led from wire to wire, from soup to nuts,
as they get it done. Does Warrior coach Steve Kerr
deserve to be criticized for failing to adapt with Steph
Curry out of the lineup? Also, what did you take
away from Draymond Green and his viral postgame rant about
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not being an angry black man? Even though the story
is not about that. It's about him getting into foul trouble,
technical foul trouble. Everyone's been talking about that. I'll give
you my ten cents and have Anthony Edwards and the
Timberwoll solve the Warriors riddle. We'll get to that as well,
don't forget. Also today the Fifth Hour podcast a new
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episode and one of the great flexes of all time
in the history of radio. Not by me, but I
gotta share this story. It's it's a wild story. We'll
have that. And also one of the more zany calls
that we had this week on the show. We'll look
back at that as well. On the fifth hour podcast.
But here it is our number one enjoy.
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show be so our lead this hour is from Minneapolis.
That was the scene Game two of the Western Conference
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semi finals. Just one game, an island game, the island life.
That's what we say. You know, in the NFL, when
there's only a game on like Monday or Sunday night
or Thursday, is one game, it's an island game. Well,
usually in the NBA there's double barrel action in the
first couple of rounds of the playoffs, but not tonight.
The only game in action on the Thursday night card. There.
In basketball, there were some hockey games that were classic,
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but we talked basketball. So the Warriors without shorthanded without
Steph Curry as the hammy went whammy for the Warrior guards.
So they were looking to try to sneak out of
the Twin Cities with another surprise when Currey played thirteen
minutes in Game one before he grabbed his leg in
agony and hopped off the court. So that was the
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set of Anthony Edwards, who sucked at a time you
cannot suck in Game one, looking to have the bounce
back for the for the Wolves. If you were watching
this or not? What was Joyous Randall who had an
up and down day himself, but he finished with twenty
four points eleven rebounds. And the Timber, who jumped out
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to a thirteen nothing lead on their way to a
Harvard boat race they never trailed, ended up barbecuing the Warriors,
covering the rather large point spread one seventeen to ninety
three blowout City and so the playoff series even up.
Anthony Edwards was not all that good. He also had
a traumatic ankle scare which turned out to be a
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whole lot of nothing. But Anthony Edwards and Nikhil Alexander
Walker each had twenty Minnesota gets the win, so Game
three one to one. Now Game three will be this
weekend in San Francisco. The better story is in the
loser's locker room, So that is where we are going
to direct our attention because we like losers. The Ben
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Malor Show loves losers, and the Warriors are losers. So
let's discuss the question, and I want to focus in
on the code here. Does Warriors coach Steve Kerr deserve
to be criticized for failing to adapt without Steph Curry?
They knew Curry wasn't gonna play. They knew during the
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Game one win that Curry wasn't going to come back
and play in game two. So does Steve Kerr deserve
to be criticized for that? I've got Flying Dutchman, iron Man,
and Spirit Animal, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to test our intestinal fortitude,
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and Golden State failing that particular test, by the way,
So to answer the question number one, does Steve Kerr
deserve to be criticized for the Warriors failing to adapt
without Steph Curry? And I am nodding my head, yes,
I am nodding my head. Yes. Now, Golden State looked
like they were lost. They didn't know where they were.
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It's like they were zoomed from some other planet out
far out in the cosmos, and they're like, what am
I doing here? Where am I? I don't know where
I am? And so from the other night when they
were moving and grooving and all of a sudden, without
Curry for the whole game they come out there, they
were stumbling and bumbling. It was a stagnation situation, error prone, clumsy,
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looked like the Wolves. Certainly for much of the game,
we're playing at a different speed. Here is Steve Kerr,
the coach of the Warriors, commenting on the situation with
rotation and moving players around. The whole deal thing was
he was great.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I mean, you know, he sat in a couple of
seats down. We talked a couple of times during the game,
and he was talking to all the players and yeah,
I mean, you know, I don't know exactly what he
was saying to the guys, but it's very very comforting
having him on that bench for our guys.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well, it was him talking about Curry on the it
was comforting. Why exactly was it comforting to have Steph Curry?
Did he massage the player shoulders? Like, how is that comforting?
Did they think maybe he was just faking the injury
and he was gonna suit up at halftime and go
out and play. How's that comforting? I don't get that anyway.
So back to the point of so Steve Kerr on
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this night was coaching the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship
that was a ghost ship that was an empty vessel
that was found abandoned, floating adrift on the open sea.
And the real test is how you do without your
top player, Do you succeed, do you have some level
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of success or do you fail? Now, Steve Kerr is
going to go in the Hall of Fame. He's got
all kinds of records and all that. But is this
like a Belichick two point zero situation where once Belichick
lost Tom Brady all of a sudden, Belichick is now
stooping some twenty something and everyone's laughing at him and
he can't win. Well, see curR. His record with the
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Warriors in games without Stephan Curry is seventy three and
one on nine. He's got a four to h one
winning percentage in games that Curry does not play in.
And Steph Curry is not walking back through that door
anytime soon, not in the next few games anyway in
this series. So if he doesn't come back, and who
knows if he'll ever come back in this series, it's
gonna be. And I go and say, should still bounce back,
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you would assume at home in Game three? But man,
what a mess?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Also, it would also help if Jimmy Butler did not
play like the end of his run in Miami. Didn't
it look like the Jimmy Butler that was with the
Miami Heat when he was sulking with pat Riley and
having issues with Riley there. It just didn't seem fully
invested in the game. Is it because he has issues
with the fans in Minnesota and there's a back and
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forth there between them. I don't know what's going on.
He just seemed like, Hey, this is your opportunity to
step on up. You're now the alpha dog and it's
your team now Curry's not there, and here's your opportunity
unity and l l L la la la. He was
acting like that a lot. But what do I know? Now?
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The big talking point which everyone's going to be apping about,
is not about the outcome of the game. It's not
about Steph Curry's injury, it's not about Steve Kerry. It
is about Draymond Green. Don't bury the lead, my man?
All right, Well, I guess we did so. Draymond Green
made headlines again. Green picked up a fifth postseason technical.
Oh my god, fifth technical the postseason in Golden State's loss.
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And he did it with player. He did it with
ras Mataz. Draymond Green was in the second quarter of
the game. He was assessed a technical foul after he
elbowed Naz Reid of the Timberwolves right in the face,
right in the kisser, bam, right like that. Now Green
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was irate, He was completely flabberg acid with the call.
And it got to the point there look like a
vaudevillian comedy because you had the Warriors guard Steph Curry,
who again was there to give good vibrations to the tame.
You had Steph Curry coming off the bench to try
to calm him down. You had Steve Kerr, It's like
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professional wrestling taking Raymond out of the game to try
to de escalate him from snapping and getting another fowl
called and all it. So, now what does that mean?
So with five technical foules the way I'm told, with
five technicals and just nine postseason games, Draymond Green is
two away from earning a suspension. So he gets at
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least what a game. So you do the math on that,
it ain't looking good. And so then that was just
the setup. That was the appetizer to the main event.
In the visiting locker room at the Target Center and
the bowels of the arena there in the Twin Cities,
Draymond Green addressing reporters and he played the race card
from the bottom of the neck. Take a listen, look
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like the angry black man. I'm not an angry black man.
