July 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller opens hour 1 of the show reacting to the Milwaukee Bucks signing Myles Turner and subsequently releasing Damian Lillard. Why is Lillard reportedly so happy to be on the way out of Milwaukee? Why weren't the Pacers willing to pay as much as the Bucks for Turner? Plus, more fun with a new edition of The 'Who Am I' Game!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number be wan our
one of the original Recipe podcast. A Happy Wednesday to you,
July the second, and here in our number one. Why
why is Dame Lillard so happy that Milwaukee decided to
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fire him? We'll talk about that. Also true or false?
The Bucks were being reckless, so we're being tossed around
and buying out Dame Lillard to get their hands on
Miles Turner of the Pacers, and we're the Pacers being
cheap in letting Miles turn to leave without much of
a fight and go to the division rival Bucks. We'll
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talk about all of that and more right now here
it is our number one, a star on the move
but not traded, not traded, but on the move. Welcome,
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our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball and a
surprise from the Cream City. And if you didn't see this,
perhaps in a big shakeup, oh my god, a big shape,
although the guy was gonna play anyway next season. If
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you didn't see it from Pro bouncy Ball, Dame time
has ended. No more Dame, at least for the Bucks.
If you have not heard, and maybe you have missed
it here, the Milwaukee Bucks have said bye bye to
one of their star players. No, they did not trade Dame.
They did not trade Giannis, but they did leave many
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around the NBA thunderstruck. As it is game over for
Dame Lillard there and see you later. They agreed to
a four year contract one hundred and seven million dollars
for former Indiana Pacers center Miles Turner you might remember
he played for the Pacers for the longest amount of
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time of anyone currently on the Pacers. They were in
the NBA Finals, and he was the top free agent
on the market, and he is no longer at market.
He has come off the market. Milwaukee did not have
enough cap space to sign Miles Turner, so they circumvented
the salary cap, proving yet again the cap is crap,
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even in the NBA, and so they created the necessary
room to add Miles Turner by waiving Damian Lillard. He
was fired by the Milwaukee Bucks. Out of course, in
the NBA, when you're an All Star and you've got
a decorated resume, they call it released. They don't say
you're fired, they say it's released. Milwaukee will pay him
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more than one hundred and ten million. That's guaranteed money
the final two years of the contract, and it's essentially
a dead cap hit, something that happens quite a bit
in the NFL world. It is happening now in basketball.
So Damian Lillard, who dealt with the snap Crackle Pop,
goes the Achilles during the playoffs and the story is
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he's elated. Reports say Dame Lillard elated, elated, the Bucks
decided to get rid of him. So let us discuss
the question, why why is Damian Lillard so happy that
Milwaukee is firing him. So I've got Hallmark, telescope and Alligator,
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and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to put the biscuit in the basket.
Is what we're gonna do, So a dame times. His
reaction here is what we call a dead giveaway. It
is a dead giveaway. He never wanted to go to
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the state of Wisconsin. Every man, woman and child knew that.
To pay attention, right, we all knew that you want
to go there. Now, you didn't make a big stick
about it. But deep down he had his heart set
on Miami. He was eyeing Miami palm trees and cocktails
and sunshine. And he went to overcast, dreary skies, chilli
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weather Milwaukee and the Trailblazers refused to accommodate Lillard's desires,
his wants and needs back in the day, and so
he went to Wisconsin. There and he didn't want to
go there. And so he did his time with the Bucks,
and now he has been given a Milwaukee Mulligan. He's
got the Mulligan, Dame Lillard and one hundred and thirteen million.
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That's not punishment. Your employer is paying you one hundred
and thirteen million. You don't have to work for them,
my god. And the reason he's so happy is he's
obviously not going to be playing for Milwaukee anymore. And
Lillard will end up getting another at least one hundred
million dollars on top of the one hundred thirteen million dollars.
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And this is a microcosm, is it not? Of the
modern NBA landscape In the year twenty twenty five, the
superstar player gets the divorce. It is so routine now,
it is so common you do not even need a
lawyer at this point. Now, this is more extreme than most.
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But Dame Time got his freedom, and he gets a big, giant,
cartoon sized buyout check the bucks clear salary cap space,
and everyone just hugs it out. It's like they're in
a Hallmark movie. And Lillard moves on to his next
team and then that's that, and Milwaukee on his way out,
they say, all right, dam we will give you a
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golden parachute. And it's it's cloth has been weaved with gold,
we melted it down, we weaved it in there, and
it allows him to handpick his next team, whoever that
might be the usual suspects. And despite being on crutches
because his achilles is all met stop in shredded, Damian
Lilo will be doing the mating dance with prospective employers.
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They'll play foot see and they'll flicker their eyes and
all that. He will not be able to play until
at the minimum February of next year, so you know,
miss October, November, December, January, maybe even the whole year.
But the early reports sorry, he should be able to
play by some time in February of next year. So
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where will he end. Well, you keep an eye on
the heat. They don't have anybody good. They suck the
Miami Heat, so that's an obvious one. A team like
the Denver Nuggets could see them. They're shaking things up,
moving some things around. Could see that then, and who knows,
go back to the trail blass to try to win,
So could go back there. He obviously regretted when he laughed.
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He's like, well, this life on the other side of
the grass is not always greener. If it is, maybe
I don't like that green. I like a different shade
of green. Meanwhile, so let's go out of the other
part of this, and that's the Milwaukee Bucks part of it.
Is it true or false? The Milwaukee Bucks were being reckless, reckless,
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as some indicated by buying out Dame Lillard to get
their hands on Miles turn This is being described the
word was used reckless. That was the word that was
used on this. So it's sure or false. So on
my scorecard I wrote down false with a capital F.
False with a capital Now, the idea that the Bucks
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were somehow reckless and going rogue and all that by
buying out Damian Lillard's contract and pivoting towards Myles Turner,
I find that laughable with a capital L. I do.
This is not about being reckless. It's about a different
R word, being realistic. That's the word I will use here.
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Because in the NBA, you build around You don't really
build around a system or a culture. They everyone loves
to talk about those things, but you don't really build
around those things. Build around a superstar player, period. Stop.
And when you've got a once in a generation player, Yannis,
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a dental Cumbo like the Milwaukee Bucks have their hands
on a generational town. Blah blah, one man, wrecking crew, etcetera, etcetera.
The Greek God and high tops all that stuff. You
do whatever you have to do to pacify him. And
so this is Yanis's franchise. Now we all know that.
And they go, they go to hell when he leaves.
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So if you look at this through a telescope, get
the old telescope out. I mean, you look at the telescope.
Yannis in this solar system in Milwaukee Bucks hierarchy is
the sun. He is the moon, He is the cheese Kurds.
He is the cheese in Milwaukee basketball. And that's it.
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And this is the cost of modern contention because once
Janice is done there, it's all over, right, it's all
it's all over. So you either pay now or you
pay later. So Yannis, when he walks out the door,
at some point you figure out play with somebody else
before he's done in Milwaukee. Then it's all over. So
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this was the word is calculated. It's a calculated move
because you say it's desperate if you want, and you'll
call it whatever. But I would not use the word reckless.
