April 5, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Luka Doncic admitting that he has a problem playing hard on defense, if the Mavs can fix Doncic's defensive shortcomings, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and much more!
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Hello and welcome. It's our name, ber far our four
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that all we want in life? Really? That's it? So
very rarely our lead comes from basketball. Very rarely do
we get his star athlete admitting he's a fat tub
of goo. But that has happened the Dallas Mavericks Luca
don Chick has admitted he's not even trying to play defense.
What did you make of Luca don Chick's admission that
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he's worn out, too tired to play defense? Are people
making too much of Luca don chicks defensive shortcomings in Dallas?
And can me mav Wrex fix Luca and his defensive issues.
We'll talk about all that and much more right now
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hour comes from pro bouncy Ball White. The Story, White,
the Story. We very rarely have the people that we
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watch play these these games admit the truth. They usually
dodge the truth. They avoid the truth. They don't they
don't want to talk about the truth because they can't
handle the truth. I heard that in some movie back
in the day. So there is no bigger cluster bomb.
I'd like to say a different word, but I'm on radio.
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There's no bigger cluster bomb than in Dallas. After a
promising playoff push last season, the Mavericks have come back
down to earth. In fact, Mark Huban's team now living
up to their moniker, the mav Recks, as they have
completely fallen apart. Dallas has been slammed for their weak
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ass defense Saluca Luca don Chick addressing the Heila monster
in the room. If you didn't hear this, perhaps not.
Luca admitting that obviously, offense is not a problem Dallas.
They will score whenever they want. He said that it's
defense on the defensive end. He thinks anybody can score
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on Dallas. He said, whoever it is, anybody can score
on us. But that is not the money quote. The
money quote is the quote we are about to provide
you because Luca was asked about his individual defense blowing
in Dallas, and that is when Luca did the thing
you're not supposed to do at the time, you're not
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supposed to do it in front of a live microphone.
Here is Luca don Chick admitting the obvious. I think
there's there's a couple of things, Bessie. I'll be having
playing basketball for vic three straight years, maybe four weeks
all between. It was free, so you know, sometimes really
hard for me to play really hard on both ends.
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But obviously the defensive end I gotta be way better.
Do you do you realize how amazing this SoundBite is?
Do you understand how awesome this is? Playing again? This
is Luca Dontrick saying it's hard to play hard. In
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the end, I think there's there's a couple of things.
Less you know, I'll be having playing basketball for vic
three straight years, maybe four weeks all between it was free,
So you know, sometimes really hard for me to play
really hard tense. But obviously the defensive end, I gotta
be way better. My man, Roberto, you know what to
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do with that that line right there. Sometimes it's hard
to play hard, very hard. That is the drop that
will be a drop that will follow Luca Dontrick the
rest of his grist bock hard. Let us discuss, but question,
what do you make of this amazing mitch but this
great sound bite by Luca don check his admission that
it's hard for him to play hard, he's worn out.
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I've got duncan bow and mushrooms, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a nice bed with silk pillows so Luca can
take a nap because he's tired. I'm tired. I'm so tired. Now. Hey.
My first thought, I love the honesty. I love it.
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I was not planning on doing a monologue about that,
Dallas Maverige. But when you have sound like that, and
you do my job. You gotta do this. It's a
great it's a great sound bite. It's shocking how good
it is. I can't every time I play, I'm like, WHOA.
So I love the honesty. It's much appreciated. Luca John
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Luca don Check could have easily lied, and he probably
should have lied. That's what everyone else does, right in
what happens, The star player lies, the fanboys, the round nosers,
they sip the kool aid. Well, he admit, he said,
he said he's trying on defense. So he's trying on defense. Well, no,
now Luca's admitting he's not trying too hard it's so hard.
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Instead he admitted there's an issue. Now, the other problem here,
Luca is telling us he's out of shape without telling
us he's out of shape. That's what that is. I
played a lot of basketball. I've only had a few
weeks off in between. Smells like flatulence, is what it
smells like. It does smells like a fartre. If you
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are built like a thoroughbred, you're not worried about the grind.
It would appear that Luca has had one too many
Duncan runs, one too many twenty four years old. If
you're not in peak physical condition at day's twenty four,
that does not bode well for your long term viability.
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And we made a lot of jokes about other people
in basketball that have issues. A certain player in the
Bayou comes to mind, the Great Zion who's a part
time basketball player and full time in his street clothes
on the bench with some phantom injury. But we're talking
about Luca here. And when you say it's hard to
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play hard both ways, well, he's got heavy legs, he's fatigued.
We know he's sluggish. Luca is a designated hitter in
a league where the pitcher hits. He's a designated hitter.
That's a problem. That is a problem. He doesn't bring
his glove with him. Now, to be fair, the NBA,
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for my entire life has been filled with guys that
don't play defense because it's too hard, But I don't
recall any of them admitting it. With Luca, it just
stands out more. It's like an infected thumb. Why Alice
has failed to hide his achilles heel his defense. It's
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like termites eating at the foundation of the house. The
Mavericks have gone five and fourteen, their last nineteen games
with Kyrie Irving on the team. Holy Kyrie Batman. Wow.
Now page two here are people making too much of this?
Lucas says that he's too worn out to play defense.
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But are we making too much of his shortcomings? So
I am shaking my head. No. Both the analytics, which
are easily manipulative, and the eyeball test paint the same picture.
Luca don check is a l word liability. He's a
liability on defense, and we don't need a sugarcoat it.
I don't have any skin in the game. Luca don
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Chick can be this generation's Bo Jackson. Bo knows a
two sports star basketball and bullfighting as a matador. Hollo leo.
It is a zero sum game when Luca is on
the court. For everything he does on offense, he gives
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it back on defense. Dallas Mavericks might as well be
the Winnipeg Jets because they're always shorthanded Lucas. He's in
the penalty box when the Mavericks are on defense, and
when he's not going towards the basket or shooting a
fifty foot three point shot, conserving his energy, the Mavericks
are playing four against five on defense when Lucas on
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the court. Now that assumes that the other players on
the court are actually trying to play defense, so otherwise
it might be five on three for the opposition. Reminds
you of Ben Simmons, but Ben Simmons on offense back
when Ben Simmons used to play in the NBA. He's
no longer an active player. He's decided just to get
paid to not play. Last word, here, can the Mavericks
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fix this? They're in the Luca don check business. Can
they fix the defense? So the answer to this riddle,
it is really up to Luke right now. He's he's
a Smurf's character who's living in a village of mushrooms.
