Hour 2 - Called to the Hardwood

Ben Maller talks about an anonymous NBA GM calling out Adam Silver being obsessed with tournaments, Kevin Durant saying it's more fun to complain about the NBA than watch it, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shack a lackays the great Wheels said back in
his day. We'll join you here for our number two
the Ben Mathers Show, and here a hour number two
on the podcast Original Recipe podcast. An anonymous anonymous nbagm
calling out the half man, half Alien Commissioner Adam Silver saying, quote,
Adam Silver is obsessed with tournaments playing in season now

(00:23):
All Star. They've not proven to benefit our league. What
is your initial reaction to that? Also, how do you
process Kevin Durant saying it's more fun to complain about
the NBA than it is to actually watch the NBA.
And just how terrible was the new look All Star
game for television viewers. We have the tail of the tape.

(00:45):
We'll get to all of that and more. Right now,
give it up for our number two, called to the hardwood,
not the carpet, the hardwood. Welcome. In the beginning another
hour of the benmler Show. We are in the air, evywhares.

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is a hybrid of sorts. We're gonna start with pro
bouncy ball. We'll start with that and we'll bouncy bouncy around.
I realized that Daleen Muskegan is not gonna like that,
and he says that many of the fans at the
Gray Bar Hotel are triggered when I mentioned pro bouncy ball.
So just bear with me, but listen, I'm gonna do

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it in a different kind of way. This is not
gonna be boring pro bouncy ball talk. This will be
exciting pro bouncy ball talk. It'll be engaging, and if
you don't like it, you'll get your money back because
you paid nothing. You paid nothing for the show. Right now,
our lead this hour is from the day after and
the days of our Lives drama. The day after here

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the all Star Game post mortem, the autopsy on the
All Star Game. Commissioner on blasts on blast for the
fugsey the dingle Berry edition of the All Star Game.
The only one I know who likes it other than
the Commissioner is Andre and his dog willis from the Commonwealth.

(02:54):
So over the All Star weekend, we had a cheating
scandal in a skill Bill's challenge with Wemby the next
Face of the NBA and Chris Paul. You had Lebron
James show up late on Saturday and he couldn't be
bothered to put on his uniform for the team photo,
and then an hour or so before the game, skipped

(03:17):
out on playing in the All Star Game rather than
allowing someone else the opportunity to play in the All
Star Game. If he had done it the right way
and announced, I don't know Thursday or Friday he wasn't
going to play in the All Star Game, and then
you had the game interrupted because of a Mister Beast challenge.
The All Star Game. You also had an interruption for

(03:39):
a very public eulogy for the TNT broadcast crew which
A is not dead and B will be broadcasting NBA
games next year. But they paused all of that. Now,
if you have not heard the latest on this, it
gets even better. I think this is a great story,
and I have the editorial control of the microphones right now.

(04:01):
The bully pulpits So perhaps you didn't see this, maybe not.
An anonymous NBA general manager, The anonymous The anonymous NBA
general manager calling out Adam Silver, unfiltered commentary, quote, Adam
Silver is obsessed with tournaments, play in in season now

(04:24):
All Star. They've not proven to benefit our league. Close quote. Okay,
then how do you really feel? That's what we call kids?
The money quote? I know you're excited by that. You
knew that was the money quote. Of course it is.
So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
This anonymous NBA executive calling out Adam Silver, the face

(04:49):
of the NBA leadership, the Commissioner's office in Midtown Manhattan
there saying, quote, Adam Silver is obsessed with tournaments, play
in in season now All Star. They have not proven
to benefit our league. What is your initial reaction to that?
So I've got grasshopper cake and balloons and Wendy's and

(05:14):
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a forty first point which could
not have been scored, could not have been scored in
the All Star Game because they stopped playing at forty
in each game, could not have gone to forty one.
So my first thought, na burn, I said, nab Burn Ye,

(05:38):
the comment from the unknown executive. I would say, it
hit the bullseye. It hit the bullseye. If it was
a lego, it snapped together with another lego, it worked.
And Adam Silver has been infatuated with this michigas of
these tournaments, and it's because of football. That's why European basketball.

