July 1, 2024 • 41 mins
In Hour 2 of the Ben Maller Show, Ben takes it to the Bay and reacts to the end of the glory days for Warriors fans with Warrior's legend Klay Thompson becoming the first to depart from the Golden State Warriors championship group. Ben reacts to LeBron taking over the Lakers franchise and looks at what players they can snag in the Offseason. PAUL GEORGE IS A SIXER!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numb bird to splash, splash, and bye bye.
Klay Thompson not going back to Golden State. He's being
wooed by the Lakers, the Clippers, and the MAVs. Dallas
said to be the front runner. Can you explain why,
especially considering Klay Thompson was bad to the bone last year.
(00:25):
Lebron James is willing to take a twenty million dollar
pay cut to help the Lakers improve their roster. Are
you impressed? And Contavious Caldwell Pope goes to Orlando while
Eric Gordon heads to Philly. Toss up question, which is
the better move? We'll talk about all of that and
more right now, give it up for our number two
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Nobody does it quite like the NBA does with players
relocating here, there, and everywhere. And our lead this hour
from the Bay Area. Turn out the last the parties
(02:05):
over the glory days the Golden State Warriors. Kaputt gonna
bring back a Donald Foyle and some of those old
school Warrior guys from back in the day.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The first member of the.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Corps of what had been a glorious run of Golden
State Warrior basketball has exited stage left. If you did
not pay attention, we don't know where he's going. We
just know he will not be going back to Golden State.
We learned that Klay Thompson is done.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
With the Warriors. No more Splash Brothers. It's a one
man show.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Steph Curry a one man band as Klay Thompson heading elsewhere.
Multiple teams are said to be wooing Clay, but he
doesn't agree to deal with anybody, at least not of
this hour. So let us discuss the question Klay Thompson
being wooed by the Lakers, allegedly the Clippers and the
(03:03):
Dallas mav Rex.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Can you explain why why this is going on at
this particular point. So I've got.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Fine print, squatter, and display case, and we'll combine all
of these things together and we are going to give
you a stomach ache by the time we're done.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Number. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So the reason, and I've had this explain to me
over the years by people in sports, not just basketball,
but all sports players that have great accolades, who continue
to get opportunities when it is well known that they
can't get her done at a high level. And it's
always been explained to me it's nostalgia, it's good vibrations.
(03:50):
Is you can get the low information fan that doesn't
realize that the player can't play at a high level
anymore to buy it, and that they there's also part
of the scenario that's been explained to the way you
can get a little bit of the good old days,
but you sell the past, you sell what has happened,
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not what's going to happen in the near future. And
there's nothing that Klay Thompson has done in recent years
that would warrant even one team bending over backwards and
playing foot sea with Klay Thompson. And when you open
up the dictionary, I advise you to turn the page
one sixty eight of the dictionary. On page one sixty
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eight of the dictionary, you will see the term washed up.
And that right there is a photo of Klay Thompson.
Right next to it. You can see a picture He's
had a great career, end up in the Basketball Hall
of Fame. Everyone goes to the Basketball Hall of Fame
across in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, mass
So he's a Hall of Famer. But you hit the
switch right, nice career, hit the little switch there, and
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when you hit that switch, you just say no, no, no,
na da da la la hey goodbye?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Is what you say?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You do.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Weird things flying around? The main student? Is that a bat? No?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I don't all right anyway. Now, So in terms of
Klay Thompson and where we are right now, uh, if
you check the fine print on Klay Thompson and you
look at the package.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's like it's like a package of bread.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Klay Thompson is past his use by date, decaying organic matter.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Uh, there's there's like hair growing out of it in
this particular one.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Don't eat them all. Do not eat them that You
can't actually eat moldy bread. If you eat a little bit,
it's not gonna mess you up. But Golden State paid.
Some people are like upset that Golden State is not
offering him a contract to continue on.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's like, no, it's it's just it's time. It's time.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Golden State paid Clay Thompson sixty seven million dollars to
not play basketball when he got hurt two years. He
missed two years of his career in Golden State paid
him sixty seven and then they give him a max
contract knowing that he would miss.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
At least one year.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He ended up missing two years. So it's fine. They
paid him a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
He helped them win some championships as at number two
behind Steph Currie. And so now he goes on somewhere.
By the way, the word on the street is overnight
here that the Dallas Mavericks are the favorite to get
Klay Thompson, and I hope that happens. And then that
guy Texas Jack who called last hour, he will be crying,
he will be so upset.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh God, I hope that happens all right now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Page two to LA LA Land we go and breathless
reporting over the weekend, Lebron James gonna give a solid
to the Lakers that Lebron James is willing to take
a twenty million dollar pay cut from the LA basketball
team that's the second team in LA, the Lakers to
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improve the roster.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Are you impressed with that? All right? So I'm gonna
go first, I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No, A, it hasn't happened, So you can't be impressed
with something that hasn't happened. And b Lebron, to me,
doesn't even get a gold star even if he were
to do this, he would not get a gold star
on my report card for this. And here's why, Lebron
James I determined. I had an epiphany in a moment
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of silence over the weekend. I was contemplating the time
space continuum. Lebron James, what he has done with the Lakers,
no championships, a franchise has been an embarrassment since Lebron
got there. He's a squatter. Lebron James is a squatter.
He's squatting inside the Laker offices. I'm convinced that's what
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he's doing. Lebron James has become a squatter.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You might not want to admit it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Maybe you're a fanboy of Lebron and you worship the
Lebron James nonsense that's out there in the media. But
if you look at it objectively, take a couple steps back,
and you.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Can lock in. You lock in on what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Lebron James got to the Lakers because he wanted to
hang out with Hollywood f's. So he's hanging out with
the Hollywood f's, and he changed the pad lock, he
changed the gatecode, and he's moved into the big bedroom
and he's hanging out there. He's taking control of the
Laker franchise as a squatter, and he has squatters rights
in California.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You squat, you get the whole house. That's it. He's
got the whole franchise.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Genie Buss just blindly goes along with whatever Lebron wants.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Don't leave Lebron whenever you want, but stay. Just think
of how embarrassing this has been.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
The Lakers hired a podcaster as their coach.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
They hired a podcast and he's Lebron's podcast buddy. Then
they drafted Lebron's kid who who can't play, he's too
small and was a backup average less than five points
on a bad college basketball team a year ago, drafted
him who was only a second road pick. And everyone's
(09:12):
doing it to nepotism. Okay, so everyone's doing it, so
that justifies it. Okay, tell me you're an idiot. Okay,
you just did. You just told me you're an idiot. Congratulations,
good job by you. Wild And now this story we're
supposed to jump all over there, Wow, Lebron's he's willing
to take less money. They drafted his kids, Scrownie BRONI
to passify Lebron. And the story that was bouncing around
(09:36):
over the weekend. I don't know if he saw this
one or heard about it over the weekend was that
Lebron has targeted Clay Thompson, James Harden, and Jonas Valentunis
as the three players he would be willing to take
a pay cut for.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So Harden chose the real team in LA the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
He's going back to the people's team, and valentiunis said
he said by his actions.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
But what I've read online is that he would rather
play for.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
The Washington Wizards, ah the Washington rather than the Lakers,
and with Lebron he would he would, he would rather
play in Washington terrible, and Klay Thompson he can't play anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And in the rumor overnight is that Klay Thompson wants
to go to the to the Mavericks. They're the front
runer and out of those three, only Klay Thompson is available.
But valanchunis choosing a contract for thirty million with Washington.
How the Mighty have fallen?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
All right?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Final point toss up question? Leftover category toss up question.
Kentavious Caldwell Pope goes to Orlando and Eric Gordon headed
to Philadelphia. Which of these players in their new location
a better situation.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Better move? You got KCP.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Going to Orlando and Eric Gordon goes to Philadelphia, So
I would like to say none of the above, but
that's not an available option, so we're not gonna go
none of the above. The arrow on this one is
pointing to KCP. That's where the arrow is pointing. Is
at times been a high end display pay this display
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case role player like he's in the display case as
a role player, high end kind of guy. He's thirty
one years old, so he's a little younger. And both
these guys are on the Hobo Express around the NBA.
