May 14, 2025 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jayson Tatum undergoing surgery to repair his torn Achilles tendon, the realistic expectations for Tatum once he returns, who deserves the most blame for the Cavs exit from the playoffs, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom Shaka Laca, it's our d bird too. Our number
two and injury update, injury update, your thoughts on the
latest developments involving Jason Tatum. Pop goes the Achilles Unfortunately
he's out the Achilles operation. Also given past Achilles injuries
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to players like Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Chauncey Phillips. What
is the realistic expectation for Jason Tatum when he does
return eventually to the Boston Celtics. And who deserves the
most blame as we'll talk about the Eastern Finals semi
finals which came to an end. Who deserves the most
blame for the Cavaliers' futile effort against the Indiana basketball team?
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And what is the lesson? Cleveland had a great regular season,
they were the top seed and all that, and they
just completely collapsed in the playoffs against Indiana. So what
is the lesson from that? We'll talk about all of
it and more. Right now, give it up for our
number two, The.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Rub of the Green.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
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Now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Years ago, I had a gossip blog. I was in
the bloggersphere. It was one of the early bloggers. I
gave that up for the joy of overnight talk radio.
But one of the things we did there, we did
a lot of rumors uf gossip, and oftentimes it started
out as a rumor and then before you knew it, it
became reality. And so whispers in hush tones have yet
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again turned out to be true.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If you did not hear, maybe not.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The Celtics made it official, they put the rubber stamp
on it, and Nana La La la, Hey, goodbye. Unfortunately,
Jason Tatum, that's it, see you later, goodbye, Jason Tatum,
Celtics star. He's dun skies underwent surgery. They said he
was gonna have an MRI. He had surgery as he
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went snap crackle pop or ruptured in this case his
Achilles tendon and that operation happening on Tuesday afternoon. He
suffered the injury late in the fourth quarter, less than
three minutes to go in the game. In Game four,
Celtics at the time were down by nine to the Knicks.
They ended up losing that game and now they are
on the brink of elimination, trying to stave off elimination
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when they play the Knicks again here coming up hours
from now. But that's not the story. The story here
is Jason Tatum. So the Seas are now going to
lead on. We're going to lean on Jalen Brown. What
can Brown do for you? It could actually step up here.
He's been a little shaky, a little shaky after being
the big man on campus for the Celtics last year
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when they won the championship.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
He's supposedly the star A to B and or beat A.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Wait the way you want to say it, but Jalen
Brown trying to save the Celtics in Game number five.
Teams that are leading three games to one in the
NBA Playoffs have won ninety five point six percent of
the time. I think that's even higher now because Indiana
was up three to one, so he can check on
another one. There's only thirteen teams that have come back
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from that deficit. But that is secondary. Jason Tatum one
of the big stars in the NBA. You go to
the grocery store for a long time, we saw him
on the face of ruffles. He was selling you potato chips,
and now he is, he's down, he's out, See you later,
Goodbye the Celtics. I always love this part of the story.
They say the operation was successful, They say it was successful,
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No timetable was available, all right. So Tatum, who's about
hadn't happened. Yeah, he's about to be named to his
fourth consecutive All NBA team. And when that happens, he'll
be one of just forty three players. That's it, forty
three players the history of that sport, the NBA. Forty
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three players that have made that many Wall having turned
twenty seven coming up, but just in March turned twenty seven.
So let us discuss the question, what are your thoughts
on today's developments involving Jason Tatum, the Achilles operation and
what all of this means. So I've got animation, garage, band,
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and atomic and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to get a delicious.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Dinner.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now, my friends in Boston say, you got those great
seafood restaurants, But every time I'm in Boston, I don't
like seafood, So don't I don't need your little seafood restaurants.
All right, So, first of all, my first thought on
this on today's developments is get out the charcoal barbecue
because it's grilling season and the Celtics are porked that
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I put that right on the grill.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
They're screwed.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I also love the successful operation, which just means he
didn't die during the operation right the anesthesia. He didn't die.
He's alive. So it was successful. And I know firsthand
back in the day when I was around the locker
rooms a lot, that I had multiple players who come
up with that operation.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It wasn't successful. I'm not as good.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I didn't fix it, and then these guys have to
have another operation all I So you don't really know
if it was like successful until Jason Tatum gets back
out in the court and ends up playing very.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, and in that point you say it's successful.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But you know, it's like a lot of people are
trying to be played positive and upbeat and all this stuff.
But I'm not last I checked. I'm not Willy Wonka.
We don't need your sugarcoat anything here. This becomes an
animation situation for Jason Tatum and the Celtics, a suspended
animation if you will. The doctors elected, we are told
to go right away into the operating room because that tends,
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they said, tends to lead to a more favorable outcome.
The math is not particularly great on this. That tells
you what has happened, not what's going to happen. Jason
Tatum is not expected to play another regular season basketball
game or playoff game. The earliest is October of twenty
twenty six, So October of twenty he's out the entire season,
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and they'll be ready to go possibly then by that time.
Though by the time Tatum's back, think about the fact
that two new.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Champions are going to be named.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
The Celtics are going to win this year, so somebody
else is gonna win this year, and then next year
somebody else is gonna win, So two new champions and
will have been crowned. These Celtics will have made a
bunch of roster moves very unlikely. Al Horford, for example,
or Holiday are going to be on the Celtics by
the time that Tatum returns, and even Tatum's a wild
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card by that point.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You don't know, you.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Don't know what you don't know, and you don't know
whether Jayson Tatum's gonna be able to come back at
a high level now. Secondly, given the past Achilles injuries
players such as Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Chauncey Billups, among others,
recently Dame Lillard, what is the realistic expectation? We don't
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know what Lillard because he's just had it. So what
is the realistic expectation for Jason Tatum's return? So mention Tatum.
He just turned twenty seven back in March. So he
is now a member of a very special garage band.
Very special garage band, the band of brothers. Only a
handful of first team all NBA players have ever missed
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a season in their twenties. That's the caveat this like
this is an injury associated with players who are near
the end of their career, usually in the mid thirties
and beyond, which in the sporting world means you're on
the back side of your career. This is not typically
an injury associated with someone under the age of thirty.
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So Tatum now can learn the secret handshake. I'm sure
he's excited about that as he's part of this special
band of players. He is on a big board, not
unless Terry in England a big board with the late
great Bill Walton, the Big Redhead, Derek Rose of Chicago
Bulls fame, and Bernard King of the Knicks. Now, Bernard
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King did get back to the form, he was an
All star, However, the problem with this is always however,
it took several years for him to get back that level,
and that was a long time ago, and then he
got hurt again.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And normally, when you have this injury, you are.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
More prone to have the other achilles pop, you are
more prone to re injure the achilles. So you're screwed
in many respects in that department. Here a ticking tick
tick tick tick time bomb situation in that regard.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The only one, the only.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
One that you should really look at as the hope
if you're a Jason Tatum fan Celtic fan, and if
you're Jason Tatum, it's got to be Kevin Durant. Now,
Durant doesn't play all that much, but that's the modern NBA.
But Kevin Durant, statistically anyway, has been the closest too good.
Durant has not played more than fifty five games in
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any season since he came back from his achilles injury,
but he has been an elite player in terms of efficiencies,
averaged almost twenty nine points a game, seven rebounds, and
six assists or so. Three seasons since Pop goes the
He's so he's been able to put up some numbers.
Not that it's translated to any of the teams he's
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been on being any good in the playoffs, anything along
those lines. All right, now, final thought, We now pivot
to Cleveland, Ohio, where the NBA season came to an
end on a random night on a Tuesday. It was
bye bye, bye bye Calves.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're out.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So they lose to Andiana Pacers have advanced during the
final four of the NBA. They cut down the nets. Congratulations.
