September 22, 2022 • 37 mins
Ben Maller says Justin Fields committed the ultimate sin by offending Bears fans, a scandal breaks about Celtics HC Ime Udoka, Benny vs the Penny, Puck the World, Fact or Fiction and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, hour four of
our radio program, recorded off terrestrial radio, repackaged here in
the podcast format with limited commercial interruption and musical interruption.
So the Chicago Bears quarterback doing some damage control on
a quote that went around the football world where he
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ripped fans. Why did Justin Fields try to clear up
this situation? And will this quote have legs for the Bears?
Will it live on? And what's going on with the
Chicago passing offense in twenty twenty two. We'll talk about
that and more. Right now, it's our number four. Here
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got a lot to get to. We'll have Benny Versus
the Penny for the Thursday Night game. The rest of
Benny Versus the Penny has been moved to the fifth
Hour podcast that'll be available tomorrow. We'll handicap all the
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other games in the NFL, but we'd like to alert
all the affiliates coming up in a few minutes, we'll
have the quick look at the Thursday Night and FL game.
We're gonna start this hour with some football talk, but
we'd also like to point out we were given the
gift of a scandal just before we cracked the microphones
here at Fox Sports Radio. The Boston Celtics involved in
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a scandal. If you're just turning on the radio, you're like,
what is this all about? Let me explain the basics
real quick. Then we'll get into the monologue, which is
football related. But emay Udoka, the Celtic coach, it has
been reported here by WOJ and Shams that he was
having some hanky panky at the office and had an
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illicit relationship with an underling that violated the Celtic Code
of Conduct and emay Udoka is going to be suspended.
We'll find out more once business hours. It's not quite
business hours yet, but once people get into the office
and there'll be some kind of announcement, likely early in
the day on what kind of punishment. But the possibility
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that email Udoka will sit out the entire upcoming NBA season,
which begins like next week teams start reporting to training camp.
The Celtics will start showing up to training camp. So
a wild story, a story that has legs and other
party parts, apparently involving Email Eudoka and a relationship with
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an underling whose photo is not hard to find. A
female underling. There is only one on the Celtics staff,
so it's not hard to use the process of elimination.
But I digress. Our lead this hour does come from
the home of Deep Dish Pizza dup bears the story
involving Justin Fields. There's another story that steals alive and well,
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now you might remember we mentioned this in a previous
edition of the show, but if you miss that, let
me give you the thumbnail recap. So Justin Field said
after the loss to the Green Bay Packers that it
hurts more in the locker room then it does for
the Chicago fan. And that was a controversial statement that
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bounced around the echo chamber. And just to prove that
I am not making that up, let's play the audio
tape here is Justin Fields. This is what he said
originally that raised some eyebrows. Just losing against this team
is just exting warm because the rivalry and you know
how much Bears fans wanted to win this game. Yeah,
I mean it hurts someone in the locker room, and
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the Bears fan that I mean because at the end
of the day, they're not putting in any work. I
see the guys in the locker room every day. I
see how much work they put in. So just coming
out with the disappointing loss like this, you know it hurts,
but you know, we just gotta respond, all right. So
that was the answer and questioning the Chicago fan and
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appointing how much it hurts. Of course, watching the Bears,
it doesn't look like it hurts that much at all,
not a a five eta Kappa move. So we fast
forward now to yesterday and Justin Fields was, let's just say,
singing from a different song sheet. He brought up the issue.
The issue was brought up to him vice versa. Well,
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let's go to the audio tape. Here's Justin Fields issuing
a Miakopa. I was mad after the game, and I mean,
I like to address this now to get everything cleared up.
But you know, there was a thing that I said
on Sunday after the game where I said, you know,
the fans don't put in work. You know, first off,
I was frustrated after the game, so you know, number one,
I didn't want to come and talk to you guys.
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I wasn't in the mood to come and talk to
you guys. So you know, I should have did a
better job explaining what I meant by that. But when
I meant by that was I'm talking about work, you know,
regarding the game on Sunday, winning the game. You know,
I don't know any fans. I don't know what they're
doing in their personal lives, and I respect every fan
that we have. I'm, you know, glad that we have fans.
So you know, I would never disrespect you know, anybody
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on what they do or what they love to do.
You know, it came off like that, and of course
you know, some social media outlets stay quote in my quote,
and you know, they got a big buzz on him.
So of course they did a great job doing that,
and of course social media's going to do that. But yeah,
I just wanted to clear that up, all right. So
he's like, somehow this is a social media's problem. So
all right, let's discuss the question why why this about?
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Phase this one hundred eighty degree turn from Justin Fields
as he attempts to clear this up. So I've got
tap tap, Spooky and horse and Buggy, and we will
combine all of these things together and that will be
the foundation of this mallord monologue. So to kick off here,
we knew right away when we heard that audio Justin
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Fields was in boiling hot water. He said, the thing
you can't say at the time, you can't say it.
The Bears had just taken it in the shorts yet
again against Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. The cheeseheads were
smiling and the Bears fans were crying, and it's it's
like a broken record when the Bears and Packers get together. Now,
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for some reason, I thought things would be different, and
they would have been from a gambling standpoint ifs and
butts were candy and nuts and Justin Fields had gotten
in the end zone in that drive in the fourth quarter.
But I digress. The same tune has been played twice
in NFL season when the team from Wisconsin plays the
team from Illinois. Now is it trulor that Justin Fields
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broke the cardinal rule of the industrial complex of sports?
And I'm nodding my head. Yes, you can rip the coaches,
you can rip your teammates, you can rip ownership, you
can take pot shots of the media. All of it
is fair game. But you don't dare question the passion
the dedication of the fan. That's the customer, that is
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a bridge to nowhere. And Justin Fields did just that
as we play the audio, as we understand it. That
led to some upheaval among the higher ups with the Bears,
which eventually turned into a tap tap on the shoulder, Hey,
Justin we got a little situation here. Some people who
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are in management that don't like what you did there.
Can you pull out the mop and the bleach, Can
you scrub a dub dub? Can you clean up the
spill on Aisle four? Sanitize the situation? Give out the miakulpa.
Can you do that? And he did? All right. Now, furthermore,
will this quote have life down the line for the
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Bears quarterback? Is this just a one day story or
a two day story and then it goes away and
that's it. Justin Fields, I'll give you the answer to that.
Justin Fields is sitting at the typewriter. He's old school,
he's got the typewriter. He's the one who's typing out
the story. And we are at a fork in the road.
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You don't get a long stretch of time as the
man and at quarterman. And Justin Fields was drafted relatively high.
He did not play well last season. He is not
playing well right now. So life comes at you fast.
And so I mentioned we're at a fork in the road,
at a tipping point. If Fields improves and actually becomes
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the franchise quarterback that the draft nerd said he was
going to be in that dimension, this episode is just
a footnote growing pains to greatness. And they'll bring this
up and say, you remember when Justin Field said the
thing he wasn't supposed to say, Oh, isn't that funny?
