February 7, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about LeBron James expressing his disappointment that the Lakers didn't land Kyrie Irving, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Christian Bale Edition, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome. It's our dumber three hour three of
our radio program, the Obligatory Malor monologue about the life
and times of Lebron James, about to become the NBA's
all time scoring king. Lebron, though, says he is disappointed
the Lakers did not get Kyrie Irving, but he says
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he's ready to move on. Believe it or don't believe it,
How did you compute Lebron James saying that if the
Lakers go into postseason play healthy, they can compete with anybody.
And Jason Kidd, the coach in Dallas, talking about the
Kyrie Irving trade, said he's all about basketball. He wants
to win, he wants to be coached. So when you
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first saw that quote from Jason Kidd, what did you think.
We'll discuss that as well right now in our number
three The Angry Star always a good topic of conversation
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shoob so our lead this hour coming from the fallout
of the trade heard around the NBA. Now, I'm not
going to do a deep dive on Kyrie Irving again.
We're not going down that road. It is about Kyrie,
but it's about the reaction to Kyrie Irving. As Kyrie
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has arrived in Dallas and his video of him the
local TV in Dallas was there. They have the exclusive
video of Kyrie with a group of people walking around
Dallas there meeting with the Mavericks. But Kyrie's not going
to the Lakers. He was repackaged from Brooklyn to Dallas
and the Lakers who thought they were in the driver's
seat after all. Kyrie said he wanted to play in
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La La Land. He's been out there in La La
Land for some time. So assuming that position, the Lakers
were they were gonna get Kyrie. They assumed they were
in the driver's seat, and Uncle Drew did not get
his wish. His wish is not the Nets owner's command.
In fact, we talked about this in a previous episode
of the show. The guy that owns the Nets didn't
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want to trade Kyrie. The Lakers didn't want to passified.
I don't want to make him appy because this guy's
he feels screwing over the Nets. So it didn't happen,
and now the Lakers are left to put the pieces
back together. They're doing some damage control, and there's some
spin coming out of Laker Land that the Lakers really
didn't want Kyrie and they had second thoughts on Kyrie
and they didn't trust his professionalism and his dedication to basketball.
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These are the things being leaked by Toady's from the
Laker media that are inside. Well, it's clear that that
is bullcrap because Lebron James has chimed in on the issue.
He chimes in on everything. Why would he not talk
about this And I don't know if you saw it
or not, maybe you missed this. We've got an audio
clip he sat down Lebron with the venerable Michael Wilbon,
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who's been around a long time, old sportswriter, who has
been TV guy for a long time. So Lebron chatting
with Michael Wilbon, and he said that he was disappointed
the Lakers did not get Kyrie. As Warner Wolf would say,
let's go to the audio tape a bombed out Lebron James, Well,
definitely disappointed. I can't sit here and say I'm not
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disappointed on not being able to land such a talent,
but someone that I had great chemistry with and no,
I got great chemistry with on the floor that can
help you win, Um, you know, championships in my in
my mind, right in my eyes. Um, but my focus
is shifted now. My focus is shifted back to where
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it should be, and that's that's this club now and
what we have in the locker rooms. Quick pivot, quick pivot.
It don't take me long. It don't take me long.
I don't I don't get too excited, um about the
possibilities of things that can be. I kind of envision
myself on what it can but I don't I don't
invest it all the way into until I know what's happening,
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and when it does not happen, I'm back locked in
on the job at hand. So, um, you know, we
had an opportunity. I think our names was out there.
The Laker's name was out there. We had an opportunity.
Didn't happen. We move on and we finished the season strong,
trying to try to get a bid into the postseason
where I feel if we're going healthy and we compete
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with anybody. All right, So that was Lebron with Michael
Wilbon and the Entertainment and Sports Network. So let us discuss,
all right, the big quote, the money quote. He used
the D word. So the question Lebron James saying he's
disappointed the Lakers didn't get Kyrie Irving, but he's ready
to move on. Believe it or don't believe it. So
I am agnostic on this one. I've got King Cobra,
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hair brained, and mortgage, and we will combine all of
these things together and we will attempt not to flog
a dead horse. So, first of all, Lebron James, this
was pouting. It was pouting, right. It wasn't as bad
as what he did on social media. That was where
the real hissy fit took place. This was more of
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a measured Lebron James. But on social media, Lebron used
cosmetics the catchphrase from maybe Leene, maybe it's me. Maybe
it's me booooo, maybe it's me. That was his real reaction.
And Lebron got on camera with Will Bond and he
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acted like a smooth operator and a quick pivot, quick pivot,
and oh yeah, quick pivot. But it's obvious Lebron has
this very unhealthy love affair with Kyrie Irving and it's
peculiar to me. I don't understand it, and I'll tell
you why, because Irving has burned Lebron in the past.
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In fact, Kyrie as a professional basketball player, has burned
every team he's played for one h He's proven multiple
times that he's King Cobra. He's a serpent Kyrie Irving.
And I believe Lebron should take some kind of test here.
I think he's suffered from amnesia because Kyrie Irving. I
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thought maybe I forgot this. I went back, I checked
some of the some of the notes of years ago,
and I remember talking about Kyrie when he was in
Cleveland and how that ended. It appears Lebron has forgotten
about it. Kyrie Irving was jealous of everything being about Lebron.
If you remember, we talked about it on the show
way back in those years, and it was very public
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the NBA drama. They air all their dirty Launders just
in a day in the NBA. But Kyrie was upset.
Lebron was all about Lebron, this, that, and the other
thing in Cleveland, and so he asked to be traded
so he could be the centerpiece on his own team.
And your wish is my command. And Kyrie pulled a
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power play, and he pulled the same stunt everywhere he's been,
just about right. In Boston, he told Celtics season ticket
holders that he wanted to be a Celtic and then
he said, nah, really, in Brooklyn, the same deal played out.
This is the signature move of Kyrie Irving. And yet
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you have Lebron James out there. It's like, oh, it's
such a talent and I know how well we play together. Yeah, Okay,
the Lakers are actually better off without Kyrie Irving. That's
the reality of the situation. And how would you like
to be Lebron walking back into the locker room when
you've pretty much urinated all over your teammates, the people
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that you have there, because you've admitted, listen, these guys
are terrible. They are. But the fact that he actually
said it, that's rare. You don't normally get that if
you listen between the words, Lebron's pretty much calling out
every player on the Lakers. But later on we must
go to page two years, because how do you compute
Lebron James saying that if the Lakers go into the
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postseason healthy, they can compete with anybody, while pretty much
trashing the roster that they needed Kyrie Irving to do that.
