May 12, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the OKC Thunder evening their series against the Nuggets and how concerned Denver should be with Nikola Jokic, if it was "unfair" of the NBA to have the Thunder/Nuggets playing an early game on Sunday, Dave Roberts defending former Rockies manager Bud Black, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number two. Our number two
is ready for you. And we go to Denver where
if you like bricks and missed layups and jump shots,
this was the game for you. How concerned should the
Nuggets be with the struggles though of Nikola Jokic, as
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he said three stinkers in a row? Also, was it
dangerous and unfair of the NBA to have the Thunder
and Nuggets play the early game on Mother's Day?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
There are actually reports saying it was dangerous and unfair
to play a basketball game.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Also, where are things going for OKC at this point
in time? Have they figured some magic formula out? We'll
talk about that. And in baseball, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts
defending Bud Black, who was bush whacked his manager in Colorado,
saying that not even Casey Stangel could change the outcome
for the Rockies. Begs of the question did Bud Black
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get a raw deal? We'll talk about that. All of
it coming up right now here. It is our number two.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
A Rocky Mountain. Low. How low can you go? Wel come?
In the beginning of another hour of The Ben Mather Show,
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would be. So our lead this hour is from the
pro Bouncy Ball World. Not a great game. It was
the early game on the Mother's Day, the doubleheader action
and how did it turn out?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If you enjoy missed jump shots, if you enjoy missed layups,
it was a cornucopia of fun fun fun fun fun
fun fun fun. So that is our lead here Game
number four, that's right. Game four, Nuggets and Thunder Denver
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looking to take a three games to one lead over
ok C put a choke hold on this series in
the Western Conference semi finals. Okay see, trying to snake
their way back even and get home court advantage back.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Now, we were.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Told after the Nuggets won on Friday they had the
championship pedigree. That's the plays of a champion. H Yeah,
we were told that. So they clearly must have won
the game on Sunday. But that was the early game
on Mother's Day there, and maybe you didn't watch it,
and we did. It's our good mitzvah of the day.
We did it for you. There was well, I could
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have watched baseball. There was some baseball games on.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I may or may not have flipped over a couple.
Just say it. I watched most of it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So Shay juggas Alexander nine of his twenty five points
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And you don't remember how you got there. You remember
that you got there as the number one overall seed.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
The Thunder ninety two to eighty seven win in Game four,
So okaysee Dodges a three to one sinkhole and instead
Abra cadabra, hocus Pocus. The Thunder Kyrie's Thunder, not Kyrie
Irving the other Kyrie. He lives in okac He's a
big fan of the show. So his thunder are now
even up to to Game five will be on Tuesday,
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Tuesday night, and so we have time to look at
that now. As we were reminded last hour when Tyrese
Halliburton of the Pacers pointed outunt that when the team loses,
he doesn't have to talk. When they win, he's cool
with talking. So the better story is in the losing
locker room. So that is where we will go. That
is where our focus will be in much of the
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conversation on the Joker.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What has happened to the Joker? What has happened?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh m gree the greatest player of this generation, grets
big Man in the conversation with all time legends of
the game, and he has been.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Dreadful of late.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So let us get into it the question how concerned,
how concerned should the Nuggets be with Nikola Jokic at
this point? So I've got Walmart Tears for Fears and
Rumpel Stiltskin and we will combine all of these things together,
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and we are going to make rocky mountain oysters, which
I had to eat.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I lost to Bed.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I think all the Nuggets players should have to eat
rocky mountain oysters after that shooting performance.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Holy crap. All right.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So to answer the question, how concerned should the Nuggets
be with Nikola Jokice on the patented Mallard scale of
concern from one to ten Malar scale of concern from
one to ten, with ten being you're smoking hookah with
Luca out of the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's the highest level.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I am at an eight point oh eight point oh
on the Malard scale of concern for Nikola Jokicic. And
here's why they say that seeing is believing whoever they are,
and we're not used to seeing what we're seeing from
ni Kola Jokics.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Here.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Denver was up by eight points early in the fourth quarter.
It was a disgusting offensive performance by both teams. More
on that in a second, but they were up by eight.
So if you saw the game, Denver was up seventy
one to sixty three. Now, eight is not a game
changing lead or anything like that. But you have an
eight point lead, you're at home it's the fourth quarter.
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The final eleven minutes and twenty six seconds of that
basketball game was the.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Big bang, big clank.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Whatever you want to call it. There now Nikola Jokic
in particular, we're talking about him. The final eleven minutes
of that game. He took seven shots, he only made
two of them, and the Nuggets were outscored by thirteen
points to close the game. Denver from an eight point
lead to the end of the game shot less than
thirty percent. They took twenty one shots. They missed a
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mind boggling fifteen of the twenty one. Not all of
them were from three point range, although they really did
suck from three point range. They took eleven three pointers
up up eight to the end of the game. They
made one. That is nine point one percent. Nine point
one percent. So the Nuggets, what they did is they
went to Walmart. They went down to Walmart and they
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bought some bicycle playing cards. They got those out and
they built this house of cards. And then they pulled
the joker out of the house of cards and the
whole thing came tumbling down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down down down. You get the point. Jokic. He
looked frazzled. He played bedraggled. I've not seen him like
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this maybe when he was early in his career and
nobody he was drafted, the famous story during a Taco
bell commercial and nobody knew who he was, and people
said he was going to be good in Denver and
You're like, yeah, sure, he's gonna be good. Yeah, right,
And but since he established himself, I cannot recall a
stink bomb stretch of games this bat Now, we don't
watch every Nuggets game, right, we pay attention to the playoffs.
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And this is brutal and so frazzled on the court.
And that's what he looked like. And then the eyeball
test confirmed that last three games, Nikola Jokic shooting thirty
three point three percent half the Sign of the Devil,
eighteen percent from three point range, which is dreadful, and
he's got fifteen assists and sixteen turnovers combined in the
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last three games.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Pay yeah, what stinks Now?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That is the worst three game stretch shooting for Jokic
in the last seven years. He is completely befuddled. But
it's not because of anything Oklahoma City's doing. I'm not
no notice it. Maybe I'm missing it, but if you
can tell me he helped me out. I've not noticed
anything that the Thunder are doing that is any different
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than the other teams are attempting to do. So this
is more of a problem with Jokic and whether my
theory is he just got worn down, it's really Zubots.
The Clippers wore his ass down and they took it.
Took so much effort to beat the Clips at Jokic.
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He's not in the greatest shape in the world and
he's being exposed here. He's not in great physical condition,
didn't have a lot of extra time off, which is.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Part of the deal.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Right, He's running on fumes, there's a lot of miles
on the car, and Zubots and the Clippers wore them out.
Now the Thunder are benefiting yet again, another team benefiting
from the generosity of the Clippers that they wore out.
Zubots wore out Jokic, and now the team that benefits
is Oklahoma City because of the Clippers yet again helping
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a team advance in the playoffs. Pathetic, all right, now,
page two, So one of the great underlying storylines, if
you will, I don't know if I'm saying that the
right way. In this particular series, one of the great
talking points is the amount of time between Game three
and Game four or go. We had Jeff and Denver,
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that nugget lapdog who called up last hour, but about
thirty six hours after the overtime Game three Friday night
game which went to the Nuggets, they had the early
television window on Mother's Day, and that robbed many media
elites the wrong way. They were very upset. To you,
the basketball media elites were offended their sensibilities.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It's not fair. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
We had a reporter I've never heard of from the
Athletic who said it was absolutely ridiculous of the NBA
to have the series go every other day and then
put Game four in the early portion of the Sunday schedule,
having Game three is the late game on Friday. He
added on quote, it's actually kind of dangerous. Now we looked,
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nobody died, so that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
We made it through the game. No one dropped dead
from playing in the game early on Mother's Day, so
that's positive. Ze.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You talk about risking your life, bro, I ain't playing.
