May 12, 2023 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Celtics forcing a Game 7 against the 76ers as Philly fails to show up in Game 6, how much trouble the 76ers are in, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name. Two hour two of
our radio program. We go in the podcast format to
Philadelphia the Delaware Valley. We're Boston the road team able
to sashe their way past Philly. Is there any workable
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excuse for the Sixers losing this game? And how much
trouble are the seventy six ers in heading back to
Boston this weekend for a game seven? Also, how likely
are the Celtics to take this series now now that
they've squared things up. We'll discuss that and a whole
lot more. Give it up for our number two here
(00:44):
it is the Philly Follies on display. Well come in
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about the Western Conference, did a deep dive on that
last hour turn out, the last the parties over for
the Suns as they go home. You want to hear
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missed it, you're gonna gonna wack and download that. You
gotta download that. It'll be up shortly after we get
done with the overnight show. But we head to the
Eastern Conference right now. The Celtics and the Sixers in
the Delaware Valley Game number six. Now Philly. The stakes
are this. Philly wins this game. They advanced to the
Final four. Boston just trying to stay alive, stay alive
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and all that. Now, if you didn't see this game,
this was the early game on the card, and maybe
he had something else going on. You might have watched
the Dog Show. Like John who called in earlier, he
was watching the Dog Show, so maybe something like that.
But don't worry, we watched so you would not have to.
Jason Tatum, who was a zero for most of this game,
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woke up from hibernation just in the nick of time.
After a career worst shooting performance to start the game,
he ends up scoring sixteen of his nineteen in the
fourth quarter and the Celtics out play the Sixers down
the stretch and they get to win a low scoring
game by modern NBA sc standards, a nine point win.
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So the series now tied up at three to three,
and that means Game seven back in the Commonwealth this weekend.
Tickets probably not available, but on the secondary market you
can always get a ticket. But the story here is
on the Philadelphia side of things. WHOA is this a
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great story? So let us discuss the question is there
any workuple excuse for the Sixers losing this game? So,
having watched the game, I wish I could get that
time back. I am shaking my head. No, I'm shaking
my head.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
On that, I've got yo yo, paramount pictures and nonverbal
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a tasty cake, which is
what the Celtics made of the Sixers. They turned them
into a nice tasty cake on this particular day. So
number waes, is there any workable excuse for the Sixers?
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Of course not there is not. This is a right
turn at the fork in the road, right into the
dog house, right to the doghouse. Philadelphia had every edge
you could possibly ask home cooking check, the Celtics making
a desperation lineup, change, check, Jason Tatum going a wall
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for seventy five or eighty percent of the game, check check, check,
And how does Philadelphia respond? They trailed the entire first half,
They never had a lead, Jason Tatum did nothing in
the first half and it didn't matter. And then when
Philly finally woke up and they took the lead, the
Sixers then watched as a demoned wormhole opened up and
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they got sucked into the abyss wowsers, right, I mean
we will. We'll get to Doc Rivers what's up Doc
in a second, But we've got to start with some
of the other things here, and Doc is the overseer
of all this. But we're gonna start with the players
in Philadelphia and the angel of darkness for the Sixers
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in this one was James Harden with a wink and
a nod to Joel and b But we're gonna start
with Harden, who was bad to the bone from soup
to nuts, sixteen points, four of sixteen shooting, and he
was zero of six from three point range. It was terrible.
The beard needed a beard in this game, and he
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continues to be a carnival act. He's at the midway.
Come down and see James Harden, the human Yo yo.
One game, he'll get you forty. In the next game,
he'll shoot four of sixteen. And then you got to
double whammy. Because even with Harden playing like he had
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some kind of medical condition and needed some some kind
of treatment, the Sixers are still leading going to the
fourth not by a lot. It was a couple of points,
but they're leading going to the fourth quarter. You're at
home hardened. Then scores you how many points he scored
in the fourth quarter. He scored as many points in
the fourth quarter as you did, and as many points
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as I did. And we didn't even play in the game.
He he puts a goose egg, no points on a
four in that quarter. Joel Embiid, who's the MVP, He's
the bleeping MVP in the NBA. And Joel Embiid took
six shots, he made three to me had six points,
but he was way too passes. That's a moment your team.
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You're supposed to put your whole team on your back.
You're the if you're the MVP, the real MVP, you
put your team on your back. You know who's the
real MVP, Nicoley Jokis. That's what Jokic does. He puts
his team on his back. Joel Embid in this game, Nah, yeah,
he was there. You know, a lot of the offense
they weren't even running with Embiid is the focal point
in the fourth quarter. And although the Sixers shot twenty
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five percent from the floor, they were even worse from
three point range. They didn't make one in the fourth quarter,
oh of eight in the fourth quarter, And so you
can do the math on that. And then you've got
the curious case of Jason Tatum, who was a bystander
for the vast majority of this game. As we highlighted,
he was one of thirteen from the floor for the
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first three quarters. He then outscored the entire Philadelphia professional
basketball team in the fourth quarter. Tatum had sixteen. Every
dumb dumb who played for the Sixers had thirteen total
points in the final twelve minutes. Thirteen points in twelve
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minutes in a sport where they give you two or
three depending on where you make the basket when you're
standing on the court for a field goal.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Right now, pach two.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Now we get to the good stuff. How much trouble
are the Sixers in heading back to Boston for a
Game seven this weekend? On the Malard gag Oh meter.
The mal gag Oh meter one to ten, with ten
being you're dead, you have choked. This is a nine
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point oh sound the alarm bells a nine point oh.
And the man behind it, the good doctor, the good doctor,
my guy, Doc Rivers. Oh, man, you've done it again. Doc.
I am convinced that Doc when he's fired, and he
will be fired if Philadelphia loses this series. From the
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I believe either coach that loses Game seven is gonna
be fired. But Doc Rivers, okay, he ought to run
Paramount Pictures. Why should Doc Rivers wan Paramount Pictures. I'm
gonna tell you because Doc Rivers loves remakes, reboots and sequels.
That is what Doc Rivers likes as a coach. It's
another rise and fall special. I have seen this script before,
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and it appears it's going to go the same direction.
Purses foiled again, shiver me Timbers right now. It's not
as drastic, not as drastic, but it's similar. It's a reboot.
It's similar to the one of the five worst sporting
events I've been to as an observer of sport, Game
six of the twenty fifteen Western semi Finals. That night,
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the Clippers led by thirteen going to the fourth quarter.