I'm a very successful, educated black man with a great family,
and I'm great at basketball. I'm great at what I
do to the a gender. To try to keep making
me look like an angry black man is crazy. I'm
sick of it. It's ridiculous. Okay, they dropped the mic
and walked off. All right, So I think he said
angry black man three times in twenty seconds. I think,
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all right, So what do you take away? You just
heard it. That's what everyone's gonna be talking about. What
did you take away from Draymond Green his postgame rant about, Hey,
I'm not an angry black man. So my takeaway on
this is that it was iron man like it was
Tony Stark who once said deflect and absorb. This is
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also out of the Lebron James playbook, where everyone's gonna
be picking on Draymond Green because you're what are you doing?
You know you can't be elbowing people like this. You're
in a situation where you have to be on your
best baby, and so you did the thing you can't
do so. He knows that he knows how this works.
He's dabbled in the media. So what does he do.
He takes the deck of cards out and plays the
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victim card from the bottom of the deck, right, victim card.
Make it all about me being the victim, which I
think is the playbook from the you know, the last
few years ago when everyone was playing the victim. I
guess it's still in vogue for some people. But Draymond
Green is I get maybe I'm wrong with this. It
sounds like he's trying to twist this into some kind
of racial issue when it's not about that. It's about him.
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The way he plays. He's the enforcer, and he is
a compared to how basketball used to be back in
the olden days with Charles Oakley and Bill Laine Beer
and people like that. Those were real basketball goons. Rick Mahorn,
like Draymond Green's a mister softy compared to those guys.
But compared to the modern basketball player, he is seen
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as this tough, brooding player that is the enforcer. The
other problem for Draymond, aside from the fact no one
was saying he wasn't educated, no one was saying he's
not a great family man. That's not what the conversation
was about. He turned into that is the film does
not lie. As Andy Reid likes to say, Draymond Green
has a sizzle reel and somebody sent me this clip,
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and I will give I don't know who. I forgot
who it was off the top of my head. I
was telling somebody in the pre show meeting this. Somebody
sent me a clip on social media of Draymond and
his rand and behind the van they put video up
of Draymond his sizzle reel of if you will or
you know, I'm not angry, I'm not angry black Man.
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And then there's there's clips of him putting a choke
hold on Rudy Gobert, stomping on Demontes Sebonis, kicking Steven
Adams in the basket balls, poking Lebron's anaconda, and all
these other It was hilarious. So one of the funniest
things I've seen. And listen, Draymond has a Lifetime Achievement
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Award for a history of unsportsman life acts in the
eyes of the NBA. Okay, so that's where we are.
And now it's gonna be twenty four hours of Draymond Green.
Everyone's gonna have a hot ache on Draymond. You'll get
the the think pieces, you know, you'll get the deep
thinkers out there that will be all offended that people
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are attacking Draymond Green, and they'll they'll pick up the
calls for Draymond and then you'll have other people think
this is the dumbest thing in the world, and so
nothing will change, and that'll be that, and we'll move
on to the next games. All right, now, final point, So,
have Anthony Edwards to get back to the series? Have
Anthony Edwards and the tim Wolves solved the Warriors riddle?
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Did Game two show you that Minnesota has now solves things?
They've solved it? So here's my position. Things are pointing up, right,
things are pointing up. But it's not about Minnesota having
a solution. To me, it's to me, it's not about that,
all right. To me, it's not about that, because this
is more about Golden State looking like a nineties comedy.
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They were dazed and confused in the first quarter, falling
behind thirteen to nothing and trailing the entire game. They were,
for the most part on autopilot. Now I will give
them an ounce of Okay, you didn't get run off
the court and quit like Denver did. Denver completely quit
against Oklahoma State. That was ridiculous. But Golden State was
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going through the motion. It's making no mistake and it
is an embarrassing, e masculating situation that no one stepped
up without Steph Curry in the lineup. And that's really
the story here, right, that's the story. This game was
more about the Warriors sucking than it was about the
Wolves solving the Rubik's cube if you will here, and
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we imagine Golden State will be getting some smelling salts
delivered from Amazon or somewhere and they'll have those before
Game three. But the Timberwolves, they had the ingredients to
win this series. Anthony Edwards when he plays, he didn't play.
I didn't think that great in this game either. You
got an ankle thing in which he as all the
NBA players do, turned out to be an Academy Award performance.
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They've got the defensive prowess, they have the rebounding, they
have all that stuff. My issue, my main issue with
the Wolves is that their spirit animal is a yo yo.
Now you're probably saying a yo yo is not an animal,
but I would argue that a yo yo identifies as
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an animal, therefore it is an animal. So a yo
yo is the spirit animal of the Timberwolves. And what
I'm trying to say is they're up and down. They're
up and they're down and they're all around right. Rather
than smooth peanut putter, they are the extra chunky, crunchy
peanut Butter's what they are. There's no real consistency from
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game to game. And now the good news from Minnesota
is that Steph Curry will not be walking through that
door anytime soon. He'll be sidelined by the hammy that
went whammy until at least sometime next week and likely
longer than that. And even when he comes back, he's
a ticking time bomb, as the hamstring often leads to
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a bigger injury down the line. We've seen that many
times over the years watching these sports games. So we'll
see what happens. But it's it's a hot mess. It
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And I don't forget. For those that have not been
paying attention, we are less than three weeks away now
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May twenty ninth. This our Friday show. So May twenty
ninth we will be hanging out mal Or meet and
greet the first one of twenty twenty five. Got an
email from a gentleman who said, I'd like the schedule
of meet and greets, I said, I wrote back, I said,
we don't make a schedule. They just kind of pop up,
like we don't have there's no formal schedule this one.
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But you know, Ben, what's that I was thinking?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Next week, me and you could sit down and make
a list of all the places that we want to
go this year, okay, and I can try and organize
them in two little months and we can see what
we can put together.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay. So you want to have like a travel schedule,
that would be like a professional radio show. That that's
what professional radio shows do. But we're just like an
overnight show.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
So right, Well, you know some people want us up
in Oakland. There's one over here in Reaching Waters area
that they want us to do, right, So those are
more simple. We could do those in the next couple
of months.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They like. The three that I think are pretty safe
are northern California, like the Oakland Alame to lose place.
He's one of the big supporters of the show, and
he kind of runs a bar there in Oakland, so
we could do that. The SoCal one, definitely, that's easy.
Vegas is like a suburb of LA so that's easy.
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And then after that it gets a little dicey. So
but there's other ones that I'm trying to get to
Ohio for the Dixter you know, Dick and Dayton there.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
But instead of keep on saying, you know, yeah, we're
you know, we're thinking about No, we're gonna we're gonna
sit down and we're gonna talk about it.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Big meeting, big We're gonna get management involved, We'll get
the sales department involved, they'll sell it. It'll be awesome,
big money for the company. Get a couple of national sponsors.
We're done right. We're gonna make so much money for
the company. We're gonna win some kind of we're gonna
make an award. We're gonna winn award. Not making it wad.