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But football has had a lot of success with friendlies
and these type of things. And so Adam Silver it's
his life's passion. He has a grasshopper up his tushy
for more tournaments. He thinks this is the path to
the yellow brick road, that here's a tournament. There's a tournament,

(06:25):
everyone gets a tournament. We now, there is no evidence
that any of this is helping the business of basketball.
It's not the funny thing about the tournament thing. There
is one tournament I will garn to you that would
be a success for the NBA, would be a money

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maker for the NBA would be great for basketball, and
Adam Silver and the leadership in the NBA don't want
to do it because it goes against the core values
of the NBA. What is that That is NBA Stars
in America versus the World Stars, and you wouldn't do that.
Wouldn't really be a tournament, more like a one on one,

(07:09):
you know, team All Star game. We have the US
All Stars versus the World Stars. And from what I
have deciphered from people that I've spoken to, they don't
want to do it because they would have to wrap
themselves in pro America. Because there's nothing the American sports
fan loves more. And really anywhere wherever you're from, you
love wrapping yourself and patriotism for your country. And the

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NBA has long stood anti America stuff. They love that.
You know, they've done a lot of anti American things
over the years. So for them to all of a
sudden wrap themselves around the flag and be like, all right,
this is organ We're gonna have a World Stars versus
American Stars and all the marbles be a massive success,
huge ratings, be great, but somebody might wrap themselves in

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the flag and that would go against the core principles
of the end. So they won't do that. So instead
we have this lame oh in season tournament, lame to
the membrane. You have the All Star Tournament, which is unnecessary.
You've got the playing tournament, which is ridiculous. You already
have an eighty two game play in tournament to decide

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who's in the playoffs, but then you have to give
some of the losers an extra chance to try to
get in the playoffs. And so we have all this,
but wait, there's more. I'm not done. You think I'm done,
but I'm not done. All right, Adam Silver wants to
add another tournament to the All Star Game, a one
on one tournament. That's right. There's a lot of chatter

(08:41):
that Adam next year at the All Star Game, a
one on one action with a one million dollar prize,
which for me would be life changing. I imagine for
you if you got a million dollar prize, and after taxes,
that's about one hundred thousand. But still it's it's a
lot of money, a lot of money, right, And they
want this one on one thing. But the problem is
the biggest stars in the NBA A won't do it,

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and B don't need that money because they're all making
forty fifty sixty million dollars a year. So what do
they care. They wiped their ass and they make a
million dollars when they flushed the toilet paper down the
commode there that they make a million dollars, So what
do they care? By one on one tournament and somebody
needs to send Adam Silver to a twelve step program

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at this point, okay, and he is obsessed with these tournaments.
It's not working for the customer. It's not any thinks, well,
I just keep doing it, you know, be a way
to go. You're handing out a championship. This in season
thing that's like the lamest of them all, Like no
one's watching before Christmas. So let's have an in season

(09:47):
tournament and we'll hang a banner. Dumb du dumb, dumb dum.
Marright now, pitch two. So Kevin Durant went off, unhinged
all star Kevin Durant. He will parts the words Duran
He went on an a rant on social media. If
you didn't see this, Durant, I will, I will pretend
I'm Kevin Durant. I am not Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant said,

(10:08):
I quote, I think it's more fun to complain about
the NBA than to actually watch it, meaning the NBA
crazy cancel All Star weekend, Kevin Durant said, and let's
just give everybody a break since we're so miserable around
this time. Well, that is another money quote. Yeah, that's

(10:33):
a great quote. Now Durant's complaining because people complain about
them playing and how bad the product is. So how
do you process? Here's the question, how do you process
Kevin Durant, Many time All Star Hall of Fame player,
Kevin Durant, one of the great ball players of his generation.
Kevin Durant saying, it's more fun to complain about the
NBA than to actually watch the NBA. So obviously there

(10:56):
was some sarcasm in play here. As someone that dabbles
in the ancient art of sarcasm, I understand that. But
someone should buy KD cake and balloons, cake and balloons,
because he is having a pity party. He's having a
pity party. Right, there's sarcasm, but there's some truth in that.
He's like, he's annoyed, he's anyone out there to play

(11:16):
in the All Star Game. And it bothers him that
people don't appreciate the fact that he's playing in the
All Star Game. Boohoo hoo. The customers are complaining, which
is actually a good thing. That means that they want
to like your product. And I go back to the
most powerful thing that you have as a consumer, whether
it's buying products, whether it's watching sports, it's the a word,

(11:40):
not ass apathy. And if you show apathy and you
just don't care and you don't watch and you don't consume,
that is poison, that is asbestos that will do them in.
But as long as you care and you're upset, that
means you want to like the product. So it's actually
a good thing that many people are upset with the NBA.

