March 2, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Kevin Durant's debut with the Phoenix Suns, how things will be different for Durant in Phoenix, if the Suns are now the team to beat, NHL Puck'em, and much more!
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But here an hour one of the radio show. What
are your first impressions of Kevin Durant in a Sun's uniform?
He made his debut as a Phoenix baller against Charlotte
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in a game on Wednesday night? How will things be
different for kd in the Valley of the Sun? And
are the Suns clearly the team to beat in the NBA?
We will talk about all of those branches and a
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know we've done this a lot. I've barked into the
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lead this hour, We'll play the hits. Mom Aunt comes
from buzz City. Yeah, buzz City pro bouncy Ball. By
the way, Charlotte. Kevin Durant remember him, Yeah, Kevin Durant.
He much traveled. Kevin Durant did something that he hasn't
done in ages. He played in a professional basketball game.
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Oh my god, I can't believe that. Durant made what
some say is is much anticipated debut after the trade
deadline switcheroo. His latest stop Phoenix. As he continues to
be a basketball hobo, so I normally asked the question
at this point, did you watch, but realizing it was
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a horn It's game against the Suns, I'm going to
assume the position that you did not watch. But the
Suns did hit the floor against Charlotte in the first
game for Durant in over a month. And how did
he doubt? I'll tell you Kevin Durant, he was on.
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I love this minutes restriction, which is beyond ridiculous to me.
I've never understood that the NBA has done that for years,
even before load management. But either you're able to play
or you're not able to play. And like, if Durant
played one more minute, his leg would have blown up.
But anyway, Durant was out there yet twenty three point
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six rebounds to assist a partridge in a pear tree.
Twenty seven minutes, as we'll round up, twenty seven minutes
as the Suns were tempting faith there, twenty seven minutes
of action. Shot fifteen times, made ten of them, so
ten or fifteen from the floor, and Phoenix boat raced
the Hornets the Harvard boat Race. They never trailed. Led
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from soup to nuts, jumped out to an eleven nothing
lead and never looked back. Although it was not complete
forty five point domination, but a whole hum type of
performance for Kevin Durant and a whole hume type of
performance for the Suns. They jumped out to an early
lead and then they ended up winning by a comfortable margin.
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So let us discuss the question. It's all about one guy.
It's not about the outcome of the game here, it's
about one person. So what are your first impressions of
Kevin Durant in a Sun's uniform? So I've got fashion Week,
home depot, and musinix and we will put all of
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these things together and we are going to make a
burner account, which mom man Kad loves. He likes a
good burner account. Now, this is a strange laundry situation.
My first impression. It's gonna take a little getting used
to Kevin Durant in a Sun's uniforms. It's awkward. We
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haven't seen it before. Not that Kevin Durant has settled
into any outfit for a Hall of Fame marquee player.
He is living the Johnny Cash life right. He's toting
his backpack and he's going down the Winna Mucka road there.
He's traveled just about every road in the here land.
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He's been to what, Rockville, Austin, Seattle, Okcy, Brooklyn, Phoenix.
He's crossed the Desert's Bear, He's breathed the mountain air.
He's been everywhere and KD changing clothes. He actually I
realized this when I looked at his resume here, that
Durant has changed clothes more than a runway model at
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fashion Week on the catwalk. He spent one season wearing
a super side. Yet Durant, who actually has been in
the NBA long enough the SuperSonics still existed. He's spent
one year in Seattle, the team moved to the dust
poll in Okay see eight seasons there, three in Golden State.
He had a year off, then went to Brooklyn, and
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he was actually there while he was hurt. But one
hundred twenty nine games, three seasons with the Nets, and
now he has taken the express train on the Vagabond
Trail to the Grand Canyon State, the basketball Gypsy, living
up to his nickname as the Bohemian baller as he
continues his sojourn wandering around there, but this was this
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game against Charlotte was what's known in the restaurant business
as a soft opening, a little fanfare. The Hornets when
healthy blow, they don't have LaMelo ball, so now they
just really sucked. And from an ex Ano standpoint, Kevin
Durant mentioned as a whole hume performance, but he should
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have helped across the board. He's he's got the long arms,
got the wingspans. So defensively. Phil Jackson used to preach
when he was coaching in the NBA hands on balls.
Durant can get a lot of hands on balls. He
certainly can't. No, Page two, how will things be different
for k D in the Valley of the Sun. So
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it's it's it's like this. You can go to home
Depot or Lows and you need light bulbs. You go
to light ball Bio and you look around, you get opts,
you got options. So Arizona the media coverage a fanboy town.
Phoenix is a fanboy town. I know that from previous
monologues I have done about alligator arms Murray and I
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have pointed out these shortcomings before it was cool to
do that. The recipe not succeeding there in Arizona, and
I got just destroyed, all right. Local newspaper hacks were
writing stories about me ripping Kyler Murray. How dare you
it's blast for me? Well, of course everything we said
turned out to be accurate on Kyler Murray back then
and so, but it's a fanboy town. Phoenix is a
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fanboy town. And that's how the local radio is, that's
how the newspapers are and all that they on, the
bloggers all that. So the media coverage, it's go back
to the home depot, light ball bile. It's a soft
light as opposed to daylight. More like Okacy, right, Durant had,
he had the spotline on him in Golden State. The
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Warriors are a glam team, the afterglow of Steph Curry
and friends. Brooklyn. He had the bright lights of New
York City, although the Nets are the second team behind
the Knicks, and they chewed up all of Durant's full
pause and they made it like a science lab. I
don't know the bright lights in a science lab. So
Phoenix technically is the twelfth biggest television market in the
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United States, but it's far removed from the axis of sports.
The I ninety five corridor. But I've seen about the
NBA when I was coming in here, I think about
the NBA media, what they obsessed about. And maybe I'm
wrong on this, but I think there's there's a pack
of teams they get like all the attention, no matter
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whether they're good or bad. Right now, that list includes
the Lakers, the Golden State Warriors, The Clippers are on there.
