Hour 4 - No Pat on the Back

Ben Maller talks about Ex-Patriot Devin McCourty telling a less than flattering story about Steve Belichick, why McCourty decided to do this, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name but four hour four
of our radio show, and we have Pat on pat
crime here, ex Pat Devin mccordy in a harmless interview
telling a less than flattering story about Bill Belichick and

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his son and his son, Why did Devin mccordy decide
to do this, and what did this Devin mccordy story
about Steve Belichick's spark? And how do you digest this
story from Bill Belichick's perspective. We'll talk about that and
more right now in our number four here. It is

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yapping about what a former NFL star unloading on a
coaching legend and not even realizing what he was doing.

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Say what, some interesting news. This is a good story.
I like this one. It's out of New England. It
involves an ex pat spilling the tea. And if you
have not seen this, and possibly not, maybe you have
things going on you might have missed it. So let
me give you the basics on this and then we'll react.
It involves former New England Patriot Devin mccordy. Now, Devin

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mccordy was trying to hype up one of his assistant
coaches that he worked with with the Patriots, and it
seemed like rather an unmemorable line, but it turned into
a bit of a sideways situation. Say what. So mccordy

(02:42):
did a podcast interview recently. He told a story about
Steve Belichick, the spawn of Bill, and made him look
like an absolute incompetent stooge. So here's what happened. Devin
recalled these stories, said Steve Belichick admitted in the locker

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room to a lack of experience when he became the
safety's coach for the Patriots. This goes back to twenty sixteen. Quote.
This is from Devin mccordy. Quote Steve walks in and goes, Yo,
I'm gonna be honest with you all, I don't know
what the f I'm doing right now, Steve Belichick's son

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of Belichick said to the assembled safeties. He went on
to say, quote, my dad told me two weeks ago
that I was even going to have this job. Quotes
quote Hello, all right, so let us discuss That was
mccordy recalling what the younger Belichick had to say. So

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let's discuss the question why did this thing blow up?
Why did Devin mccordy decide to do this, and it
obviously blew up. So I've got Midway, Butcher's Shop and Polaroid,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a massive, jumbo sized pizza,

(04:08):
the Mallard pizza with the garlic, the bell pepper, the onion,
all that on top. That's what we're gonna make. So
to kick off them, Devin mccordy right now is dealing
with the new normal. He is transitioning. Earlier this month,
he announced his retirement from playing just a couple of

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weeks ago, actually less than a couple of weeks ago.
Mccordy spent all thirteen of his NFL seasons in New England,
New England, New England. He won three Super Bowls with
the Patriots, and now he has decided to become a
gas bag, a blowhard, and a talking head. All of
that and a bag of chips. But Cordy has been

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making the rounds. His representation have made sure to get
him out there do a bunch of interviews to promote
his fledgling broad casting endeavors. And he would like to
show people people like you, not so much me, but
more you. Devin mccordy wants to show people that he's
got a treasure chest of short and long form stories

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from inside the locker room. These are real brain twisters,
jock talk. The Jockocracy continues. Now, this little exercise with
Steve Belichick is a teachable moment, and the lesson. The
lesson is welcome to the Midway, the fun House of Mirrors.

(05:35):
It's the NFL's version of the Wizard of Oz. I've
got a feeling we're not in Foxborough anymore. Anything you
say can and will be used to feed the content machine.
Devin mccordy thought he was throwing an underhanded lob and
he was serving up some whip cream and some strawberries,

(05:56):
fresh strawberries and whipped cream to his former coach. But
instead he actually opened up a can of worms filled
with razor blades flying everywhere. Now, furthermore, what did this
Devin mccordy story tell us about the legend of Steve Belichick?

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What did it spark? What was the spark here from this?
So the spark from the Devin mccordy comment, it turned
a smoldering ember and ignited a wild fire. With all
these think pieces being written here, outrage army has been
awoken from their slumber. And this is it widespread nepotism.

