May 10, 2024 • 38 mins
Bernie Fratto is in for Ben Maller and does a new edition of What Kind of Brand New Fool Are You?, What My Name, how Minnesota sports could be ending years of futility, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that's right, you heard the man. The Ben Mallor
Show just keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frattiworck,
coming you live from the tyract dot com studios here
in Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio. I'm sitting in for
Ben tonight. He is in Charleston, South Carolina for his
big event. You're going to want to go pay him
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my show because.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What we do is we try to observe.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Jogi Barratt once said, you can observe a lot by
watching across this great land of our sea to Oily Sea, and.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Certainly around the globe.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, people they do things, They simply engage in activities
which well, sometimes they're just kind of silly and stupid,
inocuous and not very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Other times they're far more dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Than Many times they end up breaking the law, and
other times well they can even land you in jail.
But anyway you slice it, any way you characterize it,
any way you describe it. The behaviors that these people
engage in, they always leave you scratching your head and
asking yourself, what kind of brand new fool of you?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So, what kind of brand new fool are you?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
This one's kind of a doozy and it almost plays
into the roundtable discussion we had about an hour ago,
because it takes place outside of a grocery store, and
God only knows. Perhaps the young lady was maybe returning
her cart to the proper receptacle, if you call it that.
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But whatever happened, she returned to find out her car
had been stolen. That in and of itself is bad enough.
But the poor young lady, he had left her young
son in the car. So it happened Saturday morning in
front of a bunch of people. She panicked as anybody would.
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She was driving a silver Honda. She left the engine running.
We don't know. I don't know those details. But here's
where the story gets interesting, And it took place in Beaverton, Oregon.
So usually I have the name of the individual who
is partaken in the stupid act, but in this particular case.
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The name has been withheld by the Beaverton Police Department.
Just as the lady was about to lose her mind,
her Honda comes speeding back around the corner. The man
who stole the car proceeded to scold the lady, how
could you leave your son in a car by yourself?
Get him out of the car. And then as she
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got her son out of the car, he took off
with the car again and stole it again. He got
away for a while, but he was eventually caught in
a nearby parking lot and the police apprehended him, at
which point he was still criticizing the woman for leaving
her son in the car.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Can't make this stuff up, folks.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The stolen Honda pilot was finally recovered Saturday night. And
unnamed person in Beaverton, Oregon who stole the car but
was nice enough to return the son to her mother.
He's in big trouble, unknown man in Beaverton. All I
can say is, what kind of brand new fool?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Are you? All right? That bit now allows.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Us to segue into our second favorite, which we lovingly
refer to as what my name? And of course Eddie
and the crew have excelled at this game, and so
we will pick up right where we left off. I
currently hold the New York Knicks franchise record for most
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points in a single playoff game.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Eddiegarcia, what my name?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Let's go with Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Not a bad guest, but not Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I hold the New York Knicks franchise record for the
most points in a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Coop, what my name?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It is, in fact, Jalen Brunson. Bicely done out of
the game, Stay in New York. This is fairly random,
believe it or not. As a major league baseball player,
I have struck out more times than any other player
in Major League baseball history.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Loreena Peterson, what my name? Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Who's that one guy?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Babe Ruth?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Hey, that's not a bad guess. He's struck out of
thirteen hundred times. And wow, believe it or not, it's
not him, not him, But you're not that far off,
all right, in the history of Major League baseball, I
have struck out more times than any other player in
Major League baseball history.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's the department of the dumbascy department. Edgar Say, what
my name?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Did you say it was a met It was he was.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
A New York player. I did not specify.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Okay, Darryl Strawberry.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Not a bad guess. Not a bad guess.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Not Darryl Strawberry in the history of Major League Baseball,
I have struck out more times than any other player
in Major League Baseball history.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Coop, what my name? Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
She?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It's a New York player.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I'm gonna give all three clues so you could yell
it out. First, he had a candy bar named after.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Him by Bruth Quick.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know I should give you that. You know what,
I believe it. Go ahead, Eddie, Reggie Jackson, it's Reggie.
I didn't need a job on you. Coop. There did
I figured out? He's right? It's regiment A plus to you, Lorna,
because what's it?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
How dare you give that as a hint and it
not be him? Well, the kebar actually wasn't named after
a baby.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
He's right, Coop is right? Coop, I'll let you tell
the story since you know the story. It has to
do with the president.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, the president's daughter's name was Ruth, baby Ruth.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And she was enjoying this candy bar so much. They
called it a baby ruth, but it's sort of one
of those apocryphal urban legends. But Lorena, you get points
for just I mean, I like the way you did that.
All right, we're back in Eddie's wheelhouse. In the history
of the NHL, I've won nine Stanley Cuffs, more than
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any other coach in NHL history.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Eddie Garcia, what my name, Scotty Bowman, Scottie Bowman, the
great Scottie Bowman.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Scotty not only did it, my god, it's correct, it's correct. Sorry,
my bad, Well, Scott he not only did it, Eddie,
he did it with three different teams and three fernaras.
And when I was in Detroit, they were three different goalies.
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That's saying something. Osgood, Chris Osgood, Mike Vernon and Dominic hashing.
Great stuff, great stuff. Okay, moving right along. Before Doc
Rivers took over for the Bucks, I actually led the
team to a thirty and thirteen record this season.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Coop what my name?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
What's his name?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Adrian Griffin?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Is that Adrian griffind nicely done, Coopon, nicely done?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
This past season in the National Basketball Association, it became
the first player in NBA history to average thirty points
a game while shooting sixty percent from the floor.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I think it was Lorraine's term.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I think it was it is your turn, Lorraine.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I apologize, well n James, not Lebron James, but I
like the way you're in there fighting whaler Ay.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm very impressed.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
That wasn't a bad gas.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But well, we don't not at all the history of
the National Basketball Association. I became the first player to
average thirty points a game off shooting sixty percent from
the floor for a season, Eddie Garcie.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
What my name?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Nikola jokicch not a.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Bad guess, so excellent guess. It's actually turns out.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It's it's uh.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's Janis Janis and Tenna Koopol.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
All right, we just.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Had the Kentucky Derby last week and Justify won it.
Oh my god, did I just completely biff that. The
question was going to be I haven't even been drinking, folks.
The question was going to be mister Dan wanted, but
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who now he'll have a chance to win the Triple Crown?
Who was the last horse to win the Triple Crown?
Of course, it was just Justify in twenty eighteen. Good night, folks,
you've been a great audience.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I screwed that up. Let's move on, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I now have hit more home runs in the history
of Major League Baseball than any other Japanese born player.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Uh, Coop, what my name?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Each Suzuki s that's not a bad, guess, not a
bad It's not him, though, I've hit more home runs
than any other Japanese born Major League Baseball player.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I'm just kidding that. It's way too easy of a question, Bernie.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Okay, you got it. You're right it is.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I'll tell you what we're gonna morphin in the second
question here.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I know it's Varina's turn. We'll come back around because question,
would you have got that? Loraina?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I would have gotten that way, man, shot.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I only know two Japanese players names.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Who's who's the other one?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You'll think of it. You'll think of it in a minute.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, here's the thing, though, Sho Hay had to break
somebody's record, So show hey my record for most lifetime
home runs hit by a Japanese born MLB player.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Lorena Peterson, what my name?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Oh, I'm so bad at this. Let's go with Mookie Bets.