I would not. And the movie is about keeping Yannis
engaged and you know, smiling and all that stuff, and
contending and competing and but staying, staying, because you got
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to have about twenty Draft Lottery appearances before you get
another player like Yannis, and the moment that he leaves
and the door closes behind him, Milwaukee becomes just another
small market, go nowhere, filler spam team in the NBA,
And I'll have the memories of Giannis and then wherever
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he goes, they can watch him and the broken dreams
of him playing for somebody else and the maybe their
arena will become haunted by the ghosts of what could
have been. So you hold lot of that. So if
the price is you got to pay one hundred and
thirteen million dollars in dead money for a guy that's
not going to be on your team, you spread that
out over a couple of years. But you do that
because you get a couple more years out of Yanni's
before he demands to be traded to the Knicks or
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the Warriors or the Clippers or something like that. All right, now,
the last word here, So were the Pacers being el Cheapo?
Were the Pacers being el cheapo in letting Miles trying
to leave for a team in their division, the Milwaukee Bucks.
Because the story out of Indiana Pacers riding high, they
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were in the NBA Finals year and the whole thing
and got all the way down to the bitter end
of the NBA Finals. Then that, so does a dog
get fleece? Is my response. We're the Pacers being cheap.
Let's hear, so let's do the arithmetics. So Miles Turner
is gone. He's not staying in Indiana. Not because he
wanted to leave, if you believe his own words. Not
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because of that, Not because he didn't fit playing alongside
Tyre's Halliburton's got his own Achilles injury, or not because
he couldn't get it done on the court anymore. Not
because of that, Not because he was not a productive
member of the team that got to the bloody NBA
Finals the Pacers did, and all that stuff. No, no, no, no.
When you break it all down, you add the numbers
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up and you put him in the calculator. Miles Turner
is gone because the Pacers, the ownership group there once
again refused to spend like they you have to spend
a certain amount. You get to a certain point and
everyone gets paid a lot of money there and you
have to pay to keep that talent together. And they
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didn't want to do it. It's not the first time, it's
not the last time, and this is it. It's no
different than in baseball the Tampa Bay Rays, whoever so
often have a team that gets far in the playoffs,
and then they immediately start dumping players. I can't afford
this guy, I can't afford that guy. And you're gone,
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and you're gone, and you're gone, and there you go.
So just say, whatever success the Pacers have, we know
that it will not last. It's just the latest example.
And I have no skin in the game because I'm
not I'm not there, I'm not a fan of the team.
I just know from the outside and looking down from
thirty thousand feet that this is a tradition. It is
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an endearing tradition of the Pacers. When the check gets really,
really big, the Pacers, they pull back the pen is
what they do. They want to pay that. It's kind
of like when you go out to a nice meal
with some friends and the check comes and it's time
to pay the bill, and suddenly the Pacers. They're there
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and they had a great time. They enjoyed the nice
bread with the garlic olive dip there. They liked that,
they liked the fetichini alfredo, they like some of the
other dishes. And then when it was time to pay,
they become an alligator alligator arms. Suddenly they can't reach
the check. And that's the Indiana Pacers. They had success,
they tasted it. Everyone seemed happy. There was a fluke
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run to the NBA Finals, and so how do they
handle that. They're like, yeah, you know, cheapness. Rick Carlisle
and Haliburn and these guys were, oh yeah. Carlisle said
it was a priority that Miles Turner was a priority,
said that back at April. They all said the right things,
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because this is why you don't take what people say
for more than just face value. And it was their
priority until it came time to actually pay the money.
And so keeping Miles Turner, we are told here that
keeping Miles Turner around, that that would have meant going
into the traded luxury tax. Oh my god, horror of horse.
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That is something the Pacers have not done in a generation,
twenty years. Havn't done it. Haven't gone there, not gonna
do it now. So the Pacers blinked and Miles Turner
said bye bye. He bolted out of there like a
horse running at the start of the Kentucky Derby got
out of there. And you can't really blame him for
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doing that. In Indiana had a chance to keep him.
They fetched around, they left around, and they they found out.
They eft around, they found out, and so they chose
their favorite player. They love the almighty dollars save a
couple of shekels, and so the Pacers will save some
dollars and all that. And while they did that, they
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watched the longest tenured player go out the door, and
not just go out the door and go out somewhere
in the Western Conference. No, no, no, no, he will
come back to be a poltergeist, Miles Turner, at least
for the next couple of years. He will hunt him
as he will be in the same division, any division
rival team that the Pacers had owned in recent years
in the playoffs. Well, now Myles Turner gone, and so
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they'll have to get somebody else and figure that out
and throw it against the wall like spaghetti and see
what sticks against the wall. Yeah, it's a sad sad
so it's not a sad story, it's just a rather
pathetic So if you would like to comment on that
or any of the other moving and shaking going on,
busy time, you love the transaction, and who doesn't love
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word game of the Stars coming up in our number four,
So a lot to get to. Fergdog rights and says,
looking forward to Mike the Leprechaun invading the studio, Gunner
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was the early favorite for Caller of the Year. But
he is, But it's all been Mike lately. I hope
Lorena is on her best favor. Well, I think Loreino
will be okay because she's not in the building. She's
not here, be right. The listener b wrights and says,
now Mallard can spend endless time recruiting Dame with the Clippers.
I don't work for the Clippers, Bee, I don't care
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if if he wants to win, he'll go to the Clippers.
Otherwise he wants to lose, he'll go to some other team.
That's it. What do you want me to do? What
else do we have? Let's see. Brian says, congrats to
your Bucks who have reloaded and a legit contender in
the East. I didn't realize I was representing the Milwaukee Bucks.
I had no idea that the Milwaukee Bucks had loaded
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up and we're ready to go. By the way, I
don't think that's loading up like Miles Turner the other
pickups that you're mentioning here. I don't know that that
counts as loading up or I would go no, I
would go absolutely not on that. What else do yeah?
Listen page nine, Josh has welcome back. Ben cannot wait
to hear what you have to say about mister Darren
Waller unretiring and the rest of the Shenanigans. We'll get
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to that at some point. Darren Waller realizing NFL money,
as long as you can get that NFL money, you
got to take that. You can't step away from that
NFL money. I don't care how messed up your body gets,
the amount of money they pay you to do something
that's relatively easy compared to the rest of the world
to make that kind of money. Come on, super Market,
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Steve right since says Miles Turner is the big free
agent in the off season, no wonder it has seemed
like a very slow June. Well, I don't know if
you know this, Supermarket se if you're gonnalow you away,
this is now July. Oh my god, we're in July.
We are in the month of July fascinating. Shanean new
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Morn is happy the show is back. Cody says, don't
forget it's Bobby Benia Day. At age sixty two. He's
getting his one point two million check from the Mets,
still had another ten years to go. Well, Bobby Benia
Day is kind of cool, Cody and all that. But
the Dodgers, what they're doing with all this deferred money?
Are they going to have show Hey Otani Day where
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they the one point two million unt The Dodgers is
going to be paying Otani like thirty five to forty
million or something like that per year in deferred money.
At some point, Trucker Joe writes, and he says, Ben,
what do we have to do to get you into
the Radio Hall of Fame? Like Colin Coward? Well, I
would have to be voted, and normally the politics. Now
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I know that at first I'm not asking to be
in the Hall of Fame. I don't get in or out.
Who cares? But alf the Alien Opiner attempted this several
years ago, and there's a lot of politics involved. Now.
The Radio Hall of Fame, I think is out in Chicago.
I think that's where the Radio Hall of Fame is
I'm not even sure they have a vote. You have
to be as Alf said, he said, you have to
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be submitted to a panel. And so I don't know
if you guys want to do what you want with that.
I don't really know the back behind. I think the
companies have to support, Like the radio companies usually kind
of lead certain people down that path. So the chances
of me being led down that path are not great.
