July 20, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about an NFL insider blaming former coach Mike Shanahan for killing the RB contract market, CJ Gardner-Johnson calling Philly fans "effing obnoxious", Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name for Fall Hour four,
Ready to go, and it's a football hour. People looking
for culpability when it comes to the running back market
crashing in the NFL. Many's singing the blues and they're
blaming a former coach some for the old switcheroo among
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running backs. Is Mike Shanahan, former Broncos head coach, among others,
the man that killed the running back position? And what
did you take away from CJ. Gardner Johnson's comments calling
Philadelphia fans effing obnoxious as he traded punches with the
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Philadelphia fans. And Kyler Murray has a lot to prove.
Is this inbounds or out of bounds? We'll talk about
all of those storylines and much much more right now here.
Just have a wonderful Thursday. Here it is our number four.
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buying should be in our lead this hour, coming from
the NFL. Well, it is the story of the week.
There's a lot of moving parts to it. Our lead
coming from the great debate who is responsible for the
death of running back salaries? The great impoverished running backs?
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A new name has popped up in the crossfire. If
you haven't been following along here, this is a guy
that has not coached in many years, but is being
fingered as the person who destroyed the running back position
in modern NFL football. You know who that is? No, Well,
the name that's bouncing around the echo chamber. We are
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told former NFL head coach Mike Shanahan. It's his fault,
the old Bronco coach among other teams, Mike Shanahan is
the one that is being blamed by some that in
the analytical committee community, the analytical departments. But the claim
being made that Shanahan was the first one to prove
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that you could insert any running back into his system
and it didn't matter whether that running back was good
or not, whether they were dead beat or not. And
the Broncos were fine. They had Terrell Davis and the
Hall of Fame or running back who got injured. And
then they went to Orlandis Gary and he had a
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good year. And then after that they went to somebody
named Mike Anderson and he played well. It was a
merry go round, a revolving door of running backs who
all got a ton of yards. And we're very productive
in that Mike Shanahan offensive system. So let us discuss
the question. Is Mike Shanahan the man that killed the
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running back position? So i am shaking my head and
knowing this, I've got commandeered WWE Show and Confessional and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the Baba ganouche, which you cannot
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make in the air fryer, so you just can't do it,
but you can make the bobbleganners. Now do kickoff. I'm
going to know on this question whether or not Mike
Shanahan is the guy that killed the running back position.
I'm not going to empower Mike Shanahan With this, he
was the maestro of mixing in running backs. However, this
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was a generation ago. The dramatic change did not happen
because of Mike Shanahan. Most of the heavy lifting has
taken place in the last decade or so, with a
supersonic change. In the last five years. The biggest sea
change was when NFL teams collectively were commandeered by rogue
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actors from the Ivy League. You can you know, you
can blame theo Epstein. You can blame theo Epstein and
the success that he had as a an Ivy League
guy with the Boston Red Sox, ending the long curse
of the Bambino. And then other teams around sports said, well,
let's hire some let's hire some of these dudes. Let's
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bring in the academia people. We'll bring them in. And
you look at the timeline, the hijacking of sports and
the different changes matches up perfectly. If you do a
side by side graphic, it matches up perfectly. You mix
in some huge failures like Todd Garlic, who immediately shifted
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into his twilight years as soon as he signed a
big extension with the rams. Zeke Elliott held out, demanded
more money, got paid, and that's when he stopped playing.
That's when he got cut off from production. There, So
you have the perfect storm. The brainy acts used the
term they use the term surplus value, and they said, well,
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we're gonna pay this player because they have surplus value.
If you don't have surplus value, we don't have to
pay you. Now, it is interesting to note the spawn
of Mike Shanahan, Kyle Shanahan coaching in the Bay Area.
He has copied his daddy's playbook. He's just taking what
his dad did. His dad was a Hall of famers,
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like I can do that with the Niners. But we
should point out what has Kyle Shanahan done. He went
out there and traded for one of three running backs,
makingridonculous money. Christian McCaffrey traded some draft picks to Carolina
to get the opportunity to have Christian McCaffrey as his
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number one running back. And that was the last guy
that really hit the Bonans, Christian McCaffrey. So, if it
was true that Mike Shanahan system destroyed the running back
salary scale and Kyle Shanahan studied as she goes is
running the same system. Then why would Kyle Shanahan and
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the Niners sign off on going back down memory lane
and getting a high priced running back in Christian McCaffrey.
That makes a lot of sense, all right for them.
This is a great to We actually have some audio
on this. We're gonna play this outstanding. So the Detroit
Lions have a defensive back named CJ. Gardner Johnson. You
might not know who that is. He's not a household name.
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He did play for the Eagles, pretty good Eagle team.
Last year. He was asked his favorite and least favorite
parts of playing in Philadelphia. Did you hear what he said?
He actually answered the question. A lot of times people
will not answer questions like that. They'll give you a
PC answer and they will not say anything of interest
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at all. Well, CJ. Gardner Johnson asked his favorite and
least favorite part of playing in Philadelphia. Let's just say
he did not pull any punches. Let's go to the
audio tape, take a look. Apparently we do not have it,
all right, we do not have CJ. Gardner Johnson. He said,
quote my least favorite thing the fing people. He said,
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they're effing obnoxious. I fing can't stand the fers, he said,
trust me, it's good. It's all over the internet. You
can find it easily. So Wowser's all right? So what
is your what's your takeaway there from CJ. Gardner Johnson's
comments calling Philadelphia fans the money quote there fing obnoxious.
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So this is this is wonderful. So let me let
me give you the backstory and I'll give you my thoughts.
So the backstore on this Gardner Johnson was doing a
live stream while playing video games, and somebody paid five
dollars to have their question answered by CJ. Gardner Johnson.
What a great investment and what they got for their
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five dollars was a w W show as in raw
as in raw man. What that is a great grifter move.
You charge the great, unwashed, the peasants five dollars for
the right to ask you a question. We should copy
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this business model. Every time we read a tweet or
we take a call, you gotta pay five dollars. That's
a great business plan, is what that is. And I'll
tell you what if I'm getting five dollars for every
comment I read, I'm reading more comment and if I
get five dollars for every call we're doing open phones
across America and just take rapid fire phone calls, I'd
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buy that for a dollar now, five dollars, five dollars,
five dollars to ask a question of a guy playing
video games? What a freaking world we live in? My god? Okay,
And anyway, you know what this will do. It will
provide great sports talk radio in Philadelphia is red meat
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in the Eagles Den. And that's about all because looking
ahead at the schedule, the Eagles and Lions do not
cross paths this season. They are not scheduled to play
in the preseason or the regular season. So unless they
meet and say the NFC Championship game or some random
NFL playoff game in the NFC part of the bracket,
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they will not lockheads. It will not happen. All right,
parting shots, So let's move over to Kyler Murray. Always
a fun punching bag on this show. It's not a
big punching bag. It's a small bag. Kyler Murray gave
some spicy comments. We talked about these the other day
on the show. Gave some spicy comments about the Cardinals,
Putastic four and thirteen record last season, and those comments
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caught the attention of Steve Kime, who I think is
on our payroll. I'm not sure, but he popped up
on the Herd the other day. Now that before I
tell you what Kime said, alligator arms, Murray said, this
is a quote. I'm going to be coachable, and I'm
going to do it to the best of my ability.
