Hour 1 - Bay Area Brouhaha

Ben Maller talks about the Warriors loss to the Lakers in Game1 and what the difference was for the Lakers in the win, who wears the Shame Bell for Golden State, MLB Pick'em, and much more!

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review that would also help, and management will get off
our ass. But here in our number one, the Lakers
and the Warriors, Game one of the second round of
the NBA Playoffs, what was the difference as the Lakers
blew a fourteen point lead and then ended up winning
the game? Anyway, who gets to wear the shame bell

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if you will for the Golden State Wars? And did
anything happen in Game one between LA and Golden State
that has caused us to change opinion on this series.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here.
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So our lead this hour come from pro bouncy Ball,
a game that ended about within the last hours, so
give it takes since we cracked the microphones. Here the
Western Conference semi Finals, the second round of the NBA Playoffs.
They go on forever. This is why the NBA players
don't even try during the regular season. The playoffs started
in April. They'll go all the way through June. Most

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of June. Looked at the final dates on that but
a made for TV matchup. The league office is wet dream.
They love the stars. So you had Stephen Curry on
one side for the Warriors hosting Lebron James and the
Lakers on the other side. And above the marquee match
up here in San Francisco, and that is where we begin.

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I don't know if you saw this game. Maybe you
did not watch, you were doing something else, you might
have missed it. No idea, but Anthony Davis had a
big stat line thirty points, twenty three rebounds. The Lakers, though,
blew a fourteen point lead and barely held off the
Warriors one seventeen to one twelve. As the game goes

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the way of La, Lakers get a one to ozho
series lead over Golden State. Game two back in the
Bay Area in San Francisco on Thursday, Thursday, Thursday. So
that is game number two. But let's discuss what just
happened here. The question, all right, what was the difference
in game one for the Lakers to get the victory?

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So I've got the Holy Trinity. I've also got payroll
and measuring tape, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make some sour
dough bread, some nice fresh shower dough bread is what
we're gonna make. So, hey, when you break down the

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game and you ask the question, what's the difference for
the Lakers in game number one, A lot of low
information people will say, ah, it's Anthony Davis. Oh, look
at the stat line, I'm horny, he was so God,
they're like that, they're idiots. People are idiots like that.
They didn't watch the game. They oh, look at they
big numbers, monster game. Now I disagree with that, okay,

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uh And I realized where I'm about to go. Nobody
who's nobody who's on the payroll for the NBA, which
means business partners of the NBA, the broadcasters for the NBA.
They're not allowed to go where I'm gonna go. They
can't do it. They lose their job, you understand, right,
they want to keep their job. They make a lot

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of money. These are good jobs, right. My experience with
the people that cover the NBA, they think they work
for the NBA, that they're chummy with the people that
work for the league, and so they don't really want
to go anywhere. They don't want to. They don't want
to go down the dark alleys you have to go down,
they don't want to. They don't want to do that.
So the mainstream will avoid it. Now doing the Overnight Show,

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we're not part of the mainstream here. We are not,
uh And, and we we don't have to follow the
the rules of engagement at the the mainstream. Maybe he is,
but so we'll go there. Okay, we'll go there, and
we can do it. We're in the safe harbor here

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late at night. But this game was about the Angels,
not the Anaheim Angels, not the Los Angeles Angels, the
Guardian Angels. And I think if you saw the game
with I know they said this La is the name
of the city of Angels, but it's really, with apologies
to our friends in Mexico, it's the Guardian Angels. Always

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seem to pop up in Laker playoff games, don't they.
I mean, this was even by NBA standards. This was
masterpiece theater by the NBA. If you saw the game,
you know exactly what I'm talking about. And if you're
the Lakers, you got to give game balls out to
number eight Mark Davis, Number fourteen Ed molloy, and number
three Nick Booker. I believe is his name. I have

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even heard of that guy. But that right there is
the Holy Trinity, all right, Mark Davis, Ed molloy and
the other guy, the Holy Trinity for the Lakers, the
Father of the Son, the Holy Spirit, and Holy Connolly.
They don't even try to hide it. We're at the
point now they don't even try to hide the bias.
It's unreal. Now, I gave some stats out at the