I just couldn't make it, WAD. We're gonna win award. Yeah,
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But I just to clarify, it's May twenty ninth, it's
a Thursday, say seven o'clock, maybe a little before that,
but will be in Vancouver, British Columbia, oh at a
place called the Court Side on Maine, and that is
the establishment. I will be there, Lorraina will be there,
she'll be making the rare and appropriate visit, and Cooper
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Loop will also be there. So we'll all be hanging
out in Vancouver and then hopefully something on May thirty first,
although to be determined. We were supposed to go to
a soccer game for the white Caps, the Vancouver soccer team,
and somehow that game got postponed because they'll be in Mexico,
So I'm not sure how that works, but that's what happened,
and so the game obviously will not be able to
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attend that game because there is no game, So we're
trying to figure out something else to do there and
we'll have a good time with that. But we started
here with the pro bouncy ball monologue as Minnesota get
her done and they win, and Draymond Green went on
a rant post game which everyone's yapping her out, and
Big Lew says, will there be a lot of third
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rail conversations? Mom man in Vancouver? What is that?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The third rail. One of the great management people in
the history of Fox Sports Radio is great Don Martin.
That's one of his catchphrases. A third rail on my
m the third rail, and so yeah, stay in your lane.
That's not one of his catch phrases praises, but he
probably would have said it. What else do we have
to see? Page down? Can't read that on the air.
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What do we got here? Let's see Chris in Des
Moines says, I'm drunk, Ben, have a great show. You're
living your greatest life. You're fully schnockered. Our buddy in
des Moines. Let's see here. Truck Stop Fungus, right, since
so gonna be a big night here? Truck Stop Fungus says,
I'm living like a king at a hotel outside i
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T Mobile Park. The bars are bombastic. The Mala militia
is strong in the Pacific Northwest. Just don't mention that
damn Leprechaun. He's hated up here? Is that right? The
good people of the Pacific Northwest have an issue with
the Leprechaun. Okay, that's he probably liked that. What else
do we have page down here? Gunner? I don't think
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Gunner checked in after game one. I wonder how that happened.
He lost his phone and but he's back for game two.
Gunner says, I'm calling this series now, gentlemen. Sweep for one,
Wolves will win the next three. We'll see what happens.
Don't be a prisoner of the moment. Nature Boy also
says Timberwolves in five with or without Curry. He says
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Shane in des moines from.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
The I have to hit my Tarzan button.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh that's right, so let me go back to that.
That last one was from the Nature Boy answering the
call to the Wild.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
I just want you to know that my yes is broken.
I only have one soundboard to work off of right
now instead of Minrmal three, so I'm going to be
very delayed.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm sure the engineers will be coming in to fix
that right now. I doubt it. Call the iHeart engineering
department will come in here in the middle of the
night and fix that. I mean, this is a major
this is the number one audio company iHeart, so I'm
sure they'll come in and fix it right away.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
We have the number one Gremlins as well.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Don't put that bad you know what on me. Shane
in de Moyes says, some these seven seconds of the
NBA I've watched this year, I can confidently say the
Minnesota Timberwolves are located in the Western Conference, thus ending
my current NBA knowledge. It's always dicey when you get
to the Midwest and you have some of the teams
that are in the West and some of the teams
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that are in the East. Like there's a natural rivalry
between Wisconsin and Minnesota. But yet the Bucks are in
the East and the Timberwolves are in the West. And
then but you think from Minnesota, it's rather easy to
get to Detroit, which is not that far away in Chicago,
but those teams are in the East also, so it
gets a little dicey there in the middle of the country.
G Man's in Chicago. Rights doesn't get much more middle
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than that. G Man says a plus on the Mould monologue,
Draymond will end up in prison after his careers. I
don't know up in prison? Question will Andre and Willis
help prove Karen Reid is not guilty in the Commonwealth Court.
TV minds want to know. Yeah, I've not kept up
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on the retrial of Karen Reid. I did see some
of the first trial. I've not kept up on what's
going on here lately, Spock's Weed writes in from the
Oregon Trail. He says, no sighting of the vomit commet.
What a bummer. I thought for sure we'd see it tonight.
(26:53):
I can't use the vomit comment every night on the show.
I can't. I cannot do it, no, because I have
to change my verbetue. I have a deep lexicon. I
can't just say the same five things every night. Listen,
I have. I am an educated talk show host. Okay,
I have big words. I know big words. No nothing,
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no laugh tracking all right? Uh oh, do you know
what I told you?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I'm slow today?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I know I okay, yes that instead of the Laughchack
just played Chewbacca. That's all we need. Andy in Line o' Lakes,
Minnesota writes in, he says A plus and two juicy
Lucy's up. Oh man, give me the juicy Lucy Malard monologue.
He says, the Warriors are who we thought they were.
We didn't let them off the hook. This time it's
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gonna go seven. Gotta follow the script. I'm not an
angry white man. I'm not says Andy in line o' lakes.
Mister Luciano writes in He's in LA, but his heart
is in the bay. He says ten out of ten
on the malar monologue, with some bay in on the side.
Draymond Green, Yes, yes, yeah, Draymond mean the best football
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player in the in the NBA. That's from mister Luciana.
Let's he hear. Burner account says, I guess we're not
going to get the rundown of the show. I'm pretty
sure I sent it out. I mean maybe I didn't.
I don't know. I thought I sees it.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I sees it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, yeah, I mean this, guys send Burner. No, we're
not going to get the rundown.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Screw you, new blind listener.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Bernercount Hey, hey, Berner, how about you you go out
spend twenty bucks buy a clue. Go out and buy
a clue for twenty bucks. You might have to pay
tariffs on it because it comes from somewhere else, So
pay the tariffs. Berg Dog writes and says, uh some way.
Some say the opening monologue sets the tone for the
rest of the show, but I say the first live
read does, minus the small flub of Lorena, not knowing
(29:00):
what hour it is, you hit that DraftKings read out
of the park, great start, Ben, Thank you for a dog. Wow,
thank you. Fergie. Well you found that sound. But yeah
you found that one. Yeah? Was that broke? It's broken?
You should keep playing it all night over and over again.
Is broken? Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell it to the judge.
(29:23):
My board is broken, My board is broken. Yeah. All right,
ferk Duck says, if the rain is slow today because
of a computer glitch, what's your excuse for every other day? Alright?
So that is a low blow. That is a low blow.
(29:43):
How dare you? All right, let's go to the phones
and eenie meenie, miney moe. Let's say hello to Andre
in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, welcome, good, there is Andre there,
he is. I hear him Andre, and the dog willis Yes.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Well, using right now, But we won't have any commentary
on what's going on in the criminal justice scene in
the Commonwealth. Aware of that case, but not following it,
uh so closely, you know. Well, we'll see what the
result is. But specifically, you know, we do have a
political issue in the NBA in terms of Draymond Green.
(30:25):
After a tough game, you know, automatically as you said,
you know, going to the cultural argument about why he
has these ejections so on and forth, and smart guy
coming from Michigan State under the leadership of Tom Thibodeau.
But this is all for his podcast. You know, this
is spin that you can go ahead and take now
and talk about it from all.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
But the back play better, Draymond are you saying are
you saying right now, Andrea, are you saying he's engagement
farming Draymond Green that he's working content for his podcast.