Doc Rivers is on the sidelines, and all the announcers
told me he's got that championship pedigree from the Celtics. Okay,
fair enough, so thirteen point League Game four, Game six,
closeout game, fourth quarter home against the Houston Rockets. And
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what happened. A couple of stiffs named Corey Brewer and
Josh Smith then went out and beat Doc Rivers Clippers
and the star. The best player on that team for
Houston was James Harden, and he did not score in
the fourth quarter of that game. The difference, though, in
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that night his team, Harden's team won. I don't even
played in the fourth quarter of that game, if I americ correctly,
but he didn't score. The difference is Doc Rivers coaching
James Harden right. In this game, Jason Tatum pretty much
had a zero for most of the game in terms
of impact on the game offensively, and he's the super
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nova for the Celtics, and then he ends up going
bonkers late in the game and for Philadelphia Stars fading
with Harden and Mbid as we've documented in the fourth
quarter and Doc Rivers. He should hold a webinar to
teach other coaches his secret. Give me the diagnosis here
on how he is able to get headline level ballplayers
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to vanish in Key Molmons. It's I'm sure it's just
a coincidence, unless it's not that day that one of
the worst events I've ever been through, that Game six
between the Rockets and Clippers back in twenty fifteen, Blake
Griffin was zero for five in the fourth quarter. You
know where Blake Griffin is right now. He's getting hemorrhoids
on the Celtics bench. The one common denominator Glenn Rivers.
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Glen Rivers is the common denominator, right, final point, So
how likely are the Celtics now to close the door.
They'll be at home, they will be favored. They're actually
a slight favorite in this game in Game six, So
I'm gonna give the Celtics an eighty five percent chance
eighty five percent chance. Using maler math, the only things
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that will derail the seas are rice crispies and let
him play Joe. Let him play Joe, Missoula, you gotta
watch out for that and snap crackle pop. And despite all,
every indicator points to a serendipity situation for Doc Rivers.
And it's it's like it's written in the stars. That's
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what our friend Andrea would say. I'm sure there's some
kind of cosmic event that's affecting this, but it's nonverbal communication.
Now that's the tell to me, that's the tell to me.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Let me give you a little insight here. How I
saw the crumbling in Philly. I was looking at joel Enbeid,
James Harden and Maxie and these guys in Philly. I
was watching their body language in the fourth quarter. And
it has been said that fifty five percent of any
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message is conveyed through nonverbal elements. I'm telling you, Philly
is cooked. We have seen this before. We've seen the
body language back in the Lob City days. The things
are going sideways. Doc Rivers is coaching. You. Look at
the players. You've got the slouching shoulders, the eye rolls,
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the crossing of the arms, the finger biting, the grinding
of the teeth. That is all all of the same
stuff we saw when Doc was coaching the Clippers back
in the day. Doc rivers his team at this point,
Philadelphia needs rosary beads. Okay, And I'll tell you what
the future holes in my crystal ball for Doc Rivers.
He will be working for TNT or ESPN. That is
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where he will be working next season around this time.
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about the City of girly love or sisterhood love. I
don't know what's a term for that. I'm not sure,
but it's a wild story. We'll get to that, and
we'll take your phone calls, the whole thing, and we
will do it next He blew me off at a
hotel near lax.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
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Speaker 1 (14:36):
Midnight Walker writes, and he says the Doctor is in
and he's running his game. But Doc in the playoffs,
it's more of the same. The Sixers still live, yes,
that much is true, but with Doc as their head coach,
they soon will be through. Very nice Midnight Walker Berner
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counts as what will be the ultimate shot in freud
A watching Doc rivers choke away. Another series lead b
watching Lebron James choke away three games to one lead
in the Western semi Finals. Well, so the answer to
that is all of the above. That would be one
of the great days you can possibly have watching sports,
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like one of the great weekends of all time. If
Doc Rivers does it again and then Lebron James goes
out and pukes in a Game seven against the Warriors, Man,
would that be awesome? Boy? Would that? I would? It's
an infatuation situation, he answers all the above. See all
(15:39):
of the above is the answer. Yes, absolutely? Okay, who
else do we have? Page down em at the blind
Seahawk Fences. I already know Doc Rivers is gonna get
slapped around by the Celtics, but it's Doc's favorite game
A Game seven, as we know he loves those, unless
he does not, unless he does not. Digital Space Monkey
(16:03):
rights in and says that take on the Paaramount Company
is a big reason that I think the Writers Guild
does not deserve a single penny. Mores Volunteer high school
students can write a screenplay having all the heavy lifting
done for them. Bad case for AI, and that that's
what it does. Anyway, He says, I disagree, and I
(16:26):
don't want to live in a world where AI is
doing everything. A I could do my job, you could
have a computer program do the show. And do you
want that? Maybe you want that. I don't want that.
I don't want I'm good with that, but of course
I have a vested interest in that. If I didn't
have this job and I didn't care and just put
on a robot voice, that happened. In music, the music
business is pretty much all automated. There's very few DJs
(16:49):
actually there. It's pretty much automated other than your morning
show and just streaming music, which is all AI and
people like that. And so maybe people don't really want
to hear another human being talk or talk to the
human being, but I think they actually do. Tony wrights
In says Doc Rivers will soon be out of Philly
after they lose Game seven on Sunday. He says, there
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you go. Matt wrights In says James Harden gagging in
a potential closeout game shocking unless it's not. He was
the lead choker in the epic gag job in the
twenty eighteen Western Conference Finals against the Warriors, when the
Roquettes chunked up twenty seven to three pointers in a
row without a single one. Mate, I remember that night.
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That was a good night. Also, that was a great night.
That was wonderful. That's wonder well. Maverick wrights In says,
a demonic black hole. That's a new one. Definitely stealing it.
He says, there, I don't know if I said exactly that.
I don't know. I don't remember. Anyway, Let's go to
the phones and we'll take a call. I actually want
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to play it. Let's play this Doc Rivers. Sound by Doc.
If there's anybody in the history of sports that knows
how to talk after his team went out there and
dropped the deuce right at mid court, it is Doc Rivers.
Here is Doc Rivers who's coming up with his latex
excuse for his team gagging.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
We got to move the ball, we gotta trust, we
gotta run our stuff. We got extreme stuff. I thought
tonight was similar to like Game two. To me, we
just didn't trust our stuff stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, this in the locker room, Madie, they passed out
some stuff before the game and then they like that.
I think that's what he meant. I don't know what
do you think he meant, Eddie, I.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Don't know what.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I don't know what he meant.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You know, he didn't trust the curve.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, stuff in baseball. I heard that you didn't have
good Stuffy, heard that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Max Max Schurzer didn't his stuff. You know, he had
to use some stuff on the ball, and.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Beat sweeper wasn't working.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate. Hate Doc Rivers. Oh my god,
so man, I tried to compose myself as I was
watching the game. I think it looks like every Tatum
basket there in the fourth court. I got a little
more excited.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Is he the Dave Roberts of basketball? Or is Dave
Roberts the Doc Rivers?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now? Somebody and I forget who it was. I think
it might have been our friend from the Bay who
had a great line. I want to give him credit.
