May 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller reacts to Gregg Popovich stepping down, Lawrence Frank endorsing James Harden after a disasterous Game 7 and more! .Plus Blind on Blind Crime and Maller’s Mountain of Money
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laka.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number three, our number three, ready to go.
And here in our number three, we start out in
the Alamo. Some troubling video from San Antonio. What is
the word for Greg Popovich's news conferences? He announced he
will no longer be the coach, just the president of
the Spurs. And let's just say it did not look
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like he was in very good health at all. Also
in La what does Laurence Frank, that's the president slash
GM of the Clippers, what does Laurence Frank's endorsement of
James Harden as a centerpiece player?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Would the Clippers say to you? We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Also some baseball, should the Red Sox push harder took,
convince Rafael Devers to play first base or respect his
stance and just let the whole thing go.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We'll talk about that and more.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Right now here, it is our number three.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Let's get this.
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to Boston come out of winter, and everyone's phone stopped
working in Boston.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And oh k c oh no, they blew a lead.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Also, Denver came back essentially not a buzzer beater, but
close to it. Three point shot late by the Nuggets,
and that does in Oklahoma City. We've had more Thunder
fans call up than we have Celtic fans.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Go figure.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But our lead this hour is from pro bouncy ball.
But it is not that we will get back to
the playoffs in a minute, but first we enjoy Pop
goes the weasel and I think.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You know what I mean, but maybe not.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
There was an announcement the other day, and following the
announcement there was a new conference. We go to the
Alamo where the Spurs, who used to be regulars in
the playoffs, they haven't been in a number of years,
not anymore. But former coach Greg Popovich coach pop and
he spoke publicly for the first time since he suffered
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a stroke. He is still employed by the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
They want you to.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Know that he's getting better by the day and all
this and anyway, Mitch Johnson is now the Spurs coach.
Here's Popovich. It's it's a little tough to listen to,
but he is a Popovich describing about.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He's no longer the coach. He's not the coach anymore.
This is it. Take a listen. I want to make
sure he understands what the new job is. I'm no
longer coach.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'm al.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right, He's hard to understand. And that's part of
the story here. Popovitch will remain the team president of
the Spurs, and the leadership team will still have the
same seat O.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Some guy named R. C. Buford has been there forever
and a GM named Brian Wright. Have no idea who
that is, but they'll all be there.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The story here is Popovich and the appearance of Greg Popovich,
and it's an uncomfortable conversation, but I feel like we
need to have the conversation. I feel like the conversation
needs to happen, So let's do it. Let us discuss
the question what is the word? What is the word
for Greg Popovich and how this went down, this conversation
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with the media. So I've got Komodo, Dragon, Uss, Little
Rock and Imagine Dragons, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
To get a nice meal of text. Mex is what
we're going to get.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Holy crap, all right, So first of all, watching the clip,
and I didn't see this live. I watched it on
the YouTube, so that's where I saw it, but watching
this man the word what is the word for Greg
Popovich and his news conference? My word is presidential? I
thought I was looking at President Joe Biden up there.
Holy crap, my god, does anyone in San Antonio know
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what they're doing here? Seriously, very uncomfortable. Now. I realize
if we're lucky in life, we're going to get old.
If we're lucky, if you're lucky, you get old and
things start falling apart and you have problems. I understand
that only the lucky get to live a long life.
Many people check out way earlier than that, and Popovich
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is already on bonus time.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But why did the Spurs decide to roll him out?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Like? Who thought that was a good idea? Seriously, you're
not supposed to say that, but why not? Everyone's thinking it?
Why can't you just say it? Like seriously, he said, Okay,
this seems like a good idea. Let's put a frail
version of Greg Popovich out there now. In no way
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are we fans of Greg Popovich. But I actually felt
bad for Popovich right.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
This was cringeworthy. It's just like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I mean, we're hanging out at Bernie's this weekend. Right, Seriously,
it seems like many of the mainstream basketball media just
kind of much like the political media when Joe Biden
was falling apart and they weren't talking about it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It was like the same concept. It's like you're all
avoiding the Komodo dragon him the room.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is this just come some kind of ceremonial position for Popovich,
some kind of figurehead position, whereas like, hey, we're still
gonna pay you, We're gonna give you the title, and
you just kind of hang out there and eat jello,
knock yourself out.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It was. It was so bad.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Here's this guy Popovich who's like king of a holes, right,
I mean, he's a total schmuck. Popovich, drill Sargeant, knows everything,
has all the answers to life's problems and all that.
And now he's this frail old man, frail talking in
a very soft voice, softly. He could not even move
his left arm. And I said, listen, the guy had
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a stroke. I don't blame him. He had a stroke,
So why are you rolling him out after he had
a stroke and he can't move his left He needed
Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili to take his little jacket
off his windbreaker so they could do the stupid bit
where he had the name on his shirt they wanted
to he wanted to be called.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I mean, I understand, it's all part of it. They
said it was a mild stroke, and you know, I've
been there.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
My dad had a stroke. I've dealt with that, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And I think a lot of us who have had
parents that have gotten older and had help probably even
deal with that kind of stuff. But you don't necessarily
put them out there. It's like, here we go, let's
put the cameras out and knock yourself out. I mean
his left arm. He could not move his left arm.
He could barely speak in a high pitched voice. And
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I don't understand what the point of that was. I
don't get it. Am I am I being bad for
bringing this up. I felt this is what everyone's talking about,
but nobody really wants to talk about anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Furthermore, we go in the hood in Inglewood.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That is where the Clippers yet again making excuses after
they played Gutlass Basketball in the playoff series.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Lawrence Frank, who is not very frank. His name is
Lawrence Frank. He's not Frank. He's not that guy. Pal
not that guy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So Lawrence Frank issued a vote of confidence to Kawhi
Leonard and and James Harden as the franchised cornerstones for
the People's team. Now, Harden has a player option for
next season, he'll be thirty six, and Lawrence Frank said
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he has given no consideration to Harden not sticking around.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Can I ask why anyway? Frank said, quote, we have
a great level of appreciation.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
For James what he did this year. Lawrence Frank said,
I'm going in with the intent. Lawrence Frank, Clipper president,
said that he if he doesn't pick up his option,
that we're going to be able to reach an agreement
that works well for James and works well for the Clippers. Close.
Quote all right, So what does Lawrence Frank's endorsement of
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James Harden as a centerpiece with the Clippers say to you? Well,
the first thought is, as I said, Lawrence Frank is
not Frank. He's being a diplomat. This is not the
time to lick the toes of James Harden. That is
one of the most embarrassing performances I've ever seen from
a professional athlete. Totally gutless, cowardly. What James Harden did
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in Game seven, it was an abomination of sport. There
was no competition, there was no fight, There was give up.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
He gave up.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Harden gave up and used to you, you're, OHI running
back wall. We gotta keep your James. Why why would
you say that you should be ripping him, You should
be criticizing him. That's not the Clippers, That's not what
the Clippers stand for. To go out there and puke
all over the court and not even try, that's what
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James Harden did. And that president of the Clippers comes
out and says, oh, yeah, we want it back.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Why would you want that? Seriously?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Don't put that evil on the Clippers as Ricky Bobby
Tommy don't do it in that movie Tallada. Don't do
it seriously. So I'd like to think that Lawrence Frank
this is like a peacekeeping mission that Laurenn's. The whole
mantra of the Clippers is, we're just gonna spoil the players.
That we've got more money than anybody. All these other
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franchises that they don't have the kind of money the
Clippers at so all the amenities, the creature comforts, all
the perks. I'm gonna spoil these written these high paid athletes.
