May 9, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Warriors blowing a 4th quarter lead against the Lakers as they let Lonnie Walker be the hero for LA, who on Golden State is responsible for the loss, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number one, our one of the Ben Mahlor
Show podcast recorded while you were sleeping overnight here and
we talked pro bouncy ball in our one game four
between the Warriors and Lakers in La La Land as
the Lakers come back in the fourth quarter and get
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the win. So, who do you hold responsible for the
Warriors in this loss at a seven point lead going
to the fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
How do you grade the officiating?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Singing?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Big story in this series?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And is this series now in the bag for Lebron
and the Lakers up three games to one.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll go through all that and much more right now here.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It is our number one, a playoff nail bier. Welcome
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Meet in our.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Lead to begin the night here will be here all
night flying the Red Eye flight. Where we land, Well,
we know when we land, and I do not think
we will be delayed in any way. But our lead
does come for pro bouncy ball. Oh, you know there's
a rhythm, a cadence this time of the year when
the playoffs are going on. We react reaction sten to
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the pro bouncy ball playoff. Ho doown in La laland
a California Hoopa palooza. If you will Game four Lakers
and Warriors, LA try to take a three games to
one lead, Golden State trying to square things up.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Did you watch? Eh? Maybe not.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You probably had something else to do. You don't care
about the Lakers or the Warriors, or you had something
else going on. So perhaps you missed it, and you
missed someone named Lonnie Walker. We're not sure who that is.
Someone named Lonnie Walker. He's apparently a basketball player for
the Lakers. It's gotta suck, though. I don't think he
gets any kind of free meals or anything, because nobody
knows who he is. But Lonnie Walker had fifteen points,
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all of his points in the fourth quarter, and the
Lakers getting some more friendly officiating down the stretch as
they pull it out, come from behind, barely getting past
the Warriors one oh four to one oh one. So
for now, the Lakers up three games to one in
the best of seven series. So the better story, though,
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is in the losing locker room. It has been my mantra,
will continue to be my mantra, and so we'll go
to the Golden State side of things. Steph Curry thirty
one points, fourteen assis, ten rebound.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Sounds like a great game. He didn't actually play that well.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The Warriors known as their the ability to knock down
three point shot. They were twelve of forty one from
downtown and my computer like brain tells me that is
less than thirty percent, which is not good.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That is not good.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
So that is where we will start. Let us discuss
the question. The first question up is who do you
hold responsible? Who is responsible for the Warriors blowing a
lead in the fourth quarter down the stretch. So I've
got pothole stage show and e KG and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to build a comeback for the Golden State Wars in
this series, because they are still very much in the
middle of it. So now a hanging out. We like
to hand out the blame pie, and we're not gonna
do the blame pie. We're gonna do something totally different.
The blame Hogi, the blame Hogi is not the blame pie.
The blame hogy is this long foot long sandwich and
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it's the Hogi of blame. And so doing the Hogi
of blame, you cut it into pieces and there's several
big hunks of the Hogi to hand out here. This
game was obviously there for the taking. The Warriors had
a seven point lead going to the fourth quarter, and
I am going to remind my friends in the Bay Area,
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did the championship pedigree kick in in the fourth quarter.
That's one of my pet peeves because I I recall
in Game seven when Klay Thompson missed a bunch of
shots and other guys in the Warriors didn't play well
as well they've been in all these big playoff games.
The announcers love these old tropes. They love to bring
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these things up, and I was looking around. I was
looking for that championship pedigree to kick in. I didn't
see it. I'm asking for a friend because maybe it
did happen. My television might have been working not working.
I was driving in. The company had me drive in,
so I had to watch on my phone. But that's
illegal while I was driving, so I had to wait
till I got here to see some of it. But
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we'll start handing out and assigning the blame HOGI to
the headliners.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Right, we'll start with the headliners, and they're the ones.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That hit the pothole a marketing fail by Stephen Curry
and Klay Thompson. They get the biggest chunks of the
blame HOGI and splash, splash as it was, clank, clunk,
rim rattling, kind of a woman's there. The greatest shooting
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back court and a history. Just ask any hack NBA
broadcaster and they will tell you all time greatest. And
they took between them twenty three to three point shots
and made six of them, six of them. That's a
glittering twenty six percent. Klay Thompson, he was so bad.
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I told the buddy him when I was texting a
friend of mine. I say, I wouldn't be surprised he
looks so cooked that the Warriors will leak to Shams
or Woje that Clay's got an injury that he's playing through,
an injury like anytime he star athlete sucks at a
time you cannot suck.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
They often cook up an.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Injury like Clay's so garbage that I wouldn't be surprised
if it's some kind of injury that they're they're gonna
make up, whether it's true or not, that they'll cook
that off. But Klay Thompson nine points on three of eleven,
you better make that injury story up pretty quick. And
then you've got the curious case of Stephan Curry, who
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had a big stat line and the unknowledgeable basketball fan.
We'll say about thirty one points, he had, the ten rebounds,
the fourteen assists, and that's triple I'll call.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That tripled up.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's great game, but it reminded me of Alan Iverson
back in the day. That's not a compliment because let
me check my notes here. Steph Curry had thirty one points,
he took thirty shots, thirty one points on thirty shots. Now,
I'm not an NBA legend, but where I come from,
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I soon a overnight show.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That sucks.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
If you take thirty one shots to or thirty shots
to get thirty one points, that is not good. Now
keep in mind the pothole was an invisible barrier. Okay,
these guys on the Warriors were getting for the balance
of the game open looks. That's the part of this
which is which is both frustrating and encouraging at the
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same time, because the Lakers did not impress me at
all defensively.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The Warriors did what they wanted to.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And as the cliche goes from any NBA observers who
have nothing else to say, it's a make or mis
league and you're getting wide open looks most of the time.
You put the biscuit in the basket and you didn't
your ding dong. A lot of ding dong's out there.
And then you have the case of Draymond Green, who
was weak in the knees. Does he get a bonus
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for every turnover that he makes? Does he have a
there must be a clause in his contract where Draymond
gets a little extra money every pass he throws away
that must be the case there, but man bonehead plays
floundering the end of game situation throwing the ball away.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We can go on.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The other story which continues to be storing this series
is the officiating. So the second part of this is
how do you grade after game number four? How do
you grade the officiating between the Lakers and the Warriors.
So a report card on this latest game. On my
report card, I had a I had a D. I
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had a D on the report It was not as
blatantly egregious as it has been. Nevertheless, if you're the Lakers,
you can still give them.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A game ball.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And they I know, at the end they all rallied
around Lonnie Walker. I thought they should have rallied around
the officials there at the end of the game. There
was not as wide a gap as there has been.
So for the low information fan, they will swell, you know,
it's all.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's even.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It was an even game and all that, and we'll
get into it more here. But it was it was
really a stage show. You know, you've heard a Phantom
of the opera, very successful stage show, Phantom the Opera.
There were several Phantom foul calls that went against the Warriors.
It was at one point it was theater of the absurd.
In the first quarter, Lebron James missed a bunny. Okay,
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he missed a bunny and they called the foul. Why
be because someone looked at Lebron James and clearly that
was reason for a foul. Anthony Davis got called for
he'd accum' He did not get called for a blatant
hack on Klay Thompson on a driving play to the basket.
