March 10, 2023 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports that the Rams are trying to trade Matthew Stafford, the odds that they'll find a team that's interested, if the Rams are going full on fire-sale mode, and much more!
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staff trade chatter, believe it or not. What are the
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odds the Rams would find a team interested in their
injured quarterback Matthew Stafford and all the Rams going to
a fire sale mode. We'll talk about that and later
on in the B Block. Lebron James is it true
fingered as a cheater. We'll get to that in the
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will he leave behind the Cheeseheads to go hang out
with Fireman Aid and the Jets. Now, in the meantime,
we have a brand new name that has been placed
on the roulette wheel, or should I say the auctioning block.
Matthew Stafford say what Now, I don't know if you've
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heard about this or not, but it's been bouncing around
the echo chamber. Perhaps he did not pick up on it.
So let me give you the condensed recap of this.
So the word bouncing around. Here's the Rams are contacting
other teams to gauge interest in the man that helped
them win the Super Bowl a couple of years ago.
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Now that nugget, it's a golden nugget, but not like
the hotel, comes from a former NFL executive turn professional blowhard,
and that is Mike Lombardi who makes his money by
muckraking NFL stories. He says, Matthew Stafford is fully available.
This is a quote they would love, They being the Rams,
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would love the trade him that declaration made while them
already appeared on the YouTube as an influencer with Pat McAfee.
Stafford is not going to be a free agent until
twenty twenty seven. You're not sure what year it is.
Is twenty twenty three. The Rams could get out of
a contract in twenty twenty six, but he is thirty
five years old and broken and battered and bruised and bloodied. Now,
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in response, what do you think the RAMS said? You
think the Rams said, absolutely, this guy's a bomb. We
gotta get rid of this guy. B Oh no, we're
not going to get rid of him or see no comment. Well,
it's really more of a bee than anything. The GM
less sneed f them picks less sneed called Matthew Stafford
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a weight bearing wall, a weight bearing wall. What kind
of bull crap is that? And he said the team
is not looking to deal him and calling a remodel
for twenty twenty three. Says he's a part of the plan.
So let us discuss the question. Matthew Stafford a super
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Bowl champion? The trade chatter do you believe it or not?
So I've got overdosed Jedi mind trick and Smokey Robinson
and we will. I know it's an old reference. We
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the wonderful sparkle that comes off that
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Lombardi trophy from a couple of years ago. So ay
on this one. I am drinking the kool aid. I
am supporting the rumor. If the Rams, let me put
it this way to you, if the Rams are not
shopping Matthew Stafford, then they are guilty of negligence of
football wrongdoing. This is what you're supposed to do in
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the offseason. It is the parlor game of football. Everyone
and their mother knows this. You get to be fantasy
football general manager. You don't have to be Lombard party
Bence Lombardi to do the arithmetic on this. Stafford is
thirty five years old. The Rams went five and twelve
last season. He missed a bunch of games. His body's
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been falling apart. The fact that La squeezed a Super
Bowl win out of Stafford is one of the great
modern miracles of the Western world. And they overdosed on
the dopamine hit after the championship, and they did the
thing they weren't supposed to do at the time. They
weren't supposed to do it. They were so overwhelmed and
their blood was full of dopamine that they gave Matthew
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Stafford the land rights to the Yellow Brick Road. Why
would they do that? It makes no sense. And now
that the dopamine has worn off, the buzz has faded,
the feeling is like, you know, it's kind of run
its course. Yeah, Hunting Moon's over, it's run its course.
I think we'll move on now. Now page two here,
what are the odds the Rams would find a team
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interested in Matthew Stafford. So this is the problem with this.
It's one thing to say, hey, you want a quarter Hey,
how would you like our quarterback? It's a long shot,
obviously a long shot. Everyone knows that, even though the
Nos Andrew Football knows it's a long shot. But they've
got a puncher's chance. And I'm gonna set the Mallor
Sports book odds on a Matthew Stafford trade at plus
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one thousand. Now that is a little bit less than
a ten percent chance. And the reason I'm at that
number less need the Rams general manager would have to
use a Jedi mind trade. But he's already done it
once he got rid of Jared Goff, and that guy
was deadweight for the Rams a couple of years ago.
So he's done it once. If you do it once,
he can do it again and get rid of Jared Goff.
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They took back Stafford and all that. But this just
comes down to the old greater fool theory, and it's
been that way in business. In sports, players are traded
around from one fool in this case the Rams, to
a greater fool. That would be the team that acquires
Matthew Stafford until eventually their value goes down, down, down, down, down,
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down down, and they have no value. So who would
be the n income poops that would even consider trading
for a thirty five year old injured quarterback who two
days ago there was report saying he's going to retire.
On my big board, I've got the Commandos and the
Colts at the very top and ownership Dan Snyder and
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Jimmer Say, who have strong buffoon tendencies, both are expected.
Both these teams are expected to snatch quarterback high up
in the draft and they will groom said quarterback. So
in theory, Matthew Stafford could be a bridge over troubled waters.
Of course, that would be the kind of bridge that's
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twisting and buckling in the wind that can come tumbling down.
You would have to be a blockhead to get Stafford
in a trade. Stafford needs a whole bunch of flintstone vitamins.
In fact, forget that. Instead of a trainer, they should
employ that old television character mcgiver with his Swiss army
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knife and duct tape to put put him back together.
To fix Stafford's body up. Now the last word. Here
are the Rams going into fire sale mode. I've heard
a lot of that chatter. Some of you have enjoyed
schaidenfreude and reached out to me, see was it worth it? Ben?
The Rams won their little super Bowl, but now they're
gonna blow And I'm like, okay, I'm not buying that.
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And you should never get to the depths of teams
like the Houston Texans and the Chicago Bears. You should
never be like that, you reshuffle the deck. It's the
wheel of life in the NFL. It's all mapped out,
like Smokey Robinson sang back in his heyday, you only
build me up to tear me down. The Rams build
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it up f them picks they won the Super Bowl,
and now they are in a situation. We tear it down,
you refurbish, you build it back up, you bring it
back up to code. You fiddle with the roster, you
tink her over Here is what you do. Jaylen Ramsey,
for example, a good player, good players, Jaylen Ramsey. And
there's a few other veteran players. I wouldn't know problem
if they traded them. And that's what all you idiots want, right,
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all you nerds? You tell me, are you draft nicks?
You've needed the draft picks? Oh my god, you need
the draft I'll trade Jaylen Ramsey trading on the Lions.
Get a bunch of draft picks. Fine, you know who cared?
Do you get your little draft picks? You can spend
the wheel again. And Sean McVeigh, who didn't quit, although
he almost quit, he's back and his reputation has been
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as the quarterback whisperer. Got to a Super Bowl with
Jared Golf, won a Lombardi with Matthew Stafford, helped guide
Baker Mayfield to the Christmas miracle against the Broncos. And
so McVeigh is he up for a reclamation project to
turn something of no value into something of real value.
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Take nothing and make it something. And since since he
didn't leave and he's hanging around, I'm saying there's a chance.
I'm saying I'm saying there's a shot. All right, It
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if you would like to be part. We began here
with a Matthew Stafford theme Mallard monologue. But a wild
story that's just come across our radar here that we'll
see if it has legs or not. But is it
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true that Lebron James has been accused of cheating? Lebron
James accused of cheating? What is that all about? What
did he do? How did he cheat? Who's saying it?
What's the evidence. I've got all of that and we'll
give it to you. We'll get to that and we
will do it. Eggs, give it up, man, You are
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It's Ben Maller and we began with a Matthew Stafford
mad and my monologue. JJ from Renton was triggered by
that monologue. We hate when JJ's trigger. You should call
up sometime, JJ. We haven't talked to you in a while,
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he says, did you really have a rams opening monologue?