Is that what you're telling me right now?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
He's getting right into the attention economy, you know, and
he wants to to correlate and deflect, as you noted,
from the poor play and the precarious situation the Warriors
finding themselves in, you know, to some opportunities, you know,
when we see him, because Draymond sometimes, you know, will
leave the game and say I got to leave the
press commence because I'm late for a pot. They'll just
go from one to the next, which I don't have
(31:17):
any problem with that, Ben. You know, I have a
problem with branding and having your voice on and forth.
But let's not.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Hold on sex. Let me tell you something. If somebody
does audio content for a living, Andre, this is my job.
You don't see me go out on a random night
and just play in an NBA game. So why should
Draymon on a random night go do a podcast. That's
my job, right, I mean, I don't go out and
playing a random NBA game, That's right. I'm gonna. I'm
gonna yeah, right, I mean I could, I could play
for the Clippers. I'd play harder than James Harden. I
(31:47):
know that. But I'm just saying, listen, I don't you know?
All right, go ahead, sorry, the.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Clippers might need you, and we keep going back to this.
How you tower over Rob Barker, who stands at six
foot four, six foot five, So the Clippers might need
somebody to go on there and get some REBA. So
we're not going to move away from this. Daddy Warbucks,
Steve Bomber, he's never a shy to go out for
an opportunity, so we might need to see you out
there on the court. But specific over to Draymond, I
don't you know did Everyone wants to have their say,
and you know, have their own I don't have a
(32:12):
problem with that at all. Expressly. What I do have
a problem with is listen, you guys competing and possibly
go to the Western Conference finals and have a chance.
This is the end of the dining. This is serious past, Draymond.
You see the gray hairs in your beard. You're getting
down towards the end of your career, and we keep
going in the same circles with you. Go out, you
do things you shouldn't be doing, getting tackles, getting getting
the ejection, and then you want to roll it all
(32:34):
the way back to make it out seem to be
some witch hunt. It has nothing to do with that
play better, you know. And that's the leadership that we're
looking for. But Draymond, it's a doctor Jeckelin mister Hyde thing.
We had Doctor Jekyll in terms of what they did
in Game seven and him leading the right way, and
now we're right back to mister Hyde doing things he's
not supposed to do and then stepping away from accountability,
(32:54):
which would be true leadership to help his team move on.
Myself from Willis and to the Commonwealth, has been glad
to be with you, and we'll see trying to get
you get with you next week.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
All right, all right, thank you the great Andre from
the Commonwealth for anything away there, as he often does,
very poetic. And how about this rip city baby. Now,
I'm not talking about Portland. I'm old enough to remember
when the Trail Blas actually had good teams and they
were in the playoffs every year, and they were like
the whole rip City thing, and it was a different
kind of Yeah, I was, I was, I was for
(33:24):
my I was alive. But anyway, so Charles Barkley went
on rant that we played some audio the other night,
and the audio the other night was the Wolves coach
pretty much slaying Anthony Edwards. Chris Finch took some shots
and Anthony Edwards called him out, and of course the
player lap dogs, the brown nosers in the media, they
(33:47):
were besides themselves that they were all, my god, I
can't believe you would do this, why would you do this?
I can't believe it's going shame on you, blah blah
blah blah blah, going on like that, that thought that
somehow you crossed the line. You can't be ripping the players.
So Charles Barkley then went on a rent and he
ripped it was more directed at the players, but I
think he was really ripping the media, and he ripped Andy.
(34:09):
He said, woosy NBA players who cannot be coached, and
he pointed out and Barkley's I guess he's a boomer
now he's old. But Barkley pointed out that that was
always the standard. Right player doesn't play well gets called
out in the media. Star players are supposed to get
called out. If you don't call out the star players
and you only call out the scrubs, it becomes a problem.
There becomes an issue there, So like, what do you do? Seriously,
(34:31):
what do you do? All right? Anyway, coming up later
this hour, Tom Brady regretting one of the greatest things
that he has done in his life and he regrets,
which is rather odd. But time now for the who
am I? Game? And this is where we pretend to
be somebody else. You can answer this on X Here
is the coach of the hour. Who Am I? Game?
(34:54):
I was a multi time All Star, a World Series winner.
For many I'll be remembered as the player who is
responsible for the luxury box in professional sports. Again, I'm
a multi time All Star, I won a World Series However,
for many I will be remembered as the player who
(35:15):
is indirectly responsible for the luxury box becoming a thing
in professional sports. We'll get to that, we'll have the
play of the night, We'll get to it all, and
we will do it next.
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Game?
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And here it is. I was a multi time All
Star World Series winner. However, for many I will be
remembered as the player who is responsible for the luxury
box in professional sports? Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? Malaprop guy going with moneyball Maller,
That's his answer Eileen, says Shatzi. Who else you have
(37:44):
Art the clown for mister Luciano, that's his answer, Rob
the ambassador of Bakersfield the Live and Well says that
would be Wilt as in Wilt Chamberlain, mister nice guy,
going with Brett Butler as his answer. Davy Jones from
Scrooge A still despondent mel Kiper must be the answer.
(38:09):
Walter Jumbo Brown from Donkey Sausage. Who else do we have?
Page down? King Roy says Gunner from the Walmart in Minnesota.
There's a good photo of Gunner looking pretty good. Is
that a baby photo? I think that's a baby photo.
How do you love? Yeah, Gunner was a cute baby.
I gotta tell you a bit of a donkey. But
I don't know. Who else do we have? Page down?
(38:31):
A Rod yes by Femi, the number one Uber eats
driver in Minnesota. Sean in Portland. Not quite right. Let's
see here Steve said something about Doug Gottlieb. But what
else we have? Every Karen in the world from Milkman,
Mike in Colorado, who's being promoted? Pat North of the
Borders from James. I actually was was pals with pat
(38:55):
boards when he played back in the day. Anyway, briefly,
do do you have an answer? Loray? Do you have
an answer? Again? I was a multi time All Star
World Series winner. However, many people, for many I'll be
remembered as the player who was responsible for the luxury box.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
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the new paulp the first American pulp on forty. It
is none other than now the late great chet Lemon,
who passed away on Thursday. A wild story. Chet Lemon
was playing for the White Sox in the early eighties.
The White Sox were a family business. They were trying
to earn money to pay chet Lemon an extra seventy thousand,
(39:37):
and Mike Veck and his dad they got together. Mike
Beck had this idea, let's put some some luxury boxes
in the old football press box at Comiski Park, Chicago.
They did it, and that was the birth of the
luxury box in sports. You can blame them their fault. Yeah,
He we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, It's our number one, our number one, as we
talk the talk, and it's all about the pro bouncy
ball playoffs here in our number one.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
As Minnesota led from wire to wire, from soup to nuts,
as they get it done. Does Warrior coach Steve Kerr
deserve to be criticized for failing to adapt with Steph
Curry out of the lineup? Also, what did you take
away from Draymond Green and his viral postgame rant about
(00:35):
not being an angry black man? Even though the story
is not about that. It's about him getting into foul trouble,
technical foul trouble. Everyone's been talking about that. I'll give
you my ten cents and have Anthony Edwards and the
Timberwoll solve the Warriors riddle. We'll get to that as well,
don't forget. Also today the Fifth Hour podcast a new
(00:57):
episode and one of the great flexes of all time
in the history of radio. Not by me, but I
gotta share this story. It's it's a wild story. We'll
have that. And also one of the more zany calls
that we had this week on the show. We'll look
back at that as well. On the fifth hour podcast.