Good guess, Mookie Bets from from Tokyo.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I got nothing there, folks, I got nothing.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
It's a good guess.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It was a good guest. Randy, you're you're you're in
there fighting away. You're in there fighting away, all right.
Shoe Hay broke my record for most lifetime home runs
by a Japanese born Major league player, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
What my name?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Dekie Matsui, the great New York Yankee and an absolute gentleman.
We recently had the NFL draft. JJ McCarthy, a Michigan quarterback,
was drafted in the first round.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But before JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'm actually the last Michigan quarterback to be drafted in
the first round of the NFL draft.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Coop, what my name?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I don't know, all right, problem, I guess?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Go ahead, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Is it Jim?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It is, in fact Jim Harbaugh James Joseph Harball.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Moving along.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
In nineteen eighty nine, I hit thirty two home runs
during my Major League baseball season, and then I proceeded
to average five point five yards per carry in the
fall played in the National Football League, Loreena Peterson?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
What my name?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Can I can I make up?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know? Yeah, there's a clue. There's a clue.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
What's what's my clue? Yeahs, I'll tell you what now about?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They gave you the first name. The first name is Bull.
What's his last name?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Bo Jackson?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah there, Lorena. We knew you had it. We knew
you had it.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Do you remember that, Lorena?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Were you?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Were you old enough to remember that bow Nose commercials?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I'm old. Callout you koop? Remember those commercials bow Nose
before my time too?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, No, one's old. We're chronologically accomplished. Those were pretty
good commercials, by the way. I remember remember Eddie when
he uh he was fainting playing hockey and she goes.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
No, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
That commercial that was really good with Bo Diddley.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, playing the guitar. All right, a couple of football
ones here. This one goes back into the cookie jar.
But you'll be kicking yourself if you don't get it.
I'm actually the first ever NFL quarterback to throw for
four thousand yards in a season, well in professional football.
I think Garcia my name?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Wait a minute, You just threw me off with that
little professional football. Well about saying not college football?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Is that what you saying?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's professional foot Well, there's a twist that I'll glue
it together. It's definitely professional football. I'm the first ever
quarterback to throw for four thousand yards in a season
in professional football.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You're gonna get it. Hold on a second, was it
Jim Kelly?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Not Jim Kelly, Warren Moon are a really good choice.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Here's the actually you want to take a shot at it?
Uh Patrick Mahomes. Not Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But I like that you're just in there, plugging away.
So here's where the question gets sketchy.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I was actually thinking Jim Kelly USFL.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, Houston Gamblers, boy. I saw him light it up
one day in the coliseum. And beyond it's.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Actually Joe Namath.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But see here's the kicker. He did it the year
before the NFL, and you and AFL actually merged.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
He AFL. So if I say NFL, I screwed up.
All right, I'm the.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
First quarterback to ever throw for five thousand yards. Let's
go back to you at a Garcia.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
What my name?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
And this is an NFL quarterback in NFL.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Now, yeah, let's go with Dan Marino.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It is absolutely Dan Marino. Nicely, I was so sure
that you got that.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Why I've got you.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Know, Loreena is gonna get this one.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Okay, we're gonna make sure of it all right, after
all the after all these years, this will be our
final one.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
After all these years.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I still hold the NBA playoff record for sixty three
points in a single game.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Lorena Peterson, what my.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Name, Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Damn?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't even care if you had help with Google.
There's no rules, you guys. I knew that.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I did not mean to cast aspersions. I did not
mean to cast dispersions.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Job, Lorrena.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
You know what, just for the hell of it, let's
have a really obscure one.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Anybody that can get that just blurted out, because you
are a true you are a true officionado. I am
a relatively famous, perhaps infamous NFL quarterback, and I hail
from a place called Santa Claus, Indiana.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
What my name, Jay Cutler?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It is Jay Culor.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Nicely done, Eddie, nicely done. Another rising addition of what
kind of brand new fool you and what my name
in the books? Coming up? Coming up. You're not gonna
believe it. You're not gonna believe it if you did.
You guys, see the movie Billy Madison. Okay, do you remember?
(16:14):
It's kind of like three movies in one. It's actually
one of my favorite Adam Sandler movies. But the one
young student who perhaps has a little accident in his pants,
and the other students are making fun of him, and
so Adam Sandler does the noble thing and intentionally he
has an accident in his pants, walks out and see,
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everybody likes Adam Sandler, so when he does it, it's cool.
He say, al right, it's the coolest. You remember that
he does? Remember that scene? Classic scene, classic, of course
you do, one of the staples of the movie. Well,
this is one of those situations where life imitates art.
The only thing is, why the hell would someone pay
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six hundred dollars a clip? Why the hell would you
pay six hundred dollars a clip for life to imitate art?
I will glue this together and make it make sense,
even though it makes no sense. Coming up, I'm Bernie Fradower,
come to your Life from the Las Vegas Fox Sports
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Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, thanks Eddie.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Of course, just when you think you've seen it all
in life, you see something new.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
This one is a takeoff from Billy Madison, a great
Adam Salmlin movie back in nineteen ninety five. His young companion,
a little third grader his name was Ernie in the movie,
played by a gentleman named Jared Cook, pees his pants.
He gets all embarrassed. Adam Sandler wants to come to
his rescue, so he pees his own pants and says.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's the coolest.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You ain't cool unless you pee your pants. Well, now,
art imitates life imitates heart. Excuse me, yes, can't make
this stuff up, folks. There's a company called Jordan Luca Jeans.
They were featured at the Milan Fashion Show last year.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And what is it.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It's a pair of jeans that has a denim design
with a big stand in front that looks like you
yes peed your pants and you could have a pair. Well,
they're actually on sale. They were normally eight hundred and
eleven dollars. They're now on sale for six hundred and
eight dollars. Are you kidding me? They're sold out now.
Some people have said, hey, no more waiting, you know,
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no more worrying about waiting for the bathroom. You could
just piss yourself and say it to the design people
are serious. Someone else said why would anybody wear this?
Someone else says it ain't cool. Let you pee your pants.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Exactly, so effing stupid. It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's a fashion trend, and they believe it's gonna be
a key fashion popular trend in coming seasons, according to
volt Business.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Well, what do I know?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They're sold out and they costs eight hundred bucks a pair.
