May 7, 2025 • 39 mins
After eliminating the Bucks, Tyrese Haliburton delivers another comeback game-winner vs the Cavs. The NBA tries to put a ban on big balls. Plus, Maller to the 3rd Degree.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our numb bird two, our number two.
We go now to Northern Ohio where the sports fans
are passionate and the teams let you down. Who gets
to wear the Dunce cap for the Spider Mitchell Calves.
They blew a twenty plus point lead in that game
to the Indiana Pacers and had a big lead even
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in the final seconds and gave it all back. And
how are things looking for the Tyres Halliburton reputation? What
these first two games do for the Pacers Tyrese Haliburton,
who has been lampooned by many but has been the
hero for Indiana these first couple of games. And how
much trouble are Donovan Mitchell's Calves in. They've lost both
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games at home. They were the number one seed in
the Eastern Conference. We'll talk about all that and more
right now. Settle in for us, Spicy, our number two.
Get this party.
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the pa, you're gonna lose. You're going to be a loser.
Is what's gonna happen. Welcome in the beginning of another hour.
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from pro Bouncy Ball and we ranted and raved last
hour about the win for the Golden State Warriors on
the road so they are up one to zero in
that series, but it was game two. We go now
to Cleveland and the number one seed in the entire
Eastern Comms. They were monster mashing during the regular season,
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but now it's the second round of the playoffs the
Cleveland basketball team and the the location for game number
two their Eastern Conference semifinals. That the setup after the
Tyres Haliburton Pacers stole game number one in the series
and Spider Mitchell's calves, we're trying to bounce back here
and win game two. You know the setup, right, So
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that's the setup. And you didn't see the game here,
maybe not. It was the early game on the card.
I don't know if you were watching or not, but
Tyrese Halliburton made a three pointer with one point one
seconds to go in said game, one point one seconds remaining,
and that elevated to a higher level the Indiana Pro
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Bouncy Ball team as the Pacers scored the final eight
points in forty seven point nine seconds forty seven point
nine seconds to stun absolutely take the guts out of
the Cleveland basketball team one twenty to one nineteen. Good afternoon,
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good evening, and good night. Now, as the Pacers. The
Little Pacers are up to nothing in the Eastern Conference
semi final. Now Halliburton scored eleven of his nineteen points
in the final quarter of basketball. That'd be the last
twelve minutes. There's four to twelve minute quarters of your
bad at Matt Andrew Nebhardt stole a inbound pass from
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Max Strus, who had a hammerd dunk earlier that seemingly
put the game out of reach, but he did not.
When Max Shruce dunks, you figure it's your night. It
wasn't your night. So Nemhart stole the inbound pass. With
twenty seven and a half seconds the remaining in the
game in Indiana, tried to find the tying three point shot,
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but Halliburton ended up driving. He got fouled, He went
to the line, He made the first foul shot and
he breaked it. He missed the second one, but Halliburton,
as the Cavs were caught twiddling the thumbs, Halliburton snuck
in there. He got the offensive rebound, and he dribbled
out to the three point line and delivered from Downtown
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Halliburton just like me when I'm I'm Moneyball mallor when
I'm out there and I'm on the court and I'm
putting down the moneyball. That's what I look like. You
don't only see that kind of activity in the NBA,
but that's exactly what happened there. And my goodness. So
the Pacers end up winning the game a futile final
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attempt by the Cleveland Pro boundcyball team. There at the end,
Miles Turner and Aaron at Nei Smith led the way
for the number four seed Indiana Pacers. Theych had fu Yeah,
there you go. Theych had twenty three points. It's the
first time the Pacers have won the first two games
of a playoff series on the road since nineteen ninety four.
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I wasn't even alive in nineteen ninety Oh my god,
nineteen ninety four, Holy crap. That was against the Orlando
know Magic, who I believe at that time had Shaquille O'Neill.
I believe at that time Shaq was doing his thing.
So now Donovan Mitchell had forty eight points for the
Cleveland basketball team. We saw a lot of that pose
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at the end of the game, the cob reposed by
the fans. There better story, though, is in that locker room.
The losing locker room, So let us address and as
we will discuss the outcome of this game. So all right,
who gets to wear the Dunce cap for the Spider
Mitchell Cavaliers? Who gets to wear the Dunce cap on
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this one? I've got chartered flight Mark, Twain and classic commercials,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a delicious corn beef sandwich,
just a marvelous sandwich, the corn beef sandwich. All right,
So number why? I said a number one to answer
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the question who gets to wear the Dunce cap for
the Spider Mitchell calves. We'll get to that. I wanted
to mention though, this is a textbook example, a textbook
example of the motto of the show. And I've been
doing this for a couple of minutes, you know, kind
of new around here, but I've always pointed out the
better stories of the losing locker room. Most games are
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also lost. They are not one that people think of
tremendous performance as winning games. But in order to have that,
you have to have the other side have a bunch
of brain farts. And we got that. We got that
right again. This is an example here. You think of
the history of flight in the Right Brothers and how
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important that was. They're credited with the beginning of human flight,
and in this game it was the Wrong Brothers. For
the Cavaliers there, my god, A Cleveland got a chartered flight.
They took the whole team out and destination Choke City.
That was where the flight was headed, and they made it.
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They landed right there in Choke City late in the game,
and they suffered a panic attack and everyone could see it.
And so we ended up getting a value pack of
headgear to pass out dune caps. Max Struce gets the
first dunch cap. He's the number one Dingleberry gdulation. Not
only was he unable to complete a basic basketball play,
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a fundamental play passing the ball in bounds, he also
shot two of seven down the stretch. No, I have
an unpopular opinion. I believe Donovan Mitchell deserves a level
of bit. Well, he had forty eight butts, you don't
know ball, you don't know ball. Bet he had forty
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eight points. Okay, but isn't the whole point of this
to close the job and you're the star and everyone
else is hurt, and this is your team, and you're
the big megastar and you're getting all the big money
and all that, and your team is at home. You
lost the first game. Don't you have to make some
more plays down the stretch to prevent that to happen.
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Oh he didn't. He did not. And despite the forty
eight Cleveland, they were up twenty. They had a seventeen
point lead with six seconds to go in the third
quarter of this game. Seventeen point lead with twelve minutes
and six seconds to go in the game. They shot
the rest of the game somehow, twenty six point three
percent from the floor. They took nineteen shots, they missed
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fourteen of them to close the game out. And Donovan
Mitchel didn't do enough at the time he was supposed
to do enough. He did not do enough. And so
there you are, and you're the you're the front man,
it's your band. You're you're the lead singer. And you
lost your voice at the end. There you had laryngitis
at the end. And let's not forget Kenny Atkinson. The
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head coach listened to Kenny Atkinson, this is the coach
of the year in the NBA. How long were your
named coach? Of the year and your team goes out
there and rides the vomit comment. Listen to Kenny Atkinson
make some excuses for his team.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I would just say, collectively, we ran out of gas.
They just they kept turning an impressive turn it up.
Like I said, holding, grabbing and foulingite honestly, but that's
the play you know, that's the playoffs. I'm not complaining
about it that you know, Rest did a good job.
