June 25, 2024 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the vibe from J.J. Redick's opening news conference with the Lakers, the claim that Anthony Davis was more involved in the hiring process than LeBron, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nume Berton. We have a
new coach in the NBA in La La Land. The
podcaster got the gig. What's the vibe? What was the
vibe from JJ Reddick in his opening news conference in Lakerland.
Also the Purple and Gold claim that Anthony Davis was
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more involved in the higher than Lebron James. Is that believable?
And what does JJ Reddick do for the Laker franchise,
the Laker brand.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We'll go there as well.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
All of it's coming away right now on this early Tuesday.
It's our number two exciting news. Exciting news. The last
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They actually did it. We thought maybe they would get
cold feet, but they actually did it. The Lakers unveiled
their latest head coach. Great thing about coaching the Lakers
is if you don't like the coach of the Lakers
is wait a couple years.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
They'll be a new one.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But with very little fanfare and a lot of amusement.
They did it. They did the unimaginable. The Lakers hired
a podcaster to coach the team. Yes, he accepted the rose,
just like the reality TV show a podcaster, JJ Reddick
gonna hang up the podcast game more downloads from my podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
He's not doing it anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
JJ Reddick said, Yes, he accepted the rose, and he
was officially welcomed to the Purple and Gold gang. The
longtime Clipper who missed every big shot he took in
the fourth quarter of games is now the Lakers problem.
He had his introductory news conference on Monday. He sat
right next to skinny jeans Rob Polenka, who looks beaten
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and broken the years of futile Laker rosters have done
that to him. And being the caddie to Lebron James.
So they were sitting side by side Rob Polenka, the
GM and the podcaster Reddick who regaled basketball scribes with
answers to a bunch of random questions. He becomes the
twenty ninth coach, the twenty ninth coach in franchise history.
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Most of those have happened within like the last ten years.
Ever since doctor Jerry Buss died. The Lakers have gone
to hell in a handbasket. No championships. It's a disaster
of a franchise. And it's a turnstyle gig. It's a
turnstyle gig, and they've added another notch to that. So
let us discuss the question what was the vibe? What
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was the vibe that JJ Reddick gave off in his
opening news conference with the Lakers. So I went back
and watched this. I didn't watch it live. I watched
the raw feed on the interweb and I checked it out.
So I've got the big o' ranchera and arcade.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And we will combine all of.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
These things together and we are going to make macaroni
and cheese is what we're going to make.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
So number.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Reddick was in all star form. That is not a compliment.
Some people will take that as a compliment. You should
not take that as a compliment. That is not a compliment.
This was such a debacle. It was actually better than
I thought.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It was going to be.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And I knew it was going to be a debacle,
and I just I was hoping. I was hoping, I
was I was going to be wrong, and I was
because it was the kind of event where I knew
this guy is a schmuck. But you're like, there's no way.
Maybe the Lakers will wise up and say, psych, we're
just kidding, We're just that was some trickeration.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We're not actually hiring this guy, and then they'll hire
somebody else who should they should actually hire. Yeah, just
just just joking around.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
A HU jokes on you. But JJ Reddick is the
same guy he's always been. He's the big O, not
Oscar Robertson. He is obnoxious. Oh for obnoxious? Is JJ
Reddick coaching.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
In the NBA?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I realize it's a marginalized job anyway. It's not about
x's and o's when you're coaching in the NBA. That
secondary it's about likability, much of it. It's about likability.
You are the face of the franchise, and the Lakers
face of the franchise is a douchebag. That's JJ Reddick,
That's who they hired. And you also look for the
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coach to have the pied Piper effect. Is that a
fair thing to say? I think that is a fair
thing to say. It the pied piper a charismatic person
that can bond together people and have them follow the message,
whatever that message is. Motivation is a big part of it.
But Reddick is the antithesis of that. He acts like
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he invented the game, like doctor James Naismith. He invented
the game, invented basketball. He put a little peach basket
up back in the day and that was that. But
there's so many high levels of toxicity with JJ Reddick.
And we know how this story is going to end.
JJ will be jumping out of the Laker team playing
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with a golden parachute and he'll make a lot of
money and then he can go do some bad podcasting
and he'll have a lot of money coming in. The
Only thing about that is you will not be able
to criticize the Lakers. The standard contracts of these professional
coaches and athletes have a non besmirching of the brand
clauses in the contract, so that will not happen now,
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page two. The Lakers at this shindig, at one point,
Skinny Jeans Rob Polinka boldly said that Anthony Davis had
a lot to do. He was more involved in the
hiring of JJ Reddick than Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And I'm not making this up. You probably think I'm
making this up. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I'm not making this up. So Lakers claim is that
Anthony Davis, the unibrow was more involved in the hire
of JJ Reddick than Lebron James. Is that believable on
any level?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Is that believable? Well, not the one I'm in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And if you didn't give out a hearty guffaw when
you either saw that earlier or you heard me just
talk about it, there's something wrong with you. Rob Polinka
claimed with a straight face, he did not break character.
I thought he was gonna break character. I thought he
was gonna start laughing.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
He did not.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
He claims that Lebron distance himself from the coaching search.
So Riddle me this batman, Anthony Davis is fully immersed.
Lebron is out on an island somewhere, living the island life.
In order for us to believe that, you would have
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to be living and I would have to be living
in a ranchera the street sign saying welcome to Suckersville, man,
welcome to suckers.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Seriously, Lebron? Let me let you in a little secret.
Lebron was literally and figuratively part of the sizzle reel
for JJ Reddick to get him the job. In my business,
you used to have to send tapes in Now you
can just email stuff. But if you want one of
these jobs, you had to send sample of your work.
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It's how it works. And then they listen to it
and say whether they like you or not, and whether
they want to go further with the process or process.
And if you're coaching and you have no resume, what
do you think JJ Reddick? His resume was he's bad
at commentating on television. I think God he's off that.
That's a silver lining to this. I'm gonna go ahead
and a live and say he sent audio files of
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the podcast that he does with who Lebron James, come on,
that was the audition tape that was in the podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's in the podcast. Stupid and it worked. It worked.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He got the gig with no business getting the gig.
He got the gig because the Lakers are an embarrassment.
They have no leadership. And I love every second of it.
I've been waiting my entire life for this incompetence and
here it is, and I hope it never ends up.
Genie Buss owns the team forever and ever and ever.
She has no idea what she's doing. It's just wonderful.
But Reddick did say he has been excommunicated, he said
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from the content space, so there will be no podcast.
He said he's done with podcasting for now. Check back
in about a year and a half and once he
gets whacked, the pod will return. Now, final point, so
let's take a look at the wide angle lens here,
not the micro, the macro wide angle lens. What does
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JJ Reddicks higher do for the Laker franchise? So he
My perspective is he's like an arcade game Cubert back
in the day of this thing called the Q rating,
and the Q rating is what you're judged on in
terms of popularity, right, how highly regarded you are, called
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the Q rating, how highly regarded you are. The higher
your Q score, the better that is. Right, and Reddick
is unlikable, he's pompous, he's unreasonable, and he scores very
high on what I call the S score. The schmuck
score very high on that. The Q score not so much,
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the Q score not so much.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
My favorite moment of this was a retick representing the Brian,
the Laker Brian. He was asked what miscommunications about himself
he's looking forward to dispelling now that he earned a
job he did not was given a job he did
not earn coaching the Lakers, and JJ mumbled and stumbled
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and bumbled over the answer, and he then said part
of the engagement farming industry, talking about him being part
of the engagement farming industry, as he said, which is
an a whole way of saying podcasting before saying, I
really don't have a great answer for your question, because
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I don't. I really don't give an F is what
he said. But I said the word F because I
have some decorum and i'd get in trouble. Well, actually
probably wouldn't anymore if I said the f wort, but
Reddick said it. So I've come to one conclusion, and
one conclusion only the Lakers just don't give a damn.