Look at him now? But should Justin continue to go
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down the highway to hell. This can and will be
used against him, spookey, it's gonna haunt him. Right. Not
only is he a bump, the guy's a bump on
the field, but he's also obtuse often. It is a
troubling sign that Justin Fields implied that social media was
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the fall guy. A bad public speaker blames the megaphone.
This quote was not twisted around, It was not taken
out of context. It wasn't some kind of weird deep
fake you said it. We played the audio tape, We
included the question. There's no miscommunication here word for word,
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and you've got the hoodspun. They say, oh, it's a
social media and also talking about I didn't want to
talk to the media, Well, what is that about. I
understand that it's part of your job, Like you only
want to talk to the media when you win. That
makes you a show pony, that makes you a front runner.
And by the way, you're not back in college anymore.
You're in the NFL and you haven't one diddly squat
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mister Fields in the NFL. Alright, party shot, So what
the heck is going on with this Chicago passing offense,
So they went out to hire a defensive guy. Matt
ever Flews, the Indianapolis assistant, who's pretty obvious, does not
trust his quarterback in the Windy City. There's no ifs
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ands or butts about it. It's very straightforward here. The
Bears are taking offensive football back to the horse and
buggy days. The forward pass is verboat Chicago. They won somehow,
some way that rain game at Soldier Field to open
the season against the Niners. And that's partially because of
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the weather, and also that Trey Lance was equally terrible
before he broke his ankle for the forty nine ers.
But the Bears passing attack is so bad. How bad
is it? Sub seed and Fields is the thirtieth ranked
passer in the league. It's amazing he's not worse than that.
He's averaging fourteen pass attempts per game, dead last by
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a country mile. And Justin Fields is a milk carton
kind of quarterback. He's in the witness protection program, whatever
you want to say there. He's missing in action. Ever
Flows the coach, he does not even trust the quarterback
to run a rude ofmentary offense. I'm talking about those
dump off passes, the screens, the crossing roots. He won't
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even run those most of the time for Chicago, So
they have to decide what they want to do. This
is a season where the Bears are not going to
make the playoffs. They're not a good roster. So you
got to release the cracket and find out what you have.
Let him throw the ball and if he sucks, you'll know,
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and maybe he'll get better justin fields by the end
of the year. But what the Bears are doing doesn't
help anyone. It doesn't help Feels. It certainly doesn't help
the Bears because they're playing hide and seek with a quarterback.
It's a misguided strategy in Chicago, it really is. Are
you know it's not misguided. It's Benny versus the Penny,
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the Thursday Night special and strike up the band there, Roberto,
here we go, right now, let's do it. Welcome players,
You're welcome. Are It's time now Beenny versus the Penny
been around for many years, Penny versus the Penny, and
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it's now on the podcast every Friday. If you like
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to it. Thursday Night Football, Pittsburgh one and one at Cleveland.
They are one and one. It's on the Amazon with
Al Michaels and Kirk curb Street. The Browns opened a
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three point favorite. They are currently a four point favorite.
I have seen some four and a half lines as well,
but I've got it at four right now. So minus
four for the Browns at home? And what about to
handle the money on this game? Almost seventy percent of
the cash. The public loves Pittsburgh. The wise guys they
call him, the Sharps, appear to be on Cleveland. The
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weather tonight in Cleveland, temperatures in the high fifties at
kickoff at First Energy Stadium, and the wind will be howling.
You want a fun fact, I'll give you a fun fact.
Last thirty five games going back the twenty twenty, the
Steelers are oh six and one straight up when t J.
Watt is inactive or plays less than fifty percent of
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the defensive snaps. When he is active and plays more
than fifty percent of the defensive snaps, the brown The
Steelers rather are twenty two and six, soho six and
one straight up or twenty two and six based on
when t J. Watt plays, By the way, spoiler alert,
he's not playing now. The Browns have not done well
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as a favorite there, in fact, winless in their last
seven against the spread as a favorite. But the pick
is in and I'm taking the Browns. And here's why.
Ghastly quarterback matchup. Jacobe Brissette is weak in the knees,
but Mitch Trubisky is weak everywhere. Next level of suckage plus.
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It is gonna be a windy night. Heavy wind gusts
of nineteen miles per hour expected in Cleveland. You parley
of that with no TJ. Watt. The Steeler defense, well,
they've been good. They have not been particularly good at
stopping the running game. Nick Chubb should have his way
in this game. There's that bitter taste from losing to
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Joe Flacco last week. It's a quick turnaround. Pittsburgh has
just two offensive touchdowns in two games. They can't run
the ball, they can't seemingly throw the ball. I don't
know what else there is Browns twenty three and the
Steelers thirteen. And the penny picks. Flip the penny up, Lee,
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who's the penny picking? Lee's the penny at the last
minute here, who's the penny picking? League thinking the Browns here? Are? Well,
not you the penny You think Browns? All right, So
we agree on that. So we both took the Browns.
All right. Good luck there to you if you gamble
check that out. All right, It's Ben Mallers Show on Fox.
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It's Ben Maller And right to the calls we go.
Let's say hello to Steve who is in Manhattan. Hello, Steve, Welcome,
You're on Fox Sports Radio. Hmm, it's Steve, but he's
not there. He's a professional radio caller. This guy Steve Eddie.
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You hate this guy. You can face him away for
like a year, and now he's come back with vengeance.
That's last. Yeah, it's a lot of vengeance. I'm hearing
right now from that's probably on some other show on
hold with some other show. That is bizarre to me.
I don't know that. He just loves calling radio, so
you don't actually listen to shows. You just make calls
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to different shows. This is his way of getting his
message out. Great, Let's go to Chris driving around the Commonwealth.
He wants to talk about the big scandal of the overnight.
He may, you don't sell coach boy, there's gonna be
some good sports talk radio today in Boston. The local
guys are licking their chops. I'm sure what's going on, Chris, welcome,
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How can we help you? Good morning, And it's been
a long time. I've been a listener since the big pandemic.
I was the one that resurrected line one. I'll ever
forget that night that line one came back online and
I was pretty to resurrected line one. Anyways, Um, waking
up this morning, hearing the store, hearing this news, Um,
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I'm like, keep it in your pants, and I wish
it was Monday, because you'd be like incident of ice
line to eve me a dual cut. Right, Yeah, well
we might we might still, I tell you what, depending
on what happens. And we don't know the whole story,
only know a little bit of the story. But there'll
be some more dirt to come out with the tabloids
over the next couple of days, and so we'll get
We're gonna get, We're gonna get into the nitty gritty, Chris,
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We're gonna go a lot. Let me ask you, Ben.
You know, you know they say, you know, they talk
a lot about on ninety eight point five up here
where I listened to you on is UM. You know,
during the all stop break, it's like, you know, it's
like NonStop doing. You know that they talk, you know,
like when they go there and I know I get
the apples and oranges, but you know there's infidelity everywhere.
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Bet So. I mean, I don't know, but because it's
in the house person, I don't know. What would you do?