But if the blank ain't working at some point, we
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all have to look in the mirror. Close quote. Now,
Steve kimb responded to those comments. He said of Kyler
when he added the word but in general, he says,
generally being positive by being a positive person. The word
butt does not end in a positive light. The former
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NFL executive murmured. He said, quote, I certainly didn't want
to hear that, Nor do fans want to hear a
guy who's making forty six point one million a year.
When you get the bag of cash, everybody expects you
to take it on your shoulders. Close quote. So, Kyler
Murray has a lot to prove in Arizona. Is that
inbounds or out of bounds what was obviously inbounds spoiler alert,
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he won't actually do it Steve Kime. What he did
on that particular quote that I just gave you is
he went into the confessional booth.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Is what he did.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He went in the confessional booth. He said, oh, father,
I have sinned, admitting that he should not and did
not want to give Kyler Murray the two hundred thirty
million dollars extension in Arizona. Somebody above Steve Kaime must
have stepped in on the ownership side that this is
my theory. That is why the then Cardinals GM put
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the video game clause in the deal because he knew
it was his call of duty. Wink wink, nod nod.
He knew he had to put that in there because
Kyler Murray is a slacker. He does shoddy work, and
Steve Khim knows it. He knows it. And Murray's use
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of the word but was a dead giveaway. As we
have talked about in previous episodes of the show, we
believe that everything a person says before the word but
is a lie, all of it. So when Kyler Murray said,
I'm going to be coachable and I'm going to do
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it to the best of my ability. But liar, liar, liar, liar.
Now that means he will not be coachable to the
best of his abilities. Kyler Murray has been exposed. He's
a gimmick quarterback. Teams have figured out his stick a lot,
and he's got to find new material. It's like a
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band that comes up with a hit record and then,
you know, hit a couple of hit songs and then
they're like, well, you got to do it again, like
right away. Well, noan it took a while to come
up with it, or maybe a better anaoge would be
a comedian that has a great set, good solid fifteen
minutes of comedy and goes around to Chuckles and ha
haas comedy club and then everyone's kind of seen their
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act and then they don't have any new material. That's
Kyler Murray. He's run out of material. People have figured out.
But what he can do and what he can't do.
Make him go one direction and he's the greatest quarterback
in football. Make him go the other direction, and the
guy should be packing groceries somewhere. So that's the book.
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it's a rather funny story. Straight ahead Puck my World
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later this hour Factor Fiction will do it all, and
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we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
This hour, Puck the World with Eddie and also if
you stay with us all the way through the rest
of this hour, fact or fiction justin in the Enchanted
forest right since says, I am disappointed. I thought we
would get a Women's World Cup monologue. It was really
a toss up. Unfortunately the coin landed the other way.
(16:21):
Has that match ended? Iowa Sam was very into that
Women's World Cup. He was all over that is that
over now, Iowa Sam?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Or?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Is that still going on?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
It is over?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
It is over? Are we still being covered up on
our satellite radio channel.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I do not know New Zealand bested Norway one nil.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
New Zealand one yes, one nil.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Your guy Darcy is really fired up.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm sure that's right. Darcy Waldergrave, big radio guy, host
a news talk show. He's moved on from Sports Eddie.
He's a news talk guy, but he still loves sports.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
They got rid of the entire network when COVID started.
They had a big sports network in New Zealand and
they pulled the plug on it when the COVID pandemic happened.
Let's see late night drug Tester says, I think Kyler
Murray has a built in excuse. If he doesn't play well,
he can blame the playing surface. He didn't look that
good in the Super Bowl. Yeah, he'll blame his injury.
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He'll blame the coach. He'll have a gazillion excuses. And
there are many the quarterback defenders that will give him
a mulligan. Obscene Dean says, as far as monologue number
four is concerned, I would pay five dollars to hear
what Myers Leonard has to say Wall Gaming. Well, I
think we've already heard what Miles Leonard has to say
(17:40):
wal Gaming. I think we already know that. I don't
know that we need to go any well, no, not
a racist, it's a different ism thing or whatever. He's
a fan of Myers, Leonard's a fan of Johnny Bench.
I think that's that's what we can say regarding that
particular issue. I am just pointing that out there, pointing
that out. So the story, we were gonna get this
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earlier and something happened and we didn't get to it.
Bad job by us, Shame on us. We're not getting
it to it earlier. But the most unique college football
player this year. And we don't talk too much college
football because it doesn't really work out for the show.
College football has played mostly on Saturday. We are not
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here on Saturday. The show is not on the air.
Our show is not on the air. There's other shows
on the air. We're not on the air, and so
by the time we come back, we come back Sunday
night in the Monday morning. NFL football kind of a
bigger deal than college football, so we don't get a
lot of time to slice it up unless there's some
kind of big drama o rama. But the most unique,
most interesting college football player this year plays for of
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all places, Colorado State. Did you see this story, Eddie,
this guy Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Story, that's my conference, that's your.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Last I should know about this, Eddie. That's bad out
by You remember the name hit A Tora Hanada, hit
A torah Anada. I think I say your pronounced. You'll
hear that. I probably butcher his name. But that is
a Japanese sumo wrestler, Eddie that has announced in Tokyo
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this week that he is leaving his native country of
Japan and going to all places Colorado and playing for
Colorado State as a defensive lineman. And this guy says
he's eyeing the NFL. He's looking at an NFL career, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm sure that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
So suppose to what happened is this guy in Japan
kind of messed around with American football at some kind
of tryout thing, became very successful among the handful of
natives in Japan that play American style football. He made
the national roster and he had interest not just from
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Colorado State, but according to so I find this hard
to believe, but they say schools like Texas and Ohio State.
According to the Japan Times. We're interested in this guy.