There was also a play where Anthony Davis held the
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arm of Draymond Green. Clear foul by Anthony Davis that
was not called. But the main egregious act the reason
I give the referees a D on the mal report
card down the stretch, timing matters. The referees favored the
Lakers in the fourth quarter. Down seven Lakers going to
the fourth quarter, the Lakers attempted and made eight foul shots.
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The Warriors attempted and made three. That's plus five. The
Lakers won by three. So without official interference, then the
outcome of this game would not go the way it did.
Anybody knows basketball knows that it was sneaky favoritism. Right,
last word, here, all right, the last word here, So
is this in the bag? Is it in the bag
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for the Lakers? And the answer to that is not
by a long shot, not by a long shot. And
if you think it's over, you're an idiot, because it's
not a best of five. Dumb, dumb you, Mama, Luke.
You've got to win another game. And trust me, that's
not going to be easy here, not going to be
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easy because everyone right now is sucking.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
The toes of Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And Anthony Davis and the Lakers, and the degree of
difficulty goes up for sure for the Warriors. There is
no margin for era now. But if you check the
EKG machine, we happen to have one here at Fox
Sports Radio. If you check the EKG machine, Golden State
still very much has a heart rate. It now becomes
more like an NCAA tournament situation that you just have
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to win three single games to advance. And it's really
a great opportunity here to shove it down the throat
of Lebron. I don't know anybody outside the Laker fanboys,
who are all frauds, by the way, the historians because
they hated Lebron until they played for their team. They're
all phonies. They all loved Kolbe and now they love Lebron.
But everyone else hates Lebron. I don't know anyone likes Lebron.
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So if you want to shove it down the throat
of Lebron, this is your opportunity. Golden State and a
tit for tat the Cavaliers with Lebron when Draymond kicked
a guy in the nuts and got suspended the NBA
Finals for the Warriors, the Cavs came back with Lebron
down three to one. Well, the opportunity is right there.
It's right there for you for the Warriors to come
back and beat the Lakers, because they can. The way
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I break this down, if you look at this objectively,
there have been four games, So the Lakers, I'll conceee
the game that just happened Game four, I'll give that,
even though the officials were biased in the fourth court.
I'll give that to the Lakers. So that's one win.
The Warriors have one win, the officials have two. So
the Lakers have one win legitimate win, which is still
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shaky at that against the Warriors. So I'm gonna be
Benny Bright's side. You know, when you tune to sports radio,
you tune in for optimism, unless you don't. But I
will be Benny Bright's side here. I will give you
the three reason nobody else has this content, the three
reasons that Golden State will come back. I'm gonna give
you the three reasons Golden State will come back here.
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Number one, Okay, Number one, the pressures on the Lakers. No,
it's not, yes, it is all right. The media has
handed this series to the Lakers right now.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Over they're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Eulogies for the Golden State Warriors all over media that
it's all over.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The Warriors are done. Oh my god, that's that's uh.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Lick Lebron James between the toes, all right, that's uh,
let's take care of Lebron. That's what's going on right now.
So for the Warriors, they can be loosey goosey. Now
the media has already buried them. They've already died. They're
going to their own funeral, all right. And these Lakers
scrubs will start cracking under pressure. Life comes at you
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fast in the playoffs. So number two here, you've got
the Friendly Confines. Game five in San Francisco. You win
that game, and then the pressure cooker gets really cranked
up on the Lakers because then they are in a
must win situation in a Game six in LA and
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if they gag that away, right, they gag that away,
and then they have to go back to Game seven
with all those tech vipers in the Bay Area. Forget
about that. And then the third reason to like the
Warriors to come back and bet the mortgage with your
favorite bookie is the fragile nature of that Laker team.
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And you look around Anthony Davis and Lebron James, the
Uni brow again.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
He got he went a wall.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
He went a wall on the second half, four more
field goal attempts than you had, four guys.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A fraud.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He doesn't have a dog in him, although he does
have fleas Anthony Davis. Four points and three turnovers in
the second half. Four points and that's it. Four points,
three turnose, four field goal attempts. Lebron James in the
fourth quarter, down seven, did he take over? He took
three shots, He made one of them, one of three
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from the four for Lebron. Both found a life preserver
in some scrub named Lonnie Walker who will never play
like that again, he's not that good. As a reason,
the Lakers traded for all those other guys and benched
him because they even think he sucks and blows. That's
why they replaced him. It took him out of the rotation.
But hey, lightning will not strike twice in the same spot.
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This is a fluke situation, and all things considered, when
you look at the setup here, the Warriors in a
sneaky good spot. They're in a sneaky good spot here
because Curry, Thompson, and Green all sucked in this game.
The Lakers needed some official help in the fourth quarter
and some loser named Lonnie Walker to make some shots.
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And assuming the referee step back for a couple of
games and let the players actually decide the games. They've
already meddled with two of the games in really two
and a.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Half, So the Warriors are okay.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
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Speaker 1 (18:15):
You know, I don't want to complain, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
No. Never.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I come in here and the thing's like a freaking
oven in here, Like what are they doing on the
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Holy crap, we have
a working functioning air conditioner. We're yes, that's good because
somebody they left it up.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It was hot in here. Yeah, I'm just saying a barbecue.
I'm doing the damn show.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, I'm with you on the icebox there. Yeah, okay,
But sometimes I know in my old studio. The thermostat
sometimes didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Work, Oh yeah, across the halls a piece of crap.
But this one works like this, the air conditioning air.
We got to take him in because I know they're
gonna break it. It's not gonna work, and they won't
fix it like the old one, because the old one
used to work and they never fixed it. So that's
my first complaint. The other complaint, this is a second
consecutive night I've come in here, Eddie, and the ice
machine is broken in the smurf fridge coop. Can you
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contact human resources and let them know that the ten
thousand dollars refrigerator that we have in the commissary here
at Fox Sports Radio does not have a functioning ice
machine anymore?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is that too much to ask for ice? Ice? Baby?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I think that's I think we should deserve ice, Eddie.
I say, no ice, no peace, That's what I say.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I'm with you. That's Eddie agrees ice, Roberto I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
There we go, all right? Everyone agrece.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yeah, sure it didn't just accidentally get turned off.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Well, it wasn't working yesterday. I figured there's a full
day of people in here. Somebody if it was turned off.
They would have easily turned it back on.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I think you're the only one that gets ice from there.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That's not right.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I've got Eddie loves it is great ice, Eddie. It's
one of the perks of the company.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well, I know if it's great ice, but ices.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Come.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
They used to get out and it used to give
about holiday bonus. Is now that you give us ice.
I'm happy with the ice del It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Just fix the damn ice machine.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
That's go upstairs? Anymore good ice?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
There's that.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I don't think there's any more upstairs. I think the coast.
The Coast has a studio and that's about it. I
think we're the only ones to knock. Oh yeah, there's
the master control operation.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
But I don't even know those guys. So yeah, I
think there's one guy that Isn't there one guy Roberto
that works up there, that used to be here. No,
I think us Oh did he Yeah, he had the
same name as someone else.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yes, Nick Nick Right, that's Nick Right up all night
with Nick Right now lives in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now does he really?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You know a lot about Nick Right? Why does he
live in Chicago? Let's hear about Nick right? Fox Sports Radio.
