May 31, 2023 • 40 mins
In Hour 1 of the Ben Maller Show, Ben discusses why Nuggets HC Michael Malone isn’t putting an emphasis on the Heat being an 8th seed, Nikola Jokic’s potential to take over these Finals, plus, the MLB Pick ‘Em and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number what our one of
the podcast. We thank you for downloading, subscribing. God bless you.
You are my favorite person. So NBA Finals, the hype
has begun. Why Why is Nuggets head coach Michael Malone
saying that the Miami Heat as an eight seed that
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is not relevant to the finals. Also, will this become
the Nakola Jokic NBA Finals? And what is your level
of interest? We'll pull out the Mallard Scale of interest
for the twenty twenty three Finals, which begin tomorrow on Thursday.
We'll get to all of that right now here. It
is our number one. Hey, thanks for listening to the
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shit me SORR lead this hour coming from the NBA Finals.
You just said, wait a minute, there's no NBA Finals.
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The NBA finals as it started to give me another
Celtic monologue. Now I've already done two of those. I
will have more on the Celtics at another point, But
what else is to be said? They have to either
fire the coach and or trade Jalen Brown and multiple
players and shake it up. As Scott Farrell used to
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say back in the day, the NBA Finals do not
begin in earnest until tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, another day. Now,
this is our Wednesday show. It it's still late on
a Tuesday night on the West Coast, but our Wednesday show,
and we are heading in to the day before the
NBA Finals and it is then on like Donkey Kong
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Thursday Night from the Rocky Mountains. Have you been following
the build up? You said, what what build up? Yeah,
there's build up. I'd say it was great build up.
There is build up. And so if you haven't been
paying attention to the Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone
trying to fill up the content machine for struggling gas
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bags and blowhards who talk about pro bouncy ball. So
Michael O's the if you don't know, he's the coach
of the pro basketball team in Denver, Michael Malone, and
he was asked about the ceding. One of the storylines
is a David versus Goliath type matchup. The Nuggets, who
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had the great regular season are the Goliath and yet
again Miami, even though they were in the NBA Finals,
it was the Bogus Sham Bubble Finals a couple of
years ago that Miami they are the rag tag unkempt
basketball team. So that's the storyline. A lot of people
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are latching onto thinking that they can sell that that
that will captivate the hearts, minds and souls of the
average consumer, which is what these sports leagues try to
get to watch the championship rown. So with that is
the background, Michael alone does not does not want to
hear anything about Miami being a number eight seed. And
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as Warner Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Well, as I told our team, man, like forget the
eight seed stuff. I mean, they beat Milwaukee four to one,
team that the most wins in the NBA this year.
They beat Boston four to three, and they're up three
to zero team, but I think the second most wins
in the NBA this year. So you get to the
NBA Finals, it's not about seating anymore. And for those
that are thinking that this is going to be an
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easy series, I didn't know what to say to your
feeding people. I mean, like, this is going to be
the biggest challenge of our lives. It's the NBA Finals.
You know this is you're trying to win the first
NBA championship in franchise history. It's gonna be the hardest
thing that we've ever done, which is the way it
should be.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I think this monologue is the hardest thing I've ever done,
the biggest challenge of my life. Wow, Okay, little over
the top, little dramatic. We like it. We're not against it,
we're not opposed to it. It's fine. But Michael Malone,
you heard there. You don't even know what to say
people that think the series is going to be easy
and all that. So let us discuss the question on
this one, Michael Malone. You heard the SoundBite. Why is
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the Nuggets head coach Michael Malone saying that the Miami
Heat being an eight seed is not relevant to the
final This is essentially what he's saying. We paraphrase, but
that's essentially what Michael Malone is saying. So why is
he saying that I've got sinus infection, picky eaters, and
garden and we will combine all of these things together,
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all of these things, we will throw them into a
pot and we will cook them for ten to fifteen minutes,
is what we're gonna do. So a Michael Malone is
being a diplomat, is what he's been to a point.
He's being a diplomat with that response that we played
the clip, but he's able to kill two birds with
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one stone or one bullet or whatever, and the way
he did that. On one hand, Malone is pumping up
the tires on the bandwagon of the Miami Heat. Ah,
you throw out our records. Now it's the NBA Finals,
and even though Miami barely made the postseason and was
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one of the worst offensive teams in the NBA during
the regular season, it's like, that's just subterfuge now that
we're supposed to forget about all that. So he's pumping
up the tires going through all that. Miami an eight
seed and all that. But I've earned the right, they
ever in the right to be in the NBA Finals
because the regular season is irrelevant to teams don't even
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try most of them in the regular season. We've seen
that's a problem with that business. And so that point
is not wrong. However, the bigger meaning here of Michael
Malone's diatribe his little rayot because he took care of
the sinus infection. Now, what do I mean in Layman's terms?
I know it's a medical condition, as sinus infection. But
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essentially what I mean by that is Malone is he's
trying to downplay the mismatch because if you say that
Denver is tangibly better than Miami, if you make that statement,
then it would be a huge disgrace and embarrassment for
the Nuggets if they were to lose to the Miami heat. Right,
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and every man, woman and child that pays attention to
this stuff knows. By throwing out the seating, you then
remove some of the ear pressure, some of that presher
in the back of your year. You were moving when
you bring that up. And Michael Malone what he should
have done is channeled Dick as in Dick Stockton, the
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friend of retired sportscaster Dick Stockton, who famously told me
years ago I had him on Fox Sports Radio. Dick
Stockton was calling the worst game on Fox on an
NFL Sunday, and I remember what game it was. It
was Tampa Bay and the forty nine Ers. The Niners
were terrible, the Bucks were a little better than terrible,
and there was really no reason to watch. And I
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brought up all these stats that were besmirching both teams,
and Dick Stockton very confidently who came on the radio
to promote said broadcast. Mister Stockton said, stats tell you
what has happened, not what's going to happen. By the way,
the game sucked. Just for the record, anyway, page two
here will this become the Nikola Jokic NBA Finals, So
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I'm shaking my head. Note in terms of the marketing now,
the chances are very strong that Nicola Jokic is going
to go out and make a mockery of the Miami
Heat on the court, because even when Denver doesn't win,
Jokic is putting up triple doubles. He's a generationally great
player for Denver. He's been absolutely amaze balls for the Nuggets.
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The trophy case is bulging with all the All Star
and All NBA and the couple of MVP trophies and
all that Eastern Conference or Western Conference rather finals MVP.
He just picked that one up the pride of Northern Serbia.
So he's got all that. He's got a good backstory,
which announcers love to talk about. They love the backstory. Heck,
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one of the announcers for the NBA Finals just learned
who Nicola Jokic was a couple of weeks ago. Shocking,
a shocking revelation. But the reason I'm not buying the
fact that this is going to be a Nikola Jokic
NBA Finals in terms of the hype is he's a man.
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He's also a bland man if you feel me on that,
and that becomes problematic. It does. He's got the good nickname,
the joker, he got the backstory and all that, but
he as much as he impacts the game on the court,
off the court, the sports media landscape, I know a
little bit about this. I kind of dabble in that world,
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and my colleagues that write for the blogs and the
social media try to get the clicks and all that.
They're very picky eaters. You're very picky eaters when you're
in that profession and it is a race to generate engagement.
Lebron James goes to the buffet and skips over the noodles.
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That's a story. That's a story that gets clicks. Nikole
Jokic dominating the NBA Finals and then giving a boring
quote after the game does not does not generate excitement.
You're clout chasing is what you're doing. And there's no
dramatic mini series with NICOLEA jokicch you're trying to get engagement,
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You're just not. It's not a lot there. Jo kich
is a he's a yummy breakfast of milk toast. You've
got that. You've got a side of overcooked plain oatmeal
and then some unseasoned tofu And that's what you guys.
That's fine. Some people like that, most most don't know.
