December 3, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Michael Jordan's comments about today's players not playing basketball enough and wanting a logo right away without putting in the work, LeBron James being accused of 'catering to his legacy' by stat-padding, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number two, our number two,
and it's all about air. We're walking on air right now.
How did Michael Jordan's comments about today's NBA players not
playing basketball enough? How did that hit you? We'll talk
about that. Also, what did you take away from Jordans
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saying that today's NBA players they want the logo right away.
They're all about the logo right away. And Lebron James
has been accused of catering to his legacy by stat
padding in a recent Laker blowout loss. Is this accusation
inbounds or under bounds? We'll get to that as well.
Right now here, it is our number two. The air
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is yours. If you have listened to the Overnight show,
you know that we don't talk much basketball. Rare and appropriate,
rare and appropriate. Well, this would be one of those
rare and appropriate times because his airness has entered the chat.
Michael Jordan getting paid a little more than I got
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paid when I worked at NBC. But Michael Jordan's stop
by NBC for a little camera side chat with Mike
Turco and these big leather chairs, big leather chairs. Do
you see any of this? No, you weren't watching. You
didn't watch. The Knickerbockers and the Celtics are well. Michael
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Jordan discussed a bunch of things, including his love of
the game clause, the legendary love of the game clause
that he had in his contract with the Chicago Bulls,
and Jordan also brought up the modern player in comparison.
Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen. Here's
Michael Jordan the love of the game other.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Game of contract. Right, if I was driving with you
down the street and I say I play basketball game
inside the road, I can go play in that basketball game,
and if I get hurt, my contract is still guarantee.
I love the game so much that I would never
let someone take the opportunity for me to play the
game away from me, as opposed to now where you
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don't have it, players probably don't play now they.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Get individual at tension with their trainer.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Sure, anyway to go out and shoot a hundred shots
to one thousand shots. I found that to my benefit
was go play basketball, man, That's what you did, That's
what you grew up doing.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
There you go. I'm the same way as Jordan. If
I go and see somebody doing sports takes on the
side of a country road, I'll pull over and I'll
do sports takes. And I have it in my contract
here at Fox Sports Radio where I'm allowed to get
into a sports debate on a dark country road out
in the boondocks, and they allow me to do that.
I had that written in. Yeah, I had that. That
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was written into the contract. And Jonas Knox does not
have that. He's not allowed to do that. He cannot
pull over and do a hot take a debate on
the side of I have that. That's me, just like
Michael Jordan. I'm the Jordan of my time. All right,
So let's get into this. Let's discuss That's a good
jumping off point what Jordan said. So how did Michael
Jordan's comments about today's players essentially not playing basketball enough, right,
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not loving the game, not wanting to play enough. How
did that hit you? So I've got pickley wiggley, belly
whopper and free choley, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to channel money ball.
Mallor is what we're going to channel.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
So number one, his airness stepped up to the microphone.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Step right up, step right up, fun for all ages,
his there has stepped up and basically told today's NBA
players kids yet don't play enough basketball. He dropped the
mic and he walked away. And you know what doesn't
sound wrong to me, doesn't sound wrong to me in
Jordan's speak, which is not coach speak. In Jordan speak,
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the actual basketball part of basketball has become for the
modern player an inconvenience. It is an inconvenience, a nuisance
to the modern player. It's an ingrown toenail, is what
it is. And it's an ingrown tonabo toenail on an
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oversized foot for the modern superstar. Jordan. Now, was this
a humble brac, Sure of course it was. It was
better in mine day. And this is one thing in
my life. I remember when I started in the sports
radio and were there were guys from the old generation
who were ripping the modern player of the nineties. They said,
those guys are a bunch of softies. Alan Iverson and
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Kobe Bryant, and that generation the guys from the eighties,
and now then the guys from the nineties ripped the
following generations. It's it's the same thing, I mean, but
on Jordan's point, I think they say he hit it.
I mean, Jordan had the fire in the belly. Was
baked into his contract that he could play a pickup
game of basketball anywhere, anytime, even if it was on
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a cracked blacktop next to a pigley wiggley in Wilmington,
North Carolina, it didn't matter. And if he blew out
his knee too bad, Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner at the time,
had to pay the contract, had to cut the check,
cut that check, cut that check to Michael Jordan. And
that's how deep his obsession. His obsession right, And so
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he was a Jim Ratt loved basketball stuff, lived in
the weight room and the practice cord and occasionally casino.
That would happen. Now today, the new age baller, they
float on an inner tube down the Lazy River. They do,
yet they have all the creature comforts. They have private chefs,
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they have personalized trainers, they have the shooting coaches, they
have the stretching gurus, they have sleep consultants, they have
a social media team, they have emotional support gardeners for
some reason, I don't know why you'd need that. So
it's work smarter, not harder. That's the mantra there the motto,
But Jordan's message was kind of obviously, stop hiding behind
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the amenities checklist. It's kind of weak. Go play basketball, man.
The game has become a chore and the issue, and
to me this cuts down to the main problem that
I have with watching basketball, that the player treat it
like it's taking out the trash day. You know how
you got to take the trash out and want to
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take he wants to take the trash out, but it's
what you gotta do. You know, if trash fills up,
you don't want a bunch of vermin in your home,
so you throw the trash out. And it shows in
the product like it does. I have it on in
the background. I was watching the Knick Celtics game, and
I saw the Warriors game after that, and at least
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the first half, and it shows in the product where
you can tell as a fan the players don't really
seem like they want to be there. They like playing
grab ass with the other players and all that. They
don't really want to play in the regular season game.
It doesn't mean anything other than we're getting eight million
dollars a game or some ridiculous thing like that. All right,
now more of Michael Jordan audio from and B see. So,
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Michael Jordan was asked if the players of today's version
of basketball have the mindset to achieve greatness, which is
so we call a low hanging fruit question. That is
a t ball question for Michael Jordan. So again, Jordan
asked by Mike de Rico if the players of the
modern NBA have the mindset to achieve greatness. Let's go
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to the audio tape. It's hard to be hungry when
you have, as simple as that. I mean, if you
don't have, you are willing to do whatever you have.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So my mental approach was to going do my job,
be the best basketball player I can be, and all
the chips and everything outside of that. I have people
that was handling that, you know, but basketball court, I'm
handling it right. And now it's like it's a prerequisite.
You know, everybody has to have a logo, everybody has
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to have a you know why right, Well, I'm pretty
sure I'm part of the reason.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Why every part of the round to get a logo.
But brand right, brand right, brand Jordan.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But the thing is is that that brand established based
on what I did on the basketball court. You know,
I didn't put the brand before I put the work.
You know, I put the work first, and then the
brand evolved based on the work.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Right there you go? All right, So that's Michael Jordan
on the Athlete today. So the question what do you
take away from that? Michael Jordan's comments about that today's
basketball players in the NBA wanting the logo right away,
right away. So I took away the C word, not
that sea word coddled. That's what I took away. Jordan's like,
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oh these guys are coddled and air Jordan, nothing but
net on this one. I also relate to this because
the management. I really want to thank the company. They
have decided they want to keep me hungry. They don't
want to pay me cowhard money or Dan Patrick money,
or they just want me to really still have that
fire in my belly. And I thank them for that.
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And so just keeping it real and it does mean something.
But the way I look at it, The goat, the
real goat, not Lebron James, please. The goat basically said
that the modern basketball player, it wants the logo before
the legacy and the brand, before the blood, sweat and tears,
and coming from Michael Jordan. Who's got that cachet, right,
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the guy who's silhouette Michael Joe. You realize his silhouette
that shot of him from the slam Dunk contest extended
out that logo of Michael Jordan. The silhouette of Michael
Jordan has essentially replaced the Church steeple in American sporting culture.
