Hour 1 - Denver Destroyers

Ben Maller talks about the Denver Nuggets defeating the Lakers in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, who is accountable for the Lakers loss, MLB Pick'em, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one of
the big radio show in the podcast format. We thank
you for downloading this podcast, for actually listening to the podcast.
That is a big deal. This is one thing to
download it, but you actually are listening to it. That's
the most important part, I would think. Anyway, here we

(00:20):
go Western Conference Finals, Game one, Lakers at the Nuggets
and it goes to Denver. They led for forty seven
of the forty eight minutes. Who do you hold accountable
for the Lakers loss? What was the turning point if
there was one? In Game one? Also, television's Jeff Van
Gundy implied at the end of the game that the

(00:40):
Nuggets have more work or the Nuggets have more work
to do even though they won than the Lakers heading
into Game two? Are you buying or selling that? We'll
talk about all things related to Game one of the
Western Finals right now here. It is give it up
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will was game number one Numero UNO in the NBA

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Western Finals. The Lakers the road team, the Nuggets at home,
best of seven, and Denver the top team in the
NBA coming in. They have home court advantaged. All they
have to do is win their home games and they
will win. Certainly looks like they're off to a good start.
I would say yes. So if you didn't watch the game,
you didn't miss anything. The Nuggets dominated an inferior Laker team.

(02:29):
Nikola Jokic a virtuoso performance thirty four points, twenty one rebounds,
fourteen assists, and most of that early in the game.
When the Nuggets came out and clocked the Lakers. They dominate.
They end up winning and Denver led by as many
as twenty one points in this game, clearly the better team.
They played like it never trailed over the final forty

(02:51):
seven minutes of the game. The Lakers only lead was
do nothing. How great is that they trailed for forty
seven minutes. They should pay back the money they spent
on the flight in the hotel. And but hey, listen,
the better story is on the Lakers side. I will concede.

(03:13):
That's where the story is. The Lakers. A lot of love,
a lot of fanboys in the media that slobber all
over the Lakers, and that was an embarrassing performance by
the Lakers. But let's let's start out with the beginning here,
and we'll start with just a general look at the game,
Game one of the Western Finals. Who do you hold
accountable for the Lakers in this loss? So I've got

(03:37):
a Hollywood exorcism, foot locker, and a lesson plan, a
lesson player. We'll combine all of these things together and
we are going to make rocks, which the Lakers are
sucking on right now. They're sucking on rocks, is what
they're doing. So a you got to start at the

(03:57):
top of the food chain when you're looking for a accountability,
So that is right on the shoulders of Anthony Davis
and Lebron James. You won't hear this in most places
because the NBA media cowtows to the stars. They love
the stars. You're not gonna get the real story, but
you'll get it here. And if you saw the game,
you know what I'm talking about. But this one squarely

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on the shoulders of ad and Lebron. Denver fattened up
this game like a nice turkey before Thanksgiving. There a
lot of it because of the incompetence of Anthony Davis
in the first half of the game and friends. But
Anthony Davis is the headliner, so he gets the blame
on this. The Unibrow had I would argue the worst

(04:40):
forty point, ten rebound game that I have seen in
recent years in the NBA. It's hard to put up
forty points and ten rebounds and not be impressive. That
was Anthony Davis. That was Anthony Davis, and prove me wrong.
You can't prove me wrong. His inability to control Nikola
Jokich in the first half of that game was directly

(05:03):
responsible for what happened at the end of the game
and Nicole Jokish it was a Harlem globe trotter, like
performance Metal Lark Lemon. He does this seemingly every other
game in the playoffs for Denver, so it's not exactly
a shocker. But don't vote for him for the MVP.
You can't do that. That would be wrong. Joiling me

(05:24):
by the way, I understand Joeling mead while the Nuggets
were playing and beat had two my ties, So everything's
good for Joel. You guys, a couple of cocktails. He's
sitting by the beach somewhere having a fine time, having
a fine time. But that first half, man was I
was exit man. I'm a Nuggets fan. For the next
couple of weeks, I was loving it, man, as a

