June 18, 2025 • 39 mins
Brian Noe talks about Angel Reese attempting to trademark the term "mebounds" which was originally made up as an insult to Reese's game, flowery comments coming out of NFL mini-camp that go a bit overboard, and much more!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, what is going on. Good morning to you. I
hope you're Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm sorry your Wednesday morning is off to a fantastic start.
You know, estrogen, more estrogen in the show. We'll get
to that story coming up next. Trying to change a
narrative or really just trying to change a meaning completely.
Let me start off. Remember the militia checked in Tigerman
in Utah. I agree with this, he put, well, I
(00:28):
halfway agree with this, he put, love you Brian that part.
I definitely agree with that absolutely. But he said, but
Henry Ruggs apologizing for killing a woman and in the
same breath talking about football is gross.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Anyone on to.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Say Henry rugg should not be allowed back in the NFL. Hey, man,
I totally understand where you know Tigerman in Utah is
coming from. And I said that with Brian Horwath, he
writes for the Vegas Review Journal, and we had them
on as a guest. He went to this event that
(01:05):
Henry Ruggs spoke at. Henry Ruggs was on special release
from prison on Tuesday night, spoke at a Hope for
Prisoner's event in Las Vegas, and during that event, he
apologized to the family of a woman he killed in
a drunk driving accident, and then, as Brian said, he
also talked about wanting to get back into the NFL,
(01:28):
and that part stood out to me too. I'm like,
man's that's pretty rough. That's tough. Where I can, on
one hand understand that you've got hopes, you've got goals.
You it's understandable, right, like, you committed this horrible, horrible act,
this mistake.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You took a life.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But does that mean that you should never have any
hopes or goals going forward? Like, it's understandable to have
those things, but if you're talking about them in that setting,
you know, that's kind of like you're at church and
you're gonna tell this filthy joke. It's like, dude, time
and place, man, you know, like that's not really what
(02:12):
you want to do. So I definitely understand where the
tweeter is coming from. It is it is gross to say, hey, man,
I'm so sorry. And they actually included his quote here,
so listen to the quote. He said, one I wish
I could turn back the hands of time. I would
love for them to meet the real Henry Ruggs and
(02:34):
not the one that was escaping from something. I sincerely
apologize for not only being a part of that situation,
but the fact my face is.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Always in the news. It's always in the.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Newspaper, so they have to constantly be reminded of the situation,
be reminded of me.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
End quote. So that's what he said.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And then, like to Brian Horwatt's point, who was there
covering this event, said he did talk openly about wanting
to get back into the NFL, wanting to rejoin the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's I understand it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I understand why the tweeter would would say that tiger
man in Utah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I totally understand, and it's funny right like it does
depend I think.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
To a degree.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What your perspective is. Is this the perspective of a
loved one of the victim, Like I have two nephews,
I'm an uncle. Brian Horwath said that he traded some
texts with the uncle of this victim, Tina Tintor, and man,
I know I would feel a certain way if an
(03:43):
NFL player took the life of my nephew while he
was drunk and driving one fifty six. I know how
I would feel about that, or is this the perspective
of one of Henry ruggs loved ones? Right Like, he's
your here's your brother, he's your son, he's your nephew,
(04:06):
and I'm sure you would feel pretty torn about that.
You would be like, dude, this is the mistake of
a lifetime. You took someone's life. But I think if
anyone would be a little bit more open minded toward
goals and trying to get back on your feet and
trying to, you know, make something of your life, it
(04:27):
would be a relative, It'd be a loved one. It's
a tough one, man, it really is. Has a tough,
tough story right there. I'll meet Tiger Man in Utah
halfway here because I said this off the air, but
I'm like I told Coop and Lorena, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Man, it just feels so.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Gross to on one hand talk about Hey, you know
Henry Ruggs he speaking at this event. He's still in
jail because he was driving drunk. Took someone's life. This girl,
she was young, she's only what twenty How old was Tina?
She was twenty three at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Her and her dog.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
She's just had a stopplate minding her own business. Boom
life gone, and like detailing that and then going from
that to somehow being like, hey, this guy ran a
four two seven forty, Like what do you think is forty?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Time is now? He's been out of football for a
number of years.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Like it just feels so gross to talk about that,
And so I'm really curious how NFL teams will look
at this situation going forward. But like Coop did, Coop
did some research and props to him. There are a
couple of storylines that are comparable. Leonard Little driving drunk,
(05:47):
took someone's life in a car accident. Dante Stalworth, same thing.
Josh Brent played for the Cowboys. He was you know,
it sounded like he was drinking buddies with Jerry Brown
and they were out one night, you know, they were partying,
and he caught a curb and flipped the ride and
his buddy Jerry Brown got killed. And Josh Brent faced
(06:12):
twenty years in prison, and he went in for one
hundred and eighty days. I don't understand how that works.
You're facing two decades of prison time and you serve
half a year. Okay, I stepped away from football for
two years, he played one game and then he was done.
So I get it for anyone out there, And I'm sorry,
(06:34):
not trying to make it feel bad or anything, but
you know, when you hear the story of Henry Ruggs
and the accident that he was involved in and how
reckless he was and taking.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
A life, I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
On one hand, I get how you would be like
that guy should never be in the NFL again. But
on the other hand, I get where you want to
still make something of your life even though you've committed
this horrific mistake.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's like, what are you supposed to do going forward?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You're supposed to be like, I'm not worthy of doing
anything with my life, right, go ahead, Lorena, what do
you have?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You have to have something to look forward to? Yeah,
when you've gone through something that traumatic, like whether you're
the victim or not, like you have to have something
to look forward to keep your heat up.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, no doubt. Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Let's get back to the estrogen over here, if you will.
Story involving I love this story.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So it's involving Angel Reese. So I don't know if
you've heard, but she is seeking to trademark the phrase
me bounds. Okay, not rebounds, me bounce. You heard about this, coop,
So I mean, I.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Know, I know that this has been a thing, the
mead bounds, but I didn't know she's trying to trade
by you.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
She's trying to trademark it. So this is initially meant
as a criticism. Okay, The thought is Angel re A
lot of people think she's only good at grabbing rebounds,
and me bounds is a diss which means that she
often grabs rebounds of her own misses. Right, So she's
(08:14):
close to the basket, she misses, and she grabs that rebound,
so instead of calling it a rebound, they call those
me bounds.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And so it's kind of funny here.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But the first thing I thought of was Moses Malone's
the first thing I think of, because you'll hear it
even to this day that commentators will be like, oh,
that's the old Moses Malone right there. And that means
Moses Malone would miss a close shot, he would grab
his own rebound and then he would score. That's known
(08:45):
as the Moses Malone. He did that time and time
again when he played in the NBA, and it's man
as a positive. If they say it today, it's like, ah,
that's the Moses Malone deal right there, you know, kind
of patting your stats a little bit. Me bounds is
much more critical. And to be fair, Moses Malone like
(09:07):
the Moses Malone was. Like I said, it was a
misshot rebound and then a putback. Angel Reese when she
misses and gets her own rebound. The problem is she
doesn't always get the put back right. Sometimes it's just
another miss and another rebound.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
A can be yes.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So Angel Reese, she's acted like she isn't insulted by
the term. Instead, she applied on Saturday to trademark the phrase.
So that means you might be seeing this on whatever
T shirts, sweatshirts, apparel might see the phrase me bounds
in the not too distant future. And the funny thing is,
(09:54):
so she released a TikTok video and she's addressing the
me bounds thing.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
The audio is not great, okay, so a couple of
the things that you might not hear clearly, it's it's
just it's not the greatest audio.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's really it.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But at one point she says, whoever came up with
the me bounds thing, y'all.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Ate that up?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, and then she's talking about the brand, like that
brand that's six figures right there, so she's seeing dollar sign.