Bet Thanks? I love you guys. All right, well, thank
you Chris. Uh yeah, well I listen. To be honest,
I've not had the opportunities of professional athletes. I did
briefly travel years ago with a professional team, and I
saw the life that they lived, which is not the
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life that I live. Uh and uh, there's a lot
of fish in the sea. I I've learned as I've
worked in the radio business over the years and just
in the working world. You know, you don't necessarily want
to poop where you eat, and uh, you know there
are some issues there and so we don't know exactly
what happened here, but according to what Internet investigators have uncovered,
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we do know the name of this woman. It's not
hard to find and she's apparently married if that report
is accurate, and so there's some issues there, but it's
really a liability thing. And that's that's the main reason
you you're not supposed to go to, you know, making
whoopee while your work is because exactly, I guess as
they got caught doing something at work and the boss
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of Celtic Facilities right as I don't think I think,
so yeah, can we play apology Bengo like emay Udoka
is going to release a statement and I'm assuming that
he will hit some of the key squares and apology
Bengo like, uh, he's deeply sorry and he let people
down and he's gonna learn from this, and uh, this
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is not who he is and he was insensitive and
one thing led to another and there's no place for
this apparently having sex at least at work or with
somebody from work, and so ay all all those key
points and there's an apology Bingo card and so some
combination of I'm ashamed, I want to take time to
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learn from this experience all that stuff, because if he's
involved in the obviously the sex relationship, but it happened
off like in their personal like not within the facilities, right,
it's not a big deal. Well yes, yeah, so you
think that, Like they were right on the parquet there
on the sham exactly the top of the sham rock.
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That's a little little Leprecha got quite the show there, did? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I'm fascinated. I can't wait. This will happen while I'm sleeping,
because I sleep during the day. But when I wake up,
I'll be like, what happened? What did I miss? And
we'll get some Oh she's she's married, right, that's the
according to the Internet. She's married. Yeah, she's a former
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NBA player. Like that's a guy's an Indian. She'll still
stay there. But it was, Yeah, they got to get
rid of both if they if they suspend him, they
got to suspend her, right exactly. Equality I stand for
equality takes two to tango. And it was if it
was consensual, if she was, she was in on it.
She was having a good time too. So there you go.
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Can I go third rail? You want to go third
Eddie Garcia Now third rail. Go ahead, Eddie. If this
had been a an affair with a male member of
the coaching staff, would they would they come out and
uh suspend him for that? Oh wow, Eddie. I didn't
even think about that possibility, right, because if if they do,
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then they're like, well, what are you against? What? What
are you against? Sex? Relationships? There? You? Yeah, what's what's
wrong with you? You're the NBA. You gotta be opened
everything you're the NBA. Brag about that is the NBA.
It's intriguing and will if he, let's say emay Udoka
gets suspended for the entire season, does he just resign
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and say that's it? Does Brad Stevens come back as
the coach? Do they promote one of the assistant coaches?
There's a lot of moving parts that would excessive for
a whole season, doesn't don't you think? Unless where you're right?
All right, there's more. There could be more than we know, right, Okay,
he went into Jason tatums Locker and Brad Stevens office.
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Hey you can't do that here, man, button up. Guy.
He's like racist, like the guy next door, right, he's
you know, you think it was just a little Uh,
I'm not not rough around the edges, but that's the word.
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I'm what's the term I'm looking for? He's uh, he's
how about that? Put that away? Man? All right, it
is the Bannet Mallor Show. As we press on, We're
gonna get back to Eddie in a second. Right now,
let's say a load of Tommy. Who's in Atlanta? What's
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going on? Tommy in the at l You're on Fox
Sports Radio? Hey Ben, how's it going? If I was
any better, I'd be a coach, but not the coach
of the Celtics because he's he's not real popular right now. Yeah,
but at least they have fun doing it though. I mean,
you know, you gotta mail. If you're gonna, you're gonna.
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It's a good point. If you're gonna get suspended from
your job, at least enjoy yourself. And it appears that
he did have a fine time, and I hope she
enjoyed herself too. And they just a couple of kids
rolling in the hay. Why not? What there? Why not?
I'm just wondering, Um, it's been a while since you've
initiated anybody to the Mallar militia. I'm actually a long
time listener. I usually listen to you on Serious XIM,
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but I usually listen on a delay, so I don't
get a chance to call very often. I'm I'm driving
down the road now and I'm I'm all caught up,
and I'm just was like, what the heck? I wonder
if he's taking any calls right now. I love too.
It's an honor to talk to you. Well, thank you, Tommy, Well,
thank you for listening on When do you listen? You
listen on delay, so you like record a bunch of
(25:29):
shows and then listen later on. Is that how that works? No,
it's I got the app on my cell phone, and
so it goes back. So like I clock in at
like three am Eastern time, three thirty whatever, And so
I'll just turn your turn the channel on, turning your
show on, just go back to the beginning the restart
show option and all right, well, very cool, All right,
well let's let's get you in sworn in. We have
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not done this in many, many months. You're right, Tommy.
This was something that our friend Skeeter and Montana came
up with. He wanted to be sworn in as a
member of the Mallar Militias who we came up with
the Malla Militia Oath. Are you prepared, Tommy, This is
a life changing event, Tommy, are you prepared for this? Yes, sir, okay,
it's very simple, and just repeat after me. I state
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your name, I, Tommy and Atlanta. Do solemnly swear. Do
solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Ben
Mallers Show. That I will support and defend the Ben
Maller Show against all enemies foreign and domestic, against all
enemies foreign and domestic, and that I will obey the
(26:31):
orders to peacefully fight back. And I will obey the
orders to peacefully fight back. That's always a hard line
against hostile attacks, against hostile attacks from rivals, sports gas
bags and blowhards from rivals, sports gas bags and blowhards.
So help me, God, So help me God. Congratulations Tommy,
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you are now sworn in. You've taken the Malle Militia Oath. Congratulations,
you are a sergeant at arms. We are a peaceful group.
We turned to cyber warfare when we have to. But
thank you Tommy for your listenership. I appreciate it, and
thanks for getting on the air. It's good to talk
to you, rock O. Thank you for your time. All right,
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there he goes, Tommy, thank you. Let's state your name.
I say your name, sports gas bags and blowhards. It's
sports bagging gas bags. It's not that easy. Not this
job is not that fleeping easy. Hockey season, let's start
up this Zamboni right now. Let's get all Danny Garcia
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of all your hockey information, a staple of this show
every Thursday morning. Puck that world. We are just weeks
away from the start of the NHL season. You're all
very excited about that. I know, I know, especially Roberto
you've been there's a big deal with I like excited
for our La La King's opening up training him tomorrow.
(27:59):
I will be out there. I will be not sleeping.
I'll be heading out to the eight. Really, why are
you going out there? Check check for They got a
little little extra gig going on. Oh look at Eddie
Desa working for the case, not for the Kings, but
covering the team. Are doing a little extra on the
side there, you know, little taste. The color Avalanche agreeing
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on an eight year, one hundred point eight million dollar
contract extension, will start forward Nathan McKinnon. He'll make twelve
point six million perceedson. That makes him the richest player
in NHL history, as he surpasses Boilers Starconor McDavid by
a hundred thousand dollars. I'm McDavid making twelve point five
million per seedson. The deal will go into effect after
this coming season. Nathan McKinnon a three time MVP finalist
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for the Colora Avalanche, where he helped him win the
Stanley Cup this past season. We had three significant retirements
in the span of a few hours on Tuesday, Zadano Chara,
who captain the Boston Bruins to the Stanley Cup, announcing
his retirement at the age of forty five. He played
in one thousand, six hundred eighty games over twenty four seasons,
mostly with the Bruins, but also with the Islanders, Senators
and Capitals. Won the Norris Trophies league's top defenseman with
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the twenty eighth nine season. One of the tallest players
in the league history and he's like six seven and
something like that. Veteran defenseman Keith Yandel announced his retirement.
