May 22, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports that Jalen Brunson is open to leaving over $100M on the table to sign a Knicks extension this summer, the Lakers thinking that J.J. Redick has "Pat-Riley like" potential, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's ourn burn two we go where
the news of the day takes us, and we were
burning the midnight oil talking about Jalen Brunson, who is
said to be open to leaving over one hundred million
dollars on the table to sign an extension prematurely with
the Knickerbockers rather than waiting. Could you actually see that happening?
(00:23):
You make the call? Sign or not sign? Also, a
glowing report says the Lakers think jj Reddick has quote
pat Riley like potential. What do you make of that
particular report? And there are stories suggesting that the NBA
played a role in Jeff Van Gundy's demise, his departure
(00:45):
from television Popular broadcaster. Where are you at on this one?
We'll talk about that and much more. It's our two
and it's.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yours right now. A real sweetheart of a deal. But
is it going to happen?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
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But we'll get back to.
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Shocking that we've been on the air for over an
hour on a major sports talk radio station in Indianapolis
and have pitched a shutout on Pacer fans. You would
think the Pacer fan would want to call up and
bash the team, but not one Pacer fan has called
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up to critique the performance of the Indiana Pacers. Well,
we cover the spread. Okay, you had the game in
the bag. It was in the bag, and you cut
a hole in the bag. Put our headline this hour
from the speculation Machine. No, it is not about the
Western Conference Game one, Western Conference Finals Game one, which
is later on here on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But more noise.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
The Naked City never sleeps. More noise out of the
Big Apple, say what so you might know where I'm
going with this, but maybe not. I thought this was
a fascinating tale, so I thought we'd spend a couple
of minutes talk about it. The story out of the
Big Apple saying that Jalen Brunson, that's a basketball player
that plays for the New York basketball team, is open
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to signing a massive contract this summer, which would help
the Knicks out, would do a solid for the Knickerbockers.
But here's the thing. He would be leaving a ton
of dough, really delicious dough, sugary, light, fluffy dough on
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the table. So you make the call, right, you make
the call. Now, the tabloids in New York City say
that Brunson is willing to sign a four year contract
for one hundred and fifty six million. That's a great
amount of money. Now after you pay the New York
tax and the federal tax that's about fifty bucks, maybe
fifty six bucks. That might give you a break, give
you an extra six bucks, but over one hundred and
fifty six million contract total extension after taxes.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Again, it's about fifty six bucks.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And he can sign that this summer. Now, that's a
lot of money. It's a great mitzvah to get that
kind of mind's wonderful. However, if Jalen Brunson waits a
little bit, he's got a bet on himself, right, bets
on himself. Jalen Brunson can sign a five year contract
for two hundred and seventy million dead presidents. That can
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happen the summer of twenty twenty five. So would you again,
you make the call here, Jalen Runson said, He said
Quota's report, he said, to be opened to leaving over
one hundred million dollars on the table to sign with
the Knicks this summer to do them a solid.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Could you actually see this? Happy you make the call
on this one.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So I've got nonprofit charitable organization, Candy Land, and traffic
ticket Quota. We will combine all these things together and
we are going to make a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Stand which they don't have.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I've been in New York last couple times I've been
in New York day they don't have as many hot
dog stands as they used to have back in the
old day. You get a lot of falafel now, a
lot of flafful, not a lot of hot dog stands.
It's a lot of stands in general. Last time I
was in New York anyway, Number one, to answer the question,
could you actually see Jalen Brunson leave a hundred plus
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million dollars sitting there on the table to help the
knickerbockers out. I am agnostic on this one. I am
not a believer. This is risky business. He's already got
fu money. He's already got a lot of money. Assuming
he's not frivolous with his money. Jalen Brunson already has
enough money. He shouldn't have to work, so as wow,
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he doesn't need the money. Well, you say that, when
you say it's not about the money, it's always about
the money. And I know that Jalen Brunson is rooted
in Gotham. I get that he's beloved. He's everything Carmelo
Anthony was supposed to be in a bag of chips.
I understand that, but leaving money on the table in
that business is a sin, and really in any business,
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it's a cardinal sin. And it's certainly easier said than done.
It's easier for some blow hard or he should leave
money on the table and all that. I don't know
about you, but I do not leave money on the table.
I take all eighteen dollars and seventy two cents I
get paid here every hour. Yeah, but we are in
a Missouri show me state of mind, a Missouri show
(06:25):
me state of monol. In my life commentating on sports nonsense,
I can count on one hand and have extra fingers
the time that the times overall that I've seen people
leave money on the table took less money.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Do the team solid? Do the team solid?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And while I understand rich is rich, and I get that,
Jalen Runson if he left one hundred and whatever it
is million on the table, fourteen million per year on
the table, extra money, the NBA players associate would be
upset with jalb Brons, like, what are you doing you, Jamoke?
What's wrong with you? Your big dumbball? What are you
doing now? Giving a break? Also, to the Knickerbockers. I
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was gonna kick when big companies claim poverty and the
Knicks are not claiming poverty. But James Dolan needs extra
money to spy on customers, right, doesn't that what he
does at Massive Square Garden in the other place. I
get you in trouble for that. But face recognition cameras
and all that. But giving a break to the Knickerbockers,
who were they a non profit charitable organization unless they're
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actually worth six almost seven billion dollars?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Say why?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And with the TV money the great unknown, the NBA
is about to sign new partnerships with possibly NBC, Netflix.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Might be who know.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean, there's it's a wide open world there where
the NBA is gonna get their TV money. They're gonna
get their TV money. So our position is, well, Jalen Brunson,
this is being floated out makes him look like a
good guy, a wonderful guy and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Our position is.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The when everything is done, it will be not a dimeback,
no givebacks. That Brunson will not end up signing that
contract the summer. Now we'll see be surprised by that.
But my money, if you gave me a thousand dollars
of fundy money. My money is that Jalen Brunson does
not end up taking less money. Now we go to
La La Land, where the Lakers have a vacancy. They
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whack their coach because their team gagged. They got old
Lebron and Anthony Davis who vanishes for a half here
or a half there, so they had to fire the coach.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I read that. This is quite the story. I don't
even saw this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The Lakers are said to be infatuated with JJ Reddick
and what he conceivably would be as a head coach.
Viewing him, I love this as a pat riley like
coaching prospect and could help the franchise short term, and
I love this part long term, could lead the team
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for years to come. That's what we call in the
business the money quote. It was buried behind a paywall,
the old Gray Lady, the athletic. So the Lakers think
JJ Reddick has pat riley like potential.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What do you make of that report?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So you are a coaching prospect, apparently, JJ Redick. Any
prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise. And as Bill
Parcells taught me when I was a little kid. Potential
is stuff you haven't done. Things you have not done
that is potential, and that's the way it is. But
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what I took away from this is it's good to
have friends in influential positions. This was obviously coming from
JJ Reddick. It reads like his mom wrote it. It's
like it's from his publicist. My god, gloating all over,
dotting all over, JJ Reddick. Einstein of coaching, JJ Reddick,
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this is candy Land commentary, sugarcoated. And the longevity in
La Laland is a myth.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The Laker coaching job is a temp job. It is.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Since nineteen ninety nine, there's only been one coach that's
lasted more than a few seasons, more than three seasons.
That's Phil Jackson. They've had ten coaches other than Phil
Jackson since nineteen ninety nine, ten and nobody's lasted more
than three years. Now, I do endorse JJ Reddick. I
never saw a player miss more clutch shots in his
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life than JJ Reddick with the Lob City Clippers. And
it took Doc Rivers like two or three seasons before
he finally realized this guy is lacking the clutch gen
JJ Reddick he's one of the great shooters of all
time in the first quarter, second quarter, the third quarter,
but as a player in the fourth quarter, there's no one,
no one I would rather have take a shot less
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than JJ Reddick in a spot. So if he coaches
like that, he'll be great for three quarters and then
just futs away the game in the fourth quarter. And
more importantly, get him off television because he blows right.
