October 22, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Raiders saying they have no interest in trading Maxx Crosby, how the Raiders should handle Jakobi Meyers' disgust with the team, reports that NBC execs are unhappy with the NBA deal, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Ding, it's our Nuumber two. Our number two is ready
for you. It's piping hot out of the audio oven.
We head to Lost Wages, Nevada. Rumors flying that the
Dallas Cowboys were trying to acquire Max Crosby. Now there's
a report that says the Raiders have let Max Crosby
know they do not plan on shopping him. The indication
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is he'll stay in Vegas. Does the Raiders seal of
approval mean that Max Crosby is indeed going to stay
with the Raiders the trade deadline less than two weeks away? Also,
how should the Raiders handle Jacoby Myers, the wide receiver
who does not want to be there? And in basketball,
NBC executives going to the Wall Street Journal are said
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to be unhappy with the NBA deal. Why is this
being reported as news. I'll give you my thoughts on
that right now. It's our number two, the Max attack
or is it a Max attack? Welcome in the beginning
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is yours and we begin this hour our lead story
from Lost Wages, Nevada. As we start out with the
auctioning block. We are now less than two weeks away,
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less than two weeks away from the swap meet ending
in the NFL. The trade deadline, which for most of
my life has been nothing special, nothing special. Lately, it's
gotten a little bit better. At Devonte Adams traded last year.
That was kind of cool. Didn't work out for the
Jets team making a move with the name brand player.
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We've had some other name brand players traded in recent years. So,
with that being said, the news out of Lost Wages, Nevada,
and that is where we will begin. If you have
not heard yet, there were rumors bubbling up, bubbling up
about the Dallas Cowboys being on the prowl and they
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wanted Max Crosby. They wanted Max Crosby, and they were
pursuing Max Crosby in a trade. Well, now we have
learned that the Raiders met with Max Crosby, star edge rusher,
and they let him know, we are not shopping you, Max,
and we are not going to trade you. This comes
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from the prob the news service of the NFL state
sponsored NFL network. They report that the Raiders are not interested.
We are not interested in moving Max Crosby. He's the
top player on the Raiders, and Crosby wants to stay
as a loser apparently like lou U wants to stay
with the Raiders, enjoys not having to worry about playing
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in the playoffs and things like that. So that is
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question,
does this Raiders seal of approval and it's they rubber
stamped it the seal of approval? Does this mean that
Max Crosby is absolutely one thousand percent staying with the Raiders?
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All right, so on this one, I've got Civil War
four seasons and gift basket and we will combine all
of these things together and we with the biscuit in
the basket is what we're going to do. So number one,
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got it? Got it? So this does not change anything
unless you're naive. Well, the Raiders said they weren't going
to trade him, and if they said they're not gonna
trade him, they're not going to trade him, and all that's,
oh my god, all the ra said, and all the
story was that they leaked. The story that was leaked
was we aren't shopping Max Crosby. It's not that if
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somebody calls us up and is the Godfather offer, make
him an offer he can't refuse. Then all of a sudden,
Max Crosby is changing his laundry and going somewhere else.
So it's a nice little sentiment to send out. The
Raiders didn't say we're not trading Crosby. They're just said
we're not trading him unless somebody blows the doors off
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the building and wants him traded. The price tags pretty high.
The price tag's pretty high, and that's just a sales pitch.
It's like, well, we don't want to trade this person
at all, and so Max Crosby, if you keep it real,
that's all we do is keep it really. The guy
is the ethos of the Raiders. He just is right.
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He's got the look, he's got the attitude, he's got
the tats, the black Hole energy, all that stuff. When
you think of the Raiders, the old Raiders, back when
they were good, you gotta be old. And now I
think about that, you gotta be like an old dude
to know that the Raiders were good. How pathetic is that?
How much does that suck? That the Raiders haven't been
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relevant in almost an entire generation. They don't like the
Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys are over a generation. The Raiders aren't
far behind that rich Gannon Raider team. And then, of
course we know what happened in the Super Bowl there
didn't go so well. But back to Max Crosby. So
Crosby's got the look, he's right out of Central casting,
and he's got that whole attitude. However, if you think
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about this objectively, if the goal is to win it,
keep in mind that we like to talk about everyone
wants to win super Bowls. It's an ugly secret that
not everyone really cares. They just want to make a
lot of money, and they want to live in a
city they like living in, and they want to do
their time, get in the pension, playing in the NFL,
and just be done. So they're not really that concerned
about winning. But if let's just assume Max Crosby is
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somebody that does want to win, I need no way
I want to win. By the time the Raiders are
even remotely relevant, Max Crosby is going to be like
a Civil War relic, if you know what I mean.
He's twenty eight, I believe right now, Crosby, he's a
defensive end, not exactly a long shelf life. It's just not.
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This is not a canister of honey that has an
endless shelf life. There's no expiration date. Now that this
is bread. It's fresh bread, not slice bread. It's fresh bread.
And so that's it. And how many double digit seasons
will Max Crosby have four or five years from now
when the Raiders are actually possibly competitive? And Tom Brady,
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let's go back to Tom Brady. Tom Brady's little silver
and black side hustle. How's that working out? Burn, baby, burn,
and it's burning down right in front of our eyes.
Thirty one nothing lost. The team quit on Pete Carroll.
You don't lose thirty one nothing if you're trying. And
the Chiefs called off the dogs arf they called them off.
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Could have been worse, could have been worse. So that
is a gutlass football team. They've quit on their coach.
And that's under Tom Brady. That's under Tom Brady. Everything
Tom Brady has touched since he got to Vegas has
turned to pooh. It just hands, not pooh, Richardson, actual pooh.
From Pete Carroll the coach, the players quit on him.
Gino Smith, the quarterback who sucks and they thought maybe
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Brady thought this was twenty nineteen or something like that,
or twenty twenty two. I don't know, but it's not.
And so you look at the Raiders right now from
thirty thousand feet in the sky, and you examine what's
going on there, and Brady has pulled off a masterclass.
He doesn't own the majority of the Raiders. He's been
given the de facto GM title where he's shadow running
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the Raiders, which means if the raid are good, Brady
will get credit. If they're bad, he'll blame other people.
That spy tech guy, his buddy, blame him. But the
Raiders are a great content machine, and Brady's been able
to light the franchise on fire, said Burn, Baby Burn,
like he's got a zippo and a can of gasoline
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and just going for it. And if I'm the Lions,
let me just workshop this. If I'm the Detroit Lions
and I'm Dan Campbell and I'm all about biting kneecaps
off and all that stuff every game. You look at Crosby,
he's a Michigan guy. Didn't go to University of Michigan
in Michigan State. He went to Eastern Michigan, which is
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the ugly redheaded stepchild of the Michigan colleges. Bring him
back to Michigan. Who says, no, could you imagine putting
Max Crosby and Aiden Hutchinson together and the Lions? This
is the window of opportunity, This is it. This is
the time for the Detroit Lions. So who cares about
first round picks? I trade a first round draft pick
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and a conditional draft pick whatever to get Max Crosby.
Who wouldn't. My god, you put those guys together and
it's a championship or bust. And it's that way anyway.
If you're a team like the Patriots and you're like,
can we do a combo deal? Can we trade for
Max Crosby and get Jacoby Myers and we'll trade you
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a couple of draft picks and that'll be that, And
you know, for sure, let's do it. Let's make that happen.