Certainly not Papa Smurf, not Handy Smurf. He's lazy Smurf.
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That's that's what Luca is. And you get Gargamel and
the Evil Wizard there and the cat and all them
together and have a pow wow. And when it comes
to defense, Luca's like, Hey, I'm tired, I got it's hard.
I gotta sleep. You know, he snores in my head.
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Lucas snores like hollering. James, our caller from Minnesota. He
has to do something he's he's been unable to do
and that has put effort and energy on that side
of the wall. And the thing about taking a sabbatical
on defense, what are you doing? He doesn't need to
become Peter pan Shadow on defense. We're not talking about that.
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Luca will never be a Doberman on defense. But just
become an average defensive player. Sees get degrees, as they
said back in school. And if you're a sea level defender,
you can work on some hustle stats. There are some
sneaky ways you can get good defensive numbers. And you
have the standard block shots, steal the basketball, which takes
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some effort, but you also get credit in that business.
You get credit. And I've had coaches for years tell
me this on defense. Phil Jackson he used to say this,
and it was a great drop on the show back
in the old days. He'd say, you talk about defense,
and he praised a player having hands on balls, and
that's what he said, you got. And Kobe Bryant would
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say the same, hands on balls. And so if Luca
just did that, just tip some passes away on defense,
that would be much better than what he does. I'm
not saying you have to draw charges, but you deflect passes, occasionally,
jump for a loose ball, can test a shot, things
like that. These are not hard things to do if
you're a professional basketball player. I'm just saying. It is
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We played the Luca Dontic clip as he admitted it's
too hard to play hard. So good. Oh, it's so wonderful,
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and we have some more amazing audio. Let's get to
the phones right now and we say hello to our
friend Andrea. She's in Berkeley. She's got the star charts out,
she's got anything in front of her. It's ready to
go here, and she's a Benny Award winner. Hello, and
hello Dan, how are you? If I was any better,
I'd be a Luca, but not the one in Dallas
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because he doesn't play hard on defense. It's a bad
job by him. Well, you know, it's interesting. We're on
the cuts for the Full Moon Band. Is that right? What?
What is it? What is it? It is on Wednesday
at nine o nine thirty six pm. Is that right?
So Wednesday, the fifth of April, nine thirty six pm.
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So I'll be eating mazza and then we'll have the
full the full moon. We'll check it out. It Happy
Holy week and big week. You got big week, got
Easter this weekend we got pass all this big pass over, right,
I think the Yeah, the lunar calendar is syncd up
with the passover. We have a good Friday and then
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we have the Masters over the weekend and Easter. That
is a holy event, the Masters, that is very holy. Yes,
looking at my at the beginning of baseball season now way, yes, nice,
it's great to watch baseball. It's winnie and cold Dodgers
day of the last couple of nights, it's felt like
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Candlestick Park back. Yeah, it's terrible. Yeah, I've only been
to Candlestick a couple of times. You're very cold. Well,
you can't go there anymore. If you go there to
be sitting on a field, I think I wonder what
they put it they put where Candlestick Park was they built.
They must have built something would be built housing or
try to build better have good heating over there. Ye, right,
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but this was interesting. I actually watched the Padres game.
I had a client and I was home the sample.
Now we talked about Manny Machado. Yeah, Manny Machado got
kicked out. Yeah, pitch clock disagreement. Yeah, we'll check it out. Um,
Manny Machado, he's a sun sign cancer and they're very
emotional to begin with it, it is appropriate they ruled
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by the moon. He's four in July six, nineteen ninety two,
and with the full moon soon it's a him to
feel a lot more emotional, and he certainly did, and
you know, Bob Nolvan got ejected also standing up for him.
So I think these things are kind of bound to happen.
One when people, you know, aletes are getting as usa
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to the pitch clock, and two when we're on the
cusp of the full moon and emotions are at a
fever pitch. And I'm sure you'll get some interesting calls
heads up for that. So it'll just be interesting to
see it. I said, like happy Holy Week, Yes, happy
Holy Week. It is a big week. If you're not
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if you're not religious, whatever, just have a good have
a good day. If your Jehovah's witness, just have a
good day. No, So it's just a nice confluence of energy.
But yeah, emotions definitely run high during a full moon cycle.
So let's everyone you know, tune in and be mindful
and yeah that's just something to no great. So I
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thank you Andrea virgo oh in service. Say hello to
her on Twitter. There she goes, our friend Andrea. All right,
get getting that bath up there and you get the baths.
He's gonnasert that. But the st Jed who fled is next? Hello, Jedd. Yeah,
I'm not sure that I did not live this lifestyle.
I do not, man, I'm not a witness. But I
just want to say, it's not a happy Holy Week.
But for God to love the world, he said has
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only begotten son to who separate believes in him shall
not pasish but have everlasting life. Or or the movement
of planets affects your life. Now, I just want to say,
is that how do we go back then? I grew
up in a super superpower of America where on Sundays
I watched a superstation on TBS and I guess that's
because they had Fred McGriff the crime Dog on their
their ways. How do we go back to those times? Man?
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I mean, I'm something earlier in the show you said
made me, you know, not that I can't remember what
that was. But also the guy that wrote in you know,
oh Raine jokes, why don't you write in contribute? It's
because we love your show right out to gape in.
But the malar riddle who in my game? And too
much or not enough, which are definitely has been too
much kills the spin it kills. Let's go to Rich
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in Chicago. What's going on? Rich? Welcome? Hey gearing Man, Hey, look,
I have you picked my interest when you were talking
about Cousins and the forty nine ers and I kind
of looked at something that really surprised me. You probably
know this, but the Niners have eleven draft picks, including
seven condensed story picks, and they've got three threes, three fives,
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and I think three sevens. And given that it appears
they don't believe in Trey Lands and he's from North
Dakota State, which is down the road from the Vikings,
why couldn't they put together a package with all their
draft picks to trade because they're in a win now? Well, Rich,
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first of all, they could have, they maybe should have,
but they didn't and now Cousins reworked his contract, so
it's financially undesirable. Oh leedgie, he'd have to rework the
contract again, which I don't even know that's allowed, if
that's even a thing. I don't know if that's allowed.
