June 10, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Florida Panthers routing the Edmonton Oilers in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final and Connor McDavid saying the Oilers haven't played their best yet, but it's coming. Florida coach Paul Maurice's pivot when talking about Sam Bennett's free agency, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number wid, our number
one of the original Recipe podcast. We hope you're having
a great day today. It's Tuesday, the tenth day of June,
but you already knew that. So we start out with
the rare and appropriate hockey monologue. NHL Stanley Cup Final
Game number three. Now Florida wins in a route or
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root six to one. Connor McDavid says, the Oilers haven't
played their best against the Panthers yet, but it's coming.
Do you believe him? Also, should Edmonton fans be worried
after this Game three? No show will dust off the
mallor panic ometer for this one. Also, what is the
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word for Florida coach Paul Maurice's pivot when talking about
Sam Bennett's free agency. We'll talk about all of those
stories and more here it is our number one. Well,
you've got McDavid and you've got Mick Awful. Also, Welcome,
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the Dodgers beating the Padres, and rant and rave about
that that's a random June game in baseball, so I
only we're gonna focus on that instead the rare and
appropriate lead yet again, from the puck. We are talking
puck on the raid. That's right, rare and appropriate. Don't
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get used to this. So we start out in South Florida,
where as the NBA takes another break. The basketball players
cannot be expected to play all that often. You know
how rigorous it is to play in the NBA. My
gone anyway, So hockey filling the void, filling the void
on the schedule here on a Monday night, and we
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watched Game three between the Oilers and Panthers, tied up
one to one. Couple of overtime thrillers in Alberta. And
now they scenes shifting to the Sunshine State. Now, I
don't know if you're watching this or not, probably not
based on the ratings. Very few people have been watching
this matchup. So it is our act of kindness, a
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public service for you, a good mitzvah of the day
that we were watching so you would not have to.
And what do we watch? Well, we watched Brad Marshant
do it again. He did it again, he's scoring again
for the team from Florida. And Sam Bennett, how do
you do? He got it done again, each scoring goals.
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Florida striking oil as they take care and beat off
the hapless Edmonton hockey team six to one on Monday night.
So now it is a two games to one series
lead for the team from Florida and that series, now,
will it go all the way? Will Edmonton bounce back?
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Suddenly a pivotal pivotal well, not suddenly. Usually it's two
to one going into Game four, Game four massive for
the team's trailing three games to one if they lose
that game. And so the story here you had the
Florida domination situation as they led this game from soup
to nuts. Brad Marshanti x Bruin the oldest player to
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score in each of the first three games of a
Stanley Cup final with that goal there, and Sam Bennett
the NHL playoff leading fourteenth goal, which I'm told is good.
I didn't play hockey, but I'm told that's pretty good.
When you lead the entire league in playoff goals, you've
done something right. So good for him. And the better
story though, is in the losing locker room, so that
is where we were focused. We're going to focus on that.
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As you know, I like the good story. The good
story here is the man that has been one of
the faces of hockey for the last decade, not getting
that check next to his name on the the Pro
Hockey websites, the stat websites where we got Connor McDavid
not winning a Stanley Cup lost last year. Here's another opportunity,
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the same rematch situation here. So the Oilers star Connor McDavid,
who did Bupkus in this game, but he did speak
to the assembled media after the game, and Connor McDavid
said that he believes the best version of the Oilers
will arrive eventually. Okay, well that's good. They're gonna arvive eventually.
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He said, quote, I don't think our best has shown
up all series long, but it's coming, he stated, So
let us discuss. That's the quote that we're gonna work with,
and we're gonna chop that up and parts the words
of Connor McDavid and get into some hot hockey talk,
hot hockey talk. So the question Connor McDavid saying, the
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Oilers have not played their best against the Panthers so far,
but it's coming. Do you him? Do you believe him?
So on this one, I've got Amazon Prime, Jimmy Hendrix
and Panhandle, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to put the biscuit in
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the basket somebody. The Oilers only did one time in
this game, as they lose by five goals, going down
six to one. So the first thought is the obvious one.
It's an odd juxtaposition from Connor McDavid to say, well,
it's coming, it's going to be there. We're gonna be okay, right,
we believe, we believe. Of course you've got to say
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that to some degree. We get that you have to
say that. But as Yogi Bear, the late Great Yogi
bearra famously said, it's getting very late early out here.
It's getting very late early out here. You are, by
my count, forty two percent into the Stanley Cup Final.
That's assuming he goes seven games. That's assuming he goes
seven games. So forty two percent into the Stanley Cup Final.
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What exactly are you waiting for? Like, what are you
waiting for? Did you get lost somewhere? It's coming, Dodd,
trust us, it's coming. It's going to happen right like
a thunderstorm out in the distance. You see the clouds
out it's coming. That storm's coming. Now, maybe it'll change directions,
but it's coming. This Jor's coming its way. So it's
a promissory note from Connor McDavid that hey, hey, it's
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gonna work out. Can possibly be wrong? Now, he didn't
throw the word in there butt, And as you know,
everything before the word butt is bull crap. Everything before
the word butt is bull crap. So if you look
at the quote here. I don't think our best has
shown up all series long, but it's coming. See. I
would argue that Edmonton should have won the first two
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games of the series, should be up two to one,
and then they obviously they lost the second game in
double overtime, and then this game they just did not
show up. So I would argue that things are going
the wrong direction here, not the right direction for the
team from Canada. If Connor McDavid is promising it like
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he says he is, is this like an Amazon Prime thing,
Like it's going to be here in a couple of days,
just wait for it. You going to get it too,
in less than two business days. You'll get your your
better performance here.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Unfortunately has been a way around this. All of professional
sports is a results based situation. You are judged by
actual production, like how do you actually do it? McDavid
had not one, but two more shots on goal than
you had two. He had no goals, no assists. And
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his accomplice here Leon Drisidel for the Oilers, the other
big star. He's a top ten player. Also he had
a cardio game as well for the Oilers. There in
terms of points, both skating circles in circles, there is
the goaltending, the defense for Edmonton as opponent. There Florida,
Sergey Barbrovsky eating their lunch in this game, the two
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big stars. And now you have Connor McDavid out there
throwing out wishful thinking as a game plan, which generally speaking,
is not a great idea. It's not a great idea.
It's the Cup final. And I certainly enjoy a good
theoretical argument as much as the next person, Like, what
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are you doing here? We don't care what's coming. That
doesn't do anything for us here. What's here in the
present is the Panthers are playing winning hockey. And the
Panthers are going the right direction and the Oilers are
going the opposite direction. Now, speaking of that page two,
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and you know we love to break down the losing
locker room. So it's two to one, it's three games,
it's the first two, could not get any closer, going
to overtime. This game a blowout in Game three of
the Stanley Cup Finals. So should Edmonton be worried after
this Game three no show situation? So the mallor panic
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oero meter has been activated. The Mallor panicometer. We dusted
it off and here it is Mallard Panicometer one to ten,
with ten being a ballistic missile coming inbound, Seek immediate shelter.
That's a ten for the oilers. I'm at eight point five.
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I'm at an eight point five. And here's why the
arrow is pointing down down, down, down, down, down, down
down down. It's like a Jimmy hendrickstune. Mister bad luck,
that's what it is. You're mister bad luck. You had
the glass slipper break. The real Stewart Skinner stood up
in that there, the guy that was a bag of suck,
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and well, he had been playing well and then he
goes out there. He was so bad. How bad was he?