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And I look at it this way. I'll use an analogy,
like you're in a restaurant. You're in a deli, and
they say you're running a deli. You have a forty
eight page menu at the dela. It's a pretty big menu,
forty eight pages, and you open the deli and people
seem to enjoy pretty much everything in the menu, all
forty eight pages. People like the menu. You've got a
good variety of items, and people are ordering things from

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all forty eight pages of the menu. So things are
going well. For years, people enjoy the variety of foods,
but over time customers start not enjoying the vast majority
of the pages of the menu at the Delhi and
instead they order they only like like three things. That's it.
So how do you handle that situation? You run the deli?

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What do you do well? Kevin Durant says, nothing good happens,
nothing good enough happens for the fans right now, He said,
the only thing they enjoy is playoffs, trade deadline, free agency,
and when players beef with each other. And all of
that is true. And the reason all of that is

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true is because it's compelling. All of that is entertaining.
You know, it's not entertaining. Load management on a random
Tuesday night in the NBA. That's not entertaining. That's not right.
And those things that Durant mentioned are all interesting and
it creates engagement. Playoff basketball players actually try. They take

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pride in that it's a big deal that matters. Trade
deadline and free agency are captivating because your mind wanders,
what's the team going to be like now with the
new player? And you get to see the players in
their new uniforms, and that's exciting players. Grumbling is always fun.
Who doesn't like a nice workplace debate? If you will

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solid right, a regular season is not entertaining. The All
Star Game sucks, and on and on. So rather than
improve the ingredients, Kevin Durant's argument is, hey, let's just
let's just get you know, we'll just get rid of it.
Let's take a vacation, go go wherever Paul George is.
Put some suntannocean on. All right, now, final point. We

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now have the tail of the tape, the tail of
the tape? Just how bad, how terrible was the new
look NBA All Star Game? For the viewer of the
All Star Game? I remember we took a call from
Andre and the Commonwealth, who loved the All Star Game.
He thought it was great. But for everyone else and
their mother, they were like, man, this blows all right, So,

(14:34):
just how terrible the new look All Star Game was?
The tail of the tape. It was like watching a
commercial for Windy's back in the day. Where's the beef?
Where is the beef? Where is it? Or in this case,
where's the basketball? They've done the math, the broadcast had
forty two minutes of actual basketball over three games, with

(14:58):
one hundred and thirty eight eight minutes of commercials. Let
me repeat that for those of you that are inebriated,
So forty two minutes of actual basketball, one hundred and
thirty eight minutes of commercials or filler like mister Beast
and Charles Barkley and Shaq and Kenny Smith being eulogized

(15:20):
like they've just dropped dead when they're still very much alive,
and we'll be calling NBA games next year. If you
want to break down my computer, like brain tells me
using malor math, that works out to seventy six point
six percent filler, seventy six point six percent filler, eighty
minutes were straight commercials. Eighty minutes were straight commercials, nothing

(15:44):
but commercials, and I love commercials. But that means, if
you do the math on this, the actual basketball for
the All Star Game was twenty three point three percent
and the advertisements were forty four point four percent. The
math ain't mathing on that. The numbers just don't add up.

(16:04):
Whoever signed off on that being an upgrade? Who goofed?
I've got to know, should be sent out to Siberia
is where they should be sent, like, what are you
doing here? That's your showcase event and it's twenty three
per point three percent basketball, and then there's whatever that
mister Beast thing was, and then forty four point four

(16:24):
percent commercials. Man, all right, you want to comment on
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There's way too much malor math on the show. We'll
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(18:09):
find Coople Loop at a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan,
and later this hour Mallard of the Third Degree with
Coople Loop. But right now, back to this nonsense, Well,
it's not nonsense, Bill at all. It's it's a talk

(18:30):
show doing God's work, talking about overpaid athletes. Late night
drug tester. Right since has Ben I agree with Kevin
Durant cancel All Star Weekend? The players will just schedule
their extra days off during the season. He says, one
of my favorite emails I got a couple of days
ago was from a guy and this was not from
late night drug tester. Guy emailed me said, well, he

(18:52):
should just shorten the season to sixty eight games and
then the players will play all sixty eight games and
there'll be no problem. And I thought, mom, boy, how
dumb can someone be? I mean, how is this? How
is this person able to a get email? Track down
my email address and send me that email. Because if
you limit the season of sixty eight games, you'll have

