April 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the idea that Jurickson Profar scammed the Braves, the solution for MLB's cold-weather dilemma, the latest sports memorabilia scandal, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Knock, knock, who's there? That would be our number two.
It's the Baseball Power Hour, and we start out in Atlanta.
Is there even a question if the Braves were ripped
off by Jerkson Profar, the peed cheat they signed in
free agency. Also, we'll get into the minutia on how
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Jerkson Profar was able to get away with it. Fascinating story.
There's a bit of a mistake in the way baseball
does their business.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Will explain.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Also with that, what is the solution to Major League
Baseball's cold weather dilemma? A bunch of these games being
played in frigid conditions early in the season, and with
the sports memorabilia market booming, what is the takeaway from
the latest scandal involving hundreds of thousands of dollars of
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phony forged autographs? Will go there as well. All of
it's coming your way right now here. It is our
number two. It is a brave new world, not necessarily
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This hour's from baseball. We'll get back to the hot,
(02:08):
spicy basketball talk later on, but this hour we're gonna
focus in on a little baseball. There's a developing story
that continues to have legs. I didn't think it was
gonna have legs, but it's got legs. And we're talking
about the wretched start of the Atlanta Braves. Now, the
Braves did win, so they're two and eight now two
(02:30):
and eight. They won a game over the weekend one here,
so they're two and eight on the season, and a
lot of noise, a lot of noise on the one
that they got that they wish they hadn't gotten. So
a mallor show, mallor show, follow up, follow up, if
you have not been paying attention, the Atlanta Braves are
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without their left field and they went out and spent
some money. They signed Jerkson Profar. You might remember we
talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
He had been whacked eighty game suspension for putting his
hand in the ped cookie jar and he got caught.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
He got caught. Well.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now, couple of new developments. Now, one of them a
longtime baseball scribe. And you understand these baseball writers, it's
the fraternal order of baseball. They're in the inner circle.
They almost never cross the line at criticizing players because
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they need to have access to the players. And you
start criticizing players, it becomes a problem, so it affects
your career. So they're normally wearing knee pads for the players.
So when someone crosses the rubicon, I feel like that's interesting.
I feel like there's something there. So we have that
longtime baseball scribe, Bob Nightingale, who I knew him back
(04:01):
when he was a Dodger beat writer a million years ago.
But Bob Nightingale went on the record on the record
writing that the Atlanta Braves were essentially scammed by Jerkson Profar.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Now he's not alone. There have been some former players
that have said this. Have been a number of.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Big shots, if you will, in the baseball world that
have come out and said, listen, this is dirty.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
What happened here is dirty.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So let us discuss the question at this point, based
on all these circumstantial evidence.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Is there even a question?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is there even a question if the braves were ripped
off by Jerkson Profar in the offseason. So I've got ozone, layer,
Farmers Almanac, and chainsaw, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make gringo tacos,
the crunchy taco, my favorite kind of taco.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
They the crunchy taco the way to go there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
All right, So, first of all, the answer the question,
is there any kind of question whether or not the
braids were ripped off? So on this side of the microphone,
it says clear as vodka. Okay, it says clear as vodka. Yeah,
there's no debate on this side. Now, you gotta understand
what this guy pulled off. Jerks and Profar is a
modern day Lufstanza heist.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know that they made multiple movies.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
About that heist of the cargo at the airport in
New York, and I looked it up because I've seen
a number of those movies. So the Luftanza heist was
five point eight million in nineteen seventy eight. Now I
pulled out my friend, the the inflation calculator. So I
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went to the inflation calculator and I did the math.
So five point eight million in nineteen seventy eight in
today's money is twenty eight point three million. So if
you say that famous heist at the airport in New
York was twenty eight million dollars, you say, oh my god,
makes sense. Why they've made movies. Well, Jerkson Profar, who
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appears to be a total fraud, his contract is forty
two million. So this is a bigger heist than the
Luftanza heist of years gone by.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Forty two million, forty two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And how did he get away with it? Now, that's
the other wrinkle which is fascinating. And the way that
he was able to get around the mistake, I think
you agree, is rather interesting. So if you haven't heard
about this, maybe maybe not. From what we understand, there
is a hole in the ozone layer. WHOA what whoa?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The chain of command. So, as we understand it, player
gets tested. All right, player submits the test, the the
PP test there to figure out whether you got the
bad stuff in your body. And then there's radio silence.
So you've submitted the sample. It's gone to the lab
and the late night drug testers examining things. The league
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and the players Association. They then get word, hey, here's
what's going on. That Player X, who's a free agent,
has tested positive for the magic beans. So player EX
is tested positive. Player AX is dirty, dirty dirty dirty.
The team does not know. So that is what's known
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as a blind spot. So he got a hole in
the ozone Lai. There's a blind spot. So now that
being said, I do not want to totally absolve the
Atlanta Braves from their level of incompetence, Like what kind
of Dodo birds do they have in the front office.
I know they're all nerds and all that stuff. But
Jerkson Profar was a mediocre Major League baseball player.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Everyone can agree on that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
He then has this late in his prime career renaissance
with the Padres. Oh and by the way, his workout
buddies one of his workout buddies is that dirty dog,
another dirty dog by the name of Fernando Tatist Junior
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and his famous ringworm medication. So it's killed by association.
The math ain't mathing on that, and so now most
assumed the team from Atlanta will be left with a mediocre,
fringe utility type baseball player that they'll be paying forty
two million dollars to and he got away with it
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all right now. Secondly, so the baseball season still we're
still in early kind of get into mid April, so
it's still early in the game in baseball, and watching
these games, it's a little bit of the Red Sox
Blue Jays game last night slipping around. I had the
Mets game on a bit, had the Dodgers and the Nationals.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That one much of a game.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Dodgers, I guess they hung over from visiting the White
else So I've watched a few of the games and
the one constant was it's a winter wonderland. It's a
winter wonderland, and it's all over this it's just the
time of the year. In fact, the game time temperature
for the Cleveland team formerly known as the Indians for
their home opener. The Guardian's home opener was thirty two degrees, right.
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I ran out thirty two degrees for the beginning of
that game. So we have seen frigid conditions all over baseball.
Anyone that plays east of the Mississippi or right at
that point has had very cold weather. And this has
led to a number of people complaining. This has led
to people saying it's unbelievable that baseball plays these games.
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They've got to do something about this. I've heard every
kind of theory from hey, they've got to play only
in West Coast teams early in the year or domes
to they should just not start the season until sometime
in May, and all kinds of fugazi ideas. So let's
activate the Malard think tank question. What is the solution
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to Major League Baseball's cold weather dilemma? Which has popped
up here yet again. But there was a scene in
the Blue Jays Red Sox game where it looked like
we were back in COVID times. Everyone had like the
ski mask on. It was either COVID or they were
getting ready to rob some banks, one of those two things.
All right, So my answer is no answer. There's no
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need to fix this. They have been playing baseball in
April since what the eighteen hundreds. It's just part of
the delio. It's part of the delio. And the great
thing is that, well, baseball is considered America's pastime, at
least it was back in the day. I would argue
that the NFL is America's pastime. But the second pastime
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behind sports is complaining. There is nothing that the human
being loves more than then complain your job's not good enough,
you don't make enough money, the food you eat, socks,
your house, blows, your cars terrible. We love to complain,
and so it's good that baseball plays cold weather games.