All right, I had a back up to that. Oh yeah,
to Bagguo, are you're prepared? Rich? You add something in
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your back pocket just in case that first one did
not hit the bullseye. Well, only because I wasn't sure
of a contract status and the problem Rogers is having
closed in the deal and the Jets it looked like
a shotgun wedding that may not happen. Why why wouldn't
they pull the same thing with a green back? I
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don't think they. They're sold on Trey Lance. You can
move Lance in some draft picks and and bail out
the Packers because the Jets don't seem that you want
to pull the trigger. And Rogers, as a West coach,
did that might be planned? D Yeah, Well, here's here's
what I'll tell you until it's done. As I learned
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from Carlos Career, the cheating astro who agreed to a
contract with the Giants and then a day later agreed
to a contract with the Mets, and then a couple
of days later agreed to a contract with the Twins.
Until it's done, anything is possible. Everyone just assuming the
Jets are gonna get Rogers. But he hasn't been traded yet,
and it's not out of the realm of possibility, Rich,
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that something goes haywire and he ends up going somewhere else,
and it'd be a great story. And you know I
love a good story, Rich, I'm a fan of a
good story. Yeah, So all right, yeah, thank you, Rich.
I gotta go, but appreciate There's the great Rich in Chicago.
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Did you mention one Blue Jay Royal score? I did not.
You did not mention that score, Eddie. I did not
bad job by you. I have a fun fact on
that game. You got to mention that score. You. Fun
facts have not been very These are fun my facts.
Fun I am fun facts. Mallard, Yes, Coop, you want
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to add something. No, here's my fun fact. Oh no,
I know. I just I'm just pointing out that you're
you're making Eddie's update. It's a little friendly ish. Oh
that is That is a low blow, Coop. I mean
to you, it's you, it's it's it's all you. And
he just kicked me in the nuts. Why why can't
I dress up Eddie's work a little bit? I can
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touch it up, put some lipstick. If you wanted to,
you know, give some fun facts. I'd be all four me.
Here's a fun here's a fun fact, Eddie. These are
not fun facts. I will get to you. The listener
right now is gonna say, you know what that, Mallard,
fun facts math is fun facts. So far they've said
those those you're wrong. You're absolutely wrong. Now, First of all,
Toronto won that game four to one in Kansas City.
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But that's not the fun fact. The fun fact, Eddie.
The fun fact is a raw. This Chapman blindsiding the umpire,
taking the umpire out on a play at first base.
That's like a football play. You don't see physicality in baseball,
but a great more of a visual thing. But you
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saw this right, Roberto. It's amazing. Which no, no no, what
is the fact? I mean, tell you the fun part
of it? So a raw. This Chapman takes out the
first base umpire. The first base umpire, while laying on
his back, makes a safe call. But then he stands up.
He says out he said he wanted the world to
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know he was safe. That's great, umpire, He let the
world I'm safe. He put his arm out and then
he called the runner for Toronto. Wow. Wow is that not?
That is so a kid? Fun? Awful? My god? Is
that fun? That's like when you were a little kid
you go to the sandbox. Fun gives him every Royals
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fan and Blue Jay fan, all five of them are
very excited about that fun fact, like a little kid
that goes to the sad box. Fun. He took the
umpire out anywhere did the fun times? I think to
Sand took the umpire right out just like boom. Now
people are asking the reports tour, but people are demanding
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Coopa Loop speak, Coop your thoughts on the big news
involving your dead Rebroccos. Coop, would you like to give
a reaction? Coop? No? What big news? Oh Coop didn't know? Yeah?
John Elway out in Denver. Oh yeah, that's your guy,
John Elway. They fired him. They didn't fire They fired
Elway did not he had a job. He no longer
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has a job. He got fired. Well, first of all,
he amicably parted ways full crap, and second of all,
him doing anything anyway, he was a concern outside Exactly.
You don't quit it out. You don't say I'm gonna
leave a job where a figurehead job. Why would you
do it? Oh? Yes, it's huge news that's gonna have
a huge impact coming season that Broncos are cursed. Now
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John Elway is no longer there. The guy had been
there for twenty six seasons. Sixteen sixteen is up. He
was there sixteen as a player in ten years. I
think it was over ten years actually, as a member
of the front office. Yes, well, the last several have
gone really well. Aunt ioway cool. We got a great audio.
(24:36):
We got some really good audio. This is good audio.
You guys are the benets. I need the dance the bannets.
Who So I'm gonna climb up there. Well, if the
company paid me like Dan Patrick us like dude things
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kissing yours, well we can play that game forever anyway.
All right, So so let's start with Max Scherzer. This
punk Max Scherzer, the Mets. Okay, this this you brownie?
Now I quit on the Dodgers. That Yeah, he had
a dead arm with a diet. So Max Scherzer has
been absolutely lit up so far as a Met. He's
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been garbage an era of over six and he's pitched
two games. He's given up in eleven and a third inning,
eleven and thirties and even have twelve hits and eight
urn runs. And I just got destroyed in Milwaukee. Gave
up five urn runs in that start. So here's Scherzer asked,
what the hell's going on? Max? You suck? Max? Why
do you think that is? If you're getting the swing
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and this is why are you struggling to have that
out X two. This is a big ways. This is tough.
I can't put my finger on today. I definitely you've
eaten some lake nights thinking about it and you know,
crying through the video trying to come up with it.
But Hans arts this location. You gotta locate the ball
better with two strikes to put yourself in the positions.
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So that's why I say, yeah, location, my fat ass location.
He's thirty eight years old. This you can't trust this guy.
He's not a Foxhold guy. Sure's there's not a Foxhole guy.
Now to the what do you think, Eddie? What what
does that mean? That is? That was that great audio? Yeah?
It was good audio. Now this is even better. Okay,
(26:27):
this this one, this one's not a shut up. This
one's this one. This one. Let me be the judge. Okay,
So Lebron James. Last night the Lakers had to go
to overtime to beat the Jazz. They're falling apart. The
Lakers had to go to overtime to beat the Jazz.
My guy, that's embarrassing. It's a horrible it's a horrible wind.
It's a terrible, terrible wind for the Lakers head to head.
(26:47):
How how the Clippers. Lakers had head anyway. So here's Lebron,
he's in the locker room. He don't really pay attention
to what Lebron is saying. Listen to the other players
on the Lakers there, they're doing something in the background.