(19:13):
to cut everyone salary. You'll have to take away fourteen
game checks, which I'm thinking they won't do. But what
do I know. I just do the overnight show. So
even if if you work out the financials, if the
games are sixty eight, they'll be well, that's too many
and we need load management on that. So we're only
going to play fifty eight out of an abundance of caution.
Follow the science. That worked out well in twenty twenty

(19:38):
for everyone, right, yeah, the whole world shut down. Follow
the science. Absolutely, that's the way to go. Absolutely. King
Rory writes, since says the only way to improve the
NBA All Star Weekend is to have a game of
donkey basketball. Who would not want to watch a bunch
of NBA players riding donkeys while playing basketball. Instant ratings hit. Yeah, clearly,

(20:02):
let's see Chicago Bears guy says, gotta love these snowy roads,
trying to get around the delivering papers and oh it's
minus twenty one outside right now. Wow, no, thank you man.
I don't know he's a Chicago Bears guy. I don't
know if he's in Chicago or not. I have no idea,
but it does look like the Arctic. He's in the

(20:26):
art like the North Pole, driving around there. I like snow,
ben you. But there's a little dusting of snow on
the ground. He's a photo.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Here between thirty two degrees and negative twenty three degrees.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Just to you know where wolf socks, that's the key time.
Three wolf socks. That's the most important thing. That's what
my brother tells you. He lives in cold weather. He
would know you gotta get the wolf socks. That's the
most important thing. Now do you have ski fashion? I
know you have the summer outfits that you ordered famously

(20:59):
on line, but do you go to the snow at
all this time of the year. Do you have a
ski ski fashion.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Laurenne, Well, technically, Ben the pants I'm wearing right now?

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Oh is that right? Okay, okay, okay, very nice. It's
like you're a runway model. You want to do a
pirouette while you're at it. You want to do on
the catwalking.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
But they're fleece lined and they're water resistant on the outside.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
So put some boots on these babies.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
You're good to go.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Those boots are made for walking, right there. Now heard
that somewhere, Mister Luciana writes and says ten out of
ten on the opening mall of monologue this hour with
some lebron James tears on the side. Just like the
Pro Bowl, the All Star Game is a joker. There
you go Richie wrights in, and Richie is in the
Bay Area. He's the bartender guy. He says, it's the

(21:44):
actual game that is disliked. I would expand on the
skills competition and the three point dunk contest and the
celebrity game, considering the actual All Star Game is just
a three point dunk showcase. I think these skills stuff
is far more entertaining then the game itself. Ferg Dog's
upset with the top of the hour live read, he says,

(22:05):
please don't remind me of the forecast. It is brutal,
he says, brute tale. All right. Bill Wrights in from
La says, last time I saw a forty two minute
basketball game, it was because the peach bucket broke. It's
James Naismith right there and brought to you by Chef
Boyard the twelve twenty twenty and fifty eight degrees right

(22:31):
now here on the Ben mallage. I was giving the weather.
We're good on that. Nick the Wendy's Guy checks in,
He says, Ben Buddy. After twelve years, I might not
be Nick the Wendy's Guy. Looking into other jobs. Oh man, hey, Nick,
for our show, you should become Nick the Canes guy,
the raising Canes game. Upgrade your Chicken game over to Canes. Okay,

(22:53):
you got upgrade. Give us all the inside dirt on Canes.
Be Nick the Canes guy. That's the way to do.
It's go the phones. Let's hello Chris in Boston. Hello, Chris, welcome. Yeah,
we love the chicken Chicken.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
Yeah, this is this is Chris and the Commonwealth. Then,
first time I've actually haven't played this game with yeah,
you know it's freezing. I'm plowing right now. You know,
I'm a plow truck driver. Ras I get. Yeah, you
get someone to choose you as a partner Ben for
this game, dude, then you know on uh, it's minus
sixty eight degrees on Killington right now. I said it's

(23:29):
below it's below zero with the windshill. Like it's like
if you're a plow truck driver, like you haven't been
able to plow much snow in New England like over
the past five years, Like you went broke if that's
the only business you have, Like, I don't know what
I do when I'm not plowing, but I'll play right now.
If I saw angry Bill, I'd hit him with my
plow right now. But we're getting so much now. We're
getting another storm on Thursday at Boston. Yeah, we've got