We're gonna make them as happy as possibly can be.
And part of that is to kiss their ass. Now,
my advice to the Clippers is you treat James Harden
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like the United States Military treated the USS little rock.
You treat him like a boat, and you decommission the boat. Okay,
that's it. Ships have a lifespan, Players have a lifespan.
Decommissioned James Harden, do it? Decommission him? Seriously, can't trust him.
I gave him the benefit of doubt. He had his opportunity,
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his fourth opportunity. Fool me once, fool me twice, fool
me three to four times, four times, James Harden four times.
And he's a corner He's a cornerstone player, My fat ass.
He's a cornerstone player. Why don't you just tell me
you're not trying to win? If that's you, Oh, you
gotta keep him? What is that? Lawrence Frank? I thought
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you were like a tough New York guy, right. I
remember I interviewed Lawrence Frank when he coached in the
Nets back in the day.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It was a hard ass.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Now miss the softy, missed the softy? All right, final thuugh,
Let's go to baseball quickly. Several of you knuckleheads who
are in the Commonwealth and beyond have said, well.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Have you not talked about rafae old Dovers?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, first of all, I didn't know it was my
job to talk about Rafael devers a. Secondly, we haven't
really talked much baseball recently. That's part part of the problem.
But I do think it's a compelling story. So I'd
like to address that for a couple of minutes here.
So if you didn't pay attention. Over the weekend, the
Red Sox suffered a snap crackle pop situation as Tristan
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Cassis went down for the count.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He actually underwent surgery over the wing. He was injured.
I think on.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Friday he shredded his left buttell attendant just completely shredded
like treaded chicken. And so he's out for the year
and most likely part of next season. Also, so many
assumed that the Red Sox the logical move would be
to put the designated hitter, Rafael Devers over at first base,
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slide him on over its first base is an easy
position to play, and just put him out there, and
he's practiced a little bit, and just stand near the bag.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You're in good shape.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Well, that hasn't happened yet. It hasn't happened yet, and
manager Alex Cora has consistently stated that Rafael Devers is
the designated hitter and that the idea that the Red
Sox would move him, would shift him to first base
is not in the cards.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's not in the cards now.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Rafael Devers was asked a few days ago about this,
and Devers said that he has his quote routine, close
quote as a designated hitter and is comfortable in that role,
the implication being that he is not willing to move
to first base. So question, should the Red Sox push
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harder to convince Rafael Devers to play first base or
do they need to respect his stance as a franchise
player and just let the whole thing go. So the
answer to this is water wet. I mean to me,
there's only one answer. Again, I guess I'm dating myself.
I'm becoming old. Maybe I just had a birthday. People
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tell me it's milestone birthday, but I just don't even
understand why this is up for debate, Like, who's saying, well,
just let him be, Just let him be.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I don't get it. It's poppy cock with a capitol P.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Is what it is. Rafael Devers is a three hundred
million dollar player. If you're a three hundred plus million
dollar player, you've gotten the bag, you've gotten paid. Why
is this even up for debate? You just play first base.
You've got the money. You're not going anywhere. You got paid.
Just play first base. And so I think up the
imagine dragons, the song, whatever it takes, whatever it takes, rafield,
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the team needs you at first base.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Play first base.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Part of the problem here is I think the Red
Sox management, based on what I read as I understand it,
they don't have any balls, they had their balls cut off.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Why would you not just tell them the play play
first base?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Like, why is that so hard?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Aren't you supposed to be management. Aren't you that you
will pay you three hundred million dollars play first base?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Fatty?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
How is that?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
How's that difficult? I mean, I don't again, I don't understand.
Maybe I've lost it, like Greg Popovich, I don't know. Anyway,
all right, we will take your calls. If you would
like to be part of the conversation, you can join
us right now at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine,
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and we will take your calls.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Time now.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
We have Malllord's amount of Money coming up later this hour.
We'll take some calls though before then. Time now for
the Mallor Riddle of the day. And here's the Mallord
Riddle of the day, New York Mets legend from the
nineteen eighties. Current broadcaster Keith Hernandez recently compared Major League
Baseball umpire oversighte to blank. Again, Keith Nandas it was
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a star in baseball forty years ago, Keith Nandez, the
Mets legend and a broadcaster. Currently broadcaster Keith her Nandez
compared Major League Baseball umpire oversighte to blank.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
That is the Malor riddle of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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gonna yell at me, and I don't want you to.
Here's the riddle of day. Mets broadcaster Keith R. Nandez
compared Major League Baseball umpire oversight to blank to blank.
That is the question. What is the answer, Mallard prop
guy said, The umpire's new clothes is the answer. Scrooge said,
compare them to Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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Who else page down can't read that.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
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Krabby Patty from fergd Well, didn't Windy's have.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The Krabby Patty, I thought they had that like a
year ago something like that. What else do you think
it was just a burger? Oh, just the burger.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
They didn't have the actual okay now, milkman Mike says
he compared it to a town in Beaumont banning dancing.
Interesting sorcery from King Rory, that's his answer. A trash
bag full of mango pulp from Ladyside Burns Malibu. Rubin
says Sacramento King's Management Tammy in Vegas as they were
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listening to the Ben Mallor Fifth Hour podcast. Clearly that's
the issue, Steve, the misplaced Sendegen says.
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Nanda Is compared it to the Southeastern Conference non conference
football schedule. All right, let's hear Mason in Honey Beech
says he compared it to middle aged men who dye
their facial hair.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That that is the answer.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
The cost of eggs from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Donkey
Sausage said, the hookers and cocaine just like the nineteen eighties, wasn't.
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Keith nanni is part of the.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Famous drug trials involving a bunch of players that were
doing coke back in the day, and I think her name.
I don't know it was doing coke, but I think
her Nadez was part of that. I think he was
part of that. I have to double check on that.
Donkey sausage to hookers and cocaine. What else do we
have here? One magic loogie from JT.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The wing Man. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
American Idol judges from Patrick in San Diego. It's his
answer page down. I can't read that. Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What say you?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Right? Well?
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My guess was going to be Disneyland. Ben All is
a lot like dis is that The correct answer is
that No, that is not the correct answer.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
The correct answer would be the book from George Orwell
nineteen eighty four, Big Brother on the Umpires, Big Brother
on the Umpires.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I was going to Darren in San Antonio. What's going on? Darren?
Welcome Ben?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Darren?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
If I was any better, I'd be a Spur, but
not a San Antonio Spur because they got problems.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
No, we're going in the right direction. You got that wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
How did I get that wrong? Did you see? Maybe
you're blind? Did you see how Papavich looked? What are
you doing? Why are you rolling them out there? What
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I don't know what. I don't know what that was
all about. But I'm talking about Wemby and we you know, Castle,
and we're looking good. The teacher's looking good. But I
wanted to go back down the street with you a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I've been listening to you in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Well you weren't listening that. You were in the nineties,
but not nineteen ninety. You don't date me, How dare you?
I was I was just a baby. I was nineteen ninety. No,
but mid nineties, yes, you probably can do mid nineties.