I just think you have to be played through fouling
and holding and grabbing, and we just we didn't have
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the We didn't have the force.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Left all right, So I've got my my mallor Rosetta Stone.
It sounds to me like the Cavs coach is pointing
out his team is not designed for playoff basketball. He's
saying right there, his team is a fraud. Send that out.
Lead A Lapp put that out on ext Kenny Atkinson's
announced that the Cleveland Cavaliers are a fraudulent basketball team,
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that they're a regular season team, they're not designed for
the playoffs, and that they can't handle physicality because the
soft they're driving a mister Softy truck to the arena
every day. They can't handle. That's what it sounds like
to me, am I being overly dramatic. I don't think
I am. I know Strip Club John and Cleveland's agreeing
with me. I know that I think Ohio alshaking and said, yes,
I believe they are all right now Page two. So
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what are these first two games? Both wins for the
Indiana basketball team? What do they do for the Pacers?
And mainly what do they do for Tyrese Halliburton the
star and his reputation. So it's only two game series,
isn't over? Certainly we do the show right now, so
we're not gonna worry about what happens coming up. We're
gonna worry about what's happening right now. So at this moment,
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this is the same guy, like a couple of weeks ago,
was voted the most overright it, overright it player in
the entire sport. Not by some media hacks or fanboys.
This was his contemporaries, his co workers, the people he
plays against, said that he's the most overrated player in
the sport. This is also the same player whose father
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got into the face of the Greek freak on the
court after the Milwaukee Bucks lost to the Pacers, and
it was that whole awkward thing. So Haliburton's been taking
on some shrapnel over the last couple of weeks, and
in the span of the last two playoff games, Tyrese
Haliburton has gone full Mark Twain and he's pulled out
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his Remington number two typewriter and he is rewriting his story.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It's a rewrite for Tyrese Aliburton, not only the clutch
game winning jumper in game number two, but also he
played hero ball back in game number one, as we
talked about the other day, and so back to back
big time road playoff performances. Now, the counter argument is, well,
the Cavs aren't and he's the luckiest guy, and he's
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got the curse. They put the voodoo on the other team,
and the other team doesn't have the best players, and
the Milwaukee team didn't have Dame Lillard and this team
Cleveland's without three or four of the top guys, and
blah blah blah blah. Okay, but history will not remember that.
History will remember Haliburton hitting game winning shots, and that's
what history is going to remember here and making big
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Bass gets twenty two points in Sunday's win and then
follows it up and he had to go ahead three
pointer midway through the fourth quarter in that particular game.
And then moments after Haliburton hits the big jumper in
the game on Tuesday night, he earned himself a tax
deductible charitable donation. Did you notice what he did after
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he hit the shot? If you saw the highlight or
that he honored the legacy of Sam Cassell, half man,
half alien, Sam Cassell as Tyrenesealiburton did the Big Ball dance.
He did the Big Ball Dance celebration there Kobe Bryants
done the big back in his day, he did the
Big Ball Dance. Lebron James I think just grabbed a drunk.
He was a version of the Big Ball dance. And
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do you know where that originated? That originated in a movie,
in a baseball movie. The character that was iconic in
Major League Dennis Haysbert character Serrano did the big Ball
dance and that was copied by Sam Cassel. And every
time a player's done it, they've gotten fined. The NBA
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does not want their players to announce they have large testicles.
They do not want that and you'll get fined and
so tyree, Saliburton will be fine for that. All right. Now,
final point, how much trouble. Let's do a state of
the team address. How much trouble are the number one
seeded Cleveland? I said number one? Say the number one
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seeded Cavaliers. We got how much trouble are the end?
All right? So there's a phrase. I think we've all
heard this along the road to life. If not, I'll
tell you again. If you find yourself in the bottom
of a hole, you should probably stop digging. So put
the shovel down. That's the first thing they need to do.
They've dug themselves a massive hole. And the thing is
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that Indiana didn't really play well in Game two for
most of the game and they still won anyway, like
they were really out of it. I was like, I
put a note down on my little notes thing on
my phone. I was watching the games. It doesn't look
like the same team. What happened? And I was gonna
gona come out and kill them. I was like, well,
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they look like they were satisfied to win Game one
the Pacers, and they just they just didn't have it.
And then all of a sudden they found it. But
I don't even think they really found it. I think
it was more that Cleveland just gave the game away
with stupidity at the end. And so it ends up
being a combo of a couple of classic commercials for
the Cavaliers, the State of the Cavaliers Address for Donovan
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Mitchell and friends. You've got two classic commercials.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You've got the clap on, clap off the clapper, right,
clap on, clap off the clapper, right, just like that,
and then you've got the classic commercial from life call.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I follow it and I can't dead up, I fall it,
I can't get it, just like that. Now the classes
half full crowd will say, well, it's just injuries and all,
but that's part of the sport, right, I mean, that
is part of the sport. And so Cleveland was without
the NBA's defensive player of the Year, Evan Mobley and
bad ankle. He was out of the lineup. DeAndre hunter
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Key reserve right thumb injury. He's out of the lineup.
Darius Garland, the playmaker, the facilitator. Darius Garland with a
big toe injury. I left the big toe injury. So
he missed his four straight games. So those guys are
a that doesn't doesn't give you a mullig. You're not
getting a mulligan, and you're not exempt from criticism. If anything,
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this shows how fraudulent the team is that they don't
have other players able to step up here boo hoo hoo.
And that's just part of the deal. Next man up,
you do what you have to do and all that stuff.
And so it seems like they're having a pity party.
So the Malard scale of panic for the Cavaliers one
to ten, with ten being O mg, we are ft.
I'm at a nine. You've lost both games if you're
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the Cavaliers at home, and there's no sense that Garland's
gonna play at any point here soon, and who knows
about Mobley. So if you're depending on those guys that
come back, and even if they come back, how good
are they gonna be? You figure the Pacers win at
least one of the next two games at home, So
then you're looking at a three to one series lead.
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And at that point, I mean, you are really up
against it. As the Cleveland basketball team, you are really
in a tough situation. All right. It is the Ben
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This is the Tyrese Haliburton song.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Was that?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is that like a ten thousand dollars fine? Big balls?
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It is the Ben Malord Show. As we are rolling on.
We have a follow up follow up to the who
Am I game from last hour. We'll get to that.
As the NBA playoffs have continue on and on and
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on and on into the second round of the playoffs,
and all the road teams have one. So far, all
the road teams are one. Milkman, Mike and Colorado, says
another memory memory making Mallard monologue. They only real sports
fans got your reference. That's why the show is the best.
There you go, the Great Serrano, mad jack writes in says, hey, Maley,
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with the road teams winning, when are you and the
crew going to take a short trip over to San
Debas for a mall or meet and greet at the
Great Zen day Has Mexican restaurant in sports book, Lorena,
we're not going to make that happen. Do we have
any demas?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Is really close?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Is not that far away? Well, mad Jackson, he's gonna
hook us up. He's got the venue, the whole. That's
a former NFL kicker, by the way, the day the
kickings and day hosses. Yeah you remember lead a lap,
You remember the kickings and day hoss of course, yeah,
a long time ago, but before my time, of course.
