May 11, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller gives some rapid fire NFL Hot Takes including his thoughts on the European matchups in 2023, Malik Willis being the odd man out in Tennessee, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nameber Fall, Hour four of
the Ben Mahler Show podcast from the radio show, recorded
overnight while you were sleeping, and here it is if
you missed any part of it, Every hour saved for
posterity's sake. So we'll do a little NFL alphabet soup
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here rapid fire hot taste, which twenty twenty three European
NFL matchup has the most juice? Where's the juice? And
will the NFL place teams in Europe permanently? Like just
move a team there? Buy or sell? Malik Willis in
Nashville being the odd man out at quarterback for Tennessee,
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and Aaron Donald says that he did not really consider
retiring from the Rams in twenty twenty two. Do you
believe him? We'll talk about all of that and more
in the NFL out Flhabet Soup edition of the podcast
Our four. Here it is a nice European vacation. Welmeme.
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the Atlantic. The NFL Big Day. Oh, it's so exciting.
Are you having a party? Yes, No, it's NFL schedule Day. Man,
is this a big day? It's right next to Thanksgiving
July fourth celebrations. Ah man. Anyway, the NFL schedule has
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already started. The league out that was planned by the NFL.
A bunch of games were let out into the public
sphere on Wednesday. For example, the international slate of games
wasn't asked for twenty twenty three. Now, if you didn't
see this, maybe maybe not, but it's all part of
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our look around our alphabet soup, look around the Pigskin
World Now Jacksonville. With much fanfare, it was announced will
become the first team to play twice in London over
one season. Yeah, the Jags will be spending weeks four
and five respectively this upcoming NFL season, which starts in September,
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playing the Falcons and the Bills. So there's a very
exciting news there. All together, the NFL will play not one,
not two, not three, not four, but five games on
European soil, and they made a big announcement about that.
So let us discuss the question which European NFL matchup
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has the most juice the most juice. So I've got
a doggie bag, star trek, and canoe, and we will
combine all of these together and we are going to
make a nice tropical destination. We're gonna make for your vacation,
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which is not made tropical places. There's a few in Europe,
but not many, all right, So first of all, this
is you look at the matchups here. This does get
you excited. They're excited too much, right, that is by design.
We believe the NFL intentionally holds back on sending the
glamour teams overseas. Now we know Jerry Jones refuses to
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allow the Cowboys to give up a home game. The
Cowboys make so much money from the good people of
the Dallas area and all over the great State of
Texas and beyond that. Jerry's like, no, I'm a businessman,
I'm not giving up a home game. Well, then why
don't the Cowboys just play on the road overseas? Well?
Nobody else wants to give up a home game when
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the Cowboys are the opponent. So as a result, Cowboys
don't play these international games. They don't go to Europe
and all that stuff. But the NFL gives you know
what they give out. They give out the doggy bag
leftovers to the European market, and those people pay premium
to get a saggy doggy bag. And we have a
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hodgepodge of teams that will be traveling to play games
in Europe. Weight contenders. I say middleweight contenders because these
are teams that are either fringe playoff teams or teams
that are going to be fighting at the very end
and most likely won't. Some of them will fall off,
a couple of them will be terrible, a couple of
them will be playoff teams. You don't know. It's a
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grab back and that includes the Ravens. Mark Jackson likely
gets hurt at some point, so you'll be playing the
backup the Dolphins Tua's concussion problem. Jacksonville. Some people very
excited about Jacksonville because of what they did last year
against the Chargers in the playoffs. The Titans, who knows
what's going on with that team, end the Patriots. All
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of those teams are either playoff teams are not guaranteed
to make the playoffs, but they should make the playoffs
or be in contention for the playoffs. And then you've
got teams that are bad to the bone, like the
Falcons and the Colts. And then you toss in a
couple of title contenders, the Bills and the Chiefs, but
just make sure they don't play each other. The big
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pizazz matchup is the Tyreek Hill grudge match the Dolphins
and the Chiefs November fifth at Frankfurt Stadium in Germany.
Be there or yeah, and that'll be a as the
kids say, or if you're playing poker, that'll be a heater, right,
that'll be here at Kansas City, of course, dumping Tyreek
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Hill for a big basket of promisary notes. And then
they went out and won the Lombardi Trophy. It is
the only game that gets you even a little Horny
among the European matchups. Everything else is a mismatch of
mostly bad teams, average teams, vanilla ice cream, no topping.
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That's it now. Secondly, will the NFL place a team
or multiple teams in Europe anytime soon? So I have
changed my position I take on this. Years ago, we
talked about this. I feel like this has been a
thing for ten or fifteen years, and the answer was always, Oh, yeah,
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we're not that far away. We're not that far away,
We're not that far away. Now I'm at the position
we're to permanently put teams in Europe in the near future,
I say no, Like we have been hearing this over
and over and over and over, and so my take
has evolved. My position on this is that you might
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see Jacksonville go over there when their stadium is being renovated,
But even that is not a guarantee because you have
to get approval from the Union. And what I've heard,
if the streets are right, and the streets have told
me that the NFL players are not gung ho about
living an entire year in London and then having to
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come back and play games, and so there'd have to
be some nice bonuses, some nice perks tossed in to
make that happen, and then you get into questions about
whether that's fair or not fair and etc. Etc. Etc.
Then the other factor is that the ownership group is conflicted.
There is not a consensus. You've got clicks. Like any
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group of human beings, you have clicks. You have some
NFL owners from what we've heard, that are all gung
ho and they're ready to do a belly whopper into
the deep end of the foreign water. However, there is
a faction of aristocrats who are like, hold on, nothing
is not hold on. Don't want to do that. No,
they like what they're doing right now, dipping their toes
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in rare and appropriate extra revenue but not permanent. But
eventually the NFL is going to have a pivot point.
They are going to expand once they dry up the
revenue streams. And so there's thirty two teams now, eventually
there'll be thirty four and then thirty six and that's
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the point of demarcation full immersion in Europe. It is
a star trek situation. The final frontier, the revenue streams
start drying up, then they have Europe on layaway like
where we need it, we can go there and we'll
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see how that goes. Now, continuing the alphabet soup, the
final couple of things. Here, we are told there's a
report bouncing around that the Tennessee Titans Malik Willis, second
year quarterback Milie Willis is the odd man out. As
long as Ryan Tannehill is on the roster, you buy
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or sell Malie Willis being the odd man out in Tennessee.
So I buy this one. And Malik Willis was not
only a quarterback, he was terrible. If you could compare
him to an object, Malik Willis is like a canoe,
but he's up a creek without a paddle in the canoe.
Is he lacked the basics of playing the position. I
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don't know what he was he was doing at Liberty.
He's a nice guy by all accounts. He gave us
some good soundbites, but man, is he a barf bag
at quarterback. And the way I look at the Titans,
Mike Vrabel, if you're looking for the next wave of
coaches that are on the hot seat that are gonna
lose their job if Tennessee has another floundering year where
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they don't go forward, even if they're stuck in neutral.