I was like, I'm risking my light. Bra it's Blake Snell.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So Charles Barkley then chimed in on television and he
got into the action. Sir Charles, who you would not
expect this take like you would expect the opposite take.
You would not expect this take from Charles Barkley. But
Charles Barkley went on a rant on TNT. He said,
I thought what the NBA did to the Nuggets was unfair.
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It was unfair, Barkley said, making them play late Friday
night and then early afternoon, not on Saturday, mind you
on Sunday. He said, So all right, let's break it
down like this. So you have one reporter say it
was dangerous, borderline danger actually kind of dangerous, kind of dangerous.
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A reporter said, you have Charles Barkley who said it's unfair.
It's unfair of the NBA to have the Thunder and
Nuggets play the early game on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So question question is is.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
This ridiculous as it sounds? This is insane to the membrane.
To me, it is I just I don't I don't
get it. They're playing basketball. They played forty eight minutes
and they had to pay. Oh my God, they had
to play overtime an extra few minutes. And they do
that in the span of about two hours, right, two
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hours and forty minutes or whatever, it is less than that.
Two twenty these games with all the TV timeouts and
all the stoppages and all.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That stuff, It's like, what are we doing? Seriously?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Playoffs? I mean, I do not understand. It wasn't unfair.
It was even both teams had to play the same schedule.
The schedule is also made in advance. It's made, by
the way for television. I'll make a deal with you.
If these guys want, all these idiots in the media
who are, by the way, making money because of this,
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why not just play. Have no television, have no media coverage.
You can play whenever the f you want. How about that.
Go out there and knock your lights out, play with.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No one to watch. You're not gonna make any real money.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Because it's all directed through television, all funnel through TV.
But go out there, take a week off, play like
the NFL. These NBA guys are such softies. Play once
a week and you'll complain about that, goes, Oh, it's
too demanding, so stupid, It is so ridiculous that we're
at the point now where you had to you had
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a game on a Friday night, you had it Sunday,
had Saturday off, and you had to play on Sunday.
The game started at what one thirty local time? Oh
my god, dangerous, unfair, dangerous.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
God. Do you imagine if.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The like the military, approach things that way, like the
you know, the Marines have the slogan embrace the suck.
The NBA bitch about the suck. That's the NBA mantra.
Complain about it, complain about it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
The they used to play back to backs in the
NBA playoffs, Oh my god, horror of horrors, draconian, the
Middle Ages.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
The NHL, which is a much more demanding, manly sport, hockey.
We don't talk about it because you know, more people
watch basketball, but it's much more demanding physically to play
hockey than this basketball. And the NHL they, if I'm
not mistaken, they go every other day, that's their schedule,
every other day in the playoffs, every other day. But
the NBA guys in the media that cover the NBA,
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the toll lickors. It's pathetic and wow, I mean so
as far as where things are looking now for Oklahoma
City at this particular point.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Obviously they're looking up.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I would say it's not anything that Oklahoma City is
doing per se. I don't think they've found some cheat
code to stop to call the Oakic again the War
of Attrition, which is supposed to be part of this,
that is supposed to be part of the deal, that
it's the Tiers for Fear Song, War of Attrition that
you are in this and the team that stands at
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the end is the one that survived the War of Attrition,
the Tears for Fear Song. And right now Oklahoma City
is even up with the Nuggets, and so we'll see
who can win the last two of the last three games.
But again, I don't think it's anything Oklahoma's doing that
is great here. That's why they're in position. It was
a tough afternoon for both teams. Oklahoma City shot thirty
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five percent and won the game because the Nuggets were worse.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But it's not because they were good. They weren't good.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
They didn't shoot well from anybody twenty four percent from
three point range. It's not like anyone did it in
the first quarter. Was it was like a make a
wish situation with these guys out there with both teams.
So anyway, I we'll move away from that. We'll go
to baseball quickly. We had a managerial change and a
Mallard monologue requested by supermarket Steve. So everyone wants hot
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Rocky talk. So here's some hot Rocky talk a few
good minutes. So the Rockies announced on a Sunday after
they won a game. After they won a game, they
decided that, you know, we have decommissioned our manager, Bud Black,
and we've also whacked his buddy, the bench coach, Mike Redmond.
They have been fired. They're out of here, see you later.
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So somebody named Warren Schaeffer, We have no idea who
that is. He is now the interim manager of the Rockies.
And Clint Hurdle we've heard of him. He used to
manage the Rockies. He's back as the interim bench coach. Okay,
So then we add Dave Roberts, not a Rocky, a Dodger.
Dave Roberts comment after the Dodgers poll axe the Diamondbacks,
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Dave Roberts ran to defend Bud Black, the Dodger manager
said not even Casey Stangele could change the outcome for
the Rockies. That was the money quote, which begs the
question did Bud Black get a raw deal from the Rockies?
And I have a two words. One starts with an
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A and one starts with an N. Absolutely not, absolutely not.
Colorado has sucked the entire time Bud Black has been there. Now,
they're epically bad, they are historically bad.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
They are Hall of Fame level.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Trash this year. There's no even the mascots having a
bad year for the Rockies right now. And when you
are the worst team in baseball and then lose a
game twenty one to nothing, your manager gets fired.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
That is universally how it works.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
They lost on Saturday twenty one of them the Rockies.
Of course, they couldn't get all their ducks lined up.
They had to wait till after the game on Sunday
to fire Bud Black. They should have fired him on
Saturday night, but they didn't. And so as far as
Dave Roberts part of this, you get it. Dave Roberts
is like, listen, this is a guy I beat up on.
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And all coaches defend coaches, all managers defend managers. That
doesn't work in the radio. By the way, other talk
shows don't defend other talk shows. They rip other talk shows.
But in sports, coaches always look out for other coaches, right,
the managers always look up.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So it's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But Bud Black was tasked with being a cousin of Rumpelstiltskin.
He was asked to spin worthless dust into diamonds, and
he has failed every year he's been there. The team
has gotten progressively worse in terms of talent. But even
when they had talent there, and they had some ballplayers
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with Bud Black, and it never worked. It never worked.
And so yeah, you got a tough hand to cards.
You shouldn't be like a little league team, which is
what the Rockies are this year. You know, maybe don't hit,
play defense right, So they can't hit, they can't field,
they can't pitch. I don't know what else there is
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other than that they look good in uniform. What happened
to coach them up? What happened to coach them up?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The kill shot? You lose twenty one to nothing, that's it,
You're done, see you later, goodbye. Somebody's got to lose
their job and you're the guy to lose the job
and all that, But don't feel bad for Bud Black.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It is estimated he has earned over.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Seventeen million dollars to manage Rockies Baseball seventeen million and
overall he has spent eighteen years Bud Black as a
major League Baseball skipper with the Podres and the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's a long run, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Me playoff wins Bud Black has in San Diego and
Colorado in eighteen years as a big league manager, He's
got one more than you and I have and Loraina
and Coop. He won one playoff game one number one.