It's very hard when you're doing a basketball game to
sound like as a viewer you want to punch the
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guy calling the game. Part of what we do here
on some level is likability, Like you have to be
somewhat likable JJ Redick.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There's nothing likable about the guy. The way he talks.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
He's got this duke elitism, this smarmy arrogance from JJ Reddick.
And just get him off television. And my god, pat
Riley is a straight shooter. I don't think of JJ
Reddick like a straight shooter. And I talk to guys
that were around the Lakers when Riley started he was
a broadcaster, said, well, JJ Reddick's a broadcaster.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
The thing about Rother, well, he wore nice suits.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Right at that time, there were a lot of coaches
dressed like slobs like Doug mo and Don Nelson and
people like that, and pat Riley dress like he just professional.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But in terms of his commentary, he was a straight shooter. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I mean, I remember Big Joe McDonald who used to
be big LA radio guy. He passed away, but he
tell me stories about the Lakers in those days and
what it was like and being around them. And Riley
would he would tell if somebody sucked, he would tell
the media. I don't know that JJ Reddy doesn't seem
like Reddicks that kind of guy. All right, now, final point.
Speaking of broadcasting, another story made the rounds this week
claiming that the NBA did not appreciate the dulcetones of
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Jeff Van Gundy. I did not like him. He criticized
the officiating. He criticized a lot of things in the NBA,
and so the league complained to the small fledgling cable
channel out of Bristol, Connecticut called ESPN now.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The Athletic Athletic.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
They said there is no proof, no proof that the
league ordered his banishment Van Gundy, but they suggested that
the NBA did play a role in Jeff Van Gundy's
departure from television, So where are you at on this one?
So this is a bit of a rerun. We talked
about this when Van Gundy was whacked as a commentator
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and in he took a job with the Celtics. But
it's a low level job with the Celtics and all that.
But I absolutely believed the conspiracy theory that was going around,
and I don't even think it's a conspiracy theory at
the time. I believe it to be true that people
the NBA have thin skin, they have salamander skin. And
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it's while the story the way it was reported, it's
being reported this way again. It's one of these semantical arguments.
Having been in the game, been around relationships between sports
teams and leagues and broadcast companies.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I know what normally happens.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I don't think this is any different than what normally
happens my experience in the business. It's kind of like
traffic ticket quotas. In many states. Did you know it's
illegal for the police to have quotas. You can't do it.
You can't have there's no quota allowed to write certain
number of traffic tickets every month. However, what I've heard
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is cops are encouraged to write tickets. That's why usually
at the beginning of the month and not that many
tickets at the end of the month. You're trying to
meet your unofficial official quota. So while the NBA, I
don't believe sent a message via email or text messaging saying, hey,
we got to get rid of this Van Gundy guy.
Whack this guy, he's terrible, they just didn't have a
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problem with it, and they sent out a few messages
critiquing his performance. Nudge nudge, wink wink. It is the
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Speaker 1 (16:59):
We will have the Third Degree next hour, the Riddle
of the day, too much or not enough?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
And the Queen of Hearts with Arena. Is that a
queen sign?
Speaker 9 (17:12):
It didn't seem it was a half a heart because
my other hand was busy.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Okay, I don't need to go any further with that,
but very good. Oh there you go. There's the full
heart sign. See need both hands. Very nice, I think so.
I think so. Anyway, we are taking your calls. Will
do that in a moment.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And I did want to mention before I forget, I
popped on. I didn't post anything, but I popped on
the Facebook page of the show, and then I was
on the Instagram pitch. I just popped on that was lurking.
Ben Maller on Fox on Instagram and Ben Maller Show
on Facebook, and I got several messages from p ones.
(17:54):
That Tuesday was the one year anniversary of the Malor Meet,
and we did in Minnesota last year in Minneapolis. It
was awesome. I had so many people people I've forgotten.
I'd forgotten we took photos or whatever. You sent me
some messages with photos instead.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Was great.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Had a wonderful, wonderful night. I got a speeding ticket
that night. My name was on the jumbo tron outside
the Mermaid there.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That was cool.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I think Regina, who's now living in Colorado, she's not
even in Minnesota anymore. She set that up and she
hosted the event, the hostess with the mostest. We had
the fake wedding, the faux wedding between Doc Mike and Regina.
I presided over the wedding, tremendous theater.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Do you not know how to talk yourself out of
a speeding ticket? Ben?
Speaker 10 (18:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Youah? No, Well I don't. And women have more of
an advantage.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
I'd say, you got to show them the leg.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I think I'd get two tickets. I might Actually that's
an illegal in the Bible belt. My legs are illegal anyway.
But it was a wonderful night. A Viking quarterback Tommy
Kramer showed up randomly. Nineteen eighties Viking quarterback Tommy Cramer
was there. I met Hollering James, the legendary Hollering James,
man of the people. Econ Econ, Roseville, Minnesota, was there.
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We had FEMI, I had a couple a couple of
the boys from Iowa drove up and that.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Was that was great.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Christ and des Moines and some of the other fellows
were there. It was great to see them. And I
had a few people from Wisconsin that made the trip over,
so it was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I had a great time.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So I can't believe it's been a year, but usually
that's what happened. Yeah, I forgot I forgot the date,
but it's like it must have been a year ago
because everyone was sending me messages saying it was the
one year anniversary. So that that's pretty cool. It's pretty neat.
So hopefully we'll be back there at some point, do
another mallor meet and greet. I don't know how I
can top that one. But had a great time. I
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loved Minnesota because.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I was there.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
As we talked about, I was there one of the
four weeks a year. The weather's perfect. Could not have
been better, weather, could not have been better.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Weather.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
It was just absolutely great. Loved it, love it, love it.
Let's go to the phones and triving. I think he's
on I ninety five. Let's got an update though on
the traffic. There probably no traffic right now. Moving man
Matt outbound from Boston heading to the Big Apple. Hello,
moving man Mad, what's going on with Ben? There he is,
(20:18):
he's got the truck. He's back on the road. I
was wondering what happened you. We haven't heard from you
in a while.
Speaker 11 (20:23):
Yeah, I've been doing I've had a couple offorstunities. I've
been doing more East Coast work. Uh. I shared it
with you a couple of years ago. I'm trying to
transition more into the management side. And yeah, you know,
I'm gonna be forty seven and my body hurts, and uh,
you know, I've been beating the hell out of it
for twenty seven years.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I got you, I got you. Yeah, you want to
have other people do the dirty work.
Speaker 11 (20:47):
Yeah. I think the last time I called in Coop
was away on his honeymoon. So congratulations Coop on your nuptials.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
He's no longer married, that's not true.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
Thank you, even short of it much.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I'm a kid because I care. I kid because it
was good.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
To hear weed man. I have not heard him since
he went on vacation, so that's uh.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The people in Miami gave him a nice two month
vacation there in jail, so it was very nice for them.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
To do that.
Speaker 11 (21:17):
I was very upset that I could not get down
to South Carolina when you were down there.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, that would have been great. We had a wonderful turn.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't know that you could have parked where we
were at the my father's mustache.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I don't I don't know.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
I gotta do it down in Charleston away.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah. Now you're going to New York.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Are you going to be in the city or are
you going to be out in the suburbs around the
city that island Okay, yeah.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
So you can't. You can get over there, just you
can't get into the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So oh yeah, what do you do? The streets don't
really work for you.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
There, rent the U haul and shuttle it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Oh, that sounds like fun. And how much does this?