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end of the regular season. The Lakers without official interference
had a losing record the final two months of the season,
but seemingly every officials in the back pocket of the
Purple and Gold, and so they benefited from an unreal
disparity of officiating bias in their favor. And it's like
a hockey game. You watch, watch the Lakers play in

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a playoff game. Typically, typically it's like a hockey game,
but the team, the Lakers, are always on the power
play and the opposition is always shorthanded. And this game,
I mean, I don't even need to I don't even
say anything. Twenty nine to six, twenty nine six, hello,

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twenty nine disparity in foul shot attempts. So if you
do the math, the Lakers had twenty five points on
the foul line. Golden State had five five. That's it, five,
all right. So my computer, like Brank, tells me that's
plus twenty courtesy of the Holy Trinity, the NBA officiated

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crew that was assigned to this game. So plus twenty,
which means without the Holy Trinity, the NBA meddling with
the outcome of this game. The Golden State Warriors beat
the Lakers by fifteen points. If it's an even game,
if the Lakers don't have their thumb on the scale,

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Golden State is fifteen points better than the Lakers fifteen.
It's ridiculous. Now, I'm not saying that should be completely even.
I'm not saying that at all. But this was a
big brother, not big brother that used to work on
the show. This is big There's a big brother situation,
is what this is. And you know, maybe I'm wrong

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in this, but I thought the goal of officiating was
to let the players decide the game. Maybe that's changed,
but when I was there, I let the players decide
the game and all that and uh. And the way
you do that is you don't tip the scales one
direction or the other. The players decide the game. She
never have that big a disparity. Uh. And it's embarrassing. Now.

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My favorite part of this, and I've been doing this
job a long time, and the entire time I've done it,
it's only gotten worse is there's a word for the
Laker historians, and the word is obtuse. They are so
far into the weeds. They don't even realize what's going on.
It's fascinating. It is a great mind hack. They're totally oblivious.

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They play these playoff games eight on five and they
don't think anything of it. Well, No, that was a
good officiator. Good, I think that was good. Yeah. Yet
again of the room behind the glass playing Clipper drops
because they wish they were fans of the Clippers. The
people steam exactly play all you other drops because you
can't push back on the argument. Now page two here, Now, listen,

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Golden State who gets to wear the shame bell for
the wars that? But the NBA gets to wear the
shame bell. But we mentioned the officials already. Now I'm
gonna circle one guy here, Draymond Green. Now I had
my eye on Draymond here. He's under the microscope, and
he deserves to be under the microscope because some information
came out recently which should be very troubling to every

(09:36):
Golden State Warrior fan. And I'll tell you why. He
is such a fanboy of Lebron James Draymond Green. It
makes you wonder if there's some funny business going on
watching him play, he made no impact I know he's
not gonna score a points, he's not gonna go bokers
on offense. But Draymond's supposed to be a premier defensive player,

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and he's changed. Draymond has changed. The great wrestler Mirro
told me that I have changed, but Raymond Green years ago.
But Draymond Green has changed. Okay, And is it trout
that Draymond Green is on Lebron's payroll? Is it trout? Well,

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if you check the school of accounting, Draymond Green plays
represented by Clutch Sports. Now Lebron James, Well, he hasn't
technically the own Clutch Sports. Without Lebron James, there is
no Clutch Sports. That is nothing, It does not exist.
Lebron is the reason that exists. And he's in bed

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with everyone who's behind that. And Draymond Green is also
in bed with Clutch Sports. And I mentioned Draymond's changed,
but he's changed over there. So I think it was
twenty twenty. I believe I'm right on that. Twenty twenty,
Lebron's Lebron's agency, Clutch joined forces with Draymond Draymond Green,
and since then I have noticed that Draymond Green when

(11:04):
he plays Lebron. He's very frazzled. He wasn't like that before.
Lebron used to punch Lebron on the nuts or Draymond
would punch Lebron on the nuts and kick him and
things like that. But now he seems very gracious, very graciously.
I'm not sensing the same passion. And it's almost like
he's reluctant to engage Lebron on defense. And it's like, well,