They get a lot of attention. The Philadelphia seventy six Ers,
the Celtics, the Miami Heat are also in that mix,
the Dallas Mavericks, and there's like one or two other teams.
But that's it. That's it now. Despite the Sun's success
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on the court, and they were in the NBA Finals
a couple of years ago and all that, they are
not in the cool kids club. They're not all right,
last word here, so are the Sons, though clearly the
team debat in the NBA a rags to richest story.
They were drowning and then they made the big trade.
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So I am not going that far. I'm gonna shake
my head no on this. And it's it's hard to
get a great read on any of the NBA storylines
because and we've been reluctant to talk too much about it,
but it's we figured it was rare and appropriate with
Durant making his debut and a Phoenix uniform. But because
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of load management and that coasting mindset, that disease that
has been all over the NBA, you got a whole
bunch of people all clogged together. They need mucinix. There's
a lot of congestion right, There's a lot of nasal
passageways that need to be cleared, running noses over here,
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excess mucus over there. You got a lot of flem
and the suns are in that mix. You look at
what should be with Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and DeAndre Ayton,
that is a pretty good foundation. You can make arrangements
for a nice long journey in the playoffs with those three.
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But you also have on the other side, you've got
the falling star. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
Chris Paul, who you can't depend on. He had a
terrible shooting game. I was watching a good chunk of
this Charlotte game with Phoenix, and Paul looks completely washed,
completely washed. He looks gassed, and he looked gassed against
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a bad Hornets team. And man, you look at the Suns,
the auxiliary players, and they don't exactly, they don't pop
off your phone, right, you're looking at your smartphone, you're
looking at the depth chart. They didn't really pop. Campaign's
a good player. And do I get excited about Damian
Lee or Terrence Ross or someone named josh A Kogi?
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Probably not, Probably not, But they'll have their opportunity, right,
They all have their opportunity to rise on up, to
rise on up in the upcoming playoff run. All right,
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Sports Radio Studios, it's Ben Maller. You wash your mouth
out with soap and water, Eddie. How dare you? Bad
job by you? Eddie class Toe Garcia right there? How
dare you well? We began with a pro bouncy ball
Mallar monologue These sons at the debut of Kevin Durant.
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Kevin Durant making his debut there as the Sun's win
against the Hornets. Japheemie in Chicago writes in he says, hey,
Mallard a plus in a Taco Bell Mexican pizza. On
the Mallard monologue, UFOs have been prevalent in the news,
and I believe He says that Aaron Rodgers has one
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of those small aliens living in his head, like in
Men in Black, the alien. The alien gets to be
on Joe Rogan, take drugs, ignore his family and throw touchdowns.
That's from your feeme me. Well, we'll get to Aaron
Rodgers later on in the overnight flight here, the red
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eye flight, we will touch down. We'll have a stopover
in the mind of Aaron Rodgers. J Date in KC says,
I'll give you in a for the opening Mallar monologue,
Benjamin the Slim Reaper is definitely getting long in the
tooth pretty much. It's a hired mercenary for a championship
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situation which hasn't really panned out so well. The chief
until the casket drops. JD in KC checking in with that.
Who else do you have page down? Here? A page down?
I can't to read that on the air. Will skip
over that, and let's go to the phones. What do
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you say we'll take some calls. It is a call
in show at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
This show needs the ratings to go up, and who
better to help bump up the ratings. Bump it up? Now,
bump it up. We go to the smallest state in
the United States, the main the myth, the legend. Get
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your red breast ready, it's the one and only plastered
Paul in Rhode Island. Hello, Paul ben Mella, you know
what it is. You know what is it? You know
what Let's be Let's be honest. Okay, you know, I
got a funny feeling and I don't want to sound
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like the raging bulk of Joe the calls you, but
I got a funny feeling that Co's going to Vegas,
Lama's going to Washington, and Co's gone to Atlanta. That's
one topic. You just had car playing for two different teams. No, no, no,
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I said, I said Cole going to Atlanta Alta Vegas. Also,
he said, I said co going to Vegas. You said
he's going to a Vegas before you said he's going
to Atlanta? Questioning? Are you questioning my hearing? Do we
have to go to relay? Do you want me to
pull out? Paul? You want me to pull out? The telestrator.
I'll pull out the telestrator and I'll play it back.
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If you want, I'll go. I'll go under the hood.
There the replay. Remember that he used to have that
in the NIFA going to the hood. I'll do that
if you want. No, that's okay, sure? And what hey, Paul,
what happened the other day you called up? I think
it was last week? I went to you. I said,
let's go to Paul and Rhode Island. I didn't have
been introduction, and you said one word and then cut
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put a great phone call. Yeah, what happened? Why? What
happened with that? I don't know. I don't know. Just
sometimes you wait too long and you just you know,
concoud stop. I went to you right away. There's other
people on hold. I went to you first, ahead of
everyone else on my board. Everyone's holding on right now,
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listening to you and you to play on you for
taking me. Listen, let's go to baseball, just quickly. Pench
stripes against pinch stripes Yankees, San Diego. That's one, okay.
You love the pore, didn't you didn't you? Didn't you
pick the podres last year? Yeah? Man, I'm you know
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that's what does Paul and Rhode Island care about the
podres for I got my family there, you know. Okay,
that's it. You know what, Paul, you should come out
to San Diego, Paul, I gotta you can come to
San Diego and then you drive up. It's about a
hundred something miles from San Diego's in LA and you
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can come hang out with us, how about that? Yeah? Yeah,
but I would love to do that because my matching
staff is in LA. You know that, you know that
you can. I just say one more thing about Oakland.
I just I told Cooper about this. It's a shame that,
uh that we lost the raid. They lost, the Raiders
they lost, They're going to lose. I think Oakland to
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to Vegas too, And it's a shame that all these
people have to lose their jobs because you know, when
these owners and these stadiums, everything you touch in these
stadiums is paid for and they don't pull money into players.