(05:45):
new Nuggets fan. That was awesome. Watching the Lakers, it
was like a Hollywood exorcism for the Lakers, right. You
had Jokics doing his thing and the Lakers like their
heads were spinning on defense. They couldn't have one point.
Anthony Davis was like laughing because it was so embarrassing.
What was going on. How much better Nicola Jokic was

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than Anthony Davis. I think I saw some projectile vomit.
At one point, I think I saw that there were
some walls in the back of the arena that were bleeding.
I think that was the locker room, and some kind
of weird sounds like people were speaking with tongue all
the things from a Hollywood exorcism you had there calling
out the Holy ghost I believe they were doing. Now,
then you've got to pivot from that. By the way,

(06:29):
if you do the math, it's not that hard. It's radio.
So jokicch accounted for at the minimum sixty eight points.
Now I'm assuming all of the assists were two point plays.
They were not, but we'll just give them a baseline
sixty eight points. And Anthony Davis at he accounted for
what forty six points, So my math tells me that

(06:51):
is plus twenty two plus twenty two in favor of
Anthony Davis in that situation. But at the end of
the game, let's get get down of that. And now
Denver did not finish the game strong because they had
their twenty point leave. We see this all the time.
Up twenty points games decided, so it was obviously it
was they didn't lose the game, So that's not the issue.

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We'll get more to that in a minute. But the
Lakers had, for some reason, multiple chances. They were within
striking distance, down three, with forty five seconds to go,
and Lebron James, Oh, how great was it to watch
Lebron jack. If you're a Denver fan, well you like
plays Lebron. Shoot the ball, Shoot the ball, Shoot the ball,
shoot the ball. He shot the ball. Hey don it,

(07:34):
Hey shot the ball twenty seven foot fade away. Oh
it was so good, it was so good Lebron James
and all those idiot Laker historians were ripping Russell Westbrook.
Lebron James has turned into Russell Westbrook from downtown. You
still have Westbrook on your team. He's Lebron James. Lib brick,

(07:57):
lib brick house from downtown. Oh, so great. And then
he screwed up again, down by five, twenty six seconds left.
Lebron's got the ball in the painted area, in the
painted area, and he turns the ball over. He got
the big pocket was picked by Jamal Murray. How great

(08:18):
was that? I was so ah, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,
so glorious. Lebron thirty eight years old and screwing up
at the end of the game. The brick, the brick now,
page two. We always look at the turning point of
the game, and he might say, well, the turning point
was Lebron missing the twenty seven foot three point shot

(08:40):
or turning the ball over. I would disagree with that take,
and I'll tell you why. The turning point having sat
on my fat ass and watched this entire game. The
turning point of this game, okay, was the start of
the game. It was the start of the game, and
you know, forty eight minutes whatever. Oftentimes the game does
not come down the fun in this game, really, Lebron,

(09:02):
if you're Denver, you would pay Lebron James to shoot
a twenty seven point three point shot. Twenty seven foot
three point shot? Are you kidding me? But Denver came out.
They were like a fire hose at the start of
this game. Overwhelming over went Austin Reeves and several other
Laker players after the game, confirming the obvious. Anybody that
has half a mind, you don't even have to see it.

(09:25):
Even blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan, knows what's going on
with this that he confirmed the obvious. The Lakers. They
were guilty of working at foot locker. They were they
were selling loafers. They were loafing, all right, they were
social loafing at the start of the game. Now, how
is that possible? How is it possible in a playoff
game to show up with like it's a Wednesday night

(09:48):
in January. It's like the weather's not great, No, it's wild.
It is wild. And so it's like driving on the road,
right the Western Conference Finals, and the Nuggets were driving
in the fast lane and the Lakers were in the
slow lane and lolly gagging around a knemic defense, lackluster

(10:13):
and this, and the Nuggets are a better team than
the Lakers, and they should win anyway, but it certainly
makes it a lot easier when the Lakers don't put
the effort out there. Nikola Jokic is a Rubrics cube,
and when you're not not even putting any effort in defensively,
it's like trying to solve a Rubik's cube while being
blindfolded on a transcontinental flight in the middle of the

(10:35):
Atlantic at night. Good luck and a tremendous start by
D'Angelo Russell and Austin Reeves in this game, combined, they
were three of thirteen in the first half of that game.
A right last word here, So at the end of
the game you're watching on the television broadcast, Jeff Van
Gundy Television's Jeff Van Gundy implied at the end of

(10:56):
the game, he made a statement that the Nuggets actually,
he felt, had more work to do, more to work
on than the Lakers heading in to Game two. Are
you buying or selling that? So, with all due respect
to Mike Breen and Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, who
all appeared really troubled by Denver winning, they really were upset.