They get passed around like a collection played at church.
And so he's on his He's said it. It was fifteen now, KCP.
Eric Gordon, on the other hand, looked washed up in
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Arizona last year. He's four years older and the numbers slid.
But even if the numbers were okay, just watching him
play last season with the Suns, the handful of times
I watched him play, just looked like a declining asset there.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And neither one of these guys is going to be
a leading figure.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
There are auxiliary players and because of that, Contavious Caldwell POLP,
that would be the one you would rather have in
a playoff situation than than Eric Gordon. All right, is
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It's Ferg Dogger right say He says, Hey clipper monologue
to start the night, followed by a roast of the Lakers.
Thanks for giving the people what they want, Ben, He says,
how about an angel's monologue an hour three?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Let's not get crazy for Dogg.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Nobody wants that content at all. Midnight, Walker says no, no,
na naa hey, and say goodbye Chris Paul and Clay Thompson.
It's time to fly. I'm trying real hard. Did not
sound mean, but they're just hanging on for a little
more green.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, that's it. It's about right it's about right at
this particular point. Who else you page down?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No stri Denis, says clay Is, like, what Pat trick you?
Paul Westfall, David Thompson, Bill Cartwright were as sonic pickups
back in the day, hyped former stars, and.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
All were terrible.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
All were terrible, says no stra Denis.
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That's his take on that. Who else do we have?
Page down? And I can't read that?
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On the oscore of the folks, we'll say hello to Andre,
who is in the Commonwealth or is it Andre and
the Commonwealth?
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I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
We'll find out together, Hello caller who claims to be Andre?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Right, there's no skullduggery going on here, Ben, This is
most certainly.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
That's the real deal. That's the authentic Andre.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's not a cheap ripoff version of Andre.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
There's no delution, no dilution. Okay, four hundred percent authentic,
as they like to say. Specifically, we're talking about cuisine
Andre from the Calm Walk, and I do need to
kind of chime in here specific First of all, with
the Klay Thompson, I think a little bit different. You know,
Patrick Ewing went when he left the New York Knicks
(16:53):
and uh traveled over out to Seattle, right, Hakim Elijahwan
found himself in Toronto. As you said, Clay has a
little bit more tread and attire as far as I'm concerned,
even though he did miss the three seasons. But again,
this modern NBA, let's wear and tear, you know, all
the next type of a game. So I think that
Lebron trying to make the Lakers frankly respectable.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
See That's the thing, though, Andrea, this is how it
always works. It's the same same set of events that happened,
washed up former players, changed his teams, and they said, well,
this time it's different. Youing didn't work out when he
left the Knicks, and Elijah won when he left the Rockies.
But this time now it's going to be different. And
it's never different.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
You know. It would have been different if Steve Kerr,
right when he was coaching, had taken that job with
the Knicks, right because Phil Jackson was there and they
had the connection, and he's going to go to the Knicks.
But he said, let me take a step back and
look at the lay in the land. No, I think
I'll take that job in Golden State, right, And the
rest is history. That's how I feel about Klay Thompson. Right,
the Lakers, it's convenient he has the connection because his
dad played of them, But Dallas is the place for
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him to be with their offense. Ben, it's all it's
all space, isolation, Luca Kyrie and their whole he was.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
He was getting open shots with the Warriors and was
missing them at a higher rate this past season.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Ben, he was also splitting time with a number of
guys right.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Because he wasn't making the shots. That's what happens. You
think they You think they would have benched him and
demoted him if he was making the shots.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I think he felt this young kid Pozorski, I don't
even know to know how to pronounce it a and
then previously Jordan Poole before he said.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well that's my My point is that that was a
desperation move by the Warriors because Klay Thompson was washed
up and they everyone knew.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
It, and they're like, oh, we gotta cut down his
playing time.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But if he was making the shots they we did,
none of these other guys would have played.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
My point with that is, first of all, I wish
he was washed up in twenty twenty two or the
Celtics would have had done the championship, okay, because you
know he wasn't washed up when he was making those
threes when we were we were winning, and then they
came back. Secondly, I do think a fresh start, and
in Dallas, it's all going to be just standing in
one place. His role there will be even more simplified.
(19:11):
The Golden State Warriors were not this year as talented
as the Dallas Mavericks. All he's gonna have to do
literally all it's just standing in one place and hit
wide open shots. I think you can do that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
He'll go all for ten like he did in that
playoff game with the Golden State when most of those
were pretty open shots, and didn't they give them a little.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Bit of fresh in Golden State. That's my last point, man,
I do. I just think that in Golden State it's
ward outs welcome. They have the young guys. There was
a little tension there. We're going to go to Dallas
hanging out and hang out in Mark Cuban's mega mansion,
sit in the corner and make a bunch of threes
and we'll see how they go. In the Western Conference
finals there's always thanks for taking a call.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
All right, thank you, Andrea. I question your take on that,
but thank you. It's an odd take. Let's go now
to we go from Andrea to Andrea. She's in Northern
California in Berkeley. She has a star chart out there
too analyze and break down everything going on all about
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Clay Thompson.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Woes ill you? Indeed, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
If I was any better, I'd be one of these
NBA players signing for thirty forty fifty sixty seventy million.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
But I'm not good for them. I know business is booming.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah, quite a scene, I'll tell you, it's really something.
I have some interesting, unique memories of Aquarius Clay Thompson.
He's a very eccentric Aquarius. I sent a YouTube video
on your Twitter x feed and he was in the
San Francisco Bay and he talked about how much he
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loves the bay in the water and it's because he's
an Aquarius, which is the sign of the water bearer.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, see, non Dallas, you'd have to find a lake
because he's a body of water right there, So he'd
have to find a nice lake in the dows Sarah,
but he is known as the Sea Captain, and you're
the sea captain, You've got to be in your water,
right And.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
He would just talk about how healing and renewing the
water is for him, and you know, I'm going to
miss that because as an air sign Aquarius, he's won
February eighth, nineteen ninety is one of the intellectuals of
the zodiac, kind of imaginative, creative, openness for new ideas
and friendly, well liked. I always say a humanitarian Aquarian
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and Aquarius energy is also eccentric, which ken rubs the
people the wrong way. But what's interesting forecast wise, man
is to be expected he's having some positive Jupiter transit,
which is expansion and abundance and opportunity. And while he'll
you know, definitely be missed with the warriors Jupiter and
(21:56):
Gemini training, his son an Aquarius brings a lot of
opportunity and abundance and communication with others will flow, so
it'll be interesting to see where he ends up.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But yeah, well, I just looked that if he does
go to the Mavericks, and the rumor overnight is that
Dallas is the front runner for Klay Thompson so if
he goes there, it says there's Lake ray Hubbard that's
in northeast Dallas, and it looks all right, it's not
the greatest lake I've ever seen. There's a white white
rock Lake in East Dallas. You've got that. And then
you've got Grapevine Lake in Grapevine, so you've got that.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Now it's not actually in that. One's not actually in Dallas,
but it's close enough.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Okay, so there is some lakes there. I think he,
you know, like going voting and would bring his dog
and make a day of it. He has moon in Leo,
so he's born on the full moon. He does like
attention and five planets in Capricorn. So he's nothing. It's
not ambitious, so you know that should be interesting. So
the Warriors loss is another team's gain, and that's what
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happens in the sports world. Just can't get too attacked.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
No, no, no, you're you're cheering, as Jerry Seinfeldt said back
in the you're cheering for laundry the names on the
back chams, but you're ultimately.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Cheering for Laundryney, that's what you're going for.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
All right, Well, thank you, Andrea and Virgo in service
on Twitter. Have a wonderful beginning. Here we are in July.