But yeah, they're very very successful.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Well I'm free Saturdays and most Sundays.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Ben, Oh you are are You're busy on Fridays? You're
booked up on.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Fridays, Well, Fridays are my sleep days.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Really like to sleep on Friday, you know, did you sleep?
A long time to sleep? A lot of time to sleep.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Then technically we could also do Fridays, Yes, Fridays Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, we'll have to schedule. We have the Vancouver meet
and greet which is coming up in three weeks, three
weeks from tomorrow. Three weeks tomorrow we'll be in Vancouver.
So all my my homies.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Are you going lead?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Oh god, yeah, come on down. Why not? We'll hang out,
We have a great time. We have one event right now,
we're still two. Be determined if there'll be a second event.
We were gonna go to the soccer game and then
for some reason, they moved the soccer game to Mexico.
I don't know how that works, but they the Vancouver
white Caps were supposed to play on that Saturday. We
were gonna go to the game, hang out, have a
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great time, enjoy fine food and beverages and the whole thing.
But then they moved the game. View good view. We
had like VIP they rolled out We're gonna roll out
the Red Carpet. Our guy Nico is gonna roll out
the Red carb Wars And so that got postponed, and
so I'm not heard because.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I wonder if we just go find a really cool
sports bar to watch the game at anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, I mean we could, we could do that. There's
people were saying there's a minor league baseball game in
Vancouver we could go to that night possibly find Yeah,
it might be interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So you know what else would be really cool?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Then? What would that be? Lorraina You know that bridge.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
That you that we were looking at, the one that
has like that's like out over the thingy with.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The thing the bridge over what the suspension bridge suspension?
Oh yeah, well you can walk across.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
If we got a group photo.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Take them all out at once. See I think though
that were at once. I don't I don't believe you
realize how large Vancouver is. Like I think that's on
Vancouver Island. We're staying in the center of the city,
which is not like it's like a two hour trip.
If it's all walking distance, what depends how if you
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might have to swim because I think it's on an island,
so that's that's part of the problem you're talking about,
the one with the waterfall like in the back.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Yeah, how cool would that be to have a photos.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That looked pretty cool? Looked it looked like a lot
of fun. So I'm looking forward to checking out Vancouver.
I know you are too. We're going have a great
time and we'll get to meet all the listeners there.
But on on the radio for many many years in Vancouver,
we we used to have a food dish named after
my fat ass there for a while, a pizza things.
So that went off the menu.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
But is it because you're skinny now they took it away.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
No, No, I'm not skinny. I'm just not as skinny
are Yeah, mid size I think more mid sized than
skinny here mid size, mid size vehicle, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
All right, anyway, we'll go to the phone. I didn't
want to follow up though, the the story we talked
about Buddy Healed and his real name if you were
listening last hour the Who Am I game? His real
name is Trevano. So the story about how he got
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the name Buddy Heald is hilarious. Is his name is Travano?
But his mother was a huge fan of Married with Children.
Why was there no, No, it's a true story. There
was a very popular show called Married with Children on
Fox back in like the nineties, and this dude's mom
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loved the show, and she and a friend decided that
that little Trevanno looked like Bud Bundy, and so they
began calling him Bud. But then there was I guess,
a drug dealer in the Bahamas that had the same name,
and so she decided to start calling him Buddy instead
of Bud. So that's a that's a good I think
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that's a funny thing.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
That's cool.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
It's almost Ben mallor fun fact.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It is a funny. That is a fun factor.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It's going to Sean the Hood Guy, who, for our
purposes is really the only regular diehard Pacer fan that
we know of. Hello, Sean the Hood Guy.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Well, well, well you know it's that time. It's that
time that you got to start putting respect on the
PACER's name. Man, I was listening to you the other night.
You passed him over the head with a bottle.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
That is not true. They won the game. I did not.
I mostly talked about the caves. I didn't talk about.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Them that much, like you said it was. The news
is in the losing locker room. Okay, you did your job,
but you got to give us some credits though, because
if you witness.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
In greatness, that a whole lot of second. I mean,
you're a little too excited for me. You get a
little too excited for me greatness.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yeah, of a new agent, zero part too, putting the
team on his back. Man, the team's standing around, they
doing a part. But you got your main guy out
there playing ball. And that's what that's what it's supposed
to be about. Lebron James ain't doing it, Luke, it
didn't do it. So that does those those main guys
that's supposed to step up to the plate when the
lights are really bright, and the lights are bright right now, Yah.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Play well, he played, He did play well. He did
a good job. Okay, at the end of the dark,
you gotta you gotta do. You gotta keep going though.
You got two more wins and then you're gonna get
the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals. You gotta beat them.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Hey, we'll bring it on.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
It's time for a fresh, new year, for new teams
to play. Man, we get tired of seeing the same
champs every year. We get tired of seeing the same
teams every year.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well, this is the Golden era, as you know, seawan Hood, Guy,
there are no I mean, this is every year it's
like somebody new, Right, you're not getting repeat champions he
should be in the NBA, if you won a championship,
you win two or three. And now the last couple
of years, it hasn't been that way. There's been new
teams every year.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Yeah, you're right, it's been. But that's good. Though. You
get tired of seeing the same teams in the Super
Bowl or the NBA Finals or the World Series. It's
always fresh.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, you get tired and your team and then you
don't get tired. If I mean there's somebody else's team,
you're annoyed by that. But if it's your team, Like
I don't mind the Dodgers being in the World Series,
like every couple of years, I'm good with that. Like,
I like the Dodgers, So they're in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
What's up by you saying that? Though? Last year I
watched the whole World Series. Man, I was impressed. You know,
I watched it. I said, Okay, they know what they're doing. Oh, Tony,
and you know Mookie, Beth knows God, then mat and
all those they know what they well.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
It also again much like I said, most games are lost,
not one. Game five of the World Series. There Yankee Stadium,
fifth inning and it was Keystone Cops on the defense
for the Yankees, which was wonderful.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Yeah, that was a great series though, but La one
of their five. I'm just glad to see La when
something against the West versus the East. So that's how
it went for me. Man. But I'm gonna tell you,
I'm gonna see that I'm not gonna keep patting myself
on the back.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You're gonna pull a muscle. Do you can't keep patting
yourself on the back. You're gonna need some of that
icy hot from Shack and you're gonna have.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I gotta I gotta candidate at home, so.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You're prepared, all right. How's the how's the family? We
were in here? We we met you a while back.
Everything good there with the family.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Everything cool?
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Man.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
You know, I say, I've been playing to come back,
but you know we will. We'll get up. We'll set
up a day where I can come back. We can
have a good lab maybe a round football season. Maybe
I bring some snacks.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
We already in the summertime, and sports radio is a
great time, like the month of July, a wonderful time.