How about that?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Two ninety two?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Uh no, a little after that? What do you think
I'm Hacksaw Hamilton or something like that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Ninety four then yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I was driving the bus at the airport in San
Antonio and I used to listen to you in the morning.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
No, I think you're confusing me. I don't think I did.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I have done mornings, but not in nineteen I was
just starting out in the nineties, so I didn't do
the morning show. But all these years run together, all
the years there and run together. It's just one giant blob.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
What is time? Time? Is a human creation.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
We create.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
How about the Bills, man, what do you think about
the Bills this year?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, I haven't thought about the Bills in a couple
of months, to be honest with you. I haven't really
thought about the Bills since the football season ended. But
the figured as long as they have Josh Allen, they
will be a contender. But do I think the Bills
are going to win the AMC? No?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I don't so.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Really, Well, what what exactly have they done to upgrade
the wide receiver position? They scored a bunch of points
last year, but you know, they didn't really have that
wow factor on offense. It didn't didn't correlate to winning
the AFC.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
You correct, I got you?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I got you?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So all right, well look at you, Darren, and but
your everything's good. You're not worried about Pop. Everything's all right, yeah, Pop.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
It's just you know, he did twenty nine years. That's
a long time. Uh, I wish him well?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
All right, all right, Well, thank you, Darren. I know
you've you've listened to me for many years, but I
thank you for that, but not not quite that long.
It's not it's kind of slow slow.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Your role on that.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Let's say hello to who do we have any meany
miney mo? Let's say hello to blind.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Blind Scott on the North end of Boston is next. Hello,
blind Scott, the first Boston call. You were guaranteeing a
Celtics win. How did that work out for you? Blind Scott? Oh?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Well, unfortunately I didn't get to watch the game because
I'm blind. God wasn't fair to me.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Took my eye side away, Ben, that's a fair point.
That's a fair point. You did not you've not seen
any Celtic games this year? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah. He went to bed at six pm actually last night,
so I woke up to check the score. I thought
they were gonna win. It was like tenth of a
second Lefter was tied. Then it went into overtime. I
kept checking because I'm blind, you know, I couldn't watch it.
God was very very mingch Manion. Yeah, and then the
Knicks came back and they won. But let me tell
you one thing about New York Knicks basketball. Did his
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absolute garbage like they could have put I didn't even
watch the game, but I could tell you they could
have put everything they could have into the game. Watch
that like Jalen Brumson, some other dude on the team Towns,
the guy from New Jersey. Those guys, they can only
play good for one game. Like we got a good
enough team with like True Holiday, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown.
Like these guys probably didn't try last night. They're kind
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of soppt the Celtics a little bit, but they got
a team of real good people. I'll play point together.
So most likely the teams are in trouble the most
right now. They lost Oklahoma City Frye, Boston Celtics fines,
Cleveland Cali Valiers are in trouble because they have the
most injuries. You know what is Roman Anthony doing at
the Met galley? He's a minor league player for the
Red Sox. Like, it's so stupid. We're at the Met Gala.
(25:20):
You know, I've had enough for the Worster Red Sox
for the past week. Fred throw at the first pitch
there now they're at the Met game.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Wait wait, Fred got the fro He threw out the
first pitch. What's up? Throw out the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Man?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Why don't I get to throw out the first pitch?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
You know you'll be there, benj You know Benny, there's
a there's a guy to Charles, the head of the
Worster red Sox. He'll let you throw the first pitch
out there.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, all right, riting out the price of an uber
to go.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
But I had a problem.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Well, that's going to cost you way too much money
to get out there.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
From where you are, I can get out there.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I'll be there. Somebody so many three pounds of chicken salad.
I wanted chick pea salad, man, And they were celebrating
Tinkle d Mayo too much. You know one of those
that you know, you know who's gonna eat three pounds
of chicken salad. Man. It makes you, It makes you sick, man,
it makes you sew up. I want chickpea salad. I
took that chicken sead back and I told that. The
minutic came.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Guys, you're on a roll here, blind Scott.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Look at your guy. Told him, I told him take
this chicken tod He said, you said you wanted chicken salad.
So I set my mom in.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
After that, we put your mom on it. That's a
very man. I send your mom. Your mom will take you.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, I got chick somebody, somebody wants to say hello
to you, Blind Sky. You want to say to them,
Hold was thank you? Let me see here, let's see
let's go to to lead the left too. Yeah, that's
very exciting.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Blind Emmett is on the air, Hello, blind.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Blind that salad that chickpe salad. You get it. Yeah,
you threatened to file a lawsuit against him a couple
of weeks ago. Dude, I was in I was in
tough times. I was on Emma radio show.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Is that true, blind Emmy, you threatened to sue blind Scott?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I didn't due.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Okay, he's Brenda Barry said he you know, I was
in his radio show. Man was out here making fall stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Man, It's okay, are you making stuff up? Blind Sky
know this is blind on blind crime is what this
is common?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
And his partner called me a biological mail, and I
was like, how dare you call me a biological mail?
Whatever that means? Anyways, you know what?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
All right, Oh my god, nobody can see what are
you talking about? You don't need to fight about this,
my guy.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I can't advice, you know. And I go way back
to when he was fifteen and now I'm twenty. But
the problem with them it is like I like Emmine
and everything, but I'm afraid I'm going to hurt him,
like because I like might start abusing him. And then
also he calls the police and then the whole box
of police the box. Okay, what are.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
We talking about? This is like I feel one other
thing about blind.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
It is something better than the mobility came and blind
them because like I get all around boxing, I changed
little tips. At the end of them, they wear down,
you know. Yeah, I tap him really fast?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Is that true? Blind Emit? Are you still working out
the mobility cane situation?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Oh? I'm doing I'm doing pretty pretty good.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I got like five canes when I graduated high school.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
If I didn't really have to buy another one, but yeah,
I did actually order one because I forgot a canehen
I went.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
On the case.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Oh, I say, this is fascinating to me, Blind Scott.
I feel like blind Emmett, he's got better cane game
than you.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I got a stick in order on Amazon. You know,
I got sixty one inch cane.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
They go for like eighty park all right, he says, Yeah,
what's your longest cane there? Blind blind man, he says,
he's got a.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Sixty sixty six.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh look at that. Oh my god, blind Scott, he's
got a bigger cane than you.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Dude, he's cheating. You're going to get the cane jam
right into your stomach. No, how it gets stuck. You
know how many get stuck in the curb. It's gonna
jammy right in the groin. It's too large.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
You don't you're not solid me even, you know, you
know it's not about the size, guys, it's not much.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
It's more the ocean in the motion or ocean or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
My mom wouldn't My mom wouldn't order the cane that long.
There's no way it's taller to me, you can't have
a sixty six. How do you know?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You can't even see him? Man, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Five? Five six? Dude? You would never have right? Am
I wrong?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You're asking Loraina for math? Advise? Is that what you're
doing here? You really are blind? If you're asking the
Raina for math, and what's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I don't think. No, they don't know sixty six inches, Yeah,
that's five, But you wouldn't have a cane that tall.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
By the way, you listening to our live coverage here.
It's the blind on the blind, on the blind. Here,
hold on a blind round table. Amazon, they got our
bosses are sleeping, Otherwise I'd be fired immediate in the morning.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Up to your sternum and your chest. I tweet it in.
I'll tweet it in.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, all right, I'm bored with this conversation. Thank you
both of you. What a great Benny's Blind Battle, the
Battle of the Blind. Let's sell it to Rob in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I still need another contestant because we are going to
have coming up here in a moment. Mallard's out of
money at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello,
Rob in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
What's going on? Rob? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
How doing this morning?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Robin?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
If I was any better, I would be a cat,
but not a wildcat, because you know, the basketball team
didn't right, So.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
So I listened every morning and I got tired each questions.
