May 23, 2023 • 40 mins
In Hour 4 of the Ben Maller Show, Brian Noe fills in for Big Ben and remembers the career of Carmelo Anthony. Brian runs through how great of a career Melo had and praises his retirement video. With Melo gone, Brian wonders how and when LeBron will call it a career. Brian discusses how the Lakers loss was a bad look, because Kyrie Irving was sitting courtside. Could Kyrie be the replacement for D'Angelo Russell, or has the ship sailed on him and LeBron reuniting? Whataburger is changing this logo for a specific university, plus, is making the NBA final four harder than making the NCAA Final Four?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everybody, It's Brian. No lots going on the show. We've
got the Lakers getting swept four straight games, l L
L L, Nicola, Jokicchen, the Nuggets moving on hot Knife
through Butter Lebron. Is he gonna retire? No, no, no,
he just likes the attention. But a lot of non
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basketball stuff as well, a lot of NFL news Thursday night,
flex scheduling, emergency quarterbacks, so we got a lot to
get to. Hopefully you enjoy the podcast and thanks for
stopping by.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
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buying should be. So Carmelo Anthony the number three overall
pick in two thousand and three, he officially called it
a career, and he retires after nineteen seasons. It's a
ten time All Star, It's a scoring champion twenty thirteen
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member of the NBA seventy fifth Anniversary team, of course,
won that title at Syracuse and O three three time
gold medalist. Retires as the nine to number nine on
the all time scoring List's ninth all time and the
question is will number one follow suits? So Lebron James
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the number one overall pick in two thousand and three.
So a couple of thoughts on this, and I'll get
to the militia. I'll give me a little bit of
a time here. I'll lay this out. So, first off, Carmelo,
I like that he finally finally got some recognition and
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some praise toward the end of his career, because most
of Carmelo's career was what he didn't accomplish or what
he wasn't on the court, Like he was not a
defensive maven. He did not win a championship, and most
of his career was he's not. He didn't, he's not,
he didn't, he can't. Like that's what really changed was
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it's crazy because he had you spent nine eight years
with the Nuggets, seven years the Knicks, and then he
was with the Oklahoma City Thunder, remember that, where he
just he was not an outside shooter at the time,
and there was this whole thing about he didn't want
to come off the bench. I'll never forget the press
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conference where he's talking to Paul George and he was
asked a question about coming off the bench, and he's like, hey, hey, Paul, Paul,
they're talking about me coming off the bench. And a
lot of people at the time were like, that would
actually be a good idea. Right then he went to Houston,
had a cup of coffee. There was just there for
a matter of games, like ten games or something like that.
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Not an outside shooter didn't work out. So he fizzled
out quickly with OKC and with Houston. And then when
he went to Portland, he reached a couple of milestones.
I think he got to the being the tenth overall
score while at Portland, and he really did get some
recognition for this is one of the best offensive players
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in league history. He's number nine, that's what he ended
up in all time scoring. And so it really did
flip toward the end, or at least for a little while.
It wasn't what Carmelo couldn't do or hadn't done. It
was like, this dude is still an outstanding offensive guy.
So it's nice to see him get some praise. At
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the end. He had an awesome retirement video. If you
haven't seen it, I encourage you to check it out.
It was incredibly popular, and he was basically just saying
that his legacy, he thinks beyond himself and it's now
with his son who will carry on his name. And
you know, it was cool. It was a really well
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done job there. Now, as far as Lebron goes, is
Lebron gonna do the same thing? Is he going to retire?
He talked about this after the Lakers got swept at
the hands of Jokic, Jamal and the Nuggets over there
for and done, and Lebron was asked about maybe, you know,
leaving the game, and he was, I would say a
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bit dramatic, but I'll give him some grace at the
end of the season. It's tiring. His tank is on empty.
He said, I gotta think about it now. My stance
is he just wants some of the limelight. He wants
people talking about him. The guy loves attention. That's not
automatically a bad thing, but he loves him some attention.
There's no attention on Lebron if he just says, oh,
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I fully intend to come back next season. Lebron likes
to be dramatic at times, and he's gonna be like,
I don't know, I gotta think about it. You know,
maybe begged me a little bit. That wouldn't hurt, right, Like,
I don't think that Lebron is retiring. He's made it
very very clear that he wants to team up with
his son, Bronni James. That would be in two seasons. Now,
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here's the thing, here's the twist, and I give Brandon
some credit. Brandon Truffel with his trusted producer this evening
Slash Morning. He said, there's a theory he going on that, Hey,
what if Lebron steps aside for this next season and
then he unretires and teams up with his son Broni
the next year. I'll say this, I think that's much
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more likely than Lebron is just done for good. I
think he's just gassed at the end of the season
and he wants to get a little attention by playing
the I don't know if I'm gonna come back card.
I think that if he took a year off, that's
more likely than he just walks away for good. He's
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still playing at a high level, not lebron peak level,
but he just dropped forty points at ten rebounds and
nine assists, played all but four seconds. That's not your
typical thirty eight year old. So I just think that Lebron,
if he did shut it down for a year, I
think it would be so hard to ramp back up
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at age forty after a year off. I think that
would be incredibly difficult. Like sometimes your body there's this
tendency to think, oh, you shut it down for a year.
Lebron at age forty, he's gonna be so rested, he's
gonna be ready to go. Sometimes your body g it's
the opposite. Your body's like, oh cool, So we're not
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going through all of this rigorous stuff. I guess we're
we're in. Like, I don't know enjoy life mode. We're
like in full Dadbod mode right Like it's like, no,
you gotta rampant all back up. I just don't see
that happening. I will buy that theory more than Lebron
steps away for good, but I don't think either will happen.
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I think the Lebron's gonna be playing basketball next season
because he's still playing at a high level and he's
still gonna get a ton of recognition, which he always
does and he loves that. So I think he's gonna
be back eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. That
is your number. I'm Brian, no in for Big Ben Mallor.
Let me just say one more thing and I'll get
to the militia last thing. The goat debate is officially over.
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I'm not gonna do a long drawn out thing because
Jordan v. Lebron. It is stale and I'm not a
huge fan of it either. But on the night that
Lebron was eliminated in a sweep, that does matter. And
I just think that with Lebron and his resume side
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by side with Jordan and his resume, a sweep like
this does matter. I'm not gonna blow it out of
proportion and say it's crushing and this is you know,
I don't know, it's not. It doesn't have to be
over the top, but it does matter when you're doing
the side by side comparison when Jordan is still leading
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Lebron in many instances, Jordan has ten scoring titles, Lebron
has one. I know Lebron is the all time leading scorer,
he's the all time leading compiler. Like Ordan has ten
scoring titles. Lebron's got one. One year he led the
league in scoring average. You've got Jordan with MVPs, more
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of them, more finals, MVPs, more first team, all defensive
that Jordan was on their nine times, Lebron five, like
on and on and on. So when you have a
sweep toward the end of your career, yeah, that's significant.
It does matter. If Lebron was ahead of Jordan in
all those categories I rattled off, wouldn't matter as much.