He was so bad. He got pulled. That's not particularly good.
He got benched after a longing. Not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, well actually five five
goals on twenty three shots. We mentioned Leon Dry Sidle
Connor McDavid both having cardio games. They had no points,
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no points in this game, and so the game turned
into a gong show, which I kind of like by
and it's by my everything. He's by modern reference like I,
as you may know, in my younger days, I covered hockey,
you know, as a radio stringer, So I went to
a lot of hockey games, believe it or not, many
many years ago, and I was in the era where
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they'd still drop the puck and then you'd have your
goon Stu Grimson or somebody like that, ty dolemy get
into a dustop and they'd start fighting right after they
dropped the puck. Like that was when I was around hockey,
So I don't know, they don't really do that anymore.
It's taboo. You must love each other, no fighting. You
may have got a concussion, but it wasn't to that degree.
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But it was a Gong show type situation because Edmonton
had twenty one penalty for in eighty five minutes of time.
With the penalties and all that stuff, and the Panthers
made them pay on all of them. They scored three
goals on power play, so three of the six goals
were scored on the power play, which by my math
is fifty percent. That's what that is, fifty percent. And
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it was the we can't beat them, so let's try
to beat them up mantra. It's like, well, we're not
gonna win the game. But let's try it up. Let's
shry up, give him some bruises. We'll see if we
can bruise them up a little bit. The gloves off philosophy.
Oh Gary Bettman must have been so upset. Oh my god,
Haymaker fest. Goon up, go up, goot it up, goot
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it up, gooon it up, goot it up. All right now,
last word? So I thought this was amusing. I wanted
to I jotted this down. I found the audio, so
we're gonna play the audio. So normally these mid game
interviews in sports are a complete waste of time. Ninety
nine point nine percent of the time they suck. It's
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the person that does it doesn't want to do it.
The questions are dumb, the answers are just cliches. It's
a waste of time. Every once in a while, like
in baseball over the weekend, you had Jazz Chisholm make
an error because he was miked up. At least that's
the theory that he made the mistake because he was
miked up and he was trying to play grab ass
with some idiots on television. And then in Game three
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of the Stanley Cup Final, I thought This was one
of the great moments I've seen in game interviews. So
let's take it out. If you didn't want watching the game,
we've got the audio. We're gonna play. I really like
this guy, Paul Maurice, the coach of the Florida Panthers.
He was very good last year in audio. And that's
really all I care about. That's all I I mean,
I'm just in it for the audio. I'm just in
it for the clips. And so Paul Maurice was in
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game slobbery all over Sam Bennett of his team there
and his performance. He made a couple of big plays
early in that game. This was a second period interview,
So let's set this up the right way. It's a
second period, mid game, second period in view. Paul Maurice,
the Florida coach there, slabber slabber, slobbery all over Sam
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Bennett's performance, and then the report I don't know who
this woman is for Turner. She brought up the fact
that Sam Bennett's going to be a free agent, and
she made some comment about him getting a lot of money.
And I want you to listen to how Paul Maurice
handled that and the quick change in response, let's go
to the audio tip tike Lis.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I'm Bennett with two big hits in the D zone
and a highlight reel goal in the Arizona is not
a coach's.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Dream shift or what Paul. He showed it all over
the ice, but he doesn't chieve the game for the
two goals that he's under Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
He does all the hard right things and.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Not so sure he is.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
But I don't think his agent's gonna have to work
that hard this summer.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
But I'll move on a horrible attitude. I think it's
got be a bonic player. I see what you're doing.
The ninetiever. He's got a whole bunch of things. They're
not sure he canna be procured.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Play the game, Paul, play the game.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Thank you for this, all right. So if you didn't
hear that he was loquations about how great Sam Bennett
was and then when the fact that he's going to
be a free agent and all that stuff he mentioned,
I believe the bubonic plague and the dnang fever, which
you know is not normally brought up, not normally brought up.
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The denaying finger fever along with the bubonic plague. I
thought that was great and it was just just wonderful.
All right, So let us let's discuss this. So what
is the word? What is the word for Florida coach
Palm Maurice midgame interview and his pivot while talking about
Sam Bennett and his free agency. So this is the panhandle?
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My word, though, is deadpan? I say panhandled. My word
is actually deadpan because it was comedy gold. It was wonderful.
He did not miss a beat. He had the same tone.
His tone did not change, dead pan delivery. It was brilliant,
and that's the key. It's comedy comedy gold. You say
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the absurd thing and you are in a completely serious tone.
Take play it again. I want to play it again
on here.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
This is I'm Bennett with two big hits in the
D zone and a highlight reel goal in the Arizona
is not a coach's dream shift or what well.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
He sold it all over the ice, but he doesn't
achieve the game for the two goals that he's under.
Fox does all the hard right things, the not so suious,
but I don't.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Think his agent's gonna have to work that hard this summer.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
But I'll move on a horrible attitude. I think it's
got j bonic.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Players play the game, Paul, play the game.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Thank you for this. There you go. That's outstanding. That
to live we need more of that. And so as
I was making my long drive in from the north
Woods into the main studio, yeah, I was thinking, these
hockey coaches are under the radar, hilarious. And I don't
make a list, as you know, I don't do this.
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If you do this irrelevant. But on Big Ben's big board,
which is not a list, if Terry and England's listening
not a list. I gotta tell you, hockey coaches funniest
coaches we have, are they not? He and I can't
name most of them, but they're really funny, like baseball
managers are just they're nothing. There's nothing fun about them.
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They always have a stick up.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
There.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Took us right. Most football coaches are not that fun.
I would say, though, football coaches are behind hockey a
distance second. And a lot of the basketball coaches take
themselves too seriously and they're not that. They're not that
a music. I said, throw that, throw that out there,
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good sense of humor. My favorite he's not coaching right now,
but John Tortorella. We sucked at a time we could
not suck, which is to me, the gold standard of
postgame quote. That's all you need. We sucked at a
time you cannot suck, which sums everything up. That's all,
That's all you need. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. Oh,
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back to it we go, and some hot hockey talk.
We'll get to the volcanic eruption that took place in
the world of sports. Also, people upset when you say
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the thing that is true, but they don't like it.
People upset when you say the thing that is true,
but they don't like. What is that all about? We'll
tell you. Ferg Doog rites and says, as much as
we all miss the former hockey guy on the show,
I doubt he or even Emilio Estevez can talk puck
better than that malar monologue. Well done, Ben, All right,
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Well there you go. Hot hockey talk. Yes, and there's
always the bill. What are you doing talking hockey? What's
wrong with you? Shame on you. King Roy says, I
had hard time choosing what to watch between Game three,
either Stanley Cup Final and WWE Raw. I chose Game three,
and by the end of the game, I thought I
was watching pro wrestling. This is one reason why hockey
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is better than basketball, because they get physical, they get well.
The difference is in basketball stick right in your mouth. Now,
I don't do that, Eddie, But here's when they get
physical in the gaves a blowout. In hockey, oftentimes if
the team still cares you'll get what Edmonton did where
they just try to get into a goon fest and
they start throwing punches. In basketball, they just quit and
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it's the other team wins by fifty. That's a much
different dynamic when you're getting your ass kicked in basketball
as opposed now. I didn't always used to be like
that in basketball. There was a time I recall in
basketball when you were getting your ass kicked and then
you you brought in your version of the hockey goon.