Uber Frank in Minneapolis joins the show. Frank, what are
your thoughts this morning? Are you with a Zuber Frank?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I am with you.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'm right here, go.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Ahead, you're on here, my man.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
You thank it for taking my call. You had talked
about the eighteen game season, and it seems to me
that the commissioner ought to take a half step, and
that is to first align the Super Bowl to a
national holiday afterwards by inserting the extra bye week that's
being proposed without actually having another game in the season,
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concessions to the tape, to the players, and then ultimately
go back and get what he wants in phase two.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
That's my bab Well, all right, well thanks, I mean, look,
that could happen, but the problem is we're in the
middle of a CBA right now. Doesn't expire t twenty
thirty three, No, no, twenty thirty excuse me. The TV
contract expires in twenty thirty three, and uh, but it
can be renegotiated in twenty twenty nine. So it's not
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all the Roman possibility. But there are a lot of
moving parts there. There are a lot of moving parts.
So if you add that, buy some teams will have
to buy some teams wlling, you're gonna create sixteen more games,
which creates six million, sixteen.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
More opportunities for the networks. What the NFL is gonna
want to have them pay for. It's not wrong. Maybe
maybe that'll happen. Maybe that'll happen.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Before they they did, you know, they take a half step,
like you said to eighteen games real quickly, Lorraine, would
you ever buy a pair of those.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Pants for six hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Hag no, Eddie, no, thank you?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Coop No, yeah, that makes that makes four of us.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I wouldn't pay. I wouldn't buy a pair of those.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
For six bucks.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Do you think they're scented?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh? Wow, now we're cooking. Wouldn't wouldn't that be something?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
How would you do that?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Though?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Because once you watch him right? No, do they have
that technology?
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Maybe a scratch and sniff technique.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I'll say, if you can invent that, if they can
sell these for eight hundred bucks, bar solos for eighteen hundred,
some idiot'll buy it. I mean George Carlin once said
it best the reason the artificial dog crap soulel so
welse because the artificial womitzil so well. That was George Carlin.
Maybe he knew what he was talking about.
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Speaker 1 (22:30):
You mentioned Sheelin o'keef getting fired Toronto with that payroll
and the amount of money they spent on talent in
that roster.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Did it surprise you they fired him any Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Not at all? Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Do you think Brendon Shanahan's far behind they?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
I believe he's got one year left on his contract,
and I heard some folks saying that they probably were
going to let him play out the final year.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
There. He's the president of Hockey Operations.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yes, yes, and former great.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Which is an interesting job because you're not quite the
general manager and you're not quite the owner. You're kind
of in purgatory and somehow you, I don't know, you
don't get a lot.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Of the blame.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
It's like the GM's faulted as far as the players go.
So kind of an interesting gig down exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's it's an interesting dynamic and it's one of those
age old arguments.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But I know that the Maple Leaf Brats believe they
had assembled this roster that was finally going to get
it done, and all the money they spend just waited.
It'd be random chanting and though great former Detroit red
Wing and a captain. Actually all right, So anyway, if
you heard me at the top of the show, the
Minnesota Timberwolves, well they not only beat Denver twice.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
In Denver.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
They embarrassed them. They stomped them, they curb stopped them,
they pull acted and whatever you want to call it,
and they caused them to have a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
They literally had a meltdown.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You know, you saw what Jamal and Murray did throwing
the heat pack across the floor. You got my root
for Minnesota just a little bit. Okay, it's been thirty
four years. The last time they had a parade was
ninety one. The Minnesota Twins won the World Series fairly
glorious fashion. By the way, the future was really bright
backed in in the Twin Cities, right. The Twins looked
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like that meant be on the verge of a dynasty.
They had a great team. They'd won it in eighty
seven and again in ninety one. Eddie will remember this.
The NHL's North Stars, which has not become the Dallas Stars.
They were fresh off in appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals.
They didn't win it, but they were in the Stanley
Cup Finals. The NBA under Bill Musselman had just returned
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after a thirty year absence. Remember the Lakers left for
Los Angeles. Super Bowl twenty six was going to be
played at the Metrodome. In January ninety two, there was
Redskins in Buffalo. They had the Men's Final Four, they
had Golf's US Open. Minnesota was blowing up. They were
on fire, they were cooking in reality set in. Since
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that moment, none of Minnesota's four major pro sports teams,
the Twins, the Timberwolves, the Old north Stars, later the
Wild and now the Vikings, none of them have even
advanced to a championship Series or a super Bowl, much
less one. We're talking thirty three title three years and
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this is now the longest active street among the nation's markets,
where there are thirteen markets that have still four major
league sports teams, although Arizona now lost to one of
their sports teams, so they're down to three. Coincidentally, they're
the second longest market. So as a result, as a
results all this success is that the Minnesota Timberwolves are having.
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It's unexpected and it's starting to traumatize these fans.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
They're on edge. They're waiting for other shoe to drop
because if you.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Look at the history of the Timberwolves, in their history
of the NBA, they have the worst cumulative winning percentage
and they entered the league in nineteen eighty nine. However,
they've basically spent most of this season a top of
the Western Conference. But the fans are scared. They are
waiting for the other shooter drop and you can't really
blame them. Who can forget nineteen ninety eight, Gary Anderson
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missed thirty eight yard field goal attempt. All they had
to do was put that ball through the uprights in
perfect conditions. Indoors beat the Atlanta Falcons, force overtime and
go to the Super Bowl. The Vikings were fifteen to
one that year. That was one of the most prolific
offensive teams in history, and they scored five hundred and
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fifty six points.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
They had Randy Moss.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
They won by an average of twenty points per game,
one of the biggest margins of all time.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Vikings are a prop franchise.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
They've been to four Super Bowls, but they actually lost
all of them. Interestingly enough, the Vikings Gary Anderson, he
misses that kick when it matters most. He had missed
a field goal all year. Can you imagine how those
Vikings they never forgot that. It's their version of the
ball going through Buckner's legs in Boston. The Vikings, by
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the way, in the regular season have been solid tenth
best regular season percentage since nineteen ninety two, but the
worst in the playoffs or the second worst three thirty three.
They win division titles, but they can't go anywhere. And
by the way, the North Stars franchise this adds more
fuel to the fire. Actually won the Stanley Cup in
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nineteen ninety nine. However, no it was in Dallas. By
that time they had become the Dallas Stars, so they
had insult to injury. Seven years later, the rel They
relocate to Dallas after seven years and they win Super Bowl.
But the Vikings have had tragic moments going back to
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the seventies. The name Hail Mary pass happened against the
Vikings in nineteen seventy five when a guy by the
name of Drew Pearson Cowboys caught the pass to knock
the Vikings out of the playoffs. It was the first
ever hailed Mary on records a fifty yard touchdown pass
at the end of the game and cut the knees
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out from the Vikings fans. By the way, you can
research this, but I know you've heard of it. We
got an intelligent audience here. The Vikings made that infamous
nineteen eighty nine trade to acquire herschel Walker from the
Dallas Cowboys, easily the most lopsided trade in NFL history,
and you saw how Dallas and Jimmy Johnson and Jerry
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Jones built. The Cowboys won the three Super Bowls with
the draft choice Hall. Meanwhile, herschel Rocker was never really
to be found much in Minnesota. I think he turned
to kickoff his first ever game as a Viking. Never
did much after that. The two thousand and three Vikings
led the NFC North until the final play of the season.