Now we have crossed over the rubicon.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Into the month of July. There she goes where she goes,
only she knows.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
One of the more interesting characters in sports over the
years has been John Daily, a one hit wonder years
ago in golf. But he's still living off that one
hit all these years later. John Daly is now back
in the radar. He's back on the radar again. He
has popped up in a commercial for President Donald Trump
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and he's selling John Daily the sixty dollars God bless
the USA Bible.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
You don't say, yeah, have you s in this eddy?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah? So that is the new hustle for John Daily.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And with the way the way his beard is in
this commercial, it looks like he's one of the figures
in the Bible.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
He's wearing like his Oakley sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yes, yes, yes, he's got the glasses on and he's
got this mat. He looks like Santa Claus a little bit,
a little bit, and it's pretty.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
He is very jolly from what I under Yeah, he's in.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
The commercial, which you can get online. He's sitting alongside
country music legend Lee Greenwood and Yes, and they're promoting
the God Bless the USA Bible. And it's yeah, pretty
pretty amusing, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
So I got a kick out of that. What's John
Day up there?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
There he is, there, he is, he's.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Living his best life, just having a great time. And okay,
uh sixty bucks. You can get a Bible for less
than sixty bucks.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Right, I think you don't need to been.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The full six you can. But it's not endorsed and
promoted by the Great John Daily.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
That certainly bumps it up several dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And Donald Trump either not, he's not.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
This is his his baby here. So Bible, let's see
it's it's he's behind it. Yeah, wasn't hul Cogan he's
doing the No, he's doing the beer.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
He's going the other way. He's doing hul Cogan All
American beer.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Oh I didn't see that either.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, like the Red, White, and Blue beer. All Cogan's
got that going for you. It's great. You reach a.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Certain level of pop culture stardom and they just drag
you out for these different things like John Daly's in that.
John Daly's in that group with Mike Tyson, and there's
different guys that you reach a certain level of fame
and infamy and bring you back to sell certain products.
It is the Ben Mallard Show. As we continue later
this hour, we're gonna have Mallard of the third degree.
(25:50):
We'll get to that coming up in a little bit.
Right now, let's get you cut up on everything going
on in the overnight, and we say hello to the
merman Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Well, thank you, Ben, and we have a WOJ bomb
that has been dropped to moj is up late and
on the Twitter machine. He has confirmed what we knew,
but he says it for agent fod. Paul George has
agreed on a four year, two hundred and twelve million
dollar max contract with those Philadelphia seventy six possibly go wrong,
(26:25):
so he'll be joining Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxi and
we'll see how that goes with them.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Over there.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Some other news from the NBA involving the Clippers. We
had James Harden agree on a two year deal.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
With you see, like WOJ, because he gets all this
from agents, so he then has to credit the agents.
Nobody cares who the agents are like he credited the
agents for Paul George Like, who cares?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Nobody knows who those people are. Who cares.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Let's see James Harden two year deal seventy million dollars
to stay with the Clippers. The second year is a
player option Golden State Warriors. You were talking about this,
Klay Thompson. Also Chris Paul leaving the team. Paul had
any million dollar deal, it was ready to kick in,
so they didn't want to pay that. So he's now
off to San Antonio, Wan to one year deal. And
apparently Thompson looking to sign with the Lakers, Clippers, or
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Mavericks at least those are the reported front runners for his.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Front runners to be Dallas. Now, you can't have three
front runners, Eddie, you can have one front running.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Well, I noticed runner didn't say the Clippers because I'm
sure you're you would.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Be very They don't want that guy. He's not going
to the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
No, it was NBA state run NBA TV says the
Dallas Mavericks are the front runners for Klay Thompson. All right,
state sponsored NBA TV. They're never running PROB the news
service of the NBA. Right, there major League baseball games.
Note Sunday night, you had the Rangers being the Orioles
eleven to two. Rookie Wyatt Langford hitting for the cycle,
first player to do that this season. Eleventh player in
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Rangers history hit a home run in the eighth. I
need to cap off the cycle. Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
The Phillies edge the Marlin seven to six. Philadelphia leading
the major leagues with the fifty five and twenty nine record.
You have the Yankees over the Blue Jays eight to one.
New York's still percentage points buying Baltimore for the top
spot in the Al East. Aaron Judge, though on top
of the major league home run standings are statistics thirty
first home run of the year for Aaron Judge. Brewers
over the Cubs seven to one. Bryce terrang a Grand
(28:10):
slam from Milwaukee. They hit five Grand slams in their
last eight game.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That's what the Crew does, Eddie. That's how the Blue
Crew roll apparently.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
So yeah, Guardians lose to the Royal six to two.
Kansas City Seth Lugo gets his Major leg leading eleventh
win of the season. Dodgers followed the Giants eleven to
four at San Francisco crank out ten doubles in the game,
there most since nineteen twelve, that was a while ago.
The Mariners lose to the Twins five to three. Seattles
lead on Houston down to three and a half games
in the Aos with the Astros winning. Cardinals shut out
the Reds to nothing. Lance Lynn six shoutout endings for
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Saint Luisi and three leaders combining on the two eight shutout.
The Braves followed the Pirates four two as Atlanta does
not get the sweep of Pittsburgh, and the Padres followed
the Red Sox four to one. San Diego's five game
winning Street comes to an NWNBA fever over the Mercury
eighty eight eighty two. Kitlin Clark fifteen points, nine rebounds,
twelve assists for Indiana in the win. We start with
NBA News Week, conclude with NBA News All big news
(29:02):
out of the Motor City. The Detroit Business have found
their next head coach. He is JB. Bickerstaff, reportedly a
five year deal. Hopefully for him, it's somewhere close to
what the last guy got so he can get fired
and cash in as well. He takes over the worst
team in the NBA. Last season, he was fired by
the Cavaliers despite getting them into the playoffs the last
two years. Fourth NBA coaching job for JB.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Bickerstaff.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That's the family business.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, that's old man Bernie coach, not Bernie Fratto.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Bernie Bickerstaff. Rockets, Grizzlies, Cavaliers are now pistons for JB.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Bickerstaff.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Take a lot of money, not supposed to win anything.
Team won't be any good. But make your money and
move on to your next job. It's what the vagabond
coaching job life is like.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It is the Ben Maler Show. Let's have some fun
here we go. Maler fun fact h fun.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Fact of the hour comes from Pittsburgh, PA. The Pirates
have one guy worth watching Paul's schemes. Paul Skians has
done something that has never happened before in baseball history.
He has allowed a leadoff home run in each of
his last two starts and then did not allow another
run after either one of those leadoff home runs. He
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becomes the first pitcher in the history of baseball going
back to the late eighteen hundreds, to allow a leadoff
home run and back to back starts, but pitch shut
out baseball after each That is my fun fact of
the hour, putting the fun in fun facts.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And we go back to the phones.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We'll say hello to Cameron, who is in the Hoosier
State allegedly.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Hello, Cameron, welcome reason for.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Hey Cameron, your phone is dying rapidly here Cameron.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Wow, that's really bad.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Can't call back.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I know you're on hold for a while. I can't
put you on the air though, call back. Let's go
to Joe, who's an Idaho.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Hello, Joe, Oh nice, Thank you so much for taking
my call.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Were you surprised you wouldn't take my call?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
But it just happened really quickly.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
You want to go back on hold?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
No, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Sure, I mean I can put you back on hold.
You want.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
There's other people on hold too, I can go to
somebody else of you.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
No, No, I am good.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Okay, So you're you're okay, you're happy being on the air, okay, good,
he's happy being on there.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
I am well, I'm a dreaded day shifter. I've called
one other time before, but I have tomorrow off. Oh
I was going to make sure and get in on
my favorite show.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Oh god, bless you, thank you, and thank you for
sporting the podcast. We appreciate that and I do yes
really annoys management. We get a lot of downloads. We
do better than some of the daytime shows, and that
really sets people at the company.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
So we want to keep that going.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Yeah. Yeah, you guys are the only show for me
and Lorraine of you're a great addition to the show.