They don't pull money into the stadium to fix a
freaking toilet. Okay, it's a shame. That's just golfing. But
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you know what, you can help build stadium, Paul, Paul,
Paul Paul, have you ever had a problem with your plumbing? Plump?
Plumbers are expensive, man, it's it's listen man. Let me
tell you something good Union summer. If you build a
stadium and you get sixty percent of union work, okay,
into these stadiums, a lot of people go to work. Okay.
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But these own these owners, these owners just want to
pocket pocket pocket. I don't bash them. The state has
to come through if you want to build a stadium.
Why the tay? They explain to me, why do the
taxpayers have to pay for a stadium? They have to?
Because why do they have to? I mean, if the public,
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if the taget Because not everyone, by the way, Paul
likes sports, I wish they did. My job would be
a lot easier if everyone loves sports. We love sports,
But a lot of people don't give a rats ass
about sports. They don't care about sports, so why should
they have to pay for it? They don't bend they
answer the question. Paul, answer the question right now. I
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demand an answer. Go ahead. I asked you to answer.
They not me. I'm asking you, but but the taxpayers
always have to come sixty forty. No, they don't listen
because there's a bunch of hack politicians in every American
city that banked over tax professional team. They shouldn't do it.
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These leagues make enough money. Now. I understand the early
days when sports was not you know it was, it
was growing, it was becoming part of the zeitgeist in America.
You can make the argument that they needed help, but
they don't need to help now they're fine. And if
you're good, I say, if you give taxpayer money, then
we should. The taxpayers should get some benefit where they
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have to lower the ticket prices, all right. And I
guarantee if politicians said, okay, we'll give you, you know,
a billion dollars to build your stadium, but you've got
to put guardrails on how much the ticket prices are,
then they wouldn't take that money. They would not take
that money. Devin rights, and he says, plastered Paul didn't
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I say, car to Vegas, then someone else to the commanders,
then car to Atlanta. Bad job by him. Burg Dog says,
I'm assuming plastered Paul meant David Carr's going to Vegas.
What a pickup that would be? Yes, that to get
him off television, that would be that would be huge
and we could have Car and Car in the NFL
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Man Alive, Emmett writes, and he says, God, I would
rather hear the Saddleback College Update, guys update on repeat
than this Paul and Rhode Island call. Shots fired by Emmett.
And I'm sure our favorite newsman will there's some murder
somewhere he'll turn into a sports story and I'm sure
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he'll leave with it next time he's back. But anyway,
all right, it is the Baynet Mallard show. So how
about this for a day for John Morant. John Morant
story popped up in the Washington Post with some new
details on a story that happened not that long ago
and regarding some poor choices that John Morant is accused
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of making. And in this report, there were two altercations
that happened last summer, but the story just popped up
not that long ago. One of them took place at
a mall another to pick up basketball game, and the
Washington Post that went into great detail here about these incidents.
The first altercation involved John Morant. The accusation as he
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threatened a security guard who would come after John Morant's mother.
They got into it and she called her son after
the argument, and then John Morant arrived shortly after with
a group of nine other people confronted the security person.
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According to the Washington Post, there and there was a
verbal confrontation and pushed the security guy in the accusation
made there. Now there was another a second incident where
John Morant is accused of repeatedly punching a teenager in
the head and threatening him with a gun. All right, man,
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we got a lot going on here. That was during
a pickup basketball game. And because of these stories, the
lawyer for John Morant is now threatening legal recourse for
defamatory reporting from the Washington Post. And it's one thing
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to write a letter if you're an attorney, it's another
thing to go forward with an actual lawsuit. Very rarely
does this happen. One that pops into my mind there
was a radio host who used to play for the
Saint Louis Cardinal's named Jack Clark, who had said, if
I remember correctly, that Albert Poulos was on steroids, and
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Albert Poole has actually sued him and and one and
and let me point out, just because you sue somebody,
even if you win, it does not mean you're you're
on the right side, Lance Armstrong, that that fraud. Lance
Armstrong sued and won lawsuits when people said he was
doing steroids, and he was able to prove that that
that that was a grown that was a that was
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a defamatory statement, and he won these litigations and it
turned out that he was the one that was actually
doing it. Everything that was said was accurate and all
that stuff. So with John Morant threatening through his attorney
legal recourse and we'll see, we'll see what exactly that means,
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if that happens or not. Also, very amusing that power,
Aid decided, of all days to announce a partnership with
John Morant the same day that this story comes out,
painting him as a hoodlum. Be sure to catch live
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where police issued Arrost Awards for Georgia defensive lineman a
top NFL draft prospect, Alan Carter, on misdemeanor charges of
reckless driving and racing stemming from a January fifteenth crash
that resulted in the depths of a teammate and a
recruiting staffer. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter that Carter was
present at the scene of the crash and provided inconsistent
accounts of his involvement to police. He initially said he
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was a mile away when the crash occurred, but then
later admitted that yes, he was alongside the other car
and racing which helped to lead to that accident, and
apparently this will not hold him back. He's projected to
be a top five. Yeah, in the NFLO. Jeff, you
know this reminds me of a generation ago. There was
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a basketball player, Yeah, for the Charlotte Hornets. Yeah, and
he had a decent run in the NBA. He died
and he was racing a teammate. Yeah, yeah, I do
remember that. I'm sure we were here for that work weak.
I know, I know, where is the time gone? But yeah, so, man,
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is he like a big time trouble Like what's the
if you're if I don't know the law so on that, Well,
it's too missed demeanor charges. So I would say he's not.
He's not in big time trouble now, So you're able
to raise somebody if they happened to crash, that's on them,
I get. I mean, you definitely contributed to it, I
would think. But yeah, no, they're they're saying, I think
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the maximum was like a year in jail. But they're saying,
you know, because he has no prior history, would it
would likely all be probation. Imagine what he must have
been going through his mind when he left to go home, right,
Like did he know they were dead? Like did he
realize that or did he not know at the time?