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They squandered it a touchdown pass, they lost the playoff spot,
they had a penalty for twelve minut in the huddle,
Brett fav throw the late interception against Detroit. Remember this
isn't This isn't Detroit. Why do you ponder passing, by
the way, not just that you've probably forgotten. In two
thousand and two, Major League Baseball attempted to dissolve the
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Minnesota Twins franchise. The only reason baseball was saved to Minnesota,
and we're all glad it was, was because the state
judge prohibited the team from breaking its Metrodome lease. Since then,
they've built a new stadium and well, the Twins again.
They get to the playoffs, but they can never quite
sort of finish the deal. Suffice it to say, the
good people in Minnesota are due. You want it so bad,
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but you're afraid of the curse. What's gonna happen again?
You get different people, different coaches, different years, but the
same random stuff keeps freaking happening, just like the story
I told you about Sydney Barrenger at the top of
the show. As a matter of fact, they joke about it.
In nineteen seventy seven the last time and the Vikings
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went to the Super Bowl. They lost to the Raiders
thirty two to fourteen, and the Vikings were favored, they
were actually maybe considered the better team, and the game
was played at the Rose Bowl a week later.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
They're a legendary quarterback.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Fran Tarkenton hosted Saturday Night Live, and he opened up
his monologue by saying the following, Hi, my name is
Fran Tarkton, quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
We've gone to the Super Bowl four.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Times this decade and we've lost all four and you
know what, We're going back to the Super Bowl next
year and we're going to lose again. That was Fran
Tarkton hosting Saturday Night Live in nineteen seventy seven. Well,
the Vikings has never been back, and other than the
Twins winning the World Series in ninety one, they haven't
had a lot to cheer for. And you know about
the college football team whole home fingers crossed, Fingers crossed,
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maybe you'll have rope burns from your rosary praying.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
For the Minnesota Timberwolves. I think it'd be a great story.
I really do.
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Normally they la get about four thousand a game.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Well, Thursday night they got thirteen thousands of game because
of one person. You probably already know who, But the
story is worth telling. Get ready, here it comes. I'm
Bernie Fratto or coming to you live from the Las
Vegas Fox Sports Radio tyreck dot com studios, sitting in
for Ben Maler.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Keep it locked right here. You listening to the Ben
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live from the tyrack dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios
in for Ben Maller, It's Bernie Fratto.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
All right, thanks Eddie, And before I go any further
than that, as we were wrapping up the Ben Malor Show,
I very much want to thank my crew, my broadcast
team back.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
In Los Ange, Angelus.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
They have been with me since eleven pm Pacific on
Friday night, no Thursday night, excuse me right now into Friday.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That would be one.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Eddie Garcia is dulce of tones on all the updates
in the hockey knowledge, et cetera. Coop Justin Cooper checking
in as well. Appreciate all of your efforts tonight and
Marina Peterson on the ones and twos keeping us entertained
and really quitting yourself extremely well. I thought on the
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on the what my Name a segment of the show
showing the real fighting spirit and a real knowledge when
it comes to this crazy tipping, these tipping wars we've
got we've got going on, and perhaps even some fashion
ideas on how these Peastain denim designers can enhance their
next round of peace Dain pants, which you can now
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get for six and eighty dollars a piece and are
sold out. But that's a story for a different day.
Another ticket that promises to be a lot of money
this year. You may have heard stop me. If you've
heard me, no, don't stop me. You can't stop me.
Caitlin Clark. Now, Caitlin Clark her greatest legacy. There's no
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two ways about it, growing women's basketball. I mean everybody's
been talking about her. Everybody's been talking about it for months.
Whether you think she's a goat, she's not the goat. Whatever,
she has moved the needle. Clarkonomics has moved the needle.
There is one fact beyond debate, Caitlin Clark has been
a singular force who has grown the women's game no
way that other women's player has done before.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
That's just a fact. The numbers don't lie. The TV
numbers don't lie, The dollars don't lie.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Pick your spots, Think what you want, I don't care
the all.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Of the above.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
So she's now in the WNBA and she was drafted
number one overall by the Indiana Fever and she made
her preseason debut on the road a few days ago
and Thursday night in Indianapolis, she made her first She
made her debut as a member of the Indiana Fever.
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And the nf Fevers has been a decent franchise. I
think they won a championship ten twelve years ago, but
they've they've been moribunned. Okay, they've got some big players,
they haven't done whether averaging about four thousand fans a game. Well,
just the mere mention of Caitlyn Clark being drafted by
the Indiana Fever sent ticket sales in a tizzy before
they before in the draft. And I can tell you
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here in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas States is the
two time defending champion in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Aates is.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
They play their home games in michelob Ultra Lighte Arena
in Mandalay Bay, which maybe seats about I don't know,
six or seven thousand people. Before the Kaitly and Clark game,
they're moving it to T Mobile Arena, where the Golden
Knights play. They're playing there, they're playing the Fever twice,
but one of those games is being moved there.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
So that should say what you need to know.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
So what happened when the rubber hit the road Thursday
night in Indianapolis? It's started with player introductions? Typically, how
big of a deal are player introductions in a WNBA.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I don't know. I can't really speak to it. But
I can't say they're going to knock.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Your socks off, except it did Thursday night in Indiana, right.
Kayla Clark taking the sports world by storm makes her
first appearance at a place called Gamebridge Fieldhouse on Thursday night,
and she received a reception that I don't know, you know,
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I can't come up with a cute, funny analogy on
this one. Think of a long long standing ovation or
your favorite player.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
That's what they did, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
And by the way, people are in the crowd wearing
their number twenty two jerseys from Iowa, and the Fever
crowd is cheering, rousing, cheers. And then every time and
then the game starts and Clark enters the game, she'd
leave the game, re entered the game. Every time she
moved the place went bananas. Now this is a preseason
game on a Thursday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
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You were drawing four thousand for regular season games. Last year,
they drew thirteen thousand Thursday night. I didn't know the
arena helld that much. I know that the season ticket
sales have doubled. The eight thousand thirteen thousand for a
preseason w NBA game on a Thursday night. Now you
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think they're excited for the home opener they open up,
I believe against the New York Liberty. I'm pretty sure
they'll probably draw a thirteen thousand for that game as well.
Even people are saying, coaches are saying, both teams, we
can't remember seeing a crowd like this. Okay, they probably
played twenty regular season home games last year twenty twenty three,
and again they averaged four thousand fans a game.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Who do they come to see? Make no mistake, Caitlin Clark. I.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Oh, by the way, they had to reschedule the games,
so people had to change their plans. But from freegame
warmups on up, get ready for it. They're even flying
charter now in the WNBA twenty five years, they've lost money.
But now they're going to fly charter because Caitlin Clark
was being mobbed at the airport. It's going to do
it for the Ben Mallor Show. I'm Bertie Ferraro. Well
keep it locked up. Next two Pros and a Cup
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of Joe and Fox Sports Radio.