Is Nick Right not to be confused with Nick Right?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
One got a great job?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh yeah, good.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
What's his wife doing?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
She works in the TV industry.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh so he's just like a he's like eye candy
for the wife and every guy's great. We know another guy.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I don't know if I should say his name, but
his wife got a great job in Vegas and he
left the radio business for to kind of do the
same situations, play golf in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh yeah, so, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Anyway, all right, it's a Ben Mother show as talking
some basketball here. I got my complaints out of way,
low information fan, right, you know, you know this is
gonna be good of his name's low information fan, he
says entertaining monologue. However, the Lakers certainly have the momentum,
and the Lakers secret weapon slash decoy Lonnie Walker was
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used to perfection by Lebron. His presence in the lineup
now gives Steve Kerr a strategy headache, he says, Lakers
in six. That's from the low information fan. Yes, and
I know you're just trying to trigger me to do
a rant about the fact there is no such thing
as moment But I don't need to go down there.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I don't need to do.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Everyone who knows basketball or sports in general know there's
no such thing as momentum. After all, Golden State had
all the momentum. They had a seven point lead going
to the fourth quarter. Why would they give up the momentum?
It makes no sense. Ferg Dog writes in for as
great as Steph Curry is, it's embarrassing that Lonnie Walker
is now a more proven clutch playoff performer. In the
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fourth quarter, so he says, mister Luciano's wearing his Laker
boxer shorts. He did not like the Mallard monologue. He said,
I would have thought the Lakers lost the game because
of the way you just focus on their mishass because
no one else calls it out, mister Luciano.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Everyone else is.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Throwing flowers and giving back rubs and manny's and petties,
And we are the truth and broadcasting we are. So
that's a fact, Justin writes. Sin says, Jack Nicholson looks
like he's starring in Weekend at Bernie's three on the Sunlight.
I saw that, Yes, Fure not looking good there? Did
you see jacket? You didn't watch the game any I
(23:05):
saw some pictures. He didn't watch the No, they showed
him on they showed him on TV. He looks dishovel.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I was wondering if he still went to games or not.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
To be honest, No, he hasn't been games and years
like he hardly ever, he hasn't gotten for years. He's like,
he's I heard he's a hermit, like the tabloids, and
the tabloids say he's a hermit now and he doesn't
go out.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
And yeah, his first game back was the closeout game,
Game six against the Grizzlies, and he looked he looked
better at that game. And it just it just looks
like he hasn't shaved since that game.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I mean, you know, that's that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
He looked, he looked bad.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
He looked.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's like, you know, how you get to a point
in life you don't give a crap anymore. He looks
like he's at that point in life you don't give
a crap. He's like, what I made my money?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
And has he ever really given a crap?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah? He you know, he back in the fun jack Nick,
You guys don't believe this. But when I first started
going to the Laker who as a reporter for the
Mighty six ninety Jack at the Forum, Jack Nicholson would
come hang out with me and the the security guard
there because I'd sit in there. Sometimes during games, he
come and get coffee. That's how crappy the Forum was,
and Jack didn't want to go. Sometimes they'd go to
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the Forum Club, but he didn't want to get hassled
over there, so he'd come in the press room and
they'll coffee machine in there and he grab grab some
coffee and hang out. But he was dressed well, I mean,
look like that.
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Speaker 3 (24:54):
And I think I predicted this a couple of weeks ago.
I don't know if you remember, Ben Okay, but the
Chicago Blackhawk, in fact, the NHL Draft a.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Minute though, Eddie, you took an exl you were worried
the Ducks were going to win. You were concerned about that.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Come on, you're worried about it, liked it, But supposedly
you think.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
They used a cold envelope, Eddie, draft, I.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Told you there was no way they were going to
let this kid who's supposedly going to be the next
big thing.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Generation I don't know who is, generational test from Vancouver.
I saw I read a story online about him. He said,
I'm just a kid, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Well that's true. But I told you there was no
way they were going to let this guy go to
Anaheim or Columbus or Arizona. It was either going to
be Chicago or Montreal. And look, oh, I look at this.
Who finished Chicago? So who finished second? The Ducks finished
side they did finish. Okay, So it was the Ducks
and uh, did you watch this? I did watch it,
even though I had to have snacks. I had, no,
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it's not if it's not long enough.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Was it between periods?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Or that was right before the start of the the Oilers.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
A half hour show or yes, half a half stretch
it out, it's not he could do that in two seconds.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Some baseball games and note we had the Rage shut
off the Orioles three nothing. Shane McClanahan wins again. He's
seven to zero six shoutout Atnings Tampa Bay and major
League best twenty nine and seven. The Pirates have one.
They shut out the kid Mitch Keller complete game, four
hit shutout. We had the Brewers beat the Dodgers nine
to three. Fass they didn't go down the slide.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I don't guess he did. Actually the Dodgers they made him. No,
they made a they made a little video.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Did he go down in like a giant suit of armor?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
They made a little vignette on their on their social
media going down the slide? Yeah, I was I was
gonna take best saying bust his balls.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Like what are you doing? You know, come on back
to the scene of the crime. Diamondbacks beat the Marlins
five two, Rangers over the Mariners two to one, Angels
down the Astros six to four, Cardinals beat the Cubs everyone.
Cardinals beat the Cubs three to one. Wilson Contreras back
in Chicago got booed. He also got booted when he
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had to go ahead the RBI double in that game.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
He's a DH. He's not a catcher. He needs to
be a d.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Well, at least he did did his job as a DH.
I guess. Yankees beat the A seven to two. Nationals
over the Giants five one, Tigers topped the Guardian six
to two, and the Royals over the White Sox twelve
to five. Well, another day, another person in sports getting
in trouble for something they said on the radio.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Oh yeah, oh boy, oh, this is a big one.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Eddy Bob Huggins, the head coach men's basketball West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He'd like to have dinner with Tom Brenneman and the
a's broadcast like that.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
He was on a radio show there in Cincinnati, was
talking about Xavier.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Fans and what did he call him, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Well, he used the other F word.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It's a cigarette in Europe.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That is correct, That is correct.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But he wanted to smoke. He wanted to have a smoke.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I don't know if that's what he will want. The
school released a statement calling the comments insensitive and offensive
in adding this situation, I.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Don't know the review. I don't know what happened with
Bob Buggins.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But in my opinion, typically over my years in sports radio,
when someone says something that something like that on the radio,
they before the interview, they might have had a couple
of martinis. Yeah, that generally happens that they loosen up
a little bit, just let it.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, so something about.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Fake penises being thrown on the floor or something as well.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, he said that the fans I saw, I saw
the clip. But so does that mean a that he
gets what the therapy, sends money to a charity, wears
a rainbow flag or something like that.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Uh, yeah, that's it only get fired.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I don't think it's West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They're they're like happy. Anyone wants to live wants to
live here.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Okay, fine, you know, Bob Huggins makes enough money he
could own all of southern West Virginia, actually all of
West Virginia. For you get southern West Virginia. It is
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hello to Mark who's in Los Angeles. Hello Mark, you
are on the Ben Malors Show on Fox.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Welcome Marker.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Always a great nine win. The Lakers pull out the
classic win, isn't it. I just wanted to talk about
the greatness of this Laker team. Never say Die, even
though Golden State defending champs had him on the ropes.