If Ohio State and Texas are interested in you, how
do you end up, with all due respect, how do
you end up in Colorado State?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
They probably told him you can play here. Oh, those
other schools, you're probably not going to play.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Okay, I'll have to check with my guy, Victor Brig
Jacobs from RUNNS. He's a sumo expert. Yeah, I have
to figure out what's going on with that. But it
says here in his profile that he won the All
Japan title in sumo. He's an All World Sumo wrestler,
won the goal that the World Games. And he is
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also a yokozuna in sumo, the highest rank in the sport,
the downtown Dojo. I'm gonna have to use that in
my lexicon. Yokozuna have to talk about like black belts.
We talk about that yokozuna. I'm a yoko zuna of
bad takes. That's right, Yes, the highest rank of the
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bad take. That is where I am at legendary wrestler. Yeah,
all right, now let's go to the phone. Supermarket Steve
is up next, Hello super Market.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Steve, Hey Ben, I just gotta say I had to
listen back to that Rogan and Rodney show where you
filled in and you let David Bess talk about the
night group. People like that talk about that you are
finally on during the while the sun is up, not
like people work at night or actually supply the world
with goods and services.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, well, listen, next time I see Vassay, I will
kick his ass. I'll say, you know, I'll say a
holy crap, I'll dress up like Bernie Brewer. That'll give
him nightmares.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Oh and by the way, Ben, I say, he made
that stupid comment about you being big, Well you can
and did lose weight. He can't grow anymore. That little
midget Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Shots fired by supermarket Steve Man unloading on and the
thing I was most upset about. And Dave vest If
you don't know, Daves is a Dodger reporter, I was.
I did a local show in La here last week
with Fred Rogan. They asked me the last minute to
come in, so I did the show and we had Vessey,
who's a friend of mine. I've known him for a
long time. We had him on and I asked him
(22:22):
about the Dodgers signing that cheating astro Jake marisnik and
did you hear super Market Steve? He told the company
line on that answer, he did not bear.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
He refused to answer any baseball question. Anytime he answers
the baseball question, all he says is, oh, I'm standing
right next to Clayton Kershaw. He's throwing warm up pitches
right now. He looking pretty good. All he ever talks
about he got no talent for baseball.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Note, Wow, you're loading on him, man, vicious.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Attacks, I want to say, anytime he's covering you up
and on five seventy with Dodgers from late, I'm calling
for the Malin militia to call in and harass him NonStop.
So he thinks back what he said about the.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Night workers doesn't happen anymore, super barner, Steve, because these
baseball games all go two and a half hours now,
so we don't have to worry about that. But thank
you the great Supermarket Steve. Throwing haymakers, lobbing Molotov cocktailssty
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Two for one special. It's a clear out special on
fun facts. So I am told the Angels struck out
forty four Yankee batters in that series this week. That
is a franchise record in a three game series.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That is a fun fact.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That is a fun fact and embarrassing for the New
York yang All Right, did Nolan Ryan start one of
those games for the Angels?
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You're still throw it any heart to you.
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I'm sure they bring back Chuck Finley and Mark Langston.
Were they out there? John Rabbitt, John Lackey, did he
get a start the Lackey? Jared Washburn, we don't have
to do this Eddie, you don't have to go back now.
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Speaker 1 (25:48):
Really, what you're doing, Eddies, You're taking up valuable real
estate from your segment on the show. That's a bad
job by you. I'm bummed out college football. A lot
of these conference pow wows are going on the media
get together as the media Day of veins for the
different conferences, which are just propaganda for the different teams.
But we will not get the wisdom of Dion Sanders
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and there are people upset by this, and I get it.
Deon Sanders it was announced will not be attending the
PAC twelve Media Days event. The coach at Colorado will
not be there because he needs not one, but two
more operations on his tutsies. They're messed up there ready.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, they were talking about his foot at one time,
but they didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But boy, my question is was this planned out or
is this just the first operation didn't work? So we've
got to try a couple other things there. I don't know. Yeah,
why though he did he wear the wrong shoes? Is
this a genetic issue? Like what happened to him? Was
it something else? When he was playing that somebody messed
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it up when he was younger. I don't know. I'm
sure the answer is out there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I'm sure it is. I don't know, hip. I don't
have the answer.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Those hippo laws, Eddie will not allow us to have
the answer, unfortunately. But Dean, he has no secrets. He
says everything.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Dion.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Speaking of saying everything, it's hockey season somewhere, and that
means right back to Eddie Garcia, we go get you
caught up on everything going on with Fuck.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well, it's not hockey season. It's still hockey offseason, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You gotta sell it. This is more fun. These are
when trades happen.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Do you have some scandals to talk about?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
You enjoy that?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Oh is that the guy that got pulled over? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I saw that.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
We are still waiting for some pretty big name free
agents to sign for next season, including Vladimir Tarasenko formerly
of the Blues and the Rangers. Lots of rumors about Ottawa, Carolina,
maybe Colorado, the New York Islanders. Patrick Kinge still out there,
but he's gonna have hip surgery or he already had
hip surgery. So he's probably not gonna sign it till
after the season starts. The top defense was still available,
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with Matt Dumba of the wild talk of him maybe
going to Arizona or Dallas, And then you've got some
old vets like Patruce bergeron On, David Craigy, Jonathan Dames,
Phil Kessel was trying to see if they're going to
join some new teams next year or maybe right off
into the sunset. Who knows, well. The next big thing
in the NHL, if you believe the experts, has signed
Connor Bedard, eighteen year old. This past Monday, he had
(28:16):
his birthday and celebrated by signing a three year entry
level contract where at eight hundred and fifty five thousand dollars,
he gets a nine ninety five thousand dollars signing bonus
and two performance bonus is worth three point five million dollars.
He's supposed to be a superstar this year, his rookie
year in the NHL. We we shall see. He had
seventy one goals in fifty seven games in junior hockey
(28:38):
last season. Seattle Kraken extend their head coach Dave Haxtell
through the twenty twenty five to twenty six season, who
was named a Jack Adams Award finalists for Coach of
the Year, didn't win it, but he did help the
Kracken to get their first one hunderd point season make
the playoffs on the first time in their brief history.
They had nineteen more wins and forty more points than
their inaugural season. Calwey Flam's going to retire the number
thirty four former netminder Mika Kippersov. He's their all time
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leader in wins, shutouts, goals against, average save percentage, and
games played. And then I'll get you your jersey up
in the rafters. Edmondson Euler's ringer Evander Kane announced via
Twitter this past week he is stepping away from the
Hockey Diversity Alliance group, which he helped launch back in
June of twenty twenty. The group's supposed to promote diversity
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and eradicate racism.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
He's hot decided he doesn't want to promote diversity anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Is that right? Well, he says he's leaving because the
group is now being influenced by members with individual agendas,
and then.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The every group influenced by agendas that's how the world works.