So I figured I'd call in for for change.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh yeah, so you were.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You were bored with the other idiots calling in, so
you thought, well, I'll make it better. I'll provide quality radio. Well,
I'm gonna try.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I'm trying to answer some questions. How about that.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, see, oh you want to play the game. Okay,
I thought you were just calling up to talk about
your mom. I had no idea. All right, mL amountain
of money, amount of money?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I know.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Really wow, I really wanted to talk about his mom.
And I was like, man, I put I put the
periods in there. You did put the periods in there.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That is correct, as but based on the calls I
get lee, that's what I would access.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, I thought, maybe am I wrong? Lorena? I mean
we've had people call up and tell us talk about
their moms all the time. Exactly, Man, moms are the greatest. Man.
You should talk about your mom and you got a
good mom. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Man, Absolutely, all right, Well you want to play Rob?
All right, Well we'll set up the game right now.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Very good. Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Rob? You got me Ben, you got lead a lap
or if you really want to have a good time, Lorena,
all right, all right, very good.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Rob.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
You're gonna you're gonna be one of our kntestas. And
we also have Tyler in Boston. Hello, Tyler, welcome there
is you got that serious delivery, Tyler, You're locked in here.
You're not messing around, Tyler. You're this.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You're in it to winning. Correct, you're in it to
winn ol ways, I got you, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well, unfortunately you can't play with me as your partner.
So you want lead a lap who's in for coop
or Lorraina?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Oh sorry, Lorena, you're not pick again? Shocking? So lead one?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Are the categories here for the game? Here, we'll set
that up here. Let me make sure these guys are
on the air.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Go ahead, Lee one. Are the categories? All right?
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It is the fifty third birthday of Mike Dirt, so
it's gonna be the green day bassist Mallard's Mountain of
Money edition. We've got basket case. These are athletes. Don't
just give you a name. Don't get those explaining sacsay.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Basket Case, Good riddance, Holiday, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, Rob, you were on there first. Which one
would you like?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Their?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Rob, let's go basket case?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Basket Case? All right? Very good? And Tyler, which category
do you like or want?
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Holiday?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Holiday? All right? For holiday? All right, very good? So
those are the gentlemen. Do not hang up, do not
hang up. Okay, if you hang up, you lose. Do
not hang up?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
All right, stay right there. We're gonna have Mallard's amount
of money in its entirety and we'll do that. We'll
get to it, and we will do it.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Next.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
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Speaker 6 (33:43):
Now, Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not all right?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Suit, Robin Kentucky, are there? Rob, I'm here, I'm here,
He's still there. And Tyler in Boston with Lee are
you there? Tyler? All right, everyone, good job you none,
you hung off unbelievable. Okay, the category we're doing here
it is? What is it again?
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Lee?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
What's your edition?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Is this here?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
This is the Mike Dirt edition Green Days bassist. He
turned fifty three today.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Okay, and Rob, you picked basket case.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
These athletes are all on the spectrum, shall we say
lit crazy so crazy?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
All right, all right, put.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Forty five seconds on the clock. We need the first
and last name, Rob, and good luck.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
You're on your way.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Known as the Worm in the nineteen eighties NBA, Yes,
beast mode for the Seattle Seahawks running back. Yes, wide receiver,
played for the forty nine Ers. He was a Hall
of Fame receiver. Also Cowboys, bunch of different teams. Yes,
(34:57):
not Red Sox Star, not David Ortiz, but his uh yes,
female skater.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
She put a hit out on another skater. Yes.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
The male tennis player in the eighties screamed a lot.
Yes closer bearded closer for the Giants twenty ten World Series.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh all right, that was no, it was it was
Brian Wilson. We were it was good.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
You did a good job though, you did all right,
good job by you. Look at you Rob, All right,
very good, you're up. Leave what category you've got?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Holiday? Category three? Holiday.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
These athletes all had big performances on a holiday.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Okay, boss the category? Tyler? You there, Tyler ready to go? Okay,
forty five seconds. You're on your way and go. Famous
Laker died in a helicopter crash.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Number eight and twenty four Brian famous wide receiver for
the Vikings, number eighty four, also played for Tom Brady.
Uh killed his wife. Famous running back just recently died.
Biggest Uh famously was in a black and white photo
holding up the number one hundred. Famous Laker just recently
(36:14):
got kicked off of his kicked off of his team
of the of the of the Ravens uh for Uh okay.
This guy was nicknamed Berger for because of his last name.
He scored sixty points on a Christmas Day game he
played for the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It is a hard one. Uh okay.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Moving on Mets Astro's relief pitcher Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
All right, okay, what was that you didn't get Bernard
Burger King Yeah, two and Billy Wagner.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You didn't really get the clue out on Billy Wagon.
I should have moved faster, but that's all right. Bernard
k was hard, Yeah it was. Yeah. If you're it
depends how old you are. Yeah, that's a name, that's one.
So that means myself and Rob are ahead.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
So that that means then that Lee needs to go
again and Tyler which getter you got, good riddance and
Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Good riddens.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
All right, all right, a right there, forty five seconds,
Lee and Tyler, you're on your.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Way and go.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Famous Vikings running back bald head just has a lot
of yep. Also famous Uh did stuff with dogs, also
played for the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And Michael Vick Uh number ninety nine for.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
The Buccaneers, had a lot of big guy had a
lot of Uh beat up his girlfriend in a in
an elevator for the running back for the Ravens. Uh
brought guns to the locker room of basketball player shot
his girlfriend killed her in South Australia, has no legs
(38:05):
and a swimmer that got in trouble in Brazil. I
believe not the not Phelps Boom.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
That's all right, we'll bet we're gonna beat your ass.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
That's my guy, Tyler, all right, Yeah, all right, shut up,
everyone's shut up.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Hey listen, Rob, you gotta run the board here, Rob,
you win the game. You run the board, you win
the game. You r on the board. You're ready, Rob? Oh,
shut up. I don't even think you need You know
you didn't even need to run the board. No, no,
because you got too wrong the first one. So we
aren't even on the board.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
What happens?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
All right? I tell you, I turn them off. This
guy's trying to put He's.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Trying to put the he's trying to put the waymi
un Rob, Rob Boulevard and broken dreams. These athletes all
had careers derailed by injury.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Here we go.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
H only man to win the Heisman Trophy twice in
uh in college ball at Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
No oh, no, he no, he won played with the Lions.
He was a running back. Not not Archie grieving. That
was wrong.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
You know. This guy played for the Oklahoma Sooners when
the Heisman seventy eight, was the number one pick in
eighty for the Lions, suffered an injury.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Known for the shuffle Bengals running back known he did
the shuffle in the eighty Yes, the big redhead he
just passed away not that long ago.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yes he did.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yes, running back and he was a baseball player for
the Royals and the Raiders. Yes, Chinese basketball player for
the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yes. What else do we have about?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I think that's enough.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
No, that is enough.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
That is enough. That is enough. He got Billy Simms,
he got get Brandon Royd and to get there, he
only got two forty enough. But you didn't know. You
didn't win because you got try to screw me, over lord.
You see when you're going loreto No, no, that is
a that's a win for me. That is a win.
(40:06):
Tie goes to me. But he would have gotten Billy
Wagner if I got the clue out. Well, you didn't
get it out. You got to get it out in
forty five. Say that's how it worked. I'll get it.
So I runs. I'm the winner. Robbie won. Rob we
won the game, and your face lead we won
Boom, shaka laka.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number three, our number three, ready to go.