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It gives you something to complain about, something to beach
about and say, oh it's not right, boo hoo hoo.
Now spoiler alert, I have a small addendum to add
to this. Baseball players we know they play in all weather.
That that's just the way it is. Mother Nature is
not on the payroll, not available. So you've got that
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going on, and I would advise you to suck it up, Buttercup,
that would be my advice, professional advice. Here's what you
need to do. You take out and dust off the
farmers Almanac. You study the far Farmer's Almanac and plan accordingly.
You know that in these early season games most of
the stadums are empty. Anyway, I don't blame people for
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not going. But if you do go, get out the
wool socks, get out the fleece jacket, get out the turtleneck,
and you have layers of close and you gotta prepare yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And before long your outfit's gonna change.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
If you go to baseball games, you're gonna be wearing
tank tops and sandals and will be one hundred and
forty degrees hotter than the surface of the sun. That's
right around the corner. So be prepared, all right. Now,
final thought to a developing story here involving memorabilia. Say
what now, the Memorabila story. There's some dude. His name's
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not important, you don't know it is anyway, So this
guy in southern California built a very profitable business hawking memorabilia,
celebrity memorabilia, sports memorabilia.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
He said, oh, okay, that's fine. I'm sure a lot
of people do that. Well, now the guy's admitted the
jig is up. He's admitted the.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Entire operation was phony, blooney, it was all deception.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It was all deception.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
In fact, the guy played guilty this week in court
one count of mail fraud.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They always get you on the mail fraud.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
A authorities uncovered a almost decade long scam. This guy
was forging autographs, a lot of them, and some of
the biggest names in entertainment in sports, including Kobe Bryant
not available to sun his autograph anymore, and the Kardashian Family,
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among others. And it's actually the Kardashian Family one of
the fake autographs there that got him in trouble with that.
But according to the FEDS, he falsely claimed the items
were authentic and sometimes even would fabricate the certificate of authenticity,
which I know, if you're in that racket, that's a
big deal. You gott have that. That's a hustle too, man.
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There's a place in southern California they charge a fortune,
arm and a leg as the line goes to get
that stuff authenticated, and it's really.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You have to do it. But even you're like, is
it really is it really legit?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And so this cat of course left Southern California and
fleed to Mexico. But he has confessed to defrauding collection.
How much do you think those autographs were worth? How
about between two hundred fifty thousand and five hundred and
fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's a fair amount of money in forged memorabilia. Man,
he now faces up to twenty years up to his
weasel tterm. He's not getting twenty years, but he's gonna
go to jail for a little bit. Sensing hearing's gonna
be scheduled for August, so has got a few more
months to go. With the sports memorabilia market booming right,
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boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, yes, boom.
So what is the takeaway from this latest scandal? These
things pop up every every other month. It's a it's
a regular current. So my my latest advice I advice.
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I think you should know this by now if you're
in that world. And I know, it's really cool to
have sports memorabilia. And when I was in high school,
I fetched around and was in that racket to make
extra bucks. I would go around as an autograph hound
to get autographs and then I sold them for straight
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cash homie and so I know, I mean back in
those days, I'd sit outside Nolan Ryan would sign autographs
the last day. Everyone knew the hotels the team stayed at,
and he'd sign autographs at the hotel the last day.
Sometimes you do it in the stadium, and so you'd
go there and you get the audio everything to sell
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it for a few bucks, and then the person that
you sold it to would sell it for more money
and all that stuff. But this is just the tip
of the iceberg, Okay, it just is. Fortunately, unless you
physically are in the room and you hand the item
to the person or you see it being handed over
and they sign it, I don't really know, Like you
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don't know what, you don't know. Right you're in the
danger zone. It's kind of like juggling chainsaws in the air.
Everywhere you're juggling chainsaws, and then you mix a machete
in there. You're juggling machete and chainsaws, and then you
add on, just for kicks, a live hand grenade and
you do that all at the same time, and that's
that's it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It's risky. It's risky business, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And the sports memorabilia business is over sixteen billion in
the United States. That's not a mom and pop operation.
And we know, and I know firsthand. I mean, people
are willing to pay big bucks to get a little
slice of something that is historic. And these Charlatans men,
they'll take advantage of you. They will stick it to you.
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Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is a story that kind of relates us. We're
gonna get back to the calls.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Also, Luca was ejected because he attacked a poor, helpless
fan of the Bible Belt and he got kicked out
of Laky and they lost.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Embarrassing the Oklahoma City their frauds.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Also, the Nuggets got rid of mister Malone, Michael Malone,
their coach.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We talked about that earlier.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Can circle back to that and Brick House Bozos brick house, Bozos,
what is that story all about?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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Speaker 2 (18:56):
Right now though, back to Benny Blabbermouth.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Well, Bill, that's actually not an official an official nickname,
it's not, But I do have many nicknames. If you
want to know, somebody wants to request the nickname Rundown,
we will certainly do that. But I'm not just going
to do it on my own. Someone has to demand
to have the nickname run down. So we're not at
that point yet. Shanon Moyes says the Nuggets firing their
head coach at GM is something that Gunner must have suggested.
(19:25):
There you go, I says, I wish he suggested that
to my Nashville Predators. Well, I'm guessing Gunner will not
be calling the show or commenting on what happened there
because of his Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
One of the great choke jobs in the in the business.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So Ryan says, I'm just curious how much did the
fake Ben Maller autograph go for?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That? From Ryan?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Actually, when I signed something, it's called vandalism. It's it
actually is a crime. When I when I put my
name on something, it does not go.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well, that's an idea, Ben.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Could I have you like eat half a bag of
like Bucky nuggets and.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Then those nuggets are so good?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
And then I saw the other half of the bag
like nuggets I touched.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yes, I think I think they want things you've touched
more than me. Lorena, I don't know what that is
all about. I don't know why that would.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Be charmed ideas, Ben, oh.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Boy Charman Harmon writes and says, here's the idea to
fix the baseball stadiums. Rotate every stadium towards the sun.
They all face north. They should face south like every
Irish front door. Says Charman. No, it's not a terrible idea.
So I know the fielder is. The reason the stadiums
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face that way is because they don't want the sun
and the eye of the field. But if you could
rotate the stadium on those really cold days, Coop, you
could have nice one.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
You can have not every baseball stadium doesn't face the sun.
Do you remember it was wasn't Baker's Field?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes, that was that's right, Mallor Meetinger.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yes, they could they could not start they had no
day games. Remember, they can only play at night because
they built the stadium the right There must have been
a Polish guy that put the stadium on it. They
built it the wrong direction and it was there for
like a hundred years. And then my other part of that,
and Rod the ambassador of Bakersfield can back me up
on this. You were there Coop that night too, and
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we got to do a first pitch with Lorraina we
should get and we haven't done a first pitch in
a while.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It probably blow my arm out, Ben.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Okay, well, but anyway, this minor league stadium in Bakersfield,
down the first baseline they had stands, but down the
third base line for some reason, they had like picnic tables.
Remember that they had like there's like weird picnic tables.