I looked it up.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I forget the cost though, But how much does it
cost if you wanted to take your truck into Manhattan
on one of the bridges with the tolls? How much
would it they cost? At peak rush hour time? How
much would it cost you to go in a minute?
Speaker 11 (22:04):
George Washington Bridge? One hundred thirty two bucks, one.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Hundred and thirty two bucks to take your truck in
a man one hundred and thirty two bucks.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
My god?
Speaker 11 (22:11):
And the rule you never have to pay to go
into Jersey, but.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You always leave, so you never pay to go to Jersey.
But they make you pay to leave Jersey.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
No matter where you leave Jersey, you pay.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Some would say that that's money well spent.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Now when you're leaving, if you're leaving Manhattan, do you
you pay one hundred and thirty two to go on
the George Washington Bridge? But when you're in Manhattan to
leave Manhattan, do you also have to pay one hundred
and thirty two thousand you leave? No, you do not, Okay,
So it's only inbound, okay, all right inbound, So it's
really you know, seventy almost seventy bucks or something like that, right, yeah, yeah,
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each way, yea.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
I was thinking I'm drawing a complete blank.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I was much like the much like the New York
Giants quarterback off and draws a complete blank.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
But up bump blame jokes are on Friday.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
There you go, lame Jo gets in the uniform. But uh,
who's that buffoon? The boom boom boom boom boom guy
used to call in that went and got married after
he made the inappropriate car man around your father's path thing.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, man, that's a real real talk, real talk,
real talk.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Yeah. What polls are that guy was we got married
and disappeared.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, we think that he intentionally said what he said
because he his wife to be did not want him
calling the show anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We think that's what happens.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Was weed name was on and it got me thinking
of callers from the paths while I was on, you know,
while I.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Was driving callers from a pat from the past for
a thousand I'm not sure how far back you go.
We can go way back on that Spokane, Garrett, do
you remember a guy named Spokane, Gary.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
He died. Yeah, yeah, when I started listening.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah he's dead. Uh who But Dale Murphy is still
not in the Hall of Fame. Rest in peace, Spokane, Gary.
We had MotorCity Mike. Remember the guy in Monty in
Phoenix who went by a different name who barfed on
the air. That was one of the great callers that
we had. He puked on the air.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
I was wonderful. The guy that was Johannis John then
changed his name.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh yeah, j and then he and then he quit
the show because he got to the age of forty
and none of his teams had won a championship, so
he stopped watching sports and as a result, could not
call the show anymore or listen to the show. How
about how about this guy? Remember that guy La Matt
that I loved. That guy La Matt used to call
the show. He had a great He sounded like Bill
(24:35):
Cosby before Bill Cosby got canceled.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
But he sounded great, good, good voice.
Speaker 11 (24:39):
To have to win, Ben, because my poor kids have
now gone like five years without praid.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Wow, those duck boats are they're not going to drive themselves.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
Brady took him with him.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Brady took the duck boats. They probably bought one's who
know who's the guy that? But didn't with that.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Red Sox pitcher who bought a duck boat? Which one
was the guy that? The guy Jake Peeve didn't he
buy a duck boat? Yeah, Jake Peebe bought a duck
boat for his house in like Mississippi or something pretty crazy.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
I will be out I think the end of July.
I'll be out on the West coast again.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Let us know, I do have I think that I'm
doing one one trip in the summer, so I'm going
to miss a couple of days in July, but I'm
not sure when, so let me know.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Okay, all right, it is good.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
To here my one and only drops still still in play.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, never heard of him? Yeah, all right, Well it
gets a high a lot of rotation. Never heard him.
It's never there, It is right there, it is.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, all right, you're a legend. You' immortalized on the show.
All I gotta go, thank you. Be safe there, Joey
Statton Island. There isn't that where all the Mob guys
used to live on Staten Island back in the day
when the Mob ran New York.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
No I don't know. Ben.
Speaker 9 (25:52):
I am completely flabbergasted though about what I looked up
Spokane Gary in the sound system.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Is he still in there?
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Well, there's one drop him defending some people. But you
sound so different to me. Did you get a voice transplant?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I started here when I was like ten years old.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh so puberty, Okay.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Fox Sports Radio was yes, fine, There's one drop in
there somewhere about him doing an.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Update because he used to do updates.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I did, Yeah, and he talks about the Royals having
their troubles on the road. I'm saying, roastic, Well they
I got sabotaged by my board. Actually, so I don't
have time to get to it right now, but I
will tell you the story. Shaving it fine, I'll tell
you the story.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Some OTA news from the NFL Browns.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Quarterback Deshan Watson won't throw during the OTAs as he
is recovering from shoulder surgery. LA Rams running back Hiray
Williams is going to miss the team's offseason workouts because
of a foot injury and Jets coach Robert Sala says
quarterback Aaron Rodgers doing everything in practice and has no restrictions.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
All right, Eddie, I'm gonna give you the F word
right now, the F word. You're ready for.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
The fun fact?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
This is a pirate themed f word. You know who
O'Neil Cruz is sure do?
Speaker 8 (27:12):
Is there big shortstop? He's yes, kind of Elie de
la Cruz like somewhat.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
O'Neil Cruz has hit three one hundred and twenty mile
plus hour batted balls in his career. The only other
player with multiple batted balls at one hundred and twenty
plus miles per hour off the bat in the stat
cast era, which goes back way back to twenty fifteen.
There's only one you got to do it. That is
(27:37):
John Carlos Stanton, who's done it fourteen times. Stanton had
multiple seasons of A six and twenty twenty one three
in twenty eighteen, but O'Neil Cruz in the game on
Tuesday had two two in one game. That's their fun fact, Eddie,
(28:00):
oh Neil Cruz speed off the bat boys, that fun
tuna in Laguna. Good name, But will he continue to
be a good call. Well, my mom made me eat
a lot of tuna when I was a kid, so
I have once I made the decision to become an adult,
I had no choice me. My tuna melted in the
(28:23):
lunch box at the elementary school while I waited for
lunchtime to eat it in those hot, hot days early
in the year in September.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Hello, what's going on? Tuna?
Speaker 12 (28:32):
What's up? Big dogs? So there's JJ Reddick coaching. I'm
sokel guy as a Laker fans, this dude is going
to go back to Duke's face as soon as possible.
He washed it off with like fifteen years of NBA decency,
and now he's got this podcast and he's got his
(28:55):
pompous little attitude thinking we're not smart enough and we've
been hiding. The Lakers have been hijacked by club sports.
We got to draft a six foot one, twenty four
hour fitness player. You got to pay an old man, Yeah,
like Coke the Kobe. At least Kobe was a Laker,
(29:17):
you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (29:17):
We got to Kobe deserved what he got him the
way out.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Are you excited? Are you excited that Chris Paul is
going to finally be a Laker next year. Is that
excite you?
Speaker 10 (29:26):
No, he's not stopping Stop the Lakers. We've been hijacked.
It's it's absolutely disgusting. We're gonna pay Lebron though five
hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Well, you know why they're you know why they're doing it,
Tuna from lagoon A.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Genie Buss. Genie Buss knows that.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Lebron makes a lot of money for the team business wise,
and so she just gave him the keys to the
franchise and they got that, they got that skinny jeans.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
GM robed the.
Speaker 10 (29:53):
Lincoln actual money. She has no cash. Well, the Dodgers owners.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Well they are, by the way, they are are in line.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
If Genie Bus ever sells the Lakers, the Dodgers owners
have the first right to buy the Lakers. No no, no,
by wait wait wait, Frank McCourt, the old Dodger owners
trying to buy.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
What I'm saying is the Dodgers owners can buy whatever
they want. Genie Bus can barely own a parking lot.
It's disgusting.
