March 27, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the main takeaways LeBron's fireside chat with Pat McAfee including general commentary about his NBA journey, implications that the draft lottery was rigged for the Cavs to pick him, and more!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
We go. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's our number one, our number one of the fat
free edition of the Ben Mathers showing here in our
number one.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's all about Lebron. That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Lebron James did a lengthy chit chat, a radio side chat,
a YouTube side chat. What vibe did you get from
Lebron's a fireside chat with Pat McAfee.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Also, how did Lebron's general commentary about the NBA journey
that he's been on strike you and is there a
deeper meaning to Lebron James implying the draft lottery was
rigged so the Calves would pick him back in three.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We'll talk about that. Seems like kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We'll get to all that and more as we run
out the clock here in our number one.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The talk of the town, well kind of the talk
of the town.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Welcome, in the beginning of another night of the Ben
Malors Show.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We are in the.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Air everywhere Cohorts as we embark on a dreamy voyage
coast to coast, border, the border and beyond on the
vast and boomingly powerful microphones of fsr ammnating live from
the Bliss the blabber bliss. As we are broadcasting live
(01:45):
from the tyraq dot com studios tyraqt dot com. We'll
help you get there in unmatched selection, fast, free shipping,
free road hazard protection, over ten thousand recommended installers. Our
guy Van, the one Legged Bama Man, loves that number.
Ten thousand, tire rack dot com the Way tire Buying
(02:06):
show beat, And so we were back at it based
on the listener feedback that we get. And not that
I write back to any of you losers, but you
just send me email during the day and they give
me feedback, and I try to say, off the social media,
that's the devil's playground. But I did get a lot
of a commentary about something that happened in Indianapolis, and
(02:32):
it wasn't about what happened at night. I guess it
was an all day affair. It was a Lebron Day
in the Hoosier State. I don't know if the governor
declared it Lebron Day, but apparently it was. I didn't
get that memo. So anyway, Lebron James capping off his
day with a buzzer beater, a Obama like bailout of
(02:58):
the Lakers a ten point fourth corter Luca had missed
what was supposed to be the game winning shot. He
had thirty four points of Lakers barely got by the
Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
By a whisker. Not impressed. That is a bad win
for the Lakers, who are clearly in trouble.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
The real ones know that the Lakers are not not
going anywhere. But that was the undercart, right, So that
was the undercart and everyone was he happening about the undercart,
not the main event.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So what was it? I'll tell you. So Lebron James
did an interview. Wow, who knew?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So Lebron went in studio with Pat McAfee and he
hammed it up on the YouTube Influencers show with his pals.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh, I was so exciting. You see any of this? No,
well probably not, probably missed it. So some of the
talking points here and I could do the whole thing,
but I'll give you some of them that you were like,
did you see what Lebron't believe Lebron did that?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Lebron ripped the rotun Brian Windhorse saying the NBA reporter, Well,
rather let me tell you, uh, let's hear Lebron himself
here's Lebron commenting on Windy a longtime NBA reporter who
went to the same high school as Lebron in Ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
See a lot of too, Like I seen Brian Warehurst
one of these shows not too long ago, Like.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You guys played together.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, was like you know, he says, he's like my
best friend and these guys are just weird.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Just weird, all right, So someone say Lebron's weird. Here's Lebron. Also,
he talked back and forth about Stephen A. Smith. He
compared Stephen A. Smith to well to Taylor Swift. He
went on on that rant, said that he's not a
Taylor Swift like tour run. With this particular point, he also.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Explained why he stepped in to honor his son and
his teammate there when things got off the rails.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And here's a little taste of what that was like.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
He's not on a Taylor Swift tour run right now,
we're watching it. If there's one person Kelsey couldn't wait
to the video or to drop so you can address it,
is your ass. Like seriously, he completely like missed the
whole point. Never would I ever not allow people to
talk about the sport, criticize players about what they do
(05:27):
on the court.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That is your job.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But when you take it and you get personal with it,
it's my job to not only protect my damn household,
but protect the players.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, well, do that in public. You could have done
that in private. But wait, there's more. Lebron also broke
down his relationship with Michael Jordan. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
He says he has none, says that's not going to
happen till Jordan retires. Also double spoiler alert, they ain't
hanging out when Jordan when he retires. Lebron retires either.
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Lebron also suggesting the twenty oh three lottery, that the
draft lottery that saw the Hometown Cadavers win the Lebron sweepstakes,
that that was a rigged deal. That he implied that
was rigged. So let us discuss the question what vibe
(06:21):
did you get from the very lengthy Lebron James fireside
chat with Pat McAfee. So I've got Egyptian roller coaster
and mcmillions, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a mirror. Because
(06:42):
there's one thing Lebron loves more than anything, and it's
glazing at himself in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
He loves it all right.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So A obviously there's a lot to chew on here,
and I did watch A big chunk of this was
I was on the treadmill and I wanted to poke
my eyes out till they start started bleeding. But the
big takeaway is this was obviously an oasis for Lebron.
A couple of years ago the very popular term safe space.
(07:10):
This was a safe space for Lebron, a very secure environment.
And watching the YouTube clip and then hearing the audio
and putting everything together, it reminded me of ancient ancient Egypt,
the ancient Egyptians. And you see some of the drawings
they left behind from ancient Egypt and the hieroglyphs, and imagine,
(07:34):
if you will, in the cartoon bubble above your head,
because this is what I was envisioning. Lebron is a
pharaoh and he's sitting on the Pat McAfee pedestal, surrounded
by McAfee fan bearers, and they use those ostrich feathers
because that's what they did in Egypt.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
They use those ostrich.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Feathers and they fan Lebron to comfort him. And if
that doesn't work for you, you could go more like
a more modern reference, that Lebron was at a seven
to eleven and the only item that he was getting
from the McAfee crew was the slurpeit.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It was a slurp fest slurp slurp slurp slurpet.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Given at Rich Paul, the right hand man for Lebron,
the deal maker who was in the studio making sure
that everything went just as planned. Don't ask about that.
Don't ask about that. Be careful what you talk about,
all right now, page two.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So how did Lebron's general.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Commentary about his NBA journey strike you? Because a lot
of it was was fluff about Lebron, the kid from Akron,
blah blah blah blah. So that part of it was
like a roller coaster ride. And I'm not talking about
a real white knuckle roller coaster. I'm talking about Dumbo,
the flying elephant, and the Lebron half man, half elephant.
(08:56):
He's got the memory of an elephant. He never seems
to forget near photograph memory for those who have taken
shots at him. Now, the part that I liked the
most was he's still bitter. All these years later, it's
almost been a generation, and Lebron's still bitter about people
pointing out how absurd that fugazy decision thing was in
(09:17):
Connecticut and how.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Absurd that was.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And he claimed, well, that was the turning point, you know.
That's when I realized that I didn't like the media,
you know, and really Lebron's not all that special. He's
just your classic grudge holder. And this is a diamond dozen.