Speaker 9 (32:09):
Eddy, seems you're.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Being very kind. You're being very kind, Joe.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No, for some reason during my monologue, they were trying
to distract me, Loraina.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
And there was a developing situation in the And.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Those are recorded at a remote location.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The person that records these does not have to come
in studio. I do.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Uh, And and you know, there's a lot of running
around and it was very odd there, Joe. But I
did not I only mentioned it once, and I did
not stop the entire monologue.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I felt it was not worthy of that.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
So No, you're you're wonderful. But all I'm going to
say is, I know I'm the delusional Raiders fan, but
I think we have a foundation.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
What exactly is the foundation there? What would the foundation be?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Every year they've got something, this.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Is the year of the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Hey, I like I like Gardner Minshew. I I have
a feeling though there, and he's not going to be
able to start that. The coaching staff doesn't like Gardner minshew,
and they'll go with Aidan O'Connell. And they the front
office brought Minshew in and that's not the coaching staff.
The coaching staff and they are pretty close. Aidan O'Connell
and Gardner Minshew. It's not like one is way ahead
of the other. But I would rather have Gardner Minshew.
But my horse like sense tells me that the Raiders will.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
End up going with Aidan O'Connell as their quarterback.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
I think so as well. But uh you, we love
you too.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
It's a love fest here, all right, Thank you, Joe. Yes,
I'm gonna go, thank you.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
So we did have a we did have another attack
of the cockroach.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
And the is that a cockroach? Cockroach? It was huge.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's a pretty pretty big one crawling along the wall there,
and Shay, like the gentleman he is, took off the
shoe and uh took care of business, protecting.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Lorena damsel in distress, Lorena and she needed. Yeah, we
were actually debating if Coop would have been able to
handle it the same, No chance.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
First of all, he couldn't have reached it unless he
stood on a chair. Oh, I mean, that's true, that's true.
Is how tall are you share you're talking six? Yeah,
there's no there's no chance. Coop's like five to five
on a good day. So that helped.
Speaker 10 (34:19):
It was the biggest one I've seen too in this place.
Got big ones too.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
We are we are proud of the size of our cockroaches.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Did these things come out during the day or only
at night?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I don't that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
They go because during the day, if they came out,
if one cocker roach crawled out when Colin Coward was
on the radio, a team of exterminators that would be
all over the building to make sure that he's never
seen a cockroach again.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
They call every exterminator within fifty miles of this building
and they'd be here within ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
It's the fact it was on the wall right behind
my head, and I had no idea it was there.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Don't bite, they fly and they' job.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
No, it's just trying to live its life. Now, did
you kill it or did you take it? Did youth
in Asia? Or did you take it outside?
Speaker 10 (35:06):
And I you know, I use my use my right
the shoe, the shoes.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
They don't come back from the shoe.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Did you give it a burial at sea? Did you
give it a nice barrel and the toilet down the hall?
Speaker 10 (35:16):
I give it like a nice picked it up the
little plate and then put in this trash can, right,
and she.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Would have left it on the on the table on
the back there, I know, right, so they can just
see it when that.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
My favorite part was Lorraina like standing behind Shay, would
they what is the wisol can? That was faking it?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Probably still alive because they don't usually die after one.
I was still alive, Yeah it was. And then he
tried to pick it up with just a napkin and
I was like, no, put the paper plate over it
and smash it more. Make sure.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Got to make sure he's dead.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
And it worked.
Speaker 10 (35:46):
Fun fact, Ben, we had uh, we actually had exterminators
here this week and they did nothing.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I guess really. Actually they usually caused them to come out.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Oh so they might be working. You'll see them more. Yeah,
because other areas are poisoned.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
And these are multi generations of cockroaches because this is
shoused to be a Danny's where we broadcast from.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Was it Danny's years ago?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
And I remember when I when I came in here, Eddie,
and they showed us around when Fox Sports Radio launched
and we were upstairs in the old Michael Reagan studio
and they were like, well, yeah, here's the way the
kitchen was and all this stuff, and they's like going
through the whole thing. You think maybe when they put
the studio in they might have tried to get rid
of the cockroaches. That's that's twenty plus years ago.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
They say you can't get rid of them, and apparently
that's true, and we do have that. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
We talked about this with four false ceiling the area
back there where they're all entombed.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Oh yes we have.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We just put a sticker up to cover it all up.
They're so cool petrified back there.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And much like the McDonald's French fries, they have not
changed color or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
They look exactly the same.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
So I think they're kind of bleached a little bit.
The sun is kind of The museum look the.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Same to me, anyway, it is the Ben Malors Show.
We are gold to have coming up momentarily, We're going
to have oh My Mallard of.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
The third degree. Here's the insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Blank had the highest rate of incompletions because of inaccurate
passes during the twenty twenty three NFL season. Again, Blank
had the highest rate of incompletions due to inaccurate passes.
Sometimes you get an incompletion because the receiver screws up
or something on those lines. But Blank had the highest
rate of incompletions due to inaccurate passes during the twenty
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twenty three NFL season.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
That is the insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
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It's Ben Maller.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Now here's the inste chariot blank had the highest rate
of incompletions because of inaccurate passes during the twenty twenty
three NFL season. Fill in the blank. That's the question.
What's the answer, that's say? Does anyone know the answer?
The hoypolloy checking in and we go page down, page
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Midnight Walker says Sonny Jurgensen mid Night Walker's and Syracuse.
Deborah Harry from Blondie who is seventy nine today? From
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from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Who else we have page down?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Charlie Brown from The Peanuts Fame Guests by j D
in Boston.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Eddie, What say you, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I'm gonna go with former Los Angeles Rams legend Brett Rippin?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Is it Brett Rippin? No, that is incorrect, looking at
me like, is it the correct answer? The creepy quarterback
does Shawn Watson DeShawn Watson. Forty three point nine percent
of asses were because of inaccuracy. Here we go, Smeller,
(40:06):
Here we are.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
This is one Big Ben gets great.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
We say hello to Shay. He's in the house.
Speaker 10 (40:14):
The Pistons are reported to sign guard Kad Cunningham to
a five year rookie Max extension. It's the Pistons guard
work it worth.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
It easy for you to say, well, he got it,
so he's worth it, But uh, I always.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Look at it like this. Does he sell tickets? No?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Nobody goes out to watch the guy, even though he's
going out of their way to watch him play.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Does he get TV ratings?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Does he make players around him better?
Speaker 5 (40:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Oh for three.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
But yet somehow he's got this Bengali effect. The Pistons
are still gonna bam dowing to twenty six million. I
don't understand why.
Speaker 10 (40:44):
Next, after Sunday's game, Aaron Judge raised his average hipo
point three to one six for the season.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
That's a three three six Now we say it in
Sports Rader three sixteen.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I'll teach you about this.
Speaker 10 (40:55):
Light was embarrassing and gave me thirty one home runs
in eighty two RBI. Does Judge have a shot at
through a triple cownt so?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Does he have a shot mathematically?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Sure, he's gonna lead the league in home runs and
he'll be right there and runs bad and in and
all that, and he's got a shot.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Is he gonna do it?
Speaker 7 (41:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Does he have a shot mathematically? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 10 (41:16):
Next, Angel Star Mike Trout is expected to be back
on the diamond by the end of July. The biggest
thing to slow down the superstar has an injury is
ben Can this be the beginning?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Of the end for Trout, Well, this is I know
you're trying to suck up the Ferg dog here with
this question beginning of the end.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
No, he's got a forever contract. He will be malingering in.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Anaheim as long as the Angels have to honor that contract.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
So he's not going anywhere. He's gonna continue with the Angels.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
He'll play fifty sixty games a year and tease everyone,
and that'll be that, and he'll be more worried about
his Doppler radar forecast long term. There it is Madland
of the third degree. How did we do you pass?
That's a point three one six.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
I gotta the four left f
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numb bird to splash, splash, and bye bye.
Klay Thompson not going back to Golden State. He's being
wooed by the Lakers, the Clippers, and the MAVs. Dallas
said to be the front runner. Can you explain why,
especially considering Klay Thompson was bad to the bone last year.
(00:25):
Lebron James is willing to take a twenty million dollar
pay cut to help the Lakers improve their roster. Are
you impressed? And Contavious Caldwell Pope goes to Orlando while
Eric Gordon heads to Philly. Toss up question, which is
the better move? We'll talk about all of that and
more right now, give it up for our number two
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parts if you like the transaction. It's a good time
to be alive right now, a lot of moving and shaking.
