April 16, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Joel Embiid reportedly refusing to play for the 76ers despite being healthy enough to do so, the message the NBA is sending by fining and not suspending LaMelo Ball for his trip of Bam Adebayo, reports of the end being near for LIV Golf, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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The raz Mataz. It's our number two, our number two
ready for you and a little pro bouncy ball on
the Ben Mather Show. Is a good story. This is
a good story. So Joelleenbiid reportedly refuse to play for
the Sixers despite being healthy enough to do so in
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their play in game. Philadelphia ended up winning anyway against Orlando.
What do you read into this? Also? What message is
the NBA sending by fining not suspending Hornets guard LaMelo
Ball for his trip heard round the basketball world of
bam outa bio of the heat the other night. We'll
discuss that. And despite reports of the end being near,
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the CEO of Live Golf says twenty twenty six is
full throttle. Where does this leave things now for the
golfers who took the bag to go to the Live
Golf World? I mean, will us that will spif it
up a little bit right now here? It is our
number two. Well, it turns out that payback is a
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dish best served by not playing. What welcome In the
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here in the audio dojo and the lead. This hour
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we get to pro bouncy ball again. And if we
weren't with this last hour, we were covered up in
some locations. It was all about the Warriors Clippers game,
which is incorrectly being reported that Golden State had this
amazing performance when it was a total choke job by
the Clippers. That's the story, Mike, What are you doing?
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Is it gotten that soft? The ball washing of the
team that wins, rather than going full throttle on the
team that blows the game? My god, what are we doing? Well?
Our lead this hour is from the early game on
the card in this Fugasey play in nonsense. In the NBA.
We go to Philadelphia, the birthplace of our freedom, where
Tyrese Maxi put up thirty one points. VJ. Edgecombe added
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nineteen points, eleven rebounds, and the seventy six Ers, by
the hair on their chinny chin chin got past the
Orlando Magic. So they get the number seven seed in
the Eastern Conference, and so that means we get the
classic Sixers matchup with the Celtics. The first round will
begin on Sunday in Boston. Desmond Baine the star for Orlando,
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but he could not get her done in the Magic.
They're not done yet. They will play Charlotte. They'll host
to Charlotte on Friday night. The winner of that game,
we'll get the number eight seed in the Eastern Conference.
They will play Detroit. Now, the game was close and
all that and fine. The talking point on this one
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is the subplot. And if you know, you know, you
might not know. So there's a story that's been bouncing
all over the echo chamber. It's up for debate how
accurate it is. Joelle Ebiid did not play for the Sixers.
He was in street clothes. He was dressed like Anthony Davis.
So Joelle Embiid, the report is he refused to play
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for the Sixers in this game. Now Skip bait less.
We know a thing or two about Skip. He's claiming
that Embiid was medically cleared. He had had an emergency
at emergency appendectomy last week. He had been medically cleared
to play in the game, however, and Eid said, I'm
not playing. I know that you're cleared me, but I'm
just not gonna play. That's it. I'm out. And so
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this has ruffled some feathers. The fact that somebody leaked
it out would indicate that someone's not real happy with
Joel Embiid. So that's a good jumping off point. Let
us discuss the question a former MVP, Joel Embiid reportedly
refuse to play for the Sixers despite being healthy enough
to do so. So what do you read into this?
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My observations, I have field trip, Sandy Beach, and art installation,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to eat the clock and prolong the agony
is what we're going to do. We always say when
we begin our two. We said, well, it's our two,
but it's really our number number. So Joel Embiid is
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not managing an injury. He's managing an off ramp, is
what he's doing here. This is the loudest I'm done
with Philly back signal ever sent to the heavens without
holding a news conference. Now, let's call it what it is,
a soft launch on a mutiny on the Sixers bounty.
If this is accurate and Embiid, we'll find out when
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Embiid's traded somewhere after this ends here for the Sixers,
and Beiid took a field trip down to Independence Hall
there in Philadelphia and he filed his own declaration of
independence from trust. The process to the process is civil war.
That's the process. And here's the twist of the knife,
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if you will. It is true the Sixers won the game,
and that's great and all that for them. I guess
it hits harder though, that Joel Embiid is doing this. Now,
it's worse for the Sixers then the Ben Simmons sag
as I rhapsodize about this, and the reason it's worse
is because Ben Simmons had a glitch. He couldn't get
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it done. There was something wrong there. This is the
franchise cornerstone, for better or worse. This is the MVP
face of the franchise, pulling the ripcord. It would appear.
So when the guy you built the whole thing of
a jig around the whole empire, and that guy starts
no showing while allegedly healthy, a healthy scratch, if you will,
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That is not maintenance. That is self sabotage. And it
certainly feels like a point of no return. Again, we'll
find out how accurate this is. Bouncing all over the place.
It's supposed he started with Skip Bayals. There's other people
saying it's true. Others are saying it's not true. The marriage, though,
would be cooked. If that's it. The dishes are broken,
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and both sides are already calling those divorce lawyers. It's
also a referendum on a Sixers culture that has been
built on excuses doing the bare minimum. It's really what
they deserve in Philadelphia. They do this whole fraud of
an era of Sixers basketball which has gone on from
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multiple executives and all the tanking that took place, and
now here you get to the very end of it,
and Joel and beads like, I ain't playing. I ain't
playing unless I am I. It certainly seems like this
is the revenge when he wanted to play in the
regular season and he had a bit of a kerfluffle,
said I want to play, and they said you can't play. Well,
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I want to play. Well, we're not going to play it.
And then he went public with it. And now here's
his payback medically cleared, and he's like, I'm not playing.
I anticipate he did not believe they were going to
win the game without him. They won the game without him,
and so now we'll see whether he shows up for
the real playoff festivities now. Meanwhile, to Uptown Charlotte Mallor
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Show follow Up Mallor Show follow Up, Hornet's Guard LaMelo Ball,
The punishment is in, The punishment is in this. On
the feedback I got, I pointed out the overreaction to
Lamello Ball and the oh my god, I must suspend him.
Please suspend Lamello. The dirtiest thing I've ever seen, as
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you clutch your pearls. So the punishment. They must have
suspended LaMelo for the rest of the playoffs, right, or
at least several games for what he did to Bam
out of Bio, you would think, right, No, LaMelo Ball
has been fined thirty five thousand dollars for tripping Bam
out of bio and twenty five thousand dollars is saying
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a knotty word and he has to wash his mouth
out with soap and water postgame. That last part might
have been added on for effect. The fowl was upgraded
to a flagrant foul post mortem. So despite the hullabaloo,
LaMelo Ball will be available for Friday nights playing matchup
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to make the playoffs against the Orlando Magic who lost
to the Sixers. So the question what message is the
NBA sending by fining, not not suspending Hornet's guard LaMelo
Ball for his trip heard round the basketball world. So
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on this one, it backs up our hot take. And
you always love when in the industrial complex of the
hot take. You always love when your hot take is stamped, sealed,
and validated. In this case, the NBA stamped it, they
sealed the envelope, and they validated it. And it was
a notary came in there and notarized it. This was
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a misdemeanor. It was always a misdemeanor, it was not
a felony. And the punishment is proportional. It's proportional punishment
in a league that usually overreacts out of an abundance
of caution to try to keep the appearances up. They
didn't do that here, so good job by them. A
rare win for the NBA who just told outrage machine.