He thought maybe they were just hurt and everything would
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be okay. And I'm guessing if he was at the scene,
he probably knew it was it was not good. Yeah,
that's wild, but Jalen Carter projected his top five pick,
big six three pass rusher, defensive lineman type and anyway, wow,
quite the story in the NFL. Will Well, is he
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a character guy? Eddie? Is that making a character guy
in the NFL? Or? I guess it depends on if
there's anything else in his past right there? There got
to look into it now, and I would say if
there isn't, he's probably fine. If there is, then I
can't wait for when he gets drafted. And then next
year on a Sunday, we're watching an NFL game, he
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gets drafted by the Cardinals. You know, you watch a
Cardinal game and the sideline reporters like and Drelan Carter
has been inspired by the death of his two you know,
former Georgia friends and all that mean, well, you like,
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Brian Flores, who has gone scorched Earth. He's suing the NFL.
His attorney is claiming victory. The NFL is claiming victory.
All of this based on a judge's ruling. Now Brians
is claiming that the NFL is a racist operation and
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that there's racial bias in the NFL and he was
the victim of that coaching the Dolphins. He's had two
other NFL jobs since he left the Miami Dolphins. Was
let go from the Miami Dolphins. So a federal judge
has decided to send his lawsuit over the racist hiring
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practices of the NFL to secret arbitration. At the same
time she went on a ranch, she got on her
soapbox and unloaded on the NFL and they're incredibly troubling history,
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and she said she anticipated a biased adjudication of Brian
Flores's claim. So she did leave the door open because
Roger Goodell is the judge, jury, and arbitrator. Although Goodell
will likely hire someone else and put them in that's
been his his move recently, where he puts someone else
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in charge and then they're the ones that deliver the news.
But there was a thirty page ruling here and the
judge would not give the NFL it's total wish without
without ripping apart the business practices of the NFL and
and all that. And so the federal lawsuit filed against
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the Dolphins, a couple other NFL teams there it is
going to go to private arbitration. But they put the
caveat on there. If the NFL screws this up, they
can they can bounce back. So Roger Goodell would preside
over any arbitration the way it works, and that is
an arrangement that all that's a boiler plate in every
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contract and the contracts that they're signed. Coaches signed the contract,
it's all in there, the languages in there. If you
don't want that language, you can't signed the contract. And
so we'll see what comes to that. But both sides
are claiming we won. We won. It's impossible that both
sides won. Somebody had to lose on that, and it
certainly would appear Brian Flores side lost on that that
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he didn't win on this. He might win down the line,
but he didn't win on this. It is the Bannet
Maller Show, and we're gonna have the NHL puck him.
Here's the who am I game? We'll do hockey, and
here it is back in the day. I had twenty
six points during my team's Stanley Cup postseason run, the
most ever in the playoffs by a player that had
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been acquired at the trade deadline earlier that season. Doing
this in honor of the NHL trade deadline, which is
in the air everywhere right now. So I had twenty
six points during my teams Stanley Cup postseason run back
in the day, the most ever in the playoffs by
a player acquired at the trade deadline earlier that season.
Who Am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We
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after the Who Am I? Game of the NHL puck
I'm coming up in a moment. I had twenty six
points during my team's Stanley Cup postseason run, the most
ever in the playoffs by a player acquired at the
trade deadline earlier that season, the greatest postseason performance by
a player traded that year. That's the question. What's the answer,
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And let's see does anyone know the answer? The Tasmanian
Devil guests by Orange and Blue Blood, Brett speed Racer
from The Cowboy Killer, Jake the Snake Roberts tossed out
by Rob in Vegas. Ferg Dog, roommate of Brian Finley,
says Cinderella, mister and ice guy's going with Dale Murphy
for the Hall of Fame. Courtney Kardashian from the Dixter account.
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Who else do we have? Page down, page down? Vincent
Lecavier from The Lightning guests by Late Night Drug Tester.
Can't read that on the air jose Canseco. Great answer
from jd in Casey Marcel Dion from Alf the Alien
Pinet's a little different, Ray Bourk from Milkman. Mike Eddie,
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you're the hockey guy. You should get this right. Who
what's the answer, Eddie? I was gonna say, I was
gonna You're gonna correct, Eddie. The correct answer is Marian
Josa twenty six points for the Penguins during the O
eight stay We Cup playoffs. He was acquired from a
team called the Atlanta Thrashers. And that is the record
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for a player acquired at the trade deadline. And now
here we go, strike up the band. We have plenty
of time. Time now for the m A. L. Puck them.
We're gonna pick a goaltender and two skaters. Whoever gets
the most Fantasy points will be declared the smartest person
in the room. Cooper Loop, you have the first. Pay
a hurry up, Coop, Chop Chop, Nikita Kutrov, terrible pick
(37:29):
Roberto light Us Oh Mark another bad pick, Eddie, I'll
go with Philip Gustafsson. All right, I'll take Martin Jones,
Martin Jones. And also let's see here, Jack Hughes, Eddie,
I'll take t Taje. Thompson. Oh, all right, Roberto David
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Pastor Knack. Look we get that in Go ahead, Cooper Loop,
Elia samsonov h all right, take one more, Coop, I
believed one more? Oh, and um take your time. I
will uh Eric Carlton, Uh. Question Mark. I don't know
if anybody picked him. I wasn't listening. Matthew k Chuck.
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All right, Eddie, Jason Robertson, Are you sure about that? There? Goldten?
I think I took Martin Jones, didn't I did Coodreau?
Did I take him? You can take him? Uh? Yeah? Play?
Is he playing? I don't know, no, but you can
take him. Yeah, go ahead. Well I don't want to
take you. I'll take you know what. It over, It's over, Heath,
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I'll take him somebody named Smith
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are your first impressions of Kevin Durant in a Sun's uniform?
He made his debut as a Phoenix baller against Charlotte
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different for kd in the Valley of the Sun? And
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know we've done this a lot. I've barked into the
microphone and you've listened to me barkingto microphone. We have
a rule here, play the hitts. MoMA Aunt, play the hits.