Matt the Warrior Raider fan. He said that Doc Rivers
is the Mike Soosha of the NBA, right because Socia
won with the Angels and then just kind of hung
around and a lot of mediocre teams after that, and
then he finally got rid of him. And that's pretty
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much Doc Rivers. That's the diagnosis on Doc Rivers, like
Doc Rivers won with the Celtics, which they carried him.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Paul pitt I liked him in that spot. I really did.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Garnett and those guys carried him to the championship. And
then ever since then, he's been hanging out and playing
footsie on the with the media and not providing very
tantalizing basketball in the postseason with teams that many people
believe should actually go far in the playoffs. Le's go
to the phones. Andrea is in the Bay Area and
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she has her star sharts out. Some call her the
Star Lady. We call her a friend. Hello Andrea, Hello Ben?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
If I was any better, I would be a Booker
but not Devin Booker. Man, he you what stinks? What
a gelappie?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah? Well, you know, we got a lot going on,
and I'm looking forward to Mercury coming out of retrograd
on May fourteenth. Let's start with that. And I actually
watched some Padres games on MOLB Network.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
My condolences.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, you know, I'll tell you that was right finger,
that scorpio Bob Melvin had.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, we're gonna be talking about that, Bob Melvin very mellow.
Bob Melvin never a good SoundBite ever. Bob Melvin tore
into the Padres. I loved it. It was great.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, it was just a thing. Then she managed the
eight for about eleven years, and that was one of
the lowest payrolls. The Padres have the third highest payroll,
only behind the Mets, which is three hundred and thirty
six million, and the Yankees to sixty eight million. The
Padres are two hundred and fifty one million dollars. So
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there's a lot of expectations there. And you know all
the marquee players that they signed, and you know Soto,
and you know all the players that they paid huge
amounts of money for. And I think it was good
that he actually got ejected for arguing with the umpire
now trying to fire up the team. You know, we
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didn't agree with the balls and the strikes. So I
really think that sometimes, you know, righteous anger is in order,
and Scorpios have that intensity, and I really think that,
you know, there's seventeen and seventeen, they're playing the Dodgers
the next three games, so that you know, time will tell.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I have an alternative theory on why Bob Melvin did that.
I will share that in my monologue next hour, because
I think there's something else going on behind the scenes
there with the Padres and that Bob Melvin. That's just
not his character. He doesn't normally act like that. I
just some other stuff going on in the hierarchy there
in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Preller, you mean, well see.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
My blow my cover on this year, please, but that'll
be next hour. Andrea, have a great weekend, thank you.
I'm sure there'll be plenty to talk about with all
these Game sevens in the NBA. When we cracked these
microphones again, there she goes, get that bathtub going there?
Our friend, I thought I heard. I don't know, maybe
(22:53):
I was hearing things in my headphones. I thought I
heard something, but Coop has not confirmed it, but it
sounded to me like I heard. Well, let's leave them.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
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Speaker 3 (23:39):
Interesting in the NHL, the Ottawa Senators not exactly the
Marquis franchise in the NHL. There's a bidding war going
on for them, and there's these celebrities are all attaching
themselves to these bids. We have Snoop Dogg, You Dog
the Weekend has part is a part of another group. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't know anyone that doesn't like that Weekend.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
The Super Bowl right halftime a couple of years ago.
But the biggest name and the one that the NHL
was hoping for, is out. Ryan Reynolds, the Hollywood star
and his group have dropped out of the bidding for
the Oddawa Senators. According to sources, Reynolds requested an exclusive
window to complete the deal. And it was denied.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So he is a Hollywood guy. He could get That's
not how it works.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The deadline for interested groups to submit their final non
binding offer is made the fifteenth. The franchise is valued
by Forbes at eight hundred million dollars. The group that
Reynolds was a part of believed to have was going
to submit a bit of a billion dollars for the
Ottawa Senators.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But that's not over, though, I'll bet you it's not over.
You know, sometimes these guys remember when Artie Marino said
he was going to sell the Angels and then he
changed his mind.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I do remember that, Yeah, saying this is all negotiating
ploy or something.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
This is a shot that the NHL says, wait a minute,
none of these offers are what your offer was going
to be. Why don't we call you back up and say, hey,
would you like to buy the Ottawa Senators? Still Ryan,
he still owns that soccer team. I watched that. My
wife and I watched that show was on.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I saw a few episodes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
It was actually good. It was a well done show.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I don't even like soccer and I like this show
and I was like, wow, they really did a good job.
What was the name of that is welcome? Yeah, that
sounds about right. That was really good. I was stunned.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah. I think the NHL is hoping he'd do something
like that for for hockey him some attention.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But not for now. Now the deal is off. Okay, well,
well that's okay. I have breaking news, breaking news from Coop,
and then I have my fun fact. Yes, thank you,
let's go to the news stats.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I have just purchased Broncos tickets for this season. Wait,
wait for the season. No, no, no, no, no, that's
what I have been.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
I have been on this season ticket waiting list for
like eleven or twelve years, still waiting for that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Waiting list got a little smaller last year, and that
got longer last year, got smaller.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Cool, that's true, that's probably true.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But no, hold on, wait, wait wait, hold on a sec.
Let me guess. Hold on a sec. Let me get
the Broncos schedule. Let's go around the room here round robin,
hold on, hold on a second, hold on a sec.
Let me get the Broncos schedule.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Let's try to get it's not what it's not what
you think.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Wet's guess which game Cooper Loops gonna go to is
a Homer road game.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
It is a proper Los Angeles for the Chargers.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It's a it's a it's the Chargers game.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, that was an exciting cool But you've been.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Going to a soldier field to see the Broncos and the Bears.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Oh, that would be a good trip. Chicago's a good city.
I like going to Chicago.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
I don't know if Chicago and I know Eddie will
just agree with me, obviously, but I just I feel
like traveling for football stadiums is not as uh rewarding
as the baseball stadiums, I would say pretty much.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
They're all Yeah, football stadium not that different.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah, there's something you want to travel for them, like, yeah, lamba,
of course.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I actually think Chicago Stadium is pretty cool. I mean
it looks so right.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, you better go there quick because suburbs the horse
track out and.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
That those are the two oldest ones, right, the ones
that we just named.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, that's yeah. You can go to the Coliseum in
LA where the first Super Bowl was held, but they
don't play NFL USC plays.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I've I've seen USC play there.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's the coliseum. I haven't been there since they're read
it has gotten a lot better, but still narrowheads pretty old, right, Yeah,
there's my guys in Kansas City say, once the Royals
are getting a new ballpark downtown, that the Chiefs are
going to then demand a new stadium.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Of course they are kidding me.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
They're not going to be an arrowhead that much longer.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
One of the Royals getting a new building downtown.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You're building a downtown entertainment complex. And maybe it's in
a few.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Years, but was this past after they won the World
Series and that's usually how it goes.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I don't. You're probably right, I don't. I don't know.