He holds the NHL ironman record nine hundred and eighty
nine consecutive games. From March twenty six of two thousand
and nine to April second of twenty twenty one. He
played over one thousand NHL games with the Coyotes, Rangers, Panthers,
and Flyers. Reherdo did we run out? Ere we go?
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Thank you? Gotta have the music in the back when
so long, Eddy we ran out of I'm just getting
started here. Also, defenseman PK. Sue Band retiring after thirteen
season's playing with the Canadians, Predators, and Devils. He appeared
in eight hundred and thirty four career games, won the
Norris Trophy in twenty thirteen. Is the NHL's top defenseman.
He's already got a TV gig lined up with the
Four Letter Network. Rover now, nice, I hear those TV
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jobs faite pretty well every you would know you had
one brief light For a year, I had a TV
the great greatest year here line year early year and
a couple of months I had had a TV voiceover
job for a year. Was some sweet sweet TV money there,
Oh fantastic. God. The difference between a four hour radio
show and like a half hour TV show, Oh my god,
(30:10):
I hear you man, different world San Jose Sharks and
former forward a Vander Kane settled a grievance over the
contract termination last season that was about to go to arbitration.
Settlement reportedly bridges the gap between the money he was
owned by the Sharks and the money he's currently making
for the Edmonton Oilers team trying to terminate his contract
over a violation of COVID protocols, but he had a
(30:30):
number of off ice issues as well. Buffalo Sabers signed
general manager Kevin Adams to a contract extension. He's in
his third season running the team that is currently in
the midst of eleven straight years without a playoff appearance.
That's the longest streak in NFL history. Winnipeg Jets stripped
Blake Wheeler of his captaincy. They'll enter the season with
a collection of alternate captain's. Head coach Rick Bonus, the
new head coach set in a statement, it is our
(30:52):
goal to expand the leadership base of our hockey team.
Edmonton Oilers signed for Jake Vertannon to a tryout two
months after he was not guilty of sexual assaults while
he was playing with the Vancouver Canucks. So this is
not going over well, with some of the woke media
members there in the NHL chasing him out. Eddie, has
he gone now? They don't, They don't think he should
get this opportunity, even though he was he was found
(31:14):
not guilty, get a quart of law. Marion Hosta set
to become the eighth player in NHL history to have
his jersey retired I know you love this by the
Chicago Blackhawks. He's number eighty one will go to the
rafters of the United Center November the twentieth. He helped
Chicago win three Stanley Cup titles and this season venue
might notice if you watch a hockey game a little
bit different. What's that? What's that on the jersey there? Oh,
(31:35):
it's an ad the NHL, following in the footsteps of
their friends over at the NBA. So far eight teams
have unveiled there. I have noticed foss on the jersey.
Some of them are only on the home jerseys. Some
of them are on home and road, but not all
of them are unclosed. Some of them only have a
sponsored him. A couple of them, the Vegas Golden Knights,
which is appropriate, and the Washington Capitals sponsored by sports books.
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Oh yeah, yeah, good. I heard that the Capitals actually
have a sports book inside the arena there in DC. Well, eventually, Eddie,
everyone's gonna have a sports book in secretary. You know
it's handling beliege. Are we? Are we allowed to do
that here in California on Prop twenty Vote yes on
Prop twenty seven and they'll be able to do that.
There you go, than a vote whoever you want. But
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I usually say vote no on all the props on
the vote yes or so. I wonder why, huh, I don't.
I don't understand what that's all about. Eddie to book again,
and that's your Puck the World Report. All right, thank
you for that, Eddie. Very nice there. As we press
on through the overnight out and straight ahead, I need
some judges. I need a few good judges. We've got
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Fiction time. Let's say hello to our judges real quick,
and then we'll get to the game. We'll give you
three stories. You got to figure out which of the
three is not true, separating fiction from fact. It's very simple.
We have a Shane in de Moine. Actually, well, let's
start out with the power couple, Leslie and Jack the judge.
(34:30):
They get preferential treatment. Hello Leslie, Jack the judge. We
got Jack the judge. We got the judge. Hello Jack,
how's life treating you? Jack? Good? Very good. I just
come back from a workout a little early, so I
am ready to go with the Factor fiction. Awesome. It's
good to have you there. And I'm sure you're covered
(34:51):
in sweat right now. You're gonna take a shower. It's
all good. All right, Hold on a second. All right,
we've got Jack the judge. We've got Shane in de Moine. Hello,
she Hey Ben, I feel like this show needs more
lead to lap. Unless I was Sam Wow, shots fired
it and you're from Iowa. Of all things, you can replace.
(35:11):
You can replace him with an hero corn and nobody
would know the difference. Wow, all right, hold on a sec.
That's a low blow. And Mike in Fullerton. Hello, Mike
big Hey, first time caller, a longtime listener, a big
fan of the show. Yeah, don't you hate that guy
(35:31):
for dog on Twitter? He's a real pain in the ass,
isn't it. Yeah, not a fan, not a fan. All right,
hold on a sec. Well, that'll be enough. Those are
three judges. That's all we need. Story number one never
play as your heroes. Well EA Sports announced that the
fictional character ted Lasso will indeed be a playable manager
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along with the fictional team AFC Richmond in career mode
of the new FIFA twenty three game being released next week.
So if you're a ted Lasso fan, you gotta go
out and buy the game. Story number two, The worm
has turned. Dennis Rodman plans to meet with Kim Jong
Oon in Pyongyang in October, with the hopes of convincing
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the despotic North Korean leader to hold direct negotiations with
Vladimir Putin for Brittany Grinder's ultimate release from Russian custody.
That is story number two and story number three Slipping
into the DMS, It seems that Cole Beasley was really
working overtime to get in that Tampa Bay buccaneer uniform.
(36:37):
Bucks agreed to a contract with him this week, and
he's expected to play against Green Bay this weekend. He
worked overtime to make it happen, Beasley admitting that he
slid into Tom Brady's DMS in the hopes of getting
the quarterback's attention. And it appears to have worked. It
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appears to have worked. And those are the three stories.
Story number one and never play as your heroes, friend
of a Friends, Story two, and slipping into the DM's
real quick Jack the judge one, two or three? Jack?
All right, we're having some issues with the Shane in
the morning. Now we're out of time. The fake story
(37:19):
is story number two, the Rodman story, Story number two.
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So the Chicago Bears quarterback doing some damage control on
a quote that went around the football world where he
(00:21):
ripped fans. Why did Justin Fields try to clear up
this situation? And will this quote have legs for the Bears?