We might have listeners in here every.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Night in the month of July.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
When you do that, they'll let me know.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
All right, I'll let you know all right. There you go,
the great Sean, the hood guy check in. Let's say
hello to Charlie. Who's hanging out in Dallas?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
And pastime, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You're getting in trouble with you. You're gonna if you
better get good grades. Charlie, I'm gonna get I'm gonna
get a call for your teacher. Well are you keeping
this this kid up all night? I think I think
he fell asleep.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
No, there he is.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
There he is. I thought he fell asleep. The silence
threw me off. Charlie.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I wanted to fool you.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Oh you are such a jokester. You know what you are,
the gester, You're the court Gester.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Show.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Then you are such a wordsmith, Charlie. For a young man,
you have the comedic timing, which is so hard to find.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
The pacers have proven themselves to be at least a
decent team. I'm trying to decide, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Let me tell you about sports radio. It's not about
being right. It's about having an opinion. Your job is
to have an opinion. If you're a host, if you
call the show, your job is to have an opinion.
Words that do not make good sports radio or might
maybe could? Those are called weasel words. We don't like
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weasel words.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Well, I have some big words for you. The Celtics. Uh,
I'm going to kill the Knicks, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You believe there will be murder, that the Boston Celtics
are going to murder the Knicks. You think there will
be a killing. It's very violent, Charlie. There's never been
a team that has killed the other team in basketball.
That has never happened. You know what I mean? You said,
I'm taking you at your word. You believe there'll be
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a murder. You said killing. You know what I mean, Loraina,
did he not say kill? He said the word kill?
That kill from Lorena. You you're not supposed you're supposed
to play along in Loraina. You're not supposed to laugh, Lareda.
The point is you play along. With the host of
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the show. That's the whole point of the bet. I'll
give you some big words. Yeah he really got me.
You got me, Charlie. I can't compete with your lexicon.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I'm sitting here. I've been draggled, is what I am
at that at this phone call, my chi, Can I
hang up? Are we done? Any other hot takes? So
there'll be a killing? Oh there's more.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
These Stars are going to beat the Jets in six games.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Okay, now that's a hot take. That is a hot take.
I think they're gonna win in nine games.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Oh don't, July. My Dallas Stars are the best. They're
making it to the standard.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
That means they're as good as all the rest. The
term best means as good as all the rest.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
White you know, the best, the best.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Charlie, the legal I know you're a young man. The
definition of the term best in advertising means as good
as all the rest. That's why you'll hear the world's
best sandwich. You'll hear we have the best cars, we
have the best pizza, but.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Every place on Venice on the Venice Boardwalk has the
best pizza.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, but you can do that if you say our
pizza is the greatest, you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit.
If you say our pizza is better than all the rest,
you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit. Or our sandwiches
are better then, because then you get suited and you
have to prove it, and it's subjective. That's the problem.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
I will say that they are impeccable.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Oh now that's a big word. Impeccable. Impeccable, very nice.
Good use of the word means I have no idea.
I'm way I'm way out of my league here, way
out of my league.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
It is another word for incredible, is it though?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Hmm? Interesting?
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Google that for me.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I like that you have Lee over there. Just google it, Lee,
just google it. That's all you gotta do, all right, Charlie, Well,
you've yet again, just dominated the call. Everyone loves you, Charal,
You're big star. Can I hang up on you now?
I feel like you've been on the air enough?
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Is that good?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Five minutes is way more? Okay? Go to bed? Yes?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Bye, okay, bye, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Charlie, what does it mean?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Lee?
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Well, the highest of standards, but it doesn't fall under
the synonyms of impeccable because you would usually use stuff
like spotless or exemplary or unvarnished, unfarnished, unharnished.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Charlie made a mistake, he clo he's the Well, it's interesting.
There's an interesting conspiracy theory. This is quick interesting conspiracy
about Aaron Rodgers. So there's a new conspiracy theory that
Aaron Rodgers is doing some kind of weird social experiment.
I think we'll talk more about this when we get
to the Queen of Hearts. But Rogers showed up to
the Kentucky Derby and it appeared that he had a ring,
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like a wedding ring on but there was no no
wedding publicly that was announced or anything like that. And
so this mysterious ring was spotted by those at the
derby in Louisville, and so people were like, is the
reason he hasn't signed with the Steel because he got married?
And then somebody pointed out, like, this is like something
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George Costanza did on Seinfeld, where there was an episode
where he wore a ring as an experiment to see
what would happen if, you know, people looked at him
and how they perceived him and women and the whole thing,
so interesting things that make you go hmmm. We'll talk
more about that. We'll get to that with the Queen
of Farce. You've talked about this in the past.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Yeah, swearing rings for attention or yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Now here's the instant trivia. Blank has the worst win
percentage in playoff games when scoring forty or more points
in the NBA. Minimum five playoff games of forty or
more points. Again, Blank has the worst win percentage in
playoff games when scoring forty or more points. Minimum five
games in the NBA scoring forty or more in the playoffs.
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That is the instant tribute. The answer. We'll get to
Mallard of the third degree. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
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back to it, all right, turned out. We're gonna get
to the payoff on Mallard of the third degree. But
here's the insta trivia. Blank has the worst win percentage
in the playoffs of the NBA and when scoring forty
or more points minimum five games with forty or more points.
That is the question. What is the answer? Let's sees
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anyone know the answer? Quickly? Quickly Peacemaker Guests by Screoge
You're Charlie from Dallas from Mala prop Guy King Eddie
quickly guess by Alf the Alien Punter. Look, I don't
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going with the former president Joe Biden metal lark lemon
from JT the wingman. All right, what's that you the
right art Lebron Jamison? No, No, it's his fat teammate
Luka Doncik is the answer there? Two and six in
his playoff career with forty or more points.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Here we go, here we smell. How about that the
third degree? Wait a laugh? This is one big fan
gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
Ben a fan is soon in the NFL legend he
suffered emotional distress and trauma. Shador Sanders slid to the
fifth round. The plaintiff, who identifies as John Doe, is
seeking one hundred million dollars in damages.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Does John Doe have a case? The word here is frivolous.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Is the word here? Frivolous? This is thickness. This is
the stupidest thing. No chance and this zero it's a
good story to laugh at. You're not gonna get any
money out of this.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
This.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
I'm surprised this hasn't already been thrown out a court.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
Next, free agent wide receiver Mariy Cooper and his former team,
the Cowboys, have reportedly mutual interest in the reunion.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Is this a reunion.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
That would feel so good, Ben, Well, they won all
those Super Bowls before, of course it would feel good.
No O, listen, Mark Cooper at this point, he's thirty
years old, so he's right at the cusp of the
end of his abilities as a dominant NFL player, and
he would be the perfect Cowboy because he's just just
a journeyman wide receivers. Okay, but he's not great. That's
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that's the Cowboys next.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
Eli Manning and Michael Strahan helped lead the Giants in
two Super Bowl titles. Now they're going head to head
in an attempt to purchase a ten percent minority stake
in the team.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah, Ben, who are you rooting for in this Battle
of the Giants? Okay, So if you promised me that
whoever gets the team is off television, then I'll go.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I'll go.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
I want Manning to get the team, but I think
Strahan's gonna end up getting the team. And it doesn't matter.
Tom Brady is on TV all time.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
How do we do?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
That's a failum?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Rooting for John Doe.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yeah, we can root for John though you can roof
wherever you want. You're gonna be a loser, is where
you're gonna be
Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our numb bird two, our number two.