But here it is our number one enjoy.
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That was the scene Game two of the Western Conference
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semi finals. Just one game, an island game, the island life.
That's what we say. You know, in the NFL, when
there's only a game on like Monday or Sunday night
or Thursday, is one game, it's an island game. Well,
usually in the NBA there's double barrel action in the
first couple of rounds of the playoffs, but not tonight.
The only game in action on the Thursday night card. There.
In basketball, there were some hockey games that were classic,
(03:21):
but we talked basketball. So the Warriors without shorthanded without
Steph Curry as the hammy went whammy for the Warrior guards.
So they were looking to try to sneak out of
the Twin Cities with another surprise when Currey played thirteen
minutes in Game one before he grabbed his leg in
agony and hopped off the court. So that was the
(03:44):
set of Anthony Edwards, who sucked at a time you
cannot suck in Game one, looking to have the bounce
back for the for the Wolves. If you were watching
this or not? What was Joyous Randall who had an
up and down day himself, but he finished with twenty
four points eleven rebounds. And the Timber, who jumped out
(04:06):
to a thirteen nothing lead on their way to a
Harvard boat race they never trailed, ended up barbecuing the Warriors,
covering the rather large point spread one seventeen to ninety
three blowout City and so the playoff series even up.
Anthony Edwards was not all that good. He also had
a traumatic ankle scare which turned out to be a
(04:30):
whole lot of nothing. But Anthony Edwards and Nikhil Alexander
Walker each had twenty Minnesota gets the win, so Game
three one to one. Now Game three will be this
weekend in San Francisco. The better story is in the
loser's locker room, So that is where we are going
to direct our attention because we like losers. The Ben
(04:52):
Malor Show loves losers, and the Warriors are losers. So
let's discuss the question, and I want to focus in
on the code here. Does Warriors coach Steve Kerr deserve
to be criticized for failing to adapt without Steph Curry?
They knew Curry wasn't gonna play. They knew during the
(05:12):
Game one win that Curry wasn't going to come back
and play in game two. So does Steve Kerr deserve
to be criticized for that? I've got Flying Dutchman, iron Man,
and Spirit Animal, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to test our intestinal fortitude,
(05:34):
and Golden State failing that particular test, by the way,
So to answer the question number one, does Steve Kerr
deserve to be criticized for the Warriors failing to adapt
without Steph Curry? And I am nodding my head, yes,
I am nodding my head. Yes. Now, Golden State looked
like they were lost. They didn't know where they were.
(05:55):
It's like they were zoomed from some other planet out
far out in the cosmos, and they're like, what am
I doing here? Where am I? I don't know where
I am? And so from the other night when they
were moving and grooving and all of a sudden, without
Curry for the whole game they come out there, they
were stumbling and bumbling. It was a stagnation situation, error prone, clumsy,
(06:18):
looked like the Wolves. Certainly for much of the game,
we're playing at a different speed. Here is Steve Kerr,
the coach of the Warriors, commenting on the situation with
rotation and moving players around. The whole deal thing was
he was great.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
I mean, you know, he sat in a couple of
seats down. We talked a couple of times during the game,
and he was talking to all the players and yeah,
I mean, you know, I don't know exactly what he
was saying to the guys, but it's very very comforting
having him on that bench for our guys.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Well, it was him talking about Curry on the it
was comforting. Why exactly was it comforting to have Steph Curry?
Did he massage the player shoulders? Like, how is that comforting?
Did they think maybe he was just faking the injury
and he was gonna suit up at halftime and go
out and play. How's that comforting? I don't get that anyway.
So back to the point of so Steve Kerr on
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this night was coaching the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship
that was a ghost ship that was an empty vessel
that was found abandoned, floating adrift on the open sea.
And the real test is how you do without your
top player, Do you succeed, do you have some level
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of success or do you fail? Now, Steve Kerr is
going to go in the Hall of Fame. He's got
all kinds of records and all that. But is this
like a Belichick two point zero situation where once Belichick
lost Tom Brady all of a sudden, Belichick is now
stooping some twenty something and everyone's laughing at him and
he can't win. Well, see curR. His record with the
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Warriors in games without Stephan Curry is seventy three and
one on nine. He's got a four to h one
winning percentage in games that Curry does not play in.
And Steph Curry is not walking back through that door
anytime soon, not in the next few games anyway in
this series. So if he doesn't come back, and who
knows if he'll ever come back in this series, it's
gonna be. And I go and say, should still bounce back,
(08:23):
you would assume at home in Game three? But man,
what a mess?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Also, it would also help if Jimmy Butler did not
play like the end of his run in Miami. Didn't
it look like the Jimmy Butler that was with the
Miami Heat when he was sulking with pat Riley and
having issues with Riley there. It just didn't seem fully
invested in the game. Is it because he has issues
with the fans in Minnesota and there's a back and
(08:48):
forth there between them. I don't know what's going on.
He just seemed like, Hey, this is your opportunity to
step on up. You're now the alpha dog and it's
your team now Curry's not there, and here's your opportunity
unity and l l L la la la. He was
acting like that a lot. But what do I know? Now?
(09:08):
The big talking point which everyone's going to be apping about,
is not about the outcome of the game. It's not
about Steph Curry's injury, it's not about Steve Kerry. It
is about Draymond Green. Don't bury the lead, my man?
All right, Well, I guess we did so. Draymond Green
made headlines again. Green picked up a fifth postseason technical.
Oh my god, fifth technical the postseason in Golden State's loss.
(09:30):
And he did it with player. He did it with
ras Mataz. Draymond Green was in the second quarter of
the game. He was assessed a technical foul after he
elbowed Naz Reid of the Timberwolves right in the face,
right in the kisser, bam, right like that. Now Green
(09:50):
was irate, He was completely flabberg acid with the call.
And it got to the point there look like a
vaudevillian comedy because you had the Warriors guard Steph Curry,
who again was there to give good vibrations to the tame.
You had Steph Curry coming off the bench to try
to calm him down. You had Steve Kerr, It's like
(10:13):
professional wrestling taking Raymond out of the game to try
to de escalate him from snapping and getting another fowl
called and all it. So, now what does that mean?
So with five technical foules the way I'm told, with
five technicals and just nine postseason games, Draymond Green is
two away from earning a suspension. So he gets at
(10:39):
least what a game. So you do the math on that,
it ain't looking good. And so then that was just
the setup. That was the appetizer to the main event.
In the visiting locker room at the Target Center and
the bowels of the arena there in the Twin Cities,
Draymond Green addressing reporters and he played the race card
from the bottom of the neck. Take a listen, look
(11:01):
like the angry black man. I'm not an angry black man.