This is known as talking out of both sides of
your mouth. We chuckle. It's also a carbon copy to
something that we laughed at several years ago when Anthony
Davis said something similar Unibrow, who is the poster boy
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for Humpty Dumpty in the NBA. Anthony Davis said the
Lakers were the top team in the NBA when one
hundred percent healthy, said a couple of years ago, and
we thought that was the funniest thing we had heard.
And so now you have another hair brained statement from
Lebron pretty much backing up what Anthony Davis had said
a couple of years ago, well, spoiler alert, spoiler alert,
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nobody is one hundred percent healthy. Even with all the
load management and injury prevention. Nobody is one hundred percent
healthy in that sport, nor should they be. And Anthony
Davis is one breath away from breaking a rib and
going a wall malingering around the trainers room. Moreover, even
if Anthony Davis was healthy, the Laker roster has istemic problems.
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They don't defend well. They have no perimeter game that
can compete with the top teams in the West or
the East. They cannot guard perimeter players on the wing.
And last I checked, just about every good team has
at least one guy who's good on the wing. That
seems to be a problem. And they have not unloaded
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yet the trojan horse, even though he played for the
Bruins in Russell Westbrook, Who's still hanging around, hanging around
under the Laker banner. All right, final ft, So I
want to pivot away from Lebron here, and I want
to focus in on Dallas because Kyrie has arrived. The
eagle has landed, or in this case, the space cadet
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has landed. In Dallas as he's there. He showed up
on Monday, he was greeted by some Maverick personnel. Local
TV paparazzo got the video. So his new coach, Jason Kidd,
was asked about coaching Kyrie Irving, and Jason Kid laid
it on thick, extra thick and crunchy peanut butter with reporters.
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Did you see this quote? Did you hear about the
quote speaking about Kyrie? Just pretend I'm Jason Kidd. Jason
Kidd said, quote, he's all about basketball. He wants to win,
he wants to be coached. Close quote, that's the quote.
So when I saw that quote bouncing around, the Jason
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Kidd quote on Kyrie Irving, what was your thought on that?
Like you heard it, I gave it to you, and
again Kid said, of Kyrie, he's all about basketball, he
wants to win, he wants to be coached. So my
first thought was, boy, that sports Talk berry is pretty good.
That Sports Talk Berries that's satire. And then I realized,
well that wasn't satire. And then I was like, wow,
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this is like a robotic response. AI has taken over.
And then we wondered how much Jason Kidd's mortgages per
month because he's clearly relocated to the gaslight district. That
is a misdirection play, a splendid misdirection play by Jason Kidd, gaslighting,
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little psychological manipulation, Jason Kidd planting the seed of doubt.
Everything you've heard, everything you've been told about Kyrie Irving,
You Maverick fans, you have to question your memory because
Kyrie he's all about basketball. He wants to win, he
wants to be coached. Of course, don't check the receipts
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on that, because you're not gonna like what you see.
Jason Kidd does not want you to go back and check,
because all you have to do is do a little
bit of keyboard thumbnail research. Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn said
he did not see the Nets as having a coach.
Irving has said multiple times over the years that he
wants to use his platform to fight the power. He
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believes he is much more than a basketball player. So
I would think that means he's not all about basketball.
And he's been on multiple really good teams and every
time he's asked to be traded, So is he all
about winning? Right? I'm gonna go now and the famous
quote I have to stand for what I believe in
that Kyrie Irving quote. Those are his words. So congratulations
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Jason Kidd. He wants the Maverick fans to know that
Kyrie's all about basketball and wants to win, wants to
be coached. That is comedy. Gold is what is. That's great.
Like when Jason Kidd was a player back in the
day and came into l a lot. Early on in
my days, I was a radio stringer, so I spent
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a lot of time in locker rooms and I interviewed
Jason Kidd a lot. And he is one of these
guys that just falls into sports cliche dot com and
just gives you the boring generic sports quote just to
get the interview over with, like I had. That happened
when I was chatting with him way back when he
was playing in the NBA. It's good to know he
hasn't changed. He's still doing the same crap as a coach.
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In fact, as a coach, you're supposed to do it more.
All Right, It is the Ben Maller Show. As we
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The Maller Riddle of the day, and here it is
Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers, fresh off his golf
win over the weekend, was scheduled to be the guest
speaker at a Blank Seminar. Again Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packer.
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here at a minute. We have Mallard's mounting of money
coming up later in the hour, but I gotta pay
off the riddle of the day right now. Aaron Rodgers
was scheduled to be a guest speaker at a blank seminar.
That is the Mallard riddle of the day. What is
the answer, And let's see if anyone knows the answer.
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Let's see page down here, page down. Late night drug
tester says it was a growing Older Dating Younger seminar.
Just Josh in Cincinnati says a boot a barber boot
camp seminar for cosmetologists interesting, a Nicholas Cage conference. Guess
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by the Sawman Page down, Page down alf the Alien
Opiner in Springfield, mass home of the Pro Basketball Hall
of Fame, where Muffet mcgraws enshrined, says at a seminar
about political correctness. Who else do we have ferg Dog
going with a sexaholics anonymous seminar. That's the seminar You're
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going to furg Dog, not Tom Brady Alcoholics anotomous in Milwaukee.
Guess by Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do we
have page down a Harry Kushner group there from courtesy Flusher,
we have Kathy in Madison says an ayahuasca cult seminar.
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Sean in Portland says it was a vending machine business seminar.
That's a good business to get into. It is Donkey
Sausage says a Fox Sports Radio super Bowl conference was
the selection Amy the Yankee fan says A narcissist seminar
Ancient Aliens guest by Wally in Florida, Let's see here.
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Maverick says it was Andre's. I think he meant Andrea
Andreas Mars is your reign is seminar? He said, Black Steve.
The second was that he was asked to speak Brady
at a family abandonment seminar. Wow shots fired their time
shares guests by Yafeemi On the Mallard Riddle, Eddie, do
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you have an answer to the Mallar Riddle of the day,
The Mallar Riddle of the day. Yeah, I got my
thunder stolen a little bit there. I was going to say,
a family Therapy and Counseling seminar. Oh okay, very nice
Is that correct? Is that? Unfortunately that is not corrected.
He's so many other answers we didn't get to Nick
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and Wisconsin said a which seminar a p. Twenty two
memorial seminar guests by Gus that mountain lion in LA
that was rolling around the Hollywood Hills. The correct answer, Eddy,
though Tom Brady was Tom Brady. Aaron Rodgers was scheduled
to speak on Monday. He was the guest of note
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at an astrology seminar. That's right, an astrology seminar was
the answer we were looking for, Rogers. I'll have to
check it when Andrea coming up in a bed. But
the astrological seminar, led by author Deborah Silverman, I don't
know who that is. The master class was scheduled to
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give attendees a chance to discover how to fall in
love with you by using the ancient science of astrology.