Everyone's got their own agenda.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
The group then released their own statement saying that Kane
has not been involved in the group for more than
two years and was disqualified from serving as a director
after he declared for bankruptcy. And apparently that's against laws
in Canada for being a part of a nonprofit of
being you know, the head of a nonprofit or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
So anyway, Oh, that's why you weasel money as a nonprofit.
That's so those a lot of those charities are total scams.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, there's been a the gamble going on in an
investigation for quite a while involving the twenty eighteen Canadian
World Junior team a sexual assault scandal. Reportedly back in
the day, they'd been investigating for a while, but there's
a report coming out that they're bracing for names being
named and maybe the NHL announcing possible suspensions of these
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players before they were even NHL players, which is always interesting.
About fifteen players from this twenty eighteen Canadian World Junior
team or either in the NHL or had recently been
in the NHL. There's one legitimate NHL superstar that has
been involved, and Nike did announce this week they are
no longer sponsoring Hockey Canada, stemming from this issue and
the story that now I mentioned earlier. Kind of the
(30:43):
Arizona Coyotes terminated the contractor forward Alex Galchenyak on Friday,
thirteen days really went after signing it went for Yeah.
He got arrested on charges of private property hit and run,
disorder in the conduct, failure to obey, resisting arrest, and
threatening or intimidating. Basically, he was drunk, ran into a sign,
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got arrested, and then decided to threaten death on the
officers that were arresting him and their families and then
report him to use some racial slurs as well. He
did release a statement apologizing I'm deeply ashamed of my
recent behavior and blah blah blah. He was the third. Yeah,
I'd love how he had his logo on the letterhead.
(31:25):
This guy is a total bust and he's got his
own logo, you know, like Lebron or Tom.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Brady lost a lot of money Eddie to get that
logo logo.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
He was the third overall pick in twenty twelve and
he's played for seven teams and eleven years. This is
going to be his third stint in Arizona before this
incident happened and I entered her treatment program. He says
he's obviously got an issue and so on and so forth.
So could be the last time we ever hear of
alex galchink.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
How will my life go on?
Speaker 7 (31:54):
I don't understand it, And that's your puck the World
report you didn't mention Eddie buried the leader HL and
he said they will not have a fugazy in season tournament.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Like, yes, they did, because it's a stud I agree
that's something Gary we ripped Gary Bettman, but that it's
a good move by Gary Betman. It's Adam Silver's michig
Os this in season tournament, which is ridiculous. And of course,
keep in mind, if this actually works for the NBA,
if they make a lot of money, then the NHL
will follow in their footsteps.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
But I like it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I liked it. They're not, at least for now.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I know we're up against it. But but real quick,
because I haven't looked into it at all, because I
think it is also really dumb. Is it going to
be something where it is separate from your regular season record?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Is it not accounting. I think it. I think all
the games are gonna count except for like one. I
think from what I read and the CHAMPI the last
two games are gonna be in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So I was I was trying to determine if I
could completely ignore it and not watch a single second.
But I guess it does have more meaning than the tournament.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I will completely ignore it for you, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I will only watch with with like half an eye,
like not even a full half an eye, which is
more than blind Scott. So I just want to point
that out anyway, cheap. Thank you. Yes, I learned from you, Eddie.
You always take shots at blind Scott. We will have
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Speaker 3 (33:53):
Is it fact or fiction?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Let's face some raw facts. Let's do. We'll give you
three stories. Got to figure out which of the three
is not true, separating fiction away from facts. So two
of the stories are true, one is not. Let's welcome
in our celebrity panel of judges from Brayden and Floor,
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the spring training home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. We welcome
in Leslie and Jack the Judge. Good morning, Good morning,
Ben day, she is back. Hello, Leslie, how's life treating you?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Very well?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
We are alive and well. Better than the Tampa Bay
Rays are doing right now. They have not played well
for the last couple of months. I know Jack's probably
upset by that, but it happens, so yeah, oh boy,
all right, hold on, Leslie, I don't know what happened there.
Milkman Mike is in Colorado. Of course. The power couple,
Leslie and Jack the Judge, They make the show move
Hello milkman. Mike.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Hey, good morning from the Mile High City.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
The City of Champions in pro bouncy ball. All right,
how's the milk this morning? All right, thank you, Mike.
We have Shane and des Moine. Hello Shane from des Moines. Hi, Ben,
how are you? If I was any better, I'd be
the person that won the billion dollars? But I'm not.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
So well, Ben, don't go see the Barbie movie. Anyone
who goes to see that should go to Rush with
Britney Griner.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Wow, shots fired. Okay, hold on a section my airfier, Shane. Yeah,
your airfier identifies as a human. I think that's what
you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
All right, factor fiction. Here we go. Story number one
Blender Mode Marshawn Lynch remember him, old NFL player in
Seattle and he's still a marketable pitch man. Lynch is
teamed up with a company to release a limited edition blender,
being dubbed the Baddest blender on the planet. The Beast
Mode blender has a price tag of two hundred and
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fifteen dollars. Unless that's outrageous for a blender. I don't
know how much you blenders cost, but that's the Beast
Mode blender unless we made that up. Story number two
the Rock helping out Dwayne Johnson getting involved in the
name image likeness game through his energy drink brand. Earlier,
he released a new program called the Rocks Warriors. The
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collective inaugural class includes LSU star Angel Reese and Marvin
Harrison Junior, supposed to be top pick in the NFL,
a bunch of other college stars. And story number three,
It's all about the Jacket Aaron Donald part of that
ninety nine club on Madden seventh time. That's a record.
In a new announcement similar to the Hall of Fame,
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EA Sports has introduced its own ninety nine Club Blazer.
For all the players that reach that ninety nine perfect rating,
they get their own ninety nine Club Blazer. I'm sure
they're excited about that, unless they're not. Which of these
three stories is not true? Separating fiction from fact? Will
start out out in Florida? The Power Couple Leslie along
(37:04):
with Jack and Judge Leslie. Which of these stories is
not true? Leslie?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Two?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Sounds awful?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, all right, enjoy. Are you guys playing pickleball? Probably
not right?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
No, I started it and tripped and almost broke my ankle.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Oh no, all right, to stay away from the pickles,
all right, milkman, Mike quickly, one, two or three, milkman.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
The number of fingers for Paul and Rhode Island three fingers.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
All right, Shane, one to or three Shane.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Number three, that
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Is the fake story, number three, The Madden jacket story,
the job, the fact Jack
Hello and welcome. It's our name for Fall Hour four,
Ready to go, and it's a football hour. People looking
for culpability when it comes to the running back market
crashing in the NFL. Many's singing the blues and they're
blaming a former coach some for the old switcheroo among
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running backs. Is Mike Shanahan, former Broncos head coach, among others,
the man that killed the running back position? And what
did you take away from CJ. Gardner Johnson's comments calling
Philadelphia fans effing obnoxious as he traded punches with the
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Philadelphia fans. And Kyler Murray has a lot to prove.