There was an era where they had Charles Oakley or
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Rick Molhorn, players like that. Can the Animal Banister that
would come in there, Greg Kite, that would just throw
some elbows and nuts. But now the guys are all buddies.
They play grab ass and go out and have drinks
after the game, so they don't want to upset anybody.
It's much different world there in that basketball. Absolutely, Shane
and the Moys has been The cinnamon roll is not
a donut. Don't start that again, Shane. We all know
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that if you go to a donut shop, you buy
a cinnam roll just like an apple for it. I
had some loser, some guy used to get a life.
He sent me his long email. I read only by
the way, you know, I like losers. You know you
know who you are, and I didn't read. I read
like the first two sentences. I said, this guy, this
guy's a bigger loser than I am. He's complaining. You
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showed the apple fritters a donut. It is not a
donuts straw out, sire. I was at a donut shop
this weekend. I had an apple fritter. I bought it.
I've never bought an apple fritter outside of a donut shop.
It's a donut and the cinnam roll donut. That's the
way it is. I don't care about your little technicality.
Get a life. You're a You're a scumbag and a loser.
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Nature Boy writes in is that too harsh? No, Ben,
I think you put them in their place. Thank you.
Nature Boy says your second rare and appropriate hockey take
in the last couple of weeks. Eddie would be proud
of you. Big Gray Rob writes and says, been something
is off in the universe. Starting off with ice hockey
talk is highly unusual. It's almost uncharted territory. However, I
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agree that Edmonton should be ahead in the series A
plus and the monologue ten out of ten and I
live in Washington and Kansas City, Iowa. Soon all right,
so okay, bro I was off by a few states.
Terry in England says, definitely not a list. Well, thank you, Terry.
That was not a list, absolutely not, no question about it.
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Let's see what else do we have page down. We'll
skip over that. A lot of random comments from mister
irrigation filling up my timeline. Nature boy says the hockey
game reminded me of an evening of peaceful protesting in
La especially. It's very peaceful. Yes, just don't get me
started on that. Let's see supermarkets thought it was nice
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driving to know I went the normal way and all
the off ramps where I drive down there and one
on one completely shut down there. I wonder why supermarket,
Steve writes in Ripping Bill Miller, uh says, uh, I
don't need some disjointed ranch. I don't even know what
that gibberish is. There's big he is a moron. We
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all know that. Let's go to Van, the one legged
Bama Man, who is not a moron. But we'll see
what we feel about him after this call. Hello, Van
the one legged Bama man. Who I know, Alabama, big
hockey state. A lot of great hockey players have come
out of Alabama.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, we we'll give a prison shank about hockey in
the style that's paint Diggs and red Nicks when we
were and then we got educated. So we're just a
little paint dicks, but well.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
So not as red as it used to be. They
stay out of the star, they stay out of the sun.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
So there, yeah, we're too old. I'm too old for that.
There you go. I got it. I got a new
name for you in my favorite hebro.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Okay, what do you got? What's what's the theme?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Being the sports blogger? Old, you're one of the first
sports bloggers out there.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I was, yeah, man, the whole deep. Yeah, but I
didn't know. I didn't sell a lot of those guys.
So they made a fortune, you know, the guys that
were my contemporaries, they sold their websites. They made a killing.
I never did. I never.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I never made the big monetizer.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No, no, no, I I had. There was a guy,
in fact, he still works at ESPN, and one of
their basketball guys came up to me and he was
he was yelling at me. He said, you're the only one.
This goes back to like the early two thousands. He said,
you're the only one that didn't cash in. Everyone else
cashed in. He was like yelling. I said, what are
I supposed.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
To do now?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I mean anymore? Are you just making me feel it?
It's like the exactly, I mean, what do you point
salt in the wound? And then it's like the people
that bring up the bitcoin thing where I had a
chance to buy bitcoin. I had a relative that tried
to get me to buy bitcoin. It was one hundred
dollars a bitcoin. And I said, that's a scam. I
don't want any part in it. And uh yeah, so
I've made it, made a few blunders in my time,
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almost as bad as when Tom Looney recommended I buy
I've been saving up working in radio, not making a
lot of money, but making decent money for a long time,
been saving up. And I was debating whether to buy
a house, and I was working with Tom Looney, and
Looney's like, do it, just do it. Nothing nothing. Everyone says,
think bad things are gonna happen. Nothing bad's gonna happen.
As soon as I signed that damn papers on the house,
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the eight housing market, the whole thing crashed right after
I bought the damp thing. I know I would have
been No, you're not exaggerating. I mean, I don't make
the greatest financial decisions.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I don't mean to start being g O about GEO.
G O suck.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, oh, I got one of I got those stories too.
I was taking stock advice blind Scott recommended. He said,
I got I'm an insider. You know, this is years ago,
and he's like, I got this weed stock, right, everyone's
gonna be buying the mess, all right. You know, listen,
I'm okay with that if I can make some money
on it. So it was the only weed stock that
didn't make it, and I bought a ton of it
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and it became a penny stock.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, that's what happened to be in g O.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah, you're like, what the heck, man, what's up
with that?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Alexander Saurus sent me three K. I send him an
email and told him I could come out and doing
the protesters. I convinced him that one legged and amputees
and people like that, the cops wouldn't bother.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh yeah, well yah yah, here are your prime and
people will feel sorry for you. So that would be but.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I just cack. I ain't going oh man, you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Buy that and then you'll lose it all on the
stock marked Manuel.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't bet it all on the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, I don't advise betting at all. I'd like to
see the Pacers win, but I would not bet at
all on the Pacers.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I would not got. I got both of them in
my futures, but I got got way more on uh okay, see.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
So yeah I got.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But but they're they only they're the only forty twenty
games left, so that rule will probably come true again.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Oh that's right. Yeah, that's right, the forty twenty the
Phil Jackson rule. Right, you win forty before you lose
twenty and then that's it. So we don't even need
to watch, that's it. We just all you need to well,
you just pay attention. Who wins forty before they lose
twenty and then boom you're in. That's it.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah. There was only three Thames, the Cavaliers, the Celtics
and okay, see okay, I lost Bundy on Cavaliers of
the Celty, so I'm not gonna come out of head well,
you get a little bit of the Celties, but I'll
break even.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, that's all. That's all you can expect, really, right, Yeah, yeah,
I got all right, all right, the great the One
Legged Bama Man show legend. He's the baddest. That's one
of the most badass stories. I can't think of a
more badass story than Van the One Legged Bama Man.
That's like the ultimate like Southern story. Like you get
(29:14):
your leg bitten off by a gator. That's cool, and
then you go out and hunt down the gator and
then kill it and then eat it like that is
like next level. That's like they should make a movie
off of him, if that's really what happened. No, it's
he's sent me some emails like it's totally it's totally legit,
totally legit. Anyway, all right, it is the Ben Mallor Show.
(29:37):
As we are working our way through the overnight hours,
the volcanic eruption happened in San Diego. As many Metronto
boiled over. There was a borderline strikeout call and things
got heated. An emotional outburst as he did not appreciate
this old school baseball as many but one of the
(30:01):
highest paid players in baseball, got into a fighting stance.