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It's one of our bosses likes to say so. Or
lead this hour, We'll play the hits. Mom Aunt comes
from buzz City. Yeah, buzz City pro bouncy Ball. By
the way, Charlotte. Kevin Durant remember him, Yeah, Kevin Durant.
He much traveled. Kevin Durant did something that he hasn't
done in ages. He played in a professional basketball game.
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Oh my god, I can't believe that. Durant made what
some say is is much anticipated debut after the trade
deadline switcheroo. His latest stop Phoenix. As he continues to
be a basketball hobo, so I normally asked the question
at this point, did you watch, but realizing it was
(02:59):
a horn It's game against the Suns, I'm going to
assume the position that you did not watch. But the
Suns did hit the floor against Charlotte in the first
game for Durant in over a month. And how did
he doubt? I'll tell you Kevin Durant, he was on.
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I love this minutes restriction, which is beyond ridiculous to me.
I've never understood that the NBA has done that for years,
even before load management. But either you're able to play
or you're not able to play. And like, if Durant
played one more minute, his leg would have blown up.
But anyway, Durant was out there yet twenty three point
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six rebounds to assist a partridge in a pear tree.
Twenty seven minutes, as we'll round up, twenty seven minutes
as the Suns were tempting faith there, twenty seven minutes
of action. Shot fifteen times, made ten of them, so
ten or fifteen from the floor, and Phoenix boat raced
the Hornets the Harvard boat Race. They never trailed. Led
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from soup to nuts, jumped out to an eleven nothing
lead and never looked back. Although it was not complete
forty five point domination, but a whole hum type of
performance for Kevin Durant and a whole hume type of
performance for the Suns. They jumped out to an early
lead and then they ended up winning by a comfortable margin.
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So let us discuss the question. It's all about one guy.
It's not about the outcome of the game here, it's
about one person. So what are your first impressions of
Kevin Durant in a Sun's uniform? So I've got fashion Week,
home depot, and musinix and we will put all of
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these things together and we are going to make a
burner account, which mom man Kad loves. He likes a
good burner account. Now, this is a strange laundry situation.
My first impression. It's gonna take a little getting used
to Kevin Durant in a Sun's uniforms. It's awkward. We
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haven't seen it before. Not that Kevin Durant has settled
into any outfit for a Hall of Fame marquee player.
He is living the Johnny Cash life right. He's toting
his backpack and he's going down the Winna Mucka road there.
He's traveled just about every road in the here land.
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He's been to what, Rockville, Austin, Seattle, Okcy, Brooklyn, Phoenix.
He's crossed the Desert's Bear, He's breathed the mountain air.
He's been everywhere and KD changing clothes. He actually I
realized this when I looked at his resume here, that
Durant has changed clothes more than a runway model at
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fashion Week on the catwalk. He spent one season wearing
a super side. Yet Durant, who actually has been in
the NBA long enough the SuperSonics still existed. He's spent
one year in Seattle, the team moved to the dust
poll in Okay see eight seasons there, three in Golden State.
He had a year off, then went to Brooklyn, and
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he was actually there while he was hurt. But one
hundred twenty nine games, three seasons with the Nets, and
now he has taken the express train on the Vagabond
Trail to the Grand Canyon State, the basketball Gypsy, living
up to his nickname as the Bohemian baller as he
continues his sojourn wandering around there, but this was this
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game against Charlotte was what's known in the restaurant business
as a soft opening, a little fanfare. The Hornets when
healthy blow, they don't have LaMelo ball, so now they
just really sucked. And from an ex Ano standpoint, Kevin
Durant mentioned as a whole hume performance, but he should
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have helped across the board. He's he's got the long arms,
got the wingspans. So defensively. Phil Jackson used to preach
when he was coaching in the NBA hands on balls.
Durant can get a lot of hands on balls. He
certainly can't. No, Page two, how will things be different
for k D in the Valley of the Sun. So
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it's it's it's like this. You can go to home
Depot or Lows and you need light bulbs. You go
to light ball Bio and you look around, you get opts,
you got options. So Arizona the media coverage a fanboy town.
Phoenix is a fanboy town. I know that from previous
monologues I have done about alligator arms Murray and I
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have pointed out these shortcomings before it was cool to
do that. The recipe not succeeding there in Arizona, and
I got just destroyed, all right. Local newspaper hacks were
writing stories about me ripping Kyler Murray. How dare you
it's blast for me? Well, of course everything we said
turned out to be accurate on Kyler Murray back then
and so, but it's a fanboy town. Phoenix is a
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fanboy town. And that's how the local radio is, that's
how the newspapers are and all that they on, the
bloggers all that. So the media coverage, it's go back
to the home depot, light ball bile. It's a soft
light as opposed to daylight. More like Okacy, right, Durant had,
he had the spotline on him in Golden State. The
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Warriors are a glam team, the afterglow of Steph Curry
and friends. Brooklyn. He had the bright lights of New
York City, although the Nets are the second team behind
the Knicks, and they chewed up all of Durant's full
pause and they made it like a science lab. I
don't know the bright lights in a science lab. So
Phoenix technically is the twelfth biggest television market in the
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United States, but it's far removed from the axis of sports.
The I ninety five corridor. But I've seen about the
NBA when I was coming in here, I think about
the NBA media, what they obsessed about. And maybe I'm
wrong on this, but I think there's there's a pack
of teams they get like all the attention, no matter
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whether they're good or bad. Right now, that list includes
the Lakers, the Golden State Warriors, The Clippers are on there.
They get a lot of attention. The Philadelphia seventy six Ers,
the Celtics, the Miami Heat are also in that mix,
the Dallas Mavericks, and there's like one or two other teams.
But that's it. That's it now. Despite the Sun's success
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on the court, and they were in the NBA Finals
a couple of years ago and all that, they are
not in the cool kids club. They're not all right,
last word here, so are the Sons, though clearly the
team debat in the NBA a rags to richest story.