Most don't our last word here? So what is your
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level of interest pulse of the people? What is your
level of interest in the twenty twenty three finals which
will begin on Thursday night. So the time tested Mallards
scale of interest one to ten, with ten being must
see TV live, you gotta watch it live. So the
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Malard scale of interest one to ten. I am at
a four. I'm only at a four on the Nuggets
heat NBA Finals. It is a garden, a garden variety
if you will. NBA Finals, And what I mean by
that is, you know, generic brand and the Nuggets are new.
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You know, get the job done, but you're not excited
about it. Like be fair. I think we pointed out
because of the job that I happen to have here
with the company that I would. I would watch any
matchup because they pay me to watch. So you could
put I don't know, Sacramento and Indiana in the NBA Finals,
and I would tune in. I would watch, and I
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wouldn't talk, and I would blab and I would bark,
and that's what I would do. I would do all
of those things. It kind of goes with the job.
Now does that mean that the casual person that doesn't
have this kind of job would pay attention? Probably not.
But what do I like about the finals? I like
the young blood that we're not seeing another Lebron James
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NBA Finals or another Steph Curry NBA Finals, That we've
got a franchise that has made twenty nine postseason trips
and now finally they have gotten to the NBA Finals.
And they're not a team that's on the grid. They're
off the grid. The Mountain time zone not a time zone.
People rip the Pacific time zone. Well next to the
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Pacific time zone, the Mountain times is even worse in
terms of hype and media attention and all that. And
so you've got Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray. They get their
opportunity uncharted waters for the Nuggets, which is kind of cool.
I get to watch Jimmy Butler, and if the NBA
had Jimmy Butler's perspective, each team had guys like Jimmy Butler,
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multiple players like Butler, that would be a much more
enjoyable sport. They don't. He's one of the few guys
that plays with perseverance. He's not always great, he's not
always perfect, but you know you're getting an effort from
Jimmy Butler. He plays with some guts and guyle and
you gotta you gotta love it because it stands out.
It shouldn't stand out. Jimmy Butler should not stand out.
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The way he plays should not be a story. It's
an embarrassment masculating to NBA players that Jimmy Butler stands
out like a sore thumb because he just plays hard.
That's it. He just plays hard. Doesn't They plays off?
Doesn't they weeks, off, load management and all that crabby.
It very rarely does that. And so that's interesting that
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the other things that we're not looking forward to mostly
involve the presentation of the NBA Finals. The heat culture
six hundred and forty nine times every broadcast. I don't
need to hear about that. And anytime anyone in the
heat does anything that player was undrafted. Undrafted. Okay, we
get it, we understand. Imagine if you will, a world
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where you work at a company and anywhere you go,
anything you accomplish at the company, they point out, and
it's like a from accounting. We hired him. He had
a high school degree. That's it. He did not go
to college. That's Phil from accounting and phill one top
employee of the month. But that's essentially what they've done
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in the NBA. It's like the almighty all powerful draft.
You know, any players slip through. There's only two rounds
the NBA draft, and some of those guys they draft
never even make the NBA because they're European players and
they don't want to play in the United States, so
they they flop before they even get there. All right,
is the Ben Mallor Show. As we press on, we'll
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take your phone calls. The lines are open and they
are ringing right now if you want to be part
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nine nine six six three sixty nine. So it's all
about perspective. It's all about perspective, the trademark buckets. We'll
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get to that and we will do it.
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Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah the calls in a minute. We started talking about
the NBA Finals late night. Drug Tester writes in from
parts on on and he says, so from the Nuggets presser,
I am supposed to take the heat and the points,
but take the Nuggets and the money line and the
under there you go. Yeah, sure one of those two?
Why not? What the hell? Ferg Dog writes and says, Hey, Ben,
(17:26):
how can I get a hold of Fox Sports Radio's
top employee of the month, Phil from Accounting? I think
he'd be perfect for the Blind Emmett podcast. That yeah,
well blind Emmett once he finds out Phil works at
the company boom in in in In there you go,
And we don't do shoutouts. As you know, Eddie, this
is not a morning Zoos show, So we cannot wish
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good wishes to Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield, who may
or may not be in a hospital, oh in Bakersfield,
a little under the under the weather, but hopefully they'll
get him out of there. Can no, you can't say that.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
We're not a morning show. We don't get paid.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Don't you wish someone well? No, unless we're a morning show.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
No, that's a shout out.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
What do we do if we're an overnight show?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Nothing, We just we just don't do anything.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I'm gonna wish him happy birthday too.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Can't wish him happy. I just did it, Rod, I'm
not wishing you were happier with that birth there. I
hope you do not have a good happy birthday. Okay,
And do not get out of the hospital because Eddie
wants ribs again, So don't do that.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
That may be true too, Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
We don't want you to get healthy for personal selfish reasons. Rod,
that would be wrong. And Rod also put together one
of the great songs, one of the great fan songs
that he was involved in with Tammy and Montana, and
they wrote that professionally done song that we play from
time to time very well. So he says, the only
thing I haven't gotten in the hospital so far is
(18:51):
an eighteen year old version. So there is. So he's
got jokes there, he's got the humor the burner account right,
since says good monologue, Benjamin, But I must say the
channeling Dick line was hilarious. I paused and was waiting
on the line from Marcel Ben You always blank. You
definitely can't tell when Roberto is away. Well, well, le
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Marco learned the drops at some point here, he'll get
the drops. We'll put those in. No problem, nothing at
all there. Martin's upset. He did not like a full
fifteen minute Mallard monologue on the NBA Finals. He says,
just say you hate the NBA. Whatever happened between the
Lakers and Nuggets and the Celtics and Heat, you would
have found a way to be negative somehow. Butler playing
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hard is a negative for you. Jokicic being probably the
best player on earth is bad. Just stop, man, it's tired. Well, Martin,
you can't handle the truth, Martin, and what I deliver.
I'm a bomber pilot. I'm dropping bombs. I am dropping
bombs hot take bombs to boom and the reality is that, listen,
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Jimmy Butler should not out. I stand by that take, Eddie.
Is that not a great take? Eddie? Come on, that's
a take Hall of Fame right there. Take Hall of Fame,
Jimmy Butler. No, no, the guy all he plays hard? Mark, Great?
Take right? Come on, Mark, Yeah, wake up? Come on? Yes, no, no,
(20:19):
not Brandon Potter fanbreads at night? Great take right? Come on, Yeah,
that's the same, good job. You can come back another night.
There you go. See he gets that's right. Oh my
watch is talking me. I don't know why that is anyway, Martin.
The point is, listen, I do a talk show. As
a talk show host. Basketball is irrelevant to talk about
during the regular season because of load management, and they
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don't take it seriously. And Nikola Jokic, as great as
he is, doesn't move the needle. And I live in
a world where you have to move the needle. That's
about You don't live in that world, Martin. You're okay
with guys being lazy and taking days off and not
playing hall hard and boring players. You like that, and
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I would too if I wasn't a gas back. But
I'm a gas back, and I don't like it. Check
in now with the man who always works hard all night.
At the grocery store in Memphis, Tennessee. We say hello
to Big Daddy a fight. Hello, Big You've.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Got that right? What's going on? All my fans and
my constituous piece to the planet. I'm like you, Ben,
I'm tired of saying Lebron in the final We need
some new new guys. Yeah, he ain't the only one playing,
but god.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Exactly, I've seen that actor. It's like you can only
watch the same movie so many times, and then you
got to watch some other movies.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Yeah, and then it's the same thing every year when
they get in there, we already know. Man, let somebody
else get on that. Yet, I ain't missed the day.
I'm like Jimmy, Jimmy Butler, Baby, I ain't missed for
one day this year. I like to come to work
and make money. Man, you don't need sitting around at
the house saying I wish I could have went to work.
Get Joe tayl On in.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Now exactly that you got bills to pay. You want
to go out and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Right, you got Yeah, bill gonna keep coming. I can
get it right now.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, they don't. Even when you're dead. They keep coming.