Is this inbounds or out of bounds? We'll talk about
all of those storylines and much much more right now here.
Just have a wonderful Thursday. Here it is our number four.
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buying should be in our lead this hour, coming from
the NFL. Well, it is the story of the week.
There's a lot of moving parts to it. Our lead
coming from the great debate who is responsible for the
death of running back salaries? The great impoverished running backs?
(02:14):
A new name has popped up in the crossfire. If
you haven't been following along here, this is a guy
that has not coached in many years, but is being
fingered as the person who destroyed the running back position
in modern NFL football. You know who that is? No, Well,
the name that's bouncing around the echo chamber. We are
(02:35):
told former NFL head coach Mike Shanahan. It's his fault,
the old Bronco coach among other teams, Mike Shanahan is
the one that is being blamed by some that in
the analytical committee community, the analytical departments. But the claim
being made that Shanahan was the first one to prove
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that you could insert any running back into his system
and it didn't matter whether that running back was good
or not, whether they were dead beat or not. And
the Broncos were fine. They had Terrell Davis and the
Hall of Fame or running back who got injured. And
then they went to Orlandis Gary and he had a
(03:19):
good year. And then after that they went to somebody
named Mike Anderson and he played well. It was a
merry go round, a revolving door of running backs who
all got a ton of yards. And we're very productive
in that Mike Shanahan offensive system. So let us discuss
the question. Is Mike Shanahan the man that killed the
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running back position? So i am shaking my head and
knowing this, I've got commandeered WWE Show and Confessional and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the Baba ganouche, which you cannot
(04:06):
make in the air fryer, so you just can't do it,
but you can make the bobbleganners. Now do kickoff. I'm
going to know on this question whether or not Mike
Shanahan is the guy that killed the running back position.
I'm not going to empower Mike Shanahan With this, he
was the maestro of mixing in running backs. However, this
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was a generation ago. The dramatic change did not happen
because of Mike Shanahan. Most of the heavy lifting has
taken place in the last decade or so, with a
supersonic change. In the last five years. The biggest sea
change was when NFL teams collectively were commandeered by rogue
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actors from the Ivy League. You can you know, you
can blame theo Epstein. You can blame theo Epstein and
the success that he had as a an Ivy League
guy with the Boston Red Sox, ending the long curse
of the Bambino. And then other teams around sports said, well,
let's hire some let's hire some of these dudes. Let's
(05:13):
bring in the academia people. We'll bring them in. And
you look at the timeline, the hijacking of sports and
the different changes matches up perfectly. If you do a
side by side graphic, it matches up perfectly. You mix
in some huge failures like Todd Garlic, who immediately shifted
(05:34):
into his twilight years as soon as he signed a
big extension with the rams. Zeke Elliott held out, demanded
more money, got paid, and that's when he stopped playing.
That's when he got cut off from production. There, So
you have the perfect storm. The brainy acts used the
term they use the term surplus value, and they said, well,
(05:58):
we're gonna pay this player because they have surplus value.
If you don't have surplus value, we don't have to
pay you. Now, it is interesting to note the spawn
of Mike Shanahan, Kyle Shanahan coaching in the Bay Area.
He has copied his daddy's playbook. He's just taking what
his dad did. His dad was a Hall of famers,
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like I can do that with the Niners. But we
should point out what has Kyle Shanahan done. He went
out there and traded for one of three running backs,
makingridonculous money. Christian McCaffrey traded some draft picks to Carolina
to get the opportunity to have Christian McCaffrey as his
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number one running back. And that was the last guy
that really hit the Bonans, Christian McCaffrey. So, if it
was true that Mike Shanahan system destroyed the running back
salary scale and Kyle Shanahan studied as she goes is
running the same system. Then why would Kyle Shanahan and
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the Niners sign off on going back down memory lane
and getting a high priced running back in Christian McCaffrey.
That makes a lot of sense, all right for them.
This is a great to We actually have some audio
on this. We're gonna play this outstanding. So the Detroit
Lions have a defensive back named CJ. Gardner Johnson. You
might not know who that is. He's not a household name.
(07:26):
He did play for the Eagles, pretty good Eagle team.
Last year. He was asked his favorite and least favorite
parts of playing in Philadelphia. Did you hear what he said?
He actually answered the question. A lot of times people
will not answer questions like that. They'll give you a
PC answer and they will not say anything of interest
(07:49):
at all. Well, CJ. Gardner Johnson asked his favorite and
least favorite part of playing in Philadelphia. Let's just say
he did not pull any punches. Let's go to the
audio tape, take a look. Apparently we do not have it,
all right, we do not have CJ. Gardner Johnson. He said,
quote my least favorite thing the fing people. He said,
(08:11):
they're effing obnoxious. I fing can't stand the fers, he said,
trust me, it's good. It's all over the internet. You
can find it easily. So Wowser's all right? So what
is your what's your takeaway there from CJ. Gardner Johnson's
comments calling Philadelphia fans the money quote there fing obnoxious.
(08:34):
So this is this is wonderful. So let me let
me give you the backstory and I'll give you my thoughts.
So the backstore on this Gardner Johnson was doing a
live stream while playing video games, and somebody paid five
dollars to have their question answered by CJ. Gardner Johnson.
What a great investment and what they got for their
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five dollars was a w W show as in raw
as in raw man. What that is a great grifter move.
You charge the great, unwashed, the peasants five dollars for
the right to ask you a question. We should copy
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this business model. Every time we read a tweet or
we take a call, you gotta pay five dollars. That's
a great business plan, is what that is. And I'll
tell you what if I'm getting five dollars for every
comment I read, I'm reading more comment and if I
get five dollars for every call we're doing open phones
across America and just take rapid fire phone calls, I'd
(09:40):
buy that for a dollar now, five dollars, five dollars,
five dollars to ask a question of a guy playing
video games? What a freaking world we live in? My god? Okay,
And anyway, you know what this will do. It will
provide great sports talk radio in Philadelphia is red meat
(10:00):
in the Eagles Den. And that's about all because looking
ahead at the schedule, the Eagles and Lions do not
cross paths this season. They are not scheduled to play
in the preseason or the regular season. So unless they
meet and say the NFC Championship game or some random
NFL playoff game in the NFC part of the bracket,
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they will not lockheads. It will not happen. All right,
parting shots, So let's move over to Kyler Murray. Always
a fun punching bag on this show. It's not a
big punching bag. It's a small bag. Kyler Murray gave
some spicy comments. We talked about these the other day
on the show. Gave some spicy comments about the Cardinals,
Putastic four and thirteen record last season, and those comments
(10:46):
caught the attention of Steve Kime, who I think is
on our payroll. I'm not sure, but he popped up
on the Herd the other day. Now that before I
tell you what Kime said, alligator arms, Murray said, this
is a quote. I'm going to be coachable, and I'm
going to do it to the best of my ability.