They were drowning and then they made the big trade.
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So I am not going that far. I'm gonna shake
my head no on this. And it's it's hard to
get a great read on any of the NBA storylines
because and we've been reluctant to talk too much about it,
but it's we figured it was rare and appropriate with
Durant making his debut and a Phoenix uniform. But because
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of load management and that coasting mindset, that disease that
has been all over the NBA, you got a whole
bunch of people all clogged together. They need mucinix. There's
a lot of congestion right, There's a lot of nasal
passageways that need to be cleared, running noses over here,
(10:35):
excess mucus over there. You got a lot of flem
and the suns are in that mix. You look at
what should be with Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and DeAndre Ayton,
that is a pretty good foundation. You can make arrangements
for a nice long journey in the playoffs with those three.
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But you also have on the other side, you've got
the falling star. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
Chris Paul, who you can't depend on. He had a
terrible shooting game. I was watching a good chunk of
this Charlotte game with Phoenix, and Paul looks completely washed,
completely washed. He looks gassed, and he looked gassed against
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a bad Hornets team. And man, you look at the Suns,
the auxiliary players, and they don't exactly, they don't pop
off your phone, right, you're looking at your smartphone, you're
looking at the depth chart. They didn't really pop. Campaign's
a good player. And do I get excited about Damian
Lee or Terrence Ross or someone named josh A Kogi?
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Probably not, Probably not, But they'll have their opportunity, right,
They all have their opportunity to rise on up, to
rise on up in the upcoming playoff run. All right,
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Sports Radio Studios, it's Ben Maller. You wash your mouth
out with soap and water, Eddie. How dare you? Bad
job by you? Eddie class Toe Garcia right there? How
dare you well? We began with a pro bouncy ball
Mallar monologue These sons at the debut of Kevin Durant.
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Kevin Durant making his debut there as the Sun's win
against the Hornets. Japheemie in Chicago writes in he says, hey,
Mallard a plus in a Taco Bell Mexican pizza. On
the Mallard monologue, UFOs have been prevalent in the news,
and I believe He says that Aaron Rodgers has one
(15:05):
of those small aliens living in his head, like in
Men in Black, the alien. The alien gets to be
on Joe Rogan, take drugs, ignore his family and throw touchdowns.
That's from your feeme me. Well, we'll get to Aaron
Rodgers later on in the overnight flight here, the red
(15:26):
eye flight, we will touch down. We'll have a stopover
in the mind of Aaron Rodgers. J Date in KC says,
I'll give you in a for the opening Mallar monologue,
Benjamin the Slim Reaper is definitely getting long in the
tooth pretty much. It's a hired mercenary for a championship
(15:47):
situation which hasn't really panned out so well. The chief
until the casket drops. JD in KC checking in with that.
Who else do you have page down? Here? A page down?
I can't to read that on the air. Will skip
over that, and let's go to the phones. What do
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you say we'll take some calls. It is a call
in show at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
This show needs the ratings to go up, and who
better to help bump up the ratings. Bump it up? Now,
bump it up. We go to the smallest state in
the United States, the main the myth, the legend. Get
(16:32):
your red breast ready, it's the one and only plastered
Paul in Rhode Island. Hello, Paul ben Mella, you know
what it is. You know what is it? You know
what Let's be Let's be honest. Okay, you know, I
got a funny feeling and I don't want to sound
(16:53):
like the raging bulk of Joe the calls you, but
I got a funny feeling that Co's going to Vegas,
Lama's going to Washington, and Co's gone to Atlanta. That's
one topic. You just had car playing for two different teams. No, no, no,
(17:14):
I said, I said Cole going to Atlanta Alta Vegas. Also,
he said, I said co going to Vegas. You said
he's going to a Vegas before you said he's going
to Atlanta? Questioning? Are you questioning my hearing? Do we
have to go to relay? Do you want me to
pull out? Paul? You want me to pull out? The telestrator.
I'll pull out the telestrator and I'll play it back.
(17:35):
If you want, I'll go. I'll go under the hood.
There the replay. Remember that he used to have that
in the NIFA going to the hood. I'll do that
if you want. No, that's okay, sure? And what hey, Paul,
what happened the other day you called up? I think
it was last week? I went to you. I said,
let's go to Paul and Rhode Island. I didn't have
been introduction, and you said one word and then cut
(17:57):
put a great phone call. Yeah, what happened? Why? What
happened with that? I don't know. I don't know. Just
sometimes you wait too long and you just you know,
concoud stop. I went to you right away. There's other
people on hold. I went to you first, ahead of
everyone else on my board. Everyone's holding on right now,
(18:18):
listening to you and you to play on you for
taking me. Listen, let's go to baseball, just quickly. Pench
stripes against pinch stripes Yankees, San Diego. That's one, okay.
You love the pore, didn't you didn't you? Didn't you
pick the podres last year? Yeah? Man, I'm you know
(18:38):
that's what does Paul and Rhode Island care about the
podres for I got my family there, you know. Okay,
that's it. You know what, Paul, you should come out
to San Diego, Paul, I gotta you can come to
San Diego and then you drive up. It's about a
hundred something miles from San Diego's in LA and you
(18:59):
can come hang out with us, how about that? Yeah? Yeah,
but I would love to do that because my matching
staff is in LA. You know that, you know that
you can. I just say one more thing about Oakland.
I just I told Cooper about this. It's a shame that,
uh that we lost the raid. They lost, the Raiders
they lost, They're going to lose. I think Oakland to
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to Vegas too, And it's a shame that all these
people have to lose their jobs because you know, when
these owners and these stadiums, everything you touch in these
stadiums is paid for and they don't pull money into players.
They don't pull money into the stadium to fix a
freaking toilet. Okay, it's a shame. That's just golfing. But
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you know what, you can help build stadium, Paul, Paul,
Paul Paul, have you ever had a problem with your plumbing? Plump?
Plumbers are expensive, man, it's it's listen man. Let me
tell you something good Union summer. If you build a
stadium and you get sixty percent of union work, okay,
into these stadiums, a lot of people go to work. Okay.