It's like they just gave up. They're like, all right,
we'll only have fans on one side of the stadium
and we'll just get rid of all the other It
was wild. But yeah, that's why I forgot about that.
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That ballpark in Bakersfield. They built it the wrong way.
Ozzie was right soon says, I know that peing in
the cup well, as all of us on this site
have to do random drug and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Tests as well as a.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Breath o test every morning before starting work. All right, man, Ozzie,
was they really they put you to it?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
There?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Sean the non secret of guys listening. He's very excited.
He had a thirty dollars ninety three cent Uber x
XL ride, so he's so excited about that.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Let's say hello to eat Dog, who's in New York
on Long Island.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hello, eat Dog, Welcome them.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And I stayed up just some time to go to
my program tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I'm looking forward to it. All right, what program we're
going to? What are we looking at here.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
In somewhere out east?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, I know, but what is the program? By the way,
Tracy Morgan was back in the nickad no vomiting. I
saw he was back in the next year. There, Tracy,
he didn't puke.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I tell people, because my fing club will get all
over me if I tell you where I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Going to me.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That is true, right, that's true. A lot of people
would like to hang out with you. And you're a
big star. You're famous from calling call overnight talk radio.
You're famous.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Wait, there was this one guy. The day he comes
up to me goes, what's your name?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I know?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
He goes, Hi, I'm Candy. Anyway, what I want to
tell you?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Let me ask you this dog who's more famous? You were?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Blind Scott? Who do you think is more famous as
a talk radio caller?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Me?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You are? And what is your resume?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Because blind Scott he calls this show, he calls Toucher
and Rich in Boston, and he calls like a lot of.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The local shows in Boston, like, what's your claim to fame?
Uh bo I the fan?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, okay, and that's it and.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
W A K walk kt KT you.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I have no idea what these are, but okay, I
got you.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Okay. Also, what I want to say about this?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You know Houston, right, I've heard of it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Have you heard about what happened between Houston and Crystal?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
No, what happened they blow the game in the last seconds.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Hmm. That's an interesting that's a that's an interesting take.
Nobody else has that take. You're the only one serious. Yeah,
no one else has done that. I've been here all day.
No one's done that.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's an original take. But that's not that's not now,
that's not Joe Dog, that's he Dog. No, that's not you.
Joe dog works the day shift. He dog works the
night shift.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Also about the Knicks coach, you know what's gonna happen
to him?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
He's gonna be fired. Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You know why? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Is that because they sugar full Tatum.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So that one random NBA game on a Tuesday night,
they're going to fire Tom tim.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I want the coach for the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Who would you like to see? Is the new coach
of the Knicks Tommy Amicker?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
All right, send that coop? Send that out on social media.
Uh close to I'm not done. Hey Dog, how do
you spell Anaker?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Is it c h e r A c k e
r A m A k e r No, that's not
just making that up. He's just throwing that out there.
It's like it's like Amityville or something. Yes, what that's
my name?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Remember I told you I was a cowboy.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
For I'm saying like you.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Oh yeah, huh, I got.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Another one for you.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I'm a Laker fan. Oh yeah, the Rain is a
big Laker fan. Jes, you're not.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You're not a Laker fan. I'm not, you know, I
wish I was. He dogs not okay, my.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Next nickname is a Magrick.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
But anyway, who's the rookie coach of the year. That's
an easy one.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Who's that?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
T J.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Rody? No, no, no, the coach of the year. Lakers
might miss the playoffs. They get him playing they keep
losing like this. There's in some trouble here, tops. I
don't I don't know. I don't know. The Lakers gonna
win another game. The way they're playing right now, they're
in They're in shambles.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
They're in shambles.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I get a thing.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, So anyway, I'm just.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Going over here, and uh, Joe, that's no good.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
He's a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Good well, you know, get passovers coming up next week,
so you be get the mats already here, get that radio.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I want to hear a great story.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It's a good one. You're gonna like it. I don't
think I'm gonna like it. It does it involve does it
involve the filter fish? I don't want to hear a
story about the filter fish. My grandmother used to make
potato lockers.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I like potato lockers yet, and Jesus and my mother said,
when when you don't with Dinny the potato lockers. You what,
my grandmother is dead? What she uh?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
She gave me the potatoes before dinner.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Actually smuck it in. No, it's that's a good grandma. Man,
that's a solid Yeah. Absolutely, that's the way you gotta
do it. Man, all right, I gotta go, Thank you,
eat dog? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, no, you already had the last thing. Now you're
trying to bogart Morton. Why do you try to steal time.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
From me?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
No, I mean I heal for you. I mean I
have five minutes. You want to bogart the whole show.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I want to chime in for another with it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No, I'm good, all right, thank you, I gotta go.
All right, I call tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Go away.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Let's go to Eric, who's in the o C in
southern California. What's going on? Eric, You're on the Ben
Maler show on Fox.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Well's going on?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Then?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
So you know, I was cooking dinner and I made
some chicken palmasion and then, you know, once all done
with that, I said, I want the Lakeser game. And
I see the you know what will here it takes
me is when officials they changed out among games. Okay,
we got we got the technical fouls for what Luca
(27:54):
just being himself a band stream with fans. What happened
to day is when Wretchy Miller was going.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Out it with Fight three?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Was he ever object to send you that?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Why the official so soft?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Now?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay, all right, you gave your toad. First of all,
it's not nineteen ninety five. Okay, so it's twenty twenty,
it's thirty years later. So that's number one and number two.
I would I would, I would argue that Luca got
himself kicked out. You don't use profanity in the Bible Belt.
You're in Oklahoma, you don't do that.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Yes, because all officials are from the Bible Belt.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Right, so the game was played in Oklahoma. You act
when in Rome, act like a Roman. Okay, when in Oklahoma,
act like you're in the Bible Belt.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
What are you doing? That job by you?
Speaker 5 (28:40):
That not only that, that job by by the officials.
Again with the offensive golf, Now that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So why did the the Lakers are a mentally tough team,
why did the entire team fall apart when Luca got
kicked out?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I thought you still were great?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
They didn't fall apart. I thought, wait, manute, I thought
they fell apart.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
They didn't.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So the Lakers they got outscored twenty nine to fourteen
once Luca got ejected.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But that doesn't count as a falling apart.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah, because the.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Fish.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Oh you know, blame you know, you know what losers do.
Blame the referees.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You're just you're just self, You're you're self incriminating.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You're saying you're a loser. My name is Eric and
I'm a loser. You're saying you're a loser. You're announcing
you're a loser.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
A guy says it doubt you share it out and
then there's a technical foul.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
How about how about other guys step up?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You tell me how great Austin Reeves is and Lebron
you couldn't hang in there.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, but then again they changed. Okay, what about the
three point attempt?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I know, because you know, my entire life, my entire life,
the Lakers always get the short end of the stick
with the referees. The referees always are out to get
the Lakers. The Lakers never get the benefit of the
down from the referees. They always can't screw my entire life,
my entire life, and I can't because all right, go
you're annoying me and you're completely wrong. I mean, my god,
(30:02):
at least next time take off your purple and gold skirt.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Next time you're a Laker girl over there? What's wrong
with you? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It is the Ben Mahlers Show. So this is a
wild story. You talk about having a bad baseball season.
It's only been a couple of weeks of the baseball season.