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They said, you know, listen out major machine. We hear you.
We're good. We're good, Yes we are. It was the
sandy beach plan. What does that mean? So the suspension,
if you had suspended lamellow ball, you would have hurt
the product. A fine is like going down to a
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sandy beach taking a red party cup plastic red cup,
and you fill that up with sand and you leave
the beach and you say I've cleared the beach. Of saying, well, well,
no you have. You have a numbing LaMelo makes so
much money he won't even feel the suspension. It's the
classic slap on ball if you will, and enough to
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say something was done. We take this very seriously. Something
was done. Not enough to actually matter, just the old
wink and a nod and hey, don't do it again.
I'll see on Friday, though, make sure you show up
on time. The subtext star Power does get deodorized, not benched.
And the NBA New TV partners here and they sold
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this ridiculous product, this playing slop to their broadcast partners,
and so they're protecting the inventory for the product. And
your anger has been received. It was filed and completely ignored,
completely ignored. Yeah, all right, Now to golf we go.
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Amid reports that the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund might
be saying that's all. She wrote. Boys, get out, I'm
out on the They're probably on the verge of removing
all their funding for that ridiculous golf thing that they
started a couple of years ago. Live Golf CEO Scott
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O'Neill he sent out an email to the staff on Wednesday,
the guy that runs Live Golf and said that the
season will go on as quote as planned, as planned,
uninterrupted and at full throttle close quote. Keep in mind,
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the email did not directly address reports that PIFF the
Public Investment Fund might stop investing in the underground circuit
after spending already more than five billion dollars to line
up the bank accounts of these golfers who sold out
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these they've spent over five billion dollars since twenty twenty two. Man,
that's wild, all right. So no mention of that or
whether the league will continue competitions beyond this season. So
the question this, despite reports of the end being near
the doomsday clock on the public investment fund, the CEO
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of Live Golf says twenty twenty six is full throttle.
So where does this leave things now? Well, if everything
is full throttle, why does it sound like the pilot
announcing that the left engine just not only stop working,
it detached from the plane. Now, having worked in corporate
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media my entire adult life, let me tell you something.
When they say that they send out an email saying
everything's fine. That's where you go update your resume. That's
where you update your resume and start making calls to people. Hey,
you know anything open over there? You got a gig guy?
I might need a gig guy. In fact, I do
need a gig. Yeah. How many times can a league
say we're fine, We're fine before it turns into the
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sports version of again, you know, my marriage is great?
Why do you ask all that stuff? This always it
felt like a fad, not a trend, a lavish mid
life crisis funded by the ridiculous this oil money the
Saudi Arabian government has in this public investment fund with
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no end game. There was no exit strategy, right, there
was no exit strategy. So Live it was like they
had so much money, They're like, ah, let's mess around here. Well,
just they could have taken it down the NFL, I'm
telling you right now, they could have started a pro
football league, which is the most popular sport in America,
if they have so much money, and they could have
started that, and you would have seen multiple huge name
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NFL players void their contracts and run off to take
that money from the sugar daddy at the public investment fund.
They chose golf because golf's more of an international sport.
People around the world don't really care that much about
American football. And Live was not about competition. It was
not about competition. It was like a five billion dollar,
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five billion dollar just this this art installation. That's it.
It's like put some art out here, you know. Fine,
it's a little piece of art in the middle of
the no. Five billion dollars and proving that everyone can
be bought and sold. All these golfers were bought. That's it.
You know, everyone's got a price. I remember, I've told
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the story a million times. There's a book. It was
a terrible movie, but they made a book called The
Magic Christian. Not a religious book, just a bored billionaire
that wanted us see what he could do get people
to do who didn't want to do certain things. But
everyone has a price, and these professional golfers sold out
to get all that money. And good for them. Congratulations.
I'm sure they're great grandchildren will appreciate the fact that
they never have to work, and they'll be spoiled ratty
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punk trust fund babies. I'm sure they're very happy about that.
Great And so it's like they said, wait, well, we'll
see everyone's got a price, and let's see what happens
when you give golfers unlimited money and no consequences and tea.
Here we are. So if the money slows, I'm telling
you right now, there won't even be a farewell tour.
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It's just turned out the lasts, the parties over in
the middle of around. That's it. Pay your way back.
There's no money for the plane fare. And you watch
the media pivot. Certain factions of the media, the same
folks who hyped it up, will suddenly develop amnesia, just
like the people ignored Diana Russini's story until they couldn't
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ignore it anymore when she was canoodling in the hot
tub and all that. So what's the endgame with Mike Rabel?
What's the endgame? So a quiet return to the PGA
Tour for these guys and a lot of well, this
was always my plan and I just went over there
for a little bit. I always wanted to go back
to the PGA tour. And they are popping bubbly on
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the PGA Tour. They're like, Okay, we had a challenge,
we had a threat, we survived, and they're this close,
this close, and yeah, not gonna apparently happen during the
twenty twenty six season, But before you know it, it'll
be twenty twenty seven and then this thing will be
gone and that'll be that, and there'll be some documentaries.
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There'll be a Netflix docu series on it about how
amazing it was and all the money they burned, and
that'll be There be a lot of that kind of thing,
a lot of that kind of thing. We'll take your
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Anything goes here. If you did not be able, if
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freude story. We'll get to that. And a new level
in the spin zone. Say what, Yeah, a new level
in the spin zone. We'll explain what that's all about.
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degree later this hour. Also the Insta Trivia. We'll get
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you would like to be part of the program. All right,
let's see boards being reset. We have Late Night Ruckchester
writing and saying, I had no idea Joel Embiid was
still in the league. But I don't normally check the
nightly load management list in the NBA's it's so long.
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What would you even do? You don't have time to
read it. Alf the Alien Opiner says, I'll never blame
anyone for taking the bag. In the immortal words of
the Million Dollar Man, everybody's got a price. Yep, everybody's
got a price. That's true. These guys got paid, they
got their money, and they did their time and looks
like they'll be coming back to the PGA tour. And
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that's how that goes. Shaneon de Moyne says, I'm a
day behind because I re listened to the monologues after
the show on the podcast before I comment. So that's
what Coop does. In Loraino, they actually listened to the
show on the way home, and then they listen on
the way in to try to touch things up, make
sure everything's good. On that says, I've been listening live
(23:30):
since twenty fifteen. Twenty sixteen. I can't stand the NBA currently,
but that heat Hornets talk was entertaining. No load managing
on the monologues, no days off unless there are days off,
mister irrigation rights and says, put aside the Robbie and
hollering James jokes. He sent a video of a catcher.