I'm a very successful, educated black man with a great family,
and I'm great at basketball. I'm great at what I
do to the a gender. To try to keep making
me look like an angry black man is crazy. I'm
sick of it. It's ridiculous. Okay, they dropped the mic
and walked off. All right, So I think he said
angry black man three times in twenty seconds. I think,
(11:25):
all right, So what do you take away? You just
heard it. That's what everyone's gonna be talking about. What
did you take away from Draymond Green his postgame rant about, Hey,
I'm not an angry black man. So my takeaway on
this is that it was iron man like it was
Tony Stark who once said deflect and absorb. This is
(11:46):
also out of the Lebron James playbook, where everyone's gonna
be picking on Draymond Green because you're what are you doing?
You know you can't be elbowing people like this. You're
in a situation where you have to be on your
best baby, and so you did the thing you can't
do so. He knows that he knows how this works.
He's dabbled in the media. So what does he do.
He takes the deck of cards out and plays the
(12:07):
victim card from the bottom of the deck, right, victim card.
Make it all about me being the victim, which I
think is the playbook from the you know, the last
few years ago when everyone was playing the victim. I
guess it's still in vogue for some people. But Draymond
Green is I get maybe I'm wrong with this. It
sounds like he's trying to twist this into some kind
of racial issue when it's not about that. It's about him.
(12:30):
The way he plays. He's the enforcer, and he is
a compared to how basketball used to be back in
the olden days with Charles Oakley and Bill Laine Beer
and people like that. Those were real basketball goons. Rick Mahorn,
like Draymond Green's a mister softy compared to those guys.
But compared to the modern basketball player, he is seen
(12:51):
as this tough, brooding player that is the enforcer. The
other problem for Draymond, aside from the fact no one
was saying he wasn't educated, no one was saying he's
not a great family man. That's not what the conversation
was about. He turned into that is the film does
not lie. As Andy Reid likes to say, Draymond Green
has a sizzle reel and somebody sent me this clip,
(13:13):
and I will give I don't know who. I forgot
who it was off the top of my head. I
was telling somebody in the pre show meeting this. Somebody
sent me a clip on social media of Draymond and
his rand and behind the van they put video up
of Draymond his sizzle reel of if you will or
you know, I'm not angry, I'm not angry black Man.
(13:35):
And then there's there's clips of him putting a choke
hold on Rudy Gobert, stomping on Demontes Sebonis, kicking Steven
Adams in the basket balls, poking Lebron's anaconda, and all
these other It was hilarious. So one of the funniest
things I've seen. And listen, Draymond has a Lifetime Achievement
(13:55):
Award for a history of unsportsman life acts in the
eyes of the NBA. Okay, so that's where we are.
And now it's gonna be twenty four hours of Draymond Green.
Everyone's gonna have a hot ache on Draymond. You'll get
the the think pieces, you know, you'll get the deep
thinkers out there that will be all offended that people
(14:17):
are attacking Draymond Green, and they'll they'll pick up the
calls for Draymond and then you'll have other people think
this is the dumbest thing in the world, and so
nothing will change, and that'll be that, and we'll move
on to the next games. All right, now, final point, So,
have Anthony Edwards to get back to the series? Have
Anthony Edwards and the tim Wolves solved the Warriors riddle?
(14:38):
Did Game two show you that Minnesota has now solves things?
They've solved it? So here's my position. Things are pointing up, right,
things are pointing up. But it's not about Minnesota having
a solution. To me, it's to me, it's not about that,
all right. To me, it's not about that, because this
is more about Golden State looking like a nineties comedy.
(15:02):
They were dazed and confused in the first quarter, falling
behind thirteen to nothing and trailing the entire game. They were,
for the most part on autopilot. Now I will give
them an ounce of Okay, you didn't get run off
the court and quit like Denver did. Denver completely quit
against Oklahoma State. That was ridiculous. But Golden State was
(15:23):
going through the motion. It's making no mistake and it
is an embarrassing, e masculating situation that no one stepped
up without Steph Curry in the lineup. And that's really
the story here, right, that's the story. This game was
more about the Warriors sucking than it was about the
Wolves solving the Rubik's cube if you will here, and
(15:44):
we imagine Golden State will be getting some smelling salts
delivered from Amazon or somewhere and they'll have those before
Game three. But the Timberwolves, they had the ingredients to
win this series. Anthony Edwards when he plays, he didn't play.
I didn't think that great in this game either. You
got an ankle thing in which he as all the
NBA players do, turned out to be an Academy Award performance.
(16:08):
They've got the defensive prowess, they have the rebounding, they
have all that stuff. My issue, my main issue with
the Wolves is that their spirit animal is a yo yo.
Now you're probably saying a yo yo is not an animal,
but I would argue that a yo yo identifies as
(16:28):
an animal, therefore it is an animal. So a yo
yo is the spirit animal of the Timberwolves. And what
I'm trying to say is they're up and down. They're
up and they're down and they're all around right. Rather
than smooth peanut putter, they are the extra chunky, crunchy
peanut Butter's what they are. There's no real consistency from
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game to game. And now the good news from Minnesota
is that Steph Curry will not be walking through that
door anytime soon. He'll be sidelined by the hammy that
went whammy until at least sometime next week and likely
longer than that. And even when he comes back, he's
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And I don't forget. For those that have not been
paying attention, we are less than three weeks away now
(20:09):
May twenty ninth. This our Friday show. So May twenty
ninth we will be hanging out mal Or meet and
greet the first one of twenty twenty five. Got an
email from a gentleman who said, I'd like the schedule
of meet and greets, I said, I wrote back, I said,
we don't make a schedule. They just kind of pop up,
like we don't have there's no formal schedule this one.
(20:31):
But you know, Ben, what's that I was thinking?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Next week, me and you could sit down and make
a list of all the places that we want to
go this year, okay, and I can try and organize
them in two little months and we can see what
we can put together.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay. So you want to have like a travel schedule,
that would be like a professional radio show. That that's
what professional radio shows do. But we're just like an
overnight show.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
So right, Well, you know some people want us up
in Oakland. There's one over here in Reaching Waters area
that they want us to do, right, So those are
more simple. We could do those in the next couple
of months.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
They like. The three that I think are pretty safe
are northern California, like the Oakland Alame to lose place.
He's one of the big supporters of the show, and
he kind of runs a bar there in Oakland, so
we could do that. The SoCal one, definitely, that's easy.
Vegas is like a suburb of LA so that's easy.
(21:26):
And then after that it gets a little dicey. So
but there's other ones that I'm trying to get to
Ohio for the Dixter you know, Dick and Dayton there.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
But instead of keep on saying, you know, yeah, we're
you know, we're thinking about No, we're gonna we're gonna
sit down and we're gonna talk about it.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Big meeting, big We're gonna get management involved, We'll get
the sales department involved, they'll sell it. It'll be awesome,
big money for the company. Get a couple of national sponsors.
We're done right. We're gonna make so much money for
the company. We're gonna win some kind of we're gonna
make an award. We're gonna winn award. Not making it wad.