That's it, Bud Black. One playoff win. So yeah, if
I was Dave Roberts, I would be upset because, listen,
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you're guaranteed at least ten wins a year if you're
the Dodgers playing the rock If the Rockies actually get
some decent ballplayers and a manager that knows what they're doing,
they might actually compete with teams like the Dodgers rather
than be at the very bottom in the sewer.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
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Not back to it, Right back to it we go,
and we.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Begin this hour ranting about the Denver Nuggets in the
their matchup there with the Oklahoma City thunder Nut.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Not much going on.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Joe the Ghost Hunner from Ohio rights And says, that's
a bold take and how the people's team wore out
the Nuggets. Nobody else has that take. That's my take.
You can't have that take. I own that take, Lorena,
you want that. You can't have that take, Loreeda, that's right.
You don't want my take. You have your own takes.
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Do not take my take. That's my take. Now, King
Roy wrights And says, I knew the NBA was soft,
but I didn't realize this soft. It's not like either
team had an extra day of rest or it was
a travel day in between.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Noah, That's what I'm saying. So stupid.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
First, Halliburton can't talk to talk now. Players need more
rest just to play bad basketball. Yes, exactly. Let's see here.
John says, if listening to your show and love love
betting table tennis is wrong, I don't want to be right. Wow,
(23:22):
how much you betting John on table tennis? There is
another listener.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I will not name that.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Particular person, but there's somebody else that stays up all
night betting ping pong matches.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, you have a gambling problem.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Only if you lose. Let me point out, if you win,
it's not a gambling problem. If you win, you have
a problem with your taxes because you have to pay
taxes on the winnings. If you lose, you have a
gamling problem. If you win, you have a problem with
the irs. Nick writes in Nick the Wendy's guy is Hey, Ben, buddy,
I totally agree with you. These athletes are paid the
big bucks to play. Get out there and play, you
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whiny babies. So he says, well, here's a blast in
the past. Robin Belcher, Tower, Massachusetts, writes in a show legend.
He says, if I wanted to watch a cornercopia of
miss lay ups and a plethora of bad jump shots,
I would just watch an Angel Reese video.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Wow, all right, there you go? All right? Who else
do we have? Page down?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Mark writes in he says, thanks, big bed, very proud
If my late parents heard my name on sports radio. Yeah, well,
the radio waves go out forever as far as we know,
into the cosmos.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
So this is just going and going and going. There's
a bunch of other planets that are populated by weird.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Beings, non human beings out there somewhere, and so they're
probably listening, big fans. I don't think we get credit
for that. King Roy says, you wonder why Halliburton was
voted mister overrated. He can't stand the heat, so he
obviously got out of the kitchen. Let's go to the phones.
A new call her, a newbie on a non nuby night.
Let's go to Chris, who's in Maryland? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Chris? Welcome.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I'm a little intimidated, but I love your show.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
No, there's nothing to be timid wh would you be intimidating?
There's nothing to be timidating about it?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Well, all right, just want to say that I really
appreciate it. You guys are very entertaining and as a
third shifter, I love all you guys.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well, thank you, and we love you too.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Ben. I'll get to you last what.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I thought you were talking about me.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I'm gonna get to you if I may. All right,
I say Happy Mother's Day to miss Lorena. May I say.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
It's no longer Mother's Day.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Go ahead, Yes, Cooper Loop is when I got thick
of the Celtics Lakers back and forth in the eighties.
Cooper Loop was my favorite Coop. Michael Cooper was my
favorite player. So that's a wonderful name.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, he's actually good. His son, Justin Cooper is Michael
Cooper's son.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Is that correct? Is that true?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
As far as I know, I've I've never met his dad.
So I'm gonna go and then and then.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
But then I love your game and I'm gonna get
to you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Ben all right, now it talks slowly when you praise me,
do not miss a spot. Go ahead, here we go,
Here we go. Now you too, me, I know, turn
you turn your MIC's off. This is now Chris and
Maryland is about to lay it on Thick.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Go ahead, Chris.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Well, I'm gonna say, well, first of all, you play games,
and like my brother, my older brother and my younger brother.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Oh you're in the middle. You're you're a middle child.
Is that what you're saying? Oh, I'm a I'm a
middle child too.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'm a middle do we relate like that, Chris, I
got an older brother, I got younger brother.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I'm stuck in the middle.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Right, So when we play cards or any kind of
games you get, you get a little excited and the
competition gets a little excited. But anyway, little bit, hello,
thank you Lorena.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
All Right, well this is like a deep dive on
the show. Here, this is wonderful, this.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Is I'm not that good.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
What what kind of what kind of work do you
do at night? Wait? Wait, wait, hold on second, what
kind of work do you do at night? What do
you got going on?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
What do you I'm retired?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Oh you're retired. Now, okay, you're not just up all night,
you're hanging out.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You're with us, all right, I got you.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You're you're just you're you're listening on the third hip. Sorry.
Now there's one other brilliant point.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You were going to make, and I'm I'm very excited
about that, Chris, go ahead, make that your last mond.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I was also a journalism person and you you crushed
me there, and I love you for that. Yeah, love
all your what you do there. But when you finished
with Cooper, Cooper Lop is a great one. He was
the guy I picked from the got sick of the
Celtics thing?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah Celtics, right, they retired this number of the Lakers.
All right, now you now you now me here we go.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You you when it comes to your game, love your game?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, he loves the game.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Why don't you let when you pick on the reno?
Why don't you let her do music instead of making
her answer history or geography questions?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Because I think she's a smart she's a smart woman.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
She has to learn these things. She'd get those run too,
she probably would.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
You're not a teacher. You're not her.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You're not her daddy, definitely not.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
But you. But I the way, yeah you you are
so competitive?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well that's right. This is competition. We love competition every
human being living life, as you know. Yeah, you're retired now, Chris,
Why do you pick the clippers over the that we
we make decisions in our youth, Chris, as a child,
I made that decision.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
But I must go anyway.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I want to thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
All right, Well, thank you, Chris. All Right, you can
become a regular Chris. We'll give you a dopey nickname, okay,
if you start calling more off and we'll give you
a silly, Nick Dave, I promise you all right, buddy,
all right, thank you, Chris.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Look at that guy loves our show.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
He knows everyone in the show, and he's excited that
Coops you dad, Michael Cooper at his number retired by
the Laker. That's a big deal and it's very exciting.
Let's go to Darren in San Antonio. Hello, Darren, welcome
you doing there is?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Hey? What's up Dren? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Man?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We're just doing talk radio?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Just enjoying your show tonight.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Very entertaining.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Well, thank you, thank you very How can we help you?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Well, we can talk about some football or basketball.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Oh, I get to pick the top of Should I
flip a coin like they.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Do on the penny versus the penny? I can flip
a penny. We use coins, Ben, we used the penny.
We use an actual penny.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Keep a penny on you?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah? No, I do not have a change on my
I think hold, let me check. I think I might
have I might have a penny. If you don't have
a penny, I don't know if I have a penny,
I might have a quarter. I think I don't know
if i'd do what's that? Okay? All right? Uh, you know,
I don't think it fell out of my wall. I
don't know where. Well, do you have the app on
(30:10):
your phone? That's a virtual penny.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
We shouldn't make like a benny versus a penny app
is what we should do. I should tell the people
at NBC to do that next year. Well I can flip.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
You know what I'll do. I'll flip. I have the company.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
One of the perks of working here at Fox Sports
Radio they give us these lens wipes.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
We get as many as we want. Oh, yes, of lens.