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I know Draymond doesn't shoot a lot, but maybe occasionally
you just allow the Lakers. When Lebron's matched up with Draymond,
it's like Lebron can take. It's like a designated hitter.
You just worry about offense. You don't worry about defense.
Draymond doesn't even try to do anything. I don't sense
the same passion from Draymond. There was like faux outrage

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at one point in the game, but he didn't engage.
If you're not going to get you, Draymond, you suck.
You're terrible on offense. If you're not going to engage,
you're taking up space. And again I get it. Listen,
you know he's part of clutch sports. Everyone's in bed
with each other in the NBA, and they like that's

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how they run their business. Nobody seems to have a
problem with it. Everyone seems okay with it. But I
sensed a lukewarm Draymond Green. Lukewarm was the temperature for him.
No pep in his step for most of the game.
All right, last we'd here. So did anything happen in
Game one between the Lakers and Warriors that is causing

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us to change your opinion on the series. Absolutely not,
Absolutely not. We are sticking to our guns here. I'm
shaking my head. No on this. Now. We picked the
Warriors in five. We are sticking with that pick. The
Warriors will win the next four games in this series.
It's a feeling out process. Okay, it's feeling up right.
It's it's like the sweet science, if you will, right boxing.

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You know, you go into the ring, you get the
measuring tape. You gotta try to figure out what's going
on with your opponent. Now, be patient and you take
your time and the beginning part of a fight and
you figure things out. But the officials, I will tell you,
if the officials is gonna call the game like this,
then forget about it. I mean that the Warriors can't win,
they might as well forfeit the next three games. It

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was embarrassed. It's the most I thought Tim Donahey had
had come back in Times three. It was so egregious
what was going on out there. But again Tim Donnie
helped the Lakers out. There's a pattern there. Why did
he do that? Well, I think we know why he
did that. But if assuming the games called legitimately, then
the Warriors will win. You know why. Also Anthony Davis, Oh,

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Anthony Davis gonna score thirty five points a game, twenty rebounds. No,
he's not. The man is a human croissant. He's flaky.
He's flaky. Flaky flaky is what he is. Okay, And
just like when you try to eat a crossant, what happens?
You get covered in bread confetti. And that's Anthony Davis.
This guy will take a game off here, he'll get
hurt over there. And that that's the other thing. His genetics.

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He is a I'm a distant relative of Nostre damas.
Anthony Davis is a distant relative of Humpty Dumpty. That's
his relative. Okay, So he's going to get hurt, uh,
lower back, knee, shoulder, finger hand, you name it. He'll
go down at some point. And it's a pretty simple situation.
If the game's called squarely by the NBA, which is

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a big ask. It's a big ask at this point,
but it's pretty simple. Just play his own defense. The
Lakers can't shoot. Lebron James is living up to his
Lebrick nickname. In the postseason. Lebron has attempted forty nine
to three point shots. He's nine out of forty nine.
Lebrick is shooting eighteen percent from the outside. So you

(14:48):
just essentially, if you're the war is again assuming the
officials call the game legitimate, which is a big ask,
but you just play the zone defense. Warriors did that.
They got back and tied the game down fourteen with
a late run. The zone defense a big part of that.
So you play his own defense, and you say, okay,
if these stiffs on the Lakers then aren't very good
like D'Angelo Russell and Austin Reeves and guys like that,

(15:10):
make shots fine, but that's not going to happen, so
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Ben Malor.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, the people have spoken and general sense agree with
the Milor monologue. Here At the top of the hour,
ros Shane and the Moyes's Great monologue Late Night Drug
Tester says it feels like the NBA is giving a
title run to Lebron for lifetime achievement. Laker fans should
be upset, however, that Kobe didn't get the same send

(16:57):
off your Femi says a plus and wrench toast with
extra powdered sugar. On the top of the hour Mallard monologue,
he also says a question about the Minnesota meet and greet,
which will be coming up on May twentieth, He says,
will you be going to the after party? Well, I
cannot reveal whether I will attend the after party or not.