I just couldn't make it, WAD. We're gonna win award. Yeah,
(22:04):
But I just to clarify, it's May twenty ninth, it's
a Thursday, say seven o'clock, maybe a little before that,
but will be in Vancouver, British Columbia, oh at a
place called the Court Side on Maine, and that is
the establishment. I will be there, Lorraina will be there,
she'll be making the rare and appropriate visit, and Cooper
(22:27):
Loop will also be there. So we'll all be hanging
out in Vancouver and then hopefully something on May thirty first,
although to be determined. We were supposed to go to
a soccer game for the white Caps, the Vancouver soccer team,
and somehow that game got postponed because they'll be in Mexico,
So I'm not sure how that works, but that's what happened,
and so the game obviously will not be able to
(22:48):
attend that game because there is no game, So we're
trying to figure out something else to do there and
we'll have a good time with that. But we started
here with the pro bouncy ball monologue as Minnesota get
her done and they win, and Draymond Green went on
a rant post game which everyone's yapping her out, and
Big Lew says, will there be a lot of third
(23:11):
rail conversations? Mom man in Vancouver? What is that?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The third rail. One of the great management people in
the history of Fox Sports Radio is great Don Martin.
That's one of his catchphrases. A third rail on my
m the third rail, and so yeah, stay in your lane.
That's not one of his catch phrases praises, but he
probably would have said it. What else do we have
to see? Page down? Can't read that on the air.
(23:39):
What do we got here? Let's see Chris in Des
Moines says, I'm drunk, Ben, have a great show. You're
living your greatest life. You're fully schnockered. Our buddy in
des Moines. Let's see here. Truck Stop Fungus, right, since
so gonna be a big night here? Truck Stop Fungus says,
I'm living like a king at a hotel outside i
(24:00):
T Mobile Park. The bars are bombastic. The Mala militia
is strong in the Pacific Northwest. Just don't mention that
damn Leprechaun. He's hated up here? Is that right? The
good people of the Pacific Northwest have an issue with
the Leprechaun. Okay, that's he probably liked that. What else
do we have page down here? Gunner? I don't think
(24:21):
Gunner checked in after game one. I wonder how that happened.
He lost his phone and but he's back for game two.
Gunner says, I'm calling this series now, gentlemen. Sweep for one,
Wolves will win the next three. We'll see what happens.
Don't be a prisoner of the moment. Nature Boy also
says Timberwolves in five with or without Curry. He says
(24:44):
Shane in des moines from.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
The I have to hit my Tarzan button.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh that's right, so let me go back to that.
That last one was from the Nature Boy answering the
call to the Wild.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
I just want you to know that my yes is broken.
I only have one soundboard to work off of right
now instead of Minrmal three, so I'm going to be
very delayed.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm sure the engineers will be coming in to fix
that right now. I doubt it. Call the iHeart engineering
department will come in here in the middle of the
night and fix that. I mean, this is a major
this is the number one audio company iHeart, so I'm
sure they'll come in and fix it right away.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
We have the number one Gremlins as well.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Don't put that bad you know what on me. Shane
in de Moyes says, some these seven seconds of the
NBA I've watched this year, I can confidently say the
Minnesota Timberwolves are located in the Western Conference, thus ending
my current NBA knowledge. It's always dicey when you get
to the Midwest and you have some of the teams
that are in the West and some of the teams
(25:51):
that are in the East. Like there's a natural rivalry
between Wisconsin and Minnesota. But yet the Bucks are in
the East and the Timberwolves are in the West. And
then but you think from Minnesota, it's rather easy to
get to Detroit, which is not that far away in Chicago,
but those teams are in the East also, so it
gets a little dicey there in the middle of the country.
G Man's in Chicago. Rights doesn't get much more middle
(26:11):
than that. G Man says a plus on the Mould monologue,
Draymond will end up in prison after his careers. I
don't know up in prison? Question will Andre and Willis
help prove Karen Reid is not guilty in the Commonwealth Court.
TV minds want to know. Yeah, I've not kept up
(26:32):
on the retrial of Karen Reid. I did see some
of the first trial. I've not kept up on what's
going on here lately, Spock's Weed writes in from the
Oregon Trail. He says, no sighting of the vomit commet.
What a bummer. I thought for sure we'd see it tonight.
(26:53):
I can't use the vomit comment every night on the show.
I can't. I cannot do it, no, because I have
to change my verbetue. I have a deep lexicon. I
can't just say the same five things every night. Listen,
I have. I am an educated talk show host. Okay,
I have big words. I know big words. No nothing,
(27:18):
no laugh tracking all right? Uh oh, do you know
what I told you?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I'm slow today?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I know I okay, yes that instead of the Laughchack
just played Chewbacca. That's all we need. Andy in Line o' Lakes,
Minnesota writes in, he says A plus and two juicy
Lucy's up. Oh man, give me the juicy Lucy Malard monologue.
He says, the Warriors are who we thought they were.
We didn't let them off the hook. This time it's
(27:45):
gonna go seven. Gotta follow the script. I'm not an
angry white man. I'm not says Andy in line o' lakes.
Mister Luciano writes in He's in LA, but his heart
is in the bay. He says ten out of ten
on the malar monologue, with some bay in on the side.
Draymond Green, Yes, yes, yeah, Draymond mean the best football
(28:06):
player in the in the NBA. That's from mister Luciana.
Let's he hear. Burner account says, I guess we're not
going to get the rundown of the show. I'm pretty
sure I sent it out. I mean maybe I didn't.
I don't know. I thought I sees it.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I sees it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, yeah, I mean this, guys send Burner. No, we're
not going to get the rundown.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Screw you, new blind listener.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Bernercount Hey, hey, Berner, how about you you go out
spend twenty bucks buy a clue. Go out and buy
a clue for twenty bucks. You might have to pay
tariffs on it because it comes from somewhere else, So
pay the tariffs. Berg Dog writes and says, uh some way.
Some say the opening monologue sets the tone for the
rest of the show, but I say the first live
read does, minus the small flub of Lorena, not knowing
(29:00):
what hour it is, you hit that DraftKings read out
of the park, great start, Ben, Thank you for a dog. Wow,
thank you. Fergie. Well you found that sound. But yeah
you found that one. Yeah? Was that broke? It's broken?
You should keep playing it all night over and over again.
Is broken? Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell it to the judge.
(29:23):
My board is broken, My board is broken. Yeah. All right,
ferk Duck says, if the rain is slow today because
of a computer glitch, what's your excuse for every other day? Alright?
So that is a low blow. That is a low blow.
(29:43):
How dare you? All right, let's go to the phones
and eenie meenie, miney moe. Let's say hello to Andre
in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, welcome, good, there is Andre there,
he is. I hear him Andre, and the dog willis Yes.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Well, using right now, But we won't have any commentary
on what's going on in the criminal justice scene in
the Commonwealth. Aware of that case, but not following it,
uh so closely, you know. Well, we'll see what the
result is. But specifically, you know, we do have a
political issue in the NBA in terms of Draymond Green.
(30:25):
After a tough game, you know, automatically as you said,
you know, going to the cultural argument about why he
has these ejections so on and forth, and smart guy
coming from Michigan State under the leadership of Tom Thibodeau.
But this is all for his podcast. You know, this
is spin that you can go ahead and take now
and talk about it from all.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
But the back play better, Draymond are you saying are
you saying right now, Andrea, are you saying he's engagement
farming Draymond Green that he's working content for his podcast.