So question who deserves the most blame for the Calves
they blow a nineteen point lead at home in an
elimination game, But who deserves the most blamed for the
Calves just in general as they are exiting from the
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postseason now. So I'm a believer that the legendary status
that one gets the legendary status is validated in playoff games.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We don't even really pay attention to the NBA during
the regular season anymore. It's all about the postseason. That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
That's postseason. So your validation is in the postseason. Fine,
and in this case you are exposed in the postseason.
And that's really the lesson. Is that unfair.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You shouldn't say that they had a good team and
they got guys got hurt. What's wrong, We really got hurt.
You should say you're mean.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Now, I'm pretty confident my guys in Ohio, Ohio Strip Club,
john My p Ones in Northern Ohio and.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
People that like to get they're with me on this.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You had this vibe all season when the Calves are
winning all these games and playing amazing basketball.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You had this vibe. It's not legit, it's smoking mirrors,
it's a magic show. It's not real.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And there we go, right paper Tigers, the Calves go
out there. The lesson is they were exposed, They were emasculated.
They when sixty four games, they were a dominant team
in the first round against Miami. How bad is Miami?
Holy crap? So the Cavs then had some shrinkage. They
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went limp. We saw a pill for that. Against the
upstart Pacers, you got Spider Mitchell the headliner there. Spider Mitchell.
Evan Mobley was the defensive Player of the Year. You've
got Kenny Atkinson, the coach of the year, all these
decorated players and they all get to wear the Dunce cap,
all of them fools gold, Fools gold is the phrase
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that were the player. And how about Donovan Mitchell Man
always good regular season numbers, good regular season players, had
some big playoff games, and yet never been able to
put a team on his back and lead them to
the conference finals. Didn't do it on some good Utah
Jazz teams. Hasn't done it in Cleveland, and that one stinks.
And you got the Pacers fun to watch, high octane
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Indiana offense who ran circles around Cleveland and especially in
clutch time, big time Tyrese Halliburton the most.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Over righted over rated player in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He gave the Cleveland Cavaliers players, the defensive player, the
star spider, Mitchell and the coach of the year gave
them an atomic weggie in big moments. An atomic wedgie
is what they got in Indiana. It's kind of embarrassing
when you're out hustled. That's you're the better team. If
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the other team out hustle, you can close the gap
that's like the oldest thing in sports, isn't it Like
if the team with the most talent doesn't put the
work in, the team with the less talent can overcome
that and then win the game. And so energy and
effort win the fifty to fifty balls. There was an
old NBA coach, Bill Fitch who say, hustle stats. You
gotta win the hustle stats. You win the hustle statue,
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you have a chance to win the game, and good
things will happen to you if you do that. And
it turned out Indiana did that and they win and
Cleveland struggled a lot of careless turnovers, just stupid, stupid decisions.
And so the Pacers are on to the Eastern Finals.
And does anyone think they can't beat the Knicks? I mean,
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right now, today we do the show today today, the
matchup will be Indiana and New York barring some kind
of colossal choke job by the Knickerbockers, which I'm not against.
I'm not against that because that'd be good talk radio
having a bunch of New Yorkers crying because their team
blew it against the Celtic team without Jason Tatum. That'd
be good with good stories too. But the Pacers, whether
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they play the Celtics without Tatum or they play the
Knicks who are relatively healthy, I'd still give the Pacers
a really good chance of winning that series, if you'd
like to be part eight seven seven ninety nine on
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Also Pete Rose, He's Back. We did a full Mallard
monologue about that last hour. I see some people still
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want to yap about that, but Pete Rose back in baseball, and.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
My reaction, Eh, it's kind of eh.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
He's dead. Pete predicted this would happen ten days before
he died. Who wants to go in the Hall of
Fame when they're dead? And he's not in the Hall
of Fame yet, just seems like a cheap pr move
by Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You could have done it Pete had been in poor health.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
You could have done this while he was alive in
his final a couple of years, and they chose not
to do it. It's a Weasley moved by Rob Manford
and so there you go, all right anyway?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Also on X at Bean Mallord that's at Bean Mahlor,
if you'd like to be part of the program, will
take your calls. Coming up straight ahead now, later this hour,
we have Mallard of the third Degree, So we have
that to look forward to. Oh, Mallard of the third degree.
That's so exciting. I know, it's very exciting. We have
that to come down the line. Also, a former NBA
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All Star has an unorthodox theory as to why there
have been so many star players that have suffered the
popped shredded achilles. We'll get to the unorthodox theory on
why that is. And also the modern day Pope of sport,
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but not the real Pope. We'll go there as well.
We'll do it all, and we will.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Do it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Next.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
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Speaker 1 (17:29):
Back to what we go it is I Ben, and
we are rolling along here. Coming up later this hour,
later this hour we mentioned we'll have Mallard of the
third Degree. Also, former NBA All Star has an unorthodox
theory on why there have been a number of star
players going snap Crackle pop with the Achilles injury and
the modern day.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Pope of Sport. The Pope of Sport. We'll get to
that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Late night drug tester right since says the Cavs getting
bounced in the playoffs just proves clear one can't win
a title unless Adam Silver suspends the star player from
the other team.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, fairpoint, let's see here page.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Then Pat writes sinces my girlfriend always wondered why I
stay up all night to listen to the radio. Well
now she knows we will both be up all night
here in Kansas City. There you go, shout out to
my lovely girlfriend, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We don't do shoutouts. I'm sorry, Pat and Aaron Airy Barry.
We don't do shoutouts. What do you think this is
a morning Zoos show. It's not how we roll here.
I can't do a shout out? Can Mister irrigation said
Solid Gold take sports entertainment is becoming so fake, and
yet the people will not believe any of this stuff
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is possible. King Roy says, I completely forgot that the
Pacers were in the conference finals last year. Who did
they beat to advance in the Eastern Conference Finals last year?
The Knicks in seven, and we are about to have
a rematch of that series in this year's conference finals.
Kowinkie dink I think not. The NBA is rigged, says
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King Roy.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I'd like to make some money, and anybody that has
the script please let me know. I would like the
script so I can make some money just between us.
I don't know that I'll donate any of it to you,
but i'd like the script. I'm just pointing that out.
Let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to the
deacon who's in Houston. Hello, Deacon, welcome.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, a Bernie Mahler. Bernie, Yeah, Bernie.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yes, it's Bernie. Bernie. My name is Bernie Fratto. That's
my name.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Oh, I thought Bernie Fratta was on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Thought, I'm Bernie Mallard does the weekends. Bernie, my name
is Bernie Fratto.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Yes, I see. I've been wanting to call in a
while here, Bernie and talk to you about your ADD
and that'd be your astro's derangement disorder.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Well again, sir, you didn't say it right. You say,
if you're going to say the team name, you've got
to say it right.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
The one of means is impolite, Bernie. So can I
say hello to Lorena first?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Lorraina is she's she's out smoking. She's not a bit.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I don't believe that. I just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Tell you she's smoking. She's smoking. She's smoking hookah with Luca.
Is what you said?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I see, Bernie. I have some questions for you about
about this.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yes, yes, absolutely, yes, yeah, whatever whatever you need, Deacon.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yes, you seem unhealthy obsession with them.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I don't know why you would say unhealthy obsession. Team cheated,
they got away with it. The Commissioner of Baseball thought
it was fine ran interference form. None of the players
were punished, And you think that's okay, You're you're fine
with that, You think that that is acceptable behavior by
everyone involved.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Oh no, not at all.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It sounds like you do.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You're calling up You're calling on a random night to
bring up somebody that was not talked about here, So
you obviously feel you feel like it's okay, you feel
like this is acceptable.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Talked about Lernie. If it was talked about in the
first hour, I can remind you if you've forgotten.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It was during the people It was mentioned as a
reference as a reference point. It was not a talking point.