(23:52):
snow all weekend too.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Like, oh, that's great, Blizzard Radio. You can do Blizzard
Radio call into the shows during the blizzard.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, we need those, We need those times.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
You know.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
I like to play those games too, you know, dude.
One other say, like we have the Four Nations Classic
going on here in Boston right now, So it's like Finland. Uh,
we hate Canada. So I heard Trump showing up on
Thursday night the United States versus Canada. Trumps shall be
going to drive his motorcade around the rink before the game.
We're going to give all the We're gonna give all

(24:23):
the Canadians, you would give all the middle finger, all
the Canadians. We're gonna send him back there back.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Then you put Trump on a zamboni, have the president
drive around the first ever presidential Has the president, an
active president ever driven a zamboni before? That would be
a first. Put him on a zamboni driving round.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
You think you think he's mad? I bet he's really mad.
Like they were really booing, like like inside it's a
Four Nations classic. And then outside you got Honduras, Ecuador, Belize, Guatemala.
These people they just write mopeds like I'm a plow driver,
you know, yeah, drive the mopeds on the sidewalk. And
then they got the Feds and they're trying to catch
these people. It's like a different type of force.

Speaker 6 (24:58):
Wow, a third ye man, Yeah, sectuary place here.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (25:04):
I understand, Chris, I understand.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:06):
Would would you when you're a oh you know what
the thing about plowing. Anybody can do it anymore. I
can do it. Ben, you should do it. You just
jump in and you can just plow. You hit whatever
you want. It's not like like over the weekend, my
girlfriend she broke up with her boyfriend. So I had
my mom's triple a tower car from Stowton Tolloe. You
have to be really smart to hold up a car
in the flatbed, but to get in the plow, any

(25:28):
moron can do this is you know, we love Duncan too,
because we're in Boston.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
Yeah, so we like that with Bill.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
You know Bill Boltrick's girlfriend.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
I've heard. I've heard of her. Yeah, she's young.

Speaker 6 (25:37):
Oh she was mean with.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
The Four Nations but the Foreign Nations. Did you see
her sitting right at the table.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah, yeah, I saw Kenny Albert though I heard Kenny
Albert on the call there on Turner. I was watching
the game last Oh yeah I was.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
I was Cyberstock and Kevin Hyland. He listens to this show,
the Ben Maller Show. He's from Milwaukee, but I think
I saw where he lived. Maybe it's public. Oh he's
on tea and.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
He's from Wisconsin. As Dad was like the big executive
with the packers and he lives in Kansas City.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Baby. Oh yeah, so well.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
You didn't go to broadcasting, I mean, but yeah, all right,
I gotta go. Thank you, christ I mean your bow
guarding in the time. Three minutes of air time for that.
My god. Let's say hello to Jay. Now it says
here this guy is Jay Bruce. Is this really Jay Bruce?

Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yes, sir, you ask me anything you want, I'll tell you.
I called it in about five years ago.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Why why are you called way? That was not blind Scott,
that was Chris and Boston. No, he said his name
was Chris and Boston. Are you saying that he's a
liar that call her?

Speaker 4 (26:44):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Really, ask me, why why do you Why do you
think you're Jay Bruce? Why?

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Why is that I am Jay Bruce?

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Why why would Jay? Why would Jay Bruce call an
overnight radio show to your surprise?

Speaker 4 (26:59):
And haven't done both listen on a regular basis. We
talk about it last. We laugh at Marcell Yeah, is
that right? All that stuff?

Speaker 1 (27:09):
But Coop asked this guy some questions. See if we
can find out if this is the real Jay Bruce.
Here is going to play the game, and this guy
claims to be former Major league outfielder Jay Bruce. And
how many how many teams did you play for? There?
And see your name them?

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Philly Seattle, the Rads of course, the Mets.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Oh boy, your memories going there? Jay, I don't know
what happened.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Philly Settle Mets.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
You missed one. Oh, there you go go, Cleveland. Do
you go to Baseball Reference right now and look at
that up and you do that?

Speaker 4 (27:52):
No?

Speaker 1 (27:52):
You did not.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
What what was your what? What was the amount of
your first contract that you ever signed in the in
Major League Baseball?

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Five years, fifty five million dollars in the Reds?

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Is that first contracts the second he signed out of
Oh my very first.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
One when they signed me out of high school? Yeah, oh,
I don't remember that.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
What was the name of your high school?