He was very upset, did not hold his emotion on
the borderline strike. Now, the Dodgers ended up winning that
game in extra innings, but Manny Machado not a happy camper.
And the cool thing about it is the umpire had
(30:23):
one of those body cams on, so you saw the
pitch Machado looking back and he gets right into the
face of the umpire and they are screaming. He is screaming,
hot head Manny Machado there and the padres go down.
He go down. Machado obviously upset. And I mentioned this
(30:46):
as a tease. And when you tease something, you've got
to pay it off. They say that's very important. In radio.
The consultants say, if you're gonna tease something, you've got
to pay it off. So Dave Roberts people upset with
Dave Roberts. Now I love ripping Dave Roberts. I am
a big fan of goofing on Dave Roberts. I fired
Dave Roberts in twenty seventeen. I fired him again in
(31:08):
twenty eighteen on the talk show I Believe I fired
Dave Roberts in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, probably not
twenty twenty because they won the hardest World Series of
all time. But I fired him like five or six times.
And so there are people very upset with Dave Roberts
because he talked about the series with the Padres here
and he pointed out that it is a bigger series.
(31:30):
He downplayed the series from the Dodger perspective, but he
talked about how it's a bigger situation for the Padres,
and people are like, what are you doing. You can't
say that it's a bigger but like it is, like
it's always a bigger deal for the Padres. Like the
Padre fans are so annoyed because the ballpark gets overtaken
by Dodger fans. It's mostly Dodger fans that make the
(31:54):
drive down the highway there to support their team in
San Diego. So you've got that going on, and it's
a big deal for the Padres to beat the Dodgers.
They it's like their biggest winn in Podre history is
not when they won the National League penn At a
couple of times, it's when they beat the Dodgers in
a divisional round matchup. I think the biggest series of
all time in podre history. And Manny Machado prior to
(32:16):
the series, prior to getting into the umpire said, the
whole week has been prepping the team for the Dodgers series,
like they've been getting ready, desperately getting ready there for
that showdown series. What Dave Roberts is like, it don't
really matter, Like that's the reality like the Dodgers. That's
one of my problems with the Dodgers. I don't think
they care that much. It's like they don't want to
(32:37):
lose games. But I don't think they're really totally locked in,
and they won't get locked in until August. Like they're
pacing themselves. It's like sandbagging, where they're they're winning a
lot and they'll get to the playoffs and they'll they're
measuring themselves. It's like a triathlon. They know how much
energy they have to put out and they're not really
going forward. They don't really care about home field advantage
(32:59):
throughout the playoffs and all that stuff. And it bothers me,
but that's exactly what they're doing and it's probably gonna work,
so anyway. It is the Ben mather Show. As we
continue on time now for the who Am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else as
we call it the who Am I? Game? And we'll
go to Florida the Stanley Cup Final and Florida's Carter
(33:23):
Verhagy scored the third career game winning goal in the
Stanley Cup Final. He became just the sixth player with
that many in the past thirty years. Now I have
the most game winners in that thirty year period since
nineteen ninety five. In the Stanley Cup Final. Who am I?
That is the question the answer, We'll get to it.
(33:44):
We will do it next.
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I back to it and a time now for the
play of the day. The play of the day. Now,
it's more of a visual thing than an audio thing.
But just imagine, use your imagination, because radio, I'm told,
his theater of the mind. It is the big a
in Anaheim, a random Monday night, the Angels and the
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athletics and just whole home la la la, la, la
la la, and then this happened.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Take a listen now the one off fish to Nolan Shanoval,
left hand hitter, five ball left center. Denzel going back
here in the track, at the track, right to the wall.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Leave bit climbing the wall. Did he catch it? Hit Dad?
You can't believe what this kid is jo against center field.
He got himself suspended on top of the wall. Had
brought it back for out number two. Every day is
a highlight show. The iconic Ken Korak, who actually no kid.
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I worked with him years ago as the old Oakland
A's broadcast. He's been doing A's games got since. Bill
King was the lead play by play guy for the
old Oakland Athletics back in But they don't have a city.
They're so embarrassed by Sacramento. They don't say they're n Sacramento.
So it's just the Athletics. But that name, that was
one of those nineteen eighties leap over the fence type catches.
Denzel Clark of the Athletics formerly known as the Oakland
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Athletics radio when I was a stringer, because that was
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in the days before the Internet. That's a stone age.
And every once in a while the A's and the
Angels would be in a pennant race or somebody the
Angels were playing were in the pennant race, and so
I did this report from the Big A. But I
popped up on the A's broadcast, and so I did.
That's one time I met Ken and I actually knew
him a little bit back in the day. And Bill King,
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the iconic voice Holy Toledo, a voice of the Raiders
and legend Broadcay. If you're a broadcasting nerd, you know
the name Bill King. He's been gone for a while,
lived on a boat like a total hippie guy, Hawaiian
shirts the holding. But that was Denzel Clark time. Now though,
for the payoff the who am I? Game? This is
where we pretend to be somebody else and we pay
(37:25):
it off with the who am I Game? So it
is the who am I? Again? So here it is
Florida's Carter ver Hey scored his third career game winning goal.
He said, we which was a six to one game.
They still counted third career game winning goal Stanley Cup Final.
He became just a sixth player with that many in
the past thirty years. But I have the most game
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winners since nineteen ninety five. Who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? It is not Nick
the Wendy's Guy's daughter, but he is a proud papa
as his young lady there graduated. Congratulations at Friend of
the Show, Nick the Wendy's Guy. He'll hook you up, man, Nick,
He'll hook you up with those those square burgers at Wendy's.
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If you know, if you know Nick the Windy's, you
gotta have a guy at Wendy's. What else do we have?
Let's see Paige Dan we'll skip over that. The road
Runner guests by Manuel in Guardina, Paige Dwn, Neil Lomax
from The Nature Boy. That's Saint Louis Cardinal Legend. Neil Lomax,
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Don Gil and Sandio, said Rodney King. Who else do
we have Paige down? The great Bill Miller from is
that Christ in Houston? He's still alive. Apparently Christ and
Houston is still alive. We thought we lost him. Who
else do we have page down? Let's see here, can't
read that on the air. Hey, Harley Quinn from Shane
in de Moine. That's his answer, Emilio Estevez a second
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reference of the hour from fer Dog. Who else do
we have Paige down? Cory Koski from mister nice guy? Uh?
Kenny Linzman from Eke and Roselle Minnesota? Do you have
an ansel Arena? I'm going with Matt Damon Beck. Matt
Damon a great hockey player. Unfortunately know it is Saint
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Louis Blues legend. Brett Hall, Brett Hall, Brett Hall, Brend Hall,
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Here we go. Welcome, It's our number wid, our number
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a great day today. It's Tuesday, the tenth day of June,
but you already knew that. So we start out with
the rare and appropriate hockey monologue. NHL Stanley Cup Final
Game number three. Now Florida wins in a route or
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root six to one. Connor McDavid says, the Oilers haven't
played their best against the Panthers yet, but it's coming.