As I have said for many, many years, my position
has not changed. The most important element in sport is
(09:40):
the critic. Because every team that wins, every player, even
a guy like Lebron James who's been dominating the regular.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Season for years and then usually screws up in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
But Lebron still has that chip on his shoulder because
of the critic. Right, he retains all those negative comments
and he just.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Stews in those juices. He just stews in them. He's
determined to prove the doubter is wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And even when it's manufactured outrage, it doesn't seem to
matter all right now, last word here, so is there
a deeper meaning?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Let's get to that what I thought was the most
interesting part of this.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Was Lebron James implying that their draft lottery has.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Regularly been rigged, and it certainly was rigged when the
Calves picked him back in three So.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, there is a deeper me. I think this
is a big deal. And it's one thing for Joe
Blow talk show hosts to say it's rigged. It's another
thing for some dopey bot or algorithm on social media.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
To say it's rigged. But this is the bloody face
of the.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
League who seemingly believes that the NBA is a corrupt organization.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
How else could you take that? It seems like that's
gonna have legs.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Keep in mind that this storyline is as old as time,
his oldest time. And I remember the former commissioner, the
late Great Venerable David Stern, who dealt with this because
he was the commissioner when they first rigged the lottery
for Patrick Ewing in the nineteen eighties. And David Stern
(11:23):
dismissed it at the time. In fact, he said he
didn't really care as long as people.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Were talking about the NBA. Yeah, but now now we're
in the age where you shouldn't talk about us because
I don't like what you're saying. But back then they're like, oh,
how long you're talking about it? Now, there obviously is
no hard evidence, meaning no one's come out. There's no
whistleblower that has said, yeah, the lottery's rigged and here's
how they did it. There's none of that. There's no
hard evidence. There's a lot of circumstantial clues. There's many
(11:56):
convenient outcomes that had driven the conversation, such as Lebron
reference when he won, or his team, the Cavaliers, his
local team, you know from Mackman over in Cleveland. One
in three hometown kids stays in Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
The Chicago Bulls got their local hero, Derrek Rose in
eight and I believe they had a less than two
percent chance that year of winning the draft lottery. And
then the other thing is when Lebron left for Miami,
the conspiracy was, well, to make things better for the
Cavaliers and Dan Gilbert the older, we'll make sure that
(12:35):
you get some good players in there. So the Cavaliers
in the span of you know, how long was Lebron
in Miami four years or something like that, the Cavaliers
got three number one picks in that time while Lebron
was in South Florida twenty eleven, twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen,
and so that raised some my bro.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I said, wait a minute, what's going on with that?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Trying to set the Cavs up, Like the League took
care of Cleveland because they lost Lebron and that lost
a lot of capital.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Nobody wanted to go to those games.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
The draft lottery truthers will point to these patterns and
also the ultimate storyline.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It's a TV show.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
You need good stories for a TV show, even though
it's supposed to be real, and you know, you do
the whole fiction nonfiction things supposed.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
To be real. However, you know you got to have
storylines and if.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
You need to nudge those along a little bit and
it helps the revenue, it helps the bottom line, you
do it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And the idea that it's impossible that there's too many
people involved to hear that a lot. But remember that
that mcmillions. I saw that documentary a few years ago.
It's great. I recommend it's still around. You can find
it if you know where to look. But that was
the one where.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
They rigged the much beloved McDonald's Monopoly game and so
if you can rig that, and they got away with
it for a very long time before before somebody stepped
in there. I guess I remember Uncle Jerry, if you
saw the documentary Uncle Jerry, some.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Mob guy was was setting it up.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But since the weighted system started in nineteen ninety, so
that's that's almost thirty almost thirty five years of the
draft lottery, the team with the top odds has won
the number one overall pick about twenty five percent of
(14:31):
the time, about twenty five percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And the nerds, the people that are good at.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Math, will say, well, that's that's right on par with
the probabilities, so that's there's nothing there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's that's all good. But the theory is that you
don't manipulate it every year because not every years there
a generational player.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
There just isn't right. There's a lot of years there's
like suck bag guys. You know, some dude from France
you never heard of, who will who will not sell
us single ticket, So you don't really rig it for
that who cares? But when it's rare and appropriate that
you can help a storyline along and listen, I buy it.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I buy it. And I have worked over the years
with some people that were part of.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That famous nineteen eighty five draft lottery where the Knickerbocker's
got Patrick Ewing, and based on what they have said
and others I've spoken to, I totally.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Now, you know, I don't think you do it every year,
but rare and appropriate.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
There's some funny business that goes on all right, So
what do you think about all that? Did you have
a different perspective as we did the hypothesis or not hypothesis?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The recap, the recap of Lebron.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Doing the very long, very lengthy chit chat as the
Lakers were in Indiana to play the Pacers, and then
Lebron bailed out the Lakers, who are really falling apart here.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Man, what a mess.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Anyway, we'll take your calls if you'd like to be
part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. And now
I realize that a lot of you are intimidated because
we have these same seven jabronis that call up every show.
But we're not We're not blocking anyone else. You're more
(16:20):
than welcome to call in. And I know I said
I'd do a newby Night and we haven't done that in.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
A little while. But you can be part of the show.
You can interact. You don't have to wait for a
newby night, and we love hearing new voices eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Six six three sixty nine. If you'd like to be
part of the program. Coming up a little bit later
on next hour, Mallard of the third degree, Mallard of
the third degree. In our number three, we'll have ask
Ban and the Riddle of the Day, and then an
hour four it's fact or fiction. We'll get to that
(16:57):
down in our number four. Now straight up, head, stradhead.
When laundry becomes art? When does laundry become art? We'll
get to that and we will do it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Neck be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It is I, Bill Miller and you. It is the
Ben Mahler Show, up all night, every night. Whatever brings
you to our little community, our little family, nocturnal family.
We hide and come alive in the darkness. Whether you're
working the third shift or you're just up late work
(17:44):
that second shift and you're standing up enjoying some downtime,
or you're making.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
A drive cross across a dark country road somewhere. Either
way it doesn't matter, or you just got up, go
to the bathroom. We're here for you and you can
be part of this show. Sale to Ben at Ben Mahler.
That's at Ben Mahler. You can say hi to Lorraine,
she's the FSR tech queen on X. All these on
(18:13):
X we use that during the live show. You can
say hello to the Coop da Loop at a Bronco fan.
That's a Bronco fan. And now back to the guest
Baggerie with Ben. Let's right Bill and it's all night
guest Baggery and a special treat by request from Eugene
(18:37):
in Chicago and several other longtime members of the mal
and militia who have said, hey, come on, we got
to get ready for the baseball season.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So Eugene in Chicago and all your other you know
who you are. I was gonna say something mean, but
I'll be nice. Coming up in our number three of this.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Show, bi popular demand, It's Benny's Baseball Bonanza, your one stop.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Shop to get you ready for the opening.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Day festivities around Major League Baseball, and that'll be coming
up in our number three Fired Up. Unfortunately, because I
have this job, I will be sleeping through the early games,
but I will be up by mid afternoon to watch the.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Bulk of the games.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Will I will see at least part of the second
TV window on Opening Day. But we began here on
the Ben Malor show yapping and reacting to Lebron as
he had a rip roaring over one hour, very.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Provocative unless it wasn't. It was a lot of slurping,
a lot of slurping there for Lebron. I mean slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp, slop. Yeah,
it was right there.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Absolutely, he got his back scratched, his toes sucked. It
was a love fest. The biscuits were buttered all that
by Pat McAfee and his crew man.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That was great. That was like Lebron was speaking the
season ticket holders of the Lakers. My god. Anyway, we'll
reacting to that.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
If you would like to comment, you can join us
now at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Ran.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh that's little Maggie, that clip. I've been here so long.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That little sweet innocent girl Maggie from Cleveland is now
all grown up.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
She's a grown ass woman and.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
She likes what in her thirties.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You don't have to go that farlow Raina. No. I
think she's in her late twenties now. I think she's
out of college, I believe.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And she reached out to me, and I know her
dad still listens.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
But they would drive around. I was from the weekend
Overnight show.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
They'd drive around delivering newspapers and he used to bring
his daughter with him on the weekends. And so that
was when Lebron left to go to Miami the first time,
and little Maggie.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Called up and then she said played again. Yeah, that's
so cute, little sweet Maggie. She's all well, she's all
growing up.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Random Ryan writes in in Carolina says eight plus and
a set of Goodyear tires from tire raq dot com
on the Mallard monologue. And I'm sure there was a
cold envelope involved in three to get Lebron to the
Horrible Cavaliers. Eugenie Chicago says, when you do the Baseball
hour Band, no Dodger talk because they're cheating with all
(21:22):
those damn all stars on the road. They're not cheating.