(17:18):
That's normally for fans of the show. I'm not normally
part of the after party because that's for the people
that love the show and they like to self medicate
themselves after the party. But we'll see you never know.
Maybe this you'll be different. I have no idea. Malard
prop guy writes it and says lebrick. He points out
Lebrick is the answer. Who else do you have? Page down?

(17:40):
Page down? Ferg Dog writes in a voice of reason
on the show. He says, I saw the game just
like you did.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Ben.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
When ref ball took over, I had to switch to
the angel and then Dodger game as well. At least
Los Angeles still has a couple of teams that can
win without blatant favoritism. It's true, Midnight Walker writes, and
the poet Laurie says, the Zebras were whistling and they
favored Lebron thirty free throws to six. What the hell

(18:08):
is going on? Such a free throw disparity? How could
this be? Because the Zebras were channeling Tim Donahi solid
that's good, that's poetry. Should put that on a T
shirt or something like that.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
See what what you and then the people whose tweets
you were reading I would call That's what I call
like like to call low information fans.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Okay, you guys, come up with your own material, coop,
that's my line. You can't steal my line. That's my material,
that's my proprietary blade.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
That's exactly what you're exactly what you're doing and what
you and what you are.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Take off your laker Onesie Coop see the light? Okay,
see the light? They light fifty three three pointers.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
Ben, Yes, you get to the foul line. That's plays
all the time, playoff game with that Warriors.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's dated to the free throw less than.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
Any other team in the league, and all of a sudden,
it's the it's the rest. It's all just makers as
in the paint as the Warriors.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Every car goes when you get into the free throw.
This is the typically, this is what I talk about
the definition around toast. Justin Cooper is up toast. Okay, no,
you're information, can't I don't you.

Speaker 6 (19:22):
Just look at you just look at the box score
and you're like, oh, the obviously watched the game, watched
the gather.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
If you if you if you watch the game, then
you're just all the crap, Oh my god, you are
so lebron James took Is it's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
You you.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Sit out Garcia. I'm impartial. I'm partial is talking about
not impartial you have not watched the NBA game since
they were short shorts. Okay, stop that, Roberto, it's actually
one of.

Speaker 6 (19:57):
His middle names is Impartially, It's not partial, That is
not true. Anyway, we'll take some phone calls here. It
is a call and show. If you'd like to be part,
you can join the fun and the lines are open.
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, we had a
historic foot Now I'm gonna talk more about the MVP
in the NBA later on, because we're gonna open up

(20:17):
the NBA grab bag later.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Always a fan favorite, play the hits, mom Mayam, play
the hits. But Lebron James did something this year that
has never happened before in his NBA career. We'll tell
you about that. Let's go to the phones, though, and
we'll go to Minnesota and we'll start out with a
man of mystery. We say hello to Hayes in Minnesota.

(20:40):
Hello Hayes, a fan favorite. Hello Hayes, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Hey Ben today, I'm coming to your hood.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
I'm gonna hang out with you, Hayes. How exciting is that?

Speaker 7 (20:50):
Oh I am at my office tonight.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Well? I think you know what it means Eddie. He
works at a in the garage.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
You know.

Speaker 7 (20:59):
I I usually call around two o'clock in the morning,
but around two fourteen to two nineteen I can't hear
the radio down here. Usually it just cuts off. So
that's why I'm calling.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
A little early tonight.

Speaker 7 (21:14):
You know, I lose coverage usually after two o'clock for
some reason. I can't figure out why.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Someone blocking you from our show. Do you think there's
like a poltergeist in there or something like that, some
kind of evil spirit.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Well, when you.

Speaker 7 (21:31):
Think about a funeral home, a long truck that has
a casket, a long halway, everything you think of.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
It is there.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
Usually I have you guys blasting down here, and it
just loses reception after two o'clock. You know, just something
I found odd is very odd.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Are you going to be making an appearance, Hayes or
am I going to meet you when I come to
your town? Are you going to be there?