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They know the team's gonna suck, so they thought, well,
let's try something different.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
We'll hire Reddick.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
He can't coach, We'll put him out there and Lebron'll
be happy, and you know, they can do some great
podcasts when Lebron retires in a year and a half
or whatever, and we'll draft Bronni James and we'll be
on our way and we'll just live the heal life.
Will be like professional wrestler Joink, the clown from back
in the day. I know, if sands or butts about it,
that's just the way it's going to be. Lebron is
closing in on the Big four to oh, which is
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okay in real life, but in athletics that's not that great.
And Anthony Davis is made of glass. Good luck, good luck,
what a mess. I'll be here to document and chronicle
all of it. It would be a miracle for Lakers
win thirty five games with JJ Reddick as the coach
next season.
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Also bad news and hockey. The team that should have
won did not win and turn out the lights on Edmonton,
and a team with no fan base, literally no fanbase,
team from Florida Panthers won the Cup. Bad day for hockey.
So of course Eddie, who claims to like hockey, thinks
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it's a good day, which means it's a bad day
in terms of popularity. Now, straight ahead, the candid microphone.
Things you did not hear on the actual broadcast? What
is that all about? We'll get to it and we will.
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the loop Justin Cooper and he's at uh Bronco Fan?
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Who the heck is Justin Cooper.
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We thank you for hobnobbing with us, hanging out having
a fine time as we work our way through the
overnight hours. Paul says, Laker nation is all in on
Reddick to be an upgrade and get them back to greatness.
You don't even believe that you're just trying to get
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a rise at I mean, nobody believes that. Everyone knows
this is a disaster. Alf the alien Opiner says, if
you're setting the line at thirty five for the Lakers,
I'll take the over. The basketball IQ in that locker
room is too high to win only thirty five games,
So he says, who else to have page down? I
(15:02):
was told by somebody to do a birthday shout out
to Justin in Cincinnati, but we we are not a
morning Zoo show and we can't do that. And and
Justin I believe is that Jehovah's witness, so he doesn't
celebrate any holidays, so we can we cannot wish him
a happy birthday. So let's say have a good day.
(15:24):
That's it, just have a good But we can't even
do that, we cannot. Yeah, mad Jack was complaining about
something involving the Dodger rain delay in that Dodger White
Sox game masshole. Mickey says, spot on, you're JJ Reddick
Mallard monologue. My son Michael a third would do a
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better job coaching the Fakers, which happens to turn eleven today.
He says, there you go, pictured on the phone. Oh,
he's on a payphone talking to Genie Boss. That's that's reasonable. Yeah,
he probably looks at a payphone like man, that's old technology.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's like a you're looking at a horse and buggy,
you look at a payphone.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Mark the walker is up with us walking around Rochester.
He says, it's Rochester, New York. He says, going out
on a limb and guessing you, Ben are not a
huge JJ Redick fan. You think you think Fudgie from Boston,
says Ben. Just think if this works out JJ Redick
with JJ Redick, you may be able to coach.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
The Clippers in a couple of years. That is true.
I'm available.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I think I'd do the Dodgers first, because they need
all the help they get.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
With that.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Dave Roberts, I liked him in that spot. Dave Roberts,
that would be the move. Let's see, Derek says, the
Lakers are back with their resilient JJ Reddick hiring to
get them back. Yeah, okay, a lot of that. I
think this must be the same person Chip in the Queues.
He's on Aisle seven right now, he says eight plus
on the male of the monologue. At least the Lakers
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weren't foolish enough to hire Doc Rivers. That's only because
the Bucks hired him first. If the Bucks had not
hired Doc Rivers, Doc Rivers would have been introduced as
coach of the Lakers. You know it, and I know it,
it would have happened. Let's say hello to Redbreast Paul,
who's in Rhode Island. Hello, Paul, ben Mella.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
How you doing, buddy? I miss you, man, Paul.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Where you've been, Paul?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Where I been? I've been, baby, I've retired, I've been baby.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I know you're retired.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You got nothing but time on your hands, and you
don't even call the show anymore. No.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I sleep a different pattern now, and that's the end
of it. I got my third grandchild, Daphne.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Congratulations, daf Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yes, that's wonderful. It takes uh, it takes a toll
when you when you become responsible to be a babysitter.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh grandpa the babysitting And what kind of babysitter are
you the either grandpa that like spoils the kids?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Are you the one that gives them tough love? Like?
What's your move there? What kind of grandpa are you?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I think I give them tough love. But it's three
years old, one and a half and now a couple
of days old. So but I figured I wanted to
call you just to uh anomally the Boston Shamrocks. We
got eighteen good luck jj uh. You are under all
toes right now, and I'll tell you you got to
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You got your hands loaded because you know you're going
to be coaching brand players and they don't take the
Woody Hayes type of coaching. And I listen, I'm gonna
be honest with you. I think the guy is fantastic
in his knowledge of the game. But you know what,
You're going to a high marketing team that's gonna be tough.
You should have went to a low market team and
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start there and then go on. But the other thing
I was going to talk to you about is this,
can we get somebody to get these young men to
go into union jobs, union trade jobs. Wait, I mean no.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I love that you went from JJ reddick.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
To here's my point. I put three I picked up
three union I picked up three union But.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But you're retired. You're not in the union anymore. You're
retired from the union.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Listen to me. I picked up three union books. I
put three kids through college, and my last one passed
the bar.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Okay, listen, listen, I never pass a bar when I
when I go into a bar, I go in. I
don't pass it. You don't bumpy name joke saying Friday.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yes, let's get these young men eighteen to twenty five.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
How about they do what they want to do, Paul.
Maybe they don't want to do that. Whatever they want
to do, it's fine. They can do whatever they want.
It's freedom, Ben Mella.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
They want play video games, smoke weed all night, they
can do that. I who cares.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
They can pop they can pop beans, smoke skunky weed,
and and and drink holy water like I do. Okay,
listen to me, what.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Do you where do you get holy water? I'd like
to have s me.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You can you can, you can own a college seventy
thousand dollars. Oh, you want to make seventy thousand dollars
after four.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, listen, I agree with you that.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Come on, come on, what's going on in America?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
What's going on in America? That's right? I call me
like three months or something.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Listen, Can I tell you something?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
No, not really, I got to go.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Listen. This white this is this man.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
This is going in a white house. Okay, and there's rusty.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But it's Fox Sports Radios, not Fox News Radio. But
it's it's sport. We're doing sports.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
A lot of sports guys. Listen to your show. I
lost the board, all right, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I gotta go.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Good to have him back.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I missed that old guy. It's like our Archie bunker.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
There was a word he said at the very beginning.