Well, that's right, you heard the man. The Ben Mallor
Show just keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frattiworck,
coming you live from the tyract dot com studios here
in Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio. I'm sitting in for
Ben tonight. He is in Charleston, South Carolina for his
big event. You're going to want to go pay him
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my show because.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
What we do is we try to observe.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Jogi Barratt once said, you can observe a lot by
watching across this great land of our sea to Oily Sea, and.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Certainly around the globe.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, people they do things, They simply engage in activities
which well, sometimes they're just kind of silly and stupid,
inocuous and not very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Other times they're far more dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Than Many times they end up breaking the law, and
other times well they can even land you in jail.
But anyway you slice it, any way you characterize it,
any way you describe it. The behaviors that these people
engage in, they always leave you scratching your head and
asking yourself, what kind of brand new fool of you?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So, what kind of brand new fool are you?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
This one's kind of a doozy and it almost plays
into the roundtable discussion we had about an hour ago,
because it takes place outside of a grocery store, and
God only knows. Perhaps the young lady was maybe returning
her cart to the proper receptacle, if you call it that.
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But whatever happened, she returned to find out her car
had been stolen. That in and of itself is bad enough.
But the poor young lady, he had left her young
son in the car. So it happened Saturday morning in
front of a bunch of people. She panicked as anybody would.
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She was driving a silver Honda. She left the engine running.
We don't know. I don't know those details. But here's
where the story gets interesting, And it took place in Beaverton, Oregon.
So usually I have the name of the individual who
is partaken in the stupid act, but in this particular case.
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The name has been withheld by the Beaverton Police Department.
Just as the lady was about to lose her mind,
her Honda comes speeding back around the corner. The man
who stole the car proceeded to scold the lady, how
could you leave your son in a car by yourself?
Get him out of the car. And then as she
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got her son out of the car, he took off
with the car again and stole it again. He got
away for a while, but he was eventually caught in
a nearby parking lot and the police apprehended him, at
which point he was still criticizing the woman for leaving
her son in the car.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Can't make this stuff up, folks.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The stolen Honda pilot was finally recovered Saturday night. And
unnamed person in Beaverton, Oregon who stole the car but
was nice enough to return the son to her mother.
He's in big trouble, unknown man in Beaverton. All I
can say is, what kind of brand new fool?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Are you? All right? That bit now allows.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Us to segue into our second favorite, which we lovingly
refer to as what my name? And of course Eddie
and the crew have excelled at this game, and so
we will pick up right where we left off. I
currently hold the New York Knicks franchise record for most
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points in a single playoff game.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Eddiegarcia, what my name?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Let's go with Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Not a bad guest, but not Patrick Ewing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I hold the New York Knicks franchise record for the
most points in a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Coop, what my name?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It is, in fact, Jalen Brunson. Bicely done out of
the game, Stay in New York. This is fairly random,
believe it or not. As a major league baseball player,
I have struck out more times than any other player
in Major League baseball history.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Loreena Peterson, what my name? Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Who's that one guy?
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Babe Ruth?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Hey, that's not a bad guess. He's struck out of
thirteen hundred times. And wow, believe it or not, it's
not him, not him, But you're not that far off,
all right, in the history of Major League baseball, I
have struck out more times than any other player in
Major League baseball history.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's the department of the dumbascy department. Edgar Say, what
my name?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Did you say it was a met It was he was.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
A New York player. I did not specify.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Okay, Darryl Strawberry.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Not a bad guess. Not a bad guess.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Not Darryl Strawberry in the history of Major League Baseball,
I have struck out more times than any other player
in Major League Baseball history.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Coop, what my name? Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
She?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It's a New York player.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I'm gonna give all three clues so you could yell
it out. First, he had a candy bar named after.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Him by Bruth Quick.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
You know I should give you that. You know what,
I believe it. Go ahead, Eddie, Reggie Jackson, it's Reggie.
I didn't need a job on you. Coop. There did
I figured out? He's right? It's regiment A plus to you, Lorna,
because what's it?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
How dare you give that as a hint and it
not be him? Well, the kebar actually wasn't named after
a baby.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
He's right, Coop is right? Coop, I'll let you tell
the story since you know the story. It has to
do with the president.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yeah, the president's daughter's name was Ruth, baby Ruth.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
And she was enjoying this candy bar so much. They
called it a baby ruth, but it's sort of one
of those apocryphal urban legends. But Lorena, you get points
for just I mean, I like the way you did that.
All right, we're back in Eddie's wheelhouse. In the history
of the NHL, I've won nine Stanley Cuffs, more than
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any other coach in NHL history.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Eddie Garcia, what my name, Scotty Bowman, Scottie Bowman, the
great Scottie Bowman.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Scotty not only did it, my god, it's correct, it's correct. Sorry,
my bad, Well, Scott he not only did it, Eddie,
he did it with three different teams and three fernaras.
And when I was in Detroit, they were three different goalies.
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That's saying something. Osgood, Chris Osgood, Mike Vernon and Dominic hashing.
Great stuff, great stuff. Okay, moving right along. Before Doc
Rivers took over for the Bucks, I actually led the
team to a thirty and thirteen record this season.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Coop what my name?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
What's his name?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Adrian Griffin?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Is that Adrian griffind nicely done, Coopon, nicely done?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
This past season in the National Basketball Association, it became
the first player in NBA history to average thirty points
a game while shooting sixty percent from the floor.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Eddie Garcia, what my name?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I think it was Lorraine's term.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I think it was it is your turn, Lorraine.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I apologize, well n James, not Lebron James, but I
like the way you're in there fighting whaler Ay.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I'm very impressed.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
That wasn't a bad gas.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But well, we don't not at all the history of
the National Basketball Association. I became the first player to
average thirty points a game off shooting sixty percent from
the floor for a season, Eddie Garcie.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
What my name?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Nikola jokicch not a.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Bad guess, so excellent guess. It's actually turns out.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It's it's uh.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's Janis Janis and Tenna Koopol.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
All right, we just.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Had the Kentucky Derby last week and Justify won it.
Oh my god, did I just completely biff that. The
question was going to be I haven't even been drinking, folks.
The question was going to be mister Dan wanted, but
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who now he'll have a chance to win the Triple Crown?
Who was the last horse to win the Triple Crown?
Of course, it was just Justify in twenty eighteen. Good night, folks,
you've been a great audience.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I screwed that up. Let's move on, all right.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I now have hit more home runs in the history
of Major League Baseball than any other Japanese born player.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Uh, Coop, what my name?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Each Suzuki s that's not a bad, guess, not a
bad It's not him, though, I've hit more home runs
than any other Japanese born Major League Baseball player.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
I'm just kidding that. It's way too easy of a question, Bernie.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Okay, you got it. You're right it is.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I'll tell you what we're gonna morphin in the second
question here.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I know it's Varina's turn. We'll come back around because question,
would you have got that? Loraina?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I would have gotten that way, man, shot.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I only know two Japanese players names.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Who's who's the other one?