Speaker 4 (21:59):
Not sure?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
That's to know you're not showing that you're not gonna
be How could you not want to meet the great
Ben Mallory.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
Look, I get it, he's a good looking guy.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
I mean I saw him on Google a while back ago.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Wait, wait, wait, it's very track. You're stalking me. You
googled me. I can't google you. I can't look you up.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Before I forget.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
I just gotta say I seen three or four minutes
of that game tonight.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
It's sad. What's happening for Lebron.

Speaker 7 (22:34):
You know, the rests are just it's like they're trying
to give him one more championship.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
So Jordan is in not the goold anymore.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
You know what, I'll go back to playing with body. No, no,
I'm gonna give you a gold. That's a great take.
And he only watched three or four minutes of the game.
He's got that take. That's an amazing thing. You're more
knowledgeable than Cooper, who to watch the whole game. Coop
couldn't watch the game because he was distracted because he
always Laker. He had always Laker bobble heads in front
of him, so he was covering the screen.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
What may I say one thing before? So I have
been drinking.

Speaker 7 (23:10):
A lot, and that's not a secret, but I must say,
you know.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
A while back ago I got caught.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
I tried to pick up a woman, but the officer said, hey,
we got your right handed. I told him the key word, sir,
I'm trying to make a movie.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
That's not illegal. So for the listeners, just say that
and you'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Wad you picked up a woman of the night and
I assume you were you were willing to pay her
for her services?

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
So you get pulled over, Cherry, you tell the cops.
You say, well, I'm actually doing what do you say,
doing a documentary? Is that what?

Speaker 4 (23:52):
No?

Speaker 7 (23:53):
No, no, no, you have to say, I don't know
about pain.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
I'm just trying to make a movie.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
Now, that's all these states.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
That's not that's not illegal.

Speaker 7 (24:03):
So just say if you get caught, you never know,
just say I want to make a movie.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Would you where'd you hear that? Where'd you hear that?

Speaker 4 (24:13):
You know?

Speaker 7 (24:13):
In my line of work, you meet a lot of
people and you learn a lot.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
It worked for me.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
So you were paying her as an actress?

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yes, Hey, I want to make a movie.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
If you feel if you feel something is up, just
say I want to make a movie.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
I just want to make a movie. And you take
you guys, go on your way.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
It's an amazing life hack from Hayes in Minnesota. Something
I did not expect. When I walked into the studio.
Thank you, Hayes. I'm gonna move on though. There he goes.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Make sure you meet Ben Hayes.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I think we're good. No chance he show He's either
not gonna show up, or he'll show up and he'll
be the guy in the back lurking but will not
say anything. He'll be that guy.

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Speaker 1 (25:35):
You want to take a guess how many people were
in attendance at the Tampa Bay Rays Pittsburgh Pirates.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Oh my god, I'm going to say fifty thousand.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
If you think Tropic Cannafield, two top times in baseball,
there's a buzz in the Yeah, they announced attendants. Keep
in mind this is actually usually it's a fictional thing.
The announced attendants at baseball games. They announced ten thousand,
three hundred twenty five people showed up. That was the

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attendance for the Pirates and Rays, two of the top
teams in professional baseball.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Great sports fans there in Tampa. Well, actually, you know
what they can chance to support the hockey team. I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
They always tell me my friends in Tampa. They say
it's because the stadium was built in the wrong place.
It's not where people live. They can't get to the stadium.
Is a traffic situation, that's what they claim. I don't know.
I don't live there, but I'm just telling you what
I'm here. How is that race the ballpark for the
people that love to the baseball fans? A race of
baseball fans is anti the race of baseball fans. They

(26:37):
live far away from the stadium.