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He says, that's a left handed catcher. Who is the
last left handed catcher, he says, last left night catcher
to play a se in Major League Baseball. I know that,
not off the top of my head. I do know
that it is very rarely obviously has that happen, but
it's been a number of years. But I do do
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know the name. King Rory writes in from Wisconsin, where
the cheese is fresh and the sports are bad, and
he says Saudi Arabia doesn't have the time to care
about golf. They're focusing on hosting WrestleMania next year, and
that bunker style stadium that can withstand any type of
destruction will not fund and build itself. Yeah. Well, in
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order for that to happen, I'm going to go out
in a limb and say that the world's gonna have
to stop dropping bombs on each other there for that
to happen. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, Michael writes
in He says, Ben, you uttered the word notary. What
percentage of your listeners do you think actually knows what
(24:58):
that is? Without looking it up? My guess is less
than ten percent? Hm hmm. Lorraine, you know what a
notary is, right, Loraine? You're aware?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, like a notary like before you.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
No, boy, nah, yeah you don't really yeah, never some
you're playing. You're playing a joke, right, you know what
a notary? Coop? You know what a notary is?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You take notes? Right? Be serious?
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Lorena, Do you really don't know what a notary is?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Something like that?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, you've never had how you're not I mean you're young,
but you're not. I mean you've never, as an adult
had to get something notarized.
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You own a house, you like, when the watch you
sign something, Yeah, your ID, they have to stamp it
they okay, yeah, okay, okay, so you do know what
a notary?
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Okay? Dog Dog in South Korea says translation Bend nothing says.
Everything's I'm quite like aggressively telling your employees everything's fine. Yeah,
it's happened. I've had I've worked I will not say where.
I've worked at companies where it was in they you
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said these things called newspapers, Doug, And it was in
the newspaper, like, Hey, there's gonna be a bunch of
people getting whacked at this company, the company I happened
to work for. So I went to one of the
bosses and I said, you know, this is kind of
troubling here. I've got bills to pay, I've got a mortgage,
I've got a car I got to pay for, and
all that's troubling that I might lose my job. And
they said, Ben, don't worry. Everything's good. We love your work.
(26:34):
You're wonderful. And then I got whacked like a month later.
It just was so perfect, Oh so good, Big B
writes in. He writes in from Parts Unknown, he's an
army vetter and retired electrician business owner. Well, thank you
for your dedication, he says, Hey Ben, this is part
(26:55):
I kill you though. Hey Ben, I know you like
the harp on the Raiders, but at least the Raiders
went to five Super Bowls and won three but you
very rarely talk about the really bad franchise in sports,
the horrible La Clippers yard team, a team that is
not one. I can't say that word big B. That
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kind of makes you look dopey. Well I did point out,
and I'm glad that you're living in the past. We'd
like to do a big B to move ahead now
in life and live in current times. Do you realize
that nobody under the age of Let's do the math
on this, the Raiders got to the Super Bowl and
got smoked? Was that twenty two? I believe it was
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the rich Gannon Super Bowl where Barrett Robbins went a
wall to Tijuana and the Raiders got absolutely punked by
the Buccaneers. I believe that was twenty o two. It's
twenty twenty six, so that's twenty four years. You don't
really remember anything before the age of like nine, So
that would mean for someone to remember the Raiders in
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the Super Bowl, they would have to be in there
like between thirty two and thirty five? Is that? Am
I right? I believe the math is right on that.
And if you want to go even further back, the
last time the Raiders actually won the Super Bowl that's
time they actually won the championship because they got smoked
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in that Super Bowl against Tampa. As we said, it
was ri donculously bad there. Buccaneers just took like a
cigarette and just put it in the ash tray and
said that's it. We're good and you're out of here.
And all that. The Raiders have won three championship. The
last time though, the last time the Raiders won the
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Super Bowl. So it wasn't in the twenty twenties, right,
They wasn't in twenty tens. It wasn't in the aughts,
It was not in the atsu. See did they win
in the nineties, No, they didn't win. They didn't win
the ninety these and see they win in eighty nine,
eighty eight, ninety seven. No, let's see, keeping on page down,
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page down. Oh that's right. The last time the Raiders
won the Super Bowl was in the end, I believe
the end of the eighty three season, so January of
eighty four. So that would mean doing the math on
that that for someone to remember having witnessed the Raiders
winning the Super Bowl, because that was eighty four, do
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the math on that got ninety one that is, I mean,
they would be forty two years ago, so they'd have
to be in their early fifties to remember the last
time the Raiders won the Super Bowl. So I'm glad
you brought that up. So that's called raider math, by
the way, So a little raider math. Hope you enjoy
your raider math. That's very important. All right, It's go
to the phones and let's say hello to Eenie Meani Mineum.
(29:53):
Let's go to Jola, who's always got a smile on
his face and he's hanging out in Dallas. Hello, Joela,
Well welcome. He's smiling so much that he fell asleep.
Either that or his phone stop working. Either way. That's
a good jumping off point. Let's say hello to Lee,
(30:17):
who's in Florida, but his heart is in Worcester. What's
going and he'll be at the malar meagree we're doing
in May in the Commonwealth. What's going on?
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Lee?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Welcome Lee?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Listen to just a couple of things to write down.
Uh for Lorena here you want to chase the name
of that segment you don't make a little more high
class radio here, and and the Senate segment being who
am I? You need to chase it for who they
may be, you know, and then you.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Can do that.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, well, first he doesn't have anything with Loraina number one.
Number two, are you disparaging one of the iconic anchors
of the show, is what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
No, No, I'm making it more high classes sight.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You know.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
It's like the hemenway. You can call it the heaven way.
You know, for whom the belt holds, you know what
tolls for the it holds for me?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
You know. Anyway, what happened To know thy audience? You
have to know thy audience. Very important, Know thy audience.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Know thy audience.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
That's seven better. Okay. The other thing to write down
is then you gotta have you mentioned pizza on Saturday,
Spaghetti on Sunday. Okay, this Sunday afternoon. You got to
have spaghetti dinner.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You know why?
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Why isn't what the run is in the Boston Marathon
get to get a free art spaghetti dinner on the
Boston Common. I don't know if you knew that, but
you want to join in with the runners and have
free spaghetti dinner.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
On I'm not running in the Boston Marathon, so I
don't know get spaghetti. You know, Oh, I'll take free
spaghetti and you know you can meet balls or is
it meatless spaghetti? They meatballs in there? Is it just spaghetti?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Well it's it's it's you can have it with that,
but you know you gotta I think you're gonna have
paper extra or something like that. The waters are just
supposed to have spaghetti. That's supposed to have that ball
hanging around there.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
No, they can't have. But they're eating carbs. Can they
have garlic bread? How about that?
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Well, that's that I'm not sure that.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
That's an add Onither.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
If you go if you go to Boston com and
if you're not running, then it only costs you a
couple of dollars and you can still get all you
can eat spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Okay, all right, well that's fine, a good deal.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Anyway. Let me get back to what I was calling
you for, was the you know, the stuff on this
playing games. You know, you know, going back to the thing,
we would have never had this stuff except that you
had the number eighteen tie with number eight and nine teams,
you know, had a tie, and it was such a
huge thing that that's why we now have this playing
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thing because it's such a huge thing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And the reason the reason they have this, no, no,
the reason they have this is because they claim they
want to protect star the star players that get hurt
and teams lose them bunch of games, and then they
come back and their argument is, well, we want to
give teams that had a big injury a second chance
to make the playoffs if a star player goes down.