Speaker 4 (28:21):
You got me right? I?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Oh, you almost had me, Jay Bruce, the fake Jay Bruce,
You almost had me.

Speaker 4 (28:32):
Hey, I'm gonna keep going back. I switched the second
ship for first shift.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
All right, Well, we'll be here every night, Fake Jay
Bruce will be here. Okay, thank you for all right,
call back Fake j Bruce. There, that's great. It's what
a weird athlete to choose. Yeah. I don't know how that, guys,
but he probably fell in love with baseball watching Jab

(29:00):
Bruce back like you know, sixteen years ago or something
like that, and he's like, that's my favorite player. I'm
all grown up. I'm going to be Jay Bruce. I'm
going to call an overnight show as Jay Bruce. And
he would have gotten away with it. He almost got
away with it. No good investigative skills. Good cop, bad cop.

(29:20):
We got to the bottom of it. Let's go to
Nick in Cansah City. Hello, Nick, Welcome.

Speaker 6 (29:27):
Hey Ben, good to finally talk to you. I want
to talk about the boring NBA. And I'm not a
huge basketball fan, impact of hardly any much of a
basketball fan, but I of the four professional sports, basketball
in this modern era of the bigger, stronger, faster athlete, Yeah,

(29:51):
is the only sport that can't cope with the bigger, faster,
stronger athlete.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Well, they could cope with it, just have chosen to
sell out to the nerds. It's that's the way the
game is played is because the NBA industry embraced the analytics,
and it's that's the only way everyone plays the same way.
It's pop a shot from the three point line. It's
either get a basket in the paint or shoot from

(30:20):
beyond the arc. And the thing that is great is
how many times you watch an NBA game and they're
running a fast break and they kick it back out
for a three point shot rather than a layup.

Speaker 6 (30:32):
But why doesn't anybody ever talk about it's the only
one of the four major sports where the bigger, faster,
stronger athlete has outgrown the playing surface.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Because I don't think that's the issue, because the way
they play the game is the problem. It's not that
they've outgrown the court. I think it's just a case
where they play the game, as I said, where they
just shoot three point shots and everything's in the middle,
and it's not designed for the dominant center or the
bigger player. They choose to marginalize the bigger, stronger, faster

(31:09):
player because of the way they want to play.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
What about a what about a change the rim, change
a rim height, change a rim diameter, change the ball
down something, something, Because I mean they look like they're
playing on an elementary school court.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah, well you can. They're not going to change the
way the game that that part of it they're not
going to change. And they added the last big addition
was the three point shot years ago. And if anything,
they're going to add a four point shot. They have
from mid court. We'll have a four point shot. We'll
call it the Steph Curry line, and you can shoot
three point shots.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
But all the other sports have changed a lot of rules,
they've changed, you know, hockey's made great changes. I don't
know how they saw this coming with the bigger, faster,
stronger player, but they may change.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
They they made change, well, they made some, but the
trying to downgrade fighting when the greatest thing that happened
in hockey in recent history was a fight, three fights
that happened on Saturday. And that's why everyone's talking. It's
not because of the hockey itself. It's because the people
were fighting with each other and they loved it. People
loved fighting, and Gary Bettman tried to get rid of

(32:17):
fighting and all that. So anyway, all right, well thank
you Nick, the great Nick. In Kansas City, it is
the Ben Mahlor Show. We're gonna have Mallard the third
degree that is currently warming up. It's in the oven.
It should be done in in a few. It should
be done in a few we're anticipating that, and we'll

(32:38):
get to the free money later on. We'll push that back.
Request denied, we'll push that back as well. Time now
for the Insta trivia. The last two NBA players with
at least ten games of five or more steels in
a single season are Hawks guard Dyson Daniels this season
and Blank again. The last two NBA players to have
at least ten games of five more steals in a

(33:02):
single season are Atlanta Hawks yard Dyson Daniels. I never
heard of him this season and Blank. That is the
Insta trivia, the answer and Mallard of the third Degree.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

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(33:48):
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(34:09):
the various Fox Sports Radio videos on the you tube. Well, Bill,
you forgot to do the toss. That's a bad job
by your time out for the inst to trivia the
Ben here. By the way, last two I know, last
two NBA players to have at least ten games of