They suck and just made the reject from Washington, Jimmy Lake,
their assistant coach. The Rams are trash like Stafford. I
give that monologue a D plus while coming from you, JJ,
completely unbiased. JJ in Renton, who sleeps with a Seahawk
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onesie that means a lot. Yeah, we've we've smoked out
the Seahawk fans. No stradinas friend of the show writes
in from Seattle. He says, no team is trading for
Matthew Stafford because it's way too much fun watching the
Rams house cramble from a shoddy foundation. Will never forget
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No stradinas that that ram foundation that you claim crumbles
or crumbled here won as many Super Bowls as the
lead Gino Boom and the Seattle Seahawk Glory Days, the
greatest year of Seahawk football. The Rams matched it just
by trading all their picks and getting veteran players. And
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I wouldn't If I was a Seahawk fan, I would
not be pumping my chest out. Your team just gave
career backup Geno Smith twenty eight million dollars. I would
rather have Matthew Stafford in a wheelchair playing quarterback than
Gino Smith. I'm just saying, Okay, I'm just saying Matt
the Warrior Rador ays fan right, since says nobody cheats
more than Lebron James. We'll get to that in a minute.
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Mallard prop Guy says another ten out of ten a
plus on the Malard monologue. Is this morning's program a rerun?
I asked, because I heard you share the phone number. Yes,
malarprop guy, I am not actually here. It is our
last day of the week, and I have decided to
honor some of my great radio brothers and sisters over
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the years who do lazy Friday radio. And the way
you know someone's lazy on a Friday open phones. You
set the agenda that is a lazy talks your host,
and anyone that does that is announcing I'm putting no
effort into the show. That's it. It's an open phones Friday,
and that is a sign that you have given up
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on life. And so but I'm not here. I mean,
who would want to work these hours, malaprop guy, right,
I mean, no one's awake at this hour. Why would
I don't even have radio at this hour? Everyone's sleeping.
God forbid, God forbid I would ever be up at
this hour. It's a terrible hour to be awake, Art
Puffin writes and says, you get an A plus for
not mentioning Aard Rogers. He says, asked for making Matthew
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Stafford the intro to the Mala monologue, I give you
a C for effort, he says. I would like to
get your take on this upcoming Knicks versus Clippers game. Yeah.
So I had a cousin, one of my cousins from
New York, was like, Hey, I'm gonna go to the
Knicks Clippers game, and he invited me. He's like, you
want to go hang out? You know? I was like, well,
I could hang out with Clipper Darrel. I've been to
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a game in a while. And then I saw what
time the game was, Art Puffin, and I said, There's
no way on God's Green Earth and I'm gonna get
to me. That's three in the morning. The game starts
as an afternoon game. I ain't getting up to go
to an afternoon NBA game. God No, no, new, new,
new new new new Stevie meat balls right, since, says
excellent Ala monologue on the ram shopping Matthew Stafford, doing
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so is merely agm performing their due diligence Stevie meat
Ball says during the height of Quarterback Carousel hysteria, get
what you can from for the worm worn out bomb,
I should say, he said Warren, I read warm worm
and he points out, so let's see here, burner account,
burner account right, since says a nice mcgeiver reference Benjamin
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and for that you get an a minus. But I
have a question. I know you don't do list radios,
So on your big board, where would you rate the
Fred van vleet aunt? It was hilarious. I'll hang up
take the answer off the year. We'll get to that
coming up in a couple of minutes. But let's not.
Let's not. Don't bear the lead mo man in the
B block. The lead story in the B block is
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a spicy hot accusation that Lebron James is a cheater?
Is it true? A former UFC fighter Kaal Sonnin is
claiming that Lebron James is a pey? How does he
know he's been busted? Sonning has been busted in the
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past for using performance enhancing drugs when he was in
the UFC Dana White's outfit, and he went on a
podcast I've never heard of the flagrant podcast. I have
no idea what that is, but this is a good
scoop and he claimed Lebron is using something called EPO.
Say what so you have to go to your drug
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charts now? According to Sonnin and this report from the podcast,
how does he know, Chill Soon that Lebron James is
doing peeds? He knows because he accorded to him his
words here he's alleging Lebron has the same drug guy
as he used, Oh my god, this is a bombshell.
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This is a bombshell from ChIL Sana and the uf
X UFC guy. He said, if the world understood what
Lebron did like other basketball players or other basketball players
will hear that Lebron does and go oh, but that
doesn't matter, he said in this rant, he said, if
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if you knew, if you knew what these performance enhancers did,
then you would know why it does matter. Sanin continued
his rant, but wait, there's more. He did say that
the the suspended busted in the past pd UFC guy
says that he and Lebron have the same drug guys.
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That quote, we have the same drug guy. I know
exactly what he's doing and son And named it he said, EPO.
It matters. It's the reason Lebron takes it. It matters,
he said. EPO, according to him, increases your red blood cells,
which gives you endurance, so you can play all game long.
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You can shoot in the fourth quarter just like a
shot in the fourth in the first quarter. It's the
king of performance enhancers. Wow, what a story this is.
Will this actually have legs though? Are people just gonna
dismiss this as this is a nobody, some hack who
got busted and now he's trying to bring down Lebron James?
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Or will the establishment media, the cartel which is in
bed by the way with big sport, right, do you
know who they are the big media companies? Are they
gonna just brush this under the rug? Do I need
to pull out my tinfoil hat here and put this on?
Because I think this is something right and it reminds
me of years ago when I when I was in
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I was visiting a buddy of mine in Vegas and
I had lunch with one of the great gossip reporters.
I will not name him, but one of the all
time great gossip reporters in Vegas who happened to be
someone that I knew from when I did my pot
my website. I had a gossip website, and he became
a friend, someone that we corresponded with, and he would
send me stuff sometimes and I would use it on
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the site. So we became friends. We had lunch on
the Strip in Vegas and he told me that and
these are his words. He told me that he was
this close to blowing the lid off a massive peed
scandal and it involved let's just say, one of the
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top golfers who almost never lost a tournament in that
era and has been in the news a lot lately.
That's all I'll say. What he said. He had all
the information, except he needed one more thing, because this
guy worked at a newspaper and you had to have
a certain number of sources. But he was convinced. Like
we were having lunch and he was like, oh, yeah,
he's doing it. He's been doing it for years, and
it's I know the doctor's name. I know that he
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knew everything. Some of that, by the way, has come
out in the years since. I don't know what you're
talking about, but this was many, many years ago, and
some of the information has come out, but nobody really
cares It's like we talked about this in a previous
episode of the show, that Tiger Woods is pretty much
like a non stick frying pan. Nothing sticks to him.
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And is Lebron James liked it? Like Lebrons had some
major screw ups. I've been some major missteps by Lebron
James and it doesn't really seem to affect it. And
I gotta tell him my initial reaction here. My initial
take is, I don't think this is gonna this is
gonna go anywhere. I don't think the media that would
need to put a megaphone on this. The mainstream media
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is gonna care because they all want to be friends
with Lebron James, and they're all in bed with Lebron.
Lebron is a big deal, billionaire athlete. He's got his
tentacles all over media, not just sports but media in general.
But that's the big, big story here. A former UFC
fighter Chail sonon on a podcast saying that Lebron's the
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done PDS and he knows for a fact because his
drug guy is the same guy he claimed that Lebron uses.