And what do the Lakers do? They pull out the
unsung hero Lonnie Walker, who, by the way, if I
have to rip a Darvin Ram, I don't know why
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the hell he's out of the rotation. The guy's a
damn good player.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I think he should have been on the All Star team.
I don't know why he wasn't on the All Star team.
I think he is please I got for some reason,
I think he's you know what Roberto told me off
the air. He has on Lonnie Walker on his top
one hundred all time NBA players.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Hey, I think him over. I'll take him over to
the year. Guys, will the Clippers he has more?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Oh, here we go again with the Clippers again. I
didn't mention the clip. You mentioned the Clippers, Mark, I
didn't you you love you wish you were a Clipper fan.
You just that's a dead giveaway. You just gave it away.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You you could not make it through a phone call.
You gave fillatio to the Lakers, and you could not
make it through the call without saying the name of
the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Steve, Steve Bohmer sitting there thinking, I'm paying the most
luxury tax in the league for for a garbage team
that can't even get out of the first round. Meanwhile,
that left for dead at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Let's left for dead.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes, let's see, let's uh, let's uh look at the
you got.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
A golden ticket. Mark, that's a great call. Golden ticket for.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Markats that's uh.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I believe that's that's Cooper Loop calling in the other room.
That's actually he's changing his voice. The Laker PR staff
doesn't even agree with that guy. All right, it is
the Bane Show. We will press on and on and
on time now though, for the who am I game,
we'll go to baseball for the MLB pick him?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Here's the who am I?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Game?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
The last player to toss more than three hundred innings
in his season was a Hall of Famer Steve Carlton
way back in nineteen eighty forty plus years ago for
the Phillies. I am the last pitcher to throw two
hundred and seventy innings or more in a single season.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We'll
take some more calls and we'll have the MLB pick
and we'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 2 (32:11):
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the who Am I Game. The last player to go
over three hundred innings in a season with Hall of
Famers Steve Carlton way back in nineteen eighty for the
Phillies and he had three hundred four innings pitch that year.
I'm the last pitcher to throw over two hundred and
seventy innings in a season. With the wussification of pitching
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in baseball and the bullpen love, it doesn't happen very often.
Just Josh in Cincinnati says hold my beer. It's Huggy
Bear Kent to Colvy guests by Rob in Minnesota. Who
else do we have? The Eddie Garcia Burner account says
it's the Homie Nolan Ryan, Benny the Bopper guest by
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Malard prop Guy the Vexing ephis pitch. Well, as you know,
malardprop Guy the ephis pitch. One of the most dominating
pitchers in the history of baseball, alf the Alien Opiner
going with El Guappo Rich garcis as his answer. One
of the great fat relief pitchers of our time. Wally
in Florida says Wilbur Wood is the way to go.
The Bulldog Oral Hirscheiser from Callighan Tim in Michigan. Shane
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from Des Moines, Iowa going with Bobby A bray you
as his answer or a page down Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
got it right, bad job by him. The Sandman John
Smoltz guests by the Sawman Bert blyle Evan Twins legend
from Johnny Ray that's his answer. Yapheme in Chicago says
former Cups catcher Wilson Contreras is the answer. Pedro Borbone
(34:09):
from Chris.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
In Des Moines.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
That's his Iowa his answer Fergdog went with classless padres
fan as his select. Is there a non classless padre fan?
I kid because I care. Tim Foley guessed by mister
nice guy in the bay, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Do you have an answer, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I do. It's former Dodger pitcher Andy Messersmith.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Andy Messersmith Z Thatch correct. This guy was going to
be a Dodger and then he saw the clubhouse at
Dodger Stadium and backed out of the deal.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
True story. I heard it from multiple people with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Randy Johnson in nineteen ninety nine for the Arizona Diamondbacks
two hundred and seventy one to two thirty innings.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
He'd agreed to a contract. He went to USC.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
He's got ties to Southern California. He agreed to a
contract with the Dodgers. They gave him a tour of
the home clubhouse at Dodger Stadium, which has since been renovated,
and it was so small he couldn't hide from the media,
so he backed out of the deal.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Amazing. He had Hall of Fame Pitcher.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Hall of Fame Pitcher would have gone to the Dodgers
and decided not to go to the Dodgers because of that. No,
I think that was the Diamondbacks. He went to the Diamondbacks.
I think he signed because he had been traded from
if I remember, from Seattle to Houston. So it was
before he went to Arizona was still great and it
didn't happen. So the NBA coach asking for Emia Kolpa,
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Joe Missoula, no time out, Joe. You think he got
called into the principal's office by somebody in ownership for
the Celtics. He thinks he did, and so he now
in retrospect, says I should have probably called a time
out for the Celtics when they ran out of time
in the loss to the Sixers in Game four on
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the final possession.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So you've got that, and then you've got this wild
story which we are monitoring.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
This story originally broke in the overnight a couple of
weeks ago, but is the pending move of the Oakland
Athletics to Las Vegas on ice say what what? A
report from the Nevada Independent says the A's have now
started to revisit other locations around Nevada, other stadium sites
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that they had eliminated. They had agreed in principle to
a deal, but they're concerned they might not get taxpayer money.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
That they need.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Five hundred million dollars in taxpayer money from the taxpayers
of Nevada to get the stadium.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
It had been seemed like a done deal.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
They were as predicted by Andrea.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Andrea did say Mercury's in retrogay raids, so watch out.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
So wow that would be Does that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Mean Matt the Warrior Raider A's fan can now put
the A's back in his bio that this could fall
fall apart, But they are looking for alternatives. And so
we'll see that they'd already planned to build a thirty
five thousand seat retractable roof stadium an entertainment complex in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
But now that plan is not done.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
But if you need five hundred million dollars of taxpayer money,
it seems like a lot of money to give a
scumbag owner like the guy that owns the A. Anyway,
All right, here we go time now four b m
lb Pickham and in the leadoff chair mission baseball Amber
(37:37):
two oh I won.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Let's go ahead. The picture A terrible, terrible Picky gave
you zach Effin, f u zach Effin from my service.
I changed it up for the rates for interest. All right,
go ahead, go ahead, Eddie, come on, even.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Joke with you guys. Let's see here. Those are the
two pictures I want a little upset. I'll go with
the I'll go with the.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Beabes jameelright, urry, please back to back check out.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I will go with uh.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Let's see, my god, I wonder why we go over?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Everyone go with Raphael Devers and Anthony Rendon.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
All right, Eddie, Sean Murphy of the Braids, all.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Right, I'll take masaak She of the Red Sox Jr.
And Ron Buxton Christian Walker of the Twins. Alright, Diamondbacks.