It's fascinating. They even get you when you're dead. They
charge you. It's wild.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Bill keep coming and a chick keep coming. And people
know how to get them chicks. They know how to
cast them too. Amazing how they still do stuff when
you're not here.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Now, Big Daddy, there is a rumor and it's unconfirmed,
but Sir scratch Off, who lives outside over An, Arkansas. Uh,
he's a caller to the show. He doesn't call every
day though, thank god. But Sir scratch Off is thinking
about paying for Eddie Garcia to go to to Memphis
in that area and hang out. So you if we
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go in that area, and he might, I might even
go as well. You might have to come over Big
Daddy and hang out with me.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Let me hopefully y'all can do it on the Saturday
night because I'm off every Saturday, so we.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Plan around Big Daddy. Let's make sure to plan around
Big Daddy's schedule, so we'll make sure to do it
on a Saturday, all right, Big Daddy, Very what what
ale are you on at the storage? What are you
doing right now? What are you putting on the shelves
right now?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:05):
I'm just here by myself. The night Q's is a night.
You know, everybody need a day all so I like
working on Q's so I can have saradays Off. You
feel me.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I got you. You want to go out when the
people are out and enjoying themselves. You want to go
out with the masses. I totally get it. It's one
of the great things about the job we have. We're
off on, we're off.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Say yeah, they've been all the time. I can hang
out with the madam. You know, if you don't hang
out with the madam, they don't want to know what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, maybe will just come to your grocery store and
hang out with you there.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
I might hit down here on you and your baby.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Come all right, you can go hang out with the
great big daddy. All right, thank you, big daddy. All right,
do what the great big daddy right there? Never done
a mall of meet and greet at.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
At a grocery store.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Be a first, be fun, interesting, check it out, different items,
and every city has got their own, and most cities,
now I will say most of the things are the same.
I've traveled around, but there's always that five ten items
that are totally different than you get anywhere else. It
is the Ben Mallor show. As we continue on, It's
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all about perspective. It's all about perspective. The trademark buckets,
and I will give the Denver Nuggets the cheat code
to beat the Miami Heat. Nobody else has this content.
We're the only show that's got this content. We'll get
you that in a minute or two. Right now, though,
let's get you caught up on everything going on in
the overnight and the Mermaid.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Eddie Garcia, all right, Ben, thanks. We'll start with the
news from the NBA where Golden State GM Bob Myers
stepping down from his position after twelve years with the franchise.
He helped construct four NBA championship teams with the Warriors.
Myers was cryptic when explaining why he was stepping down,
saying it was time. Of course, he said he wanted
to spend more time with his family. They always say that,
said it was not about money. Not sure if we
(24:52):
have a Ben mallor rest of the story on what's
going on here, but Bob Myers done with the Golden State.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
We will have a Mallard about half an hour. Because
you know, Eddie, you're never supposed to believe what these
people in sports tell you. They're like hack politicians. They lie.
That's true, Live live Live, Liy.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
That is true, New York Knicks, also parting ways with
their GM Scott Perry. In baseball games of note, the
A's have won again and they walk off with a
two to one win over the Braves. Hang your head
in shame, Atlanta. It's two straight wins for Oakland for
the first time since May fifth and six against Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Is Glenn Hubbard back playing for the Braves again?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
The old day they played for the A's two. I
think Oakland had dropped six straight series, but they've taken
the first two, first two games of the series against Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The top team the A's are, the as are back.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
That's right, of course. The Rays, top team in baseball,
lose for the second straight BA to the Cubs two
to one.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's because you picked their starting pitcher.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I picked him before, and he's won. Shane mcclan an
suffering his first loss the season. Now eight and one
on the year. Dodgers beat the Nationals nine to three, LA,
the top team in the National League at thirty four
and twenty two. Rangers are the best team on the
road in baseball nineteen and eleven after beating the Tigers
in Detroit ten to six. Yeah, the Orioles beating the
Guardians eight to five, Baltimore starter Kyle Gibson earning his
seventh win of the year. Astros top the Twins five
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to one, Diamondbacks over the Rockies five to one. Zach
Gallon getting his seventh win of the year for Arizona.
Aaron Judge another homer, is eighteenth of the year, helping
the Yankees beat the Mariners ten five.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
The people, I'll get my fun fact here right noway,
but people make this mistake the show. He's on paste
at sixty, almos, He's not. He's on paste at fifty one, homeless,
So he's not on paste at sixty.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Okay. I didn't say that. I would never say that.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Some other people were saying.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
The Brewers lose to the Blue Jay seven to two.
All the Pirates heads of the Giants two to one.
So Pittsburgh a game back of Milwaukee for first in
the NL Central. Now you know, Ben coming up tomorrow
will have amazing puck the world segment with yours truly.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Yeah, way, Hugh Little preview the wins of change in
the NHL as far as coaches go, The Nashville Predators
replacing head coach John Hines with.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Andrews very Wendy.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Yeah, first move by New Press GM Barry Trotzbury that
was Coach of the Year finalists last year as interim
head coach in Florida, but was not retained for the season.
That actually did work out for Floridas. They're in the
Stanley Cup final. Washington Capitol's name Spencer Carberry as their
new head coach. He was most recent assistant Toronto, had
been a head coach in the Capitol's minor league system. Still,
some head coaching Vegas is to be filled. New York Rangers,
(27:24):
Calgary Flames, Anaheim Ducks, Columbus Blue Jackets looking for head coaches,
and the Pittsburgh Penguins and Toronto Mapleus could be looking
for red coaches as well, because they're going to hire
new general managers. And you know how it is, New
GM wants his own head coach, so it could be
some coaches getting looking for jobs there as well.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
All right, Eddie, the reed Treads, they keep hiring the
same people, all right. Mostly.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Well, that Carberry guy in Washington's a new guy, so
we'll see Carberry. Spencer Carberry, I've never heard of him,
neither at I.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I don't know. I'm sure he's a nice man. Out
of no idea. Who he is is the Bannet Mallards Show.
Oh yeah, I guess I couldn't. I shouldn't say. I'm
sure he's nice guy. He might be a jerk. I
don't know, but I've never met anyway. This portion of
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So it's all about perspective. There's a story bouncing around
as the NBA Finals get going tomorrow on Thursday, This
or Wednesday show Jimmy Butler making some headlines here. Jimmy's
a hard working businessman off the court, and the news
(28:37):
bouncing around that he is. He has picked up a
new trademark, Jimmy Buckets Say what, No, I thought it
was Jimmy Buckets. No, Jimmy Buckets Who. And he's planning
on launching a clothing and beverage brand. Yeah, he's He
filed the trademark recently within the last week and going
(29:00):
to a trademark attorney that has reviewed the document. You
will soon be able to purchase products with the himmy
Buckets label. Now he's already got a coffee line, beer soda,
bottled water, clothing, and coffee cups. So here you go,
United States Patent and Trademark Office. It has been fire.
(29:24):
How much does it cost to file something with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office? Is that an expensive thing?
Or is that?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I think you should do that with the Malar maneuver.
It's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Look that up, brand, See how much that called brand's
on it. He's on it right now. Padre fan Bryan
not wearing a Padre hat though he's so embarrassed by
the Padres. He's not wearing the hat. He's not representing
San Diego on the on the show, not tonight. We'll
take your calls. Yes, but oh you have, oh you
have San Diego. But that's not the Padres. That's not
(29:54):
the Padres. The mic works, Brandon, you know you don't
have to like pointy. It's like it's like this is
radio so simple, so simple. Chip in the que says Malar,
Meet and green. If you and the crew want to
come to my store while I'm in here alone. You
are certainly welcomed, but if you do, I'll be putting
you all to work. We are terribly understaffed, says our
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friendship and the cues. Yeah, that's not gonna happen now,
I think I'd be pretty good at that. In fact,
once I get fired from this job, I get replaced
by AI, I think I might just go over there
and just work at a grocery store.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Or with that.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Will there be robots doing that.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Too, I'm gonna go robots, Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I think i'd be all right. Like probably nobody bothers you.