Do you believe him? Also, should Edmonton fans be worried
after this Game three? No show will dust off the
mallor panic ometer for this one. Also, what is the
(00:42):
word for Florida coach Paul Maurice's pivot when talking about
Sam Bennett's free agency. We'll talk about all of those
stories and more here it is our number one. Well,
you've got McDavid and you've got Mick Awful. Also, Welcome,
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the Dodgers beating the Padres, and rant and rave about
that that's a random June game in baseball, so I
only we're gonna focus on that instead the rare and
appropriate lead yet again, from the puck. We are talking
puck on the raid. That's right, rare and appropriate. Don't
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get used to this. So we start out in South Florida,
where as the NBA takes another break. The basketball players
cannot be expected to play all that often. You know
how rigorous it is to play in the NBA. My
gone anyway, So hockey filling the void, filling the void
on the schedule here on a Monday night, and we
(02:58):
watched Game three between the Oilers and Panthers, tied up
one to one. Couple of overtime thrillers in Alberta. And
now they scenes shifting to the Sunshine State. Now, I
don't know if you're watching this or not, probably not
based on the ratings. Very few people have been watching
this matchup. So it is our act of kindness, a
(03:20):
public service for you, a good mitzvah of the day
that we were watching so you would not have to.
And what do we watch? Well, we watched Brad Marshant
do it again. He did it again, he's scoring again
for the team from Florida. And Sam Bennett, how do
you do? He got it done again, each scoring goals.
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Florida striking oil as they take care and beat off
the hapless Edmonton hockey team six to one on Monday night.
So now it is a two games to one series
lead for the team from Florida and that series, now,
will it go all the way? Will Edmonton bounce back?
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Suddenly a pivotal pivotal well, not suddenly. Usually it's two
to one going into Game four, Game four massive for
the team's trailing three games to one if they lose
that game. And so the story here you had the
Florida domination situation as they led this game from soup
to nuts. Brad Marshanti x Bruin the oldest player to
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score in each of the first three games of a
Stanley Cup final with that goal there, and Sam Bennett
the NHL playoff leading fourteenth goal, which I'm told is good.
I didn't play hockey, but I'm told that's pretty good.
When you lead the entire league in playoff goals, you've
done something right. So good for him. And the better
story though, is in the losing locker room, so that
is where we were focused. We're going to focus on that.
(04:47):
As you know, I like the good story. The good
story here is the man that has been one of
the faces of hockey for the last decade, not getting
that check next to his name on the the Pro
Hockey websites, the stat websites where we got Connor McDavid
not winning a Stanley Cup lost last year. Here's another opportunity,
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the same rematch situation here. So the Oilers star Connor McDavid,
who did Bupkus in this game, but he did speak
to the assembled media after the game, and Connor McDavid
said that he believes the best version of the Oilers
will arrive eventually. Okay, well that's good. They're gonna arvive eventually.
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He said, quote, I don't think our best has shown
up all series long, but it's coming, he stated, So
let us discuss. That's the quote that we're gonna work with,
and we're gonna chop that up and parts the words
of Connor McDavid and get into some hot hockey talk,
hot hockey talk. So the question Connor McDavid saying, the
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Oilers have not played their best against the Panthers so far,
but it's coming. Do you him? Do you believe him?
So on this one, I've got Amazon Prime, Jimmy Hendrix
and Panhandle, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to put the biscuit in
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the basket somebody. The Oilers only did one time in
this game, as they lose by five goals, going down
six to one. So the first thought is the obvious one.
It's an odd juxtaposition from Connor McDavid to say, well,
it's coming, it's going to be there. We're gonna be okay, right,
we believe, we believe. Of course you've got to say
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that to some degree. We get that you have to
say that. But as Yogi Bear, the late Great Yogi
bearra famously said, it's getting very late early out here.
It's getting very late early out here. You are, by
my count, forty two percent into the Stanley Cup Final.
That's assuming he goes seven games. That's assuming he goes
seven games. So forty two percent into the Stanley Cup Final.
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What exactly are you waiting for? Like, what are you
waiting for? Did you get lost somewhere? It's coming, Dodd,
trust us, it's coming. It's going to happen right like
a thunderstorm out in the distance. You see the clouds
out it's coming. That storm's coming. Now, maybe it'll change directions,
but it's coming. This Jor's coming its way. So it's
a promissory note from Connor McDavid that hey, hey, it's
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gonna work out. Can possibly be wrong? Now, he didn't
throw the word in there butt, And as you know,
everything before the word butt is bull crap. Everything before
the word butt is bull crap. So if you look
at the quote here. I don't think our best has
shown up all series long, but it's coming. See. I
would argue that Edmonton should have won the first two
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games of the series, should be up two to one,
and then they obviously they lost the second game in
double overtime, and then this game they just did not
show up. So I would argue that things are going
the wrong direction here, not the right direction for the
team from Canada. If Connor McDavid is promising it like
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he says he is, is this like an Amazon Prime thing,
Like it's going to be here in a couple of days,
just wait for it. You going to get it too,
in less than two business days. You'll get your your
better performance here.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Unfortunately has been a way around this. All of professional
sports is a results based situation. You are judged by
actual production, like how do you actually do it? McDavid
had not one, but two more shots on goal than
you had two. He had no goals, no assists. And
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his accomplice here Leon Drisidel for the Oilers, the other
big star. He's a top ten player. Also he had
a cardio game as well for the Oilers. There in
terms of points, both skating circles in circles, there is
the goaltending, the defense for Edmonton as opponent. There Florida,
Sergey Barbrovsky eating their lunch in this game, the two
(08:59):
big stars. And now you have Connor McDavid out there
throwing out wishful thinking as a game plan, which generally speaking,
is not a great idea. It's not a great idea.
It's the Cup final. And I certainly enjoy a good
theoretical argument as much as the next person, Like, what
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are you doing here? We don't care what's coming. That
doesn't do anything for us here. What's here in the
present is the Panthers are playing winning hockey. And the
Panthers are going the right direction and the Oilers are
going the opposite direction. Now, speaking of that page two,
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and you know we love to break down the losing
locker room. So it's two to one, it's three games,
it's the first two, could not get any closer, going
to overtime. This game a blowout in Game three of
the Stanley Cup Finals. So should Edmonton be worried after
this Game three no show situation? So the mallor panic
(10:05):
oero meter has been activated. The Mallor panicometer. We dusted
it off and here it is Mallard Panicometer one to ten,
with ten being a ballistic missile coming inbound, Seek immediate shelter.
That's a ten for the oilers. I'm at eight point five.
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I'm at an eight point five. And here's why the
arrow is pointing down down, down, down, down, down, down
down down. It's like a Jimmy hendrickstune. Mister bad luck,
that's what it is. You're mister bad luck. You had
the glass slipper break. The real Stewart Skinner stood up
in that there, the guy that was a bag of suck,
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and well, he had been playing well and then he
goes out there. He was so bad. How bad was he?
He was so bad. He got pulled. That's not particularly good.
He got benched after a longing. Not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, well actually five five
goals on twenty three shots. We mentioned Leon Dry Sidle
Connor McDavid both having cardio games. They had no points,
(11:12):
no points in this game, and so the game turned
into a gong show, which I kind of like by
and it's by my everything. He's by modern reference like I,
as you may know, in my younger days, I covered hockey,
you know, as a radio stringer, So I went to
a lot of hockey games, believe it or not, many
many years ago, and I was in the era where
(11:34):
they'd still drop the puck and then you'd have your
goon Stu Grimson or somebody like that, ty dolemy get
into a dustop and they'd start fighting right after they
dropped the puck. Like that was when I was around hockey,
So I don't know, they don't really do that anymore.