I'm told we.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Got it in.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Good job, boys,
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number one, our one of the Ben Mahlor
Show podcast recorded while you were sleeping overnight here and
we talked pro bouncy ball in our one game four
between the Warriors and Lakers in La La Land as
the Lakers come back in the fourth quarter and get
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the win. So, who do you hold responsible for the
Warriors in this loss at a seven point lead going
to the fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
How do you grade the officiating?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Singing?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Big story in this series?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And is this series now in the bag for Lebron
and the Lakers up three games to one.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll go through all that and much more right now here.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It is our number one, a playoff nail bier. Welcome
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Meet in our.
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Lead to begin the night here will be here all
night flying the Red Eye flight. Where we land, Well,
we know when we land, and I do not think
we will be delayed in any way. But our lead
does come for pro bouncy ball. Oh, you know there's
a rhythm, a cadence this time of the year when
the playoffs are going on. We react reaction sten to
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the pro bouncy ball playoff. Ho doown in La laland
a California Hoopa palooza. If you will Game four Lakers
and Warriors, LA try to take a three games to
one lead, Golden State trying to square things up.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Did you watch? Eh? Maybe not.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You probably had something else to do. You don't care
about the Lakers or the Warriors, or you had something
else going on. So perhaps you missed it, and you
missed someone named Lonnie Walker. We're not sure who that is.
Someone named Lonnie Walker. He's apparently a basketball player for
the Lakers. It's gotta suck, though. I don't think he
gets any kind of free meals or anything, because nobody
knows who he is. But Lonnie Walker had fifteen points,
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all of his points in the fourth quarter, and the
Lakers getting some more friendly officiating down the stretch as
they pull it out, come from behind, barely getting past
the Warriors one oh four to one oh one. So
for now, the Lakers up three games to one in
the best of seven series. So the better story, though,
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is in the losing locker room. It has been my mantra,
will continue to be my mantra, and so we'll go
to the Golden State side of things. Steph Curry thirty
one points, fourteen assis, ten rebound.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Sounds like a great game. He didn't actually play that well.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The Warriors known as their the ability to knock down
three point shot. They were twelve of forty one from
downtown and my computer like brain tells me that is
less than thirty percent, which is not good.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
That is not good.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
So that is where we will start. Let us discuss
the question. The first question up is who do you
hold responsible? Who is responsible for the Warriors blowing a
lead in the fourth quarter down the stretch. So I've
got pothole stage show and e KG and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
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to build a comeback for the Golden State Wars in
this series, because they are still very much in the
middle of it. So now a hanging out. We like
to hand out the blame pie, and we're not gonna
do the blame pie. We're gonna do something totally different.
The blame Hogi, the blame Hogi is not the blame pie.
The blame hogy is this long foot long sandwich and
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it's the Hogi of blame. And so doing the Hogi
of blame, you cut it into pieces and there's several
big hunks of the Hogi to hand out here. This
game was obviously there for the taking. The Warriors had
a seven point lead going to the fourth quarter, and
I am going to remind my friends in the Bay Area,
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did the championship pedigree kick in in the fourth quarter.
That's one of my pet peeves because I I recall
in Game seven when Klay Thompson missed a bunch of
shots and other guys in the Warriors didn't play well
as well they've been in all these big playoff games.
The announcers love these old tropes. They love to bring
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these things up, and I was looking around. I was
looking for that championship pedigree to kick in. I didn't
see it. I'm asking for a friend because maybe it
did happen. My television might have been working not working.
I was driving in. The company had me drive in,
so I had to watch on my phone. But that's
illegal while I was driving, so I had to wait
till I got here to see some of it. But
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we'll start handing out and assigning the blame HOGI to
the headliners.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Right, we'll start with the headliners, and they're the ones.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That hit the pothole a marketing fail by Stephen Curry
and Klay Thompson. They get the biggest chunks of the
blame HOGI and splash, splash as it was, clank, clunk,
rim rattling, kind of a woman's there. The greatest shooting
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back court and a history. Just ask any hack NBA
broadcaster and they will tell you all time greatest. And
they took between them twenty three to three point shots
and made six of them, six of them. That's a
glittering twenty six percent. Klay Thompson, he was so bad.
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I told the buddy him when I was texting a
friend of mine. I say, I wouldn't be surprised he
looks so cooked that the Warriors will leak to Shams
or Woje that Clay's got an injury that he's playing through,
an injury like anytime he star athlete sucks at a
time you cannot suck.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
They often cook up an.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Injury like Clay's so garbage that I wouldn't be surprised
if it's some kind of injury that they're they're gonna
make up, whether it's true or not, that they'll cook
that off. But Klay Thompson nine points on three of eleven,
you better make that injury story up pretty quick. And
then you've got the curious case of Stephan Curry, who
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had a big stat line and the unknowledgeable basketball fan.
We'll say about thirty one points, he had, the ten rebounds,
the fourteen assists, and that's triple I'll call.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That tripled up.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's great game, but it reminded me of Alan Iverson
back in the day. That's not a compliment because let
me check my notes here. Steph Curry had thirty one points,
he took thirty shots, thirty one points on thirty shots. Now,
I'm not an NBA legend, but where I come from,
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I soon a overnight show.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That sucks.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
If you take thirty one shots to or thirty shots
to get thirty one points, that is not good. Now
keep in mind the pothole was an invisible barrier. Okay,
these guys on the Warriors were getting for the balance
of the game open looks. That's the part of this
which is which is both frustrating and encouraging at the
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same time, because the Lakers did not impress me at
all defensively.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The Warriors did what they wanted to.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And as the cliche goes from any NBA observers who
have nothing else to say, it's a make or mis
league and you're getting wide open looks most of the time.
You put the biscuit in the basket and you didn't
your ding dong. A lot of ding dong's out there.
And then you have the case of Draymond Green, who
was weak in the knees. Does he get a bonus
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for every turnover that he makes? Does he have a
there must be a clause in his contract where Draymond
gets a little extra money every pass he throws away
that must be the case there, but man bonehead plays
floundering the end of game situation throwing the ball away.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We can go on.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The other story which continues to be storing this series
is the officiating. So the second part of this is
how do you grade after game number four? How do
you grade the officiating between the Lakers and the Warriors.
So a report card on this latest game. On my
report card, I had a I had a D. I
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had a D on the report It was not as
blatantly egregious as it has been. Nevertheless, if you're the Lakers,
you can still give them.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
A game ball.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And they I know, at the end they all rallied
around Lonnie Walker. I thought they should have rallied around
the officials there at the end of the game. There
was not as wide a gap as there has been.
So for the low information fan, they will swell, you know,
it's all.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's even.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It was an even game and all that, and we'll
get into it more here. But it was it was
really a stage show. You know, you've heard a Phantom
of the opera, very successful stage show, Phantom the Opera.
There were several Phantom foul calls that went against the Warriors.
It was at one point it was theater of the absurd.
In the first quarter, Lebron James missed a bunny. Okay,
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he missed a bunny and they called the foul. Why
be because someone looked at Lebron James and clearly that
was reason for a foul. Anthony Davis got called for
he'd accum' He did not get called for a blatant
hack on Klay Thompson on a driving play to the basket.