She's saying, hey, I could take advantage of this, and
then she goes on to give like a completely different
definition of what me bounds means, right, She's redefining it.
(10:39):
And then at the end she's talking about, but whoever
came up with me bounds, y'all ate the whole thing, right,
So this is what she's saying here, but in her
own words, here's Angel Reese on me bounds.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Check this out.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Whoever came up.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
The mee bounced thing, y'all?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I eat that up because rebound meat, bounce, cree.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Bounce, keeps bounds, sea.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Bow reading, anything that comes off that board, it's mine.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's mine and a brand.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
The six dads right there?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Whoever came up with that?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
The trolling?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I love when y'all do it, because like the idea
would be good.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Like when y'all have to ato my face sh because
I'm because I'm cute or whatever, like that doesn't get me.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But like when yall came up with bounce, because statistically,
all the red bones that I get aren't always just mine.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They're like bitty.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Fences or somebody on my teeth. But y'all came my bails.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Y'all eat them one thing.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But yeah, how do you get that? Okay? So there
she's basically changing what the word means.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Do you understand, right, the people that came up with
me bounce or what it's evolved into is a dicky.
It's basically saying you have no offensive skill, like you
just miss a shot and get your own rebound, and
then you might miss again and get another rebound. But
it's a diss of her not having great touch around
the rim, right, That's what it's. That's where it started,
(12:17):
and she just made it out to be, Hey, all
of my rebounds are not what you're calling me bounds.
Sometimes the other team misses and I get those rebounds.
Sometimes my teammates miss and I get those rebounds. And
it's like, yeah, true, but that's a completely different definition.
So she's really just not just shifting the narrative, she's
(12:38):
just trying to redefine what that even means. She's saying, like,
any rebound is my rebound, and so I was like, Okay,
she's just redefining it, which I get and also don't get.
At the same time. I get how she would want
to change it to a different definition that is more complimentary.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
That makes more sense.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But what doesn't make sense is think about all the
nicknames of players throughout the years and if a player
just tried to completely redefine what the original nickname meant.
Like think of remember Mitch Williams. This is a dated reference,
but he's a baseball pitcher. He's most known for when
(13:22):
he was with the Phillies. He gave up a World
Series winning home run to Joe Carter in nineteen ninety three,
when Carter was with the Blue Jays, and that was
the old touch them.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
All, Joe, You'll never hit a bigger home run than that.
That sort of thing. He was known as the wild Thing.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It was Mitch wild Thing Williams, and it was because
he had this crazy wind up and then when he pitched,
he was just kind of like fall off the mound
and you'd almost fall over, like he was just wild.
He had this wild style.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It would be like him trademarking that phrase and saying, no,
the nickname.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Is because my slider is so hard to hit, and
just completely changing what the original meaning was.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That's basically what Angel. We can't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You can't change the meaning of a nickname. No, hey,
I get it, but that's exactly what Angel is doing.
And she'll probably get the trademark and you might see
this on apparel. But I mean, that would be the
ultimate in shifting the narrative or changing a definition a
(14:31):
name that is totally meant as a criticism me bounds
meaning you just get a lot of rebounds of your
own misshots because your offensive game sucks, Like that's what
the original definition basically means, and she's flipped it into
(14:52):
all rebounds are mind meaning me bounds.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So she's just redefining it right there. See if it
works out for her, that would be like a darkle milicic.
Remember him.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
He was known as the human victory Cigar. He was
the guy chosen second overall, like after Lebron, before Carmelo,
before Chris Bosh, before d Wade. He was the ugly
duckling with all these unbelievable Hall of Fame talented basketball players.
But he was known as the human victory Cigar because
(15:27):
when he got in the game it was garbage time.
It would be like him being like, no, no, no,
it actually means and coming up with some random, wild
other definition.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I feel like most people would be like, that's not
what it means at all.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We'll see if people say that about Angel if they're like,
that's not what me bounds means, or they're like, yeah, actually,
any rebound is her rebound.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
It's me bounds.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
We'll see how it works out. But uh, that's what
she's attempting to do. Okay, we'll see how it unfolds. Okay,
seven seven ninety nine on Fox is your phone number?
Feel free to check in. My goodness, I'm just checking
my my call screen over here. I'm doing a terrible job.
We'll get to the militia right around the corner. I apologize.
(16:13):
Coop has done a great job. He's let me know
who's on hold, and I had other you know, windows
open in front of the call screen chat thing that
we have here, So my bad. We'll get to the
militia right around the corner. Also, is it me or
are the compliments extra flowery this season?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
To that as well?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I'm Brian no In for big Ben Maller. Keep it
locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Mahler and it
is time for the tirec play of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Who almost swayed across the brue Shart.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Into the new shows O hook the Way, here's yin
Hart getting in gets rolling Coleman pros.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Sam rein Hard as he was being pulled down. He
shinn our touchshelf and the Panthers strike first here in Game.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Six, that's courtesy of Panthers Radio Network. Sam Reinhard gets
the scoring underway as the Panthers go on to win
Game six and win the Stanley Cup. For over forty years,
ty rack has been helping customers find the right tires
for how, what and where they drive, ship fast and free,
backed by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options
(17:30):
like mobile tire installation tire rack dot Com. The way
tire buying should be. My dumb brain thinks of gosh,
what was the movie with pet Detective ace Ventura Finkel
is Ryinhorn Rhyinhorn is Finkel. It's obviously Einhorn, right, but
I think rhyin Horden sam Reinhorn of the Florida Panthers
(17:51):
right there, that would be an amazing call.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It was like Ryan Hordon shoots the scores. Finkel isn
Ryan Horne.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Is what a great opportunity that was missed right there
by the play by play guy of the Panthers. Right, man,
if you want to, you know, like preorchestrate your call,
that's the way to do it. All right, I'm gonna
get tell the militia here momentarily. Just give me a
(18:22):
couple of minutes. Ball on the brain?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Is it me?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Or are some of these mini camp flowery comments extra
flowery this season? I know this is not unprecedented, but
it seems like it's it's pretty thick this year.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Like I'll tell you, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You always hear the blind resume test, right, like you
think about March Madness, and instead of telling you the team,
they just rattle off the resume because sometimes you hear
the brand name of the team or the lack of
a brand name, and it it causes you to think
a little bit differently than you should. I think it
would be interesting to do this with the flowery comments,
(19:07):
because you'll hear these flowery comments and you're like, wow,
what top five quarterback is this guy talking about? And
you're like, oh gosh, this guy is like not even
top thirty. Okay, so here's the comment. I'll just read
the comment and then I'll tell you who said it
and who they're talking about. All right, here's the quote.
(19:27):
Very pleased with what we got right now. He's been
doing a hell of a job. Really smart football player,
learn the offense very quickly, making really good decisions out
there through OTAs. Obviously we want to carry that over
to training camp. But he's done a really good job,
great command in the huddle, ultimate pro. So all these
(19:50):
guys are talking about quarterbacks, that would be Colt's head coach,
Shane Steichen talking about quarterback Daniel Jones. I like that,
and it's like, really that's wow. Okay, that seems pretty
thick right there.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
He's doing that good of a job, Shane.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh, all right, here's another one blind resume test again,
talking about another quarterback. We did our due diligence calling
around background type stuff with any player we bring in here.
We try to do the background and make sure we
know sort of what kind of guy we're bringing in,
what his work habits are like, preparation, leadership, communication, teamwork.