Will it live on? And what's going on with the
Chicago passing offense in twenty twenty two. We'll talk about
that and more. Right now, it's our number four. Here
(00:43):
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(01:52):
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have the quick look at the Thursday Night and FL game.
We're gonna start this hour with some football talk, but
we'd also like to point out we were given the
gift of a scandal just before we cracked the microphones
here at Fox Sports Radio. The Boston Celtics involved in
(02:14):
a scandal. If you're just turning on the radio, you're like,
what is this all about? Let me explain the basics
real quick. Then we'll get into the monologue, which is
football related. But emay Udoka, the Celtic coach, it has
been reported here by WOJ and Shams that he was
having some hanky panky at the office and had an
(02:38):
illicit relationship with an underling that violated the Celtic Code
of Conduct and emay Udoka is going to be suspended.
We'll find out more once business hours. It's not quite
business hours yet, but once people get into the office
and there'll be some kind of announcement, likely early in
the day on what kind of punishment. But the possibility
(03:01):
that email Udoka will sit out the entire upcoming NBA season,
which begins like next week teams start reporting to training camp.
The Celtics will start showing up to training camp. So
a wild story, a story that has legs and other
party parts, apparently involving Email Eudoka and a relationship with
(03:22):
an underling whose photo is not hard to find. A
female underling. There is only one on the Celtics staff,
so it's not hard to use the process of elimination.
But I digress. Our lead this hour does come from
the home of Deep Dish Pizza dup bears the story
involving Justin Fields. There's another story that steals alive and well,
(03:44):
now you might remember we mentioned this in a previous
edition of the show, but if you miss that, let
me give you the thumbnail recap. So Justin Field said
after the loss to the Green Bay Packers that it
hurts more in the locker room then it does for
the Chicago fan. And that was a controversial statement that
(04:06):
bounced around the echo chamber. And just to prove that
I am not making that up, let's play the audio
tape here is Justin Fields. This is what he said
originally that raised some eyebrows. Just losing against this team
is just exting warm because the rivalry and you know
how much Bears fans wanted to win this game. Yeah,
I mean it hurts someone in the locker room, and
(04:29):
the Bears fan that I mean because at the end
of the day, they're not putting in any work. I
see the guys in the locker room every day. I
see how much work they put in. So just coming
out with the disappointing loss like this, you know it hurts,
but you know, we just gotta respond, all right. So
that was the answer and questioning the Chicago fan and
(04:49):
appointing how much it hurts. Of course, watching the Bears,
it doesn't look like it hurts that much at all,
not a a five eta Kappa move. So we fast
forward now to yesterday and Justin Fields was, let's just say,
singing from a different song sheet. He brought up the issue.
The issue was brought up to him vice versa. Well,
(05:10):
let's go to the audio tape. Here's Justin Fields issuing
a Miakopa. I was mad after the game, and I mean,
I like to address this now to get everything cleared up.
But you know, there was a thing that I said
on Sunday after the game where I said, you know,
the fans don't put in work. You know, first off,
I was frustrated after the game, so you know, number one,
I didn't want to come and talk to you guys.
(05:33):
I wasn't in the mood to come and talk to
you guys. So you know, I should have did a
better job explaining what I meant by that. But when
I meant by that was I'm talking about work, you know,
regarding the game on Sunday, winning the game. You know,
I don't know any fans. I don't know what they're
doing in their personal lives, and I respect every fan
that we have. I'm, you know, glad that we have fans.
So you know, I would never disrespect you know, anybody
(05:54):
on what they do or what they love to do.
You know, it came off like that, and of course
you know, some social media outlets stay quote in my quote,
and you know, they got a big buzz on him.
So of course they did a great job doing that,
and of course social media's going to do that. But yeah,
I just wanted to clear that up, all right. So
he's like, somehow this is a social media's problem. So
all right, let's discuss the question why why this about?
(06:15):
Phase this one hundred eighty degree turn from Justin Fields
as he attempts to clear this up. So I've got
tap tap, Spooky and horse and Buggy, and we will
combine all of these things together and that will be
the foundation of this mallord monologue. So to kick off here,
we knew right away when we heard that audio Justin
(06:39):
Fields was in boiling hot water. He said, the thing
you can't say at the time, you can't say it.
The Bears had just taken it in the shorts yet
again against Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. The cheeseheads were
smiling and the Bears fans were crying, and it's it's
like a broken record when the Bears and Packers get together. Now,
(07:00):
for some reason, I thought things would be different, and
they would have been from a gambling standpoint ifs and
butts were candy and nuts and Justin Fields had gotten
in the end zone in that drive in the fourth quarter.
But I digress. The same tune has been played twice
in NFL season when the team from Wisconsin plays the
team from Illinois. Now is it trulor that Justin Fields
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broke the cardinal rule of the industrial complex of sports?
And I'm nodding my head. Yes, you can rip the coaches,
you can rip your teammates, you can rip ownership, you
can take pot shots of the media. All of it
is fair game. But you don't dare question the passion
the dedication of the fan. That's the customer, that is
(07:46):
a bridge to nowhere. And Justin Fields did just that
as we play the audio, as we understand it. That
led to some upheaval among the higher ups with the Bears,
which eventually turned into a tap tap on the shoulder, Hey,
Justin we got a little situation here. Some people who
(08:11):
are in management that don't like what you did there.
Can you pull out the mop and the bleach, Can
you scrub a dub dub? Can you clean up the
spill on Aisle four? Sanitize the situation? Give out the miakulpa.
Can you do that? And he did? All right. Now, furthermore,
will this quote have life down the line for the
(08:33):
Bears quarterback? Is this just a one day story or
a two day story and then it goes away and
that's it. Justin Fields, I'll give you the answer to that.
Justin Fields is sitting at the typewriter. He's old school,
he's got the typewriter. He's the one who's typing out
the story. And we are at a fork in the road.
(08:54):
You don't get a long stretch of time as the
man and at quarterman. And Justin Fields was drafted relatively high.
He did not play well last season. He is not
playing well right now. So life comes at you fast.
And so I mentioned we're at a fork in the road,
at a tipping point. If Fields improves and actually becomes
(09:18):
the franchise quarterback that the draft nerd said he was
going to be in that dimension, this episode is just
a footnote growing pains to greatness. And they'll bring this
up and say, you remember when Justin Field said the
thing he wasn't supposed to say, Oh, isn't that funny?
Look at him now? But should Justin continue to go
(09:42):
down the highway to hell. This can and will be
used against him, spookey, it's gonna haunt him. Right. Not
only is he a bump, the guy's a bump on
the field, but he's also obtuse often. It is a
troubling sign that Justin Fields implied that social media was
(10:05):
the fall guy. A bad public speaker blames the megaphone.
This quote was not twisted around, It was not taken
out of context. It wasn't some kind of weird deep
fake you said it. We played the audio tape, We
included the question. There's no miscommunication here word for word,
(10:30):
and you've got the hoodspun. They say, oh, it's a
social media and also talking about I didn't want to
talk to the media, Well, what is that about. I
understand that it's part of your job, Like you only
want to talk to the media when you win. That
makes you a show pony, that makes you a front runner.