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And this is the proof right here, this is the
smoking gun. Take a trip to the butcher shop. Right
this is a silver platter of red meat in the
lions dend of nepotism. Devin mccordy telling this anecdote, he
thought he was praising Steve Belichick, talking about his honesty

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and his openness and be relatable to the players, But
instead he highlighted the fact that Steve Belichick had no
business coaching the safeties in the NFL, that he was
in over his head, unqualified, and that he was given
the job because of his father. Now I find the

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over the top reaction amusing. It is what's known as
pearl clutching and is nepotism. I think sure nepotism is
widespread in the NFL. If you don't ask me, go
look up Sean mcvay's family tree, or Kyle Shanahan or
a host of others. It always has been, and spoiler alert,

(07:50):
it always will be. Why Why is nepotism always going
to be part of the NFL. It's called the human condition.
People are fallible, one of the weak spots. Every business,
not just football. Every business hires people. They give an
advantage to people that they know that you get favoritism.

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You work friendships and family for preferential treatment. The very
reason that people want to go to institutions like Harvard
and Yale in these Ivy League schools is not so
much because you get a better education there than anywhere else.
That's bullcrap, But it's all about connections. There is a
kinship that Ivy League people hire Ivy League people. Specifically,

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if you want to Harvard, you hire I hire Harvard
people and they make more money. That's nepotism. It's the
nuts and bolts of how this works. And so no rule.
They can put more rules, and it's not going to
fix that. And and that's that's just the way it
operates in every business. All right, last thing here, So
how do you digest this from Bill Belichick's perspective? How

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bad does Belichick look? So nepotism aside, this is a
polaroid snapshot inside the mind of the patriarch of the Patriots.
You have Devin mccordy saying that his son was hired,
admitted he didn't know what he's doing. This is very straightforward.
This is a check the receipts situation that Bill Belichick

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is telling every man, woman and child who's willing to
listen that when you coach in the NFL, you don't teach.
You're not a teacher, especially when you're a position coach.
Coaches jobs in the NFL are not to give tutorials
on how to play the position. Bill Belichick is announcing

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here via Devin mccordy, that it's not pop Warner. It's
not high school, and that's just the way. And there's
a story that I wanted to share with you that
it kind of relates to this in an indirect way.
It's from another sport, but it reminds me of someone
who I befriended years ago when I was early on

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in my career and I was doing some stuff with
the Dodgers, and this guy was a hitting coach for
the Dodgers. Very good guy and a straight shooter, kind
of gruff guy, a lifetime baseball man, no nonsense guy.
He died a couple of years ago. I don't know
I need to say his name or not. You can
look him up if you want, you can, but the
clues I give but as an illustration. So I happened

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to be in a dinner with this guy and it
was on the road was he asked me about what
I was doing. He didn't really know who the hell
I was because I was the young punk. And then
I asked him about what he was doing, and like
what do you do in a day? And I was like,
you know, it's like this is exciting at to talk
to a hitting coach. He was the Dodgers hitting coach
very briefly, and he went on he coached the Yankees,

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He was a hitting coach for the Yankees multiple times.
He coached the Orioles, the Red Sox, the Mets. And
he explained to me that his job as a big
league hitting coach was not to teach hitting. He said
that that is done in high school and college and
the minor leagues. This chap and for me that he said,
if you can't hit by the time you get to

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the big leagues, he's not going to be able to
help you. He can't help you. He said his job
was mostly logistics, being available pep talks things like that
right to make sure if they needed some extra time
in the cage, you would be there for them. That
sounds to me like Bill Belichick is using that model,
but in football in a nutshell that his son Steve

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Belichick's role was essentially that of a human sticky note
that your job is to remind players of the fundamentals
and to go over scheduling and things like that in
the drills. And by the way, right, by the way,
I have not given up on my lukewarm hot take
from several years ago that even though this story makes

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Steve Belichick look like the village idiot that Bill Belichick,
if he had his druthers, would like to stay long
enough to a pass. Don Shulabaya is the winningest coach
in NFL history and b hand the baton off in
the relay race of life to Steve Belichick or his

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other son who's on the Patriots staff. But that would
be the perfect scenario that have another twenty plus year
run of Belichick coaching the Patriots, the spawn of Bill.
All right, it is the Bennet Maller Show. You want
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join the fun. We had another classic to NBA fix
last night. Well I don't know if it was a
fix or not. Something looked like a fix. It out
all the ingredients of the fix, a Scott Foster special.