This does sound like how about Aaron Rodgers getting in
on Andrea's territory? What's up with that? All right, We're
gonna get in on Mallard of the third degree right now.
I know Andrea. We'll get to get her on here
at some point and she'll have blow by blow breakdown.
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Maybe she was at that conference, but right now it's
time for the third degree. Here we go, It's Mallard.
How about that to the third degree. This is one
big band gets grilled. And I do need some contestants
for Mallard's mounting of money. So if you want to play, no,
no angry Bill, he's out, No Jed who fled? I
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contestants like we had recently. So Mallard's mount of money.
If you want to play, call right now eight seven
seven ninety nine Fox. But over to the Coopa loop
for this time shifted Mallard of the third degree. Ben
Josh Jacobs just had a career year for the Raiders,
but he revealed during the Pro Bowl that he has
not heard from the team about an extension. Do you
think Jacobs is going to be out of there? Well,
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it's it's not looking good because there's there's a force
field right now, like nothing is going to happen. I mean,
the Raiders could sign him, but but the franchise transition
tag is like a month from now. It's March seventh,
which is exactly a month from now, so the Raiders
don't really have to do anything until that day. If
they decide not to offer him the franchise tag or
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the transition tag, then he can start talking to other teams.
March thirteenth, So nothing's really happening right now. But the
savvy move would be the franchise tag Jacobs for one
year and then that's it. You keep him for one year,
you don't give him a long term contract. The problem
is running backs are replaceable, and I just get the
sense the Raiders don't want to pay him a lot
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of money because those guys are old Patriot guys. The GM.
Josh McDaniels is a Patriot guy, the Patriots. They've had
turnstiles of running backs over the years, from Ben Jarvis
green Ellis to all the others that have been there,
and that's the blueprint the Raiders are following. So Josh
Jacobs is out of luck. If he wants a long
term contract, it's not gonna happen with the Raiders. I
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would be shocked if they give him the big money
over a lot of years next. Kyle Shanahan has already
said that he doesn't see any scenario in which Jimmy
g returns to the team, but Joe Montana said over
the weekend that the forty nine ers should be sticking
with Garoppolo. Is he right? Well, I like Joe Montana
as a player, but on this one he's a dope, right.
Montana is the big rag Goo. He was the guy
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before Tom Brady and all that. But Jimmy Gee, it's
time to move on. They've they've gone their separate ways.
Let them go. Garoppolo was laughing on the sidelines in
Philly as the forty nine ers were getting their bell wrung,
and Garoppolo he can get a lot more money elsewhere,
go to the Raiders, go to the Texans, or God
only knows where. And the forty nine ers proved with
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brock party he showed with a somewhat competent quarterback with
the proper play calling. There's enough playmakers with the forty
nine ers that they can make it work. Brock Purty
was essentially Garoppolo. He gave up the same put off,
the same stat lines as Garoppolo. So the Niners will
be fine. They can move on and don't be tied
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to Garoppolo. Guy gets hurt every year anyway. Next steph
Curry entered his knee over the weekend in a win
over the MAVs, and now it's being reported that he
will miss multiple weeks. And the Warriors are like in
seventh place in the conference. Do you think their playoff
hopes are in trouble? You normally say no, but this
is the way the wild West of the NBA, so
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you have to say yes, there's a bunch of teams.
There's a bottleneck. You have so many teams in that business,
the business of basketball, that are coasting on the lazy
river through the regular season, resting healthy players, practicing NBA
injury management, whatever they're calling it these days, and as
a result, Golden State is in peril. You have a bottleneck.
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There's like ten teams. I'm not exacting. There are ten
teams that are between number four and number thirteen in
the West. They are separated by three losses, that's it.
And all of those teams are right around the twenty
six twenty nine in a loss range in that area.
And so you assume the position that at some point
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some of those teams will actually try to win regular
season games, and if the Warriors are unable to get
that done because Curry can't come back and they start
playing tougher teams and they can't beat them. Then yes, absolutely,
Golden states in jeopardy of screwing this up? All right there,
it is Mallard to the third degree. How did we
do pass this edition? That is a winner? You can
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put it on the board. Yes, and I need my contestants.
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good because they simulated it on Madden twenty three. All right,
your winner? Who won? Eddie? The Philadelphia Eagles beating the
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Kansas City Chiefs thirty one the seventeen according to the
Madden NFL twenty three officials simulation. Going with the favorite,
The Eagles are a point and a half favorite in
that game. Kansas City opened a one and a half
point favorite, but that's moved all the way in favor
of Philadelphia. They're the hot team. Everyone pick at the
Philadelphia Eagles to get it done. All right, thank you
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for that, Eddie. It is the Ban Mallers Show and
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Hello money, do you have what it takes to get
to the top? Probably not, and let's play Maller's mounting
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of money. Right now, we welcome in our contestants. We've
got Matt in the Valley of the Sun. Hello, Matt, welcome.
How are you doing then? What's going on? Matt? You're
going to any of those Super Bowl event I'm looking
to maybe make it downtown tomorrow. I'm gonna be working
all week. I look at a pretty uh popular restaurant
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that's gonna be crazy for the next this whole week.
But hopefully you make it downtown to the super Bowl experience.
My dad ended up going yesterday. So yeah, you gotta
check that out. Man, it's pretty cool. All right, you
gotta email me the restaurant too. Maybe I'll maybe I'll
pop in. You never know, Matt, Yes, I'll hit that
that after this call. All right, very good, Matt's gonna play.
And who else do we have? Eeny meeny miney mo.
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All right, pick door number one or door number two,
Eddie number two? Oh, you picked Black Steve the Second
from North Carolina. Hello, Black Steve the Second. It's a
good choice, Eddie. I'm gonna make good choices tonight too.
Good morning, guys. Oh, I see that's a code. That's
a code right there, he said, a little code. We're
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already starting. We're already starting with you. Okay, let's go
back to Matt. Matt, who would you like to partner
up with? At? You can play with me, Ben, Eddie, Roberto,
Cuba Loop. I'm going with you. Ben. It seems like
Justin Cincinnati backed out against going against me, so I
gotta take this guy down. Yeah, he's a chicken liver
that Justin and Cincinnati. He's on Twitter, but he can't
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call the show apparently. So yeah, Matt, you want to
play Justin Matt and Justin didn't call it? All right,
Black Steve, who do you want to partner up with?
You got Eddie? You got Roberto or Cuba Loop? Considering
this is Eddie's so I think it's only right I
go with King Eddie. That's a lie, that's gas like
Garcia has gotten you. I will guarantee I'm calling my
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shot right now. This guy, Matt is so good. You
have no chance, Black Steve, the second, no chance you're
gonna lose, And I think I think it is, Yes,
it is. Would you like to bow out right now?