And by the way, you're not back in college anymore.
You're in the NFL and you haven't one diddly squat
(10:52):
mister Fields in the NFL. Alright, party shot, So what
the heck is going on with this Chicago passing offense,
So they went out to hire a defensive guy. Matt
ever Flews, the Indianapolis assistant, who's pretty obvious, does not
trust his quarterback in the Windy City. There's no ifs
(11:13):
ands or butts about it. It's very straightforward here. The
Bears are taking offensive football back to the horse and
buggy days. The forward pass is verboat Chicago. They won somehow,
some way that rain game at Soldier Field to open
the season against the Niners. And that's partially because of
(11:35):
the weather, and also that Trey Lance was equally terrible
before he broke his ankle for the forty nine ers.
But the Bears passing attack is so bad. How bad
is it? Sub seed and Fields is the thirtieth ranked
passer in the league. It's amazing he's not worse than that.
He's averaging fourteen pass attempts per game, dead last by
(11:55):
a country mile. And Justin Fields is a milk carton
kind of quarterback. He's in the witness protection program, whatever
you want to say there. He's missing in action. Ever
Flows the coach, he does not even trust the quarterback
to run a rude ofmentary offense. I'm talking about those
dump off passes, the screens, the crossing roots. He won't
(12:18):
even run those most of the time for Chicago, So
they have to decide what they want to do. This
is a season where the Bears are not going to
make the playoffs. They're not a good roster. So you
got to release the cracket and find out what you have.
Let him throw the ball and if he sucks, you'll know,
(12:41):
and maybe he'll get better justin fields by the end
of the year. But what the Bears are doing doesn't
help anyone. It doesn't help Feels. It certainly doesn't help
the Bears because they're playing hide and seek with a quarterback.
It's a misguided strategy in Chicago, it really is. Are
you know it's not misguided. It's Benny versus the Penny,
(13:03):
the Thursday Night special and strike up the band there, Roberto,
here we go, right now, let's do it. Welcome players,
You're welcome. Are It's time now Beenny versus the Penny
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(13:24):
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to it. Thursday Night Football, Pittsburgh one and one at Cleveland.
They are one and one. It's on the Amazon with
Al Michaels and Kirk curb Street. The Browns opened a
(14:06):
three point favorite. They are currently a four point favorite.
I have seen some four and a half lines as well,
but I've got it at four right now. So minus
four for the Browns at home? And what about to
handle the money on this game? Almost seventy percent of
the cash. The public loves Pittsburgh. The wise guys they
call him, the Sharps, appear to be on Cleveland. The
(14:28):
weather tonight in Cleveland, temperatures in the high fifties at
kickoff at First Energy Stadium, and the wind will be howling.
You want a fun fact, I'll give you a fun fact.
Last thirty five games going back the twenty twenty, the
Steelers are oh six and one straight up when t J.
Watt is inactive or plays less than fifty percent of
(14:52):
the defensive snaps. When he is active and plays more
than fifty percent of the defensive snaps, the brown The
Steelers rather are twenty two and six, soho six and
one straight up or twenty two and six based on
when t J. Watt plays, By the way, spoiler alert,
he's not playing now. The Browns have not done well
(15:12):
as a favorite there, in fact, winless in their last
seven against the spread as a favorite. But the pick
is in and I'm taking the Browns. And here's why.
Ghastly quarterback matchup. Jacobe Brissette is weak in the knees,
but Mitch Trubisky is weak everywhere. Next level of suckage plus.
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It is gonna be a windy night. Heavy wind gusts
of nineteen miles per hour expected in Cleveland. You parley
of that with no TJ. Watt. The Steeler defense, well,
they've been good. They have not been particularly good at
stopping the running game. Nick Chubb should have his way
in this game. There's that bitter taste from losing to
(15:53):
Joe Flacco last week. It's a quick turnaround. Pittsburgh has
just two offensive touchdowns in two games. They can't run
the ball, they can't seemingly throw the ball. I don't
know what else there is Browns twenty three and the
Steelers thirteen. And the penny picks. Flip the penny up, Lee,
(16:14):
who's the penny picking? Lee's the penny at the last
minute here, who's the penny picking? League thinking the Browns here? Are? Well,
not you the penny You think Browns? All right, So
we agree on that. So we both took the Browns.
All right. Good luck there to you if you gamble
check that out. All right, It's Ben Mallers Show on Fox.
(16:35):
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It's Ben Maller And right to the calls we go.
Let's say hello to Steve who is in Manhattan. Hello, Steve, Welcome,
You're on Fox Sports Radio. Hmm, it's Steve, but he's
not there. He's a professional radio caller. This guy Steve Eddie.
(17:42):
You hate this guy. You can face him away for
like a year, and now he's come back with vengeance.
That's last. Yeah, it's a lot of vengeance. I'm hearing
right now from that's probably on some other show on
hold with some other show. That is bizarre to me.
I don't know that. He just loves calling radio, so
you don't actually listen to shows. You just make calls
(18:04):
to different shows. This is his way of getting his
message out. Great, Let's go to Chris driving around the Commonwealth.
He wants to talk about the big scandal of the overnight.
He may, you don't sell coach boy, there's gonna be
some good sports talk radio today in Boston. The local
guys are licking their chops. I'm sure what's going on, Chris, welcome,
(18:25):
How can we help you? Good morning, And it's been
a long time. I've been a listener since the big pandemic.
I was the one that resurrected line one. I'll ever
forget that night that line one came back online and
I was pretty to resurrected line one. Anyways, Um, waking
up this morning, hearing the store, hearing this news, Um,
(18:46):
I'm like, keep it in your pants, and I wish
it was Monday, because you'd be like incident of ice
line to eve me a dual cut. Right, Yeah, well
we might we might still, I tell you what, depending
on what happens. And we don't know the whole story,
only know a little bit of the story. But there'll
be some more dirt to come out with the tabloids
over the next couple of days, and so we'll get
We're gonna get, We're gonna get into the nitty gritty, Chris,
(19:08):
We're gonna go a lot. Let me ask you, Ben.
You know, you know they say, you know, they talk
a lot about on ninety eight point five up here
where I listened to you on is UM. You know,
during the all stop break, it's like, you know, it's
like NonStop doing. You know that they talk, you know,
like when they go there and I know I get
the apples and oranges, but you know there's infidelity everywhere.
(19:30):
Bet So. I mean, I don't know, but because it's
in the house person, I don't know. What would you do?