It was a reference point, not a talking point. We
stand correct a reference, but no, not not stand corrected.
A reference point is not a talking point. A talking
point is when that's the meat of the conversation. A
reference point. You don't understand the difference between a reference
point and a talking digress. I'm not digressing. You can
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digress if you want. I don't care what you do.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I just want to I just want to help you
because most people, Bernie, move move on from there. Tryna,
after seven or eight years and what two worlds? One
World Series title two World Seriously, it seems like you
should have had gone on.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay, So your your defense is, hey, you know a
certain amount of times fast, let it go, so just
do anything and then you know, just wait ten years.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You're good, so you believe you think, So you.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Go out and rob how about this, go out and
rob a bunch of bands, get get away with it,
and then wait like ten or fifteen years, and if
the cops, the FBI tracks, she does say, listen, dude,
it's been fifteen years, let it go, okay, I mean
it's been I robbed the banks, but I did rob
all those banks. It's been fifteen years. I'm sure the
FBI will let you go. They won't punish you at all,
one hundred percent. That's a great idea. Go start robbing
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banks and tell the FBI wait ten years, go out
live in a shack in Montana, and then when the
FBI finds you, say, listen, dude, it's been ten years,
let it go.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
What do you have some kind of mental illness?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I'll see. I see. I thought this was a call
in show, Bernie, A different show.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Well, if the callers suck, if the callers blow, it's
not a call in show.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
See, it's just the host talking. That's how that works.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I do have a question for you, Bernie, legitimate quick.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Well, thank you. I'm glad finally someone has respect for me, Bernie.
Finally let me ask you.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yes, and I'm going to tell you I'm here, living
Houston my whole life, and I'll fully admit. These guys
cheated like a sex addict with a all passed from
their spouse. Oh nobody admit.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
All right, that's good. Okay, listen, if you've got a
pass is a cheating that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Uh, how about one remember that basketball player Andre Kierlinko
was allowed one day. Yeah, every guy wants that deal
one day to go out there and do Iternie.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Because I am genuinely curious.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, Deacon, I love that you keep saying my name.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
By the way, very respectful to say my name, my name, Bernie,
very respectful.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
We did come to learn that Alex kra was the
mastermind behind the scandal, right uh. And then he went
and moved on to the Red Sox and recreated the
scandal the next year. And I do believe he beat
the Dodgers even worse than the Astros did, so he
had perfected the scandal by the time he got the cheating.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well I would, I would.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I would argue the wire that Altuve had, the buzzer
that they let that go unchecked, that was a big
part of it. And the guy, the guy, the guy
was wired like he was going it was a wire
tap with a little buzzer.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yes, I just want to ask you, this is Bernie.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And then yes, let again, thank you for saying my name, Deacon.
I appreciate that, drick kind of you to say. And
I've given you a lot of airtime because my name
is Bernie ben Maller would not give you a lot
of airtime.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Ben Maller would have.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Hung up on you and called you a schmuck and
a schmendrick and a loser. But Bernie allows you to talk.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Yes, I'm curious as to why you don't share the
same hatred and despise for the Red Sox that you
do for the Astros, because they both did the same
thing to your dodge.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well again, see, the disease started. The infestation started in Houston,
So I go back. It's kind of like saying we
had the pandemic and it started at a lab in China.
But I'm upset because somebody came to America and some city.
You pick a city in America, I'm upset with that's it. Well, no,
I'm upset with where it started. I'm upset with that origin.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
That would be alex Core, not the city.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Well again, you're you're blaming it all on ours Core.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
But I would say, jose al touve or al Boo,
all right, I mean we're going, we're.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Going, and we're going to veg you, deacon. I appreciate
that very kind. All right, give you.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Wait too much air time? Let's say now say hello
to Andrea. She's got the star chart. I remember the
full moon. We're doing the afterglow of the full moon,
which happened this week, and so full moon the week before,
week after gets a little zany. Hello Andrea, welcome, hell Ben,
how are you. I just spoke to the deacon.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Yeah, I like you said, we kill the full moon
two days before the day of and two days after.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yes, yes, still.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Feeling the intense energy of the full moon. And thanks
for going with the flow. You're a good sport. And
uh yeah, speaking of someone who I never thought was
a good sport, that Pete Rose. And he was like
he gave aries a bad name. He was like such
a bully. And I remember well his birthday April fourteen,
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nineteen forty one. That whole fight with Bud Harrelson that
was in nineteen seventy three versus the Mets. That was
the year I got into baseball with the Mets, you
gotta believe season, And that whole altercation when he stood
into second base and took out Bud Harrelson and the
fight that ensued was just like crazy, that was like
(26:27):
unheard of.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, Pete was for those and I saw him near
the end of his career.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But Pete Rose was the antithesis of the modern player,
like the modern athlete, load management, don't hustle. That was
thus the nickname for even back then, even when players
did hustle. When Pete played, he still was beyond what
the other players did. He had one gear. He didn't
have a second gear.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
He had like one.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It's like a pitcher with just a fastball, no breaking ball,
just one pitch. That was the way he played.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
And yeah, there were people that hated Remember the.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Famous All Star Game moment Saucy, Yeah, I took out
Ray Foster was a great broadcaster for the A's for.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Years, led into Ray Saucy.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, yeah, an All Star Game and yeah, think about that.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And then where baseball got where the All Star Game
the players were leaving during the game to get to
the airport like that.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Someone that was so stupid.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Oh my god, I was back in the day when
it meant something.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Well, yeah, there was like pride. You're a National League player.
You hated the American League. Now they're all it's one
and the same.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
They don't care well, I mean.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
And it doesn't stand for anything, you know, so if
you win, I don't think it does anything for the league.
So that said, I mean Pee Rose, you know, the
aris energy, you know, on one hand, is very you know, energetic,
but the other part, you know, headstrong really describes his energy.
And he had that kind of full, hardy nature and
he was very aggressive and overpowering. So that's you know,
(27:51):
three planets and aries. He kind of was somewhat belligerent
and brusque, so I remember him being just very over
zealous and combative is and like, Mets fans never forgave him,
you know New York Mets fans so well.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
New York fans do not do not forget. They do
not much like I don't forget. I don't forget things.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
They don't forget and forget very easily either. I have
Taurus Rising really understand. But yeah, the Pete Rose, they
brought a lot of stuff up. It's like, wow, that's
the first thing I think of when I think of
Pete Rose. I mean, be size all the scandals and
so on with the Hall of Fame and yeah, the drugs,
but it's like.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
But hell, and and then there you go, that's and
that hasn't been brought up by many people. But that
is certainly part of Pete's story and all that, and
so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Twenty twenty eight. That's the first chance he'll be in
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
But he's not going to be there, so right, I
get to be there in his own airy spirit.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Maybe he'll come and haunt the Hall of Fame. He'll
spook the Hall of Fame, happy, funny anything. Yeah, he'll
come back and be like they're going to hire the
ghosts because Pete's haunting.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
The Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
All right, virgo, thank you, Andrea, appreciate that, very good memory.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Absolutely, there's our friend. Andrea grew up a Mets fan.