Black Stein? There's one category but baseball so yeah, would
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you go back down now? Huh, you're gonna try, you
gonna try, all right, he's gonna try. Good luck, Eddie, godspeed.
To have a baseball guy in the bullpen. Okay, we
have a baseball don't don't know, Jade, that's not it.
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It's somebody I've never heard of before. His name is Evan,
the Mariners fan. Oh okay, all right, I've happened to
visit all full fourteen out of the thirty stadiums. I
think I know my baseball. This guy brag Matt. Matt
is flexing right now, flexing. He's striking a pose. Al right, Well,
all right, let's hurry up here. Who now we pick
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the We have the categories here? What are the categories here?
All right? So it's the same as last week. But
you know we only did like two questions. So uh,
we got this the Christian Bale Edition, Empire of the Sun,
A Midsummer Night's Dream Batman Begins, or the Big Short.
All right, Matt, I'm gonna go with the Big Short. Oh.
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I see that's strategic. I see what you did there. Okaya,
I was gonna do that, Steve, which category would you like? Wait,
that's the one Bill pick last week. Right, No, it's
not what I want that one he picked Batman begins,
but I changed the two that Ben said, So it's
not how you dope. All right, Batman begins, I still
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want all right, all right, not gonna matter. All right,
Everyone stay in place there, Black Steve, don't hang off,
Black Steve the second and Matt do not do not
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We have our contestants ready to go. Matt very talented
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game show contestant who tried to play Justin in Cincinnati,
but Justin did not call, and so Matt has teamed
up with me, Ben Black Steve. The second up to
is Shenanigans with Eddie. Watch out for cheating me those
two and let's play the game right now. Here we go,
Cooper Loop, I believe the category that we are starting
with is the big short. Is that that is correct? Correct?
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All right? These athletes were all stars despite their small stature.
Are you ready? Yes, sir? All right? Forty five secs
on the clock. Here we go, and we're on our
way quarterback for your Arizona Cardinals right now. Yes, boxer
nickname Money Moneyment played me with her. That is correct.
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Second basement for the cheating a Stros colors today, no
nost no first name. All right, the greatest soccer Yeah, yeah,
you go, the greatest soccer player from Argentina. He's playing
in Paris right now. Oh, here you go. Running back
for the Saints, Chargers and Eagles. He was a kick yes,
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uh expos leadoff hitter in the nineteen eighties. Is a
Hall of Famer nicknamed rock. A basketball player named after potatoes.
Nineteen eighties Hawks player. Oh, all right, is Tim Rains.
That was the only one. Okay, you got the other ones?
I think, yeah, yeah, good job, there you go. All right,
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Uh so and Darren Sprowles was actually the one hundred
point question. I jumped up to that one. Make sure
we got it in and so okay, Eddie your own
proud of himself. Uh all right, you guys are gonna
screw me over. That's why Steve, yeah, Steve has Batman begins.
These athletes were all born rich forty. Steve, we got
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to do really well in this category because the other
ones at baseball in it. So you're already planning the
letty five seconds on the clock began. Hall of Fame quarterback,
the brother of Eli Peyton, Manning, one of the Splash Brothers.
He had forty two points last night. He won the
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Super Bowl as quarterback of the Eagles, quarterback Heisman Trophy
winner out of Texas, A and M. He was a
bust with the Browns. Uh. Johnny Manziel Yes, a white
guy for the Bad Boy Pistons, very hated player, former
UCLA quarterback. The Cardinals picked him in the first round
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and then he was replaced by Kyler Murray. Yes, um again,
Bad Boy Pistons, white guy hated. If you missed the
thirty point one, Eddy h oh a Hall of Fame
catcher for the Dodgers and Mets power hitter mustache got
into it, oh Man, Mike Piazza and Bill Lamb Beer
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were the ones that you missed. But Bill Lamb, how
dare you black? Ste's one of my best friends. Huh, Well,
you're only down thirty points. You have two hundred and
thirty points? Steve, would you like Empire of the Sun
or a Midsummer Dream? You can't do that. You can't
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do that the first one. Oh, thank god, this is
going to be if you would have picked the other one,
there is no chance. Yeah, maybe slight chance. Empire the Sun.
These athletes were all born in Japan. Are you familiar
with where Japan is on the map? Steve? Are you?
I am? I am? All right? Five seconds begin? All right?
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This is a female tennis player. She cited mental health
for not Yes. Let's see here. The current manager of
the Dodgers, Roberto wants him fired. Played for the Red Sox. Uh.
What's the name? Oh man? Uh? Let's see a star
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of the Angels. Japanese guy. Uh. He pitches hits freaking
um um um. What's his name? Yes? Uh? This guy
was known as the Tornado. He's a picture for the Dodgers.
He threw a no hitter, obviously. Japanese guy twisted around.
He was Godzilla for the Yankees. He was a slugger. Yeah,
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Dave Roberts last week, we have different categories this week,
and I'm winn Now you're complaining. Yeah, he missed. Uh
he missed. Decu Matsui nomo. He's not It's not over.
Maybe Matt will take the last round off. I don't know.
I doubt it. Season. Why is there so many baseball questions?
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That's a good point. That's what happened. I couldn't think
of anything to you know, compare football to a Midsummer
Nights dream. Wow, all right, ripping you, congratulations on the ELM.
Don't know the biggest name in come down. Let's run
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up the store here, Matt. Alright, Matt, play shut up, Matt,
Midsummer Nights dream. He's playing in all MLB los stars
like ten times or more. Alright, okay, forty five seconds
begin all right? A white guys star for the Angels
signed the fort Yes, uh, greatest home run here? Who
did steroids in baseball history? Yes? A closer for the
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Yankees in the nineties. Yes, yes, A third baseman for
the Royals in the seventies and the eighties, the catcher
for the Yankees in the nineteen fifties. He was known
for his famous quotes. He asked, yes. A picture for
the Phillies, nicknamed Lefty in the seventies. The Ace of
the Phillies. Want to Cy young on terrible on a
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terrible team? Yeah. Uh. Paul all of Fame, shortstop for
the White Sox and Orioles from the sixties from Venezuela
nine stamp favorite player. That's that's a tough one. Black
Steve still there by the way black, Steve, did you
know any of those? Could you have gotten any of
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the new Yeah? Sure, I knew what's the trout? I
knew bronze. Come on, man, I knew Marianna Rivera. How
about this? Can you get the shortstop from Venezuela? Yeah, Budd,
you win, You win the game if you can get that. Yeah.
I agree. It's a no nothing, no chance. That's Louise
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Abarisio and Steve Carlton was the picture. Man. Congratulations you win.