(11:19):
It's kind of like I have to deal with with
my producer who trashes me on Twitter about the Lakers.
You know, he's all upset. I mean, these guys are
upset and all that stuff. I get it. Listen, get
a therapy dog. That's what I would recommend. Get a
therapy dog. But I have a strong disagreement. This is
the perfect scenario for Denver. Obviously won the game, which
is the most important thing, and how many win by

(11:41):
they won the game. But here's why Lebron and Anthony
Davis okay, old and fragile, Old and fragile Lebron and
Anthony Davis had to play the entire game, no resting
in garbage time. Right, if the Nuggets had won by
thirty points, they would have sat for the final eight
minutes of the game. They'd play they've finished the game out.

(12:01):
And it also gives LA this false sense of confidence,
which I love. I love situations like this, this false
sense of confidence like they've somehow solved the matrix that
you haven't, right. And I saw Darvin Ham's interview after
the game where he's like, ah, you patted himself on
the back for putting Hatcher Murray in there as the
defender on Nikola Jokic, and that allowed Anthony Davis to

(12:25):
move around as a help defender. And they're like, that's
the big solution. It's not the nug That's not exactly
what happened. I've seen some million times of the years
in the NBA. It's one of the things that has
stayed consistent. The Nuggets slipped up, if you want to
call it that, because not because of any adjustment that

(12:45):
the Lakers made. Instead, Denver was guilty of trying to
run out the clock. They have They were ninety nine
to seventy nine. With a little over three minutes to
go in the third quarter of the game, They're up
twenty and at that point they started to slow things
down a little bit. And it wasn't because of amazing
defense by the Lakers, actually a bad defensive team. We
saw that the wide open shots the Nuggets were making

(13:07):
them something Klay Thompson could learn about when he kept
missing them. It's also nice to have a game where
the officials did not interfere with the game. I have
a feeling the Nuggets are gonna have to deal with
Nikole Yokich having three fouls at the end of the
first five minutes of Game two, or Jamal Murray being
ejected for something in Game two. But that aside. All
officials didn't mess around with this. There was no funny

(13:28):
business going on with the officiating. But the Nuggets their
focus wing. They're up by twenty and from that point forward.
I did the math on this. I looked it up
from that point forward the Denver office, A lot of
it was dribble, dribbled, dribble and then run the shot
clocked down as far as you can and then shoot
like a twenty seven foot fade away three point shot,

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which is not a great recipe. Denver missed five foul
shots also, and six three point shots over that final
part of the game there, which is a big hard
and they have a bunch of turnovers five terms. It
was just sloppy, but it was. It wasn't because of
the Lakers. It was just Denver played sloppy. So if
you're Michael Malone, the coach of the Nuggets, it's great.

(14:09):
It's a teachable moment. The lesson plan is rather simple
on this one, right, you make your foul shots, you
keep playing, you know, nice juicy w and you can
harp on his guys that they took their foot off
the pedal in the fourth quarter of the game, which
is true they did. And the reality is the Lakers
are a hell of a lot of trouble and I

(14:30):
love it it is. I'm going to enjoy every one
of these Nuggets wins. I wish they was a best
of nine. I'd like to see him win five times
against the Lakers, because they win best of nine that
you can go further out of you on. They just
get whatever the math is, they just keep winning. And
they got the joker and the joker the jokes on
the Lakers on this one, all right, is the Ben
Malors Show. And here's Darvin Ham. Darvin Ham who is