These guys all listen to the show while they're working.
So they can listen to the show. They get paid
for it, kind of like I get paid to do it.
Seems like a pretty good gig. I don't think that's
a bad gig. You know, nobody's there. Most of these
stores are closed. They used to be open overnight. Then
COVID happened. All the stores at least where I am,
(30:56):
they stop being open all night. So I want to
give see Denver Nuggets advice. Let me go to my
basketball consultant, though plastered Paul in Rhode Island. Hello, Plastered, Paul,
Bean Mellen, I got some advice. I want to run
this by. You're my basketball guy, you're my woeses. Okay,
(31:17):
you ready for this? All right? So I'm going to
tell the world right now. I should probably charge the
Denver Nuggets for this. Here's how you beat the Miami Heat.
Are you ready for this? Are you prepared, Plastered, Paul?
Speaker 8 (31:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Full and oh all right, here's what you do.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You get a bunch of bumble bees in the Miami
Heat visiting locker room in Denver, and Jimmy Butler will
be so freaked out by those bees he will not
be able to play. He'll be peeing down his leg.
How about that? Listen, Paul, I'm asking you your opinion
(31:56):
on my This is my strategy, Paul, what's your opinion?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
My opinion is this, Jimmy, Jimmy Butler is so tired
and worned out that when he runs into this slumberjack
in Denver, he's not even gonna win two games.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okayaul, what about the bumblebees? Did you not see after
the game in Boston the other night when Jimmy Butler
started freaking out because there was a bumblebee in the
in the con in the news conference room there. You
didn't see that.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's a bad job by you. And by the way, Paul,
I'm upset with you. You're on my naughty list, Paul,
because I'm getting reports that you called other radio shows
singing the praises about momentum true or false.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
I called, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
What are you doing? People? People are routing you. Guys
are ratting you out. Fans of the show are ratting
you out.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Paul.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
The only reason I called your old friend and Maine
was because we're talking about horse racing. So there's an
old joke. There's horse racing. There's twelve horses in a race.
Ten of them will hug their horses. That was the
real reason why I call them.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
No, no, let's get Paul. But you know, Paul, deep down,
just between me and you, there's no such thing as momentum.
Otherwise the heat would have swept the Celtics, or the
Celtics would have won Game seven.
Speaker 8 (33:32):
Due gave them two games at home. Du gave them
two games at home.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Are you done with the shape? Are you done with
the shamrocks, yes or no No.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
I'm not not shamrocks and don't and don't What.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
About the shamrock shake? Are you done with the shamrock shake?
Speaker 8 (33:49):
As of right now? I want the two Jays on
his team in Missoula. After three coaches, we just break down.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Do you want Missoula because he's from from Rhode Island?
That's what you want. Fine, that's why you don't really
think he's a good coach.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
That's fine, but that's not the real reason. The real
reason is once that ball leaves your hand and you
have my two brother laws, my two heat problem laws
in Vegas telling me between l A Lakers end up
and the series between LA Lakers and up and the
Bust and Celtics. When you have the sixth and seventh
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an eight guy.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
You give me a headache?
Speaker 8 (34:29):
Fifteen?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Why you give me a headache? I don't want a headache.
You give me a headache.
Speaker 8 (34:32):
No coach, no coach can predict that. Why coach can
predict that?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Are you doing? Are you working overnights anymore this week
or night shifter? Or are we done with you for
this week?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, we will talk to you next week.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
Then all listen. Can I tell you onee thing? I
don't like how this Brady thing is going.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
What's your complaint?
Speaker 8 (34:51):
My complaint is something fitture is going on.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
What's going on?
Speaker 8 (34:56):
What's going on? Is I think? I think Brady is
trying to push a chimney out of Vegas. I don't know, man,
I'm telling you something's going on.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
He's not.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You don't know. You're you're you're speculating, you're facilitating. All right,
I'm hanging up on you, but thank you go away.
You do not have to hear from plastic Paul the
rest of the week. I'm disappointed. I thought that was
great advice. This clip went viral. I guess I'm the
only one that saw it. Jimmy Bye saw it. He
freaked out right, he saw bumblebees.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Well, I mean most people would not me. I don't
believe that.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know what. It scares me? Uh, the the wasps
scare me. Those are much bigger like the bees. Don't
really scare me. Those massive you know the size of
your hands.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Bumblebees are big, I think bigger than a wasp. I
don't know. Bumblebees are, you know, kind of big and
round and fat.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Bad.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Take No, it's not. It's just bigger.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
All right? Hold on, say, let me ask the what's
what's bigger? Bumblebee or a wasp? Wasps slightly bigger?
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Wow, he is quick on the draw.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Wasp tend to be bigger than bees, as bees have
rounder shapes and thicker medals. So did you put I
type bumbleb in? Uh? They say that wasps have very
distinctive ways. So the wasp in better shape to work
out among the flying insects. The wasp is in better
(36:24):
shape than the bee. All right, very good. It is
the Ben Mathers Show of the MLB. Pick them. We'll
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the first MLB player in history to invoke a ten
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But here is the who am I Game. I was
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in the history of baseball. Who am I? That is
the question? Our buddy Rob in Minnesota, a life of
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the party guy there at the Malon meet and greet.
He's going with Kent Herbeck as his answer. Late night
steering Wheel holders going with Saddleback College's own Mark Grace.
Who else do we have? Ferg Dog says the tarantula
hawk wasp. Now that is the stuff of nightmares, that
is worthy of not showing up to work. Wow. A
(38:35):
late night drug tester going with Kevin kuzmanoff of the
podres is his answer. Felix Milan from our buddy Eke
in Roseville, Minnesota. The saw Man says it has to
be Jim Tomay that that's the answer. A Reek Also
at the mall of meet and greet, he said, Johann
Santana greatest twins pitcher since Frank Viola back in the day.
(38:58):
Chili Davis. I love Chili. I knew him when he
played for the Angels. I was covering the team. He's
a very nice guy. Yokozuna. Guess by Calligan Tim? Who
else do we have? Page down? Page down? Milkman Mike says,
was it the kid? Plastered? Paul tried to adopt is
that the no Homer Simpson guessed by Scott and Rhode
Island Ron karkawis always a fine answer from Miguel on fire, Eddie,
(39:23):
do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 5 (39:25):
I'm gonna go with U. L. Washington.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
U L. Washington? Is that the correct answer?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
You know?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
What did you EL stand for?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Nothing? That was his name?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
U L.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Washington.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
That's like Homer J. Simpson, the Jay stood for nothing.
That's very similar to that. Wow, I did not really,
they just called him U L. For no reason. That
was his name, I know, but they just okay, all right, interesting,
let's get to a time now for the MLB. Pick him.
Brandon didn't keep scoring, so I will, of course. So
first I picked my pitcher one and all that, and
(39:59):
all right, first pick I'm gonna take. Let's go with
Dane Dunning of the Rangers. How about that, Eddie, I'm
gonna go with Mitch Calber go Buckos Brandon. I'm going
to go with young young Kim good value. Pick go ahead,
mark back to back quickly, please, all right, and couple
(40:21):
of Hall of famous Brandon, Kevin Coos, my oh kuzmanof Eddie,
let's go with Freddy Freeman. Is Aaron Judgment picked. I
got Aaron Judge and Jorge Celaire, Eddie Old Dods, My
Rich Legend, Dunny Johnny Dick shot. Wow, that's a real player.