I was guaranteed. Good job by you, Matt
Hello, and welcome. It's our dumber three hour three of
our radio program, the Obligatory Malor monologue about the life
and times of Lebron James, about to become the NBA's
all time scoring king. Lebron, though, says he is disappointed
the Lakers did not get Kyrie Irving, but he says
(00:22):
he's ready to move on. Believe it or don't believe it,
How did you compute Lebron James saying that if the
Lakers go into postseason play healthy, they can compete with anybody.
And Jason Kidd, the coach in Dallas, talking about the
Kyrie Irving trade, said he's all about basketball. He wants
to win, he wants to be coached. So when you
(00:45):
first saw that quote from Jason Kidd, what did you think.
We'll discuss that as well right now in our number
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shoob so our lead this hour coming from the fallout
of the trade heard around the NBA. Now, I'm not
going to do a deep dive on Kyrie Irving again.
We're not going down that road. It is about Kyrie,
but it's about the reaction to Kyrie Irving. As Kyrie
(02:12):
has arrived in Dallas and his video of him the
local TV in Dallas was there. They have the exclusive
video of Kyrie with a group of people walking around
Dallas there meeting with the Mavericks. But Kyrie's not going
to the Lakers. He was repackaged from Brooklyn to Dallas
and the Lakers who thought they were in the driver's
seat after all. Kyrie said he wanted to play in
(02:34):
La La Land. He's been out there in La La
Land for some time. So assuming that position, the Lakers
were they were gonna get Kyrie. They assumed they were
in the driver's seat, and Uncle Drew did not get
his wish. His wish is not the Nets owner's command.
In fact, we talked about this in a previous episode
of the show. The guy that owns the Nets didn't
(02:57):
want to trade Kyrie. The Lakers didn't want to passified.
I don't want to make him appy because this guy's
he feels screwing over the Nets. So it didn't happen,
and now the Lakers are left to put the pieces
back together. They're doing some damage control, and there's some
spin coming out of Laker Land that the Lakers really
didn't want Kyrie and they had second thoughts on Kyrie
and they didn't trust his professionalism and his dedication to basketball.
(03:20):
These are the things being leaked by Toady's from the
Laker media that are inside. Well, it's clear that that
is bullcrap because Lebron James has chimed in on the issue.
He chimes in on everything. Why would he not talk
about this And I don't know if you saw it
or not, maybe you missed this. We've got an audio
clip he sat down Lebron with the venerable Michael Wilbon,
(03:44):
who's been around a long time, old sportswriter, who has
been TV guy for a long time. So Lebron chatting
with Michael Wilbon, and he said that he was disappointed
the Lakers did not get Kyrie. As Warner Wolf would say,
let's go to the audio tape a bombed out Lebron James, Well,
definitely disappointed. I can't sit here and say I'm not
(04:05):
disappointed on not being able to land such a talent,
but someone that I had great chemistry with and no,
I got great chemistry with on the floor that can
help you win, Um, you know, championships in my in
my mind, right in my eyes. Um, but my focus
is shifted now. My focus is shifted back to where
(04:28):
it should be, and that's that's this club now and
what we have in the locker rooms. Quick pivot, quick pivot.
It don't take me long. It don't take me long.
I don't I don't get too excited, um about the
possibilities of things that can be. I kind of envision
myself on what it can but I don't I don't
invest it all the way into until I know what's happening,
(04:49):
and when it does not happen, I'm back locked in
on the job at hand. So, um, you know, we
had an opportunity. I think our names was out there.
The Laker's name was out there. We had an opportunity.
Didn't happen. We move on and we finished the season strong,
trying to try to get a bid into the postseason
where I feel if we're going healthy and we compete
(05:13):
with anybody. All right, So that was Lebron with Michael
Wilbon and the Entertainment and Sports Network. So let us discuss,
all right, the big quote, the money quote. He used
the D word. So the question Lebron James saying he's
disappointed the Lakers didn't get Kyrie Irving, but he's ready
to move on. Believe it or don't believe it. So
I am agnostic on this one. I've got King Cobra,
(05:37):
hair brained, and mortgage, and we will combine all of
these things together and we will attempt not to flog
a dead horse. So, first of all, Lebron James, this
was pouting. It was pouting, right. It wasn't as bad
as what he did on social media. That was where
the real hissy fit took place. This was more of
(05:58):
a measured Lebron James. But on social media, Lebron used
cosmetics the catchphrase from maybe Leene, maybe it's me. Maybe
it's me booooo, maybe it's me. That was his real reaction.
And Lebron got on camera with Will Bond and he
(06:19):
acted like a smooth operator and a quick pivot, quick pivot,
and oh yeah, quick pivot. But it's obvious Lebron has
this very unhealthy love affair with Kyrie Irving and it's
peculiar to me. I don't understand it, and I'll tell
you why, because Irving has burned Lebron in the past.
(06:42):
In fact, Kyrie as a professional basketball player, has burned
every team he's played for one h He's proven multiple
times that he's King Cobra. He's a serpent Kyrie Irving.
And I believe Lebron should take some kind of test here.
I think he's suffered from amnesia because Kyrie Irving. I
(07:03):
thought maybe I forgot this. I went back, I checked
some of the some of the notes of years ago,
and I remember talking about Kyrie when he was in
Cleveland and how that ended. It appears Lebron has forgotten
about it. Kyrie Irving was jealous of everything being about Lebron.
If you remember, we talked about it on the show
way back in those years, and it was very public
(07:26):
the NBA drama. They air all their dirty Launders just
in a day in the NBA. But Kyrie was upset.
Lebron was all about Lebron, this, that, and the other
thing in Cleveland, and so he asked to be traded
so he could be the centerpiece on his own team.
And your wish is my command. And Kyrie pulled a
(07:46):
power play, and he pulled the same stunt everywhere he's been,
just about right. In Boston, he told Celtics season ticket
holders that he wanted to be a Celtic and then
he said, nah, really, in Brooklyn, the same deal played out.
This is the signature move of Kyrie Irving. And yet
(08:09):
you have Lebron James out there. It's like, oh, it's
such a talent and I know how well we play together. Yeah, Okay,
the Lakers are actually better off without Kyrie Irving. That's
the reality of the situation. And how would you like
to be Lebron walking back into the locker room when
you've pretty much urinated all over your teammates, the people
(08:30):
that you have there, because you've admitted, listen, these guys
are terrible. They are. But the fact that he actually
said it, that's rare. You don't normally get that if
you listen between the words, Lebron's pretty much calling out
every player on the Lakers. But later on we must
go to page two years, because how do you compute
Lebron James saying that if the Lakers go into the
(08:52):
postseason healthy, they can compete with anybody, while pretty much
trashing the roster that they needed Kyrie Irving to do that.