Supermarket Steve says, Dame Livard has spent his whole career
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in Portland and Milwaukee. In a winter sport. He is
headed straight for sunshine and palm trees anywhere you can
find them. In February, elated, how about gleeful, a static,
jubilant and you fork? Okay, Well he does. He's divorced,
he's got the kids, live in Portland. I believe I
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read that somewhere and so here you go back. If
he really is like, hey, I gotta spend time with
the kids. I want to be a good dad. I
got to hang out there, and of course the kids
someday will be like, be a good dad. Give another
two hundred million dollar contract. That'll really help us out
down the line up in the Q says hey, plus
on the monologue, Apparently there are several media a pundits
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predicting Dame time. We'll lined up with my rockets, and
I'm okay with it. If he can make it back
sometime next season. Well, the math is not great. Players
in their mid thirties that have Achilles injuries not great.
Filler up Phil rights in. He says, could you please
go back to the it's all about the Benjamin's opening song.
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Filler up Phil says, well, we stopped doing that because
there was this guy named Diddy who put that song out.
He's facing rather serious charges. Now. I guess the jury
has reached a partial verdict. I read that, but they
haven't announced the verdict. So if Diddy somehow gets out
of this and then is able to get out of
jail or avoid jail, then yeah, we can bring it back.
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They dropped a couple of charges, by the way, Oh
they they've already dropped a couple. Is that right? Let's
go to Marry the Boardop. You have more than this
Marry of the Boardop? You are you following the Deddi trial?
Some am I? But they dropped like the Arson majority
of the cases. Oh they did, okay, so it's looking
good for Diddy. Then I don't know know, okay, I
would ex Actually that's supposed to happen today, uh later
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today on the second of July year. Is this supposed
to be Diddy Day? Is that? Are they going to
reach your decision and then Diddy Day? Diddy Day? Call it?
You don't want to call it Diddy Day, but the
day they announced the verdict, Like, that's a big day, right,
this is you know, he's facing some serious jail time
like the rest of his life if he's convicted and
all this stuff, right or he was? So I haven't
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watched any of it. So am I missing out? Is
this great entertainment? Am I missing out on the Diddy trials?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Just like?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No, I don't know anything about it either, But I
like calling it Diddy Day? Did He Day? I like
that did He Day? Yeah? There you go. People will
be civil, right, they're not gonna How do you celebrate
if he if he does end up beating them the Feds?
You can't beat the Feds, Okay, right, you can't. No, no, no,
they can't because the Feds, though they always have home
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court advantage in their favorite. That's an old Beano cook line.
This old college football commentaries. The Feds always have home
court advantage, and they're favored in every every case, but
don't usually overcharge people, so they get some kind of conviction.
There's like they find one thing to listen. I haven't
seen it. I have watched. It doesn't really interest me
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all that much, but I will make a deal with you.
Filler up, Phil. If Dinny ends up somehow pulling the
rabbit out of the hat here and his dream team
of lawyers get him out of trouble, we will immediately
bring back the all about the Benjamin Saw. Yes, why
not until someone at management tells me not to do that.
Eugene in Chicago right since his men two NBA players
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no longer wanted by the teams they're on anymore. The
Greek freak is number one and number two is Lebron
James Milwaukee ready to start a rebuild. They just signed
Miles Truner to No, the Lakers only care about keeping
Luca happy new ownership in LA. I'm not reading it
that way. I'm not. You would think Lebron, though, would
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be very happy at the Lakers. He gets to play
with another superstar for a full season. Luka, doncik, you'd
think you'd be fired up about that. Let's go to
the phones and we'll say hello to Eenie Meenie, miny Moe.
Let's go to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome,
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hold on, Andre, you know there we go. Yeah, I
hear you. What's up?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
It's good to be happy. Happy Bobby Bonia days. So
Bobby Boia Day on the West Coast, on the West coast, Okay.
It was glorious here on the East Coast, Okay. But
now it's transfer.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Week that's got rained out though we got rained out
the Mets. No celebration there, the Mets game with the
brew crew rained out. So were they gonna have Bennie
out there running around with bags of money?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
It should have been you know, I think that was
part of the deal for Cohen, you know, Daddy Warbucks
when he bought the team, you know, because he has
the revenue based on his dealings on you know, very
successful you know, on Wall Street with his stocks. You know,
did he get maybe a little bit of insider information
but that's not here, I know there. But when he
you know, I see Willis wants to get on Nobody Buss.
He's a very enthusiastic about body Bonia Day as well.
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We're also gonna get ready to go for our stroll.
But I think it was a part of the Cohen,
the current Cohen acquisition, that he would happily take on
some of those earnings. It's supposed to be five million.
It's already seventeen million, and we got ten more years left.
So the five million dollars, you know, uh moneys and
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Will's to want to get five millions and get thirty
close to thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, is fired up here, man.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Fired up by body Bonida date. It's a beautiful thing,
particularly on the cape and islands. Ben This is the height.
This is not only the gloriousness of me being able
to be with you, okay, you know in the late
night hours consistent, but we're heading towards the fourth on Friday, and.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You know, build a big, massive fireworks show. You got
to take care of Willis. Dogs don't like fireworks. You
gotta take care of Willis Man. My dog, my dog,
my old dog Bella ran away on the fourth of July.
Was oh my god, Calm down, down, down, down, Willis down,
wellis he's he's.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
A he's likes it. He's a malinof So he's that
K nine dog. So that's that's like an.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Extra that's an investigative dog. That's a that's an investigative dog,
is what that is?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Right? So Willson fired up about.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Bobby no no no. I mentioned this earlier. So here's
how much I thought it was like fifty million the
Otani Otani day. He will get sixty eight million per
year in the thirred money, Otani day will be sixty
eight million. He's getting paid seventy million an annual salary,
but he's sixty eight of the seventies deferred by the Dodgers.
(29:54):
That starts in twenty thirty four, So in nine years,
Otani day will be sixty eight million per year day million.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
And I think it's only fitting because that's the SE's
going to be the second to last year of Bobby
Bonia Day. So as I think Bobby go'dea will pass
the baton.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
It's a great idea. Okay, they should have a ceremony
and Mets when the Mets play the Dodgers, they should
have Bania hand a bag of money. To Otani and
then Otanio laugh He said, one point two million. I've
been sixty eight million. I don't care about your little bag.
One point two million.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's right, and he can take it going on into
the future in Verport two. No, I know you got
callers lined up, but Ben speaking of getting a boatload
of money to do nothing right, this is what Damian
Lillard now is up for. Because the Milwaukee Bucks, they're
essentially blowing up the team. I don't I think it
was going to get here eventually. I don't necessarily like
the way they did it because Jannis was putting out
some things about he would be loyal to the soil
(30:49):
to stay in Milwaukee. But now they make this move
and they go through all of this. Wills can't believe
it all for what. Miles Turner, what are you talking
What are we talking about here? Okay, well we were
talking about Risen to the moment. He's a good player.
They were in the finals. But you don't go through
all of this rigamarole to bring in Miles Turns think
that's going to convince Giannis answer Coopo to stay. So
for my money, he's been not not just politely escorted.
(31:12):
He's been DJ Jazzy Jeff thrown out of Milwaukee. Where's
Uncle Phil get him in there? That's how we Honesty
is leaving Milwaukee and he's set it straight for my
money to the Golden State Warriors. I think there. I
think that's where he's gonna land. Now there's some other teams,
the Knicks, but the Nick don't they don't know who
they are. They have you gotten their house in order?
And possibly Miami he does like no South Beach Miami.