But is there a more incompetent franchise than the Pittsburgh Pirates.
So we mentioned in a previous episode of the show,
the Pittsburgh Pirates had a tribute to Roberto Clemente that
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they took off to put a beer not beer.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It was an alcohol add but not beer.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
So then they got killed for it and they had
to put the thing back on the wall. Well, it
turns out that that's not the only full pot the
Pirates have made this year.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
These are self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So the Pirates, which a lot of stadiums have, you
know how they have those those buy a brick things
where you put a name. Yeah yeah, that my Disney
and they had them, I think in the Big a
they had them. A lot of ballparks I've been to
around the country they have these things. It's kind of
a cool thing. Maybe it's like seventy five one hundred bucks,
I don't know. And you get to they put in
the brick the name of maybe your kids, or your
(31:09):
dead parents, or your dead grandparents, your dead dog, and
they put it in the brick and then it's there,
and then it's great. So the Pittsburgh Pirates had that,
and all of a sudden this year the bricks vanished. Yeah,
like what happened to the bricks? And people were frustrated.
They were calling the local media in Pittsburgh, son what happened?
(31:31):
They wanted to know where the Bucco bricks went. They
were very upset. They wanted an answer, why did you
remove the Bucco bricks? And so it turns out we
now know the rest of the story. The pirates not
only did they get rid of the Bucco bricks with
(31:51):
the names of the loved ones of pirate fans and
either alive or dead. Well, katie Ka Television Pittsburgh tracked
down the bricks. They found the bricks. The bricks were
piled up like debris from a horrible storm at a
recycle center in Pennsylvania in a reserve township, and it's
(32:18):
where they recycle building materials.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So they just they removed all the bricks. They didn't
tell anyone.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
They were doing it, and there was a giant pile
of all these bricks that are in you know, they've
got the names of the dead love warns. Yeah, yeah,
and they just said that's it.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
We don't need them anymore. And there you go.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
That's your Pittsburgh pirates right there. That's your pirates. And
one particular gentleman from Pittsburgh was interviewed by the TV
station said he had one of the ten thousand bricks
sat there for twenty five years. So this has been
there for twenty five years and that's it that they
got rid of it. And they said, look like a
tornado that come through there and just piled up.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So there you go. Anyway, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It could have offered the bricks back to the people,
but that would have cost a lot of manpower and
they decided not to do that. Anyway, it is the
Ben Maler Show. We will press on time now for
the install Trivia and here it is Michael Malone as
the most wins by an NBA head coach over the
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last five seasons. Over the last five seasons, Blank is
second again Michael Malone as the most wins by an
NBA head coach. He's now been fired. Over the last
five seasons, Blank is second to the fired Denver coach.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That is the instant trivia the answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
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of version posted right after we get off the air,
and Bill, you didn't introduce me, but it is I
Ben time. Now for the Insta Tribua Michael Malone. Michael
Malone has the most wins by an NBA head coach
over the last five seasons. Blank is second to the
(35:03):
dismissed Nuggets coach. That is the Insta trivia. What is
the answer? And let's see does anyone know the answers?
We go to the Hoy Poloy the Great Unwashed and
malaprop guy says it's the Pirate Parrot working a side
gig for West Brick Construction. Pope John Paul the second
(35:23):
from Alf the Alien Opiner. How about Moses Malone? There
you go, that's stuck in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Very nice.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
King Kong Bundy wrestling legend from Rob in Vegas. Miguel
on Fire says his brother former Extra Sports eleven fifty
host Karl Malone.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Remember that old mic flag there? That brings back some
good memories there, Miguel on Fire, Wow, that's a solid
Who else?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Ye? Blind Scott guests by Scrooge Paige, Dan can't read
that on the air.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Sween Nator from gumby Dave and Flo what a big baller?
Mallard Guess by courtesy Flesher, Eke and Rosezo Minnesota. Going
with Nick Nurse. My Nick's doing pretty well. That sixer
season hasn't worn him down too much. Andy and Lino Lakes,
Minnesota says, Chuck E Cheese is the answer. Kurt Rambus
Guess by Robin Minnesota. Jonathan Coachman from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
(36:22):
Robbie the Mariner fan is going with Satan as his
I didn't know that's what Satan looks like, Robbie. I
had no idea that is a handsome Uh well, it
depends if that's your type. You know, you like the
silver haired devil. What else do we have? Jim Bob
Couter from Trucker Joe. That's his answer. John Madden from
JT the Wingman run KFC from Donkey Sausage.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
All right, Lorrain, it's not Pop Warner. Guess by Chip
and the Cues. What's the answer?
Speaker 4 (36:48):
The King of Technical Fouls Whitey Ben white Man.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Wow, Okay, I know that is incorrect. The correct answer
is the Great.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Tilo of the People's Team. He coaches the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You know that. Lorena here the basketball insider here, knowing
right away, here we go, here we go, here we
go to the this.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Is one gets grail.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Well, apparently there's still a debate going on about whether
or not to allow NFL players to play in the
Olympics the flag football. Now, apparently the league office they
really wanted to happen. Owners of teams that are not
so sure they are worried about their you know, players
getting hurt. Now, one suggestion has been made that letting
(37:37):
a crop of freshly retired NFL players do the flag football.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Ben, how do you how do you feel about this
retired guys doing it? No, it's dumb. You know you
got the act and then there's no real pushback. Jerry
Jones is all for it. Put the players out there.
The players want to do it. It's flag football. It's
for us is put him out there, put him out there.
It's so stupid, bunch of below. You put the active
players out there, and the whole point is to try
(38:03):
to get young people to play flag football. So why
are you gonna put a bunch of fifty year olds
out there playing flag football? Makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Next, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles was asked about his
preferred strategy for the draft later this month, and Todd Bowles,
who was a defensive coordinator it surprisingly, said I never
want to buy pass a good offensive player to satisfy
defensive needs.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Ben, do you agree with him on that? First of all,
I like Todd Bowles.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Todd Bowles it does not play all the media games
and all that stuff. He doesn't put forward the narratives,
he doesn't say what he's supposed to say and all
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
No, there's a great offensive player and you're a defensive coach,
you take the great offensive player.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
This is not that difficult. This is not brain surgery.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Most of these guys are going to stink anyway, right,
I mean we I've spent hours of my life I'll
never get back reading these fugazy draft guides and most
of them are just complete fiction.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Okay, it's just been making crap up. It's a fair retail.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
So you take the player you think is gonna be great,
whether it's the offense or not.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Next, for all intents and purposes, we know who's going
to be in the playoffs in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
We just don't know which order now. When it comes
to the play in.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Everybody says it doesn't really matter that it's gonna be
the Memphis Grizzlies and the Minnesota Timberwolves that advance.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
The Kings and the Mavericks have no chance. Are you
agreeing with that?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
No, because you are a well placed knee injury or
a twisted ankle away from the lesser team winning.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
That's why you play the games. Cool and there it is,
Mallet of the thirtyree? How did we do you pass
the I w way it up? You're impressed, right, I
can't hear you. I cannot very impressed.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
That sounded very masculine.
Knock, knock, who's there? That would be our number two.
It's the Baseball Power Hour, and we start out in Atlanta.