This is known as talking out of both sides of
your mouth. We chuckle. It's also a carbon copy to
something that we laughed at several years ago when Anthony
Davis said something similar Unibrow, who is the poster boy
(09:15):
for Humpty Dumpty in the NBA. Anthony Davis said the
Lakers were the top team in the NBA when one
hundred percent healthy, said a couple of years ago, and
we thought that was the funniest thing we had heard.
And so now you have another hair brained statement from
Lebron pretty much backing up what Anthony Davis had said
a couple of years ago, well, spoiler alert, spoiler alert,
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nobody is one hundred percent healthy. Even with all the
load management and injury prevention. Nobody is one hundred percent
healthy in that sport, nor should they be. And Anthony
Davis is one breath away from breaking a rib and
going a wall malingering around the trainers room. Moreover, even
if Anthony Davis was healthy, the Laker roster has istemic problems.
(10:01):
They don't defend well. They have no perimeter game that
can compete with the top teams in the West or
the East. They cannot guard perimeter players on the wing.
And last I checked, just about every good team has
at least one guy who's good on the wing. That
seems to be a problem. And they have not unloaded
(10:21):
yet the trojan horse, even though he played for the
Bruins in Russell Westbrook, Who's still hanging around, hanging around
under the Laker banner. All right, final ft, So I
want to pivot away from Lebron here, and I want
to focus in on Dallas because Kyrie has arrived. The
eagle has landed, or in this case, the space cadet
(10:43):
has landed. In Dallas as he's there. He showed up
on Monday, he was greeted by some Maverick personnel. Local
TV paparazzo got the video. So his new coach, Jason Kidd,
was asked about coaching Kyrie Irving, and Jason Kid laid
it on thick, extra thick and crunchy peanut butter with reporters.
(11:06):
Did you see this quote? Did you hear about the
quote speaking about Kyrie? Just pretend I'm Jason Kidd. Jason
Kidd said, quote, he's all about basketball. He wants to win,
he wants to be coached. Close quote, that's the quote.
So when I saw that quote bouncing around, the Jason
(11:29):
Kidd quote on Kyrie Irving, what was your thought on that?
Like you heard it, I gave it to you, and
again Kid said, of Kyrie, he's all about basketball, he
wants to win, he wants to be coached. So my
first thought was, boy, that sports Talk berry is pretty good.
That Sports Talk Berries that's satire. And then I realized,
well that wasn't satire. And then I was like, wow,
(11:50):
this is like a robotic response. AI has taken over.
And then we wondered how much Jason Kidd's mortgages per
month because he's clearly relocated to the gaslight district. That
is a misdirection play, a splendid misdirection play by Jason Kidd, gaslighting,
(12:11):
little psychological manipulation, Jason Kidd planting the seed of doubt.
Everything you've heard, everything you've been told about Kyrie Irving,
You Maverick fans, you have to question your memory because
Kyrie he's all about basketball. He wants to win, he
wants to be coached. Of course, don't check the receipts
(12:32):
on that, because you're not gonna like what you see.
Jason Kidd does not want you to go back and check,
because all you have to do is do a little
bit of keyboard thumbnail research. Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn said
he did not see the Nets as having a coach.
Irving has said multiple times over the years that he
wants to use his platform to fight the power. He
(12:55):
believes he is much more than a basketball player. So
I would think that means he's not all about basketball.
And he's been on multiple really good teams and every
time he's asked to be traded, So is he all
about winning? Right? I'm gonna go now and the famous
quote I have to stand for what I believe in
that Kyrie Irving quote. Those are his words. So congratulations
(13:18):
Jason Kidd. He wants the Maverick fans to know that
Kyrie's all about basketball and wants to win, wants to
be coached. That is comedy. Gold is what is. That's great.
Like when Jason Kidd was a player back in the
day and came into l a lot. Early on in
my days, I was a radio stringer, so I spent
(13:40):
a lot of time in locker rooms and I interviewed
Jason Kidd a lot. And he is one of these
guys that just falls into sports cliche dot com and
just gives you the boring generic sports quote just to
get the interview over with, like I had. That happened
when I was chatting with him way back when he
was playing in the NBA. It's good to know he
hasn't changed. He's still doing the same crap as a coach.
(14:00):
In fact, as a coach, you're supposed to do it more.
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Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers, fresh off his golf
win over the weekend, was scheduled to be the guest
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(15:09):
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off the riddle of the day right now. Aaron Rodgers
was scheduled to be a guest speaker at a blank seminar.
That is the Mallard riddle of the day. What is
the answer, And let's see if anyone knows the answer.
(17:03):
Let's see page down here, page down. Late night drug
tester says it was a growing Older Dating Younger seminar.
Just Josh in Cincinnati says a boot a barber boot
camp seminar for cosmetologists interesting, a Nicholas Cage conference. Guess
(17:24):
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Opiner in Springfield, mass home of the Pro Basketball Hall
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(17:44):
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we have Kathy in Madison says an ayahuasca cult seminar.
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Sean in Portland says it was a vending machine business seminar.
That's a good business to get into. It is Donkey
Sausage says a Fox Sports Radio super Bowl conference was
the selection Amy the Yankee fan says A narcissist seminar
Ancient Aliens guest by Wally in Florida, Let's see here.
(18:26):
Maverick says it was Andre's. I think he meant Andrea
Andreas Mars is your reign is seminar? He said, Black Steve.
The second was that he was asked to speak Brady
at a family abandonment seminar. Wow shots fired their time
shares guests by Yafeemi On the Mallard Riddle, Eddie, do
(18:49):
you have an answer to the Mallar Riddle of the day,
The Mallar Riddle of the day. Yeah, I got my
thunder stolen a little bit there. I was going to say,
a family Therapy and Counseling seminar. Oh okay, very nice
Is that correct? Is that? Unfortunately that is not corrected.
He's so many other answers we didn't get to Nick
(19:09):
and Wisconsin said a which seminar a p. Twenty two
memorial seminar guests by Gus that mountain lion in LA
that was rolling around the Hollywood Hills. The correct answer, Eddy,
though Tom Brady was Tom Brady. Aaron Rodgers was scheduled
to speak on Monday. He was the guest of note
(19:30):
at an astrology seminar. That's right, an astrology seminar was
the answer we were looking for, Rogers. I'll have to
check it when Andrea coming up in a bed. But
the astrological seminar, led by author Deborah Silverman, I don't
know who that is. The master class was scheduled to
(19:53):
give attendees a chance to discover how to fall in
love with you by using the ancient science of astrology.