(20:06):
But these own these owners, these owners just want to
pocket pocket pocket. I don't bash them. The state has
to come through if you want to build a stadium.
Why the tay? They explain to me, why do the
taxpayers have to pay for a stadium? They have to?
Because why do they have to? I mean, if the public,
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if the taget Because not everyone, by the way, Paul
likes sports, I wish they did. My job would be
a lot easier if everyone loves sports. We love sports,
But a lot of people don't give a rats ass
about sports. They don't care about sports, so why should
they have to pay for it? They don't bend they
answer the question. Paul, answer the question right now. I
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demand an answer. Go ahead. I asked you to answer.
They not me. I'm asking you, but but the taxpayers
always have to come sixty forty. No, they don't listen
because there's a bunch of hack politicians in every American
city that banked over tax professional team. They shouldn't do it.
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These leagues make enough money. Now. I understand the early
days when sports was not you know it was, it
was growing, it was becoming part of the zeitgeist in America.
You can make the argument that they needed help, but
they don't need to help now they're fine. And if
you're good, I say, if you give taxpayer money, then
we should. The taxpayers should get some benefit where they
(21:38):
have to lower the ticket prices, all right. And I
guarantee if politicians said, okay, we'll give you, you know,
a billion dollars to build your stadium, but you've got
to put guardrails on how much the ticket prices are,
then they wouldn't take that money. They would not take
that money. Devin rights, and he says, plastered Paul didn't
(22:00):
I say, car to Vegas, then someone else to the commanders,
then car to Atlanta. Bad job by him. Burg Dog says,
I'm assuming plastered Paul meant David Carr's going to Vegas.
What a pickup that would be? Yes, that to get
him off television, that would be that would be huge
and we could have Car and Car in the NFL
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Man Alive, Emmett writes, and he says, God, I would
rather hear the Saddleback College Update, guys update on repeat
than this Paul and Rhode Island call. Shots fired by Emmett.
And I'm sure our favorite newsman will there's some murder
somewhere he'll turn into a sports story and I'm sure
(22:43):
he'll leave with it next time he's back. But anyway,
all right, it is the Baynet Mallard show. So how
about this for a day for John Morant. John Morant
story popped up in the Washington Post with some new
details on a story that happened not that long ago
and regarding some poor choices that John Morant is accused
(23:09):
of making. And in this report, there were two altercations
that happened last summer, but the story just popped up
not that long ago. One of them took place at
a mall another to pick up basketball game, and the
Washington Post that went into great detail here about these incidents.
The first altercation involved John Morant. The accusation as he
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threatened a security guard who would come after John Morant's mother.
They got into it and she called her son after
the argument, and then John Morant arrived shortly after with
a group of nine other people confronted the security person.
(23:53):
According to the Washington Post, there and there was a
verbal confrontation and pushed the security guy in the accusation
made there. Now there was another a second incident where
John Morant is accused of repeatedly punching a teenager in
the head and threatening him with a gun. All right, man,
(24:18):
we got a lot going on here. That was during
a pickup basketball game. And because of these stories, the
lawyer for John Morant is now threatening legal recourse for
defamatory reporting from the Washington Post. And it's one thing
(24:38):
to write a letter if you're an attorney, it's another
thing to go forward with an actual lawsuit. Very rarely
does this happen. One that pops into my mind there
was a radio host who used to play for the
Saint Louis Cardinal's named Jack Clark, who had said, if
I remember correctly, that Albert Poulos was on steroids, and
(25:02):
Albert Poole has actually sued him and and one and
and let me point out, just because you sue somebody,
even if you win, it does not mean you're you're
on the right side, Lance Armstrong, that that fraud. Lance
Armstrong sued and won lawsuits when people said he was
doing steroids, and he was able to prove that that
that that was a grown that was a that was
(25:23):
a defamatory statement, and he won these litigations and it
turned out that he was the one that was actually
doing it. Everything that was said was accurate and all
that stuff. So with John Morant threatening through his attorney
legal recourse and we'll see, we'll see what exactly that means,
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if that happens or not. Also, very amusing that power,
Aid decided, of all days to announce a partnership with
John Morant the same day that this story comes out,
painting him as a hoodlum. Be sure to catch live
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where police issued Arrost Awards for Georgia defensive lineman a
top NFL draft prospect, Alan Carter, on misdemeanor charges of
reckless driving and racing stemming from a January fifteenth crash
that resulted in the depths of a teammate and a
recruiting staffer. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter that Carter was
present at the scene of the crash and provided inconsistent
accounts of his involvement to police. He initially said he
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was a mile away when the crash occurred, but then
later admitted that yes, he was alongside the other car
and racing which helped to lead to that accident, and
apparently this will not hold him back. He's projected to
be a top five. Yeah, in the NFLO. Jeff, you
know this reminds me of a generation ago. There was
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a basketball player, Yeah, for the Charlotte Hornets. Yeah, and
he had a decent run in the NBA. He died
and he was racing a teammate. Yeah, yeah, I do
remember that. I'm sure we were here for that work weak.
I know, I know, where is the time gone? But yeah, so, man,
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is he like a big time trouble Like what's the
if you're if I don't know the law so on that, Well,
it's too missed demeanor charges. So I would say he's not.
He's not in big time trouble now, So you're able
to raise somebody if they happened to crash, that's on them,
I get. I mean, you definitely contributed to it, I
would think. But yeah, no, they're they're saying, I think
(28:27):
the maximum was like a year in jail. But they're saying,
you know, because he has no prior history, would it
would likely all be probation. Imagine what he must have
been going through his mind when he left to go home, right,
Like did he know they were dead? Like did he
realize that or did he not know at the time?