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But he's not ahead of him in those categories, so
it does matter. Shout out to George. He tweeted in
a little bit earlier and he wrote, I don't pay
attention to goat conversations, but I was wondering if you
think getting swept in the playoffs just affects Lebron's legacy.
MJ Magic, Kareem Bird were all swept twice in the playoffs,
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that that affect their legacy. It's a fair comment, fair question.
This is the way I would look at it. Whitle
down to Jordan and Lebron. The reason it matters more
for Lebron is because Lebron is chasing Jordan, Okay, like
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Lebron is chasing that guy. And so when we're looking
at this is toward the end of Lebron's career. He's
not ramping up, he's ramping down, and this is one
of the last things we're going to be left with
is a sweep that matters. And he hasn't surpassed Jordan
in many categories, so that does matter. And I also
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think that it shows where things are headed for the
next season or two, however long Lebron keeps playing. Is
if they got swept in the Western Conference finals, how
do you think he's gonna do better than that? Significantly
better meaning winning a championship going forward. That's not gonna happen.
Lebron's getting tired at the end of games. They just
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got dusted by denv. I just don't see how the
planets align and Lebron at thirty nine or Lebron at
forty is somehow winning a ring. So I think the
ring Trooper suit is over as well. So I think,
and I said it last night, if Lebron loses in
a sweep, I don't want to hear about Lebron associated
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with goat unless he's thinking about actually buying goats, Like
I don't want to goat debate unless Lebron is debating
with himself whether to purchase some goats or not. Right so,
I in my mind, it's over there you go, that's
all you want, as painless as possible, right there, as promised,
Let's get to the militia at eight seven, seven ninety
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nine on Fox, Bill and Jackson, Well, let's get to
Angry Bill. I love hearing from Angry Bill. What's going
on this morning? Bill?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
How you doing, gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Good?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I want to throw in some comments on this end
word okay, number one. They use it all the time
amongst themselves, all the time, going to an NBA locker room,
NFL locker room, anywhere you go, they're using themselves talking
about it and using it.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Okay, But you realize, Bill, you realize there's a difference. Okay,
but you got to realize there's a difference the picture
you're painting, there's a word difference. No, it's it doesn't
work the same way. Racist.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's supposed to be a disrespectful word, and they use it.
That's the point I'm making. Okay, Now they want to
go ahead and use it amongst themselves. Call showing the
hood guy and ask him how many times?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I think Bill got blown up right there. It just
doesn't work the same way. Man. It's you don't have
to have a PhD or be a rocket scientist to
understand there are certain words that they're just off limits
to you, right as a white guy. It's a no
fly zone. Like it or not. That's that's just the
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way it is. And I understand for some white people
it might be confusing or they might think, well, if
it's that vile, then why are you using it? Okay, fine,
I understand that, but it's still off limits. It's just
not the same thing at all. Let me get to
Doc Mike. I haven't heard from Doc Mike in a
while in Chicago. What's going on this morning?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Doc Mike is paying Jack. What a party we had
in Minneapolis. And I understand why Eddie and uh Boogaaloo
and all those guys didn't come out there because everybody
was fawning over Ben and his wife and all the
legends that were there, spin Cycle, Regina Holler, and James,
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Doc Mike.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
We had a ball.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I was arm wrestling over there with the half of
these half dozen guys.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Wait a minute, Doc, did you just did you just
shout yourself out there?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Ricky Henderson, Right, you did?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
I like that, though, Well, you know, when I came
up the I first first went to a real nice
dinner place and had some unbelievably fresh deep not.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Deep fried, but probably an oil liver that they made
in the Minneapolis area, liver and onions. I haven't had
that for years, but it was fantastic. So I come
up to the joint about five o'clock. It was starting
at five, and everybody's, hey, there's Doc. You got to
get the doc over here. Ben is there with his
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wife and spend Cycle, Regina. We had the wedding. It was.
It was fantastic, Probably one hundred and fifty people there
and just everybody paling around. I got some new patients
taking them off a drugs for hollering James all drugged
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up for a guy and to get him off of
the junk. And uh, just a perfect setting for.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
The North Pits.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's good to you.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Too bad you weren't there.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I know I should have been there. I should have
been there, Doc Mike. How about the travels, man, how
have the travels been? I know you're a man on
the move.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, my next stop is, uh Knoxville, Tennessee. Okay, we're
having a family reunion down there on the McCarthy side.
My mother's side probably have forty to fifty people for that,
you know, third generation. Oh, it just it's going to
be a ball and then back to Chicago.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I'm working on my winter.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I feel like, you know, does the Doc Mike family
reunion do you just like throw goldposts in the river?
I just feel like that, like the family reunion should
end with that. Like you're some Tennessee volunteer fans. What
do you do at the family reunion there?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Doc Mike drink, Oh, yeah, there's gonna be some of that.
But you know, a lot of my family, unfortunately on
the McCarthy side, have died. They were overweight, diabetic, some
heart attacks. It's really sad. And you know, I changed
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my lifestyle twenty five years ago when I got well,
got off my medications. It started going around the world
helping people get healthy. I mean, look at how healthy
Ben looks, even though he had some junk food over there.
And his wife is beautiful. I remember seeing her in
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Kansas before they got married. She married Life for her
has really agreed with her. She's gorgeous. Have you seen
you kind of better a few times?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I don't know. I haven't met Ben's wife.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
No, no, I go. Yeah, he's real pretty. So anyways,
it's just, you know, health is something that you have
to protect.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
You know.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
The pharmaceutical companies, the doctors, the insurance companies just don't
get it. You know, that's a business with them. If
you're sick, they're in business.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I don't go to doctors. I haven't been doctors for years.
And I just heard on the radio the other day
that seventy five percent of the doctors that went through
COVID are going to quit.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
They burned them out.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Well, you're fighting the good fight, Doc Mike, and we
appreciate that. Man for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
I've been drinking my urine for twenty years.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, you know, you substitute urine for job. Sometimes it
is an upgrade. It's the moral of this story right there.
All right, we got a lot to do, still a
lot going on over you're coming up next. I would
say it's it's not necessarily insult to injury, it's insult
to horrific play. We'll get to that right around the corner.
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Speaker 1 (19:28):
You know, Eddie, we were talking about we got to
come up with the name for the hole in one
that goes straight into the hole, just like Michael Block
just did during the PGA Championship right there. We've got
a couple of suggestions here on Twitter, our guy Tiberon
he wrote in and said, how about a holy one
for a hole in one on the fly, or you
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could try uh Shane Shane went with think it should
be called nothing but whole. So rthth to call in
and said, it's I guess it might be called ace
in the hole. I don't know that's a true thing
where it goes straight in. It's certainly not common knowledge
if that is the name.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I didn't hear that on the broadcast. I did not
hear Jim Nantz call it that, So I think if
there was like an official name for it, he probably
would have.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Used it might exactly exactly, of course, Roberto. He just
shortened ace in the Hole to ace hole, is what
he was suggesting. Right there, but maybe back to the
drawing board. What do you think about this, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Not bad suggestions, but I don't know that any of
those have really struck a chord with me.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I haven't won you over right there. I get it.