(31:33):
But I think in terms of a team that's gonna
you know, he's got Steph Curry there, He's got Jimmy
Butler there in the Bay Area. He can get some
of the artificial intelligence money, the Bucks. You know, you
might have been able to make an offer he couldn't refuse,
like bringing jew Holiday back to Milwaukee to build it
back up. Since the Celtics want to give away championship.
But no, you want to pay Miles Turner and Damian
Little's fifty million dollars, you know, and you know, give
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you Honesty in the back of your hand. So way
he's out of there, But I'm in here.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Thank you, sore the rambling man our guy Andre ferg
dog concerned, writes, and he says, what's up with willis?
You must have gotten infected by some kind of computer virus.
So so he says the specialist right sinceays the government
of Montenegro has just announced it's nominating Mahler for the
(32:22):
Nobel Peace Prize. There you go. Can't think of a
better candidate. Well, very kind. You can find out on
a map, will be will be in good shape. Let's
go to any meaning money. Let's go to John. John
is in Reno and John is next. It is the
Ben Mahlor Show. We'll get to the rest of the
story in a moment. Hello, John, how are you tonight? John?
(32:45):
If I was any better, I'd be sleeping. But I'm not.
I'm here. I'm talking so well. I had a chance
to do a couple of shots with mister No and
Irana last night.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I didn't want you to miss out, so I figured
I would have a shot with you on the air.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Are you taking like an actual shot? What kind of
shot are you taking?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
We're doing Jamison.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
We're doing Jamison. And this happened on the air. Last
I was away. I had something I had to do
so I could be here last night. So okay, you're
doing a shot of jamison right now? Okay, and then anything,
do you need anything from me?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Just keep entertaining me so I can stay up and
keep drinking.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Okay, Well if you drink a lot, though, at some
point you're going to pass out because you've had so
much out for a while. Just start all right. You're
listening to our live coverage. This is John and Reno.
He's about to take a shot.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yeah, that goes down.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I believe you just talking a shot of jamison right
there while I was talking there dramatically. Is this a
full It's not a This is not a baby shot.
This is a full shot. Right, it's a man shot.
This will put air on your chest, that kind of shot.
Two hours, two outs of your throat's burning up now?
(33:58):
Oh yeah, okay, doing good? All right? Well, good luck man?
How many how many shots? How many shots an hour
are you averaging? Do we know how many shots you're taking?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Oh? You know, it depends on depends on the mood.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Well, i'm talking to you right now. I want to
know what what are we looking at?
Speaker 3 (34:14):
That was my second one?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
And you start when did you start at the beginning
of the show about Okay, So it's been in here
in Reno. So it's been an hour and twelve minutes.
So that's about every thirty six minutes a shot my math.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yeah, and then I got a couple of cocktails in
between there.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
All right, Well pace yourself. It's a marathon, sir, it's
a marathon.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Oh, thank you, I've done this in a while.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
God bless you, John, And thank you, sir, God bless
your liver. All right, thank you. There he goes John
and Reno. So the rest of the story. I remember
the deal we talked about in the previous episode of
the show Malik Beasley, who was a key role player
for the Detroit Pistons, and his name came up in
a federal gambling invest instigation. And well, turns out, now
(35:02):
we're hearing the rest of the stories. He seems that
my man Malik Beasley loved to spend a lot of money,
and sometimes it was money he didn't have. According to
the Detroit News, they investigated Malik Beasley and he has
more than eight million dollars worth of financial issues. He's
(35:24):
been sued twice by his landlord in Detroit. He's actually
had part of his NBA paycheck seized. This according to
public records research. Court records obtained by the media there
in Detroit, claim that he has not been paying his bills.
(35:44):
He's essentially a dead beat, and the debts have been
mounting up, including a celebrity barber who he did not pay,
a dentist, a landlord, and he also got loaned a
bunch of money, like one hundreds of thousands of dollars
from a marketing firm in New York. And this has
been going on for years. Even though he's made a
(36:08):
lot of money. He had a fifty nine million dollar
contract during his career. He's he's earned money, I guess,
not the contract total, but the total amount he's earned
his over fifty nine million dollars. And while he has
not been charged with any crime at this point, the
some of the videos that are going around of Malik
Beasley being very aggressive to score certain baskets at the
(36:30):
end of games makes you wonder, like things that make
you go hmmm when you put two and two together.
He hadn't been charged with any yet. This is not
helpful and from when I've heard, he's not alone though
there's a lot This actually happens more than you think.
These guys in the NBA make a lot of money,
but they didn't really pay much attention, you know, didn't
get taught how to balance the books and invest money
(36:52):
and save money. And they spend it. As soon as
it comes in, it goes out. And so no matter
how much you make, it's like the old Patrick. We
make a lot of money, we spend a lot of money.
Time Now for the who am I? Game? Man, This
is where I pretend to be somebody else? As we
call it the who am I? Game? So cal Rally
has done it for the Mariners this season, but prior
(37:14):
there had only been two catchers in Major League Baseball
history to have it thirty three or more homers with
seventy or more runs batted in and nine or more
steals in a season. They are pun Rodriguez and me.
Who am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.
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Videos right there. Check it out on the YouTube. All right,
back to it we go, and here is the who
am I game? So cal Raley has done it for
the Mariners this season, but prior there had only been
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two catchers in baseball history that have hit thirty three
or more home runs and seventy or more runs batted
in with nine or more steals in a season. They
are Pud Rodriguez and me. That is the question. What
is the answer? Let's see does anyone I know the answer?
Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota going with former Twinkie Butch
(38:48):
Weineger as his answer. Also a Yankee and an Angel
Bobby and Florida says the punisher is the answer. Milkman,
Mike and Colorado going with Frank Drebin policing the fireworks
warehouse in Arizona. Jonah Heim from malor prop guy. Who
else do we have a very funny page down? Manny
(39:09):
Sanguian from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, alf the Alien Opiner says,
Justin in Cincinnati's mother is the answer. Kevin Apier from
mister nice Guy. That's his answer. Who else do we
have Let's see here, can't read that on the air?
Stuck in Sacramento, says a manager of sober living here
in Sacramento. I offer John and Reno a bed a
(39:32):
drink every thirty five minutes. Leave the dark side, John
Reno as damn near as horrible as Sacramento. You don't
skip a beat, he says. Who else do we have?
A jelly roll from Scrooge? That's his answer? Mordecai three
fingers Brown from mister Irrigation page down, Jamil Hill from
Robbie the Mariner fan Tony Payne, I guess by just
(39:55):
Josh we have Jorge Posada, my boy from supermarket Stee,
Joe Mauer from Luke. Who else? Willie Mopana from truck
or Joe? That's his answer? Jody Davis from Sean in Portland.
Who else do we have a rob skinny jeans Polinka
job prospects from Terry in England, Dizzy Dean tossed out
(40:15):
by Mickey in State forty eight, king Ry going with
Andre and willis the dog? Who else do you have? Bigdan?
I can't read that on the right. Mary, Do you
have an answer? Married? Do you know who this is?
Who is it Barney Barne? Is it Barney the Dinosaur?
Is that?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
It is not Barney the Dinosaur? The correct answer, cal Rawley.
He's done it already here, not even the All Star
break for the Manners. But prior there had only been
two catchers in Big League history to iFIT thirty three
or more home run, seventy or more runs, batted in
nine or more steals in a season, Pud Rodriguez and
the other Carlton Fisk in nineteen eighty five for the
(40:53):
Chicago White Sox. How about that,
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number be wan our
one of the original Recipe podcast. A Happy Wednesday to you,
July the second, and here in our number one. Why
why is Dame Lillard so happy that Milwaukee decided to
(00:22):
fire him? We'll talk about that. Also true or false?
