April 14, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about how big of a setback it is for the Warriors to have lost to the Clippers in the season finale, Patrick Beverley saying that the winner of that matchup is winning the championship, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka Laca.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number two of the Ben Malors Show on
this Monday, and that's all she wrote. In the NBA
regular season, there was one game in particular that was
the game of the day for playoff positioning in the NBA.
How big a setback is the finale loss to the
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Clippers for Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green and the Warriors?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Is there in the play in tournament?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Also, former NBA player Patrick Beverly said, the winner of
that Warrior Clipper matchup, which turned out to be the Clippers,
will be winning the championship.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
How does that sound to you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And what early playoff matchups intrigue you? We know of
four of the playoff matchups so far. We'll take a
first peek at.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That right now here. It is our number two.
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Speaker 2 (02:10):
The curtain has come down on the regular season of
the NBA. There will be no more regular season NBA games.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
For this year anyway. It's all over there the finale.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Everyone playing on a Sunday, And while we were watching
the golf, we flipped over to the basketball. There's only
one game really worth watching on Sunday in the NBA,
and I was in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That was the game.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You win, you get a secured playoff spot. You lose,
and you gotta go to that fugasey playing tournament. And
that involved Golden State playing the People's Team, and I
saw it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Was on national national TV. Know't know if you're watching
it or not. Maybe not, but.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The Beard a renaissance, James Harden hitting consec three point
baskets in overtime, a domination situation, the kind of performance
that if Harden does that in an NBA Finals game,
they write books about it. He was that dominant, made
a parafoul, shots, scored on a also got a basket
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on a Jimmy Butler goaltending call. He had thirty nine
points James Harden and tennis sists. That was the Roquets
version of James Harden in that game.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Kawhi Leonard, the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Toronto Raptor San Antonio Spur vintage for the People's Team,
Leonard had thirty three points. The Clippers get it done,
they win, and they win in overtime, and they're the
fifth seed in the Western Conference. They get to play
those lightweights from Denver in their first playoff series, and
the Warriors on the wrong end of things, which means
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they are not guaranteed of a play in spot. And
the better story though, is in the losing locker room.
As much as I would like to see here and
waxed loquacious about the Clippers and how great James Harden
was and all that.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Nobody wants to hear that.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You want to hear the sad sack Golden State Warriors,
That's what you want to hear about. You had Steph
Curry make a basket, strutting right, he was strutting down
the court there. Oh man, we got these guys and
then they had to play the rest of the game.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He didn't have anybody and he had nothing nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So the Warriors who melted under pressure. They had the
lead late, had a four point lead, and they melted
down the stretch. Curry had thirty six although he did
really nothing the first three quarters. Jimmy Butler thirty points
and nine assists, and that's it. The regular season is over.
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So let us discuss how big a setback. How big
a setback is this loss for Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler
and Draymond Green and the Warriors as they now have
to go into that playing tournament. So I've got Fiddle,
pac Man and Forrest Gump and we will combine all
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of these things together, and we were going to make
some sour dough bread. The San Francisco treat which is well,
just sour, just very sour there the Warrist. So this
is a myth buster situation, right, this is a myth
buster situation.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That is my number.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
One the aura of the Warriors when they got Jimmy
Butler and they had a great record to finish the
regular season, but they didn't get Jimmy Butler to still
end up in the play in tournament.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That was not the mission.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
When they got Jimmy Butler and they had everything set up.
Golden State had everything you could possibly want. So this
is a massive disappointment. This is a massive disappointment. Everything
was there. You had home cooking check, you had that
Warriors were favored. They were three and a half point
favorites in the gambling line. When you avoid the playing tournament,
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lose and you're in it. And Golden State had a
point lead in the first half, and there was that
point where it was teetering where if the Warriors go
second level, go turbo time, they go up by twenty
five points games over.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They didn't have it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
They did not have the ability to go turbo time,
and they were not turbotasking the Tastic in that situation,
and they did have.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The early body blow body blow by.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Golden State, so they came as all right there by
twelve had a body blow. And then the Clippers responded,
and the Warriors, because they were they had home cooking,
they fiddled around with their food. You don't fiddle around
with your food. They did, and the Clippers kept chipping
away their little right hook. Here a left hook. And
then in overtime the Beard said, here's an uppercut right
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to the chin. Boom, right to the chin. Sure enough
and so Hardin had twelve of the Clippers thirteen points
in overtime. He was electric and Jimmy Butler at the
end there he looked like a pogo stick. He was
hopping up and down there at the end of the game.
Draymond Green blew a buddy. I'm sure we'll hear about
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that in this podcast unless we don't. But yeah, missed a.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Layup right there. I could have made that. He missed it.
Nobody around. He missed a layup.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And you combine this loss and also a couple of
days back, the Warriors lost to the San Antonio Spurs
at home, a dog food Spurs team, and there's not
a lot of razzle dash like any razzle dazzle the
Warriors had from winning a bunch of games when they
got Jimmy Brother. You lose to the Spurs at home,
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and you've got a win, and you're in the playoffs. Losing,
you're in the playing and you can't beat the Clippers.
That's a bad job by Golden State. Now, you can
spin it any way you want, but that's not why
they got Jimmy Butler and all that stuff. And there's
no time for a penny party because right back added
another thing that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
In the NBA.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You play eighty two games. It's an eighty two game
playing tournament to decide who makes the playoffs. And then
you add a couple extra games just in case somebody
gets hurt, because you want more content. And so the
NBA Playing Tournament will begin on Tuesday. The seven seed
Memphis will travel to Northern California to take on the
Warriors in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
There and that's that. Now turning the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Page, we've got former NBA player Patrick Beverly who has
entered the chat. BEV the glue guy for the Clippers. Now,
he said, prior to the Clipper Warrior game that the
winner of that game on a lazy Sunday afternoon, the
winner of that matchup was winning the championship. So how
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does that sound to you? That's what he said it.
I didn't say it. He said it. Patrick Beverly said
it all right, So certainly some edgy commentary from Beverly,
who I don't think he will probably play in the
NBA again. He played overseas and whatnot here and from
Beverly's lips to the NBA script writer's ears is what
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I would say, right.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And the Clippers are certainly more than capable of winning
the championship. And they've been in this position where they
have the talent to win a championship for about a
decade now. Most of the time they've been good enough
to win a championship, but inevitably the car breaks down.
The car breaks down, the engine doesn't work right, the
breaks don't work. At some point, it's if it's not
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one thing, it's something else here. So I've determined, after
a minutes long Mallard deliberation, that the richest owner in
American sports, Steve Balmer, needs to go pac Man. They
need to go pac Man. Now old arcade game. Pac Man,
get your hands on those power pellets, you know, those
little power pellets, and pac Man eats the power pellet,
and then he flips the script. And then all of
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a sudden, because pac Man ate the power pellet, he
can then he's invincible, and he can then eat those
annoying little ghosts that usually chase him. And all of
a sudden, he's eating them. And they got to go
to that little penalty box in the middle of the screen.