Those are his words, not my words. If you want
to sue, sue him. Don't sue me. You also, that's oh,
here we go, this is the shoot the messenger. I
knew that was I knew that was coming. Go ahead,
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go ahead, defend, defend your guy, Lebron. I'm just saying,
consider the source. That guy's like one of the biggest
tools in the history of the of the sport. Well,
that doesn't mean it's wrong. Jose Canseco was also, it's
also a toolbag. He wrote a book and everything was
true in the Yeah, but I mean Son's also he's
like got in trouble for money laundering and bets o. Man,
He's he does everything that he can to try and
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stay in the public eye. He ran for he ran
for Congress. No, I'm just saying he's he's desperate for attention.
He's always trying to stay I understand it. But but
here's the thing though, if you want to find out
how the criminal underworld works, don't you have to hear
from a criminal? You know what I'm saying, Like, wouldn't
he know because he's in that that CD world? And
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the big test is, will Lebron James file a lawsuit
against Chilic? Will will he file a lawsuits saying you
slandered my name. This is a lie, this is not true,
and I must clear my name. Do you think he'll sue?
I don't know. All right, Roberto, you're a Laker guy.
You want to defend Lebron. I kind of agree with
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both of you. Both of you guys are saying you
can't agree what we disagree. You can't agree with A
son is a tool, a total everything. He just wants
to get to end of attention. But I also be able.
You say there, Uh, if you're in the underground, how
you know they know where all the bodies? Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah,
you gotta go. And it's like, you know, it's like
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people in criminal investigations, right, they often they have informants.
But if it's not true, Lebron should threat to sue
Jack Clark and Saint Louis. And Clark said that pools
using steroids. Yeah, and he did sue. He sued him
and and you know, he ended up. I think he won.
Right the Jack clarker to apologize as he lost his
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It was actually an ourt. What of our affiliates in
Saint Louis. At the time, Jack Clark had hired to
do on afternoon show in like, if I remember correctly,
it was within in a couple of weeks or a
couple of days, and that that story happened there. But
that's the Lebron bombshell? What a bombshell? Will it turn
out to be a bombshell or it will be swept
under the rug? Inquiring minds will would like to know.
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We'll follow that story, see what happens coming up. What
does the loss of thirty thousand dollars sound like? We'll
get to that coming up as well. Also, what's old
is new again? The hottest coaching candidate in collegiate basketball
as coaches start getting whacked all over the place, and
the hottest name out there up for two big, high
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profile jobs, who is it? Will get to that as well,
But right now, let's get over to the Sporting news
desk for games of note. Garcia, all right, thank you, Ben.
I also think fair or not, it seems that fans
only care about Peeds in baseball. They don't really care
about him in other sports. That's that's that is true.
That's true. But if what this guy said is accurate
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about that, that would explain a lot. Lebron is at
the age you're supposed to not put up the stats
he's putting out. Yeah, and if if somebody's came down
and said that about Tom Brady, I'd probably believe that too.
So yeah, oh for sure. But Lebron I look at
the numbers he's putting up at his age. That's never
happened before. Let's check in with the NBA on the
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court when he had the Grizzlies beating the Warriors one
thready one two, one ten. Memphis still without suspended star
John Morante, gets to win over a Golden State team
that continues to stink on the road. Now seven and
twenty six away from home, only the Spurs and Rockets,
who have been officially eliminated from the playoffs, have fewer
road wins on the season. Yea, And then watch it
the playoffs, they'll win like three road games. Watch if
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they even make the playoffs. But they'll they'll find a
way to win a few games on the road. You mean,
like in total in the playoffs three road games. No,
But the way they've played in the regular season, they
should win no games on the road. Right, they've been terrible.
I've been embarrassment, yes, and that's full. You lose to
Memphis without job Morande. They had some other guys out.
I mean, what are you doing? What do you what?
Do you eat a bunch of barbecue and fall asleep?
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I meant I'd like to do that. Actually, yeah, I've
heard Memphis barbecue is pretty good at it is. It
is for joyed Memphis barbecue. I like Kansas City barbecue.
I haven't been to Kancer. I would love to to try.
You should? You should go? The Chargers play there. Jerome
brought us barbecue from kind of city. What's that? Jerome
brought us barbecue? That's right, Jerome? Yeah, bringing home for home?
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Was I hear that day? Yeah? You were? I remember
barbecue from Roden, Bakersfield. What do even happened to Drome?
I don't know. He used to call the show. I mean,
you know how this is guys come and go, that's true. Yeah.
I think he's upset though, because we goofed on him,
because he left, he left early, because his wife wanted
to leave. That was the game. The Chiefs came back
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with fourteen thirteen seconds whatever it was. Well, he deserved
to be a gooftar for that. Come on, that's fair.
That's what guys do anyway, be sure to catch live
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wherever you get your podcast. So we mentioned the Golden
State Memphis game. And I know we're in the business
of content and we're in the business of making mountains
out of mole hills. But are you guys not me Eddie?
Are you a serious talk show host? I don't believe
in that kind of content. I'm not here for the hyperbole.
I'm not an NBA fan, so I I but I
but I think I know a story when they're trying
to make something that's really out of nothing. Well, I'll
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ask you guys, Draymond Green versus Dylan Brooks. Is this
a thing? Is this? It seems to me that this
is a it's kind of made up. I mean, I
know they actually have some beef, but it's just like,
does anybody care about this? Everybody has beef with Dylan Brooks.
Doef with Draymond Green too? No, No, this is good.
Dylan Brooks is like the most annoying guy in the
NBA right now. I love it. He's the pest, that's his.
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He's like the new He's the new glue guy, Dylan Brooks.
He reminds me of this is intriguing to you guys.
This I didn't see it was intriguing Eddy. But that's
the modern NBA beef. Like they had a war of words. Yeah,
the Draymond they are They think enough names though that
people should care about this, Like, well, not Dylan Brooks.
(29:08):
He's in nobody but even Dream. I mean he's won titles,
but I mean he's he's he's a podcast for Coward.
He's a big deal. Draymond He's a podcaster who is it.
I don't know what you're talking about any not everyone.
I don't know about that. You see the Brooks and
Draymond you were you're referencing you, I don't know that
you describe exactly what happened. They got into they locked
(29:30):
off Eddie and that. But they've had a war of
words for a while now and they got in a
little I don't even I don't I think this is
a bunch of maloney. But if you guys, but Dylan
Brooks is the guy that that Spider Mitchell like I
got upset with because he kicked him in you know,
there was some grabbing of the family. Um, oh, he
and Draymond have that in common. Then, yeah, Draymond kicked
(29:52):
a guy. Yeah yeah, But but Green had complained on
his podcast he called he called this guy Brooks a
clown's which is rich coming from him. Oh it takes
a clown to note that's true. Yeah, all right, thank
you for that. It is welcome, do you mean that? Yeah? Okay, well,
(30:14):
thank you. It is the Bannet Mathers Show as we
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All right? So what does thirty thousand dollars sound like?
What does thirty thousand dollars sound like? We will now
present to you what thirty thousand dollars, which is a
lot for me, and I'm imagining that's a lot for
(30:56):
you and most people, but not if you're a big
time ball it doesn't really matter that much. But here's
what thirty thousand dollars sounds like. We present to you.
Toronto Raptors guard Fred vane Vleet. I mean, I don't
mind it. I'll take a fine. I don't really care.
I thought, you know, um, Ben Taylor was terrible tonight.