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You'll think of it. You'll think of it in a minute.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, here's the thing, though, Sho Hay had to break
somebody's record, So show hey my record for most lifetime
home runs hit by a Japanese born MLB player.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Lorena Peterson, what my name?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Oh, I'm so bad at this. Let's go with Mookie Bets.
Good guess, Mookie Bets from from Tokyo.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I got nothing there, folks, I got nothing.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
It's a good guess.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It was a good guest. Randy, you're you're you're in
there fighting away. You're in there fighting away, all right.
Shoe Hay broke my record for most lifetime home runs
by a Japanese born Major league player, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
What my name?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Dekie Matsui, the great New York Yankee and an absolute gentleman.
We recently had the NFL draft. JJ McCarthy, a Michigan quarterback,
was drafted in the first round.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But before JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I'm actually the last Michigan quarterback to be drafted in
the first round of the NFL draft.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Coop, what my name?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I don't know, all right, problem, I guess?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Go ahead, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Is it Jim?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It is, in fact Jim Harbaugh James Joseph Harball.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Moving along.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
In nineteen eighty nine, I hit thirty two home runs
during my Major League baseball season, and then I proceeded
to average five point five yards per carry in the
fall played in the National Football League, Loreena Peterson?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
What my name?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Can I can I make up?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
You know? Yeah, there's a clue. There's a clue.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
What's what's my clue? Yeahs, I'll tell you what now about?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They gave you the first name. The first name is Bull.
What's his last name?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Bo Jackson?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah there, Lorena. We knew you had it. We knew
you had it.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Do you remember that, Lorena?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Were you?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Were you old enough to remember that bow Nose commercials?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
No?
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I'm old. Callout you koop? Remember those commercials bow Nose
before my time too?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, No, one's old. We're chronologically accomplished. Those were pretty
good commercials, by the way. I remember remember Eddie when
he uh he was fainting playing hockey and she goes.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
No, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
That commercial that was really good with Bo Diddley.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, playing the guitar. All right, a couple of football
ones here. This one goes back into the cookie jar.
But you'll be kicking yourself if you don't get it.
I'm actually the first ever NFL quarterback to throw for
four thousand yards in a season, well in professional football.
I think Garcia my name?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Wait a minute, You just threw me off with that
little professional football. Well about saying not college football?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Is that what you saying?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's professional foot Well, there's a twist that I'll glue
it together. It's definitely professional football. I'm the first ever
quarterback to throw for four thousand yards in a season
in professional football.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You're gonna get it. Hold on a second, was it
Jim Kelly?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Not Jim Kelly, Warren Moon are a really good choice.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Here's the actually you want to take a shot at it?
Uh Patrick Mahomes. Not Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But I like that you're just in there, plugging away.
So here's where the question gets sketchy.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I was actually thinking Jim Kelly USFL.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, Houston Gamblers, boy. I saw him light it up
one day in the coliseum. And beyond it's.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Actually Joe Namath.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
But see here's the kicker. He did it the year
before the NFL, and you and AFL actually merged.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
He AFL. So if I say NFL, I screwed up.
All right, I'm the.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
First quarterback to ever throw for five thousand yards. Let's
go back to you at a Garcia.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
What my name?
Speaker 4 (14:10):
And this is an NFL quarterback in NFL.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Now, yeah, let's go with Dan Marino.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It is absolutely Dan Marino. Nicely, I was so sure
that you got that.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Why I've got you.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Know, Loreena is gonna get this one.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Okay, we're gonna make sure of it all right, after
all the after all these years, this will be our
final one.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
After all these years.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I still hold the NBA playoff record for sixty three
points in a single game.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Lorena Peterson, what my.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Name, Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Damn?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I don't even care if you had help with Google.
There's no rules, you guys. I knew that.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I did not mean to cast aspersions. I did not
mean to cast dispersions.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Job, Lorrena.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
You know what, just for the hell of it, let's
have a really obscure one.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Anybody that can get that just blurted out, because you
are a true you are a true officionado. I am
a relatively famous, perhaps infamous NFL quarterback, and I hail
from a place called Santa Claus, Indiana.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
What my name, Jay Cutler?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
It is Jay Culor.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Nicely done, Eddie, nicely done. Another rising addition of what
kind of brand new fool you and what my name
in the books? Coming up? Coming up. You're not gonna
believe it. You're not gonna believe it if you did.
You guys, see the movie Billy Madison. Okay, do you remember?
(16:14):
It's kind of like three movies in one. It's actually
one of my favorite Adam Sandler movies. But the one
young student who perhaps has a little accident in his pants,
and the other students are making fun of him, and
so Adam Sandler does the noble thing and intentionally he
has an accident in his pants, walks out and see,
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everybody likes Adam Sandler, so when he does it, it's cool.
He say, al right, it's the coolest. You remember that
he does? Remember that scene? Classic scene, classic, of course
you do, one of the staples of the movie. Well,
this is one of those situations where life imitates art.
The only thing is, why the hell would someone pay
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six hundred dollars a clip? Why the hell would you
pay six hundred dollars a clip for life to imitate art?
I will glue this together and make it make sense,
even though it makes no sense. Coming up, I'm Bernie Fradower,
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Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, thanks Eddie.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Of course, just when you think you've seen it all
in life, you see something new.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
This one is a takeoff from Billy Madison, a great
Adam Salmlin movie back in nineteen ninety five. His young companion,
a little third grader his name was Ernie in the movie,
played by a gentleman named Jared Cook, pees his pants.
He gets all embarrassed. Adam Sandler wants to come to
his rescue, so he pees his own pants and says.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It's the coolest.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
You ain't cool unless you pee your pants. Well, now,
art imitates life imitates heart. Excuse me, yes, can't make
this stuff up, folks. There's a company called Jordan Luca Jeans.
They were featured at the Milan Fashion Show last year.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And what is it.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It's a pair of jeans that has a denim design
with a big stand in front that looks like you
yes peed your pants and you could have a pair. Well,
they're actually on sale. They were normally eight hundred and
eleven dollars. They're now on sale for six hundred and
eight dollars. Are you kidding me? They're sold out now.
Some people have said, hey, no more waiting, you know,
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no more worrying about waiting for the bathroom. You could
just piss yourself and say it to the design people
are serious. Someone else said why would anybody wear this?
Someone else says it ain't cool. Let you pee your pants.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Exactly, so effing stupid. It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's a fashion trend, and they believe it's gonna be
a key fashion popular trend in coming seasons, according to
volt Business.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Well, what do I know?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They're sold out and they costs eight hundred bucks a pair.