And here in our number three, we start out in
the Alamo. Some troubling video from San Antonio. What is
the word for Greg Popovich's news conferences? He announced he
will no longer be the coach, just the president of
the Spurs. And let's just say it did not look
(00:24):
like he was in very good health at all. Also
in La what does Laurence Frank, that's the president slash
GM of the Clippers, what does Laurence Frank's endorsement of
James Harden as a centerpiece player?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Would the Clippers say to you? We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Also some baseball, should the Red Sox push harder took,
convince Rafael Devers to play first base or respect his
stance and just let the whole thing go.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We'll talk about that and more.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Right now here, it is our number three.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Let's get this.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
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to Boston come out of winter, and everyone's phone stopped
working in Boston.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And oh k c oh no, they blew a lead.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Also, Denver came back essentially not a buzzer beater, but
close to it. Three point shot late by the Nuggets,
and that does in Oklahoma City. We've had more Thunder
fans call up than we have Celtic fans.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Go figure.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But our lead this hour is from pro bouncy ball.
But it is not that we will get back to
the playoffs in a minute, but first we enjoy Pop
goes the weasel and I think.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You know what I mean, but maybe not.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
There was an announcement the other day, and following the
announcement there was a new conference. We go to the
Alamo where the Spurs, who used to be regulars in
the playoffs, they haven't been in a number of years,
not anymore. But former coach Greg Popovich coach pop and
he spoke publicly for the first time since he suffered
(03:16):
a stroke. He is still employed by the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
They want you to.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Know that he's getting better by the day and all
this and anyway, Mitch Johnson is now the Spurs coach.
Here's Popovich. It's it's a little tough to listen to,
but he is a Popovich describing about.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He's no longer the coach. He's not the coach anymore.
This is it. Take a listen. I want to make
sure he understands what the new job is. I'm no
longer coach.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'm al.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right, He's hard to understand. And that's part of
the story here. Popovitch will remain the team president of
the Spurs, and the leadership team will still have the
same seat O.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Some guy named R. C. Buford has been there forever
and a GM named Brian Wright. Have no idea who
that is, but they'll all be there.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The story here is Popovich and the appearance of Greg Popovich,
and it's an uncomfortable conversation, but I feel like we
need to have the conversation. I feel like the conversation
needs to happen, So let's do it. Let us discuss
the question what is the word? What is the word
for Greg Popovich and how this went down, this conversation
(04:30):
with the media. So I've got Komodo, Dragon, Uss, Little
Rock and Imagine Dragons, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
To get a nice meal of text. Mex is what
we're going to get.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Holy crap, all right, So first of all, watching the clip,
and I didn't see this live. I watched it on
the YouTube, so that's where I saw it, but watching
this man the word what is the word for Greg
Popovich and his news conference? My word is presidential? I
thought I was looking at President Joe Biden up there.
Holy crap, my god, does anyone in San Antonio know
(05:12):
what they're doing here? Seriously, very uncomfortable. Now. I realize
if we're lucky in life, we're going to get old.
If we're lucky, if you're lucky, you get old and
things start falling apart and you have problems. I understand
that only the lucky get to live a long life.
Many people check out way earlier than that, and Popovich
(05:34):
is already on bonus time.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But why did the Spurs decide to roll him out?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Like? Who thought that was a good idea? Seriously, you're
not supposed to say that, but why not? Everyone's thinking it?
Why can't you just say it? Like seriously, he said, Okay,
this seems like a good idea. Let's put a frail
version of Greg Popovich out there now. In no way
(06:00):
are we fans of Greg Popovich. But I actually felt
bad for Popovich right.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
This was cringeworthy. It's just like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I mean, we're hanging out at Bernie's this weekend. Right, Seriously,
it seems like many of the mainstream basketball media just
kind of much like the political media when Joe Biden
was falling apart and they weren't talking about it.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It was like the same concept. It's like you're all
avoiding the Komodo dragon him the room.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Is this just come some kind of ceremonial position for Popovich,
some kind of figurehead position, whereas like, hey, we're still
gonna pay you, We're gonna give you the title, and
you just kind of hang out there and eat jello,
knock yourself out.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It was. It was so bad.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Here's this guy Popovich who's like king of a holes, right,
I mean, he's a total schmuck. Popovich, drill Sargeant, knows everything,
has all the answers to life's problems and all that.
And now he's this frail old man, frail talking in
a very soft voice, softly. He could not even move
his left arm. And I said, listen, the guy had
(07:08):
a stroke. I don't blame him. He had a stroke,
So why are you rolling him out after he had
a stroke and he can't move his left He needed
Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili to take his little jacket
off his windbreaker so they could do the stupid bit
where he had the name on his shirt they wanted
to he wanted to be called.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I mean, I understand, it's all part of it. They
said it was a mild stroke, and you know, I've
been there.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
My dad had a stroke. I've dealt with that, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And I think a lot of us who have had
parents that have gotten older and had help probably even
deal with that kind of stuff. But you don't necessarily
put them out there. It's like, here we go, let's
put the cameras out and knock yourself out. I mean
his left arm. He could not move his left arm.
He could barely speak in a high pitched voice. And
(07:59):
I don't understand what the point of that was. I
don't get it. Am I am I being bad for
bringing this up. I felt this is what everyone's talking about,
but nobody really wants to talk about anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Furthermore, we go in the hood in Inglewood.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That is where the Clippers yet again making excuses after
they played Gutlass Basketball in the playoff series.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Lawrence Frank, who is not very frank. His name is
Lawrence Frank. He's not Frank. He's not that guy. Pal
not that guy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
So Lawrence Frank issued a vote of confidence to Kawhi
Leonard and and James Harden as the franchised cornerstones for
the People's team. Now, Harden has a player option for
next season, he'll be thirty six, and Lawrence Frank said
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he has given no consideration to Harden not sticking around.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Can I ask why anyway? Frank said, quote, we have
a great level of appreciation.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
For James what he did this year. Lawrence Frank said,
I'm going in with the intent. Lawrence Frank, Clipper president,
said that he if he doesn't pick up his option,
that we're going to be able to reach an agreement
that works well for James and works well for the Clippers. Close.
Quote all right, So what does Lawrence Frank's endorsement of
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James Harden as a centerpiece with the Clippers say to you? Well,
the first thought is, as I said, Lawrence Frank is
not Frank. He's being a diplomat. This is not the
time to lick the toes of James Harden. That is
one of the most embarrassing performances I've ever seen from
a professional athlete. Totally gutless, cowardly. What James Harden did
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in Game seven, it was an abomination of sport. There
was no competition, there was no fight, There was give up.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
He gave up.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Harden gave up and used to you, you're, OHI running
back wall. We gotta keep your James. Why why would
you say that you should be ripping him, You should
be criticizing him. That's not the Clippers, That's not what
the Clippers stand for. To go out there and puke
all over the court and not even try, that's what
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James Harden did. And that president of the Clippers comes
out and says, oh, yeah, we want it back.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Why would you want that? Seriously?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Don't put that evil on the Clippers as Ricky Bobby
Tommy don't do it in that movie Tallada. Don't do
it seriously. So I'd like to think that Lawrence Frank
this is like a peacekeeping mission that Laurenn's. The whole
mantra of the Clippers is, we're just gonna spoil the players.
That we've got more money than anybody. All these other
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franchises that they don't have the kind of money the
Clippers at so all the amenities, the creature comforts, all
the perks. I'm gonna spoil these written these high paid athletes.
We're gonna make them as happy as possibly can be.
And part of that is to kiss their ass. Now,
my advice to the Clippers is you treat James Harden
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like the United States Military treated the USS little rock.
You treat him like a boat, and you decommission the boat. Okay,
that's it. Ships have a lifespan, Players have a lifespan.