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As the Phoenix Suns were playing the Lakers and the Sons,
Monty Williams actually came out and said some things after
the game about how ridiculous the disparity in foul shooting
was between the Lakers and the Suns. It would appear
that the NBA is pulling out all the stops to
make sure that the Lakers get in the playoffs. The

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Suns attempted twenty foul shots. The Lakers attempted forty six
foul shots. Insane. That is such terrible officiating, My god.
But it's the NBA, and so it's the Lakers and
people they worship the Lakers and all that. So it's
a good officiator. I know. Everyone knows that teams commit

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the exact same amount of fouls every NBA game. That's
I know. Well that's a Laker. That's an example, right
that you're making my point for me, Cooper, that's a
Laker guy, right. No, it's literally this is so it's
so tired and buying anytimes. It's tired point because it's true,
and you don't like it if you do. Not Lakers,
when they know so much, the officials have to help
them up. Geez, why stop spitting facts? No they don't.

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You just get louder and talk over so that nobody
there is no defense, no defense for what happened. That
is an injustice. The NBA is professional wrestling. Okay, all right,
you're a great. That's a win. There's eighty there's eighty
something game, eighty two guys in the season, and I'm
sure that if you look at every one of them,

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the refs always call the game in favor of the Lakers, right,
they always have more free throws than the other team.
And there's and there's nothing odd about Scott Foster, right,
he's completely kosher to You're gonna defend him. Go ahead,
defend your guy, Scott Foster. Go ahead, white guy, Scott Foster. Well,
he helped your team out. You got your win. Come on. Look,
I don't know if he had. He might have. There

(14:42):
might be something to him having something against Chris Paul,
but it doesn't have to do with him favoring Baker something.
There might be something. It just happened to be that
Chris Paul was up against the Lakers. It has nothing
to do with him favoring the Lakers. You can actually
look up Scott Fosters stats the Laker players. You know,
Scott Foster, you know you're making comments. The Lakers had

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forty six foul shots, the fourth most by any team
this season. Let's just tell you that the Sun's just
fouled a lot in that game. A Our fifteen gets
to the line, he drives that, yes, Yes, the Great
White Hope. All right. It is The Ben Maller Show
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team out of Boston. The Red Sox are trying to

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own something which I don't think you're allowed to own,
but they're going for it. What are the Red Sox
trying to own that you're not supposed to own? We'll
get to that as well, and we will do it next.
You're do Punky Chicken and Run Dom, Punkey Chicken and
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Fox Sports Radio Studios, it's Ben Maller John the Pie
Guy rights and he says, hey, Ben, Ben is really
gonna have to eat crow when the Lakers finished with
a better seed than the pathetic Clippers. He is such

(16:26):
a Laker hater. Well, if Scott Foster keeps officiating your games,
I think that that's absolutely gonna happen. Jonathan in Delaware
rights and he says, for what it's worth, I agree
with Coop. I've heard the same argument against my six ers.
It's a bad faith argument of anti Laker propaganda. People
need people keep filing James Harden because they can't stop

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him from Jonathan Well, I now present the smoking gun,
the argument that will end all arguments. And if you
are on the other side of this debate, you might
want to crawl back under a rock. I have evidence
from the Lakers themselves admitting the nonsense that took place.

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This is from the Laker television broadcast last night. Lakers sons,
let me set this up for you so I can
paint the picture. Because this is obvious. You're playing the
audios from a TV broadcast. This is from the Lakers
television network. They're going to commercial late in the game.
They're going to commercial. Late in the game. The Lakers

(17:35):
are going off to the over near the bench. Anthony
Davis is gonna about to shoot some foul shots. But
there's a timeout. It's one eleven, one h two. The
Lakers are leading the Sons. There's less than four minutes
to go in the game. And you'll hear the voice
of Stu Lance. But listen very closely. He's a Laker broadcast.
But listen closely and you'll hear what happens after as

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they're going to commercial. Let's go to the audio tape.
Listen to this minute to play Lakers trying to add
to their nine point lead as mister Davis will go
to the line and he said it. He said it.
That is de'angelo Russell who played again? Can we play again?