It's taboo. You must love each other, no fighting. You
may have got a concussion, but it wasn't to that degree.
(11:55):
But it was a Gong show type situation because Edmonton
had twenty one penalty for in eighty five minutes of time.
With the penalties and all that stuff, and the Panthers
made them pay on all of them. They scored three
goals on power play, so three of the six goals
were scored on the power play, which by my math
is fifty percent. That's what that is, fifty percent. And
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it was the we can't beat them, so let's try
to beat them up mantra. It's like, well, we're not
gonna win the game. But let's try it up. Let's
shry up, give him some bruises. We'll see if we
can bruise them up a little bit. The gloves off philosophy.
Oh Gary Bettman must have been so upset. Oh my god,
Haymaker fest. Goon up, go up, goot it up, goot
(12:39):
it up, gooon it up, goot it up. All right now,
last word? So I thought this was amusing. I wanted
to I jotted this down. I found the audio, so
we're gonna play the audio. So normally these mid game
interviews in sports are a complete waste of time. Ninety
nine point nine percent of the time they suck. It's
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the person that does it doesn't want to do it.
The questions are dumb, the answers are just cliches. It's
a waste of time. Every once in a while, like
in baseball over the weekend, you had Jazz Chisholm make
an error because he was miked up. At least that's
the theory that he made the mistake because he was
miked up and he was trying to play grab ass
with some idiots on television. And then in Game three
(13:23):
of the Stanley Cup Final, I thought This was one
of the great moments I've seen in game interviews. So
let's take it out. If you didn't want watching the game,
we've got the audio. We're gonna play. I really like
this guy, Paul Maurice, the coach of the Florida Panthers.
He was very good last year in audio. And that's
really all I care about. That's all I I mean,
I'm just in it for the audio. I'm just in
it for the clips. And so Paul Maurice was in
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game slobbery all over Sam Bennett of his team there
and his performance. He made a couple of big plays
early in that game. This was a second period interview,
So let's set this up the right way. It's a
second period, mid game, second period in view. Paul Maurice,
the Florida coach there, slabber slabber, slobbery all over Sam
(14:08):
Bennett's performance, and then the report I don't know who
this woman is for Turner. She brought up the fact
that Sam Bennett's going to be a free agent, and
she made some comment about him getting a lot of money.
And I want you to listen to how Paul Maurice
handled that and the quick change in response, let's go
to the audio tip tike Lis.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I'm Bennett with two big hits in the D zone
and a highlight reel goal in the Arizona is not
a coach's.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Dream shift or what Paul. He showed it all over
the ice, but he doesn't chieve the game for the
two goals that he's under Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
He does all the hard right things and.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Not so sure he is.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
But I don't think his agent's gonna have to work
that hard this summer.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
But I'll move on a horrible attitude. I think it's
got be a bonic player. I see what you're doing.
The ninetiever. He's got a whole bunch of things. They're
not sure he canna be procured.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Play the game, Paul, play the game.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Thank you for this, all right. So if you didn't
hear that he was loquations about how great Sam Bennett
was and then when the fact that he's going to
be a free agent and all that stuff he mentioned,
I believe the bubonic plague and the dnang fever, which
you know is not normally brought up, not normally brought up.
(15:15):
The denaying finger fever along with the bubonic plague. I
thought that was great and it was just just wonderful.
All right, So let us let's discuss this. So what
is the word? What is the word for Florida coach
Palm Maurice midgame interview and his pivot while talking about
Sam Bennett and his free agency. So this is the panhandle?
(15:42):
My word, though, is deadpan? I say panhandled. My word
is actually deadpan because it was comedy gold. It was wonderful.
He did not miss a beat. He had the same tone.
His tone did not change, dead pan delivery. It was brilliant,
and that's the key. It's comedy comedy gold. You say
(16:03):
the absurd thing and you are in a completely serious tone.
Take play it again. I want to play it again
on here.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
This is I'm Bennett with two big hits in the
D zone and a highlight reel goal in the Arizona
is not a coach's dream shift or what well.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
He sold it all over the ice, but he doesn't
achieve the game for the two goals that he's under.
Fox does all the hard right things, the not so suious,
but I don't.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Think his agent's gonna have to work that hard this summer.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
But I'll move on a horrible attitude. I think it's
got j bonic.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Players play the game, Paul, play the game.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Thank you for this. There you go. That's outstanding. That
to live we need more of that. And so as
I was making my long drive in from the north
Woods into the main studio, yeah, I was thinking, these
hockey coaches are under the radar, hilarious. And I don't
make a list, as you know, I don't do this.
(16:59):
If you do this irrelevant. But on Big Ben's big board,
which is not a list, if Terry and England's listening
not a list. I gotta tell you, hockey coaches funniest
coaches we have, are they not? He and I can't
name most of them, but they're really funny, like baseball
managers are just they're nothing. There's nothing fun about them.
(17:22):
They always have a stick up.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
There.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Took us right. Most football coaches are not that fun.
I would say, though, football coaches are behind hockey a
distance second. And a lot of the basketball coaches take
themselves too seriously and they're not that. They're not that
a music. I said, throw that, throw that out there,
(17:44):
good sense of humor. My favorite he's not coaching right now,
but John Tortorella. We sucked at a time we could
not suck, which is to me, the gold standard of
postgame quote. That's all you need. We sucked at a
time you cannot suck, which sums everything up. That's all,
That's all you need. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. Oh,
as we are working our way through the overnight hours
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our way all the way through the nighttime to the
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And we had a volcanic eruption in the baseball world.
A volcanic eruption in the baseball world. What is that
all about. We'll get to it. We'll take your calls,
you're comments halving, and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
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Speaker 1 (19:01):
Bell Miller lean on me, Well, don't because that would
be creepy. I don't want you leaning on me. I
can pretend to be your friend. I'm not gonna help
you carry on. I'm not, but I'm gonna tell you.
You're listening to the Ben Mahler Show on Fox up
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sports radio. So act accordingly and now back to it all. Right,
back to it we go, and some hot hockey talk.
We'll get to the volcanic eruption that took place in
the world of sports. Also, people upset when you say
(20:26):
the thing that is true, but they don't like it.
People upset when you say the thing that is true,
but they don't like. What is that all about? We'll
tell you. Ferg Doog rites and says, as much as
we all miss the former hockey guy on the show,
I doubt he or even Emilio Estevez can talk puck
better than that malar monologue. Well done, Ben, All right,
(20:47):
Well there you go. Hot hockey talk. Yes, and there's
always the bill. What are you doing talking hockey? What's
wrong with you? Shame on you. King Roy says, I
had hard time choosing what to watch between Game three,
either Stanley Cup Final and WWE Raw. I chose Game three,
and by the end of the game, I thought I
was watching pro wrestling. This is one reason why hockey
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is better than basketball, because they get physical, they get well.