And so by no means just because the Patriots said
we are not shopping Max Crosby doesn't mean he won't
be traded. And if you don't agree with me, you
might want to go back a few years ago, there
was a player named Odell Beckham, and the general manager
of the Giants, guy named Dave Gettleman, sounds like he
should be doing commercials for air conditioning. And he said,
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we're not trading Odell Beckham. And then they traded Odell
Beckham to the Cleveland Browns, and yeah, that worked out
well for everyone involved. Now, speaking of Jacoby Myers, but
turning the page, but we don't turn it that far.
We keep it close to what we were talking about.
So Jacoby Myers was asked if he still wants to
be traded. You might remember before the season, Myers let
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the world know he was not happy with the Raiders.
He didn't want to play with Gino Smith. Although he
didn't say that, the implication was that he doesn't like
playing with Gino Smith, so he wanted out. And he
was asked to follow up the trade deadlines less than
two weeks away. All right, you make the call, Jacoby Myers,
do you still want to be traded? He said, two
words for sure, for sure towards so question, how should
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the Raiders handle Jacoby Myers and his disgust with playing
in Vegas? So this is not a ballplayer that you
must have. Can we establish that? As like the opening statement, Yeah,
these a nice player. Once a player goes public like that,
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very rarely does it end nicely. Very rarely does it
end nicely. We all know that, and it sounds like
a guy that's just not engaged. You can't put the
toothpaste back in the tube, as we like to say
in these parts. You cannot do it. And so if
the Raiders, I guess they can try to coddle him,
I wouldn't recommend that they can try that. And don't
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give me the fake group Hug I don't. I don't
not need the fake group Hug I died. Don't you
just ship him out? It's that's it. It's the four seasons,
Bye bye baby from the four seasons. And Myers is
not a cornerstone. He's not. He's a good player, he's
a good receiver. He's a solid NFL receiver. He's on
a bad team. It's not needed. You just you don't.
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It's like, you know, having no money and eating rob
and noodles all the time and spending a couple grand
on golf clubs. You really don't need that. You really
don't need that, you know what I'm saying. You just don't.
So you're at a fork in the road, you're at
a turning point. And if you're the Raiders, you know,
it's like again if Jacobe Meyer's running drag roots from
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from Geno Smith. Uh, just everything's toxic. You know, a
team like the Patriots would would give you something which
is not I'm not the draft pick guy. I'm the
wrong talk show host. If you love draft picks and
you get your pants down because of draft picks, I'm
not that guy. I don't really care about Jeffies. But
if the guy's not happy, it's like, who cares? You
can can you suck with him? You can suck without him,
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So it doesn't really matter. All right, now, final point, quick, right, quick, right,
we go to the NBA. I am told by sources
close to the situation that the NBA season is underway.
The flag is up on the NBA season. I did
watch some of these games. I didn't think either one
of the games rose to the level of the Malard monologue.
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So we will tell you the thunder squeezed by the Rockets,
your classic NBA game where Houston played really well, was
in control, not in control. They had the lead for
the first like two and a half quarters, of the game,
and the Rockets worked their way back. They went to overtime,
and then they went to another overtime and Shay Jogis
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Alexander scored twenty four points in the fourth quarter and
in overtime. We are told that is the most points
by any NBA player in the fourth quarter and overtime
in a season opener this century. So it's been a minute.
It's been a minute. How did Kevin Durantu pretty quiet
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twenty three points? He only scored nine points in the
second half and in the overtimes combined. That's it nine.
So nine of his twenty three points came in the
second half, in overtime. At fourteen and a half time
finished with twenty three points. I'm told that's not good.
And the Golden State Warriors beating the bad guys. Good
job by the Warriors that beat the Lakers. Always loved
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when the Lakers lose. Good day for basketball fans there.
When the Lakers lose, Lebron didn't play. He's probably read
reading that Malcolm X book or watching The Godfather, So
he didn't play. Jimmy Butler, is there anything more entertaining
than watching a manstreet foul? Shots sixteen of sixteen from
the charity stripe for Jimmy Butler, and he got it
done from the charity strip Now Luca had forty three
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points the Lakers lose. How did DeAndre Ayton do? Mid
season form? For DeAndre? Eighton your classic stat line for
DeAndre Eaighton, the guy that's incompetent at basketball ten point
six rebounds, four turnovers, no assis and a big LOL
for DeAndre Ayton? How do you do now? The story
that did get my attention if you're watching the NBA,
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it was on NBC and also on Peacock, the debut
of the NBA agreement. Now, we were told by the
Wall Street Journal, that is a very bougie business newspaper
based in Manhattan. The Wall Street Journal tells us that
some NBC executives are sounding alarm bells, very dramatically, very
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concerned that the networks deal with the NBA. They're just
not even make money. They give this huge card too
incisee check to the the NBA and they're not going
to get good ROI return on investment. So let us
discuss the question. NBA executives said to be unhappy. This
was before they even started the Games said to be
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unhappy with the NBA deal. Why is this being reported
as news? That's my question. Why is this being reported
as news. This is spam, is what it is. It's
obviously a huge overpay. Even if you know nothing about finances,
you can't balance your own personal finances. We all know.
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We every man, woman and child knows that this is
the way it works. I remember getting educated a person
that I was friends with in the you know, many
years ago. I won't I'll date myself if I say.
When he's an executive at ABC and they had just
won the bidding for this massive NFL contract, and I say,
what's going He said, well, we're gonna lose money on it.
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We know that, but we're gonna get people to watch
our crappy sitcoms and that's what we're doing it for.
And okay, so you know going in you're gonna lose money.
He says, it's called the Lost Leader. I said, what's
a lost leader? Said, well, you lose money on this,
but you think you make it on the other side.
So NBC is paying twenty seven billion with a capital
B twenty seven billion for the privilege of losing up
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to one point four billion in the early years for
their new shiny toy, the NBA. This is clearly why
Benny Versus the Penny got canceled by NBC. They had
to pay for the NBA. I'm bitter, How dare you?
I'm bitter Benny? Spoiler alert. These things always work out
this way where you lose money on it always and again,
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they're not buying basketball. It's being sold as basketball. They're
not buying basketball. They're buying subscriptions to Peacock and it's
a gift basket of hope. They know, like all of
these businesses, the key is a subscription based business because
a certain percentage of people will pay for a service
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that is a monthly fee, and they're so bad about
their finances they will pay it until they put them
in the grave. They just forget about it. And these
businesses know a lot of the whole gym model. For examples,
you pay a monthly fee to go to the gym,
and many people don't go to the gym, but they
keep paying for the gym because they like the idea
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of going to the gym, Like, well, I don't want
to cancel the gym because maybe I'll get my fat
ass to the gym, and so you keep paying for
the gym just on the off chance you're gonna go
work out when you never work out because you're a
fat pig and you don't want to work out. And
I get it. I'm the same way. But that's how
they get you. And so they know a certain percentage
of people are gonna sign up for Peacock and they're
not gonna ever watch it doesn't matter. They're gonna get
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a monthly fee. Drip drip drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip,
drip drip, money money made. That's what they're gonna get.
So I do enjoy the very dramatic reporting, considering these
executives at NBC were the same ones that agreed to
the Giant deal in the first place. It's kind of
like Woody Johnson we talked about last time. Woody Johnson
is like ripping Justin Fields, which is correct. Woody Johnson's
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absolutely right, Justin Fields is incompetent, but he also agreed
he signed up to say, oh but okay, with that
guy's my quarterback, It's like, oh okay, Like NBC is like,
we'll give the nbal's money. Now they're like, well, I
don't like of course. The other argument is you can
always find people that don't like something. I'm sure you
could if you wanted to write this story, if you're
the Wall Street Journal, you could find a group of
NBA executives or NBC executives that love the NBA deal
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think it's great. It's a slam dunk. But that's not
as good a story. It's better to find the people
that are upset, which likely are news people because they
cut the news budget from what I read in one
of the trade papers, so they're likely upset about that.