It is crazy and it says something. But this is
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a belly whopper, I wrote on my scorecard, belly whopper.
A full belly makes a dull brain, it does. And
so these guys are born into once you're determined to
be a prodigy, from the time you're about what ten
years old, Oh man, you're good to go. And it's
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like a decade of having your ass kissed and nil
deals now and sneaker deals and documentary crews following your
journey to the NBA off court production companies, all that stuff.
And there was a point where you had to you
had to earn it. You had to outwork the horse, right,
That was the old line. Had at work the horse.
Now you don't have to outwork the horse. There is
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no horse, of course, of course, of course. And get
all the goodies, all the goodies, all the perks, right
and all that, and just have to make sure that
you use the right filter on your Instagram story and
you're you're good to go.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The NBA is one giant tech incubator in sneakers, That's
what it's And the league is drowning in the abundance
of caution culture, which is another issue with love of
the game and all that. I feel like that's the
unofficial slogan. Is there anything I'm wrong on that the
unofficial slogan of the NBA is out of an abundance
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of caution? Like this is the modern NBA. You stub
your toe, don't rub some dirt on it, missed the game?
Come on, gotta rest? Back to back?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What do we are? We we some kind of a
wild uh dracone in the Andanderthal world? You can't play back?
Do you think that a modern athlete can play back
to back? What is wrong with you. For the love
of God, we cannot expect our athletic heroes to play
back to back. Do you work back to back days?
I don't work back Oh that's right, I do work
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back to back days. Oh okay, you work, but you
work two days. Really you have a second job? Is
that right? Oh my god? Oh oh my? Uh so
load management? National TV A big game Island game. Now
the algorithm says you should not play. The algorithm says.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Do not play.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, just chill out. Everyone is so warped in this
bubble rap that it's it's got more bubble rap on
these basketball players than Amazon spends on buying bubble wrap
for the packages they send out. And it's the bare
minimum optics is what it is. Bare minimals, Like, just
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do the bare minimum, check the contract compliance box. If
you're an NBA star, Like you're clocking in at a
cubicle on a nine to five, and so Jordan's telling you,
He's like, listen, today's players want the logo before they've
earned the lore. And it is true. As someone that
lived in a world before Michael Jordan was a superstar
in the NBA, it happened coincided. There was a famous
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commercial with Spike Lee. How about spikee. Isn't Spike Lee
almost seventy He's still fan boying it up at the
Knicks game. Isn't that great? So I'm on the tv? Anyway,
There was a Spike Lee Michael Jordan commercial that kind
of took that thing to the next level back in
the day. But Jordan's He's telling you, it's like, listen,
these guys, this is what they want. This is the
world we were in, which is really fresh from Jordan
considering it's his business model that everyone wants to mimic. Right,
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It's the Jordan model that everyone wants. It's not his
love of the game, it's the love of the chi
ching chi ching, chi ching chi ching. The brand extension
is what it is. And the product, of course, the
NBA product right now is as bad as it's ever
been in my life, diluted like cheap Gatorade powder. There
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was a point the NBA was really bad in the nineties,
I remember, because they had Mike Fortello was coaching the
Cleveland Cadavers and pat Riley was coaching the Knickerbockers, and
it was slowed down. It was really boring, dull basketball,
but at least the players were playing now not so
much all right now, final point speaking of that to
La Lawland, we go where Lebron James, who's looking up
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at the goat and Michael Jordan wishing he was Michael Jordan.
So Lebron James extended his double digit scoring streak to
one two hundred ninety seven games. He did this the
other night in a cloud of controversy. Yeah, so the
Lakers were blown out by the Phoenix Suns thunder Dan
(15:50):
Marley with a couple of hammer dunks there for the Suns.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
It was.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It was wild how good they were, and my god,
did they had. Mary Stottemeyer had a big day there
and just really good team there for the Phoenix Sis. Anyway, Lebron,
he was playing in garbage time with a bunch of
backups when he reached the ten point marker, and that
had a lot of people raising their eyebrows saying like,
(16:15):
what are you doing, dude? Let it die, Let it die,
Let it die, let it die, let it die. All right,
So question Lebron James being accused of catering to his
legacy stat padding. Lebron James to get to ten points
to continue that streak of double digit games. Is this
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accusation against Lebron James inbounds or out of bounds? That's
the question. So we went to a booth review on
this and expedited booth review and we determined its inbounds.
Inbounds now as inbounds as oxygen being required for human
(16:57):
beings to survive, you need oxygen, very important. You have oxygen.
You don't have oxygen, you got problems. We don't even
know why anyone would be pretending that this is not
what it's being described as unless you are so far
up Lebron's took us you can't see any sunlight. Okay,
that might be the case, but Lebron is an full
on in this game. It was full on legacy maintenance mode.
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That's what Lebron was doing. And he's out there polishing
his resume like he's working part time at Zales and
he's dealing with the jewelry. At the end of the day,
Lebron trying to get that new endorsement deal with Fredo
lay Now you might have heard back in the day
of the Freto Bandito. Well, Lebron's like, what about the
statistical Bendito. That's me Lebron James guys stealing hollow numbers,
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hollow numbers like he's running a smash and grab operation
in the box score. Now junk stats, a lot of
junk stats, garbage time compost and this goes on all
the time, and we try to call it every time
we see it. We pointed out the great examples of
this are Russell Westbrook with the most bogus triple double
season of all time. If you go back, there's some
(18:06):
videos there. Russ was doing cosplay and I think it
was twenty seventeen. I want to say, I think that's
about right. Remember him boxing out. The videos were great
on YouTube. He was with OKC. He was literally Russell
Westbrook was boxing out his own teammates to get rebounds.
He was boxing out his own teammates. Hey hey, numb nuts,
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you're on the same team. And then there was a
there were some videos of the bigs on okay see
at the time who were literally trying to get out
of the way so Westbrook could get the bogus triple
double stats. It was hilarious. And the thing about this
is that we remember it in the moment. But when
people go back and look at the Wikipedia pages of
these guys, the next group of fans, they don't realize this.
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They're not smart enough to do the research on that,
nor do they have the time that that's a bogus record.
This is a bogus record and all that stuff. So
it's not just basketball. It goes on in all the
other sports as well. Remember Josh Allen, Josh Allen checked in.
It was a week eighteen game. I believe they were
playing the Patriots. The Bills were playing the Patriots. He
played one play, if I remember correctly, Josh Allen, so
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his iron Man streak would continue one play, Keep it alive,
Keep it alive. Okay, there you go. The stat padding.
Marching band applauds that they play the music and all that.
It's just absolutely great. So Lebron hit the ten point
mark with about seven minutes to go in the game.
The Lakers were down by twenty five points. He got
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then yanked like a bad karaoke singer. A moment later
they took him out there. Those are not meaningful stats.
Those are what we call vanity calories. Those are empty carbs.