Hello and welcome. It's our number what our one of
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You are my favorite person. So NBA Finals, the hype
has begun. Why Why is Nuggets head coach Michael Malone
saying that the Miami Heat as an eight seed that
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is not relevant to the finals. Also, will this become
the Nakola Jokic NBA Finals? And what is your level
of interest? We'll pull out the Mallard Scale of interest
for the twenty twenty three Finals, which begin tomorrow on Thursday.
We'll get to all of that right now here. It
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shit me SORR lead this hour coming from the NBA Finals.
You just said, wait a minute, there's no NBA Finals.
(02:16):
The NBA finals as it started to give me another
Celtic monologue. Now I've already done two of those. I
will have more on the Celtics at another point, But
what else is to be said? They have to either
fire the coach and or trade Jalen Brown and multiple
players and shake it up. As Scott Farrell used to
(02:38):
say back in the day, the NBA Finals do not
begin in earnest until tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, another day. Now,
this is our Wednesday show. It it's still late on
a Tuesday night on the West Coast, but our Wednesday show,
and we are heading in to the day before the
NBA Finals and it is then on like Donkey Kong
(03:02):
Thursday Night from the Rocky Mountains. Have you been following
the build up? You said, what what build up? Yeah,
there's build up. I'd say it was great build up.
There is build up. And so if you haven't been
paying attention to the Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone
trying to fill up the content machine for struggling gas
(03:25):
bags and blowhards who talk about pro bouncy ball. So
Michael O's the if you don't know, he's the coach
of the pro basketball team in Denver, Michael Malone, and
he was asked about the ceding. One of the storylines
is a David versus Goliath type matchup. The Nuggets, who
(03:47):
had the great regular season are the Goliath and yet
again Miami, even though they were in the NBA Finals,
it was the Bogus Sham Bubble Finals a couple of
years ago that Miami they are the rag tag unkempt
basketball team. So that's the storyline. A lot of people
(04:09):
are latching onto thinking that they can sell that that
that will captivate the hearts, minds and souls of the
average consumer, which is what these sports leagues try to
get to watch the championship rown. So with that is
the background, Michael alone does not does not want to
hear anything about Miami being a number eight seed. And
(04:31):
as Warner Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Well, as I told our team, man, like forget the
eight seed stuff. I mean, they beat Milwaukee four to one,
team that the most wins in the NBA this year.
They beat Boston four to three, and they're up three
to zero team, but I think the second most wins
in the NBA this year. So you get to the
NBA Finals, it's not about seating anymore. And for those
that are thinking that this is going to be an
(04:56):
easy series, I didn't know what to say to your
feeding people. I mean, like, this is going to be
the biggest challenge of our lives. It's the NBA Finals.
You know this is you're trying to win the first
NBA championship in franchise history. It's gonna be the hardest
thing that we've ever done, which is the way it
should be.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I think this monologue is the hardest thing I've ever done,
the biggest challenge of my life. Wow, Okay, little over
the top, little dramatic. We like it. We're not against it,
we're not opposed to it. It's fine. But Michael Malone,
you heard there. You don't even know what to say
people that think the series is going to be easy
and all that. So let us discuss the question on
this one, Michael Malone. You heard the SoundBite. Why is
(05:38):
the Nuggets head coach Michael Malone saying that the Miami
Heat being an eight seed is not relevant to the
final This is essentially what he's saying. We paraphrase, but
that's essentially what Michael Malone is saying. So why is
he saying that I've got sinus infection, picky eaters, and
garden and we will combine all of these things together,
(06:01):
all of these things, we will throw them into a
pot and we will cook them for ten to fifteen minutes,
is what we're gonna do. So a Michael Malone is
being a diplomat, is what he's been to a point.
He's being a diplomat with that response that we played
the clip, but he's able to kill two birds with
(06:22):
one stone or one bullet or whatever, and the way
he did that. On one hand, Malone is pumping up
the tires on the bandwagon of the Miami Heat. Ah,
you throw out our records. Now it's the NBA Finals,
and even though Miami barely made the postseason and was
(06:43):
one of the worst offensive teams in the NBA during
the regular season, it's like, that's just subterfuge now that
we're supposed to forget about all that. So he's pumping
up the tires going through all that. Miami an eight
seed and all that. But I've earned the right, they
ever in the right to be in the NBA Finals
because the regular season is irrelevant to teams don't even
(07:06):
try most of them in the regular season. We've seen
that's a problem with that business. And so that point
is not wrong. However, the bigger meaning here of Michael
Malone's diatribe his little rayot because he took care of
the sinus infection. Now, what do I mean in Layman's terms?
I know it's a medical condition, as sinus infection. But
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essentially what I mean by that is Malone is he's
trying to downplay the mismatch because if you say that
Denver is tangibly better than Miami, if you make that statement,
then it would be a huge disgrace and embarrassment for
the Nuggets if they were to lose to the Miami heat. Right,
(07:50):
and every man, woman and child that pays attention to
this stuff knows. By throwing out the seating, you then
remove some of the ear pressure, some of that presher
in the back of your year. You were moving when
you bring that up. And Michael Malone what he should
have done is channeled Dick as in Dick Stockton, the
(08:10):
friend of retired sportscaster Dick Stockton, who famously told me
years ago I had him on Fox Sports Radio. Dick
Stockton was calling the worst game on Fox on an
NFL Sunday, and I remember what game it was. It
was Tampa Bay and the forty nine Ers. The Niners
were terrible, the Bucks were a little better than terrible,
and there was really no reason to watch. And I
(08:30):
brought up all these stats that were besmirching both teams,
and Dick Stockton very confidently who came on the radio
to promote said broadcast. Mister Stockton said, stats tell you
what has happened, not what's going to happen. By the way,
the game sucked. Just for the record, anyway, page two
here will this become the Nikola Jokic NBA Finals, So
(08:56):
I'm shaking my head. Note in terms of the marketing now,
the chances are very strong that Nicola Jokic is going
to go out and make a mockery of the Miami
Heat on the court, because even when Denver doesn't win,
Jokic is putting up triple doubles. He's a generationally great
player for Denver. He's been absolutely amaze balls for the Nuggets.
(09:20):
The trophy case is bulging with all the All Star
and All NBA and the couple of MVP trophies and
all that Eastern Conference or Western Conference rather finals MVP.
He just picked that one up the pride of Northern Serbia.
So he's got all that. He's got a good backstory,
which announcers love to talk about. They love the backstory. Heck,
(09:41):
one of the announcers for the NBA Finals just learned
who Nicola Jokic was a couple of weeks ago. Shocking,
a shocking revelation. But the reason I'm not buying the
fact that this is going to be a Nikola Jokic
NBA Finals in terms of the hype is he's a man.
(10:02):
He's also a bland man if you feel me on that,
and that becomes problematic. It does. He's got the good nickname,
the joker, he got the backstory and all that, but
he as much as he impacts the game on the court,
off the court, the sports media landscape, I know a
little bit about this. I kind of dabble in that world,
(10:23):
and my colleagues that write for the blogs and the
social media try to get the clicks and all that.
They're very picky eaters. You're very picky eaters when you're
in that profession and it is a race to generate engagement.
Lebron James goes to the buffet and skips over the noodles.
(10:45):
That's a story. That's a story that gets clicks. Nikole
Jokic dominating the NBA Finals and then giving a boring
quote after the game does not does not generate excitement.
You're clout chasing is what you're doing. And there's no
dramatic mini series with NICOLEA jokicch you're trying to get engagement,
(11:10):
You're just not. It's not a lot there. Jo kich
is a he's a yummy breakfast of milk toast. You've
got that. You've got a side of overcooked plain oatmeal
and then some unseasoned tofu And that's what you guys.
That's fine. Some people like that, most most don't know.
Most don't our last word here? So what is your
(11:32):
level of interest pulse of the people? What is your
level of interest in the twenty twenty three finals which
will begin on Thursday night. So the time tested Mallards
scale of interest one to ten, with ten being must
see TV live, you gotta watch it live. So the
(11:53):
Malard scale of interest one to ten. I am at
a four. I'm only at a four on the Nuggets
heat NBA Finals. It is a garden, a garden variety
if you will. NBA Finals, And what I mean by
that is, you know, generic brand and the Nuggets are new.