Decommissioned James Harden, do it? Decommission him? Seriously, can't trust him.
I gave him the benefit of doubt. He had his opportunity,
(11:37):
his fourth opportunity. Fool me once, fool me twice, fool
me three to four times, four times, James Harden four times.
And he's a corner He's a cornerstone player, My fat ass.
He's a cornerstone player. Why don't you just tell me
you're not trying to win? If that's you, Oh, you
gotta keep him? What is that? Lawrence Frank? I thought
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you were like a tough New York guy, right. I
remember I interviewed Lawrence Frank when he coached in the
Nets back in the day.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It was a hard ass.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Now miss the softy, missed the softy? All right, final thuugh,
Let's go to baseball quickly. Several of you knuckleheads who
are in the Commonwealth and beyond have said, well.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Have you not talked about rafae old Dovers?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, first of all, I didn't know it was my
job to talk about Rafael devers a. Secondly, we haven't
really talked much baseball recently. That's part part of the problem.
But I do think it's a compelling story. So I'd
like to address that for a couple of minutes here.
So if you didn't pay attention. Over the weekend, the
Red Sox suffered a snap crackle pop situation as Tristan
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Cassis went down for the count.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He actually underwent surgery over the wing. He was injured.
I think on.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Friday he shredded his left buttell attendant just completely shredded
like treaded chicken. And so he's out for the year
and most likely part of next season. Also, so many
assumed that the Red Sox the logical move would be
to put the designated hitter, Rafael Devers over at first base,
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slide him on over its first base is an easy
position to play, and just put him out there, and
he's practiced a little bit, and just stand near the bag.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You're in good shape.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Well, that hasn't happened yet. It hasn't happened yet, and
manager Alex Cora has consistently stated that Rafael Devers is
the designated hitter and that the idea that the Red
Sox would move him, would shift him to first base
is not in the cards.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's not in the cards now.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Rafael Devers was asked a few days ago about this,
and Devers said that he has his quote routine, close
quote as a designated hitter and is comfortable in that role,
the implication being that he is not willing to move
to first base. So question, should the Red Sox push
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harder to convince Rafael Devers to play first base or
do they need to respect his stance as a franchise
player and just let the whole thing go. So the
answer to this is water wet. I mean to me,
there's only one answer. Again, I guess I'm dating myself.
I'm becoming old. Maybe I just had a birthday. People
(14:28):
tell me it's milestone birthday, but I just don't even
understand why this is up for debate, Like, who's saying, well,
just let him be, Just let him be.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I don't get it. It's poppy cock with a capitol P.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Is what it is. Rafael Devers is a three hundred
million dollar player. If you're a three hundred plus million
dollar player, you've gotten the bag, you've gotten paid. Why
is this even up for debate? You just play first base.
You've got the money. You're not going anywhere. You got paid.
Just play first base. And so I think up the
imagine dragons, the song, whatever it takes, whatever it takes, rafield,
(15:06):
the team needs you at first base.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Play first base.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Part of the problem here is I think the Red
Sox management, based on what I read as I understand it,
they don't have any balls, they had their balls cut off.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Why would you not just tell them the play play
first base?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Like, why is that so hard?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Aren't you supposed to be management. Aren't you that you
will pay you three hundred million dollars play first base?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Fatty?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
How is that?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
How's that difficult? I mean, I don't again, I don't understand.
Maybe I've lost it, like Greg Popovich, I don't know. Anyway,
all right, we will take your calls. If you would
like to be part of the conversation, you can join
us right now at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine,
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and we will take your calls.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Time now.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
We have Malllord's amount of Money coming up later this hour.
We'll take some calls though before then. Time now for
the Mallor Riddle of the day. And here's the Mallord
Riddle of the day, New York Mets legend from the
nineteen eighties. Current broadcaster Keith Hernandez recently compared Major League
Baseball umpire oversighte to blank. Again, Keith Nandas it was
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a star in baseball forty years ago, Keith Nandez, the
Mets legend and a broadcaster. Currently broadcaster Keith her Nandez
compared Major League Baseball umpire oversighte to blank.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
That is the Malor riddle of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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Speaker 2 (18:06):
Also, by the ways, I bet we need some contestants
because we're gonna have coming up later this our Mallard's
Mountain of Money. All right, Mallorar's mount of Money. That'll
be coming up a little bit later on in this hour.
So eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We want
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and uh, well, I gotta pay off the dal But
if I don't pay off the riddle, you jerks are
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gonna yell at me, and I don't want you to.
Here's the riddle of day. Mets broadcaster Keith R. Nandez
compared Major League Baseball umpire oversight to blank to blank.
That is the question. What is the answer, Mallard prop
guy said, The umpire's new clothes is the answer. Scrooge said,
compare them to Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Who else page down can't read that.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Plankton's constant attempts to steal the secret formula for the
Krabby Patty from fergd Well, didn't Windy's have.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The Krabby Patty, I thought they had that like a
year ago something like that. What else do you think
it was just a burger? Oh, just the burger.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
They didn't have the actual okay now, milkman Mike says
he compared it to a town in Beaumont banning dancing.
Interesting sorcery from King Rory, that's his answer. A trash
bag full of mango pulp from Ladyside Burns Malibu. Rubin
says Sacramento King's Management Tammy in Vegas as they were
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listening to the Ben Mallor Fifth Hour podcast. Clearly that's
the issue, Steve, the misplaced Sendegen says.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Keith R.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Nanda Is compared it to the Southeastern Conference non conference
football schedule. All right, let's hear Mason in Honey Beech
says he compared it to middle aged men who dye
their facial hair.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That that is the answer.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
The cost of eggs from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Donkey
Sausage said, the hookers and cocaine just like the nineteen eighties, wasn't.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Keith nanni is part of the.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Famous drug trials involving a bunch of players that were
doing coke back in the day, and I think her name.
I don't know it was doing coke, but I think
her Nadez was part of that. I think he was
part of that. I have to double check on that.
Donkey sausage to hookers and cocaine. What else do we
have here? One magic loogie from JT.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
The wing Man. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
American Idol judges from Patrick in San Diego. It's his
answer page down. I can't read that. Let's see here.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
What say you?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Right? Well?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
My guess was going to be Disneyland. Ben All is
a lot like dis is that The correct answer is
that No, that is not the correct answer.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
The correct answer would be the book from George Orwell
nineteen eighty four, Big Brother on the Umpires, Big Brother
on the Umpires.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I was going to Darren in San Antonio. What's going on? Darren?
Welcome Ben?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Darren?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
If I was any better, I'd be a Spur, but
not a San Antonio Spur because they got problems.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
No, we're going in the right direction. You got that wrong?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
How did I get that wrong? Did you see? Maybe
you're blind? Did you see how Papavich looked? What are
you doing? Why are you rolling them out there? What
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I don't know what. I don't know what that was
all about. But I'm talking about Wemby and we you know, Castle,
and we're looking good. The teacher's looking good. But I
wanted to go back down the street with you a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I've been listening to you in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Well you weren't listening that. You were in the nineties,
but not nineteen ninety. You don't date me, How dare you?
I was I was just a baby. I was nineteen ninety. No,
but mid nineties, yes, you probably can do mid nineties.