There was also a play where Anthony Davis held the
(10:17):
arm of Draymond Green. Clear foul by Anthony Davis that
was not called. But the main egregious act the reason
I give the referees a D on the mal report
card down the stretch, timing matters. The referees favored the
Lakers in the fourth quarter. Down seven Lakers going to
the fourth quarter, the Lakers attempted and made eight foul shots.
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The Warriors attempted and made three. That's plus five. The
Lakers won by three. So without official interference, then the
outcome of this game would not go the way it did.
Anybody knows basketball knows that it was sneaky favoritism. Right,
last word, here, all right, the last word here, So
is this in the bag? Is it in the bag
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for the Lakers? And the answer to that is not
by a long shot, not by a long shot. And
if you think it's over, you're an idiot, because it's
not a best of five. Dumb, dumb you, Mama, Luke.
You've got to win another game. And trust me, that's
not going to be easy here, not going to be
(11:24):
easy because everyone right now is sucking.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
The toes of Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And Anthony Davis and the Lakers, and the degree of
difficulty goes up for sure for the Warriors. There is
no margin for era now. But if you check the
EKG machine, we happen to have one here at Fox
Sports Radio. If you check the EKG machine, Golden State
still very much has a heart rate. It now becomes
more like an NCAA tournament situation that you just have
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to win three single games to advance. And it's really
a great opportunity here to shove it down the throat
of Lebron. I don't know anybody outside the Laker fanboys,
who are all frauds, by the way, the historians because
they hated Lebron until they played for their team. They're
all phonies. They all loved Kolbe and now they love Lebron.
But everyone else hates Lebron. I don't know anyone likes Lebron.
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So if you want to shove it down the throat
of Lebron, this is your opportunity. Golden State and a
tit for tat the Cavaliers with Lebron when Draymond kicked
a guy in the nuts and got suspended the NBA
Finals for the Warriors, the Cavs came back with Lebron
down three to one. Well, the opportunity is right there.
It's right there for you for the Warriors to come
back and beat the Lakers, because they can. The way
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I break this down, if you look at this objectively,
there have been four games, So the Lakers, I'll conceee
the game that just happened Game four, I'll give that,
even though the officials were biased in the fourth court.
I'll give that to the Lakers. So that's one win.
The Warriors have one win, the officials have two. So
the Lakers have one win legitimate win, which is still
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shaky at that against the Warriors. So I'm gonna be
Benny Bright's side. You know, when you tune to sports radio,
you tune in for optimism, unless you don't. But I
will be Benny Bright's side here. I will give you
the three reason nobody else has this content, the three
reasons that Golden State will come back. I'm gonna give
you the three reasons Golden State will come back here.
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Number one, Okay, Number one, the pressures on the Lakers. No,
it's not, yes, it is all right. The media has
handed this series to the Lakers right now.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Over they're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Eulogies for the Golden State Warriors all over media that
it's all over.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The Warriors are done. Oh my god, that's that's uh.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Lick Lebron James between the toes, all right, that's uh,
let's take care of Lebron. That's what's going on right now.
So for the Warriors, they can be loosey goosey. Now
the media has already buried them. They've already died. They're
going to their own funeral, all right. And these Lakers
scrubs will start cracking under pressure. Life comes at you
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fast in the playoffs. So number two here, you've got
the Friendly Confines. Game five in San Francisco. You win
that game, and then the pressure cooker gets really cranked
up on the Lakers because then they are in a
must win situation in a Game six in LA and
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if they gag that away, right, they gag that away,
and then they have to go back to Game seven
with all those tech vipers in the Bay Area. Forget
about that. And then the third reason to like the
Warriors to come back and bet the mortgage with your
favorite bookie is the fragile nature of that Laker team.
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And you look around Anthony Davis and Lebron James, the
Uni brow again.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
He got he went a wall.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
He went a wall on the second half, four more
field goal attempts than you had, four guys.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
A fraud.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He doesn't have a dog in him, although he does
have fleas Anthony Davis. Four points and three turnovers in
the second half. Four points and that's it. Four points,
three turnose, four field goal attempts. Lebron James in the
fourth quarter, down seven, did he take over? He took
three shots, He made one of them, one of three
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from the four for Lebron. Both found a life preserver
in some scrub named Lonnie Walker who will never play
like that again, he's not that good. As a reason,
the Lakers traded for all those other guys and benched
him because they even think he sucks and blows. That's
why they replaced him. It took him out of the rotation.
But hey, lightning will not strike twice in the same spot.
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This is a fluke situation, and all things considered, when
you look at the setup here, the Warriors in a
sneaky good spot. They're in a sneaky good spot here
because Curry, Thompson, and Green all sucked in this game.
The Lakers needed some official help in the fourth quarter
and some loser named Lonnie Walker to make some shots.
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And assuming the referee step back for a couple of
games and let the players actually decide the games. They've
already meddled with two of the games in really two
and a.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Half, So the Warriors are okay.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
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Speaker 1 (18:15):
You know, I don't want to complain, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
No. Never.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I come in here and the thing's like a freaking
oven in here, Like what are they doing on the
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Holy crap, we have
a working functioning air conditioner. We're yes, that's good because
somebody they left it up.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It was hot in here. Yeah, I'm just saying a barbecue.
I'm doing the damn show.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, I'm with you on the icebox there. Yeah, okay,
But sometimes I know in my old studio. The thermostat
sometimes didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Work, Oh yeah, across the halls a piece of crap.
But this one works like this, the air conditioning air.
We got to take him in because I know they're
gonna break it. It's not gonna work, and they won't
fix it like the old one, because the old one
used to work and they never fixed it. So that's
my first complaint. The other complaint, this is a second
consecutive night I've come in here, Eddie, and the ice
machine is broken in the smurf fridge coop. Can you
(19:14):
contact human resources and let them know that the ten
thousand dollars refrigerator that we have in the commissary here
at Fox Sports Radio does not have a functioning ice
machine anymore?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is that too much to ask for ice? Ice? Baby?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I think that's I think we should deserve ice, Eddie.
I say, no ice, no peace, That's what I say.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I'm with you. That's Eddie agrees ice, Roberto I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
There we go, all right? Everyone agrece.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yeah, sure it didn't just accidentally get turned off.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Well, it wasn't working yesterday. I figured there's a full
day of people in here. Somebody if it was turned off.
They would have easily turned it back on.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I think you're the only one that gets ice from there.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That's not right.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I've got Eddie loves it is great ice, Eddie. It's
one of the perks of the company.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well, I know if it's great ice, but ices.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Come.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
They used to get out and it used to give
about holiday bonus. Is now that you give us ice.
I'm happy with the ice del It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Just fix the damn ice machine.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
That's go upstairs? Anymore good ice?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Right?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
There's that.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I don't think there's any more upstairs. I think the coast.
The Coast has a studio and that's about it. I
think we're the only ones to knock. Oh yeah, there's
the master control operation.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
But I don't even know those guys. So yeah, I
think there's one guy that Isn't there one guy Roberto
that works up there, that used to be here. No,
I think us Oh did he Yeah, he had the
same name as someone else.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yes, Nick Nick Right, that's Nick Right up all night
with Nick Right now lives in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now does he really?