That's what that is. And yet when Lebron, when Lebron's
long gone from playing in the NBA, and they look
at that stat the casuals, low information fantals. You look
at that record, they're not gonna remember Lebron stat padded
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that and was playing in garbage time to try to
get to ten points. He really has shown his age
this season. Lakers have a really good record, but he
has shown his age. So it's a Fugazi situation.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
At least Lebron did not reach the level of the
single greatest, the single greatest stat padding moment in the
history of my career in talk radio. It happened over
twenty years ago, one of the great moments. I'm not
making this up. It sounds like I'm making this up,
and I'm so. One of Lebron's teammates a guy named
Ricky Davis. Ricky Davis needed one more rebound to get
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a triple double. So what did Ricky Davis do? Time
was running out. Ricky Davis decided to shoot a basket
at his own basket, of course, to miss it to
get the rebound, and David, sir, they had a commission
with balls and hair on his chest at the time,
and David Sturts. So that's not going to count. Sorry,
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we're not counting that now. Adam Silver, Today's commissioner, he
probably would have called it creative stat expression. We must
let our players express themselves. And even though it's just
a dirty play, we're going to allow it because it's
creative stat expression. That's Adam Silver's NBA and that's the
product that's not very good right now. It's all part
of the Lebron. This story is part of the Lebron experience,
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James Crush at three fifteen in the morning, say well,
there you go. Eileen in San Francisco was ranting about
something about Alcatraz. Dog, says Liz stat pads a clown
his record. His records are more hollow than the planet
we all live on. Also, apparently the Clippers just fired
(24:11):
Chris Paul. I think he fired himself. The way that
team must hate each other by that, there must be
some really good stuff that's gonna come out on the Clippers.
How much they don't like each other. There's some kind
of scandal. Uh, you have to really not like each
other to play as bad as they're playing like, there's
gotta be some serious stuff going on. It's gonna come
(24:32):
out and make some kind of Netflix documentary. Chatting with
a couple of people about that the other day, or
like this team is it's one thing to be bad.
They're not just bad, like they're intentionally booby trapping the season,
like they're throwing the ball away unforced mistakes like these
are all a roster of the oldest team in the NBA,
(24:53):
and they're playing like they hate each other. It's gotta
be something good there. Fat Daddy writes and says, one
hundred percent big man about Michael Jordan. I'm talking about
these today's today is the leads that are coddled and babied.
I think something else. Today's athletes are to prima donna.
There you go. They had to start looking looking up
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Jack Lalaine at sixty five, at seventy old, both times
he pulled boats for his birthday. All right, very good, Well,
the expensive cookies that would be the big short We're
talking about. More about this later. But Penn State fired
James Franklin. They assumed they could get anyone they want
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because they're Penn State, and they could not have been
more wrong, could not have been more wrong. They turned
their attention to the BYU coach, and they didn't get him.
They didn't get him because the CEO of Crumble Cookies, yes,
the overpriced delicious Crumble Cookies, cut a fact check to
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BYU to pay for a giant raise for their football coach.
So Penn State and all those big whale boosters and
all that outbid by the CEO of Crumble Cookies, which
tells you how much money they must be making selling
those cookies. Right, those eight nine dollars cookies that have
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about a dollar worth of material in them.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
I'm not a big fan.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I think they're great, and I've made ripoff versions for
several years. Once I found out how much they cost,
then I started making ripoff versions Benny the Baker, and
they're they're fine, They're just as good. But yeah, that's
that's insane. They just the crumble cookie person stepped up.
Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Dale from Muskege and we haven't heard from him. I
(26:50):
guess the snowplows must be back. Is that maybe? What's
going on? Hello? Dale? What's going on? Dale?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Ben?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Yeah, I'm out here making snowbouts. Hey, before we get
into it, I just got it. I'm a little disappointed.
I've been on hold for like twenty minutes and you
must not know when I was on because you were
talking about two imaginary characters, Brick James and Michael Boredom
and center having me on that's insane, Like these got
are those real people? Been?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
All right? So dev again, for the record, let the
record show that Dale feels we should break format and
not do the monologue and just go right into Dale.
Do twenty minutes of Dale from Muskigan. Could you could
you do twenty minutes Dale? I?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Uh, probably not. Your show's great, buddy, I'm just giving
you her time.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
How you been, Ben If I'm fine? You know, here
every night, not just during snowplow season. You know that, Dale,
We're here, You're around.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I worked. I worked for a shift most of the
most of the summer, so yeah, it's it's a weird
thing in the winter. I still get bits and pieces,
but I'm not like now. I'm in my truck for
sixteen hours a night the last couple of days, so
I have time.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
To sit and away.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So really, what you're saying, Dale is we need a
lot of snow and then and then the Muskegon area
and then we're good. Then we'll have Dale every night
with Dale as you drive around and clear the roads.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I could bore people to get all lad if you
wanted me to. I'm pretty good at that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, so am I I've been doing it for a
long time.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, man, you guys are great.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I absolutely love the show. Everything been good, guys.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
We're live and well, doing amazing. We're surviving in the
battlefield that is talk radio.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yes, Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I just wanted to check in. Guys, say,
all right, yes, one thing, what are you thinking of
the backers this year? You think we're le jitter.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm not convinced. That was a nice win against the Lions,
but I'm not I'm not sold.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I'm not sold either, better not. I worry about Jordan.
I think he's okay, but I think his turnovers are
you know, they're great, They're way down. But we'll see.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
We'll see that.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
The great thing is Dale, as we've seen in years past.
You know, you don't have to be an amazing quarterback.
We've seen some media Joe Flackel won a Super Bowl
Nick Foles. All you have to do is play well
for a month. You just have to have a good
month and you can win a super Bowl. So that's it.
He sucks, Eli said, Yeah, he's no good and he's
you know, people people trying this is how dumb people are. Well,
(29:13):
Eli Manner should be in the Hall of Fame. No,
he was an average quarterback who had a couple of
freak runs. That's it, you know, not a Hall of
Famer anyway. All right, thank you, Dale. I gotta there's
a Great Dale from Muskegan there driving a snowplow. We
have seasonal callers, and he's a seasonal call We have
some guys that only call during football season. Dale doesn't
call during football season until it starts snowing. In Michigan.
(29:34):
Snowplows are vital, very important. Yes, you don't appreciate a
snowplow unless you have to get to work and the
road is covered in the powdery stuff. You can plow
it all day and plow it all night. Hey, I
look at you. Unbelievable. Let's go out to the black
irishman who's hanging out in Omah Hall and let me
tell you something. I could not have asked for a
(29:56):
better holiday gift than that Creighton blue Jay hat. My god,
is that Loreina? Does that not look amazing? Come on?
I agree? And it's all because of the black irishman.
It's all because of him. He we we had a
bet and he's a man of his word. He lost
the bet and he paid up. And I gotta tell
you this size eight Creighton blue Jay's hat is so good.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
He is funny kind of But you know I did
make some notes, so.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You have notes. You have no you're prepared. The Black
Irishman is prepared. This is amazing. We now present the
Black Irishman's commentary. Go ahead, his own monologue from the
Black Irishman.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Hey, no, merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
First of all, happy house, Merry Christmas? Do you is
your daughter? Is your daughter awake or sleeping?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
No, she's sleep man, Man, she's getting big, dude.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I mean, anyway, I'm sure she appreciates that.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yes, yeah, he's a big girl.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Now anyway, man, he's bone.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Hit coaches do. He's bone hit decisions they make. I
mean with me, Nebrassa's coach, he sucks too. I don't
want to talk about Pittsburgh. And then Mike Tomlin. It's like, man, man,
you had Terry Brass y'all, I mean, y'all want Super
bowls with him? Man, man, shut up? How many How
many coaches have y'all had? Two?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Three?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Everybody want to everybody want to complain.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
About got Chuck Nole, Bill Cower, Mike Tomlin since they
became Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Coward, coward played for a Shottenheimer in KC.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
But anyway, now he's now he's boring America. He's boring
America on television and they got rid of they you
know that CBS show they got rid of like Boomera
Siasin and Phil Simms and all those guys. Somehow coward
keeps his job.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Mm well, cowerschool. But I'm trying to say on television,
these cultures make these bad de cities. I don't say,
man like that Minnesota's coach Man, Yeah, that that fourth
and whatever? That was a bad decision. How do you
want to make a concusion like that with a boogie quarterback?