(12:16):
You know, get the job done, but you're not excited
about it. Like be fair. I think we pointed out
because of the job that I happen to have here
with the company that I would. I would watch any
matchup because they pay me to watch. So you could
put I don't know, Sacramento and Indiana in the NBA Finals,
and I would tune in. I would watch, and I
(12:38):
wouldn't talk, and I would blab and I would bark,
and that's what I would do. I would do all
of those things. It kind of goes with the job.
Now does that mean that the casual person that doesn't
have this kind of job would pay attention? Probably not.
But what do I like about the finals? I like
the young blood that we're not seeing another Lebron James
(13:01):
NBA Finals or another Steph Curry NBA Finals, That we've
got a franchise that has made twenty nine postseason trips
and now finally they have gotten to the NBA Finals.
And they're not a team that's on the grid. They're
off the grid. The Mountain time zone not a time zone.
People rip the Pacific time zone. Well next to the
(13:22):
Pacific time zone, the Mountain times is even worse in
terms of hype and media attention and all that. And
so you've got Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray. They get their
opportunity uncharted waters for the Nuggets, which is kind of cool.
I get to watch Jimmy Butler, and if the NBA
had Jimmy Butler's perspective, each team had guys like Jimmy Butler,
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multiple players like Butler, that would be a much more
enjoyable sport. They don't. He's one of the few guys
that plays with perseverance. He's not always great, he's not
always perfect, but you know you're getting an effort from
Jimmy Butler. He plays with some guts and guyle and
you gotta you gotta love it because it stands out.
It shouldn't stand out. Jimmy Butler should not stand out.
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The way he plays should not be a story. It's
an embarrassment masculating to NBA players that Jimmy Butler stands
out like a sore thumb because he just plays hard.
That's it. He just plays hard. Doesn't They plays off?
Doesn't they weeks, off, load management and all that crabby.
It very rarely does that. And so that's interesting that
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the other things that we're not looking forward to mostly
involve the presentation of the NBA Finals. The heat culture
six hundred and forty nine times every broadcast. I don't
need to hear about that. And anytime anyone in the
heat does anything that player was undrafted. Undrafted. Okay, we
get it, we understand. Imagine if you will, a world
(14:52):
where you work at a company and anywhere you go,
anything you accomplish at the company, they point out, and
it's like a from accounting. We hired him. He had
a high school degree. That's it. He did not go
to college. That's Phil from accounting and phill one top
employee of the month. But that's essentially what they've done
(15:13):
in the NBA. It's like the almighty all powerful draft.
You know, any players slip through. There's only two rounds
the NBA draft, and some of those guys they draft
never even make the NBA because they're European players and
they don't want to play in the United States, so
they they flop before they even get there. All right,
is the Ben Mallor Show. As we press on, we'll
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take your phone calls. The lines are open and they
are ringing right now if you want to be part
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine nine six six three sixty nine. So it's all
about perspective. It's all about perspective, the trademark buckets. We'll
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get to that and we will do it.
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Speaker 1 (16:01):
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Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah the calls in a minute. We started talking about
the NBA Finals late night. Drug Tester writes in from
parts on on and he says, so from the Nuggets presser,
I am supposed to take the heat and the points,
but take the Nuggets and the money line and the
under there you go. Yeah, sure one of those two?
Why not? What the hell? Ferg Dog writes and says, Hey, Ben,
(17:26):
how can I get a hold of Fox Sports Radio's
top employee of the month, Phil from Accounting? I think
he'd be perfect for the Blind Emmett podcast. That yeah,
well blind Emmett once he finds out Phil works at
the company boom in in in In there you go,
And we don't do shoutouts. As you know, Eddie, this
is not a morning Zoos show, So we cannot wish
(17:49):
good wishes to Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield, who may
or may not be in a hospital, oh in Bakersfield,
a little under the under the weather, but hopefully they'll
get him out of there. Can no, you can't say that.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
We're not a morning show. We don't get paid.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Don't you wish someone well? No, unless we're a morning show.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
No, that's a shout out.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
What do we do if we're an overnight show?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Nothing, We just we just don't do anything.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I'm gonna wish him happy birthday too.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Can't wish him happy. I just did it, Rod, I'm
not wishing you were happier with that birth there. I
hope you do not have a good happy birthday. Okay,
And do not get out of the hospital because Eddie
wants ribs again, So don't do that.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
That may be true too, Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
We don't want you to get healthy for personal selfish reasons. Rod,
that would be wrong. And Rod also put together one
of the great songs, one of the great fan songs
that he was involved in with Tammy and Montana, and
they wrote that professionally done song that we play from
time to time very well. So he says, the only
thing I haven't gotten in the hospital so far is
(18:51):
an eighteen year old version. So there is. So he's
got jokes there, he's got the humor the burner account right,
since says good monologue, Benjamin, But I must say the
channeling Dick line was hilarious. I paused and was waiting
on the line from Marcel Ben You always blank. You
definitely can't tell when Roberto is away. Well, well, le
(19:12):
Marco learned the drops at some point here, he'll get
the drops. We'll put those in. No problem, nothing at
all there. Martin's upset. He did not like a full
fifteen minute Mallard monologue on the NBA Finals. He says,
just say you hate the NBA. Whatever happened between the
Lakers and Nuggets and the Celtics and Heat, you would
have found a way to be negative somehow. Butler playing
(19:35):
hard is a negative for you. Jokicic being probably the
best player on earth is bad. Just stop, man, it's tired. Well, Martin,
you can't handle the truth, Martin, and what I deliver.
I'm a bomber pilot. I'm dropping bombs. I am dropping
bombs hot take bombs to boom and the reality is that, listen,
(19:58):
Jimmy Butler should not out. I stand by that take, Eddie.
Is that not a great take? Eddie? Come on, that's
a take Hall of Fame right there. Take Hall of Fame,
Jimmy Butler. No, no, the guy all he plays hard? Mark, Great?
Take right? Come on, Mark, Yeah, wake up? Come on? Yes, no, no,
(20:19):
not Brandon Potter fanbreads at night? Great take right? Come on, Yeah,
that's the same, good job. You can come back another night.
There you go. See he gets that's right. Oh my
watch is talking me. I don't know why that is anyway, Martin.
The point is, listen, I do a talk show. As
a talk show host. Basketball is irrelevant to talk about
during the regular season because of load management, and they
(20:42):
don't take it seriously. And Nikola Jokic, as great as
he is, doesn't move the needle. And I live in
a world where you have to move the needle. That's
about You don't live in that world, Martin. You're okay
with guys being lazy and taking days off and not
playing hall hard and boring players. You like that, and
(21:03):
I would too if I wasn't a gas back. But
I'm a gas back, and I don't like it. Check
in now with the man who always works hard all night.
At the grocery store in Memphis, Tennessee. We say hello
to Big Daddy a fight. Hello, Big You've.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Got that right? What's going on? All my fans and
my constituous piece to the planet. I'm like you, Ben,
I'm tired of saying Lebron in the final We need
some new new guys. Yeah, he ain't the only one playing,
but god.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Exactly, I've seen that actor. It's like you can only
watch the same movie so many times, and then you
got to watch some other movies.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Yeah, and then it's the same thing every year when
they get in there, we already know. Man, let somebody
else get on that. Yet, I ain't missed the day.
I'm like Jimmy, Jimmy Butler, Baby, I ain't missed for
one day this year. I like to come to work
and make money. Man, you don't need sitting around at
the house saying I wish I could have went to work.
Get Joe tayl On in.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Now exactly that you got bills to pay. You want
to go out and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Right, you got Yeah, bill gonna keep coming. I can
get it right now.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, they don't. Even when you're dead. They keep coming.