Mike Vrabel and his coaching staff are on the hot seat.
They just changed the front office there, and when you
change the front office, the next move is eventually, if
it doesn't work out, you change the coach. But they're
not gonna sit there. Mike Vrabel and his staff are
not going to sit there and spoon feed Malik Willis
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because he appears to be lacking the rudimentary skills. One
of the worst debuts we've seen in NFL history, and
so they took another swing. We know, the Titans took
another swing at the suspect wheel of Kenny, not Kenny
will Levis. Kenny's his uncle from Kentucky. I had the
quarterback from Kentuck now moving around the alphabet soup. Aaron
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Donald our old buddy. You can ram it all day,
you can ram it all night, but not last year.
Aaron Donald recently said that he did not really consider
NFL retirement in twenty twenty two. You make the call,
do you believe him or not? So I actually believe him.
And the reason I believe him is because he was
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just trying to get more money. Plus it validates what
we said at the time. We always like to be
validated in life, and Donald was visiting fantasyland right his
helpers concocted a story that Aaron Donald was gonna walk
away from the NFL, and they planted it right around
the Super Bowl. If you remember, the Rams were playing
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the Bengals that year, and that story leaked in the
lead up to the Super Bowl. That was a strategic plant,
is what they is like you go to a comedy
show and somebody's in the crowd, but they're on the
payroll and they just happened to be the person that's
called up to the stage when they cut the woman
in half. You know, that's the thing. So that the
helpers came up with the story, Hey, Aaron Donald might retire,
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he might go back to Pittsburgh and chop wood out
in the woods, unhappy and lucky. Looky, looky here pressed down.
He got another bank heist contract from the Rams, who
now suck. But he got his money and not retiring. No, no, no,
no no. It is the Ben Mathers Show. You want
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to talk about any of this, you can join us.
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. We had two
playoff games in the NBA last night and the Knickerbockers
and the Warriors staving off elimination and the Knicks able
to come out of the gate. Didn't come out of the
gates great, but they they were only up by three
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and a half time at a big third quarter and
shot six over sixty percent in the second half. The
next day, but now they got to go to Miami
and the Warriors dominated the Lakers. The big story in
that game, Humpty, dumpty. Anthony Davis took a fall. Well,
they actually took a shot to the to the temple
from Cavon Looney of the wars Inadverton, and he pulled
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the Paul Pierce, although it was not a full pulpit
because Paul Pierce did it for the cameras. There's no
I've not seen any footage of Anthony Davis in the wheelchair,
but he was given a wheelchair ride in the bowels
of the arena in San Francisco, and the Lakers are
swearing on the Holy Bible that it's not a concussion.
But he got hit in the head, he walked like
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a baby draft and needed a wheelchair. That sounds like
a concussion to me. But the Lakers like no, no,
because if he had a concussion, he wouldn't be able
to play in the next game. As far as the
games tonight, a quick peak litt peek a boo, the Celtics,
who are now on the brink of elimination playing the Sixers,
and the line on that game. The cel opened a
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one and a half point favorite on the road on
the road, one and a half point favorite, and they
are favored by two and a half and they're getting
almost sixty five percent of the money the gaming the
numbers we have, which is pretty crazy to me considering
how terrible the Celtics looked in that last game, but
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they did blow the previous game in Philadelphia. The Joe
Missoula let him play Joe game. So the Celts a
two and a half point favorite, and the Denver Nuggets
can close out the Suns in the Valley of the Sun.
Chris Paul's not playing in that game. The Suns opened
a two and a half point favorite and they're favored
by three in that game. And the money a lot
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of it, even more money on the Nuggets than the
Seas and the other games. So that's the late game,
the Nuggets and the Suns and then Friday the Heat
Knicks game six. The line on that game. The Heat
opened a five point favorite in that one and the
Warriors and the Lakers. Lakers open only a one and
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a half point favorite in that game. That ain't much.
That ain't much, And a lot of that may have
to do with Anthony Davis. Even if he plays, how
effective is he going to be? They have adjusted the
line for that eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
the number eight seven seven nine nine six six three
sixty nine. We will have Puck the world and also
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the biggest loser in the NBA, the biggest loser in
the NBA. And I'm sure you'll feel very, very sad
for this guy. You'll be bummed out for this guy,
unless you won't. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.
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Speaker 1 (16:14):
Man. Later this hour, we will have fact or fiction
Puck the world as well coming up for you in
a little bit. And your phone calls yapping away on
the overnight and we'll get back to the calls in
a moment. Shane in des Moines writes in he says,
great monologue, a plus. Then he he asked Eddie a
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question which I don't meant. You can ask him that.
Maybe he'll answer you. You tag me in it. He
says something about college hockey. We want to talk about
college hockey at this point, maybe later late night. Drug
tester says, I would figure that if Jacksonville was playing
two games in Europe, they would have gone to Germany,
so Angry Bill can catch up with old friends. I
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see what you did there? Sure? Why not? That's an
interesting story though, that that that's the team that is
everyone saying is gonna be the guinea pig. And if
they're ever gonna send a team, it's gonna be Jacksonville.
But I just saw this or not this the story
bounce around the mayor of Jacksonville, the great Lenny Curry.
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I did not vote for him, but I do not
live in Duval County. But they're renovating. You don't know
who Lenny Curry is. Come on, what kind of political
fan are you? Anyway, Lenny Curry, the mayor of Jacksonville,
said that they're gonna renovate the stadium. I just planned
to renovate the corporate the name stadium there in Jacksonville,
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and that could could weasel word force the NFL franchise
to be nomads. They have to find a new place
to play for two seasons. According to the mayor of Jacksonville.
He said two years. There you go. He said, they're
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going to try to find a place in Jacksonville where
they can play. He says, but if they can't accommodate them,
and depends on what the NFL wants. Also, the NFL
could always come in there and say, well, you know,
maybe maybe we'll I want you to play somewhere far
far away, like I don't know London for a season.
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And so the talk is that in twenty twenty five
and twenty twenty six, which seems like it's actually not
that far away. It's twenty twenty three right now, So
a couple of years from now they will have to
go somewhere else. I think they'll be okay. I think
they'll find somewhere to play. How about they play every week.
Here's an idea. I'm just I'm just kind of facilitating here.
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How about every week Jacksonville plays in a Southeastern Conference
stadium and they just try to own this Southeastern Congress. Like,
play a game one week. You're in Uscaloosa, I play.
Go to Knoxville for a week, play a home game there,
see what happens, Try to cultivate some fans there. Go
to Arkansas, play a game. Goal you know you can't obviously,
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there's too many teams in the SEC to hit all
of them. But bounce around a little bit, don't give
a shot. Why not play the swamp, play a home
game over the swamp and knock yourself out. Let's go
to the phones and let's see who do we have here?