There's no buzzers. They're not like the Astros. They're not
using whistles and buzzers and all that.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
That's not going on, right, El Patriot, Pyatria, Patria, I
don't know. I don't know this. I don't recognize his
name anyway. This guy writes it says NBA is rigged.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm still pissed about the ghostly fowls on the Clippers,
Loy vaught against Carl Malone and the Plus.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Wow, that's old school, man. I've moved on from that.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm still bitter about the Clippers losing Game seven to
the Mike d'antni Suns. I went to that game in
Phoenix and still pissed off about that.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
That was.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You know, they offer therapy for that, Ben.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I don't eat there. I'm a manly man, Lorena. I'm
old therapy, I know, and I just complain. I have
four hours of talk radio therapy, and that you know
that this is like therapy. I come in here, whatever
annoys me in sports, I just complain about and they
pay me for it, and then I leave and then
the next day comes around and then hear I see
more stuff that pisses me off. And then I come
in here and I get on the bully pulpit and I.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Start ranting and raving, and there you go. Yeah, it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So I get four hours of therapy. Alan in Utah
writes in he says, Mallard nailed it. Lebron harro X
were a fluke, pure lucky garbage. And he says, by
the way, this may have been edited by Grock the ai.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
There on on Twitter so or ex or whatever the o.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
They're calling you a gunner who was in the running
for the Worst Call of the year. He's such a
bad caller he couldn't win the Worst Caller of the year.
But Gunner writes in, he says, you think the Lakers are.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Falling apart, I'm here waiting for the Clippers to fall
apart like breaking ice.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, bad news, Gunner. The People's team went into midtown Manhattan,
the mecca Madison Square Garden and put a beating on
the knicker boxer Jason Smith. Couldn't even show his face
around here. That Nick suck up Jason Smith because the
the La Clippers shoved it down the throat of the
(23:28):
Knickerbockers at the Garden at the Guy they buy as
many as nineteen points. They win vintage James Harden and
Kawhi Leonard. They went back and forth in the second half.
They were down a little bit early in the game,
but that was just for for drama. You had big
celebrities like Chris Rock there and the people that no
one's ever heard of, like Russell Wilson, all in attendance
(23:49):
at the Garden, and they.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Give you free tickets.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Now I watched the I watched the MSG feed on
the satellite, and they give you if you're a celebrity,
they give you like free tickets, but they have to
show you. They have celebrity row the Knicks like they
like to pat themselves in the back.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
We have all these.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Celebrities that go to the games, and so they will
give you the tickets right there because rich people can't
afford to buy those tickets, so they give them to them,
as I understand it, and then they put them on
the scoreboard, put them on the broadcast and all that.
But in the second half, Kawhi Leonard had nineteen points
and James Harden had sixteen, and the Clippers won, and
bad news for you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Gun are bad news bears.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
If you look at your NBA standings, the Clippers now,
even though they're tied, they win the tie breakers. So
the La Clippers are out of the play in and
are in the number six spot, and they are on
the prowl closing in on the Lakers, closing in on Memphis,
and the Lakers are falling apart here and so things
are looking up. I think the Lakers have the second
(24:46):
worst record among teams that are in playoff contention in
the Western Conference over the last ten games. They are
in some serious trouble there. I'd fire the podcaster. I'd
fire the podcast, get rid of him if you're trying
to win.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Just bad news.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Nature boy rights in, I said, nature boy rights in.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I guess we don't have it.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh, there it is, he says, I'm surprised Lebron didn't
have anything to say about Dwight Howard dancing after the
Lakers loss to Orlando. Yeah, wasn't that his? Now that
he didn't did he dance after? I know he danced
at halftime they had they put him in the Orlando
Magic Ring of Honor. Who exactly is in the Orlando.
(25:32):
Is Nick Anderson in there for those miss foul shots back?
And is he in the Orlando Magic Ring Honor? They
have a pretty cool mascot. They have a fat green mascot.
So maybe that guy's in there. That mascot's in there.
I don't know, but you can send us a message
on the X machine at Ben Mahler. That's at Ben
Maler if you want to be part this portion of
(25:52):
the show made possible by Tractor Supply. Tractor Supply knows
that a winning season takes practice, teamwork, and.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
A can do attitude.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Now, Thankfully, when you have a neighbor like Tractor Supply,
teamwork comes easy.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Whether you're caring for pets.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Chickens or a few acres, our team members will help
you succeed season after season. Tractor Supply for Life out here,
and be sure to check out the Tractor Supply Fox
Sports Radio Bracket Challenge at Fox Sports Radio dot com.
See how our various gas bags blowhards and know it
alls are doing with their picks and who the top
(26:27):
ranked listeners are. Now the listener that would be either
you if you entered, or someone who's not you who
also entered the listener with the very best bracket at
Fox Sports radio dot Com will win a twenty five
one hundred dollars gift card the Tractor Supply. Yeah, it's
it's I wouldn't know where to go first, I go.
(26:48):
You go into tractor Supply. You want buy everything, You
just want to get everything. Say it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
All right, let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
B K.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Who's it says you're in Boston, but he's in the
air somewhere. I don't know what that means. Hello, BK, Welcome.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
How's it going, buddy?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
What are you doing? BK? Where are you at right now?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I'm driving home from Boston.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
I'm working in the Fenway area and an old school fan.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I haven't heard you say in the.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Everywhere, Oh man, Ben, big fans, big fan.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh well, thank you, you're a big fan. You must
not listen to the top of the air, I think
I do. I say that.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I believe Loreena, I say that at the top of
every hour. I believe right, yes, all right, that's a
bad job by you, BK.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I mean, you know I.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Understand sports of casts everywhere?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
You know?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Are you blaming ninety eight five. The sports up is that?
Why are you blaming the local station? Are you throwing
them out of the bosting guy? Yeah, it must be
the board ops probably eating popcorn or something like that,
and he didn't he didn't pop me up or something.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I bet that happened.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Yeah, fair enough, all right, but.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You just want to say hello. You're just driving around,
You're like, hey, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (28:05):
I'm driving back, I'm listening, and you know, like, what's
the hype? And you know there's a little hype in
the Fenway area about the Red Sox being you know
last year I went to opening day, right, Yeah, the
Tim Wakefield thing, and then they brought the twenty twenty
four World champions back and that was fun. It was amazing.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I was playing catch with Johnny Damon out in the outfield,
but we all just sat there and watched the team
get obliterated and no one cared. And working in the
area now and we made some trades. I think the
team's gonna look good this year.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, it's it's hard for me.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
If you've heard the show over the years, you know,
I can't really pull for Alex Bregman because he's a
cheating Astro so I can't. He's a moral enemy, but objectively, yeah,
the Red Sox are a better team. There's certainly better
than to n They should be better than Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
The wild card.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
To me is the Yankees, because the Yankees. Everyone a
Yankees are gonna make the playoffs. The Yankees, if you
look at that roster, they don't look like a playoff
team to me, like that's they got a messed up
pitching staff.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Garrett Coles out all year, so he's gone.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And if the Yankees are out, the Red Sox should
at the very least be a wildcard to you in Baltimore,
even though they got pitching issues. They'll be a better
team during the regular season. But the Red Soxs would
be be right there. The other problem, though, is you
have Garrett Crochet who you better be careful there, Bka
because if you sneeze on him, he's gonna miss about
a month of the season.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
So be careful.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Don't sneeze on him, whatever you do, Okay, please, I
got it, Okay, all right, day, I gotta go. Thank
you some hot Red Sox talk right there. Red Sox
have the same record of every other team in the
American League. They are two games behind the Dodgers for
(30:00):
the top record in baseball, and the Socks are two
games ahead of the Cubs for the worst record in baseball.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And when is Trevor Story? He hasn't got hurt yet,
When does he get hurt? We know when?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
What day Trevor Story? We should do that if I
was doing local Boston radio, which I'm not, but I
would do like a what day does Trevor Story get hurt?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
We could? We could always fun, always a fun, a
fun thing to do for sure. Anyway, Art, it is
the Ben Malor Show. As we are working our way
through the overnight. So when you think art, when you
think high class, you think sports talk radio. I said,
it's almost like being at the lou Right, it's very
damn right. Yeah, we are high for louton. We're high class.