(34:29):
five or more steels in a single season are Atlanta
Hawks Yard Dyson Daniels. Doesn't that sound like a fake name?
Dyson Daniels and that's this year and blank and blank,
that is the question. What's the answer? Shane and Tomoy
going with Charles Oakley Otis Nixon half man, half skeleton

(34:50):
from I forty I in who else you have sewn?
Michaels from mister Luciano, that's his answer. Virgil Runnels from
King Rory better known as Dusty Rhodes, a Cupid guest
by alf the Alien Opiner. You are Andre Carolinko, who

(35:10):
is forty four a K forty seven. You think he
still gets that hall pass? Andre Kirolinko that once a
year he can go out and stoop whoever he wants.
Great pastor Yeah, his wife gave that Horny Jeff Horniseck
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Blind Scott driving around Boston
from Milkman, Mike Mister Spudhead from Donkey Sausage, Chris in Houston. Wow,

(35:36):
Chris has changed his wardrobe from Robbie the Mariner fan.
Who else do we have? I can't read that Chris
from Boston. Guests by Timothy Picky in the Brain from
Trucker Joe Benito, San Diago guest by DJ Spen Patrick
in San Diego, Dino Raja from Ricardo. It's his answer,

(36:00):
Mark and Santa Monica going with Jay Bruce is his answer.
Late Night Drug answer says I love the New Game,
Real or fake? Former athlete caller, all right, Laraya. This
My last two NBA players that at least ten ten
games of five or more steels in a single season
are Hawks guard Dyson Daniels this season and Blank and

(36:23):
Clark Griswold of the vacations, Ben, Yeah, what was your
favorite vacation movie? Probably Christmas one.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Yeah, that's the most part where they go to the
Rocky and Bullwinkle Park.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
That was fun. That was filmed right around here, Yeah,
film right right, all right, wally World, Wally World. It
was actually it was the big amusement park out what's
it called the Magic Mountain? Oh?

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Is that where they did it?

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Well, some of it there, they did some of it
at Santa Nea. The parking lot was actually at Santa Neita. Anyway,
the correct answer is Ricky Rubio. Ricky Rubio back in
twenty fourteen for the tail.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
To the third degree. This is one gets here we go.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Let's go over to Kooba loop the reading of the
questions on Malard to the third degree.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
The Washington Commanders are currently the betting favorite to land
disgruntled Brown star Miles Garrett. Now Benwood landing Garrett close
the gap between the Commanders and the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Well, yeah, obviously, yes, he's a good player. Yes, so yeah,
you add another good player. That's a nice edition. And
Miles Garrett he hasn't closed the gap for the Cleveland
Browns because they don't have a quarterback. They have bad
players all over the place. But the big thing here
is what happens to the Commanders now that they came
out of nowhere and they got to the NFC Championship game.

(37:41):
Now they've got a bullseye on him. So how do
they handle that and all the immense pressure. But yes,
adding Miles Garrett where he could make three or four
impact plays per game that could turn a game in
your favor, could kill the other team's drives, absolutely, that
would be a massive pickup for the Commandersnah.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Along with hating on the All Star game format, Draymond
Green also announced that the Warriors would win another championship
this year with Jimmy Butler. Yes, Ben, what is the
actual ceiling for the Warriors?

Speaker 1 (38:10):
No? I agree. I think as long as they stick
to video games, the Golden State Warriors can win a
championship this year. But you didn't Steph Curry like laugh
at that. Even like Steph was laughing at that. He
thought that was like comedy, like Draymond was working material
for his podcast or something like that. No, I love
Jimmy Butler, I don't love him as much because of
the Shenanni as he pulled in Miami and all that
he got into a beef with Riley. I don't know

(38:31):
what really happened there, but the Warriors are good. They're old, though,
and old teams break down, and they will break down.
And so because of that, the ceiling is the second
round of the playoffs next.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Justin Verlander and Max Schurz are both in their forties
and nearing the ends of their illustrious careers. They're number
ten and number eleven, respectively on the all time strikeout
leaders list, separated by only nine strikeouts. Ben, who do
you think finishes the career higher on the list.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
So I'm gonna go with Verlander because I just don't
try sure. I mean, they both hurt a lot. They're
both passed the expiration date, but Verlander with the Agantes
for half a year until he's traded to a good team.
I'll go Verlander. How do we know you pass the
right house?

Speaker 5 (39:12):
Another win?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
I've got more wins than anybody at this game. I'm
the only one that plays really