I understand that we randomly as we take weird turns
on the show from time to time, which we highly encourage.
I was talking about karaoke. Don't know how we got there,
but we did, and Cecile checked in and wrote the
worst karaoke I ever heard. I thought about you, and
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I don't know why when I read this, Eddie, but
based on our conversation, karaoke I ever heard was in
Hong Kong so Hotel bar with the native trying to
sing American Pie. He kept falling behind, and it was weird.
The audience would sing with him during the chorus to
catch him up. They'd go silent during the verses. Yeah, right, Like,
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it's supposed to be kind of bad when you're doing karaoke,
when you're singing. But there's a line, don't you think,
Eddie where it goes from, Yeah, it's supposed to be
bad to this is just really bad. This is this
shouldn't be this bad, And it happens every day and
then you just you know it when you hear it,
it's basically out.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Yeah, that's true. I've never well, like I said, I
only did it once, and nobody was so awful as
far as the just being terrible that it was a
turn off. There was just that one guy, like I said,
who wanted to really entertain everyone, and we weren't there
for that. His skills, yeah, the choice. To his credit,
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he probably was the best singer there. But again that's
not what we're there for. We're not here to see you,
you know, audition for Broadway or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, you're supposed to kind of be bad. I wish
I had audio of you doing bulls on parade. Man.
You talk about like rejoined material right there for Malor's
show Man, there got to be some goodness there from
that Carrioke.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Well that is apparently, you know, not it's not anywhere.
I'm sure no one was recording it with their I'm
guessing there's something in the system. I don't want to
make Roberto, you know, go hunting for something. But there's
I've had. I've sang a few times on the Fox
Sports radio airwaves. Done it?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
What comes to mind? What? What are some of this?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I think I did a duet with uh what was
that guy's name who got banned Roberto? I forgot his name,
now Real Talk. I did a Christmas song I think
with him. Maybe you did, I know, I did a
couple of songs with him, something like that. Oh I
did a thing with Blind Scott with that Tommy trumpet
thing with the.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Message Oh sure, yeah yeah, Well were you mimicking the trumpet?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
No, he was. He did the trumpet part. I did
the there's actually lyrics to the to the song. It's
like a I think it's a rap thing.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't think kind of yeah, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Yeah I did that, so, oh man.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That's funny. Real Talk's got some pipes right, Well, I.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Don't remember that he had no not really not that
I recall.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't no, okay, yeah, maybe not interesting right there
by the way, before we get to Eddie and his
update real fast, it wasn't quite insult to injury, but
it was insult to really bad play. So D'Angelo Russell
with the Lakers stunk up the joint in multiple games,
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just stunk up the series. He was bad and hardly
got any playing time in Game four, which is exactly
what should have been the case. And uh, to add
insult to bad play, on Monday night, Kyrie Irving was
sitting courtside, which is it's an aggressive move, it's a
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power play by Kyrie Irving, who's obviously been linked to
the Lakers, a lot of speculation with the Lakers potentially
make a move and get Kyrie Irving. But think about that.
If you're D'Angelo Russell and he knows he's struggling, he
knows he's playing badly, and there's Kyrie Irving court side,
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that was an interesting blend right there. So on top
of d' angelo stinking it up, Kyrie was there checking
out the game, you know, right there on the court,
and that could be maybe potentially the guy who takes
that spot going forward, we'll see what happens, but major
tweaking will be happening for the Lakers roster in the offseason.
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By the way, while we're talking about this whole in
one stuff, Darren is in Bakersfield. I want to hear
here what he has to say. Good morning, Darren. What's
going on, Bud?
Speaker 9 (25:03):
How you doing? Guys?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Good?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Hey, one of you had mentioned that called it a
golden hole. Yeah, but going with that, if you think
about it, when you get a hole in one, it's
two hunder par on the par three, so actually it's
an eagle, so you could call it a golden eagle.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
A golden egle.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Okay, not bad, it yah, not bad.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Just enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, thanks, Darren, appreciate that. What do you think, Eddie,
It's not bad, golden it's not bad. Makes sense. This
might be just a stupid question, but is every hole
in one on a par three? Has there ever been
a dude that's gone crazy, you know, t shot on
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a par four? That might be a really stupid question.
I don't know if you could, you know, like those
powerlifters and they just launched the bollocks four hundred feet
or four hundred yards or whatever, right, Like, I don't know,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Know if Happy Gilmore, maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Maybe Happy Gilmore could do it. Is that a stupid question?
Is every hole in one on A Part three?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yeah? I don't think. I don't think it's a stupid question.
But there's no way that somebody could do that what
we're talking about, like or straight in the hole? No, no, no,
there's maybe maybe you could hit one short and it
rolls up on the green and goes in. Maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah. But that's the thing is, we got to distinguish
it when it's straight in the hole. Like this guy,
Michael Block, it was straight in So yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
That's why we brought it up the beginning.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's what Darren is saying. Like, I like
what he's thinking with the uh the Golden Eagle, But
that doesn't tell you that it went straight in the hole,
you know what I mean? We got to have the
KerPlunk or whatever the hell it's going to be called.
Is I like acehole? It's my favorite right there? Man.
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At any event, we've got Eddie Garcia with us to
spin us around the sporting landscape. Lot going on in
the sports world and Eddie's gonna let us know all
about it.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
All right, thank you, Brian. Let's start with the NBA playoffs,
and he's all over. In the Western Conference Finals, Game
four goes to the Nuggets. They beat the Lakers in
LA one thirteen to one eleven. They do it by
rallying down fifteen points at the half, and they do
it thanks to Nikola Jokic. Eight triple double of this postseason.
I'm told by our friend Tim that that breaks the
record held by Wilt Chamberlain, who had seven triple doubles
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in one playoff. For Djokich and he's still got more
games to go. Thirty points, fourteen rebounds, and thirteen assists in.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
How many more ready? How many more do you think here?
As the finals? You think he's good for two more?
What do you think he gets to ten overall?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Oh, I definitely think he's good for two more.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, yeah, I would think so too.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Lebron James looked like he was on his way to
possibly a triple double. Had a great first half thirty
one points, but then just nine points in the second half.
He did have ten rebounds to go along with his
forty points, but not enough. Denver with its first ever
playoff sweep to advance to their first ever NBA finals.
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, Game three, Eastern Conference Finals, the
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Panthers edge of the Hurricanes won nothing only goal of
the game, scoring the second period on the power play
by Sam Reinhardt at Florida Bollie Serge Bbrowski thirty two
SAMs in net in the shoutout. As Florida takes a
three to zero series lead, they can close it out
with a sweep of their own on home ice on
Wednesday in Game four, news from the NFL, by a
vote of twenty four to eight, NFL owners approved flex
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scheduling for Thursday night football on a trial basis. Only
Thursday games during weeks thirteenth or seventeen are eligibly to reflexed.