Speaker 11 (30:20):
And we got to draft a.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Six fitness players the Lakers as the Lakers fan and
we got to get you to the Circa in Vegas
for a meet and girl.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I loved all right, thank you to If you know
anybody in the Circle, let me know because I love
that's my favorite able to set you up, all right,
sent me up, seriously, I love it. That's my spot, man,
I love the Circle. That's a great sports book. All right,
thank you to it.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, look at that coop. We're gonna get hooked up.
You ever been in the circa Coop? Oh my god,
so mate, Eddie, you have been in the Circle in Vegas.
Oh guys, it's the mecca of sports. It's a great
sports book I've ever been to. Not even I've been
to a lot of sports books, never anything white like
the Circuits insane.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
That's the hotel you told me about, right.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, that's the one I told you about. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's adults only because we're all adults here twenty one plus.
They keep the great on washed out because they have
you have to show your ID to go into the hotel.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
But it's clean. Everything is one of the newest hotel.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I think it might be the newest hotel in Vegas,
at least in downtown Vegas. It's the oldest hotel. Let's
say a little Mark the full name guy. By the way,
did you find that sound of Larina? Did you find
you found the sound?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I did find it, Ben. You want to hear yourself,
let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Okay, here we go, royals having their problems on the road.
I'm Ben Mala, Kansas City, fighting for the America makes
Central with the White Sox. They're in Texas on this
labor day and the Rangers bombing away.
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Who looks so refreshing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I've decided to put on my twin trunks and dive
right in the You see.
Speaker 11 (31:48):
Me now, you would.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Clearly not highlight. I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Mark Dechera too a Mark and the Rangers on top six.
Speaker 9 (31:59):
That's, oh my gosh, just a baby.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You said you were what twelve? Then I started ten.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I was probably twelve when we did that. So what
happened was they had fired one of the producers right
that morning, and on his way out he sabotaged some
sound bites and so my boardop art played, I tossed
to the cut. He played the cut and the guy
had put that in instead of what was supposed to
(32:25):
be a Mark tsera home run. Oh my so and
then But the funniest part is art.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I love art. Art goes.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
If you ever go to one of the ugly sweater parties,
art always shows up. I've known Art for years. He
worked here for a long time. I'm one of the
great engineers in radio and art. He works over at
Westwood one now. But Art walked away from the board,
so I and he wasn't listening, so I started like
banging the table.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I heard that. I was so frustrated.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
I was like, oh my god, I'm sure you have
a good memory and you can remember this.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Well, that's one of those days you definitely remember. It's
hard to forget that day. Mark the full name guy though,
Hello Mark, Marky Mark, Oh, i've been beller.
Speaker 13 (33:09):
How are you mattering? Day Bob of negativity?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You're upset because I pointed out Jalen Brunson would be
fiscally irresponsible if he left one hundred million dollars on
the table, and you're upset by that.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
That's I'm not upset about it.
Speaker 11 (33:26):
You're upset about it.
Speaker 13 (33:27):
You're the one trying to you and and your buddies.
There is I don't know what Fox you don't you
want to buy every free agent on the market, and
it would make it would it would make your shut
point day if your clippers actually got there got a
(33:49):
contract with Brunson. Don't tell me that's.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
Not what you a.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Jalen br no I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Jalen Brunce is not going to the clippers. He's not clippers.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
You brought the clippers up. I didn't bring the clippers up.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
You brought the clippers up.
Speaker 9 (34:08):
I knew.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
Get you going.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Can we get Mark's diabolical law elite? We got to
get that diabolical laugh in some.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
Movie or something. Oh he's got the harmonica.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh you got the harmonic.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Give us a tone, give us a tone in the
minor fo okay, thank you, all right, go away. There
(34:42):
was a question that we were going to ask you,
but I forget the question and our friend from des
Moines didn't send the question again, so we'll have to
ask the question another time. So stay tuned. Time now
for the instant trivia. Ranger Suarez has become the first
Phillies pitcher to win at least nine straight uninterrupted starts
(35:03):
since blank Again. Ranger Suarez became the first Phillies pitcher
to win at least nine straight uninterrupted starts since blank?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
That is the answer?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Trivia That and Mallard of the Third Degree our next.
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Speaker 8 (35:47):
It's Ben Malor.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
And here is the insta trivia question of the night.
Wait an attempt to get you to listen little bit longer.
Ranger Suarez of The Fight and Phils He became the
first Phillies picture to win at least nine straight uninterrupted
starts since blank? That is the question. What is the answer?
And let's see does anyone know the answer? Grover Cleveland
(36:11):
Alexander by I forty, Ian Bill Maher from Ferg Dog.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Tommy John, who's eighty one today from the Late Night
drug Test. I had Tommy John on my podcast.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
He was great.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
He's living in the Palm Springs area. That's what you
do when you're in your late seventies or whatever and
you're rich. Yeah, you live in Palm Springs in southern California.
And he's He's a great character. Tommy John, love the guy.
I'm Robin Vegas going with mister perfect Kurt Henning as
his answer. Double Old Mexican says Steve Sachs is the
way to go cold Stone or stone Stone, cold Stone,
(36:45):
cold Milkman from Milkman, Mike.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
That's his answer.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Harrison Ford guests by Alf the Alien, O Piner, Steve
Bodrozian from Eke in Rosevild, Minnesota, Roy Halliday from Matthew
Warrior Raider fan.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Wow, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 8 (36:59):
I need an answer, dh Yes.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
I believe it's former Cleveland Indian picture Mudcat Grant.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
That's a fine answer. One of the great Phillies of
all time. No the correct answer at a Rangers War
as the first Phillies picture to win at least nine
straight starts interrupted since totally sparked back in nineteen oh seven. Yeah,
the great, the great totally Sparks won ten in a
(37:26):
row in July through September of nineteen oh seven.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Who could forget that? Here we go, it's Meller. How
about that?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Coop dal loop.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
He's got his head phones, he's got us bike, he's
ready to the NBA will crown a different champion for
the sixth year in a row. A streak like this
hasn't happened since nineteen seventy six through nineteen eighty. Ben,
do you think this kind of parody is good for
the NBA?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yes, but it's bad for those of us to do
talk radio. It's bad for what I do. But for
the business of the NBA, it's good because now it
at least gives the perception that a bunch of teams
have a chance to win a championship.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
My entire life that has not been the case.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
But it's bad for talk radio because nobody really gives
a rats ass about most of these teams nationally.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Next, Anthony Edwards recently saying the praises of head coach
Chris Finch, calling him the best coach in the NBA.
Ben Finch has led the Tea Wolves to the playoffs
in each of his three years at the Helm. Do
you think he's underrated. I wouldn't say underrated. I like
the story though. First of all, he's not some former
star player. He's spent his life in coaching. He's in
(38:36):
his mid fifties. He's not like an overnight celebrity and
all that.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
So I like that.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
He's paid his dues and he's had success, and he
was coaching a bunch of other teams as an assistant,
so why not. I like it, But he's not underrated.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
Next, yesterday you did a monologue about teams monitoring Giannis
and Tenecumpo. Well, he'sn't the only one being monitored. Reports
said that teams have their eye on Julius Randall and
think that the Name could look to trade him this offseason. Ben,
do you think that's the right move? Well, for the Knicks,
it is.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
My concern Coop is that he's going to end up
with the Clippers because he's making a lot of money.
He gets hurt by the time the playoffs come around.
That's the perfect Clipper, right, I mean, Kawhi Leonard's like,
give me that guy. He'll disappear when it matters most.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
How did we do? Koop? A loop passes it? Are
you go a wonderful I won Addie. That's another way
A thumbs up, he said, thumbs up.
Hello and welcome. It's ourn burn two we go where
the news of the day takes us, and we were
burning the midnight oil talking about Jalen Brunson, who is
said to be open to leaving over one hundred million
dollars on the table to sign an extension prematurely with
the Knickerbockers rather than waiting. Could you actually see that happening?