Eenie meenie miney moe let's say hello to Dick in Dayton.
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Hello Dick, the caller of the year on the Ben
Malor Show, The King of Kings, a legend, a musician
who's in three bands, The great Dick in Dayton. Hello Dick,
good morning, Good morning, Hey Dick.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
How you doing. I just wanted to tell you that
after my retirement, as you know, I've found this other
it's adults for band. We've got a couple shows, but
I went back to the Kettering Monday. We're getting some
uh you know, people back. But I'm having fun with
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my retirement.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well that's great, Dick. And Dayton's a legendary radio caller.
He dominated How many years did you work at Low's
and Dayton there? How many years? Quarter of a century,
quarter of a century. This guy was all over the
lows there, and now he's dominating at what the string benders?
You got the Kettering Banjo Society and the Miamisburg Dolzmer Society.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, I belong also to the dosmal Society of It's
cold Ohio. There's a lot of people, but we've got
a couple jobs. I got to go to my strummers today.
But we've got a couple jobs, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So oh yeah, the strummers, that's right, remember the drummers,
string strummers, string benders, ketterying, banjo society. You're in four
bands almost almost? Wow? Wow, that's wild you How do
you handle it?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Well? I just you know, adopt to it. And I
see a lot of my friends up where I get
coffee and have a good time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You know, absolutely, I understand. Well, fascinating. Are you watching
any sports are you're waiting for?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, I've been watching a little bit of the Reds games.
I say they've they've improved a little bit this year.
They're kind of exciting to watch, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But yeah, I was watching some of the Reds games
against the Mets. That was on my radar last Yeah,
I better get.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
A schedule today, they say, the the Browns and Big
those schedules out today, So I.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Better get what you're gonna go to any of the games?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Or no? Probably just you know, call in after the
I usually call in after the on the post game
up in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You know, sure, are you gonna try to get one
of those pocket schedules?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah? Yeah, sure, they called me chick in.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, they still make those. I think I think you
bye bye bye bye. Do they still make pockets? He's
like an archaic thing in the past. They used to
make pocket schedule for your wallet. I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I don't think so. I don't either. I don't remember
seeing them anywhere.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah. Remember that was like a big thing, the pocket schedule. Yeah,
that was awesome.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Now you can just do a thing where they automatically
download it to your phone.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
God, we're old. My god, they pocket schedules and crap
like that. Dick won't be denied press press Uh, the
press box. They'd be filled with media guys. It's a big,
big thing. And I don't think they don't even do
those anymore. Their things digital, they definitely don't do those anymore. Yeah,
everything's online, and yeah, so many of those things piled
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up back in the day.
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Speaker 3 (23:17):
Roberto, is there a chance that you might have a
progressive player of the day.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
High in the air to center that goes ruiz Away
back on the track at the wall, Jeez gone, it's
a Grand Slam Anthony Vault. Bake Grand Slam into Deep
Love Center and break this game wide open Anthony Vault
by spectaculars and on the Grand Slam the Yankees taking
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eleven two lead.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Come on, John, I love that's terrible. I'm gonna have
to I'll have to text and John are tight? I
have to text it out? Wow, it's it's Italian.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Play it again, No, don't play it again, No, don't
play it again.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Some good ones.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I almost tell you it's a metacular orgy there that
would have been better.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That's not fantastic. Call it translates to putting on a
show today. Oh come on you.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
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Speaker 1 (24:37):
And the big loser in the NBA Ja Morant. He
was not named an All NBA player. They announced the
All NBA teams on Wednesday, and so Ja Morant lost
thirty nine million dollars because he did not make an
All NBA team. Thirty nine million five season. Wow, I
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think he be okay. I think he'll be okay as
long as he stays out of jail. I think he'll
be all right there now. Yes, how much of that
do you think has to do with the shotgun Willies? Yeah?
I bet you. Yeah, because it happened he started, he said,
I think sixty seven games. He missed a bunch, So yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
I think because I mean I feel like he had an,
you know, an All NBA type season.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, he had a good year. The big the big
winner would be Jalen Brown, who is now eligible to
sign a designated veteran extension. I don't even know what
the hell that is, but he's gonna make a lot
more money. And Jason Tatum also will be eligible for
more money. So the Celtics, and he's got all NBA.
They got to all NBA players and the guys they
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play like dogs against the Sixers the other day. But anyway,
so Jalen Brown eligible for the super Max. So instead
of getting one hundred and ninety million, he will now
he'll get an extra one hundred million over five years.
And Jason Tatum also gonna get I believe I saw
the numbers somewhere. I don't have it in front of me,
but it's a fair amount of money, fair amount of money,
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a lot of cash, a lot of cash. Hold on
that Ben Males show on Fox and Hockey Hockey Hockey.
Let's get over to Eddie right now for pucked the world.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
All right, Bet, I have a special story saved at
the end for you.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't know if you story time with Eddie.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
But the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs continue.
No team has advanced near the conference finals yet. In
the East, the Panthers on the verge of advancing, but
the Maple Leafs state of live as we mentioned a
moment ago to one with the road win last night,
till the odds are still long against Toronto getting the
series victory. Only four teams in NHL history of rally
down three nothing to win a playoffs series. If the
Maple Leafs lose, reports out of Toronto say that their
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general manager, Kyle Dubas and their head coach, Sheldon keep
will be fired, even though they helped guide the team
out of the first round for the first time since
two thousand and four. We shall see about that. The Hurricanes,
also in the verge of advancing into the Eastern Conference Finals,
lead in the Devil's three games to one. Carolina was
thought to be a Stanley Cup favorite at the beginning
of the year, but they've been hit hard by injuries
this season still were able to win their division. They've
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played multiple goalies as postseason, but still getting it done
and on the verge of advancing. In the West. Both
series are now best of three. Oilers and Golden Knights
tied two too after Edmonston's four to one home win
last night. If we mentioned earlier, Vegas stand out de
vinsman Alex Bartangelo looking at a suspension after a two
handed Paul Bunyan chop on the arm of Oilers star
Leon dry Sidle in the final minutes of that game.
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He was ejected, but that act clearly over the line.