(31:16):
I thought that most nights, you know, a couple of
the you know, out of the three, theres one or
two that just the game up, you know, and it's
it's been like that a couple a couple of games
in a row. M Denver was tough. Obviously, you come
out tonight, you're competing pretty hard. The third quarter, I
get a tech change the whole dynamic of the game,
change the whole flow of the game, and um, you know,
(31:38):
most of the rests are trying hard. I like a
lot of the rest are trying hard. They're pretty fair,
they communicate well, and then you got the other ones
who just want to be and just kind of the
game up. Nobody's coming to see that. They come to
see the players, and I think we're losing a little
bit of the fabric of what the NBA is and was,
And um, it's been disappointing this season. Um, you could
(31:58):
look up most of my text this year. I've been
with Ben Taylor officiated. So at a certain point as
a player, you feel it's personal and it's never a
good place to beat us. Not why we lost tonight,
we got out played, but it definitely makes it tougher
to overcome. All right, money well spent. I like how
calm me was about it all. I was expecting him
to be really raging there, but now he's pretty calm.
(32:21):
Do you know why he was common? Why's that? What
percentage of his salary? Do you think he got fined? There?
I did the math on this. Oh, I have no idea.
What do you think a guy named Fred van Vleet
of the Toronto Raptors is making in today's NBA? Well,
the way you're saying it, it's probably way more than
I would imagine. But what do you imagine? Just throw
something out, spit something out in the microphone about what
(32:42):
do you want it? Like? What he makes a year?
What do you think per year? Yeah? Just per year?
I don't know. Fifteen million, fifteen million, that's a lot.
That is a lot of money. Fifteen million dollars about
not in professional sports? How about twenty one point two
million dollars? Yeah, that means the thirty thousand is point
one percent of his salary point zero point one percent. Yeah, No,
(33:08):
I can't. Actually I can't even imagine. I really can't.
I know, and didn't he knew? He knew going in
that he was gonna get fined. He said, get fired. Okay, wow,
all right, let's go to the fall. By the way,
is thirty grand is that standard for criticizing officials or
is that a little more you know, I do not
(33:29):
like more. I would I thought so too, but I'm
not sure. But there's a it's like a menu the
NBA has with the union where if you violate certain
rules you're fine, Like uniform violations get a certain amount
of punishment. They can only find them so much because
of the collective bargaining agreement. Let's go to Joey in Vegas. Hello, Joey,
(33:51):
you were on the Ben Maller Show. Welcome Joey, Ben Maller. Oh,
thank you for having me, man. I am excited. You're
excited to be here. I'm so excited. Man. I've been
trying to call you for like a while now, like
I just haven't put the time into it. I always
catch you, like getting out of the gym and like
I'm about to go home and sleep, and I never
(34:12):
catch So I never always catch like an hour of
the show, but I wanted to call for a long time. Well,
thank you, and you were you were at the gym tonight, Joey,
you just came back from the gym. No, I had
worked tonight, went to the gym before work, and I
wanted to go have a drink with my friend. But
I was just vibing on the way home. You came on.
It was eleven o'clock. I was like Ben Maller's show
(34:35):
it is, and I just wanted to dude, man, you get,
you get. You gained such a fan bro. Your your
voice is iconic, you have some iconic monologues, but you're
you're the ship. Excuse my language. That's a promo right there,
don't don't. I think we should say that word, Joe.
We should be allowed to say that word, Joey. I
think we should thank you. Thank you for your passion, Joey.
(34:59):
I appreciate that you're very passionate. Con Thank you for
your passion. Thank you burning on a good show every night.
But a couple of things, A couple of things. I
just heard what you're talking about Lebron and Chail Son.
I'm so glad you brought up the UFC. I am
a gigantic UFC san. I'm from Las Vegas, Nevada. I
was raised on UFC um so I watch a lot
(35:20):
of it. Chail Sonning is one of the most is
a highly respected. Oh my gosh, there's a large don't
get in renaction it. Maybe you're okay, No, it's been
in my goddamn neighborhood back. Okay, So anyways, Chail so
in chail Son. It is a very stand up guy
in the UFC community. And I watch a lot of
(35:41):
UFC pods. I've been watching UFC forever. These guys know
what they're talking about. When they're talking about p ds
and all that stuff, they know what the fuck they're
talking about. They're all right, I get you. I gave
you a one strike, but I appreciate listening to you. Unfortunately,
I have censors here that do not appreciate. Three dumbs
(36:03):
in about a minute. That's might be a record. He
loves the show Man. Come on, you know, think about Joey.
We're just a couple of boys, me and Joey Man.
Joey likes the show. He listens to an hour here
and there. He is coming back from the gym and
we're just a couple of guys. We're hanging out talking sports.
That's how men talk. We're burtle. Why can't we talk
like men? Why do we have to be censored? We have?
We like bad words. Damn it, we'd like bad words.
(36:29):
I hope he wipes his mouth. You just upset Coop
because he was calling, Yeah, because Joey's a UFC guy
and he just he just blasted you. He said, how
much credibility this guy? Chill Son? And if you missed it,
chill Son and you have x. UFC guy says that
he believes Lebron's doing PDS. How does he know? He
claims Lebron is using the same guy he used to
(36:50):
do peeds. Kind of a big deal, I would think,
But what do I know? I don't know. Maybe it
will not be a big deal. We'll find out in
the coming days. It is the Bannet Maller Show. As
we continue on time now for the who am I Game?
We'll go to the NBA Here it is the who
am I? Game? Joel nbads at the Sixers record for
the most foul shots made without a miss over a
(37:12):
two game spanning, made twenty eight. I am the only
center in NBA history to have made more foul shots
without a miss over a two game span. Who am I?
That's the question? The answer We'll get to it next.
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now for the who am I game? And will tell
you who we are in a minute. By the way,
who would like to point out Milkman Mike and Colorado
says that guy Joey in Vegas said he was raised
on the UFC. You Ben, were raised on KFC. That
(38:17):
is true, that Ross says, get that guy Joey back
on hold. That guy had some good info. Donkey Sausage says,
what Roberto said has to be a drop. Were you
the one that said that the three dump line? Was
that you? Yeah, So that's gotta be a drop Roberto,
Donkey Sauce says he said the three dump line in
(38:39):
a minute, that that is a drop from the show.
So we got to add that to our drop collection.
Emmett the Blind Seahawk fan says, I think Joey may
or may not have been drunk when driving. I don't know.
It's just he's all right, you know, it seemed okay.
I hope so. Joel n beats at the Sixers record
for the most file shots made without an over a
(39:00):
two game span with twenty eight. I am the only
center in NBA history to make more foul shots without
a miss over a two game span. Who am I?
That is the question. What is the answer? The Mandalorian
guests by Benito the Cowboy fan Fudgie says, Papa Smurf
is the answer. Inca Terre is going with that other druggie.
(39:21):
Peyton Manning Donkey Sausage says Cookie Belcher is the answer.
One of the great names. Rick Barry from Willie the Mess,
Mister Magoo guests by clam Page Down, Eddie garcias Burner
Account says these nuts is the answer. Mister Luciano says
(39:41):
Lesaine Crooks is the answer. We've got the big Fundamental
Tim Duncan from Just Josh, That's his answer. Angry Bill's
illegitimate son Joey and Vegas from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
Cedric of Hogwartz from Mashane in Des Moines. One all
right out of time. The correct it's or any is
none other than Moses Malone at the time I got
(40:03):
it right at he Moses Malone is the answer. Moses
Malone
Hello and welcome. It's our num Bara one hour one
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hour number one, we talked the latest NFL gossip, Matthew
staff trade chatter, believe it or not. What are the
(01:03):
odds the Rams would find a team interested in their
injured quarterback Matthew Stafford and all the Rams going to
a fire sale mode. We'll talk about that and later
on in the B Block. Lebron James is it true
fingered as a cheater. We'll get to that in the
(01:24):
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up in a few minutes, involving one of the faces,
one of the faces of American support, and some big
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accusations tossed out against that guy. But before we get there,
in old fashion spin of the quarterback roulette wheel, that
is our lead. This hour, round and round it goes,
and no one knows when it will stop. You're still
monitoring Lamar Jackson and his situation, the non exclusive franchise
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tag waiting on airin Rogers, and his gut wretching decision
will he leave behind the Cheeseheads to go hang out
with Fireman Aid and the Jets. Now, in the meantime,
we have a brand new name that has been placed
on the roulette wheel, or should I say the auctioning block.