He thought maybe they were just hurt and everything would
(28:47):
be okay. And I'm guessing if he was at the scene,
he probably knew it was it was not good. Yeah,
that's wild, but Jalen Carter projected his top five pick,
big six three pass rusher, defensive lineman type and anyway, wow,
quite the story in the NFL. Will Well, is he
(29:07):
a character guy? Eddie? Is that making a character guy
in the NFL? Or? I guess it depends on if
there's anything else in his past right there? There got
to look into it now, and I would say if
there isn't, he's probably fine. If there is, then I
can't wait for when he gets drafted. And then next
year on a Sunday, we're watching an NFL game, he
(29:27):
gets drafted by the Cardinals. You know, you watch a
Cardinal game and the sideline reporters like and Drelan Carter
has been inspired by the death of his two you know,
former Georgia friends and all that mean, well, you like,
what are you doing anyway? All right, it is the
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for supporting the nonsense that we provide here. So we
have a story where everyone is declaring victory. Everyone and
their mother is declaring victory. And this involves the Minnesota
Vikings defensive coordinator just hired hasn't actually done that job yet,
(31:43):
Brian Flores, who has gone scorched Earth. He's suing the NFL.
His attorney is claiming victory. The NFL is claiming victory.
All of this based on a judge's ruling. Now Brians
is claiming that the NFL is a racist operation and
(32:04):
that there's racial bias in the NFL and he was
the victim of that coaching the Dolphins. He's had two
other NFL jobs since he left the Miami Dolphins. Was
let go from the Miami Dolphins. So a federal judge
has decided to send his lawsuit over the racist hiring
(32:24):
practices of the NFL to secret arbitration. At the same
time she went on a ranch, she got on her
soapbox and unloaded on the NFL and they're incredibly troubling history,
(32:45):
and she said she anticipated a biased adjudication of Brian
Flores's claim. So she did leave the door open because
Roger Goodell is the judge, jury, and arbitrator. Although Goodell
will likely hire someone else and put them in that's
been his his move recently, where he puts someone else
(33:07):
in charge and then they're the ones that deliver the news.
But there was a thirty page ruling here and the
judge would not give the NFL it's total wish without
without ripping apart the business practices of the NFL and
and all that. And so the federal lawsuit filed against
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the Dolphins, a couple other NFL teams there it is
going to go to private arbitration. But they put the
caveat on there. If the NFL screws this up, they
can they can bounce back. So Roger Goodell would preside
over any arbitration the way it works, and that is
an arrangement that all that's a boiler plate in every
(33:52):
contract and the contracts that they're signed. Coaches signed the contract,
it's all in there, the languages in there. If you
don't want that language, you can't signed the contract. And
so we'll see what comes to that. But both sides
are claiming we won. We won. It's impossible that both
sides won. Somebody had to lose on that, and it
certainly would appear Brian Flores side lost on that that
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he didn't win on this. He might win down the line,
but he didn't win on this. It is the Bannet
Maller Show, and we're gonna have the NHL puck him.
Here's the who am I game? We'll do hockey, and
here it is back in the day. I had twenty
six points during my team's Stanley Cup postseason run, the
most ever in the playoffs by a player that had
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been acquired at the trade deadline earlier that season. Doing
this in honor of the NHL trade deadline, which is
in the air everywhere right now. So I had twenty
six points during my teams Stanley Cup postseason run back
in the day, the most ever in the playoffs by
a player acquired at the trade deadline earlier that season.
Who Am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We
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(35:40):
after the Who Am I? Game of the NHL puck
I'm coming up in a moment. I had twenty six
points during my team's Stanley Cup postseason run, the most
ever in the playoffs by a player acquired at the
trade deadline earlier that season, the greatest postseason performance by
a player traded that year. That's the question. What's the answer,
(36:01):
And let's see does anyone know the answer? The Tasmanian
Devil guests by Orange and Blue Blood, Brett speed Racer
from The Cowboy Killer, Jake the Snake Roberts tossed out
by Rob in Vegas. Ferg Dog, roommate of Brian Finley,
says Cinderella, mister and ice guy's going with Dale Murphy
for the Hall of Fame. Courtney Kardashian from the Dixter account.
(36:25):
Who else do we have? Page down, page down? Vincent
Lecavier from The Lightning guests by Late Night Drug Tester.
Can't read that on the air jose Canseco. Great answer
from jd in Casey Marcel Dion from Alf the Alien
Pinet's a little different, Ray Bourk from Milkman. Mike Eddie,
(36:46):
you're the hockey guy. You should get this right. Who
what's the answer, Eddie? I was gonna say, I was
gonna You're gonna correct, Eddie. The correct answer is Marian
Josa twenty six points for the Penguins during the O
eight stay We Cup playoffs. He was acquired from a
team called the Atlanta Thrashers. And that is the record
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for a player acquired at the trade deadline. And now
here we go, strike up the band. We have plenty
of time. Time now for the m A. L. Puck them.
We're gonna pick a goaltender and two skaters. Whoever gets
the most Fantasy points will be declared the smartest person
in the room. Cooper Loop, you have the first. Pay
a hurry up, Coop, Chop Chop, Nikita Kutrov, terrible pick
(37:29):
Roberto light Us Oh Mark another bad pick, Eddie, I'll
go with Philip Gustafsson. All right, I'll take Martin Jones,
Martin Jones. And also let's see here, Jack Hughes, Eddie,
I'll take t Taje. Thompson. Oh, all right, Roberto David
(37:52):
Pastor Knack. Look we get that in Go ahead, Cooper Loop,
Elia samsonov h all right, take one more, Coop, I
believed one more? Oh, and um take your time. I
will uh Eric Carlton, Uh. Question Mark. I don't know
if anybody picked him. I wasn't listening. Matthew k Chuck.
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All right, Eddie, Jason Robertson, Are you sure about that? There? Goldten?
I think I took Martin Jones, didn't I did Coodreau?
Did I take him? You can take him? Uh? Yeah? Play?
Is he playing? I don't know, no, but you can
take him. Yeah, go ahead. Well I don't want to
take you. I'll take you know what. It over, It's over, Heath,
(38:35):
I'll take him somebody named Smith
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