I've heard that.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I've never heard that word.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
What word did you use at the beginning, Paul? What
was the weird word you use?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I don't know all I all I know is that
I'm disgusted with the oil lists. I'm discussing disgusting with Batman.
He never handed a Stanley Cup to a Canadian team.
I'm disgusted.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Well, they got to win it to get to get that.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I think you just handed to him.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
How do you have a job for thirty years and
you don't hand a team a Stanley Cup?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Tell me it's xenophobia. He hates he hates Canadians. It's xenophobia.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
They have one.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I'm telling you the guy's gonna lose his job. I'm
telling you, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
He's there till he dies.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, I think he'll die, is Eddie?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Eddie, tell me the truth? That's it. That's that's ridiculous.
How do you have a job for thirty years and
you don't have to tick a send a cup to
a script point?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I said, you know what, I'm gonna give you a
golden ticket, but you got to.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Go and take it.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You get its great, take Eddy, what's the point of
having teams all over Canada if they can't?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
You know, you don't give him one trophy.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
It's a weird thing and you have to actually earn it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Russian over there, Yeah, what about the Russians, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Comenty Russian teams have won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Remember when Moscow won Paul about twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Moscow won the Red Wings. That's a Moscow team.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Eddie kind was.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Let me tell you, let me I don't care. I
don't know about the A in Canada. I know they
have a two tax base. But I'm telling you right now,
if if a lot of European players come over here
and take American jobs for young college, let me tell
you so ridiculous. You know what, you can't go the SAX.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
They have a hockey union. Yeah, they have a hockey union.
So those are union jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No players association, that's a union job. Those young men
have union jobs. They don't have to worry about student law.
I gotta I gotta go, I gotta go. I got
I got it all right? Oh man.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Missed it. I'm being honest.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I did too.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He's such such a unique caller. Remember we had him
and we had Joe and Rhode Island. They called up
like the same week, and then Joe Roberto correctly predicted
the bus driver that Joe and Rhode Island would stop calling.
We all kind of knew he was guys Bump and
it was amazing. It was a comet out and it's
kind of like the last two weeks. Said he driving
(23:05):
the work, I have seen the space X launch here beautiful.
It's like a majestic rocket flying out the space is marvelous.
Kind of like a Bill in Venice called Hello Bill
in VENs Let me make sure I punch up the
right line?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Hello Bill and Venice? Is that Bill? Did I punch
the right line up? Let me see you know I did?
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Not?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Here? This is going to be Bill. Hello Bill.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
There's a guy legends back to back from Paul and
Rhode Island to Bill and now Bill in Venace.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
How blessed are we? Eddie?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I mean, we're living the dream here talking to Bill
in Venice. The man is my legal analyst. Hello Bill,
I don't live.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
In Venice anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I live in now Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
But you're known as Bill and Venice. You're not known
as Bill in Koreatown.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I moved well, got to change his name.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Then, Ben, When do you move over to Lincoln Heights?
I used to live over there.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Your your your show? Uh scares me?
Speaker 7 (24:06):
You show you?
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Why?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Why? Why is that? Why would we frighten you?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I don't understand, cause see you all talk so fast,
and I can't keep up with what you all are saying.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
This is my nightmare.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So you would like to things down, Ben, you want
me to talk slow? Do you do you think that
would be good.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Or bad?
Speaker 7 (24:48):
And you know it's all this.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Happened my career. I'm still off gig.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
You know. People have told me that I talked to
you fast, and I just tell them you need to
listen faster.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The only reason I talked fast because I only have
four hours. By eight hours. I used to do a
six hour show, and I did a seven hour show
for a while. That talks slow, you know, seven hours,
my god, Sunday afternoon, seven hours.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Okay, okay, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But do you know you sound different? Bill? I think
you sobered up. Bill?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You sound different to me. Doesn't Bill sound a little different.
He's on the your you're walking the line here. You
keep your nose clean.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Aren't you?
Speaker 8 (25:36):
No? No, because I was listening to you when you
had Genie from.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oregon Non the great Genie in Medford. We love her.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, there's a you know, there's a a bill. There's
a there's a tribute, a memorial to Genie and Medford
or call her in l a near Dodger Stadium. Should
go over there sometimes check it out. It's at the
Swan Boat Park. There near the playground, there's a park
bench with their name on it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, you don't seem impressed by that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
How many other radio shows have a tribute to a
person that used to call Who's Dad on a park bench?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You know, in the city they didn't live in.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Wow, that was back in the day, man, that was
that was like ten years ago.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Man, it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Has been that longer than that? Actually, I think it's
been longer.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
I just want to I just want to say thank
you for your show, your radio show. Man.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I'm gonna try to talk. I'm gonna give you the chance. Now, Bill,
I would like you to toss like you want to
hear Eddie. I think he's going to do a good job.
I want you to do a professional toss to Eddie
Garcia Body of the hour. Toss the toss to Eddie
to give the scores go ahead. How would that sound?
How put your spin on it? Make make it your
(27:00):
row in there?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Bill, I would say, I would say something like Boston
South Pig swung.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Bridge, phenomenal job, phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
He said, We're the problem.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
That was scary. Yeah, Okay again, Mall's uh, Marcel's crown
as being the greatest listener to toss it to the update.
It's still in intact. He's still the king.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Blind Amid did all right too, blind the Seahawk.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
That's fair point. Did he did a good job.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
So you were talking about JJ Reddick in NBA coaching news,
but not the only coaching hier. The Cavaliers are hiring
Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson as their next head coach. The
Minnesota Timberwolves are giving you he's.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
A jack, just just a coach, just a jag.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Kenny Atkinson. He's a jack and name sounds familiar on
don't know yay.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He coached the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
He's an assistant with the Clippers and the Warriors, and
these are He's just a generic NBA coach.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Dime a dozen a few years to get fired. Go
somewhere on.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch gets a four year extension,
so he'll be paid through the twenty twenty seven twelve.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
He'll be able to walk again once his leg is repaired.
I think so he'll be all right to amputate that.
I don't think so that would be news.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
And James Brego, who apparently was also up for the
Laker job the Pelican assistant, he is being mentioned as
a candidate for the Pistons head coaching Vegas, So.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Maybe they want to punish him.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Well, maybe he can get a big contract and they
can fire him after one year like they did the
last guy.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
That would be awesome. Yeah, okay, is that it, Eddie?