How about that?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Two ninety two?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Uh no, a little after that? What do you think
I'm Hacksaw Hamilton or something like that.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Ninety four then yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I was driving the bus at the airport in San
Antonio and I used to listen to you in the morning.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
No, I think you're confusing me. I don't think I did.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I have done mornings, but not in nineteen I was
just starting out in the nineties, so I didn't do
the morning show. But all these years run together, all
the years there and run together. It's just one giant blob.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
What is time? Time? Is a human creation.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
We create.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
How about the Bills, man, what do you think about
the Bills this year?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, I haven't thought about the Bills in a couple
of months, to be honest with you. I haven't really
thought about the Bills since the football season ended. But
the figured as long as they have Josh Allen, they
will be a contender. But do I think the Bills
are going to win the AMC? No?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I don't so.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Really, Well, what what exactly have they done to upgrade
the wide receiver position? They scored a bunch of points
last year, but you know, they didn't really have that
wow factor on offense. It didn't didn't correlate to winning
the AFC.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
You correct, I got you?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I got you?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All right?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
So all right, well look at you, Darren, and but
your everything's good. You're not worried about Pop. Everything's all right, yeah, Pop.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
It's just you know, he did twenty nine years. That's
a long time. Uh, I wish him well?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
All right, all right, Well, thank you, Darren. I know
you've you've listened to me for many years, but I
thank you for that, but not not quite that long.
It's not it's kind of slow slow.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Your role on that.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Let's say hello to who do we have any meany
miney mo? Let's say hello to blind.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Blind Scott on the North end of Boston is next. Hello,
blind Scott, the first Boston call. You were guaranteeing a
Celtics win. How did that work out for you? Blind Scott? Oh?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Well, unfortunately I didn't get to watch the game because
I'm blind. God wasn't fair to me.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Took my eye side away, Ben, that's a fair point.
That's a fair point. You did not you've not seen
any Celtic games this year? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah. He went to bed at six pm actually last night,
so I woke up to check the score. I thought
they were gonna win. It was like tenth of a
second Lefter was tied. Then it went into overtime. I
kept checking because I'm blind, you know, I couldn't watch it.
God was very very mingch Manion. Yeah, and then the
Knicks came back and they won. But let me tell
you one thing about New York Knicks basketball. Did his
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absolute garbage like they could have put I didn't even
watch the game, but I could tell you they could
have put everything they could have into the game. Watch
that like Jalen Brumson, some other dude on the team Towns,
the guy from New Jersey. Those guys, they can only
play good for one game. Like we got a good
enough team with like True Holiday, Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown.
Like these guys probably didn't try last night. They're kind
(24:56):
of soppt the Celtics a little bit, but they got
a team of real good people. I'll play point together.
So most likely the teams are in trouble the most
right now. They lost Oklahoma City Frye, Boston Celtics fines,
Cleveland Cali Valiers are in trouble because they have the
most injuries. You know what is Roman Anthony doing at
the Met galley? He's a minor league player for the
Red Sox. Like, it's so stupid. We're at the Met Gala.
(25:20):
You know, I've had enough for the Worster Red Sox
for the past week. Fred throw at the first pitch
there now they're at the Met game.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Wait wait, Fred got the fro He threw out the
first pitch. What's up? Throw out the first pitch?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Man?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Why don't I get to throw out the first pitch?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
You know you'll be there, benj You know Benny, there's
a there's a guy to Charles, the head of the
Worster red Sox. He'll let you throw the first pitch
out there.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Okay, all right, riting out the price of an uber
to go.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
But I had a problem.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Well, that's going to cost you way too much money
to get out there.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
From where you are, I can get out there.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I'll be there. Somebody so many three pounds of chicken salad.
I wanted chick pea salad, man, And they were celebrating
Tinkle d Mayo too much. You know one of those
that you know, you know who's gonna eat three pounds
of chicken salad. Man. It makes you, It makes you sick, man,
it makes you sew up. I want chickpea salad. I
took that chicken sead back and I told that. The
minutic came.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Guys, you're on a roll here, blind Scott.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Look at your guy. Told him, I told him take
this chicken tod He said, you said you wanted chicken salad.
So I set my mom in.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
After that, we put your mom on it. That's a
very man. I send your mom. Your mom will take you.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, I got chick somebody, somebody wants to say hello
to you, Blind Sky. You want to say to them,
Hold was thank you? Let me see here, let's see
let's go to to lead the left too. Yeah, that's
very exciting.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Blind Emmett is on the air, Hello, blind.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Blind that salad that chickpe salad. You get it. Yeah,
you threatened to file a lawsuit against him a couple
of weeks ago. Dude, I was in I was in
tough times. I was on Emma radio show.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Is that true, blind Emmy, you threatened to sue blind Scott?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I didn't due.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Okay, he's Brenda Barry said he you know, I was
in his radio show. Man was out here making fall stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Man, It's okay, are you making stuff up? Blind Sky
know this is blind on blind crime is what this
is common?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
And his partner called me a biological mail, and I
was like, how dare you call me a biological mail?
Whatever that means? Anyways, you know what?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
All right, Oh my god, nobody can see what are
you talking about? You don't need to fight about this,
my guy.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I can't advice, you know. And I go way back
to when he was fifteen and now I'm twenty. But
the problem with them it is like I like Emmine
and everything, but I'm afraid I'm going to hurt him,
like because I like might start abusing him. And then
also he calls the police and then the whole box
of police the box. Okay, what are.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
We talking about? This is like I feel one other
thing about blind.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
It is something better than the mobility came and blind
them because like I get all around boxing, I changed
little tips. At the end of them, they wear down,
you know. Yeah, I tap him really fast?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Is that true? Blind Emit? Are you still working out
the mobility cane situation?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Oh? I'm doing I'm doing pretty pretty good.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I got like five canes when I graduated high school.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
If I didn't really have to buy another one, but yeah,
I did actually order one because I forgot a canehen
I went.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
On the case.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Oh, I say, this is fascinating to me, Blind Scott.
I feel like blind Emmett, he's got better cane game
than you.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
I got a stick in order on Amazon. You know,
I got sixty one inch cane.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
They go for like eighty park all right, he says, Yeah,
what's your longest cane there? Blind blind man, he says,
he's got a.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Sixty sixty six.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh look at that. Oh my god, blind Scott, he's
got a bigger cane than you.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Dude, he's cheating. You're going to get the cane jam
right into your stomach. No, how it gets stuck. You
know how many get stuck in the curb. It's gonna
jammy right in the groin. It's too large.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
You don't you're not solid me even, you know, you
know it's not about the size, guys, it's not much.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
It's more the ocean in the motion or ocean or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
My mom wouldn't My mom wouldn't order the cane that long.
There's no way it's taller to me, you can't have
a sixty six. How do you know?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You can't even see him? Man, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Five? Five six? Dude? You would never have right? Am
I wrong?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You're asking Loraina for math? Advise? Is that what you're
doing here? You really are blind? If you're asking the
Raina for math, and what's wrong with you?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I don't think. No, they don't know sixty six inches, Yeah,
that's five, But you wouldn't have a cane that tall.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
By the way, you listening to our live coverage here.
It's the blind on the blind, on the blind. Here,
hold on a blind round table. Amazon, they got our
bosses are sleeping, Otherwise I'd be fired immediate in the morning.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Up to your sternum and your chest. I tweet it in.
I'll tweet it in.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Okay, all right, I'm bored with this conversation. Thank you
both of you. What a great Benny's Blind Battle, the
Battle of the Blind. Let's sell it to Rob in Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I still need another contestant because we are going to
have coming up here in a moment. Mallard's out of
money at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello,
Rob in Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
What's going on? Rob? Welcome?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
How doing this morning?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Robin?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
If I was any better, I would be a cat,
but not a wildcat, because you know, the basketball team
didn't right, So.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
So I listened every morning and I got tired each questions.