Bet Thanks? I love you guys. All right, well, thank
you Chris. Uh yeah, well I listen. To be honest,
I've not had the opportunities of professional athletes. I did
briefly travel years ago with a professional team, and I
saw the life that they lived, which is not the
(19:51):
life that I live. Uh and uh, there's a lot
of fish in the sea. I I've learned as I've
worked in the radio business over the years and just
in the working world. You know, you don't necessarily want
to poop where you eat, and uh, you know there
are some issues there and so we don't know exactly
what happened here, but according to what Internet investigators have uncovered,
(20:14):
we do know the name of this woman. It's not
hard to find and she's apparently married if that report
is accurate, and so there's some issues there, but it's
really a liability thing. And that's that's the main reason
you you're not supposed to go to, you know, making
whoopee while your work is because exactly, I guess as
they got caught doing something at work and the boss
(20:37):
of Celtic Facilities right as I don't think I think,
so yeah, can we play apology Bengo like emay Udoka
is going to release a statement and I'm assuming that
he will hit some of the key squares and apology
Bengo like, uh, he's deeply sorry and he let people
down and he's gonna learn from this, and uh, this
(21:02):
is not who he is and he was insensitive and
one thing led to another and there's no place for
this apparently having sex at least at work or with
somebody from work, and so ay all all those key
points and there's an apology Bingo card and so some
combination of I'm ashamed, I want to take time to
(21:27):
learn from this experience all that stuff, because if he's
involved in the obviously the sex relationship, but it happened
off like in their personal like not within the facilities, right,
it's not a big deal. Well yes, yeah, so you
think that, Like they were right on the parquet there
on the sham exactly the top of the sham rock.
(21:50):
That's a little little Leprecha got quite the show there, did? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I'm fascinated. I can't wait. This will happen while I'm sleeping,
because I sleep during the day. But when I wake up,
I'll be like, what happened? What did I miss? And
we'll get some Oh she's she's married, right, that's the
according to the Internet. She's married. Yeah, she's a former
(22:12):
NBA player. Like that's a guy's an Indian. She'll still
stay there. But it was, Yeah, they got to get
rid of both if they if they suspend him, they
got to suspend her, right exactly. Equality I stand for
equality takes two to tango. And it was if it
was consensual, if she was, she was in on it.
She was having a good time too. So there you go.
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Can I go third rail? You want to go third
Eddie Garcia Now third rail. Go ahead, Eddie. If this
had been a an affair with a male member of
the coaching staff, would they would they come out and
uh suspend him for that? Oh wow, Eddie. I didn't
even think about that possibility, right, because if if they do,
(22:56):
then they're like, well, what are you against? What? What
are you against? Sex? Relationships? There? You? Yeah, what's what's
wrong with you? You're the NBA. You gotta be opened
everything you're the NBA. Brag about that is the NBA.
It's intriguing and will if he, let's say emay Udoka
gets suspended for the entire season, does he just resign
(23:18):
and say that's it? Does Brad Stevens come back as
the coach? Do they promote one of the assistant coaches?
There's a lot of moving parts that would excessive for
a whole season, doesn't don't you think? Unless where you're right?
All right, there's more. There could be more than we know, right, Okay,
he went into Jason tatums Locker and Brad Stevens office.
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Hey you can't do that here, man, button up. Guy.
He's like racist, like the guy next door, right, he's
you know, you think it was just a little Uh,
I'm not not rough around the edges, but that's the word.
(24:00):
I'm what's the term I'm looking for? He's uh, he's
how about that? Put that away? Man? All right, it
is the Bannet Mallor Show. As we press on, We're
gonna get back to Eddie in a second. Right now,
let's say a load of Tommy. Who's in Atlanta? What's
(24:24):
going on? Tommy in the at l You're on Fox
Sports Radio? Hey Ben, how's it going? If I was
any better, I'd be a coach, but not the coach
of the Celtics because he's he's not real popular right now. Yeah,
but at least they have fun doing it though. I mean,
you know, you gotta mail. If you're gonna, you're gonna.
(24:45):
It's a good point. If you're gonna get suspended from
your job, at least enjoy yourself. And it appears that
he did have a fine time, and I hope she
enjoyed herself too. And they just a couple of kids
rolling in the hay. Why not? What there? Why not?
I'm just wondering, Um, it's been a while since you've
initiated anybody to the Mallar militia. I'm actually a long
time listener. I usually listen to you on Serious XIM,
(25:08):
but I usually listen on a delay, so I don't
get a chance to call very often. I'm I'm driving
down the road now and I'm I'm all caught up,
and I'm just was like, what the heck? I wonder
if he's taking any calls right now. I love too.
It's an honor to talk to you. Well, thank you, Tommy, Well,
thank you for listening on When do you listen? You
listen on delay, so you like record a bunch of
(25:29):
shows and then listen later on. Is that how that works? No,
it's I got the app on my cell phone, and
so it goes back. So like I clock in at
like three am Eastern time, three thirty whatever, And so
I'll just turn your turn the channel on, turning your
show on, just go back to the beginning the restart
show option and all right, well, very cool, All right,
well let's let's get you in sworn in. We have
(25:50):
not done this in many, many months. You're right, Tommy.
This was something that our friend Skeeter and Montana came
up with. He wanted to be sworn in as a
member of the Mallar Militias who we came up with
the Malla Militia Oath. Are you prepared, Tommy, This is
a life changing event, Tommy, are you prepared for this? Yes, sir, okay,
it's very simple, and just repeat after me. I state
(26:10):
your name, I, Tommy and Atlanta. Do solemnly swear. Do
solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Ben
Mallers Show. That I will support and defend the Ben
Maller Show against all enemies foreign and domestic, against all
enemies foreign and domestic, and that I will obey the
(26:31):
orders to peacefully fight back. And I will obey the
orders to peacefully fight back. That's always a hard line
against hostile attacks, against hostile attacks from rivals, sports gas
bags and blowhards from rivals, sports gas bags and blowhards.
So help me, God, So help me God. Congratulations Tommy,
(26:54):
you are now sworn in. You've taken the Malle Militia Oath. Congratulations,
you are a sergeant at arms. We are a peaceful group.
We turned to cyber warfare when we have to. But
thank you Tommy for your listenership. I appreciate it, and
thanks for getting on the air. It's good to talk
to you, rock O. Thank you for your time. All right,
(27:14):
there he goes, Tommy, thank you. Let's state your name.
I say your name, sports gas bags and blowhards. It's
sports bagging gas bags. It's not that easy. Not this
job is not that fleeping easy. Hockey season, let's start
up this Zamboni right now. Let's get all Danny Garcia
(27:38):
of all your hockey information, a staple of this show
every Thursday morning. Puck that world. We are just weeks
away from the start of the NHL season. You're all
very excited about that. I know, I know, especially Roberto
you've been there's a big deal with I like excited
for our La La King's opening up training him tomorrow.
(27:59):
I will be out there. I will be not sleeping.
I'll be heading out to the eight. Really, why are
you going out there? Check check for They got a
little little extra gig going on. Oh look at Eddie
Desa working for the case, not for the Kings, but
covering the team. Are doing a little extra on the
side there, you know, little taste. The color Avalanche agreeing
(28:21):
on an eight year, one hundred point eight million dollar
contract extension, will start forward Nathan McKinnon. He'll make twelve
point six million perceedson. That makes him the richest player
in NHL history, as he surpasses Boilers Starconor McDavid by
a hundred thousand dollars. I'm McDavid making twelve point five
million per seedson. The deal will go into effect after
this coming season. Nathan McKinnon a three time MVP finalist
(28:44):
for the Colora Avalanche, where he helped him win the
Stanley Cup this past season. We had three significant retirements
in the span of a few hours on Tuesday, Zadano Chara,
who captain the Boston Bruins to the Stanley Cup, announcing
his retirement at the age of forty five. He played
in one thousand, six hundred eighty games over twenty four seasons,
mostly with the Bruins, but also with the Islanders, Senators
and Capitals. Won the Norris Trophies league's top defenseman with
(29:06):
the twenty eighth nine season. One of the tallest players
in the league history and he's like six seven and
something like that. Veteran defenseman Keith Yandel announced his retirement.