That was bad?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Well? Does it really matter? Does it matter what decisions
the Vikings coach made with the quarterback, the way that
he played.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
He had Donald last year? That's why they Donald.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Stop with that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Donald's not gonna win anything in Seattle. He's gonna break
all these idiots Seahawk fans. Do you Sam Donald? Oh yeah, Sam,
Donald's gonna break your heart.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That Hey, that's fifth first fall. But no, it ain't.
It ain't Thomas fault that he been with Aaron Rodgers
Like we okay, I'm gonna take a chance, man, go
with this old man. Well, what's wrong with that? We
all know Rogers is old?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
How is he No, he just turns fifties. Fifty five, Lean,
I'm saying, yeah, fifty five, he's the oldest player in
the end.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You know, I will say, I will say the Padlock
my homeboy, Kanas City. He was relaxed for a change.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, he's doing great. Mahomes, he's really kicking.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
No, he ain't got no pressure on them, you know
what I mean? Well, man practice, he looked relaxed.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Well, he's trying to prepare for that wedding. Is he
going to be a best man for Travis Kelsey at
the big celebrit your wedding? And are you going to
the weddings in Rhode Island this summer summer twenty six
And no, no, I might think it about it? Well,
it's close to Colour House in Rhode Island, so it's
so very close.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
How about that, Lorain, you think about that?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yeah, I think geographically they are very close. Yeah, the
rain is actually going to go to the wedding. Is
our correspondent there unless there's a movie that she needs
to watch and then she will be going on watching
the movie instead. So yes, hey, all right, well listen
call more often Black irishman. You're a legend. Your name
comes up from time to time. I don't know if
you hear about that, but your name does come on.
(33:36):
So okay, all right, go away, there you go, the
black Irishman. Usually we have to hang up on him,
and he hung up on himself. So the great con
the great con Man. Is it true that Lane Kiffin?
Lane Kiffin is now being called out by his former
(33:57):
Old Miss players for a legend lying lying in his
farewell statements he ran off to batal Rouge in that
private plane. One of the Old Miss players posting on
social media about the Lane train and everything that went
down the last couple days with Lane Kiffin, and one
(34:19):
of the players for Ole Miss said, that was not
the message you said in the meeting room. Everybody that
was in there can vouch on this, the old Miss
player said of lane Kiffin, who posted, after a lot
of prayer and time spent with family, that made the
difficult decision and blah blah blah blah blah blah and anyway,
(34:39):
one of the Old Miss players posted on social media
that that's not actually how it went down. Keep in mind,
we are reminded that the late Great Al Davis from
behind the Pearly Gates said of Lane Kiffen when he
used the overhead projector to point out how bad Lane
Kiffin is as a coach. The ghost of Al Davis
(35:00):
also said, I think he conned me. I think he
conned all of you people. The great con man Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
He is.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, keep an eye on that. Absolutely right is the
Ben Mahlord shows. We are working away through the overnight
and way we go time now though for the install trivia,
then we're gonna have Mallard to the third degree. Here's
the instant tribune. Over the last six games the Timberwolves,
(35:32):
Anthony Edwards ant man, there's a sound of him warming up.
Anthony Edwards scored one hundred and fifty or more points,
made fifty or more field goals, and made twenty five
or more three three throws, all just in the second
half in overtime. Blank is the last NBA player to
put those numbers up after halftime over a six game span. Again,
(35:54):
Anthony Edwards has scored one hundred and fifty or more points,
fifty or more field goals, twenty five more free free
throws in the second half in overtime. Blank is the
last NBA player to put up those numbers after halftime
over a six game span. That is the instad trivia.
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Here is the the aforementioned inch to trivia. Go to
pro bouncy Ball. Over the last six games, the Timberwolves
ant man Anthony Edwards has one hundred and fifty plus points,
fifty plus field goals, twenty five plus foul shots, and
(38:16):
that's just in the second half and overtime. Blank is
the last NBA player to put up those numbers after
halftime in a six game span. That is the question.
What is the answer. Let's see Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota,
going with doctor j is his answer. Who else do
(38:38):
we have? Ron Pope Peel from who was that? That
was the the Great Rob the Goldman, Tom Chambers from
Paul curly Neal from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Rob the
Ambassador of Bakersfield. Could see Rod's name there. He's going
with Robert Swift as his answer. Michael Jordan from FEMI
Dark Helmet guessed by Milkman Mike Fan of Spaceballs Hank
(39:03):
Finkel Unless it's not from BP. Who else do we have?
Bruce Lee from alf the Alien o'piner, Tim Rain's exposed Legend,
Rock Range from Shane and the moy Tree Rollins from
mediocre Kabook your suck crossing Petrovich Captain Kirk gave us
that one black irishman with vanilla wafers from just Josh.
(39:25):
Do you have an answer Lorraine Larry Bird, Ben Garry
Bird running doubt, throw the bird out? The bird is
the word? The bird is the word? Nope, it is
Kobe Bean Bryant, Toby Bean Bryan.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
That was way back in O seven to.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
The third degree. This is one Big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Kobal for the first time in his thirteen year NFL career.
Russell Wilson was a healthy scratch. With Jameis Winston as
the number two quarterback, the Giants decided to make Russell
Wilson inactive from Monday Night Football. Ben, Do you think
Wilson hangs it up at the end of the year. No, No,
He's gonna go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
He'll be a training camp arm somewhere, and he's going
to try to continue his career. There's a supply chain
shortage of quarterbacks there, so he'll someone will give him
a chance to try to make a team next year's
He's sucked for how many teams now here, the Broncos,
he wasn't good at the NFAC, at the Broncos, Steelers,
and now the Giants. The writing's on the wall, Coop,
(40:25):
And I say he's going to continue, get one more
chance next I'm embarrassing.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
I know Brian Schottenheimer warmed the cow warmed his Cowboys
players that just because we've won three games, that doesn't
change anything going on To say that the team can't
brow complacent as they push for a playoffs, No, no,
And you think the Cowboys will find themselves in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Well, they look good I don't want to be a
prisoner of the moment. I'm still gonna go no at
this point. Now I'll change my opinion this should they
win the Thursday Night get but I'm not I'm not convinced.
Everyone's getting all excited because they made some plays against
Kansas City, which doesn't look like a playoff team right now,
and the Eagles, who are having all kinds of issues.
So you start peeling back those games and they're nice wins,
(41:09):
but they don't look as nice when you look at
the internal stuff with the Eagles and Kansas City is
just not a very good team this year next.
Speaker 8 (41:15):
Jets kicker Nick Folk insisted in an interview after the
Jets picked up their third win of the season that
the team is getting better under Aaron Glenn. He also
said that there's a lot of promise for the future
of the organization. Ben.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Do you think they have the right guy at the helm? Well,
I don't know for sure. Obviously, I would say this
season is a complete waste, and you always sell the future.
We're gonna be great if Nick Foles came out. So
this guy can't coach, he blows, we suck. We're gonna
suck for years. Of course, of course he's gonna say
the futures. But I haven't seen evidence that we're going
(41:46):
back direction.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
How do we know?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
How do we not?
Speaker 7 (41:48):
Guy?
Speaker 5 (41:49):
I eat dog. I gotta eat dog.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Deal, I got it, General plan, I got it. I
got it.
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number two, our number two,
and it's all about air. We're walking on air right now.
How did Michael Jordan's comments about today's NBA players not
playing basketball enough? How did that hit you? We'll talk
about that. Also, what did you take away from Jordans
(00:22):
saying that today's NBA players they want the logo right away.