So I figured I'd call in for for change.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Oh yeah, so you were.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You were bored with the other idiots calling in, so
you thought, well, I'll make it better. I'll provide quality radio. Well,
I'm gonna try.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I'm trying to answer some questions. How about that.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Okay, see, oh you want to play the game. Okay,
I thought you were just calling up to talk about
your mom. I had no idea. All right, mL amountain
of money, amount of money?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I know.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Really wow, I really wanted to talk about his mom.
And I was like, man, I put I put the
periods in there. You did put the periods in there.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That is correct, as but based on the calls I
get lee, that's what I would access.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, I thought, maybe am I wrong? Lorena? I mean
we've had people call up and tell us talk about
their moms all the time. Exactly, Man, moms are the greatest. Man.
You should talk about your mom and you got a
good mom. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Man, Absolutely, all right, Well you want to play Rob?
All right, Well we'll set up the game right now.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Very good. Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Rob? You got me Ben, you got lead a lap
or if you really want to have a good time, Lorena,
all right, all right, very good.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Rob.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
You're gonna you're gonna be one of our kntestas. And
we also have Tyler in Boston. Hello, Tyler, welcome there
is you got that serious delivery, Tyler, You're locked in here.
You're not messing around, Tyler. You're this.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You're in it to winning. Correct, you're in it to
winn ol ways, I got you, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well, unfortunately you can't play with me as your partner.
So you want lead a lap who's in for coop
or Lorraina?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Oh sorry, Lorena, you're not pick again? Shocking? So lead one?
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Are the categories here for the game? Here, we'll set
that up here. Let me make sure these guys are
on the air.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Go ahead, Lee one. Are the categories? All right?
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It is the fifty third birthday of Mike Dirt, so
it's gonna be the green day bassist Mallard's Mountain of
Money edition. We've got basket case. These are athletes. Don't
just give you a name. Don't get those explaining sacsay.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Basket Case, Good riddance, Holiday, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, Rob, you were on there first. Which one
would you like?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Their?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Rob, let's go basket case?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Basket Case? All right? Very good? And Tyler, which category
do you like or want?
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Holiday?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Holiday? All right? For holiday? All right, very good? So
those are the gentlemen. Do not hang up, do not
hang up. Okay, if you hang up, you lose. Do
not hang up?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
All right, stay right there. We're gonna have Mallard's amount
of money in its entirety and we'll do that. We'll
get to it, and we will do it.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Next.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
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Speaker 6 (33:43):
Now, Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not all right?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Suit, Robin Kentucky, are there? Rob, I'm here, I'm here,
He's still there. And Tyler in Boston with Lee are
you there? Tyler? All right, everyone, good job you none,
you hung off unbelievable. Okay, the category we're doing here
it is? What is it again?
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Lee?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
What's your edition?
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Is this here?
Speaker 5 (34:14):
This is the Mike Dirt edition Green Days bassist. He
turned fifty three today.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Okay, and Rob, you picked basket case.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
These athletes are all on the spectrum, shall we say
lit crazy so crazy?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
All right, all right, put.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Forty five seconds on the clock. We need the first
and last name, Rob, and good luck.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
You're on your way.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Known as the Worm in the nineteen eighties NBA, Yes,
beast mode for the Seattle Seahawks running back. Yes, wide receiver,
played for the forty nine Ers. He was a Hall
of Fame receiver. Also Cowboys, bunch of different teams. Yes,
(34:57):
not Red Sox Star, not David Ortiz, but his uh yes,
female skater.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
She put a hit out on another skater. Yes.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
The male tennis player in the eighties screamed a lot.
Yes closer bearded closer for the Giants twenty ten World Series.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh all right, that was no, it was it was
Brian Wilson. We were it was good.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
You did a good job though, you did all right,
good job by you. Look at you Rob, All right,
very good, you're up. Leave what category you've got?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Holiday? Category three? Holiday.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
These athletes all had big performances on a holiday.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Okay, boss the category? Tyler? You there, Tyler ready to go? Okay,
forty five seconds. You're on your way and go. Famous
Laker died in a helicopter crash.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Number eight and twenty four Brian famous wide receiver for
the Vikings, number eighty four, also played for Tom Brady.
Uh killed his wife. Famous running back just recently died.
Biggest Uh famously was in a black and white photo
holding up the number one hundred. Famous Laker just recently
(36:14):
got kicked off of his kicked off of his team
of the of the of the Ravens uh for Uh okay.
This guy was nicknamed Berger for because of his last name.
He scored sixty points on a Christmas Day game he
played for the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It is a hard one. Uh okay.
Speaker 5 (36:35):
Moving on Mets Astro's relief pitcher Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
All right, okay, what was that you didn't get Bernard
Burger King Yeah, two and Billy Wagner.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You didn't really get the clue out on Billy Wagon.
I should have moved faster, but that's all right. Bernard
k was hard, Yeah it was. Yeah. If you're it
depends how old you are. Yeah, that's a name, that's one.
So that means myself and Rob are ahead.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
So that that means then that Lee needs to go
again and Tyler which getter you got, good riddance and
Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Good riddens.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
All right, all right, a right there, forty five seconds,
Lee and Tyler, you're on your.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Way and go.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Famous Vikings running back bald head just has a lot
of yep. Also famous Uh did stuff with dogs, also
played for the Falcons.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And Michael Vick Uh number ninety nine for.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
The Buccaneers, had a lot of big guy had a
lot of Uh beat up his girlfriend in a in
an elevator for the running back for the Ravens. Uh
brought guns to the locker room of basketball player shot
his girlfriend killed her in South Australia, has no legs
(38:05):
and a swimmer that got in trouble in Brazil. I
believe not the not Phelps Boom.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
That's all right, we'll bet we're gonna beat your ass.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
That's my guy, Tyler, all right, Yeah, all right, shut up,
everyone's shut up.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Hey listen, Rob, you gotta run the board here, Rob,
you win the game. You run the board, you win
the game. You r on the board. You're ready, Rob? Oh,
shut up. I don't even think you need You know
you didn't even need to run the board. No, no,
because you got too wrong the first one. So we
aren't even on the board.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
What happens?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
All right? I tell you, I turn them off. This
guy's trying to put He's.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Trying to put the he's trying to put the waymi
un Rob, Rob Boulevard and broken dreams. These athletes all
had careers derailed by injury.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Here we go.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
H only man to win the Heisman Trophy twice in
uh in college ball at Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
No oh, no, he no, he won played with the Lions.
He was a running back. Not not Archie grieving. That
was wrong.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
You know. This guy played for the Oklahoma Sooners when
the Heisman seventy eight, was the number one pick in
eighty for the Lions, suffered an injury.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Known for the shuffle Bengals running back known he did
the shuffle in the eighty Yes, the big redhead he
just passed away not that long ago.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yes he did.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yes, running back and he was a baseball player for
the Royals and the Raiders. Yes, Chinese basketball player for
the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Yes. What else do we have about?
Speaker 4 (39:40):
All right?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I think that's enough.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
No, that is enough.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
That is enough. That is enough. He got Billy Simms,
he got get Brandon Royd and to get there, he
only got two forty enough. But you didn't know. You
didn't win because you got try to screw me, over lord.
You see when you're going loreto No, no, that is
a that's a win for me. That is a win.
(40:06):
Tie goes to me. But he would have gotten Billy
Wagner if I got the clue out. Well, you didn't
get it out. You got to get it out in
forty five. Say that's how it worked. I'll get it.
So I runs. I'm the winner. Robbie won. Rob we
won the game, and your face lead we won
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