(14:54):
the assistant coach. Remember, Lebron James is actually the head coach.
Darvin Ham's like the lead assistant. I think Lebron wants
Darvin has to pretend like he's the one implementing it.
Here's Darvinham who pointing out that the apparently the Lakers
also are not disciplined.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
A lot, a lot of long rebounds. We gave him
way too many second chance points, offensive rebound and opportunities,
and fifty to fifty balls for that matter. We got
to be better in transition. We can't follow them. We
got to be more disciplined, showing our hands when we're
guarding the ball and guarding those guys.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Yeah, the team was lazy in the first half, which
I think they should do that again. I think they
should do the same thing, same thing, fall behind by
twenty and then make an adjustment and then have the
Nuggets led up. That's a great Tready. Here's Lebron James.
Lebron's got a he's got an excuse for everything. It's
never his fault. It's never anybody's fault other than certain

(15:45):
random people in the media, I guess. But here's Lebron
pointing out what went wrong.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
It took us a half the end of the game,
and that was pretty much the ball game right there.
We got to understand that we got to start from
the tip off. They punched us in the mouth to start,
and they had more offensive rebounds than we had total
rebounds in the first half, and you know that led
to them getting sec a chance points. They also got

(16:10):
on the fast break and killed us in a fast
break in the first half, you know, and uh, it
was ten to ten from the free throw line. So
you know, I know the game is won in forty
eight minutes, but they said the tone in twenty four minutes,
and you know we're playing catch up for for the
next twenty four.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Sure, Lebron will make a call to the league office,
make sure you'll get just in foul trouble. Murray's in
foul trouble. But as so many the officials don't interfere.
There's no way, no way the Lakers are going to
beat the Nuggets in this series. They will win a game,
maybe it they'll win two, but that's about it. It
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have be a fine time. Another another blue chip professional
sports franchise headed to the transfer portal. A couple of
weeks ago, we had the news overnight that the Oakland
Athletics had agreed to a deal to leave the Bay Area.
They were going to Vegas, Well, another major for sports league,

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and the news is out that they have one foot
out the door. Who's the latest team to relocate or
in the process of relocation. We'll get to that and
you will do it next.

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Speaker 1 (18:34):
Late night drug tester says pretty good openly monologue. But
the real news is who comes back, the Whalers or
the Nordiks. We'll get to that coming up in a moment.
The KC car Hauller after a Western Conference Finals Mallard
monologue says, I am glad the game got close there
at the end. The tenth rebound by Ad completed my

(18:54):
eleven pick same game parlay and one six hundred dollars. Now,
Kissey car holler, if you hit an eleven leg parlay,
you gotta win more than six. You had eleven bets
right on a parlay, and you, I know, you probably

(19:16):
bet like two bucks or something, but still, man, that's
a lot of bets to get right in one day.
And you're lucky if you get two or three bets
right in one day. All the same ferg Dog writes
in he says, hey, man, do you think Mark Jackson
was impressed with the Joker's performance tonight? The bucks are
fools for interviewing that idiot. Be better off with big

(19:39):
game doctors. Well, my favorite part about the Mark Jackson
thing is how people some people. There's always dumb people,
which I'm fascinated by the stupid. I really love the dumb.
I cannot get enough of dumb people that are gullible.
It's something about the gullible people amongst us. It's fascinating
the people like, oh, yeah, it was an honest mistake

(20:01):
by Mark Jackson. Yeah, yeah, it's the v You know,
how important is to vote for an award like that? Now,
it's not quite as important as the John R. Wooden Award,
which I vote for, which is the most important award
in sports. But you're voting for the MVP MVP of
the NBA. You sit down, you go over it. It's
like a big final in college. Not that I was

(20:22):
a great student, but if you are a good student,
you go over it again. You make sure you did
everything you were supposed to do. You double check it,
you triple check it. And so, either Mark Jackson didn't
do that or that was an intentional act. I'm not
sure which one it was, but it was amusing washing
Mark Jackson on television slobber give a tongue bath to

(20:43):
Nikola Jokic after he was the only person that had
a vote. I didn't have a vote. I'm assuming you
didn't have a vote, but he was the only person
that voted for Nicola jokicch to not even be one
of the top four or five people for the MVP
in the NBA. Wild Wild in Colorado says excellent Western
Conference Final monologue, the Lakers will suffer from below par

(21:04):
performances from lebum at altitude. He usually load manages regular
season games here, and it was obvious how often he
would sit there. He goes from the milkman, let's go
to the phones. Anthony in Anaheim has run out from
behind the back of the refrigerator. Hello, Anthony in Anaheim, Ben.