It's fascinating. They even get you when you're dead. They
charge you. It's wild.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Bill keep coming and a chick keep coming. And people
know how to get them chicks. They know how to
cast them too. Amazing how they still do stuff when
you're not here.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Now, Big Daddy, there is a rumor and it's unconfirmed,
but Sir scratch Off, who lives outside over An, Arkansas. Uh,
he's a caller to the show. He doesn't call every
day though, thank god. But Sir scratch Off is thinking
about paying for Eddie Garcia to go to to Memphis
in that area and hang out. So you if we
(22:42):
go in that area, and he might, I might even
go as well. You might have to come over Big
Daddy and hang out with me.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Let me hopefully y'all can do it on the Saturday
night because I'm off every Saturday, so we.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Plan around Big Daddy. Let's make sure to plan around
Big Daddy's schedule, so we'll make sure to do it
on a Saturday, all right, Big Daddy, Very what what
ale are you on at the storage? What are you
doing right now? What are you putting on the shelves
right now?
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:05):
I'm just here by myself. The night Q's is a night.
You know, everybody need a day all so I like
working on Q's so I can have saradays Off. You
feel me.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I got you. You want to go out when the
people are out and enjoying themselves. You want to go
out with the masses. I totally get it. It's one
of the great things about the job we have. We're
off on, we're off.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Say yeah, they've been all the time. I can hang
out with the madam. You know, if you don't hang
out with the madam, they don't want to know what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, maybe will just come to your grocery store and
hang out with you there.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
I might hit down here on you and your baby.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Come all right, you can go hang out with the
great big daddy. All right, thank you, big daddy. All right,
do what the great big daddy right there? Never done
a mall of meet and greet at.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
At a grocery store.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Be a first, be fun, interesting, check it out, different items,
and every city has got their own, and most cities,
now I will say most of the things are the same.
I've traveled around, but there's always that five ten items
that are totally different than you get anywhere else. It
is the Ben Mallor show. As we continue on, It's
(24:09):
all about perspective. It's all about perspective. The trademark buckets,
and I will give the Denver Nuggets the cheat code
to beat the Miami Heat. Nobody else has this content.
We're the only show that's got this content. We'll get
you that in a minute or two. Right now, though,
let's get you caught up on everything going on in
the overnight and the Mermaid.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Eddie Garcia, all right, Ben, thanks. We'll start with the
news from the NBA where Golden State GM Bob Myers
stepping down from his position after twelve years with the franchise.
He helped construct four NBA championship teams with the Warriors.
Myers was cryptic when explaining why he was stepping down,
saying it was time. Of course, he said he wanted
to spend more time with his family. They always say that,
said it was not about money. Not sure if we
(24:52):
have a Ben mallor rest of the story on what's
going on here, but Bob Myers done with the Golden State.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
We will have a Mallard about half an hour. Because
you know, Eddie, you're never supposed to believe what these
people in sports tell you. They're like hack politicians. They lie.
That's true, Live live Live, Liy.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
That is true, New York Knicks, also parting ways with
their GM Scott Perry. In baseball games of note, the
A's have won again and they walk off with a
two to one win over the Braves. Hang your head
in shame, Atlanta. It's two straight wins for Oakland for
the first time since May fifth and six against Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Is Glenn Hubbard back playing for the Braves again?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
The old day they played for the A's two. I
think Oakland had dropped six straight series, but they've taken
the first two, first two games of the series against Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The top team the A's are, the as are back.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
That's right, of course. The Rays, top team in baseball,
lose for the second straight BA to the Cubs two
to one.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
That's because you picked their starting pitcher.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I picked him before, and he's won. Shane mcclan an
suffering his first loss the season. Now eight and one
on the year. Dodgers beat the Nationals nine to three, LA,
the top team in the National League at thirty four
and twenty two. Rangers are the best team on the
road in baseball nineteen and eleven after beating the Tigers
in Detroit ten to six. Yeah, the Orioles beating the
Guardians eight to five, Baltimore starter Kyle Gibson earning his
seventh win of the year. Astros top the Twins five
(26:13):
to one, Diamondbacks over the Rockies five to one. Zach
Gallon getting his seventh win of the year for Arizona.
Aaron Judge another homer, is eighteenth of the year, helping
the Yankees beat the Mariners ten five.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
The people, I'll get my fun fact here right noway,
but people make this mistake the show. He's on paste
at sixty, almos, He's not. He's on paste at fifty one, homeless,
So he's not on paste at sixty.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Okay. I didn't say that. I would never say that.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Some other people were saying.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
The Brewers lose to the Blue Jay seven to two.
All the Pirates heads of the Giants two to one.
So Pittsburgh a game back of Milwaukee for first in
the NL Central. Now you know, Ben coming up tomorrow
will have amazing puck the world segment with yours truly.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Yeah, way, Hugh Little preview the wins of change in
the NHL as far as coaches go, The Nashville Predators
replacing head coach John Hines with.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Andrews very Wendy.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Yeah, first move by New Press GM Barry Trotzbury that
was Coach of the Year finalists last year as interim
head coach in Florida, but was not retained for the season.
That actually did work out for Floridas. They're in the
Stanley Cup final. Washington Capitol's name Spencer Carberry as their
new head coach. He was most recent assistant Toronto, had
been a head coach in the Capitol's minor league system. Still,
some head coaching Vegas is to be filled. New York Rangers,
(27:24):
Calgary Flames, Anaheim Ducks, Columbus Blue Jackets looking for head coaches,
and the Pittsburgh Penguins and Toronto Mapleus could be looking
for red coaches as well, because they're going to hire
new general managers. And you know how it is, New
GM wants his own head coach, so it could be
some coaches getting looking for jobs there as well.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
All right, Eddie, the reed Treads, they keep hiring the
same people, all right. Mostly.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Well, that Carberry guy in Washington's a new guy, so
we'll see Carberry. Spencer Carberry, I've never heard of him,
neither at I.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I don't know. I'm sure he's a nice man. Out
of no idea. Who he is is the Bannet Mallards Show.
Oh yeah, I guess I couldn't. I shouldn't say. I'm
sure he's nice guy. He might be a jerk. I
don't know, but I've never met anyway. This portion of
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So it's all about perspective. There's a story bouncing around
as the NBA Finals get going tomorrow on Thursday, This
or Wednesday show Jimmy Butler making some headlines here. Jimmy's
a hard working businessman off the court, and the news
(28:37):
bouncing around that he is. He has picked up a
new trademark, Jimmy Buckets Say what, No, I thought it
was Jimmy Buckets. No, Jimmy Buckets Who. And he's planning
on launching a clothing and beverage brand. Yeah, he's He
filed the trademark recently within the last week and going
(29:00):
to a trademark attorney that has reviewed the document. You
will soon be able to purchase products with the himmy
Buckets label. Now he's already got a coffee line, beer soda,
bottled water, clothing, and coffee cups. So here you go,
United States Patent and Trademark Office. It has been fire.
(29:24):
How much does it cost to file something with the
United States Patent and Trademark Office? Is that an expensive thing?
Or is that?
Speaker 5 (29:30):
I think you should do that with the Malar maneuver.
It's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Look that up, brand, See how much that called brand's
on it. He's on it right now. Padre fan Bryan
not wearing a Padre hat though he's so embarrassed by
the Padres. He's not wearing the hat. He's not representing
San Diego on the on the show, not tonight. We'll
take your calls. Yes, but oh you have, oh you
have San Diego. But that's not the Padres. That's not
(29:54):
the Padres. The mic works, Brandon, you know you don't
have to like pointy. It's like it's like this is
radio so simple, so simple. Chip in the que says Malar,
Meet and green. If you and the crew want to
come to my store while I'm in here alone. You
are certainly welcomed, but if you do, I'll be putting
you all to work. We are terribly understaffed, says our
(30:18):
friendship and the cues. Yeah, that's not gonna happen now,
I think I'd be pretty good at that. In fact,
once I get fired from this job, I get replaced
by AI, I think I might just go over there
and just work at a grocery store.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Or with that.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Will there be robots doing that.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Too, I'm gonna go robots, Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I think i'd be all right. Like probably nobody bothers you.