That's what their claim is, and it's it's it's ridiculous.
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You have an eighty two game play in tournament called
the regular season. That's enough. You don't need this fight.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
And then if you do do it, though, give them
a three game series, but get this one game bull crap?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh why why stop at three? Why not play? Why
don't we go nine? You know? The only reason we
play seven is because the originally the World Series was
nine games. At first, they settled on seven. I think
it was the guy that owned the New York Giants
came up with the seven game thing, if I remember correctly.
But they just go with seven because that's what they
go with nine best of not they go out of
How about eleven? Hav an eleven game series. We'll play
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an eleven game series. Whoever wins win nine.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
That's great because the more the merrier, the more money
you make, the more games everybody's watching it, you know, because.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I don't know, I don't know everyone's watching it. You know.
They changed the way they keep track of the ratings,
so the ratings are up across the board in sports
because the mythology they use for the ratings is different.
So it's it's the numbers are a little skewed, the
rates for literally everything. They're the highest rated masters I
think of all time. Was that the greatest masters of
all time? No, it wasn't. Nobody choked in the final round.
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It wasn't the greatest masters of all time, but they
had the greatest ratings and all that.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
So yeah, but you know, speaking of that, you know
this golfing you talk about only this Saddy Ega. Hey,
those guys are going to have missiles and drones and
you know coming out on that golf course.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And so we got and they're playing all over the world.
They're not it's like they're not playing on just only
in the Middle East. They're playing all over the place.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Well that's true, but they got right there.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
So all right, all right, there you go, all right,
thank you, there go our guy, the Pride of Worcester
Lee in Florida. He's now in Florida, so a new
level in the spin zone. They follow up to the
Diana Russini hot tok with Mike Rabel story. She's out
at the athletics, so the athletic there. There's a podcast
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where a couple of wackadoodle ladies are claiming that Diana
Russini getting intimate doing the canoodling there with an NFL
head coach on a adults only getaway in Sodona, Arizona,
who's not her husband, is similar to Adam Schefter sending
emails of unpublished stories to sources. They think that that
(35:30):
is a parallel Losers, Loers, we got malarly third degree.
We'll get to that coming up. Time now for the
Instack Trivia show. Hey Otani streak of consecutive innings without
an earned run ended at thirty two and two thirds innings.
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That was the longest streak of his career, longest active
streak in baseball time it ended. It was also the
longest streak by a Dodger pitcher since blank. That's the
Insta Trivia The Answer and Mallard of the third degree.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. We
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of the program. A reminder, it is Malard Meet and
Greet season. Fun for all ages. Yes, always love the
kids and the wives that go to these events. Holy crap,
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do they look like they would like to be anywhere else.
But we will be there on a week from Saturday,
the first Mallard Meet and Greed of twenty twenty six
in the Greater Cincinnati area, about a mile from the
Ohio River. There Newport, Kentucky, will be at a fine
pizzeria I cannot wait to have. Yes, the games are beginning.
I've heard very good things. I have not had the
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pizza yet, but we will be at Strong's brickove In
pizzeria from two to five pm. Music performances by Dick
from Dayton, Ohioal Munch of Malard Militia legends will be
on hand, so check that out. You do not want
to miss it. You've got nothing going on, you're able
to make it. We'd love to have you there. Check
that out coming up soon. All right, back to it
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we go, and we have the Insta trivia. We'll get
to Mallardly thirty Grede quickly on the Insta tribute because
we don't have too much time here, so let's get
right to it and sho hail Tani. The Dodgers pitchers
streak of consecutive names without an earn run ended at
thirty two point two thirty two and two thirds, longest
streak in his career. Longest active streak in baseball is
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now over longest by a Dodger since Dodger pitcher since blank.
That is the question. What is the answer? Seed? Does
anyone know the placer? Quick Bay? What do we have here?
Can't read that cripkeeper? Lenny the cripkeeper from alf What
happened to Lenny? We miss Lenny? Who else? Roberto the
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bus driver from Malor prop guy cheating ah Stros, Juli
Gurriel from not a Burner, Draymond Green guest by Femi
the obis driver. What say you, Lorraine, it be uh
Lizzie McGuire everything. Okay, No, that is incorrect. The correct
answer is Max Scherzer. Back in twenty twenty one, Max
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Schurzer hit the fan. Let's get off here we go
slowly up?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (38:38):
To the third decree? This is one Big Ben gets grilled,
all right.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Cool reports indicate that Deshaun Watson should be considered the
favorite to win the Browns quarterback job. However, RG three
is reporting that players in the Browns locker room don't
believe they can win with Watson. Ben, who do you
think Monkin will go with to start the season.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Well, this just into Fox Sports Radio. It doesn't matter
who plays quarterback to the Browns. They all blow and
those that don't blow suck, so they're not gonna win.
It doesn't matter. It's irrelevant. We'll talk about it. I'm
sure I'll do monologues on it. Todd Munkin, what he
ought to do is borrow the penny from Benny versus
the penny and flip it in the air and see
what happens. It doesn't matter. They'd like to play de
Shaun Watson, then maybe trade him. That would be the
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best plan, but the good luck Next.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Giants GM Joe Shane was recently asked about some of
the top prospects the team could consider with the number
five pick. Shane called former Notre Dame running back Jeremiah
Love an offensive weapon, not.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Just a running back.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Oh okay, yeah, Ben, Do you think Love can have
like a Christian McCaffrey type impact.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Can he Yes, But I'm in the show me state
of mind. I am numb to draft type. I am
numb to draft type. I want to see it to
believe it. Next.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Panthers have used the first round pick on a wide
receiver the last two seasons in a row, and this
week GM Dan Morgan was asked if those players would
prevent them from doing the same thing again this year.
He said, there's no rule against picking a wide receiver
three years in a row, and they'll just select the
best player available beneficit. If the best player available to
a wide receiver, should they pull the trick?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yes? That was a non answer. By the way, Cooper,
when you say best player of Bible, that's that's a
non answer. He gave a non answer. How do we go,
cass so when I won win and win a win
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The raz Mataz. It's our number two, our number two
ready for you and a little pro bouncy ball on
the Ben Mather Show. Is a good story. This is
a good story. So Joelleenbiid reportedly refuse to play for
the Sixers despite being healthy enough to do so in
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their play in game. Philadelphia ended up winning anyway against Orlando.
What do you read into this? Also? What message is
the NBA sending by fining not suspending Hornets guard LaMelo
Ball for his trip heard round the basketball world of
bam outa bio of the heat the other night. We'll
discuss that. And despite reports of the end being near,
(00:46):
the CEO of Live Golf says twenty twenty six is
full throttle. Where does this leave things now for the
golfers who took the bag to go to the Live
Golf World? I mean, will us that will spif it
up a little bit right now here? It is our
number two. Well, it turns out that payback is a
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we get to pro bouncy ball again. And if we
weren't with this last hour, we were covered up in
some locations. It was all about the Warriors Clippers game,
which is incorrectly being reported that Golden State had this
amazing performance when it was a total choke job by
the Clippers. That's the story, Mike, What are you doing?