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Play again? Played again? Listening closely at the very end
there De'angelo Russell, I'll tell you what he said. He said.
Scott Foster refinue all Scott Foster, this is an NBA
ballplayer during the game. As the fix is in, let's
go to the audio tape four minutes to play, Lakers

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trying to add to their nine point lead, as mister
Davis will go to the line, Scott Foster. All right,
let's go now for a follow up to our man
Justin Cooper, who was on the side of Scott Foster. Coop,
your response was Scott Foster reffing the game? Yes, he

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was reffing the game, and so he said, so, he said,
Scott Foster reffing. Yes, Scott Foster reffing the game. So
he stayed. He stated a fact, Oh the game, My god,
stop stop, you've lost. Cool, that's lost. Totally prove he did.
Oh my god, this is Chris Paul playing point guard

(19:24):
for the Phoenix Suns all, Oh my god. He's this
isn't admits is like what we got the game in
the bag. It's Scott Foster. We can't lose this game.
But Scott Foster, y'all, Scott Foster, Holy crap. They should,
the Congress, the FBI, the CIA need to get involved.

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This is NBA collusion and the Laker. He said. The
thing you can't say at the time, He can't say,
DeAngelo Russell, what it is what it is is the
high basketball I q ben he knows. He's telling his
teammates played hard, charge to the rim, you're gonna get
foul calls. That's what's called being a smart basketball player.
I bet you wish you had some of those on
your team. Yes, yeah, that's exactly right. Oh my god,

(20:08):
there is. Yes, the league is fixed to get the
Lakers in the playoffs. So so what have happened? They
just they just didn't do it correctly the past, like
six years, you're so fat. They don't get all the health,
they with all the help, they still don't get it done.
So shows you how pathetic. Genie Busses is an owner,

(20:28):
she's the James Dolan donald Sir, but she's awards every
year the Lakers don't make the playoffs. That they're just
so bad that even the NBA can't help them. But
then the years that they do, they're only gang there
because the NBA helps them. Facts can't hand the sacks,
You cannot handle the flat. The listeners know what's up.
They hear you cheat every day on the game show,

(20:51):
Like you might as well quit here and work for
the Lakers. The department. They don't you work the Lakers
over there, the PR department over there is what you
should do. Ridiculous seven and I gotta put up with
this Laker propaganda every night with his nonsense. It's right
there the listeners, nobody, you brought it up like five times,
so obvious. It's a great scandal. Everyone's up there. Everyone's

(21:14):
annoyed by this story. They can't believe this is happening
right now. You can very up stand that everybody's talking
about the Lakers and Hairs about the Clippers. It's just
talking about how how bogus this whole obsertion, this Hairs.
This is such an embarrassment to the NBA. It's perhapsolutely

(21:35):
so embarrassing that this is going on. Well, the Lakers
getting help from the officials. And DeAngelo Russell admitted it.
DeAngelo Russell admitted it. Guilty on all charges. The jury
is in. The jury is in. He admit he admitted

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the fix right there. He admitted the fix with four
less than four minutes to go. Again, that was a sign.
That was a coded that was a coded message right there.
That's a Lakers up by nine, another bogus foul that
helped Anthony Davis out and uh, and then he says
what he said as he's as they're in the huddle,

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not realizing that he was being recorded, that the audio
was being recorded. Otherwise he would not have said that.
And Adam Silver will do nothing because he's a loser.
But that's a fact. All right. We'll take some calls
coming up here in a minute. Well, it's it's not
a crime, coup, it's it's a felony. It's not it's
not a misdemeanor. It's a Felony's what I'm trying to say.

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cowboy players, comparing what the Lakers have done here in
the NBA to the Astros, as he says, bang bang,
that's a dog whistle for the Astros. He's comparing the
Lakers to the Astros. And I don't disagree with that.
Jonathan and Delawares are running back in the fetal position,
sucking his thumb right now taking the loss, and ferg
Dog says, great detective work, Ben, that's another win for you.