It would require twenty eight days notice and with the
Thursday flex occurring a maximum of two times per season. Also,
the league approving a by law that allows teams to
have a third aft to quarterback on game days without
burning a roster spot. That third quarterback can only play
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if the two active quarterbacks are injured or disqualified from
the game. In baseball, we had the Dodgers beating the
Braves in Atlanta eight to six in a battle of
division leaders. Was JD. Martinez hitting a pair of home runs,
Pretty Freeman a three run shot as well. Pirates knock
off the Rangers six to four. Pittsburgh moving to a
tie with Milwaukee for the top spot in the NL
Central by beating the AL West leaders. As for the Brewers,
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they were beaten up by the Astros twelve to two.
Jordan Alvarez two homers, drove in five for Houston, who's
won eight in a row. They are a game back
of Texas in the AL West race, and the Rays
beat the Blue Jay six to four. Tampa Bay a
major league best thirty five and fourteen, also a major
league best twenty two and four at home, but less
than nine thousand showing up through the tropic Canna field
there for that game. Now about what I've almost forgot, Roberto,
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I think it's when the Lakers lose. It's just like, yeah,
it's not.
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We heard it? We heard it fine on our end.
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Speaker 1 (31:33):
I couldn't hear very good at all? Really, yeah no,
I could.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Well, that's unfortunately, because boy was good.
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Hey man, I thought I.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Gotta be honest with you. The first time we did it,
I thought it was a lot better her again, I
was like, I'm never gonna ask for that again.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
It typically works like that, doesn't it. You think it's gold,
and then you hear it back and you're like, that's
freaking awful. By the way, Eddie, what do you think
about this? Is this cool? Or is this uh not
so cool? All right, so, lot of burger it's just
like a Burger joint, you see it mostly in the South.
They're going to open up a new restaurant right there
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near the University of Alabama's campus.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
All right, so idea.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, so it's typically orange, like their logo is orange.
Oh yeah, so Auburn, Tennessee, both rivals Florida, even Florida.
Yeah sure, and so uh no orange at this location
near Alabama's campus.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
And I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I do too. I think that's awesome where it's just
like college football and rivalries and I love all that
type of stuff. I think that's cool. I vote thumbs
up on that no orange near the Alabama camp I agree.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
I do think though it goes a little far. Like
I know, I'm Jim Harbaugh got mad because some reporter
wore a red shirt to like a press conference. I'm like,
all right, dude, look that's okay for you. Maybe you
want to tell your coaches don't ever wear red or something.
But this guy doesn't work for the University of Michigan.
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He's a reporter. I mean, shut up. That was a
little much for me.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You know, it's interesting too. I got to interview the
late great Craig Sager one time and the interview was
ending and I was like, hey, Craig. He was doing
March Madness. I was like, hey Craig, but you gonna
wear anything crazy? And he was like he gave me
an interesting answer. He's like, you know, I do that
by design if I wear all these crazy colors and
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plaid and all this stuff. He's like, I don't get
anybody talking trash. Like if I wear a red blazer
and I'm doing the Wisconsin game or whatever, the other
team is crushing me. So he's like, he wore a
lot of those loud, eclectic things just so he was
neutral while doing the game. That's pretty interesting. I didn't
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know he was doing that by his art with that
in mind at least, you know, I thought I was
just being colorful, but he was trying to be neutral
and not be perceived like he was favoring.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Really, I don't know if I buy that you don't
buy it. No, I think he was trying to be
stand out. I don't think he was.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Oh yeah, I do too. I think he was absolutely
trying to stand out. But there was an element there of, Hey,
I'm not trying to be perceived as a.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
F then just wear a gray suit, Craig.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
That's going to be favoring something, right or a block
to wear something like that's kind of Detroit lion, like
your favoring the lions or I don't know. It's a
bad example, but uh, yeah, that's what he said. You
think the late great Craig Sager was just lying through
his teeth over there.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Just because he's passed away doesn't mean he didn't tell lies.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I take him at his word. Man, I thought he
was telling me the truth. But interesting stuff there, all right?
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Speaker 1 (36:09):
Thank you, Eddie good hanging with you, Bud. Hope to
do it again sometime soon, man, But you know I
got something to throw it your way. Two things real fast.
So one thing I thought that was interesting was Lebron
was warming up hours before the game. So he's getting
shots up. He's the only guy doing it, and in
the background about mid court. They had this massive people
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on the court, and they explained during the game. Mike
Green said they were doing like a rehearsal for the
trophy ceremony should the Nuggets win the game.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Oh, it's surreal for that.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah, well they're just sort of all right, this is
how it's gonna work. This is where the stage will be,
this is where the camera will be. Like, they're just
coordinating all of that stuff. And so it was surreal.
Lebron's warming up before the game, is getting his shots up,
and meanwhile they're having essentially like a trophy ceremony walk
through should Denver win. And that's exactly what happened. Interesting
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on Monday night. It's pretty crazy. And also how about
this eddie you know you think about It was an accomplishment,
even though it was embarrassing the Lakers got blown out
the way they did swept in the series, it was
an accomplishment to get to the conference finals, to be
in the NBA's version of the Final Four. I've said
this for years, man, I'll keep it short, but getting
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to the Final four in the NBA sometimes it's even
harder than getting to the Final four in college basketball.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Come on, Ben Maller. I was gonna say, did he
say the same thing?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Well, he said the Clippers made the Final Four that
one year, and it's like that's a big deal for
him as a Clipper fan. Oh okay, yeah, Well we
destroyed him for that day.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
He crushed him. But that's the thing is in college
they're hanging banners and it's this huge thing. It's an accomplishment.
I think we away over the top overly celebrating a
Final four in college basketball, even though it's an accomplishment.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
We go, but you got one hundred something teams trying
to get to a Final four.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, you gotta win four games. You don't go through
one hundred teams. You win four games, and sometimes your
path is cake cake, and we.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Don't care if you have superior talent. Your team's gonna
win anyway, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Look at Miami there's a good example. Look at their path.
So they had to survive the play in. They beat
the Bucks, who have the best record in the NBA,
and they beat them in a gentleman suite. It's hard
to even beat them to begin with. In a series,
they beat them in five. One of those games to
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change the series it did change the series, absolutely impacted.
But still to beat them in five like that when
Giannis is playing half the time, that's still good. And
then they ran through the knicks. That that just to
me is a harder path than some of these teams
that make it to the final four, some of them
as a one seed, you gotta lay up against the sixteen.
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Sometimes you boat race an eight or a nine, and
it's just it's an easy path and we don't care.
We're just like whatever, it's the final four. It's prestigious.
We just don't celebrate in the NBA nearly as much.
But Ben made the plea for the Clippers, and he guys,
he turned you against the argument. I guess is how
it works out. I want to know this. Are the
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Celtics gonna lay down like dogs over here? So they're
getting punked even more. Celtics are facing a Lakers like fate,
one loss away from getting swept by the Miami Heat.
So Jimmy Butler, he goes on Instagram and he's continuing
the countdown to a title, and so his latest it's
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Jimmy Butler and it says five. It's like it's screen name, right,
it's five more wins until they would win a championship,
and he posted a picture where he's pointing at Grant
Williams after an and one in the previous game. It's
like Celtics have some freaking pride. They're getting punked on
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the court, they're losing. You got Jimmy with his ig
posts and they're just mocking the Celtics. It's like, if
they have any pride they show up in Game four.