See if you can make out what the ambient noises
while Lebron's talking. Listen, this is inside the visiting locker
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room in Salt Lake last night. You can make Sheolts offensive.
You gotta be able to get Stoff down to special.
Plenty of scends going, So get starts Lebron. I don't.
I'm gotta say focus. I'm your funny back foot. All right,
(27:33):
all right, you got the gist of it. Yeah. So
this is now a thing where when Lebron talks in
the locker room, he doesn't usually talk to the media
locker room. He likes to go outside. But when he does,
his teammates have decided to make goat sounds. And there's
a grown man. These are millionaires making goat sounds. How
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great is that? Goats? Goats? I'm always amazed by the
goat thing because and I pointed this out before when
I would go to the petting zoo, the goats always smelled.
There were flies all over them. But everyone wants to
be the goat, and they were disgusting. Goat was the
guy who made the bad play is the greatest? Yeah,
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you were right. You were the goat horns as the
were loser. Something had changed in my lifetime, Eddie, yea,
it is true, all right, Ben Mallor show on Fox. Eddie,
I don't think you meant that. It's not very nice
of you. Marcel and Brooklyn. Real quick, Marcel, when I
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see real, when I say real quick, Marcel, I got password?
The word Game of the Stars warming up right now
in the oven? Oh yes, oh yes, it will be
your password. The word Game of the Stars will be.
That's what you said. All right, here we go food
picks for changing these ups. How about the TV pick pick? Okay,
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TV picks does Rob Bill? First? Rob in Vegas? And
we'll put him now because it's a new dwine and
definitely a new day and a new month as well,
let's get into it, he joins us. Now it's what
is your TV pick from last night? If you watched
(29:26):
I think that you watched a wholesome family program, The
Cosby Show. Oh this is gonna be from the eighties.
I put the mix match in it, so thank you
for that. Yuh me? Okay, Ben, I'm gonna go Fat
albert O. Bill's Bill Coffey's favorite. Hey, hey, I'm fad
(29:49):
Albert and I put the mixmatch for you and Rob
as well. He's on fire. This, Marcel's amazing. I'm gonna
say it is any go ahead, buddy, All right, buddy,
let's go with The Bachelor. You watch The Bachelor? Oh,
that's not a mixed match. Quick. Please, I'm gonna say
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you watched The Portal last night? His eyes will fall out?
Watch the Portal, Blair does. He's a church yourself, Marcel,
you're a church showing man. You did not watch that
that smut? Who come on? Please? No, no, no, that's
not true. Keep your clothes on. God, go ahead. You
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watched Ted Lasso, Ted Loss up a Mapple TV plus again.
Come on, all right then, I hurt, hurry up, hurry
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See who do we have any meny mighty moe. We've
got TC in Tennessee. Hello, TC, welcome in. Going on,
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Ben uh Me and a friend of man Spain. We said,
not here, getting ready of going the guanas. We're gonna
win this game. You're in it to winning. You're in
it to winning. TC. I like that whole lot of
second TC is gonna play. We've got Justin in the
enchanted forest. Hello, Justin? Why can't that prosecutor Manhattan arrest
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rachel Or Andrea? Her terrible glass photon calls a frustrating Colm.
Do kind know you'll get through it? Everything will be okay, Justin,
Everything will be all right. Let's play the game now, TC,
Who do you want to partner up with? TC? You
we're on the air first. You've got me Ben Eddie,
Roberto or Coop a Loop. Hey, I'm gonna go with
the man, damn right exactly. Hear that? Boys, I'm the
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man according to TC, and he picked me. How about you,
justin enchanted Forrest? Do do you want to partner up with? Justin?
Going with the great Eddie. Oh you're you're partner in crime?
Huh interesting? Whatever? Back to the scene of the crime.
Very We have a list of words one to ten.
They're numbered a TC. Please pick a number to get
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the parte started. I'm gonna go with number five. That's
my rost colonymbers, So we don't you go with um okay,
that's your lucky Is that your lucky number? Or all right,
let's go with thoroughbred. What do you say? Yeah, there
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you go. That's right, ten point boom boom as scratch off,
which you could have just said, Shannon chart. Wow, Eddie,
you're up. You're up, Eddie, you're losing as usual, all right?
Justin picking number not number five? Number three? What whoa?
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All right? The clue is trash we angeles clippers as incorrect.
It's a good guess, though. Let's go he was too easy.
Let's go TC. Let's go with clutter, clutter, clutter. I
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knew had to do enough. Shout out my boy sent
up for Simon. You're talking about horses. He's a ten
for you, walking horse man can do. I'm cletter. We're
gonna have to go with oh garbage, No, okay, we
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are down to let's see ten nine, eight points where
you Eddie? If you get this right, let's go with debris. Oh,
what was the first one? You said? Trash? Take your
time of order. No. I could do the reverse Malla maneuver,
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but there is almost no chance my man TC will
get that right, so I'm not going to do that.
Let's go with let's see how about I don't know
every Yeah, everything's really I go storage, Yeah, yeah, everything's related.
So yeah, and then I went on the red and
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you got We stumped him, Eddie, we stumped Yeah. Your
answered the clippers. That was a bad as you can't
it was correct? What are you crawled back in the
enchanted forest? How about that? Yeah? Screw you? How about um?
How about salvage? Dope? No, well, you're really bad at
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this game. Throw that word out. The word was junk.
Clutter is what you put in storage? Right, So that's
all those things are related. All right, we're back up.
You're back up. How exciting is that? Unrelievable? TC? Take
your time picking number one to ten, but not three
or not five. Let me see number six? He said,
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number six. All right, let's go with drizzle. Yeah, that's
a winner. Guards you lost the game. You're a loser
and justin no cheating this time. Your boys couldn't cheat,
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see it. Lost the game. Greg waighte TC and your buddy.
You guys are winners. You won today. We won the
game the all time. I've won more than anybody else
and lost more. Hey,
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that all we want in life? Really? That's it? So
very rarely our lead comes from basketball. Very rarely do
we get his star athlete admitting he's a fat tub
of goo. But that has happened the Dallas Mavericks Luca
don Chick has admitted he's not even trying to play defense.