He holds the NHL ironman record nine hundred and eighty
nine consecutive games. From March twenty six of two thousand
and nine to April second of twenty twenty one. He
played over one thousand NHL games with the Coyotes, Rangers, Panthers,
and Flyers. Reherdo did we run out? Ere we go?
(29:27):
Thank you? Gotta have the music in the back when
so long, Eddy we ran out of I'm just getting
started here. Also, defenseman PK. Sue Band retiring after thirteen
season's playing with the Canadians, Predators, and Devils. He appeared
in eight hundred and thirty four career games, won the
Norris Trophy in twenty thirteen. Is the NHL's top defenseman.
He's already got a TV gig lined up with the
Four Letter Network. Rover now, nice, I hear those TV
(29:48):
jobs faite pretty well every you would know you had
one brief light For a year, I had a TV
the great greatest year here line year early year and
a couple of months I had had a TV voiceover
job for a year. Was some sweet sweet TV money there,
Oh fantastic. God. The difference between a four hour radio
show and like a half hour TV show, Oh my god,
(30:10):
I hear you man, different world San Jose Sharks and
former forward a Vander Kane settled a grievance over the
contract termination last season that was about to go to arbitration.
Settlement reportedly bridges the gap between the money he was
owned by the Sharks and the money he's currently making
for the Edmonton Oilers team trying to terminate his contract
over a violation of COVID protocols, but he had a
(30:30):
number of off ice issues as well. Buffalo Sabers signed
general manager Kevin Adams to a contract extension. He's in
his third season running the team that is currently in
the midst of eleven straight years without a playoff appearance.
That's the longest streak in NFL history. Winnipeg Jets stripped
Blake Wheeler of his captaincy. They'll enter the season with
a collection of alternate captain's. Head coach Rick Bonus, the
new head coach set in a statement, it is our
(30:52):
goal to expand the leadership base of our hockey team.
Edmonton Oilers signed for Jake Vertannon to a tryout two
months after he was not guilty of sexual assaults while
he was playing with the Vancouver Canucks. So this is
not going over well, with some of the woke media
members there in the NHL chasing him out. Eddie, has
he gone now? They don't, They don't think he should
get this opportunity, even though he was he was found
(31:14):
not guilty, get a quart of law. Marion Hosta set
to become the eighth player in NHL history to have
his jersey retired I know you love this by the
Chicago Blackhawks. He's number eighty one will go to the
rafters of the United Center November the twentieth. He helped
Chicago win three Stanley Cup titles and this season venue
might notice if you watch a hockey game a little
bit different. What's that? What's that on the jersey there? Oh,
(31:35):
it's an ad the NHL, following in the footsteps of
their friends over at the NBA. So far eight teams
have unveiled there. I have noticed foss on the jersey.
Some of them are only on the home jerseys. Some
of them are on home and road, but not all
of them are unclosed. Some of them only have a
sponsored him. A couple of them, the Vegas Golden Knights,
which is appropriate, and the Washington Capitals sponsored by sports books.
(31:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, good. I heard that the Capitals actually
have a sports book inside the arena there in DC. Well, eventually, Eddie,
everyone's gonna have a sports book in secretary. You know
it's handling beliege. Are we? Are we allowed to do
that here in California on Prop twenty Vote yes on
Prop twenty seven and they'll be able to do that.
There you go, than a vote whoever you want. But
(32:20):
I usually say vote no on all the props on
the vote yes or so. I wonder why, huh, I don't.
I don't understand what that's all about. Eddie to book again,
and that's your Puck the World Report. All right, thank
you for that, Eddie. Very nice there. As we press
on through the overnight out and straight ahead, I need
some judges. I need a few good judges. We've got
(32:40):
fact or fiction. We'll get to that and we will
do it next. Be sure to catch live editions of
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it fact for fiction let's face some rough facts on
(34:07):
the Ben Maller Show. All right, here we go Factor
Fiction time. Let's say hello to our judges real quick,
and then we'll get to the game. We'll give you
three stories. You got to figure out which of the
three is not true, separating fiction from fact. It's very simple.
We have a Shane in de Moine. Actually, well, let's
start out with the power couple, Leslie and Jack the judge.
(34:30):
They get preferential treatment. Hello Leslie, Jack the judge. We
got Jack the judge. We got the judge. Hello Jack,
how's life treating you? Jack? Good? Very good. I just
come back from a workout a little early, so I
am ready to go with the Factor fiction. Awesome. It's
good to have you there. And I'm sure you're covered
(34:51):
in sweat right now. You're gonna take a shower. It's
all good. All right, Hold on a second. All right,
we've got Jack the judge. We've got Shane in de Moine. Hello,
she Hey Ben, I feel like this show needs more
lead to lap. Unless I was Sam Wow, shots fired
it and you're from Iowa. Of all things, you can replace.
(35:11):
You can replace him with an hero corn and nobody
would know the difference. Wow, all right, hold on a sec.
That's a low blow. And Mike in Fullerton. Hello, Mike
big Hey, first time caller, a longtime listener, a big
fan of the show. Yeah, don't you hate that guy
(35:31):
for dog on Twitter? He's a real pain in the ass,
isn't it. Yeah, not a fan, not a fan. All right,
hold on a sec. Well, that'll be enough. Those are
three judges. That's all we need. Story number one never
play as your heroes. Well EA Sports announced that the
fictional character ted Lasso will indeed be a playable manager
(35:53):
along with the fictional team AFC Richmond in career mode
of the new FIFA twenty three game being released next week.
So if you're a ted Lasso fan, you gotta go
out and buy the game. Story number two, The worm
has turned. Dennis Rodman plans to meet with Kim Jong
Oon in Pyongyang in October, with the hopes of convincing
(36:16):
the despotic North Korean leader to hold direct negotiations with
Vladimir Putin for Brittany Grinder's ultimate release from Russian custody.
That is story number two and story number three Slipping
into the DMS, It seems that Cole Beasley was really
working overtime to get in that Tampa Bay buccaneer uniform.
(36:37):
Bucks agreed to a contract with him this week, and
he's expected to play against Green Bay this weekend. He
worked overtime to make it happen, Beasley admitting that he
slid into Tom Brady's DMS in the hopes of getting
the quarterback's attention. And it appears to have worked. It
(36:58):
appears to have worked. And those are the three stories.
Story number one and never play as your heroes, friend
of a Friends, Story two, and slipping into the DM's
real quick Jack the judge one, two or three? Jack?
All right, we're having some issues with the Shane in
the morning. Now we're out of time. The fake story
(37:19):
is story number two, the Rodman story, Story number two.
I's got a murder. I gotta go. Fox Sports Radio
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