Are you done?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
We're done?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
All right, let's have some fun fun fact.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
All right, So the Stanley Cupp, much to the sugrian
of real hockey fans back in the Sunshine State, now
three times since twenty twenty. That is the most any
state or province has won over a five year span since.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Let's see, mister hockey. Can Eddie figure this out?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Which state or province had more Stanley Cups in a
five year span than Florida?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Dude, let's you an answer, now, go ahead. Let's let's
go with Alberta.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All right, The correct answer, Eddie is Alberta. Your face
nineteen eighty seven, buzz.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Yourself, Lorena does yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
He's not supposed to get him, right, Lorena. I agree
with Loraina.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Anyway, eighty seven to ninety Edmonton won three, some guy
named Gretzky and Calgary won one. Didn't they have the
guy with the big mustache, Colt McDonald and McDonald I
remember watching that. Yes, Sergei. Bobrovski also is bonus fun fact.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Hit it again, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Fun fact alight, bonus fun fact. Bobrovsky the first goaltender
in NHL history to win his first Stanley Cup after
playing seven hundred plus regular season games. Bobrovski, also, at
age thirty five, were older to win the Cup. He's
just the fifth to do so the past fifty five years,
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following Tim Thomas of the twenty eleven Bruins, Chris Osgood
of the eight Red Wings, Dominic Cassick the dominator in
twenty oh two with the Red Wings, and Patrick Waugh
with the Avalanche back in twenty oh one.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So that's a bonus fun fact. And I just realized.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
When I started out in radio covering hockey, Paul Maurice
was an assistant with the Hartford Whalers, so he was
head coach of the Whalers was the head coach, so
I must have talked to.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Him, and I don't remember. I don't remember at all.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
He was just a young whipper snapper back then, so
was I Dyn.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I don't remember him at all.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Some of those coaches I remember because they were great
soundbites or they were legends of hockey. Scotty Bowman remember
him with the Red Wings and whatnot back in the day.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
For example.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mahlor Show nineteen ninety five
through ninety seven, head coach of the Hartford Whalers ras Bonanza.
They played at the Hartford Convention Center something like that. Yeah,
there's a mall right near there if I remember correctly. Anyway,
long long ago. All right, it is the Ben Maler Show.
We are going to have Mallor to the third degree.
(31:32):
That is right now warming up in the microwave. Mallor
to the third degree, should be ready to go. Time
now for the Insta Trivia. We'll go to baseball for
the Insta Trivia. Pittsburgh's Paul Skeens joined Blank as the
only major league pitchers in history to have sixty or
more strikeouts and no losses in their first eight big
league games. Again, Paul Skeins of the Bucos joined Blank
(31:56):
as the only MLB pitchers in history with sixty or
more k and no losses in their first eight MLB games.
That's the insta trivia the answer.
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Speaker 1 (32:46):
And here's the instant trivia of Mallard of a third
degree on tap.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Well dazz You see if you know the answer.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So we'll go to baseball for this one, and we
go to Pittsburgh where Paul Skeens joined Black is the
only MLB pitchers in history with sixty or more strikeouts
and no losses in their first eight big league games.
That is the tribute. What is the answer? Let's see
does anyone know the answer? And we go to the
(33:17):
Great Unwashed Pasiastoyakovich guessed by the Cowboy Killer. That's his answer.
Zane Smith from Late Night Drug Tester Old School Baseball.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Who else you have? Page now?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Fernandovilenezuela from Matthew Warrior Raider, Tom Brady Roast fan Andy
from Lino Lakes, Minnesota, going with Charlie Furbush as his answer.
John Rocker from Eloy from Compton, Patrick in San Diego,
DJ Spins going with Ted Lightner as his answer. Mike
(33:52):
Norris guessed by Greg the real estate Mogul of Baltimore.
Lonzo Ball from Shane in demol page down. Dan Herron
from Frank and Wow could find Dan Herron is a
Dodger and win the Dodger very long ago. Who else
we have? Tug McGraw from Rob in Minnesota. Rance Mullenix
(34:13):
guests by John wilbur Wood from Johnny Q.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
That's his answer.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Gopher from the Love Boat from Kenneth the Sports Lama,
Todd van Poppel tossed up by Steve the misplaced San
Diegan the Havana bananas. I think it's the Savannah bananas.
But that's from Matt Jack mister Wizard, guessed by Masshole Mickey.
That's his answer. Eke in Rosevio, Minnesota says, once a
(34:37):
year I post a pick of me and the cup.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah. Why, I have photos with the cup too, I've
hung out with the cup.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
So's Eddie greatest trophy in all sports?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Oh? Definitely. I think the John R. Wooden Awards a
little better.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
But that's just me anyway, Eddie, do you have an
answer to the Insta trivia? The answer trivia again? Paul
Skeins of the Pirates joined Blanket, the only pitchers in
Big league history to have six year more strikeouts no
losses first.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Eight big league games.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Let's go with Kerrie Wood.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Kerry would no, that is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
The correct The answer is Masahiro tanaka Ya's back in
twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
He was six and zero.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Paul Schemes is four and oh here we go, here
we got smell here?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Kouba loot An NFL Insider reporter over the weekend claimed
that Aiden O'Connell quote probably has a slight edge over
Gardner Minshew in the Raiders quarterback competition. Ben, do you
think the Raiders would actually start O'Connell over Minshew?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, there's a dimension where Aidan O'Connell would start. I'm
a Minshee guy, I'm minshew mania. And it seems to
be there's a disconnect between some people with the Raiders
front office that thought Aidan O'Connell stinks. Some of the
coaching staff likes his moxie, and so that's the first thing. Secondly,
this is unlike Pittsburgh where they've already given the job
(36:02):
to Russell Wilson, Like this is actually a legitimate training
camp battle. If Gardner Minshew outplays Aidan O'Connell, he'll be
the starter for the Raiders next.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
A recent report says that the Mavericks are looking to
trade Jeremy Grant. A trade for Jeremy Grant to the
Trail Blazers. But do you think Grant would be an
impact player for Dallas?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, I don't get the Jeremy Grant thing, Like he's
the Blazers are a debacle and I know he's been
around for a few years and bounced around the NBA
and all that, but I mean, he's okay.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
You don't know you're on a bad team.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
You're on a terrible team in Portland, and you don't
know what you're gonna do in a good environment. I
know he was on the Nuggets a couple years ago
and they were pretty good. But no, your Lakers want
Jeremy Grant too. I do not expect him to be
an impact player if he is relocated, and he should
be traded and there should be a bunch of trades
because tut up. It's I know Coop's excited. He doesn't
(36:54):
like to talk about us in the air, but Coop
loves the NBA draft. He is so freaking excited about it.
He's been bouncing and off. How many mock drafts have
you done, Coope?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Like three? Yeah, it's a lot, all right.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
Next, Aaron Judge told a reporter that he has no
plans to ever participate in the Home Run Derby again,
unless it's in New York. Ben, what's your position on
Judge's attitude towards the Derby the.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Attitude of someone that got paid a lifetime contract by
the New York Yankees, and it's only worried about the
New York fans. But I was raised, and maybe I
was wrong. Maybe I'm in the wrong. I was raised.
The All Star Game is to grow the sport that
it's not about you, it's about the fans. The fans
want to see Aaron Judge, Paul Bunyan go up there
and hit moonshots in the home run derby. But he's like, Hey,
(37:37):
I got a lot of money, I don't need to
bother doing it, and I'll only do it for the
fans in New York, And so screw you. If you're
in Kansas City or Saint Louis or Seattle or wherever,
how do we do cope?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You pass the sea, just like the oilers should have
been in the wind Collar.
Hello and welcome. It's our nume Berton. We have a
new coach in the NBA in La La Land. The
podcaster got the gig. What's the vibe? What was the
vibe from JJ Reddick in his opening news conference in Lakerland.
Also the Purple and Gold claim that Anthony Davis was
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more involved in the higher than Lebron James. Is that believable?