(00:23):
You make the call? Sign or not sign? Also, a
glowing report says the Lakers think jj Reddick has quote
pat Riley like potential. What do you make of that
particular report? And there are stories suggesting that the NBA
played a role in Jeff Van Gundy's demise, his departure
(00:45):
from television Popular broadcaster. Where are you at on this one?
We'll talk about that and much more. It's our two
and it's.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yours right now. A real sweetheart of a deal. But
is it going to happen?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
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Speaker 2 (02:03):
But we'll get back to.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The Celtics getting a gift from the Indiana basketball team.
Shocking that we've been on the air for over an
hour on a major sports talk radio station in Indianapolis
and have pitched a shutout on Pacer fans. You would
think the Pacer fan would want to call up and
bash the team, but not one Pacer fan has called
(02:26):
up to critique the performance of the Indiana Pacers. Well,
we cover the spread. Okay, you had the game in
the bag. It was in the bag, and you cut
a hole in the bag. Put our headline this hour
from the speculation Machine. No, it is not about the
Western Conference Game one, Western Conference Finals Game one, which
is later on here on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But more noise.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
The Naked City never sleeps. More noise out of the
Big Apple, say what so you might know where I'm
going with this, but maybe not. I thought this was
a fascinating tale, so I thought we'd spend a couple
of minutes talk about it. The story out of the
Big Apple saying that Jalen Brunson, that's a basketball player
that plays for the New York basketball team, is open
(03:11):
to signing a massive contract this summer, which would help
the Knicks out, would do a solid for the Knickerbockers.
But here's the thing. He would be leaving a ton
of dough, really delicious dough, sugary, light, fluffy dough on
(03:31):
the table. So you make the call, right, you make
the call. Now, the tabloids in New York City say
that Brunson is willing to sign a four year contract
for one hundred and fifty six million. That's a great
amount of money. Now after you pay the New York
tax and the federal tax that's about fifty bucks, maybe
fifty six bucks. That might give you a break, give
you an extra six bucks, but over one hundred and
fifty six million contract total extension after taxes.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Again, it's about fifty six bucks.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And he can sign that this summer. Now, that's a
lot of money. It's a great mitzvah to get that
kind of mind's wonderful. However, if Jalen Brunson waits a
little bit, he's got a bet on himself, right, bets
on himself. Jalen Brunson can sign a five year contract
for two hundred and seventy million dead presidents. That can
(04:22):
happen the summer of twenty twenty five. So would you again,
you make the call here, Jalen Runson said, He said
Quota's report, he said, to be opened to leaving over
one hundred million dollars on the table to sign with
the Knicks this summer to do them a solid.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Could you actually see this? Happy you make the call
on this one.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So I've got nonprofit charitable organization, Candy Land, and traffic
ticket Quota. We will combine all these things together and
we are going to make a hot dog.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Stand which they don't have.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I've been in New York last couple times I've been
in New York day they don't have as many hot
dog stands as they used to have back in the
old day. You get a lot of falafel now, a
lot of flafful, not a lot of hot dog stands.
It's a lot of stands in general. Last time I
was in New York anyway, Number one, to answer the question,
could you actually see Jalen Brunson leave a hundred plus
(05:21):
million dollars sitting there on the table to help the
knickerbockers out. I am agnostic on this one. I am
not a believer. This is risky business. He's already got
fu money. He's already got a lot of money. Assuming
he's not frivolous with his money. Jalen Brunson already has
enough money. He shouldn't have to work, so as wow,
(05:41):
he doesn't need the money. Well, you say that, when
you say it's not about the money, it's always about
the money. And I know that Jalen Brunson is rooted
in Gotham. I get that he's beloved. He's everything Carmelo
Anthony was supposed to be in a bag of chips.
I understand that, but leaving money on the table in
that business is a sin, and really in any business,
(06:03):
it's a cardinal sin. And it's certainly easier said than done.
It's easier for some blow hard or he should leave
money on the table and all that. I don't know
about you, but I do not leave money on the table.
I take all eighteen dollars and seventy two cents I
get paid here every hour. Yeah, but we are in
a Missouri show me state of mind, a Missouri show
(06:25):
me state of monol. In my life commentating on sports nonsense,
I can count on one hand and have extra fingers
the time that the times overall that I've seen people
leave money on the table took less money.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Do the team solid? Do the team solid?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And while I understand rich is rich, and I get that,
Jalen Runson if he left one hundred and whatever it
is million on the table, fourteen million per year on
the table, extra money, the NBA players associate would be
upset with jalb Brons, like, what are you doing you, Jamoke?
What's wrong with you? Your big dumbball? What are you
doing now? Giving a break? Also, to the Knickerbockers. I
(07:12):
was gonna kick when big companies claim poverty and the
Knicks are not claiming poverty. But James Dolan needs extra
money to spy on customers, right, doesn't that what he
does at Massive Square Garden in the other place. I
get you in trouble for that. But face recognition cameras
and all that. But giving a break to the Knickerbockers,
who were they a non profit charitable organization unless they're
(07:36):
actually worth six almost seven billion dollars?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Say why?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And with the TV money the great unknown, the NBA
is about to sign new partnerships with possibly NBC, Netflix.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Might be who know.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean, there's it's a wide open world there where
the NBA is gonna get their TV money. They're gonna
get their TV money. So our position is, well, Jalen Brunson,
this is being floated out makes him look like a
good guy, a wonderful guy and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Our position is.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The when everything is done, it will be not a dimeback,
no givebacks. That Brunson will not end up signing that
contract the summer. Now we'll see be surprised by that.
But my money, if you gave me a thousand dollars
of fundy money. My money is that Jalen Brunson does
not end up taking less money. Now we go to
La La Land, where the Lakers have a vacancy. They
(08:27):
whack their coach because their team gagged. They got old
Lebron and Anthony Davis who vanishes for a half here
or a half there, so they had to fire the coach.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I read that. This is quite the story. I don't
even saw this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
The Lakers are said to be infatuated with JJ Reddick
and what he conceivably would be as a head coach.
Viewing him, I love this as a pat riley like
coaching prospect and could help the franchise short term, and
I love this part long term, could lead the team
(08:59):
for years to come. That's what we call in the
business the money quote. It was buried behind a paywall,
the old Gray Lady, the athletic. So the Lakers think
JJ Reddick has pat riley like potential.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
What do you make of that report?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So you are a coaching prospect, apparently, JJ Redick. Any
prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise. And as Bill
Parcells taught me when I was a little kid. Potential
is stuff you haven't done. Things you have not done
that is potential, and that's the way it is. But
(09:41):
what I took away from this is it's good to
have friends in influential positions. This was obviously coming from
JJ Reddick. It reads like his mom wrote it. It's
like it's from his publicist. My god, gloating all over,
dotting all over, JJ Reddick. Einstein of coaching, JJ Reddick,
(10:03):
this is candy Land commentary, sugarcoated. And the longevity in
La Laland is a myth.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The Laker coaching job is a temp job. It is.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Since nineteen ninety nine, there's only been one coach that's
lasted more than a few seasons, more than three seasons.
That's Phil Jackson. They've had ten coaches other than Phil
Jackson since nineteen ninety nine, ten and nobody's lasted more
than three years. Now, I do endorse JJ Reddick. I
never saw a player miss more clutch shots in his
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life than JJ Reddick with the Lob City Clippers. And
it took Doc Rivers like two or three seasons before
he finally realized this guy is lacking the clutch gen
JJ Reddick he's one of the great shooters of all
time in the first quarter, second quarter, the third quarter,
but as a player in the fourth quarter, there's no one,
no one I would rather have take a shot less
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than JJ Reddick in a spot. So if he coaches
like that, he'll be great for three quarters and then
just futs away the game in the fourth quarter. And
more importantly, get him off television because he blows right.