Is there even a question if the Braves were ripped
off by Jerkson Profar, the peed cheat they signed in
free agency. Also, we'll get into the minutia on how
(00:21):
Jerkson Profar was able to get away with it. Fascinating story.
There's a bit of a mistake in the way baseball
does their business.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Will explain.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Also with that, what is the solution to Major League
Baseball's cold weather dilemma? A bunch of these games being
played in frigid conditions early in the season, and with
the sports memorabilia market booming, what is the takeaway from
the latest scandal involving hundreds of thousands of dollars of
(00:52):
phony forged autographs? Will go there as well. All of
it's coming your way right now here. It is our
number two. It is a brave new world, not necessarily
for the better. Welcome in the beginning of another hour
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This hour's from baseball. We'll get back to the hot,
(02:08):
spicy basketball talk later on, but this hour we're gonna
focus in on a little baseball. There's a developing story
that continues to have legs. I didn't think it was
gonna have legs, but it's got legs. And we're talking
about the wretched start of the Atlanta Braves. Now, the
Braves did win, so they're two and eight now two
(02:30):
and eight. They won a game over the weekend one here,
so they're two and eight on the season, and a
lot of noise, a lot of noise on the one
that they got that they wish they hadn't gotten. So
a mallor show, mallor show, follow up, follow up, if
you have not been paying attention, the Atlanta Braves are
(02:53):
without their left field and they went out and spent
some money. They signed Jerkson Profar. You might remember we
talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
He had been whacked eighty game suspension for putting his
hand in the ped cookie jar and he got caught.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
He got caught. Well.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now, couple of new developments. Now, one of them a
longtime baseball scribe. And you understand these baseball writers, it's
the fraternal order of baseball. They're in the inner circle.
They almost never cross the line at criticizing players because
(03:36):
they need to have access to the players. And you
start criticizing players, it becomes a problem, so it affects
your career. So they're normally wearing knee pads for the players.
So when someone crosses the rubicon, I feel like that's interesting.
I feel like there's something there. So we have that
longtime baseball scribe, Bob Nightingale, who I knew him back
(04:01):
when he was a Dodger beat writer a million years ago.
But Bob Nightingale went on the record on the record
writing that the Atlanta Braves were essentially scammed by Jerkson Profar.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Now he's not alone. There have been some former players
that have said this. Have been a number of.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Big shots, if you will, in the baseball world that
have come out and said, listen, this is dirty.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
What happened here is dirty.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So let us discuss the question at this point, based
on all these circumstantial evidence.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Is there even a question?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is there even a question if the braves were ripped
off by Jerkson Profar in the offseason. So I've got ozone, layer,
Farmers Almanac, and chainsaw, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make gringo tacos,
the crunchy taco, my favorite kind of taco.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
They the crunchy taco the way to go there.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
All right, So, first of all, the answer the question,
is there any kind of question whether or not the
braids were ripped off? So on this side of the microphone,
it says clear as vodka. Okay, it says clear as vodka. Yeah,
there's no debate on this side. Now, you gotta understand
what this guy pulled off. Jerks and Profar is a
modern day Lufstanza heist.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know that they made multiple movies.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
About that heist of the cargo at the airport in
New York, and I looked it up because I've seen
a number of those movies. So the Luftanza heist was
five point eight million in nineteen seventy eight. Now I
pulled out my friend, the the inflation calculator. So I
(05:44):
went to the inflation calculator and I did the math.
So five point eight million in nineteen seventy eight in
today's money is twenty eight point three million. So if
you say that famous heist at the airport in New
York was twenty eight million dollars, you say, oh my god,
makes sense. Why they've made movies. Well, Jerkson Profar, who
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appears to be a total fraud, his contract is forty
two million. So this is a bigger heist than the
Luftanza heist of years gone by.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Forty two million, forty two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And how did he get away with it? Now, that's
the other wrinkle which is fascinating. And the way that
he was able to get around the mistake, I think
you agree, is rather interesting. So if you haven't heard
about this, maybe maybe not. From what we understand, there
is a hole in the ozone layer. WHOA what whoa?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The chain of command. So, as we understand it, player
gets tested. All right, player submits the test, the the
PP test there to figure out whether you got the
bad stuff in your body. And then there's radio silence.
So you've submitted the sample. It's gone to the lab
and the late night drug testers examining things. The league
(07:07):
and the players Association. They then get word, hey, here's
what's going on. That Player X, who's a free agent,
has tested positive for the magic beans. So player EX
is tested positive. Player AX is dirty, dirty dirty dirty.
The team does not know. So that is what's known
(07:28):
as a blind spot. So he got a hole in
the ozone Lai. There's a blind spot. So now that
being said, I do not want to totally absolve the
Atlanta Braves from their level of incompetence, Like what kind
of Dodo birds do they have in the front office.
I know they're all nerds and all that stuff. But
Jerkson Profar was a mediocre Major League baseball player.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Everyone can agree on that.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
He then has this late in his prime career renaissance
with the Padres. Oh and by the way, his workout
buddies one of his workout buddies is that dirty dog,
another dirty dog by the name of Fernando Tatist Junior
(08:13):
and his famous ringworm medication. So it's killed by association.
The math ain't mathing on that, and so now most
assumed the team from Atlanta will be left with a mediocre,
fringe utility type baseball player that they'll be paying forty
two million dollars to and he got away with it
(08:34):
all right now. Secondly, so the baseball season still we're
still in early kind of get into mid April, so
it's still early in the game in baseball, and watching
these games, it's a little bit of the Red Sox
Blue Jays game last night slipping around. I had the
Mets game on a bit, had the Dodgers and the Nationals.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
That one much of a game.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Dodgers, I guess they hung over from visiting the White
else So I've watched a few of the games and
the one constant was it's a winter wonderland. It's a
winter wonderland, and it's all over this it's just the
time of the year. In fact, the game time temperature
for the Cleveland team formerly known as the Indians for
their home opener. The Guardian's home opener was thirty two degrees, right.
(09:20):
I ran out thirty two degrees for the beginning of
that game. So we have seen frigid conditions all over baseball.
Anyone that plays east of the Mississippi or right at
that point has had very cold weather. And this has
led to a number of people complaining. This has led
to people saying it's unbelievable that baseball plays these games.
(09:42):
They've got to do something about this. I've heard every
kind of theory from hey, they've got to play only
in West Coast teams early in the year or domes
to they should just not start the season until sometime
in May, and all kinds of fugazi ideas. So let's
activate the Malard think tank question. What is the solution
(10:04):
to Major League Baseball's cold weather dilemma? Which has popped
up here yet again. But there was a scene in
the Blue Jays Red Sox game where it looked like
we were back in COVID times. Everyone had like the
ski mask on. It was either COVID or they were
getting ready to rob some banks, one of those two things.
All right, So my answer is no answer. There's no
(10:28):
need to fix this. They have been playing baseball in
April since what the eighteen hundreds. It's just part of
the delio. It's part of the delio. And the great
thing is that, well, baseball is considered America's pastime, at
least it was back in the day. I would argue
that the NFL is America's pastime. But the second pastime
(10:50):
behind sports is complaining. There is nothing that the human
being loves more than then complain your job's not good enough,
you don't make enough money, the food you eat, socks,
your house, blows, your cars terrible. We love to complain,
and so it's good that baseball plays cold weather games.