And what does JJ Reddick do for the Laker franchise,
the Laker brand.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We'll go there as well.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
All of it's coming away right now on this early Tuesday.
It's our number two exciting news. Exciting news. The last
episode of the JJ Reddick podcast popped up welme in
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the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mathers Show.
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They actually did it. We thought maybe they would get
cold feet, but they actually did it. The Lakers unveiled
their latest head coach. Great thing about coaching the Lakers
is if you don't like the coach of the Lakers
is wait a couple years.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
They'll be a new one.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But with very little fanfare and a lot of amusement.
They did it. They did the unimaginable. The Lakers hired
a podcaster to coach the team. Yes, he accepted the rose,
just like the reality TV show a podcaster, JJ Reddick
gonna hang up the podcast game more downloads from my podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
He's not doing it anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
JJ Reddick said, Yes, he accepted the rose, and he
was officially welcomed to the Purple and Gold gang. The
longtime Clipper who missed every big shot he took in
the fourth quarter of games is now the Lakers problem.
He had his introductory news conference on Monday. He sat
right next to skinny jeans Rob Polenka, who looks beaten
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and broken the years of futile Laker rosters have done
that to him. And being the caddie to Lebron James.
So they were sitting side by side Rob Polenka, the
GM and the podcaster Reddick who regaled basketball scribes with
answers to a bunch of random questions. He becomes the
twenty ninth coach, the twenty ninth coach in franchise history.
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Most of those have happened within like the last ten years.
Ever since doctor Jerry Buss died. The Lakers have gone
to hell in a handbasket. No championships. It's a disaster
of a franchise. And it's a turnstyle gig. It's a
turnstyle gig, and they've added another notch to that. So
let us discuss the question what was the vibe? What
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was the vibe that JJ Reddick gave off in his
opening news conference with the Lakers. So I went back
and watched this. I didn't watch it live. I watched
the raw feed on the interweb and I checked it out.
So I've got the big o' ranchera and arcade.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And we will combine all of.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
These things together and we are going to make macaroni
and cheese is what we're going to make.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
So number.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Reddick was in all star form. That is not a compliment.
Some people will take that as a compliment. You should
not take that as a compliment. That is not a compliment.
This was such a debacle. It was actually better than
I thought.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It was going to be.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And I knew it was going to be a debacle,
and I just I was hoping. I was hoping, I
was I was going to be wrong, and I was
because it was the kind of event where I knew
this guy is a schmuck. But you're like, there's no way.
Maybe the Lakers will wise up and say, psych, we're
just kidding, We're just that was some trickeration.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We're not actually hiring this guy, and then they'll hire
somebody else who should they should actually hire. Yeah, just
just just joking around.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
A HU jokes on you. But JJ Reddick is the
same guy he's always been. He's the big O, not
Oscar Robertson. He is obnoxious. Oh for obnoxious? Is JJ
Reddick coaching.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
In the NBA?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I realize it's a marginalized job anyway. It's not about
x's and o's when you're coaching in the NBA. That
secondary it's about likability, much of it. It's about likability.
You are the face of the franchise, and the Lakers
face of the franchise is a douchebag. That's JJ Reddick,
That's who they hired. And you also look for the
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coach to have the pied Piper effect. Is that a
fair thing to say? I think that is a fair
thing to say. It the pied piper a charismatic person
that can bond together people and have them follow the message,
whatever that message is. Motivation is a big part of it.
But Reddick is the antithesis of that. He acts like
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he invented the game, like doctor James Naismith. He invented
the game, invented basketball. He put a little peach basket
up back in the day and that was that. But
there's so many high levels of toxicity with JJ Reddick.
And we know how this story is going to end.
JJ will be jumping out of the Laker team playing
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with a golden parachute and he'll make a lot of
money and then he can go do some bad podcasting
and he'll have a lot of money coming in. The
Only thing about that is you will not be able
to criticize the Lakers. The standard contracts of these professional
coaches and athletes have a non besmirching of the brand
clauses in the contract, so that will not happen now,
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page two. The Lakers at this shindig, at one point,
Skinny Jeans Rob Polinka boldly said that Anthony Davis had
a lot to do. He was more involved in the
hiring of JJ Reddick than Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And I'm not making this up. You probably think I'm
making this up. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I'm not making this up. So Lakers claim is that
Anthony Davis, the unibrow was more involved in the hire
of JJ Reddick than Lebron James. Is that believable on
any level?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Is that believable? Well, not the one I'm in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And if you didn't give out a hearty guffaw when
you either saw that earlier or you heard me just
talk about it, there's something wrong with you. Rob Polinka
claimed with a straight face, he did not break character.
I thought he was gonna break character. I thought he
was gonna start laughing.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
He did not.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
He claims that Lebron distance himself from the coaching search.
So Riddle me this batman, Anthony Davis is fully immersed.
Lebron is out on an island somewhere, living the island life.
In order for us to believe that, you would have
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to be living and I would have to be living
in a ranchera the street sign saying welcome to Suckersville, man,
welcome to suckers.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Seriously, Lebron? Let me let you in a little secret.
Lebron was literally and figuratively part of the sizzle reel
for JJ Reddick to get him the job. In my business,
you used to have to send tapes in Now you
can just email stuff. But if you want one of
these jobs, you had to send sample of your work.
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It's how it works. And then they listen to it
and say whether they like you or not, and whether
they want to go further with the process or process.
And if you're coaching and you have no resume, what
do you think JJ Reddick? His resume was he's bad
at commentating on television. I think God he's off that.
That's a silver lining to this. I'm gonna go ahead
and a live and say he sent audio files of
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the podcast that he does with who Lebron James, come on,
that was the audition tape that was in the podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's in the podcast. Stupid and it worked. It worked.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He got the gig with no business getting the gig.
He got the gig because the Lakers are an embarrassment.
They have no leadership. And I love every second of it.
I've been waiting my entire life for this incompetence and
here it is, and I hope it never ends up.
Genie Buss owns the team forever and ever and ever.
She has no idea what she's doing. It's just wonderful.
But Reddick did say he has been excommunicated, he said
(09:07):
from the content space, so there will be no podcast.
He said he's done with podcasting for now. Check back
in about a year and a half and once he
gets whacked, the pod will return. Now, final point, so
let's take a look at the wide angle lens here,
not the micro, the macro wide angle lens. What does
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JJ Reddicks higher do for the Laker franchise? So he
My perspective is he's like an arcade game Cubert back
in the day of this thing called the Q rating,
and the Q rating is what you're judged on in
terms of popularity, right, how highly regarded you are, called
(09:51):
the Q rating, how highly regarded you are. The higher
your Q score, the better that is. Right, and Reddick
is unlikable, he's pompous, he's unreasonable, and he scores very
high on what I call the S score. The schmuck
score very high on that. The Q score not so much,
(10:15):
the Q score not so much.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
My favorite moment of this was a retick representing the Brian,
the Laker Brian. He was asked what miscommunications about himself
he's looking forward to dispelling now that he earned a
job he did not was given a job he did
not earn coaching the Lakers, and JJ mumbled and stumbled
(10:38):
and bumbled over the answer, and he then said part
of the engagement farming industry, talking about him being part
of the engagement farming industry, as he said, which is
an a whole way of saying podcasting before saying, I
really don't have a great answer for your question, because
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I don't. I really don't give an F is what
he said. But I said the word F because I
have some decorum and i'd get in trouble. Well, actually
probably wouldn't anymore if I said the f wort, but
Reddick said it. So I've come to one conclusion, and
one conclusion only the Lakers just don't give a damn.