They got a new owner though since then.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
So I was actually thinking of going to Kansas City
for for an Angels game this season.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You should I've been that. It was pretty cool. But
it's cool because that I remember the watching Royals games
back when they had good players, like every year they
had good players.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
I always thought would be cool.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
But it's kind of like a it's like a minor
league park is like that's.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
No, it's in the no, No, it's it's no. It's
a legitimate sized stadium and they go the fountains in
the outfield. They get the weird royal logo scoreboard and
center field and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, like yeah,
it's it goes right in the same complex as Arrowhead Stadium.
All right, I might there side by side, I might
do that.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Try try some barbecue.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, oh, try the ben mallor uh, chicken fingers. Forget
the barbecue.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Please, he's not gonna have that.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, definitely will you will definitely have that. That's at
the landing it's in and it's actually in Liberty, Missouri,
which is right near where it's It's a few miles
away from one of the Royals and the Chiefs. So yeah,
all right. On that note, it is these sports teams.
I don't know people watch sports. So how about this story?
Speaking of wild we have a lot of time for this,
(29:22):
but I'll get to it right now. Anyway, Philadelphia viral
video from a Philly Blue Jays game this week. Now,
the other day there was there were people throwing hot dogs.
This one is from a beautiful young lady who did
not seem that interested in the action on the field.
She was wearing a Phillies jersey. Oh yeah, but many
people in the crowd seem to be bothered because she was.
(29:45):
I don't think this was a full lap dance, but
she was definitely grinding on whoever the guy was she
was with there at the Phillies game. The video has
been seen millions of times here because one thing men
love is good looking women grinding.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
They seem to enjoy that a lot. And so we've
now found out who this woman is. By the way,
have you did you see who she is? Coop? You've
seen the video I did.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
And her name is.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
You don't think she's all?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Is it? Adrian Fobby f A B I I believe
is her name. She's a everyone's in Instagram amer I'm
on Instagram, my Instagram model. I don't think she's that.
I don't ever heard of her. Is she famous?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
I've never heard of her.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I don't know who she is. I don't know, but
there you go. She looked better with the exactly, but
you know I look better on radio, So what the
hell do I know? Anyway? All right, it's uh, that's
(30:50):
interesting Philadelphia. I've been a Phillies games before. I never
saw anybody getting laptance. When I was at a Phillies
game years ago, when they're playing the Dodgers. All right,
it's Ben Malors Show on Fox. We got Mallard of
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went a little long on that segment. Time now for
the Insta Trivia. Malik Willis Malik Wils, Tennessee Titan quarterback
had the second lowest passer rating by a quarterback in
his first three starts over the last decade. Blank the
(31:34):
only quarterback who's stunk more than Malik Willis in his
first three games over the last ten years. That is
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Speaker 1 (32:22):
Malard the third Degree that'll be coming up for you
in a bit next hour Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. But time now for the instant Tivia Malik
Willis of the Titans had the second lowest passer rating
by a quarterback in his first three starts over the
last decade. Blank was the only quarterback who's stunk more
in his first three games over the last ten years.
(32:44):
That is the question. What is the answer? Robin Vegas
going with Hacksaw Jim Duggan as his answer. Sarah Jessica
Parker from the Dixter parody account Page Down, Blaze Star
from Ferg Dog. We know what he's watching. Who else
do we have? Lawrence Phillips late Night drug Testers contribution
(33:04):
to the content. Kitty Cowboy Killer says it's Eddie Thundersticks
Garcia that that is the answer, Midnight Walker going with
Viking Disaster, Christian Ponder, Why would you even ponder passing?
JaMarcus Russell tossed out by Orange and Blue Blood Brett
Kyler Murray from Matt the Warrior Raided rais Fan. That's
(33:26):
some good video of Kyler making his way into the
locker room after a cardinal game. I don't know how
you procured that. Very impressive. You should sell that over
to TMZ. Shane in Des Moines going with Rod Carew
of the Angels on the Ball, Dwayne Haskins from Just Josh.
That's not very nice Television's Patrick Duffy from Luke the
(33:47):
Vending Guy. Billy Vollick tossed out by Fields of Green,
Pat Hayden from Wally our Buddy in the Sunshine State.
Who else do we have? Page down? Page down? Scott
and Rhode Island. Very funny, but will not yet again
make the air. Neil O'Donnell from Callaghan Tim that's his answer.
(34:08):
Brian Hoyer guess by double Ow Mexican in San Diego,
do you have an answer.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Eddie, please, Yes, I'm gonna go with former Saint Louis
Cardinals quarterback Jim Hart.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You gotta have heart, heart heart. No, that is in't correct, Eddie,
the correct answer. I think you were at one of
these games, Eddie, I believe you were witnessing one of
these games. Nathan Peterman, Yes, yeah, but five interceptions and
a half? Was that just five?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Just five?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Just five? It happens. Yeah. Peterman had a sixteen point
eight passer rating in his first three games for the
Buffalo Bills, and somehow is still a backup in the NFL.
I don't know how, but he still. It makes no
sense to me even let's get to it. Here we go.
It's mallard. How about that?
Speaker 4 (34:55):
To the third degree? This is one big gets grilled, No.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
No tossing me? All right, thank you?
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Oh yeah, I'm used tone that.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I mean, you're such a diva, my godlivable.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
Uh So we got some more complaining about the all
NBA lists that were released on Wednesday. Donovan Mitchell tweeted
out f O H l O l uh. That stands
for f out of here.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
One can assume he was referring to not making the
NBA First Team, where Luka Doncic and Shay Gilgis Alexander
were the guard selections.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Ben should Mitchell have been selected.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, I'm not a big Donovan Mitchell guy. I think
he's a fine player, but I don't think of him
as with the All NBA guy. I have no problem
with that. That The only issue, Like Luca doesn't play defense,
he's a he's a designated hitter. But shake Yogis Alexander
former Clippers, done very well. I have no problem with
one of those guys. Luca is a bigger star than
Donna Mitchell, and hey, you know you're in Cleveland. Deal
(36:03):
with it. Next.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
The Tampa Bay Bucks offensive coordinator told the media on
Wednesday that Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask will get even
reps in a competition for the starting job. Ben, who's
starting for the Bucks week one?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh, it's gonna be Baker unless Bakerrifo get hurt, It's
gonna be Bakerfield. Baker Mayfield's a great quarterback in practice.
It's when the games start the problems happen.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Next, Viking's head coach Kevin O'Connell was noncommittal when asked
about the future of Dalvin Cook with the team Ben,
Will Minnesota end up shipping away that start running back?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
So here's where he is. They're trying to trade him.
They haven't gotten the offer they want. If they get
the offer, they're trading Dalvin Cook. He will not be
in Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
How did we do coop ab out failed audition?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
That is a win, just like the Golden State Warriors
are going to win on Friday Night. A win for me,
Go Dubs, Go Dubs.