So don't we pretend to be shocked. Oh I'm so shocked.
Oh my god. That is a sport, the NBA. And
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we'll get into it when the playoffs come around. We'll
talk about it if there's a good story. I'm not against that.
It's not my favorite thing. I'm not really excited about it.
But they've had sagging regular season television ratings for years.
That's been consistent, and so they're not gonna be able
to cover the tab on this, and NBC will pay
more for the NBA. This is amazing to me. They're
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paying more for NBA games on a per game basis
than the NFL. And NBC's got the Sunday Night, the
most important game of the weekends on Sunday Night, and
they're paying more to broadcast Oklahoma City. It's like, okay, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers,
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all right now. The NBA is where your stars rest
during the regular season. They're unengaged. They use load management
to rest during the regular season. The ratings do the
dipsy do, and the postseason stretches longer and longer and
longer and longer than a bad dinner part of your
wife took you to and you didn't want to go
to and you hate the people you're with, that kind
of thing, right in the end, In the end, the
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league cash is the check no matter what, whether you
watch or not. NBC's got to deal with the headaches
and all that. But again, they're trying to get you
to subscribe, and they know a certain percentage of people
are just going to subscribe, set it and forget it,
and pay that every month even though they don't use
the service. And I got to figure out how to
get on that hustle, Like what can I do to
get in in that hustle. Will you just blindly cut
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money every month? That's the way to do it. It is
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now back to the madness of it all? Are you
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all right? We do go back to it. Scrooge says,
if Max Crosby cared about winning, he wouldn't have signed
that contract extension back at March. However, I can see
a trade request before that last year of his contract,
and he's got to do it undercover. Those Scrooge like
these guys say a lot of them like to say
I want to win. It's like Miles Garrett in Cleveland.
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He also was talking about I want to win Super Bowls. Well,
he signed with the Browns. He don't want to win
if you just stay with the Browns, Max Crosby, as
you said the same thing. If you really are worried
about winning, you would leave the Raiders the way they
have been run. But he does not, And Mark from
Queen's Right Sin he says, almost choked. There you go,
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a fat pig going to the gym. Thank you, you're welcome. Mark, No,
I'm the same way. Listen, you sign up for the gym,
you forget about it, and you just keep paying it
every single week, every single week. Who else do we have?
Ferg dog rights and says Ben, what are the chances?
The Lakers finished the season to eighty two. They look
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terrible against Golden State The only healthy James on the
team is Bronnie. I've checked the schedule and I couldn't
find any wins. I'm yeah, that's not a bad take
for dark. No one else has that take. It does
not look like the Raiders or the Lakers rather are
going to win a game based on what I saw.
They have no momentum. They have the wrong momentum and
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John Smoltz taught me about momentum, so they haven't won
a game. Things are really bad. How soon before JJ
Reddick gets fired? Do we know when he's gonna get fired?
We don't know that. Okay, well, the Ben Malo Show
breaks news on the podcast. I did not know this.
I woke up and I had a bunch of messages
on my phone.
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Breaking news from Fox Sports.
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So when I have a bunch of messages on my phone,
I think, well, somebody either died, someone got fired. I
got fired. I said something I shouldn't have said about
some knuckleball pitchers something like that. So you know, you
wake up your little groggy like what's going on here?
And grab my phone. I see there's all these messages.
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I'm like, oh boy, what is this? What is this?
So I'm like, what did Well, it turns out, and
I didn't know this at the time. Our podcast is
the only podcast in America that has broken the story.
We would like to congratulate the Toronto Raptors on winning
Game seven of the ALCS to advance to the World Series.
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First time ever that an NBA team has made the
World Series. Normally that's reserved for baseball teams. But this
is amazing. I didn't I mean, I didn't know that happened.
I had no idea. But we're the only show. ESPN
didn't have that. CBS NBC were the only show that
reported that. It's amazing. Let's go to Coop for more
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in the story. Coop, your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
What my thoughts are that when you say you got
a bunch of messages, you had one mention from one
person and that turned into a bunch of messages.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
What about the Facebook page?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You do not believe me, no.
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Because it was like that for all of like fifty.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Minutes and then I changed. Okay, So you do you
think that I am making that up? You believe I am.
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You got a bunch of messages about it?
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Yes, yes, I do. Okay, how do you put Toronto raptors?
Though I'm trying to get it's the process called it's
called the TYPEO Ben, It's called the type Yeah, I
mean it's I got typo is like like that's not
really It's like it's a different sport. It's like apples
and like tomatoes or something like that. It's like it's
a different thing, you know.
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Yeah, it's kind of like when you say like micro orgasm,
you know, like you mean to say that.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So you're doing what about ism? No, I'm exciting.
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You asked a question and I'm explaining.
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You're doing my Okay, so you don't what about I
got you? Okay? What about is? I did take the
bake class. I understand that. Let's go to the phones.
Whoopee Pie Blair is in the Great State of Man. Hello,
whoopee pie Blair Welcome.
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What is up? Then?
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Well, I'm talking.
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It's a talk and I know that I'm not stupid,
you know, like, what's up?
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I do?
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You know?
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Sound depressed? Everything? Okay with you? What's going on with you?
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Not much? I'm getting my own internet. You know, it
doesn't it doesn't always you know, cost like.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You know, oh you have to pay for your own internet.
What happened? I thought your mom hooked you up?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Now, Usually, you know, the the house is always like,
you know, blocking stuff like you know, the stuff I
love to watch.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
You know, like porn.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Oh, we don't want to say that too lout on
a radio.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
No, we don't want to say that, but that's really
like what are they blocking?
Speaker 6 (28:36):
They're yeah, they are blocking that stuff. Okay, that's we
don't want to say that. We will not say that
talking about that because you know, I'm trying to be
a sports podcast kind.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Of Oh how's that going? How's that going? How's the
podcast going?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
So what I'm just trying to say is, uh, it's
going good. I need to practice a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
More than okay.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
And I was going to say, what do you think
about the Rams? They're not doing too bad. But the Patriots, man,
they made it. They made a great, great turnaround this year.
They're looking really good. They're they're telling me that they're
going to be a super Bowl contender. I think they are.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I think that's an example of you as a hot
take guy. Yeah, they are going to the Blair, the
Blair and Main podcast.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeah they are. I truly think they could make it
to the Super Bowl. What scaries If they do well,
the Eagles could knock them out of the playoffs because
how good the Eagles are and their quarterback Jalen Hurts
ye is too inspictably good. And that's what's scary is.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You will get j Can I give you some Can
I give you some professional Yeah feedback?
Speaker 6 (29:53):
And because you've been around a long.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, I think your wheelhouse is not Sporty Blair. You're
the house is Goofy Blair. People love Goofy Blair, like
guys like Spaccoli and the different characters that love the
show and love you. They like the Goofy Blair where
you break down the absurd. That's what they want from you.
They don't want anybody can give a take on the
(30:16):
Patriots or the Rams that standard. Any any meatthead can
give a take on that. But the way you are
able to break things down, Blair, You're the only guy
I know that shaved off his eyebrows because somebody on
TikTok told you to do that. No one else I
know does that. You did that. That's your Goofy Blair.