(04:02):
Is it gotten that soft? The ball washing of the
team that wins, rather than going full throttle on the
team that blows the game? My god, what are we doing? Well?
Our lead this hour is from the early game on
the card in this Fugasey play in nonsense. In the NBA.
We go to Philadelphia, the birthplace of our freedom, where
Tyrese Maxi put up thirty one points. VJ. Edgecombe added
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nineteen points, eleven rebounds, and the seventy six Ers, by
the hair on their chinny chin chin got past the
Orlando Magic. So they get the number seven seed in
the Eastern Conference, and so that means we get the
classic Sixers matchup with the Celtics. The first round will
begin on Sunday in Boston. Desmond Baine the star for Orlando,
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but he could not get her done in the Magic.
They're not done yet. They will play Charlotte. They'll host
to Charlotte on Friday night. The winner of that game,
we'll get the number eight seed in the Eastern Conference.
They will play Detroit. Now, the game was close and
all that and fine. The talking point on this one
(05:15):
is the subplot. And if you know, you know, you
might not know. So there's a story that's been bouncing
all over the echo chamber. It's up for debate how
accurate it is. Joelle Ebiid did not play for the Sixers.
He was in street clothes. He was dressed like Anthony Davis.
So Joelle Embiid, the report is he refused to play
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for the Sixers in this game. Now Skip bait less.
We know a thing or two about Skip. He's claiming
that Embiid was medically cleared. He had had an emergency
at emergency appendectomy last week. He had been medically cleared
to play in the game, however, and Eid said, I'm
not playing. I know that you're cleared me, but I'm
just not gonna play. That's it. I'm out. And so
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this has ruffled some feathers. The fact that somebody leaked
it out would indicate that someone's not real happy with
Joel Embiid. So that's a good jumping off point. Let
us discuss the question a former MVP, Joel Embiid reportedly
refuse to play for the Sixers despite being healthy enough
to do so. So what do you read into this?
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My observations, I have field trip, Sandy Beach, and art installation,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to eat the clock and prolong the agony
is what we're going to do. We always say when
we begin our two. We said, well, it's our two,
but it's really our number number. So Joel Embiid is
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not managing an injury. He's managing an off ramp, is
what he's doing here. This is the loudest I'm done
with Philly back signal ever sent to the heavens without
holding a news conference. Now, let's call it what it is,
a soft launch on a mutiny on the Sixers bounty.
If this is accurate and Embiid, we'll find out when
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Embiid's traded somewhere after this ends here for the Sixers,
and Beiid took a field trip down to Independence Hall
there in Philadelphia and he filed his own declaration of
independence from trust. The process to the process is civil war.
That's the process. And here's the twist of the knife,
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if you will. It is true the Sixers won the game,
and that's great and all that for them. I guess
it hits harder though, that Joel Embiid is doing this. Now,
it's worse for the Sixers then the Ben Simmons sag
as I rhapsodize about this, and the reason it's worse
is because Ben Simmons had a glitch. He couldn't get
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it done. There was something wrong there. This is the
franchise cornerstone, for better or worse. This is the MVP
face of the franchise, pulling the ripcord. It would appear.
So when the guy you built the whole thing of
a jig around the whole empire, and that guy starts
no showing while allegedly healthy, a healthy scratch, if you will,
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That is not maintenance. That is self sabotage. And it
certainly feels like a point of no return. Again, we'll
find out how accurate this is. Bouncing all over the place.
It's supposed he started with Skip Bayals. There's other people
saying it's true. Others are saying it's not true. The marriage, though,
would be cooked. If that's it. The dishes are broken,
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and both sides are already calling those divorce lawyers. It's
also a referendum on a Sixers culture that has been
built on excuses doing the bare minimum. It's really what
they deserve in Philadelphia. They do this whole fraud of
an era of Sixers basketball which has gone on from
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multiple executives and all the tanking that took place, and
now here you get to the very end of it,
and Joel and beads like, I ain't playing. I ain't
playing unless I am I. It certainly seems like this
is the revenge when he wanted to play in the
regular season and he had a bit of a kerfluffle,
said I want to play, and they said you can't play. Well,
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I want to play. Well, we're not going to play it.
And then he went public with it. And now here's
his payback medically cleared, and he's like, I'm not playing.
I anticipate he did not believe they were going to
win the game without him. They won the game without him,
and so now we'll see whether he shows up for
the real playoff festivities now. Meanwhile, to Uptown Charlotte Mallor
(09:44):
Show follow Up Mallor Show follow Up, Hornet's Guard LaMelo Ball,
The punishment is in, The punishment is in this. On
the feedback I got, I pointed out the overreaction to
Lamello Ball and the oh my god, I must suspend him.
Please suspend Lamello. The dirtiest thing I've ever seen, as
(10:10):
you clutch your pearls. So the punishment. They must have
suspended LaMelo for the rest of the playoffs, right, or
at least several games for what he did to Bam
out of Bio, you would think, right, No, LaMelo Ball
has been fined thirty five thousand dollars for tripping Bam
out of bio and twenty five thousand dollars is saying
(10:33):
a knotty word and he has to wash his mouth
out with soap and water postgame. That last part might
have been added on for effect. The fowl was upgraded
to a flagrant foul post mortem. So despite the hullabaloo,
LaMelo Ball will be available for Friday nights playing matchup
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to make the playoffs against the Orlando Magic who lost
to the Sixers. So the question what message is the
NBA sending by fining, not not suspending Hornet's guard LaMelo
Ball for his trip heard round the basketball world. So
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on this one, it backs up our hot take. And
you always love when in the industrial complex of the
hot take. You always love when your hot take is stamped, sealed,
and validated. In this case, the NBA stamped it, they
sealed the envelope, and they validated it. And it was
a notary came in there and notarized it. This was
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a misdemeanor. It was always a misdemeanor, it was not
a felony. And the punishment is proportional. It's proportional punishment
in a league that usually overreacts out of an abundance
of caution to try to keep the appearances up. They
didn't do that here, so good job by them. A
rare win for the NBA who just told outrage machine.
(11:59):
They said, you know, listen out major machine. We hear you.
We're good. We're good, Yes we are. It was the
sandy beach plan. What does that mean? So the suspension,
if you had suspended lamellow ball, you would have hurt
the product. A fine is like going down to a
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sandy beach taking a red party cup plastic red cup,
and you fill that up with sand and you leave
the beach and you say I've cleared the beach. Of saying, well, well,
no you have. You have a numbing LaMelo makes so
much money he won't even feel the suspension. It's the
classic slap on ball if you will, and enough to
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say something was done. We take this very seriously. Something
was done. Not enough to actually matter, just the old
wink and a nod and hey, don't do it again.
I'll see on Friday, though, make sure you show up
on time. The subtext star Power does get deodorized, not benched.