Speaker 6 (21:28):
Mallar, what is going on?

Speaker 7 (21:30):
I can hear Arnie Spaniard now, oh Laker.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Well, if you can hear that, you've got a time
machine going back many, many, many, many.

Speaker 7 (21:39):
Many, Ben, I guess the Boston haters dead.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Huh, Yeah, I don't know. We you know he had
an inside number. We changed the inside numbers here, so
it is possible that there's a.

Speaker 7 (21:54):
Let me tell you he founded ten years ago.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well that is true, that is true, and some of
the references.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
Yeah, come on, that's not right.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's not that's not that's appropriate. How dare you? I agree?
Guys a legend.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
I was like, I was like Eddie, I was I'm
glad to see him go.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
I know, I'm sad. He was a good old dude.
He got me in trouble. Actually, I got a lot
of trouble because of the Boston hater. I got into
tons of trouble because it's something that he said on
the air years ago. But he was making like ja references, yeah,
which even when she was still alive, she was a

(22:34):
thousand years old and it was an outdated reference. But
uh yeah, yeah, the Boston editor hasn't called so.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
And that's you know, your your Minnesota meetup? Is it
like one of those things that they used to do
back in the day when they would send fellon and
one of people those letters saying they won money, and
then they would show up and everybody, I don't.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Know why you were. It's very very rude of you
to say that, what are you wanted for, dummy? What
do you wanted for? What's your criminal record? Anthony?

Speaker 7 (23:03):
Come on, I wanted for a best husband ever.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
You know you are whip by the way ever since
you got married. Man, you don't call the show as much. Man,
we know your wife for the show, and you're you're, you're,
she's the one wearing the pants. She's the one wearing
the pants. You don't call the show.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
You got married talking about changing, You physically changed when
you got married.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
What do you what are you talking? How did I
physically change what?

Speaker 7 (23:31):
You lost three pounds?

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Well, I lost. I lost weight before I got married,
Otherwise I'd still be single. No, I got I lost
the weight before I got married.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
Trust me, you were sweating sitting down.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well I was. I was sweating laying down. I mean
it was that doesn't matter what I was doing. I
was swing everything. But you're trying to change the topic.
The reality is you love this show. We were married
together this show and you and then you got married
and started a family. And how dare you create a priority?

Speaker 7 (24:06):
You started crapping on all the game show segments three.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh, I know here, let me get the tiny violin.
Let's get the let's get the violin. It's a sob story.
It's a sob story for I know, I know, I know.
It's an American tragedy. Okay, I gotta go, I go away.
Thank you, You're done that one.

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Speaker 5 (25:07):
Do you want some more on the Yankees cheating ways?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yeah, I'm gonna talk more about that later, but I
love you a little preview.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Well, we told you about Domingo Hermann with the sticky
sticky stuff there. Of course, yesterday Aaron Judge drew some
attention when he kept peeking into the Yankees dugout during
US A couple of visit bats, and he hit a
couple of home runs. Manager Aaron Boono saying that they've
been in contact with Major League Baseball. They don't inspect
or expect, i should say, any investigation into what had

(25:36):
occurred with Aaron Judge peaking into the dugout.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Who and also went on to say that all the
executive of Major League Baseball have tickets the Yankee games,
so they're not really worried about Aaron Judge. They're Okay,
they all live out in Long Island. They go into
the Bronx to watch the Yankees, So I think they're all.
How about justin Furlander? Did you see that? Standa channa Ja?