(20:33):
He's been as advertised with the work habits and the
preparation and going about his business just.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Day in day out.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We'll come back in training camp and we'll learn a
lot a ton about him. That'll be a really really
fun process. But he's done a great job thus far
and really sort of lived up to the billing end quote.
So that is Colts offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter again
talking about Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones, the former Giants quarterback.
(21:08):
The Colts are just drooling over this guy, like this
freaking can you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Talk about a pro? You talk about a pros pro.
I'll tell you what d Jones.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know it's just OTAs, but I'm here to tell
you he's done one hell of a job so Far's
we could not be more pleased. And so it's like, okay,
all right, that's uh, this is OTA's which let's not
make him out to sound like it's you know, Championships
Sunday and the winner goes to the Super Bowl. You
(21:42):
know it means something, but in the grand scheme of things,
not a ton and man the Colts are just all in.
And so it's either they really are impressed with his
professionalism and you heard these things with the Giants to
he's supposed to be very, very professional, but or else
they're not exactly enthused about Anthony Richardson, who he hasn't
(22:10):
been prepared at times. He got benched for a couple
of games because he wasn't prepared to play. So maybe
they see Daniel Jones and in comparison with Anthony Richardson,
man de Jones looks even more like a rock star
in terms of his professionalism. That could be going on too. Okay,
one more on the blind resume test. We have a
SoundBite here, so again I'm not gonna tell you who's
(22:31):
speaking or who he's speaking about, but just hear the
comment and then just just sort of try to guess
which quarterback he's talking about.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Here you go, Yeah, he's an excellent he's picking up information,
he's smart, he's aggressive with the football, which I like.
And then you know, the true test will be once
we start and there's live hitting and the preseason games
and things like that. But he's progressed, you know, since
he's been here to where he's not, he's made he's
made good improvement.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Okay, that would be Giants head coach Brian Dabele. And
he's talking about their rookie quarterback Jackson Dart. Now he's
a twenty fifth overall pick. He at times up some
had some good games, threw up some good numbers at
ole miss. So look like some of these flowery comments,
you might be like me and think that's pretty thick,
(23:23):
you know, like, how much does this really mean? OTAs?
But sometimes even though these comments are pretty pretty flowery
and pretty thick, there could be something to some of them,
not all of them. But I don't know about you,
but me, I just keep hearing these comments and it's
(23:44):
I haven't heard one coach be like, yeah, you know,
he kind of had a rough day. I mean, he's
been showing some good signs here, but you know we
did miss that one post pattern. We had the out
and he just kind of airmailed it. You haven't heard
anything approaching critical at all. It's been oh JJ McCarthy
and Vikings Camp. This guy has been fantastic. Wow, you
(24:08):
just have to think at least it's my mind where
you're just somewhat cynical, like, really, is it been that great?
Has the pressure been cranked up to the point where
it really rivals a game like atmosphere?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
What are we doing here? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I just think some of the comments have been extra
thickness offseason. Okay, with no further ado, let's get to
the militia. Let me go out to Danny DeVito first.
He's over in Boston. Has some comments on Caitlin Clark.
I'm all ears, Danny.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Man?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
What's on your minds? What's up? Bran? What's mister mallon?
On vacation for the whole week or one?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't know what's going on the rest of the week.
But all I know is he's not here tonight or
last night.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's all I know. I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Really. Yeah, okay, yeah, Kaln Clark, I am one of
our biggest fans, and I just want to say, you know,
what's the main reason why they have a problem with her?
Why is that called jealousy?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
That's all that is.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
That's all that is, Bryan.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
It's chelousy.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
They can't do what she we can do and uh,
and they got a problem with that maybe a little
bit because maybe her skin's kind of light too.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
I didn't want to say that, but that might be
a problem too in that in that league.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well, I think that, uh, Paul holes in that a
little bit where I definitely think there's a jealousy thing.
I think a lot of it is she gets a
lot of shine, a lot of attention, and there are
a lot of players that have worked really hard and
maybe have been great players, and they don't love that.
Like there's a Diana Tarassi comes to mind. And she
(25:45):
didn't say anything that was crazy crazy, you know, just
hateful or anything like that. But I remember she was saying, hey,
you know, when you're coming to the w NBA, you're
playing against pros, you might not hit the ground running
and be off some out of the gate. And right, like,
she's not saying any of those things because of skin color.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Right, So it's not always no, no, he's happy and
miss Clark.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
She cares herself very well.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
So there's really nothing to hate about her. There's nothing
to hate.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
About her at all, Brian. It's everything to like about her.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
As far as what I see, you know, She's only
twenty two, twenty three years old, and right now, there's
nothing to hate about her.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
She's everything good about that league.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Now, she's doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Man, I pretty sure checking in Danny's good to talk
to you, man, But yeah, I think she's done an
amazing job.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
She's been completely professional.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And I told uh Lorena and Coop off the air, well,
think about this, if you were in that position, how
easy it would be to be completely unprofessional. I'm telling
you what if I let's just say I was. I
was great at basketball. Okay, now suspend reality for a while. Here,
(27:07):
I'm a great basketball player. I go to the NBA
and I am box office baby, Like I'm driving ticket sales,
I'm driving TV ratings, I'm driving revenue, the whole thing.
And You've got a bunch of NBA players that just
don't like me because I'm getting a ton of attention,
I'm getting a ton of props, and they just resent
(27:29):
it and they're jealous about it. And then it plays
out the way it has for Caitlin. You know, I
get clotheslined, I get a couple of cheap shots here
and there. I'm clearly targeted. It's overreaction after overreaction at
all these comments where it's just negative and you couldn't
shut me up.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I could not be unprofessional all across the board.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I would just be if I were Caitlin Clark, I'd
be like, listen, these jealous huccies who have no good
reason to hate on me other than they just they
don't like me because I'm drawing attention or getting props
or what have you.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It's completely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I'd be like, really, you're just gonna knock me over
because I've got a name.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I would be so outspoken about that. I would say
you can kiss my ass on a daily basis to
all these these players that are just they're ridiculous. But
I give her props, you know, I definitely give her
props for being completely professional because it would not be
easy to take the high road time and time again.
(28:39):
And that's what she's always done in the NBA. When
has she caused drama? When has she started something and
then amplified it, or even when someone else starts it
and she just adds to it, it's always downplaying it.
Like last year against the Sky she got She's waiting
for an inbounce pass and just gets knocked over.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's bowled over.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I wonder what kind of calming technique she uses, right,
I could use that in my life. Go home, because
you can't keep that and then go into the next game.
Obviously she doesn't, or else she would explode.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
It was just like some blatant cheap shots, more so
last year than this year when she was fresh in
the WNBA. But every time she's like, yeah, you know that,
that stuff kind of happens in basketball. It's a physical game,
you know, downplay it, downplay it, downplay it not adding.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
To the drama.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You cannot say she has not been a total pro
because she asks she's absolutely been a pro. Okay, Blind
Scott is with us, curious what's on blind Scott's mind?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, Sports Radio, what's going on? Blind Scott?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm a huge fan of the WNBA, and
I'm you know, I know the guy that Danny that
just called and you know, we grew up like within
a few miles from each other. You know, I can't
stand Caitlyn Clark. I think she stinks because I think
she's just lame in that it draws these opinions from
conservative Catholic garbage guys to say like, oh, I'm a
(30:12):
huge fan of Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, why do you think
she's garbage just because some people like have opinions about her,
How does that make her garbage?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Well, I like Angel Reeves because she is more like,
she's more marketable. She better to listen to a better SoundBite.