And the NBA New TV partners here and they sold
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this ridiculous product, this playing slop to their broadcast partners,
and so they're protecting the inventory for the product. And
your anger has been received. It was filed and completely ignored,
completely ignored. Yeah, all right, Now to golf we go.
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Amid reports that the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund might
be saying that's all. She wrote. Boys, get out, I'm
out on the They're probably on the verge of removing
all their funding for that ridiculous golf thing that they
started a couple of years ago. Live Golf CEO Scott
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O'Neill he sent out an email to the staff on Wednesday,
the guy that runs Live Golf and said that the
season will go on as quote as planned, as planned,
uninterrupted and at full throttle close quote. Keep in mind,
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the email did not directly address reports that PIFF the
Public Investment Fund might stop investing in the underground circuit
after spending already more than five billion dollars to line
up the bank accounts of these golfers who sold out
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these they've spent over five billion dollars since twenty twenty two. Man,
that's wild, all right. So no mention of that or
whether the league will continue competitions beyond this season. So
the question this, despite reports of the end being near
the doomsday clock on the public investment fund, the CEO
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of Live Golf says twenty twenty six is full throttle.
So where does this leave things now? Well, if everything
is full throttle, why does it sound like the pilot
announcing that the left engine just not only stop working,
it detached from the plane. Now, having worked in corporate
(15:21):
media my entire adult life, let me tell you something.
When they say that they send out an email saying
everything's fine. That's where you go update your resume. That's
where you update your resume and start making calls to people. Hey,
you know anything open over there? You got a gig guy?
I might need a gig guy. In fact, I do
need a gig. Yeah. How many times can a league
say we're fine, We're fine before it turns into the
(15:44):
sports version of again, you know, my marriage is great?
Why do you ask all that stuff? This always it
felt like a fad, not a trend, a lavish mid
life crisis funded by the ridiculous this oil money the
Saudi Arabian government has in this public investment fund with
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no end game. There was no exit strategy, right, there
was no exit strategy. So Live it was like they
had so much money, They're like, ah, let's mess around here. Well,
just they could have taken it down the NFL, I'm
telling you right now, they could have started a pro
football league, which is the most popular sport in America,
if they have so much money, and they could have
started that, and you would have seen multiple huge name
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NFL players void their contracts and run off to take
that money from the sugar daddy at the public investment fund.
They chose golf because golf's more of an international sport.
People around the world don't really care that much about
American football. And Live was not about competition. It was
not about competition. It was like a five billion dollar,
(16:49):
five billion dollar just this this art installation. That's it.
It's like put some art out here, you know. Fine,
it's a little piece of art in the middle of
the no. Five billion dollars and proving that everyone can
be bought and sold. All these golfers were bought. That's it.
You know, everyone's got a price. I remember, I've told
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the story a million times. There's a book. It was
a terrible movie, but they made a book called The
Magic Christian. Not a religious book, just a bored billionaire
that wanted us see what he could do get people
to do who didn't want to do certain things. But
everyone has a price, and these professional golfers sold out
to get all that money. And good for them. Congratulations.
I'm sure they're great grandchildren will appreciate the fact that
they never have to work, and they'll be spoiled ratty
(17:30):
punk trust fund babies. I'm sure they're very happy about that.
Great And so it's like they said, wait, well, we'll
see everyone's got a price, and let's see what happens
when you give golfers unlimited money and no consequences and tea.
Here we are. So if the money slows, I'm telling
you right now, there won't even be a farewell tour.
(17:52):
It's just turned out the lasts, the parties over in
the middle of around. That's it. Pay your way back.
There's no money for the plane fare. And you watch
the media pivot. Certain factions of the media, the same
folks who hyped it up, will suddenly develop amnesia, just
like the people ignored Diana Russini's story until they couldn't
(18:14):
ignore it anymore when she was canoodling in the hot
tub and all that. So what's the endgame with Mike Rabel?
What's the endgame? So a quiet return to the PGA
Tour for these guys and a lot of well, this
was always my plan and I just went over there
for a little bit. I always wanted to go back
to the PGA tour. And they are popping bubbly on
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the PGA Tour. They're like, Okay, we had a challenge,
we had a threat, we survived, and they're this close,
this close, and yeah, not gonna apparently happen during the
twenty twenty six season, But before you know it, it'll
be twenty twenty seven and then this thing will be
gone and that'll be that, and there'll be some documentaries.
(18:56):
There'll be a Netflix docu series on it about how
amazing it was and all the money they burned, and
that'll be There be a lot of that kind of thing,
a lot of that kind of thing. We'll take your
calls if you'd like to be part. This is an
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The magic radio Box. You're yapping away all night, every night,
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Mallard Meet and Greet season. Yeah. How crazy is that?
If you'd like to attend, if you're in the area,
(20:50):
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love to meet you. Coming up week from Saturday, Greater
Cincinnati area will be in Newport, Kentucky, cross from the
Ohio River and about a mile away or so as
the Crow Flies from the Reds Ballpark and we hang out.
Big names in the Malon Militia. If you're a fan
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(21:12):
the big names that are there. Legends Dick and Dayton,
Ohio Al Just Josh, Justin and Cincinnati Joe the ghost Hunter,
Big big names, Cardiac. Stanley, the guy that had a
heart attack on the Show's driving down from the Cleveland area.
That's exciting. And Queen rox Ann's supposed to be there
as well, flying from Colorado. Robbie the Mariner fans gonna
(21:35):
be there. It's going to be awesome to see everybody.
All the big stars in the Malard Militia will be
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two to five o'clock by the way, two to five.
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(21:58):
on ex at Ben, what do you say we order
a pizza? I'm good at Ben. I will have pizza
though on that Saturday. Now I normally make pizza at home,
but it's much more. The pizza just tastes better when
you buy it at a restaurant, but less work involved.
Less work involved in that. But at Ben Mallord the
Exilo Lorena FSR Tech, Queen hi Bell, Lorena and Cooper
(22:23):
loop at a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan, if
you would like to be part of the program. All right,
let's see boards being reset. We have Late Night Ruckchester
writing and saying, I had no idea Joel Embiid was
still in the league. But I don't normally check the
nightly load management list in the NBA's it's so long.
(22:45):
What would you even do? You don't have time to
read it. Alf the Alien Opiner says, I'll never blame
anyone for taking the bag. In the immortal words of
the Million Dollar Man, everybody's got a price. Yep, everybody's
got a price. That's true. These guys got paid, they
got their money, and they did their time and looks
like they'll be coming back to the PGA tour. And
(23:09):
that's how that goes. Shaneon de Moyne says, I'm a
day behind because I re listened to the monologues after
the show on the podcast before I comment. So that's
what Coop does. In Loraino, they actually listened to the
show on the way home, and then they listen on
the way in to try to touch things up, make
sure everything's good. On that says, I've been listening live
(23:30):
since twenty fifteen. Twenty sixteen. I can't stand the NBA currently,
but that heat Hornets talk was entertaining. No load managing
on the monologues, no days off unless there are days off,
mister irrigation rights and says, put aside the Robbie and
hollering James jokes. He sent a video of a catcher.