(11:20):
They know the team's gonna suck, so they thought, well,
let's try something different.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
We'll hire Reddick.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
He can't coach, We'll put him out there and Lebron'll
be happy, and you know, they can do some great
podcasts when Lebron retires in a year and a half
or whatever, and we'll draft Bronni James and we'll be
on our way and we'll just live the heal life.
Will be like professional wrestler Joink, the clown from back
in the day. I know, if sands or butts about it,
that's just the way it's going to be. Lebron is
closing in on the Big four to oh, which is
(11:45):
okay in real life, but in athletics that's not that great.
And Anthony Davis is made of glass. Good luck, good luck,
what a mess. I'll be here to document and chronicle
all of it. It would be a miracle for Lakers
win thirty five games with JJ Reddick as the coach
next season.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
It is the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
If you'd like to comment on any of that, you
can join us here Speak Easy rules are in effect.
Also bad news and hockey. The team that should have
won did not win and turn out the lights on Edmonton,
and a team with no fan base, literally no fanbase,
team from Florida Panthers won the Cup. Bad day for hockey.
So of course Eddie, who claims to like hockey, thinks
(12:29):
it's a good day, which means it's a bad day
in terms of popularity. Now, straight ahead, the candid microphone.
Things you did not hear on the actual broadcast? What
is that all about? We'll get to it and we will.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Do it next.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Hey, what's up, everybody?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
It's me three Tome pro Bola, LeVar Carington than I
couldn't be more excited to announce a podcast called Up
on Game?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What is up on Game?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
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You can only name a show with that type of
talent on it.
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Up on Game, We're going to be sharing our real
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He's the man you talk to you when you try
and on the air. But he is more than just
a call screener. He is the liar, liar and the
menace of the Fox Sports Radio network. Gets the coop
the loop Justin Cooper and he's at uh Bronco Fan?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Who the heck is Justin Cooper.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
A Bronco fan? And I'll lie from the tirag dot
com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Mahler and.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
We thank you for hobnobbing with us, hanging out having
a fine time as we work our way through the
overnight hours. Paul says, Laker nation is all in on
Reddick to be an upgrade and get them back to greatness.
You don't even believe that you're just trying to get
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a rise at I mean, nobody believes that. Everyone knows
this is a disaster. Alf the alien Opiner says, if
you're setting the line at thirty five for the Lakers,
I'll take the over. The basketball IQ in that locker
room is too high to win only thirty five games,
So he says, who else to have page down? I
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was told by somebody to do a birthday shout out
to Justin in Cincinnati, but we we are not a
morning Zoo show and we can't do that. And and
Justin I believe is that Jehovah's witness, so he doesn't
celebrate any holidays, so we can we cannot wish him
a happy birthday. So let's say have a good day.
(15:24):
That's it, just have a good But we can't even
do that, we cannot. Yeah, mad Jack was complaining about
something involving the Dodger rain delay in that Dodger White
Sox game masshole. Mickey says, spot on, you're JJ Reddick
Mallard monologue. My son Michael a third would do a
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better job coaching the Fakers, which happens to turn eleven today.
He says, there you go, pictured on the phone. Oh,
he's on a payphone talking to Genie Boss. That's that's reasonable. Yeah,
he probably looks at a payphone like man, that's old technology.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's like a you're looking at a horse and buggy,
you look at a payphone.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Mark the walker is up with us walking around Rochester.
He says, it's Rochester, New York. He says, going out
on a limb and guessing you, Ben are not a
huge JJ Redick fan. You think you think Fudgie from Boston,
says Ben. Just think if this works out JJ Redick
with JJ Redick, you may be able to coach.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
The Clippers in a couple of years. That is true.
I'm available.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I think I'd do the Dodgers first, because they need
all the help they get.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
With that.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Dave Roberts, I liked him in that spot. Dave Roberts,
that would be the move. Let's see, Derek says, the
Lakers are back with their resilient JJ Reddick hiring to
get them back. Yeah, okay, a lot of that. I
think this must be the same person Chip in the Queues.
He's on Aisle seven right now, he says eight plus
on the male of the monologue. At least the Lakers
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weren't foolish enough to hire Doc Rivers. That's only because
the Bucks hired him first. If the Bucks had not
hired Doc Rivers, Doc Rivers would have been introduced as
coach of the Lakers. You know it, and I know it,
it would have happened. Let's say hello to Redbreast Paul,
who's in Rhode Island. Hello, Paul, ben Mella.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
How you doing, buddy? I miss you, man, Paul.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Where you've been, Paul?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Where I been? I've been, baby, I've retired, I've been baby.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I know you're retired.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You got nothing but time on your hands, and you
don't even call the show anymore. No.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I sleep a different pattern now, and that's the end
of it. I got my third grandchild, Daphne.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Congratulations, daf Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yes, that's wonderful. It takes uh, it takes a toll
when you when you become responsible to be a babysitter.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh grandpa the babysitting And what kind of babysitter are
you the either grandpa that like spoils the kids?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Are you the one that gives them tough love? Like?
What's your move there? What kind of grandpa are you?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I think I give them tough love. But it's three
years old, one and a half and now a couple
of days old. So but I figured I wanted to
call you just to uh anomally the Boston Shamrocks. We
got eighteen good luck jj uh. You are under all
toes right now, and I'll tell you you got to
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You got your hands loaded because you know you're going
to be coaching brand players and they don't take the
Woody Hayes type of coaching. And I listen, I'm gonna
be honest with you. I think the guy is fantastic
in his knowledge of the game. But you know what,
You're going to a high marketing team that's gonna be tough.
You should have went to a low market team and
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start there and then go on. But the other thing
I was going to talk to you about is this,
can we get somebody to get these young men to
go into union jobs, union trade jobs. Wait, I mean no.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I love that you went from JJ reddick.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
To here's my point. I put three I picked up
three union I picked up three union But.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But you're retired. You're not in the union anymore. You're
retired from the union.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Listen to me. I picked up three union books. I
put three kids through college, and my last one passed
the bar.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Okay, listen, listen, I never pass a bar when I
when I go into a bar, I go in. I
don't pass it. You don't bumpy name joke saying Friday.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yes, let's get these young men eighteen to twenty five.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
How about they do what they want to do, Paul.
Maybe they don't want to do that. Whatever they want
to do, it's fine. They can do whatever they want.
It's freedom, Ben Mella.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
They want play video games, smoke weed all night, they
can do that. I who cares.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
They can pop they can pop beans, smoke skunky weed,
and and and drink holy water like I do. Okay,
listen to me, what.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Do you where do you get holy water? I'd like
to have s me.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
You can you can, you can own a college seventy
thousand dollars. Oh, you want to make seventy thousand dollars
after four.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, listen, I agree with you that.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Come on, come on, what's going on in America?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
What's going on in America? That's right? I call me
like three months or something.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Listen, Can I tell you something?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
No, not really, I got to go.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Listen. This white this is this man.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
This is going in a white house. Okay, and there's rusty.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
But it's Fox Sports Radios, not Fox News Radio. But
it's it's sport. We're doing sports.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
A lot of sports guys. Listen to your show. I
lost the board, all right, I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I gotta go.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Good to have him back.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I missed that old guy. It's like our Archie bunker.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
There was a word he said at the very beginning.