They're all about the logo right away. And Lebron James
has been accused of catering to his legacy by stat
padding in a recent Laker blowout loss. Is this accusation
inbounds or under bounds? We'll get to that as well.
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is yours. If you have listened to the Overnight show,
you know that we don't talk much basketball. Rare and appropriate,
rare and appropriate. Well, this would be one of those
rare and appropriate times because his airness has entered the chat.
Michael Jordan getting paid a little more than I got
(02:45):
paid when I worked at NBC. But Michael Jordan's stop
by NBC for a little camera side chat with Mike
Turco and these big leather chairs, big leather chairs. Do
you see any of this? No, you weren't watching. You
didn't watch. The Knickerbockers and the Celtics are well. Michael
(03:05):
Jordan discussed a bunch of things, including his love of
the game clause, the legendary love of the game clause
that he had in his contract with the Chicago Bulls,
and Jordan also brought up the modern player in comparison.
Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen. Here's
Michael Jordan the love of the game other.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Game of contract. Right, if I was driving with you
down the street and I say I play basketball game
inside the road, I can go play in that basketball game,
and if I get hurt, my contract is still guarantee.
I love the game so much that I would never
let someone take the opportunity for me to play the
game away from me, as opposed to now where you
(03:43):
don't have it, players probably don't play now they.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Get individual at tension with their trainer.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Sure, anyway to go out and shoot a hundred shots
to one thousand shots. I found that to my benefit
was go play basketball, man, That's what you did, That's
what you grew up doing.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
There you go. I'm the same way as Jordan. If
I go and see somebody doing sports takes on the
side of a country road, I'll pull over and I'll
do sports takes. And I have it in my contract
here at Fox Sports Radio where I'm allowed to get
into a sports debate on a dark country road out
in the boondocks, and they allow me to do that.
I had that written in. Yeah, I had that. That
(04:22):
was written into the contract. And Jonas Knox does not
have that. He's not allowed to do that. He cannot
pull over and do a hot take a debate on
the side of I have that. That's me, just like
Michael Jordan. I'm the Jordan of my time. All right,
So let's get into this. Let's discuss That's a good
jumping off point what Jordan said. So how did Michael
Jordan's comments about today's players essentially not playing basketball enough, right,
(04:44):
not loving the game, not wanting to play enough. How
did that hit you? So I've got pickley wiggley, belly
whopper and free choley, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to channel money ball.
Mallor is what we're going to channel.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
So number one, his airness stepped up to the microphone.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Step right up, step right up, fun for all ages,
his there has stepped up and basically told today's NBA
players kids yet don't play enough basketball. He dropped the
mic and he walked away. And you know what doesn't
sound wrong to me, doesn't sound wrong to me in
Jordan's speak, which is not coach speak. In Jordan speak,
(05:32):
the actual basketball part of basketball has become for the
modern player an inconvenience. It is an inconvenience, a nuisance
to the modern player. It's an ingrown toenail, is what
it is. And it's an ingrown tonabo toenail on an
(05:53):
oversized foot for the modern superstar. Jordan. Now, was this
a humble brac, Sure of course it was. It was
better in mine day. And this is one thing in
my life. I remember when I started in the sports
radio and were there were guys from the old generation
who were ripping the modern player of the nineties. They said,
those guys are a bunch of softies. Alan Iverson and
(06:15):
Kobe Bryant, and that generation the guys from the eighties,
and now then the guys from the nineties ripped the
following generations. It's it's the same thing, I mean, but
on Jordan's point, I think they say he hit it.
I mean, Jordan had the fire in the belly. Was
baked into his contract that he could play a pickup
game of basketball anywhere, anytime, even if it was on
(06:39):
a cracked blacktop next to a pigley wiggley in Wilmington,
North Carolina, it didn't matter. And if he blew out
his knee too bad, Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner at the time,
had to pay the contract, had to cut the check,
cut that check, cut that check to Michael Jordan. And
that's how deep his obsession. His obsession right, And so
(07:01):
he was a Jim Ratt loved basketball stuff, lived in
the weight room and the practice cord and occasionally casino.
That would happen. Now today, the new age baller, they
float on an inner tube down the Lazy River. They do,
yet they have all the creature comforts. They have private chefs,
(07:23):
they have personalized trainers, they have the shooting coaches, they
have the stretching gurus, they have sleep consultants, they have
a social media team, they have emotional support gardeners for
some reason, I don't know why you'd need that. So
it's work smarter, not harder. That's the mantra there the motto,
But Jordan's message was kind of obviously, stop hiding behind
(07:44):
the amenities checklist. It's kind of weak. Go play basketball, man.
The game has become a chore and the issue, and
to me this cuts down to the main problem that
I have with watching basketball, that the player treat it
like it's taking out the trash day. You know how
you got to take the trash out and want to
(08:05):
take he wants to take the trash out, but it's
what you gotta do. You know, if trash fills up,
you don't want a bunch of vermin in your home,
so you throw the trash out. And it shows in
the product like it does. I have it on in
the background. I was watching the Knick Celtics game, and
I saw the Warriors game after that, and at least
(08:26):
the first half, and it shows in the product where
you can tell as a fan the players don't really
seem like they want to be there. They like playing
grab ass with the other players and all that. They
don't really want to play in the regular season game.
It doesn't mean anything other than we're getting eight million
dollars a game or some ridiculous thing like that. All right,
now more of Michael Jordan audio from and B see. So,
(08:50):
Michael Jordan was asked if the players of today's version
of basketball have the mindset to achieve greatness, which is
so we call a low hanging fruit question. That is
a t ball question for Michael Jordan. So again, Jordan
asked by Mike de Rico if the players of the
modern NBA have the mindset to achieve greatness. Let's go
(09:13):
to the audio tape. It's hard to be hungry when
you have, as simple as that. I mean, if you
don't have, you are willing to do whatever you have.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So my mental approach was to going do my job,
be the best basketball player I can be, and all
the chips and everything outside of that. I have people
that was handling that, you know, but basketball court, I'm
handling it right. And now it's like it's a prerequisite.
You know, everybody has to have a logo, everybody has
(09:44):
to have a you know why right, Well, I'm pretty
sure I'm part of the reason.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Why every part of the round to get a logo.
But brand right, brand right, brand Jordan.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
But the thing is is that that brand established based
on what I did on the basketball court. You know,
I didn't put the brand before I put the work.
You know, I put the work first, and then the
brand evolved based on the work.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Right there you go? All right, So that's Michael Jordan
on the Athlete today. So the question what do you
take away from that? Michael Jordan's comments about that today's
basketball players in the NBA wanting the logo right away,
right away. So I took away the C word, not
that sea word coddled. That's what I took away. Jordan's like,
(10:26):
oh these guys are coddled and air Jordan, nothing but
net on this one. I also relate to this because
the management. I really want to thank the company. They
have decided they want to keep me hungry. They don't
want to pay me cowhard money or Dan Patrick money,
or they just want me to really still have that
fire in my belly. And I thank them for that.
(10:47):
And so just keeping it real and it does mean something.
But the way I look at it, The goat, the
real goat, not Lebron James, please. The goat basically said
that the modern basketball player, it wants the logo before
the legacy and the brand, before the blood, sweat and tears,
and coming from Michael Jordan. Who's got that cachet, right,
(11:09):
the guy who's silhouette Michael Joe. You realize his silhouette
that shot of him from the slam Dunk contest extended
out that logo of Michael Jordan. The silhouette of Michael
Jordan has essentially replaced the Church steeple in American sporting culture.