The Clippers need a power pellet. They need a pack
Man power pellet for Kawhi Leonard. Get him on the court,
and they are going to be in the Final four
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and likely the NBA Finals and the whole thing here,
and you really set up pretty good. You got a
disheveled Nuggage team that hate each other. They got the
coach fired, Michael Malone in Denver.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's a total mess.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
They got a nerd king dork as the interim coach,
Adalman's kid, so they don't know what the hell they're
doing there. You got playoff Westbrook. So all the Clippers
have to do is leave him open to shoot three point.
Here's the Nuggets will feed him the ball he'll lose,
he'll miss him, and so you get by them, and
maybe you play Oklahoma City. Who knows Oklahoma City won
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all these games and all that they could lose in
the first round.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Whoever's the eighth.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Seed they get end up losing to, whether you're Memphis
or Golden State, of those two teams as the eight
seed that would be shocked the Ooklahoma City loses and
Clippers get there, they can beat them. So you said,
up right, last thing here the final part of this
winding road. So the looking around situation, as we have
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now gotten to a fork in the road. We are
done with the regular season at the play in tournament
and then the regular season building up to the playoffs,
which will be this weekend, the playoffs this weekend. So
what early playoff matchups intrigue.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You the most? What early playoff matchups intrigued you the most?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So we don't know all the matchups yet, there's only
four that we know, two in the East and two
in the West because of the ridiculous play in tournament.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But of those.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Upset alert, upset alert, upset alert, the Minnesota Timberwolves and
the Lakers. Anthony Edwards has a chance to exterminate Houkluka
right away in the plays, and the Lakers are there
right there. They're plump for the taken and during the
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regular season, Minnesota was two and two with the Lakers. Now,
the one thing that's scares is they don't play any defense.
Neither the Lakers, Neither one's a good defensive team. But
that is a juicy opportunity for ant Man. If he
can stop, you know, knocking up women for a few
days and go out there and get it done, then
he'll be in good shape. Now, the Wolves are a
bipolar team, but I've noticed from watching random NBA games
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during the course of the season that there are mostly
bipolar teams in the association. That's a league filled with
bipolar teams. There's a lot of forest Gump, a lot
of forest gump out there. You never know what you're
gonna get, like a box of chocolates here, there and everywhere.
Inconsistent performances are the norm, at least during the regular season.
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And these teams, many of them have been brilliant at times,
but they're not consistent pathetic at other times.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And so it makes it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Unlike years ago when you kind of knew what you
were gonna get going into a playoff situation. Not quite
the case. That said, much like the NCAA tournament went
in doubt, go with chalk Chalky mcchalk. Now in the
East of the matchups that we know, the one that
you're circling right away is the upstart Pistons, who should
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not win a playoff series. But the Knicks are a
hot mess. They've got issues. You've got Cade Cuttingham and
Jalen Brunson on the other side for the Knickerbockers that matchup,
Detroit did win the regular season series three games to
one over New York. So will the Knickerbockers pull the
old Tracy Morgan and puke all over the court at
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Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
In that series?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And then you look around and it's like this, you
got a lot of the playing stuff. I mean, there's
not a lot there there is. Now there's only one
playing game that you're like mildly interested in, and that's
to see what happens with Golden State and Memphis. But
that's it. Does anyone care about Kings and Matt Evericks?
I don't Bulls and heat pu what stinks? And even
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the Magic and Hawks matchup. That's the seven eight matchup
in the East. That doesn't really do much for you.
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We'll see about that. The the bees Knees, we'll get to.
The bees Knees will go there. And also I don't
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We'll do it all and we will.
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Do it.
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Lakers in six trust me?
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How dare you? Jill? I'm gonna I'm gonna tell on you.
It's his happy pass.
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If you don't eat the bread, Jill, no bread, gotta
eat the matsa gotta eat.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It's called the folks. Let's say hello to Barry, who
he was on earlier.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
But he was off for like ten seconds. He stayed
on hold, so we'll put him back. Hello, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Barry? All right? You had very little time. You were
making a great but you love golf. You're all about
the golf. I learned that about you, Berry. And you
love the spring weather.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
I love the spring weather.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
It was snowing in Boston yesterday.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's how crazy, that's how that's how great that that
spring weather is some snow in April.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
It's wondering.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, good New England. Do not come here for spring break.
Go anywhere else anyway. You sed to live in Boston,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I've never lived I've worked in Boston many times over
the years, but I've never actually lived there.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
In fact, by the way, who knows? You never know?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You got to watch during football season Barry on NBC
Sports Boston Benny Versus the Penny two years running.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Will there be a third year?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Inquiring minds would like to know, But that show has
been on the last two years there.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
So yeah, that's fantastic. So you referenced can.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You hit the cough button?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
No, sorry, I know I was trying to think of
Happy Gilmore. I couldn't take him off. Yes, McCoy, Yeah,
that guy was awesome in the movie. And uh it's was.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Shooter McGavin, right, McCoy, And aren't they they're making another
Happy Gilmore?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Right, they're making another?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Yeah, I don't think. I'm pretty sure that Barb Barka
won't be in this one.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
If he's in it, that's a story.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
If Bob's Bob comes back from the other side, that's impressive.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, all right, all right, all right, very good.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Well, anyway, aside from the golf, that was all awesome.
Everyone's already covered that. This weekend bu Boston University in
Western Michigan, they played in the championship for hockey, and
I know it's not big through out the nation, so
I'm gonna keep it quick. But it was awesome. And uh,
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just to see the Penn State go to the Frozen
at four and.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
It's just so exciting for the kids, you know, because
hockey is a phenomenal sport. It's just like sark I
always say, there's two difference between soccer and hockey. One
is played on ice and the other one's played on grass.
And that's basically it.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Because here you go.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That it's just a surface. That's it, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I gotta leave it there, bre Butt, thank you calling
any time. There's a great berry from Boston. Let's say
hello to eat Dog who's on Long Island. Hello, Eat Dog, Welcome,
Eat Dog, Welcome, buddy.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
There he is. Look at this guy, Fire up, Eat
Dog right right.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
I gotta make your comment. I'm gonna take your shot
out of my friend Joe Dog if I may.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Why would you take a shot at Joe Dog. Joe
Dog's not here to defend himself. He's sleeping, he works
the day shift.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
Maybe maybe he's listening. But I gotta say this real quick. Well,
we were playing basketball and boy Jefferson we had was
our team lost. And after the game is over, a
guy the other team said, hey, Joe, there's there's a
game on the other court. And Joe thought he was
being nice, but he just wanted to get.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Rid of him off the court.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Anyway, there's a new word. Rummy used to say how
you doing? What's going on? And the new word now
is browsing around? So somebody says to you, how you doing?