We go now to Northern Ohio where the sports fans
are passionate and the teams let you down. Who gets
to wear the Dunce cap for the Spider Mitchell Calves.
They blew a twenty plus point lead in that game
to the Indiana Pacers and had a big lead even
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in the final seconds and gave it all back. And
how are things looking for the Tyres Halliburton reputation? What
these first two games do for the Pacers Tyrese Haliburton,
who has been lampooned by many but has been the
hero for Indiana these first couple of games. And how
much trouble are Donovan Mitchell's Calves in. They've lost both
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games at home. They were the number one seed in
the Eastern Conference. We'll talk about all that and more
right now. Settle in for us, Spicy, our number two.
Get this party.
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from pro Bouncy Ball and we ranted and raved last
hour about the win for the Golden State Warriors on
the road so they are up one to zero in
that series, but it was game two. We go now
to Cleveland and the number one seed in the entire
Eastern Comms. They were monster mashing during the regular season,
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but now it's the second round of the playoffs the
Cleveland basketball team and the the location for game number
two their Eastern Conference semifinals. That the setup after the
Tyres Haliburton Pacers stole game number one in the series
and Spider Mitchell's calves, we're trying to bounce back here
and win game two. You know the setup, right, So
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that's the setup. And you didn't see the game here,
maybe not. It was the early game on the card.
I don't know if you were watching or not, but
Tyrese Halliburton made a three pointer with one point one
seconds to go in said game, one point one seconds remaining,
and that elevated to a higher level the Indiana Pro
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Bouncy Ball team as the Pacers scored the final eight
points in forty seven point nine seconds forty seven point
nine seconds to stun absolutely take the guts out of
the Cleveland basketball team one twenty to one nineteen. Good afternoon,
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good evening, and good night. Now, as the Pacers. The
Little Pacers are up to nothing in the Eastern Conference
semi final. Now Halliburton scored eleven of his nineteen points
in the final quarter of basketball. That'd be the last
twelve minutes. There's four to twelve minute quarters of your
bad at Matt Andrew Nebhardt stole a inbound pass from
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Max Strus, who had a hammerd dunk earlier that seemingly
put the game out of reach, but he did not.
When Max Shruce dunks, you figure it's your night. It
wasn't your night. So Nemhart stole the inbound pass. With
twenty seven and a half seconds the remaining in the
game in Indiana, tried to find the tying three point shot,
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but Halliburton ended up driving. He got fouled, He went
to the line, He made the first foul shot and
he breaked it. He missed the second one, but Halliburton,
as the Cavs were caught twiddling the thumbs, Halliburton snuck
in there. He got the offensive rebound, and he dribbled
out to the three point line and delivered from Downtown
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Halliburton just like me when I'm I'm Moneyball mallor when
I'm out there and I'm on the court and I'm
putting down the moneyball. That's what I look like. You
don't only see that kind of activity in the NBA,
but that's exactly what happened there. And my goodness. So
the Pacers end up winning the game a futile final
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attempt by the Cleveland Pro boundcyball team. There at the end,
Miles Turner and Aaron at Nei Smith led the way
for the number four seed Indiana Pacers. Theych had fu Yeah,
there you go. Theych had twenty three points. It's the
first time the Pacers have won the first two games
of a playoff series on the road since nineteen ninety four.
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I wasn't even alive in nineteen ninety Oh my god,
nineteen ninety four, Holy crap. That was against the Orlando
know Magic, who I believe at that time had Shaquille O'Neill.
I believe at that time Shaq was doing his thing.
So now Donovan Mitchell had forty eight points for the
Cleveland basketball team. We saw a lot of that pose
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at the end of the game, the cob reposed by
the fans. There better story, though, is in that locker room.
The losing locker room, So let us address and as
we will discuss the outcome of this game. So all right,
who gets to wear the Dunce cap for the Spider
Mitchell Cavaliers? Who gets to wear the Dunce cap on
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this one? I've got chartered flight Mark, Twain and classic commercials,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a delicious corn beef sandwich,
just a marvelous sandwich, the corn beef sandwich. All right,
So number why? I said a number one to answer
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the question who gets to wear the Dunce cap for
the Spider Mitchell calves. We'll get to that. I wanted
to mention though, this is a textbook example, a textbook
example of the motto of the show. And I've been
doing this for a couple of minutes, you know, kind
of new around here, but I've always pointed out the
better stories of the losing locker room. Most games are
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also lost. They are not one that people think of
tremendous performance as winning games. But in order to have that,
you have to have the other side have a bunch
of brain farts. And we got that. We got that
right again. This is an example here. You think of
the history of flight in the Right Brothers and how
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important that was. They're credited with the beginning of human flight,
and in this game it was the Wrong Brothers. For
the Cavaliers there, my god, A Cleveland got a chartered flight.
They took the whole team out and destination Choke City.
That was where the flight was headed, and they made it.
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They landed right there in Choke City late in the game,
and they suffered a panic attack and everyone could see it.
And so we ended up getting a value pack of
headgear to pass out dune caps. Max Struce gets the
first dunch cap. He's the number one Dingleberry gdulation. Not
only was he unable to complete a basic basketball play,
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a fundamental play passing the ball in bounds, he also
shot two of seven down the stretch. No, I have
an unpopular opinion. I believe Donovan Mitchell deserves a level
of bit. Well, he had forty eight butts, you don't
know ball, you don't know ball. Bet he had forty
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eight points. Okay, but isn't the whole point of this
to close the job and you're the star and everyone
else is hurt, and this is your team, and you're
the big megastar and you're getting all the big money
and all that, and your team is at home. You
lost the first game. Don't you have to make some
more plays down the stretch to prevent that to happen.
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Oh he didn't. He did not. And despite the forty
eight Cleveland, they were up twenty. They had a seventeen
point lead with six seconds to go in the third
quarter of this game. Seventeen point lead with twelve minutes
and six seconds to go in the game. They shot
the rest of the game somehow, twenty six point three
percent from the floor. They took nineteen shots, they missed
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fourteen of them to close the game out. And Donovan
Mitchel didn't do enough at the time he was supposed
to do enough. He did not do enough. And so
there you are, and you're the you're the front man,
it's your band. You're you're the lead singer. And you
lost your voice at the end. There you had laryngitis
at the end. And let's not forget Kenny Atkinson. The
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head coach listened to Kenny Atkinson, this is the coach
of the year in the NBA. How long were your
named coach? Of the year and your team goes out
there and rides the vomit comment. Listen to Kenny Atkinson
make some excuses for his team.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I would just say, collectively, we ran out of gas.
They just they kept turning an impressive turn it up.
Like I said, holding, grabbing and foulingite honestly, but that's
the play you know, that's the playoffs. I'm not complaining
about it that you know, Rest did a good job.
I just think you have to be played through fouling
and holding and grabbing, and we just we didn't have
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the We didn't have the force.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Left all right, So I've got my my mallor Rosetta Stone.
It sounds to me like the Cavs coach is pointing
out his team is not designed for playoff basketball. He's
saying right there, his team is a fraud. Send that out.