But if the blank ain't working at some point, we
(11:10):
all have to look in the mirror. Close quote. Now,
Steve kimb responded to those comments. He said of Kyler
when he added the word but in general, he says,
generally being positive by being a positive person. The word
butt does not end in a positive light. The former
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NFL executive murmured. He said, quote, I certainly didn't want
to hear that, Nor do fans want to hear a
guy who's making forty six point one million a year.
When you get the bag of cash, everybody expects you
to take it on your shoulders. Close quote. So, Kyler
Murray has a lot to prove in Arizona. Is that
inbounds or out of bounds what was obviously inbounds spoiler alert,
(11:54):
he won't actually do it Steve Kime. What he did
on that particular quote that I just gave you is
he went into the confessional booth.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Is what he did.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
He went in the confessional booth. He said, oh, father,
I have sinned, admitting that he should not and did
not want to give Kyler Murray the two hundred thirty
million dollars extension in Arizona. Somebody above Steve Kaime must
have stepped in on the ownership side that this is
my theory. That is why the then Cardinals GM put
(12:28):
the video game clause in the deal because he knew
it was his call of duty. Wink wink, nod nod.
He knew he had to put that in there because
Kyler Murray is a slacker. He does shoddy work, and
Steve Khim knows it. He knows it. And Murray's use
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of the word but was a dead giveaway. As we
have talked about in previous episodes of the show, we
believe that everything a person says before the word but
is a lie, all of it. So when Kyler Murray said,
I'm going to be coachable and I'm going to do
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it to the best of my ability. But liar, liar, liar, liar.
Now that means he will not be coachable to the
best of his abilities. Kyler Murray has been exposed. He's
a gimmick quarterback. Teams have figured out his stick a lot,
and he's got to find new material. It's like a
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band that comes up with a hit record and then,
you know, hit a couple of hit songs and then
they're like, well, you got to do it again, like
right away. Well, noan it took a while to come
up with it, or maybe a better anaoge would be
a comedian that has a great set, good solid fifteen
minutes of comedy and goes around to Chuckles and ha
haas comedy club and then everyone's kind of seen their
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act and then they don't have any new material. That's
Kyler Murray. He's run out of material. People have figured out.
But what he can do and what he can't do.
Make him go one direction and he's the greatest quarterback
in football. Make him go the other direction, and the
guy should be packing groceries somewhere. So that's the book.
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
This hour, Puck the World with Eddie and also if
you stay with us all the way through the rest
of this hour, fact or fiction justin in the Enchanted
forest right since says, I am disappointed. I thought we
would get a Women's World Cup monologue. It was really
a toss up. Unfortunately the coin landed the other way.
(16:21):
Has that match ended? Iowa Sam was very into that
Women's World Cup. He was all over that is that
over now, Iowa Sam?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Or?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Is that still going on?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
It is over?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
It is over? Are we still being covered up on
our satellite radio channel.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I do not know New Zealand bested Norway one nil.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
New Zealand one yes, one nil.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Your guy Darcy is really fired up.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm sure that's right. Darcy Waldergrave, big radio guy, host
a news talk show. He's moved on from Sports Eddie.
He's a news talk guy, but he still loves sports.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
They got rid of the entire network when COVID started.
They had a big sports network in New Zealand and
they pulled the plug on it when the COVID pandemic happened.
Let's see late night drug Tester says, I think Kyler
Murray has a built in excuse. If he doesn't play well,
he can blame the playing surface. He didn't look that
good in the Super Bowl. Yeah, he'll blame his injury.
(17:18):
He'll blame the coach. He'll have a gazillion excuses. And
there are many the quarterback defenders that will give him
a mulligan. Obscene Dean says, as far as monologue number
four is concerned, I would pay five dollars to hear
what Myers Leonard has to say Wall Gaming. Well, I
think we've already heard what Miles Leonard has to say
(17:40):
wal Gaming. I think we already know that. I don't
know that we need to go any well, no, not
a racist, it's a different ism thing or whatever. He's
a fan of Myers, Leonard's a fan of Johnny Bench.
I think that's that's what we can say regarding that
particular issue. I am just pointing that out there, pointing
that out. So the story, we were gonna get this
(18:02):
earlier and something happened and we didn't get to it.
Bad job by us, Shame on us. We're not getting
it to it earlier. But the most unique college football
player this year. And we don't talk too much college
football because it doesn't really work out for the show.
College football has played mostly on Saturday. We are not
(18:24):
here on Saturday. The show is not on the air.
Our show is not on the air. There's other shows
on the air. We're not on the air, and so
by the time we come back, we come back Sunday
night in the Monday morning. NFL football kind of a
bigger deal than college football, so we don't get a
lot of time to slice it up unless there's some
kind of big drama o rama. But the most unique,
most interesting college football player this year plays for of
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all places, Colorado State. Did you see this story, Eddie,
this guy Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Story, that's my conference, that's your.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Last I should know about this, Eddie. That's bad out
by You remember the name hit A Tora Hanada, hit
A torah Anada. I think I say your pronounced. You'll
hear that. I probably butcher his name. But that is
a Japanese sumo wrestler, Eddie that has announced in Tokyo
(19:18):
this week that he is leaving his native country of
Japan and going to all places Colorado and playing for
Colorado State as a defensive lineman. And this guy says
he's eyeing the NFL. He's looking at an NFL career, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I'm sure that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
So suppose to what happened is this guy in Japan
kind of messed around with American football at some kind
of tryout thing, became very successful among the handful of
natives in Japan that play American style football. He made
the national roster and he had interest not just from
(20:03):
Colorado State, but according to so I find this hard
to believe, but they say schools like Texas and Ohio State.
According to the Japan Times. We're interested in this guy.
If Ohio State and Texas are interested in you, how
do you end up, with all due respect, how do
you end up in Colorado State?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
They probably told him you can play here. Oh, those
other schools, you're probably not going to play.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Okay, I'll have to check with my guy, Victor Brig
Jacobs from RUNNS. He's a sumo expert. Yeah, I have
to figure out what's going on with that. But it
says here in his profile that he won the All
Japan title in sumo. He's an All World Sumo wrestler,
won the goal that the World Games. And he is
(20:47):
also a yokozuna in sumo, the highest rank in the sport,
the downtown Dojo. I'm gonna have to use that in
my lexicon. Yokozuna have to talk about like black belts.