That's why she's got that. She became an A's fan.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
But now they're in Sacramento, but they're too embarrassed to
say they're in Sacramento, so they have to just say
they're the athletics. They're a team with no city affiliation,
which is so embarrassing. Like anybody who's involved in Sacramento
that allowed that to happen should be losing their position.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Politically, Like why would you allow a team to go there?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
They're so embarrassed by your city that you can't they
can't say the name of the city, and they're gonna
be there for three seasons at least from what I've heard,
till that stadium gets done in Vegas. So dumb to
dum dumb dumb.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Anyway, speaking of dumbd dumb, dumb dumb. Yeah, Poppy in
San Diego, Hello, Poppy, welcome.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, it's a lucky day because I heard earlier. You know,
like all these people, you got great calls by people.
You you made their fatness. He comes through, you know,
send talking to you. You you made them think. But
you know I'm here to help you because you want
to make money.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
And I heard, oh, let me get let me guess,
let me guess. Scott Foster.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Scott Foster, Scott Foster, Scott Foster, Scott Foster.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Please that matter. If you would have done Scott Foster,
you would have been three and no. And I've been
telling you the script. When Scott Foster's on there, you
guys got a look on the day up and you
would have made money.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
But look, yeah, but the problem is, Poppy, whatever outcome
of the game, you say, well, Scott Foster wanted that
team to win. But it's not always the home team.
It's not always the road team. It's not one hundred percent.
But then after the fact, Poppy, You're like, well, Scott
Foster wanted that outcome.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Well, it's it's it's always a it's always a home team.
He's freeing on the playoffs and you would have been
making money. So if you want to listen to me,
you're you know, you're my mentor. I'm surprised, you know,
I'll show you a lot of love.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Well, you are the oracle, Poppy.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You are.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You don't call as often as you used to, Poppy,
but you're the the oracle.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, I do call Ben Mallard. But but the thing
is this, Ben Mallard, I'm gonna give you a free
pick in.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Here we go, free pick Poppies oracle, free pick of
the day.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yes, and people are gonna love this.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Look.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I know it was a bad day in La. You
guys got Molly by you know the age.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yes, I did not watch a second of that game.
I was devastated.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yes, yeah, tomorrow is gonna be a revenge, revenge game
in La. Dodgers are gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I love this, Yes, a revenge game. The Dodgers Revenge
game Revenge.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
They're gonna thank Sen City and go on that and
we're gonna make that blinging minus one and a half
and it's minus one twenty five. Ben Mallard, I'm telling you,
La is going to be happy tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All right, Poppies, Peck, there you go. If you're Poppy,
we're gonna come track you down, Poppy. All right, all right, buddy,
b Well, there you go, our buddy Poppy. Before NBA
All Star, Nick van Exel can't Coon Man one two three,
can't go. Nick van Exel has decided who's to blame
for the Achilles injury to Jason Tatum, the Dame Lillard
(32:20):
Achilles injury. He went on a social media tire right
now and Van Exel wasn't assistant coach in the NBA.
I don't think he is right now, but he said.
There has been Achilles tears throughout the years. But my thoughts,
Van Xel said on them is that they happen more
often now, and I think that's something to do with them. Damn,
low's the players wearing now? He's meaning shoes cover up
(32:43):
those ankles, he said. So van Xel's theory is it's
the shoes. Isn't that a direc shot at like Nike?
I think yeah, I think it is. Uh, I would
argue it's like condition. I've seen some of these these
online doctors. I don't even know their real doctors. They
are online doctors, and they claim that there's injections that
(33:04):
you can get every six months. If you're a professional athlete,
you'll not pop your achilles. That there's some kind of inject.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Which just a lot. They claim it's allowed. Trust Yeah, yeah,
and it's expensive. But if you're an athlete you can
Does it turn your achilles into like rubber or something? Well,
I'm not a doctor. I can play one on the radio,
Curious I sit to where it won't do it.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I mean that sounds like a miracle.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Uh yeah, yeah, that's what they claim. Of course, they
might also be promoting it because they make money on it,
so that's also possible.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That might be part of it.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
What's that called where like they just tell you it
does something but it doesn't actually the effects? Oh that yeah,
the placebo effects sell that in a bottle. How wild
our human beings that the placebo effect actually works?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
If I ever get like an earache.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
All I have to do is pull on this part
of my ear and I've told myself it makes it
go away, just like that goes away.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
If you have a headache, if you rub your wrist,
it'll it actually does work. If you have the hiccups,
you can eat a spoonful of peanut butter. No, you
have to hold your breath, right if you have the
piena doesn't work for me. I just hold your breath.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, Well, more remedies coming up next hour when Lorena
takes over with the Queen of Hearts. We have Mallardly
third degree straight ahead. Time now for the instant trivia,
and here it is Nick's guard. Jalen Brunson has scored
one hundred and two points in the fourth quarter through
ten postseason games. That is the most since nineteen ninety seven,
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breaking Blank's previous mark.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
That is the Insta tribua the answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
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Speaker 1 (34:51):
Here's your Insta trivia quick right quick right, all right,
we'll get to it quickly, and then we have mallardly
third degree Nick Yard. Jalen Brunson scored one hundred and
two points in the fourth quarter through ten postseason games.
That is the most since they started tracking that nineteen
ninety seven, breaking Blank's previous record. Late night drug tester
says Rob Gronkowski, who's thirty six today? Tiny Archibald from
(35:14):
alf the Alien Opiner, JJ Berea from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
Bernie Fratto, I hope he's paying for name drops again,
says I used to.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Hear Bernie should call me. He rose Man.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Tell Bernie to give me a call. I haven't heard
from Bernie in a while. The Dagger Reggie Miller from
Milkman Mike in Colorado. Bernie Muller from King Rory Moneyball,
Mallard guests by Mallard Property. I boy, I don't look
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's man. I hope I don't look like that. Bimbo
calls from mister irrigationon Why what say.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
You look right off side sho Bob Ben No, it
is not side show, Bob, it is Kobe Bean Bryant Toobe.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Bryant had the previous record. Here we go, it's smaller.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
To the third degree? Here we go anyway, he's one
big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Good Belle.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
One NFL insider suggested on Monday that Derek Carr's retirement
could be short lived and that we might see the
quarterback as soon as twenty twenty six. But for another
quarterback needy team other than the Saints, Ben, what odds
do you give of car unretiring at some point?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
So, A, I believe teams will contact car about coming
out of retirement and playing and all that. I don't
think it's going to happen. I just think he's not
that he wasn't that good. I think he's burned out
on football right now, obviously. So do I think people
will call him?
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Do I think that's gonna happen though, And B I
see him as a televangelist. I see him as a
televangelist at runs a mega church and makes tons of.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Money doing that, So he won't need to play in
the NFL. He'll make more money as a pastor than
he will play in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Next, it is not being suggested that the Dallas Mavericks
could use the rights to Cooper Flag to trade for
Giannis and Tetekombo.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yeah, Ben, does the Greek.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Freak make the MAVs immediate champion ship contenders? No?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Because Anthony Davis has hurt all the time. Kyrie Irving's
also hurt all the time, so no. And Giannis he's
a good player, but you have the same issue. They're
all hurt.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
So no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Just take Cooper Flag and hopefully he works out so
Nico Harrison doesn't hate him next.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
MLB has already seen two managers get the boots so
far this season, and now some are suggesting that Braves
manager Brian Snicker could be next.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Snicker has been at the helmet Atlanta for ten years.
Do you think his seat is officially hot?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Well, yes, because as I understand it, this is going
to be his last year anyway. A lot of the
talk is that he's going to retire after this year.