(30:46):
We are. People think we're not, but we are. Those
people are losers that don't People line up to come
and see this Ben.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. There's windows outside. They look at us.
Some of them smoke crack while they're looking, but they're outside,
they're looking.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Unlike the Mona Lisa, you can't touch it. Hello all right? Anyway,
it's the smells are free. It's like, what's that, Jimmy Johns.
The smells are free? Oh I love that place. Yeah,
I like that advertising. That's good, the smells everything.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Years ago, Michael Jordan his first ever jersey, first ever jersey,
this goes back to nineteen eighty five. It sold at auction.
The first jersey Michael.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Jordan ever wore in the NBA with the Chicago.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Bulls sold at auction for eight hundred dollars. Is number
twenty three, that old school Chicago Bulls red jersey.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
For eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
And over forty years later, the same jersey was back
on the market and it just sold on Wednesday afternoon
at Sotheby's auction house for.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
How much you want to take a guess, how about
four point four point two million? Four point two million.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Now Jordan wore this during a nineteen eighty four preseason
game and.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
They actually sold it.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This is how crazy sports memorabilia was back in the day. Like,
this is this weird thing that happened right around like
the late eighties early nineties where there's a huge boom
in baseball cards and sports memorabilia and then they mass
produced because I'm of the age where I was, like,
I collected baseball cards, and they mass produced baseball cards
and sports memorabilia about that time, so it all the
(32:30):
value went to hell. And I remember the peak. But
before that, there wasn't much much hype, and that Jordan
jersey was just given to the Washington Bullets to sell
it a charity. They sold it at a charity and
for eight hundred bucks, and Jordan had eighteen points in
that preseason game. We were about two thousand people at the game.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
And here we are all these years later, and what
do you do with that? You gotta frame it, right,
It's obviously be framed. Do you just stare at it?
Do you have like people over to the cocktail party
and say, hey, look at that, that's Michael Jordan's original jersey.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
There's if you smell it, there might be some sweat.
I don't think they're being sweat smells though from nineteen
eighty four it's been forty years. I would think there's
no smells in that. But man, four million bucks now,
I remember the story.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Recently, somewhat recently, somebody bought Michael Jordan's old home in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
And they wanted to make it. I think they did
make it an airbnb and.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
It hasn't gone well. Do you see this no, uh yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
So this guy bought Jordan's old home in Chicago, and
he was, you know, charging I think it was like
a like one hundred thousand, some ridiculous amount of money
to rent out Jordan's home per per night, and apparently
no one really had that. The guy paid nine point
five million for Jordan's mansion and then he was Originally
(34:06):
I was wrong. So originally the story was I got
my numbers mixed. I used Mallar math.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So originally it was two hundred thirty thousand dollars a month,
so we're gonna go by the month, not a night.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I thought it was a night. But two hundred thirty
thousand a month was the rental price. And they just
cut that rental price because nobody was paying the two
hundred thirty thousand dollars, so they had to cut that
to try to get somebody to rent it out. They
cut the price by fifty thousand dollars. Oh my gosh,
so quite the deal at one hundred and eighty thousand
(34:37):
dollars a month to live in Michael Jordan's and Jordan
had so much money. He lived in the suburbs of Chicago.
He had so much money, he just like nobody wanted
the house. He bailed and that was it, and the
house was empty for years. Got the basketball court in there.
It's got the you know, all the craft that Jordan had.
I guess they renovated it a little bit because they'd
been sitting It had been sitting there for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are working
our way through the overnight hours and time now for
the who am I? Game? I'm told that college basketball
will pick up on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
We're baseball people, but college basketball will pick up on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And in honor of that, here's the who am I? Gating?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Who I am the only active college hoops coach to
have been an All American player before coaching an All
American player. So again, I'm the only active that means
currently coaching college basketball at the D one level. I
am the only current active D one college basketball coach
(35:44):
to have also been an All American player before coaching
an All American player. Who am I?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
That is the question. The answer, We'll get to it
we'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
You locked in and you can stream this show and
all the Fox Sports Radio shows, every one of them
live twenty four to seven. The new and improved iHeart
Radio app maw.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Here's how you do it. You get the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You put that on your phone, should be there anyway,
and just search Fox Sports Radio in the app and
you can stream us live. And one of the newest
features in the app, you can select the Fox Sports
Radio channel, the Ben Mahler Show, Channel, podcast, Fifth Hour Podcast,
all of that on your preset so you can have
(36:42):
that right there, Ben Malors Show number one, Fifth Hour
number two, Fox Sports Radio number three.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
On the pre sets, just like the car radio dial.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
So be sure to preset Ben Maler Show, Fifth Hour Podcast,
and Fox Sports Radio in the iHeart Radio app and
will always pop up right at the very top.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Well yeah it will, Bill, And here is the who
am I Game?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else who
will call it the the who.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Am I Game?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I'm the only active college hoops coach to have been
an All American player. This is D one College basketball,
the only active college hoops coach to have been a
D one A player All American and coach an All
American player.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone in the mal or militia who
took the time out of their very busy schedule to
take part in the show? Did anyone get this right here?
Let's see, We'll go page down. William says twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Russell Wilson, Alfred Hitchcock guessed by Bill that's his answer.
Rob the goat Man says Beacon Hill, Beaver's standout center.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Robbie the Meriter fan. That's a good photo, Robbie. Who
else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Rick Bettino guests by Miguel on Fire, legendary caller Zigzag Well,
great show knowledge by alf the Alien Opiner halle Berry.
Who is I think he meant fifty two? I don't
think oh, Hail Hail Bailey. I think he said Hallibert,
Hail Bailey. Who the hell is twenty five?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Whoever that is?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Rick majeris oh Man, Rick mcjeris Big Lou he's on numbers.
I was a huge Rick Majeris fan because he can't
be a small Rick Majeris fan. And I was so
excited when Rick mcjerris was college basketball coach. He got
hired at USC, and he quit like the day after
he got hired. He never coached the game at USC.
Ferd Dog says, James the red.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Engine is the answer.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
We know what he's doing, Jason says, Penny hardaway from Memphis.