You know, she talks about stuff outside of the game
that I like a lot better that he seems a
lot more like, you know, politically, more important than what
Caitlin Clark does. And here I'll tell you another thing.
(30:45):
The father the father way Caitlin Clark can get from Iowa,
the less reverent she is. Nobody knows who Caitlin Clark
is in Boston.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
You know, no one knows who Caitlin Clark is in Boston.
I can't go down the street and be like, Hey,
who's Caitlin Clark and they're.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Like, might be, you might be, but you'd find me
that would say I'm an Angel Reeds fan. And you know,
I want to make a big deal about it, you know,
because I'm glad that we're talking about the w NBA.
I don't like this discourse for it. I think it's
great though, that the games be talking about And you know,
remember Bobby Orr, he played in NHL. So there's Bobby
Or and there's King Clark. There are similar players. Bobby
(31:22):
Or was very hated in the NHL. He actually played defense.
He only played seven years in the NHL because he
was hated so much.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Well, I mean, listen, Black Scott. You can like who
you like and hate who you hate. It's fine, But
I just don't know if you're being consistent. Like I'm
thinking of Michael Jordan. He was well known for not
talking about politics. Right, these big whole game is all
about that. So did you dislike Michael Jordan for not
(31:52):
speaking his mind on whatever the Democratic Convention or right?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah? Yeah, no, now I do for not speaking up.
The whole game has changed now, dude, It ain't when
Michael Jordan came up anymore. Everything has changed. People need
to speak up, you know. Like I don't say we
all need to go to the streets. I think that's wrong.
I think we all need to be peaceful about it.
But we're not talking about twenty or thirty years ago anymore,
you know, And the WNBA is losing money last time
(32:20):
I checked. You know, so if you're.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Kaitlyn Clark's the only one, this is the main draw
to bring in money.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Yeah, but she but she's so lame that she don't
say nothing. The fire she gets, that's not even a.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Market who cares?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Right, Like, there are so many athletes that dude, they
didn't say, how is that a bad thing?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Why? Why would you be against that?
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Because that's all the league has, Like it's Caitlyn Clark,
that's it, that's it, and they don't they can't get
on in each market, Like you can't get them to
talk about Caitlin Clark on a Boston radio market.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
So do you think that if she's weighing in on
political issues that would really lead to huge ratings?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
That's the missing link?
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Well, no, I think that she should. She should weigh
in on more stuff. She shouldn't just keep her mouth shut.
She shouldn't just doesn't. She's totally different than everybody else
that has ever played the game. So for her just
to not say anything in the league to go under
and go bankrupt, like the league's losing money, you know
what I'm saying, Like Blan.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Scott, you're making no sense tonight. I'm sorry, dude, this
is a horrible take by you. This makes no sense.
Their league is not losing money because Caitlin Clark won't
speak on political issues.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
She is the main reason why their ratings are better,
the ticket sales are better.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Did you see when she was hurt this season? Everything's plummeting.
The ratings plummeted, the ticket sales plummeted.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
It's not connected to her lack of speaking out on
political issues. It's not connected to that at all. And listen,
you can like who you like and dislike who you dislike.
It's fine, and you can have your own reasons for it.
If you like athletes speaking on political issues and that's
what does it for you, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's a personal preference.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
But I'm here to tell you that the league isn't
losing money because Caitlin won't speak on political issues. Left
and right, there's nothing wrong well just being about your sport,
she is all about. I'm here to talk about basketball.
I'm here to play basketball. I'm not here to dive
into all the drama and all the subplots of Hey,
(34:35):
this girl took a cheap shot at me. Now, I'm
gonna make this comment and make it more dramatic. She
just wants the ball. There's nothing wrong with that, and
I completely disagree. I think it would be worse for
their ratings. Listen, there are a lot of people that
they certainly think and I listen. If a player wants
to speak their mind, I absolutely think they should be
(34:56):
able to and I back them regardless of what their
views are.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I think it's garbage to be like.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Shut up and dribble. But there are a lot of
people who subscribe to that. So I don't subscribe to that,
but I'm here to tell you many people do. And
so you might think speaking on political issues would all
of a sudden just lead to like fortune left and
right for the league.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It would not. It would not.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
There are a lot of people that would be way
more turned off by that, and they want to It's
like the way I eat, the way I eat. I
don't want food touching. That's how a lot of people
feel about sports and politics. They don't want their sports
and politics to touch. I got my mashed potatoes over here,
I got my corn here, I got the stake over here.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I don't want them touching.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
That's how a lot of people think about sports and politics,
so you might think it would be great for ratings.
I'm here to tell you I do not believe that
at all. That's a random criticism. Random appreciate the call, though,
I feel free to check in Militia.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I always like.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Talking to you, even though I might disagree with you.
I'll disagree with you respectfully. Right line, Scott and I
can look at it differently. It's fine coming up next.
Has anything in the sports world wasted our time more
than these guys? I'm Brian no In for Big Ben
Mallor it is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Maler here on
Fox Sports Radio. So I don't think any two people
in the sports world have wasted our time more than
these guys. That would be sprinter Noah Lyles and Dolphins
wide receiver Tyreek Hill. They've been talking for months about
(36:41):
this race that they're supposed to have. Noah Lyles, the
Olympic one hundred meter champion, and Tyreek Hill, who's got
track speed. They've been talking about it, they've been promoting it,
they've been, you know, trying to pump it up, and
it was supposed to happen this weekend and it's not
(37:02):
going to happen. So Noah Liles, he was talking about this,
and he said, unfortunately there were some things, complications, personal
reasons that it just didn't come to pass. But we
were full on, we were going to shut down New
York's Times Square and everything. It was going to be
a lot of fun. So it turns out it was
(37:24):
just a bunch of talk, some exchanged tweets, some friendly
trash talking, and then no race, not anything, and no Alliles.
I don't know if like sponsorship backed out or I
don't know what he's talking about with personal reasons, but
(37:44):
he said that many people, including potential sponsors, thought the
planned race against Tyreek Hill was all just talk.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Shocking.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
They would think that because it did seem like that.
But his quote was a lot of people didn't believe
it to be true. They thought it was just, oh,
this is just them talking online. The companies didn't believe
it's real. I don't know, maybe that's what it was.
I'm not sure, but they were supposed to race supposed
to be a fifty yard race. They appeared on shows,
(38:15):
they it was a whole thing, and then nothing. This
is basically the equivalent of NBA superstars tweeting out like
I might have to get in the Dunk Contest next year.
I might have to enter this thing, and then everybody
falls for it, like, oh my gosh, is he really
gonna be Are.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
You really gonna be in the dunk contest? Jahn Morant?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
No, John Morant is not going to be in the
dunk contest. No superstar is going to be in the
dunk contest because it never happens. They just talk about
it and then nothing. That's basically what Noah Lyles versus
Tyreek Hill turned out to be the one funny thing
and this whole obnoxious back and forth that never even
(38:56):
came to be. It was Tyreek Hill. So Tyreek Hill.
Apparently he ran the one hundred meters pre limb in
Sherman Oaks, California, last Friday, and he had a personal
best time of ten point one five seconds. It was
in Sherman Oaks, California, right where a Coop and Lorena
are right this very second, and so right after that
(39:22):
Tyreek Hill was trolling Noah Lyles on X and you
know the Homer Simpson meme or the gift where he's
just kind of like stepping backward into the bush.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Right, He's like slowly disappearing Tyreek Hill somehow superimposed Noah
Lyles face on Homer's face, so he's like backtracking into
the bush. Tyreek made it sound like he was worried
about Tyrek's speed right there, but total wasted time, all right,
coming up next. Isn't only about what you say, it's
(39:55):
also how you say it.