Nobody does it quite like the NBA does with players
relocating here, there, and everywhere. And our lead this hour
from the Bay Area. Turn out the last the parties
(02:05):
over the glory days the Golden State Warriors. Kaputt gonna
bring back a Donald Foyle and some of those old
school Warrior guys from back in the day.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The first member of the.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Corps of what had been a glorious run of Golden
State Warrior basketball has exited stage left. If you did
not pay attention, we don't know where he's going. We
just know he will not be going back to Golden State.
We learned that Klay Thompson is done.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
With the Warriors. No more Splash Brothers. It's a one
man show.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Steph Curry a one man band as Klay Thompson heading elsewhere.
Multiple teams are said to be wooing Clay, but he
doesn't agree to deal with anybody, at least not of
this hour. So let us discuss the question Klay Thompson
being wooed by the Lakers, allegedly the Clippers and the
(03:03):
Dallas mav Rex.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Can you explain why why this is going on at
this particular point. So I've got.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Fine print, squatter, and display case, and we'll combine all
of these things together and we are going to give
you a stomach ache by the time we're done.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Number. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
So the reason, and I've had this explain to me
over the years by people in sports, not just basketball,
but all sports players that have great accolades, who continue
to get opportunities when it is well known that they
can't get her done at a high level. And it's
always been explained to me it's nostalgia, it's good vibrations.
(03:50):
Is you can get the low information fan that doesn't
realize that the player can't play at a high level
anymore to buy it, and that they there's also part
of the scenario that's been explained to the way you
can get a little bit of the good old days,
but you sell the past, you sell what has happened,
(04:12):
not what's going to happen in the near future. And
there's nothing that Klay Thompson has done in recent years
that would warrant even one team bending over backwards and
playing foot sea with Klay Thompson. And when you open
up the dictionary, I advise you to turn the page
one sixty eight of the dictionary. On page one sixty
(04:32):
eight of the dictionary, you will see the term washed up.
And that right there is a photo of Klay Thompson.
Right next to it. You can see a picture He's
had a great career, end up in the Basketball Hall
of Fame. Everyone goes to the Basketball Hall of Fame
across in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, mass
So he's a Hall of Famer. But you hit the
switch right, nice career, hit the little switch there, and
(04:54):
when you hit that switch, you just say no, no, no,
na da da la la hey goodbye?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Is what you say?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You do.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Weird things flying around? The main student? Is that a bat? No?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I don't all right anyway. Now, So in terms of
Klay Thompson and where we are right now, uh, if
you check the fine print on Klay Thompson and you
look at the package.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's like it's like a package of bread.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Klay Thompson is past his use by date, decaying organic matter.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Uh, there's there's like hair growing out of it in
this particular one.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Don't eat them all. Do not eat them that You
can't actually eat moldy bread. If you eat a little bit,
it's not gonna mess you up. But Golden State paid.
Some people are like upset that Golden State is not
offering him a contract to continue on.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's like, no, it's it's just it's time. It's time.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Golden State paid Clay Thompson sixty seven million dollars to
not play basketball when he got hurt two years. He
missed two years of his career in Golden State paid
him sixty seven and then they give him a max
contract knowing that he would miss.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
At least one year.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He ended up missing two years. So it's fine. They
paid him a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
He helped them win some championships as at number two
behind Steph Currie. And so now he goes on somewhere.
By the way, the word on the street is overnight
here that the Dallas Mavericks are the favorite to get
Klay Thompson, and I hope that happens. And then that
guy Texas Jack who called last hour, he will be crying,
he will be so upset.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh God, I hope that happens all right now.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Page two to LA LA Land we go and breathless
reporting over the weekend, Lebron James gonna give a solid
to the Lakers that Lebron James is willing to take
a twenty million dollar pay cut from the LA basketball
team that's the second team in LA, the Lakers to
(07:01):
improve the roster.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Are you impressed with that? All right? So I'm gonna
go first, I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No, A, it hasn't happened, So you can't be impressed
with something that hasn't happened. And b Lebron, to me,
doesn't even get a gold star even if he were
to do this, he would not get a gold star
on my report card for this. And here's why, Lebron
James I determined. I had an epiphany in a moment
(07:32):
of silence over the weekend. I was contemplating the time
space continuum. Lebron James, what he has done with the Lakers,
no championships, a franchise has been an embarrassment since Lebron
got there. He's a squatter. Lebron James is a squatter.
He's squatting inside the Laker offices. I'm convinced that's what
(07:53):
he's doing. Lebron James has become a squatter.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You might not want to admit it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Maybe you're a fanboy of Lebron and you worship the
Lebron James nonsense that's out there in the media. But
if you look at it objectively, take a couple steps back,
and you.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Can lock in. You lock in on what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Lebron James got to the Lakers because he wanted to
hang out with Hollywood f's. So he's hanging out with
the Hollywood f's, and he changed the pad lock, he
changed the gatecode, and he's moved into the big bedroom
and he's hanging out there. He's taking control of the
Laker franchise as a squatter, and he has squatters rights
in California.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You squat, you get the whole house. That's it. He's
got the whole franchise.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Genie Buss just blindly goes along with whatever Lebron wants.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Don't leave Lebron whenever you want, but stay. Just think
of how embarrassing this has been.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
The Lakers hired a podcaster as their coach.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
They hired a podcast and he's Lebron's podcast buddy. Then
they drafted Lebron's kid who who can't play, he's too
small and was a backup average less than five points
on a bad college basketball team a year ago, drafted
him who was only a second road pick. And everyone's
(09:12):
doing it to nepotism. Okay, so everyone's doing it, so
that justifies it. Okay, tell me you're an idiot. Okay,
you just did. You just told me you're an idiot. Congratulations,
good job by you. Wild And now this story we're
supposed to jump all over there, Wow, Lebron's he's willing
to take less money. They drafted his kids, Scrownie BRONI
to passify Lebron. And the story that was bouncing around
(09:36):
over the weekend. I don't know if he saw this
one or heard about it over the weekend was that
Lebron has targeted Clay Thompson, James Harden, and Jonas Valentunis
as the three players he would be willing to take
a pay cut for.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So Harden chose the real team in LA the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
He's going back to the people's team, and valentiunis said
he said by his actions.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
But what I've read online is that he would rather
play for.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
The Washington Wizards, ah the Washington rather than the Lakers,
and with Lebron he would he would, he would rather
play in Washington terrible, and Klay Thompson he can't play anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And in the rumor overnight is that Klay Thompson wants
to go to the to the Mavericks. They're the front
runer and out of those three, only Klay Thompson is available.
But valanchunis choosing a contract for thirty million with Washington.
How the Mighty have fallen?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
All right?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Final point toss up question? Leftover category toss up question.
Kentavious Caldwell Pope goes to Orlando and Eric Gordon headed
to Philadelphia. Which of these players in their new location
a better situation.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Better move? You got KCP.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Going to Orlando and Eric Gordon goes to Philadelphia, So
I would like to say none of the above, but
that's not an available option, so we're not gonna go
none of the above. The arrow on this one is
pointing to KCP. That's where the arrow is pointing. Is
at times been a high end display pay this display
(11:15):
case role player like he's in the display case as
a role player, high end kind of guy. He's thirty
one years old, so he's a little younger. And both
these guys are on the Hobo Express around the NBA.
They get passed around like a collection played at church.
And so he's on his He's said it. It was fifteen now, KCP.
Eric Gordon, on the other hand, looked washed up in
(11:38):
Arizona last year. He's four years older and the numbers slid.
But even if the numbers were okay, just watching him
play last season with the Suns, the handful of times
I watched him play, just looked like a declining asset there.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
And neither one of these guys is going to be
a leading figure.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
There are auxiliary players and because of that, Contavious Caldwell POLP,
that would be the one you would rather have in
a playoff situation than than Eric Gordon. All right, is
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Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's Ferg Dogger right say He says, Hey clipper monologue
to start the night, followed by a roast of the Lakers.