Uber Frank in Minneapolis joins the show. Frank, what are
your thoughts this morning? Are you with a Zuber Frank?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I am with you.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
I'm right here, go.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Ahead, you're on here, my man.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
You thank it for taking my call. You had talked
about the eighteen game season, and it seems to me
that the commissioner ought to take a half step, and
that is to first align the Super Bowl to a
national holiday afterwards by inserting the extra bye week that's
being proposed without actually having another game in the season,
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concessions to the tape, to the players, and then ultimately
go back and get what he wants in phase two.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
That's my bab Well, all right, well thanks, I mean, look,
that could happen, but the problem is we're in the
middle of a CBA right now. Doesn't expire t twenty
thirty three, No, no, twenty thirty excuse me. The TV
contract expires in twenty thirty three, and uh, but it
can be renegotiated in twenty twenty nine. So it's not
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all the Roman possibility. But there are a lot of
moving parts there. There are a lot of moving parts.
So if you add that, buy some teams will have
to buy some teams wlling, you're gonna create sixteen more games,
which creates six million, sixteen.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
More opportunities for the networks. What the NFL is gonna
want to have them pay for. It's not wrong. Maybe
maybe that'll happen. Maybe that'll happen.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Before they they did, you know, they take a half step,
like you said to eighteen games real quickly, Lorraine, would
you ever buy a pair of those.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Pants for six hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Hag no, Eddie, no, thank you?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Coop No, yeah, that makes that makes four of us.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I wouldn't pay. I wouldn't buy a pair of those.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
For six bucks.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Do you think they're scented?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh? Wow, now we're cooking. Wouldn't wouldn't that be something?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
How would you do that?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Though?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Because once you watch him right? No, do they have
that technology?
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Maybe a scratch and sniff technique.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I'll say, if you can invent that, if they can
sell these for eight hundred bucks, bar solos for eighteen hundred,
some idiot'll buy it. I mean George Carlin once said
it best the reason the artificial dog crap soulel so
welse because the artificial womitzil so well. That was George Carlin.
Maybe he knew what he was talking about.
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Speaker 1 (22:30):
You mentioned Sheelin o'keef getting fired Toronto with that payroll
and the amount of money they spent on talent in
that roster.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Did it surprise you they fired him any Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Not at all? Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Do you think Brendon Shanahan's far behind they?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
I believe he's got one year left on his contract,
and I heard some folks saying that they probably were
going to let him play out the final year.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
There. He's the president of Hockey Operations.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yes, yes, and former great.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Which is an interesting job because you're not quite the
general manager and you're not quite the owner. You're kind
of in purgatory and somehow you, I don't know, you
don't get a lot.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Of the blame.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
It's like the GM's faulted as far as the players go.
So kind of an interesting gig down exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's it's an interesting dynamic and it's one of those
age old arguments.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
But I know that the Maple Leaf Brats believe they
had assembled this roster that was finally going to get
it done, and all the money they spend just waited.
It'd be random chanting and though great former Detroit red
Wing and a captain. Actually all right, So anyway, if
you heard me at the top of the show, the
Minnesota Timberwolves, well they not only beat Denver twice.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
In Denver.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
They embarrassed them. They stomped them, they curb stopped them,
they pull acted and whatever you want to call it,
and they caused them to have a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
They literally had a meltdown.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You know, you saw what Jamal and Murray did throwing
the heat pack across the floor. You got my root
for Minnesota just a little bit. Okay, it's been thirty
four years. The last time they had a parade was
ninety one. The Minnesota Twins won the World Series fairly
glorious fashion. By the way, the future was really bright
backed in in the Twin Cities, right. The Twins looked
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like that meant be on the verge of a dynasty.
They had a great team. They'd won it in eighty
seven and again in ninety one. Eddie will remember this.
The NHL's North Stars, which has not become the Dallas Stars.
They were fresh off in appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals.
They didn't win it, but they were in the Stanley
Cup Finals. The NBA under Bill Musselman had just returned
(24:35):
after a thirty year absence. Remember the Lakers left for
Los Angeles. Super Bowl twenty six was going to be
played at the Metrodome. In January ninety two, there was
Redskins in Buffalo. They had the Men's Final Four, they
had Golf's US Open. Minnesota was blowing up. They were
on fire, they were cooking in reality set in. Since
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that moment, none of Minnesota's four major pro sports teams,
the Twins, the Timberwolves, the Old north Stars, later the
Wild and now the Vikings, none of them have even
advanced to a championship Series or a super Bowl, much
less one. We're talking thirty three title three years and
(25:17):
this is now the longest active street among the nation's markets,
where there are thirteen markets that have still four major
league sports teams, although Arizona now lost to one of
their sports teams, so they're down to three. Coincidentally, they're
the second longest market. So as a result, as a
results all this success is that the Minnesota Timberwolves are having.
(25:40):
It's unexpected and it's starting to traumatize these fans.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
They're on edge. They're waiting for other shoe to drop
because if you.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Look at the history of the Timberwolves, in their history
of the NBA, they have the worst cumulative winning percentage
and they entered the league in nineteen eighty nine. However,
they've basically spent most of this season a top of
the Western Conference. But the fans are scared. They are
waiting for the other shooter drop and you can't really
blame them. Who can forget nineteen ninety eight, Gary Anderson
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missed thirty eight yard field goal attempt. All they had
to do was put that ball through the uprights in
perfect conditions. Indoors beat the Atlanta Falcons, force overtime and
go to the Super Bowl. The Vikings were fifteen to
one that year. That was one of the most prolific
offensive teams in history, and they scored five hundred and
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fifty six points.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
They had Randy Moss.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
They won by an average of twenty points per game,
one of the biggest margins of all time.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Vikings are a prop franchise.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
They've been to four Super Bowls, but they actually lost
all of them. Interestingly enough, the Vikings Gary Anderson, he
misses that kick when it matters most. He had missed
a field goal all year. Can you imagine how those
Vikings they never forgot that. It's their version of the
ball going through Buckner's legs in Boston. The Vikings, by
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the way, in the regular season have been solid tenth
best regular season percentage since nineteen ninety two, but the
worst in the playoffs or the second worst three thirty three.
They win division titles, but they can't go anywhere. And
by the way, the North Stars franchise this adds more
fuel to the fire. Actually won the Stanley Cup in
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nineteen ninety nine. However, no it was in Dallas. By
that time they had become the Dallas Stars, so they
had insult to injury. Seven years later, the rel They
relocate to Dallas after seven years and they win Super Bowl.
But the Vikings have had tragic moments going back to
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the seventies. The name Hail Mary pass happened against the
Vikings in nineteen seventy five when a guy by the
name of Drew Pearson Cowboys caught the pass to knock
the Vikings out of the playoffs. It was the first
ever hailed Mary on records a fifty yard touchdown pass
at the end of the game and cut the knees
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out from the Vikings fans. By the way, you can
research this, but I know you've heard of it. We
got an intelligent audience here. The Vikings made that infamous
nineteen eighty nine trade to acquire herschel Walker from the
Dallas Cowboys, easily the most lopsided trade in NFL history,
and you saw how Dallas and Jimmy Johnson and Jerry
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Jones built. The Cowboys won the three Super Bowls with
the draft choice Hall. Meanwhile, herschel Rocker was never really
to be found much in Minnesota. I think he turned
to kickoff his first ever game as a Viking. Never
did much after that. The two thousand and three Vikings
led the NFC North until the final play of the season.