Hello and welcome. It's our name. Two hour two of
our radio program. We go in the podcast format to
Philadelphia the Delaware Valley. We're Boston the road team able
to sashe their way past Philly. Is there any workable
(00:21):
excuse for the Sixers losing this game? And how much
trouble are the seventy six ers in heading back to
Boston this weekend for a game seven? Also, how likely
are the Celtics to take this series now now that
they've squared things up. We'll discuss that and a whole
lot more. Give it up for our number two here
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it is the Philly Follies on display. Well come in
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about the Western Conference, did a deep dive on that
last hour turn out, the last the parties over for
the Suns as they go home. You want to hear
that monologue. It'll be available on the podcast. If you
(01:49):
missed it, you're gonna gonna wack and download that. You
gotta download that. It'll be up shortly after we get
done with the overnight show. But we head to the
Eastern Conference right now. The Celtics and the Sixers in
the Delaware Valley Game number six. Now Philly. The stakes
are this. Philly wins this game. They advanced to the
Final four. Boston just trying to stay alive, stay alive
(02:11):
and all that. Now, if you didn't see this game,
this was the early game on the card, and maybe
he had something else going on. You might have watched
the Dog Show. Like John who called in earlier, he
was watching the Dog Show, so maybe something like that.
But don't worry, we watched so you would not have to.
Jason Tatum, who was a zero for most of this game,
(02:32):
woke up from hibernation just in the nick of time.
After a career worst shooting performance to start the game,
he ends up scoring sixteen of his nineteen in the
fourth quarter and the Celtics out play the Sixers down
the stretch and they get to win a low scoring
game by modern NBA sc standards, a nine point win.
(02:56):
So the series now tied up at three to three,
and that means Game seven back in the Commonwealth this weekend.
Tickets probably not available, but on the secondary market you
can always get a ticket. But the story here is
on the Philadelphia side of things. WHOA is this a
(03:16):
great story? So let us discuss the question is there
any workuple excuse for the Sixers losing this game? So,
having watched the game, I wish I could get that
time back. I am shaking my head. No, I'm shaking
my head.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
On that, I've got yo yo, paramount pictures and nonverbal
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a tasty cake, which is
what the Celtics made of the Sixers. They turned them
into a nice tasty cake on this particular day. So
number waes, is there any workable excuse for the Sixers?
(04:02):
Of course not there is not. This is a right
turn at the fork in the road, right into the
dog house, right to the doghouse. Philadelphia had every edge
you could possibly ask home cooking check, the Celtics making
a desperation lineup, change, check, Jason Tatum going a wall
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for seventy five or eighty percent of the game, check check, check,
And how does Philadelphia respond? They trailed the entire first half,
They never had a lead, Jason Tatum did nothing in
the first half and it didn't matter. And then when
Philly finally woke up and they took the lead, the
Sixers then watched as a demoned wormhole opened up and
(04:50):
they got sucked into the abyss wowsers, right, I mean
we will. We'll get to Doc Rivers what's up Doc
in a second, But we've got to start with some
of the other things here, and Doc is the overseer
of all this. But we're gonna start with the players
in Philadelphia and the angel of darkness for the Sixers
(05:11):
in this one was James Harden with a wink and
a nod to Joel and b But we're gonna start
with Harden, who was bad to the bone from soup
to nuts, sixteen points, four of sixteen shooting, and he
was zero of six from three point range. It was terrible.
The beard needed a beard in this game, and he
(05:32):
continues to be a carnival act. He's at the midway.
Come down and see James Harden, the human Yo yo.
One game, he'll get you forty. In the next game,
he'll shoot four of sixteen. And then you got to
double whammy. Because even with Harden playing like he had
(05:53):
some kind of medical condition and needed some some kind
of treatment, the Sixers are still leading going to the
fourth not by a lot. It was a couple of points,
but they're leading going to the fourth quarter. You're at
home hardened. Then scores you how many points he scored
in the fourth quarter. He scored as many points in
the fourth quarter as you did, and as many points
(06:13):
as I did. And we didn't even play in the game.
He he puts a goose egg, no points on a
four in that quarter. Joel Embiid, who's the MVP, He's
the bleeping MVP in the NBA. And Joel Embiid took
six shots, he made three to me had six points,
but he was way too passes. That's a moment your team.
(06:37):
You're supposed to put your whole team on your back.
You're the if you're the MVP, the real MVP, you
put your team on your back. You know who's the
real MVP, Nicoley Jokis. That's what Jokic does. He puts
his team on his back. Joel Embid in this game, Nah, yeah,
he was there. You know, a lot of the offense
they weren't even running with Embiid is the focal point
in the fourth quarter. And although the Sixers shot twenty
(06:59):
five percent from the floor, they were even worse from
three point range. They didn't make one in the fourth quarter,
oh of eight in the fourth quarter, And so you
can do the math on that. And then you've got
the curious case of Jason Tatum, who was a bystander
for the vast majority of this game. As we highlighted,
he was one of thirteen from the floor for the
(07:21):
first three quarters. He then outscored the entire Philadelphia professional
basketball team in the fourth quarter. Tatum had sixteen. Every
dumb dumb who played for the Sixers had thirteen total
points in the final twelve minutes. Thirteen points in twelve
(07:42):
minutes in a sport where they give you two or
three depending on where you make the basket when you're
standing on the court for a field goal.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Right now, pach two.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Now we get to the good stuff. How much trouble
are the Sixers in heading back to Boston for a
Game seven this weekend? On the Malard gag Oh meter.
The mal gag Oh meter one to ten, with ten
being you're dead, you have choked. This is a nine
(08:13):
point oh sound the alarm bells a nine point oh.
And the man behind it, the good doctor, the good doctor,
my guy, Doc Rivers. Oh, man, you've done it again. Doc.
I am convinced that Doc when he's fired, and he
will be fired if Philadelphia loses this series. From the
(08:34):
I believe either coach that loses Game seven is gonna
be fired. But Doc Rivers, okay, he ought to run
Paramount Pictures. Why should Doc Rivers wan Paramount Pictures. I'm
gonna tell you because Doc Rivers loves remakes, reboots and sequels.
That is what Doc Rivers likes as a coach. It's
another rise and fall special. I have seen this script before,
(08:57):
and it appears it's going to go the same direction.
Purses foiled again, shiver me Timbers right now. It's not
as drastic, not as drastic, but it's similar. It's a reboot.
It's similar to the one of the five worst sporting
events I've been to as an observer of sport, Game
six of the twenty fifteen Western semi Finals. That night,
(09:21):
the Clippers led by thirteen going to the fourth quarter.