Thanks for giving the people what they want, Ben, He says,
how about an angel's monologue an hour three?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Let's not get crazy for Dogg.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Nobody wants that content at all. Midnight, Walker says no, no,
na naa hey, and say goodbye Chris Paul and Clay Thompson.
It's time to fly. I'm trying real hard. Did not
sound mean, but they're just hanging on for a little
more green.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, that's it. It's about right it's about right at
this particular point. Who else you page down?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No stri Denis, says clay Is, like, what Pat trick you?
Paul Westfall, David Thompson, Bill Cartwright were as sonic pickups
back in the day, hyped former stars, and.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
All were terrible.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
All were terrible, says no stra Denis.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That's his take on that. Who else do we have?
Page down? And I can't read that?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
On the oscore of the folks, we'll say hello to Andre,
who is in the Commonwealth or is it Andre and
the Commonwealth?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
We'll find out together, Hello caller who claims to be Andre?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Right, there's no skullduggery going on here, Ben, This is
most certainly.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
That's the real deal. That's the authentic Andre.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's not a cheap ripoff version of Andre.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
There's no delution, no dilution. Okay, four hundred percent authentic,
as they like to say. Specifically, we're talking about cuisine
Andre from the Calm Walk, and I do need to
kind of chime in here specific First of all, with
the Klay Thompson, I think a little bit different. You know,
Patrick Ewing went when he left the New York Knicks
(16:53):
and uh traveled over out to Seattle, right, Hakim Elijahwan
found himself in Toronto. As you said, Clay has a
little bit more tread and attire as far as I'm concerned,
even though he did miss the three seasons. But again,
this modern NBA, let's wear and tear, you know, all
the next type of a game. So I think that
Lebron trying to make the Lakers frankly respectable.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
See That's the thing, though, Andrea, this is how it
always works. It's the same same set of events that happened,
washed up former players, changed his teams, and they said, well,
this time it's different. Youing didn't work out when he
left the Knicks, and Elijah won when he left the Rockies.
But this time now it's going to be different. And
it's never different.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
You know. It would have been different if Steve Kerr,
right when he was coaching, had taken that job with
the Knicks, right because Phil Jackson was there and they
had the connection, and he's going to go to the Knicks.
But he said, let me take a step back and
look at the lay in the land. No, I think
I'll take that job in Golden State, right, And the
rest is history. That's how I feel about Klay Thompson. Right,
the Lakers, it's convenient he has the connection because his
dad played of them, But Dallas is the place for
(18:02):
him to be with their offense. Ben, it's all it's
all space, isolation, Luca Kyrie and their whole he was.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
He was getting open shots with the Warriors and was
missing them at a higher rate this past season.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Ben, he was also splitting time with a number of
guys right.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Because he wasn't making the shots. That's what happens. You
think they You think they would have benched him and
demoted him if he was making the shots.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I think he felt this young kid Pozorski, I don't
even know to know how to pronounce it a and
then previously Jordan Poole before he said.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well that's my My point is that that was a
desperation move by the Warriors because Klay Thompson was washed
up and they everyone knew.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
It, and they're like, oh, we gotta cut down his
playing time.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But if he was making the shots they we did,
none of these other guys would have played.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
My point with that is, first of all, I wish
he was washed up in twenty twenty two or the
Celtics would have had done the championship, okay, because you
know he wasn't washed up when he was making those
threes when we were we were winning, and then they
came back. Secondly, I do think a fresh start, and
in Dallas, it's all going to be just standing in
one place. His role there will be even more simplified.
(19:11):
The Golden State Warriors were not this year as talented
as the Dallas Mavericks. All he's gonna have to do
literally all it's just standing in one place and hit
wide open shots. I think you can do that.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
He'll go all for ten like he did in that
playoff game with the Golden State when most of those
were pretty open shots, and didn't they give them a little.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Bit of fresh in Golden State. That's my last point, man,
I do. I just think that in Golden State it's
ward outs welcome. They have the young guys. There was
a little tension there. We're going to go to Dallas
hanging out and hang out in Mark Cuban's mega mansion,
sit in the corner and make a bunch of threes
and we'll see how they go. In the Western Conference
finals there's always thanks for taking a call.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
All right, thank you, Andrea. I question your take on that,
but thank you. It's an odd take. Let's go now
to we go from Andrea to Andrea. She's in Northern
California in Berkeley. She has a star chart out there
too analyze and break down everything going on all about
(20:09):
Clay Thompson.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Woes ill you? Indeed, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
If I was any better, I'd be one of these
NBA players signing for thirty forty fifty sixty seventy million.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
But I'm not good for them. I know business is booming.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
Yeah, quite a scene, I'll tell you, it's really something.
I have some interesting, unique memories of Aquarius Clay Thompson.
He's a very eccentric Aquarius. I sent a YouTube video
on your Twitter x feed and he was in the
San Francisco Bay and he talked about how much he
(20:48):
loves the bay in the water and it's because he's
an Aquarius, which is the sign of the water bearer.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, see, non Dallas, you'd have to find a lake
because he's a body of water right there, So he'd
have to find a nice lake in the dows Sarah,
but he is known as the Sea Captain, and you're
the sea captain, You've got to be in your water,
right And.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
He would just talk about how healing and renewing the
water is for him, and you know, I'm going to
miss that because as an air sign Aquarius, he's won
February eighth, nineteen ninety is one of the intellectuals of
the zodiac, kind of imaginative, creative, openness for new ideas
and friendly, well liked. I always say a humanitarian Aquarian
(21:33):
and Aquarius energy is also eccentric, which ken rubs the
people the wrong way. But what's interesting forecast wise, man
is to be expected he's having some positive Jupiter transit,
which is expansion and abundance and opportunity. And while he'll
you know, definitely be missed with the warriors Jupiter and
(21:56):
Gemini training, his son an Aquarius brings a lot of
opportunity and abundance and communication with others will flow, so
it'll be interesting to see where he ends up.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
But yeah, well, I just looked that if he does
go to the Mavericks, and the rumor overnight is that
Dallas is the front runner for Klay Thompson so if
he goes there, it says there's Lake ray Hubbard that's
in northeast Dallas, and it looks all right, it's not
the greatest lake I've ever seen. There's a white white
rock Lake in East Dallas. You've got that. And then
you've got Grapevine Lake in Grapevine, so you've got that.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Now it's not actually in that. One's not actually in Dallas,
but it's close enough.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Okay, so there is some lakes there. I think he,
you know, like going voting and would bring his dog
and make a day of it. He has moon in Leo,
so he's born on the full moon. He does like
attention and five planets in Capricorn. So he's nothing. It's
not ambitious, so you know that should be interesting. So
the Warriors loss is another team's gain, and that's what
(22:56):
happens in the sports world. Just can't get too attacked.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
No, no, no, you're you're cheering, as Jerry Seinfeldt said back
in the you're cheering for laundry the names on the
back chams, but you're ultimately.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Cheering for Laundryney, that's what you're going for.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
All right, Well, thank you, Andrea and Virgo in service
on Twitter. Have a wonderful beginning. Here we are in July.