Speaker 5 (26:39):
So stadium can't can like doesn't have a very They're
the smallest one, right as far as capacity.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
I don't know about them. Well, no, they they have
blocked off a bunch of seats, that's why. But the
actual size of the stadium, I.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
Think the Pirates is the smallest stadium because only has
two decks.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
What is finnways like thirty seventh or something like that,
thirty thousand. They've added a bunch of seats because people
actually pay to watch Red Sox games, unlike these other teams.
So Lebron James has done it. Congratulations to Lebron. You know,
I very rarely congratulate Lebron James. But Lebron, for the
first time in his twenty year NBA career, received as

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many first place or second or third or fourth or
fifth place votes for the MVP Award as you did
listening and I did doing the show. For the first time,
Lebron James was shut out. He pitched a gooseg not
a single vote for the mv POP. We'll talk more
about it later because Joel NB, Joel Andbi to the

(27:39):
Sixers won it. He should not have won it. It's embarrassing.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Toba.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Nikola Jokic was better and continues to be better. But
the NBA media, the cartel of NBA media, said no,
we cannot have this foreigner Nikola Jokicic win again. And
so yes they boy, they went it for well and
beat who's also, by the way, not from this country,
but whatever. So we'll talk more about that coming up

(28:05):
next hour. But Lebron shut out in the ENVP vote.
How humiliating, How embarrassing is that? And we've heard of
Stranger danger, but I didn't realize that was the emphasis
on Ranger as in New York Rangers. Have you seen
the viral video, No, it's radio, we can't show you

(28:25):
the video. But the Devils in game seven playing the Rangers,
and it was all Jersey in that game, a route
or root in game seven of their Stanley Cup playoff series.
And what happened Well, as the Ranger fans were making
their way out of the arena, the crew of cheerleaders

(28:49):
I guess male female, the cheerleaders for the New Jersey
Devils were getting the crowd all fired up there having
a grand old time, and one blue shirt one Ranger fan,
this middle aged dude comes walking up the aisle and
he sees this guy. Right, he sees this guy and

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he's working for the Devil's trying to get the crowd
fired up. He's holding up a little sign and the guy,
the Ranger fan, giving little punch, gave a little sucker punch,
and then and then a bunch of Devil fans rallied
around and started kind of punching the other guy, the
Ranger fan.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
So didn't this happen to last year with a Rangers
fan sucker punched another guy?

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Oh yeah that Madison, Yeah, that was on the concourse
at Madison Square Garden. I was a Tampa Bay Lightning fan.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's right, good, good remembering burn.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, I remember that guy. Yeah that was really bad
that This was not as bad as that. But that
was just a playton Like that guy could have killed
that guy last year. He could have killed the guy
from Tampa. But this was more of a jab. It
wasn't like a full punch, but still douchebag move by
the Ranger fans. A holes. I don't know Range. I
don't really have Ranger fans in my circle. I don't know.

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They must be a holes, right, must be I guess,
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We are told that that is the highest price on
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I don't think there's any Twitter people left other than
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And then in La you gotta Hollywood losers that are
buying the ticket. So the average purchase price great cash
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(31:12):
expensive NBA playoff ticket ever. So a lot of people
are struggling these days. But it seems that in Hollywood,
although there's a writer's strike going on. I stand with
writers and not the studios. But the rider strikes going on.
And you've also got the Internet companies don't seem like
they laying off a lot of people too. But there's

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enough people that got a lot of cash, so they're
still doing. They're still doing okay, They've still got that
money rolling in. It is the Ban Mallard Show. As
we continue on and time now for the who Am
I Game? We'll go to baseball for the who Am
I Game? The Marlins infield Luis Arise. He was hitting

(31:52):
four thirty eight when the calendar became May, so we
went from April to May. That's the highest batting average
by any player through April since Barry Bonds when he
was all juiced up with the Agantes back in the day.
But I'm the only player to have a four hundred
batting average or better at the end of May over

(32:13):
the last twenty seasons, so less generation. Essentially, I'm the
only player to have a four hundred batting average at
the end of May. Sin Luisa Rise obviously doing it
right now, that's the question. The answer we'll get to it,
We'll do it next.