The Bucks were being reckless, so we're being tossed around
and buying out Dame Lillard to get their hands on
Miles Turner of the Pacers, and we're the Pacers being
cheap in letting Miles turn to leave without much of
a fight and go to the division rival Bucks. We'll
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talk about all of that and more right now here
it is our number one, a star on the move
but not traded, not traded, but on the move. Welcome,
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our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball and a
surprise from the Cream City. And if you didn't see this,
perhaps in a big shakeup, oh my god, a big shape,
although the guy was gonna play anyway next season. If
(02:12):
you didn't see it from Pro bouncy Ball, Dame time
has ended. No more Dame, at least for the Bucks.
If you have not heard, and maybe you have missed
it here, the Milwaukee Bucks have said bye bye to
one of their star players. No, they did not trade Dame.
They did not trade Giannis, but they did leave many
(02:33):
around the NBA thunderstruck. As it is game over for
Dame Lillard there and see you later. They agreed to
a four year contract one hundred and seven million dollars
for former Indiana Pacers center Miles Turner you might remember
he played for the Pacers for the longest amount of
(02:56):
time of anyone currently on the Pacers. They were in
the NBA Finals, and he was the top free agent
on the market, and he is no longer at market.
He has come off the market. Milwaukee did not have
enough cap space to sign Miles Turner, so they circumvented
the salary cap, proving yet again the cap is crap,
(03:17):
even in the NBA, and so they created the necessary
room to add Miles Turner by waiving Damian Lillard. He
was fired by the Milwaukee Bucks. Out of course, in
the NBA, when you're an All Star and you've got
a decorated resume, they call it released. They don't say
you're fired, they say it's released. Milwaukee will pay him
(03:42):
more than one hundred and ten million. That's guaranteed money
the final two years of the contract, and it's essentially
a dead cap hit, something that happens quite a bit
in the NFL world. It is happening now in basketball.
So Damian Lillard, who dealt with the snap Crackle Pop,
goes the Achilles during the playoffs and the story is
(04:06):
he's elated. Reports say Dame Lillard elated, elated, the Bucks
decided to get rid of him. So let us discuss
the question, why why is Damian Lillard so happy that
Milwaukee is firing him. So I've got Hallmark, telescope and Alligator,
(04:30):
and we will combine all of these things together, and
we are going to put the biscuit in the basket.
Is what we're gonna do, So a dame times. His
reaction here is what we call a dead giveaway. It
is a dead giveaway. He never wanted to go to
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the state of Wisconsin. Every man, woman and child knew that.
To pay attention, right, we all knew that you want
to go there. Now, you didn't make a big stick
about it. But deep down he had his heart set
on Miami. He was eyeing Miami palm trees and cocktails
and sunshine. And he went to overcast, dreary skies, chilli
(05:12):
weather Milwaukee and the Trailblazers refused to accommodate Lillard's desires,
his wants and needs back in the day, and so
he went to Wisconsin. There and he didn't want to
go there. And so he did his time with the Bucks,
and now he has been given a Milwaukee Mulligan. He's
got the Mulligan, Dame Lillard and one hundred and thirteen million.
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That's not punishment. Your employer is paying you one hundred
and thirteen million. You don't have to work for them,
my god. And the reason he's so happy is he's
obviously not going to be playing for Milwaukee anymore. And
Lillard will end up getting another at least one hundred
million dollars on top of the one hundred thirteen million dollars.
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And this is a microcosm, is it not? Of the
modern NBA landscape In the year twenty twenty five, the
superstar player gets the divorce. It is so routine now,
it is so common you do not even need a
lawyer at this point. Now, this is more extreme than most.
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But Dame Time got his freedom, and he gets a big, giant,
cartoon sized buyout check the bucks clear salary cap space,
and everyone just hugs it out. It's like they're in
a Hallmark movie. And Lillard moves on to his next
team and then that's that, and Milwaukee on his way out,
they say, all right, dam we will give you a
(06:41):
golden parachute. And it's it's cloth has been weaved with gold,
we melted it down, we weaved it in there, and
it allows him to handpick his next team, whoever that
might be the usual suspects. And despite being on crutches
because his achilles is all met stop in shredded, Damian
Lilo will be doing the mating dance with prospective employers.
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They'll play foot see and they'll flicker their eyes and
all that. He will not be able to play until
at the minimum February of next year, so you know,
miss October, November, December, January, maybe even the whole year.
But the early reports sorry, he should be able to
play by some time in February of next year. So
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where will he end. Well, you keep an eye on
the heat. They don't have anybody good. They suck the
Miami Heat, so that's an obvious one. A team like
the Denver Nuggets could see them. They're shaking things up,
moving some things around. Could see that then, and who knows,
go back to the trail blass to try to win,
So could go back there. He obviously regretted when he laughed.
(07:46):
He's like, well, this life on the other side of
the grass is not always greener. If it is, maybe
I don't like that green. I like a different shade
of green. Meanwhile, so let's go out of the other
part of this, and that's the Milwaukee Bucks part of it.
Is it true or false? The Milwaukee Bucks were being reckless, reckless,
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as some indicated by buying out Dame Lillard to get
their hands on Miles turn This is being described the
word was used reckless. That was the word that was
used on this. So it's sure or false. So on
my scorecard I wrote down false with a capital F.
False with a capital Now, the idea that the Bucks
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were somehow reckless and going rogue and all that by
buying out Damian Lillard's contract and pivoting towards Myles Turner,
I find that laughable with a capital L. I do.
This is not about being reckless. It's about a different
R word, being realistic. That's the word I will use here.
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Because in the NBA, you build around You don't really
build around a system or a culture. They everyone loves
to talk about those things, but you don't really build
around those things. Build around a superstar player, period. Stop.
And when you've got a once in a generation player, Yannis,
(09:10):
a dental Cumbo like the Milwaukee Bucks have their hands
on a generational town. Blah blah, one man, wrecking crew, etcetera, etcetera.
The Greek God and high tops all that stuff. You
do whatever you have to do to pacify him. And
so this is Yanis's franchise. Now we all know that.
And they go, they go to hell when he leaves.
(09:32):
So if you look at this through a telescope, get
the old telescope out. I mean, you look at the telescope.
Yannis in this solar system in Milwaukee Bucks hierarchy is
the sun. He is the moon, He is the cheese Kurds.
He is the cheese in Milwaukee basketball. And that's it.
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And this is the cost of modern contention because once
Janice is done there, it's all over, right, it's all
it's all over. So you either pay now or you
pay later. So Yannis, when he walks out the door,
at some point you figure out play with somebody else
before he's done in Milwaukee. Then it's all over. So
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this was the word is calculated. It's a calculated move
because you say it's desperate if you want, and you'll
call it whatever. But I would not use the word reckless.
I would not. And the movie is about keeping Yannis
engaged and you know, smiling and all that stuff, and
contending and competing and but staying, staying, because you got
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to have about twenty Draft Lottery appearances before you get
another player like Yannis, and the moment that he leaves
and the door closes behind him, Milwaukee becomes just another
small market, go nowhere, filler spam team in the NBA,
And I'll have the memories of Giannis and then wherever
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he goes, they can watch him and the broken dreams
of him playing for somebody else and the maybe their
arena will become haunted by the ghosts of what could
have been. So you hold lot of that. So if
the price is you got to pay one hundred and
thirteen million dollars in dead money for a guy that's
not going to be on your team, you spread that
out over a couple of years. But you do that
because you get a couple more years out of Yanni's
before he demands to be traded to the Knicks or
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the Warriors or the Clippers or something like that. All right, now,
the last word here, So were the Pacers being el Cheapo?