What I'm gonna flip?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So so, Darren, there's a blue side of the lens, right,
a wipe. This is a getting courtesy of management here
at Fox Sports Radio. So there's a blue side and
then there's the the white side.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Hey, Coop, I know who steals all the lens wipes. Now, Cooper,
well you're the one.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
All right, hold, I say, Lorena calling in the air. Okay, Lorena,
here we go flipping it up and again. Now wait,
blue is basketball? White is football? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Let's go with that. All right, we go blue blue, blue,
Oh it's white. You didn't get it White. Oh man,
get it White.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You didn't get it? I said, all right, Uh so
that was basketball, I believe. Is that basketball there?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Basketball? All right? Here we go. Basketball.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You didn't uh watching the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
But uh one's the NBA.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Uh oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
The lottery. Oh, this is big. If you're in San Antonio,
you need to know that.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
That is, I believe coming up tonight the NBA Draft lottery,
which and these used to be one of the biggest
nights when I was a Clipper fan growing up.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
This was like the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Man, you got it windows and this is the Cooper
Flag Lottery edition. Would you like me to simulate the
lottery right now live on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
here we go. I'm going to takeathon. We're gonna simulate
the NBA Draft lottery. Now, the Utah Jazz had the
worst record in the NBA. But you got Utah, Washington, Charlotte,
San Antonio, Charlotte, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Toronto, San Antonio, Houston, Portland, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta,
(32:09):
and San Antonio's got two chances because they have the
Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Pick. Here we go, simulate big money, big money, big money.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Oh my god, the Toronto Raptors have won the draft lottery.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
They will be picking first.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I'm sorry, Uh, these Spurs do not pick until let
me see your page down eighth. So okay, all right,
thank you, all right, Deren, thank you, buddy, appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
All right, here you go. Let me do it again
here one more time, big.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Money, big money, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn's won the lottery.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Now I think you have to let it spend more
one all right, now this to a one more time.
Here we go the big money, big money, big.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Money, and stop stop. Oh say the guys going Darren
san Antonio just won the lottery. Oh I did it again.
San Antonio moved up seven spots and they're gonna get
Cooper Plack. Okay, anyway, it is the Ben Maler Show.
Time now for the play of the day. Let's go
(33:12):
to the Indiana Pacers game, the Pacers laying it on
thick against the Cleveland Cavaliers and moneyball, moneyball, moneyball, moneyball.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Take a listen, Oh you want to play the day?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I was like, listen to what that's only why I
would say the play of the day, Yes, heard.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
With a three to shoot, two to shoot, Oh my,
good old man, what is happening here? Yeah? Oh my,
a three from the left side. It's seventy five to
thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, that was the great Indian. That's a good play
by play guy. I don't know who that is for
the Pacers, good job by him, but that is the
ti Iraq play of the day, a Miles Turner three pointer.
As Cleveland did not show up Indiana did. They led
by as many as forty four points, never trailed. That's
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Time now for the Insta Trivia and then we'll get
to Mallard to the third degree. You can answer this
on x at Van Maller and here is the Insta Tribua.
Yankees captain Aaron Judge is the fourth player hitting four
h nine or better with fourteen home runs or more
in the first forty games of a season. He's the
(34:47):
first player to do that since Blank. Again, the Yankees
captain Aaron Judge, the fourth player in baseball history hit
four h nine or better with fourteen or more home
runs in the first forty games of a season, the
first player to do that since Blank. That's the Insta
trivia the answer.
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But Ton, now for the instat trivia and we'll get
to Mallard with a third degree.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Here's the answert trivia.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yankees Captain Aaron Judge is the fourth player hitting four
h nine are better with fourteen or more home runs
and is in the first forty games of a season,
the first to do it since me?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Mallar prop guy friend of the show going with Benny
the Bopper, haven't heard that sound bite in a while.
Alf the Alien o' Plonner going with Ernie the Great o' piner.
Where have you gone?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Ernie? Where have you gone?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota going with Jose con Seko.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Who else do we have have?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Cranepool from I forty Ian the Mouth of the South,
Jimmy Hart from our buddy Rob in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Who's back?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
King Rory going with the Pope looks a little different
than that photo, Mike Mike Trout guess by Ferd Dog?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Patchie Chief from Ben Maler's favorite cartoon, The super Friends?
Oh yeah, I used to love The super Friends Saturday
Morning Man.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
That was the way to go.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Jose Offerman from Natron Fiend's Lance McCullers Junior Guests by
Mister Irrigation, who's in Houston? Ted Williams from Eke and
Rosevio Minnesota? Larda, what say you, Laraya?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Joe Demagio, Dad, No.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You didn't say right, Jolton Joe DiMaggio, No, that's incorrect.
You know I saw the back of Damagio's head one
time as a kid in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, No, the correct answer is a man that was
probably high on sen Manny Ramirez with the Red Socks
back in twenty oh one.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Man ram here, we got smaller. How about that?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
To the third degree, Yeah, this is one big gets great.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Did you know there's another kubiak son in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Uh? Yeah? It was was he even like the Saints
or something that I think was he Seattle. That's Clint Kubiak.
There's Clay Kubiak. Oh another Yeah, you like Gremlin's cool.
He's with the forty nine ers, Okay.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
And he talked to the media over the weekend and
he was talking about mac Jones and he said that
he believes mac jones can is still capable of being
a starter in this league.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah, do you agree with him? So, he didn't say
he would be a good quarter Could he be a start?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Sure, he started games last year in Jacksonville when there
were injuries.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
The question is can he be good? He can't be good.
He sucks. So, yeah, there's a lot of bad starting quarterbacks.
Could he be good? I don't know. I've seen no
evidence he can be good.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Next, it was reported over the weekend that Kevin Durant
and the Heat have mutual interests. Thank God in joining force.
I'm sure they do. Yes, ben Ken, Durant save Miami.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Why would he say he can't say he couldn't save
the Suns. He didn't save Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Like it's been a minute since Durant has been that guy.
I see no evidence that. I'm I'm not beyond Coop
talking about Durant. I'll probably do seven monologues on Durant
between now and the time he changes teams. But do
I think he's going to turn the fortunes of a
team around. No, unless he goes to the Clippers next.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Reason.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Reports say that quote momentum is building towards the nc
double A lifting its ban on gambling on professional sports.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, Ben, you think there's actually a chance of this happening.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Well, I don't believe in momentum, as you know, Coop,
I know I don't believe that in sports that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
But yes, I think there is.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
There is an efforts like well it say, as long
as you don't bet on college sports, who cares if
you bet a parlay in the NFL, or you bet
on all or whatever. So I could that that would
make sense. They want to limit the amount of punishment
because they are in bed with gambling.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
How did we do pass that is a win? Want
to know this way, Lana.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I am a winner, win, a win, A winner the
game I want
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number two. Our number two
is ready for you. And we go to Denver where
if you like bricks and missed layups and jump shots,
this was the game for you. How concerned should the
Nuggets be with the struggles though of Nikola Jokic, as
(00:23):
he said three stinkers in a row? Also, was it
dangerous and unfair of the NBA to have the Thunder
and Nuggets play the early game on Mother's Day?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
There are actually reports saying it was dangerous and unfair
to play a basketball game.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Also, where are things going for OKC at this point
in time? Have they figured some magic formula out? We'll
talk about that. And in baseball, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts
defending Bud Black, who was bush whacked his manager in Colorado,
saying that not even Casey Stangel could change the outcome
for the Rockies. Begs of the question did Bud Black
(01:02):
get a raw deal? We'll talk about that. All of
it coming up right now here. It is our number two.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
A Rocky Mountain. Low. How low can you go? Wel come?