(11:11):
It gives you something to complain about, something to beach
about and say, oh it's not right, boo hoo hoo.
Now spoiler alert, I have a small addendum to add
to this. Baseball players we know they play in all weather.
That that's just the way it is. Mother Nature is
not on the payroll, not available. So you've got that
(11:33):
going on, and I would advise you to suck it up, Buttercup,
that would be my advice, professional advice. Here's what you
need to do. You take out and dust off the
farmers Almanac. You study the far Farmer's Almanac and plan accordingly.
You know that in these early season games most of
the stadums are empty. Anyway, I don't blame people for
(11:54):
not going. But if you do go, get out the
wool socks, get out the fleece jacket, get out the turtleneck,
and you have layers of close and you gotta prepare yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And before long your outfit's gonna change.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
If you go to baseball games, you're gonna be wearing
tank tops and sandals and will be one hundred and
forty degrees hotter than the surface of the sun. That's
right around the corner. So be prepared, all right. Now,
final thought to a developing story here involving memorabilia. Say
what now, the Memorabila story. There's some dude. His name's
(12:31):
not important, you don't know it is anyway, So this
guy in southern California built a very profitable business hawking memorabilia,
celebrity memorabilia, sports memorabilia.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
He said, oh, okay, that's fine. I'm sure a lot
of people do that. Well, now the guy's admitted the
jig is up. He's admitted the.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Entire operation was phony, blooney, it was all deception.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It was all deception.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
In fact, the guy played guilty this week in court
one count of mail fraud.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
They always get you on the mail fraud.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
A authorities uncovered a almost decade long scam. This guy
was forging autographs, a lot of them, and some of
the biggest names in entertainment in sports, including Kobe Bryant
not available to sun his autograph anymore, and the Kardashian Family,
(13:27):
among others. And it's actually the Kardashian Family one of
the fake autographs there that got him in trouble with that.
But according to the FEDS, he falsely claimed the items
were authentic and sometimes even would fabricate the certificate of authenticity,
which I know, if you're in that racket, that's a
big deal. You gott have that. That's a hustle too, man.
(13:49):
There's a place in southern California they charge a fortune,
arm and a leg as the line goes to get
that stuff authenticated, and it's really.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You have to do it. But even you're like, is
it really is it really legit?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
And so this cat of course left Southern California and
fleed to Mexico. But he has confessed to defrauding collection.
How much do you think those autographs were worth? How
about between two hundred fifty thousand and five hundred and
fifty thousand.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
That's a fair amount of money in forged memorabilia. Man,
he now faces up to twenty years up to his
weasel tterm. He's not getting twenty years, but he's gonna
go to jail for a little bit. Sensing hearing's gonna
be scheduled for August, so has got a few more
months to go. With the sports memorabilia market booming right,
(14:40):
boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, yes, boom.
So what is the takeaway from this latest scandal? These
things pop up every every other month. It's a it's
a regular current. So my my latest advice I advice.
(15:00):
I think you should know this by now if you're
in that world. And I know, it's really cool to
have sports memorabilia. And when I was in high school,
I fetched around and was in that racket to make
extra bucks. I would go around as an autograph hound
to get autographs and then I sold them for straight
(15:20):
cash homie and so I know, I mean back in
those days, I'd sit outside Nolan Ryan would sign autographs
the last day. Everyone knew the hotels the team stayed at,
and he'd sign autographs at the hotel the last day.
Sometimes you do it in the stadium, and so you'd
go there and you get the audio everything to sell
(15:40):
it for a few bucks, and then the person that
you sold it to would sell it for more money
and all that stuff. But this is just the tip
of the iceberg, Okay, it just is. Fortunately, unless you
physically are in the room and you hand the item
to the person or you see it being handed over
and they sign it, I don't really know, Like you
(16:01):
don't know what, you don't know. Right you're in the
danger zone. It's kind of like juggling chainsaws in the air.
Everywhere you're juggling chainsaws, and then you mix a machete
in there. You're juggling machete and chainsaws, and then you
add on, just for kicks, a live hand grenade and
you do that all at the same time, and that's
that's it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It's risky. It's risky business, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
And the sports memorabilia business is over sixteen billion in
the United States. That's not a mom and pop operation.
And we know, and I know firsthand. I mean, people
are willing to pay big bucks to get a little
slice of something that is historic. And these Charlatans men,
they'll take advantage of you. They will stick it to you.
(16:45):
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Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is a story that kind of relates us. We're
gonna get back to the calls.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Also, Luca was ejected because he attacked a poor, helpless
fan of the Bible Belt and he got kicked out
of Laky and they lost.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Embarrassing the Oklahoma City their frauds.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Also, the Nuggets got rid of mister Malone, Michael Malone,
their coach.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
We talked about that earlier.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Can circle back to that and Brick House Bozos brick house, Bozos,
what is that story all about?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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Speaker 2 (18:56):
Right now though, back to Benny Blabbermouth.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Well, Bill, that's actually not an official an official nickname,
it's not, But I do have many nicknames. If you
want to know, somebody wants to request the nickname Rundown,
we will certainly do that. But I'm not just going
to do it on my own. Someone has to demand
to have the nickname run down. So we're not at
that point yet. Shanon Moyes says the Nuggets firing their
head coach at GM is something that Gunner must have suggested.
(19:25):
There you go, I says, I wish he suggested that
to my Nashville Predators. Well, I'm guessing Gunner will not
be calling the show or commenting on what happened there
because of his Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
One of the great choke jobs in the in the business.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So Ryan says, I'm just curious how much did the
fake Ben Maller autograph go for?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
That? From Ryan?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Actually, when I signed something, it's called vandalism. It's it
actually is a crime. When I when I put my
name on something, it does not go.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well, that's an idea, Ben.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Could I have you like eat half a bag of
like Bucky nuggets and.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Then those nuggets are so good?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
And then I saw the other half of the bag
like nuggets I touched.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yes, I think I think they want things you've touched
more than me. Lorena, I don't know what that is
all about. I don't know why that would.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Be charmed ideas, Ben, oh.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Boy Charman Harmon writes and says, here's the idea to
fix the baseball stadiums. Rotate every stadium towards the sun.
They all face north. They should face south like every
Irish front door. Says Charman. No, it's not a terrible idea.
So I know the fielder is. The reason the stadiums
(20:38):
face that way is because they don't want the sun
and the eye of the field. But if you could
rotate the stadium on those really cold days, Coop, you
could have nice one.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
You can have not every baseball stadium doesn't face the sun.
Do you remember it was wasn't Baker's Field?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yes, that was that's right, Mallor Meetinger.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yes, they could they could not start they had no
day games. Remember, they can only play at night because
they built the stadium the right There must have been
a Polish guy that put the stadium on it. They
built it the wrong direction and it was there for
like a hundred years. And then my other part of that,
and Rod the ambassador of Bakersfield can back me up
on this. You were there Coop that night too, and
(21:17):
we got to do a first pitch with Lorraina we
should get and we haven't done a first pitch in
a while.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It probably blow my arm out, Ben.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Okay, well, but anyway, this minor league stadium in Bakersfield,
down the first baseline they had stands, but down the
third base line for some reason, they had like picnic tables.