Now we have crossed over the rubicon.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Into the month of July. There she goes where she goes,
only she knows.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
One of the more interesting characters in sports over the
years has been John Daily, a one hit wonder years
ago in golf. But he's still living off that one
hit all these years later. John Daly is now back
in the radar. He's back on the radar again. He
has popped up in a commercial for President Donald Trump
(23:48):
and he's selling John Daily the sixty dollars God bless
the USA Bible.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
You don't say, yeah, have you s in this eddy?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah? So that is the new hustle for John Daily.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And with the way the way his beard is in
this commercial, it looks like he's one of the figures
in the Bible.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
He's wearing like his Oakley sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yes, yes, yes, he's got the glasses on and he's
got this mat. He looks like Santa Claus a little bit,
a little bit, and it's pretty.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
He is very jolly from what I under Yeah, he's in.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
The commercial, which you can get online. He's sitting alongside
country music legend Lee Greenwood and Yes, and they're promoting
the God Bless the USA Bible. And it's yeah, pretty
pretty amusing, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
So I got a kick out of that. What's John
Day up there?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
There he is, there, he is, he's.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Living his best life, just having a great time. And okay,
uh sixty bucks. You can get a Bible for less
than sixty bucks.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Right, I think you don't need to been.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The full six you can. But it's not endorsed and
promoted by the Great John Daily.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
That is true.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
That certainly bumps it up several dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And Donald Trump either not, he's not.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
This is his his baby here. So Bible, let's see
it's it's he's behind it. Yeah, wasn't hul Cogan he's
doing the No, he's doing the beer.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
He's going the other way. He's doing hul Cogan All
American beer.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Oh I didn't see that either.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, like the Red, White, and Blue beer. All Cogan's
got that going for you. It's great. You reach a.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Certain level of pop culture stardom and they just drag
you out for these different things like John Daly's in that.
John Daly's in that group with Mike Tyson, and there's
different guys that you reach a certain level of fame
and infamy and bring you back to sell certain products.
It is the Ben Mallard Show. As we continue later
this hour, we're gonna have Mallard of the third degree.
(25:50):
We'll get to that coming up in a little bit.
Right now, let's get you cut up on everything going
on in the overnight, and we say hello to the
merman Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Well, thank you, Ben, and we have a WOJ bomb
that has been dropped to moj is up late and
on the Twitter machine. He has confirmed what we knew,
but he says it for agent fod. Paul George has
agreed on a four year, two hundred and twelve million
dollar max contract with those Philadelphia seventy six possibly go wrong,
(26:25):
so he'll be joining Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxi and
we'll see how that goes with them.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Over there.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Some other news from the NBA involving the Clippers. We
had James Harden agree on a two year deal.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
With you see, like WOJ, because he gets all this
from agents, so he then has to credit the agents.
Nobody cares who the agents are like he credited the
agents for Paul George Like, who cares?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Nobody knows who those people are. Who cares.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Let's see James Harden two year deal seventy million dollars
to stay with the Clippers. The second year is a
player option Golden State Warriors. You were talking about this,
Klay Thompson. Also Chris Paul leaving the team. Paul had
any million dollar deal, it was ready to kick in,
so they didn't want to pay that. So he's now
off to San Antonio, Wan to one year deal. And
apparently Thompson looking to sign with the Lakers, Clippers, or
(27:09):
Mavericks at least those are the reported front runners for his.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Front runners to be Dallas. Now, you can't have three
front runners, Eddie, you can have one front running.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Well, I noticed runner didn't say the Clippers because I'm
sure you're you would.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Be very They don't want that guy. He's not going
to the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
No, it was NBA state run NBA TV says the
Dallas Mavericks are the front runners for Klay Thompson. All right,
state sponsored NBA TV. They're never running PROB the news
service of the NBA. Right, there major League baseball games.
Note Sunday night, you had the Rangers being the Orioles
eleven to two. Rookie Wyatt Langford hitting for the cycle,
first player to do that this season. Eleventh player in
(27:45):
Rangers history hit a home run in the eighth. I
need to cap off the cycle. Uh.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
The Phillies edge the Marlin seven to six. Philadelphia leading
the major leagues with the fifty five and twenty nine record.
You have the Yankees over the Blue Jays eight to one.
New York's still percentage points buying Baltimore for the top
spot in the Al East. Aaron Judge, though on top
of the major league home run standings are statistics thirty
first home run of the year for Aaron Judge. Brewers
over the Cubs seven to one. Bryce terrang a Grand
(28:10):
slam from Milwaukee. They hit five Grand slams in their
last eight game.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That's what the Crew does, Eddie. That's how the Blue
Crew roll apparently.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
So yeah, Guardians lose to the Royal six to two.
Kansas City Seth Lugo gets his Major leg leading eleventh
win of the season. Dodgers followed the Giants eleven to
four at San Francisco crank out ten doubles in the game,
there most since nineteen twelve, that was a while ago.
The Mariners lose to the Twins five to three. Seattles
lead on Houston down to three and a half games
in the Aos with the Astros winning. Cardinals shut out
the Reds to nothing. Lance Lynn six shoutout endings for
(28:40):
Saint Luisi and three leaders combining on the two eight shutout.
The Braves followed the Pirates four two as Atlanta does
not get the sweep of Pittsburgh, and the Padres followed
the Red Sox four to one. San Diego's five game
winning Street comes to an NWNBA fever over the Mercury
eighty eight eighty two. Kitlin Clark fifteen points, nine rebounds,
twelve assists for Indiana in the win. We start with
NBA News Week, conclude with NBA News All big news
(29:02):
out of the Motor City. The Detroit Business have found
their next head coach. He is JB. Bickerstaff, reportedly a
five year deal. Hopefully for him, it's somewhere close to
what the last guy got so he can get fired
and cash in as well. He takes over the worst
team in the NBA. Last season, he was fired by
the Cavaliers despite getting them into the playoffs the last
two years. Fourth NBA coaching job for JB.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Bickerstaff.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That's the family business.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, that's old man Bernie coach, not Bernie Fratto.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Bernie Bickerstaff. Rockets, Grizzlies, Cavaliers are now pistons for JB.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Bickerstaff.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Take a lot of money, not supposed to win anything.
Team won't be any good. But make your money and
move on to your next job. It's what the vagabond
coaching job life is like.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
It is the Ben Maler Show. Let's have some fun
here we go. Maler fun fact h fun.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Fact of the hour comes from Pittsburgh, PA. The Pirates
have one guy worth watching Paul's schemes. Paul Skians has
done something that has never happened before in baseball history.
He has allowed a leadoff home run in each of
his last two starts and then did not allow another
run after either one of those leadoff home runs. He
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becomes the first pitcher in the history of baseball going
back to the late eighteen hundreds, to allow a leadoff
home run and back to back starts, but pitch shut
out baseball after each That is my fun fact of
the hour, putting the fun in fun facts.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
And we go back to the phones.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We'll say hello to Cameron, who is in the Hoosier
State allegedly.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Hello, Cameron, welcome reason for.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Hey Cameron, your phone is dying rapidly here Cameron.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Wow, that's really bad.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Can't call back.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
I know you're on hold for a while. I can't
put you on the air though, call back. Let's go
to Joe, who's an Idaho.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Hello, Joe, Oh nice, Thank you so much for taking
my call.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Were you surprised you wouldn't take my call?
Speaker 8 (31:14):
But it just happened really quickly.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
You want to go back on hold?
Speaker 8 (31:19):
No, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Sure, I mean I can put you back on hold.
You want.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
There's other people on hold too, I can go to
somebody else of you.
Speaker 8 (31:25):
No, No, I am good.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Okay, So you're you're okay, you're happy being on the air, okay, good,
he's happy being on there.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
I am well, I'm a dreaded day shifter. I've called
one other time before, but I have tomorrow off. Oh
I was going to make sure and get in on
my favorite show.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Oh god, bless you, thank you, and thank you for
sporting the podcast. We appreciate that and I do yes
really annoys management. We get a lot of downloads. We
do better than some of the daytime shows, and that
really sets people at the company.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
So we want to keep that going.
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Yeah. Yeah, you guys are the only show for me
and Lorraine of you're a great addition to the show.
Speaker 9 (32:09):
Eddy, seems you're.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Being very kind. You're being very kind, Joe.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No, for some reason during my monologue, they were trying
to distract me, Loraina.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
And there was a developing situation in the And.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Those are recorded at a remote location.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
The person that records these does not have to come
in studio. I do.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Uh, And and you know, there's a lot of running
around and it was very odd there, Joe. But I
did not I only mentioned it once, and I did
not stop the entire monologue.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I felt it was not worthy of that.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
So No, you're you're wonderful. But all I'm going to
say is, I know I'm the delusional Raiders fan, but
I think we have a foundation.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
What exactly is the foundation there? What would the foundation be?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Every year they've got something, this.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Is the year of the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Hey, I like I like Gardner Minshew. I I have
a feeling though there, and he's not going to be
able to start that. The coaching staff doesn't like Gardner minshew,
and they'll go with Aidan O'Connell. And they the front
office brought Minshew in and that's not the coaching staff.