I'm not gonna run to the betting window that they will, though,
is how it works out. Everybody, have a great morning.
I'll catch you later.
Everybody, It's Brian. No lots going on the show. We've
got the Lakers getting swept four straight games, l L
L L, Nicola, Jokicchen, the Nuggets moving on hot Knife
through Butter Lebron. Is he gonna retire? No, no, no,
he just likes the attention. But a lot of non
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basketball stuff as well, a lot of NFL news Thursday night,
flex scheduling, emergency quarterbacks, so we got a lot to
get to. Hopefully you enjoy the podcast and thanks for
stopping by.
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buying should be. So Carmelo Anthony the number three overall
pick in two thousand and three, he officially called it
a career, and he retires after nineteen seasons. It's a
ten time All Star, It's a scoring champion twenty thirteen
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member of the NBA seventy fifth Anniversary team, of course,
won that title at Syracuse and O three three time
gold medalist. Retires as the nine to number nine on
the all time scoring List's ninth all time and the
question is will number one follow suits? So Lebron James
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the number one overall pick in two thousand and three.
So a couple of thoughts on this, and I'll get
to the militia. I'll give me a little bit of
a time here. I'll lay this out. So, first off, Carmelo,
I like that he finally finally got some recognition and
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some praise toward the end of his career, because most
of Carmelo's career was what he didn't accomplish or what
he wasn't on the court, Like he was not a
defensive maven. He did not win a championship, and most
of his career was he's not. He didn't, he's not,
he didn't, he can't. Like that's what really changed was
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it's crazy because he had you spent nine eight years
with the Nuggets, seven years the Knicks, and then he
was with the Oklahoma City Thunder, remember that, where he
just he was not an outside shooter at the time,
and there was this whole thing about he didn't want
to come off the bench. I'll never forget the press
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conference where he's talking to Paul George and he was
asked a question about coming off the bench, and he's like, hey, hey, Paul, Paul,
they're talking about me coming off the bench. And a
lot of people at the time were like, that would
actually be a good idea. Right then he went to Houston,
had a cup of coffee. There was just there for
a matter of games, like ten games or something like that.
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Not an outside shooter didn't work out. So he fizzled
out quickly with OKC and with Houston. And then when
he went to Portland, he reached a couple of milestones.
I think he got to the being the tenth overall
score while at Portland, and he really did get some
recognition for this is one of the best offensive players
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in league history. He's number nine, that's what he ended
up in all time scoring. And so it really did
flip toward the end, or at least for a little while.
It wasn't what Carmelo couldn't do or hadn't done. It
was like, this dude is still an outstanding offensive guy.
So it's nice to see him get some praise. At
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the end. He had an awesome retirement video. If you
haven't seen it, I encourage you to check it out.
It was incredibly popular, and he was basically just saying
that his legacy, he thinks beyond himself and it's now
with his son who will carry on his name. And
you know, it was cool. It was a really well
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done job there. Now, as far as Lebron goes, is
Lebron gonna do the same thing? Is he going to retire?
He talked about this after the Lakers got swept at
the hands of Jokic, Jamal and the Nuggets over there
for and done, and Lebron was asked about maybe, you know,
leaving the game, and he was, I would say a
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bit dramatic, but I'll give him some grace at the
end of the season. It's tiring. His tank is on empty.
He said, I gotta think about it now. My stance
is he just wants some of the limelight. He wants
people talking about him. The guy loves attention. That's not
automatically a bad thing, but he loves him some attention.
There's no attention on Lebron if he just says, oh,
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I fully intend to come back next season. Lebron likes
to be dramatic at times, and he's gonna be like,
I don't know, I gotta think about it. You know,
maybe begged me a little bit. That wouldn't hurt, right, Like,
I don't think that Lebron is retiring. He's made it
very very clear that he wants to team up with
his son, Bronni James. That would be in two seasons. Now,
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here's the thing, here's the twist, and I give Brandon
some credit. Brandon Truffel with his trusted producer this evening
Slash Morning. He said, there's a theory he going on that, Hey,
what if Lebron steps aside for this next season and
then he unretires and teams up with his son Broni
the next year. I'll say this, I think that's much
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more likely than Lebron is just done for good. I
think he's just gassed at the end of the season
and he wants to get a little attention by playing
the I don't know if I'm gonna come back card.
I think that if he took a year off, that's
more likely than he just walks away for good. He's
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still playing at a high level, not lebron peak level,
but he just dropped forty points at ten rebounds and
nine assists, played all but four seconds. That's not your
typical thirty eight year old. So I just think that Lebron,
if he did shut it down for a year, I
think it would be so hard to ramp back up
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at age forty after a year off. I think that
would be incredibly difficult. Like sometimes your body there's this
tendency to think, oh, you shut it down for a year.
Lebron at age forty, he's gonna be so rested, he's
gonna be ready to go. Sometimes your body g it's
the opposite. Your body's like, oh cool, So we're not
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going through all of this rigorous stuff. I guess we're
we're in. Like, I don't know enjoy life mode. We're
like in full Dadbod mode right Like it's like, no,
you gotta rampant all back up. I just don't see
that happening. I will buy that theory more than Lebron
steps away for good, but I don't think either will happen.
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I think the Lebron's gonna be playing basketball next season
because he's still playing at a high level and he's
still gonna get a ton of recognition, which he always
does and he loves that. So I think he's gonna
be back eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. That
is your number. I'm Brian, no in for Big Ben Mallor.
Let me just say one more thing and I'll get
to the militia last thing. The goat debate is officially over.
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I'm not gonna do a long drawn out thing because
Jordan v. Lebron. It is stale and I'm not a
huge fan of it either. But on the night that
Lebron was eliminated in a sweep, that does matter. And
I just think that with Lebron and his resume side
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by side with Jordan and his resume, a sweep like
this does matter. I'm not gonna blow it out of
proportion and say it's crushing and this is you know,
I don't know, it's not. It doesn't have to be
over the top, but it does matter when you're doing
the side by side comparison when Jordan is still leading
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Lebron in many instances, Jordan has ten scoring titles, Lebron
has one. I know Lebron is the all time leading scorer,
he's the all time leading compiler. Like Ordan has ten
scoring titles. Lebron's got one. One year he led the
league in scoring average. You've got Jordan with MVPs, more
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of them, more finals, MVPs, more first team, all defensive
that Jordan was on their nine times, Lebron five, like
on and on and on. So when you have a
sweep toward the end of your career, yeah, that's significant.
It does matter. If Lebron was ahead of Jordan in
all those categories I rattled off, wouldn't matter as much.
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But he's not ahead of him in those categories, so
it does matter. Shout out to George. He tweeted in
a little bit earlier and he wrote, I don't pay
attention to goat conversations, but I was wondering if you
think getting swept in the playoffs just affects Lebron's legacy.
MJ Magic, Kareem Bird were all swept twice in the playoffs,
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that that affect their legacy. It's a fair comment, fair question.