So the Braves are not very good, but the one
should be fired first, Brandon Hide of the Orioles, they're terrible.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
How'd we go? You passed the position.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Right now? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
She's a plotting I won, I won the can I
stop
Boom Shaka Laca, it's our d bird too. Our number
two and injury update, injury update, your thoughts on the
latest developments involving Jason Tatum. Pop goes the Achilles Unfortunately
he's out the Achilles operation. Also given past Achilles injuries
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to players like Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Chauncey Phillips. What
is the realistic expectation for Jason Tatum when he does
return eventually to the Boston Celtics. And who deserves the
most blame as we'll talk about the Eastern Finals semi
finals which came to an end. Who deserves the most
blame for the Cavaliers' futile effort against the Indiana basketball team?
(00:45):
And what is the lesson? Cleveland had a great regular season,
they were the top seed and all that, and they
just completely collapsed in the playoffs against Indiana. So what
is the lesson from that? We'll talk about all of
it and more. Right now, give it up for our
number two, The.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
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going to start out here with yesterday's rumors turning out
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to be two days and news.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Years ago, I had a gossip blog. I was in
the bloggersphere. It was one of the early bloggers. I
gave that up for the joy of overnight talk radio.
But one of the things we did there, we did
a lot of rumors uf gossip, and oftentimes it started
out as a rumor and then before you knew it, it
became reality. And so whispers in hush tones have yet
(03:05):
again turned out to be true.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
If you did not hear, maybe not.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
The Celtics made it official, they put the rubber stamp
on it, and Nana La La la, Hey, goodbye. Unfortunately,
Jason Tatum, that's it, see you later, goodbye, Jason Tatum,
Celtics star. He's dun skies underwent surgery. They said he
was gonna have an MRI. He had surgery as he
(03:33):
went snap crackle pop or ruptured in this case his
Achilles tendon and that operation happening on Tuesday afternoon. He
suffered the injury late in the fourth quarter, less than
three minutes to go in the game. In Game four,
Celtics at the time were down by nine to the Knicks.
They ended up losing that game and now they are
on the brink of elimination, trying to stave off elimination
(03:56):
when they play the Knicks again here coming up hours
from now. But that's not the story. The story here
is Jason Tatum. So the Seas are now going to
lead on. We're going to lean on Jalen Brown. What
can Brown do for you? It could actually step up here.
He's been a little shaky, a little shaky after being
the big man on campus for the Celtics last year
(04:16):
when they won the championship.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
He's supposedly the star A to B and or beat A.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Wait the way you want to say it, but Jalen
Brown trying to save the Celtics in Game number five.
Teams that are leading three games to one in the
NBA Playoffs have won ninety five point six percent of
the time. I think that's even higher now because Indiana
was up three to one, so he can check on
another one. There's only thirteen teams that have come back
(04:44):
from that deficit. But that is secondary. Jason Tatum one
of the big stars in the NBA. You go to
the grocery store for a long time, we saw him
on the face of ruffles. He was selling you potato chips,
and now he is, he's down, he's out, See you later,
Goodbye the Celtics. I always love this part of the story.
They say the operation was successful, They say it was successful,
(05:07):
No timetable was available, all right. So Tatum, who's about
hadn't happened. Yeah, he's about to be named to his
fourth consecutive All NBA team. And when that happens, he'll
be one of just forty three players. That's it, forty
three players the history of that sport, the NBA. Forty
(05:28):
three players that have made that many Wall having turned
twenty seven coming up, but just in March turned twenty seven.
So let us discuss the question, what are your thoughts
on today's developments involving Jason Tatum, the Achilles operation and
what all of this means. So I've got animation, garage, band,
(05:49):
and atomic and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to get a delicious.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Dinner.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now, my friends in Boston say, you got those great
seafood restaurants, But every time I'm in Boston, I don't
like seafood, So don't I don't need your little seafood restaurants.
All right, So, first of all, my first thought on
this on today's developments is get out the charcoal barbecue
because it's grilling season and the Celtics are porked that
(06:22):
I put that right on the grill.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
They're screwed.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I also love the successful operation, which just means he
didn't die during the operation right the anesthesia. He didn't die.
He's alive. So it was successful. And I know firsthand
back in the day when I was around the locker
rooms a lot, that I had multiple players who come
up with that operation.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It wasn't successful. I'm not as good.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I didn't fix it, and then these guys have to
have another operation all I So you don't really know
if it was like successful until Jason Tatum gets back
out in the court and ends up playing very.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, and in that point you say it's successful.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But you know, it's like a lot of people are
trying to be played positive and upbeat and all this stuff.
But I'm not last I checked. I'm not Willy Wonka.
We don't need your sugarcoat anything here. This becomes an
animation situation for Jason Tatum and the Celtics, a suspended
animation if you will. The doctors elected, we are told
to go right away into the operating room because that tends,
(07:24):
they said, tends to lead to a more favorable outcome.
The math is not particularly great on this. That tells
you what has happened, not what's going to happen. Jason
Tatum is not expected to play another regular season basketball
game or playoff game. The earliest is October of twenty
twenty six, So October of twenty he's out the entire season,
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and they'll be ready to go possibly then by that time.
Though by the time Tatum's back, think about the fact
that two new.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Champions are going to be named.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
The Celtics are going to win this year, so somebody
else is gonna win this year, and then next year
somebody else is gonna win, So two new champions and
will have been crowned. These Celtics will have made a
bunch of roster moves very unlikely. Al Horford, for example,
or Holiday are going to be on the Celtics by
the time that Tatum returns, and even Tatum's a wild
(08:20):
card by that point.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You don't know, you.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Don't know what you don't know, and you don't know
whether Jayson Tatum's gonna be able to come back at
a high level now. Secondly, given the past Achilles injuries
players such as Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Chauncey Billups, among others,
recently Dame Lillard, what is the realistic expectation? We don't
(08:43):
know what Lillard because he's just had it. So what
is the realistic expectation for Jason Tatum's return? So mention Tatum.
He just turned twenty seven back in March. So he
is now a member of a very special garage band.
Very special garage band, the band of brothers. Only a
handful of first team all NBA players have ever missed
(09:06):
a season in their twenties. That's the caveat this like
this is an injury associated with players who are near
the end of their career, usually in the mid thirties
and beyond, which in the sporting world means you're on
the back side of your career. This is not typically
an injury associated with someone under the age of thirty.
(09:26):
So Tatum now can learn the secret handshake. I'm sure
he's excited about that as he's part of this special
band of players. He is on a big board, not
unless Terry in England a big board with the late
great Bill Walton, the Big Redhead, Derek Rose of Chicago
Bulls fame, and Bernard King of the Knicks. Now, Bernard
(09:50):
King did get back to the form, he was an
All star, However, the problem with this is always however,
it took several years for him to get back that level,
and that was a long time ago, and then he
got hurt again.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
And normally, when you have this injury, you are.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
More prone to have the other achilles pop, you are
more prone to re injure the achilles. So you're screwed
in many respects in that department. Here a ticking tick
tick tick tick time bomb situation in that regard.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The only one, the only.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
One that you should really look at as the hope
if you're a Jason Tatum fan Celtic fan, and if
you're Jason Tatum, it's got to be Kevin Durant. Now,
Durant doesn't play all that much, but that's the modern NBA.
But Kevin Durant, statistically anyway, has been the closest too good.
Durant has not played more than fifty five games in
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any season since he came back from his achilles injury,
but he has been an elite player in terms of efficiencies,
averaged almost twenty nine points a game, seven rebounds, and
six assists or so. Three seasons since Pop goes the
He's so he's been able to put up some numbers.
Not that it's translated to any of the teams he's
(11:06):
been on being any good in the playoffs, anything along
those lines. All right, now, final thought, We now pivot
to Cleveland, Ohio, where the NBA season came to an
end on a random night on a Tuesday. It was
bye bye, bye bye Calves.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're out.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So they lose to Andiana Pacers have advanced during the
final four of the NBA. They cut down the nets. Congratulations.