In the beginning of another hour of The Ben Mather Show,
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Queen means he approves that, and so does the real
Martin at the airport in Denver, although he is boycotting
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would be. So our lead this hour is from the
pro Bouncy Ball World. Not a great game. It was
the early game on the Mother's Day, the doubleheader action
and how did it turn out?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
If you enjoy missed jump shots, if you enjoy missed layups,
it was a cornucopia of fun fun fun fun fun
fun fun fun. So that is our lead here Game
number four, that's right. Game four, Nuggets and Thunder Denver
(03:00):
looking to take a three games to one lead over
ok C put a choke hold on this series in
the Western Conference semi finals. Okay see, trying to snake
their way back even and get home court advantage back.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Now, we were.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Told after the Nuggets won on Friday they had the
championship pedigree. That's the plays of a champion. H Yeah,
we were told that. So they clearly must have won
the game on Sunday. But that was the early game
on Mother's Day there, and maybe you didn't watch it,
and we did. It's our good mitzvah of the day.
We did it for you. There was well, I could
(03:36):
have watched baseball. There was some baseball games on.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I may or may not have flipped over a couple.
Just say it. I watched most of it.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
So Shay juggas Alexander nine of his twenty five points
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And you don't remember how you got there. You remember
that you got there as the number one overall seed.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
The Thunder ninety two to eighty seven win in Game four,
So okaysee Dodges a three to one sinkhole and instead
Abra cadabra, hocus Pocus. The Thunder Kyrie's Thunder, not Kyrie
Irving the other Kyrie. He lives in okac He's a
big fan of the show. So his thunder are now
even up to to Game five will be on Tuesday,
(04:22):
Tuesday night, and so we have time to look at
that now. As we were reminded last hour when Tyrese
Halliburton of the Pacers pointed outunt that when the team loses,
he doesn't have to talk. When they win, he's cool
with talking. So the better story is in the losing
locker room. So that is where we will go. That
is where our focus will be in much of the
(04:43):
conversation on the Joker.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What has happened to the Joker? What has happened?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh m gree the greatest player of this generation, grets
big Man in the conversation with all time legends of
the game, and he has been.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Dreadful of late.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So let us get into it the question how concerned,
how concerned should the Nuggets be with Nikola Jokic at
this point? So I've got Walmart Tears for Fears and
Rumpel Stiltskin and we will combine all of these things together,
(05:26):
and we are going to make rocky mountain oysters, which
I had to eat.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I lost to Bed.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I think all the Nuggets players should have to eat
rocky mountain oysters after that shooting performance.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Holy crap. All right.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
So to answer the question, how concerned should the Nuggets
be with Nikola Jokice on the patented Mallard scale of
concern from one to ten Malar scale of concern from
one to ten, with ten being you're smoking hookah with
Luca out of the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's the highest level.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I am at an eight point oh eight point oh
on the Malard scale of concern for Nikola Jokicic. And
here's why they say that seeing is believing whoever they are,
and we're not used to seeing what we're seeing from
ni Kola Jokics.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Here.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Denver was up by eight points early in the fourth quarter.
It was a disgusting offensive performance by both teams. More
on that in a second, but they were up by eight.
So if you saw the game, Denver was up seventy
one to sixty three. Now, eight is not a game
changing lead or anything like that. But you have an
eight point lead, you're at home it's the fourth quarter.
(06:39):
The final eleven minutes and twenty six seconds of that
basketball game was the.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Big bang, big clank.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Whatever you want to call it. There now Nikola Jokic
in particular, we're talking about him. The final eleven minutes
of that game. He took seven shots, he only made
two of them, and the Nuggets were outscored by thirteen
points to close the game. Denver from an eight point
lead to the end of the game shot less than
thirty percent. They took twenty one shots. They missed a
(07:11):
mind boggling fifteen of the twenty one. Not all of
them were from three point range, although they really did
suck from three point range. They took eleven three pointers
up up eight to the end of the game. They
made one. That is nine point one percent. Nine point
one percent. So the Nuggets, what they did is they
went to Walmart. They went down to Walmart and they
(07:34):
bought some bicycle playing cards. They got those out and
they built this house of cards. And then they pulled
the joker out of the house of cards and the
whole thing came tumbling down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down down down. You get the point. Jokic. He
looked frazzled. He played bedraggled. I've not seen him like
(07:59):
this maybe when he was early in his career and
nobody he was drafted, the famous story during a Taco
bell commercial and nobody knew who he was, and people
said he was going to be good in Denver and
You're like, yeah, sure, he's gonna be good. Yeah, right,
And but since he established himself, I cannot recall a
stink bomb stretch of games this bat Now, we don't
watch every Nuggets game, right, we pay attention to the playoffs.
(08:20):
And this is brutal and so frazzled on the court.
And that's what he looked like. And then the eyeball
test confirmed that last three games, Nikola Jokic shooting thirty
three point three percent half the Sign of the Devil,
eighteen percent from three point range, which is dreadful, and
he's got fifteen assists and sixteen turnovers combined in the
(08:43):
last three games.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Pay yeah, what stinks Now?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That is the worst three game stretch shooting for Jokic
in the last seven years. He is completely befuddled. But
it's not because of anything Oklahoma City's doing. I'm not
no notice it. Maybe I'm missing it, but if you
can tell me he helped me out. I've not noticed
anything that the Thunder are doing that is any different
(09:08):
than the other teams are attempting to do. So this
is more of a problem with Jokic and whether my
theory is he just got worn down, it's really Zubots.
The Clippers wore his ass down and they took it.
Took so much effort to beat the Clips at Jokic.
(09:28):
He's not in the greatest shape in the world and
he's being exposed here. He's not in great physical condition,
didn't have a lot of extra time off, which is.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Part of the deal.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Right, He's running on fumes, there's a lot of miles
on the car, and Zubots and the Clippers wore them out.
Now the Thunder are benefiting yet again, another team benefiting
from the generosity of the Clippers that they wore out.
Zubots wore out Jokic, and now the team that benefits
is Oklahoma City because of the Clippers yet again helping
(10:00):
a team advance in the playoffs. Pathetic, all right, now,
page two, So one of the great underlying storylines, if
you will, I don't know if I'm saying that the
right way. In this particular series, one of the great
talking points is the amount of time between Game three
and Game four or go. We had Jeff and Denver,
(10:22):
that nugget lapdog who called up last hour, but about
thirty six hours after the overtime Game three Friday night
game which went to the Nuggets, they had the early
television window on Mother's Day, and that robbed many media
elites the wrong way. They were very upset. To you,
the basketball media elites were offended their sensibilities.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
It's not fair. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
We had a reporter I've never heard of from the
Athletic who said it was absolutely ridiculous of the NBA
to have the series go every other day and then
put Game four in the early portion of the Sunday schedule,
having Game three is the late game on Friday. He
added on quote, it's actually kind of dangerous. Now we looked,
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nobody died, so that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
We made it through the game. No one dropped dead
from playing in the game early on Mother's Day, so
that's positive. Ze.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You talk about risking your life, bro, I ain't playing.
I was like, I'm risking my light. Bra it's Blake Snell.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So Charles Barkley then chimed in on television and he
got into the action. Sir Charles, who you would not
expect this take like you would expect the opposite take.
You would not expect this take from Charles Barkley. But
Charles Barkley went on a rant on TNT. He said,
I thought what the NBA did to the Nuggets was unfair.