I've heard that.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
I've never heard that word.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
What word did you use at the beginning, Paul? What
was the weird word you use?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I don't know all I all I know is that
I'm disgusted with the oil lists. I'm discussing disgusting with Batman.
He never handed a Stanley Cup to a Canadian team.
I'm disgusted.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Well, they got to win it to get to get that.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I think you just handed to him.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
How do you have a job for thirty years and
you don't hand a team a Stanley Cup?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Tell me it's xenophobia. He hates he hates Canadians. It's xenophobia.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
They have one.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I'm telling you the guy's gonna lose his job. I'm
telling you, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
He's there till he dies.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, I think he'll die, is Eddie?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Eddie, tell me the truth? That's it. That's that's ridiculous.
How do you have a job for thirty years and
you don't have to tick a send a cup to
a script point?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I said, you know what, I'm gonna give you a
golden ticket, but you got to.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Go and take it.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You get its great, take Eddy, what's the point of
having teams all over Canada if they can't?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
You know, you don't give him one trophy.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
It's a weird thing and you have to actually earn it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Russian over there, Yeah, what about the Russians, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Comenty Russian teams have won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Remember when Moscow won Paul about twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Moscow won the Red Wings. That's a Moscow team.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Eddie kind was.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Let me tell you, let me I don't care. I
don't know about the A in Canada. I know they
have a two tax base. But I'm telling you right now,
if if a lot of European players come over here
and take American jobs for young college, let me tell
you so ridiculous. You know what, you can't go the SAX.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
They have a hockey union. Yeah, they have a hockey union.
So those are union jobs.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No players association, that's a union job. Those young men
have union jobs. They don't have to worry about student law.
I gotta I gotta go, I gotta go. I got
I got it all right? Oh man.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Missed it. I'm being honest.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I did too.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
He's such such a unique caller. Remember we had him
and we had Joe and Rhode Island. They called up
like the same week, and then Joe Roberto correctly predicted
the bus driver that Joe and Rhode Island would stop calling.
We all kind of knew he was guys Bump and
it was amazing. It was a comet out and it's
kind of like the last two weeks. Said he driving
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the work, I have seen the space X launch here beautiful.
It's like a majestic rocket flying out the space is marvelous.
Kind of like a Bill in Venice called Hello Bill
in VENs Let me make sure I punch up the
right line?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Hello Bill and Venice? Is that Bill? Did I punch
the right line up? Let me see you know I did?
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Not?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Here? This is going to be Bill. Hello Bill.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
There's a guy legends back to back from Paul and
Rhode Island to Bill and now Bill in Venace.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
How blessed are we? Eddie?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I mean, we're living the dream here talking to Bill
in Venice. The man is my legal analyst. Hello Bill,
I don't live.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
In Venice anymore.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I live in now Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
But you're known as Bill and Venice. You're not known
as Bill in Koreatown.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I moved well, got to change his name.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Then, Ben, When do you move over to Lincoln Heights?
I used to live over there.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Your your your show? Uh scares me?
Speaker 7 (24:06):
You show you?
Speaker 8 (24:09):
Why?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Why? Why is that? Why would we frighten you?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I don't understand, cause see you all talk so fast,
and I can't keep up with what you all are saying.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
This is my nightmare.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So you would like to things down, Ben, you want
me to talk slow? Do you do you think that
would be good.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Or bad?
Speaker 7 (24:48):
And you know it's all this.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Happened my career. I'm still off gig.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
You know. People have told me that I talked to
you fast, and I just tell them you need to
listen faster.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The only reason I talked fast because I only have
four hours. By eight hours. I used to do a
six hour show, and I did a seven hour show
for a while. That talks slow, you know, seven hours,
my god, Sunday afternoon, seven hours.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Okay, okay, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But do you know you sound different? Bill? I think
you sobered up. Bill?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You sound different to me. Doesn't Bill sound a little different.
He's on the your you're walking the line here. You
keep your nose clean.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Aren't you?
Speaker 8 (25:36):
No? No, because I was listening to you when you
had Genie from.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oregon Non the great Genie in Medford. We love her.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, there's a you know, there's a a bill. There's
a there's a tribute, a memorial to Genie and Medford
or call her in l a near Dodger Stadium. Should
go over there sometimes check it out. It's at the
Swan Boat Park. There near the playground, there's a park
bench with their name on it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Okay, you don't seem impressed by that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
How many other radio shows have a tribute to a
person that used to call Who's Dad on a park bench?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You know, in the city they didn't live in.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Wow, that was back in the day, man, that was
that was like ten years ago.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Man, it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Has been that longer than that? Actually, I think it's
been longer.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
I just want to I just want to say thank
you for your show, your radio show. Man.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I'm gonna try to talk. I'm gonna give you the chance. Now, Bill,
I would like you to toss like you want to
hear Eddie. I think he's going to do a good job.
I want you to do a professional toss to Eddie
Garcia Body of the hour. Toss the toss to Eddie
to give the scores go ahead. How would that sound?
How put your spin on it? Make make it your
(27:00):
row in there?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Bill, I would say, I would say something like Boston
South Pig swung.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
Bridge, phenomenal job, phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
He said, We're the problem.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
That was scary. Yeah, Okay again, Mall's uh, Marcel's crown
as being the greatest listener to toss it to the update.
It's still in intact. He's still the king.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Blind Amid did all right too, blind the Seahawk.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
That's fair point. Did he did a good job.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
So you were talking about JJ Reddick in NBA coaching news,
but not the only coaching hier. The Cavaliers are hiring
Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson as their next head coach. The
Minnesota Timberwolves are giving you he's.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
A jack, just just a coach, just a jag.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Kenny Atkinson. He's a jack and name sounds familiar on
don't know yay.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
He coached the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
He's an assistant with the Clippers and the Warriors, and
these are He's just a generic NBA coach.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Dime a dozen a few years to get fired. Go
somewhere on.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch gets a four year extension,
so he'll be paid through the twenty twenty seven twelve.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
He'll be able to walk again once his leg is repaired.
I think so he'll be all right to amputate that.
I don't think so that would be news.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
And James Brego, who apparently was also up for the
Laker job the Pelican assistant, he is being mentioned as
a candidate for the Pistons head coaching Vegas, So.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Maybe they want to punish him.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
Well, maybe he can get a big contract and they
can fire him after one year like they did the
last guy.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
That would be awesome. Yeah, okay, is that it, Eddie?
Are you done?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
We're done?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
All right, let's have some fun fun fact.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
All right, So the Stanley Cupp, much to the sugrian
of real hockey fans back in the Sunshine State, now
three times since twenty twenty. That is the most any
state or province has won over a five year span since.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Let's see, mister hockey. Can Eddie figure this out?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Which state or province had more Stanley Cups in a
five year span than Florida?
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Dude, let's you an answer, now, go ahead. Let's let's
go with Alberta.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All right, The correct answer, Eddie is Alberta. Your face
nineteen eighty seven, buzz.