Lead A Lapp put that out on ext Kenny Atkinson's
announced that the Cleveland Cavaliers are a fraudulent basketball team,
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that they're a regular season team, they're not designed for
the playoffs, and that they can't handle physicality because the
soft they're driving a mister Softy truck to the arena
every day. They can't handle. That's what it sounds like
to me, am I being overly dramatic. I don't think
I am. I know Strip Club John and Cleveland's agreeing
with me. I know that I think Ohio alshaking and said, yes,
I believe they are all right now Page two. So
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what are these first two games? Both wins for the
Indiana basketball team? What do they do for the Pacers?
And mainly what do they do for Tyrese Halliburton the
star and his reputation. So it's only two game series,
isn't over? Certainly we do the show right now, so
we're not gonna worry about what happens coming up. We're
gonna worry about what's happening right now. So at this moment,
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this is the same guy, like a couple of weeks ago,
was voted the most overright it, overright it player in
the entire sport. Not by some media hacks or fanboys.
This was his contemporaries, his co workers, the people he
plays against, said that he's the most overrated player in
the sport. This is also the same player whose father
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got into the face of the Greek freak on the
court after the Milwaukee Bucks lost to the Pacers, and
it was that whole awkward thing. So Haliburton's been taking
on some shrapnel over the last couple of weeks, and
in the span of the last two playoff games, Tyrese
Haliburton has gone full Mark Twain and he's pulled out
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his Remington number two typewriter and he is rewriting his story.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It's a rewrite for Tyrese Aliburton, not only the clutch
game winning jumper in game number two, but also he
played hero ball back in game number one, as we
talked about the other day, and so back to back
big time road playoff performances. Now, the counter argument is, well,
the Cavs aren't and he's the luckiest guy, and he's
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got the curse. They put the voodoo on the other team,
and the other team doesn't have the best players, and
the Milwaukee team didn't have Dame Lillard and this team
Cleveland's without three or four of the top guys, and
blah blah blah blah. Okay, but history will not remember that.
History will remember Haliburton hitting game winning shots, and that's
what history is going to remember here and making big
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Bass gets twenty two points in Sunday's win and then
follows it up and he had to go ahead three
pointer midway through the fourth quarter in that particular game.
And then moments after Haliburton hits the big jumper in
the game on Tuesday night, he earned himself a tax
deductible charitable donation. Did you notice what he did after
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he hit the shot? If you saw the highlight or
that he honored the legacy of Sam Cassell, half man,
half alien, Sam Cassell as Tyrenesealiburton did the Big Ball dance.
He did the Big Ball Dance celebration there Kobe Bryants
done the big back in his day, he did the
Big Ball Dance. Lebron James I think just grabbed a drunk.
He was a version of the Big Ball dance. And
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do you know where that originated? That originated in a movie,
in a baseball movie. The character that was iconic in
Major League Dennis Haysbert character Serrano did the big Ball
dance and that was copied by Sam Cassel. And every
time a player's done it, they've gotten fined. The NBA
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does not want their players to announce they have large testicles.
They do not want that and you'll get fined and
so tyree, Saliburton will be fine for that. All right. Now,
final point, how much trouble. Let's do a state of
the team address. How much trouble are the number one
seeded Cleveland? I said number one? Say the number one
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seeded Cavaliers. We got how much trouble are the end?
All right? So there's a phrase. I think we've all
heard this along the road to life. If not, I'll
tell you again. If you find yourself in the bottom
of a hole, you should probably stop digging. So put
the shovel down. That's the first thing they need to do.
They've dug themselves a massive hole. And the thing is
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that Indiana didn't really play well in Game two for
most of the game and they still won anyway, like
they were really out of it. I was like, I
put a note down on my little notes thing on
my phone. I was watching the games. It doesn't look
like the same team. What happened? And I was gonna
gona come out and kill them. I was like, well,
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they look like they were satisfied to win Game one
the Pacers, and they just they just didn't have it.
And then all of a sudden they found it. But
I don't even think they really found it. I think
it was more that Cleveland just gave the game away
with stupidity at the end. And so it ends up
being a combo of a couple of classic commercials for
the Cavaliers, the State of the Cavaliers Address for Donovan
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Mitchell and friends. You've got two classic commercials.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
You've got the clap on, clap off the clapper, right,
clap on, clap off the clapper, right, just like that,
and then you've got the classic commercial from life call.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I follow it and I can't dead up, I fall it,
I can't get it, just like that. Now the classes
half full crowd will say, well, it's just injuries and all,
but that's part of the sport, right, I mean, that
is part of the sport. And so Cleveland was without
the NBA's defensive player of the Year, Evan Mobley and
bad ankle. He was out of the lineup. DeAndre hunter
(16:35):
Key reserve right thumb injury. He's out of the lineup.
Darius Garland, the playmaker, the facilitator. Darius Garland with a
big toe injury. I left the big toe injury. So
he missed his four straight games. So those guys are
a that doesn't doesn't give you a mullig. You're not
getting a mulligan, and you're not exempt from criticism. If anything,
(16:57):
this shows how fraudulent the team is that they don't
have other players able to step up here boo hoo hoo.
And that's just part of the deal. Next man up,
you do what you have to do and all that stuff.
And so it seems like they're having a pity party.
So the Malard scale of panic for the Cavaliers one
to ten, with ten being O mg, we are ft.
I'm at a nine. You've lost both games if you're
(17:19):
the Cavaliers at home, and there's no sense that Garland's
gonna play at any point here soon, and who knows
about Mobley. So if you're depending on those guys that
come back, and even if they come back, how good
are they gonna be? You figure the Pacers win at
least one of the next two games at home, So
then you're looking at a three to one series lead.
(17:39):
And at that point, I mean, you are really up
against it. As the Cleveland basketball team, you are really
in a tough situation. All right. It is the Ben
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As the NBA playoffs have continue on and on and
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on and on into the second round of the playoffs,
and all the road teams have one. So far, all
the road teams are one. Milkman, Mike and Colorado, says
another memory memory making Mallard monologue. They only real sports
fans got your reference. That's why the show is the best.
There you go, the Great Serrano, mad jack writes in says, hey, Maley,
(20:55):
with the road teams winning, when are you and the
crew going to take a short trip over to San
Debas for a mall or meet and greet at the
Great Zen day Has Mexican restaurant in sports book, Lorena,
we're not going to make that happen. Do we have
any demas?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Is really close?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Is not that far away? Well, mad Jackson, he's gonna
hook us up. He's got the venue, the whole. That's
a former NFL kicker, by the way, the day the
kickings and day hosses. Yeah you remember lead a lap,
You remember the kickings and day hoss of course, yeah,
a long time ago, but before my time, of course.
But yeah, they're very very successful.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Well I'm free Saturdays and most Sundays.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Ben, Oh you are are You're busy on Fridays? You're
booked up on.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Fridays, Well, Fridays are my sleep days.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Really like to sleep on Friday, you know, did you sleep?
A long time to sleep? A lot of time to sleep.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Then technically we could also do Fridays, Yes, Fridays Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, we'll have to schedule. We have the Vancouver meet
and greet which is coming up in three weeks, three
weeks from tomorrow. Three weeks tomorrow we'll be in Vancouver.