Vegas has had to turn the backup goalie Aiden Hill
due to injury to start her larent Ber sUAS, but
nothing new for Vegas. They've used five different goalies this season,
and their number one goalie was lost before the season
even started, Robin Leonar, due to injury. The upstart Seattle
Kracking are tied at two apiece in their series against
the Dallas Stars. The Kraken, just their second season of existence,
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getting it done by committee. Seventeen of their twenty skaters
have scored at least one goal so far this postseason.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You get a goal, you get a goal. You get
a goal, You get a goal.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
NHL Draft lottery held this week, and out of surprise
to anyone, that Chicago Blackhawks won the draft lottery, despite
the Ducks and Blue Jackets having better odds. UH, the
big market Blackhawks will get a chance to draft supposedly
a generational talent in.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
A the Original six fans are big, the biggest a
holes in hockey, all right. They're complete schmucks. And now
he's going to Original sixteen.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
That's like, it's what. It's something that's better for the league,
if we're being honest about it. I hate to see
Colo Avalanche stand out forward and captain Gaber Alaniskag, who
missed all of this past season because of a knee issue,
is having another knee procedure and will miss the entire
next season as well. He's gonna have a cartilage transplant
in his right knee. It's being called an aggressive procedure
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to try and correct a nagging issue. The New York
Rangers fired their head coach Gerard Gallant after a disappointing
first round exit. However, after two seasons, he had a
record of ninety nine, forty six and nineteen in the
regular season, guided the Raiders of the conference.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Finals last year. But you can, Jersey, come on now.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Reports are that the exit interviews and complaints from players
were the reason for his dismissal.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
All we got to do is complain about the boss,
and they'll fire the.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Boss, apparently. So there are conflicting reports about disgraced former
Stanley Cup winning head coach Joel Quinnville.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Being a candidate to replaces.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Some awards finalists have been announced, and condolences to Dave
Haxtall of the Krack and Jim Montgomery of the Bruins
and Lindy Ruff of the Devils, all finalists for the
Jack Adams Awards as Coach of the Year. I say
condolence is because the three finalists from last year for
Coach of the Year, two of them have been fired
and the other one wasn't retained by his team in
the off season.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
So but you get a good trophy out of the deal.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I mean you get like some gift certificate something like that.
Finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award. Finalists for the Ted
Lindsay Award, a League MVP voted on by the players announced.
Conor mc to the Oilers is gonna win it? David
pastern not going to Bruins, and Eric Carlson of the
Sharks You're Rookie of the Year. Finalists Maddy Berniers of
the Krack and Owen Power of the Sabers and Stuart
Skinner of the.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I saved this for you, Bat, a former colleague of
yours apparently getting a big job. Did you see what
Broadcaster Keith Jones apparently has agreed to become the new
president of hockey operations for the Philadelphia Flyers. No way, Well,
former Flyer Daniel Greer were probably gonna have the interim
Tagger moved to be named general manager of the team.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, Keith Jones, dude, man, he's a good guy.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
New president of hockey operations for your Philadelphia flying.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And he busted my balls when I worked at the
NBC Sports Network briefly, because occasionally they'd asked me a
hockey question on the pannel. He always would say you
know enough in a friendly, you know, nice way. He
would point out I was lacking in my hockey. So
I have to pull for the Flyers. But I'm already
kind of a Flyer fan because my one of my
favorite mascots.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Is with the Flyers, that is you, and you're a
big Torts fan. He's the head goat.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, that's right, I'm all in on the Oh. Here's
a here's a story, not a fun story, Eddie. There
was a study done by you see this from Columbia
University in New York about hockey and the study indicated
that the enforcers in hockey die ten years younger than
other hockey players.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah, they're like professional wrestlers ten years. There's not any
of those guys left, if really any at all, to
be honest with you, but yeah, those guys.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Hockey.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
When I covered hockey with the Ducks, they had a
guy named Steve Grimson.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Who was their enforcement grim reaper.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
A grim reaper. He wrote children's books and was a
religious man, but he was the the enforcer box.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
He does work for the NHL network.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Now, good for him. But they HANDI six thousand NHL
players from nineteen sixty seven the last year, and that
is what they determined.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That's not a surprise.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Actually a decade younger comparable to other similar or heightweight,
all that same position. So there you go, our thank
you for that, Eddie. It is the Ben Malors Show
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Is it fact or fiction? Let's face some raw facts
on the Ben Mallor Show.
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Hey, let's do it right now. We welcome in our
celebrity panel of judges. We say hello to Leslie the
power couple with Jack the Judge, Bradenton, Florida. Hello, Leslie,
Good morning Finn. How are you Leslie? Wonderful, Leslie, thank
you so much. Ready for the week to wrap up.
Still have to get through a couple of days here,
then we're good to go. Big weekend, plans, big weekend. Actually,
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don't have any plans. I have no plans. No, yeah,
look at that. It was Jack. We got Jack in
the background, the Jack attack, Jack in the box. Wonderful,
Say how did Jack? All right? Thank you both? You
hold on a sec but how about it both of
them at same Jack must have come back from the gym. There.
David is in the southern California in the San Gabriel Valley.
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Hello David, good morning, man working working the security, right David.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yes, sir, I still am working security man.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You gotta be like you know, Leslie and Jack the
judge are probably around your age and they're retired. They're
living the life in Florida. You're still out there working, David.
What's going on with you?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh? Well, I want to where Jack happy birthday? You
know he's uh some of seal months older than me.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Hold on, sack Andy the comic book guy. Hello, Hey, Ben,
what's going on in dude?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I got a real quick question.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I don't got to be fast.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
How can you decide between the Lakers or a Bay
Area team? Man?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
It's hard, not that hard. It's not that hard. It's
anybody who plays the Lakers, anybody, anybody? Hold on Mark
in Boston? Hello, Mark?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Hey, how you doing Ben?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Good morning? Mark? You ready to do this? You will
mean one of my judges here? Mark?
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
All right? You've been up all night? Or are you
just getting up this morning?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Ready to go to work?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
All right? That sucks? All right? Hold on a sec.
The story number one. You gotta figure out which story
isn't true. The Slim Grim Reaper Call of Duty released
their season three reloaded update earlier this week, and Kevin
Durant served as a official operator for the game. Durant
is available. He's a playable character unless he's not in
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the game. You could play as Kevin Durant in Call
of Less. That's not true? And will the real Rob
please stand up Story number two. A couple of weeks ago,
social media went into a frenzy. Laker GM, Rob Polinka
and actor Rob Lowe were shown together at a game
in la and that will not be the last you
see of these two together at the same screen. The
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Robs will be appearing in a new City card identity,
feft solutions commercials, so but Rob Polink and making some
money there. The Laker GM on the side, Little Side Hustle,
and story number three. Bo knows but not hiccups. He's
got hiccups. He revealed in a radio interview in Alabama
this week that he's had chronic hiccups since last July.
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He'll be getting a medical procedure done. He also said
he used all kinds of home remedies, including smelling the
toukish of a porcupine. Unless last not true, which of
these three stories is the fake story? Leslie one? Two
or three with Jack the Judge? Two? All right, you
two kids too? What about David West Kobina SoCal David
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number one number one? The video game story Andy the
comic book guy Andy too? You say, all right? What
about Mark and Boston starting his day? Mark number one,
number one i'll mark you. Rock number two. Oh story.
They're not doing a commercial together. Have a great day.