Matthew Stafford say what Now, I don't know if you've
(03:14):
heard about this or not, but it's been bouncing around
the echo chamber. Perhaps he did not pick up on it.
So let me give you the condensed recap of this.
So the word bouncing around. Here's the Rams are contacting
other teams to gauge interest in the man that helped
them win the Super Bowl a couple of years ago.
(03:34):
Now that nugget, it's a golden nugget, but not like
the hotel, comes from a former NFL executive turn professional blowhard,
and that is Mike Lombardi who makes his money by
muckraking NFL stories. He says, Matthew Stafford is fully available.
This is a quote they would love, They being the Rams,
(03:56):
would love the trade him that declaration made while them
already appeared on the YouTube as an influencer with Pat McAfee.
Stafford is not going to be a free agent until
twenty twenty seven. You're not sure what year it is.
Is twenty twenty three. The Rams could get out of
a contract in twenty twenty six, but he is thirty
five years old and broken and battered and bruised and bloodied. Now,
(04:22):
in response, what do you think the RAMS said? You
think the Rams said, absolutely, this guy's a bomb. We
gotta get rid of this guy. B Oh no, we're
not going to get rid of him or see no comment. Well,
it's really more of a bee than anything. The GM
less sneed f them picks less sneed called Matthew Stafford
(04:43):
a weight bearing wall, a weight bearing wall. What kind
of bull crap is that? And he said the team
is not looking to deal him and calling a remodel
for twenty twenty three. Says he's a part of the plan.
So let us discuss the question. Matthew Stafford a super
(05:04):
Bowl champion? The trade chatter do you believe it or not?
So I've got overdosed Jedi mind trick and Smokey Robinson
and we will. I know it's an old reference. We
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the wonderful sparkle that comes off that
(05:26):
Lombardi trophy from a couple of years ago. So ay
on this one. I am drinking the kool aid. I
am supporting the rumor. If the Rams, let me put
it this way to you, if the Rams are not
shopping Matthew Stafford, then they are guilty of negligence of
football wrongdoing. This is what you're supposed to do in
(05:48):
the offseason. It is the parlor game of football. Everyone
and their mother knows this. You get to be fantasy
football general manager. You don't have to be Lombard party
Bence Lombardi to do the arithmetic on this. Stafford is
thirty five years old. The Rams went five and twelve
last season. He missed a bunch of games. His body's
(06:09):
been falling apart. The fact that La squeezed a Super
Bowl win out of Stafford is one of the great
modern miracles of the Western world. And they overdosed on
the dopamine hit after the championship, and they did the
thing they weren't supposed to do at the time. They
weren't supposed to do it. They were so overwhelmed and
their blood was full of dopamine that they gave Matthew
(06:32):
Stafford the land rights to the Yellow Brick Road. Why
would they do that? It makes no sense. And now
that the dopamine has worn off, the buzz has faded,
the feeling is like, you know, it's kind of run
its course. Yeah, Hunting Moon's over, it's run its course.
I think we'll move on now. Now page two here,
what are the odds the Rams would find a team
(06:54):
interested in Matthew Stafford. So this is the problem with this.
It's one thing to say, hey, you want a quarter Hey,
how would you like our quarterback? It's a long shot,
obviously a long shot. Everyone knows that, even though the
Nos Andrew Football knows it's a long shot. But they've
got a puncher's chance. And I'm gonna set the Mallor
Sports book odds on a Matthew Stafford trade at plus
(07:16):
one thousand. Now that is a little bit less than
a ten percent chance. And the reason I'm at that
number less need the Rams general manager would have to
use a Jedi mind trade. But he's already done it
once he got rid of Jared Goff, and that guy
was deadweight for the Rams a couple of years ago.
So he's done it once. If you do it once,
he can do it again and get rid of Jared Goff.
(07:38):
They took back Stafford and all that. But this just
comes down to the old greater fool theory, and it's
been that way in business. In sports, players are traded
around from one fool in this case the Rams, to
a greater fool. That would be the team that acquires
Matthew Stafford until eventually their value goes down, down, down, down, down,
(08:00):
down down, and they have no value. So who would
be the n income poops that would even consider trading
for a thirty five year old injured quarterback who two
days ago there was report saying he's going to retire.
On my big board, I've got the Commandos and the
Colts at the very top and ownership Dan Snyder and
(08:21):
Jimmer Say, who have strong buffoon tendencies, both are expected.
Both these teams are expected to snatch quarterback high up
in the draft and they will groom said quarterback. So
in theory, Matthew Stafford could be a bridge over troubled waters.
Of course, that would be the kind of bridge that's
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twisting and buckling in the wind that can come tumbling down.
You would have to be a blockhead to get Stafford
in a trade. Stafford needs a whole bunch of flintstone vitamins.
In fact, forget that. Instead of a trainer, they should
employ that old television character mcgiver with his Swiss army
(09:02):
knife and duct tape to put put him back together.
To fix Stafford's body up. Now the last word. Here
are the Rams going into fire sale mode. I've heard
a lot of that chatter. Some of you have enjoyed
schaidenfreude and reached out to me, see was it worth it? Ben?
The Rams won their little super Bowl, but now they're
gonna blow And I'm like, okay, I'm not buying that.
(09:26):
And you should never get to the depths of teams
like the Houston Texans and the Chicago Bears. You should
never be like that, you reshuffle the deck. It's the
wheel of life in the NFL. It's all mapped out,
like Smokey Robinson sang back in his heyday, you only
build me up to tear me down. The Rams build
(09:47):
it up f them picks they won the Super Bowl,
and now they are in a situation. We tear it down,
you refurbish, you build it back up, you bring it
back up to code. You fiddle with the roster, you
tink her over Here is what you do. Jaylen Ramsey,
for example, a good player, good players, Jaylen Ramsey. And
there's a few other veteran players. I wouldn't know problem
if they traded them. And that's what all you idiots want, right,
(10:10):
all you nerds? You tell me, are you draft nicks?
You've needed the draft picks? Oh my god, you need
the draft I'll trade Jaylen Ramsey trading on the Lions.
Get a bunch of draft picks. Fine, you know who cared?
Do you get your little draft picks? You can spend
the wheel again. And Sean McVeigh, who didn't quit, although
he almost quit, he's back and his reputation has been
(10:31):
as the quarterback whisperer. Got to a Super Bowl with
Jared Golf, won a Lombardi with Matthew Stafford, helped guide
Baker Mayfield to the Christmas miracle against the Broncos. And
so McVeigh is he up for a reclamation project to
turn something of no value into something of real value.
(10:52):
Take nothing and make it something. And since since he
didn't leave and he's hanging around, I'm saying there's a chance.
I'm saying I'm saying there's a shot. All right, It
is the Ben Mallers Show. If you would like to
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if you would like to be part. We began here
with a Matthew Stafford theme Mallard monologue. But a wild
story that's just come across our radar here that we'll
see if it has legs or not. But is it
(11:39):
true that Lebron James has been accused of cheating? Lebron
James accused of cheating? What is that all about? What
did he do? How did he cheat? Who's saying it?
What's the evidence. I've got all of that and we'll
give it to you. We'll get to that and we
will do it. Eggs, give it up, man, You are
(12:02):
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I'll live from the tirerack dot Com. Fox Sports Radio Studios.