(11:57):
It was unfair, Barkley said, making them play late Friday
night and then early afternoon, not on Saturday, mind you
on Sunday. He said, So all right, let's break it
down like this. So you have one reporter say it
was dangerous, borderline danger actually kind of dangerous, kind of dangerous.
(12:18):
A reporter said, you have Charles Barkley who said it's unfair.
It's unfair of the NBA to have the Thunder and
Nuggets play the early game on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So question question is is.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
This ridiculous as it sounds? This is insane to the membrane.
To me, it is I just I don't I don't
get it. They're playing basketball. They played forty eight minutes
and they had to pay. Oh my God, they had
to play overtime an extra few minutes. And they do
that in the span of about two hours, right, two
(12:56):
hours and forty minutes or whatever, it is less than that.
Two twenty these games with all the TV timeouts and
all the stoppages and all.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That stuff, It's like, what are we doing? Seriously?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Playoffs? I mean, I do not understand. It wasn't unfair.
It was even both teams had to play the same schedule.
The schedule is also made in advance. It's made, by
the way for television. I'll make a deal with you.
If these guys want, all these idiots in the media
who are, by the way, making money because of this,
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why not just play. Have no television, have no media coverage.
You can play whenever the f you want. How about that.
Go out there and knock your lights out, play with.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No one to watch. You're not gonna make any real money.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Because it's all directed through television, all funnel through TV.
But go out there, take a week off, play like
the NFL. These NBA guys are such softies. Play once
a week and you'll complain about that, goes, Oh, it's
too demanding, so stupid, It is so ridiculous that we're
at the point now where you had to you had
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a game on a Friday night, you had it Sunday,
had Saturday off, and you had to play on Sunday.
The game started at what one thirty local time? Oh
my god, dangerous, unfair, dangerous.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
God. Do you imagine if.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The like the military, approach things that way, like the
you know, the Marines have the slogan embrace the suck.
The NBA bitch about the suck. That's the NBA mantra.
Complain about it, complain about it.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
The they used to play back to backs in the
NBA playoffs, Oh my god, horror of horrors, draconian, the
Middle Ages.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
The NHL, which is a much more demanding, manly sport, hockey.
We don't talk about it because you know, more people
watch basketball, but it's much more demanding physically to play
hockey than this basketball. And the NHL they, if I'm
not mistaken, they go every other day, that's their schedule,
every other day in the playoffs, every other day. But
the NBA guys in the media that cover the NBA,
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the toll lickors. It's pathetic and wow, I mean so
as far as where things are looking now for Oklahoma
City at this particular point.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Obviously they're looking up.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I would say it's not anything that Oklahoma City is
doing per se. I don't think they've found some cheat
code to stop to call the Oakic again the War
of Attrition, which is supposed to be part of this,
that is supposed to be part of the deal, that
it's the Tiers for Fear Song, War of Attrition that
you are in this and the team that stands at
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the end is the one that survived the War of Attrition,
the Tears for Fear Song. And right now Oklahoma City
is even up with the Nuggets, and so we'll see
who can win the last two of the last three games.
But again, I don't think it's anything Oklahoma's doing that
is great here. That's why they're in position. It was
a tough afternoon for both teams. Oklahoma City shot thirty
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five percent and won the game because the Nuggets were worse.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
But it's not because they were good. They weren't good.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
They didn't shoot well from anybody twenty four percent from
three point range. It's not like anyone did it in
the first quarter. Was it was like a make a
wish situation with these guys out there with both teams.
So anyway, I we'll move away from that. We'll go
to baseball quickly. We had a managerial change and a
Mallard monologue requested by supermarket Steve. So everyone wants hot
(16:28):
Rocky talk. So here's some hot Rocky talk a few
good minutes. So the Rockies announced on a Sunday after
they won a game. After they won a game, they
decided that, you know, we have decommissioned our manager, Bud Black,
and we've also whacked his buddy, the bench coach, Mike Redmond.
They have been fired. They're out of here, see you later.
(16:50):
So somebody named Warren Schaeffer, We have no idea who
that is. He is now the interim manager of the Rockies.
And Clint Hurdle we've heard of him. He used to
manage the Rockies. He's back as the interim bench coach. Okay,
So then we add Dave Roberts, not a Rocky, a Dodger.
Dave Roberts comment after the Dodgers poll axe the Diamondbacks,
(17:12):
Dave Roberts ran to defend Bud Black, the Dodger manager
said not even Casey Stangele could change the outcome for
the Rockies. That was the money quote, which begs the
question did Bud Black get a raw deal from the Rockies?
And I have a two words. One starts with an
(17:32):
A and one starts with an N. Absolutely not, absolutely not.
Colorado has sucked the entire time Bud Black has been there. Now,
they're epically bad, they are historically bad.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
They are Hall of Fame level.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Trash this year. There's no even the mascots having a
bad year for the Rockies right now. And when you
are the worst team in baseball and then lose a
game twenty one to nothing, your manager gets fired.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
That is universally how it works.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
They lost on Saturday twenty one of them the Rockies.
Of course, they couldn't get all their ducks lined up.
They had to wait till after the game on Sunday
to fire Bud Black. They should have fired him on
Saturday night, but they didn't. And so as far as
Dave Roberts part of this, you get it. Dave Roberts
is like, listen, this is a guy I beat up on.
(18:27):
And all coaches defend coaches, all managers defend managers. That
doesn't work in the radio. By the way, other talk
shows don't defend other talk shows. They rip other talk shows.
But in sports, coaches always look out for other coaches, right,
the managers always look up.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So it's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
But Bud Black was tasked with being a cousin of Rumpelstiltskin.
He was asked to spin worthless dust into diamonds, and
he has failed every year he's been there. The team
has gotten progressively worse in terms of talent. But even
when they had talent there, and they had some ballplayers
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with Bud Black, and it never worked. It never worked.
And so yeah, you got a tough hand to cards.
You shouldn't be like a little league team, which is
what the Rockies are this year. You know, maybe don't hit,
play defense right, So they can't hit, they can't field,
they can't pitch. I don't know what else there is
(19:24):
other than that they look good in uniform. What happened
to coach them up? What happened to coach them up?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The kill shot? You lose twenty one to nothing, that's it,
You're done, see you later, goodbye. Somebody's got to lose
their job and you're the guy to lose the job
and all that, But don't feel bad for Bud Black.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
It is estimated he has earned over.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Seventeen million dollars to manage Rockies Baseball seventeen million and
overall he has spent eighteen years Bud Black as a
major League Baseball skipper with the Podres and the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's a long run, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Me playoff wins Bud Black has in San Diego and
Colorado in eighteen years as a big league manager, He's
got one more than you and I have and Loraina
and Coop. He won one playoff game one number one.
That's it, Bud Black. One playoff win. So yeah, if
I was Dave Roberts, I would be upset because, listen,
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you're guaranteed at least ten wins a year if you're
the Dodgers playing the rock If the Rockies actually get
some decent ballplayers and a manager that knows what they're doing,
they might actually compete with teams like the Dodgers rather
than be at the very bottom in the sewer.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
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That's at Ben Malor. Sale to Lorena, FSR Tech Queen
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and Cooper Loop uh Bronco fan. You stay with the
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next hour of the instid of Ice line, the Riddle
of the Day, and in our four are you smarter
than the FSR Tech Queen? And also the mal Er
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Militia feud will be coming away an hour number four.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
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That, it'll all be saved in the podcast, which will
be up shortly after the show for those that work
the dreaded day shift.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Not back to it, Right back to it we go,
and we.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Begin this hour ranting about the Denver Nuggets in the
their matchup there with the Oklahoma City thunder Nut.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Not much going on.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Joe the Ghost Hunner from Ohio rights And says, that's
a bold take and how the people's team wore out
the Nuggets. Nobody else has that take. That's my take.