What did you make of Luca don Chick's admission that
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he's worn out, too tired to play defense? Are people
making too much of Luca don chicks defensive shortcomings in Dallas?
And can me mav Wrex fix Luca and his defensive issues.
We'll talk about all that and much more right now
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hour comes from pro bouncy Ball White. The Story, White,
the Story. We very rarely have the people that we
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watch play these these games admit the truth. They usually
dodge the truth. They avoid the truth. They don't they
don't want to talk about the truth because they can't
handle the truth. I heard that in some movie back
in the day. So there is no bigger cluster bomb.
I'd like to say a different word, but I'm on radio.
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There's no bigger cluster bomb than in Dallas. After a
promising playoff push last season, the Mavericks have come back
down to earth. In fact, Mark Huban's team now living
up to their moniker, the mav Recks, as they have
completely fallen apart. Dallas has been slammed for their weak
(02:50):
ass defense Saluca Luca don Chick addressing the Heila monster
in the room. If you didn't hear this, perhaps not.
Luca admitting that obviously, offense is not a problem Dallas.
They will score whenever they want. He said that it's
defense on the defensive end. He thinks anybody can score
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on Dallas. He said, whoever it is, anybody can score
on us. But that is not the money quote. The
money quote is the quote we are about to provide
you because Luca was asked about his individual defense blowing
in Dallas, and that is when Luca did the thing
you're not supposed to do at the time, you're not
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supposed to do it in front of a live microphone.
Here is Luca don Chick admitting the obvious. I think
there's there's a couple of things, Bessie. I'll be having
playing basketball for vic three straight years, maybe four weeks
all between. It was free, so you know, sometimes really
hard for me to play really hard on both ends.
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But obviously the defensive end I gotta be way better.
Do you do you realize how amazing this SoundBite is?
Do you understand how awesome this is? Playing again? This
is Luca Dontrick saying it's hard to play hard. In
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the end, I think there's there's a couple of things.
Less you know, I'll be having playing basketball for vic
three straight years, maybe four weeks all between it was free,
So you know, sometimes really hard for me to play
really hard tense. But obviously the defensive end, I gotta
be way better. My man, Roberto, you know what to
(04:44):
do with that that line right there. Sometimes it's hard
to play hard, very hard. That is the drop that
will be a drop that will follow Luca Dontrick the
rest of his grist bock hard. Let us discuss, but question,
what do you make of this amazing mitch but this
great sound bite by Luca don check his admission that
it's hard for him to play hard, he's worn out.
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I've got duncan bow and mushrooms, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a nice bed with silk pillows so Luca can
take a nap because he's tired. I'm tired. I'm so tired. Now. Hey.
My first thought, I love the honesty. I love it.
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I was not planning on doing a monologue about that,
Dallas Maverige. But when you have sound like that, and
you do my job. You gotta do this. It's a
great it's a great sound bite. It's shocking how good
it is. I can't every time I play, I'm like, WHOA.
So I love the honesty. It's much appreciated. Luca John
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Luca don Check could have easily lied, and he probably
should have lied. That's what everyone else does, right in
what happens, The star player lies, the fanboys, the round nosers,
they sip the kool aid. Well, he admit, he said,
he said he's trying on defense. So he's trying on defense. Well, no,
now Luca's admitting he's not trying too hard it's so hard.
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Instead he admitted there's an issue. Now, the other problem here,
Luca is telling us he's out of shape without telling
us he's out of shape. That's what that is. I
played a lot of basketball. I've only had a few
weeks off in between. Smells like flatulence, is what it
smells like. It does smells like a fartre. If you
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are built like a thoroughbred, you're not worried about the grind.
It would appear that Luca has had one too many
Duncan runs, one too many twenty four years old. If
you're not in peak physical condition at day's twenty four,
that does not bode well for your long term viability.
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And we made a lot of jokes about other people
in basketball that have issues. A certain player in the
Bayou comes to mind, the Great Zion who's a part
time basketball player and full time in his street clothes
on the bench with some phantom injury. But we're talking
about Luca here. And when you say it's hard to
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play hard both ways, well, he's got heavy legs, he's fatigued.
We know he's sluggish. Luca is a designated hitter in
a league where the pitcher hits. He's a designated hitter.
That's a problem. That is a problem. He doesn't bring
his glove with him. Now, to be fair, the NBA,
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for my entire life has been filled with guys that
don't play defense because it's too hard, But I don't
recall any of them admitting it. With Luca, it just
stands out more. It's like an infected thumb. Why Alice
has failed to hide his achilles heel his defense. It's
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like termites eating at the foundation of the house. The
Mavericks have gone five and fourteen, their last nineteen games
with Kyrie Irving on the team. Holy Kyrie Batman. Wow.
Now page two here are people making too much of this?
Lucas says that he's too worn out to play defense.
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But are we making too much of his shortcomings? So
I am shaking my head. No. Both the analytics, which
are easily manipulative, and the eyeball test paint the same picture.
Luca don check is a l word liability. He's a
liability on defense, and we don't need a sugarcoat it.
I don't have any skin in the game. Luca don
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Chick can be this generation's Bo Jackson. Bo knows a
two sports star basketball and bullfighting as a matador. Hollo leo.
It is a zero sum game when Luca is on
the court. For everything he does on offense, he gives
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it back on defense. Dallas Mavericks might as well be
the Winnipeg Jets because they're always shorthanded Lucas. He's in
the penalty box when the Mavericks are on defense, and
when he's not going towards the basket or shooting a
fifty foot three point shot, conserving his energy, the Mavericks
are playing four against five on defense when Lucas on
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the court. Now that assumes that the other players on
the court are actually trying to play defense, so otherwise
it might be five on three for the opposition. Reminds
you of Ben Simmons, but Ben Simmons on offense back
when Ben Simmons used to play in the NBA. He's
no longer an active player. He's decided just to get
paid to not play. Last word, here, can the Mavericks
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fix this? They're in the Luca don check business. Can
they fix the defense? So the answer to this riddle,
it is really up to Luke right now. He's he's
a Smurf's character who's living in a village of mushrooms.
Certainly not Papa Smurf, not Handy Smurf. He's lazy Smurf.
(10:23):
That's that's what Luca is. And you get Gargamel and
the Evil Wizard there and the cat and all them
together and have a pow wow. And when it comes
to defense, Luca's like, Hey, I'm tired, I got it's hard.