This is the way I would look at it. Whitle
down to Jordan and Lebron. The reason it matters more
for Lebron is because Lebron is chasing Jordan, Okay, like
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Lebron is chasing that guy. And so when we're looking
at this is toward the end of Lebron's career. He's
not ramping up, he's ramping down, and this is one
of the last things we're going to be left with
is a sweep that matters. And he hasn't surpassed Jordan
in many categories, so that does matter. And I also
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think that it shows where things are headed for the
next season or two, however long Lebron keeps playing. Is
if they got swept in the Western Conference finals, how
do you think he's gonna do better than that? Significantly
better meaning winning a championship going forward. That's not gonna happen.
Lebron's getting tired at the end of games. They just
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got dusted by denv. I just don't see how the
planets align and Lebron at thirty nine or Lebron at
forty is somehow winning a ring. So I think the
ring Trooper suit is over as well. So I think,
and I said it last night, if Lebron loses in
a sweep, I don't want to hear about Lebron associated
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with goat unless he's thinking about actually buying goats, Like
I don't want to goat debate unless Lebron is debating
with himself whether to purchase some goats or not. Right so,
I in my mind, it's over there you go, that's
all you want, as painless as possible, right there, as promised,
Let's get to the militia at eight seven, seven ninety
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nine on Fox, Bill and Jackson, Well, let's get to
Angry Bill. I love hearing from Angry Bill. What's going
on this morning? Bill?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
How you doing, gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Good?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I want to throw in some comments on this end
word okay, number one. They use it all the time
amongst themselves, all the time, going to an NBA locker room,
NFL locker room, anywhere you go, they're using themselves talking
about it and using it.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Okay, But you realize, Bill, you realize there's a difference. Okay,
but you got to realize there's a difference the picture
you're painting, there's a word difference. No, it's it doesn't
work the same way. Racist.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's supposed to be a disrespectful word, and they use it.
That's the point I'm making. Okay, Now they want to
go ahead and use it amongst themselves. Call showing the
hood guy and ask him how many times?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I think Bill got blown up right there. It just
doesn't work the same way. Man. It's you don't have
to have a PhD or be a rocket scientist to
understand there are certain words that they're just off limits
to you, right as a white guy. It's a no
fly zone. Like it or not. That's that's just the
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way it is. And I understand for some white people
it might be confusing or they might think, well, if
it's that vile, then why are you using it? Okay, fine,
I understand that, but it's still off limits. It's just
not the same thing at all. Let me get to
Doc Mike. I haven't heard from Doc Mike in a
while in Chicago. What's going on this morning?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Doc Mike is paying Jack. What a party we had
in Minneapolis. And I understand why Eddie and uh Boogaaloo
and all those guys didn't come out there because everybody
was fawning over Ben and his wife and all the
legends that were there, spin Cycle, Regina Holler, and James,
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Doc Mike.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
We had a ball.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I was arm wrestling over there with the half of
these half dozen guys.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Wait a minute, Doc, did you just did you just
shout yourself out there?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Ricky Henderson, Right, you did?
Speaker 7 (14:06):
I like that, though, Well, you know, when I came
up the I first first went to a real nice
dinner place and had some unbelievably fresh deep not.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Deep fried, but probably an oil liver that they made
in the Minneapolis area, liver and onions. I haven't had
that for years, but it was fantastic. So I come
up to the joint about five o'clock. It was starting
at five, and everybody's, hey, there's Doc. You got to
get the doc over here. Ben is there with his
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wife and spend Cycle, Regina. We had the wedding. It was.
It was fantastic, Probably one hundred and fifty people there
and just everybody paling around. I got some new patients
taking them off a drugs for hollering James all drugged
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up for a guy and to get him off of
the junk. And uh, just a perfect setting for.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
The North Pits.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's good to you.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Too bad you weren't there.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I know I should have been there. I should have
been there, Doc Mike. How about the travels, man, how
have the travels been? I know you're a man on
the move.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, my next stop is, uh Knoxville, Tennessee. Okay, we're
having a family reunion down there on the McCarthy side.
My mother's side probably have forty to fifty people for that,
you know, third generation. Oh, it just it's going to
be a ball and then back to Chicago.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I'm working on my winter.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I feel like, you know, does the Doc Mike family
reunion do you just like throw goldposts in the river?
I just feel like that, like the family reunion should
end with that. Like you're some Tennessee volunteer fans. What
do you do at the family reunion there?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Doc Mike drink, Oh, yeah, there's gonna be some of that.
But you know, a lot of my family, unfortunately on
the McCarthy side, have died. They were overweight, diabetic, some
heart attacks. It's really sad. And you know, I changed
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my lifestyle twenty five years ago when I got well,
got off my medications. It started going around the world
helping people get healthy. I mean, look at how healthy
Ben looks, even though he had some junk food over there.
And his wife is beautiful. I remember seeing her in
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Kansas before they got married. She married Life for her
has really agreed with her. She's gorgeous. Have you seen
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They burned them out.
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All right, we got a lot to do, still a
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Speaker 1 (19:28):
You know, Eddie, we were talking about we got to
come up with the name for the hole in one
that goes straight into the hole, just like Michael Block
just did during the PGA Championship right there. We've got
a couple of suggestions here on Twitter, our guy Tiberon
he wrote in and said, how about a holy one
for a hole in one on the fly, or you
(19:49):
could try uh Shane Shane went with think it should
be called nothing but whole. So rthth to call in
and said, it's I guess it might be called ace
in the hole. I don't know that's a true thing
where it goes straight in. It's certainly not common knowledge
if that is the name.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I didn't hear that on the broadcast. I did not
hear Jim Nantz call it that, So I think if
there was like an official name for it, he probably
would have.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Used it might exactly exactly, of course, Roberto. He just
shortened ace in the Hole to ace hole, is what
he was suggesting. Right there, but maybe back to the
drawing board. What do you think about this, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Not bad suggestions, but I don't know that any of
those have really struck a chord with me.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I haven't won you over right there. I get it.
I understand that we randomly as we take weird turns
on the show from time to time, which we highly encourage.
I was talking about karaoke. Don't know how we got there,
but we did, and Cecile checked in and wrote the
worst karaoke I ever heard. I thought about you, and
(20:55):
I don't know why when I read this, Eddie, but
based on our conversation, karaoke I ever heard was in
Hong Kong so Hotel bar with the native trying to
sing American Pie. He kept falling behind, and it was weird.
The audience would sing with him during the chorus to
catch him up. They'd go silent during the verses. Yeah, right, Like,
(21:18):
it's supposed to be kind of bad when you're doing karaoke,
when you're singing. But there's a line, don't you think,
Eddie where it goes from, Yeah, it's supposed to be
bad to this is just really bad. This is this
shouldn't be this bad, And it happens every day and
then you just you know it when you hear it,
it's basically out.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Yeah, that's true. I've never well, like I said, I
only did it once, and nobody was so awful as
far as the just being terrible that it was a
turn off. There was just that one guy, like I said,
who wanted to really entertain everyone, and we weren't there
for that. His skills, yeah, the choice. To his credit,
(21:59):
he probably was the best singer there. But again that's
not what we're there for. We're not here to see you,
you know, audition for Broadway or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, you're supposed to kind of be bad. I wish
I had audio of you doing bulls on parade. Man.