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Thank you. There you go. Even Justin, who knows a
thing or two about cheating from the enchanted forest, Dustin says,
So d'angela Russell snitched on Scott Foster like he did
Swaggy p back in the day. Well, that appears to
be the case based on the audio tape that we
played there from the Laker TV broadcast, that it's clear

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as day that in a timeout around his teammates in
the sanctity of the huddle, he let it rip. He
absolutely let it rip. Absolutely yeah. All right. So the
Boston Red Sox have filed an application with the US
Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the word Boston. They

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would like to own the trademark to the word Boston.
Say what, well, as you know you can't as a
baseball team, you can't actually own a city name. That's
not allowed. But the Red Sox are now the third team,
at least the third team to file trademark paperwork with
the Patent and Trademark Office to own their city name.

(24:53):
The Seattle Mirrors have done it, the Houston Cheating Astros
have also submitted paperwork. But the Red Sox they just
did this last week. They filed paperwork seeking to register
Boston for entertainment services name baseball games, baseball exhibitions, guided tours,

(25:15):
baseball stadium, etc. All these different categories as they defined
as the reasons they needed. Now, according to Michael McCann,
the great sports lawyer over at Sportico, he says, this
is likely not going to work. There's a lot of
legal hurdles you have to jump because the city name

(25:36):
is not essential to the nature of a baseball team.
You don't need to have a city name, and so
the argument likely will not work. But the Red Sox
are trying. They're trying to own the trademark rights to
the City of Boston. So there you go. It is
the Ben Maller Show. As we continue on, we will

(25:58):
take some calls right now, and who do we have.
Let's say hello to let's see here, let's go to
Mason the Millennial. Hello Mason, who's also a Laker apologist.
I'm sure this will go well. A tough day for
your team there, Mason, you were just exposed as frauds.
Would you like to defend your squad? Yeah, he's got

(26:23):
nothing to say. Mason has no take on that. There's
I agree with you, Mason. There's not much you can say.
That is a bad day. That is a bad day.
All right. Let's go to Angry Bill, who's complaining about something.
He's very grumpy all there, Hello angry Bill, So take
that in your Pooper and Poppa. Yeah, how you doing, guys, Ben?

(26:45):
It's a day late. But I like to talk about
that World Classic, Okay, I mean I'm a baseball genius.
The thing you wanted to make me puke. Let's go
over what they got to do in the nineteen and
they had to score one one to private game. The
first guy gets on the base like anybody that's fantastic.
So what does the Roses do This experienced manager who's

(27:08):
never managed the Major League baseball game in his life,
what does he do? He sits there and watches. Let's
go to the analytics. They are the ones to talk
about nowadays. How many times are the Mallar scale of
one to ten has o'conne walk somebody and then giving
up two straight base hits? Probably never? Okay, So this

(27:28):
manager is waiting for two base hits to score this
one run. He doesn't want to steal, he doesn't want
to bunt. He wants to sit there and watch the
world go buy. Okay, if you're gonna go ahead and
want to get into these tournaments, play to win. Okay,
what do they do? Okay, bests grounds into a double play?
What are you praying Trout's going to hit a home run?

(27:50):
Give me a break, do something, Take your hands off
the rail, look at the game, and do something to
make something happen. Now in defense of angry Bill in
defensive Mark de Rosa, he looks really good on MLB Network.
He's really good at TV. He's really good at that.
Oh he's probably he's probably a nice guy. But he
knew somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody to get

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him a job. But it would it would help if
Mookie Bets did not hit the tailor made four sixty
three double play, Like, you know, maybe I don't hit it.
If it was me, he would have been bunt. Okay,
But yeah, steal, does he know how to bug that?
He doesn't bunt very much. I don't care about the
pinch it for him. Okay, So you want to try

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Mookie Bets in the I don't care who he is.
I want to tie the game. I want to tie
the game. All right. If you can't bunt, get him
out of there, Okay, Angry Bill, is there any truth
to the rumor, Angry Bill, that you were responsible for
baseball condemning the ball boys and ball girls? Is there

(28:54):
any truth that only the ball girls that were nine
years old? The nine nine year old nine year old girl?
Answer that question? All right? Thank you for that, Angry Bill. Hey, Coop,
you want to take a guess who's averaging the most
foul shots per game in the NBA. You want to
take a shot like from a team perspective, Now you

(29:18):
don't You don't have an answer on that that's a
that's none other than the Los Angeles Lakers that lead
the NBA by almost a full extra foul shot per game,
by almost a full shot per game. Yeah, that is big?
Is it is? You? You agree with me? Let's go
to Tony in the Bay Area. What's going on? Tony?