(23:52):
He says, that's a left handed catcher. Who is the
last left handed catcher, he says, last left night catcher
to play a se in Major League Baseball. I know that,
not off the top of my head. I do know
that it is very rarely obviously has that happen, but
it's been a number of years. But I do do
(24:12):
know the name. King Rory writes in from Wisconsin, where
the cheese is fresh and the sports are bad, and
he says Saudi Arabia doesn't have the time to care
about golf. They're focusing on hosting WrestleMania next year, and
that bunker style stadium that can withstand any type of
destruction will not fund and build itself. Yeah. Well, in
(24:36):
order for that to happen, I'm going to go out
in a limb and say that the world's gonna have
to stop dropping bombs on each other there for that
to happen. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, Michael writes
in He says, Ben, you uttered the word notary. What
percentage of your listeners do you think actually knows what
(24:58):
that is? Without looking it up? My guess is less
than ten percent? Hm hmm. Lorraine, you know what a
notary is, right, Loraine? You're aware?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Yeah, like a notary like before you.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
No, boy, nah, yeah you don't really yeah, never some
you're playing. You're playing a joke, right, you know what
a notary? Coop? You know what a notary is?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You take notes? Right? Be serious?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Lorena, Do you really don't know what a notary is?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Something like that?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, you've never had how you're not I mean you're young,
but you're not. I mean you've never, as an adult
had to get something notarized.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
You own a house, you like, when the watch you
sign something, Yeah, your ID, they have to stamp it
they okay, yeah, okay, okay, so you do know what
a notary?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay? Dog Dog in South Korea says translation Bend nothing says.
Everything's I'm quite like aggressively telling your employees everything's fine. Yeah,
it's happened. I've had I've worked I will not say where.
I've worked at companies where it was in they you
(26:13):
said these things called newspapers, Doug, And it was in
the newspaper, like, Hey, there's gonna be a bunch of
people getting whacked at this company, the company I happened
to work for. So I went to one of the
bosses and I said, you know, this is kind of
troubling here. I've got bills to pay, I've got a mortgage,
I've got a car I got to pay for, and
all that's troubling that I might lose my job. And
they said, Ben, don't worry. Everything's good. We love your work.
(26:34):
You're wonderful. And then I got whacked like a month later.
It just was so perfect, Oh so good, Big B
writes in. He writes in from Parts Unknown, he's an
army vetter and retired electrician business owner. Well, thank you
for your dedication, he says, Hey Ben, this is part
(26:55):
I kill you though. Hey Ben, I know you like
the harp on the Raiders, but at least the Raiders
went to five Super Bowls and won three but you
very rarely talk about the really bad franchise in sports,
the horrible La Clippers yard team, a team that is
not one. I can't say that word big B. That
(27:17):
kind of makes you look dopey. Well I did point out,
and I'm glad that you're living in the past. We'd
like to do a big B to move ahead now
in life and live in current times. Do you realize
that nobody under the age of Let's do the math
on this, the Raiders got to the Super Bowl and
got smoked? Was that twenty two? I believe it was
(27:41):
the rich Gannon Super Bowl where Barrett Robbins went a
wall to Tijuana and the Raiders got absolutely punked by
the Buccaneers. I believe that was twenty o two. It's
twenty twenty six, so that's twenty four years. You don't
really remember anything before the age of like nine, So
that would mean for someone to remember the Raiders in
(28:03):
the Super Bowl, they would have to be in there
like between thirty two and thirty five? Is that? Am
I right? I believe the math is right on that.
And if you want to go even further back, the
last time the Raiders actually won the Super Bowl that's
time they actually won the championship because they got smoked
(28:25):
in that Super Bowl against Tampa. As we said, it
was ri donculously bad there. Buccaneers just took like a
cigarette and just put it in the ash tray and
said that's it. We're good and you're out of here.
And all that. The Raiders have won three championship. The
last time though, the last time the Raiders won the
(28:45):
Super Bowl. So it wasn't in the twenty twenties, right,
They wasn't in twenty tens. It wasn't in the aughts,
It was not in the atsu. See did they win
in the nineties, No, they didn't win. They didn't win
the ninety these and see they win in eighty nine,
eighty eight, ninety seven. No, let's see, keeping on page down,
(29:07):
page down. Oh that's right. The last time the Raiders
won the Super Bowl was in the end, I believe
the end of the eighty three season, so January of
eighty four. So that would mean doing the math on
that that for someone to remember having witnessed the Raiders
winning the Super Bowl, because that was eighty four, do
(29:29):
the math on that got ninety one that is, I mean,
they would be forty two years ago, so they'd have
to be in their early fifties to remember the last
time the Raiders won the Super Bowl. So I'm glad
you brought that up. So that's called raider math, by
the way, So a little raider math. Hope you enjoy
your raider math. That's very important. All right, It's go
to the phones and let's say hello to Eenie Meani Mineum.
(29:53):
Let's go to Jola, who's always got a smile on
his face and he's hanging out in Dallas. Hello, Joela,
Well welcome. He's smiling so much that he fell asleep.
Either that or his phone stop working. Either way. That's
a good jumping off point. Let's say hello to Lee,
(30:17):
who's in Florida, but his heart is in Worcester. What's
going and he'll be at the malar meagree we're doing
in May in the Commonwealth. What's going on?
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Lee?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Welcome Lee?
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Listen to just a couple of things to write down.
Uh for Lorena here you want to chase the name
of that segment you don't make a little more high
class radio here, and and the Senate segment being who
am I? You need to chase it for who they
may be, you know, and then you.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Can do that.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, well, first he doesn't have anything with Loraina number one.
Number two, are you disparaging one of the iconic anchors
of the show, is what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
No, No, I'm making it more high classes sight.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You know.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
It's like the hemenway. You can call it the heaven way.
You know, for whom the belt holds, you know what
tolls for the it holds for me?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
You know. Anyway, what happened To know thy audience? You
have to know thy audience. Very important, Know thy audience.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Know thy audience.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
That's seven better. Okay. The other thing to write down
is then you gotta have you mentioned pizza on Saturday,
Spaghetti on Sunday. Okay, this Sunday afternoon. You got to
have spaghetti dinner.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You know why?
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Why isn't what the run is in the Boston Marathon
get to get a free art spaghetti dinner on the
Boston Common. I don't know if you knew that, but
you want to join in with the runners and have
free spaghetti dinner.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
On I'm not running in the Boston Marathon, so I
don't know get spaghetti. You know, Oh, I'll take free
spaghetti and you know you can meet balls or is
it meatless spaghetti? They meatballs in there? Is it just spaghetti?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Well it's it's it's you can have it with that,
but you know you gotta I think you're gonna have
paper extra or something like that. The waters are just
supposed to have spaghetti. That's supposed to have that ball
hanging around there.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
No, they can't have. But they're eating carbs. Can they
have garlic bread? How about that?