It's Ben Maller and we began with a Matthew Stafford
mad and my monologue. JJ from Renton was triggered by
that monologue. We hate when JJ's trigger. You should call
up sometime, JJ. We haven't talked to you in a while,
(13:08):
he says, did you really have a rams opening monologue?
They suck and just made the reject from Washington, Jimmy Lake,
their assistant coach. The Rams are trash like Stafford. I
give that monologue a D plus while coming from you, JJ,
completely unbiased. JJ in Renton, who sleeps with a Seahawk
(13:30):
onesie that means a lot. Yeah, we've we've smoked out
the Seahawk fans. No stradinas friend of the show writes
in from Seattle. He says, no team is trading for
Matthew Stafford because it's way too much fun watching the
Rams house cramble from a shoddy foundation. Will never forget
(13:51):
No stradinas that that ram foundation that you claim crumbles
or crumbled here won as many Super Bowls as the
lead Gino Boom and the Seattle Seahawk Glory Days, the
greatest year of Seahawk football. The Rams matched it just
by trading all their picks and getting veteran players. And
(14:12):
I wouldn't If I was a Seahawk fan, I would
not be pumping my chest out. Your team just gave
career backup Geno Smith twenty eight million dollars. I would
rather have Matthew Stafford in a wheelchair playing quarterback than
Gino Smith. I'm just saying, Okay, I'm just saying Matt
the Warrior Rador ays fan right, since says nobody cheats
more than Lebron James. We'll get to that in a minute.
(14:33):
Mallard prop Guy says another ten out of ten a
plus on the Malard monologue. Is this morning's program a rerun?
I asked, because I heard you share the phone number. Yes,
malarprop guy, I am not actually here. It is our
last day of the week, and I have decided to
honor some of my great radio brothers and sisters over
(14:53):
the years who do lazy Friday radio. And the way
you know someone's lazy on a Friday open phones. You
set the agenda that is a lazy talks your host,
and anyone that does that is announcing I'm putting no
effort into the show. That's it. It's an open phones Friday,
and that is a sign that you have given up
(15:15):
on life. And so but I'm not here. I mean,
who would want to work these hours, malaprop guy, right,
I mean, no one's awake at this hour. Why would
I don't even have radio at this hour? Everyone's sleeping.
God forbid, God forbid I would ever be up at
this hour. It's a terrible hour to be awake, Art
Puffin writes and says, you get an A plus for
not mentioning Aard Rogers. He says, asked for making Matthew
(15:40):
Stafford the intro to the Mala monologue, I give you
a C for effort, he says. I would like to
get your take on this upcoming Knicks versus Clippers game. Yeah.
So I had a cousin, one of my cousins from
New York, was like, Hey, I'm gonna go to the
Knicks Clippers game, and he invited me. He's like, you
want to go hang out? You know? I was like, well,
I could hang out with Clipper Darrel. I've been to
(16:02):
a game in a while. And then I saw what
time the game was, Art Puffin, and I said, There's
no way on God's Green Earth and I'm gonna get
to me. That's three in the morning. The game starts
as an afternoon game. I ain't getting up to go
to an afternoon NBA game. God No, no, new, new,
new new new new Stevie meat balls right, since, says
excellent Ala monologue on the ram shopping Matthew Stafford, doing
(16:26):
so is merely agm performing their due diligence Stevie meat
Ball says during the height of Quarterback Carousel hysteria, get
what you can from for the worm worn out bomb,
I should say, he said Warren, I read warm worm
and he points out, so let's see here, burner account,
burner account right, since says a nice mcgeiver reference Benjamin
(16:49):
and for that you get an a minus. But I
have a question. I know you don't do list radios,
So on your big board, where would you rate the
Fred van vleet aunt? It was hilarious. I'll hang up
take the answer off the year. We'll get to that
coming up in a couple of minutes. But let's not.
Let's not. Don't bear the lead mo man in the
B block. The lead story in the B block is
(17:11):
a spicy hot accusation that Lebron James is a cheater?
Is it true? A former UFC fighter Kaal Sonnin is
claiming that Lebron James is a pey? How does he
know he's been busted? Sonning has been busted in the
(17:33):
past for using performance enhancing drugs when he was in
the UFC Dana White's outfit, and he went on a
podcast I've never heard of the flagrant podcast. I have
no idea what that is, but this is a good
scoop and he claimed Lebron is using something called EPO.
Say what so you have to go to your drug
(17:54):
charts now? According to Sonnin and this report from the podcast,
how does he know, Chill Soon that Lebron James is
doing peeds? He knows because he accorded to him his
words here he's alleging Lebron has the same drug guy
as he used, Oh my god, this is a bombshell.
(18:17):
This is a bombshell from ChIL Sana and the uf
X UFC guy. He said, if the world understood what
Lebron did like other basketball players or other basketball players
will hear that Lebron does and go oh, but that
doesn't matter, he said in this rant, he said, if
(18:39):
if you knew, if you knew what these performance enhancers did,
then you would know why it does matter. Sanin continued
his rant, but wait, there's more. He did say that
the the suspended busted in the past pd UFC guy
says that he and Lebron have the same drug guys.
(19:02):
That quote, we have the same drug guy. I know
exactly what he's doing and son And named it he said, EPO.
It matters. It's the reason Lebron takes it. It matters,
he said. EPO, according to him, increases your red blood cells,
which gives you endurance, so you can play all game long.
(19:24):
You can shoot in the fourth quarter just like a
shot in the fourth in the first quarter. It's the
king of performance enhancers. Wow, what a story this is.
Will this actually have legs though? Are people just gonna
dismiss this as this is a nobody, some hack who
got busted and now he's trying to bring down Lebron James?
(19:47):
Or will the establishment media, the cartel which is in
bed by the way with big sport, right, do you
know who they are the big media companies? Are they
gonna just brush this under the rug? Do I need
to pull out my tinfoil hat here and put this on?
Because I think this is something right and it reminds
me of years ago when I when I was in
(20:11):
I was visiting a buddy of mine in Vegas and
I had lunch with one of the great gossip reporters.
I will not name him, but one of the all
time great gossip reporters in Vegas who happened to be
someone that I knew from when I did my pot
my website. I had a gossip website, and he became
a friend, someone that we corresponded with, and he would
send me stuff sometimes and I would use it on
(20:32):
the site. So we became friends. We had lunch on
the Strip in Vegas and he told me that and
these are his words. He told me that he was
this close to blowing the lid off a massive peed
scandal and it involved let's just say, one of the
(20:52):
top golfers who almost never lost a tournament in that
era and has been in the news a lot lately.
That's all I'll say. What he said. He had all
the information, except he needed one more thing, because this
guy worked at a newspaper and you had to have
a certain number of sources. But he was convinced. Like
we were having lunch and he was like, oh, yeah,
he's doing it. He's been doing it for years, and
it's I know the doctor's name. I know that he
(21:14):
knew everything. Some of that, by the way, has come
out in the years since. I don't know what you're
talking about, but this was many, many years ago, and
some of the information has come out, but nobody really
cares It's like we talked about this in a previous
episode of the show, that Tiger Woods is pretty much
like a non stick frying pan. Nothing sticks to him.
(21:34):
And is Lebron James liked it? Like Lebrons had some
major screw ups. I've been some major missteps by Lebron
James and it doesn't really seem to affect it. And
I gotta tell him my initial reaction here. My initial
take is, I don't think this is gonna this is
gonna go anywhere. I don't think the media that would
need to put a megaphone on this. The mainstream media
(21:58):
is gonna care because they all want to be friends
with Lebron James, and they're all in bed with Lebron.
Lebron is a big deal, billionaire athlete. He's got his
tentacles all over media, not just sports but media in general.