(29:41):
Then I have a dream, Tony the dream Man. There
we go. So this might be my last call for
a while because I'm not feeling the love from Coop
and Eddie. But I would like to tell a story
with a funny ending. And if you don't mind, did
this involve a dream? Now? This is a real life
but no violence involved, all right, And just for the record, again,

(30:03):
I love you and we have a great relationship Tony.
But Coop and Eddie you got you guys have a beef,
but not me. I'm your guy. I'm your boy. Sounds good, okay,
So so I'm going to try to s of that
real quick. There's a lot of stuff I have to
leave out. But I was drinking one night and I
decided to go to a bar to cause a little
issue with someone. And when I get to the door,

(30:26):
the bouncer found my knife in my shoe. He said
to give it back to me when I leave. I
go in there, and I didn't want to mix alcohol,
but I didn't have a weapon anymore. So I ordered
a beer to have a beer bottle, and I made
my presence known to the person who I wanted to,
you know, them to know that I was there. I
sat for about a half hour staring in their direction

(30:47):
and sipping my beer, and then when I went outside
to smoke a cigarette, just to you know, I'll just
get over this stuff. The bouncer, I guess, knock someone
out prior to me going outside. So the dudes, the
crew ball messed up. It was kind of funny. But
so I was stopping it up with the security guard,
and you know, we were getting kind of friendly because
I was buzz and I eventually told him, I said, hey, man,

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you know I came here and I was probably gonna
break a bottle over someone's head, but seeing this guy,
I don't want you to knock me out. And I
guess since we were family enough, he goes, Oh, don't worry,
I'll just drag you out take care of fellus. Wow,
all right, thank you, Tony. That's quite the way to

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the walk up we're gonna have Puck the World. We'll
get to that, and I don't think we're gonna do
factor fishing because I don't. I'm not in the mood
for that. We'll do Puck the World with Eddie. We'll
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as we continue on and normally at this time we
do factor fishing. But you know I'm not in the movie.
We got a little carried Away Coop got me all
stirred up there with his Laker propaganda, and I've learned

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that he censor his speech, and as Mason the Millennial
points out that he was conveniently disconnected. But I'm getting
away from that because Eddie has has a lot of
time here, mister hockey. So let's puck the world right now.
We'll get over to Eddie Garcia and all the hockey.
And there's a hockey story that I saw they caught

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my attaching. I'm gonna save it too. I'm gonna see
if Eddy uses that story. It's an interesting hockey tale
and it does not paint the NHL very good. But
here's any all right. Most teams have about ten to
twelve games left in the regular season. If the season today,
the playoff matches would be in the East, Bruins against
the Penguins, Hurricanes versus the Islanders, may be Leaves against

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the Lightning and Devils versus the Rangers. Panthers are just
one point out of a playoff spot behind Pittsburgh Penguins,
holding onto that final wildcard spot. Thanks for their win
last night. They've made it to the playoffs sixteen years
in a row. It's the longest consecutive playoffs treak in
the four major North American sports. In the West, your
playoff matchups right now are Golden Knights versus Jets, Stars
versus Crack and Kings versus Oilers, and wild versus Avalanche.

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Calgary Flames are four points behind Winnipeg for that final
wildcard spot. Natural Predators are five points out. They also
have three games in hand on Winnipeg. Boston Bruins continue
to leave the NHL with one hundred and thirteen points.
They're on pace for sixty three wins, the most wins
in a single season in NHL history sixty two by
the ninety six Red Wings and the twenty eighteen nineteen
the Lightning, so they are on pace to break that record. Meanwhile,