You guys say browsing around?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I remember what I used to say is if I
was any better, i'd be a twin, but not a
Minnesota twin because they're not good.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's I used to say that life, I.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Ask your question, No, well that anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You're gonna ask anyway? Is that what you said you
want to ask? Anyway?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Yeah, this is I was at a ball in New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Right, Why, well, you're in Long Island. Why would you
go over to a bar in Jersey? Just stay on
Long Island?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
This bar is on Longe is I was a little.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Okay, so this is years ago. You love telling old stories,
you love story time.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
With the dog.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Anyway, so what I was saying, you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Read a bar in Jersey. Every good story starts out
with I was at.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
A bark h I got it.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
By the way, I got a new girlfriend, Krista.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Now what happened to your last girlfriend?
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Well, Melissa still wants me, but she says, if I
give you Christa's number, would you talk to me?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
So I said, okay, so you've you've moved on from Melissa.
You're still seeing Melissa?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Well, well she knows when I get paid for some reason.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, would you you're on disability? Didn't you say your
own disability?
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Yeah, well I get a check.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You get a check from the government, So that's yeah.
What woman wouldn't be attracted to a man on disability?
Come on, I mean right, Lorena, aren't you a ladies
lining up? You get that big, that big disability check man.
That makes a man very attractive to a woman.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yes, what.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
My nickname is m I C A member chemical abuser.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, all right, well take a take a number, you know,
take a number.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
I'm here, Like I said, something says to you, how
you doing? You gotta say brothers and around?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That's I don't know, man, I'm worried that might have
some kind of other meaning that I don't know. Maybe
that means something bad. How can I how can I
take your wordy? How can I trust you? Eat dogg
How can I.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Trust this one?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Hey? Ben, Lorraine?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Who's Lorraine? You want to talk to Lorraine? I don't
know Lorain. Is there a Lorraine here?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Lorain?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
I don't know a Lorraine.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Ben. No, gotta get dog. You got to get the
name right, you know. The most important sound in the
voice is your name. Person loves to hear their name.
They don't want to hear the wrong name. That's a
bad thing.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
That's a bad Joby, what's her name?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You don't know her name? Why do you not know
her name? You're a listener, You're supposed to know her name.
Oh yeah, you said. Okay, Well there you said it.
But before you say you did, you forgot the last
part of it.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Anyways, hi with okay, all right, thank you?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
All right? Go next, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Go next. So exciting. All right, let's say hello to
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presented by Express Pro. Hello, Stevie Meatballs.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Speaking of unemployment, it's great to be forced into early
retirement by my disability.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Outstanding, wonderful. Welcome to the club.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So, hey, I tried this last year. I'm going to
try it against the National Blind Bowling Tournament. Yeah, it's
coming up. It's going to be in the great state
of Ohio in the month of May in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, And what are you what are you getting at here?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Oh, little meat, little green.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, what do we know a date on that? Like,
what part of me? It's the data.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
May, it's the saturday involved. There would be May the twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Made it twenty fourth, Okay, it's a little late in
the month, but you think May twenty fourth, and then
we could like have a meet and greet. We could
get together and have a big celebration there.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Yeah, it is Memorial Day week. I don't know if
that throws a monkey right now?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Oh yeah, that could be a problem more. That's because
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
But the Lovely Hotel though, and I know the lady
that works across the street at the gun store.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh so I can get a gun.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I don't think I'm allowed to fly.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
With a gun though. I don't think they'll let me
on the plane with a gun. I think that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Well, you can put it in your check bag and stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh there you go. I could put it in the
check bag there, and they do. They sell a lot
of guns to the blind. Are There are a lot of
blind people trying.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
To buy There are no laws. There are no laws
whatsoever against the blind human being only a gun.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Is that correct? I had no idea. So you could
go in there, you can't see anything. You buy your gun,
the whole thing, But you can't buy bullets.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
The blind bowlers are going to be in there like crazy,
like it's Rubik's for the blind.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, and what kind of what kind of partying?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
What kind of partying does the you go to a
blind bowling event? I mean it must be off the hook.
You guys go out there and just be must be crazy, right, groupies.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
The whole thing you you actually would be surprised.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Is that right look at you? You see because everyone
feels best. So you guys go crazy. You go out there,
You party hardy, don't you.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
We used to host the tournament here in Daytona Beach.
We haven't for the last couple of years because we've
had certain people drop off the.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
League that why can't we get like a Ben Maveris.
We have so many great blind callers to the show.
Why can't we get the blind callers to unite and
as a super team and we could become I have
a dream we can have the most dominant blind bowling
team of all time. We put Inka Terror in there.
We've got you Stevie Meatballs, You're a seasoned veteran of this.
(27:55):
We cann have blind Emmett from Seattle or not from
Seattle's in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Get him involved in this.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
We got so many blind people it can be part
of the legally blind Christopher and Carolina can be part
of it.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
We got a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Here also, all of the blind bowlers one hundred and
something I remember staying at the same hotel where we
could have the meet and great and you could recruit.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Oh man, oh I could add I could submit my
title as the number one host for the blind in
overnight talk radio.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
We do a whole sect of the militia just for
the blind.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
This is a great idea, this is a great we
should you guys want to What do you think here, Lorna?
You want to go to Cleveland for the blind bowling event?
We can recruit new listeners there.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yes, and I would love to meet all the blind
people and get their autographs.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You want to get their autograph on my outfit? They'd
sign it in Brail. You guys sign your autographs and brails.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That correct?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I don't think so. No, I don't know Brow.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
You're a fake blind guy. You don't know Braill. Come on, man,
you're Stevie meet Paul's. You're supposed to know.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I didn't used to kneed Brail. I used to be
able to see. So I've become the literate in my fifties.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Okay, my niece is thirteen and she can read Braill well.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
And now see, now you're making this guy feel bad.
How about that this Larina's niece can read Braill.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
You're in your fifties. You can't read Braill. What's up
with that?
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Well, you know, there's only certain situations where you need
to read Brail because if you've got a smartphone, it
reads almost everything for you.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh, there you go. All you need is a smartphone.
You're good to go on that person. Yeah, Brail's kind
of a dead uh language? Is that? H?
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Well? Then, you know, a couple of years ago, for
the first time seeing going out on my own somewhere,
I went to the blind bowling tournament in northern Kentucky,
just outside of Cincinnati. Anyway, I get to the airport.
They helped me out there. You know, the airline is
very nice, very accommodating. But then you get to the
hotel and there's nobody really at the hotel to help you.
I want to do things on my own, right, So
(29:52):
I get so they direct me to the to the elevator.
I get in the elevator, I'm like, oh, this is nice.
I don't know what button the.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Press are you trying? Were you trying to count the numbers?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Like?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Because I would like try to feel the buttons and
be like, all, let's see what floor am I?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Uh, yeah, I guess maybe you might need braille for
a certain situation. Yeah, Coop's not dying.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Yeah, God knows what's on the you or you just have.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
To yeah, you know, but you just have to like
wait for someone else to get in the elevator and
then they'll help you out. But that you don't know,
maybe it's at night and there's no one else in
your body. I mean, you're stuck in the elevator and
then like that looked like a.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Quarter mile back to the uh front desk, because I
remember the way to the elevator. It was you know,
it was late at night. Yeah, and getting back, getting
back to the front desk was a little more difficult
because I forgot which way I come from.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Completely understand or completely understandable, listen, I I back in
the day. I was fortunate enough I traveled with some
the Dodgers, and there were guys that they switched cities
so often.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
They didn't know what.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Hotel room they were in in the in the city,
and they have to go to the front desk and
they could see and they didn't know I had no idea.