(26:01):
Verlander walks off the field end of the fifth inning
to a cascade of boom the Mets fans. His first
game at City Field as a member of the Metsie
allowed six runs. Oh it's so great. Oh man, the

(26:23):
Bets blow Man. Man, she got Surezer, who sucks and
had to be skipped in a start. Verlander. Eh, don't
let a falling star fall on you, Eddie. That's the lesson, right.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
I'll try and remember that. I've heard that before a
few times.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I don't know. I don't know where you heard that, Eddie.
I have no idea who would say something like that.
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of weeks ago, we were on the air late at night,
right before we cracked the microphones. In the overnight, story
broke that the Athletics had a deal in principle to
relocate to Las Vegas. Now there's another story here that
popped up not long before we cracked the microphones here
of a team and they haven't agreed to a city

(27:20):
to relocate at. But it does appear that the Arizona
Coyotes of the NHL are gone from the Valley of
the Sun. There was a proposal on the ball the
voters of tenp They had to approve a two point
one billion dollar development, and Tuesday night the vote came out.
It included plans for a new stadium, and so there

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were three separate propositions that needed to pass for the
Coyotes to get their stadium, get all that taxpayer money,
and all three of them were voted down. It's not
like it was two to one and they only needed
to get one more to pass. No them, all of
them failed. Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the NHL, weaselle

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Gary Bettman and then Napoleon of Hockey issued a prepared
statement saying the nation is a quote the National Hockey
League is terribly disappointed on the result of the public
referenda regarding the Coyotes Arena project in Tempe. We are
going to review the Coyotes with the Coyotes what options
might be going forward, which is code for Nana, Nana, hey,

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good bye. Unless they went Now they're playing in Tempe
at the ASU Arena. Maybe they can go to like
a boys and girls club somewhere in Tucson. So where
are they gonna go, Eddie? I'm going Houston. My money's
on Houston. I'm gonna go Houston. You're the hockey guy, Eddie.
Where are the Arizona Coyotes going to end up?

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Houston? Does make the most sense. Yeah, it's from a
you know, market standpoint.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
And that's gonna annoy. That's gonna annoy all the original
six teams and the Northeastern teams who are upset because
they don't like teams in the Sun Belt.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
Well, play better and your your teams can maybe can.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Make it better. Okay, where else where? Any other Canadian
cities that.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
Can we put a team back in Quebec is the
one I'll bring back.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
The Nord Dakes, the powder Blue Nord Dakes about the
Hartford Whalers.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
No, Hartford not coming back. It would be it would
be pretty crazy if Atlanta got a third.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Nor Scotti Pharrell man our guy. Farrell could come back
and be the play by play guy again.

Speaker 5 (29:28):
He's still around somewhere, I think.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
And on my podcast it was crazy. Yeah last year,
last year, I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
Portland's been brought up a few times.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Oh yeah, I could have the rival Seattle, and I mean, yeah,
it certainly has gone well in Seattle. About Salt Lake City, yeah,
I feel in Salt Lake we're Kansas City. Before that,
I would think maybe see what about another team in Toronto?

Speaker 5 (29:53):
Maple Leaves are pretty powerful. They don't want that.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
No, I know they don't want that.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
It's been it's been floated before and they've always been
able to shoot it down. Trying to think other cities
that could support Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't think the economy is
particularly great right now in Milwaukee, but I.

Speaker 5 (30:09):
Think Houston probably makes the most sense.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Gotta find somebody with the money though.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
Right though, the guy who owns the Rockets has said
he would be interested and letting them play there at
the How about New Orleans.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
They don't even support the basketball. Yeah, how about trying
to think out loud. We're facilitating here out loud. This
is fascinating radio. And what I'm talking northeast, like somewhere
in the northeast, Well, well this is north. How about Cleveland,
which is not northeast but not far away Cleveland, Cleveland rocks.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
No, I think Ohio. More than one team in Ohio.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
That's their limit, their quota. They have one team in Ohio.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
They got the Blue Jackets there, right, correct?

Speaker 1 (30:53):
How about Cincinnati? We could have justin in in the north,
you know the enchanted forest. Right, there's Amba Cincinnati. No Burlington, Burlington?
How about Burlington? Do we hear Burlington?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (31:03):
We need Dick and Dayton to be a hockey fan. Yeah,
Dick and Dayton would be good. All right, that ends
Mobile Alaball. They in the South, let me tell you something.
They love it. They cannot get enough of the hockey. Hockey, hockey.
She put a team on Wyoming. You know, there's only
I think I read this a few few months ago.