Remember that they had like there's like weird picnic tables.
It's like they just gave up. They're like, all right,
we'll only have fans on one side of the stadium
and we'll just get rid of all the other It
was wild. But yeah, that's why I forgot about that.
(21:45):
That ballpark in Bakersfield. They built it the wrong way.
Ozzie was right soon says, I know that peing in
the cup well, as all of us on this site
have to do random drug and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Tests as well as a.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Breath o test every morning before starting work. All right, man, Ozzie,
was they really they put you to it?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
There?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Sean the non secret of guys listening. He's very excited.
He had a thirty dollars ninety three cent Uber x
XL ride, so he's so excited about that.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Let's say hello to eat Dog, who's in New York
on Long Island.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hello, eat Dog, Welcome them.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And I stayed up just some time to go to
my program tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I'm looking forward to it. All right, what program we're
going to? What are we looking at here.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
In somewhere out east?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, I know, but what is the program? By the way,
Tracy Morgan was back in the nickad no vomiting. I
saw he was back in the next year. There, Tracy,
he didn't puke.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I tell people, because my fing club will get all
over me if I tell you where I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Going to me.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That is true, right, that's true. A lot of people
would like to hang out with you. And you're a
big star. You're famous from calling call overnight talk radio.
You're famous.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Wait, there was this one guy. The day he comes
up to me goes, what's your name?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I know?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
He goes, Hi, I'm Candy. Anyway, what I want to
tell you?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Let me ask you this dog who's more famous? You were?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Blind Scott? Who do you think is more famous as
a talk radio caller?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Me?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You are? And what is your resume?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Because blind Scott he calls this show, he calls Toucher
and Rich in Boston, and he calls like a lot of.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The local shows in Boston, like, what's your claim to fame?
Uh bo I the fan?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yeah, okay, and that's it and.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
W A K walk kt KT you.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
I have no idea what these are, but okay, I
got you.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Okay. Also, what I want to say about this?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You know Houston, right, I've heard of it.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Have you heard about what happened between Houston and Crystal?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
No, what happened they blow the game in the last seconds.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Hmm. That's an interesting that's a that's an interesting take.
Nobody else has that take. You're the only one serious. Yeah,
no one else has done that. I've been here all day.
No one's done that.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's an original take. But that's not that's not now,
that's not Joe Dog, that's he Dog. No, that's not you.
Joe dog works the day shift. He dog works the
night shift.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Also about the Knicks coach, you know what's gonna happen
to him?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
He's gonna be fired. Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You know why? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Is that because they sugar full Tatum.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So that one random NBA game on a Tuesday night,
they're going to fire Tom tim.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I want the coach for the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Who would you like to see? Is the new coach
of the Knicks Tommy Amicker?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
All right, send that coop? Send that out on social media.
Uh close to I'm not done. Hey Dog, how do
you spell Anaker?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Is it c h e r A c k e
r A m A k e r No, that's not
just making that up. He's just throwing that out there.
It's like it's like Amityville or something. Yes, what that's
my name?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Remember I told you I was a cowboy.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
For I'm saying like you.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Oh yeah, huh, I got.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Another one for you.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I'm a Laker fan. Oh yeah, the Rain is a
big Laker fan. Jes, you're not.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You're not a Laker fan. I'm not, you know, I
wish I was. He dogs not okay, my.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Next nickname is a Magrick.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
But anyway, who's the rookie coach of the year. That's
an easy one.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Who's that?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
T J.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Rody? No, no, no, the coach of the year. Lakers
might miss the playoffs. They get him playing they keep
losing like this. There's in some trouble here, tops. I
don't I don't know. I don't know. The Lakers gonna
win another game. The way they're playing right now, they're
in They're in shambles.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
They're in shambles.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I get a thing.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, So anyway, I'm just.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Going over here, and uh, Joe, that's no good.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
He's a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Good well, you know, get passovers coming up next week,
so you be get the mats already here, get that radio.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I want to hear a great story.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It's a good one. You're gonna like it. I don't
think I'm gonna like it. It does it involve does it
involve the filter fish? I don't want to hear a
story about the filter fish. My grandmother used to make
potato lockers.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I like potato lockers yet, and Jesus and my mother said,
when when you don't with Dinny the potato lockers. You what,
my grandmother is dead? What she uh?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
She gave me the potatoes before dinner.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Actually smuck it in. No, it's that's a good grandma. Man,
that's a solid Yeah. Absolutely, that's the way you gotta
do it. Man, all right, I gotta go, Thank you,
eat dog? All right?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, no, you already had the last thing. Now you're
trying to bogart Morton. Why do you try to steal time.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
From me?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
No, I mean I heal for you. I mean I
have five minutes. You want to bogart the whole show.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
I want to chime in for another with it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No, I'm good, all right, thank you, I gotta go.
All right, I call tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Go away.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Let's go to Eric, who's in the o C in
southern California. What's going on? Eric, You're on the Ben
Maler show on Fox.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Well's going on?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Then?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
So you know, I was cooking dinner and I made
some chicken palmasion and then, you know, once all done
with that, I said, I want the Lakeser game. And
I see the you know what will here it takes
me is when officials they changed out among games. Okay,
we got we got the technical fouls for what Luca
(27:54):
just being himself a band stream with fans. What happened
to day is when Wretchy Miller was going.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Out it with Fight three?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Was he ever object to send you that?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Why the official so soft?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Now?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay, all right, you gave your toad. First of all,
it's not nineteen ninety five. Okay, so it's twenty twenty,
it's thirty years later. So that's number one and number two.
I would I would, I would argue that Luca got
himself kicked out. You don't use profanity in the Bible Belt.
You're in Oklahoma, you don't do that.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Yes, because all officials are from the Bible Belt.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Right, so the game was played in Oklahoma. You act
when in Rome, act like a Roman. Okay, when in Oklahoma,
act like you're in the Bible Belt.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
What are you doing? That job by you?
Speaker 5 (28:40):
That not only that, that job by by the officials.
Again with the offensive golf, Now that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So why did the the Lakers are a mentally tough team,
why did the entire team fall apart when Luca got
kicked out?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I thought you still were great?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
They didn't fall apart. I thought, wait, manute, I thought
they fell apart.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
They didn't.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So the Lakers they got outscored twenty nine to fourteen
once Luca got ejected.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
But that doesn't count as a falling apart.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Yeah, because the.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Fish.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Oh you know, blame you know, you know what losers do.
Blame the referees.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You're just you're just self, You're you're self incriminating.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You're saying you're a loser. My name is Eric and
I'm a loser. You're saying you're a loser. You're announcing
you're a loser.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
A guy says it doubt you share it out and
then there's a technical foul.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
How about how about other guys step up?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You tell me how great Austin Reeves is and Lebron
you couldn't hang in there.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, but then again they changed. Okay, what about the
three point attempt?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I know, because you know, my entire life, my entire life,
the Lakers always get the short end of the stick
with the referees. The referees always are out to get
the Lakers. The Lakers never get the benefit of the
down from the referees. They always can't screw my entire life,
my entire life, and I can't because all right, go
you're annoying me and you're completely wrong. I mean, my god,
(30:02):
at least next time take off your purple and gold skirt.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Next time you're a Laker girl over there? What's wrong
with you? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It is the Ben Mahlers Show. So this is a
wild story. You talk about having a bad baseball season.