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the Blue Jackets, Blackhawks, and Ducks joined the Sharks this week,
is team's officially eliminated from the playoff. Oiler. Star Conor
McDavid hit the sixty goal mark last night with a
pair of goals, clearly the overtime game winner against Arizona.
First time he's hit the sixty goal mark, he did
it in seventy two games, the fastest player to do
the sixty goal mark since Mario Lemieux had sixty two
in the nineteen ninety ninety six season. Capitol Star Hollurs

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and Revetskin three more goals this week. He now has
eight hundred and twenty in his career, seventy five away
from Wayne Gretzky for the all time record for goals
scored in a career. He also hit the forty goal
mark this season. It's thirteen times in his career he's
had four year more goals in a season, and that
breaks Gretzky's record of twelve times. Colorado Avalanche head coach
year at bet nargets a three year extension. He now

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in a contract through twenty twenty six twenty seven. Winning
his coaching team Mystery guided into the Stanley Cup Tit
title last year. Saint Louis Blues goalie Jordan Bennington hit
with a two game suspension for roughing and a sportsmanli
conduct in a game against Minnesota. Wild almost had a
goalie fight this week between Bennington and Minnesota's Mark Andre Floyd,
but the referees where Buzzkills, wouldn't let up the two
net miners go at it. There's some good Twitter stuff

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where Fleury's miked up trying to fight Bennington. If you
check that out, good, the better more people will talk
about hockey if they did. Fanatics replacing Adidas and becoming
the NHL's official on ice uniform outfitter, Yes, they are
ten year agreement. Now. The company has made Major League
Baseball's game uniforms since twenty seventeen. But as you mentioned,

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fans were throwing a fit over this. They're gonna have
the Fanatics logo. Don't is that on baseball? No? No,
Baseball has the Nike logo. Yeah, so they're gonna have
that on the hockey. Yeah. But they're still making the
uniforms for baseball even though they've got a Nike logo
on them. Well, Fanatics runs every team's trips. They do Quebec.
Major junior hockey, you announced it's banning fighting starting next season.

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The OHL and WHL, the other two prominent junior leagues
are apparently we men need testasroo we need. It's getting
less and less and all right, let's get to the controversy.
San Jose Sharks goalie James Rymer announced he was not
going to take part in the team's pregame skate because
they were going to wear the Pride jerseys and he
was not going to do it for religious reasons. And

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now the Chicago Blackhawks announced they're not going to do
the Pride jerseys because there's a report security concerns in Russia. Yes,
because russ they don't like the gays in Russia. Eddie,
And if you are a Russian player and you go
back to Russia and you were wearing the Pride jersey,
they might cut off your toe or something. I don't know. Yeah,

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I don't know if Eddie ever made to Russia, Eddie,
I have not, But why not just let the Russian
guys just not take part then and let the rest
of the team they're a team, you stand united with
their Russian comrades. Okay, does that mean the NHL is
trying to get Russian players injured if they want them
to wear these these projects by the NHL? Though? Seriously, Wait,

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what a bunch of morons the NHL? How bad is
the NHL? Look? This is like the third or fourth
time this has popped up. When the Rangers had this
happened Minnesota while did it as well? Why Yeah, so
there's like four or five teams in the NHL but
the NHL has said if the players don't want to
do it, then they don't have to do it. So
that's true. But the problem is every time a team
says they don't want to do it, it's everyone writes

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a story about it. It's like, oh my god, I
can't believe this, and it's it's a marketing disaster, pr
disaster for the NHL. That's true. I think the teams
are just gonna start getting rid of it altogether. Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. They're gonna be like, yeah, it's
not worth it. And what would have they have? There
been any Russian players that have warned the Pride jerseys
all use them as a game. There's one for the
Kings this past week, Vladislav Gabrakov, he wore the jersey.

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So is he going back to Russia? Is he staying?
I have no idea. Yeah, I know the guy and
the flyers also right he was, Yeah, he's Russian. But
I think I don't think it's racist for Burma. I
mean it would be something else. Wouldn't have a drop
for that though, I don't know. Surprising we don't have
a drop. That sentment is every everything covered there all

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need to be covered, all right there. Just thank you,
Puck the world unbelievable. Puck though World, that the most
amazing segment at all, unless it's not. I don't know
it might be, depends you're like hockey or though I's
got a murder, I gotta go. I don't have anything
to do.