You can't have that take. I own that take, Lorena,
you want that. You can't have that take, Loreeda, that's right.
You don't want my take. You have your own takes.
(22:47):
Do not take my take. That's my take. Now, King
Roy wrights And says, I knew the NBA was soft,
but I didn't realize this soft. It's not like either
team had an extra day of rest or it was
a travel day in between.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Noah, That's what I'm saying. So stupid.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
First, Halliburton can't talk to talk now. Players need more
rest just to play bad basketball. Yes, exactly. Let's see here.
John says, if listening to your show and love love
betting table tennis is wrong, I don't want to be right. Wow,
(23:22):
how much you betting John on table tennis? There is
another listener.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
I will not name that.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Particular person, but there's somebody else that stays up all
night betting ping pong matches.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well, you have a gambling problem.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Only if you lose. Let me point out, if you win,
it's not a gambling problem. If you win, you have
a problem with your taxes because you have to pay
taxes on the winnings. If you lose, you have a
gamling problem. If you win, you have a problem with
the irs. Nick writes in Nick the Wendy's guy is Hey, Ben, buddy,
I totally agree with you. These athletes are paid the
big bucks to play. Get out there and play, you
(24:00):
whiny babies. So he says, well, here's a blast in
the past. Robin Belcher, Tower, Massachusetts, writes in a show legend.
He says, if I wanted to watch a cornercopia of
miss lay ups and a plethora of bad jump shots,
I would just watch an Angel Reese video.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Wow, all right, there you go? All right? Who else
do we have? Page down?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Mark writes in he says, thanks, big bed, very proud
If my late parents heard my name on sports radio. Yeah, well,
the radio waves go out forever as far as we know,
into the cosmos.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
So this is just going and going and going. There's
a bunch of other planets that are populated by weird.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Beings, non human beings out there somewhere, and so they're
probably listening, big fans. I don't think we get credit
for that. King Roy says, you wonder why Halliburton was
voted mister overrated. He can't stand the heat, so he
obviously got out of the kitchen. Let's go to the phones.
A new call her, a newbie on a non nuby night.
Let's go to Chris, who's in Maryland? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Chris? Welcome.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I'm a little intimidated, but I love your show.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
No, there's nothing to be timid wh would you be intimidating?
There's nothing to be timidating about it?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Well, all right, just want to say that I really
appreciate it. You guys are very entertaining and as a
third shifter, I love all you guys.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well, thank you, and we love you too.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Ben. I'll get to you last what.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I thought you were talking about me.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I'm gonna get to you if I may. All right,
I say Happy Mother's Day to miss Lorena. May I say.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
It's no longer Mother's Day.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Go ahead, Yes, Cooper Loop is when I got thick
of the Celtics Lakers back and forth in the eighties.
Cooper Loop was my favorite Coop. Michael Cooper was my
favorite player. So that's a wonderful name.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, he's actually good. His son, Justin Cooper is Michael
Cooper's son.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Is that correct? Is that true?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
As far as I know, I've I've never met his dad.
So I'm gonna go and then and then.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
But then I love your game and I'm gonna get
to you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Ben all right, now it talks slowly when you praise me,
do not miss a spot. Go ahead, here we go,
Here we go. Now you too, me, I know, turn
you turn your MIC's off. This is now Chris and
Maryland is about to lay it on Thick.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Go ahead, Chris.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Well, I'm gonna say, well, first of all, you play games,
and like my brother, my older brother and my younger brother.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Oh you're in the middle. You're you're a middle child.
Is that what you're saying? Oh, I'm a I'm a
middle child too.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I'm a middle do we relate like that, Chris, I
got an older brother, I got younger brother.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I'm stuck in the middle.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Right, So when we play cards or any kind of
games you get, you get a little excited and the
competition gets a little excited. But anyway, little bit, hello,
thank you Lorena.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
All Right, well this is like a deep dive on
the show. Here, this is wonderful, this.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Is I'm not that good.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
What what kind of what kind of work do you
do at night? Wait? Wait, wait, hold on second, what
kind of work do you do at night? What do
you got going on?
Speaker 4 (27:14):
What do you I'm retired?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Oh you're retired. Now, okay, you're not just up all night,
you're hanging out.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You're with us, all right, I got you.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You're you're just you're you're listening on the third hip. Sorry.
Now there's one other brilliant point.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
You were going to make, and I'm I'm very excited
about that, Chris, go ahead, make that your last mond.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I was also a journalism person and you you crushed
me there, and I love you for that. Yeah, love
all your what you do there. But when you finished
with Cooper, Cooper Lop is a great one. He was
the guy I picked from the got sick of the
Celtics thing?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Yeah Celtics, right, they retired this number of the Lakers.
All right, now you now you now me here we go.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You you when it comes to your game, love your game?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, he loves the game.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Why don't you let when you pick on the reno?
Why don't you let her do music instead of making
her answer history or geography questions?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Because I think she's a smart she's a smart woman.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
She has to learn these things. She'd get those run too,
she probably would.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
You're not a teacher. You're not her.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
You're not her daddy, definitely not.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
But you. But I the way, yeah you you are
so competitive?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Well that's right. This is competition. We love competition every
human being living life, as you know. Yeah, you're retired now, Chris,
Why do you pick the clippers over the that we
we make decisions in our youth, Chris, as a child,
I made that decision.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
But I must go anyway.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I want to thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
All right, Well, thank you, Chris. All Right, you can
become a regular Chris. We'll give you a dopey nickname, okay,
if you start calling more off and we'll give you
a silly, Nick Dave, I promise you all right, buddy,
all right, thank you, Chris.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Look at that guy loves our show.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
He knows everyone in the show, and he's excited that
Coops you dad, Michael Cooper at his number retired by
the Laker. That's a big deal and it's very exciting.
Let's go to Darren in San Antonio. Hello, Darren, welcome
you doing there is?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Hey? What's up Dren? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Man?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
We're just doing talk radio?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Just enjoying your show tonight.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Very entertaining.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Well, thank you, thank you very How can we help you?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Well, we can talk about some football or basketball.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Oh, I get to pick the top of Should I
flip a coin like they.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Do on the penny versus the penny? I can flip
a penny. We use coins, Ben, we used the penny.
We use an actual penny.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Keep a penny on you?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Yeah? No, I do not have a change on my
I think hold, let me check. I think I might
have I might have a penny. If you don't have
a penny, I don't know if I have a penny,
I might have a quarter. I think I don't know
if i'd do what's that? Okay? All right? Uh, you know,
I don't think it fell out of my wall. I
don't know where. Well, do you have the app on
(30:10):
your phone? That's a virtual penny.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
We shouldn't make like a benny versus a penny app
is what we should do. I should tell the people
at NBC to do that next year. Well I can flip.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
You know what I'll do. I'll flip. I have the company.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
One of the perks of working here at Fox Sports
Radio they give us these lens wipes.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
We get as many as we want. Oh, yes, of lens.