You got to lean into that, Blair.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
You know what I'm saying, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I think there's a there's a market for you know,
you know, don't be you don't be something you're not.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Okay, So Ben, my my people that are like on
my team, like my my job coach and all them,
my whole team, they want me just to stick around
talking about like sports and the local.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, they're not broadcast people. They don't know you. They
don't know you the way we know you. We know
all all sides of Blair. We know Goofy Blair, we
know fun Blair, we know sporty Blair, we know sad Blair,
we know porn Blair. We remember when you used to
go down to the library to look at porn. I
remember that? Does everyone else? We all remember that? That's awkward?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Yeah okay, yeah, I know. Lorena She's like, we don't
want that on. We don't want that being put on podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
No, No, we don't want that at all.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yeah, you don't. We don't want that on there. No,
we don't want to put some bad stuff on on
the air wave.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah all right, well listen, Blair. That's my advice. And
have you how many podcasts? How many podcasts have you done?
Speaker 6 (31:35):
I'm just doing practice and they're not good enough yet.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Well, listen wars and you throw it. You throw it
out there people, You throw it out there. People send
you questions. You can answer that and have some fun
and have a good time. Just have fun.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
You're not gonna be doing network.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You're not doing network podcasts. A podcasts that supposed to
be perfect. I know, but I futs around on my
weekend podcast. I did ten minutes. So did I do that?
I went to, uh, what was itlast week? That's just
something stupid happened. I did ten minutes on I forget
what it was. But anyway, whatever, I gotta go Blair,
but thank you all. I gotta go away. There's a
Blair in Mane. Let's say hello to Neil in Indiana. Hello, Neil, Welcome,
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come Neil going once, going twice? Oh no, it must
be gone. Man, he was on hold for a while.
Let's go to DJ Mike. Who's next? It is? The
Ben Maler Show on Fox mentioned a fireable offense and
the news did come out here the New York Giants.
That is a football team, a bad one. They have
(32:33):
released they have fired their kicker, that Jude mcac Mee
has his name something close to that. I butchered it.
But they've fired him, the guy that missed the two
extra points against the Broncos. So he is gone and
they have decided to I believe Graham Gano is going
(32:54):
to be the kick. I believe I read that anyway.
DJ Mike, what's going on? DJ Mike?
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Yeah, good morning. And you know what about two forty
here Central Time on a Wednesday, and the Raiders still
have three first downs from Sundays. Hey, listen, if people
like Max Crosby and Miles Garrett they want to play
on last place teams that have no direction, no chances
of winning a title anytime soon, some of these players
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then they prefer just to be paid. They want the money.
They don't care about the jewelry that comes along with
the world title. There's countless baseball players, golfers, I mean,
you name the sport, there is a percentage of players
that don't care about winning a title. They may say
that in the public, but they really don't. They just
want that check. And you know, if you know Max
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Crosby and Mahomes, they have this extra competitive spirit where
outside of the lines they do charity work together on
the you know, on the outside of football, but once
they get in on the field, you know, they give
each other one hundred percent, which is awesome. His career
is just dying in Las Vegas. I think Miles Garrett
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is dying in Cleveland. People like that that we know
could be Hall of famers.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
He's starting to get in the Hall of Fame. It's
the championships, a team accomplishment. I think the term you're
looking for, the clinical term DJ Mike is a floater.
It's guys that just get into the building, just coast along,
they float along. They're floaters. You don't want too many floaters. Yeah,
that's yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
And one more thing, I'll let you go. My Chiefs
are three and one since my son started listening to
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
That's right, baby, the Power of the Overnight Show, which
is a podcast for your son. There and DJ Mike.
Look at that, the good vibration. I think it's related
to your son listening to the podcast. I think that's
very similar to those two things. There is a correlation
between these two things. So now your son cannot stop
listening to the podcast, otherwise the Chiefs will start losing.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
That's right. Yeah, that's right. They have nothing to do
with for she Rice and Worthy coming back and you
mahomes playing it in nothing.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
No, no, it's the karma exact power.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Yes of my sixteen year old listening to an overnight podcast.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
That is right. Yes, that's right, Fay. It's it's father's
son bonding over a podcast, is what it is. Lorena, Oh, Lorena,
you like them younger? All right, calm down, come back,
thank you? All right, go away, there's a there's DJ
Mike no coming alright, it is okay, going there.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
All right.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
It is my cougar drop.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Hello, the cougars are coming. The cougars are coming. The
cougars are coming. Great commercial before that kid was even alive.
That commercial is on Fox Sports Radio time now though.
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the question and a loss. Luka Donzig joined Kobe Bryant
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and Blank as the only Lakers to score forty plus
points in a season. Over that is the question. What
is the answer? Bobby and Florida is going with a
Naya Taylor Joy as his answer, I know what you're
up to? Who else do we have? Robinson Cano, don't
you know? From Late Night drug Sester who's forty three
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and when he played for the Mariners he played like
he was forty three. Scrooge it's a joke. Wayne Gretzky
from Scrooge. That's his answer. Michael Thompson from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota,
El Toro Loco from the Real Martin at the Airport
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Cosby and his put from Rob James Worthy from Robin, Minnesota,
Paula Abdul the Laker Girl from BP, Magic Johnson from
Andy Inspector Gadget from JT. The Wingman in Knoxville. What
say you the right up? I'm going with Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
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All right, h No, it's the great Elgin Baylor, Elgin
Baylor back in nineteen fifty nine, Elgin Kobe and Luca Donzig.
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It's maller.
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To the third degree? This is one big fan gets
quick cool.
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It was reported on Monday that there will be no change,
that no changes are expected. Quote at this time for
the Miami Dolphins. Now before the season, owner Stephen Ross
intended to give Mike McDaniel the full year before deciding
on the future.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Then do you think McDaniel will get that whole year?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Uh No, And no changes are expected. To coop until
they make changes, they always say, well, no, it's like trades. No,
we don't expect to make a trade until you make
a trade. Trades are always unexpected. Firinges are ut expected.
The Dolphins sucked to the only reason McDaniel's there is
to make two a great tu Us had six interceptions
the last two games. If he throws three interceptions against
Atlanta this weekend, it's over next.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
It was revealed this week that Shoheo Tony is an
MVP trophy the NLCSMB. He's on display in the middle
of the Dodgers clubhouse with a team effort sign covering
up the most Valuable Player in That's cute. Yes, Ben,
do you think Otani should have been awarded that honor?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
No, he's important for baseball's marketing. He had one amazing game.
I would not have given him the MVP, but they
felt they had no choice.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Next, Jimbo Fisher spoke Monday and said that he wants
to get back into coaching, but that he wants to
coach somewhere. Quote that's committed to winning, Ben, Where do
you see Jimbo ending up?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I see him ending up in Key West, or Owahu
or Kawaii. I mean, what do you do? He's won
the lottery coup What are you doing? He's still's money
in Texas A and m's paying enjoy life? How do
we do cool? Do you pass away?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I Wanny Dog?
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I Wonny Dog
Ding, it's our Nuumber two. Our number two is ready
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We head to Lost Wages, Nevada. Rumors flying that the
Dallas Cowboys were trying to acquire Max Crosby. Now there's
a report that says the Raiders have let Max Crosby
know they do not plan on shopping him. The indication
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is he'll stay in Vegas. Does the Raiders seal of
approval mean that Max Crosby is indeed going to stay
with the Raiders the trade deadline less than two weeks away? Also,
how should the Raiders handle Jacoby Myers, the wide receiver
who does not want to be there? And in basketball,
NBC executives going to the Wall Street Journal are said
(00:42):
to be unhappy with the NBA deal. Why is this
being reported as news. I'll give you my thoughts on
that right now. It's our number two, the Max attack
or is it a Max attack? Welcome in the beginning
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is yours and we begin this hour our lead story
from Lost Wages, Nevada. As we start out with the
auctioning block. We are now less than two weeks away,
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less than two weeks away from the swap meet ending
in the NFL. The trade deadline, which for most of
my life has been nothing special, nothing special. Lately, it's
gotten a little bit better. At Devonte Adams traded last year.