They thought they were in like room four twenty five,
but it was actually it was actually you know, three ten.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Anyway, this this should become an annual event for you.
Next year, we're going to be in Louisville, Kentucky, same
time of the year.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Okay, well, I will consider We do not have a
date for the Ohio meet and greet. There's a couple
of dates that we are considering, and some of them
are in May.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Some of them are in May. We need a venue.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
We have, I believe a venue in Columbus. If we
went to Columbus, could you make it?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
You would not be.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Able to make the trip from Cleveland to Columbus, right,
you would not be able to do that?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Or would you be able to do that?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
I mean, gee, you know i'd have to I don't know,
I don't know how what.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, all right, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
We'll figure Yeah, it would have to be a different weekend,
and that means I'm staying in Ohio for an extra week.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I don't know about that, I understand.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I mean, nobody wants to do that. I got you,
all right, all right, Well, thank you, all right, I
gotta go. You've been on the air for ed eight minutes.
You got eight minutes. You got airtime.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
That's how good?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I A, No, you're not, you suck. You got eight minutes?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Go?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I thank you? Oh wow, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
It is the the Ben Mallor Show.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
As we are rolling on through.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
The overnight hours, and I saw this video. It was
sent to me by a listener. I do not normally
watch college baseball. I don't know if you saw this
or not, but it's pretty wild. I do recommend checking out,
even if you are blind. Listeners will love it. So
Rice Baseball had a delay at their game because of bees,
(32:25):
so they called in a beekeeper to take care of
the bees. So the beekeeper shows up and without any
protective gear, no gloves, no be masked, no be outfit.
The beekeeper goes into the dugout with his bare hands,
grabs the beehive and throws it on the ground with
(32:47):
bees buzzing all over.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Really is that not the most masculine protection? No protection?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Wow, amazing, what a stud this guy.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And he looked like zz Top. I go, you know
he's from the zz Top. It was wild. Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
If he got stung, well have Maybe he's been stung
so much he's just used to the stings.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's no big deal. It feels like a needle prick
in his eye. I don't even feel it doesn't feel anything.
Is the Ben Mavers Show. We'll take some more of
your calls riveting.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
We just had eight minutes of hot blind talk seven
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If you'd like to be part of the program. Time
now four the Insta Trivia, and here it is. Spurs
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eighty two starts in year twenty. The previous mark on
that front was held by Blank. Again, Chris Paul first
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player to ever make eighty two starts. Amazing guy has
hurt all the time in his prime, but he made
every start eighty two in year twenty. The previous mark
on that front was held by Blank. That is the
Insta Trivia.
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to trivia and here is today's trivia from pro bouncy
Ball spurst guard Chris Paul, the first player to ever
make eighty two starts in year twenty. The previous mark
on that front was held by Blank. That is the question,
what is the answer? Scrooge in the Bay Areas going
with mister Clean as his answer. The Brooklyn Brawler from
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Rob in Vegas, Big Greg in Iowa going with Red
Green as his answer, who else do we have? Page down?
Job of the Hut from King Rory nineteen eighty three.
Chrysler Le Baron from ferg Dog. That's his answer, who else?
Page down?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Baker Mayfield, who is thirty today?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
From Late Night Drug tester, Macaulay Culkin from rob the
goat Man.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Let's see who else?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Kevin Duckworth clipper legend from Manuel in Guardina, Willie Burton
heat legend from Rob in Minnesota. Ed Sullivan guests by
Willie Andre Miller from Robby the Mariner fan clipper legend.
Chris came in from a Buddy slug in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
What say you RIGHTA? My guess is chatle Wow. No,
it is John stocked It John stocked in.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
It is nineteenth season for the Utah Jazz. John Stockton
played all eighty two games, but now Chris Paul has
the new mark.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go over,
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
This is one gets crack.
Speaker 9 (36:30):
The Portland Trail Blazers have missed the playoffs for four
seasons in a row, but despite that, they gave head
coach Chauncey Billups a contract extension. Keeping him there through
their twenty twenty seven to twenty eight season. Yes, Ben,
do you think the Blazers are headed in the right
direction under Billups?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Well, they are better, but the bar was so low.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
It's like they sucked for so long, and now they
did improve.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
The record by fourteen games.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I wouldn't say they're they're they're in danger of being
good if they actually go out and add a couple
of players. Yeah, but at this point, the the assumption is, hey,
they were I think they had a winning record from
mid January to the end of the season. They beat
some good teams, so they are heading the right direction.
And the Blazers from when I heard they were worried
that other good teams actually wanted to hire Chauncey Billips,
(37:14):
so they keep him locked on the Oregon trail. They're
not going the wrong direction. I think they're kind of
more in the middle, theirth day, the fork in the road,
where if they make a couple of decent moves this offseason,
they can actually be a playoff team again. Otherwise they'll
be stuck in purgatory. I wouldn't say a thirty five
win team is a good team.
Speaker 9 (37:31):
Next, speaking with the media over the weekend, Kenny Pickett
said that he plans on starting in Cleveland, saying, I'm
not going there to hang out Ben Yu.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's good. Do you expect Pickett to be the starter
throughout the season? No, he will start, But do I
expect him to be the start? No?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I mean they did sign Joe Flacco over the weekend.
Flacco was there before and they had to get rid
of him because Deshaun Watson was uncomfortable because Flacco was there.
But no, I would think every team seventeen games. Kenny Pickett,
if he's there, he's gonna star at least one or
two games.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
But he's you know, he's no good.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
You know he was.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
He was like they tried to hide him in Pittsburgh.
They won some games, but not because it can't he
pick it. But he's not gonna start the year as
QB one. Plus, the Browns will likely draft the quarterback
and we'll add another quarterback next.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
Evan Ingram told reporters that he was pursued by the
Chargers in the offseason, but he chose the Broncos because
of how Sean Payton intends to use him in the
offense and that he is quote ready to be unleashed. Ben,
do you expect a big season from Ingram and Denver?
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Well?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
This see this is a trick question, Coop.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
I know you asked a Bronco question and if there's
if I give an answer that you don't like it's
anti Bronco, then you will fail me on this one.
I know how this works here. Evan Ingram made a decision.
I believe it was a financial decision. It wasn't based
on the Chargers or the Broncos. It was based on
he got more money. That's why he went to Denver.
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It's not about you. The Broncos and the Chargers are
about the same. I don't think there's much difference between
those teams.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
There it is how do we know? But do you
expect a big season? That's not show you fail? No,
I knew it. I don't you see that. But that's
a fraudulent that's an East German judge, you did it,
that's what East German. That's a Russian judge. Communist
Boom shaka Laca.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number two of the Ben Malors Show on
this Monday, and that's all she wrote. In the NBA
regular season, there was one game in particular that was
the game of the day for playoff positioning in the NBA.