So question who deserves the most blame for the Calves
they blow a nineteen point lead at home in an
elimination game, But who deserves the most blamed for the
Calves just in general as they are exiting from the
(11:52):
postseason now. So I'm a believer that the legendary status
that one gets the legendary status is validated in playoff games.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
We don't even really pay attention to the NBA during
the regular season anymore. It's all about the postseason. That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
That's postseason. So your validation is in the postseason. Fine,
and in this case you are exposed in the postseason.
And that's really the lesson. Is that unfair.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
You shouldn't say that they had a good team and
they got guys got hurt. What's wrong, We really got hurt.
You should say you're mean.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Now, I'm pretty confident my guys in Ohio, Ohio Strip Club,
john My p Ones in Northern Ohio and.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
People that like to get they're with me on this.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You had this vibe all season when the Calves are
winning all these games and playing amazing basketball.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
You had this vibe. It's not legit, it's smoking mirrors,
it's a magic show. It's not real.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And there we go, right paper Tigers, the Calves go
out there. The lesson is they were exposed, They were emasculated.
They when sixty four games, they were a dominant team
in the first round against Miami. How bad is Miami?
Holy crap? So the Cavs then had some shrinkage. They
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went limp. We saw a pill for that. Against the
upstart Pacers, you got Spider Mitchell the headliner there. Spider Mitchell.
Evan Mobley was the defensive Player of the Year. You've
got Kenny Atkinson, the coach of the year, all these
decorated players and they all get to wear the Dunce cap,
all of them fools gold, Fools gold is the phrase
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that were the player. And how about Donovan Mitchell Man
always good regular season numbers, good regular season players, had
some big playoff games, and yet never been able to
put a team on his back and lead them to
the conference finals. Didn't do it on some good Utah
Jazz teams. Hasn't done it in Cleveland, and that one stinks.
And you got the Pacers fun to watch, high octane
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Indiana offense who ran circles around Cleveland and especially in
clutch time, big time Tyrese Halliburton the most.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Over righted over rated player in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He gave the Cleveland Cavaliers players, the defensive player, the
star spider, Mitchell and the coach of the year gave
them an atomic weggie in big moments. An atomic wedgie
is what they got in Indiana. It's kind of embarrassing
when you're out hustled. That's you're the better team. If
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the other team out hustle, you can close the gap
that's like the oldest thing in sports, isn't it Like
if the team with the most talent doesn't put the
work in, the team with the less talent can overcome
that and then win the game. And so energy and
effort win the fifty to fifty balls. There was an
old NBA coach, Bill Fitch who say, hustle stats. You
gotta win the hustle stats. You win the hustle statue,
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you have a chance to win the game, and good
things will happen to you if you do that. And
it turned out Indiana did that and they win and
Cleveland struggled a lot of careless turnovers, just stupid, stupid decisions.
And so the Pacers are on to the Eastern Finals.
And does anyone think they can't beat the Knicks? I mean,
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right now, today we do the show today today, the
matchup will be Indiana and New York barring some kind
of colossal choke job by the Knickerbockers, which I'm not against.
I'm not against that because that'd be good talk radio
having a bunch of New Yorkers crying because their team
blew it against the Celtic team without Jason Tatum. That'd
be good with good stories too. But the Pacers, whether
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they play the Celtics without Tatum or they play the
Knicks who are relatively healthy, I'd still give the Pacers
a really good chance of winning that series, if you'd
like to be part eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
Also Pete Rose, He's Back. We did a full Mallard
monologue about that last hour. I see some people still
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want to yap about that, but Pete Rose back in baseball, and.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
My reaction, Eh, it's kind of eh.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
He's dead. Pete predicted this would happen ten days before
he died. Who wants to go in the Hall of
Fame when they're dead? And he's not in the Hall
of Fame yet, just seems like a cheap pr move
by Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You could have done it Pete had been in poor health.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
You could have done this while he was alive in
his final a couple of years, and they chose not
to do it. It's a Weasley moved by Rob Manford
and so there you go, all right anyway?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Also on X at Bean Mallord that's at Bean Mahlor,
if you'd like to be part of the program, will
take your calls. Coming up straight ahead now, later this hour,
we have Mallard of the third Degree, So we have
that to look forward to. Oh, Mallard of the third degree.
That's so exciting. I know, it's very exciting. We have
that to come down the line. Also, a former NBA
(16:53):
All Star has an unorthodox theory as to why there
have been so many star players that have suffered the
popped shredded achilles. We'll get to the unorthodox theory on
why that is. And also the modern day Pope of sport,
(17:13):
but not the real Pope. We'll go there as well.
We'll do it all, and we will.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Do it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Next.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Back to what we go it is I Ben, and
we are rolling along here. Coming up later this hour,
later this hour we mentioned we'll have Mallard of the
third Degree. Also, former NBA All Star has an unorthodox
theory on why there have been a number of star
players going snap Crackle pop with the Achilles injury and
the modern day.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Pope of Sport. The Pope of Sport. We'll get to
that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Late night drug tester right since says the Cavs getting
bounced in the playoffs just proves clear one can't win
a title unless Adam Silver suspends the star player from
the other team.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, fairpoint, let's see here page.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Then Pat writes sinces my girlfriend always wondered why I
stay up all night to listen to the radio. Well
now she knows we will both be up all night
here in Kansas City. There you go, shout out to
my lovely girlfriend, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We don't do shoutouts. I'm sorry, Pat and Aaron Airy Barry.
We don't do shoutouts. What do you think this is
a morning Zoos show. It's not how we roll here.
I can't do a shout out? Can Mister irrigation said
Solid Gold take sports entertainment is becoming so fake, and
yet the people will not believe any of this stuff
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is possible. King Roy says, I completely forgot that the
Pacers were in the conference finals last year. Who did
they beat to advance in the Eastern Conference Finals last year?
The Knicks in seven, and we are about to have
a rematch of that series in this year's conference finals.
Kowinkie dink I think not. The NBA is rigged, says
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King Roy.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I'd like to make some money, and anybody that has
the script please let me know. I would like the
script so I can make some money just between us.
I don't know that I'll donate any of it to you,
but i'd like the script. I'm just pointing that out.
Let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to the
deacon who's in Houston. Hello, Deacon, welcome.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Yeah, a Bernie Mahler. Bernie, Yeah, Bernie.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yes, it's Bernie. Bernie. My name is Bernie Fratto. That's
my name.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Oh, I thought Bernie Fratta was on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Thought, I'm Bernie Mallard does the weekends. Bernie, my name
is Bernie Fratto.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Yes, I see. I've been wanting to call in a
while here, Bernie and talk to you about your ADD
and that'd be your astro's derangement disorder.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Well again, sir, you didn't say it right. You say,
if you're going to say the team name, you've got
to say it right.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
The one of means is impolite, Bernie. So can I
say hello to Lorena first?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Lorraina is she's she's out smoking. She's not a bit.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I don't believe that. I just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Tell you she's smoking. She's smoking. She's smoking hookah with Luca.
Is what you said?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I see, Bernie. I have some questions for you about
about this.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yes, yes, absolutely, yes, yeah, whatever whatever you need, Deacon.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Yes, you seem unhealthy obsession with them.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I don't know why you would say unhealthy obsession. Team cheated,
they got away with it. The Commissioner of Baseball thought
it was fine ran interference form. None of the players
were punished, And you think that's okay, You're you're fine
with that, You think that that is acceptable behavior by
everyone involved.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Oh no, not at all.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It sounds like you do.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You're calling up You're calling on a random night to
bring up somebody that was not talked about here, So
you obviously feel you feel like it's okay, you feel
like this is acceptable.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Talked about Lernie. If it was talked about in the
first hour, I can remind you if you've forgotten.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It was during the people It was mentioned as a
reference as a reference point. It was not a talking point.