Is that what you're telling me right now?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
He's getting right into the attention economy, you know, and
he wants to to correlate and deflect, as you noted,
from the poor play and the precarious situation the Warriors
finding themselves in, you know, to some opportunities, you know,
when we see him, because Draymond sometimes, you know, will
leave the game and say I got to leave the
press commence because I'm late for a pot. They'll just
go from one to the next, which I don't have
(31:17):
any problem with that, Ben. You know, I have a
problem with branding and having your voice on and forth.
But let's not.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Hold on sex. Let me tell you something. If somebody
does audio content for a living, Andre, this is my job.
You don't see me go out on a random night
and just play in an NBA game. So why should
Draymon on a random night go do a podcast. That's
my job, right, I mean, I don't go out and
playing a random NBA game, That's right. I'm gonna. I'm
gonna yeah, right, I mean I could, I could play
for the Clippers. I'd play harder than James Harden. I
(31:47):
know that. But I'm just saying, listen, I don't you know?
All right, go ahead, sorry, the.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Clippers might need you, and we keep going back to this.
How you tower over Rob Barker, who stands at six
foot four, six foot five, So the Clippers might need
somebody to go on there and get some REBA. So
we're not going to move away from this. Daddy Warbucks,
Steve Bomber, he's never a shy to go out for
an opportunity, so we might need to see you out
there on the court. But specific over to Draymond, I
don't you know did Everyone wants to have their say,
and you know, have their own I don't have a
(32:12):
problem with that at all. Expressly. What I do have
a problem with is listen, you guys competing and possibly
go to the Western Conference finals and have a chance.
This is the end of the dining. This is serious past, Draymond.
You see the gray hairs in your beard. You're getting
down towards the end of your career, and we keep
going in the same circles with you. Go out, you
do things you shouldn't be doing, getting tackles, getting getting
the ejection, and then you want to roll it all
(32:34):
the way back to make it out seem to be
some witch hunt. It has nothing to do with that
play better, you know. And that's the leadership that we're
looking for. But Draymond, it's a doctor Jeckelin mister Hyde thing.
We had Doctor Jekyll in terms of what they did
in Game seven and him leading the right way, and
now we're right back to mister Hyde doing things he's
not supposed to do and then stepping away from accountability,
(32:54):
which would be true leadership to help his team move on.
Myself from Willis and to the Commonwealth, has been glad
to be with you, and we'll see trying to get
you get with you next week.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
All right, all right, thank you the great Andre from
the Commonwealth for anything away there, as he often does,
very poetic. And how about this rip city baby. Now,
I'm not talking about Portland. I'm old enough to remember
when the Trail Blas actually had good teams and they
were in the playoffs every year, and they were like
the whole rip City thing, and it was a different
kind of Yeah, I was, I was, I was for
(33:24):
my I was alive. But anyway, so Charles Barkley went
on rant that we played some audio the other night,
and the audio the other night was the Wolves coach
pretty much slaying Anthony Edwards. Chris Finch took some shots
and Anthony Edwards called him out, and of course the
player lap dogs, the brown nosers in the media, they
(33:47):
were besides themselves that they were all, my god, I
can't believe you would do this, why would you do this?
I can't believe it's going shame on you, blah blah
blah blah blah, going on like that, that thought that
somehow you crossed the line. You can't be ripping the players.
So Charles Barkley then went on a rent and he
ripped it was more directed at the players, but I
think he was really ripping the media, and he ripped Andy.
(34:09):
He said, woosy NBA players who cannot be coached, and
he pointed out and Barkley's I guess he's a boomer
now he's old. But Barkley pointed out that that was
always the standard. Right player doesn't play well gets called
out in the media. Star players are supposed to get
called out. If you don't call out the star players
and you only call out the scrubs, it becomes a problem.
There becomes an issue there, So like, what do you do? Seriously,
(34:31):
what do you do? All right? Anyway, coming up later
this hour, Tom Brady regretting one of the greatest things
that he has done in his life and he regrets,
which is rather odd. But time now for the who
am I? Game? And this is where we pretend to
be somebody else. You can answer this on X Here
is the coach of the hour. Who Am I? Game?
(34:54):
I was a multi time All Star, a World Series winner.
For many I'll be remembered as the player who is
responsible for the luxury box in professional sports. Again, I'm
a multi time All Star, I won a World Series However,
for many I will be remembered as the player who
(35:15):
is indirectly responsible for the luxury box becoming a thing
in professional sports. We'll get to that, we'll have the
play of the night, We'll get to it all, and
we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
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to here we go and time now though, before we
get to the payoff on the who Am I game?
(36:24):
Time though, First for the play of the night to
tire IRAQ Play of the night. Let's go back now
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Speaker 3 (36:38):
Dandolf Randall was not down the line out today at
the corner three of Faeries.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Boy, it has been money on his catch and shoot three.
All right. That was our friend Alan Horton, part of
the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, used to fill in
on this show. Now he's been the voice of the Timberwolves.
Holy crap, seventeen years. Anyway, the call there and that
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who am I?
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
And here it is. I was a multi time All
Star World Series winner. However, for many I will be
remembered as the player who is responsible for the luxury
box in professional sports? Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? Malaprop guy going with moneyball Maller,
That's his answer Eileen, says Shatzi. Who else you have
(37:44):
Art the clown for mister Luciano, that's his answer, Rob
the ambassador of Bakersfield the Live and Well says that
would be Wilt as in Wilt Chamberlain, mister nice guy,
going with Brett Butler as his answer. Davy Jones from
Scrooge A still despondent mel Kiper must be the answer.
(38:09):
Walter Jumbo Brown from Donkey Sausage. Who else do we have?
Page down? King Roy says Gunner from the Walmart in Minnesota.
There's a good photo of Gunner looking pretty good. Is
that a baby photo? I think that's a baby photo.
How do you love? Yeah, Gunner was a cute baby.
I gotta tell you a bit of a donkey. But
I don't know. Who else do we have? Page down?
(38:31):
A Rod yes by Femi, the number one Uber eats
driver in Minnesota. Sean in Portland. Not quite right. Let's
see here Steve said something about Doug Gottlieb. But what
else we have? Every Karen in the world from Milkman,
Mike in Colorado, who's being promoted? Pat North of the
Borders from James. I actually was was pals with pat
(38:55):
boards when he played back in the day. Anyway, briefly,
do do you have an answer? Loray? Do you have
an answer? Again? I was a multi time All Star
World Series winner. However, many people, for many I'll be
remembered as the player who was responsible for the luxury box.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yes, I believe it is the newest Pope Robert Prevost.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Yeah, it is not the Pulpe. It is not the Pulpe,
the new paulp the first American pulp on forty. It
is none other than now the late great chet Lemon,
who passed away on Thursday. A wild story. Chet Lemon
was playing for the White Sox in the early eighties.
The White Sox were a family business. They were trying
to earn money to pay chet Lemon an extra seventy thousand,
(39:37):
and Mike Veck and his dad they got together. Mike
Beck had this idea, let's put some some luxury boxes
in the old football press box at Comiski Park, Chicago.
They did it, and that was the birth of the
luxury box in sports. You can blame them their fault. Yeah,
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