These guys all listen to the show while they're working.
So they can listen to the show. They get paid
for it, kind of like I get paid to do it.
Seems like a pretty good gig. I don't think that's
a bad gig. You know, nobody's there. Most of these
stores are closed. They used to be open overnight. Then
COVID happened. All the stores at least where I am,
(30:56):
they stop being open all night. So I want to
give see Denver Nuggets advice. Let me go to my
basketball consultant, though plastered Paul in Rhode Island. Hello, Plastered, Paul,
Bean Mellen, I got some advice. I want to run
this by. You're my basketball guy, you're my woeses. Okay,
(31:17):
you ready for this? All right? So I'm going to
tell the world right now. I should probably charge the
Denver Nuggets for this. Here's how you beat the Miami Heat.
Are you ready for this? Are you prepared, Plastered, Paul?
Speaker 8 (31:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Full and oh all right, here's what you do.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
Go ahead, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You get a bunch of bumble bees in the Miami
Heat visiting locker room in Denver, and Jimmy Butler will
be so freaked out by those bees he will not
be able to play. He'll be peeing down his leg.
How about that? Listen, Paul, I'm asking you your opinion
(31:56):
on my This is my strategy, Paul, what's your opinion?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
My opinion is this, Jimmy, Jimmy Butler is so tired
and worned out that when he runs into this slumberjack
in Denver, he's not even gonna win two games.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okayaul, what about the bumblebees? Did you not see after
the game in Boston the other night when Jimmy Butler
started freaking out because there was a bumblebee in the
in the con in the news conference room there. You
didn't see that.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
That's a bad job by you. And by the way, Paul,
I'm upset with you. You're on my naughty list, Paul,
because I'm getting reports that you called other radio shows
singing the praises about momentum true or false.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
I called, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
What are you doing? People? People are routing you. Guys
are ratting you out. Fans of the show are ratting
you out.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
Paul.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
The only reason I called your old friend and Maine
was because we're talking about horse racing. So there's an
old joke. There's horse racing. There's twelve horses in a race.
Ten of them will hug their horses. That was the
real reason why I call them.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
No, no, let's get Paul. But you know, Paul, deep down,
just between me and you, there's no such thing as momentum.
Otherwise the heat would have swept the Celtics, or the
Celtics would have won Game seven.
Speaker 8 (33:32):
Due gave them two games at home. Du gave them
two games at home.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Are you done with the shape? Are you done with
the shamrocks, yes or no No.
Speaker 8 (33:42):
I'm not not shamrocks and don't and don't What.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
About the shamrock shake? Are you done with the shamrock shake?
Speaker 8 (33:49):
As of right now? I want the two Jays on
his team in Missoula. After three coaches, we just break down.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Do you want Missoula because he's from from Rhode Island?
That's what you want. Fine, that's why you don't really
think he's a good coach.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
That's fine, but that's not the real reason. The real
reason is once that ball leaves your hand and you
have my two brother laws, my two heat problem laws
in Vegas telling me between l A Lakers end up
and the series between LA Lakers and up and the
Bust and Celtics. When you have the sixth and seventh
(34:25):
an eight guy.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
You give me a headache?
Speaker 8 (34:29):
Fifteen?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Why you give me a headache? I don't want a headache.
You give me a headache.
Speaker 8 (34:32):
No coach, no coach can predict that. Why coach can
predict that?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Are you doing? Are you working overnights anymore this week
or night shifter? Or are we done with you for
this week?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, we will talk to you next week.
Speaker 8 (34:44):
Then all listen. Can I tell you onee thing? I
don't like how this Brady thing is going.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
What's your complaint?
Speaker 8 (34:51):
My complaint is something fitture is going on.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
What's going on?
Speaker 8 (34:56):
What's going on? Is I think? I think Brady is
trying to push a chimney out of Vegas. I don't know, man,
I'm telling you something's going on.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
He's not.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
You don't know. You're you're you're speculating, you're facilitating. All right,
I'm hanging up on you, but thank you go away.
You do not have to hear from plastic Paul the
rest of the week. I'm disappointed. I thought that was
great advice. This clip went viral. I guess I'm the
only one that saw it. Jimmy Bye saw it. He
freaked out right, he saw bumblebees.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Well, I mean most people would not me. I don't
believe that.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know what. It scares me? Uh, the the wasps
scare me. Those are much bigger like the bees. Don't
really scare me. Those massive you know the size of
your hands.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Bumblebees are big, I think bigger than a wasp. I
don't know. Bumblebees are, you know, kind of big and
round and fat.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Bad.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Take No, it's not. It's just bigger.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
All right? Hold on, say, let me ask the what's
what's bigger? Bumblebee or a wasp? Wasps slightly bigger?
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Wow, he is quick on the draw.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Wasp tend to be bigger than bees, as bees have
rounder shapes and thicker medals. So did you put I
type bumbleb in? Uh? They say that wasps have very
distinctive ways. So the wasp in better shape to work
out among the flying insects. The wasp is in better
(36:24):
shape than the bee. All right, very good. It is
the Ben Mathers Show of the MLB. Pick them. We'll
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who am I game? I was the first MLB player
in history to invoke the ten five rule. That's the
rule if you've been around ten years, five years with
the same team, you can block a trade. I was
the first MLB player in history to invoke a ten
(36:46):
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He's going with Kent Herbeck as his answer. Late night
steering Wheel holders going with Saddleback College's own Mark Grace.
Who else do we have? Ferg Dog says the tarantula
hawk wasp. Now that is the stuff of nightmares, that
is worthy of not showing up to work. Wow. A
(38:35):
late night drug tester going with Kevin kuzmanoff of the
podres is his answer. Felix Milan from our buddy Eke
in Roseville, Minnesota. The saw Man says it has to
be Jim Tomay that that's the answer. A Reek Also
at the mall of meet and greet, he said, Johann
Santana greatest twins pitcher since Frank Viola back in the day.
(38:58):
Chili Davis. I love Chili. I knew him when he
played for the Angels. I was covering the team. He's
a very nice guy. Yokozuna. Guess by Calligan Tim? Who
else do we have? Page down? Page down? Milkman Mike says,
was it the kid? Plastered? Paul tried to adopt is
that the no Homer Simpson guessed by Scott and Rhode
Island Ron karkawis always a fine answer from Miguel on fire, Eddie,
(39:23):
do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 5 (39:25):
I'm gonna go with U. L. Washington.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
U L. Washington? Is that the correct answer?
Speaker 8 (39:30):
You know?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
What did you EL stand for?
Speaker 1 (39:32):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Nothing? That was his name?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
U L.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Washington.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
That's like Homer J. Simpson, the Jay stood for nothing.
That's very similar to that. Wow, I did not really,
they just called him U L. For no reason. That
was his name, I know, but they just okay, all right, interesting,
let's get to a time now for the MLB. Pick him.
Brandon didn't keep scoring, so I will, of course. So
first I picked my pitcher one and all that, and
(39:59):
all right, first pick I'm gonna take. Let's go with
Dane Dunning of the Rangers. How about that, Eddie, I'm
gonna go with Mitch Calber go Buckos Brandon. I'm going
to go with young young Kim good value. Pick go ahead,
mark back to back quickly, please, all right, and couple
(40:21):
of Hall of famous Brandon, Kevin Coos, my oh kuzmanof Eddie,
let's go with Freddy Freeman. Is Aaron Judgment picked. I
got Aaron Judge and Jorge Celaire, Eddie Old Dods, My
Rich Legend, Dunny Johnny Dick shot. Wow, that's a real player.
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