Oh, what is going on. Good morning to you. I
hope you're Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm sorry your Wednesday morning is off to a fantastic start.
You know, estrogen, more estrogen in the show. We'll get
to that story coming up next. Trying to change a
narrative or really just trying to change a meaning completely.
Let me start off. Remember the militia checked in Tigerman
in Utah. I agree with this, he put, well, I
(00:28):
halfway agree with this, he put, love you Brian that part.
I definitely agree with that absolutely. But he said, but
Henry Ruggs apologizing for killing a woman and in the
same breath talking about football is gross.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Anyone on to.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Say Henry rugg should not be allowed back in the NFL. Hey, man,
I totally understand where you know Tigerman in Utah is
coming from. And I said that with Brian Horwath, he
writes for the Vegas Review Journal, and we had them
on as a guest. He went to this event that
(01:05):
Henry Ruggs spoke at. Henry Ruggs was on special release
from prison on Tuesday night, spoke at a Hope for
Prisoner's event in Las Vegas, and during that event, he
apologized to the family of a woman he killed in
a drunk driving accident, and then, as Brian said, he
also talked about wanting to get back into the NFL,
(01:28):
and that part stood out to me too. I'm like,
man's that's pretty rough. That's tough. Where I can, on
one hand understand that you've got hopes, you've got goals.
You it's understandable, right, like, you committed this horrible, horrible act,
this mistake.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You took a life.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But does that mean that you should never have any
hopes or goals going forward? Like, it's understandable to have
those things, but if you're talking about them in that setting,
you know, that's kind of like you're at church and
you're gonna tell this filthy joke. It's like, dude, time
and place, man, you know, like that's not really what
(02:12):
you want to do. So I definitely understand where the
tweeter is coming from. It is it is gross to say, hey, man,
I'm so sorry. And they actually included his quote here,
so listen to the quote. He said, one I wish
I could turn back the hands of time. I would
love for them to meet the real Henry Ruggs and
(02:34):
not the one that was escaping from something. I sincerely
apologize for not only being a part of that situation,
but the fact my face is.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Always in the news. It's always in the.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Newspaper, so they have to constantly be reminded of the situation,
be reminded of me.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
End quote. So that's what he said.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And then, like to Brian Horwatt's point, who was there
covering this event, said he did talk openly about wanting
to get back into the NFL, wanting to rejoin the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's I understand it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I understand why the tweeter would would say that tiger
man in Utah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I totally understand, and it's funny right like it does
depend I think.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
To a degree.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
What your perspective is. Is this the perspective of a
loved one of the victim, Like I have two nephews,
I'm an uncle. Brian Horwath said that he traded some
texts with the uncle of this victim, Tina Tintor, and man,
I know I would feel a certain way if an
(03:43):
NFL player took the life of my nephew while he
was drunk and driving one fifty six. I know how
I would feel about that, or is this the perspective
of one of Henry ruggs loved ones? Right Like, he's
your here's your brother, he's your son, he's your nephew,
(04:06):
and I'm sure you would feel pretty torn about that.
You would be like, dude, this is the mistake of
a lifetime. You took someone's life. But I think if
anyone would be a little bit more open minded toward
goals and trying to get back on your feet and
trying to, you know, make something of your life, it
(04:27):
would be a relative, It'd be a loved one. It's
a tough one, man, it really is. Has a tough,
tough story right there. I'll meet Tiger Man in Utah
halfway here because I said this off the air, but
I'm like I told Coop and Lorena, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Man, it just feels so.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Gross to on one hand talk about Hey, you know
Henry Ruggs he speaking at this event. He's still in
jail because he was driving drunk. Took someone's life. This girl,
she was young, she's only what twenty How old was Tina?
She was twenty three at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Her and her dog.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
She's just had a stopplate minding her own business. Boom
life gone, and like detailing that and then going from
that to somehow being like, hey, this guy ran a
four two seven forty, Like what do you think is forty?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Time is now? He's been out of football for a
number of years.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Like it just feels so gross to talk about that,
And so I'm really curious how NFL teams will look
at this situation going forward. But like Coop did, Coop
did some research and props to him. There are a
couple of storylines that are comparable. Leonard Little driving drunk,
(05:47):
took someone's life in a car accident. Dante Stalworth, same thing.
Josh Brent played for the Cowboys. He was you know,
it sounded like he was drinking buddies with Jerry Brown
and they were out one night, you know, they were partying,
and he caught a curb and flipped the ride and
his buddy Jerry Brown got killed. And Josh Brent faced
(06:12):
twenty years in prison, and he went in for one
hundred and eighty days. I don't understand how that works.
You're facing two decades of prison time and you serve
half a year. Okay, I stepped away from football for
two years, he played one game and then he was done.
So I get it for anyone out there, And I'm sorry,
(06:34):
not trying to make it feel bad or anything, but
you know, when you hear the story of Henry Ruggs
and the accident that he was involved in and how
reckless he was and taking.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
A life, I get it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
On one hand, I get how you would be like
that guy should never be in the NFL again. But
on the other hand, I get where you want to
still make something of your life even though you've committed
this horrific mistake.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's like, what are you supposed to do going forward?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You're supposed to be like, I'm not worthy of doing
anything with my life, right, go ahead, Lorena, what do
you have?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You have to have something to look forward to? Yeah,
when you've gone through something that traumatic, like whether you're
the victim or not, like you have to have something
to look forward to keep your heat up.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, no doubt. Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Let's get back to the estrogen over here, if you will.
Story involving I love this story.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So it's involving Angel Reese. So I don't know if
you've heard, but she is seeking to trademark the phrase
me bounds. Okay, not rebounds, me bounce. You heard about this, coop,
So I mean, I.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Know, I know that this has been a thing, the
mead bounds, but I didn't know she's trying to trade
by you.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
She's trying to trademark it. So this is initially meant
as a criticism. Okay, The thought is Angel re A
lot of people think she's only good at grabbing rebounds,
and me bounds is a diss which means that she
often grabs rebounds of her own misses. Right, So she's
(08:14):
close to the basket, she misses, and she grabs that rebound,
so instead of calling it a rebound, they call those
me bounds.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And so it's kind of funny here.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
But the first thing I thought of was Moses Malone's
the first thing I think of, because you'll hear it
even to this day that commentators will be like, oh,
that's the old Moses Malone right there. And that means
Moses Malone would miss a close shot, he would grab
his own rebound and then he would score. That's known
(08:45):
as the Moses Malone. He did that time and time
again when he played in the NBA, and it's man
as a positive. If they say it today, it's like, ah,
that's the Moses Malone deal right there, you know, kind
of patting your stats a little bit. Me bounds is
much more critical. And to be fair, Moses Malone like
(09:07):
the Moses Malone was. Like I said, it was a
misshot rebound and then a putback. Angel Reese when she
misses and gets her own rebound. The problem is she
doesn't always get the put back right. Sometimes it's just
another miss and another rebound.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
A can be yes.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So Angel Reese, she's acted like she isn't insulted by
the term. Instead, she applied on Saturday to trademark the phrase.
So that means you might be seeing this on whatever
T shirts, sweatshirts, apparel might see the phrase me bounds
in the not too distant future. And the funny thing is,
(09:54):
so she released a TikTok video and she's addressing the
me bounds thing.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
The audio is not great, okay, so a couple of
the things that you might not hear clearly, it's it's
just it's not the greatest audio.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's really it.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But at one point she says, whoever came up with
the me bounds thing, y'all.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Ate that up?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Okay, and then she's talking about the brand, like that
brand that's six figures right there, so she's seeing dollar sign.