Speaker 2 (20:44):
You know a lot about Nick Right? Why does he
live in Chicago? Let's hear about Nick right? Fox Sports Radio.
Is Nick Right not to be confused with Nick Right?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
One got a great job?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Oh yeah, good.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
What's his wife doing?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
She works in the TV industry.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh so he's just like a he's like eye candy
for the wife and every guy's great. We know another guy.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I don't know if I should say his name, but
his wife got a great job in Vegas and he
left the radio business for to kind of do the
same situations, play golf in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh yeah, so, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Anyway, all right, it's a Ben Mother show as talking
some basketball here. I got my complaints out of way,
low information fan, right, you know, you know this is
gonna be good of his name's low information fan, he
says entertaining monologue. However, the Lakers certainly have the momentum,
and the Lakers secret weapon slash decoy Lonnie Walker was
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used to perfection by Lebron. His presence in the lineup
now gives Steve Kerr a strategy headache, he says, Lakers
in six. That's from the low information fan. Yes, and
I know you're just trying to trigger me to do
a rant about the fact there is no such thing
as moment But I don't need to go down there.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I don't need to do.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Everyone who knows basketball or sports in general know there's
no such thing as momentum. After all, Golden State had
all the momentum. They had a seven point lead going
to the fourth quarter. Why would they give up the momentum?
It makes no sense. Ferg Dog writes in for as
great as Steph Curry is, it's embarrassing that Lonnie Walker
is now a more proven clutch playoff performer. In the
(22:23):
fourth quarter, so he says, mister Luciano's wearing his Laker
boxer shorts. He did not like the Mallard monologue. He said,
I would have thought the Lakers lost the game because
of the way you just focus on their mishass because
no one else calls it out, mister Luciano.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Everyone else is.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Throwing flowers and giving back rubs and manny's and petties,
And we are the truth and broadcasting we are. So
that's a fact, Justin writes. Sin says, Jack Nicholson looks
like he's starring in Weekend at Bernie's three on the Sunlight.
I saw that, Yes, Fure not looking good there? Did
you see jacket? You didn't watch the game any I
(23:05):
saw some pictures. He didn't watch the No, they showed
him on they showed him on TV. He looks dishovel.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I was wondering if he still went to games or not.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
To be honest, No, he hasn't been games and years
like he hardly ever, he hasn't gotten for years. He's like,
he's I heard he's a hermit, like the tabloids, and
the tabloids say he's a hermit now and he doesn't
go out.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
And yeah, his first game back was the closeout game,
Game six against the Grizzlies, and he looked he looked
better at that game. And it just it just looks
like he hasn't shaved since that game.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
I mean, you know, that's that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
He looked, he looked bad.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
He looked.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's like, you know, how you get to a point
in life you don't give a crap anymore. He looks
like he's at that point in life you don't give
a crap. He's like, what I made my money?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
And has he ever really given a crap?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah? He you know, he back in the fun jack Nick,
You guys don't believe this. But when I first started
going to the Laker who as a reporter for the
Mighty six ninety Jack at the Forum, Jack Nicholson would
come hang out with me and the the security guard
there because I'd sit in there. Sometimes during games, he
come and get coffee. That's how crappy the Forum was,
and Jack didn't want to go. Sometimes they'd go to
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the Forum Club, but he didn't want to get hassled
over there, so he'd come in the press room and
they'll coffee machine in there and he grab grab some
coffee and hang out. But he was dressed well, I mean,
look like that.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
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Speaker 2 (24:22):
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Speaker 1 (24:31):
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Speaker 2 (24:34):
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Speaker 1 (24:39):
Why should you listen? Picture if you will?
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Speaker 3 (24:54):
And I think I predicted this a couple of weeks ago.
I don't know if you remember, Ben Okay, but the
Chicago Blackhawk, in fact, the NHL Draft a.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Minute though, Eddie, you took an exl you were worried
the Ducks were going to win. You were concerned about that.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Come on, you're worried about it, liked it, But supposedly
you think.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
They used a cold envelope, Eddie, draft, I.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Told you there was no way they were going to
let this kid who's supposedly going to be the next
big thing.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Generation I don't know who is, generational test from Vancouver.
I saw I read a story online about him. He said,
I'm just a kid, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Well that's true. But I told you there was no
way they were going to let this guy go to
Anaheim or Columbus or Arizona. It was either going to
be Chicago or Montreal. And look, oh, I look at this.
Who finished Chicago? So who finished second? The Ducks finished
side they did finish. Okay, So it was the Ducks
and uh, did you watch this? I did watch it,
even though I had to have snacks. I had, no,
(25:51):
it's not if it's not long enough.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Was it between periods?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Or that was right before the start of the the Oilers.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
A half hour show or yes, half a half stretch
it out, it's not he could do that in two seconds.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Some baseball games and note we had the Rage shut
off the Orioles three nothing. Shane McClanahan wins again. He's
seven to zero six shoutout Atnings Tampa Bay and major
League best twenty nine and seven. The Pirates have one.
They shut out the kid Mitch Keller complete game, four
hit shutout. We had the Brewers beat the Dodgers nine
to three. Fass they didn't go down the slide.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I don't guess he did. Actually the Dodgers they made him. No,
they made a they made a little video.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Did he go down in like a giant suit of armor?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
They made a little vignette on their on their social
media going down the slide? Yeah, I was I was
gonna take best saying bust his balls.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Like what are you doing? You know, come on back
to the scene of the crime. Diamondbacks beat the Marlins
five two, Rangers over the Mariners two to one, Angels
down the Astros six to four, Cardinals beat the Cubs everyone.
Cardinals beat the Cubs three to one. Wilson Contreras back
in Chicago got booed. He also got booted when he
(27:01):
had to go ahead the RBI double in that game.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
He's a DH. He's not a catcher. He needs to
be a d.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Well, at least he did did his job as a DH.
I guess. Yankees beat the A seven to two. Nationals
over the Giants five one, Tigers topped the Guardian six
to two, and the Royals over the White Sox twelve
to five. Well, another day, another person in sports getting
in trouble for something they said on the radio.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Oh yeah, oh boy, oh, this is a big one.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Eddy Bob Huggins, the head coach men's basketball West Virginia.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
He'd like to have dinner with Tom Brenneman and the
a's broadcast like that.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
He was on a radio show there in Cincinnati, was
talking about Xavier.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Fans and what did he call him, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Well, he used the other F word.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It's a cigarette in Europe.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
That is correct, That is correct.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But he wanted to smoke. He wanted to have a smoke.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I don't know if that's what he will want. The
school released a statement calling the comments insensitive and offensive
in adding this situation, I.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Don't know the review. I don't know what happened with
Bob Buggins.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But in my opinion, typically over my years in sports radio,
when someone says something that something like that on the radio,
they before the interview, they might have had a couple
of martinis. Yeah, that generally happens that they loosen up
a little bit, just let it.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah, so something about.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Fake penises being thrown on the floor or something as well.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, he said that the fans I saw, I saw
the clip. But so does that mean a that he
gets what the therapy, sends money to a charity, wears
a rainbow flag or something like that.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Uh, yeah, that's it only get fired.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I don't think it's West Virginia.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
They're they're like happy. Anyone wants to live wants to
live here.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Okay, fine, you know, Bob Huggins makes enough money he
could own all of southern West Virginia, actually all of
West Virginia. For you get southern West Virginia. It is
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are on the Ben Malors Show on Fox.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Welcome Marker.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Always a great nine win. The Lakers pull out the
classic win, isn't it. I just wanted to talk about
the greatness of this Laker team. Never say Die, even
though Golden State defending champs had him on the ropes.