That was kind of cool. Didn't work out for the
Jets team making a move with the name brand player.
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We've had some other name brand players traded in recent years. So,
with that being said, the news out of Lost Wages, Nevada,
and that is where we will begin. If you have
not heard yet, there were rumors bubbling up, bubbling up
about the Dallas Cowboys being on the prowl and they
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wanted Max Crosby. They wanted Max Crosby, and they were
pursuing Max Crosby in a trade. Well, now we have
learned that the Raiders met with Max Crosby, star edge rusher,
and they let him know, we are not shopping you, Max,
and we are not going to trade you. This comes
(03:42):
from the prob the news service of the NFL state
sponsored NFL network. They report that the Raiders are not interested.
We are not interested in moving Max Crosby. He's the
top player on the Raiders, and Crosby wants to stay
as a loser apparently like lou U wants to stay
with the Raiders, enjoys not having to worry about playing
(04:02):
in the playoffs and things like that. So that is
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question,
does this Raiders seal of approval and it's they rubber
stamped it the seal of approval? Does this mean that
Max Crosby is absolutely one thousand percent staying with the Raiders?
(04:24):
All right, so on this one, I've got Civil War
four seasons and gift basket and we will combine all
of these things together and we with the biscuit in
the basket is what we're going to do. So number one,
(04:45):
got it? Got it? So this does not change anything
unless you're naive. Well, the Raiders said they weren't going
to trade him, and if they said they're not gonna
trade him, they're not going to trade him, and all that's,
oh my god, all the ra said, and all the
story was that they leaked. The story that was leaked
was we aren't shopping Max Crosby. It's not that if
(05:10):
somebody calls us up and is the Godfather offer, make
him an offer he can't refuse. Then all of a sudden,
Max Crosby is changing his laundry and going somewhere else.
So it's a nice little sentiment to send out. The
Raiders didn't say we're not trading Crosby. They're just said
we're not trading him unless somebody blows the doors off
(05:32):
the building and wants him traded. The price tags pretty high.
The price tag's pretty high, and that's just a sales pitch.
It's like, well, we don't want to trade this person
at all, and so Max Crosby, if you keep it real,
that's all we do is keep it really. The guy
is the ethos of the Raiders. He just is right.
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He's got the look, he's got the attitude, he's got
the tats, the black Hole energy, all that stuff. When
you think of the Raiders, the old Raiders, back when
they were good, you gotta be old. And now I
think about that, you gotta be like an old dude
to know that the Raiders were good. How pathetic is that?
How much does that suck? That the Raiders haven't been
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relevant in almost an entire generation. They don't like the
Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys are over a generation. The Raiders aren't
far behind that rich Gannon Raider team. And then, of
course we know what happened in the Super Bowl there
didn't go so well. But back to Max Crosby. So
Crosby's got the look, he's right out of Central casting,
and he's got that whole attitude. However, if you think
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about this objectively, if the goal is to win it,
keep in mind that we like to talk about everyone
wants to win super Bowls. It's an ugly secret that
not everyone really cares. They just want to make a
lot of money, and they want to live in a
city they like living in, and they want to do
their time, get in the pension, playing in the NFL,
and just be done. So they're not really that concerned
about winning. But if let's just assume Max Crosby is
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somebody that does want to win, I need no way
I want to win. By the time the Raiders are
even remotely relevant, Max Crosby is going to be like
a Civil War relic, if you know what I mean.
He's twenty eight, I believe right now, Crosby, he's a
defensive end, not exactly a long shelf life. It's just not.
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This is not a canister of honey that has an
endless shelf life. There's no expiration date. Now that this
is bread. It's fresh bread, not slice bread. It's fresh bread.
And so that's it. And how many double digit seasons
will Max Crosby have four or five years from now
when the Raiders are actually possibly competitive? And Tom Brady,
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let's go back to Tom Brady. Tom Brady's little silver
and black side hustle. How's that working out? Burn, baby, burn,
and it's burning down right in front of our eyes.
Thirty one nothing lost. The team quit on Pete Carroll.
You don't lose thirty one nothing if you're trying. And
the Chiefs called off the dogs arf they called them off.
(08:12):
Could have been worse, could have been worse. So that
is a gutlass football team. They've quit on their coach.
And that's under Tom Brady. That's under Tom Brady. Everything
Tom Brady has touched since he got to Vegas has
turned to pooh. It just hands, not pooh, Richardson, actual pooh.
From Pete Carroll the coach, the players quit on him.
Gino Smith, the quarterback who sucks and they thought maybe
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Brady thought this was twenty nineteen or something like that,
or twenty twenty two. I don't know, but it's not.
And so you look at the Raiders right now from
thirty thousand feet in the sky, and you examine what's
going on there, and Brady has pulled off a masterclass.
He doesn't own the majority of the Raiders. He's been
given the de facto GM title where he's shadow running
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the Raiders, which means if the raid are good, Brady
will get credit. If they're bad, he'll blame other people.
That spy tech guy, his buddy, blame him. But the
Raiders are a great content machine, and Brady's been able
to light the franchise on fire, said Burn, Baby Burn,
like he's got a zippo and a can of gasoline
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and just going for it. And if I'm the Lions,
let me just workshop this. If I'm the Detroit Lions
and I'm Dan Campbell and I'm all about biting kneecaps
off and all that stuff every game. You look at Crosby,
he's a Michigan guy. Didn't go to University of Michigan
in Michigan State. He went to Eastern Michigan, which is
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the ugly redheaded stepchild of the Michigan colleges. Bring him
back to Michigan. Who says, no, could you imagine putting
Max Crosby and Aiden Hutchinson together and the Lions? This
is the window of opportunity, This is it. This is
the time for the Detroit Lions. So who cares about
first round picks? I trade a first round draft pick
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and a conditional draft pick whatever to get Max Crosby.
Who wouldn't. My god, you put those guys together and
it's a championship or bust. And it's that way anyway.
If you're a team like the Patriots and you're like,
can we do a combo deal? Can we trade for
Max Crosby and get Jacoby Myers and we'll trade you
(10:25):
a couple of draft picks and that'll be that, And
you know, for sure, let's do it. Let's make that happen.
And so by no means just because the Patriots said
we are not shopping Max Crosby doesn't mean he won't
be traded. And if you don't agree with me, you
might want to go back a few years ago, there
was a player named Odell Beckham, and the general manager
of the Giants, guy named Dave Gettleman, sounds like he
should be doing commercials for air conditioning. And he said,
(10:47):
we're not trading Odell Beckham. And then they traded Odell
Beckham to the Cleveland Browns, and yeah, that worked out
well for everyone involved. Now, speaking of Jacoby Myers, but
turning the page, but we don't turn it that far.
We keep it close to what we were talking about.
So Jacoby Myers was asked if he still wants to
be traded. You might remember before the season, Myers let
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the world know he was not happy with the Raiders.