Hello and welcome. It's our nameber Fall, Hour four of
the Ben Mahler Show podcast from the radio show, recorded
overnight while you were sleeping, and here it is if
you missed any part of it, Every hour saved for
posterity's sake. So we'll do a little NFL alphabet soup
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here rapid fire hot taste, which twenty twenty three European
NFL matchup has the most juice? Where's the juice? And
will the NFL place teams in Europe permanently? Like just
move a team there? Buy or sell? Malik Willis in
Nashville being the odd man out at quarterback for Tennessee,
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and Aaron Donald says that he did not really consider
retiring from the Rams in twenty twenty two. Do you
believe him? We'll talk about all of that and more
in the NFL out Flhabet Soup edition of the podcast
Our four. Here it is a nice European vacation. Welmeme.
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the Atlantic. The NFL Big Day. Oh, it's so exciting.
Are you having a party? Yes, No, it's NFL schedule Day. Man,
is this a big day? It's right next to Thanksgiving
July fourth celebrations. Ah man. Anyway, the NFL schedule has
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already started. The league out that was planned by the NFL.
A bunch of games were let out into the public
sphere on Wednesday. For example, the international slate of games
wasn't asked for twenty twenty three. Now, if you didn't
see this, maybe maybe not, but it's all part of
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our look around our alphabet soup, look around the Pigskin
World Now Jacksonville. With much fanfare, it was announced will
become the first team to play twice in London over
one season. Yeah, the Jags will be spending weeks four
and five respectively this upcoming NFL season, which starts in September,
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playing the Falcons and the Bills. So there's a very
exciting news there. All together, the NFL will play not one,
not two, not three, not four, but five games on
European soil, and they made a big announcement about that.
So let us discuss the question which European NFL matchup
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has the most juice the most juice. So I've got
a doggie bag, star trek, and canoe, and we will
combine all of these together and we are going to
make a nice tropical destination. We're gonna make for your vacation,
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which is not made tropical places. There's a few in Europe,
but not many, all right, So first of all, this
is you look at the matchups here. This does get
you excited. They're excited too much, right, that is by design.
We believe the NFL intentionally holds back on sending the
glamour teams overseas. Now we know Jerry Jones refuses to
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allow the Cowboys to give up a home game. The
Cowboys make so much money from the good people of
the Dallas area and all over the great State of
Texas and beyond that. Jerry's like, no, I'm a businessman,
I'm not giving up a home game. Well, then why
don't the Cowboys just play on the road overseas? Well?
Nobody else wants to give up a home game when
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the Cowboys are the opponent. So as a result, Cowboys
don't play these international games. They don't go to Europe
and all that stuff. But the NFL gives you know
what they give out. They give out the doggy bag
leftovers to the European market, and those people pay premium
to get a saggy doggy bag. And we have a
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hodgepodge of teams that will be traveling to play games
in Europe. Weight contenders. I say middleweight contenders because these
are teams that are either fringe playoff teams or teams
that are going to be fighting at the very end
and most likely won't. Some of them will fall off,
a couple of them will be terrible, a couple of
them will be playoff teams. You don't know. It's a
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grab back and that includes the Ravens. Mark Jackson likely
gets hurt at some point, so you'll be playing the
backup the Dolphins Tua's concussion problem. Jacksonville. Some people very
excited about Jacksonville because of what they did last year
against the Chargers in the playoffs. The Titans, who knows
what's going on with that team, end the Patriots. All
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of those teams are either playoff teams are not guaranteed
to make the playoffs, but they should make the playoffs
or be in contention for the playoffs. And then you've
got teams that are bad to the bone, like the
Falcons and the Colts. And then you toss in a
couple of title contenders, the Bills and the Chiefs, but
just make sure they don't play each other. The big
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pizazz matchup is the Tyreek Hill grudge match the Dolphins
and the Chiefs November fifth at Frankfurt Stadium in Germany.
Be there or yeah, and that'll be a as the
kids say, or if you're playing poker, that'll be a heater, right,
that'll be here at Kansas City, of course, dumping Tyreek
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Hill for a big basket of promisary notes. And then
they went out and won the Lombardi Trophy. It is
the only game that gets you even a little Horny
among the European matchups. Everything else is a mismatch of
mostly bad teams, average teams, vanilla ice cream, no topping.
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That's it now. Secondly, will the NFL place a team
or multiple teams in Europe anytime soon? So I have
changed my position I take on this. Years ago, we
talked about this. I feel like this has been a
thing for ten or fifteen years, and the answer was always, Oh, yeah,
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we're not that far away. We're not that far away,
We're not that far away. Now I'm at the position
we're to permanently put teams in Europe in the near future,
I say no, Like we have been hearing this over
and over and over and over, and so my take
has evolved. My position on this is that you might
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see Jacksonville go over there when their stadium is being renovated,
But even that is not a guarantee because you have
to get approval from the Union. And what I've heard,
if the streets are right, and the streets have told
me that the NFL players are not gung ho about
living an entire year in London and then having to
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come back and play games, and so there'd have to
be some nice bonuses, some nice perks tossed in to
make that happen, and then you get into questions about
whether that's fair or not fair and etc. Etc. Etc.
Then the other factor is that the ownership group is conflicted.
There is not a consensus. You've got clicks. Like any
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group of human beings, you have clicks. You have some
NFL owners from what we've heard, that are all gung
ho and they're ready to do a belly whopper into
the deep end of the foreign water. However, there is
a faction of aristocrats who are like, hold on, nothing
is not hold on. Don't want to do that. No,
they like what they're doing right now, dipping their toes
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in rare and appropriate extra revenue but not permanent. But
eventually the NFL is going to have a pivot point.
They are going to expand once they dry up the
revenue streams. And so there's thirty two teams now, eventually
there'll be thirty four and then thirty six and that's
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the point of demarcation full immersion in Europe. It is
a star trek situation. The final frontier, the revenue streams
start drying up, then they have Europe on layaway like
where we need it, we can go there and we'll
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see how that goes. Now, continuing the alphabet soup, the
final couple of things. Here, we are told there's a
report bouncing around that the Tennessee Titans Malik Willis, second
year quarterback Milie Willis is the odd man out. As
long as Ryan Tannehill is on the roster, you buy
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or sell Malie Willis being the odd man out in Tennessee.
So I buy this one. And Malik Willis was not
only a quarterback, he was terrible. If you could compare
him to an object, Malik Willis is like a canoe,
but he's up a creek without a paddle in the canoe.
Is he lacked the basics of playing the position. I
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don't know what he was he was doing at Liberty.
He's a nice guy by all accounts. He gave us
some good soundbites, but man, is he a barf bag
at quarterback. And the way I look at the Titans,
Mike Vrabel, if you're looking for the next wave of
coaches that are on the hot seat that are gonna
lose their job if Tennessee has another floundering year where
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they don't go forward, even if they're stuck in neutral.
Mike Vrabel and his coaching staff are on the hot seat.