We talk about that yokozuna. I'm a yoko zuna of
bad takes. That's right, Yes, the highest rank of the
(21:08):
bad take. That is where I am at legendary wrestler. Yeah,
all right, now let's go to the phone. Supermarket Steve
is up next, Hello super Market.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Steve, Hey Ben, I just gotta say I had to
listen back to that Rogan and Rodney show where you
filled in and you let David Bess talk about the
night group. People like that talk about that you are
finally on during the while the sun is up, not
like people work at night or actually supply the world
with goods and services.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, well, listen, next time I see Vassay, I will
kick his ass. I'll say, you know, I'll say a
holy crap, I'll dress up like Bernie Brewer. That'll give
him nightmares.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Oh and by the way, Ben, I say, he made
that stupid comment about you being big, Well you can
and did lose weight. He can't grow anymore. That little
midget Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Shots fired by supermarket Steve Man unloading on and the
thing I was most upset about. And Dave vest If
you don't know, Daves is a Dodger reporter, I was.
I did a local show in La here last week
with Fred Rogan. They asked me the last minute to
come in, so I did the show and we had Vessey,
who's a friend of mine. I've known him for a
long time. We had him on and I asked him
(22:22):
about the Dodgers signing that cheating astro Jake marisnik and
did you hear super Market Steve? He told the company
line on that answer, he did not bear.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
He refused to answer any baseball question. Anytime he answers
the baseball question, all he says is, oh, I'm standing
right next to Clayton Kershaw. He's throwing warm up pitches
right now. He looking pretty good. All he ever talks
about he got no talent for baseball.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Note, Wow, you're loading on him, man, vicious.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Attacks, I want to say, anytime he's covering you up
and on five seventy with Dodgers from late, I'm calling
for the Malin militia to call in and harass him NonStop.
So he thinks back what he said about the.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Night workers doesn't happen anymore, super barner, Steve, because these
baseball games all go two and a half hours now,
so we don't have to worry about that. But thank
you the great Supermarket Steve. Throwing haymakers, lobbing Molotov cocktailssty
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Speaker 1 (25:05):
Two for one special. It's a clear out special on
fun facts. So I am told the Angels struck out
forty four Yankee batters in that series this week. That
is a franchise record in a three game series.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That is a fun fact.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
That is a fun fact and embarrassing for the New
York yang All Right, did Nolan Ryan start one of
those games for the Angels?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You're still throw it any heart to you.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I'm sure they bring back Chuck Finley and Mark Langston.
Were they out there? John Rabbitt, John Lackey, did he
get a start the Lackey? Jared Washburn, we don't have
to do this Eddie, you don't have to go back now.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Back to Ben maller inthtyrack dot Com, Fox Sports Radios.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Really, what you're doing, Eddies, You're taking up valuable real
estate from your segment on the show. That's a bad
job by you. I'm bummed out college football. A lot
of these conference pow wows are going on the media
get together as the media Day of veins for the
different conferences, which are just propaganda for the different teams.
But we will not get the wisdom of Dion Sanders
(26:11):
and there are people upset by this, and I get it.
Deon Sanders it was announced will not be attending the
PAC twelve Media Days event. The coach at Colorado will
not be there because he needs not one, but two
more operations on his tutsies. They're messed up there ready.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Yeah, they were talking about his foot at one time,
but they didn't do that.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But boy, my question is was this planned out or
is this just the first operation didn't work? So we've
got to try a couple other things there. I don't know. Yeah,
why though he did he wear the wrong shoes? Is
this a genetic issue? Like what happened to him? Was
it something else? When he was playing that somebody messed
(26:55):
it up when he was younger. I don't know. I'm
sure the answer is out there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I'm sure it is. I don't know, hip. I don't
have the answer.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Those hippo laws, Eddie will not allow us to have
the answer, unfortunately. But Dean, he has no secrets. He
says everything.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Dion.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Speaking of saying everything, it's hockey season somewhere, and that
means right back to Eddie Garcia, we go get you
caught up on everything going on with Fuck.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Well, it's not hockey season. It's still hockey offseason, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You gotta sell it. This is more fun. These are
when trades happen.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Do you have some scandals to talk about?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
You enjoy that?
Speaker 6 (27:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Oh is that the guy that got pulled over? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I saw that.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
We are still waiting for some pretty big name free
agents to sign for next season, including Vladimir Tarasenko formerly
of the Blues and the Rangers. Lots of rumors about Ottawa, Carolina,
maybe Colorado, the New York Islanders. Patrick Kinge still out there,
but he's gonna have hip surgery or he already had
hip surgery. So he's probably not gonna sign it till
after the season starts. The top defense was still available,
(27:52):
with Matt Dumba of the wild talk of him maybe
going to Arizona or Dallas, And then you've got some
old vets like Patruce bergeron On, David Craigy, Jonathan Dames,
Phil Kessel was trying to see if they're going to
join some new teams next year or maybe right off
into the sunset. Who knows, well. The next big thing
in the NHL, if you believe the experts, has signed
Connor Bedard, eighteen year old. This past Monday, he had
(28:16):
his birthday and celebrated by signing a three year entry
level contract where at eight hundred and fifty five thousand dollars,
he gets a nine ninety five thousand dollars signing bonus
and two performance bonus is worth three point five million dollars.
He's supposed to be a superstar this year, his rookie
year in the NHL. We we shall see. He had
seventy one goals in fifty seven games in junior hockey
(28:38):
last season. Seattle Kraken extend their head coach Dave Haxtell
through the twenty twenty five to twenty six season, who
was named a Jack Adams Award finalists for Coach of
the Year, didn't win it, but he did help the
Kracken to get their first one hunderd point season make
the playoffs on the first time in their brief history.
They had nineteen more wins and forty more points than
their inaugural season. Calwey Flam's going to retire the number
thirty four former netminder Mika Kippersov. He's their all time
(29:02):
leader in wins, shutouts, goals against, average save percentage, and
games played. And then I'll get you your jersey up
in the rafters. Edmondson Euler's ringer Evander Kane announced via
Twitter this past week he is stepping away from the
Hockey Diversity Alliance group, which he helped launch back in
June of twenty twenty. The group's supposed to promote diversity
(29:23):
and eradicate racism.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
He's hot decided he doesn't want to promote diversity anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Is that right? Well, he says he's leaving because the
group is now being influenced by members with individual agendas,
and then.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The every group influenced by agendas that's how the world works.