She's saying, hey, I could take advantage of this, and
then she goes on to give like a completely different
definition of what me bounds means, right, She's redefining it.
(10:39):
And then at the end she's talking about, but whoever
came up with me bounds, y'all ate the whole thing, right,
So this is what she's saying here, but in her
own words, here's Angel Reese on me bounds.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Check this out.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Whoever came up.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
The mee bounced thing, y'all?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
I eat that up because rebound meat, bounce, cree.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Bounce, keeps bounds, sea.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Bow reading, anything that comes off that board, it's mine.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's mine and a brand.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
The six dads right there?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Whoever came up with that?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
The trolling?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I love when y'all do it, because like the idea
would be good.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Like when y'all have to ato my face sh because
I'm because I'm cute or whatever, like that doesn't get me.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
But like when yall came up with bounce, because statistically,
all the red bones that I get aren't always just mine.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
They're like bitty.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Fences or somebody on my teeth. But y'all came my bails.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Y'all eat them one thing.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But yeah, how do you get that? Okay? So there
she's basically changing what the word means.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Do you understand, right, the people that came up with
me bounce or what it's evolved into is a dicky.
It's basically saying you have no offensive skill, like you
just miss a shot and get your own rebound, and
then you might miss again and get another rebound. But
it's a diss of her not having great touch around
the rim, right, That's what it's. That's where it started,
(12:17):
and she just made it out to be, Hey, all
of my rebounds are not what you're calling me bounds.
Sometimes the other team misses and I get those rebounds.
Sometimes my teammates miss and I get those rebounds. And
it's like, yeah, true, but that's a completely different definition.
So she's really just not just shifting the narrative, she's
(12:38):
just trying to redefine what that even means. She's saying, like,
any rebound is my rebound, and so I was like, Okay,
she's just redefining it, which I get and also don't get.
At the same time. I get how she would want
to change it to a different definition that is more complimentary.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
That makes more sense.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
But what doesn't make sense is think about all the
nicknames of players throughout the years and if a player
just tried to completely redefine what the original nickname meant.
Like think of remember Mitch Williams. This is a dated reference,
but he's a baseball pitcher. He's most known for when
(13:22):
he was with the Phillies. He gave up a World
Series winning home run to Joe Carter in nineteen ninety three,
when Carter was with the Blue Jays, and that was
the old touch them.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
All, Joe, You'll never hit a bigger home run than that.
That sort of thing. He was known as the wild Thing.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It was Mitch wild Thing Williams, and it was because
he had this crazy wind up and then when he pitched,
he was just kind of like fall off the mound
and you'd almost fall over, like he was just wild.
He had this wild style.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
It would be like him trademarking that phrase and saying, no,
the nickname.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Is because my slider is so hard to hit, and
just completely changing what the original meaning was.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
That's basically what Angel. We can't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
You can't change the meaning of a nickname. No, hey,
I get it, but that's exactly what Angel is doing.
And she'll probably get the trademark and you might see
this on apparel. But I mean, that would be the
ultimate in shifting the narrative or changing a definition a
(14:31):
name that is totally meant as a criticism me bounds
meaning you just get a lot of rebounds of your
own misshots because your offensive game sucks, Like that's what
the original definition basically means, and she's flipped it into
(14:52):
all rebounds are mind meaning me bounds.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So she's just redefining it right there. See if it
works out for her, that would be like a darkle milicic.
Remember him.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
He was known as the human victory Cigar. He was
the guy chosen second overall, like after Lebron, before Carmelo,
before Chris Bosh, before d Wade. He was the ugly
duckling with all these unbelievable Hall of Fame talented basketball players.
But he was known as the human victory Cigar because
(15:27):
when he got in the game it was garbage time.
It would be like him being like, no, no, no,
it actually means and coming up with some random, wild
other definition.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I feel like most people would be like, that's not
what it means at all.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
We'll see if people say that about Angel if they're like,
that's not what me bounds means, or they're like, yeah, actually,
any rebound is her rebound.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
It's me bounds.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
We'll see how it works out. But uh, that's what
she's attempting to do. Okay, we'll see how it unfolds. Okay,
seven seven ninety nine on Fox is your phone number?
Feel free to check in. My goodness, I'm just checking
my my call screen over here. I'm doing a terrible job.
We'll get to the militia right around the corner. I apologize.
(16:13):
Coop has done a great job. He's let me know
who's on hold, and I had other you know, windows
open in front of the call screen chat thing that
we have here, So my bad. We'll get to the
militia right around the corner. Also, is it me or
are the compliments extra flowery this season?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
To that as well?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I'm Brian no In for big Ben Maller. Keep it
locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Mahler and it
is time for the tirec play of the day.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Who almost swayed across the brue Shart.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Into the new shows O hook the Way, here's yin
Hart getting in gets rolling Coleman pros.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Sam rein Hard as he was being pulled down. He
shinn our touchshelf and the Panthers strike first here in Game.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Six, that's courtesy of Panthers Radio Network. Sam Reinhard gets
the scoring underway as the Panthers go on to win
Game six and win the Stanley Cup. For over forty years,
ty rack has been helping customers find the right tires
for how, what and where they drive, ship fast and free,
backed by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options
(17:30):
like mobile tire installation tire rack dot Com. The way
tire buying should be. My dumb brain thinks of gosh,
what was the movie with pet Detective ace Ventura Finkel
is Ryinhorn Rhyinhorn is Finkel. It's obviously Einhorn, right, but
I think rhyin Horden sam Reinhorn of the Florida Panthers
(17:51):
right there, that would be an amazing call.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It was like Ryan Hordon shoots the scores. Finkel isn
Ryan Horne.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Is what a great opportunity that was missed right there
by the play by play guy of the Panthers. Right, man,
if you want to, you know, like preorchestrate your call,
that's the way to do it. All right, I'm gonna
get tell the militia here momentarily. Just give me a
(18:22):
couple of minutes. Ball on the brain?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Is it me?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Or are some of these mini camp flowery comments extra
flowery this season? I know this is not unprecedented, but
it seems like it's it's pretty thick this year.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Like I'll tell you, let's do this.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You always hear the blind resume test, right, like you
think about March Madness, and instead of telling you the team,
they just rattle off the resume because sometimes you hear
the brand name of the team or the lack of
a brand name, and it it causes you to think
a little bit differently than you should. I think it
would be interesting to do this with the flowery comments,
(19:07):
because you'll hear these flowery comments and you're like, wow,
what top five quarterback is this guy talking about? And
you're like, oh gosh, this guy is like not even
top thirty. Okay, so here's the comment. I'll just read
the comment and then I'll tell you who said it
and who they're talking about. All right, here's the quote.
(19:27):
Very pleased with what we got right now. He's been
doing a hell of a job. Really smart football player,
learn the offense very quickly, making really good decisions out
there through OTAs. Obviously we want to carry that over
to training camp. But he's done a really good job,
great command in the huddle, ultimate pro. So all these
(19:50):
guys are talking about quarterbacks, that would be Colt's head coach,
Shane Steichen talking about quarterback Daniel Jones. I like that,
and it's like, really that's wow. Okay, that seems pretty
thick right there.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
He's doing that good of a job, Shane.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh, all right, here's another one blind resume test again,
talking about another quarterback. We did our due diligence calling
around background type stuff with any player we bring in here.
We try to do the background and make sure we
know sort of what kind of guy we're bringing in,
what his work habits are like, preparation, leadership, communication, teamwork.
(20:33):
He's been as advertised with the work habits and the
preparation and going about his business just.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Day in day out.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
We'll come back in training camp and we'll learn a
lot a ton about him. That'll be a really really
fun process. But he's done a great job thus far
and really sort of lived up to the billing end quote.