The difference is in basketball stick right in your mouth. Now,
I don't do that, Eddie, But here's when they get
physical in the gaves a blowout. In hockey, oftentimes if
the team still cares you'll get what Edmonton did where
they just try to get into a goon fest and
they start throwing punches. In basketball, they just quit and
(21:32):
it's the other team wins by fifty. That's a much
different dynamic when you're getting your ass kicked in basketball
as opposed now. I didn't always used to be like
that in basketball. There was a time I recall in
basketball when you were getting your ass kicked and then
you you brought in your version of the hockey goon.
There was an era where they had Charles Oakley or
(21:52):
Rick Molhorn, players like that. Can the Animal Banister that
would come in there, Greg Kite, that would just throw
some elbows and nuts. But now the guys are all buddies.
They play grab ass and go out and have drinks
after the game, so they don't want to upset anybody.
It's much different world there in that basketball. Absolutely, Shane
and the Moys has been The cinnamon roll is not
a donut. Don't start that again, Shane. We all know
(22:15):
that if you go to a donut shop, you buy
a cinnam roll just like an apple for it. I
had some loser, some guy used to get a life.
He sent me his long email. I read only by
the way, you know, I like losers. You know you
know who you are, and I didn't read. I read
like the first two sentences. I said, this guy, this
guy's a bigger loser than I am. He's complaining. You
(22:39):
showed the apple fritters a donut. It is not a
donuts straw out, sire. I was at a donut shop
this weekend. I had an apple fritter. I bought it.
I've never bought an apple fritter outside of a donut shop.
It's a donut and the cinnam roll donut. That's the
way it is. I don't care about your little technicality.
Get a life. You're a You're a scumbag and a loser.
(23:03):
Nature Boy writes in is that too harsh? No, Ben,
I think you put them in their place. Thank you.
Nature Boy says your second rare and appropriate hockey take
in the last couple of weeks. Eddie would be proud
of you. Big Gray Rob writes and says, been something
is off in the universe. Starting off with ice hockey
talk is highly unusual. It's almost uncharted territory. However, I
(23:26):
agree that Edmonton should be ahead in the series A
plus and the monologue ten out of ten and I
live in Washington and Kansas City, Iowa. Soon all right,
so okay, bro I was off by a few states.
Terry in England says, definitely not a list. Well, thank you, Terry.
That was not a list, absolutely not, no question about it.
(23:48):
Let's see what else do we have page down. We'll
skip over that. A lot of random comments from mister
irrigation filling up my timeline. Nature boy says the hockey
game reminded me of an evening of peaceful protesting in
La especially. It's very peaceful. Yes, just don't get me
started on that. Let's see supermarkets thought it was nice
(24:11):
driving to know I went the normal way and all
the off ramps where I drive down there and one
on one completely shut down there. I wonder why supermarket,
Steve writes in Ripping Bill Miller, uh says, uh, I
don't need some disjointed ranch. I don't even know what
that gibberish is. There's big he is a moron. We
(24:33):
all know that. Let's go to Van, the one legged
Bama Man, who is not a moron. But we'll see
what we feel about him after this call. Hello, Van
the one legged Bama man. Who I know, Alabama, big
hockey state. A lot of great hockey players have come
out of Alabama.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah, we we'll give a prison shank about hockey in
the style that's paint Diggs and red Nicks when we
were and then we got educated. So we're just a
little paint dicks, but well.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
So not as red as it used to be. They
stay out of the star, they stay out of the sun.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
So there, yeah, we're too old. I'm too old for that.
There you go. I got it. I got a new
name for you in my favorite hebro.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Okay, what do you got? What's what's the theme?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Being the sports blogger? Old, you're one of the first
sports bloggers out there.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I was, yeah, man, the whole deep. Yeah, but I
didn't know. I didn't sell a lot of those guys.
So they made a fortune, you know, the guys that
were my contemporaries, they sold their websites. They made a killing.
I never did. I never.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I never made the big monetizer.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No, no, no, I I had. There was a guy,
in fact, he still works at ESPN, and one of
their basketball guys came up to me and he was
he was yelling at me. He said, you're the only one.
This goes back to like the early two thousands. He said,
you're the only one that didn't cash in. Everyone else
cashed in. He was like yelling. I said, what are
I supposed.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
To do now?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I mean anymore? Are you just making me feel it?
It's like the exactly, I mean, what do you point
salt in the wound? And then it's like the people
that bring up the bitcoin thing where I had a
chance to buy bitcoin. I had a relative that tried
to get me to buy bitcoin. It was one hundred
dollars a bitcoin. And I said, that's a scam. I
don't want any part in it. And uh yeah, so
I've made it, made a few blunders in my time,
(26:20):
almost as bad as when Tom Looney recommended I buy
I've been saving up working in radio, not making a
lot of money, but making decent money for a long time,
been saving up. And I was debating whether to buy
a house, and I was working with Tom Looney, and
Looney's like, do it, just do it. Nothing nothing. Everyone says,
think bad things are gonna happen. Nothing bad's gonna happen.
As soon as I signed that damn papers on the house,
(26:42):
the eight housing market, the whole thing crashed right after
I bought the damp thing. I know I would have
been No, you're not exaggerating. I mean, I don't make
the greatest financial decisions.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I don't mean to start being g O about GEO.
G O suck.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, oh, I got one of I got those stories too.
I was taking stock advice blind Scott recommended. He said,
I got I'm an insider. You know, this is years ago,
and he's like, I got this weed stock, right, everyone's
gonna be buying the mess, all right. You know, listen,
I'm okay with that if I can make some money
on it. So it was the only weed stock that
didn't make it, and I bought a ton of it
(27:26):
and it became a penny stock.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, that's what happened to be in g O.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, yeah, you're like, what the heck, man, what's up
with that?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Alexander Saurus sent me three K. I send him an
email and told him I could come out and doing
the protesters. I convinced him that one legged and amputees
and people like that, the cops wouldn't bother.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh yeah, well yah yah, here are your prime and
people will feel sorry for you. So that would be but.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I just cack. I ain't going oh man, you.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Buy that and then you'll lose it all on the
stock marked Manuel.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I don't bet it all on the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Yeah, I don't advise betting at all. I'd like to
see the Pacers win, but I would not bet at
all on the Pacers.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I would not got. I got both of them in
my futures, but I got got way more on uh okay, see.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
So yeah I got.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But but they're they only they're the only forty twenty
games left, so that rule will probably come true again.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Oh that's right. Yeah, that's right, the forty twenty the
Phil Jackson rule. Right, you win forty before you lose
twenty and then that's it. So we don't even need
to watch, that's it. We just all you need to well,
you just pay attention. Who wins forty before they lose
twenty and then boom you're in. That's it.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah. There was only three Thames, the Cavaliers, the Celtics
and okay, see okay, I lost Bundy on Cavaliers of
the Celty, so I'm not gonna come out of head well,
you get a little bit of the Celties, but I'll
break even.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, that's all. That's all you can expect, really, right, Yeah, yeah,
I got all right, all right, the great the One
Legged Bama Man show legend. He's the baddest. That's one
of the most badass stories. I can't think of a
more badass story than Van the One Legged Bama Man.
That's like the ultimate like Southern story. Like you get
(29:14):
your leg bitten off by a gator. That's cool, and
then you go out and hunt down the gator and
then kill it and then eat it like that is
like next level. That's like they should make a movie
off of him, if that's really what happened. No, it's
he's sent me some emails like it's totally it's totally legit,
totally legit. Anyway, all right, it is the Ben Mallor Show.