He didn't want to play with Gino Smith. Although he
didn't say that, the implication was that he doesn't like
playing with Gino Smith, so he wanted out. And he
was asked to follow up the trade deadlines less than
two weeks away. All right, you make the call, Jacoby Myers,
do you still want to be traded? He said, two
words for sure, for sure towards so question, how should
(11:35):
the Raiders handle Jacoby Myers and his disgust with playing
in Vegas? So this is not a ballplayer that you
must have. Can we establish that? As like the opening statement, Yeah,
these a nice player. Once a player goes public like that,
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very rarely does it end nicely. Very rarely does it
end nicely. We all know that, and it sounds like
a guy that's just not engaged. You can't put the
toothpaste back in the tube, as we like to say
in these parts. You cannot do it. And so if
the Raiders, I guess they can try to coddle him,
I wouldn't recommend that they can try that. And don't
(12:18):
give me the fake group Hug I don't. I don't
not need the fake group Hug I died. Don't you
just ship him out? It's that's it. It's the four seasons,
Bye bye baby from the four seasons. And Myers is
not a cornerstone. He's not. He's a good player, he's
a good receiver. He's a solid NFL receiver. He's on
a bad team. It's not needed. You just you don't.
(12:42):
It's like, you know, having no money and eating rob
and noodles all the time and spending a couple grand
on golf clubs. You really don't need that. You really
don't need that, you know what I'm saying. You just don't.
So you're at a fork in the road, you're at
a turning point. And if you're the Raiders, you know,
it's like again if Jacobe Meyer's running drag roots from
(13:03):
from Geno Smith. Uh, just everything's toxic. You know, a
team like the Patriots would would give you something which
is not I'm not the draft pick guy. I'm the
wrong talk show host. If you love draft picks and
you get your pants down because of draft picks, I'm
not that guy. I don't really care about Jeffies. But
if the guy's not happy, it's like, who cares? You
can can you suck with him? You can suck without him,
(13:24):
So it doesn't really matter. All right, now, final point, quick, right, quick, right,
we go to the NBA. I am told by sources
close to the situation that the NBA season is underway.
The flag is up on the NBA season. I did
watch some of these games. I didn't think either one
of the games rose to the level of the Malard monologue.
(13:45):
So we will tell you the thunder squeezed by the Rockets,
your classic NBA game where Houston played really well, was
in control, not in control. They had the lead for
the first like two and a half quarters, of the game,
and the Rockets worked their way back. They went to overtime,
and then they went to another overtime and Shay Jogis
(14:06):
Alexander scored twenty four points in the fourth quarter and
in overtime. We are told that is the most points
by any NBA player in the fourth quarter and overtime
in a season opener this century. So it's been a minute.
It's been a minute. How did Kevin Durantu pretty quiet
(14:28):
twenty three points? He only scored nine points in the
second half and in the overtimes combined. That's it nine.
So nine of his twenty three points came in the
second half, in overtime. At fourteen and a half time
finished with twenty three points. I'm told that's not good.
And the Golden State Warriors beating the bad guys. Good
job by the Warriors that beat the Lakers. Always loved
(14:49):
when the Lakers lose. Good day for basketball fans there.
When the Lakers lose, Lebron didn't play. He's probably read
reading that Malcolm X book or watching The Godfather, So
he didn't play. Jimmy Butler, is there anything more entertaining
than watching a manstreet foul? Shots sixteen of sixteen from
the charity stripe for Jimmy Butler, and he got it
done from the charity strip Now Luca had forty three
(15:11):
points the Lakers lose. How did DeAndre Ayton do? Mid
season form? For DeAndre? Eighton your classic stat line for
DeAndre Eaighton, the guy that's incompetent at basketball ten point
six rebounds, four turnovers, no assis and a big LOL
for DeAndre Ayton? How do you do now? The story
that did get my attention if you're watching the NBA,
(15:33):
it was on NBC and also on Peacock, the debut
of the NBA agreement. Now, we were told by the
Wall Street Journal, that is a very bougie business newspaper
based in Manhattan. The Wall Street Journal tells us that
some NBC executives are sounding alarm bells, very dramatically, very
(15:56):
concerned that the networks deal with the NBA. They're just
not even make money. They give this huge card too
incisee check to the the NBA and they're not going
to get good ROI return on investment. So let us
discuss the question. NBA executives said to be unhappy. This
was before they even started the Games said to be
(16:19):
unhappy with the NBA deal. Why is this being reported
as news? That's my question. Why is this being reported
as news. This is spam, is what it is. It's
obviously a huge overpay. Even if you know nothing about finances,
you can't balance your own personal finances. We all know.
(16:39):
We every man, woman and child knows that this is
the way it works. I remember getting educated a person
that I was friends with in the you know, many
years ago. I won't I'll date myself if I say.
When he's an executive at ABC and they had just
won the bidding for this massive NFL contract, and I say,
what's going He said, well, we're gonna lose money on it.
(17:01):
We know that, but we're gonna get people to watch
our crappy sitcoms and that's what we're doing it for.
And okay, so you know going in you're gonna lose money.
He says, it's called the Lost Leader. I said, what's
a lost leader? Said, well, you lose money on this,
but you think you make it on the other side.
So NBC is paying twenty seven billion with a capital
B twenty seven billion for the privilege of losing up
(17:23):
to one point four billion in the early years for
their new shiny toy, the NBA. This is clearly why
Benny Versus the Penny got canceled by NBC. They had
to pay for the NBA. I'm bitter, How dare you?
I'm bitter Benny? Spoiler alert. These things always work out
this way where you lose money on it always and again,
(17:44):
they're not buying basketball. It's being sold as basketball. They're
not buying basketball. They're buying subscriptions to Peacock and it's
a gift basket of hope. They know, like all of
these businesses, the key is a subscription based business because
a certain percentage of people will pay for a service
(18:06):
that is a monthly fee, and they're so bad about
their finances they will pay it until they put them
in the grave. They just forget about it. And these
businesses know a lot of the whole gym model. For examples,
you pay a monthly fee to go to the gym,
and many people don't go to the gym, but they
keep paying for the gym because they like the idea
(18:27):
of going to the gym, Like, well, I don't want
to cancel the gym because maybe I'll get my fat
ass to the gym, and so you keep paying for
the gym just on the off chance you're gonna go
work out when you never work out because you're a
fat pig and you don't want to work out. And
I get it. I'm the same way. But that's how
they get you. And so they know a certain percentage
of people are gonna sign up for Peacock and they're
not gonna ever watch it doesn't matter. They're gonna get
(18:50):
a monthly fee. Drip drip drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip,
drip drip, money money made. That's what they're gonna get.
So I do enjoy the very dramatic reporting, considering these
executives at NBC were the same ones that agreed to
the Giant deal in the first place. It's kind of
like Woody Johnson we talked about last time. Woody Johnson
is like ripping Justin Fields, which is correct. Woody Johnson's
(19:12):
absolutely right, Justin Fields is incompetent, but he also agreed
he signed up to say, oh but okay, with that
guy's my quarterback, It's like, oh okay, Like NBC is like,
we'll give the nbal's money. Now they're like, well, I
don't like of course. The other argument is you can
always find people that don't like something. I'm sure you
could if you wanted to write this story, if you're
the Wall Street Journal, you could find a group of
NBA executives or NBC executives that love the NBA deal
(19:33):
think it's great. It's a slam dunk. But that's not
as good a story. It's better to find the people
that are upset, which likely are news people because they
cut the news budget from what I read in one
of the trade papers, so they're likely upset about that.
So don't we pretend to be shocked. Oh I'm so shocked.
Oh my god. That is a sport, the NBA. And
(19:54):
we'll get into it when the playoffs come around. We'll
talk about it if there's a good story. I'm not against that.