So that is Colts offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter again
talking about Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones, the former Giants quarterback.
(21:08):
The Colts are just drooling over this guy, like this
freaking can you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Talk about a pro? You talk about a pros pro.
I'll tell you what d Jones.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know it's just OTAs, but I'm here to tell
you he's done one hell of a job so Far's
we could not be more pleased. And so it's like, okay,
all right, that's uh, this is OTA's which let's not
make him out to sound like it's you know, Championships
Sunday and the winner goes to the Super Bowl. You
(21:42):
know it means something, but in the grand scheme of things,
not a ton and man the Colts are just all in.
And so it's either they really are impressed with his
professionalism and you heard these things with the Giants to
he's supposed to be very, very professional, but or else
they're not exactly enthused about Anthony Richardson, who he hasn't
(22:10):
been prepared at times. He got benched for a couple
of games because he wasn't prepared to play. So maybe
they see Daniel Jones and in comparison with Anthony Richardson,
man de Jones looks even more like a rock star
in terms of his professionalism. That could be going on too. Okay,
one more on the blind resume test. We have a
SoundBite here, so again I'm not gonna tell you who's
(22:31):
speaking or who he's speaking about, but just hear the
comment and then just just sort of try to guess
which quarterback he's talking about.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Here you go, Yeah, he's an excellent he's picking up information,
he's smart, he's aggressive with the football, which I like.
And then you know, the true test will be once
we start and there's live hitting and the preseason games
and things like that. But he's progressed, you know, since
he's been here to where he's not, he's made he's
made good improvement.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Okay, that would be Giants head coach Brian Dabele. And
he's talking about their rookie quarterback Jackson Dart. Now he's
a twenty fifth overall pick. He at times up some
had some good games, threw up some good numbers at
ole miss. So look like some of these flowery comments,
you might be like me and think that's pretty thick,
(23:23):
you know, like, how much does this really mean? OTAs?
But sometimes even though these comments are pretty pretty flowery
and pretty thick, there could be something to some of them,
not all of them. But I don't know about you,
but me, I just keep hearing these comments and it's
(23:44):
I haven't heard one coach be like, yeah, you know,
he kind of had a rough day. I mean, he's
been showing some good signs here, but you know we
did miss that one post pattern. We had the out
and he just kind of airmailed it. You haven't heard
anything approaching critical at all. It's been oh JJ McCarthy
and Vikings Camp. This guy has been fantastic. Wow, you
(24:08):
just have to think at least it's my mind where
you're just somewhat cynical, like, really, is it been that great?
Has the pressure been cranked up to the point where
it really rivals a game like atmosphere?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
What are we doing here? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I just think some of the comments have been extra
thickness offseason. Okay, with no further ado, let's get to
the militia. Let me go out to Danny DeVito first.
He's over in Boston. Has some comments on Caitlin Clark.
I'm all ears, Danny.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Man?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
What's on your minds? What's up? Bran? What's mister mallon?
On vacation for the whole week or one?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I don't know what's going on the rest of the week.
But all I know is he's not here tonight or
last night.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's all I know. I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Really. Yeah, okay, yeah, Kaln Clark, I am one of
our biggest fans, and I just want to say, you know,
what's the main reason why they have a problem with her?
Why is that called jealousy?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
That's all that is.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
That's all that is, Bryan.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
It's chelousy.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
They can't do what she we can do and uh,
and they got a problem with that maybe a little
bit because maybe her skin's kind of light too.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
I didn't want to say that, but that might be
a problem too in that in that league.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Well, I think that, uh, Paul holes in that a
little bit where I definitely think there's a jealousy thing.
I think a lot of it is she gets a
lot of shine, a lot of attention, and there are
a lot of players that have worked really hard and
maybe have been great players, and they don't love that.
Like there's a Diana Tarassi comes to mind. And she
(25:45):
didn't say anything that was crazy crazy, you know, just
hateful or anything like that. But I remember she was saying, hey,
you know, when you're coming to the w NBA, you're
playing against pros, you might not hit the ground running
and be off some out of the gate. And right, like,
she's not saying any of those things because of skin color.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Right, So it's not always no, no, he's happy and
miss Clark.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
She cares herself very well.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
So there's really nothing to hate about her. There's nothing
to hate.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
About her at all, Brian. It's everything to like about her.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
As far as what I see, you know, She's only
twenty two, twenty three years old, and right now, there's
nothing to hate about her.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
She's everything good about that league.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Now, she's doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Man, I pretty sure checking in Danny's good to talk
to you, man, But yeah, I think she's done an
amazing job.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
She's been completely professional.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And I told uh Lorena and Coop off the air, well,
think about this, if you were in that position, how
easy it would be to be completely unprofessional. I'm telling
you what if I let's just say I was. I
was great at basketball. Okay, now suspend reality for a while. Here,
(27:07):
I'm a great basketball player. I go to the NBA
and I am box office baby, Like I'm driving ticket sales,
I'm driving TV ratings, I'm driving revenue, the whole thing.
And You've got a bunch of NBA players that just
don't like me because I'm getting a ton of attention,
I'm getting a ton of props, and they just resent
(27:29):
it and they're jealous about it. And then it plays
out the way it has for Caitlin. You know, I
get clotheslined, I get a couple of cheap shots here
and there. I'm clearly targeted. It's overreaction after overreaction at
all these comments where it's just negative and you couldn't
shut me up.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
I could not be unprofessional all across the board.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I would just be if I were Caitlin Clark, I'd
be like, listen, these jealous huccies who have no good
reason to hate on me other than they just they
don't like me because I'm drawing attention or getting props
or what have you.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It's completely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I'd be like, really, you're just gonna knock me over
because I've got a name.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I would be so outspoken about that. I would say
you can kiss my ass on a daily basis to
all these these players that are just they're ridiculous. But
I give her props, you know, I definitely give her
props for being completely professional because it would not be
easy to take the high road time and time again.
(28:39):
And that's what she's always done in the NBA. When
has she caused drama? When has she started something and
then amplified it, or even when someone else starts it
and she just adds to it, it's always downplaying it.
Like last year against the Sky she got She's waiting
for an inbounce pass and just gets knocked over.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's bowled over.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I wonder what kind of calming technique she uses, right,
I could use that in my life. Go home, because
you can't keep that and then go into the next game.
Obviously she doesn't, or else she would explode.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
It was just like some blatant cheap shots, more so
last year than this year when she was fresh in
the WNBA. But every time she's like, yeah, you know that,
that stuff kind of happens in basketball. It's a physical game,
you know, downplay it, downplay it, downplay it not adding.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
To the drama.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You cannot say she has not been a total pro
because she asks she's absolutely been a pro. Okay, Blind
Scott is with us, curious what's on blind Scott's mind?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, Sports Radio, what's going on? Blind Scott?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, Yeah, I'm a huge fan of the WNBA, and
I'm you know, I know the guy that Danny that
just called and you know, we grew up like within
a few miles from each other. You know, I can't
stand Caitlyn Clark. I think she stinks because I think
she's just lame in that it draws these opinions from
conservative Catholic garbage guys to say like, oh, I'm a
(30:12):
huge fan of Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, why do you think
she's garbage just because some people like have opinions about her,
How does that make her garbage?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Well, I like Angel Reeves because she is more like,
she's more marketable. She better to listen to a better SoundBite.
You know, she talks about stuff outside of the game
that I like a lot better that he seems a
lot more like, you know, politically, more important than what
Caitlin Clark does. And here I'll tell you another thing.