How big a setback is the finale loss to the
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Clippers for Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green and the Warriors?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Is there in the play in tournament?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Also, former NBA player Patrick Beverly said, the winner of
that Warrior Clipper matchup, which turned out to be the Clippers,
will be winning the championship.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
How does that sound to you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And what early playoff matchups intrigue you? We know of
four of the playoff matchups so far. We'll take a
first peek at.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That right now here. It is our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It was a case of false advertising billed as Golden
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The curtain has come down on the regular season of
the NBA. There will be no more regular season NBA games.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
For this year anyway. It's all over there the finale.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Everyone playing on a Sunday, And while we were watching
the golf, we flipped over to the basketball. There's only
one game really worth watching on Sunday in the NBA,
and I was in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
That was the game.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You win, you get a secured playoff spot. You lose,
and you gotta go to that fugasey playing tournament. And
that involved Golden State playing the People's Team, and I
saw it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Was on national national TV. Know't know if you're watching
it or not. Maybe not, but.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The Beard a renaissance, James Harden hitting consec three point
baskets in overtime, a domination situation, the kind of performance
that if Harden does that in an NBA Finals game,
they write books about it. He was that dominant, made
a parafoul, shots, scored on a also got a basket
(03:18):
on a Jimmy Butler goaltending call. He had thirty nine
points James Harden and tennis sists. That was the Roquets
version of James Harden in that game.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Kawhi Leonard, the.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Toronto Raptor San Antonio Spur vintage for the People's Team,
Leonard had thirty three points. The Clippers get it done,
they win, and they win in overtime, and they're the
fifth seed in the Western Conference. They get to play
those lightweights from Denver in their first playoff series, and
the Warriors on the wrong end of things, which means
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they are not guaranteed of a play in spot. And
the better story though, is in the losing locker room.
As much as I would like to see here and
waxed loquacious about the Clippers and how great James Harden
was and all that.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Nobody wants to hear that.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You want to hear the sad sack Golden State Warriors,
That's what you want to hear about. You had Steph
Curry make a basket, strutting right, he was strutting down
the court there. Oh man, we got these guys and
then they had to play the rest of the game.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He didn't have anybody and he had nothing nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So the Warriors who melted under pressure. They had the
lead late, had a four point lead, and they melted
down the stretch. Curry had thirty six although he did
really nothing the first three quarters. Jimmy Butler thirty points
and nine assists, and that's it. The regular season is over.
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So let us discuss how big a setback. How big
a setback is this loss for Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler
and Draymond Green and the Warriors as they now have
to go into that playing tournament. So I've got Fiddle,
pac Man and Forrest Gump and we will combine all
(05:04):
of these things together, and we were going to make
some sour dough bread. The San Francisco treat which is well,
just sour, just very sour there the Warrist. So this
is a myth buster situation, right, this is a myth
buster situation.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That is my number.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
One the aura of the Warriors when they got Jimmy
Butler and they had a great record to finish the
regular season, but they didn't get Jimmy Butler to still
end up in the play in tournament.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
That was not the mission.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
When they got Jimmy Butler and they had everything set up.
Golden State had everything you could possibly want. So this
is a massive disappointment. This is a massive disappointment. Everything
was there. You had home cooking check, you had that
Warriors were favored. They were three and a half point
favorites in the gambling line. When you avoid the playing tournament,
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lose and you're in it. And Golden State had a
point lead in the first half, and there was that
point where it was teetering where if the Warriors go
second level, go turbo time, they go up by twenty
five points games over.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They didn't have it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
They did not have the ability to go turbo time,
and they were not turbotasking the Tastic in that situation,
and they did have.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
The early body blow body blow by.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Golden State, so they came as all right there by
twelve had a body blow. And then the Clippers responded,
and the Warriors, because they were they had home cooking,
they fiddled around with their food. You don't fiddle around
with your food. They did, and the Clippers kept chipping
away their little right hook. Here a left hook. And
then in overtime the Beard said, here's an uppercut right
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to the chin. Boom, right to the chin. Sure enough
and so Hardin had twelve of the Clippers thirteen points
in overtime. He was electric and Jimmy Butler at the
end there he looked like a pogo stick. He was
hopping up and down there at the end of the game.
Draymond Green blew a buddy. I'm sure we'll hear about
(07:08):
that in this podcast unless we don't. But yeah, missed a.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Layup right there. I could have made that. He missed it.
Nobody around. He missed a layup.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And you combine this loss and also a couple of
days back, the Warriors lost to the San Antonio Spurs
at home, a dog food Spurs team, and there's not
a lot of razzle dash like any razzle dazzle the
Warriors had from winning a bunch of games when they
got Jimmy Brother. You lose to the Spurs at home,
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and you've got a win, and you're in the playoffs. Losing,
you're in the playing and you can't beat the Clippers.
That's a bad job by Golden State. Now, you can
spin it any way you want, but that's not why
they got Jimmy Butler and all that stuff. And there's
no time for a penny party because right back added
another thing that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
In the NBA.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You play eighty two games. It's an eighty two game
playing tournament to decide who makes the playoffs. And then
you add a couple extra games just in case somebody
gets hurt, because you want more content. And so the
NBA Playing Tournament will begin on Tuesday. The seven seed
Memphis will travel to Northern California to take on the
Warriors in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
There and that's that. Now turning the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Page, we've got former NBA player Patrick Beverly who has
entered the chat. BEV the glue guy for the Clippers. Now,
he said, prior to the Clipper Warrior game that the
winner of that game on a lazy Sunday afternoon, the
winner of that matchup was winning the championship. So how
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does that sound to you? That's what he said it.
I didn't say it. He said it. Patrick Beverly said
it all right, So certainly some edgy commentary from Beverly,
who I don't think he will probably play in the
NBA again. He played overseas and whatnot here and from
Beverly's lips to the NBA script writer's ears is what
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I would say, right.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And the Clippers are certainly more than capable of winning
the championship. And they've been in this position where they
have the talent to win a championship for about a
decade now. Most of the time they've been good enough
to win a championship, but inevitably the car breaks down.
The car breaks down, the engine doesn't work right, the
breaks don't work. At some point, it's if it's not
(09:31):
one thing, it's something else here. So I've determined, after
a minutes long Mallard deliberation, that the richest owner in
American sports, Steve Balmer, needs to go pac Man. They
need to go pac Man. Now old arcade game. Pac Man,
get your hands on those power pellets, you know, those
little power pellets, and pac Man eats the power pellet,
and then he flips the script. And then all of
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a sudden, because pac Man ate the power pellet, he
can then he's invincible, and he can then eat those
annoying little ghosts that usually chase him. And all of
a sudden, he's eating them. And they got to go
to that little penalty box in the middle of the screen.
The Clippers need a power pellet. They need a pack
Man power pellet for Kawhi Leonard. Get him on the court,
and they are going to be in the Final four
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and likely the NBA Finals and the whole thing here,
and you really set up pretty good. You got a
disheveled Nuggage team that hate each other. They got the
coach fired, Michael Malone in Denver.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's a total mess.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
They got a nerd king dork as the interim coach,
Adalman's kid, so they don't know what the hell they're
doing there. You got playoff Westbrook. So all the Clippers
have to do is leave him open to shoot three point.