It was a reference point, not a talking point. We
stand correct a reference, but no, not not stand corrected.
A reference point is not a talking point. A talking
point is when that's the meat of the conversation. A
reference point. You don't understand the difference between a reference
point and a talking digress. I'm not digressing. You can
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digress if you want. I don't care what you do.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I just want to I just want to help you
because most people, Bernie, move move on from there. Tryna,
after seven or eight years and what two worlds? One
World Series title two World Seriously, it seems like you
should have had gone on.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay, So your your defense is, hey, you know a
certain amount of times fast, let it go, so just
do anything and then you know, just wait ten years.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You're good, so you believe you think, So you.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Go out and rob how about this, go out and
rob a bunch of bands, get get away with it,
and then wait like ten or fifteen years, and if
the cops, the FBI tracks, she does say, listen, dude,
it's been fifteen years, let it go, okay, I mean
it's been I robbed the banks, but I did rob
all those banks. It's been fifteen years. I'm sure the
FBI will let you go. They won't punish you at all,
one hundred percent. That's a great idea. Go start robbing
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banks and tell the FBI wait ten years, go out
live in a shack in Montana, and then when the
FBI finds you, say, listen, dude, it's been ten years,
let it go.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
What do you have some kind of mental illness?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I'll see. I see. I thought this was a call
in show, Bernie, A different show.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Well, if the callers suck, if the callers blow, it's
not a call in show.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
See, it's just the host talking. That's how that works.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I do have a question for you, Bernie, legitimate quick.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Well, thank you. I'm glad finally someone has respect for me, Bernie.
Finally let me ask you.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Yes, and I'm going to tell you I'm here, living
Houston my whole life, and I'll fully admit. These guys
cheated like a sex addict with a all passed from
their spouse. Oh nobody admit.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
All right, that's good. Okay, listen, if you've got a
pass is a cheating that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Uh, how about one remember that basketball player Andre Kierlinko
was allowed one day. Yeah, every guy wants that deal
one day to go out there and do Iternie.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Because I am genuinely curious.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yes, Deacon, I love that you keep saying my name.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
By the way, very respectful to say my name, my name, Bernie,
very respectful.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
We did come to learn that Alex kra was the
mastermind behind the scandal, right uh. And then he went
and moved on to the Red Sox and recreated the
scandal the next year. And I do believe he beat
the Dodgers even worse than the Astros did, so he
had perfected the scandal by the time he got the cheating.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Well I would, I would.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I would argue the wire that Altuve had, the buzzer
that they let that go unchecked, that was a big
part of it. And the guy, the guy, the guy
was wired like he was going it was a wire
tap with a little buzzer.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yes, I just want to ask you, this is Bernie.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
And then yes, let again, thank you for saying my name, Deacon.
I appreciate that, drick kind of you to say. And
I've given you a lot of airtime because my name
is Bernie ben Maller would not give you a lot
of airtime.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Ben Maller would have.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Hung up on you and called you a schmuck and
a schmendrick and a loser. But Bernie allows you to talk.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Yes, I'm curious as to why you don't share the
same hatred and despise for the Red Sox that you
do for the Astros, because they both did the same
thing to your dodge.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well again, see, the disease started. The infestation started in Houston,
So I go back. It's kind of like saying we
had the pandemic and it started at a lab in China.
But I'm upset because somebody came to America and some city.
You pick a city in America, I'm upset with that's it. Well, no,
I'm upset with where it started. I'm upset with that origin.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
That would be alex Core, not the city.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Well again, you're you're blaming it all on ours Core.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
But I would say, jose al touve or al Boo,
all right, I mean we're going, we're.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Going, and we're going to veg you, deacon. I appreciate
that very kind. All right, give you.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Wait too much air time? Let's say now say hello
to Andrea. She's got the star chart. I remember the
full moon. We're doing the afterglow of the full moon,
which happened this week, and so full moon the week before,
week after gets a little zany. Hello Andrea, welcome, hell Ben,
how are you. I just spoke to the deacon.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Yeah, I like you said, we kill the full moon
two days before the day of and two days after.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yes, yes, still.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Feeling the intense energy of the full moon. And thanks
for going with the flow. You're a good sport. And
uh yeah, speaking of someone who I never thought was
a good sport, that Pete Rose. And he was like
he gave aries a bad name. He was like such
a bully. And I remember well his birthday April fourteen,
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nineteen forty one. That whole fight with Bud Harrelson that
was in nineteen seventy three versus the Mets. That was
the year I got into baseball with the Mets, you
gotta believe season, And that whole altercation when he stood
into second base and took out Bud Harrelson and the
fight that ensued was just like crazy, that was like
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unheard of.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, Pete was for those and I saw him near
the end of his career.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But Pete Rose was the antithesis of the modern player,
like the modern athlete, load management, don't hustle. That was
thus the nickname for even back then, even when players
did hustle. When Pete played, he still was beyond what
the other players did. He had one gear. He didn't
have a second gear.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
He had like one.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It's like a pitcher with just a fastball, no breaking ball,
just one pitch. That was the way he played.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
And yeah, there were people that hated Remember the.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Famous All Star Game moment Saucy, Yeah, I took out
Ray Foster was a great broadcaster for the A's for.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Years, led into Ray Saucy.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, yeah, an All Star Game and yeah, think about that.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And then where baseball got where the All Star Game
the players were leaving during the game to get to
the airport like that.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Someone that was so stupid.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Oh my god, I was back in the day when
it meant something.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Well, yeah, there was like pride. You're a National League player.
You hated the American League. Now they're all it's one
and the same.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
They don't care well, I mean.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
And it doesn't stand for anything, you know, so if
you win, I don't think it does anything for the league.
So that said, I mean Pee Rose, you know, the
aris energy, you know, on one hand, is very you know, energetic,
but the other part, you know, headstrong really describes his energy.
And he had that kind of full, hardy nature and
he was very aggressive and overpowering. So that's you know,
(27:51):
three planets and aries. He kind of was somewhat belligerent
and brusque, so I remember him being just very over
zealous and combative is and like, Mets fans never forgave him,
you know New York Mets fans so well.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
New York fans do not do not forget. They do
not much like I don't forget. I don't forget things.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
They don't forget and forget very easily either. I have
Taurus Rising really understand. But yeah, the Pete Rose, they
brought a lot of stuff up. It's like, wow, that's
the first thing I think of when I think of
Pete Rose. I mean, be size all the scandals and
so on with the Hall of Fame and yeah, the drugs,
but it's like.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
But hell, and and then there you go, that's and
that hasn't been brought up by many people. But that
is certainly part of Pete's story and all that, and
so we'll see.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Twenty twenty eight. That's the first chance he'll be in
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
But he's not going to be there, so right, I
get to be there in his own airy spirit.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Maybe he'll come and haunt the Hall of Fame. He'll
spook the Hall of Fame, happy, funny anything. Yeah, he'll
come back and be like they're going to hire the
ghosts because Pete's haunting.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
The Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
All right, virgo, thank you, Andrea, appreciate that, very good memory.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Absolutely, there's our friend. Andrea grew up a Mets fan.