Doc Rivers is on the sidelines, and all the announcers
told me he's got that championship pedigree from the Celtics. Okay,
fair enough, so thirteen point League Game four, Game six,
closeout game, fourth quarter home against the Houston Rockets. And
(09:42):
what happened. A couple of stiffs named Corey Brewer and
Josh Smith then went out and beat Doc Rivers Clippers
and the star. The best player on that team for
Houston was James Harden, and he did not score in
the fourth quarter of that game. The difference, though, in
(10:05):
that night his team, Harden's team won. I don't even
played in the fourth quarter of that game, if I americ correctly,
but he didn't score. The difference is Doc Rivers coaching
James Harden right. In this game, Jason Tatum pretty much
had a zero for most of the game in terms
of impact on the game offensively, and he's the super
(10:25):
nova for the Celtics, and then he ends up going
bonkers late in the game and for Philadelphia Stars fading
with Harden and Mbid as we've documented in the fourth
quarter and Doc Rivers. He should hold a webinar to
teach other coaches his secret. Give me the diagnosis here
on how he is able to get headline level ballplayers
(10:48):
to vanish in Key Molmons. It's I'm sure it's just
a coincidence, unless it's not that day that one of
the worst events I've ever been through, that Game six
between the Rockets and Clippers back in twenty fifteen, Blake
Griffin was zero for five in the fourth quarter. You
know where Blake Griffin is right now. He's getting hemorrhoids
on the Celtics bench. The one common denominator Glenn Rivers.
(11:12):
Glen Rivers is the common denominator, right, final point, So
how likely are the Celtics now to close the door.
They'll be at home, they will be favored. They're actually
a slight favorite in this game in Game six, So
I'm gonna give the Celtics an eighty five percent chance
eighty five percent chance. Using maler math, the only things
(11:32):
that will derail the seas are rice crispies and let
him play Joe. Let him play Joe, Missoula, you gotta
watch out for that and snap crackle pop. And despite all,
every indicator points to a serendipity situation for Doc Rivers.
And it's it's like it's written in the stars. That's
(11:53):
what our friend Andrea would say. I'm sure there's some
kind of cosmic event that's affecting this, but it's nonverbal communication.
Now that's the tell to me, that's the tell to me.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Let me give you a little insight here. How I
saw the crumbling in Philly. I was looking at joel Enbeid,
James Harden and Maxie and these guys in Philly. I
was watching their body language in the fourth quarter. And
it has been said that fifty five percent of any
(12:25):
message is conveyed through nonverbal elements. I'm telling you, Philly
is cooked. We have seen this before. We've seen the
body language back in the Lob City days. The things
are going sideways. Doc Rivers is coaching. You. Look at
the players. You've got the slouching shoulders, the eye rolls,
(12:48):
the crossing of the arms, the finger biting, the grinding
of the teeth. That is all all of the same
stuff we saw when Doc was coaching the Clippers back
in the day. Doc rivers his team at this point,
Philadelphia needs rosary beads. Okay, And I'll tell you what
the future holes in my crystal ball for Doc Rivers.
He will be working for TNT or ESPN. That is
(13:12):
where he will be working next season around this time.
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(13:35):
about the City of girly love or sisterhood love. I
don't know what's a term for that. I'm not sure,
but it's a wild story. We'll get to that, and
we'll take your phone calls, the whole thing, and we
will do it next He blew me off at a
hotel near lax.
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Speaker 1 (14:36):
Midnight Walker writes, and he says the Doctor is in
and he's running his game. But Doc in the playoffs,
it's more of the same. The Sixers still live, yes,
that much is true, but with Doc as their head coach,
they soon will be through. Very nice Midnight Walker Berner
(14:56):
counts as what will be the ultimate shot in freud
A watching Doc rivers choke away. Another series lead b
watching Lebron James choke away three games to one lead
in the Western semi Finals. Well, so the answer to
that is all of the above. That would be one
of the great days you can possibly have watching sports,
(15:19):
like one of the great weekends of all time. If
Doc Rivers does it again and then Lebron James goes
out and pukes in a Game seven against the Warriors, Man,
would that be awesome? Boy? Would that? I would? It's
an infatuation situation, he answers all the above. See all
(15:39):
of the above is the answer. Yes, absolutely? Okay, who
else do we have? Page down em at the blind
Seahawk Fences. I already know Doc Rivers is gonna get
slapped around by the Celtics, but it's Doc's favorite game
A Game seven, as we know he loves those, unless
he does not, unless he does not. Digital Space Monkey
(16:03):
rights in and says that take on the Paaramount Company
is a big reason that I think the Writers Guild
does not deserve a single penny. Mores Volunteer high school
students can write a screenplay having all the heavy lifting
done for them. Bad case for AI, and that that's
what it does. Anyway, He says, I disagree, and I
(16:26):
don't want to live in a world where AI is
doing everything. A I could do my job, you could
have a computer program do the show. And do you
want that? Maybe you want that. I don't want that.
I don't want I'm good with that, but of course
I have a vested interest in that. If I didn't
have this job and I didn't care and just put
on a robot voice, that happened. In music, the music
business is pretty much all automated. There's very few DJs
(16:49):
actually there. It's pretty much automated other than your morning
show and just streaming music, which is all AI and
people like that. And so maybe people don't really want
to hear another human being talk or talk to the
human being, but I think they actually do. Tony wrights
In says Doc Rivers will soon be out of Philly
after they lose Game seven on Sunday. He says, there
(17:13):
you go. Matt wrights In says James Harden gagging in
a potential closeout game shocking unless it's not. He was
the lead choker in the epic gag job in the
twenty eighteen Western Conference Finals against the Warriors, when the
Roquettes chunked up twenty seven to three pointers in a
row without a single one. Mate, I remember that night.
(17:34):
That was a good night. Also, that was a great night.
That was wonderful. That's wonder well. Maverick wrights In says,
a demonic black hole. That's a new one. Definitely stealing it.
He says, there, I don't know if I said exactly that.
I don't know. I don't remember. Anyway, Let's go to
the phones and we'll take a call. I actually want
(17:56):
to play it. Let's play this Doc Rivers. Sound by Doc.
If there's anybody in the history of sports that knows
how to talk after his team went out there and
dropped the deuce right at mid court, it is Doc Rivers.
Here is Doc Rivers who's coming up with his latex
excuse for his team gagging.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
We got to move the ball, we gotta trust, we
gotta run our stuff. We got extreme stuff. I thought
tonight was similar to like Game two. To me, we
just didn't trust our stuff stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, this in the locker room, Madie, they passed out
some stuff before the game and then they like that.
I think that's what he meant. I don't know what
do you think he meant, Eddie, I.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Don't know what.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I don't know what he meant.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
You know, he didn't trust the curve.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, stuff in baseball. I heard that you didn't have
good Stuffy, heard that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Max Max Schurzer didn't his stuff. You know, he had
to use some stuff on the ball, and.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Beat sweeper wasn't working.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate. Hate Doc Rivers. Oh my god,
so man, I tried to compose myself as I was
watching the game. I think it looks like every Tatum
basket there in the fourth court. I got a little
more excited.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Is he the Dave Roberts of basketball? Or is Dave
Roberts the Doc Rivers?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Now? Somebody and I forget who it was. I think
it might have been our friend from the Bay who
had a great line. I want to give him credit.