This does sound like how about Aaron Rodgers getting in
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I know Andrea. We'll get to get her on here
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(20:14):
Maybe she was at that conference, but right now it's
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Josh Jacobs just had a career year for the Raiders,
but he revealed during the Pro Bowl that he has
not heard from the team about an extension. Do you
think Jacobs is going to be out of there? Well,
(21:02):
it's it's not looking good because there's there's a force
field right now, like nothing is going to happen. I mean,
the Raiders could sign him, but but the franchise transition
tag is like a month from now. It's March seventh,
which is exactly a month from now, so the Raiders
don't really have to do anything until that day. If
they decide not to offer him the franchise tag or
(21:25):
the transition tag, then he can start talking to other teams.
March thirteenth, So nothing's really happening right now. But the
savvy move would be the franchise tag Jacobs for one
year and then that's it. You keep him for one year,
you don't give him a long term contract. The problem
is running backs are replaceable, and I just get the
sense the Raiders don't want to pay him a lot
(21:45):
of money because those guys are old Patriot guys. The GM.
Josh McDaniels is a Patriot guy, the Patriots. They've had
turnstiles of running backs over the years, from Ben Jarvis
green Ellis to all the others that have been there,
and that's the blueprint the Raiders are following. So Josh
Jacobs is out of luck. If he wants a long
term contract, it's not gonna happen with the Raiders. I
(22:06):
would be shocked if they give him the big money
over a lot of years next. Kyle Shanahan has already
said that he doesn't see any scenario in which Jimmy
g returns to the team, but Joe Montana said over
the weekend that the forty nine ers should be sticking
with Garoppolo. Is he right? Well, I like Joe Montana
as a player, but on this one he's a dope, right.
Montana is the big rag Goo. He was the guy
(22:27):
before Tom Brady and all that. But Jimmy Gee, it's
time to move on. They've they've gone their separate ways.
Let them go. Garoppolo was laughing on the sidelines in
Philly as the forty nine ers were getting their bell wrung,
and Garoppolo he can get a lot more money elsewhere,
go to the Raiders, go to the Texans, or God
only knows where. And the forty nine ers proved with
(22:51):
brock party he showed with a somewhat competent quarterback with
the proper play calling. There's enough playmakers with the forty
nine ers that they can make it work. Brock Purty
was essentially Garoppolo. He gave up the same put off,
the same stat lines as Garoppolo. So the Niners will
be fine. They can move on and don't be tied
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to Garoppolo. Guy gets hurt every year anyway. Next steph
Curry entered his knee over the weekend in a win
over the MAVs, and now it's being reported that he
will miss multiple weeks. And the Warriors are like in
seventh place in the conference. Do you think their playoff
hopes are in trouble? You normally say no, but this
is the way the wild West of the NBA, so
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you have to say yes, there's a bunch of teams.
There's a bottleneck. You have so many teams in that business,
the business of basketball, that are coasting on the lazy
river through the regular season, resting healthy players, practicing NBA
injury management, whatever they're calling it these days, and as
a result, Golden State is in peril. You have a bottleneck.
(23:51):
There's like ten teams. I'm not exacting. There are ten
teams that are between number four and number thirteen in
the West. They are separated by three losses, that's it.
And all of those teams are right around the twenty
six twenty nine in a loss range in that area.
And so you assume the position that at some point
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some of those teams will actually try to win regular
season games, and if the Warriors are unable to get
that done because Curry can't come back and they start
playing tougher teams and they can't beat them. Then yes, absolutely,
Golden states in jeopardy of screwing this up? All right there,
it is Mallard to the third degree. How did we
do pass this edition? That is a winner? You can
(24:35):
put it on the board. Yes, and I need my contestants.
We're gonna have Maller's mounting of money. Be sure to
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good because they simulated it on Madden twenty three. All right,
your winner? Who won? Eddie? The Philadelphia Eagles beating the
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Kansas City Chiefs thirty one the seventeen according to the
Madden NFL twenty three officials simulation. Going with the favorite,
The Eagles are a point and a half favorite in
that game. Kansas City opened a one and a half
point favorite, but that's moved all the way in favor
of Philadelphia. They're the hot team. Everyone pick at the
Philadelphia Eagles to get it done. All right, thank you
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for that, Eddie. It is the Ban Mallers Show and
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Hello money, do you have what it takes to get
to the top? Probably not, and let's play Maller's mounting
(26:45):
of money. Right now, we welcome in our contestants. We've
got Matt in the Valley of the Sun. Hello, Matt, welcome.
How are you doing then? What's going on? Matt? You're
going to any of those Super Bowl event I'm looking
to maybe make it downtown tomorrow. I'm gonna be working
all week. I look at a pretty uh popular restaurant
(27:07):
that's gonna be crazy for the next this whole week.
But hopefully you make it downtown to the super Bowl experience.
My dad ended up going yesterday. So yeah, you gotta
check that out. Man, it's pretty cool. All right, you
gotta email me the restaurant too. Maybe I'll maybe I'll
pop in. You never know, Matt, Yes, I'll hit that
that after this call. All right, very good, Matt's gonna play.
And who else do we have? Eeny meeny miney mo.
(27:31):
All right, pick door number one or door number two,
Eddie number two? Oh, you picked Black Steve the Second
from North Carolina. Hello, Black Steve the Second. It's a
good choice, Eddie. I'm gonna make good choices tonight too.
Good morning, guys. Oh, I see that's a code. That's
a code right there, he said, a little code. We're
(27:53):
already starting. We're already starting with you. Okay, let's go
back to Matt. Matt, who would you like to partner
up with? At? You can play with me, Ben, Eddie, Roberto,
Cuba Loop. I'm going with you. Ben. It seems like
Justin Cincinnati backed out against going against me, so I
gotta take this guy down. Yeah, he's a chicken liver
that Justin and Cincinnati. He's on Twitter, but he can't
(28:14):
call the show apparently. So yeah, Matt, you want to
play Justin Matt and Justin didn't call it? All right,
Black Steve, who do you want to partner up with?
You got Eddie? You got Roberto or Cuba Loop? Considering
this is Eddie's so I think it's only right I
go with King Eddie. That's a lie, that's gas like
Garcia has gotten you. I will guarantee I'm calling my
(28:37):
shot right now. This guy, Matt is so good. You
have no chance, Black Steve, the second, no chance you're
gonna lose, And I think I think it is, Yes,
it is. Would you like to bow out right now?
Black Stein? There's one category but baseball so yeah, would
(28:59):
you go back down now? Huh, you're gonna try, you
gonna try, all right, he's gonna try. Good luck, Eddie, godspeed.
To have a baseball guy in the bullpen. Okay, we
have a baseball don't don't know, Jade, that's not it.