But that's the big, big story here. A former UFC
fighter Chail sonon on a podcast saying that Lebron's the
(22:21):
done PDS and he knows for a fact because his
drug guy is the same guy he claimed that Lebron uses.
Those are his words, not my words. If you want
to sue, sue him. Don't sue me. You also, that's oh,
here we go, this is the shoot the messenger. I
knew that was I knew that was coming. Go ahead,
(22:42):
go ahead, defend, defend your guy, Lebron. I'm just saying,
consider the source. That guy's like one of the biggest
tools in the history of the of the sport. Well,
that doesn't mean it's wrong. Jose Canseco was also, it's
also a toolbag. He wrote a book and everything was
true in the Yeah, but I mean Son's also he's
like got in trouble for money laundering and bets o. Man,
He's he does everything that he can to try and
(23:03):
stay in the public eye. He ran for he ran
for Congress. No, I'm just saying he's he's desperate for attention.
He's always trying to stay I understand it. But but
here's the thing though, if you want to find out
how the criminal underworld works, don't you have to hear
from a criminal? You know what I'm saying, Like, wouldn't
he know because he's in that that CD world? And
(23:26):
the big test is, will Lebron James file a lawsuit
against Chilic? Will will he file a lawsuits saying you
slandered my name. This is a lie, this is not true,
and I must clear my name. Do you think he'll sue?
I don't know. All right, Roberto, you're a Laker guy.
You want to defend Lebron. I kind of agree with
(23:48):
both of you. Both of you guys are saying you
can't agree what we disagree. You can't agree with A
son is a tool, a total everything. He just wants
to get to end of attention. But I also be able.
You say there, Uh, if you're in the underground, how
you know they know where all the bodies? Yeah exactly, Yeah, yeah,
you gotta go. And it's like, you know, it's like
(24:10):
people in criminal investigations, right, they often they have informants.
But if it's not true, Lebron should threat to sue
Jack Clark and Saint Louis. And Clark said that pools
using steroids. Yeah, and he did sue. He sued him
and and you know, he ended up. I think he won.
Right the Jack clarker to apologize as he lost his
(24:31):
It was actually an ourt. What of our affiliates in
Saint Louis. At the time, Jack Clark had hired to
do on afternoon show in like, if I remember correctly,
it was within in a couple of weeks or a
couple of days, and that that story happened there. But
that's the Lebron bombshell? What a bombshell? Will it turn
out to be a bombshell or it will be swept
under the rug? Inquiring minds will would like to know.
(24:51):
We'll follow that story, see what happens coming up. What
does the loss of thirty thousand dollars sound like? We'll
get to that coming up as well. Also, what's old
is new again? The hottest coaching candidate in collegiate basketball
as coaches start getting whacked all over the place, and
the hottest name out there up for two big, high
(25:14):
profile jobs, who is it? Will get to that as well,
But right now, let's get over to the Sporting news
desk for games of note. Garcia, all right, thank you, Ben.
I also think fair or not, it seems that fans
only care about Peeds in baseball. They don't really care
about him in other sports. That's that's that is true.
That's true. But if what this guy said is accurate
(25:36):
about that, that would explain a lot. Lebron is at
the age you're supposed to not put up the stats
he's putting out. Yeah, and if if somebody's came down
and said that about Tom Brady, I'd probably believe that too.
So yeah, oh for sure. But Lebron I look at
the numbers he's putting up at his age. That's never
happened before. Let's check in with the NBA on the
(25:57):
court when he had the Grizzlies beating the Warriors one
thready one two, one ten. Memphis still without suspended star
John Morante, gets to win over a Golden State team
that continues to stink on the road. Now seven and
twenty six away from home, only the Spurs and Rockets,
who have been officially eliminated from the playoffs, have fewer
road wins on the season. Yea, And then watch it
the playoffs, they'll win like three road games. Watch if
(26:20):
they even make the playoffs. But they'll they'll find a
way to win a few games on the road. You mean,
like in total in the playoffs three road games. No,
But the way they've played in the regular season, they
should win no games on the road. Right, they've been terrible.
I've been embarrassment, yes, and that's full. You lose to
Memphis without job Morande. They had some other guys out.
I mean, what are you doing? What do you what?
Do you eat a bunch of barbecue and fall asleep?
(26:40):
I meant I'd like to do that. Actually, yeah, I've
heard Memphis barbecue is pretty good at it is. It
is for joyed Memphis barbecue. I like Kansas City barbecue.
I haven't been to Kancer. I would love to to try.
You should? You should go? The Chargers play there. Jerome
brought us barbecue from kind of city. What's that? Jerome
brought us barbecue? That's right, Jerome? Yeah, bringing home for home?
(27:02):
Was I hear that day? Yeah? You were? I remember
barbecue from Roden, Bakersfield. What do even happened to Drome?
I don't know. He used to call the show. I mean,
you know how this is guys come and go, that's true. Yeah.
I think he's upset though, because we goofed on him,
because he left, he left early, because his wife wanted
to leave. That was the game. The Chiefs came back
(27:23):
with fourteen thirteen seconds whatever it was. Well, he deserved
to be a gooftar for that. Come on, that's fair.
That's what guys do anyway, be sure to catch live
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(27:44):
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(28:05):
wherever you get your podcast. So we mentioned the Golden
State Memphis game. And I know we're in the business
of content and we're in the business of making mountains
out of mole hills. But are you guys not me Eddie?
Are you a serious talk show host? I don't believe
in that kind of content. I'm not here for the hyperbole.
I'm not an NBA fan, so I I but I
but I think I know a story when they're trying
to make something that's really out of nothing. Well, I'll
(28:26):
ask you guys, Draymond Green versus Dylan Brooks. Is this
a thing? Is this? It seems to me that this
is a it's kind of made up. I mean, I
know they actually have some beef, but it's just like,
does anybody care about this? Everybody has beef with Dylan Brooks.
Doef with Draymond Green too? No, No, this is good.
Dylan Brooks is like the most annoying guy in the
NBA right now. I love it. He's the pest, that's his.
(28:48):
He's like the new He's the new glue guy, Dylan Brooks.
He reminds me of this is intriguing to you guys.
This I didn't see it was intriguing Eddy. But that's
the modern NBA beef. Like they had a war of words. Yeah,
the Draymond they are They think enough names though that
people should care about this, Like, well, not Dylan Brooks.
(29:08):
He's in nobody but even Dream. I mean he's won titles,
but I mean he's he's he's a podcast for Coward.
He's a big deal. Draymond He's a podcaster who is it.
I don't know what you're talking about any not everyone.
I don't know about that. You see the Brooks and
Draymond you were you're referencing you, I don't know that
you describe exactly what happened. They got into they locked
(29:30):
off Eddie and that. But they've had a war of
words for a while now and they got in a
little I don't even I don't I think this is
a bunch of maloney. But if you guys, but Dylan
Brooks is the guy that that Spider Mitchell like I
got upset with because he kicked him in you know,
there was some grabbing of the family. Um, oh, he
and Draymond have that in common. Then, yeah, Draymond kicked
(29:52):
a guy. Yeah yeah, But but Green had complained on
his podcast he called he called this guy Brooks a
clown's which is rich coming from him. Oh it takes
a clown to note that's true. Yeah, all right, thank
you for that. It is welcome, do you mean that? Yeah? Okay, well,
(30:14):
thank you. It is the Bannet Mathers Show as we
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we have that clip or we do have that clip?
All right? So what does thirty thousand dollars sound like?
What does thirty thousand dollars sound like? We will now
present to you what thirty thousand dollars, which is a
lot for me, and I'm imagining that's a lot for
(30:56):
you and most people, but not if you're a big
time ball it doesn't really matter that much. But here's
what thirty thousand dollars sounds like. We present to you.