What I'm gonna flip?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
So so, Darren, there's a blue side of the lens, right,
a wipe. This is a getting courtesy of management here
at Fox Sports Radio. So there's a blue side and
then there's the the white side.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Hey, Coop, I know who steals all the lens wipes. Now, Cooper,
well you're the one.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
All right, hold, I say, Lorena calling in the air. Okay, Lorena,
here we go flipping it up and again. Now wait,
blue is basketball? White is football? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Let's go with that. All right, we go blue blue, blue,
Oh it's white. You didn't get it White. Oh man,
get it White.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You didn't get it? I said, all right, Uh so
that was basketball, I believe. Is that basketball there?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Basketball? All right? Here we go. Basketball.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You didn't uh watching the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
But uh one's the NBA.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Uh oh, that's right.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
The lottery. Oh, this is big. If you're in San Antonio,
you need to know that.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
That is, I believe coming up tonight the NBA Draft lottery,
which and these used to be one of the biggest
nights when I was a Clipper fan growing up.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
This was like the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Man, you got it windows and this is the Cooper
Flag Lottery edition. Would you like me to simulate the
lottery right now live on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
here we go. I'm going to takeathon. We're gonna simulate
the NBA Draft lottery. Now, the Utah Jazz had the
worst record in the NBA. But you got Utah, Washington, Charlotte,
San Antonio, Charlotte, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Toronto, San Antonio, Houston, Portland, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta,
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and San Antonio's got two chances because they have the
Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Pick. Here we go, simulate big money, big money, big money.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Oh my god, the Toronto Raptors have won the draft lottery.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
They will be picking first.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I'm sorry, Uh, these Spurs do not pick until let
me see your page down eighth. So okay, all right,
thank you, all right, Deren, thank you, buddy, appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
All right, here you go. Let me do it again
here one more time, big.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Money, big money, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Brooklyn's won the lottery.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Now I think you have to let it spend more
one all right, now this to a one more time.
Here we go the big money, big money, big.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Money, and stop stop. Oh say the guys going Darren
san Antonio just won the lottery. Oh I did it again.
San Antonio moved up seven spots and they're gonna get
Cooper Plack. Okay, anyway, it is the Ben Maler Show.
Time now for the play of the day. Let's go
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to the Indiana Pacers game, the Pacers laying it on
thick against the Cleveland Cavaliers and moneyball, moneyball, moneyball, moneyball.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Take a listen, Oh you want to play the day?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I was like, listen to what that's only why I
would say the play of the day, Yes, heard.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
With a three to shoot, two to shoot, Oh my,
good old man, what is happening here? Yeah? Oh my,
a three from the left side. It's seventy five to
thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, that was the great Indian. That's a good play
by play guy. I don't know who that is for
the Pacers, good job by him, but that is the
ti Iraq play of the day, a Miles Turner three pointer.
As Cleveland did not show up Indiana did. They led
by as many as forty four points, never trailed. That's
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Speaker 1 (34:23):
Time now for the Insta Trivia and then we'll get
to Mallard to the third degree. You can answer this
on x at Van Maller and here is the Insta Tribua.
Yankees captain Aaron Judge is the fourth player hitting four
h nine or better with fourteen home runs or more
in the first forty games of a season. He's the
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first player to do that since Blank. Again, the Yankees
captain Aaron Judge, the fourth player in baseball history hit
four h nine or better with fourteen or more home
runs in the first forty games of a season, the
first player to do that since Blank. That's the Insta
trivia the answer.
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covered up by inferior programming.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
You can always stream.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Leave whatever station you're listening to and go over to
the iHeartRadio app. Fox Sports Radio Live twenty four to
seven the new and improved iHeart app. Just search Fox
Sports Radio in the app to stream us live. And
one of the newest features in the app, you can
select Fox Sports Radio, the Ben Maler Show and the
Fifth Hour Podcast as some of your presets. Just like
(35:55):
the presets on the old car radio dial, and be
sure to preset Fox Sports Radio Ben Mahler Show in
fifth hour podcast in the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
It will always pop.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Up at the very top of your screen, all right
back to what we go, Ti Ben, And Yeah, if
you steal my phone, I'll find you and have you arrested.
But you will find on my iHeartRadio app that those
are right at the top. I have my show's ahead
of Fox Sports Radio in the fifth hour. I'm not
supposed to say that, but I have the Ben Maler
Show the fifth hour parcast in third is Fox Sports Trade.
(36:27):
So I'm a P three for Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Radio on that. But don't tell management because it'll be upset.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
But Ton, now for the instat trivia and we'll get
to Mallard with a third degree.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Here's the answert trivia.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yankees Captain Aaron Judge is the fourth player hitting four
h nine are better with fourteen or more home runs
and is in the first forty games of a season,
the first to do it since me?
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Mallar prop guy friend of the show going with Benny
the Bopper, haven't heard that sound bite in a while.
Alf the Alien o' Plonner going with Ernie the Great o' piner.
Where have you gone?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Ernie? Where have you gone?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota going with Jose con Seko.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Who else do we have have?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Cranepool from I forty Ian the Mouth of the South,
Jimmy Hart from our buddy Rob in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Who's back?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
King Rory going with the Pope looks a little different
than that photo, Mike Mike Trout guess by Ferd Dog?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Patchie Chief from Ben Maler's favorite cartoon, The super Friends?
Oh yeah, I used to love The super Friends Saturday
Morning Man.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
That was the way to go.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Jose Offerman from Natron Fiend's Lance McCullers Junior Guests by
Mister Irrigation, who's in Houston? Ted Williams from Eke and
Rosevio Minnesota? Larda, what say you, Laraya?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Joe Demagio, Dad, No.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You didn't say right, Jolton Joe DiMaggio, No, that's incorrect.
You know I saw the back of Damagio's head one
time as a kid in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, No, the correct answer is a man that was
probably high on sen Manny Ramirez with the Red Socks
back in twenty oh one.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Man ram here, we got smaller. How about that?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
To the third degree, Yeah, this is one big gets great.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Did you know there's another kubiak son in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Uh? Yeah? It was was he even like the Saints
or something that I think was he Seattle. That's Clint Kubiak.
There's Clay Kubiak. Oh another Yeah, you like Gremlin's cool.
He's with the forty nine ers, Okay.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
And he talked to the media over the weekend and
he was talking about mac Jones and he said that
he believes mac jones can is still capable of being
a starter in this league.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah, do you agree with him? So, he didn't say
he would be a good quarter Could he be a start?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Sure, he started games last year in Jacksonville when there
were injuries.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
The question is can he be good? He can't be good.
He sucks. So, yeah, there's a lot of bad starting quarterbacks.
Could he be good? I don't know. I've seen no
evidence he can be good.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Next, it was reported over the weekend that Kevin Durant
and the Heat have mutual interests. Thank God in joining force.
I'm sure they do. Yes, ben Ken, Durant save Miami.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Why would he say he can't say he couldn't save
the Suns. He didn't save Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Like it's been a minute since Durant has been that guy.
I see no evidence that. I'm I'm not beyond Coop
talking about Durant. I'll probably do seven monologues on Durant
between now and the time he changes teams. But do
I think he's going to turn the fortunes of a
team around. No, unless he goes to the Clippers next.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Reason.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Reports say that quote momentum is building towards the nc
double A lifting its ban on gambling on professional sports.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, Ben, you think there's actually a chance of this happening.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Well, I don't believe in momentum, as you know, Coop,
I know I don't believe that in sports that doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
But yes, I think there is.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
There is an efforts like well it say, as long
as you don't bet on college sports, who cares if
you bet a parlay in the NFL, or you bet
on all or whatever. So I could that that would
make sense. They want to limit the amount of punishment
because they are in bed with gambling.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
How did we do pass that is a win? Want
to know this way, Lana.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I am a winner, win, a win, A winner the
game I want
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