You talk about like rejoined material right there for Malor's
show Man, there got to be some goodness there from
that Carrioke.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Well that is apparently, you know, not it's not anywhere.
I'm sure no one was recording it with their I'm
guessing there's something in the system. I don't want to
make Roberto, you know, go hunting for something. But there's
I've had. I've sang a few times on the Fox
Sports radio airwaves. Done it?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
What comes to mind? What? What are some of this?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I think I did a duet with uh what was
that guy's name who got banned Roberto? I forgot his name,
now Real Talk. I did a Christmas song I think
with him. Maybe you did, I know, I did a
couple of songs with him, something like that. Oh I
did a thing with Blind Scott with that Tommy trumpet
thing with the.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Message Oh sure, yeah yeah, Well were you mimicking the trumpet?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
No, he was. He did the trumpet part. I did
the there's actually lyrics to the to the song. It's
like a I think it's a rap thing.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't think kind of yeah, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Yeah I did that, so, oh man.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That's funny. Real Talk's got some pipes right, Well, I.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Don't remember that he had no not really not that
I recall.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I don't no, okay, yeah, maybe not interesting right there
by the way, before we get to Eddie and his
update real fast, it wasn't quite insult to injury, but
it was insult to really bad play. So D'Angelo Russell
with the Lakers stunk up the joint in multiple games,
(23:46):
just stunk up the series. He was bad and hardly
got any playing time in Game four, which is exactly
what should have been the case. And uh, to add
insult to bad play, on Monday night, Kyrie Irving was
sitting courtside, which is it's an aggressive move, it's a
(24:10):
power play by Kyrie Irving, who's obviously been linked to
the Lakers, a lot of speculation with the Lakers potentially
make a move and get Kyrie Irving. But think about that.
If you're D'Angelo Russell and he knows he's struggling, he
knows he's playing badly, and there's Kyrie Irving court side,
(24:31):
that was an interesting blend right there. So on top
of d' angelo stinking it up, Kyrie was there checking
out the game, you know, right there on the court,
and that could be maybe potentially the guy who takes
that spot going forward, we'll see what happens, but major
tweaking will be happening for the Lakers roster in the offseason.
(24:54):
By the way, while we're talking about this whole in
one stuff, Darren is in Bakersfield. I want to hear
here what he has to say. Good morning, Darren. What's
going on, Bud?
Speaker 9 (25:03):
How you doing? Guys?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Good?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Hey, one of you had mentioned that called it a
golden hole. Yeah, but going with that, if you think
about it, when you get a hole in one, it's
two hunder par on the par three, so actually it's
an eagle, so you could call it a golden eagle.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
A golden egle.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Okay, not bad, it yah, not bad.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
Just enjoy your show.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, thanks, Darren, appreciate that. What do you think, Eddie,
It's not bad, golden it's not bad. Makes sense. This
might be just a stupid question, but is every hole
in one on a par three? Has there ever been
a dude that's gone crazy, you know, t shot on
(25:54):
a par four? That might be a really stupid question.
I don't know if you could, you know, like those
powerlifters and they just launched the bollocks four hundred feet
or four hundred yards or whatever, right, Like, I don't know,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Know if Happy Gilmore, maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Maybe Happy Gilmore could do it. Is that a stupid question?
Is every hole in one on A Part three?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Yeah? I don't think. I don't think it's a stupid question.
But there's no way that somebody could do that what
we're talking about, like or straight in the hole? No, no, no,
there's maybe maybe you could hit one short and it
rolls up on the green and goes in. Maybe.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah. But that's the thing is, we got to distinguish
it when it's straight in the hole. Like this guy,
Michael Block, it was straight in So yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
That's why we brought it up the beginning.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's what Darren is saying. Like, I like
what he's thinking with the uh the Golden Eagle, But
that doesn't tell you that it went straight in the hole,
you know what I mean? We got to have the
KerPlunk or whatever the hell it's going to be called.
Is I like acehole? It's my favorite right there? Man.
(27:09):
At any event, we've got Eddie Garcia with us to
spin us around the sporting landscape. Lot going on in
the sports world and Eddie's gonna let us know all
about it.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
All right, thank you, Brian. Let's start with the NBA playoffs,
and he's all over. In the Western Conference Finals, Game
four goes to the Nuggets. They beat the Lakers in
LA one thirteen to one eleven. They do it by
rallying down fifteen points at the half, and they do
it thanks to Nikola Jokic. Eight triple double of this postseason.
I'm told by our friend Tim that that breaks the
record held by Wilt Chamberlain, who had seven triple doubles
(27:42):
in one playoff. For Djokich and he's still got more
games to go. Thirty points, fourteen rebounds, and thirteen assists in.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
How many more ready? How many more do you think here?
As the finals? You think he's good for two more?
What do you think he gets to ten overall?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Oh, I definitely think he's good for two more.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, yeah, I would think so too.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Lebron James looked like he was on his way to
possibly a triple double. Had a great first half thirty
one points, but then just nine points in the second half.
He did have ten rebounds to go along with his
forty points, but not enough. Denver with its first ever
playoff sweep to advance to their first ever NBA finals.
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, Game three, Eastern Conference Finals, the
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Panthers edge of the Hurricanes won nothing only goal of
the game, scoring the second period on the power play
by Sam Reinhardt at Florida Bollie Serge Bbrowski thirty two
SAMs in net in the shoutout. As Florida takes a
three to zero series lead, they can close it out
with a sweep of their own on home ice on
Wednesday in Game four, news from the NFL, by a
vote of twenty four to eight, NFL owners approved flex
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scheduling for Thursday night football on a trial basis. Only
Thursday games during weeks thirteenth or seventeen are eligibly to reflexed.
It would require twenty eight days notice and with the
Thursday flex occurring a maximum of two times per season. Also,
the league approving a by law that allows teams to
have a third aft to quarterback on game days without
burning a roster spot. That third quarterback can only play
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if the two active quarterbacks are injured or disqualified from
the game. In baseball, we had the Dodgers beating the
Braves in Atlanta eight to six in a battle of
division leaders. Was JD. Martinez hitting a pair of home runs,
Pretty Freeman a three run shot as well. Pirates knock
off the Rangers six to four. Pittsburgh moving to a
tie with Milwaukee for the top spot in the NL
Central by beating the AL West leaders. As for the Brewers,
(29:24):
they were beaten up by the Astros twelve to two.
Jordan Alvarez two homers, drove in five for Houston, who's
won eight in a row. They are a game back
of Texas in the AL West race, and the Rays
beat the Blue Jay six to four. Tampa Bay a
major league best thirty five and fourteen, also a major
league best twenty two and four at home, but less
than nine thousand showing up through the tropic Canna field
there for that game. Now about what I've almost forgot, Roberto,
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then again, sometimes the guy who does the updates forgets to.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I think it's when the Lakers lose. It's just like, yeah,
it's not.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
And then sometimes your burto bails me out. But he didn't.