It's very hard when you're doing a basketball game to
sound like as a viewer you want to punch the
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guy calling the game. Part of what we do here
on some level is likability, Like you have to be
somewhat likable JJ Redick.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
There's nothing likable about the guy. The way he talks.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
He's got this duke elitism, this smarmy arrogance from JJ Reddick.
And just get him off television. And my god, pat
Riley is a straight shooter. I don't think of JJ
Reddick like a straight shooter. And I talk to guys
that were around the Lakers when Riley started he was
a broadcaster, said, well, JJ Reddick's a broadcaster.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
The thing about Rother, well, he wore nice suits.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Right at that time, there were a lot of coaches
dressed like slobs like Doug mo and Don Nelson and
people like that, and pat Riley dress like he just professional.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
But in terms of his commentary, he was a straight shooter. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I mean, I remember Big Joe McDonald who used to
be big LA radio guy. He passed away, but he
tell me stories about the Lakers in those days and
what it was like and being around them. And Riley
would he would tell if somebody sucked, he would tell
the media. I don't know that JJ Reddy doesn't seem
like Reddicks that kind of guy. All right, now, final point.
Speaking of broadcasting, another story made the rounds this week
claiming that the NBA did not appreciate the dulcetones of
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Jeff Van Gundy. I did not like him. He criticized
the officiating. He criticized a lot of things in the NBA,
and so the league complained to the small fledgling cable
channel out of Bristol, Connecticut called ESPN now.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
The Athletic Athletic.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
They said there is no proof, no proof that the
league ordered his banishment Van Gundy, but they suggested that
the NBA did play a role in Jeff Van Gundy's
departure from television, So where are you at on this one?
So this is a bit of a rerun. We talked
about this when Van Gundy was whacked as a commentator
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and in he took a job with the Celtics. But
it's a low level job with the Celtics and all that.
But I absolutely believed the conspiracy theory that was going around,
and I don't even think it's a conspiracy theory at
the time. I believe it to be true that people
the NBA have thin skin, they have salamander skin. And
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it's while the story the way it was reported, it's
being reported this way again. It's one of these semantical arguments.
Having been in the game, been around relationships between sports
teams and leagues and broadcast companies.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I know what normally happens.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I don't think this is any different than what normally
happens my experience in the business. It's kind of like
traffic ticket quotas. In many states. Did you know it's
illegal for the police to have quotas. You can't do it.
You can't have there's no quota allowed to write certain
number of traffic tickets every month. However, what I've heard
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is cops are encouraged to write tickets. That's why usually
at the beginning of the month and not that many
tickets at the end of the month. You're trying to
meet your unofficial official quota. So while the NBA, I
don't believe sent a message via email or text messaging saying, hey,
we got to get rid of this Van Gundy guy.
Whack this guy, he's terrible, they just didn't have a
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problem with it, and they sent out a few messages
critiquing his performance. Nudge nudge, wink wink. It is the
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Speaker 1 (16:59):
We will have the Third Degree next hour, the Riddle
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Speaker 2 (17:04):
And the Queen of Hearts with Arena. Is that a
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Speaker 9 (17:12):
It didn't seem it was a half a heart because
my other hand was busy.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Okay, I don't need to go any further with that,
but very good. Oh there you go. There's the full
heart sign. See need both hands. Very nice, I think so.
I think so. Anyway, we are taking your calls. Will
do that in a moment.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
And I did want to mention before I forget, I
popped on. I didn't post anything, but I popped on
the Facebook page of the show, and then I was
on the Instagram pitch. I just popped on that was lurking.
Ben Maller on Fox on Instagram and Ben Maller Show
on Facebook, and I got several messages from p ones.
(17:54):
That Tuesday was the one year anniversary of the Malor Meet,
and we did in Minnesota last year in Minneapolis. It
was awesome. I had so many people people I've forgotten.
I'd forgotten we took photos or whatever. You sent me
some messages with photos instead.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Was great.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Had a wonderful, wonderful night. I got a speeding ticket
that night. My name was on the jumbo tron outside
the Mermaid there.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That was cool.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I think Regina, who's now living in Colorado, she's not
even in Minnesota anymore. She set that up and she
hosted the event, the hostess with the mostest. We had
the fake wedding, the faux wedding between Doc Mike and Regina.
I presided over the wedding, tremendous theater.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Do you not know how to talk yourself out of
a speeding ticket? Ben?
Speaker 10 (18:41):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Youah? No, Well I don't. And women have more of
an advantage.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
I'd say, you got to show them the leg.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I think I'd get two tickets. I might Actually that's
an illegal in the Bible belt. My legs are illegal anyway.
But it was a wonderful night. A Viking quarterback Tommy
Kramer showed up randomly. Nineteen eighties Viking quarterback Tommy Cramer
was there. I met Hollering James, the legendary Hollering James,
man of the people. Econ Econ, Roseville, Minnesota, was there.
(19:11):
We had FEMI, I had a couple a couple of
the boys from Iowa drove up and that.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Was that was great.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Christ and des Moines and some of the other fellows
were there. It was great to see them. And I
had a few people from Wisconsin that made the trip over,
so it was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I had a great time.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So I can't believe it's been a year, but usually
that's what happened. Yeah, I forgot I forgot the date,
but it's like it must have been a year ago
because everyone was sending me messages saying it was the
one year anniversary. So that that's pretty cool. It's pretty neat.
So hopefully we'll be back there at some point, do
another mallor meet and greet. I don't know how I
can top that one. But had a great time. I
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loved Minnesota because.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
I was there.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
As we talked about, I was there one of the
four weeks a year. The weather's perfect. Could not have
been better, weather, could not have been better.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Weather.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
It was just absolutely great. Loved it, love it, love it.
Let's go to the phones and triving. I think he's
on I ninety five. Let's got an update though on
the traffic. There probably no traffic right now. Moving man
Matt outbound from Boston heading to the Big Apple. Hello,
moving man Mad, what's going on with Ben? There he is,
(20:18):
he's got the truck. He's back on the road. I
was wondering what happened you. We haven't heard from you
in a while.
Speaker 11 (20:23):
Yeah, I've been doing I've had a couple offorstunities. I've
been doing more East Coast work. Uh. I shared it
with you a couple of years ago. I'm trying to
transition more into the management side. And yeah, you know,
I'm gonna be forty seven and my body hurts, and uh,
you know, I've been beating the hell out of it
for twenty seven years.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I got you, I got you. Yeah, you want to
have other people do the dirty work.
Speaker 11 (20:47):
Yeah. I think the last time I called in Coop
was away on his honeymoon. So congratulations Coop on your nuptials.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
He's no longer married, that's not true.
Speaker 11 (20:58):
Thank you, even short of it much.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I'm a kid because I care. I kid because it
was good.
Speaker 11 (21:05):
To hear weed man. I have not heard him since
he went on vacation, so that's uh.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
The people in Miami gave him a nice two month
vacation there in jail, so it was very nice for them.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
To do that.
Speaker 11 (21:17):
I was very upset that I could not get down
to South Carolina when you were down there.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, that would have been great. We had a wonderful turn.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't know that you could have parked where we
were at the my father's mustache.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I don't I don't know.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
I gotta do it down in Charleston away.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah. Now you're going to New York.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Are you going to be in the city or are
you going to be out in the suburbs around the
city that island Okay, yeah.
Speaker 11 (21:38):
So you can't. You can get over there, just you
can't get into the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So oh yeah, what do you do? The streets don't
really work for you.
Speaker 11 (21:46):
There, rent the U haul and shuttle it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Oh, that sounds like fun. And how much does this?