It is crazy and it says something. But this is
(11:30):
a belly whopper, I wrote on my scorecard, belly whopper.
A full belly makes a dull brain, it does. And
so these guys are born into once you're determined to
be a prodigy, from the time you're about what ten
years old, Oh man, you're good to go. And it's
(11:50):
like a decade of having your ass kissed and nil
deals now and sneaker deals and documentary crews following your
journey to the NBA off court production companies, all that stuff.
And there was a point where you had to you
had to earn it. You had to outwork the horse, right,
That was the old line. Had at work the horse.
Now you don't have to outwork the horse. There is
(12:10):
no horse, of course, of course, of course. And get
all the goodies, all the goodies, all the perks, right
and all that, and just have to make sure that
you use the right filter on your Instagram story and
you're you're good to go.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The NBA is one giant tech incubator in sneakers, That's
what it's And the league is drowning in the abundance
of caution culture, which is another issue with love of
the game and all that. I feel like that's the
unofficial slogan. Is there anything I'm wrong on that the
unofficial slogan of the NBA is out of an abundance
(12:43):
of caution? Like this is the modern NBA. You stub
your toe, don't rub some dirt on it, missed the game?
Come on, gotta rest? Back to back?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What do we are? We we some kind of a
wild uh dracone in the Andanderthal world? You can't play back?
Do you think that a modern athlete can play back
to back? What is wrong with you. For the love
of God, we cannot expect our athletic heroes to play
back to back. Do you work back to back days?
I don't work back Oh that's right, I do work
(13:17):
back to back days. Oh okay, you work, but you
work two days. Really you have a second job? Is
that right? Oh my god? Oh oh my? Uh so
load management? National TV A big game Island game. Now
the algorithm says you should not play. The algorithm says.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Do not play.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, just chill out. Everyone is so warped in this
bubble rap that it's it's got more bubble rap on
these basketball players than Amazon spends on buying bubble wrap
for the packages they send out. And it's the bare
minimum optics is what it is. Bare minimals, Like, just
(13:57):
do the bare minimum, check the contract compliance box. If
you're an NBA star, Like you're clocking in at a
cubicle on a nine to five, and so Jordan's telling you,
He's like, listen, today's players want the logo before they've
earned the lore. And it is true. As someone that
lived in a world before Michael Jordan was a superstar
in the NBA, it happened coincided. There was a famous
(14:20):
commercial with Spike Lee. How about spikee. Isn't Spike Lee
almost seventy He's still fan boying it up at the
Knicks game. Isn't that great? So I'm on the tv? Anyway,
There was a Spike Lee Michael Jordan commercial that kind
of took that thing to the next level back in
the day. But Jordan's He's telling you, it's like, listen,
these guys, this is what they want. This is the
world we were in, which is really fresh from Jordan
considering it's his business model that everyone wants to mimic. Right,
(14:44):
It's the Jordan model that everyone wants. It's not his
love of the game, it's the love of the chi
ching chi ching, chi ching chi ching. The brand extension
is what it is. And the product, of course, the
NBA product right now is as bad as it's ever
been in my life, diluted like cheap Gatorade powder. There
(15:04):
was a point the NBA was really bad in the nineties,
I remember, because they had Mike Fortello was coaching the
Cleveland Cadavers and pat Riley was coaching the Knickerbockers, and
it was slowed down. It was really boring, dull basketball,
but at least the players were playing now not so
much all right now, final point speaking of that to
La Lawland, we go where Lebron James, who's looking up
(15:28):
at the goat and Michael Jordan wishing he was Michael Jordan.
So Lebron James extended his double digit scoring streak to
one two hundred ninety seven games. He did this the
other night in a cloud of controversy. Yeah, so the
Lakers were blown out by the Phoenix Suns thunder Dan
(15:50):
Marley with a couple of hammer dunks there for the Suns.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
It was.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It was wild how good they were, and my god,
did they had. Mary Stottemeyer had a big day there
and just really good team there for the Phoenix Sis. Anyway, Lebron,
he was playing in garbage time with a bunch of
backups when he reached the ten point marker, and that
had a lot of people raising their eyebrows saying like,
(16:15):
what are you doing, dude? Let it die, Let it die,
Let it die, let it die, let it die. All right,
So question Lebron James being accused of catering to his
legacy stat padding. Lebron James to get to ten points
to continue that streak of double digit games. Is this
(16:35):
accusation against Lebron James inbounds or out of bounds? That's
the question. So we went to a booth review on
this and expedited booth review and we determined its inbounds.
Inbounds now as inbounds as oxygen being required for human
(16:57):
beings to survive, you need oxygen, very important. You have oxygen.
You don't have oxygen, you got problems. We don't even
know why anyone would be pretending that this is not
what it's being described as unless you are so far
up Lebron's took us you can't see any sunlight. Okay,
that might be the case, but Lebron is an full
on in this game. It was full on legacy maintenance mode.
(17:20):
That's what Lebron was doing. And he's out there polishing
his resume like he's working part time at Zales and
he's dealing with the jewelry. At the end of the day,
Lebron trying to get that new endorsement deal with Fredo
lay Now you might have heard back in the day
of the Freto Bandito. Well, Lebron's like, what about the
statistical Bendito. That's me Lebron James guys stealing hollow numbers,
(17:45):
hollow numbers like he's running a smash and grab operation
in the box score. Now junk stats, a lot of
junk stats, garbage time compost and this goes on all
the time, and we try to call it every time
we see it. We pointed out the great examples of
this are Russell Westbrook with the most bogus triple double
season of all time. If you go back, there's some
(18:06):
videos there. Russ was doing cosplay and I think it
was twenty seventeen. I want to say, I think that's
about right. Remember him boxing out. The videos were great
on YouTube. He was with OKC. He was literally Russell
Westbrook was boxing out his own teammates to get rebounds.
He was boxing out his own teammates. Hey hey, numb nuts,
(18:27):
you're on the same team. And then there was a
there were some videos of the bigs on okay see
at the time who were literally trying to get out
of the way so Westbrook could get the bogus triple
double stats. It was hilarious. And the thing about this
is that we remember it in the moment. But when
people go back and look at the Wikipedia pages of
these guys, the next group of fans, they don't realize this.
(18:51):
They're not smart enough to do the research on that,
nor do they have the time that that's a bogus record.
This is a bogus record and all that stuff. So
it's not just basketball. It goes on in all the
other sports as well. Remember Josh Allen, Josh Allen checked in.
It was a week eighteen game. I believe they were
playing the Patriots. The Bills were playing the Patriots. He
played one play, if I remember correctly, Josh Allen, so
(19:14):
his iron Man streak would continue one play, Keep it alive,
Keep it alive. Okay, there you go. The stat padding.
Marching band applauds that they play the music and all that.
It's just absolutely great. So Lebron hit the ten point
mark with about seven minutes to go in the game.
The Lakers were down by twenty five points. He got
(19:38):
then yanked like a bad karaoke singer. A moment later
they took him out there. Those are not meaningful stats.
Those are what we call vanity calories. Those are empty carbs.