James is going with our colleague Doug Gottlieb. He clearly
he didn't watch Green Bay basketball last year?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Who else? Juwan Howard guests by Femi.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Dick Pole from the great Robbie the Mariner fan, former
mayor in her pitcher, a longtime pitching coach. Dick Pole
usin bolt from Scrooge in the Bay Area. Mister nice
guy's going with an angel on the outfield.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Mickey Rivers is his answer. Dan dacketts here dockets rather
from Sean in Portland. Who else we have Bobby or
Bruins legend from Shane and Kelly in Des Moines? Who
else do we have a page down?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Oscar says, the answer is clearly the guy who beat
up Scott Peterson on the pickle ball court.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
The Hillsbury dope boy from gil in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
That's his answer, Nature boy, says Mickey Mouse. He's the
way to go, as he answers the call to the
whild the gunner, Old twinkletoes there at Minnesota, he said,
Fred Flints on the correct answer, though, Steve Alford, Steve
Alford
We go. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's our number one, our number one of the fat
free edition of the Ben Mathers showing here in our
number one.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's all about Lebron. That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Lebron James did a lengthy chit chat, a radio side chat,
a YouTube side chat. What vibe did you get from
Lebron's a fireside chat with Pat McAfee.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Also, how did Lebron's general commentary about the NBA journey
that he's been on strike you and is there a
deeper meaning to Lebron James implying the draft lottery was
rigged so the Calves would pick him back in three.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We'll talk about that. Seems like kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We'll get to all that and more as we run
out the clock here in our number one.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
The talk of the town, well kind of the talk
of the town.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Welcome, in the beginning of another night of the Ben
Malors Show.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We are in the.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Air everywhere Cohorts as we embark on a dreamy voyage
coast to coast, border, the border and beyond on the
vast and boomingly powerful microphones of fsr ammnating live from
the Bliss the blabber bliss. As we are broadcasting live
(01:45):
from the tyraq dot com studios tyraqt dot com. We'll
help you get there in unmatched selection, fast, free shipping,
free road hazard protection, over ten thousand recommended installers. Our
guy Van, the one Legged Bama Man, loves that number.
Ten thousand, tire rack dot com the Way tire Buying
(02:06):
show beat, And so we were back at it based
on the listener feedback that we get. And not that
I write back to any of you losers, but you
just send me email during the day and they give
me feedback, and I try to say, off the social media,
that's the devil's playground. But I did get a lot
of a commentary about something that happened in Indianapolis, and
(02:32):
it wasn't about what happened at night. I guess it
was an all day affair. It was a Lebron Day
in the Hoosier State. I don't know if the governor
declared it Lebron Day, but apparently it was. I didn't
get that memo. So anyway, Lebron James capping off his
day with a buzzer beater, a Obama like bailout of
(02:58):
the Lakers a ten point fourth corter Luca had missed
what was supposed to be the game winning shot. He
had thirty four points of Lakers barely got by the
Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
By a whisker. Not impressed. That is a bad win
for the Lakers, who are clearly in trouble.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
The real ones know that the Lakers are not not
going anywhere. But that was the undercart, right, So that
was the undercart and everyone was he happening about the undercart,
not the main event.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So what was it? I'll tell you. So Lebron James
did an interview. Wow, who knew?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So Lebron went in studio with Pat McAfee and he
hammed it up on the YouTube Influencers show with his pals.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh, I was so exciting. You see any of this? No,
well probably not, probably missed it. So some of the
talking points here and I could do the whole thing,
but I'll give you some of them that you were like,
did you see what Lebron't believe Lebron did that?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Lebron ripped the rotun Brian Windhorse saying the NBA reporter, Well,
rather let me tell you, uh, let's hear Lebron himself
here's Lebron commenting on Windy a longtime NBA reporter who
went to the same high school as Lebron in Ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
See a lot of too, Like I seen Brian Warehurst
one of these shows not too long ago, Like.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You guys played together.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Yeah, was like you know, he says, he's like my
best friend and these guys are just weird.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Just weird, all right, So someone say Lebron's weird. Here's Lebron. Also,
he talked back and forth about Stephen A. Smith. He
compared Stephen A. Smith to well to Taylor Swift. He
went on on that rant, said that he's not a
Taylor Swift like tour run. With this particular point, he also.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Explained why he stepped in to honor his son and
his teammate there when things got off the rails.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And here's a little taste of what that was like.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
He's not on a Taylor Swift tour run right now,
we're watching it. If there's one person Kelsey couldn't wait
to the video or to drop so you can address it,
is your ass. Like seriously, he completely like missed the
whole point. Never would I ever not allow people to
talk about the sport, criticize players about what they do
(05:27):
on the court.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That is your job.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But when you take it and you get personal with it,
it's my job to not only protect my damn household,
but protect the players.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, well, do that in public. You could have done
that in private. But wait, there's more. Lebron also broke
down his relationship with Michael Jordan. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
He says he has none, says that's not going to
happen till Jordan retires. Also double spoiler alert, they ain't
hanging out when Jordan when he retires. Lebron retires either.
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Lebron also suggesting the twenty oh three lottery, that the
draft lottery that saw the Hometown Cadavers win the Lebron sweepstakes,
that that was a rigged deal. That he implied that
was rigged. So let us discuss the question what vibe
(06:21):
did you get from the very lengthy Lebron James fireside
chat with Pat McAfee. So I've got Egyptian roller coaster
and mcmillions, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a mirror. Because
(06:42):
there's one thing Lebron loves more than anything, and it's
glazing at himself in the mirror.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
He loves it all right.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So A obviously there's a lot to chew on here,
and I did watch A big chunk of this was
I was on the treadmill and I wanted to poke
my eyes out till they start started bleeding. But the
big takeaway is this was obviously an oasis for Lebron.
A couple of years ago the very popular term safe space.
(07:10):
This was a safe space for Lebron, a very secure environment.
And watching the YouTube clip and then hearing the audio
and putting everything together, it reminded me of ancient ancient Egypt,
the ancient Egyptians. And you see some of the drawings
they left behind from ancient Egypt and the hieroglyphs, and imagine,
(07:34):
if you will, in the cartoon bubble above your head,
because this is what I was envisioning. Lebron is a
pharaoh and he's sitting on the Pat McAfee pedestal, surrounded
by McAfee fan bearers, and they use those ostrich feathers
because that's what they did in Egypt.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
They use those ostrich.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Feathers and they fan Lebron to comfort him. And if
that doesn't work for you, you could go more like
a more modern reference, that Lebron was at a seven
to eleven and the only item that he was getting
from the McAfee crew was the slurpeit.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It was a slurp fest slurp slurp slurp slurpet.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Given at Rich Paul, the right hand man for Lebron,
the deal maker who was in the studio making sure
that everything went just as planned. Don't ask about that.
Don't ask about that. Be careful what you talk about,
all right now, page two.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So how did Lebron's general.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Commentary about his NBA journey strike you? Because a lot
of it was was fluff about Lebron, the kid from Akron,
blah blah blah blah. So that part of it was
like a roller coaster ride. And I'm not talking about
a real white knuckle roller coaster. I'm talking about Dumbo,
the flying elephant, and the Lebron half man, half elephant.
(08:56):
He's got the memory of an elephant. He never seems
to forget near photograph memory for those who have taken
shots at him. Now, the part that I liked the
most was he's still bitter. All these years later, it's
almost been a generation, and Lebron's still bitter about people
pointing out how absurd that fugazy decision thing was in
(09:17):
Connecticut and how.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Absurd that was.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And he claimed, well, that was the turning point, you know.
That's when I realized that I didn't like the media,
you know, and really Lebron's not all that special. He's
just your classic grudge holder. And this is a diamond dozen.