The coaching staff and they are pretty close. Aidan O'Connell
and Gardner Minshew. It's not like one is way ahead
of the other. But I would rather have Gardner Minshew.
But my horse like sense tells me that the Raiders will.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
End up going with Aidan O'Connell as their quarterback.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
I think so as well. But uh you, we love
you too.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
It's a love fest here, all right, Thank you, Joe. Yes,
I'm gonna go, thank you.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
So we did have a we did have another attack
of the cockroach.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
And the is that a cockroach? Cockroach? It was huge.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's a pretty pretty big one crawling along the wall there,
and Shay, like the gentleman he is, took off the
shoe and uh took care of business, protecting.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Lorena damsel in distress, Lorena and she needed. Yeah, we
were actually debating if Coop would have been able to
handle it the same, No chance.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
First of all, he couldn't have reached it unless he
stood on a chair. Oh, I mean, that's true, that's true.
Is how tall are you share you're talking six? Yeah,
there's no there's no chance. Coop's like five to five
on a good day. So that helped.
Speaker 10 (34:19):
It was the biggest one I've seen too in this place.
Got big ones too.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
We are we are proud of the size of our cockroaches.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Did these things come out during the day or only
at night?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I don't that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
They go because during the day, if they came out,
if one cocker roach crawled out when Colin Coward was
on the radio, a team of exterminators that would be
all over the building to make sure that he's never
seen a cockroach again.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
They call every exterminator within fifty miles of this building
and they'd be here within ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
It's the fact it was on the wall right behind
my head, and I had no idea it was there.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Don't bite, they fly and they' job.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
No, it's just trying to live its life. Now, did
you kill it or did you take it? Did youth
in Asia? Or did you take it outside?
Speaker 10 (35:06):
And I you know, I use my use my right
the shoe, the shoes.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
They don't come back from the shoe.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Did you give it a burial at sea? Did you
give it a nice barrel and the toilet down the hall?
Speaker 10 (35:16):
I give it like a nice picked it up the
little plate and then put in this trash can, right,
and she.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Would have left it on the on the table on
the back there, I know, right, so they can just
see it when that.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
My favorite part was Lorraina like standing behind Shay, would
they what is the wisol can? That was faking it?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Probably still alive because they don't usually die after one.
I was still alive, Yeah it was. And then he
tried to pick it up with just a napkin and
I was like, no, put the paper plate over it
and smash it more. Make sure.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Got to make sure he's dead.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
And it worked.
Speaker 10 (35:46):
Fun fact, Ben, we had uh, we actually had exterminators
here this week and they did nothing.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
I guess really. Actually they usually caused them to come out.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Oh so they might be working. You'll see them more. Yeah,
because other areas are poisoned.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
And these are multi generations of cockroaches because this is
shoused to be a Danny's where we broadcast from.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Was it Danny's years ago?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
And I remember when I when I came in here, Eddie,
and they showed us around when Fox Sports Radio launched
and we were upstairs in the old Michael Reagan studio
and they were like, well, yeah, here's the way the
kitchen was and all this stuff, and they's like going
through the whole thing. You think maybe when they put
the studio in they might have tried to get rid
of the cockroaches. That's that's twenty plus years ago.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
They say you can't get rid of them, and apparently
that's true, and we do have that. I don't know.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
We talked about this with four false ceiling the area
back there where they're all entombed.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Oh yes we have.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
We just put a sticker up to cover it all up.
They're so cool petrified back there.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And much like the McDonald's French fries, they have not
changed color or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
They look exactly the same.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
So I think they're kind of bleached a little bit.
The sun is kind of The museum look the.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Same to me, anyway, it is the Ben Malors Show.
We are gold to have coming up momentarily, We're going
to have oh My Mallard of.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
The third degree. Here's the insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Blank had the highest rate of incompletions because of inaccurate
passes during the twenty twenty three NFL season. Again, Blank
had the highest rate of incompletions due to inaccurate passes.
Sometimes you get an incompletion because the receiver screws up
or something on those lines. But Blank had the highest
rate of incompletions due to inaccurate passes during the twenty
(37:28):
twenty three NFL season.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
That is the insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
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Speaker 3 (38:04):
It's Ben Maller.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Now here's the inste chariot blank had the highest rate
of incompletions because of inaccurate passes during the twenty twenty
three NFL season. Fill in the blank. That's the question.
What's the answer, that's say? Does anyone know the answer?
The hoypolloy checking in and we go page down, page
(38:27):
down The Pink Power Ranger guests by the Cowboy Killer
Midnight Walker says Sonny Jurgensen mid Night Walker's and Syracuse.
Deborah Harry from Blondie who is seventy nine today? From
I forty Ian Gooby friend of the show, Mark Coop
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(38:49):
by Alf the Alien, O Piner, the Great train dispatcher
for the Canadian Government Railways from Alf who else do
we have a see? Page down on Taysom Hill guess
by Stevie Meatballs. He misspelled his last name bad Jet
by him. Mitch Whiskey Trubisky from Eke and Rosevil, Minnesota.
Steve Fuller from the American Therapist Lebron Dakota, James guest
(39:14):
by Mallard prop Guy Chris Chambers. Dolphin's Legend from Art Puffin,
Justin Trudeau, Happy Canada Day from King Rory. Oh Come
Desmond Ritter guess by Robbie the Mariner fan sid Gilman
from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Who else we have page down?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Charlie Brown from The Peanuts Fame Guests by j D
in Boston.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Eddie, What say you, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (39:40):
I'm gonna go with former Los Angeles Rams legend Brett Rippin?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Is it Brett Rippin? No, that is incorrect, looking at
me like, is it the correct answer? The creepy quarterback
does Shawn Watson DeShawn Watson. Forty three point nine percent
of asses were because of inaccuracy. Here we go, Smeller,
(40:06):
Here we are.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
This is one Big Ben gets great.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
We say hello to Shay. He's in the house.
Speaker 10 (40:14):
The Pistons are reported to sign guard Kad Cunningham to
a five year rookie Max extension. It's the Pistons guard
work it worth.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
It easy for you to say, well, he got it,
so he's worth it, But uh, I always.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Look at it like this. Does he sell tickets? No?
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Nobody goes out to watch the guy, even though he's
going out of their way to watch him play.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Does he get TV ratings?
Speaker 3 (40:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Does he make players around him better?
Speaker 5 (40:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Oh for three.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
But yet somehow he's got this Bengali effect. The Pistons
are still gonna bam dowing to twenty six million. I
don't understand why.
Speaker 10 (40:44):
Next, after Sunday's game, Aaron Judge raised his average hipo
point three to one six for the season.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
That's a three three six Now we say it in
Sports Rader three sixteen.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I'll teach you about this.
Speaker 10 (40:55):
Light was embarrassing and gave me thirty one home runs
in eighty two RBI. Does Judge have a shot at
through a triple cownt so?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Does he have a shot mathematically?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Sure, he's gonna lead the league in home runs and
he'll be right there and runs bad and in and
all that, and he's got a shot.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
Is he gonna do it?
Speaker 7 (41:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Does he have a shot mathematically? Sure? Why not?
Speaker 10 (41:16):
Next, Angel Star Mike Trout is expected to be back
on the diamond by the end of July. The biggest
thing to slow down the superstar has an injury is
ben Can this be the beginning?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Of the end for Trout, Well, this is I know
you're trying to suck up the Ferg dog here with
this question beginning of the end.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
No, he's got a forever contract. He will be malingering in.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Anaheim as long as the Angels have to honor that contract.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
So he's not going anywhere. He's gonna continue with the Angels.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
He'll play fifty sixty games a year and tease everyone,
and that'll be that, and he'll be more worried about
his Doppler radar forecast long term. There it is Madland
of the third degree. How did we do you pass?
That's a point three one six.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
I gotta the four left f
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