Were the Pacers being el cheapo in letting Miles trying
to leave for a team in their division, the Milwaukee Bucks.
Because the story out of Indiana Pacers riding high, they
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were in the NBA Finals year and the whole thing
and got all the way down to the bitter end
of the NBA Finals. Then that, so does a dog
get fleece? Is my response. We're the Pacers being cheap.
Let's hear, so let's do the arithmetics. So Miles Turner
is gone. He's not staying in Indiana. Not because he
wanted to leave, if you believe his own words. Not
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because of that, Not because he didn't fit playing alongside
Tyre's Halliburton's got his own Achilles injury, or not because
he couldn't get it done on the court anymore. Not
because of that, Not because he was not a productive
member of the team that got to the bloody NBA
Finals the Pacers did, and all that stuff. No, no, no, no.
When you break it all down, you add the numbers
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up and you put him in the calculator. Miles Turner
is gone because the Pacers, the ownership group there once
again refused to spend like they you have to spend
a certain amount. You get to a certain point and
everyone gets paid a lot of money there and you
have to pay to keep that talent together. And they
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didn't want to do it. It's not the first time, it's
not the last time, and this is it. It's no
different than in baseball the Tampa Bay Rays, whoever so
often have a team that gets far in the playoffs,
and then they immediately start dumping players. I can't afford
this guy, I can't afford that guy. And you're gone,
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and you're gone, and you're gone, and there you go.
So just say, whatever success the Pacers have, we know
that it will not last. It's just the latest example.
And I have no skin in the game because I'm
not I'm not there, I'm not a fan of the team.
I just know from the outside and looking down from
thirty thousand feet that this is a tradition. It is
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an endearing tradition of the Pacers. When the check gets really,
really big, the Pacers, they pull back the pen is
what they do. They want to pay that. It's kind
of like when you go out to a nice meal
with some friends and the check comes and it's time
to pay the bill, and suddenly the Pacers. They're there
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and they had a great time. They enjoyed the nice
bread with the garlic olive dip there. They liked that,
they liked the fetichini alfredo, they like some of the
other dishes. And then when it was time to pay,
they become an alligator alligator arms. Suddenly they can't reach
the check. And that's the Indiana Pacers. They had success,
they tasted it. Everyone seemed happy. There was a fluke
(14:23):
run to the NBA Finals, and so how do they
handle that. They're like, yeah, you know, cheapness. Rick Carlisle
and Haliburn and these guys were, oh yeah. Carlisle said
it was a priority that Miles Turner was a priority,
said that back at April. They all said the right things,
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because this is why you don't take what people say
for more than just face value. And it was their
priority until it came time to actually pay the money.
And so keeping Miles Turner, we are told here that
keeping Miles Turner around, that that would have meant going
into the traded luxury tax. Oh my god, horror of horse.
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That is something the Pacers have not done in a generation,
twenty years. Havn't done it. Haven't gone there, not gonna
do it now. So the Pacers blinked and Miles Turner
said bye bye. He bolted out of there like a
horse running at the start of the Kentucky Derby got
out of there. And you can't really blame him for
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doing that. In Indiana had a chance to keep him.
They fetched around, they left around, and they they found out.
They eft around, they found out, and so they chose
their favorite player. They love the almighty dollars save a
couple of shekels, and so the Pacers will save some
dollars and all that. And while they did that, they
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watched the longest tenured player go out the door, and
not just go out the door and go out somewhere
in the Western Conference. No, no, no, no, he will
come back to be a poltergeist, Miles Turner, at least
for the next couple of years. He will hunt him
as he will be in the same division, any division
rival team that the Pacers had owned in recent years
in the playoffs. Well, now Myles Turner gone, and so
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they'll have to get somebody else and figure that out
and throw it against the wall like spaghetti and see
what sticks against the wall. Yeah, it's a sad sad
so it's not a sad story, it's just a rather
pathetic So if you would like to comment on that
or any of the other moving and shaking going on,
busy time, you love the transaction, and who doesn't love
(16:33):
the transaction? A fine time of the year for the transaction.
Will open up the phone lines here. You can be
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that and we'll yell at him and read him the
Riot Act on the air. So it's a bad job
by him, but anyway, we'll press on. We'll take your
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he is, But it's all been Mike lately. I hope
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not here, be right. The listener b wrights and says,
now Mallard can spend endless time recruiting Dame with the Clippers.
I don't work for the Clippers, Bee, I don't care
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if if he wants to win, he'll go to the Clippers.
Otherwise he wants to lose, he'll go to some other team.
That's it. What do you want me to do? What
else do we have? Let's see. Brian says, congrats to
your Bucks who have reloaded and a legit contender in
the East. I didn't realize I was representing the Milwaukee Bucks.
I had no idea that the Milwaukee Bucks had loaded
(20:47):
up and we're ready to go. By the way, I
don't think that's loading up like Miles Turner the other
pickups that you're mentioning here. I don't know that that
counts as loading up or I would go no, I
would go absolutely not on that. What else do yeah?
Listen page nine, Josh has welcome back. Ben cannot wait
to hear what you have to say about mister Darren
Waller unretiring and the rest of the Shenanigans. We'll get
(21:11):
to that at some point. Darren Waller realizing NFL money,
as long as you can get that NFL money, you
got to take that. You can't step away from that
NFL money. I don't care how messed up your body gets,
the amount of money they pay you to do something
that's relatively easy compared to the rest of the world
to make that kind of money. Come on, super Market,
(21:32):
Steve right since says Miles Turner is the big free
agent in the off season, no wonder it has seemed
like a very slow June. Well, I don't know if
you know this, Supermarket se if you're gonnalow you away,
this is now July. Oh my god, we're in July.
We are in the month of July fascinating. Shanean new
(21:53):
Morn is happy the show is back. Cody says, don't
forget it's Bobby Benia Day. At age sixty two. He's
getting his one point two million check from the Mets,
still had another ten years to go. Well, Bobby Benia
Day is kind of cool, Cody and all that. But
the Dodgers, what they're doing with all this deferred money?
Are they going to have show Hey Otani Day where
(22:16):
they the one point two million unt The Dodgers is
going to be paying Otani like thirty five to forty
million or something like that per year in deferred money.
At some point, Trucker Joe writes, and he says, Ben,
what do we have to do to get you into
the Radio Hall of Fame? Like Colin Coward? Well, I
would have to be voted, and normally the politics. Now
(22:37):
I know that at first I'm not asking to be
in the Hall of Fame. I don't get in or out.
Who cares? But alf the Alien Opiner attempted this several
years ago, and there's a lot of politics involved. Now.
The Radio Hall of Fame, I think is out in Chicago.
I think that's where the Radio Hall of Fame is
I'm not even sure they have a vote. You have
to be as Alf said, he said, you have to
(22:59):
be submitted to a panel. And so I don't know
if you guys want to do what you want with that.
I don't really know the back behind. I think the
companies have to support, Like the radio companies usually kind
of lead certain people down that path. So the chances
of me being led down that path are not great.