He didn't on this one. That's okay, that's my fault.
I gotta play the day today, Hey, Brian, let's go
with our progressive player of the day. Yeah, that's not
a very good play. Everybody doing that timmy trumpet things.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
On somewhat, I think. I think here's my.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Speaking every day, are trying to get it pop in
each and every way. There's the nation under goons. My
goons are stripping all these cats down there under.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
Rus Ruse.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Covered from.
Speaker 11 (31:13):
Ruse rus Rus.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Why is it so quiet?
Speaker 5 (31:29):
We heard it? We heard it fine on our end.
I don't know. Yeah, very good.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
I couldn't hear very good at all? Really, yeah no,
I could.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Well, that's unfortunately, because boy was good.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Hey man, I thought I.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Gotta be honest with you. The first time we did it,
I thought it was a lot better her again, I
was like, I'm never gonna ask for that again.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
It typically works like that, doesn't it. You think it's gold,
and then you hear it back and you're like, that's
freaking awful. By the way, Eddie, what do you think
about this? Is this cool? Or is this uh not
so cool? All right, so, lot of burger it's just
like a Burger joint, you see it mostly in the South.
They're going to open up a new restaurant right there
(32:15):
near the University of Alabama's campus.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
All right, so idea.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, so it's typically orange, like their logo is orange.
Oh yeah, so Auburn, Tennessee, both rivals Florida, even Florida.
Yeah sure, and so uh no orange at this location
near Alabama's campus.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
And I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I do too. I think that's awesome where it's just
like college football and rivalries and I love all that
type of stuff. I think that's cool. I vote thumbs
up on that no orange near the Alabama camp I agree.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
I do think though it goes a little far. Like
I know, I'm Jim Harbaugh got mad because some reporter
wore a red shirt to like a press conference. I'm like,
all right, dude, look that's okay for you. Maybe you
want to tell your coaches don't ever wear red or something.
But this guy doesn't work for the University of Michigan.
(33:16):
He's a reporter. I mean, shut up. That was a
little much for me.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You know, it's interesting too. I got to interview the
late great Craig Sager one time and the interview was
ending and I was like, hey, Craig. He was doing
March Madness. I was like, hey Craig, but you gonna
wear anything crazy? And he was like he gave me
an interesting answer. He's like, you know, I do that
by design if I wear all these crazy colors and
(33:41):
plaid and all this stuff. He's like, I don't get
anybody talking trash. Like if I wear a red blazer
and I'm doing the Wisconsin game or whatever, the other
team is crushing me. So he's like, he wore a
lot of those loud, eclectic things just so he was
neutral while doing the game. That's pretty interesting. I didn't
(34:03):
know he was doing that by his art with that
in mind at least, you know, I thought I was
just being colorful, but he was trying to be neutral
and not be perceived like he was favoring.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Really, I don't know if I buy that you don't
buy it. No, I think he was trying to be
stand out. I don't think he was.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Oh yeah, I do too. I think he was absolutely
trying to stand out. But there was an element there of, Hey,
I'm not trying to be perceived as a.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
F then just wear a gray suit, Craig.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
That's going to be favoring something, right or a block
to wear something like that's kind of Detroit lion, like
your favoring the lions or I don't know. It's a
bad example, but uh, yeah, that's what he said. You
think the late great Craig Sager was just lying through
his teeth over there.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Just because he's passed away doesn't mean he didn't tell lies.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I take him at his word. Man, I thought he
was telling me the truth. But interesting stuff there, all right?
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Speaker 1 (36:09):
Thank you, Eddie good hanging with you, Bud. Hope to
do it again sometime soon, man, But you know I
got something to throw it your way. Two things real fast.
So one thing I thought that was interesting was Lebron
was warming up hours before the game. So he's getting
shots up. He's the only guy doing it, and in
the background about mid court. They had this massive people
(36:31):
on the court, and they explained during the game. Mike
Green said they were doing like a rehearsal for the
trophy ceremony should the Nuggets win the game.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Oh, it's surreal for that.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah, well they're just sort of all right, this is
how it's gonna work. This is where the stage will be,
this is where the camera will be. Like, they're just
coordinating all of that stuff. And so it was surreal.
Lebron's warming up before the game, is getting his shots up,
and meanwhile they're having essentially like a trophy ceremony walk
through should Denver win. And that's exactly what happened. Interesting
(37:10):
on Monday night. It's pretty crazy. And also how about
this eddie you know you think about It was an accomplishment,
even though it was embarrassing the Lakers got blown out
the way they did swept in the series, it was
an accomplishment to get to the conference finals, to be
in the NBA's version of the Final Four. I've said
this for years, man, I'll keep it short, but getting
(37:32):
to the Final four in the NBA sometimes it's even
harder than getting to the Final four in college basketball.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Come on, Ben Maller. I was gonna say, did he
say the same thing?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Well, he said the Clippers made the Final Four that
one year, and it's like that's a big deal for
him as a Clipper fan. Oh okay, yeah, Well we
destroyed him for that day.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
He crushed him. But that's the thing is in college
they're hanging banners and it's this huge thing. It's an accomplishment.
I think we away over the top overly celebrating a
Final four in college basketball, even though it's an accomplishment.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
We go, but you got one hundred something teams trying
to get to a Final four.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, you gotta win four games. You don't go through
one hundred teams. You win four games, and sometimes your
path is cake cake, and we.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Don't care if you have superior talent. Your team's gonna
win anyway, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Look at Miami there's a good example. Look at their path.
So they had to survive the play in. They beat
the Bucks, who have the best record in the NBA,
and they beat them in a gentleman suite. It's hard
to even beat them to begin with. In a series,
they beat them in five. One of those games to
(38:46):
change the series it did change the series, absolutely impacted.
But still to beat them in five like that when
Giannis is playing half the time, that's still good. And
then they ran through the knicks. That that just to
me is a harder path than some of these teams
that make it to the final four, some of them
as a one seed, you gotta lay up against the sixteen.
(39:08):
Sometimes you boat race an eight or a nine, and
it's just it's an easy path and we don't care.
We're just like whatever, it's the final four. It's prestigious.
We just don't celebrate in the NBA nearly as much.
But Ben made the plea for the Clippers, and he guys,
he turned you against the argument. I guess is how
it works out. I want to know this. Are the
(39:31):
Celtics gonna lay down like dogs over here? So they're
getting punked even more. Celtics are facing a Lakers like fate,
one loss away from getting swept by the Miami Heat.
So Jimmy Butler, he goes on Instagram and he's continuing
the countdown to a title, and so his latest it's
(39:52):
Jimmy Butler and it says five. It's like it's screen name, right,
it's five more wins until they would win a championship,
and he posted a picture where he's pointing at Grant
Williams after an and one in the previous game. It's
like Celtics have some freaking pride. They're getting punked on
(40:14):
the court, they're losing. You got Jimmy with his ig
posts and they're just mocking the Celtics. It's like, if
they have any pride they show up in Game four.
I'm not gonna run to the betting window that they will, though,
is how it works out. Everybody, have a great morning.
I'll catch you later.
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