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Speaker 1 (33:04):
Are you saying we didn't get those drops the last
couple days. I don't know why I did say that.
That's what says.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
I haven't said that.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
That's what you implied, Eddie. It's a bad job by
you say it out there. You uh huh Okay. Anyway,
it is the Ben Maler Show. Time now for the
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Speaker 3 (33:42):
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Speaker 1 (33:42):
If you were late to the party. Marlin's interfere of
the Luisa Rise entered the month of May batting four
thirty eight. That's the highest batting average by any player
through the month of April since Steroid Bonds Barry Bonds
back in four when he's all juiced up. And I'm
the only player to have a four hundred batting average

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at the end of May in the last twenty years.
Who am I? That is the question? What's the answer?
Cowboy Killer, says Chief Wigham. Is the way to go,
page down, page down, and we'll skip over that. Reggie
Jackson guessed by Devon mister October. Of course he was
playing in the two thousands. Coco Crisp from Art Puffin,

(34:24):
that's his answer. Rowdy Roddy Piper from rob in Vegas.
Black Cowboy John Brad says Pamela Anderson is the way
to go? Who else we have? Page down, page down,
mark to Schera the Yankee version from Late Night Drug Tester.
That's his answer. Ray Fosse, Bay Area legend and former

(34:46):
Cleveland Indian from Mister Nice Guy Morgan Freeman guests by
Benito the Cowboy Fan. That's his answer. Who else do
we have? Roy Smalley from Rob in Minnesota to Greg
Luzinski tossed up by Chris in the Moine Pablo Sandoval
from Justin in Cincinnati. That's his answer. Who else do

(35:09):
we have? A Seattle Slew from Kevin kilvo veris random
baseball player guess by double O Mexican in San Diego,
Stan Javier from Callaghan Tim in Michigan. Eddie, do you
have an answer?

Speaker 4 (35:24):
Eddy?

Speaker 3 (35:25):
I do. I'm gonna go with the amazing Coco Crisp.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Coco Crisp. Who was just a guess by one of
the calls that is incorrect?

Speaker 3 (35:32):
The correct answer, Yeah, my guess is the one that's important.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Not really, uh. The correct answer, Eddie is a guy
who named his kid after a ballpark because he hit
so well in that ballpark as a visiting player. You
know who?

Speaker 3 (35:45):
That is a Shay. Somebody kid's name Shay. Yeah, that's uh.
Arnie did that with his kid, Yeah, Jay Hill and brand.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
No, Chipper Jones. Chipper Jones is the answer, you bet?
I four thirteen in twenty oh eight. Back name Larry, Yes,
Larry Wayne Jones, I believe is his name, Larry Wayne Jones.
And baseball is his game. He loves, he loves the baseball.
He's all about the baseball. Absolute. Let's go to Joel.

(36:17):
Who's up next. We're gonna have the MLB pick him?
Coming up? Joel is in Denver? What's going on? Joel?

Speaker 9 (36:23):
Hey man, this is this is Joel, long time listener,
first time caller. I had a call after your monologue.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Well, thank you. I know you want to compliment my monologue.
We don't have a lot of time, but please tell
me how great that was.

Speaker 9 (36:35):
Oh no, I'm actually a transplant as well.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
So what are you doing it?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
What are you doing in Denver? You can't leave Eastern
for Denver? What's wrong with you? Man? You gotta go
to Riverside or something like that. You can't go to Denver.

Speaker 10 (36:51):
I know, actually it's nice weather right now. Anyhow, well, Ben,
I mean, I know you're talking about theftos, but you
haven't talked about you know, they was content to have
three players have a record of six six six three three.

Speaker 9 (37:11):
That's a record.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Or you know I don't have all the Listen, you're
you're your la, your boys. We gotta get to it.
Here we go, m l B. Pick and we can
get it in. And we're gonna pick two position players
and a hitter. Eddie, you're up first.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Well, give me show Tony the picture.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
I will go with hurry up, Dylan Cees. All right,
we'll take Shane Bieber, Roberto.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
I will go with back to back, Ali Rushman and
Francisco Lindor. All right, Randy Rose, Arena, Coop, Joe Hen
Tony the Batter.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Eddie, back to Back, Peter Wonzo, Patrick winsd Coop Boba, Shed,
Max Monsey, Roberto.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Gavin Stone, Baby, Gavin Stone, Eddie, we got it.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Gavin Stone begins, Tom, I don't even know who that is,