That's what that is. And yet when Lebron, when Lebron's
long gone from playing in the NBA, and they look
at that stat the casuals, low information fantals. You look
at that record, they're not gonna remember Lebron stat padded
(20:00):
that and was playing in garbage time to try to
get to ten points. He really has shown his age
this season. Lakers have a really good record, but he
has shown his age. So it's a Fugazi situation.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
At least Lebron did not reach the level of the
single greatest, the single greatest stat padding moment in the
history of my career in talk radio. It happened over
twenty years ago, one of the great moments. I'm not
making this up. It sounds like I'm making this up,
and I'm so. One of Lebron's teammates a guy named
Ricky Davis. Ricky Davis needed one more rebound to get
(20:36):
a triple double. So what did Ricky Davis do? Time
was running out. Ricky Davis decided to shoot a basket
at his own basket, of course, to miss it to
get the rebound, and David, sir, they had a commission
with balls and hair on his chest at the time,
and David Sturts. So that's not going to count. Sorry,
(20:58):
we're not counting that now. Adam Silver, Today's commissioner, he
probably would have called it creative stat expression. We must
let our players express themselves. And even though it's just
a dirty play, we're going to allow it because it's
creative stat expression. That's Adam Silver's NBA and that's the
product that's not very good right now. It's all part
of the Lebron. This story is part of the Lebron experience,
(21:22):
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James Crush at three fifteen in the morning, say well,
there you go. Eileen in San Francisco was ranting about
something about Alcatraz. Dog, says Liz stat pads a clown
his record. His records are more hollow than the planet
we all live on. Also, apparently the Clippers just fired
(24:11):
Chris Paul. I think he fired himself. The way that
team must hate each other by that, there must be
some really good stuff that's gonna come out on the Clippers.
How much they don't like each other. There's some kind
of scandal. Uh, you have to really not like each
other to play as bad as they're playing like, there's
gotta be some serious stuff going on. It's gonna come
(24:32):
out and make some kind of Netflix documentary. Chatting with
a couple of people about that the other day, or
like this team is it's one thing to be bad.
They're not just bad, like they're intentionally booby trapping the season,
like they're throwing the ball away unforced mistakes like these
are all a roster of the oldest team in the NBA,
(24:53):
and they're playing like they hate each other. It's gotta
be something good there. Fat Daddy writes and says, one
hundred percent big man about Michael Jordan. I'm talking about
these today's today is the leads that are coddled and babied.
I think something else. Today's athletes are to prima donna.
There you go. They had to start looking looking up
(25:16):
Jack Lalaine at sixty five, at seventy old, both times
he pulled boats for his birthday. All right, very good, Well,
the expensive cookies that would be the big short We're
talking about. More about this later. But Penn State fired
James Franklin. They assumed they could get anyone they want
(25:37):
because they're Penn State, and they could not have been
more wrong, could not have been more wrong. They turned
their attention to the BYU coach, and they didn't get him.
They didn't get him because the CEO of Crumble Cookies, yes,
the overpriced delicious Crumble Cookies, cut a fact check to
(26:02):
BYU to pay for a giant raise for their football coach.
So Penn State and all those big whale boosters and
all that outbid by the CEO of Crumble Cookies, which
tells you how much money they must be making selling
those cookies. Right, those eight nine dollars cookies that have
(26:24):
about a dollar worth of material in them.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
I'm not a big fan.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I think they're great, and I've made ripoff versions for
several years. Once I found out how much they cost,
then I started making ripoff versions Benny the Baker, and
they're they're fine, They're just as good. But yeah, that's
that's insane. They just the crumble cookie person stepped up.
Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Dale from Muskege and we haven't heard from him. I
(26:50):
guess the snowplows must be back. Is that maybe? What's
going on? Hello? Dale? What's going on? Dale?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Ben?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Yeah, I'm out here making snowbouts. Hey, before we get
into it, I just got it. I'm a little disappointed.
I've been on hold for like twenty minutes and you
must not know when I was on because you were
talking about two imaginary characters, Brick James and Michael Boredom
and center having me on that's insane, Like these got
are those real people? Been?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
All right? So dev again, for the record, let the
record show that Dale feels we should break format and
not do the monologue and just go right into Dale.
Do twenty minutes of Dale from Muskigan. Could you could
you do twenty minutes Dale? I?
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Uh, probably not. Your show's great, buddy, I'm just giving
you her time.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
How you been, Ben If I'm fine? You know, here
every night, not just during snowplow season. You know that, Dale,
We're here, You're around.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I worked. I worked for a shift most of the
most of the summer, so yeah, it's it's a weird
thing in the winter. I still get bits and pieces,
but I'm not like now. I'm in my truck for
sixteen hours a night the last couple of days, so
I have time.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
To sit and away.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
So really, what you're saying, Dale is we need a
lot of snow and then and then the Muskegon area
and then we're good. Then we'll have Dale every night
with Dale as you drive around and clear the roads.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
I could bore people to get all lad if you
wanted me to. I'm pretty good at that.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, so am I I've been doing it for a
long time.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, man, you guys are great.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I absolutely love the show. Everything been good, guys.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
We're live and well, doing amazing. We're surviving in the
battlefield that is talk radio.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yes, Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I just wanted to check in. Guys, say,
all right, yes, one thing, what are you thinking of
the backers this year? You think we're le jitter.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I'm not convinced. That was a nice win against the Lions,
but I'm not I'm not sold.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I'm not sold either, better not. I worry about Jordan.
I think he's okay, but I think his turnovers are
you know, they're great, They're way down. But we'll see.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
We'll see that.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
The great thing is Dale, as we've seen in years past.
You know, you don't have to be an amazing quarterback.
We've seen some media Joe Flackel won a Super Bowl
Nick Foles. All you have to do is play well
for a month. You just have to have a good
month and you can win a super Bowl. So that's it.
He sucks, Eli said, Yeah, he's no good and he's
you know, people people trying this is how dumb people are. Well,
(29:13):
Eli Manner should be in the Hall of Fame. No,
he was an average quarterback who had a couple of
freak runs. That's it, you know, not a Hall of
Famer anyway. All right, thank you, Dale. I gotta there's
a Great Dale from Muskegan there driving a snowplow. We
have seasonal callers, and he's a seasonal call We have
some guys that only call during football season. Dale doesn't
call during football season until it starts snowing. In Michigan.
(29:34):
Snowplows are vital, very important. Yes, you don't appreciate a
snowplow unless you have to get to work and the
road is covered in the powdery stuff. You can plow
it all day and plow it all night. Hey, I
look at you. Unbelievable. Let's go out to the black
irishman who's hanging out in Omah Hall and let me
tell you something. I could not have asked for a
(29:56):
better holiday gift than that Creighton blue Jay hat. My god,
is that Loreina? Does that not look amazing? Come on?
I agree? And it's all because of the black irishman.
It's all because of him. He we we had a
bet and he's a man of his word. He lost
the bet and he paid up. And I gotta tell
you this size eight Creighton blue Jay's hat is so good.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
He is funny kind of But you know I did
make some notes, so.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You have notes. You have no you're prepared. The Black
Irishman is prepared. This is amazing. We now present the
Black Irishman's commentary. Go ahead, his own monologue from the
Black Irishman.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Hey, no, merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
First of all, happy house, Merry Christmas? Do you is
your daughter? Is your daughter awake or sleeping?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
No, she's sleep man, Man, she's getting big, dude.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I mean, anyway, I'm sure she appreciates that.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yes, yeah, he's a big girl.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Now anyway, man, he's bone.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Hit coaches do. He's bone hit decisions they make. I
mean with me, Nebrassa's coach, he sucks too. I don't
want to talk about Pittsburgh. And then Mike Tomlin. It's like, man, man,
you had Terry Brass y'all, I mean, y'all want Super
bowls with him? Man, man, shut up? How many How
many coaches have y'all had? Two?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Three?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Everybody want to everybody want to complain.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
About got Chuck Nole, Bill Cower, Mike Tomlin since they
became Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Coward, coward played for a Shottenheimer in KC.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
But anyway, now he's now he's boring America. He's boring
America on television and they got rid of they you
know that CBS show they got rid of like Boomera
Siasin and Phil Simms and all those guys. Somehow coward
keeps his job.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Mm well, cowerschool. But I'm trying to say on television,
these cultures make these bad de cities. I don't say,
man like that Minnesota's coach Man, Yeah, that that fourth
and whatever? That was a bad decision. How do you
want to make a concusion like that with a boogie quarterback?