I looked it up.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I forget the cost though, But how much does it
cost if you wanted to take your truck into Manhattan
on one of the bridges with the tolls? How much
would it they cost? At peak rush hour time? How
much would it cost you to go in a minute?
Speaker 11 (22:04):
George Washington Bridge? One hundred thirty two bucks, one.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Hundred and thirty two bucks to take your truck in
a man one hundred and thirty two bucks.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
My god?
Speaker 11 (22:11):
And the rule you never have to pay to go
into Jersey, but.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You always leave, so you never pay to go to Jersey.
But they make you pay to leave Jersey.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
No matter where you leave Jersey, you pay.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Some would say that that's money well spent.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Now when you're leaving, if you're leaving Manhattan, do you
you pay one hundred and thirty two to go on
the George Washington Bridge? But when you're in Manhattan to
leave Manhattan, do you also have to pay one hundred
and thirty two thousand you leave? No, you do not, Okay,
So it's only inbound, okay, all right inbound, So it's
really you know, seventy almost seventy bucks or something like that, right, yeah, yeah,
(22:51):
each way, yea.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
I was thinking I'm drawing a complete blank.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I was much like the much like the New York
Giants quarterback off and draws a complete blank.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
But up bump blame jokes are on Friday.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
There you go, lame Jo gets in the uniform. But uh,
who's that buffoon? The boom boom boom boom boom guy
used to call in that went and got married after
he made the inappropriate car man around your father's path thing.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, man, that's a real real talk, real talk,
real talk.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Yeah. What polls are that guy was we got married
and disappeared.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, we think that he intentionally said what he said
because he his wife to be did not want him
calling the show anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We think that's what happens.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Was weed name was on and it got me thinking
of callers from the paths while I was on, you know,
while I.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Was driving callers from a pat from the past for
a thousand I'm not sure how far back you go.
We can go way back on that Spokane, Garrett, do
you remember a guy named Spokane, Gary.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
He died. Yeah, yeah, when I started listening.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah he's dead. Uh who But Dale Murphy is still
not in the Hall of Fame. Rest in peace, Spokane, Gary.
We had MotorCity Mike. Remember the guy in Monty in
Phoenix who went by a different name who barfed on
the air. That was one of the great callers that
we had. He puked on the air.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
I was wonderful. The guy that was Johannis John then
changed his name.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh yeah, j and then he and then he quit
the show because he got to the age of forty
and none of his teams had won a championship, so
he stopped watching sports and as a result, could not
call the show anymore or listen to the show. How
about how about this guy? Remember that guy La Matt
that I loved. That guy La Matt used to call
the show. He had a great He sounded like Bill
(24:35):
Cosby before Bill Cosby got canceled.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
But he sounded great, good, good voice.
Speaker 11 (24:39):
To have to win, Ben, because my poor kids have
now gone like five years without praid.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Wow, those duck boats are they're not going to drive themselves.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
Brady took him with him.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Brady took the duck boats. They probably bought one's who
know who's the guy that? But didn't with that.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Red Sox pitcher who bought a duck boat? Which one
was the guy that? The guy Jake Peeve didn't he
buy a duck boat? Yeah, Jake Peebe bought a duck
boat for his house in like Mississippi or something pretty crazy.
Speaker 11 (25:09):
I will be out I think the end of July.
I'll be out on the West coast again.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Let us know, I do have I think that I'm
doing one one trip in the summer, so I'm going
to miss a couple of days in July, but I'm
not sure when, so let me know.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Okay, all right, it is good.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
To here my one and only drops still still in play.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, never heard of him? Yeah, all right, Well it
gets a high a lot of rotation. Never heard him.
It's never there, It is right there, it is.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, all right, you're a legend. You' immortalized on the show.
All I gotta go, thank you. Be safe there, Joey
Statton Island. There isn't that where all the Mob guys
used to live on Staten Island back in the day
when the Mob ran New York.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
No I don't know. Ben.
Speaker 9 (25:52):
I am completely flabbergasted though about what I looked up
Spokane Gary in the sound system.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Is he still in there?
Speaker 9 (25:58):
Well, there's one drop him defending some people. But you
sound so different to me. Did you get a voice transplant?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I started here when I was like ten years old.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh so puberty, Okay.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Fox Sports Radio was yes, fine, There's one drop in
there somewhere about him doing an.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
Update because he used to do updates.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I did, Yeah, and he talks about the Royals having
their troubles on the road. I'm saying, roastic, Well they
I got sabotaged by my board. Actually, so I don't
have time to get to it right now, but I
will tell you the story. Shaving it fine, I'll tell
you the story.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Some OTA news from the NFL Browns.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Quarterback Deshan Watson won't throw during the OTAs as he
is recovering from shoulder surgery. LA Rams running back Hiray
Williams is going to miss the team's offseason workouts because
of a foot injury and Jets coach Robert Sala says
quarterback Aaron Rodgers doing everything in practice and has no restrictions.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
All right, Eddie, I'm gonna give you the F word
right now, the F word. You're ready for.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
The fun fact?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
This is a pirate themed f word. You know who
O'Neil Cruz is sure do?
Speaker 8 (27:12):
Is there big shortstop? He's yes, kind of Elie de
la Cruz like somewhat.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
O'Neil Cruz has hit three one hundred and twenty mile
plus hour batted balls in his career. The only other
player with multiple batted balls at one hundred and twenty
plus miles per hour off the bat in the stat
cast era, which goes back way back to twenty fifteen.
There's only one you got to do it. That is
(27:37):
John Carlos Stanton, who's done it fourteen times. Stanton had
multiple seasons of A six and twenty twenty one three
in twenty eighteen, but O'Neil Cruz in the game on
Tuesday had two two in one game. That's their fun fact, Eddie,
(28:00):
oh Neil Cruz speed off the bat boys, that fun
tuna in Laguna. Good name, But will he continue to
be a good call. Well, my mom made me eat
a lot of tuna when I was a kid, so
I have once I made the decision to become an adult,
I had no choice me. My tuna melted in the
(28:23):
lunch box at the elementary school while I waited for
lunchtime to eat it in those hot, hot days early
in the year in September.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Hello, what's going on? Tuna?
Speaker 12 (28:32):
What's up? Big dogs? So there's JJ Reddick coaching. I'm
sokel guy as a Laker fans, this dude is going
to go back to Duke's face as soon as possible.
He washed it off with like fifteen years of NBA decency,
and now he's got this podcast and he's got his
(28:55):
pompous little attitude thinking we're not smart enough and we've
been hiding. The Lakers have been hijacked by club sports.
We got to draft a six foot one, twenty four
hour fitness player. You got to pay an old man, Yeah,
like Coke the Kobe. At least Kobe was a Laker,
(29:17):
you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (29:17):
We got to Kobe deserved what he got him the
way out.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Are you excited? Are you excited that Chris Paul is
going to finally be a Laker next year. Is that
excite you?
Speaker 10 (29:26):
No, he's not stopping Stop the Lakers. We've been hijacked.
It's it's absolutely disgusting. We're gonna pay Lebron though five
hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Well, you know why they're you know why they're doing it,
Tuna from lagoon A.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Genie Buss. Genie Buss knows that.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Lebron makes a lot of money for the team business wise,
and so she just gave him the keys to the
franchise and they got that, they got that skinny jeans.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
GM robed the.
Speaker 10 (29:53):
Lincoln actual money. She has no cash. Well, the Dodgers owners.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Well they are, by the way, they are are in line.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
If Genie Bus ever sells the Lakers, the Dodgers owners
have the first right to buy the Lakers. No no, no,
by wait wait wait, Frank McCourt, the old Dodger owners
trying to buy.
Speaker 10 (30:13):
What I'm saying is the Dodgers owners can buy whatever
they want. Genie Bus can barely own a parking lot.