I gotta sleep. You know, he snores in my head.
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Lucas snores like hollering. James, our caller from Minnesota. He
has to do something he's he's been unable to do
and that has put effort and energy on that side
of the wall. And the thing about taking a sabbatical
on defense, what are you doing? He doesn't need to
become Peter pan Shadow on defense. We're not talking about that.
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Luca will never be a Doberman on defense. But just
become an average defensive player. Sees get degrees, as they
said back in school. And if you're a sea level defender,
you can work on some hustle stats. There are some
sneaky ways you can get good defensive numbers. And you
have the standard block shots, steal the basketball, which takes
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some effort, but you also get credit in that business.
You get credit. And I've had coaches for years tell
me this on defense. Phil Jackson he used to say this,
and it was a great drop on the show back
in the old days. He'd say, you talk about defense,
and he praised a player having hands on balls, and
that's what he said, you got. And Kobe Bryant would
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say the same, hands on balls. And so if Luca
just did that, just tip some passes away on defense,
that would be much better than what he does. I'm
not saying you have to draw charges, but you deflect passes, occasionally,
jump for a loose ball, can test a shot, things
like that. These are not hard things to do if
you're a professional basketball player. I'm just saying. It is
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We played the Luca Dontic clip as he admitted it's
too hard to play hard. So good. Oh, it's so wonderful,
(13:44):
and we have some more amazing audio. Let's get to
the phones right now and we say hello to our
friend Andrea. She's in Berkeley. She's got the star charts out,
she's got anything in front of her. It's ready to
go here, and she's a Benny Award winner. Hello, and
hello Dan, how are you? If I was any better,
I'd be a Luca, but not the one in Dallas
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because he doesn't play hard on defense. It's a bad
job by him. Well, you know, it's interesting. We're on
the cuts for the Full Moon Band. Is that right? What?
What is it? What is it? It is on Wednesday
at nine o nine thirty six pm. Is that right?
So Wednesday, the fifth of April, nine thirty six pm.
(14:29):
So I'll be eating mazza and then we'll have the
full the full moon. We'll check it out. It Happy
Holy week and big week. You got big week, got
Easter this weekend we got pass all this big pass over, right,
I think the Yeah, the lunar calendar is syncd up
with the passover. We have a good Friday and then
(14:49):
we have the Masters over the weekend and Easter. That
is a holy event, the Masters, that is very holy. Yes,
looking at my at the beginning of baseball season now way, yes, nice,
it's great to watch baseball. It's winnie and cold Dodgers
day of the last couple of nights, it's felt like
(15:10):
Candlestick Park back. Yeah, it's terrible. Yeah, I've only been
to Candlestick a couple of times. You're very cold. Well,
you can't go there anymore. If you go there to
be sitting on a field, I think I wonder what
they put it they put where Candlestick Park was they built.
They must have built something would be built housing or
try to build better have good heating over there. Ye, right,
(15:31):
but this was interesting. I actually watched the Padres game.
I had a client and I was home the sample.
Now we talked about Manny Machado. Yeah, Manny Machado got
kicked out. Yeah, pitch clock disagreement. Yeah, we'll check it out. Um,
Manny Machado, he's a sun sign cancer and they're very
emotional to begin with it, it is appropriate they ruled
(15:53):
by the moon. He's four in July six, nineteen ninety two,
and with the full moon soon it's a him to
feel a lot more emotional, and he certainly did, and
you know, Bob Nolvan got ejected also standing up for him.
So I think these things are kind of bound to happen.
One when people, you know, aletes are getting as usa
(16:15):
to the pitch clock, and two when we're on the
cusp of the full moon and emotions are at a
fever pitch. And I'm sure you'll get some interesting calls
heads up for that. So it'll just be interesting to
see it. I said, like happy Holy Week, Yes, happy
Holy Week. It is a big week. If you're not
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if you're not religious, whatever, just have a good have
a good day. If your Jehovah's witness, just have a
good day. No, So it's just a nice confluence of energy.
But yeah, emotions definitely run high during a full moon cycle.
So let's everyone you know, tune in and be mindful
and yeah that's just something to no great. So I
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thank you Andrea virgo oh in service. Say hello to
her on Twitter. There she goes, our friend Andrea. All right,
get getting that bath up there and you get the baths.
He's gonnasert that. But the st Jed who fled is next? Hello, Jedd. Yeah,
I'm not sure that I did not live this lifestyle.
I do not, man, I'm not a witness. But I
just want to say, it's not a happy Holy Week.
But for God to love the world, he said has
(17:19):
only begotten son to who separate believes in him shall
not pasish but have everlasting life. Or or the movement
of planets affects your life. Now, I just want to say,
is that how do we go back then? I grew
up in a super superpower of America where on Sundays
I watched a superstation on TBS and I guess that's
because they had Fred McGriff the crime Dog on their
their ways. How do we go back to those times? Man?
(17:41):
I mean, I'm something earlier in the show you said
made me, you know, not that I can't remember what
that was. But also the guy that wrote in you know,
oh Raine jokes, why don't you write in contribute? It's
because we love your show right out to gape in.
But the malar riddle who in my game? And too
much or not enough, which are definitely has been too
much kills the spin it kills. Let's go to Rich
(18:04):
in Chicago. What's going on? Rich? Welcome? Hey gearing Man, Hey, look,
I have you picked my interest when you were talking
about Cousins and the forty nine ers and I kind
of looked at something that really surprised me. You probably
know this, but the Niners have eleven draft picks, including
seven condensed story picks, and they've got three threes, three fives,
(18:25):
and I think three sevens. And given that it appears
they don't believe in Trey Lands and he's from North
Dakota State, which is down the road from the Vikings,
why couldn't they put together a package with all their
draft picks to trade because they're in a win now? Well, Rich,
(18:45):
first of all, they could have, they maybe should have,
but they didn't and now Cousins reworked his contract, so
it's financially undesirable. Oh leedgie, he'd have to rework the
contract again, which I don't even know that's allowed, if
that's even a thing. I don't know if that's allowed.