As I have said for many, many years, my position
has not changed. The most important element in sport is
(09:40):
the critic. Because every team that wins, every player, even
a guy like Lebron James who's been dominating the regular.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Season for years and then usually screws up in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
But Lebron still has that chip on his shoulder because
of the critic. Right, he retains all those negative comments
and he just.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Stews in those juices. He just stews in them. He's
determined to prove the doubter is wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And even when it's manufactured outrage, it doesn't seem to
matter all right now, last word here, so is there
a deeper meaning?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Let's get to that what I thought was the most
interesting part of this.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Was Lebron James implying that their draft lottery has.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Regularly been rigged, and it certainly was rigged when the
Calves picked him back in three So.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, there is a deeper me. I think this
is a big deal. And it's one thing for Joe
Blow talk show hosts to say it's rigged. It's another
thing for some dopey bot or algorithm on social media.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
To say it's rigged. But this is the bloody face
of the.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
League who seemingly believes that the NBA is a corrupt organization.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
How else could you take that? It seems like that's
gonna have legs.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Keep in mind that this storyline is as old as time,
his oldest time. And I remember the former commissioner, the
late Great Venerable David Stern, who dealt with this because
he was the commissioner when they first rigged the lottery
for Patrick Ewing in the nineteen eighties. And David Stern
(11:23):
dismissed it at the time. In fact, he said he
didn't really care as long as people.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Were talking about the NBA. Yeah, but now now we're
in the age where you shouldn't talk about us because
I don't like what you're saying. But back then they're like, oh,
how long you're talking about it? Now, there obviously is
no hard evidence, meaning no one's come out. There's no
whistleblower that has said, yeah, the lottery's rigged and here's
how they did it. There's none of that. There's no
hard evidence. There's a lot of circumstantial clues. There's many
(11:56):
convenient outcomes that had driven the conversation, such as Lebron
reference when he won, or his team, the Cavaliers, his
local team, you know from Mackman over in Cleveland. One
in three hometown kids stays in Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
The Chicago Bulls got their local hero, Derrek Rose in
eight and I believe they had a less than two
percent chance that year of winning the draft lottery. And
then the other thing is when Lebron left for Miami,
the conspiracy was, well, to make things better for the
Cavaliers and Dan Gilbert the older, we'll make sure that
(12:35):
you get some good players in there. So the Cavaliers
in the span of you know, how long was Lebron
in Miami four years or something like that, the Cavaliers
got three number one picks in that time while Lebron
was in South Florida twenty eleven, twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen,
and so that raised some my bro.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I said, wait a minute, what's going on with that?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Trying to set the Cavs up, Like the League took
care of Cleveland because they lost Lebron and that lost
a lot of capital.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Nobody wanted to go to those games.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
The draft lottery truthers will point to these patterns and
also the ultimate storyline.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It's a TV show.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
You need good stories for a TV show, even though
it's supposed to be real, and you know, you do
the whole fiction nonfiction things supposed.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
To be real. However, you know you got to have
storylines and if.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
You need to nudge those along a little bit and
it helps the revenue, it helps the bottom line, you
do it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And the idea that it's impossible that there's too many
people involved to hear that a lot. But remember that
that mcmillions. I saw that documentary a few years ago.
It's great. I recommend it's still around. You can find
it if you know where to look. But that was
the one where.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
They rigged the much beloved McDonald's Monopoly game and so
if you can rig that, and they got away with
it for a very long time before before somebody stepped
in there. I guess I remember Uncle Jerry, if you
saw the documentary Uncle Jerry, some.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Mob guy was was setting it up.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But since the weighted system started in nineteen ninety, so
that's that's almost thirty almost thirty five years of the
draft lottery, the team with the top odds has won
the number one overall pick about twenty five percent of
(14:31):
the time, about twenty five percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
And the nerds, the people that are good at.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Math, will say, well, that's that's right on par with
the probabilities, so that's there's nothing there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's that's all good. But the theory is that you
don't manipulate it every year because not every years there
a generational player.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
There just isn't right. There's a lot of years there's
like suck bag guys. You know, some dude from France
you never heard of, who will who will not sell
us single ticket, So you don't really rig it for
that who cares? But when it's rare and appropriate that
you can help a storyline along and listen, I buy it.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I buy it. And I have worked over the years
with some people that were part of.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That famous nineteen eighty five draft lottery where the Knickerbocker's
got Patrick Ewing, and based on what they have said
and others I've spoken to, I totally.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Now, you know, I don't think you do it every year,
but rare and appropriate.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
There's some funny business that goes on all right, So
what do you think about all that? Did you have
a different perspective as we did the hypothesis or not hypothesis?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The recap, the recap of Lebron.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Doing the very long, very lengthy chit chat as the
Lakers were in Indiana to play the Pacers, and then
Lebron bailed out the Lakers, who are really falling apart here.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Man, what a mess.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Anyway, we'll take your calls if you'd like to be
part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. And now
I realize that a lot of you are intimidated because
we have these same seven jabronis that call up every show.
But we're not We're not blocking anyone else. You're more
(16:20):
than welcome to call in. And I know I said
I'd do a newby Night and we haven't done that in.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
A little while. But you can be part of the show.
You can interact. You don't have to wait for a
newby night, and we love hearing new voices eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Six six three sixty nine. If you'd like to be
part of the program. Coming up a little bit later
on next hour, Mallard of the third degree, Mallard of
the third degree. In our number three, we'll have ask
Ban and the Riddle of the Day, and then an
hour four it's fact or fiction. We'll get to that
(16:57):
down in our number four. Now straight up, head, stradhead.
When laundry becomes art? When does laundry become art? We'll
get to that and we will do it.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Neck be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It is I, Bill Miller and you. It is the
Ben Mahler Show, up all night, every night. Whatever brings
you to our little community, our little family, nocturnal family.
We hide and come alive in the darkness. Whether you're
working the third shift or you're just up late work
(17:44):
that second shift and you're standing up enjoying some downtime,
or you're making.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
A drive cross across a dark country road somewhere. Either
way it doesn't matter, or you just got up, go
to the bathroom. We're here for you and you can
be part of this show. Sale to Ben at Ben Mahler.
That's at Ben Mahler. You can say hi to Lorraine,
she's the FSR tech queen on X. All these on
(18:13):
X we use that during the live show. You can
say hello to the Coop da Loop at a Bronco fan.
That's a Bronco fan. And now back to the guest
Baggerie with Ben. Let's right Bill and it's all night
guest Baggery and a special treat by request from Eugene
(18:37):
in Chicago and several other longtime members of the mal
and militia who have said, hey, come on, we got
to get ready for the baseball season.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
So Eugene in Chicago and all your other you know
who you are. I was gonna say something mean, but
I'll be nice. Coming up in our number three of this.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Show, bi popular demand, It's Benny's Baseball Bonanza, your one stop.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Shop to get you ready for the opening.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Day festivities around Major League Baseball, and that'll be coming
up in our number three Fired Up. Unfortunately, because I
have this job, I will be sleeping through the early games,
but I will be up by mid afternoon to watch the.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Bulk of the games.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Will I will see at least part of the second
TV window on Opening Day. But we began here on
the Ben Malor show yapping and reacting to Lebron as
he had a rip roaring over one hour, very.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Provocative unless it wasn't. It was a lot of slurping,
a lot of slurping there for Lebron. I mean slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp, slop. Yeah,
it was right there.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Absolutely, he got his back scratched, his toes sucked. It
was a love fest. The biscuits were buttered all that
by Pat McAfee and his crew man.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That was great. That was like Lebron was speaking the
season ticket holders of the Lakers. My god. Anyway, we'll
reacting to that.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
If you would like to comment, you can join us
now at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Ran.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh that's little Maggie, that clip. I've been here so long.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That little sweet innocent girl Maggie from Cleveland is now
all grown up.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
She's a grown ass woman and.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
She likes what in her thirties.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You don't have to go that farlow Raina. No. I
think she's in her late twenties now. I think she's
out of college, I believe.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And she reached out to me, and I know her
dad still listens.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
But they would drive around. I was from the weekend
Overnight show.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
They'd drive around delivering newspapers and he used to bring
his daughter with him on the weekends. And so that
was when Lebron left to go to Miami the first time,
and little Maggie.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Called up and then she said played again. Yeah, that's
so cute, little sweet Maggie. She's all well, she's all
growing up.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Random Ryan writes in in Carolina says eight plus and
a set of Goodyear tires from tire raq dot com
on the Mallard monologue. And I'm sure there was a
cold envelope involved in three to get Lebron to the
Horrible Cavaliers. Eugenie Chicago says, when you do the Baseball
hour Band, no Dodger talk because they're cheating with all
(21:22):
those damn all stars on the road. They're not cheating.