Here's the Nuggets will feed him the ball he'll lose,
he'll miss him, and so you get by them, and
maybe you play Oklahoma City. Who knows Oklahoma City won
(10:51):
all these games and all that they could lose in
the first round.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Whoever's the eighth.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Seed they get end up losing to, whether you're Memphis
or Golden State, of those two teams as the eight
seed that would be shocked the Ooklahoma City loses and
Clippers get there, they can beat them. So you said,
up right, last thing here the final part of this
winding road. So the looking around situation, as we have
(11:16):
now gotten to a fork in the road. We are
done with the regular season at the play in tournament
and then the regular season building up to the playoffs,
which will be this weekend, the playoffs this weekend. So
what early playoff matchups intrigue.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You the most? What early playoff matchups intrigued you the most?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
So we don't know all the matchups yet, there's only
four that we know, two in the East and two
in the West because of the ridiculous play in tournament.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But of those.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Upset alert, upset alert, upset alert, the Minnesota Timberwolves and
the Lakers. Anthony Edwards has a chance to exterminate Houkluka
right away in the plays, and the Lakers are there
right there. They're plump for the taken and during the
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regular season, Minnesota was two and two with the Lakers. Now,
the one thing that's scares is they don't play any defense.
Neither the Lakers, Neither one's a good defensive team. But
that is a juicy opportunity for ant Man. If he
can stop, you know, knocking up women for a few
days and go out there and get it done, then
he'll be in good shape. Now, the Wolves are a
bipolar team, but I've noticed from watching random NBA games
(12:27):
during the course of the season that there are mostly
bipolar teams in the association. That's a league filled with
bipolar teams. There's a lot of forest Gump, a lot
of forest gump out there. You never know what you're
gonna get, like a box of chocolates here, there and everywhere.
Inconsistent performances are the norm, at least during the regular season.
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And these teams, many of them have been brilliant at times,
but they're not consistent pathetic at other times.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And so it makes it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Unlike years ago when you kind of knew what you
were gonna get going into a playoff situation. Not quite
the case. That said, much like the NCAA tournament went
in doubt, go with chalk Chalky mcchalk. Now in the
East of the matchups that we know, the one that
you're circling right away is the upstart Pistons, who should
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not win a playoff series. But the Knicks are a
hot mess. They've got issues. You've got Cade Cuttingham and
Jalen Brunson on the other side for the Knickerbockers that matchup,
Detroit did win the regular season series three games to
one over New York. So will the Knickerbockers pull the
old Tracy Morgan and puke all over the court at
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Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
In that series?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And then you look around and it's like this, you
got a lot of the playing stuff. I mean, there's
not a lot there there is. Now there's only one
playing game that you're like mildly interested in, and that's
to see what happens with Golden State and Memphis. But
that's it. Does anyone care about Kings and Matt Evericks?
I don't Bulls and heat pu what stinks? And even
(14:06):
the Magic and Hawks matchup. That's the seven eight matchup
in the East. That doesn't really do much for you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
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The bees Knees will go there. And also I don't
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that is correct good basketball knowledge by by Ferg Dog. Absslutely,
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looking forward to my Milwaukee Bucks getting some redemption on
the Pacers. Fear the deer Bucks in six Bucks in
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six h Jill writes in says, I live in Minnesota,
Lakers in six trust me?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
How dare you? Jill? I'm gonna I'm gonna tell on you.
It's his happy pass.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
If you don't eat the bread, Jill, no bread, gotta
eat the matsa gotta eat.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It's called the folks. Let's say hello to Barry, who
he was on earlier.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
But he was off for like ten seconds. He stayed
on hold, so we'll put him back. Hello, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Barry? All right? You had very little time. You were
making a great but you love golf. You're all about
the golf. I learned that about you, Berry. And you
love the spring weather.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
I love the spring weather.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
It was snowing in Boston yesterday.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's how crazy, that's how that's how great that that
spring weather is some snow in April.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
It's wondering.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, good New England. Do not come here for spring break.
Go anywhere else anyway. You sed to live in Boston,
didn't you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I've never lived I've worked in Boston many times over
the years, but I've never actually lived there.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Oh okay.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
In fact, by the way, who knows? You never know?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You got to watch during football season Barry on NBC
Sports Boston Benny Versus the Penny two years running.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Will there be a third year?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Inquiring minds would like to know, But that show has
been on the last two years there.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
So yeah, that's fantastic. So you referenced can.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
You hit the cough button?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
No, sorry, I know I was trying to think of
Happy Gilmore. I couldn't take him off. Yes, McCoy, Yeah,
that guy was awesome in the movie. And uh it's was.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Shooter McGavin, right, McCoy, And aren't they they're making another
Happy Gilmore?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Right, they're making another?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Yeah, I don't think. I'm pretty sure that Barb Barka
won't be in this one.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
If he's in it, that's a story.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
If Bob's Bob comes back from the other side, that's impressive.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, all right, all right, all right, very good.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Well, anyway, aside from the golf, that was all awesome.
Everyone's already covered that. This weekend bu Boston University in
Western Michigan, they played in the championship for hockey, and
I know it's not big through out the nation, so
I'm gonna keep it quick. But it was awesome. And uh,
(20:01):
just to see the Penn State go to the Frozen
at four and.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
It's just so exciting for the kids, you know, because
hockey is a phenomenal sport. It's just like sark I
always say, there's two difference between soccer and hockey. One
is played on ice and the other one's played on grass.
And that's basically it.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Because here you go.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That it's just a surface. That's it, all right.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
I gotta leave it there, bre Butt, thank you calling
any time. There's a great berry from Boston. Let's say
hello to eat Dog who's on Long Island. Hello, Eat Dog, Welcome,
Eat Dog, Welcome, buddy.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
There he is. Look at this guy, Fire up, Eat
Dog right right.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
I gotta make your comment. I'm gonna take your shot
out of my friend Joe Dog if I may.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Why would you take a shot at Joe Dog. Joe
Dog's not here to defend himself. He's sleeping, he works
the day shift.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
Maybe maybe he's listening. But I gotta say this real quick. Well,
we were playing basketball and boy Jefferson we had was
our team lost. And after the game is over, a
guy the other team said, hey, Joe, there's there's a
game on the other court. And Joe thought he was
being nice, but he just wanted to get.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Rid of him off the court.
Speaker 8 (21:13):
Anyway, there's a new word. Rummy used to say how
you doing? What's going on? And the new word now
is browsing around? So somebody says to you, how you doing?