That's why she's got that. She became an A's fan.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
But now they're in Sacramento, but they're too embarrassed to
say they're in Sacramento, so they have to just say
they're the athletics. They're a team with no city affiliation,
which is so embarrassing. Like anybody who's involved in Sacramento
that allowed that to happen should be losing their position.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Politically, Like why would you allow a team to go there?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
They're so embarrassed by your city that you can't they
can't say the name of the city, and they're gonna
be there for three seasons at least from what I've heard,
till that stadium gets done in Vegas. So dumb to
dum dumb dumb.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Anyway, speaking of dumbd dumb, dumb dumb. Yeah, Poppy in
San Diego, Hello, Poppy, welcome.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah, it's a lucky day because I heard earlier. You know,
like all these people, you got great calls by people.
You you made their fatness. He comes through, you know,
send talking to you. You you made them think. But
you know I'm here to help you because you want
to make money.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
And I heard, oh, let me get let me guess,
let me guess. Scott Foster.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Scott Foster, Scott Foster, Scott Foster, Scott Foster.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Please that matter. If you would have done Scott Foster,
you would have been three and no. And I've been
telling you the script. When Scott Foster's on there, you
guys got a look on the day up and you
would have made money.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
But look, yeah, but the problem is, Poppy, whatever outcome
of the game, you say, well, Scott Foster wanted that
team to win. But it's not always the home team.
It's not always the road team. It's not one hundred percent.
But then after the fact, Poppy, You're like, well, Scott
Foster wanted that outcome.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Well, it's it's it's always a it's always a home team.
He's freeing on the playoffs and you would have been
making money. So if you want to listen to me,
you're you know, you're my mentor. I'm surprised, you know,
I'll show you a lot of love.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Well, you are the oracle, Poppy.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
You are.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You don't call as often as you used to, Poppy,
but you're the the oracle.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, I do call Ben Mallard. But but the thing
is this, Ben Mallard, I'm gonna give you a free
pick in.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Here we go, free pick Poppies oracle, free pick of
the day.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yes, and people are gonna love this.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Look.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I know it was a bad day in La. You
guys got Molly by you know the age.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yes, I did not watch a second of that game.
I was devastated.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yes, yeah, tomorrow is gonna be a revenge, revenge game
in La. Dodgers are gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I love this, Yes, a revenge game. The Dodgers Revenge
game Revenge.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
They're gonna thank Sen City and go on that and
we're gonna make that blinging minus one and a half
and it's minus one twenty five. Ben Mallard, I'm telling you,
La is going to be happy tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
All right, Poppies, Peck, there you go. If you're Poppy,
we're gonna come track you down, Poppy. All right, all right, buddy,
b Well, there you go, our buddy Poppy. Before NBA
All Star, Nick van Exel can't Coon Man one two three,
can't go. Nick van Exel has decided who's to blame
for the Achilles injury to Jason Tatum, the Dame Lillard
(32:20):
Achilles injury. He went on a social media tire right
now and Van Exel wasn't assistant coach in the NBA.
I don't think he is right now, but he said.
There has been Achilles tears throughout the years. But my thoughts,
Van Xel said on them is that they happen more
often now, and I think that's something to do with them. Damn,
low's the players wearing now? He's meaning shoes cover up
(32:43):
those ankles, he said. So van Xel's theory is it's
the shoes. Isn't that a direc shot at like Nike?
I think yeah, I think it is. Uh, I would
argue it's like condition. I've seen some of these these
online doctors. I don't even know their real doctors. They
are online doctors, and they claim that there's injections that
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you can get every six months. If you're a professional athlete,
you'll not pop your achilles. That there's some kind of inject.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Which just a lot. They claim it's allowed. Trust Yeah, yeah,
and it's expensive. But if you're an athlete you can
Does it turn your achilles into like rubber or something? Well,
I'm not a doctor. I can play one on the radio,
Curious I sit to where it won't do it.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I mean that sounds like a miracle.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Uh yeah, yeah, that's what they claim. Of course, they
might also be promoting it because they make money on it,
so that's also possible.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That might be part of it.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
What's that called where like they just tell you it
does something but it doesn't actually the effects? Oh that yeah,
the placebo effects sell that in a bottle. How wild
our human beings that the placebo effect actually works?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
If I ever get like an earache.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
All I have to do is pull on this part
of my ear and I've told myself it makes it
go away, just like that goes away.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
If you have a headache, if you rub your wrist,
it'll it actually does work. If you have the hiccups,
you can eat a spoonful of peanut butter. No, you
have to hold your breath, right if you have the
piena doesn't work for me. I just hold your breath.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, Well, more remedies coming up next hour when Lorena
takes over with the Queen of Hearts. We have Mallardly
third degree straight ahead. Time now for the instant trivia,
and here it is Nick's guard. Jalen Brunson has scored
one hundred and two points in the fourth quarter through
ten postseason games. That is the most since nineteen ninety seven,
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breaking Blank's previous mark.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
That is the Insta tribua the answer. We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (34:51):
Here's your Insta trivia quick right quick right, all right,
we'll get to it quickly, and then we have mallardly
third degree Nick Yard. Jalen Brunson scored one hundred and
two points in the fourth quarter through ten postseason games.
That is the most since they started tracking that nineteen
ninety seven, breaking Blank's previous record. Late night drug tester
says Rob Gronkowski, who's thirty six today? Tiny Archibald from
(35:14):
alf the Alien Opiner, JJ Berea from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
Bernie Fratto, I hope he's paying for name drops again,
says I used to.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Hear Bernie should call me. He rose Man.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Tell Bernie to give me a call. I haven't heard
from Bernie in a while. The Dagger Reggie Miller from
Milkman Mike in Colorado. Bernie Muller from King Rory Moneyball,
Mallard guests by Mallard Property. I boy, I don't look
like that.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's man. I hope I don't look like that. Bimbo
calls from mister irrigationon Why what say.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
You look right off side sho Bob Ben No, it
is not side show, Bob, it is Kobe Bean Bryant Toobe.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Bryant had the previous record. Here we go, it's smaller.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
To the third degree? Here we go anyway, he's one
big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Good Belle.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
One NFL insider suggested on Monday that Derek Carr's retirement
could be short lived and that we might see the
quarterback as soon as twenty twenty six. But for another
quarterback needy team other than the Saints, Ben, what odds
do you give of car unretiring at some point?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
So, A, I believe teams will contact car about coming
out of retirement and playing and all that. I don't
think it's going to happen. I just think he's not
that he wasn't that good. I think he's burned out
on football right now, obviously. So do I think people
will call him?
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Do I think that's gonna happen though, And B I
see him as a televangelist. I see him as a
televangelist at runs a mega church and makes tons of.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Money doing that, So he won't need to play in
the NFL. He'll make more money as a pastor than
he will play in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Next, it is not being suggested that the Dallas Mavericks
could use the rights to Cooper Flag to trade for
Giannis and Tetekombo.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Yeah, Ben, does the Greek.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Freak make the MAVs immediate champion ship contenders? No?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Because Anthony Davis has hurt all the time. Kyrie Irving's
also hurt all the time, so no. And Giannis he's
a good player, but you have the same issue. They're
all hurt.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
So no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Just take Cooper Flag and hopefully he works out so
Nico Harrison doesn't hate him next.
Speaker 7 (37:19):
MLB has already seen two managers get the boots so
far this season, and now some are suggesting that Braves
manager Brian Snicker could be next.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Ben.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
Snicker has been at the helmet Atlanta for ten years.
Do you think his seat is officially hot?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Well, yes, because as I understand it, this is going
to be his last year anyway. A lot of the
talk is that he's going to retire after this year.
So the Braves are not very good, but the one
should be fired first, Brandon Hide of the Orioles, they're terrible.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
How'd we go? You passed the position.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Right now? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (37:48):
She's a plotting I won, I won the can I
stop
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