(29:20):
It's somebody I've never heard of before. His name is Evan,
the Mariners fan. Oh okay, all right, I've happened to
visit all full fourteen out of the thirty stadiums. I
think I know my baseball. This guy brag Matt. Matt
is flexing right now, flexing. He's striking a pose. Al right, Well,
all right, let's hurry up here. Who now we pick
(29:41):
the We have the categories here? What are the categories here?
All right? So it's the same as last week. But
you know we only did like two questions. So uh,
we got this the Christian Bale Edition, Empire of the Sun,
A Midsummer Night's Dream Batman Begins, or the Big Short.
All right, Matt, I'm gonna go with the Big Short. Oh.
(30:04):
I see that's strategic. I see what you did there. Okaya,
I was gonna do that, Steve, which category would you like? Wait,
that's the one Bill pick last week. Right, No, it's
not what I want that one he picked Batman begins,
but I changed the two that Ben said, So it's
not how you dope. All right, Batman begins, I still
(30:25):
want all right, all right, not gonna matter. All right,
Everyone stay in place there, Black Steve, don't hang off,
Black Steve the second and Matt do not do not
hang up either, please? All right, very good. This portion
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continue on pressing on. It's time for the game show.
We have our contestants ready to go. Matt very talented
(31:52):
game show contestant who tried to play Justin in Cincinnati,
but Justin did not call, and so Matt has teamed
up with me, Ben Black Steve. The second up to
is Shenanigans with Eddie. Watch out for cheating me those
two and let's play the game right now. Here we go,
Cooper Loop, I believe the category that we are starting
with is the big short. Is that that is correct? Correct?
(32:13):
All right? These athletes were all stars despite their small stature.
Are you ready? Yes, sir? All right? Forty five secs
on the clock. Here we go, and we're on our
way quarterback for your Arizona Cardinals right now. Yes, boxer
nickname Money Moneyment played me with her. That is correct.
(32:34):
Second basement for the cheating a Stros colors today, no
nost no first name. All right, the greatest soccer Yeah, yeah,
you go, the greatest soccer player from Argentina. He's playing
in Paris right now. Oh, here you go. Running back
for the Saints, Chargers and Eagles. He was a kick yes,
(32:57):
uh expos leadoff hitter in the nineteen eighties. Is a
Hall of Famer nicknamed rock. A basketball player named after potatoes.
Nineteen eighties Hawks player. Oh, all right, is Tim Rains.
That was the only one. Okay, you got the other ones?
I think, yeah, yeah, good job, there you go. All right,
(33:18):
Uh so and Darren Sprowles was actually the one hundred
point question. I jumped up to that one. Make sure
we got it in and so okay, Eddie your own
proud of himself. Uh all right, you guys are gonna
screw me over. That's why Steve, yeah, Steve has Batman begins.
These athletes were all born rich forty. Steve, we got
(33:40):
to do really well in this category because the other
ones at baseball in it. So you're already planning the
letty five seconds on the clock began. Hall of Fame quarterback,
the brother of Eli Peyton, Manning, one of the Splash Brothers.
He had forty two points last night. He won the
(34:00):
Super Bowl as quarterback of the Eagles, quarterback Heisman Trophy
winner out of Texas, A and M. He was a
bust with the Browns. Uh. Johnny Manziel Yes, a white
guy for the Bad Boy Pistons, very hated player, former
UCLA quarterback. The Cardinals picked him in the first round
(34:20):
and then he was replaced by Kyler Murray. Yes, um again,
Bad Boy Pistons, white guy hated. If you missed the
thirty point one, Eddy h oh a Hall of Fame
catcher for the Dodgers and Mets power hitter mustache got
into it, oh Man, Mike Piazza and Bill Lamb Beer
(34:42):
were the ones that you missed. But Bill Lamb, how
dare you black? Ste's one of my best friends. Huh, Well,
you're only down thirty points. You have two hundred and
thirty points? Steve, would you like Empire of the Sun
or a Midsummer Dream? You can't do that. You can't
(35:06):
do that the first one. Oh, thank god, this is
going to be if you would have picked the other one,
there is no chance. Yeah, maybe slight chance. Empire the Sun.
These athletes were all born in Japan. Are you familiar
with where Japan is on the map? Steve? Are you?
I am? I am? All right? Five seconds begin? All right?
(35:29):
This is a female tennis player. She cited mental health
for not Yes. Let's see here. The current manager of
the Dodgers, Roberto wants him fired. Played for the Red Sox. Uh.
What's the name? Oh man? Uh? Let's see a star
(35:50):
of the Angels. Japanese guy. Uh. He pitches hits freaking
um um um. What's his name? Yes? Uh? This guy
was known as the Tornado. He's a picture for the Dodgers.
He threw a no hitter, obviously. Japanese guy twisted around.
He was Godzilla for the Yankees. He was a slugger. Yeah,
(36:19):
Dave Roberts last week, we have different categories this week,
and I'm winn Now you're complaining. Yeah, he missed. Uh
he missed. Decu Matsui nomo. He's not It's not over.
Maybe Matt will take the last round off. I don't know.
I doubt it. Season. Why is there so many baseball questions?
(36:40):
That's a good point. That's what happened. I couldn't think
of anything to you know, compare football to a Midsummer
Nights dream. Wow, all right, ripping you, congratulations on the ELM.
Don't know the biggest name in come down. Let's run
(37:05):
up the store here, Matt. Alright, Matt, play shut up, Matt,
Midsummer Nights dream. He's playing in all MLB los stars
like ten times or more. Alright, okay, forty five seconds
begin all right? A white guys star for the Angels
signed the fort Yes, uh, greatest home run here? Who
did steroids in baseball history? Yes? A closer for the
(37:28):
Yankees in the nineties. Yes, yes, A third baseman for
the Royals in the seventies and the eighties, the catcher
for the Yankees in the nineteen fifties. He was known
for his famous quotes. He asked, yes. A picture for
the Phillies, nicknamed Lefty in the seventies. The Ace of
the Phillies. Want to Cy young on terrible on a
(37:50):
terrible team? Yeah. Uh. Paul all of Fame, shortstop for
the White Sox and Orioles from the sixties from Venezuela
nine stamp favorite player. That's that's a tough one. Black
Steve still there by the way black, Steve, did you
know any of those? Could you have gotten any of
(38:10):
the new Yeah? Sure, I knew what's the trout? I
knew bronze. Come on, man, I knew Marianna Rivera. How
about this? Can you get the shortstop from Venezuela? Yeah, Budd,
you win, You win the game if you can get that. Yeah.
I agree. It's a no nothing, no chance. That's Louise
(38:33):
Abarisio and Steve Carlton was the picture. Man. Congratulations you win.
I was guaranteed. Good job by you, Matt
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