That was bad?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Well? Does it really matter? Does it matter what decisions
the Vikings coach made with the quarterback, the way that
he played.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
He had Donald last year? That's why they Donald.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Stop with that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Donald's not gonna win anything in Seattle. He's gonna break
all these idiots Seahawk fans. Do you Sam Donald? Oh yeah, Sam,
Donald's gonna break your heart.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That Hey, that's fifth first fall. But no, it ain't.
It ain't Thomas fault that he been with Aaron Rodgers
Like we okay, I'm gonna take a chance, man, go
with this old man. Well, what's wrong with that? We
all know Rogers is old?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
How is he No, he just turns fifties. Fifty five, Lean,
I'm saying, yeah, fifty five, he's the oldest player in
the end.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You know, I will say, I will say the Padlock
my homeboy, Kanas City. He was relaxed for a change.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, he's doing great. Mahomes, he's really kicking.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
No, he ain't got no pressure on them, you know
what I mean? Well, man practice, he looked relaxed.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Well, he's trying to prepare for that wedding. Is he
going to be a best man for Travis Kelsey at
the big celebrit your wedding? And are you going to
the weddings in Rhode Island this summer summer twenty six
And no, no, I might think it about it? Well,
it's close to Colour House in Rhode Island, so it's
so very close.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
How about that, Lorain, you think about that?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yeah, I think geographically they are very close. Yeah, the
rain is actually going to go to the wedding. Is
our correspondent there unless there's a movie that she needs
to watch and then she will be going on watching
the movie instead. So yes, hey, all right, well listen
call more often Black irishman. You're a legend. Your name
comes up from time to time. I don't know if
you hear about that, but your name does come on.
(33:36):
So okay, all right, go away, there you go, the
black Irishman. Usually we have to hang up on him,
and he hung up on himself. So the great con
the great con Man. Is it true that Lane Kiffin?
Lane Kiffin is now being called out by his former
(33:57):
Old Miss players for a legend lying lying in his
farewell statements he ran off to batal Rouge in that
private plane. One of the Old Miss players posting on
social media about the Lane train and everything that went
down the last couple days with Lane Kiffin, and one
(34:19):
of the players for Ole Miss said, that was not
the message you said in the meeting room. Everybody that
was in there can vouch on this, the old Miss
player said of lane Kiffin, who posted, after a lot
of prayer and time spent with family, that made the
difficult decision and blah blah blah blah blah blah and anyway,
(34:39):
one of the Old Miss players posted on social media
that that's not actually how it went down. Keep in mind,
we are reminded that the late Great Al Davis from
behind the Pearly Gates said of Lane Kiffen when he
used the overhead projector to point out how bad Lane
Kiffin is as a coach. The ghost of Al Davis
(35:00):
also said, I think he conned me. I think he
conned all of you people. The great con man Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
He is.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, keep an eye on that. Absolutely right is the
Ben Mahlord shows. We are working away through the overnight
and way we go time now though for the install trivia,
then we're gonna have Mallard to the third degree. Here's
the instant tribune. Over the last six games the Timberwolves,
(35:32):
Anthony Edwards ant man, there's a sound of him warming up.
Anthony Edwards scored one hundred and fifty or more points,
made fifty or more field goals, and made twenty five
or more three three throws, all just in the second
half in overtime. Blank is the last NBA player to
put those numbers up after halftime over a six game span. Again,
(35:54):
Anthony Edwards has scored one hundred and fifty or more points,
fifty or more field goals, twenty five more free free
throws in the second half in overtime. Blank is the
last NBA player to put up those numbers after halftime
over a six game span. That is the instad trivia.
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Here is the the aforementioned inch to trivia. Go to
pro bouncy Ball. Over the last six games, the Timberwolves
ant man Anthony Edwards has one hundred and fifty plus points,
fifty plus field goals, twenty five plus foul shots, and
(38:16):
that's just in the second half and overtime. Blank is
the last NBA player to put up those numbers after
halftime in a six game span. That is the question.
What is the answer. Let's see Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota,
going with doctor j is his answer. Who else do
(38:38):
we have? Ron Pope Peel from who was that? That
was the the Great Rob the Goldman, Tom Chambers from
Paul curly Neal from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Rob the
Ambassador of Bakersfield. Could see Rod's name there. He's going
with Robert Swift as his answer. Michael Jordan from FEMI
Dark Helmet guessed by Milkman Mike Fan of Spaceballs Hank
(39:03):
Finkel Unless it's not from BP. Who else do we have?
Bruce Lee from alf the Alien o'piner, Tim Rain's exposed Legend,
Rock Range from Shane and the moy Tree Rollins from
mediocre Kabook your suck crossing Petrovich Captain Kirk gave us
that one black irishman with vanilla wafers from just Josh.
(39:25):
Do you have an answer Lorraine Larry Bird, Ben Garry
Bird running doubt, throw the bird out? The bird is
the word? The bird is the word? Nope, it is
Kobe Bean Bryant, Toby Bean Bryan.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
That was way back in O seven to.
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The third degree. This is one Big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Kobal for the first time in his thirteen year NFL career.
Russell Wilson was a healthy scratch. With Jameis Winston as
the number two quarterback, the Giants decided to make Russell
Wilson inactive from Monday Night Football. Ben, Do you think
Wilson hangs it up at the end of the year. No, No,
He's gonna go somewhere.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
He'll be a training camp arm somewhere, and he's going
to try to continue his career. There's a supply chain
shortage of quarterbacks there, so he'll someone will give him
a chance to try to make a team next year's
He's sucked for how many teams now here, the Broncos,
he wasn't good at the NFAC, at the Broncos, Steelers,
and now the Giants. The writing's on the wall, Coop,
(40:25):
And I say he's going to continue, get one more
chance next I'm embarrassing.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
I know Brian Schottenheimer warmed the cow warmed his Cowboys
players that just because we've won three games, that doesn't
change anything going on To say that the team can't
brow complacent as they push for a playoffs, No, no,
And you think the Cowboys will find themselves in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Well, they look good I don't want to be a
prisoner of the moment. I'm still gonna go no at
this point. Now I'll change my opinion this should they
win the Thursday Night get but I'm not I'm not convinced.
Everyone's getting all excited because they made some plays against
Kansas City, which doesn't look like a playoff team right now,
and the Eagles, who are having all kinds of issues.
So you start peeling back those games and they're nice wins,
(41:09):
but they don't look as nice when you look at
the internal stuff with the Eagles and Kansas City is
just not a very good team this year next.
Speaker 8 (41:15):
Jets kicker Nick Folk insisted in an interview after the
Jets picked up their third win of the season that
the team is getting better under Aaron Glenn. He also
said that there's a lot of promise for the future
of the organization. Ben.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Do you think they have the right guy at the helm? Well,
I don't know for sure. Obviously, I would say this
season is a complete waste, and you always sell the future.
We're gonna be great if Nick Foles came out. So
this guy can't coach, he blows, we suck. We're gonna
suck for years. Of course, of course he's gonna say
the futures. But I haven't seen evidence that we're going
(41:46):
back direction.
Speaker 5 (41:46):
How do we know?
Speaker 1 (41:47):
How do we not?
Speaker 7 (41:48):
Guy?
Speaker 5 (41:49):
I eat dog. I gotta eat dog.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Deal, I got it, General plan, I got it. I
got it.
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