They just changed the front office there, and when you
change the front office, the next move is eventually, if
it doesn't work out, you change the coach. But they're
not gonna sit there. Mike Vrabel and his staff are
not going to sit there and spoon feed Malik Willis
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because he appears to be lacking the rudimentary skills. One
of the worst debuts we've seen in NFL history, and
so they took another swing. We know, the Titans took
another swing at the suspect wheel of Kenny, not Kenny
will Levis. Kenny's his uncle from Kentucky. I had the
quarterback from Kentuck now moving around the alphabet soup. Aaron
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Donald our old buddy. You can ram it all day,
you can ram it all night, but not last year.
Aaron Donald recently said that he did not really consider
NFL retirement in twenty twenty two. You make the call,
do you believe him or not? So I actually believe him.
And the reason I believe him is because he was
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just trying to get more money. Plus it validates what
we said at the time. We always like to be
validated in life, and Donald was visiting fantasyland right his
helpers concocted a story that Aaron Donald was gonna walk
away from the NFL, and they planted it right around
the Super Bowl. If you remember, the Rams were playing
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the Bengals that year, and that story leaked in the
lead up to the Super Bowl. That was a strategic plant,
is what they is like you go to a comedy
show and somebody's in the crowd, but they're on the
payroll and they just happened to be the person that's
called up to the stage when they cut the woman
in half. You know, that's the thing. So that the
helpers came up with the story, Hey, Aaron Donald might retire,
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he might go back to Pittsburgh and chop wood out
in the woods, unhappy and lucky. Looky, looky here pressed down.
He got another bank heist contract from the Rams, who
now suck. But he got his money and not retiring. No, no, no,
no no. It is the Ben Mathers Show. You want
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to talk about any of this, you can join us.
Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. We had two
playoff games in the NBA last night and the Knickerbockers
and the Warriors staving off elimination and the Knicks able
to come out of the gate. Didn't come out of the
gates great, but they they were only up by three
(12:55):
and a half time at a big third quarter and
shot six over sixty percent in the second half. The
next day, but now they got to go to Miami
and the Warriors dominated the Lakers. The big story in
that game, Humpty, dumpty. Anthony Davis took a fall. Well,
they actually took a shot to the to the temple
from Cavon Looney of the wars Inadverton, and he pulled
(13:19):
the Paul Pierce, although it was not a full pulpit
because Paul Pierce did it for the cameras. There's no
I've not seen any footage of Anthony Davis in the wheelchair,
but he was given a wheelchair ride in the bowels
of the arena in San Francisco, and the Lakers are
swearing on the Holy Bible that it's not a concussion.
But he got hit in the head, he walked like
(13:39):
a baby draft and needed a wheelchair. That sounds like
a concussion to me. But the Lakers like no, no,
because if he had a concussion, he wouldn't be able
to play in the next game. As far as the
games tonight, a quick peak litt peek a boo, the Celtics,
who are now on the brink of elimination playing the Sixers,
and the line on that game. The cel opened a
(14:01):
one and a half point favorite on the road on
the road, one and a half point favorite, and they
are favored by two and a half and they're getting
almost sixty five percent of the money the gaming the
numbers we have, which is pretty crazy to me considering
how terrible the Celtics looked in that last game, but
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they did blow the previous game in Philadelphia. The Joe
Missoula let him play Joe game. So the Celts a
two and a half point favorite, and the Denver Nuggets
can close out the Suns in the Valley of the Sun.
Chris Paul's not playing in that game. The Suns opened
a two and a half point favorite and they're favored
by three in that game. And the money a lot
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of it, even more money on the Nuggets than the
Seas and the other games. So that's the late game,
the Nuggets and the Suns and then Friday the Heat
Knicks game six. The line on that game. The Heat
opened a five point favorite in that one and the
Warriors and the Lakers. Lakers open only a one and
(15:03):
a half point favorite in that game. That ain't much.
That ain't much, And a lot of that may have
to do with Anthony Davis. Even if he plays, how
effective is he going to be? They have adjusted the
line for that eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
the number eight seven seven nine nine six six three
sixty nine. We will have Puck the world and also
(15:24):
the biggest loser in the NBA, the biggest loser in
the NBA. And I'm sure you'll feel very, very sad
for this guy. You'll be bummed out for this guy,
unless you won't. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.
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Speaker 1 (16:14):
Man. Later this hour, we will have fact or fiction
Puck the world as well coming up for you in
a little bit. And your phone calls yapping away on
the overnight and we'll get back to the calls in
a moment. Shane in des Moines writes in he says,
great monologue, a plus. Then he he asked Eddie a
(16:39):
question which I don't meant. You can ask him that.
Maybe he'll answer you. You tag me in it. He
says something about college hockey. We want to talk about
college hockey at this point, maybe later late night. Drug
tester says, I would figure that if Jacksonville was playing
two games in Europe, they would have gone to Germany,
so Angry Bill can catch up with old friends. I
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see what you did there? Sure? Why not? That's an
interesting story though, that that that's the team that is
everyone saying is gonna be the guinea pig. And if
they're ever gonna send a team, it's gonna be Jacksonville.
But I just saw this or not this the story
bounce around the mayor of Jacksonville, the great Lenny Curry.
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I did not vote for him, but I do not
live in Duval County. But they're renovating. You don't know
who Lenny Curry is. Come on, what kind of political
fan are you? Anyway, Lenny Curry, the mayor of Jacksonville,
said that they're gonna renovate the stadium. I just planned
to renovate the corporate the name stadium there in Jacksonville,
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and that could could weasel word force the NFL franchise
to be nomads. They have to find a new place
to play for two seasons. According to the mayor of Jacksonville.
He said two years. There you go. He said, they're
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going to try to find a place in Jacksonville where
they can play. He says, but if they can't accommodate them,
and depends on what the NFL wants. Also, the NFL
could always come in there and say, well, you know,
maybe maybe we'll I want you to play somewhere far
far away, like I don't know London for a season.
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And so the talk is that in twenty twenty five
and twenty twenty six, which seems like it's actually not
that far away. It's twenty twenty three right now, So
a couple of years from now they will have to
go somewhere else. I think they'll be okay. I think
they'll find somewhere to play. How about they play every week.
Here's an idea. I'm just I'm just kind of facilitating here.
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How about every week Jacksonville plays in a Southeastern Conference
stadium and they just try to own this Southeastern Congress. Like,
play a game one week. You're in Uscaloosa, I play.
Go to Knoxville for a week, play a home game there,
see what happens, Try to cultivate some fans there. Go
to Arkansas, play a game. Goal you know you can't obviously,
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there's too many teams in the SEC to hit all
of them. But bounce around a little bit, don't give
a shot. Why not play the swamp, play a home
game over the swamp and knock yourself out. Let's go
to the phones and let's see who do we have here?
Eenie meenie miney moe let's say hello to Dick in Dayton.
(19:31):
Hello Dick, the caller of the year on the Ben
Malor Show, The King of Kings, a legend, a musician
who's in three bands, The great Dick in Dayton. Hello Dick,
good morning, Good morning, Hey Dick.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
How you doing. I just wanted to tell you that
after my retirement, as you know, I've found this other
it's adults for band. We've got a couple shows, but
I went back to the Kettering Monday. We're getting some
uh you know, people back. But I'm having fun with
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my retirement.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well that's great, Dick. And Dayton's a legendary radio caller.