It's only been a couple of weeks of the baseball season.
But is there a more incompetent franchise than the Pittsburgh Pirates.
So we mentioned in a previous episode of the show,
the Pittsburgh Pirates had a tribute to Roberto Clemente that
(30:31):
they took off to put a beer not beer.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It was an alcohol add but not beer.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
So then they got killed for it and they had
to put the thing back on the wall. Well, it
turns out that that's not the only full pot the
Pirates have made this year.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
These are self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So the Pirates, which a lot of stadiums have, you
know how they have those those buy a brick things
where you put a name. Yeah yeah, that my Disney
and they had them, I think in the Big a
they had them. A lot of ballparks I've been to
around the country they have these things. It's kind of
a cool thing. Maybe it's like seventy five one hundred bucks,
I don't know. And you get to they put in
the brick the name of maybe your kids, or your
(31:09):
dead parents, or your dead grandparents, your dead dog, and
they put it in the brick and then it's there,
and then it's great. So the Pittsburgh Pirates had that,
and all of a sudden this year the bricks vanished. Yeah,
like what happened to the bricks? And people were frustrated.
They were calling the local media in Pittsburgh, son what happened?
(31:31):
They wanted to know where the Bucco bricks went. They
were very upset. They wanted an answer, why did you
remove the Bucco bricks? And so it turns out we
now know the rest of the story. The pirates not
only did they get rid of the Bucco bricks with
(31:51):
the names of the loved ones of pirate fans and
either alive or dead. Well, katie Ka Television Pittsburgh tracked
down the bricks. They found the bricks. The bricks were
piled up like debris from a horrible storm at a
recycle center in Pennsylvania in a reserve township, and it's
(32:18):
where they recycle building materials.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
So they just they removed all the bricks. They didn't
tell anyone.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
They were doing it, and there was a giant pile
of all these bricks that are in you know, they've
got the names of the dead love warns. Yeah, yeah,
and they just said that's it.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
We don't need them anymore. And there you go.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
That's your Pittsburgh pirates right there. That's your pirates. And
one particular gentleman from Pittsburgh was interviewed by the TV
station said he had one of the ten thousand bricks
sat there for twenty five years. So this has been
there for twenty five years and that's it that they
got rid of it. And they said, look like a
tornado that come through there and just piled up.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So there you go. Anyway, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It could have offered the bricks back to the people,
but that would have cost a lot of manpower and
they decided not to do that. Anyway, it is the
Ben Maler Show. We will press on time now for
the install Trivia and here it is Michael Malone as
the most wins by an NBA head coach over the
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last five seasons. Over the last five seasons, Blank is
second again Michael Malone as the most wins by an
NBA head coach. He's now been fired. Over the last
five seasons, Blank is second to the fired Denver coach.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
That is the instant trivia the answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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and Bill, you didn't introduce me, but it is I
Ben time. Now for the Insta Tribua Michael Malone. Michael
Malone has the most wins by an NBA head coach
over the last five seasons. Blank is second to the
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dismissed Nuggets coach. That is the Insta trivia. What is
the answer? And let's see does anyone know the answers?
We go to the Hoy Poloy the Great Unwashed and
malaprop guy says it's the Pirate Parrot working a side
gig for West Brick Construction. Pope John Paul the second
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from Alf the Alien Opiner. How about Moses Malone? There
you go, that's stuck in Sacramento.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Very nice.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
King Kong Bundy wrestling legend from Rob in Vegas. Miguel
on Fire says his brother former Extra Sports eleven fifty
host Karl Malone.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Remember that old mic flag there? That brings back some
good memories there, Miguel on Fire, Wow, that's a solid
Who else?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Ye? Blind Scott guests by Scrooge Paige, Dan can't read
that on the air.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Sween Nator from gumby Dave and Flo what a big baller?
Mallard Guess by courtesy Flesher, Eke and Rosezo Minnesota. Going
with Nick Nurse. My Nick's doing pretty well. That sixer
season hasn't worn him down too much. Andy and Lino Lakes,
Minnesota says, Chuck E Cheese is the answer. Kurt Rambus
Guess by Robin Minnesota. Jonathan Coachman from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
(36:22):
Robbie the Mariner fan is going with Satan as his
I didn't know that's what Satan looks like, Robbie. I
had no idea that is a handsome Uh well, it
depends if that's your type. You know, you like the
silver haired devil. What else do we have? Jim Bob
Couter from Trucker Joe. That's his answer. John Madden from
JT the Wingman run KFC from Donkey Sausage.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
All right, Lorrain, it's not Pop Warner. Guess by Chip
and the Cues. What's the answer?
Speaker 4 (36:48):
The King of Technical Fouls Whitey Ben white Man.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Wow, Okay, I know that is incorrect. The correct answer
is the Great.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Tilo of the People's Team. He coaches the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You know that. Lorena here the basketball insider here, knowing
right away, here we go, here we go, here we
go to the this.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Is one gets grail.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Well, apparently there's still a debate going on about whether
or not to allow NFL players to play in the
Olympics the flag football. Now, apparently the league office they
really wanted to happen. Owners of teams that are not
so sure they are worried about their you know, players
getting hurt. Now, one suggestion has been made that letting
(37:37):
a crop of freshly retired NFL players do the flag football.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Ben, how do you how do you feel about this
retired guys doing it? No, it's dumb. You know you
got the act and then there's no real pushback. Jerry
Jones is all for it. Put the players out there.
The players want to do it. It's flag football. It's
for us is put him out there, put him out there.
It's so stupid, bunch of below. You put the active
players out there, and the whole point is to try
(38:03):
to get young people to play flag football. So why
are you gonna put a bunch of fifty year olds
out there playing flag football? Makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Next, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles was asked about his
preferred strategy for the draft later this month, and Todd Bowles,
who was a defensive coordinator it surprisingly, said I never
want to buy pass a good offensive player to satisfy
defensive needs.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Ben, do you agree with him on that? First of all,
I like Todd Bowles.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Todd Bowles it does not play all the media games
and all that stuff. He doesn't put forward the narratives,
he doesn't say what he's supposed to say and all
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
No, there's a great offensive player and you're a defensive coach,
you take the great offensive player.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
This is not that difficult. This is not brain surgery.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Most of these guys are going to stink anyway, right,
I mean we I've spent hours of my life I'll
never get back reading these fugazy draft guides and most
of them are just complete fiction.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Okay, it's just been making crap up. It's a fair retail.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
So you take the player you think is gonna be great,
whether it's the offense or not.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Next, for all intents and purposes, we know who's going
to be in the playoffs in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
We just don't know which order now. When it comes
to the play in.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Everybody says it doesn't really matter that it's gonna be
the Memphis Grizzlies and the Minnesota Timberwolves that advance.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
The Kings and the Mavericks have no chance. Are you
agreeing with that?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
No, because you are a well placed knee injury or
a twisted ankle away from the lesser team winning.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
That's why you play the games. Cool and there it is,
Mallet of the thirtyree? How did we do you pass
the I w way it up? You're impressed, right, I
can't hear you. I cannot very impressed.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
That sounded very masculine.
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