You guys say browsing around?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I remember what I used to say is if I
was any better, i'd be a twin, but not a
Minnesota twin because they're not good.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's I used to say that life, I.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
Ask your question, No, well that anyway.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You're gonna ask anyway? Is that what you said you
want to ask? Anyway?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
Yeah, this is I was at a ball in New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Right, Why, well, you're in Long Island. Why would you
go over to a bar in Jersey? Just stay on
Long Island?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
This bar is on Longe is I was a little.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Okay, so this is years ago. You love telling old stories,
you love story time.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
With the dog.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Anyway, so what I was saying, you.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Read a bar in Jersey. Every good story starts out
with I was at.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
A bark h I got it.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
By the way, I got a new girlfriend, Krista.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Now what happened to your last girlfriend?
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Well, Melissa still wants me, but she says, if I
give you Christa's number, would you talk to me?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
So I said, okay, so you've you've moved on from Melissa.
You're still seeing Melissa?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Well, well she knows when I get paid for some reason.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, would you you're on disability? Didn't you say your
own disability?
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Yeah, well I get a check.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You get a check from the government, So that's yeah.
What woman wouldn't be attracted to a man on disability?
Come on, I mean right, Lorena, aren't you a ladies
lining up? You get that big, that big disability check man.
That makes a man very attractive to a woman.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Yes, what.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
My nickname is m I C A member chemical abuser.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, all right, well take a take a number, you know,
take a number.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
I'm here, Like I said, something says to you, how
you doing? You gotta say brothers and around?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That's I don't know, man, I'm worried that might have
some kind of other meaning that I don't know. Maybe
that means something bad. How can I how can I
take your wordy? How can I trust you? Eat dogg
How can I.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Trust this one?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Hey? Ben, Lorraine?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Who's Lorraine? You want to talk to Lorraine? I don't
know Lorain. Is there a Lorraine here?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Lorain?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
I don't know a Lorraine.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Ben. No, gotta get dog. You got to get the
name right, you know. The most important sound in the
voice is your name. Person loves to hear their name.
They don't want to hear the wrong name. That's a
bad thing.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
That's a bad Joby, what's her name?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You don't know her name? Why do you not know
her name? You're a listener, You're supposed to know her name.
Oh yeah, you said. Okay, Well there you said it.
But before you say you did, you forgot the last
part of it.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Anyways, hi with okay, all right, thank you?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
All right? Go next, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Go next. So exciting. All right, let's say hello to
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Speaker 6 (25:24):
Speaking of unemployment, it's great to be forced into early
retirement by my disability.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Outstanding, wonderful. Welcome to the club.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So, hey, I tried this last year. I'm going to
try it against the National Blind Bowling Tournament. Yeah, it's
coming up. It's going to be in the great state
of Ohio in the month of May in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, And what are you what are you getting at here?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Oh, little meat, little green.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Well, what do we know a date on that? Like,
what part of me? It's the data.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
May, it's the saturday involved. There would be May the twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Made it twenty fourth, Okay, it's a little late in
the month, but you think May twenty fourth, and then
we could like have a meet and greet. We could
get together and have a big celebration there.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Yeah, it is Memorial Day week. I don't know if
that throws a monkey right now?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Oh yeah, that could be a problem more. That's because
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
But the Lovely Hotel though, and I know the lady
that works across the street at the gun store.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Oh so I can get a gun.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I don't think I'm allowed to fly.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
With a gun though. I don't think they'll let me
on the plane with a gun. I think that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Well, you can put it in your check bag and stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh there you go. I could put it in the
check bag there, and they do. They sell a lot
of guns to the blind. Are There are a lot of
blind people trying.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
To buy There are no laws. There are no laws
whatsoever against the blind human being only a gun.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Is that correct? I had no idea. So you could
go in there, you can't see anything. You buy your gun,
the whole thing, But you can't buy bullets.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
The blind bowlers are going to be in there like crazy,
like it's Rubik's for the blind.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, and what kind of what kind of partying?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
What kind of partying does the you go to a
blind bowling event? I mean it must be off the hook.
You guys go out there and just be must be crazy, right, groupies.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
The whole thing you you actually would be surprised.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Is that right look at you? You see because everyone
feels best. So you guys go crazy. You go out there,
You party hardy, don't you.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
We used to host the tournament here in Daytona Beach.
We haven't for the last couple of years because we've
had certain people drop off the.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
League that why can't we get like a Ben Maveris.
We have so many great blind callers to the show.
Why can't we get the blind callers to unite and
as a super team and we could become I have
a dream we can have the most dominant blind bowling
team of all time. We put Inka Terror in there.
We've got you Stevie Meatballs, You're a seasoned veteran of this.
(27:55):
We cann have blind Emmett from Seattle or not from
Seattle's in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Get him involved in this.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
We got so many blind people it can be part
of the legally blind Christopher and Carolina can be part
of it.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
We got a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Here also, all of the blind bowlers one hundred and
something I remember staying at the same hotel where we
could have the meet and great and you could recruit.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Oh man, oh I could add I could submit my
title as the number one host for the blind in
overnight talk radio.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
We do a whole sect of the militia just for
the blind.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
This is a great idea, this is a great we
should you guys want to What do you think here, Lorna?
You want to go to Cleveland for the blind bowling event?
We can recruit new listeners there.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yes, and I would love to meet all the blind
people and get their autographs.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
You want to get their autograph on my outfit? They'd
sign it in Brail. You guys sign your autographs and brails.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That correct?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I don't think so. No, I don't know Brow.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
You don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
You're a fake blind guy. You don't know Braill. Come on, man,
you're Stevie meet Paul's. You're supposed to know.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I didn't used to kneed Brail. I used to be
able to see. So I've become the literate in my fifties.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Okay, my niece is thirteen and she can read Braill well.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
And now see, now you're making this guy feel bad.
How about that this Larina's niece can read Braill.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
You're in your fifties. You can't read Braill. What's up
with that?
Speaker 6 (29:17):
Well, you know, there's only certain situations where you need
to read Brail because if you've got a smartphone, it
reads almost everything for you.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh, there you go. All you need is a smartphone.
You're good to go on that person. Yeah, Brail's kind
of a dead uh language? Is that? H?
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Well? Then, you know, a couple of years ago, for
the first time seeing going out on my own somewhere,
I went to the blind bowling tournament in northern Kentucky,
just outside of Cincinnati. Anyway, I get to the airport.
They helped me out there. You know, the airline is
very nice, very accommodating. But then you get to the
hotel and there's nobody really at the hotel to help you.
I want to do things on my own, right, So
(29:52):
I get so they direct me to the to the elevator.
I get in the elevator, I'm like, oh, this is nice.
I don't know what button the.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Press are you trying? Were you trying to count the numbers?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Like?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Because I would like try to feel the buttons and
be like, all, let's see what floor am I?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Uh, yeah, I guess maybe you might need braille for
a certain situation. Yeah, Coop's not dying.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Yeah, God knows what's on the you or you just have.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
To yeah, you know, but you just have to like
wait for someone else to get in the elevator and
then they'll help you out. But that you don't know,
maybe it's at night and there's no one else in
your body. I mean, you're stuck in the elevator and
then like that looked like a.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Quarter mile back to the uh front desk, because I
remember the way to the elevator. It was you know,
it was late at night. Yeah, and getting back, getting
back to the front desk was a little more difficult
because I forgot which way I come from.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Completely understand or completely understandable, listen, I I back in
the day. I was fortunate enough I traveled with some
the Dodgers, and there were guys that they switched cities
so often.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
They didn't know what.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Hotel room they were in in the in the city,
and they have to go to the front desk and
they could see and they didn't know I had no idea.