Supermarket Steve says, Dame Livard has spent his whole career
(23:20):
in Portland and Milwaukee. In a winter sport. He is
headed straight for sunshine and palm trees anywhere you can
find them. In February, elated, how about gleeful, a static,
jubilant and you fork? Okay, Well he does. He's divorced,
he's got the kids, live in Portland. I believe I
(23:44):
read that somewhere and so here you go back. If
he really is like, hey, I gotta spend time with
the kids. I want to be a good dad. I
got to hang out there, and of course the kids
someday will be like, be a good dad. Give another
two hundred million dollar contract. That'll really help us out
down the line up in the Q says hey, plus
on the monologue, Apparently there are several media a pundits
(24:04):
predicting Dame time. We'll lined up with my rockets, and
I'm okay with it. If he can make it back
sometime next season. Well, the math is not great. Players
in their mid thirties that have Achilles injuries not great.
Filler up Phil rights in. He says, could you please
go back to the it's all about the Benjamin's opening song.
(24:27):
Filler up Phil says, well, we stopped doing that because
there was this guy named Diddy who put that song out.
He's facing rather serious charges. Now. I guess the jury
has reached a partial verdict. I read that, but they
haven't announced the verdict. So if Diddy somehow gets out
of this and then is able to get out of
jail or avoid jail, then yeah, we can bring it back.
(24:51):
They dropped a couple of charges, by the way, Oh
they they've already dropped a couple. Is that right? Let's
go to Marry the Boardop. You have more than this
Marry of the Boardop? You are you following the Deddi trial?
Some am I? But they dropped like the Arson majority
of the cases. Oh they did, okay, so it's looking
good for Diddy. Then I don't know know, okay, I
would ex Actually that's supposed to happen today, uh later
(25:13):
today on the second of July year. Is this supposed
to be Diddy Day? Is that? Are they going to
reach your decision and then Diddy Day? Diddy Day? Call it?
You don't want to call it Diddy Day, but the
day they announced the verdict, Like, that's a big day, right,
this is you know, he's facing some serious jail time
like the rest of his life if he's convicted and
all this stuff, right or he was? So I haven't
(25:34):
watched any of it. So am I missing out? Is
this great entertainment? Am I missing out on the Diddy trials?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Just like?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No, I don't know anything about it either, But I
like calling it Diddy Day? Did He Day? I like
that did He Day? Yeah? There you go. People will
be civil, right, they're not gonna How do you celebrate
if he if he does end up beating them the Feds?
You can't beat the Feds, Okay, right, you can't. No, no, no,
they can't because the Feds, though they always have home
(26:04):
court advantage in their favorite. That's an old Beano cook line.
This old college football commentaries. The Feds always have home
court advantage, and they're favored in every every case, but
don't usually overcharge people, so they get some kind of conviction.
There's like they find one thing to listen. I haven't
seen it. I have watched. It doesn't really interest me
(26:25):
all that much, but I will make a deal with you.
Filler up, Phil. If Dinny ends up somehow pulling the
rabbit out of the hat here and his dream team
of lawyers get him out of trouble, we will immediately
bring back the all about the Benjamin Saw. Yes, why
not until someone at management tells me not to do that.
Eugene in Chicago right since his men two NBA players
(26:48):
no longer wanted by the teams they're on anymore. The
Greek freak is number one and number two is Lebron
James Milwaukee ready to start a rebuild. They just signed
Miles Truner to No, the Lakers only care about keeping
Luca happy new ownership in LA. I'm not reading it
that way. I'm not. You would think Lebron, though, would
(27:11):
be very happy at the Lakers. He gets to play
with another superstar for a full season. Luka, doncik, you'd
think you'd be fired up about that. Let's go to
the phones and we'll say hello to Eenie Meenie, miny Moe.
Let's go to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome,
(27:33):
hold on, Andre, you know there we go. Yeah, I
hear you. What's up?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
It's good to be happy. Happy Bobby Bonia days. So
Bobby Boia Day on the West Coast, on the West coast, Okay.
It was glorious here on the East Coast, Okay. But
now it's transfer.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Week that's got rained out though we got rained out
the Mets. No celebration there, the Mets game with the
brew crew rained out. So were they gonna have Bennie
out there running around with bags of money?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
It should have been you know, I think that was
part of the deal for Cohen, you know, Daddy Warbucks
when he bought the team, you know, because he has
the revenue based on his dealings on you know, very
successful you know, on Wall Street with his stocks. You know,
did he get maybe a little bit of insider information
but that's not here, I know there. But when he
you know, I see Willis wants to get on Nobody Buss.
He's a very enthusiastic about body Bonia Day as well.
(28:21):
We're also gonna get ready to go for our stroll.
But I think it was a part of the Cohen,
the current Cohen acquisition, that he would happily take on
some of those earnings. It's supposed to be five million.
It's already seventeen million, and we got ten more years left.
So the five million dollars, you know, uh moneys and
(28:41):
Will's to want to get five millions and get thirty
close to thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah, is fired up here, man.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Fired up by body Bonida date. It's a beautiful thing,
particularly on the cape and islands. Ben This is the height.
This is not only the gloriousness of me being able
to be with you, okay, you know in the late
night hours consistent, but we're heading towards the fourth on Friday, and.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You know, build a big, massive fireworks show. You got
to take care of Willis. Dogs don't like fireworks. You
gotta take care of Willis Man. My dog, my dog,
my old dog Bella ran away on the fourth of July.
Was oh my god, Calm down, down, down, down, Willis down,
wellis he's he's.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
A he's likes it. He's a malinof So he's that
K nine dog. So that's that's like an.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Extra that's an investigative dog. That's a that's an investigative dog,
is what that is?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Right? So Willson fired up about.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Bobby no no no. I mentioned this earlier. So here's
how much I thought it was like fifty million the
Otani Otani day. He will get sixty eight million per
year in the thirred money, Otani day will be sixty
eight million. He's getting paid seventy million an annual salary,
but he's sixty eight of the seventies deferred by the Dodgers.
(29:54):
That starts in twenty thirty four, So in nine years,
Otani day will be sixty eight million per year day million.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
And I think it's only fitting because that's the SE's
going to be the second to last year of Bobby
Bonia Day. So as I think Bobby go'dea will pass
the baton.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
It's a great idea. Okay, they should have a ceremony
and Mets when the Mets play the Dodgers, they should
have Bania hand a bag of money. To Otani and
then Otanio laugh He said, one point two million. I've
been sixty eight million. I don't care about your little bag.
One point two million.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's right, and he can take it going on into
the future in Verport two. No, I know you got
callers lined up, but Ben speaking of getting a boatload
of money to do nothing right, this is what Damian
Lillard now is up for. Because the Milwaukee Bucks, they're
essentially blowing up the team. I don't I think it
was going to get here eventually. I don't necessarily like
the way they did it because Jannis was putting out
some things about he would be loyal to the soil
(30:49):
to stay in Milwaukee. But now they make this move
and they go through all of this. Wills can't believe
it all for what. Miles Turner, what are you talking
What are we talking about here? Okay, well we were
talking about Risen to the moment. He's a good player.
They were in the finals. But you don't go through
all of this rigamarole to bring in Miles Turns think
that's going to convince Giannis answer Coopo to stay. So
for my money, he's been not not just politely escorted.
(31:12):
He's been DJ Jazzy Jeff thrown out of Milwaukee. Where's
Uncle Phil get him in there? That's how we Honesty
is leaving Milwaukee and he's set it straight for my
money to the Golden State Warriors. I think there. I
think that's where he's gonna land. Now there's some other teams,
the Knicks, but the Nick don't they don't know who
they are. They have you gotten their house in order?
And possibly Miami he does like no South Beach Miami.