All right, I had a back up to that. Oh yeah,
to Bagguo, are you're prepared? Rich? You add something in
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your back pocket just in case that first one did
not hit the bullseye. Well, only because I wasn't sure
of a contract status and the problem Rogers is having
closed in the deal and the Jets it looked like
a shotgun wedding that may not happen. Why why wouldn't
they pull the same thing with a green back? I
(19:30):
don't think they. They're sold on Trey Lance. You can
move Lance in some draft picks and and bail out
the Packers because the Jets don't seem that you want
to pull the trigger. And Rogers, as a West coach,
did that might be planned? D Yeah, Well, here's here's
what I'll tell you until it's done. As I learned
(19:50):
from Carlos Career, the cheating astro who agreed to a
contract with the Giants and then a day later agreed
to a contract with the Mets, and then a couple
of days later agreed to a contract with the Twins.
Until it's done, anything is possible. Everyone just assuming the
Jets are gonna get Rogers. But he hasn't been traded yet,
and it's not out of the realm of possibility, Rich,
(20:13):
that something goes haywire and he ends up going somewhere else,
and it'd be a great story. And you know I
love a good story, Rich, I'm a fan of a
good story. Yeah, So all right, yeah, thank you, Rich.
I gotta go, but appreciate There's the great Rich in Chicago.
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Did you mention one Blue Jay Royal score? I did not.
You did not mention that score, Eddie. I did not
bad job by you. I have a fun fact on
that game. You got to mention that score. You. Fun
facts have not been very These are fun my facts.
Fun I am fun facts. Mallard, Yes, Coop, you want
(21:23):
to add something. No, here's my fun fact. Oh no,
I know. I just I'm just pointing out that you're
you're making Eddie's update. It's a little friendly ish. Oh
that is That is a low blow, Coop. I mean
to you, it's you, it's it's it's all you. And
he just kicked me in the nuts. Why why can't
I dress up Eddie's work a little bit? I can
(21:44):
touch it up, put some lipstick. If you wanted to,
you know, give some fun facts. I'd be all four me.
Here's a fun here's a fun fact, Eddie. These are
not fun facts. I will get to you. The listener
right now is gonna say, you know what that, Mallard,
fun facts math is fun facts. So far they've said
those those you're wrong. You're absolutely wrong. Now, First of all,
Toronto won that game four to one in Kansas City.
(22:04):
But that's not the fun fact. The fun fact, Eddie.
The fun fact is a raw. This Chapman blindsiding the umpire,
taking the umpire out on a play at first base.
That's like a football play. You don't see physicality in baseball,
but a great more of a visual thing. But you
(22:26):
saw this right, Roberto. It's amazing. Which no, no no, what
is the fact? I mean, tell you the fun part
of it? So a raw. This Chapman takes out the
first base umpire. The first base umpire, while laying on
his back, makes a safe call. But then he stands up.
He says out he said he wanted the world to
(22:47):
know he was safe. That's great, umpire, He let the
world I'm safe. He put his arm out and then
he called the runner for Toronto. Wow. Wow is that not?
That is so a kid? Fun? Awful? My god? Is
that fun? That's like when you were a little kid
you go to the sandbox. Fun gives him every Royals
(23:08):
fan and Blue Jay fan, all five of them are
very excited about that fun fact, like a little kid
that goes to the sad box. Fun. He took the
umpire out anywhere did the fun times? I think to
Sand took the umpire right out just like boom. Now
people are asking the reports tour, but people are demanding
(23:29):
Coopa Loop speak, Coop your thoughts on the big news
involving your dead Rebroccos. Coop, would you like to give
a reaction? Coop? No? What big news? Oh Coop didn't know? Yeah?
John Elway out in Denver. Oh yeah, that's your guy,
John Elway. They fired him. They didn't fire They fired
Elway did not he had a job. He no longer
(23:50):
has a job. He got fired. Well, first of all,
he amicably parted ways full crap, and second of all,
him doing anything anyway, he was a concern outside Exactly.
You don't quit it out. You don't say I'm gonna
leave a job where a figurehead job. Why would you
do it? Oh? Yes, it's huge news that's gonna have
a huge impact coming season that Broncos are cursed. Now
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John Elway is no longer there. The guy had been
there for twenty six seasons. Sixteen sixteen is up. He
was there sixteen as a player in ten years. I
think it was over ten years actually, as a member
of the front office. Yes, well, the last several have
gone really well. Aunt ioway cool. We got a great audio.
(24:36):
We got some really good audio. This is good audio.
You guys are the benets. I need the dance the bannets.
Who So I'm gonna climb up there. Well, if the
company paid me like Dan Patrick us like dude things
(25:02):
kissing yours, well we can play that game forever anyway.
All right, So so let's start with Max Scherzer. This
punk Max Scherzer, the Mets. Okay, this this you brownie?
Now I quit on the Dodgers. That Yeah, he had
a dead arm with a diet. So Max Scherzer has
been absolutely lit up so far as a Met. He's
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been garbage an era of over six and he's pitched
two games. He's given up in eleven and a third inning,
eleven and thirties and even have twelve hits and eight
urn runs. And I just got destroyed in Milwaukee. Gave
up five urn runs in that start. So here's Scherzer asked,
what the hell's going on? Max? You suck? Max? Why
do you think that is? If you're getting the swing
(25:45):
and this is why are you struggling to have that
out X two. This is a big ways. This is tough.
I can't put my finger on today. I definitely you've
eaten some lake nights thinking about it and you know,
crying through the video trying to come up with it.
But Hans arts this location. You gotta locate the ball
better with two strikes to put yourself in the positions.
(26:06):
So that's why I say, yeah, location, my fat ass location.
He's thirty eight years old. This you can't trust this guy.
He's not a Foxhold guy. Sure's there's not a Foxhole guy.
Now to the what do you think, Eddie? What what
does that mean? That is? That was that great audio? Yeah?
It was good audio. Now this is even better. Okay,
(26:27):
this this one, this one's not a shut up. This
one's this one. This one. Let me be the judge. Okay,
So Lebron James. Last night the Lakers had to go
to overtime to beat the Jazz. They're falling apart. The
Lakers had to go to overtime to beat the Jazz.
My guy, that's embarrassing. It's a horrible it's a horrible wind.
It's a terrible, terrible wind for the Lakers head to head.
(26:47):
How how the Clippers. Lakers had head anyway. So here's Lebron,
he's in the locker room. He don't really pay attention
to what Lebron is saying. Listen to the other players
on the Lakers there, they're doing something in the background.