He dominated How many years did you work at Low's
and Dayton there? How many years? Quarter of a century,
quarter of a century. This guy was all over the
lows there, and now he's dominating at what the string benders?
You got the Kettering Banjo Society and the Miamisburg Dolzmer Society.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, I belong also to the dosmal Society of It's
cold Ohio. There's a lot of people, but we've got
a couple jobs. I got to go to my strummers today.
But we've got a couple jobs, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So oh yeah, the strummers, that's right, remember the drummers,
string strummers, string benders, ketterying, banjo society. You're in four
bands almost almost? Wow? Wow, that's wild you How do
you handle it?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Well? I just you know, adopt to it. And I
see a lot of my friends up where I get
coffee and have a good time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You know, absolutely, I understand. Well, fascinating. Are you watching
any sports are you're waiting for?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yeah, I've been watching a little bit of the Reds games.
I say they've they've improved a little bit this year.
They're kind of exciting to watch, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But yeah, I was watching some of the Reds games
against the Mets. That was on my radar last Yeah,
I better get.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
A schedule today, they say, the the Browns and Big
those schedules out today, So I.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Better get what you're gonna go to any of the games?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Or no? Probably just you know, call in after the
I usually call in after the on the post game
up in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You know, sure, are you gonna try to get one
of those pocket schedules?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Yeah? Yeah, sure, they called me chick in.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, they still make those. I think I think you
bye bye bye bye. Do they still make pockets? He's
like an archaic thing in the past. They used to
make pocket schedule for your wallet. I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I don't think so. I don't either. I don't remember
seeing them anywhere.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah. Remember that was like a big thing, the pocket schedule. Yeah,
that was awesome.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Now you can just do a thing where they automatically
download it to your phone.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
God, we're old. My god, they pocket schedules and crap
like that. Dick won't be denied press press Uh, the
press box. They'd be filled with media guys. It's a big,
big thing. And I don't think they don't even do
those anymore. Their things digital, they definitely don't do those anymore. Yeah,
everything's online, and yeah, so many of those things piled
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up back in the day.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
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Speaker 3 (23:17):
Roberto, is there a chance that you might have a
progressive player of the day.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
High in the air to center that goes ruiz Away
back on the track at the wall, Jeez gone, it's
a Grand Slam Anthony Vault. Bake Grand Slam into Deep
Love Center and break this game wide open Anthony Vault
by spectaculars and on the Grand Slam the Yankees taking
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eleven two lead.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Come on, John, I love that's terrible. I'm gonna have
to I'll have to text and John are tight? I
have to text it out? Wow, it's it's Italian.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Play it again, No, don't play it again, No, don't
play it again.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Some good ones.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I almost tell you it's a metacular orgy there that
would have been better.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That's not fantastic. Call it translates to putting on a
show today. Oh come on you.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
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Speaker 1 (24:37):
And the big loser in the NBA Ja Morant. He
was not named an All NBA player. They announced the
All NBA teams on Wednesday, and so Ja Morant lost
thirty nine million dollars because he did not make an
All NBA team. Thirty nine million five season. Wow, I
(24:59):
think he be okay. I think he'll be okay as
long as he stays out of jail. I think he'll
be all right there now. Yes, how much of that
do you think has to do with the shotgun Willies? Yeah?
I bet you. Yeah, because it happened he started, he said,
I think sixty seven games. He missed a bunch, So yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
I think because I mean I feel like he had an,
you know, an All NBA type season.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, he had a good year. The big the big
winner would be Jalen Brown, who is now eligible to
sign a designated veteran extension. I don't even know what
the hell that is, but he's gonna make a lot
more money. And Jason Tatum also will be eligible for
more money. So the Celtics, and he's got all NBA.
They got to all NBA players and the guys they
(25:48):
play like dogs against the Sixers the other day. But anyway,
so Jalen Brown eligible for the super Max. So instead
of getting one hundred and ninety million, he will now
he'll get an extra one hundred million over five years.
And Jason Tatum also gonna get I believe I saw
the numbers somewhere. I don't have it in front of me,
but it's a fair amount of money, fair amount of money,
(26:09):
a lot of cash, a lot of cash. Hold on
that Ben Males show on Fox and Hockey Hockey Hockey.
Let's get over to Eddie right now for pucked the world.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
All right, Bet, I have a special story saved at
the end for you.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't know if you story time with Eddie.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
But the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs continue.
No team has advanced near the conference finals yet. In
the East, the Panthers on the verge of advancing, but
the Maple Leafs state of live as we mentioned a
moment ago to one with the road win last night,
till the odds are still long against Toronto getting the
series victory. Only four teams in NHL history of rally
down three nothing to win a playoffs series. If the
Maple Leafs lose, reports out of Toronto say that their
(26:49):
general manager, Kyle Dubas and their head coach, Sheldon keep
will be fired, even though they helped guide the team
out of the first round for the first time since
two thousand and four. We shall see about that. The Hurricanes,
also in the verge of advancing into the Eastern Conference Finals,
lead in the Devil's three games to one. Carolina was
thought to be a Stanley Cup favorite at the beginning
of the year, but they've been hit hard by injuries
this season still were able to win their division. They've
(27:11):
played multiple goalies as postseason, but still getting it done
and on the verge of advancing. In the West. Both
series are now best of three. Oilers and Golden Knights
tied two too after Edmonston's four to one home win
last night. If we mentioned earlier, Vegas stand out de
vinsman Alex Bartangelo looking at a suspension after a two
handed Paul Bunyan chop on the arm of Oilers star
Leon dry Sidle in the final minutes of that game.
(27:32):
He was ejected, but that act clearly over the line.