So all my my homies.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Are you going lead?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Oh god, yeah, come on down. Why not? We'll hang out,
We have a great time. We have one event right now,
we're still two. Be determined if there'll be a second event.
We were gonna go to the soccer game and then
for some reason, they moved the soccer game to Mexico.
I don't know how that works, but they the Vancouver
white Caps were supposed to play on that Saturday. We
were gonna go to the game, hang out, have a
(22:17):
great time, enjoy fine food and beverages and the whole thing.
But then they moved the game. View good view. We
had like VIP they rolled out We're gonna roll out
the Red Carpet. Our guy Nico is gonna roll out
the Red carb Wars And so that got postponed, and
so I'm not heard because.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I wonder if we just go find a really cool
sports bar to watch the game at anyway.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, I mean we could, we could do that. There's
people were saying there's a minor league baseball game in
Vancouver we could go to that night possibly find Yeah,
it might be interesting.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So you know what else would be really cool?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Then? What would that be? Lorraina You know that bridge.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
That you that we were looking at, the one that
has like that's like out over the thingy with.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The thing the bridge over what the suspension bridge suspension?
Oh yeah, well you can walk across.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
If we got a group photo.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Take them all out at once. See I think though
that were at once. I don't I don't believe you
realize how large Vancouver is. Like I think that's on
Vancouver Island. We're staying in the center of the city,
which is not like it's like a two hour trip.
If it's all walking distance, what depends how if you
(23:23):
might have to swim because I think it's on an island,
so that's that's part of the problem you're talking about,
the one with the waterfall like in the back.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Yeah, how cool would that be to have a photos.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That looked pretty cool? Looked it looked like a lot
of fun. So I'm looking forward to checking out Vancouver.
I know you are too. We're going have a great
time and we'll get to meet all the listeners there.
But on on the radio for many many years in Vancouver,
we we used to have a food dish named after
my fat ass there for a while, a pizza things.
So that went off the menu.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
But is it because you're skinny now they took it away.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
No, No, I'm not skinny. I'm just not as skinny
are Yeah, mid size I think more mid sized than
skinny here mid size, mid size vehicle, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
All right, anyway, we'll go to the phone. I didn't
want to follow up though, the the story we talked
about Buddy Healed and his real name if you were
listening last hour the Who Am I game? His real
name is Trevano. So the story about how he got
(24:18):
the name Buddy Heald is hilarious. Is his name is Travano?
But his mother was a huge fan of Married with Children.
Why was there no, No, it's a true story. There
was a very popular show called Married with Children on
Fox back in like the nineties, and this dude's mom
(24:41):
loved the show, and she and a friend decided that
that little Trevanno looked like Bud Bundy, and so they
began calling him Bud. But then there was I guess,
a drug dealer in the Bahamas that had the same name,
and so she decided to start calling him Buddy instead
of Bud. So that's a that's a good I think
(25:03):
that's a funny thing.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
That's cool.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
It's almost Ben mallor fun fact.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It is a funny. That is a fun factor.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It's going to Sean the Hood Guy, who, for our
purposes is really the only regular diehard Pacer fan that
we know of. Hello, Sean the Hood Guy.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Well, well, well you know it's that time. It's that
time that you got to start putting respect on the
PACER's name. Man, I was listening to you the other night.
You passed him over the head with a bottle.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
That is not true. They won the game. I did not.
I mostly talked about the caves. I didn't talk about.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Them that much, like you said it was. The news
is in the losing locker room. Okay, you did your job,
but you got to give us some credits though, because
if you witness.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
In greatness, that a whole lot of second. I mean,
you're a little too excited for me. You get a
little too excited for me greatness.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yeah, of a new agent, zero part too, putting the
team on his back. Man, the team's standing around, they
doing a part. But you got your main guy out
there playing ball. And that's what that's what it's supposed
to be about. Lebron James ain't doing it, Luke, it
didn't do it. So that does those those main guys
that's supposed to step up to the plate when the
lights are really bright, and the lights are bright right now, Yah.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Play well, he played, He did play well. He did
a good job. Okay, at the end of the dark,
you gotta you gotta do. You gotta keep going though.
You got two more wins and then you're gonna get
the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals. You gotta beat them.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Hey, we'll bring it on.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Man.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
It's time for a fresh, new year, for new teams
to play. Man, we get tired of seeing the same
champs every year. We get tired of seeing the same
teams every year.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well, this is the Golden era, as you know, seawan Hood, Guy,
there are no I mean, this is every year it's
like somebody new, Right, you're not getting repeat champions he
should be in the NBA, if you won a championship,
you win two or three. And now the last couple
of years, it hasn't been that way. There's been new
teams every year.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Yeah, you're right, it's been. But that's good. Though. You
get tired of seeing the same teams in the Super
Bowl or the NBA Finals or the World Series. It's
always fresh.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Well, you get tired and your team and then you
don't get tired. If I mean there's somebody else's team,
you're annoyed by that. But if it's your team, Like
I don't mind the Dodgers being in the World Series,
like every couple of years, I'm good with that. Like,
I like the Dodgers, So they're in the World Series.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
What's up by you saying that? Though? Last year I
watched the whole World Series. Man, I was impressed. You know,
I watched it. I said, Okay, they know what they're doing. Oh, Tony,
and you know Mookie, Beth knows God, then mat and
all those they know what they well.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
It also again much like I said, most games are lost,
not one. Game five of the World Series. There Yankee Stadium,
fifth inning and it was Keystone Cops on the defense
for the Yankees, which was wonderful.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Yeah, that was a great series though, but La one
of their five. I'm just glad to see La when
something against the West versus the East. So that's how
it went for me. Man. But I'm gonna tell you,
I'm gonna see that I'm not gonna keep patting myself
on the back.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You're gonna pull a muscle. Do you can't keep patting
yourself on the back. You're gonna need some of that
icy hot from Shack and you're gonna have.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I gotta I gotta candidate at home, so.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
You're prepared, all right. How's the how's the family? We
were in here? We we met you a while back.
Everything good there with the family.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
Everything cool?
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Man.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
You know, I say, I've been playing to come back,
but you know we will. We'll get up. We'll set
up a day where I can come back. We can
have a good lab maybe a round football season. Maybe
I bring some snacks.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
We already in the summertime, and sports radio is a
great time, like the month of July, a wonderful time.
We might have listeners in here every.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Night in the month of July.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
When you do that, they'll let me know.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
All right, I'll let you know all right. There you go,
the great Sean, the hood guy check in. Let's say
hello to Charlie. Who's hanging out in Dallas?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
And pastime, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
You're getting in trouble with you. You're gonna if you
better get good grades. Charlie, I'm gonna get I'm gonna
get a call for your teacher. Well are you keeping
this this kid up all night? I think I think
he fell asleep.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
No, there he is.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
There he is. I thought he fell asleep. The silence
threw me off. Charlie.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
I wanted to fool you.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Oh you are such a jokester. You know what you are,
the gester, You're the court Gester.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Show.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Then you are such a wordsmith, Charlie. For a young man,
you have the comedic timing, which is so hard to find.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
The pacers have proven themselves to be at least a
decent team. I'm trying to decide, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Let me tell you about sports radio. It's not about
being right. It's about having an opinion. Your job is
to have an opinion. If you're a host, if you
call the show, your job is to have an opinion.