See if you can make out what the ambient noises
while Lebron's talking. Listen, this is inside the visiting locker
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room in Salt Lake last night. You can make Sheolts offensive.
You gotta be able to get Stoff down to special.
Plenty of scends going, So get starts Lebron. I don't.
I'm gotta say focus. I'm your funny back foot. All right,
(27:33):
all right, you got the gist of it. Yeah. So
this is now a thing where when Lebron talks in
the locker room, he doesn't usually talk to the media
locker room. He likes to go outside. But when he does,
his teammates have decided to make goat sounds. And there's
a grown man. These are millionaires making goat sounds. How
(27:55):
great is that? Goats? Goats? I'm always amazed by the
goat thing because and I pointed this out before when
I would go to the petting zoo, the goats always smelled.
There were flies all over them. But everyone wants to
be the goat, and they were disgusting. Goat was the
guy who made the bad play is the greatest? Yeah,
(28:21):
you were right. You were the goat horns as the
were loser. Something had changed in my lifetime, Eddie, yea,
it is true, all right, Ben Mallor show on Fox. Eddie,
I don't think you meant that. It's not very nice
of you. Marcel and Brooklyn. Real quick, Marcel, when I
(28:42):
see real, when I say real quick, Marcel, I got password?
The word Game of the Stars warming up right now
in the oven? Oh yes, oh yes, it will be
your password. The word Game of the Stars will be.
That's what you said. All right, here we go food
picks for changing these ups. How about the TV pick pick? Okay,
(29:04):
TV picks does Rob Bill? First? Rob in Vegas? And
we'll put him now because it's a new dwine and
definitely a new day and a new month as well,
let's get into it, he joins us. Now it's what
is your TV pick from last night? If you watched
(29:26):
I think that you watched a wholesome family program, The
Cosby Show. Oh this is gonna be from the eighties.
I put the mix match in it, so thank you
for that. Yuh me? Okay, Ben, I'm gonna go Fat
albert O. Bill's Bill Coffey's favorite. Hey, hey, I'm fad
(29:49):
Albert and I put the mixmatch for you and Rob
as well. He's on fire. This, Marcel's amazing. I'm gonna
say it is any go ahead, buddy, All right, buddy,
let's go with The Bachelor. You watch The Bachelor? Oh,
that's not a mixed match. Quick. Please, I'm gonna say
(30:10):
you watched The Portal last night? His eyes will fall out?
Watch the Portal, Blair does. He's a church yourself, Marcel,
you're a church showing man. You did not watch that
that smut? Who come on? Please? No, no, no, that's
not true. Keep your clothes on. God, go ahead. You
(30:33):
watched Ted Lasso, Ted Loss up a Mapple TV plus again.
Come on, all right then, I hurt, hurry up, hurry
hurt the Coffee show on the That's right, all right,
thank you, Marcel. I gotta I don't think you pass
forward to work on de Yeah. I need I need
(30:54):
some contestants. If you would like to be part, you know,
what to do eight seven seven nine pass word the
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(31:39):
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See who do we have any meny mighty moe. We've
got TC in Tennessee. Hello, TC, welcome in. Going on,
(32:21):
Ben uh Me and a friend of man Spain. We said,
not here, getting ready of going the guanas. We're gonna
win this game. You're in it to winning. You're in
it to winning. TC. I like that whole lot of
second TC is gonna play. We've got Justin in the
enchanted forest. Hello, Justin? Why can't that prosecutor Manhattan arrest
(32:43):
rachel Or Andrea? Her terrible glass photon calls a frustrating Colm.
Do kind know you'll get through it? Everything will be okay, Justin,
Everything will be all right. Let's play the game now, TC,
Who do you want to partner up with? TC? You
we're on the air first. You've got me Ben Eddie,
Roberto or Coop a Loop. Hey, I'm gonna go with
the man, damn right exactly. Hear that? Boys, I'm the
(33:05):
man according to TC, and he picked me. How about you,
justin enchanted Forrest? Do do you want to partner up with? Justin?
Going with the great Eddie. Oh you're you're partner in crime?
Huh interesting? Whatever? Back to the scene of the crime.
Very We have a list of words one to ten.
They're numbered a TC. Please pick a number to get
(33:28):
the parte started. I'm gonna go with number five. That's
my rost colonymbers, So we don't you go with um okay,
that's your lucky Is that your lucky number? Or all right,
let's go with thoroughbred. What do you say? Yeah, there
(33:53):
you go. That's right, ten point boom boom as scratch off,
which you could have just said, Shannon chart. Wow, Eddie,
you're up. You're up, Eddie, you're losing as usual, all right?
Justin picking number not number five? Number three? What whoa?
(34:16):
All right? The clue is trash we angeles clippers as incorrect.
It's a good guess, though. Let's go he was too easy.
Let's go TC. Let's go with clutter, clutter, clutter. I
(34:40):
knew had to do enough. Shout out my boy sent
up for Simon. You're talking about horses. He's a ten
for you, walking horse man can do. I'm cletter. We're
gonna have to go with oh garbage, No, okay, we
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are down to let's see ten nine, eight points where
you Eddie? If you get this right, let's go with debris. Oh,
what was the first one? You said? Trash? Take your
time of order. No. I could do the reverse Malla maneuver,
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but there is almost no chance my man TC will
get that right, so I'm not going to do that.
Let's go with let's see how about I don't know
every Yeah, everything's really I go storage, Yeah, yeah, everything's related.
So yeah, and then I went on the red and
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you got We stumped him, Eddie, we stumped Yeah. Your
answered the clippers. That was a bad as you can't
it was correct? What are you crawled back in the
enchanted forest? How about that? Yeah? Screw you? How about um?
How about salvage? Dope? No, well, you're really bad at
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this game. Throw that word out. The word was junk.
Clutter is what you put in storage? Right, So that's
all those things are related. All right, we're back up.
You're back up. How exciting is that? Unrelievable? TC? Take
your time picking number one to ten, but not three
or not five. Let me see number six? He said,
(36:37):
number six. All right, let's go with drizzle. Yeah, that's
a winner. Guards you lost the game. You're a loser
and justin no cheating this time. Your boys couldn't cheat,
(36:59):
see it. Lost the game. Greg waighte TC and your buddy.
You guys are winners. You won today. We won the
game the all time. I've won more than anybody else
and lost more. Hey,
Host
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