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Well, that's that I'm not sure that.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
That's an add Onither.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
If you go if you go to Boston com and
if you're not running, then it only costs you a
couple of dollars and you can still get all you
can eat spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Okay, all right, well that's fine, a good deal.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Anyway. Let me get back to what I was calling
you for, was the you know, the stuff on this
playing games. You know, you know, going back to the thing,
we would have never had this stuff except that you
had the number eighteen tie with number eight and nine teams,
you know, had a tie, and it was such a
huge thing that that's why we now have this playing
(32:48):
thing because it's such a huge thing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And the reason the reason they have this, no, no,
the reason they have this is because they claim they
want to protect star the star players that get hurt
and teams lose them bunch of games, and then they
come back and their argument is, well, we want to
give teams that had a big injury a second chance
to make the playoffs if a star player goes down.
That's what their claim is, and it's it's it's ridiculous.
(33:14):
You have an eighty two game play in tournament called
the regular season. That's enough. You don't need this fight.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
And then if you do do it, though, give them
a three game series, but get this one game bull crap?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Oh why why stop at three? Why not play? Why
don't we go nine? You know? The only reason we
play seven is because the originally the World Series was
nine games. At first, they settled on seven. I think
it was the guy that owned the New York Giants
came up with the seven game thing, if I remember correctly.
But they just go with seven because that's what they
go with nine best of not they go out of
How about eleven? Hav an eleven game series. We'll play
(33:48):
an eleven game series. Whoever wins win nine.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
That's great because the more the merrier, the more money
you make, the more games everybody's watching it, you know, because.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I don't know, I don't know everyone's watching it. You know.
They changed the way they keep track of the ratings,
so the ratings are up across the board in sports
because the mythology they use for the ratings is different.
So it's it's the numbers are a little skewed, the
rates for literally everything. They're the highest rated masters I
think of all time. Was that the greatest masters of
all time? No, it wasn't. Nobody choked in the final round.
(34:20):
It wasn't the greatest masters of all time, but they
had the greatest ratings and all that.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
So yeah, but you know, speaking of that, you know
this golfing you talk about only this Saddy Ega. Hey,
those guys are going to have missiles and drones and
you know coming out on that golf course.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And so we got and they're playing all over the world.
They're not it's like they're not playing on just only
in the Middle East. They're playing all over the place.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
Well that's true, but they got right there.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
So all right, all right, there you go, all right,
thank you, there go our guy, the Pride of Worcester
Lee in Florida. He's now in Florida, so a new
level in the spin zone. They follow up to the
Diana Russini hot tok with Mike Rabel story. She's out
at the athletics, so the athletic there. There's a podcast
(35:07):
where a couple of wackadoodle ladies are claiming that Diana
Russini getting intimate doing the canoodling there with an NFL
head coach on a adults only getaway in Sodona, Arizona,
who's not her husband, is similar to Adam Schefter sending
emails of unpublished stories to sources. They think that that
(35:30):
is a parallel Losers, Loers, we got malarly third degree.
We'll get to that coming up. Time now for the
Instack Trivia show. Hey Otani streak of consecutive innings without
an earned run ended at thirty two and two thirds innings.
(35:51):
That was the longest streak of his career, longest active
streak in baseball time it ended. It was also the
longest streak by a Dodger pitcher since blank. That's the
Insta Trivia The Answer and Mallard of the third degree.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
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listen live, Bill.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. We
hang out together here in the audio box. Whatever device
you're using, We thank you for listening and being part
of the program. A reminder, it is Malard Meet and
Greet season. Fun for all ages. Yes, always love the
kids and the wives that go to these events. Holy crap,
(36:43):
do they look like they would like to be anywhere else.
But we will be there on a week from Saturday,
the first Mallard Meet and Greed of twenty twenty six
in the Greater Cincinnati area, about a mile from the
Ohio River. There Newport, Kentucky, will be at a fine
pizzeria I cannot wait to have. Yes, the games are beginning.
I've heard very good things. I have not had the
(37:04):
pizza yet, but we will be at Strong's brickove In
pizzeria from two to five pm. Music performances by Dick
from Dayton, Ohioal Munch of Malard Militia legends will be
on hand, so check that out. You do not want
to miss it. You've got nothing going on, you're able
to make it. We'd love to have you there. Check
that out coming up soon. All right, back to it
(37:29):
we go, and we have the Insta trivia. We'll get
to Mallardly thirty Grede quickly on the Insta tribute because
we don't have too much time here, so let's get
right to it and sho hail Tani. The Dodgers pitchers
streak of consecutive names without an earn run ended at
thirty two point two thirty two and two thirds, longest
streak in his career. Longest active streak in baseball is
(37:50):
now over longest by a Dodger since Dodger pitcher since blank.
That is the question. What is the answer? Seed? Does
anyone know the placer? Quick Bay? What do we have here?
Can't read that cripkeeper? Lenny the cripkeeper from alf What
happened to Lenny? We miss Lenny? Who else? Roberto the
(38:11):
bus driver from Malor prop guy cheating ah Stros, Juli
Gurriel from not a Burner, Draymond Green guest by Femi
the obis driver. What say you, Lorraine, it be uh
Lizzie McGuire everything. Okay, No, that is incorrect. The correct
answer is Max Scherzer. Back in twenty twenty one, Max
(38:32):
Schurzer hit the fan. Let's get off here we go
slowly up?
Speaker 3 (38:37):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (38:38):
To the third decree? This is one Big Ben gets grilled,
all right.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Cool reports indicate that Deshaun Watson should be considered the
favorite to win the Browns quarterback job. However, RG three
is reporting that players in the Browns locker room don't
believe they can win with Watson. Ben, who do you
think Monkin will go with to start the season.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Well, this just into Fox Sports Radio. It doesn't matter
who plays quarterback to the Browns. They all blow and
those that don't blow suck, so they're not gonna win.
It doesn't matter. It's irrelevant. We'll talk about it. I'm
sure I'll do monologues on it. Todd Munkin, what he
ought to do is borrow the penny from Benny versus
the penny and flip it in the air and see
what happens. It doesn't matter. They'd like to play de
Shaun Watson, then maybe trade him. That would be the
(39:18):
best plan, but the good luck Next.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Giants GM Joe Shane was recently asked about some of
the top prospects the team could consider with the number
five pick. Shane called former Notre Dame running back Jeremiah
Love an offensive weapon, not.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Just a running back.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Oh okay, yeah, Ben, Do you think Love can have
like a Christian McCaffrey type impact.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Can he Yes, But I'm in the show me state
of mind. I am numb to draft type. I am
numb to draft type. I want to see it to
believe it. Next.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Panthers have used the first round pick on a wide
receiver the last two seasons in a row, and this
week GM Dan Morgan was asked if those players would
prevent them from doing the same thing again this year.
He said, there's no rule against picking a wide receiver
three years in a row, and they'll just select the
best player available beneficit. If the best player available to
a wide receiver, should they pull the trick?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yes? That was a non answer. By the way, Cooper,
when you say best player of Bible, that's that's a
non answer. He gave a non answer. How do we go,
cass so when I won win and win a win
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