There's no buzzers. They're not like the Astros. They're not
using whistles and buzzers and all that.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
That's not going on, right, El Patriot, Pyatria, Patria, I
don't know. I don't know this. I don't recognize his
name anyway. This guy writes it says NBA is rigged.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm still pissed about the ghostly fowls on the Clippers,
Loy vaught against Carl Malone and the Plus.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Wow, that's old school, man. I've moved on from that.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm still bitter about the Clippers losing Game seven to
the Mike d'antni Suns. I went to that game in
Phoenix and still pissed off about that.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
That was.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You know, they offer therapy for that, Ben.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I don't eat there. I'm a manly man, Lorena. I'm
old therapy, I know, and I just complain. I have
four hours of talk radio therapy, and that you know
that this is like therapy. I come in here, whatever
annoys me in sports, I just complain about and they
pay me for it, and then I leave and then
the next day comes around and then hear I see
more stuff that pisses me off. And then I come
in here and I get on the bully pulpit and I.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Start ranting and raving, and there you go. Yeah, it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So I get four hours of therapy. Alan in Utah
writes in he says, Mallard nailed it. Lebron harro X
were a fluke, pure lucky garbage. And he says, by
the way, this may have been edited by Grock the ai.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
There on on Twitter so or ex or whatever the o.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
They're calling you a gunner who was in the running
for the Worst Call of the year. He's such a
bad caller he couldn't win the Worst Caller of the year.
But Gunner writes in, he says, you think the Lakers are.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Falling apart, I'm here waiting for the Clippers to fall
apart like breaking ice.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Well, bad news, Gunner. The People's team went into midtown Manhattan,
the mecca Madison Square Garden and put a beating on
the knicker boxer Jason Smith. Couldn't even show his face
around here. That Nick suck up Jason Smith because the
the La Clippers shoved it down the throat of the
(23:28):
Knickerbockers at the Garden at the Guy they buy as
many as nineteen points. They win vintage James Harden and
Kawhi Leonard. They went back and forth in the second half.
They were down a little bit early in the game,
but that was just for for drama. You had big
celebrities like Chris Rock there and the people that no
one's ever heard of, like Russell Wilson, all in attendance
(23:49):
at the Garden, and they.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Give you free tickets.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Now I watched the I watched the MSG feed on
the satellite, and they give you if you're a celebrity,
they give you like free tickets, but they have to
show you. They have celebrity row the Knicks like they
like to pat themselves in the back.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
We have all these.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Celebrities that go to the games, and so they will
give you the tickets right there because rich people can't
afford to buy those tickets, so they give them to them,
as I understand it, and then they put them on
the scoreboard, put them on the broadcast and all that.
But in the second half, Kawhi Leonard had nineteen points
and James Harden had sixteen, and the Clippers won, and
bad news for you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Gun are bad news bears.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
If you look at your NBA standings, the Clippers now,
even though they're tied, they win the tie breakers. So
the La Clippers are out of the play in and
are in the number six spot, and they are on
the prowl closing in on the Lakers, closing in on Memphis,
and the Lakers are falling apart here and so things
are looking up. I think the Lakers have the second
(24:46):
worst record among teams that are in playoff contention in
the Western Conference over the last ten games. They are
in some serious trouble there. I'd fire the podcaster. I'd
fire the podcast, get rid of him if you're trying
to win.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Just bad news.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Nature boy rights in, I said, nature boy rights in.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I guess we don't have it.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh, there it is, he says, I'm surprised Lebron didn't
have anything to say about Dwight Howard dancing after the
Lakers loss to Orlando. Yeah, wasn't that his? Now that
he didn't did he dance after? I know he danced
at halftime they had they put him in the Orlando
Magic Ring of Honor. Who exactly is in the Orlando.
(25:32):
Is Nick Anderson in there for those miss foul shots back?
And is he in the Orlando Magic Ring Honor? They
have a pretty cool mascot. They have a fat green mascot.
So maybe that guy's in there. That mascot's in there.
I don't know, but you can send us a message
on the X machine at Ben Mahler. That's at Ben
Maler if you want to be part this portion of
(25:52):
the show made possible by Tractor Supply. Tractor Supply knows
that a winning season takes practice, teamwork, and.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
A can do attitude.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Now, Thankfully, when you have a neighbor like Tractor Supply,
teamwork comes easy.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Whether you're caring for pets.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Chickens or a few acres, our team members will help
you succeed season after season. Tractor Supply for Life out here,
and be sure to check out the Tractor Supply Fox
Sports Radio Bracket Challenge at Fox Sports Radio dot com.
See how our various gas bags blowhards and know it
alls are doing with their picks and who the top
(26:27):
ranked listeners are. Now the listener that would be either
you if you entered, or someone who's not you who
also entered the listener with the very best bracket at
Fox Sports radio dot Com will win a twenty five
one hundred dollars gift card the Tractor Supply. Yeah, it's
it's I wouldn't know where to go first, I go.
(26:48):
You go into tractor Supply. You want buy everything, You
just want to get everything. Say it's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
All right, let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
B K.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Who's it says you're in Boston, but he's in the
air somewhere. I don't know what that means. Hello, BK, Welcome.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
How's it going, buddy?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
What are you doing? BK? Where are you at right now?
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I'm driving home from Boston.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
I'm working in the Fenway area and an old school fan.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I haven't heard you say in the.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Everywhere, Oh man, Ben, big fans, big fan.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh well, thank you, you're a big fan. You must
not listen to the top of the air, I think
I do. I say that.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I believe Loreena, I say that at the top of
every hour. I believe right, yes, all right, that's a
bad job by you, BK.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
I mean, you know I.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Understand sports of casts everywhere?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
You know?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Are you blaming ninety eight five. The sports up is that?
Why are you blaming the local station? Are you throwing
them out of the bosting guy? Yeah, it must be
the board ops probably eating popcorn or something like that,
and he didn't he didn't pop me up or something.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I bet that happened.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Yeah, fair enough, all right, but.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You just want to say hello. You're just driving around,
You're like, hey, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (28:05):
I'm driving back, I'm listening, and you know, like, what's
the hype? And you know there's a little hype in
the Fenway area about the Red Sox being you know
last year I went to opening day, right, Yeah, the
Tim Wakefield thing, and then they brought the twenty twenty
four World champions back and that was fun. It was amazing.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I was playing catch with Johnny Damon out in the outfield,
but we all just sat there and watched the team
get obliterated and no one cared. And working in the
area now and we made some trades. I think the
team's gonna look good this year.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, it's it's hard for me.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
If you've heard the show over the years, you know,
I can't really pull for Alex Bregman because he's a
cheating Astro so I can't. He's a moral enemy, but objectively, yeah,
the Red Sox are a better team. There's certainly better
than to n They should be better than Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
The wild card.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
To me is the Yankees, because the Yankees. Everyone a
Yankees are gonna make the playoffs. The Yankees, if you
look at that roster, they don't look like a playoff
team to me, like that's they got a messed up
pitching staff.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Garrett Coles out all year, so he's gone.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And if the Yankees are out, the Red Sox should
at the very least be a wildcard to you in Baltimore,
even though they got pitching issues. They'll be a better
team during the regular season. But the Red Soxs would
be be right there. The other problem, though, is you
have Garrett Crochet who you better be careful there, Bka
because if you sneeze on him, he's gonna miss about
a month of the season.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
So be careful.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Don't sneeze on him, whatever you do, Okay, please, I
got it, Okay, all right, day, I gotta go. Thank
you some hot Red Sox talk right there. Red Sox
have the same record of every other team in the
American League. They are two games behind the Dodgers for
(30:00):
the top record in baseball, and the Socks are two
games ahead of the Cubs for the worst record in baseball.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
And when is Trevor Story? He hasn't got hurt yet,
When does he get hurt? We know when?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
What day Trevor Story? We should do that if I
was doing local Boston radio, which I'm not, but I
would do like a what day does Trevor Story get hurt?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
We could? We could always fun, always a fun, a
fun thing to do for sure. Anyway, Art, it is
the Ben Malor Show. As we are working our way
through the overnight. So when you think art, when you
think high class, you think sports talk radio. I said,
it's almost like being at the lou Right, it's very
damn right. Yeah, we are high for louton. We're high class.