Everyone's got their own agenda.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
The group then released their own statement saying that Kane
has not been involved in the group for more than
two years and was disqualified from serving as a director
after he declared for bankruptcy. And apparently that's against laws
in Canada for being a part of a nonprofit of
being you know, the head of a nonprofit or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
So anyway, Oh, that's why you weasel money as a nonprofit.
That's so those a lot of those charities are total scams.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, there's been a the gamble going on in an
investigation for quite a while involving the twenty eighteen Canadian
World Junior team a sexual assault scandal. Reportedly back in
the day, they'd been investigating for a while, but there's
a report coming out that they're bracing for names being
named and maybe the NHL announcing possible suspensions of these
(30:20):
players before they were even NHL players, which is always interesting.
About fifteen players from this twenty eighteen Canadian World Junior
team or either in the NHL or had recently been
in the NHL. There's one legitimate NHL superstar that has
been involved, and Nike did announce this week they are
no longer sponsoring Hockey Canada, stemming from this issue and
the story that now I mentioned earlier. Kind of the
(30:43):
Arizona Coyotes terminated the contractor forward Alex Galchenyak on Friday,
thirteen days really went after signing it went for Yeah.
He got arrested on charges of private property hit and run,
disorder in the conduct, failure to obey, resisting arrest, and
threatening or intimidating. Basically, he was drunk, ran into a sign,
(31:04):
got arrested, and then decided to threaten death on the
officers that were arresting him and their families and then
report him to use some racial slurs as well. He
did release a statement apologizing I'm deeply ashamed of my
recent behavior and blah blah blah. He was the third. Yeah,
I'd love how he had his logo on the letterhead.
(31:25):
This guy is a total bust and he's got his
own logo, you know, like Lebron or Tom.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Brady lost a lot of money Eddie to get that
logo logo.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
He was the third overall pick in twenty twelve and
he's played for seven teams and eleven years. This is
going to be his third stint in Arizona before this
incident happened and I entered her treatment program. He says
he's obviously got an issue and so on and so forth.
So could be the last time we ever hear of
alex galchink.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
How will my life go on?
Speaker 7 (31:54):
I don't understand it, And that's your puck the World
report you didn't mention Eddie buried the leader HL and
he said they will not have a fugazy in season tournament.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Like, yes, they did, because it's a stud I agree
that's something Gary we ripped Gary Bettman, but that it's
a good move by Gary Betman. It's Adam Silver's michig
Os this in season tournament, which is ridiculous. And of course,
keep in mind, if this actually works for the NBA,
if they make a lot of money, then the NHL
will follow in their footsteps.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
But I like it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I liked it. They're not, at least for now.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I know we're up against it. But but real quick,
because I haven't looked into it at all, because I
think it is also really dumb. Is it going to
be something where it is separate from your regular season record?
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Is it not accounting. I think it. I think all
the games are gonna count except for like one. I
think from what I read and the CHAMPI the last
two games are gonna be in Vegas.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
So I was I was trying to determine if I
could completely ignore it and not watch a single second.
But I guess it does have more meaning than the tournament.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I will completely ignore it for you, okay.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I will only watch with with like half an eye,
like not even a full half an eye, which is
more than blind Scott. So I just want to point
that out anyway, cheap. Thank you. Yes, I learned from you, Eddie.
You always take shots at blind Scott. We will have
fact or fiction. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.
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Speaker 3 (33:53):
Is it fact or fiction?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Let's face some raw facts. Let's do. We'll give you
three stories. Got to figure out which of the three
is not true, separating fiction away from facts. So two
of the stories are true, one is not. Let's welcome
in our celebrity panel of judges from Brayden and Floor,
(34:16):
the spring training home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. We welcome
in Leslie and Jack the Judge. Good morning, Good morning,
Ben day, she is back. Hello, Leslie, how's life treating you?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Very well?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (34:34):
How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
We are alive and well. Better than the Tampa Bay
Rays are doing right now. They have not played well
for the last couple of months. I know Jack's probably
upset by that, but it happens, so yeah, oh boy,
all right, hold on, Leslie, I don't know what happened there.
Milkman Mike is in Colorado. Of course. The power couple,
Leslie and Jack the Judge, They make the show move
Hello milkman. Mike.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Hey, good morning from the Mile High City.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
The City of Champions in pro bouncy ball. All right,
how's the milk this morning? All right, thank you, Mike.
We have Shane and des Moine. Hello Shane from des Moines. Hi, Ben,
how are you? If I was any better, I'd be
the person that won the billion dollars? But I'm not.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
So well, Ben, don't go see the Barbie movie. Anyone
who goes to see that should go to Rush with
Britney Griner.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Wow, shots fired. Okay, hold on a section my airfier, Shane. Yeah,
your airfier identifies as a human. I think that's what
you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Man.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
All right, factor fiction. Here we go. Story number one
Blender Mode Marshawn Lynch remember him, old NFL player in
Seattle and he's still a marketable pitch man. Lynch is
teamed up with a company to release a limited edition blender,
being dubbed the Baddest blender on the planet. The Beast
Mode blender has a price tag of two hundred and
(35:58):
fifteen dollars. Unless that's outrageous for a blender. I don't
know how much you blenders cost, but that's the Beast
Mode blender unless we made that up. Story number two
the Rock helping out Dwayne Johnson getting involved in the
name image likeness game through his energy drink brand. Earlier,
he released a new program called the Rocks Warriors. The
(36:19):
collective inaugural class includes LSU star Angel Reese and Marvin
Harrison Junior, supposed to be top pick in the NFL,
a bunch of other college stars. And story number three,
It's all about the Jacket Aaron Donald part of that
ninety nine club on Madden seventh time. That's a record.
In a new announcement similar to the Hall of Fame,
(36:40):
EA Sports has introduced its own ninety nine Club Blazer.
For all the players that reach that ninety nine perfect rating,
they get their own ninety nine Club Blazer. I'm sure
they're excited about that, unless they're not. Which of these
three stories is not true? Separating fiction from fact? Will
start out out in Florida? The Power Couple Leslie along
(37:04):
with Jack and Judge Leslie. Which of these stories is
not true? Leslie?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Two?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Sounds awful?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, all right, enjoy. Are you guys playing pickleball? Probably
not right?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
No, I started it and tripped and almost broke my ankle.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Oh no, all right, to stay away from the pickles,
all right, milkman, Mike quickly, one, two or three, milkman.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
The number of fingers for Paul and Rhode Island three fingers.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
All right, Shane, one to or three Shane.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Number three, that
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Is the fake story, number three, The Madden jacket story,
the job, the fact Jack
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