It's disgusting.
Speaker 11 (30:20):
And we got to draft a.
Speaker 10 (30:21):
Six fitness players the Lakers as the Lakers fan and
we got to get you to the Circa in Vegas
for a meet and girl.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
I loved all right, thank you to If you know
anybody in the Circle, let me know because I love
that's my favorite able to set you up, all right,
sent me up, seriously, I love it. That's my spot, man,
I love the Circle. That's a great sports book. All right,
thank you to it.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, look at that coop. We're gonna get hooked up.
You ever been in the circa Coop? Oh my god,
so mate, Eddie, you have been in the Circle in Vegas.
Oh guys, it's the mecca of sports. It's a great
sports book I've ever been to. Not even I've been
to a lot of sports books, never anything white like
the Circuits insane.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
That's the hotel you told me about, right.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, that's the one I told you about. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's adults only because we're all adults here twenty one plus.
They keep the great on washed out because they have
you have to show your ID to go into the hotel.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
But it's clean. Everything is one of the newest hotel.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I think it might be the newest hotel in Vegas,
at least in downtown Vegas. It's the oldest hotel. Let's
say a little Mark the full name guy. By the way,
did you find that sound of Larina? Did you find
you found the sound?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I did find it, Ben. You want to hear yourself,
let's hear it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Okay, here we go, royals having their problems on the road.
I'm Ben Mala, Kansas City, fighting for the America makes
Central with the White Sox. They're in Texas on this
labor day and the Rangers bombing away.
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Who looks so refreshing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I've decided to put on my twin trunks and dive
right in the You see.
Speaker 11 (31:48):
Me now, you would.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Clearly not highlight. I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Mark Dechera too a Mark and the Rangers on top six.
Speaker 9 (31:59):
That's, oh my gosh, just a baby.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You said you were what twelve? Then I started ten.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I was probably twelve when we did that. So what
happened was they had fired one of the producers right
that morning, and on his way out he sabotaged some
sound bites and so my boardop art played, I tossed
to the cut. He played the cut and the guy
had put that in instead of what was supposed to
(32:25):
be a Mark tsera home run. Oh my so and
then But the funniest part is art.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I love art. Art goes.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
If you ever go to one of the ugly sweater parties,
art always shows up. I've known Art for years. He
worked here for a long time. I'm one of the
great engineers in radio and art. He works over at
Westwood one now. But Art walked away from the board,
so I and he wasn't listening, so I started like
banging the table.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I heard that. I was so frustrated.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
I was like, oh my god, I'm sure you have
a good memory and you can remember this.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Well, that's one of those days you definitely remember. It's
hard to forget that day. Mark the full name guy though,
Hello Mark, Marky Mark, Oh, i've been beller.
Speaker 13 (33:09):
How are you mattering? Day Bob of negativity?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You're upset because I pointed out Jalen Brunson would be
fiscally irresponsible if he left one hundred million dollars on
the table, and you're upset by that.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
That's I'm not upset about it.
Speaker 11 (33:26):
You're upset about it.
Speaker 13 (33:27):
You're the one trying to you and and your buddies.
There is I don't know what Fox you don't you
want to buy every free agent on the market, and
it would make it would it would make your shut
point day if your clippers actually got there got a
(33:49):
contract with Brunson. Don't tell me that's.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
Not what you a.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Jalen br no I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Jalen Brunce is not going to the clippers. He's not clippers.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
You brought the clippers up. I didn't bring the clippers up.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
You brought the clippers up.
Speaker 9 (34:08):
I knew.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
Get you going.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Can we get Mark's diabolical law elite? We got to
get that diabolical laugh in some.
Speaker 8 (34:16):
Movie or something. Oh he's got the harmonica.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh you got the harmonic.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Give us a tone, give us a tone in the
minor fo okay, thank you, all right, go away. There
(34:42):
was a question that we were going to ask you,
but I forget the question and our friend from des
Moines didn't send the question again, so we'll have to
ask the question another time. So stay tuned. Time now
for the instant trivia. Ranger Suarez has become the first
Phillies pitcher to win at least nine straight uninterrupted starts
(35:03):
since blank Again. Ranger Suarez became the first Phillies pitcher
to win at least nine straight uninterrupted starts since blank?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
That is the answer?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Trivia That and Mallard of the Third Degree our next.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
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Speaker 8 (35:47):
It's Ben Malor.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
And here is the insta trivia question of the night.
Wait an attempt to get you to listen little bit longer.
Ranger Suarez of The Fight and Phils He became the
first Phillies picture to win at least nine straight uninterrupted
starts since blank? That is the question. What is the answer?
And let's see does anyone know the answer? Grover Cleveland
(36:11):
Alexander by I forty, Ian Bill Maher from Ferg Dog.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Tommy John, who's eighty one today from the Late Night
drug Test. I had Tommy John on my podcast.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
He was great.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
He's living in the Palm Springs area. That's what you
do when you're in your late seventies or whatever and
you're rich. Yeah, you live in Palm Springs in southern California.
And he's He's a great character. Tommy John, love the guy.
I'm Robin Vegas going with mister perfect Kurt Henning as
his answer. Double Old Mexican says Steve Sachs is the
way to go cold Stone or stone Stone, cold Stone,
(36:45):
cold Milkman from Milkman, Mike.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
That's his answer.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Harrison Ford guests by Alf the Alien, O Piner, Steve
Bodrozian from Eke in Rosevild, Minnesota, Roy Halliday from Matthew
Warrior Raider fan.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Wow, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 8 (36:59):
I need an answer, dh Yes.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
I believe it's former Cleveland Indian picture Mudcat Grant.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
That's a fine answer. One of the great Phillies of
all time. No the correct answer at a Rangers War
as the first Phillies picture to win at least nine
straight starts interrupted since totally sparked back in nineteen oh seven. Yeah,
the great, the great totally Sparks won ten in a
(37:26):
row in July through September of nineteen oh seven.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Who could forget that? Here we go, it's Meller. How
about that?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Coop dal loop.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
He's got his head phones, he's got us bike, he's
ready to the NBA will crown a different champion for
the sixth year in a row. A streak like this
hasn't happened since nineteen seventy six through nineteen eighty. Ben,
do you think this kind of parody is good for
the NBA?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yes, but it's bad for those of us to do
talk radio. It's bad for what I do. But for
the business of the NBA, it's good because now it
at least gives the perception that a bunch of teams
have a chance to win a championship.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
My entire life that has not been the case.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
But it's bad for talk radio because nobody really gives
a rats ass about most of these teams nationally.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Next, Anthony Edwards recently saying the praises of head coach
Chris Finch, calling him the best coach in the NBA.
Ben Finch has led the Tea Wolves to the playoffs
in each of his three years at the Helm. Do
you think he's underrated. I wouldn't say underrated. I like
the story though. First of all, he's not some former
star player. He's spent his life in coaching. He's in
(38:36):
his mid fifties. He's not like an overnight celebrity and
all that.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
So I like that.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
He's paid his dues and he's had success, and he
was coaching a bunch of other teams as an assistant,
so why not. I like it, But he's not underrated.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
Next, yesterday you did a monologue about teams monitoring Giannis
and Tenecumpo. Well, he'sn't the only one being monitored. Reports
said that teams have their eye on Julius Randall and
think that the Name could look to trade him this offseason. Ben,
do you think that's the right move? Well, for the Knicks,
it is.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
My concern Coop is that he's going to end up
with the Clippers because he's making a lot of money.
He gets hurt by the time the playoffs come around.
That's the perfect Clipper, right, I mean, Kawhi Leonard's like,
give me that guy. He'll disappear when it matters most.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
How did we do? Koop? A loop passes it? Are
you go a wonderful I won Addie. That's another way
A thumbs up, he said, thumbs up.
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