(30:46):
We are. People think we're not, but we are. Those
people are losers that don't People line up to come
and see this Ben.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. There's windows outside. They look at us.
Some of them smoke crack while they're looking, but they're outside,
they're looking.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Unlike the Mona Lisa, you can't touch it. Hello all right? Anyway,
it's the smells are free. It's like, what's that, Jimmy Johns.
The smells are free? Oh I love that place. Yeah,
I like that advertising. That's good, the smells everything.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Years ago, Michael Jordan his first ever jersey, first ever jersey,
this goes back to nineteen eighty five. It sold at auction.
The first jersey Michael.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Jordan ever wore in the NBA with the Chicago.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Bulls sold at auction for eight hundred dollars. Is number
twenty three, that old school Chicago Bulls red jersey.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
For eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
And over forty years later, the same jersey was back
on the market and it just sold on Wednesday afternoon
at Sotheby's auction house for.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
How much you want to take a guess, how about
four point four point two million? Four point two million.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Now Jordan wore this during a nineteen eighty four preseason
game and.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
They actually sold it.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This is how crazy sports memorabilia was back in the day. Like,
this is this weird thing that happened right around like
the late eighties early nineties where there's a huge boom
in baseball cards and sports memorabilia and then they mass
produced because I'm of the age where I was, like,
I collected baseball cards, and they mass produced baseball cards
and sports memorabilia about that time, so it all the
(32:30):
value went to hell. And I remember the peak. But
before that, there wasn't much much hype, and that Jordan
jersey was just given to the Washington Bullets to sell
it a charity. They sold it at a charity and
for eight hundred bucks, and Jordan had eighteen points in
that preseason game. We were about two thousand people at the game.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
And here we are all these years later, and what
do you do with that? You gotta frame it, right,
It's obviously be framed. Do you just stare at it?
Do you have like people over to the cocktail party
and say, hey, look at that, that's Michael Jordan's original jersey.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
There's if you smell it, there might be some sweat.
I don't think they're being sweat smells though from nineteen
eighty four it's been forty years. I would think there's
no smells in that. But man, four million bucks now,
I remember the story.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Recently, somewhat recently, somebody bought Michael Jordan's old home in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
And they wanted to make it. I think they did
make it an airbnb and.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
It hasn't gone well. Do you see this no, uh yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
So this guy bought Jordan's old home in Chicago, and
he was, you know, charging I think it was like
a like one hundred thousand, some ridiculous amount of money
to rent out Jordan's home per per night, and apparently
no one really had that. The guy paid nine point
five million for Jordan's mansion and then he was Originally
(34:06):
I was wrong. So originally the story was I got
my numbers mixed. I used Mallar math.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So originally it was two hundred thirty thousand dollars a month,
so we're gonna go by the month, not a night.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I thought it was a night. But two hundred thirty
thousand a month was the rental price. And they just
cut that rental price because nobody was paying the two
hundred thirty thousand dollars, so they had to cut that
to try to get somebody to rent it out. They
cut the price by fifty thousand dollars. Oh my gosh,
so quite the deal at one hundred and eighty thousand
(34:37):
dollars a month to live in Michael Jordan's and Jordan
had so much money. He lived in the suburbs of Chicago.
He had so much money, he just like nobody wanted
the house. He bailed and that was it, and the
house was empty for years. Got the basketball court in there.
It's got the you know, all the craft that Jordan had.
I guess they renovated it a little bit because they'd
been sitting It had been sitting there for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are working
our way through the overnight hours and time now for
the who am I? Game? I'm told that college basketball
will pick up on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
We're baseball people, but college basketball will pick up on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And in honor of that, here's the who am I? Gating?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Who I am the only active college hoops coach to
have been an All American player before coaching an All
American player. So again, I'm the only active that means
currently coaching college basketball at the D one level. I
am the only current active D one college basketball coach
(35:44):
to have also been an All American player before coaching
an All American player. Who am I?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
That is the question. The answer, We'll get to it
we'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
You locked in and you can stream this show and
all the Fox Sports Radio shows, every one of them
live twenty four to seven. The new and improved iHeart
Radio app maw.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Here's how you do it. You get the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You put that on your phone, should be there anyway,
and just search Fox Sports Radio in the app and
you can stream us live. And one of the newest
features in the app, you can select the Fox Sports
Radio channel, the Ben Mahler Show, Channel, podcast, Fifth Hour Podcast,
all of that on your preset so you can have
(36:42):
that right there, Ben Malors Show number one, Fifth Hour
number two, Fox Sports Radio number three.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
On the pre sets, just like the car radio dial.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
So be sure to preset Ben Maler Show, Fifth Hour Podcast,
and Fox Sports Radio in the iHeart Radio app and
will always pop up right at the very top.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Well yeah it will, Bill, And here is the who
am I Game?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else who
will call it the the who.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Am I Game?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
I'm the only active college hoops coach to have been
an All American player. This is D one College basketball,
the only active college hoops coach to have been a
D one A player All American and coach an All
American player.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone in the mal or militia who
took the time out of their very busy schedule to
take part in the show? Did anyone get this right here?
Let's see, We'll go page down. William says twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Russell Wilson, Alfred Hitchcock guessed by Bill that's his answer.
Rob the goat Man says Beacon Hill, Beaver's standout center.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Robbie the Meriter fan. That's a good photo, Robbie. Who
else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Rick Bettino guests by Miguel on Fire, legendary caller Zigzag Well,
great show knowledge by alf the Alien Opiner halle Berry.
Who is I think he meant fifty two? I don't
think oh, Hail Hail Bailey. I think he said Hallibert,
Hail Bailey. Who the hell is twenty five?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Whoever that is?
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Rick majeris oh Man, Rick mcjeris Big Lou he's on numbers.
I was a huge Rick Majeris fan because he can't
be a small Rick Majeris fan. And I was so
excited when Rick mcjerris was college basketball coach. He got
hired at USC, and he quit like the day after
he got hired. He never coached the game at USC.
Ferd Dog says, James the red.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Engine is the answer.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
We know what he's doing, Jason says, Penny hardaway from Memphis.
James is going with our colleague Doug Gottlieb. He clearly
he didn't watch Green Bay basketball last year?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Who else? Juwan Howard guests by Femi.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Dick Pole from the great Robbie the Mariner fan, former
mayor in her pitcher, a longtime pitching coach. Dick Pole
usin bolt from Scrooge in the Bay Area. Mister nice
guy's going with an angel on the outfield.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Mickey Rivers is his answer. Dan dacketts here dockets rather
from Sean in Portland. Who else we have Bobby or
Bruins legend from Shane and Kelly in Des Moines? Who
else do we have a page down?
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Oscar says, the answer is clearly the guy who beat
up Scott Peterson on the pickle ball court.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
The Hillsbury dope boy from gil in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
That's his answer, Nature boy, says Mickey Mouse. He's the
way to go, as he answers the call to the
whild the gunner, Old twinkletoes there at Minnesota, he said,
Fred Flints on the correct answer, though, Steve Alford, Steve
Alford
Host
Ben Maller
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
40s and Free Agents: NFL Draft Season
Daniel Jeremiah of Move the Sticks and Gregg Rosenthal of NFL Daily join forces to break down every team's needs this offseason.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.