Matt the Warrior Raider fan. He said that Doc Rivers
is the Mike Soosha of the NBA, right because Socia
won with the Angels and then just kind of hung
around and a lot of mediocre teams after that, and
then he finally got rid of him. And that's pretty
(19:32):
much Doc Rivers. That's the diagnosis on Doc Rivers, like
Doc Rivers won with the Celtics, which they carried him.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Paul pitt I liked him in that spot. I really did.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Garnett and those guys carried him to the championship. And
then ever since then, he's been hanging out and playing
footsie on the with the media and not providing very
tantalizing basketball in the postseason with teams that many people
believe should actually go far in the playoffs. Le's go
to the phones. Andrea is in the Bay Area and
(20:01):
she has her star sharts out. Some call her the
Star Lady. We call her a friend. Hello Andrea, Hello Ben?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
If I was any better, I would be a Booker
but not Devin Booker. Man, he you what stinks? What
a gelappie?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah? Well, you know, we got a lot going on,
and I'm looking forward to Mercury coming out of retrograd
on May fourteenth. Let's start with that. And I actually
watched some Padres games on MOLB Network.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
My condolences.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, you know, I'll tell you that was right finger,
that scorpio Bob Melvin had.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, we're gonna be talking about that, Bob Melvin very mellow.
Bob Melvin never a good SoundBite ever. Bob Melvin tore
into the Padres. I loved it. It was great.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, it was just a thing. Then she managed the
eight for about eleven years, and that was one of
the lowest payrolls. The Padres have the third highest payroll,
only behind the Mets, which is three hundred and thirty
six million, and the Yankees to sixty eight million. The
Padres are two hundred and fifty one million dollars. So
(21:17):
there's a lot of expectations there. And you know all
the marquee players that they signed, and you know Soto,
and you know all the players that they paid huge
amounts of money for. And I think it was good
that he actually got ejected for arguing with the umpire
now trying to fire up the team. You know, we
(21:37):
didn't agree with the balls and the strikes. So I
really think that sometimes, you know, righteous anger is in order,
and Scorpios have that intensity, and I really think that,
you know, there's seventeen and seventeen, they're playing the Dodgers
the next three games, so that you know, time will tell.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I have an alternative theory on why Bob Melvin did that.
I will share that in my monologue next hour, because
I think there's something else going on behind the scenes
there with the Padres and that Bob Melvin. That's just
not his character. He doesn't normally act like that. I
just some other stuff going on in the hierarchy there
in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Preller, you mean, well see.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
My blow my cover on this year, please, but that'll
be next hour. Andrea, have a great weekend, thank you.
I'm sure there'll be plenty to talk about with all
these Game sevens in the NBA. When we cracked these
microphones again, there she goes, get that bathtub going there?
Our friend, I thought I heard. I don't know, maybe
(22:53):
I was hearing things in my headphones. I thought I
heard something, but Coop has not confirmed it, but it
sounded to me like I heard. Well, let's leave them.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
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Speaker 3 (23:39):
Interesting in the NHL, the Ottawa Senators not exactly the
Marquis franchise in the NHL. There's a bidding war going
on for them, and there's these celebrities are all attaching
themselves to these bids. We have Snoop Dogg, You Dog
the Weekend has part is a part of another group. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I don't know anyone that doesn't like that Weekend.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
The Super Bowl right halftime a couple of years ago.
But the biggest name and the one that the NHL
was hoping for, is out. Ryan Reynolds, the Hollywood star
and his group have dropped out of the bidding for
the Oddawa Senators. According to sources, Reynolds requested an exclusive
window to complete the deal. And it was denied.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
So he is a Hollywood guy. He could get That's
not how it works.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The deadline for interested groups to submit their final non
binding offer is made the fifteenth. The franchise is valued
by Forbes at eight hundred million dollars. The group that
Reynolds was a part of believed to have was going
to submit a bit of a billion dollars for the
Ottawa Senators.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But that's not over, though, I'll bet you it's not over.
You know, sometimes these guys remember when Artie Marino said
he was going to sell the Angels and then he
changed his mind.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I do remember that, Yeah, saying this is all negotiating
ploy or something.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
This is a shot that the NHL says, wait a minute,
none of these offers are what your offer was going
to be. Why don't we call you back up and say, hey,
would you like to buy the Ottawa Senators? Still Ryan,
he still owns that soccer team. I watched that. My
wife and I watched that show was on.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I saw a few episodes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
It was actually good. It was a well done show.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I don't even like soccer and I like this show
and I was like, wow, they really did a good job.
What was the name of that is welcome? Yeah, that
sounds about right. That was really good. I was stunned.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah. I think the NHL is hoping he'd do something
like that for for hockey him some attention.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But not for now. Now the deal is off. Okay, well,
well that's okay. I have breaking news, breaking news from Coop,
and then I have my fun fact. Yes, thank you,
let's go to the news stats.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I have just purchased Broncos tickets for this season. Wait,
wait for the season. No, no, no, no, no, that's
what I have been.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
I have been on this season ticket waiting list for
like eleven or twelve years, still waiting for that.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Waiting list got a little smaller last year, and that
got longer last year, got smaller.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Cool, that's true, that's probably true.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But no, hold on, wait, wait wait, hold on a sec.
Let me guess. Hold on a sec. Let me get
the Broncos schedule. Let's go around the room here round robin,
hold on, hold on a second, hold on a sec.
Let me get the Broncos schedule.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Let's try to get it's not what it's not what
you think.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Wet's guess which game Cooper Loops gonna go to is
a Homer road game.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
It is a proper Los Angeles for the Chargers.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
It's a it's a it's the Chargers game.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, that was an exciting cool But you've been.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Going to a soldier field to see the Broncos and the Bears.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Oh, that would be a good trip. Chicago's a good city.
I like going to Chicago.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
I don't know if Chicago and I know Eddie will
just agree with me, obviously, but I just I feel
like traveling for football stadiums is not as uh rewarding
as the baseball stadiums, I would say pretty much.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
They're all Yeah, football stadium not that different.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Yeah, there's something you want to travel for them, like, yeah, lamba,
of course.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I actually think Chicago Stadium is pretty cool. I mean
it looks so right.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, you better go there quick because suburbs the horse
track out and.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
That those are the two oldest ones, right, the ones
that we just named.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah, that's yeah. You can go to the Coliseum in
LA where the first Super Bowl was held, but they
don't play NFL USC plays.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I've I've seen USC play there.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's the coliseum. I haven't been there since they're read
it has gotten a lot better, but still narrowheads pretty old, right, Yeah,
there's my guys in Kansas City say, once the Royals
are getting a new ballpark downtown, that the Chiefs are
going to then demand a new stadium.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Of course they are kidding me.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
They're not going to be an arrowhead that much longer.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
One of the Royals getting a new building downtown.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
You're building a downtown entertainment complex. And maybe it's in
a few.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Years, but was this past after they won the World
Series and that's usually how it goes.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I don't. You're probably right, I don't. I don't know.