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They squandered it a touchdown pass, they lost the playoff spot,
they had a penalty for twelve minut in the huddle,
Brett fav throw the late interception against Detroit. Remember this
isn't This isn't Detroit. Why do you ponder passing, by
the way, not just that you've probably forgotten. In two
thousand and two, Major League Baseball attempted to dissolve the
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Minnesota Twins franchise. The only reason baseball was saved to Minnesota,
and we're all glad it was, was because the state
judge prohibited the team from breaking its Metrodome lease. Since then,
they've built a new stadium and well, the Twins again.
They get to the playoffs, but they can never quite
sort of finish the deal. Suffice it to say, the
good people in Minnesota are due. You want it so bad,
(29:38):
but you're afraid of the curse. What's gonna happen again?
You get different people, different coaches, different years, but the
same random stuff keeps freaking happening, just like the story
I told you about Sydney Barrenger at the top of
the show. As a matter of fact, they joke about it.
In nineteen seventy seven the last time and the Vikings
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went to the Super Bowl. They lost to the Raiders
thirty two to fourteen, and the Vikings were favored, they
were actually maybe considered the better team, and the game
was played at the Rose Bowl a week later.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
They're a legendary quarterback.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Fran Tarkenton hosted Saturday Night Live, and he opened up
his monologue by saying the following, Hi, my name is
Fran Tarkton, quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
We've gone to the Super Bowl four.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Times this decade and we've lost all four and you
know what, We're going back to the Super Bowl next
year and we're going to lose again. That was Fran
Tarkton hosting Saturday Night Live in nineteen seventy seven. Well,
the Vikings has never been back, and other than the
Twins winning the World Series in ninety one, they haven't
had a lot to cheer for. And you know about
the college football team whole home fingers crossed, Fingers crossed,
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maybe you'll have rope burns from your rosary praying.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
For the Minnesota Timberwolves. I think it'd be a great story.
I really do.
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Normally they la get about four thousand a game.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Well, Thursday night they got thirteen thousands of game because
of one person. You probably already know who, But the
story is worth telling. Get ready, here it comes. I'm
Bernie Fratto or coming to you live from the Las
Vegas Fox Sports Radio tyreck dot com studios, sitting in
for Ben Maler.
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Speaker 1 (32:50):
All right, thanks Eddie, And before I go any further
than that, as we were wrapping up the Ben Malor Show,
I very much want to thank my crew, my broadcast
team back.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
In Los Ange, Angelus.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
They have been with me since eleven pm Pacific on
Friday night, no Thursday night, excuse me right now into Friday.
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That would be one.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Eddie Garcia is dulce of tones on all the updates
in the hockey knowledge, et cetera. Coop Justin Cooper checking
in as well. Appreciate all of your efforts tonight and
Marina Peterson on the ones and twos keeping us entertained
and really quitting yourself extremely well. I thought on the
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on the what my Name a segment of the show
showing the real fighting spirit and a real knowledge when
it comes to this crazy tipping, these tipping wars we've
got we've got going on, and perhaps even some fashion
ideas on how these Peastain denim designers can enhance their
next round of peace Dain pants, which you can now
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get for six and eighty dollars a piece and are
sold out. But that's a story for a different day.
Another ticket that promises to be a lot of money
this year. You may have heard stop me. If you've
heard me, no, don't stop me. You can't stop me.
Caitlin Clark. Now, Caitlin Clark her greatest legacy. There's no
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two ways about it, growing women's basketball. I mean everybody's
been talking about her. Everybody's been talking about it for months.
Whether you think she's a goat, she's not the goat. Whatever,
she has moved the needle. Clarkonomics has moved the needle.
There is one fact beyond debate, Caitlin Clark has been
a singular force who has grown the women's game no
way that other women's player has done before.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
That's just a fact. The numbers don't lie. The TV
numbers don't lie, The dollars don't lie.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Pick your spots, Think what you want, I don't care
the all.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Of the above.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
So she's now in the WNBA and she was drafted
number one overall by the Indiana Fever and she made
her preseason debut on the road a few days ago
and Thursday night in Indianapolis, she made her first She
made her debut as a member of the Indiana Fever.
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And the nf Fevers has been a decent franchise. I
think they won a championship ten twelve years ago, but
they've they've been moribunned. Okay, they've got some big players,
they haven't done whether averaging about four thousand fans a game. Well,
just the mere mention of Caitlyn Clark being drafted by
the Indiana Fever sent ticket sales in a tizzy before
they before in the draft. And I can tell you
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here in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas States is the
two time defending champion in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Aates is.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
They play their home games in michelob Ultra Lighte Arena
in Mandalay Bay, which maybe seats about I don't know,
six or seven thousand people. Before the Kaitly and Clark game,
they're moving it to T Mobile Arena, where the Golden
Knights play. They're playing there, they're playing the Fever twice,
but one of those games is being moved there.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
So that should say what you need to know.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
So what happened when the rubber hit the road Thursday
night in Indianapolis? It's started with player introductions? Typically, how
big of a deal are player introductions in a WNBA.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I don't know. I can't really speak to it. But
I can't say they're going to knock.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Your socks off, except it did Thursday night in Indiana, right.
Kayla Clark taking the sports world by storm makes her
first appearance at a place called Gamebridge Fieldhouse on Thursday night,
and she received a reception that I don't know, you know,
(36:29):
I can't come up with a cute, funny analogy on
this one. Think of a long long standing ovation or
your favorite player.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
That's what they did, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
And by the way, people are in the crowd wearing
their number twenty two jerseys from Iowa, and the Fever
crowd is cheering, rousing, cheers. And then every time and
then the game starts and Clark enters the game, she'd
leave the game, re entered the game. Every time she
moved the place went bananas. Now this is a preseason
game on a Thursday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
(37:05):
You were drawing four thousand for regular season games. Last year,
they drew thirteen thousand Thursday night. I didn't know the
arena helld that much. I know that the season ticket
sales have doubled. The eight thousand thirteen thousand for a
preseason w NBA game on a Thursday night. Now you
(37:31):
think they're excited for the home opener they open up,
I believe against the New York Liberty. I'm pretty sure
they'll probably draw a thirteen thousand for that game as well.
Even people are saying, coaches are saying, both teams, we
can't remember seeing a crowd like this. Okay, they probably
played twenty regular season home games last year twenty twenty three,
and again they averaged four thousand fans a game.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Who do they come to see? Make no mistake, Caitlin Clark. I.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Oh, by the way, they had to reschedule the games,
so people had to change their plans. But from freegame
warmups on up, get ready for it. They're even flying
charter now in the WNBA twenty five years, they've lost money.
But now they're going to fly charter because Caitlin Clark
was being mobbed at the airport. It's going to do
it for the Ben Mallor Show. I'm Bertie Ferraro. Well
keep it locked up. Next two Pros and a Cup
(38:17):
of Joe and Fox Sports Radio.
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