It's not my favorite thing. I'm not really excited about it.
But they've had sagging regular season television ratings for years.
That's been consistent, and so they're not gonna be able
to cover the tab on this, and NBC will pay
more for the NBA. This is amazing to me. They're
(20:14):
paying more for NBA games on a per game basis
than the NFL. And NBC's got the Sunday Night, the
most important game of the weekends on Sunday Night, and
they're paying more to broadcast Oklahoma City. It's like, okay, bonkers, bonkers, bonkers,
(20:34):
all right now. The NBA is where your stars rest
during the regular season. They're unengaged. They use load management
to rest during the regular season. The ratings do the
dipsy do, and the postseason stretches longer and longer and
longer and longer than a bad dinner part of your
wife took you to and you didn't want to go
to and you hate the people you're with, that kind
of thing, right in the end, In the end, the
(20:58):
league cash is the check no matter what, whether you
watch or not. NBC's got to deal with the headaches
and all that. But again, they're trying to get you
to subscribe, and they know a certain percentage of people
are just going to subscribe, set it and forget it,
and pay that every month even though they don't use
the service. And I got to figure out how to
get on that hustle, Like what can I do to
get in in that hustle. Will you just blindly cut
(21:19):
money every month? That's the way to do it. It is
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now back to the madness of it all? Are you
(23:45):
all right? We do go back to it. Scrooge says,
if Max Crosby cared about winning, he wouldn't have signed
that contract extension back at March. However, I can see
a trade request before that last year of his contract,
and he's got to do it undercover. Those Scrooge like
these guys say a lot of them like to say
I want to win. It's like Miles Garrett in Cleveland.
(24:08):
He also was talking about I want to win Super Bowls. Well,
he signed with the Browns. He don't want to win
if you just stay with the Browns, Max Crosby, as
you said the same thing. If you really are worried
about winning, you would leave the Raiders the way they
have been run. But he does not, And Mark from
Queen's Right Sin he says, almost choked. There you go,
(24:28):
a fat pig going to the gym. Thank you, you're welcome. Mark, No,
I'm the same way. Listen, you sign up for the gym,
you forget about it, and you just keep paying it
every single week, every single week. Who else do we have?
Ferg dog rights and says Ben, what are the chances?
The Lakers finished the season to eighty two. They look
(24:50):
terrible against Golden State The only healthy James on the
team is Bronnie. I've checked the schedule and I couldn't
find any wins. I'm yeah, that's not a bad take
for dark. No one else has that take. It does
not look like the Raiders or the Lakers rather are
going to win a game based on what I saw.
They have no momentum. They have the wrong momentum and
(25:12):
John Smoltz taught me about momentum, so they haven't won
a game. Things are really bad. How soon before JJ
Reddick gets fired? Do we know when he's gonna get fired?
We don't know that. Okay, well, the Ben Malo Show
breaks news on the podcast. I did not know this.
I woke up and I had a bunch of messages
on my phone.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
So when I have a bunch of messages on my phone,
I think, well, somebody either died, someone got fired. I
got fired. I said something I shouldn't have said about
some knuckleball pitchers something like that. So you know, you
wake up your little groggy like what's going on here?
And grab my phone. I see there's all these messages.
(25:56):
I'm like, oh boy, what is this? What is this?
So I'm like, what did Well, it turns out, and
I didn't know this at the time. Our podcast is
the only podcast in America that has broken the story.
We would like to congratulate the Toronto Raptors on winning
Game seven of the ALCS to advance to the World Series.
(26:17):
First time ever that an NBA team has made the
World Series. Normally that's reserved for baseball teams. But this
is amazing. I didn't I mean, I didn't know that happened.
I had no idea. But we're the only show. ESPN
didn't have that. CBS NBC were the only show that
reported that. It's amazing. Let's go to Coop for more
(26:40):
in the story. Coop, your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
What my thoughts are that when you say you got
a bunch of messages, you had one mention from one
person and that turned into a bunch of messages.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
What about the Facebook page?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I don't believe you.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You do not believe me, no.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Because it was like that for all of like fifty.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Minutes and then I changed. Okay, So you do you
think that I am making that up? You believe I am.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
You got a bunch of messages about it?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yes, yes, I do. Okay, how do you put Toronto raptors?
Though I'm trying to get it's the process called it's
called the TYPEO Ben, It's called the type Yeah, I
mean it's I got typo is like like that's not
really It's like it's a different sport. It's like apples
and like tomatoes or something like that. It's like it's
a different thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, it's kind of like when you say like micro orgasm,
you know, like you mean to say that.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So you're doing what about ism? No, I'm exciting.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
You asked a question and I'm explaining.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
You're doing my Okay, so you don't what about I
got you? Okay? What about is? I did take the
bake class. I understand that. Let's go to the phones.
Whoopee Pie Blair is in the Great State of Man. Hello,
whoopee pie Blair Welcome.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
What is up? Then?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Well, I'm talking.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
It's a talk and I know that I'm not stupid,
you know, like, what's up?
Speaker 7 (27:59):
I do?
Speaker 6 (28:00):
You know?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Sound depressed? Everything? Okay with you? What's going on with you?
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Not much? I'm getting my own internet. You know, it
doesn't it doesn't always you know, cost like.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
You know, oh you have to pay for your own internet.
What happened? I thought your mom hooked you up?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Now, Usually, you know, the the house is always like,
you know, blocking stuff like you know, the stuff I
love to watch.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
You know, like porn.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Oh, we don't want to say that too lout on
a radio.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
No, we don't want to say that, but that's really
like what are they blocking?
Speaker 6 (28:36):
They're yeah, they are blocking that stuff. Okay, that's we
don't want to say that. We will not say that
talking about that because you know, I'm trying to be
a sports podcast kind.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Of Oh how's that going? How's that going? How's the
podcast going?
Speaker 6 (28:52):
So what I'm just trying to say is, uh, it's
going good. I need to practice a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
More than okay.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
And I was going to say, what do you think
about the Rams? They're not doing too bad. But the Patriots, man,
they made it. They made a great, great turnaround this year.
They're looking really good. They're they're telling me that they're
going to be a super Bowl contender. I think they are.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I think that's an example of you as a hot
take guy. Yeah, they are going to the Blair, the
Blair and Main podcast.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Yeah they are. I truly think they could make it
to the Super Bowl. What scaries If they do well,
the Eagles could knock them out of the playoffs because
how good the Eagles are and their quarterback Jalen Hurts
ye is too inspictably good. And that's what's scary is.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You will get j Can I give you some Can
I give you some professional Yeah feedback?
Speaker 6 (29:53):
And because you've been around a long.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, I think your wheelhouse is not Sporty Blair. You're
the house is Goofy Blair. People love Goofy Blair, like
guys like Spaccoli and the different characters that love the
show and love you. They like the Goofy Blair where
you break down the absurd. That's what they want from you.
They don't want anybody can give a take on the
(30:16):
Patriots or the Rams that standard. Any any meatthead can
give a take on that. But the way you are
able to break things down, Blair, You're the only guy
I know that shaved off his eyebrows because somebody on
TikTok told you to do that. No one else I
know does that. You did that. That's your Goofy Blair.