Speaker 6 (29:32):
Yourself, Lorena does yourself.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
He's not supposed to get him, right, Lorena. I agree
with Loraina.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Anyway, eighty seven to ninety Edmonton won three, some guy
named Gretzky and Calgary won one. Didn't they have the
guy with the big mustache, Colt McDonald and McDonald I
remember watching that. Yes, Sergei. Bobrovski also is bonus fun fact.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Hit it again, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Fun fact alight, bonus fun fact. Bobrovsky the first goaltender
in NHL history to win his first Stanley Cup after
playing seven hundred plus regular season games. Bobrovski, also, at
age thirty five, were older to win the Cup. He's
just the fifth to do so the past fifty five years,
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following Tim Thomas of the twenty eleven Bruins, Chris Osgood
of the eight Red Wings, Dominic Cassick the dominator in
twenty oh two with the Red Wings, and Patrick Waugh
with the Avalanche back in twenty oh one.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
So that's a bonus fun fact. And I just realized.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
When I started out in radio covering hockey, Paul Maurice
was an assistant with the Hartford Whalers, so he was
head coach of the Whalers was the head coach, so
I must have talked to.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Him, and I don't remember. I don't remember at all.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
He was just a young whipper snapper back then, so
was I Dyn.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I don't remember him at all.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Some of those coaches I remember because they were great
soundbites or they were legends of hockey. Scotty Bowman remember
him with the Red Wings and whatnot back in the day.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
For example.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mahlor Show nineteen ninety five
through ninety seven, head coach of the Hartford Whalers ras Bonanza.
They played at the Hartford Convention Center something like that. Yeah,
there's a mall right near there if I remember correctly. Anyway,
long long ago. All right, it is the Ben Maler Show.
We are going to have Mallor to the third degree.
(31:32):
That is right now warming up in the microwave. Mallor
to the third degree, should be ready to go. Time
now for the Insta Trivia. We'll go to baseball for
the Insta Trivia. Pittsburgh's Paul Skeens joined Blank as the
only major league pitchers in history to have sixty or
more strikeouts and no losses in their first eight big
league games. Again, Paul Skeins of the Bucos joined Blank
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as the only MLB pitchers in history with sixty or
more k and no losses in their first eight MLB games.
That's the insta trivia the answer.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
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Speaker 1 (32:46):
And here's the instant trivia of Mallard of a third
degree on tap.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Well dazz You see if you know the answer.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So we'll go to baseball for this one, and we
go to Pittsburgh where Paul Skeens joined Black is the
only MLB pitchers in history with sixty or more strikeouts
and no losses in their first eight big league games.
That is the tribute. What is the answer? Let's see
does anyone know the answer? And we go to the
(33:17):
Great Unwashed Pasiastoyakovich guessed by the Cowboy Killer. That's his answer.
Zane Smith from Late Night Drug Tester Old School Baseball.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Who else you have? Page now?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Fernandovilenezuela from Matthew Warrior Raider, Tom Brady Roast fan Andy
from Lino Lakes, Minnesota, going with Charlie Furbush as his answer.
John Rocker from Eloy from Compton, Patrick in San Diego,
DJ Spins going with Ted Lightner as his answer. Mike
(33:52):
Norris guessed by Greg the real estate Mogul of Baltimore.
Lonzo Ball from Shane in demol page down. Dan Herron
from Frank and Wow could find Dan Herron is a
Dodger and win the Dodger very long ago. Who else
we have? Tug McGraw from Rob in Minnesota. Rance Mullenix
(34:13):
guests by John wilbur Wood from Johnny Q.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
That's his answer.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Gopher from the Love Boat from Kenneth the Sports Lama,
Todd van Poppel tossed up by Steve the misplaced San
Diegan the Havana bananas. I think it's the Savannah bananas.
But that's from Matt Jack mister Wizard, guessed by Masshole Mickey.
That's his answer. Eke in Rosevio, Minnesota says, once a
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year I post a pick of me and the cup.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah. Why, I have photos with the cup too, I've
hung out with the cup.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
So's Eddie greatest trophy in all sports?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Oh? Definitely. I think the John R. Wooden Awards a
little better.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
But that's just me anyway, Eddie, do you have an
answer to the Insta trivia? The answer trivia again? Paul
Skeins of the Pirates joined Blanket, the only pitchers in
Big league history to have six year more strikeouts no
losses first.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Eight big league games.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Let's go with Kerrie Wood.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Kerry would no, that is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
The correct The answer is Masahiro tanaka Ya's back in
twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
He was six and zero.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Paul Schemes is four and oh here we go, here
we got smell here?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Kouba loot An NFL Insider reporter over the weekend claimed
that Aiden O'Connell quote probably has a slight edge over
Gardner Minshew in the Raiders quarterback competition. Ben, do you
think the Raiders would actually start O'Connell over Minshew?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, there's a dimension where Aidan O'Connell would start. I'm
a Minshee guy, I'm minshew mania. And it seems to
be there's a disconnect between some people with the Raiders
front office that thought Aidan O'Connell stinks. Some of the
coaching staff likes his moxie, and so that's the first thing. Secondly,
this is unlike Pittsburgh where they've already given the job
(36:02):
to Russell Wilson, Like this is actually a legitimate training
camp battle. If Gardner Minshew outplays Aidan O'Connell, he'll be
the starter for the Raiders next.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
A recent report says that the Mavericks are looking to
trade Jeremy Grant. A trade for Jeremy Grant to the
Trail Blazers. But do you think Grant would be an
impact player for Dallas?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, I don't get the Jeremy Grant thing, Like he's
the Blazers are a debacle and I know he's been
around for a few years and bounced around the NBA
and all that, but I mean, he's okay.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
You don't know you're on a bad team.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
You're on a terrible team in Portland, and you don't
know what you're gonna do in a good environment. I
know he was on the Nuggets a couple years ago
and they were pretty good. But no, your Lakers want
Jeremy Grant too. I do not expect him to be
an impact player if he is relocated, and he should
be traded and there should be a bunch of trades
because tut up. It's I know Coop's excited. He doesn't
(36:54):
like to talk about us in the air, but Coop
loves the NBA draft. He is so freaking excited about it.
He's been bouncing and off. How many mock drafts have
you done, Coope?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Like three? Yeah, it's a lot, all right.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
Next, Aaron Judge told a reporter that he has no
plans to ever participate in the Home Run Derby again,
unless it's in New York. Ben, what's your position on
Judge's attitude towards the Derby the.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Attitude of someone that got paid a lifetime contract by
the New York Yankees, and it's only worried about the
New York fans. But I was raised, and maybe I
was wrong. Maybe I'm in the wrong. I was raised.
The All Star Game is to grow the sport that
it's not about you, it's about the fans. The fans
want to see Aaron Judge, Paul Bunyan go up there
and hit moonshots in the home run derby. But he's like, Hey,
(37:37):
I got a lot of money, I don't need to
bother doing it, and I'll only do it for the
fans in New York, And so screw you. If you're
in Kansas City or Saint Louis or Seattle or wherever,
how do we do cope?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You pass the sea, just like the oilers should have
been in the wind Collar.
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