Vegas has had to turn the backup goalie Aiden Hill
due to injury to start her larent Ber sUAS, but
nothing new for Vegas. They've used five different goalies this season,
and their number one goalie was lost before the season
even started, Robin Leonar, due to injury. The upstart Seattle
Kracking are tied at two apiece in their series against
the Dallas Stars. The Kraken, just their second season of existence,
(27:54):
getting it done by committee. Seventeen of their twenty skaters
have scored at least one goal so far this postseason.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You get a goal, you get a goal. You get
a goal, You get a goal.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
NHL Draft lottery held this week, and out of surprise
to anyone, that Chicago Blackhawks won the draft lottery, despite
the Ducks and Blue Jackets having better odds. UH, the
big market Blackhawks will get a chance to draft supposedly
a generational talent in.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
A the Original six fans are big, the biggest a
holes in hockey, all right. They're complete schmucks. And now
he's going to Original sixteen.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
That's like, it's what. It's something that's better for the league,
if we're being honest about it. I hate to see
Colo Avalanche stand out forward and captain Gaber Alaniskag, who
missed all of this past season because of a knee issue,
is having another knee procedure and will miss the entire
next season as well. He's gonna have a cartilage transplant
in his right knee. It's being called an aggressive procedure
(28:51):
to try and correct a nagging issue. The New York
Rangers fired their head coach Gerard Gallant after a disappointing
first round exit. However, after two seasons, he had a
record of ninety nine, forty six and nineteen in the
regular season, guided the Raiders of the conference.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Finals last year. But you can, Jersey, come on now.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Reports are that the exit interviews and complaints from players
were the reason for his dismissal.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
All we got to do is complain about the boss,
and they'll fire the.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Boss, apparently. So there are conflicting reports about disgraced former
Stanley Cup winning head coach Joel Quinnville.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Being a candidate to replaces.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Some awards finalists have been announced, and condolences to Dave
Haxtall of the Krack and Jim Montgomery of the Bruins
and Lindy Ruff of the Devils, all finalists for the
Jack Adams Awards as Coach of the Year. I say
condolence is because the three finalists from last year for
Coach of the Year, two of them have been fired
and the other one wasn't retained by his team in
the off season.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
So but you get a good trophy out of the deal.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I mean you get like some gift certificate something like that.
Finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award. Finalists for the Ted
Lindsay Award, a League MVP voted on by the players announced.
Conor mc to the Oilers is gonna win it? David
pastern not going to Bruins, and Eric Carlson of the
Sharks You're Rookie of the Year. Finalists Maddy Berniers of
the Krack and Owen Power of the Sabers and Stuart
Skinner of the.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I saved this for you, Bat, a former colleague of
yours apparently getting a big job. Did you see what
Broadcaster Keith Jones apparently has agreed to become the new
president of hockey operations for the Philadelphia Flyers. No way, Well,
former Flyer Daniel Greer were probably gonna have the interim
Tagger moved to be named general manager of the team.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, Keith Jones, dude, man, he's a good guy.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
New president of hockey operations for your Philadelphia flying.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And he busted my balls when I worked at the
NBC Sports Network briefly, because occasionally they'd asked me a
hockey question on the pannel. He always would say you
know enough in a friendly, you know, nice way. He
would point out I was lacking in my hockey. So
I have to pull for the Flyers. But I'm already
kind of a Flyer fan because my one of my
favorite mascots.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Is with the Flyers, that is you, and you're a
big Torts fan. He's the head goat.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, that's right, I'm all in on the Oh. Here's
a here's a story, not a fun story, Eddie. There
was a study done by you see this from Columbia
University in New York about hockey and the study indicated
that the enforcers in hockey die ten years younger than
other hockey players.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Yeah, they're like professional wrestlers ten years. There's not any
of those guys left, if really any at all, to
be honest with you, but yeah, those guys.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Hockey.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
When I covered hockey with the Ducks, they had a
guy named Steve Grimson.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Who was their enforcement grim reaper.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
A grim reaper. He wrote children's books and was a
religious man, but he was the the enforcer box.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
He does work for the NHL network.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Now, good for him. But they HANDI six thousand NHL
players from nineteen sixty seven the last year, and that
is what they determined.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That's not a surprise.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Actually a decade younger comparable to other similar or heightweight,
all that same position. So there you go, our thank
you for that, Eddie. It is the Ben Malors Show
as we press on through the overnight hours. Its hanging out,
you and I having a fine, fine time. Try the
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about the Warriors win, the Lakers losing, the Knicks staving
off elimination, a two hundred million dollar player being booed
off the field, which is always great at worms or
cockles and a whole I don't even know what that means. Anyway,
(32:37):
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Speaker 2 (33:33):
Is it fact or fiction? Let's face some raw facts
on the Ben Mallor Show.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Hey, let's do it right now. We welcome in our
celebrity panel of judges. We say hello to Leslie the
power couple with Jack the Judge, Bradenton, Florida. Hello, Leslie,
Good morning Finn. How are you Leslie? Wonderful, Leslie, thank
you so much. Ready for the week to wrap up.
Still have to get through a couple of days here,
then we're good to go. Big weekend, plans, big weekend. Actually,
(34:04):
don't have any plans. I have no plans. No, yeah,
look at that. It was Jack. We got Jack in
the background, the Jack attack, Jack in the box. Wonderful,
Say how did Jack? All right? Thank you both? You
hold on a sec but how about it both of
them at same Jack must have come back from the gym. There.
David is in the southern California in the San Gabriel Valley.
(34:26):
Hello David, good morning, man working working the security, right David.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yes, sir, I still am working security man.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You gotta be like you know, Leslie and Jack the
judge are probably around your age and they're retired. They're
living the life in Florida. You're still out there working, David.
What's going on with you?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh? Well, I want to where Jack happy birthday? You
know he's uh some of seal months older than me.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
No, I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
All right?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Hold on, sack Andy the comic book guy. Hello, Hey, Ben,
what's going on in dude?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I got a real quick question.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I don't got to be fast.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
How can you decide between the Lakers or a Bay
Area team? Man?
Speaker 1 (35:13):
It's hard, not that hard. It's not that hard. It's
anybody who plays the Lakers, anybody, anybody? Hold on Mark
in Boston? Hello, Mark?
Speaker 4 (35:25):
Hey, how you doing Ben?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Good morning? Mark? You ready to do this? You will
mean one of my judges here? Mark?
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
All right? You've been up all night? Or are you
just getting up this morning?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Ready to go to work?
Speaker 1 (35:36):
All right? That sucks? All right? Hold on a sec.
The story number one. You gotta figure out which story
isn't true. The Slim Grim Reaper Call of Duty released
their season three reloaded update earlier this week, and Kevin
Durant served as a official operator for the game. Durant
is available. He's a playable character unless he's not in
(35:57):
the game. You could play as Kevin Durant in Call
of Less. That's not true? And will the real Rob
please stand up Story number two. A couple of weeks ago,
social media went into a frenzy. Laker GM, Rob Polinka
and actor Rob Lowe were shown together at a game
in la and that will not be the last you
see of these two together at the same screen. The
(36:19):
Robs will be appearing in a new City card identity,
feft solutions commercials, so but Rob Polink and making some
money there. The Laker GM on the side, Little Side Hustle,
and story number three. Bo knows but not hiccups. He's
got hiccups. He revealed in a radio interview in Alabama
this week that he's had chronic hiccups since last July.
(36:41):
He'll be getting a medical procedure done. He also said
he used all kinds of home remedies, including smelling the
toukish of a porcupine. Unless last not true, which of
these three stories is the fake story? Leslie one? Two
or three with Jack the Judge? Two? All right, you
two kids too? What about David West Kobina SoCal David
(37:06):
number one number one? The video game story Andy the
comic book guy Andy too? You say, all right? What
about Mark and Boston starting his day? Mark number one,
number one i'll mark you. Rock number two. Oh story.
They're not doing a commercial together. Have a great day.
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