You got to lean into that, Blair.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
You know what I'm saying, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I think there's a there's a market for you know,
you know, don't be you don't be something you're not.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Okay, So Ben, my my people that are like on
my team, like my my job coach and all them,
my whole team, they want me just to stick around
talking about like sports and the local.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, they're not broadcast people. They don't know you. They
don't know you the way we know you. We know
all all sides of Blair. We know Goofy Blair, we
know fun Blair, we know sporty Blair, we know sad Blair,
we know porn Blair. We remember when you used to
go down to the library to look at porn. I
remember that? Does everyone else? We all remember that? That's awkward?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Yeah okay, yeah, I know. Lorena She's like, we don't
want that on. We don't want that being put on podcast.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
No, No, we don't want that at all.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yeah, you don't. We don't want that on there. No,
we don't want to put some bad stuff on on
the air wave.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah all right, well listen, Blair. That's my advice. And
have you how many podcasts? How many podcasts have you done?
Speaker 6 (31:35):
I'm just doing practice and they're not good enough yet.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Well, listen wars and you throw it. You throw it
out there people, You throw it out there. People send
you questions. You can answer that and have some fun
and have a good time. Just have fun.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
You're not gonna be doing network.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You're not doing network podcasts. A podcasts that supposed to
be perfect. I know, but I futs around on my
weekend podcast. I did ten minutes. So did I do that?
I went to, uh, what was itlast week? That's just
something stupid happened. I did ten minutes on I forget
what it was. But anyway, whatever, I gotta go Blair,
but thank you all. I gotta go away. There's a
Blair in Mane. Let's say hello to Neil in Indiana. Hello, Neil, Welcome,
(32:10):
come Neil going once, going twice? Oh no, it must
be gone. Man, he was on hold for a while.
Let's go to DJ Mike. Who's next? It is? The
Ben Maler Show on Fox mentioned a fireable offense and
the news did come out here the New York Giants.
That is a football team, a bad one. They have
(32:33):
released they have fired their kicker, that Jude mcac Mee
has his name something close to that. I butchered it.
But they've fired him, the guy that missed the two
extra points against the Broncos. So he is gone and
they have decided to I believe Graham Gano is going
(32:54):
to be the kick. I believe I read that anyway.
DJ Mike, what's going on? DJ Mike?
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Yeah, good morning. And you know what about two forty
here Central Time on a Wednesday, and the Raiders still
have three first downs from Sundays. Hey, listen, if people
like Max Crosby and Miles Garrett they want to play
on last place teams that have no direction, no chances
of winning a title anytime soon, some of these players
(33:19):
then they prefer just to be paid. They want the money.
They don't care about the jewelry that comes along with
the world title. There's countless baseball players, golfers, I mean,
you name the sport, there is a percentage of players
that don't care about winning a title. They may say
that in the public, but they really don't. They just
want that check. And you know, if you know Max
(33:42):
Crosby and Mahomes, they have this extra competitive spirit where
outside of the lines they do charity work together on
the you know, on the outside of football, but once
they get in on the field, you know, they give
each other one hundred percent, which is awesome. His career
is just dying in Las Vegas. I think Miles Garrett
(34:04):
is dying in Cleveland. People like that that we know
could be Hall of famers.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
He's starting to get in the Hall of Fame. It's
the championships, a team accomplishment. I think the term you're
looking for, the clinical term DJ Mike is a floater.
It's guys that just get into the building, just coast along,
they float along. They're floaters. You don't want too many floaters. Yeah,
that's yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
And one more thing, I'll let you go. My Chiefs
are three and one since my son started listening to
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
That's right, baby, the Power of the Overnight Show, which
is a podcast for your son. There and DJ Mike.
Look at that, the good vibration. I think it's related
to your son listening to the podcast. I think that's
very similar to those two things. There is a correlation
between these two things. So now your son cannot stop
listening to the podcast, otherwise the Chiefs will start losing.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
That's right. Yeah, that's right. They have nothing to do
with for she Rice and Worthy coming back and you
mahomes playing it in nothing.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
No, no, it's the karma exact power.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
Yes of my sixteen year old listening to an overnight podcast.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
That is right. Yes, that's right, Fay. It's it's father's
son bonding over a podcast, is what it is. Lorena, Oh, Lorena,
you like them younger? All right, calm down, come back,
thank you? All right, go away, there's a there's DJ
Mike no coming alright, it is okay, going there.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
All right.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
It is my cougar drop.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Hello, the cougars are coming. The cougars are coming. The
cougars are coming. Great commercial before that kid was even alive.
That commercial is on Fox Sports Radio time now though.
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Luka Doncik joined Kobe Bryant and Blank as the only
Lakers to score forty or more points in a season opener. Luka,
Doncik and Loss join Kobe, Bryant and Blank is the
(35:53):
only Lakers to score forty points or more in a
season opener. That is the Insta Trivia answer. We'll get
to it. We will do it next.
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Yes?
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I just keep talking anyway, subscribe both channels. I guess
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I'll do it, yes, duly noted at Bennivspenny and at
Ben Maller Show. Back to it all right quickly. Time
now for the payoff on the instad trivia and here's
the question and a loss. Luka Donzig joined Kobe Bryant
(37:13):
and Blank as the only Lakers to score forty plus
points in a season. Over that is the question. What
is the answer? Bobby and Florida is going with a
Naya Taylor Joy as his answer, I know what you're
up to? Who else do we have? Robinson Cano, don't
you know? From Late Night drug Sester who's forty three
(37:33):
and when he played for the Mariners he played like
he was forty three. Scrooge it's a joke. Wayne Gretzky
from Scrooge. That's his answer. Michael Thompson from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota,
El Toro Loco from the Real Martin at the Airport
in Denver, Very nice, monster truck guy, Supersonic Legend, Debt
Live Shrimp. Who else we have? Mike Smrek from Alf
(37:54):
the Alien Opiner, Carlos Luiz from Shane and Moyne, Bill
Cosby and his put from Rob James Worthy from Robin, Minnesota,
Paula Abdul the Laker Girl from BP, Magic Johnson from
Andy Inspector Gadget from JT. The Wingman in Knoxville. What
say you the right up? I'm going with Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
(38:14):
All right, h No, it's the great Elgin Baylor, Elgin
Baylor back in nineteen fifty nine, Elgin Kobe and Luca Donzig.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
It's maller.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
To the third degree? This is one big fan gets
quick cool.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
It was reported on Monday that there will be no change,
that no changes are expected. Quote at this time for
the Miami Dolphins. Now before the season, owner Stephen Ross
intended to give Mike McDaniel the full year before deciding
on the future.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Then do you think McDaniel will get that whole year?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Uh No, And no changes are expected. To coop until
they make changes, they always say, well, no, it's like trades. No,
we don't expect to make a trade until you make
a trade. Trades are always unexpected. Firinges are ut expected.
The Dolphins sucked to the only reason McDaniel's there is
to make two a great tu Us had six interceptions
the last two games. If he throws three interceptions against
Atlanta this weekend, it's over next.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
It was revealed this week that Shoheo Tony is an
MVP trophy the NLCSMB. He's on display in the middle
of the Dodgers clubhouse with a team effort sign covering
up the most Valuable Player in That's cute. Yes, Ben,
do you think Otani should have been awarded that honor?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
No, he's important for baseball's marketing. He had one amazing game.
I would not have given him the MVP, but they
felt they had no choice.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Next, Jimbo Fisher spoke Monday and said that he wants
to get back into coaching, but that he wants to
coach somewhere. Quote that's committed to winning, Ben, Where do
you see Jimbo ending up?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I see him ending up in Key West, or Owahu
or Kawaii. I mean, what do you do? He's won
the lottery coup What are you doing? He's still's money
in Texas A and m's paying enjoy life? How do
we do cool? Do you pass away?
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