(31:33):
But I think in terms of a team that's gonna
you know, he's got Steph Curry there, He's got Jimmy
Butler there in the Bay Area. He can get some
of the artificial intelligence money, the Bucks. You know, you
might have been able to make an offer he couldn't refuse,
like bringing jew Holiday back to Milwaukee to build it
back up. Since the Celtics want to give away championship.
But no, you want to pay Miles Turner and Damian
Little's fifty million dollars, you know, and you know, give
(31:55):
you Honesty in the back of your hand. So way
he's out of there, But I'm in here.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Thank you, sore the rambling man our guy Andre ferg
dog concerned, writes, and he says, what's up with willis?
You must have gotten infected by some kind of computer virus.
So so he says the specialist right sinceays the government
of Montenegro has just announced it's nominating Mahler for the
(32:22):
Nobel Peace Prize. There you go. Can't think of a
better candidate. Well, very kind. You can find out on
a map, will be will be in good shape. Let's
go to any meaning money. Let's go to John. John
is in Reno and John is next. It is the
Ben Mahlor Show. We'll get to the rest of the
story in a moment. Hello, John, how are you tonight? John?
(32:45):
If I was any better, I'd be sleeping. But I'm not.
I'm here. I'm talking so well. I had a chance
to do a couple of shots with mister No and
Irana last night.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I didn't want you to miss out, so I figured
I would have a shot with you on the air.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Are you taking like an actual shot? What kind of
shot are you taking?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
We're doing Jamison.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
We're doing Jamison. And this happened on the air. Last
I was away. I had something I had to do
so I could be here last night. So okay, you're
doing a shot of jamison right now? Okay, and then anything,
do you need anything from me?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Just keep entertaining me so I can stay up and
keep drinking.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Okay, Well if you drink a lot, though, at some
point you're going to pass out because you've had so
much out for a while. Just start all right. You're
listening to our live coverage. This is John and Reno.
He's about to take a shot.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yeah, that goes down.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I believe you just talking a shot of jamison right
there while I was talking there dramatically. Is this a
full It's not a This is not a baby shot.
This is a full shot. Right, it's a man shot.
This will put air on your chest, that kind of shot.
Two hours, two outs of your throat's burning up now?
(33:58):
Oh yeah, okay, doing good? All right? Well, good luck man?
How many how many shots? How many shots an hour
are you averaging? Do we know how many shots you're taking?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Oh? You know, it depends on depends on the mood.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Well, i'm talking to you right now. I want to
know what what are we looking at?
Speaker 3 (34:14):
That was my second one?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
And you start when did you start at the beginning
of the show about Okay, So it's been in here
in Reno. So it's been an hour and twelve minutes.
So that's about every thirty six minutes a shot my math.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yeah, and then I got a couple of cocktails in
between there.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
All right, Well pace yourself. It's a marathon, sir, it's
a marathon.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Oh, thank you, I've done this in a while.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
God bless you, John, And thank you, sir, God bless
your liver. All right, thank you. There he goes John
and Reno. So the rest of the story. I remember
the deal we talked about in the previous episode of
the show Malik Beasley, who was a key role player
for the Detroit Pistons, and his name came up in
a federal gambling invest instigation. And well, turns out, now
(35:02):
we're hearing the rest of the stories. He seems that
my man Malik Beasley loved to spend a lot of money,
and sometimes it was money he didn't have. According to
the Detroit News, they investigated Malik Beasley and he has
more than eight million dollars worth of financial issues. He's
(35:24):
been sued twice by his landlord in Detroit. He's actually
had part of his NBA paycheck seized. This according to
public records research. Court records obtained by the media there
in Detroit, claim that he has not been paying his bills.
(35:44):
He's essentially a dead beat, and the debts have been
mounting up, including a celebrity barber who he did not pay,
a dentist, a landlord, and he also got loaned a
bunch of money, like one hundreds of thousands of dollars
from a marketing firm in New York. And this has
been going on for years. Even though he's made a
(36:08):
lot of money. He had a fifty nine million dollar
contract during his career. He's he's earned money, I guess,
not the contract total, but the total amount he's earned
his over fifty nine million dollars. And while he has
not been charged with any crime at this point, the
some of the videos that are going around of Malik
Beasley being very aggressive to score certain baskets at the
(36:30):
end of games makes you wonder, like things that make
you go hmmm when you put two and two together.
He hadn't been charged with any yet. This is not
helpful and from when I've heard, he's not alone though
there's a lot This actually happens more than you think.
These guys in the NBA make a lot of money,
but they didn't really pay much attention, you know, didn't
get taught how to balance the books and invest money
(36:52):
and save money. And they spend it. As soon as
it comes in, it goes out. And so no matter
how much you make, it's like the old Patrick. We
make a lot of money, we spend a lot of money.
Time Now for the who am I? Game? Man, This
is where I pretend to be somebody else? As we
call it the who am I? Game? So cal Rally
has done it for the Mariners this season, but prior
(37:14):
there had only been two catchers in Major League Baseball
history to have it thirty three or more homers with
seventy or more runs batted in and nine or more
steals in a season. They are pun Rodriguez and me.
Who am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
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(38:06):
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Videos right there. Check it out on the YouTube. All right,
back to it we go, and here is the who
am I game? So cal Raley has done it for
the Mariners this season, but prior there had only been
(38:27):
two catchers in baseball history that have hit thirty three
or more home runs and seventy or more runs batted
in with nine or more steals in a season. They
are Pud Rodriguez and me. That is the question. What
is the answer? Let's see does anyone I know the answer?
Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota going with former Twinkie Butch
(38:48):
Weineger as his answer. Also a Yankee and an Angel
Bobby and Florida says the punisher is the answer. Milkman,
Mike and Colorado going with Frank Drebin policing the fireworks
warehouse in Arizona. Jonah Heim from malor prop guy. Who
else do we have a very funny page down? Manny
(39:09):
Sanguian from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, alf the Alien Opiner says,
Justin in Cincinnati's mother is the answer. Kevin Apier from
mister nice Guy. That's his answer. Who else do we
have Let's see here, can't read that on the air?
Stuck in Sacramento, says a manager of sober living here
in Sacramento. I offer John and Reno a bed a
(39:32):
drink every thirty five minutes. Leave the dark side, John
Reno as damn near as horrible as Sacramento. You don't
skip a beat, he says. Who else do we have?
A jelly roll from Scrooge? That's his answer? Mordecai three
fingers Brown from mister Irrigation page down, Jamil Hill from
Robbie the Mariner fan Tony Payne, I guess by just
(39:55):
Josh we have Jorge Posada, my boy from supermarket Stee,
Joe Mauer from Luke. Who else? Willie Mopana from truck
or Joe? That's his answer? Jody Davis from Sean in Portland.
Who else do we have a rob skinny jeans Polinka
job prospects from Terry in England, Dizzy Dean tossed out
(40:15):
by Mickey in State forty eight, king Ry going with
Andre and willis the dog? Who else do you have? Bigdan?
I can't read that on the right. Mary, Do you
have an answer? Married? Do you know who this is?
Who is it Barney Barne? Is it Barney the Dinosaur?
Is that?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
It is not Barney the Dinosaur? The correct answer, cal Rawley.
He's done it already here, not even the All Star
break for the Manners. But prior there had only been
two catchers in Big League history to iFIT thirty three
or more home run, seventy or more runs, batted in
nine or more steals in a season, Pud Rodriguez and
the other Carlton Fisk in nineteen eighty five for the
(40:53):
Chicago White Sox. How about that,
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