(30:45):
The father the father way Caitlin Clark can get from Iowa,
the less reverent she is. Nobody knows who Caitlin Clark
is in Boston.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
You know, no one knows who Caitlin Clark is in Boston.
I can't go down the street and be like, Hey,
who's Caitlin Clark and they're.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Like, might be, you might be, but you'd find me
that would say I'm an Angel Reeds fan. And you know,
I want to make a big deal about it, you know,
because I'm glad that we're talking about the w NBA.
I don't like this discourse for it. I think it's
great though, that the games be talking about And you know,
remember Bobby Orr, he played in NHL. So there's Bobby
Or and there's King Clark. There are similar players. Bobby
(31:22):
Or was very hated in the NHL. He actually played defense.
He only played seven years in the NHL because he
was hated so much.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Well, I mean, listen, Black Scott. You can like who
you like and hate who you hate. It's fine, But
I just don't know if you're being consistent. Like I'm
thinking of Michael Jordan. He was well known for not
talking about politics. Right, these big whole game is all
about that. So did you dislike Michael Jordan for not
(31:52):
speaking his mind on whatever the Democratic Convention or right?
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah? Yeah, no, now I do for not speaking up.
The whole game has changed now, dude, It ain't when
Michael Jordan came up anymore. Everything has changed. People need
to speak up, you know. Like I don't say we
all need to go to the streets. I think that's wrong.
I think we all need to be peaceful about it.
But we're not talking about twenty or thirty years ago anymore,
you know, And the WNBA is losing money last time
(32:20):
I checked. You know, so if you're.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Kaitlyn Clark's the only one, this is the main draw
to bring in money.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Yeah, but she but she's so lame that she don't
say nothing. The fire she gets, that's not even a.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Market who cares?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Right, Like, there are so many athletes that dude, they
didn't say, how is that a bad thing?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Why? Why would you be against that?
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Because that's all the league has, Like it's Caitlyn Clark,
that's it, that's it, and they don't they can't get
on in each market, Like you can't get them to
talk about Caitlin Clark on a Boston radio market.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
So do you think that if she's weighing in on
political issues that would really lead to huge ratings?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
That's the missing link?
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Well, no, I think that she should. She should weigh
in on more stuff. She shouldn't just keep her mouth shut.
She shouldn't just doesn't. She's totally different than everybody else
that has ever played the game. So for her just
to not say anything in the league to go under
and go bankrupt, like the league's losing money, you know
what I'm saying, Like Blan.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Scott, you're making no sense tonight. I'm sorry, dude, this
is a horrible take by you. This makes no sense.
Their league is not losing money because Caitlin Clark won't
speak on political issues.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It makes no sense.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
She is the main reason why their ratings are better,
the ticket sales are better.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Did you see when she was hurt this season? Everything's plummeting.
The ratings plummeted, the ticket sales plummeted.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
It's not connected to her lack of speaking out on
political issues. It's not connected to that at all. And listen,
you can like who you like and dislike who you dislike.
It's fine, and you can have your own reasons for it.
If you like athletes speaking on political issues and that's
what does it for you, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's a personal preference.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
But I'm here to tell you that the league isn't
losing money because Caitlin won't speak on political issues. Left
and right, there's nothing wrong well just being about your sport,
she is all about. I'm here to talk about basketball.
I'm here to play basketball. I'm not here to dive
into all the drama and all the subplots of Hey,
(34:35):
this girl took a cheap shot at me. Now, I'm
gonna make this comment and make it more dramatic. She
just wants the ball. There's nothing wrong with that, and
I completely disagree. I think it would be worse for
their ratings. Listen, there are a lot of people that
they certainly think and I listen. If a player wants
to speak their mind, I absolutely think they should be
(34:56):
able to and I back them regardless of what their
views are.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I think it's garbage to be like.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Shut up and dribble. But there are a lot of
people who subscribe to that. So I don't subscribe to that,
but I'm here to tell you many people do. And
so you might think speaking on political issues would all
of a sudden just lead to like fortune left and
right for the league.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
It would not. It would not.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
There are a lot of people that would be way
more turned off by that, and they want to It's
like the way I eat, the way I eat. I
don't want food touching. That's how a lot of people
feel about sports and politics. They don't want their sports
and politics to touch. I got my mashed potatoes over here,
I got my corn here, I got the stake over here.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I don't want them touching.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
That's how a lot of people think about sports and politics,
so you might think it would be great for ratings.
I'm here to tell you I do not believe that
at all. That's a random criticism. Random appreciate the call, though,
I feel free to check in Militia.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I always like.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Talking to you, even though I might disagree with you.
I'll disagree with you respectfully. Right line, Scott and I
can look at it differently. It's fine coming up next.
Has anything in the sports world wasted our time more
than these guys? I'm Brian no In for Big Ben
Mallor it is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I'm Brian no In for Big Ben Maler here on
Fox Sports Radio. So I don't think any two people
in the sports world have wasted our time more than
these guys. That would be sprinter Noah Lyles and Dolphins
wide receiver Tyreek Hill. They've been talking for months about
(36:41):
this race that they're supposed to have. Noah Lyles, the
Olympic one hundred meter champion, and Tyreek Hill, who's got
track speed. They've been talking about it, they've been promoting it,
they've been, you know, trying to pump it up, and
it was supposed to happen this weekend and it's not
(37:02):
going to happen. So Noah Liles, he was talking about this,
and he said, unfortunately there were some things, complications, personal
reasons that it just didn't come to pass. But we
were full on, we were going to shut down New
York's Times Square and everything. It was going to be
a lot of fun. So it turns out it was
(37:24):
just a bunch of talk, some exchanged tweets, some friendly
trash talking, and then no race, not anything, and no Alliles.
I don't know if like sponsorship backed out or I
don't know what he's talking about with personal reasons, but
(37:44):
he said that many people, including potential sponsors, thought the
planned race against Tyreek Hill was all just talk.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Shocking.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
They would think that because it did seem like that.
But his quote was a lot of people didn't believe
it to be true. They thought it was just, oh,
this is just them talking online. The companies didn't believe
it's real. I don't know, maybe that's what it was.
I'm not sure, but they were supposed to race supposed
to be a fifty yard race. They appeared on shows,
(38:15):
they it was a whole thing, and then nothing. This
is basically the equivalent of NBA superstars tweeting out like
I might have to get in the Dunk Contest next year.
I might have to enter this thing, and then everybody
falls for it, like, oh my gosh, is he really
gonna be Are.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
You really gonna be in the dunk contest? Jahn Morant?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
No, John Morant is not going to be in the
dunk contest. No superstar is going to be in the
dunk contest because it never happens. They just talk about
it and then nothing. That's basically what Noah Lyles versus
Tyreek Hill turned out to be the one funny thing
and this whole obnoxious back and forth that never even
(38:56):
came to be. It was Tyreek Hill. So Tyreek Hill.
Apparently he ran the one hundred meters pre limb in
Sherman Oaks, California, last Friday, and he had a personal
best time of ten point one five seconds. It was
in Sherman Oaks, California, right where a Coop and Lorena
are right this very second, and so right after that
(39:22):
Tyreek Hill was trolling Noah Lyles on X and you
know the Homer Simpson meme or the gift where he's
just kind of like stepping backward into the bush.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Right, He's like slowly disappearing Tyreek Hill somehow superimposed Noah
Lyles face on Homer's face, so he's like backtracking into
the bush. Tyreek made it sound like he was worried
about Tyrek's speed right there, but total wasted time, all right,
coming up next. Isn't only about what you say, it's
(39:55):
also how you say it.
Host
Ben Maller
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy And Charlamagne Tha God!
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.