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Speaker 1 (33:01):
You know, we don't do shoutouts, Eddie. But the man
who made the term holy crap famous, you know who
that is. No, you don't come on.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
Eddie, the guy who made the term holy crap famous.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, it's his catchphrase. Oh he didn't y Yeah, Oh
come on, you know.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
Holy crap is bigger thanassa.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
I disagree. That is a phrase that David Vassa is
known for. He's doing commercials. You know, I was leaving
the Dodger game the other night and there was a
commercial and he said holy crap and it was in
the spot. It was hilarious. But anyway, Bessay is leaving
the Dodger the Dodger stadiums, he said back in the day,
and he points out, what about San Diego for a

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hockey team could have the La Orange Canty.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
They've had an NBA team leave the bed, an NFL
team leave.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Wouldn't want to win live in San Diego, Eddie, you
could be the play by play guy of the team
in San Diego.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
I don't think they're gonna hire me.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Why not, Eddie, Because I'm not qualified? Yeah, neither was
Scott Farrell and he got the job. So the team
that work out that work doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
It doesn't matter that job for like a year, so
they realized, boy, that was a mistake.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Let me ask you this, Okay, how many more years
you planing on working? How many more.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
More than one?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Okay? But if you could do play by play for
one year in the NHL and then had to get
some boring job the rest of the time, would you
trade that? Would you do?

Speaker 5 (34:27):
Of course? I'm not, Eddie.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
That's a defeatist attitude. I gotta pump up your attitude, Eddie.
Come on, I live in the real world. You live
in fantasy. I live in the real world too, where
people get You know how many incompetent people I know
that have good jobs in radio?

Speaker 5 (34:43):
Name them?

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Well, I'm not gonna name them because I have to
work in radio. Still, Eddie, we've worked with some of them.
We've worked you know, some of the people I'm talking
about Eddie. All right, anyway, let's get to the who
am I? Game? And yeah, here we go. This is
where we pretend to be somebody else, the who am I? Game?
And here it is Angels a Unicorn show. Hel Tani

(35:05):
recently became the first pitcher to reach base five times
in a game since me. Who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? That's see? Does anyone
know the answer? We're still getting people sitting in random
cities like Indianapolis or another team in Florida for the NHL,
another team in Florida, Yes, no, No, Eddie Anti Florida.

(35:29):
How there you got too? Who cares? It's a big state,
Addy Chip and the cues is going with Babe Ruth
as his answer. Big Lou in the LBC says draft
lottery prospect, high motor with a high tackling IQ. Ted
Bundy Wow kent to Colviy guessed by Darren dating himself.

(35:50):
Mark in Santa Monica says Mordecai three finger brown, tremendous.
Chris Young from Double O Mexican in San Diego, Let's
see here. Johnny Ray got it right, bad job by him.
Trevor Bauer from Nick and Wisconsin and Malard prop guy
says Benny the bopper or the correct answer, which he
did get The professor from Gilligan's Island guests by j

(36:13):
D and Casey dan Quizenberry from Rob in Minnesota. PAULI
De got this right, bad job by him? Who else
do we have? Page down? Craig the real estate mogul
in Baltimore, says al Horboski. The mad Hungarian is the
way to go. Rich in Vegas says Eddie. Fangner is
the answer word. Let's see Scott and Rhode Island. I

(36:33):
don't think I'll read that on the air, but thank you.
Page down, Page down, Hobby Baiez guest by Shane in
Des Moines. Sam mayde Malone is the answer from low
information fan Eddie. Do you have an answer? Edie's very
important here?

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Please sure? Let's go with former Atlanta Brave and Cubb
and Paul Austin Macker.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Is it is not Paul Ausenbacher Eddy the correct answer?
Old Scott. I remember this guy as a pitching coach
Mel Stottlemeyer back in nineteen sixty four. We get it in.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
We can get it in MLB Pickham, No true, I'm
going first. I'm gonna take a Duardo Rodriguez. So the
Tigers has been pitching, great, go ahead, Roberto Spencer Strider,
all right, go ahead, Eddie, Sonny Gray, Coop, back to back, Coop,
I'll go with you, Darvish and Mike Trout, Eddie knowing Ricardo,

(37:27):
jaredy Kill, Nick Lewis, Robert and Salvador Paris did not
get it there and Judge, I got my picks.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
That does That doesn't mean it.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
You got it in.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
A Dallas Garcia.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
We're talking