Toronto Raptors guard Fred vane Vleet. I mean, I don't
mind it. I'll take a fine. I don't really care.
I thought, you know, um, Ben Taylor was terrible tonight.
(31:16):
I thought that most nights, you know, a couple of
the you know, out of the three, theres one or
two that just the game up, you know, and it's
it's been like that a couple a couple of games
in a row. M Denver was tough. Obviously, you come
out tonight, you're competing pretty hard. The third quarter, I
get a tech change the whole dynamic of the game,
change the whole flow of the game, and um, you know,
(31:38):
most of the rests are trying hard. I like a
lot of the rest are trying hard. They're pretty fair,
they communicate well, and then you got the other ones
who just want to be and just kind of the
game up. Nobody's coming to see that. They come to
see the players, and I think we're losing a little
bit of the fabric of what the NBA is and was,
And um, it's been disappointing this season. Um, you could
(31:58):
look up most of my text this year. I've been
with Ben Taylor officiated. So at a certain point as
a player, you feel it's personal and it's never a
good place to beat us. Not why we lost tonight,
we got out played, but it definitely makes it tougher
to overcome. All right, money well spent. I like how
calm me was about it all. I was expecting him
to be really raging there, but now he's pretty calm.
(32:21):
Do you know why he was common? Why's that? What
percentage of his salary? Do you think he got fined? There?
I did the math on this. Oh, I have no idea.
What do you think a guy named Fred van Vleet
of the Toronto Raptors is making in today's NBA? Well,
the way you're saying it, it's probably way more than
I would imagine. But what do you imagine? Just throw
something out, spit something out in the microphone about what
(32:42):
do you want it? Like? What he makes a year?
What do you think per year? Yeah? Just per year?
I don't know. Fifteen million, fifteen million, that's a lot.
That is a lot of money. Fifteen million dollars about
not in professional sports? How about twenty one point two
million dollars? Yeah, that means the thirty thousand is point
one percent of his salary point zero point one percent. Yeah, No,
(33:08):
I can't. Actually I can't even imagine. I really can't.
I know, and didn't he knew? He knew going in
that he was gonna get fined. He said, get fired. Okay, wow,
all right, let's go to the fall. By the way,
is thirty grand is that standard for criticizing officials or
is that a little more you know, I do not
(33:29):
like more. I would I thought so too, but I'm
not sure. But there's a it's like a menu the
NBA has with the union where if you violate certain
rules you're fine, Like uniform violations get a certain amount
of punishment. They can only find them so much because
of the collective bargaining agreement. Let's go to Joey in Vegas. Hello, Joey,
(33:51):
you were on the Ben Maller Show. Welcome Joey, Ben Maller. Oh,
thank you for having me, man. I am excited. You're
excited to be here. I'm so excited. Man. I've been
trying to call you for like a while now, like
I just haven't put the time into it. I always
catch you, like getting out of the gym and like
I'm about to go home and sleep, and I never
(34:12):
catch So I never always catch like an hour of
the show, but I wanted to call for a long time. Well,
thank you, and you were you were at the gym tonight, Joey,
you just came back from the gym. No, I had
worked tonight, went to the gym before work, and I
wanted to go have a drink with my friend. But
I was just vibing on the way home. You came on.
It was eleven o'clock. I was like Ben Maller's show
(34:35):
it is, and I just wanted to dude, man, you get,
you get. You gained such a fan bro. Your your
voice is iconic, you have some iconic monologues, but you're
you're the ship. Excuse my language. That's a promo right there,
don't don't. I think we should say that word, Joe.
We should be allowed to say that word, Joey. I
think we should thank you. Thank you for your passion, Joey.
(34:59):
I appreciate that you're very passionate. Con Thank you for
your passion. Thank you burning on a good show every night.
But a couple of things, A couple of things. I
just heard what you're talking about Lebron and Chail Son.
I'm so glad you brought up the UFC. I am
a gigantic UFC san. I'm from Las Vegas, Nevada. I
was raised on UFC um so I watch a lot
(35:20):
of it. Chail Sonning is one of the most is
a highly respected. Oh my gosh, there's a large don't
get in renaction it. Maybe you're okay, No, it's been
in my goddamn neighborhood back. Okay, So anyways, Chail so
in chail Son. It is a very stand up guy
in the UFC community. And I watch a lot of
(35:41):
UFC pods. I've been watching UFC forever. These guys know
what they're talking about. When they're talking about p ds
and all that stuff, they know what the fuck they're
talking about. They're all right, I get you. I gave
you a one strike, but I appreciate listening to you. Unfortunately,
I have censors here that do not appreciate. Three dumbs
(36:03):
in about a minute. That's might be a record. He
loves the show Man. Come on, you know, think about Joey.
We're just a couple of boys, me and Joey Man.
Joey likes the show. He listens to an hour here
and there. He is coming back from the gym and
we're just a couple of guys. We're hanging out talking sports.
That's how men talk. We're burtle. Why can't we talk
like men? Why do we have to be censored? We have?
We like bad words. Damn it, we'd like bad words.
(36:29):
I hope he wipes his mouth. You just upset Coop
because he was calling, Yeah, because Joey's a UFC guy
and he just he just blasted you. He said, how
much credibility this guy? Chill Son? And if you missed it,
chill Son and you have x. UFC guy says that
he believes Lebron's doing PDS. How does he know? He
claims Lebron is using the same guy he used to
(36:50):
do peeds. Kind of a big deal, I would think,
But what do I know? I don't know. Maybe it
will not be a big deal. We'll find out in
the coming days. It is the Bannet Maller Show. As
we continue on time now for the who am I Game?
We'll go to the NBA Here it is the who
am I? Game? Joel nbads at the Sixers record for
the most foul shots made without a miss over a
(37:12):
two game spanning, made twenty eight. I am the only
center in NBA history to have made more foul shots
without a miss over a two game span. Who am I?
That's the question? The answer We'll get to it next.
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now for the who am I game? And will tell
you who we are in a minute. By the way,
who would like to point out Milkman Mike and Colorado
says that guy Joey in Vegas said he was raised
on the UFC. You Ben, were raised on KFC. That
(38:17):
is true, that Ross says, get that guy Joey back
on hold. That guy had some good info. Donkey Sausage says,
what Roberto said has to be a drop. Were you
the one that said that the three dump line? Was
that you? Yeah, So that's gotta be a drop Roberto,
Donkey Sauce says he said the three dump line in
(38:39):
a minute, that that is a drop from the show.
So we got to add that to our drop collection.
Emmett the Blind Seahawk fan says, I think Joey may
or may not have been drunk when driving. I don't know.
It's just he's all right, you know, it seemed okay.
I hope so. Joel n beats at the Sixers record
for the most file shots made without an over a
(39:00):
two game span with twenty eight. I am the only
center in NBA history to make more foul shots without
a miss over a two game span. Who am I?
That is the question. What is the answer? The Mandalorian
guests by Benito the Cowboy fan Fudgie says, Papa Smurf
is the answer. Inca Terre is going with that other druggie.
(39:21):
Peyton Manning Donkey Sausage says Cookie Belcher is the answer.
One of the great names. Rick Barry from Willie the Mess,
Mister Magoo guests by clam Page Down, Eddie garcias Burner
Account says these nuts is the answer. Mister Luciano says
(39:41):
Lesaine Crooks is the answer. We've got the big Fundamental
Tim Duncan from Just Josh, That's his answer. Angry Bill's
illegitimate son Joey and Vegas from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
Cedric of Hogwartz from Mashane in Des Moines. One all
right out of time. The correct it's or any is
none other than Moses Malone at the time I got
(40:03):
it right at he Moses Malone is the answer. Moses
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