And what do the Lakers do? They pull out the
unsung hero Lonnie Walker, who, by the way, if I
have to rip a Darvin Ram, I don't know why
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the hell he's out of the rotation. The guy's a
damn good player.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I think he should have been on the All Star team.
I don't know why he wasn't on the All Star team.
I think he is please I got for some reason,
I think he's you know what Roberto told me off
the air. He has on Lonnie Walker on his top
one hundred all time NBA players.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
Hey, I think him over. I'll take him over to
the year. Guys, will the Clippers he has more?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Oh, here we go again with the Clippers again. I
didn't mention the clip. You mentioned the Clippers, Mark, I
didn't you you love you wish you were a Clipper fan.
You just that's a dead giveaway. You just gave it away.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Mark.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You you could not make it through a phone call.
You gave fillatio to the Lakers, and you could not
make it through the call without saying the name of
the Clippers.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Steve, Steve Bohmer sitting there thinking, I'm paying the most
luxury tax in the league for for a garbage team
that can't even get out of the first round. Meanwhile,
that left for dead at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Let's left for dead.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yes, let's see, let's uh, let's uh look at the
you got.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
A golden ticket. Mark, that's a great call. Golden ticket for.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Markats that's uh.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I believe that's that's Cooper Loop calling in the other room.
That's actually he's changing his voice. The Laker PR staff
doesn't even agree with that guy. All right, it is
the Bane Show. We will press on and on and
on time now though, for the who am I game,
we'll go to baseball for the MLB pick him?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Here's the who am I?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Game?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Now?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
The last player to toss more than three hundred innings
in his season was a Hall of Famer Steve Carlton
way back in nineteen eighty forty plus years ago for
the Phillies. I am the last pitcher to throw two
hundred and seventy innings or more in a single season.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We'll
take some more calls and we'll have the MLB pick
and we'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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the who Am I Game. The last player to go
over three hundred innings in a season with Hall of
Famers Steve Carlton way back in nineteen eighty for the
Phillies and he had three hundred four innings pitch that year.
I'm the last pitcher to throw over two hundred and
seventy innings in a season. With the wussification of pitching
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in baseball and the bullpen love, it doesn't happen very often.
Just Josh in Cincinnati says hold my beer. It's Huggy
Bear Kent to Colvy guests by Rob in Minnesota. Who
else do we have? The Eddie Garcia Burner account says
it's the Homie Nolan Ryan, Benny the Bopper guest by
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Malard prop Guy the Vexing ephis pitch. Well, as you know,
malardprop Guy the ephis pitch. One of the most dominating
pitchers in the history of baseball, alf the Alien Opiner
going with El Guappo Rich garcis as his answer. One
of the great fat relief pitchers of our time. Wally
in Florida says Wilbur Wood is the way to go.
The Bulldog Oral Hirscheiser from Callighan Tim in Michigan. Shane
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from Des Moines, Iowa going with Bobby A bray you
as his answer or a page down Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
got it right, bad job by him. The Sandman John
Smoltz guests by the Sawman Bert blyle Evan Twins legend
from Johnny Ray that's his answer. Yapheme in Chicago says
former Cups catcher Wilson Contreras is the answer. Pedro Borbone
(34:09):
from Chris.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
In Des Moines.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
That's his Iowa his answer Fergdog went with classless padres
fan as his select. Is there a non classless padre fan?
I kid because I care. Tim Foley guessed by mister
nice guy in the bay, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Do you have an answer, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I do. It's former Dodger pitcher Andy Messersmith.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Andy Messersmith Z Thatch correct. This guy was going to
be a Dodger and then he saw the clubhouse at
Dodger Stadium and backed out of the deal.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
True story. I heard it from multiple people with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Randy Johnson in nineteen ninety nine for the Arizona Diamondbacks
two hundred and seventy one to two thirty innings.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
He'd agreed to a contract. He went to USC.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
He's got ties to Southern California. He agreed to a
contract with the Dodgers. They gave him a tour of
the home clubhouse at Dodger Stadium, which has since been renovated,
and it was so small he couldn't hide from the media,
so he backed out of the deal.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Amazing. He had Hall of Fame Pitcher.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Hall of Fame Pitcher would have gone to the Dodgers
and decided not to go to the Dodgers because of that. No,
I think that was the Diamondbacks. He went to the Diamondbacks.
I think he signed because he had been traded from
if I remember, from Seattle to Houston. So it was
before he went to Arizona was still great and it
didn't happen. So the NBA coach asking for Emia Kolpa,
(35:35):
Joe Missoula, no time out, Joe. You think he got
called into the principal's office by somebody in ownership for
the Celtics. He thinks he did, and so he now
in retrospect, says I should have probably called a time
out for the Celtics when they ran out of time
in the loss to the Sixers in Game four on
(35:55):
the final possession.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So you've got that, and then you've got this wild
story which we are monitoring.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
This story originally broke in the overnight a couple of
weeks ago, but is the pending move of the Oakland
Athletics to Las Vegas on ice say what what? A
report from the Nevada Independent says the A's have now
started to revisit other locations around Nevada, other stadium sites
(36:23):
that they had eliminated. They had agreed in principle to
a deal, but they're concerned they might not get taxpayer money.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
That they need.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Five hundred million dollars in taxpayer money from the taxpayers
of Nevada to get the stadium.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
It had been seemed like a done deal.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
They were as predicted by Andrea.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Andrea did say Mercury's in retrogay raids, so watch out.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
So wow that would be Does that.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Mean Matt the Warrior Raider A's fan can now put
the A's back in his bio that this could fall
fall apart, But they are looking for alternatives. And so
we'll see that they'd already planned to build a thirty
five thousand seat retractable roof stadium an entertainment complex in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
But now that plan is not done.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
But if you need five hundred million dollars of taxpayer money,
it seems like a lot of money to give a
scumbag owner like the guy that owns the A. Anyway,
All right, here we go time now four b m
lb Pickham and in the leadoff chair mission baseball Amber
(37:37):
two oh I won.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Let's go ahead. The picture A terrible, terrible Picky gave
you zach Effin, f u zach Effin from my service.
I changed it up for the rates for interest. All right,
go ahead, go ahead, Eddie, come on, even.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Joke with you guys. Let's see here. Those are the
two pictures I want a little upset. I'll go with
the I'll go with the.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Beabes jameelright, urry, please back to back check out.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I will go with uh.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Let's see, my god, I wonder why we go over?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Everyone go with Raphael Devers and Anthony Rendon.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
All right, Eddie, Sean Murphy of the Braids, all.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Right, I'll take masaak She of the Red Sox Jr.
And Ron Buxton Christian Walker of the Twins. Alright, Diamondbacks.
I'm told we.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Got it in.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Good job, boys,
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