(29:37):
As we are working our way through the overnight hours,
the volcanic eruption happened in San Diego. As many Metronto
boiled over. There was a borderline strikeout call and things
got heated. An emotional outburst as he did not appreciate
this old school baseball as many but one of the
(30:01):
highest paid players in baseball, got into a fighting stance.
He was very upset, did not hold his emotion on
the borderline strike. Now, the Dodgers ended up winning that
game in extra innings, but Manny Machado not a happy camper.
And the cool thing about it is the umpire had
(30:23):
one of those body cams on, so you saw the
pitch Machado looking back and he gets right into the
face of the umpire and they are screaming. He is screaming,
hot head Manny Machado there and the padres go down.
He go down. Machado obviously upset. And I mentioned this
(30:46):
as a tease. And when you tease something, you've got
to pay it off. They say that's very important. In radio.
The consultants say, if you're gonna tease something, you've got
to pay it off. So Dave Roberts people upset with
Dave Roberts. Now I love ripping Dave Roberts. I am
a big fan of goofing on Dave Roberts. I fired
Dave Roberts in twenty seventeen. I fired him again in
(31:08):
twenty eighteen on the talk show I Believe I fired
Dave Roberts in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, probably not
twenty twenty because they won the hardest World Series of
all time. But I fired him like five or six times.
And so there are people very upset with Dave Roberts
because he talked about the series with the Padres here
and he pointed out that it is a bigger series.
(31:30):
He downplayed the series from the Dodger perspective, but he
talked about how it's a bigger situation for the Padres,
and people are like, what are you doing. You can't
say that it's a bigger but like it is, like
it's always a bigger deal for the Padres. Like the
Padre fans are so annoyed because the ballpark gets overtaken
by Dodger fans. It's mostly Dodger fans that make the
(31:54):
drive down the highway there to support their team in
San Diego. So you've got that going on, and it's
a big deal for the Padres to beat the Dodgers.
They it's like their biggest winn in Podre history is
not when they won the National League penn At a
couple of times, it's when they beat the Dodgers in
a divisional round matchup. I think the biggest series of
all time in podre history. And Manny Machado prior to
(32:16):
the series, prior to getting into the umpire said, the
whole week has been prepping the team for the Dodgers series,
like they've been getting ready, desperately getting ready there for
that showdown series. What Dave Roberts is like, it don't
really matter, Like that's the reality like the Dodgers. That's
one of my problems with the Dodgers. I don't think
they care that much. It's like they don't want to
(32:37):
lose games. But I don't think they're really totally locked in,
and they won't get locked in until August. Like they're
pacing themselves. It's like sandbagging, where they're they're winning a
lot and they'll get to the playoffs and they'll they're
measuring themselves. It's like a triathlon. They know how much
energy they have to put out and they're not really
going forward. They don't really care about home field advantage
(32:59):
throughout the playoffs and all that stuff. And it bothers me,
but that's exactly what they're doing and it's probably gonna work,
so anyway. It is the Ben mather Show. As we
continue on time now for the who Am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else as
we call it the who Am I? Game? And we'll
go to Florida the Stanley Cup Final and Florida's Carter
(33:23):
Verhagy scored the third career game winning goal in the
Stanley Cup Final. He became just the sixth player with
that many in the past thirty years. Now I have
the most game winners in that thirty year period since
nineteen ninety five. In the Stanley Cup Final. Who am I?
That is the question the answer, We'll get to it.
(33:44):
We will do it next.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
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I back to it and a time now for the
play of the day. The play of the day. Now,
it's more of a visual thing than an audio thing.
But just imagine, use your imagination, because radio, I'm told,
his theater of the mind. It is the big a
in Anaheim, a random Monday night, the Angels and the
(35:21):
athletics and just whole home la la la, la, la
la la, and then this happened.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Take a listen now the one off fish to Nolan Shanoval,
left hand hitter, five ball left center. Denzel going back
here in the track, at the track, right to the wall.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Leave bit climbing the wall. Did he catch it? Hit Dad?
You can't believe what this kid is jo against center field.
He got himself suspended on top of the wall. Had
brought it back for out number two. Every day is
a highlight show. The iconic Ken Korak, who actually no kid.
(35:59):
I worked with him years ago as the old Oakland
A's broadcast. He's been doing A's games got since. Bill
King was the lead play by play guy for the
old Oakland Athletics back in But they don't have a city.
They're so embarrassed by Sacramento. They don't say they're n Sacramento.
So it's just the Athletics. But that name, that was
one of those nineteen eighties leap over the fence type catches.
Denzel Clark of the Athletics formerly known as the Oakland
(36:22):
Athletics with the catch, and that is the tire Iraq
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buying should be. So I did some stuff with the
Athletics radio when I was a stringer, because that was
(36:44):
in the days before the Internet. That's a stone age.
And every once in a while the A's and the
Angels would be in a pennant race or somebody the
Angels were playing were in the pennant race, and so
I did this report from the Big A. But I
popped up on the A's broadcast, and so I did.
That's one time I met Ken and I actually knew
him a little bit back in the day. And Bill King,
(37:05):
the iconic voice Holy Toledo, a voice of the Raiders
and legend Broadcay. If you're a broadcasting nerd, you know
the name Bill King. He's been gone for a while,
lived on a boat like a total hippie guy, Hawaiian
shirts the holding. But that was Denzel Clark time. Now though,
for the payoff the who am I? Game? This is
where we pretend to be somebody else and we pay
(37:25):
it off with the who am I Game? So it
is the who am I? Again? So here it is
Florida's Carter ver Hey scored his third career game winning goal.
He said, we which was a six to one game.
They still counted third career game winning goal Stanley Cup Final.
He became just a sixth player with that many in
the past thirty years. But I have the most game
(37:46):
winners since nineteen ninety five. Who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? It is not Nick
the Wendy's Guy's daughter, but he is a proud papa
as his young lady there graduated. Congratulations at Friend of
the Show, Nick the Wendy's Guy. He'll hook you up, man, Nick,
He'll hook you up with those those square burgers at Wendy's.
(38:07):
If you know, if you know Nick the Windy's, you
gotta have a guy at Wendy's. What else do we have?
Let's see Paige Dan we'll skip over that. The road
Runner guests by Manuel in Guardina, Paige Dwn, Neil Lomax
from The Nature Boy. That's Saint Louis Cardinal Legend. Neil Lomax,
the Great Gazoo from Slim Tim Lee Cheesehead see page
(38:30):
Don Gil and Sandio, said Rodney King. Who else do
we have Paige down? The great Bill Miller from is
that Christ in Houston? He's still alive. Apparently Christ and
Houston is still alive. We thought we lost him. Who
else do we have page down? Let's see here, can't
read that on the air. Hey, Harley Quinn from Shane
in de Moine. That's his answer, Emilio Estevez a second
(38:53):
reference of the hour from fer Dog. Who else do
we have Paige down? Cory Koski from mister nice guy? Uh?
Kenny Linzman from Eke and Roselle Minnesota? Do you have
an ansel Arena? I'm going with Matt Damon Beck. Matt
Damon a great hockey player. Unfortunately know it is Saint
(39:15):
Louis Blues legend. Brett Hall, Brett Hall, Brett Hall, Brend Hall,
I said, Brett Hall, that's the guy Bread Hall.
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