They thought they were in like room four twenty five,
but it was actually it was actually you know, three ten.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Anyway, this this should become an annual event for you.
Next year, we're going to be in Louisville, Kentucky, same
time of the year.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Okay, well, I will consider We do not have a
date for the Ohio meet and greet. There's a couple
of dates that we are considering, and some of them
are in May.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Some of them are in May. We need a venue.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
We have, I believe a venue in Columbus. If we
went to Columbus, could you make it?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
You would not be.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Able to make the trip from Cleveland to Columbus, right,
you would not be able to do that?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Or would you be able to do that?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
I mean, gee, you know i'd have to I don't know,
I don't know how what.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, all right, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
We'll figure Yeah, it would have to be a different weekend,
and that means I'm staying in Ohio for an extra week.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
I don't know about that, I understand.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I mean, nobody wants to do that. I got you,
all right, all right, Well, thank you, all right, I
gotta go. You've been on the air for ed eight minutes.
You got eight minutes. You got airtime.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
That's how good?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I A, No, you're not, you suck. You got eight minutes?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Go?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I thank you? Oh wow, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
It is the the Ben Mallor Show.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
As we are rolling on through.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
The overnight hours, and I saw this video. It was
sent to me by a listener. I do not normally
watch college baseball. I don't know if you saw this
or not, but it's pretty wild. I do recommend checking out,
even if you are blind. Listeners will love it. So
Rice Baseball had a delay at their game because of bees,
(32:25):
so they called in a beekeeper to take care of
the bees. So the beekeeper shows up and without any
protective gear, no gloves, no be masked, no be outfit.
The beekeeper goes into the dugout with his bare hands,
grabs the beehive and throws it on the ground with
(32:47):
bees buzzing all over.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Really is that not the most masculine protection? No protection?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Wow, amazing, what a stud this guy.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And he looked like zz Top. I go, you know
he's from the zz Top. It was wild. Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
If he got stung, well have Maybe he's been stung
so much he's just used to the stings.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's no big deal. It feels like a needle prick
in his eye. I don't even feel it doesn't feel anything.
Is the Ben Mavers Show. We'll take some more of
your calls riveting.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
We just had eight minutes of hot blind talk seven
of Stevin meet Bals, who then said something offensively got dumped.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
That's eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.
If you'd like to be part of the program. Time
now four the Insta Trivia, and here it is. Spurs
guard Chris Paul became the first player to ever make
eighty two starts in year twenty. The previous mark on
that front was held by Blank. Again, Chris Paul first
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player to ever make eighty two starts. Amazing guy has
hurt all the time in his prime, but he made
every start eighty two in year twenty. The previous mark
on that front was held by Blank. That is the
Insta Trivia.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
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to trivia and here is today's trivia from pro bouncy
Ball spurst guard Chris Paul, the first player to ever
make eighty two starts in year twenty. The previous mark
on that front was held by Blank. That is the question,
what is the answer? Scrooge in the Bay Areas going
with mister Clean as his answer. The Brooklyn Brawler from
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Rob in Vegas, Big Greg in Iowa going with Red
Green as his answer, who else do we have? Page down?
Job of the Hut from King Rory nineteen eighty three.
Chrysler Le Baron from ferg Dog. That's his answer, who else?
Page down?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Baker Mayfield, who is thirty today?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
From Late Night Drug tester, Macaulay Culkin from rob the
goat Man.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Let's see who else?
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Kevin Duckworth clipper legend from Manuel in Guardina, Willie Burton
heat legend from Rob in Minnesota. Ed Sullivan guests by
Willie Andre Miller from Robby the Mariner fan clipper legend.
Chris came in from a Buddy slug in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
What say you RIGHTA? My guess is chatle Wow. No,
it is John stocked It John stocked in.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
It is nineteenth season for the Utah Jazz. John Stockton
played all eighty two games, but now Chris Paul has
the new mark.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go over,
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
This is one gets crack.
Speaker 9 (36:30):
The Portland Trail Blazers have missed the playoffs for four
seasons in a row, but despite that, they gave head
coach Chauncey Billups a contract extension. Keeping him there through
their twenty twenty seven to twenty eight season. Yes, Ben,
do you think the Blazers are headed in the right
direction under Billups?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Well, they are better, but the bar was so low.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
It's like they sucked for so long, and now they
did improve.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
The record by fourteen games.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I wouldn't say they're they're they're in danger of being
good if they actually go out and add a couple
of players. Yeah, but at this point, the the assumption is, hey,
they were I think they had a winning record from
mid January to the end of the season. They beat
some good teams, so they are heading the right direction.
And the Blazers from when I heard they were worried
that other good teams actually wanted to hire Chauncey Billips,
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so they keep him locked on the Oregon trail. They're
not going the wrong direction. I think they're kind of
more in the middle, theirth day, the fork in the road,
where if they make a couple of decent moves this offseason,
they can actually be a playoff team again. Otherwise they'll
be stuck in purgatory. I wouldn't say a thirty five
win team is a good team.
Speaker 9 (37:31):
Next, speaking with the media over the weekend, Kenny Pickett
said that he plans on starting in Cleveland, saying, I'm
not going there to hang out Ben Yu.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's good. Do you expect Pickett to be the starter
throughout the season? No, he will start, But do I
expect him to be the start? No?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I mean they did sign Joe Flacco over the weekend.
Flacco was there before and they had to get rid
of him because Deshaun Watson was uncomfortable because Flacco was there.
But no, I would think every team seventeen games. Kenny Pickett,
if he's there, he's gonna star at least one or
two games.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
But he's you know, he's no good.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
You know he was.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
He was like they tried to hide him in Pittsburgh.
They won some games, but not because it can't he
pick it. But he's not gonna start the year as
QB one. Plus, the Browns will likely draft the quarterback
and we'll add another quarterback next.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
Evan Ingram told reporters that he was pursued by the
Chargers in the offseason, but he chose the Broncos because
of how Sean Payton intends to use him in the
offense and that he is quote ready to be unleashed. Ben,
do you expect a big season from Ingram and Denver?
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Well?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
This see this is a trick question, Coop.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
I know you asked a Bronco question and if there's
if I give an answer that you don't like it's
anti Bronco, then you will fail me on this one.
I know how this works here. Evan Ingram made a decision.
I believe it was a financial decision. It wasn't based
on the Chargers or the Broncos. It was based on
he got more money. That's why he went to Denver.
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It's not about you. The Broncos and the Chargers are
about the same. I don't think there's much difference between
those teams.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
There it is how do we know? But do you
expect a big season? That's not show you fail? No,
I knew it. I don't you see that. But that's
a fraudulent that's an East German judge, you did it,
that's what East German. That's a Russian judge. Communist
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