They got a new owner though since then.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
So I was actually thinking of going to Kansas City
for for an Angels game this season.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You should I've been that. It was pretty cool. But
it's cool because that I remember the watching Royals games
back when they had good players, like every year they
had good players.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
I always thought would be cool.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
But it's kind of like a it's like a minor
league park is like that's.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
No, it's in the no, No, it's it's no. It's
a legitimate sized stadium and they go the fountains in
the outfield. They get the weird royal logo scoreboard and
center field and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, like yeah,
it's it goes right in the same complex as Arrowhead Stadium.
All right, I might there side by side, I might
do that.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Try try some barbecue.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, oh, try the ben mallor uh, chicken fingers. Forget
the barbecue.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Please, he's not gonna have that.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, definitely will you will definitely have that. That's at
the landing it's in and it's actually in Liberty, Missouri,
which is right near where it's It's a few miles
away from one of the Royals and the Chiefs. So yeah,
all right. On that note, it is these sports teams.
I don't know people watch sports. So how about this story?
Speaking of wild we have a lot of time for this,
(29:22):
but I'll get to it right now. Anyway, Philadelphia viral
video from a Philly Blue Jays game this week. Now,
the other day there was there were people throwing hot dogs.
This one is from a beautiful young lady who did
not seem that interested in the action on the field.
She was wearing a Phillies jersey. Oh yeah, but many
people in the crowd seem to be bothered because she was.
(29:45):
I don't think this was a full lap dance, but
she was definitely grinding on whoever the guy was she
was with there at the Phillies game. The video has
been seen millions of times here because one thing men
love is good looking women grinding.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
They seem to enjoy that a lot. And so we've
now found out who this woman is. By the way,
have you did you see who she is? Coop? You've
seen the video I did.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
And her name is.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
You don't think she's all?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Is it? Adrian Fobby f A B I I believe
is her name. She's a everyone's in Instagram amer I'm
on Instagram, my Instagram model. I don't think she's that.
I don't ever heard of her. Is she famous?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
I've never heard of her.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I don't know who she is. I don't know, but
there you go. She looked better with the exactly, but
you know I look better on radio, So what the
hell do I know? Anyway? All right, it's uh, that's
(30:50):
interesting Philadelphia. I've been a Phillies games before. I never
saw anybody getting laptance. When I was at a Phillies
game years ago, when they're playing the Dodgers. All right,
it's Ben Malors Show on Fox. We got Mallard of
the third degree and have I said? This portion of
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fun factor to the hour till next hour because we
went a little long on that segment. Time now for
the Insta Trivia. Malik Willis Malik Wils, Tennessee Titan quarterback
had the second lowest passer rating by a quarterback in
his first three starts over the last decade. Blank the
(31:34):
only quarterback who's stunk more than Malik Willis in his
first three games over the last ten years. That is
the Insterta Trivia. The answer next.
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Speaker 1 (32:22):
Malard the third Degree that'll be coming up for you
in a bit next hour Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. But time now for the instant Tivia Malik
Willis of the Titans had the second lowest passer rating
by a quarterback in his first three starts over the
last decade. Blank was the only quarterback who's stunk more
in his first three games over the last ten years.
(32:44):
That is the question. What is the answer? Robin Vegas
going with Hacksaw Jim Duggan as his answer. Sarah Jessica
Parker from the Dixter parody account Page Down, Blaze Star
from Ferg Dog. We know what he's watching. Who else
do we have? Lawrence Phillips late Night drug Testers contribution
(33:04):
to the content. Kitty Cowboy Killer says it's Eddie Thundersticks
Garcia that that is the answer, Midnight Walker going with
Viking Disaster, Christian Ponder, Why would you even ponder passing?
JaMarcus Russell tossed out by Orange and Blue Blood Brett
Kyler Murray from Matt the Warrior Raided rais Fan. That's
(33:26):
some good video of Kyler making his way into the
locker room after a cardinal game. I don't know how
you procured that. Very impressive. You should sell that over
to TMZ. Shane in Des Moines going with Rod Carew
of the Angels on the Ball, Dwayne Haskins from Just Josh.
That's not very nice Television's Patrick Duffy from Luke the
(33:47):
Vending Guy. Billy Vollick tossed out by Fields of Green,
Pat Hayden from Wally our Buddy in the Sunshine State.
Who else do we have? Page down? Page down? Scott
and Rhode Island. Very funny, but will not yet again
make the air. Neil O'Donnell from Callaghan Tim that's his answer.
(34:08):
Brian Hoyer guess by double Ow Mexican in San Diego,
do you have an answer.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Eddie, please, Yes, I'm gonna go with former Saint Louis
Cardinals quarterback Jim Hart.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You gotta have heart, heart heart. No, that is in't correct, Eddie,
the correct answer. I think you were at one of
these games, Eddie, I believe you were witnessing one of
these games. Nathan Peterman, Yes, yeah, but five interceptions and
a half? Was that just five?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Just five?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Just five? It happens. Yeah. Peterman had a sixteen point
eight passer rating in his first three games for the
Buffalo Bills, and somehow is still a backup in the NFL.
I don't know how, but he still. It makes no
sense to me even let's get to it. Here we go.
It's mallard. How about that?
Speaker 4 (34:55):
To the third degree? This is one big gets grilled, No.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
No tossing me? All right, thank you?
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Oh yeah, I'm used tone that.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I mean, you're such a diva, my godlivable.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
Uh So we got some more complaining about the all
NBA lists that were released on Wednesday. Donovan Mitchell tweeted
out f O H l O l uh. That stands
for f out of here.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
One can assume he was referring to not making the
NBA First Team, where Luka Doncic and Shay Gilgis Alexander
were the guard selections.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Ben should Mitchell have been selected.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
No, I'm not a big Donovan Mitchell guy. I think
he's a fine player, but I don't think of him
as with the All NBA guy. I have no problem
with that. That The only issue, Like Luca doesn't play defense,
he's a he's a designated hitter. But shake Yogis Alexander
former Clippers, done very well. I have no problem with
one of those guys. Luca is a bigger star than
Donna Mitchell, and hey, you know you're in Cleveland. Deal
(36:03):
with it. Next.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
The Tampa Bay Bucks offensive coordinator told the media on
Wednesday that Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask will get even
reps in a competition for the starting job. Ben, who's
starting for the Bucks week one?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh, it's gonna be Baker unless Bakerrifo get hurt, It's
gonna be Bakerfield. Baker Mayfield's a great quarterback in practice.
It's when the games start the problems happen.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Next, Viking's head coach Kevin O'Connell was noncommittal when asked
about the future of Dalvin Cook with the team Ben,
Will Minnesota end up shipping away that start running back?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
So here's where he is. They're trying to trade him.
They haven't gotten the offer they want. If they get
the offer, they're trading Dalvin Cook. He will not be
in Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
How did we do coop ab out failed audition?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
That is a win, just like the Golden State Warriors
are going to win on Friday Night. A win for me,
Go Dubs, Go Dubs.
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