Words that do not make good sports radio or might
maybe could? Those are called weasel words. We don't like
(30:06):
weasel words.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Well, I have some big words for you. The Celtics. Uh,
I'm going to kill the Knicks, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You believe there will be murder, that the Boston Celtics
are going to murder the Knicks. You think there will
be a killing. It's very violent, Charlie. There's never been
a team that has killed the other team in basketball.
That has never happened. You know what I mean? You said,
I'm taking you at your word. You believe there'll be
(30:42):
a murder. You said killing. You know what I mean, Loraina,
did he not say kill? He said the word kill?
That kill from Lorena. You you're not supposed you're supposed
to play along in Loraina. You're not supposed to laugh, Lareda.
The point is you play along. With the host of
(31:02):
the show. That's the whole point of the bet. I'll
give you some big words. Yeah he really got me.
You got me, Charlie. I can't compete with your lexicon.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I'm sitting here. I've been draggled, is what I am
at that at this phone call, my chi, Can I
hang up? Are we done? Any other hot takes? So
there'll be a killing? Oh there's more.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
These Stars are going to beat the Jets in six games.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Okay, now that's a hot take. That is a hot take.
I think they're gonna win in nine games.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Oh don't, July. My Dallas Stars are the best. They're
making it to the standard.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
That means they're as good as all the rest. The
term best means as good as all the rest.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
White you know, the best, the best.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Charlie, the legal I know you're a young man. The
definition of the term best in advertising means as good
as all the rest. That's why you'll hear the world's
best sandwich. You'll hear we have the best cars, we
have the best pizza, but.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Every place on Venice on the Venice Boardwalk has the
best pizza.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, but you can do that if you say our
pizza is the greatest, you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit.
If you say our pizza is better than all the rest,
you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit. Or our sandwiches
are better then, because then you get suited and you
have to prove it, and it's subjective. That's the problem.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
I will say that they are impeccable.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Oh now that's a big word. Impeccable. Impeccable, very nice.
Good use of the word means I have no idea.
I'm way I'm way out of my league here, way
out of my league.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
It is another word for incredible, is it though?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Hmm? Interesting?
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Lee?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Google that for me.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I like that you have Lee over there. Just google it, Lee,
just google it. That's all you gotta do, all right, Charlie, Well,
you've yet again, just dominated the call. Everyone loves you, Charal,
You're big star. Can I hang up on you now?
I feel like you've been on the air enough?
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Is that good?
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Five minutes is way more? Okay? Go to bed? Yes?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Bye, okay, bye, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Charlie, what does it mean?
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Lee?
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Well, the highest of standards, but it doesn't fall under
the synonyms of impeccable because you would usually use stuff
like spotless or exemplary or unvarnished, unfarnished, unharnished.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Charlie made a mistake, he clo he's the Well, it's interesting.
There's an interesting conspiracy theory. This is quick interesting conspiracy
about Aaron Rodgers. So there's a new conspiracy theory that
Aaron Rodgers is doing some kind of weird social experiment.
I think we'll talk more about this when we get
to the Queen of Hearts. But Rogers showed up to
the Kentucky Derby and it appeared that he had a ring,
(34:22):
like a wedding ring on but there was no no
wedding publicly that was announced or anything like that. And
so this mysterious ring was spotted by those at the
derby in Louisville, and so people were like, is the
reason he hasn't signed with the Steel because he got married?
And then somebody pointed out, like, this is like something
(34:44):
George Costanza did on Seinfeld, where there was an episode
where he wore a ring as an experiment to see
what would happen if, you know, people looked at him
and how they perceived him and women and the whole thing,
so interesting things that make you go hmmm. We'll talk
more about that. We'll get to that with the Queen
of Farce. You've talked about this in the past.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Yeah, swearing rings for attention or yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Now here's the instant trivia. Blank has the worst win
percentage in playoff games when scoring forty or more points
in the NBA. Minimum five playoff games of forty or
more points. Again, Blank has the worst win percentage in
playoff games when scoring forty or more points. Minimum five
games in the NBA scoring forty or more in the playoffs.
(35:28):
That is the instant tribute. The answer. We'll get to
Mallard of the third degree. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
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back to it, all right, turned out. We're gonna get
to the payoff on Mallard of the third degree. But
here's the insta trivia. Blank has the worst win percentage
in the playoffs of the NBA and when scoring forty
or more points minimum five games with forty or more points.
That is the question. What is the answer? Let's sees
(36:46):
anyone know the answer? Quickly? Quickly Peacemaker Guests by Screoge
You're Charlie from Dallas from Mala prop Guy King Eddie
quickly guess by Alf the Alien Punter. Look, I don't
blame him for looking at that. What else do we have?
Capital punishment? Charlie from Ferg Dog Human Highlight Film from
Charman Scharman, Alvin Robertson from Donkey Sawsagers Looking Good Femis
(37:11):
going with the former president Joe Biden metal lark lemon
from JT the wingman. All right, what's that you the
right art Lebron Jamison? No, No, it's his fat teammate
Luka Doncik is the answer there? Two and six in
his playoff career with forty or more points.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Here we go, here we smell. How about that the
third degree? Wait a laugh? This is one big fan
gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
Ben a fan is soon in the NFL legend he
suffered emotional distress and trauma. Shador Sanders slid to the
fifth round. The plaintiff, who identifies as John Doe, is
seeking one hundred million dollars in damages.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Does John Doe have a case? The word here is frivolous.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Is the word here? Frivolous? This is thickness. This is
the stupidest thing. No chance and this zero it's a
good story to laugh at. You're not gonna get any
money out of this.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
This.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
I'm surprised this hasn't already been thrown out a court.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
Next, free agent wide receiver Mariy Cooper and his former team,
the Cowboys, have reportedly mutual interest in the reunion.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Is this a reunion.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
That would feel so good, Ben, Well, they won all
those Super Bowls before, of course it would feel good.
No O, listen, Mark Cooper at this point, he's thirty
years old, so he's right at the cusp of the
end of his abilities as a dominant NFL player, and
he would be the perfect Cowboy because he's just just
a journeyman wide receivers. Okay, but he's not great. That's
(38:29):
that's the Cowboys next.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
Eli Manning and Michael Strahan helped lead the Giants in
two Super Bowl titles. Now they're going head to head
in an attempt to purchase a ten percent minority stake
in the team.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah, Ben, who are you rooting for in this Battle
of the Giants? Okay, So if you promised me that
whoever gets the team is off television, then I'll go.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I'll go.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
I want Manning to get the team, but I think
Strahan's gonna end up getting the team. And it doesn't matter.
Tom Brady is on TV all time.
Speaker 6 (38:55):
How do we do?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
That's a failum?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Rooting for John Doe.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yeah, we can root for John though you can roof
wherever you want. You're gonna be a loser, is where
you're gonna be
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