May 29, 2023 • 41 mins
Ben Maller discusses the Arizona Cardinals releasing DeAndre Hopkins a few days ago, and debates which teams are front runners for his services. Plus, Ben goes into depth on what the Cardinals may be planning with their roster in the future and we have another segment of Maller to the Third Degree!
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Hello and welcome.
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It's our numb bird two hour two of the Ben
Malar Radio Show. Here an hour number two. It's a hop,
a skip and a jump about DeAndre Hopkins. Where does
DeAndre Hopkins end up in free agency? He was fired
from his job over the weekend. And why did the
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Cardinals release Hopkins rather than trade him at least get
something in return? And does this DeAndre Hopkins move signal
that Kyler Murray is on thin ice? We'll talk about
that as well. Right now here, it is our number two. Hey,
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Over the weekend, while we were away from the watchtower.
You're at Fox Sports Radio for a rare and appropriate
weekend away from the microphones of FSR. The Transaction Wire
burned up Burn Baby burn, and a story that we
talked about for several months had become reality. A name
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that had been mentioned and whispered and hushed tones as
a player that was going to change teams. The first
leg of that happened. If you didn't see, and you
don't have no idea what we're talking about, what's the riddle?
Get to the point place, all right? So DeAndre Hopkins
was fired from his job.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
In the NFL.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Now, the NFL doesn't use the word fired when it
comes to players, they say you were released, which is
a nice way of saying you were fired, but he
was let go from his job with the Arizona Cardinals.
It's a softer way to say you got fired when
you say you were released, but he was fired. Hopkins
spent three years in Arizona, seventeen touchdown receptions on his
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resume with the Birds, the Desert variety of the Birds
still had two years left on his contract for.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Thirty four million dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Maybe we all have two years left on our contract
for thirty four million dollars like the Andre Hopkins had.
So now the question becomes who's got next? Who's got next?
So let us discuss the way we'll frame it. We'll
keep it simple. It's sports talk radio. But the way
we're gonna frame this is as follows. So, where does
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de Andre Hopkins end up now that he is free
to roam around the NFL country. I've got Stevie ray Vaughn,
Disco Tech, and Irish Spring and we will combine all
of these things together, will squish them together, and we
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are going to make a nice, big moving van, which
is what DeAndre is going to need as he moves
all his crap out of Arizona somewhere else on the
NFL circuit. So number number there is a limited market
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for DeAndre Hopkins, believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm the one that just said it. I'll tell you why,
all right. He is promoting himself. He's propping himself up.
Maybe that's a better way of saying it as a
high end commodity, but the numbers recently don't back that up.
That's a problem. And the whispers around the NFL say
that Hopkins only wants to play for a legitimate super
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Bowl contender. Well what if those legitimate super Bowl contenders
do not want DeAndre Hopkins? Then what do you do.
That's a quagmire of a situation. Now we're not there yet,
but nobody else, nobody else, apparently, will solve his unquenchable
thirst to play for a winning team. Of course, I
think that's a lot of malarkey. And then ultimately DeAndre
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Hopkins will end up going where the money is, assuming
all things are equal. If there's a team that is
a contender that offers a similar contract, he will go
to that team that's better. But it's not like he's
going to totally eliminate the teams that are fringe contenders.
But we'll talk about what his people have tossed out
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into the echo chamber, the people who are on Team
Hopkins and whatnot. So there are three obvious super Bowl contenders.
If I gave you a list of three teams, then
I said, you've got to come up with three teams
that I can guarantee you are going to be in
the conversation for the Super Bowl next time it's being
played in Vegas. Those three teams on my big board,
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not a list because we don't do list radio, but
my big board, I've got Kansas City that's obvious, Buffalo
here we go, Buffalo, and Cincinnati ben Gals. Those three teams.
So those would be the first three teams. If this
reporting is accurate. DeAndre Hopkins wants to play for a
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Whitner and not some team in the outskirts of that.
So you go Kansas City, Buffalo, and Cincinnati as the
first three teams. But we eliminate the Bengals. They're eliminated
because they do not make moves like this. They don't,
so you're gonna race them off your big board. And
then you're like well, wait a minute. Here it becomes
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an old Stevie ray Vaughn song love Struck Baby, and
you say, okay, in terms of contenders, they have a
clear need here the process of elimination. It is the
cheap all day that should be where DeAndre Hopkins ends
up if he's wants to play for a winner, a
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team that has.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
A need there.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Buffalo not as much. But Patrick Mahomes is the measuring stick.
Do we all agree on that Mahomes is the measuring
stick for quarterbacks right now? In that business. He's the
top guy of his generation. And Andy Reid is a
top three coach in the NFL. So there is also
a void there when you peruse the roster of the
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Chiefs and you're like, wait a minute, where did all
the receivers go? I know they won last year without
having a top notch receiver, but the depth chart has
Marquez Valdez Scantling as the number one receiver, Kadarius Tony
as the number two, and Sky Moore as number three
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on the list. That's the top three receivers right there.
Not exactly a murderer's row of past catchers. And you
look crossover at Buffalo, well, Yeah, they got josh Adamon.
He's pretty good. He's had some hiccups now and again.
And then you look at Stefan Diggs and Gabe Davis.
Both those guys are would be number one receivers on
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Kansas City. And also the other problem you get not
that the weather's great in Kansas City late in the year,
but in Buffalo you get anywhere from two to four
Lake effect blizzard games where the Bills become a running team,
and therefore DeAndre Hopkins would just be out there blocking
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and would not be part of the offense there because
you just don't throw the ball in those nasty cold
the late season Bills home games one of the reasons
the Bills offensive players have a huge hill to climb
in order to win a Most Valuable Player now award. Now,
the other team that we're tossing out this is not
a contender. They're not going to win anything. But you
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toss them out for DeAndre Hopkins as we're playing the
speculation game.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And that would be Cleveland and the Browns.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now, why the Browns because of the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson.
They played together in Houston and so that would of
course be another mistake by the Lake. But DeAndre Hopkins
could go to Cleveland, he would be the number one
receiver ahead of Amari Cooper and Donovan People's Jones and
ex jet Elijah Moore who are hanging out there in
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northern Ohio now page two here. So why did the
Cardinals just get rid of DeAndre Hopkins to release him
rather then trade him, even if it was for a
conditional late round draft pick, when you have been better
off making the trade. Of course, you don't have to
be an executive for an NFL team. The Cardinals would
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have absolutely been better off if they had made a trade.
The short answers the reason they didn't. There are a bunch
of ragamuffins, that's the short answer there. Now to expand
on that, rather than make a lopsided deal that would
have been giving up a talent for a low round
draft pick, they made no trade at all. They went
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to the discothech and they did the dance of the
clueless is what the Cardinals did here. Getting something, even
if it's not great, is better than nothing. And the
Cardinals are spinning this as a victory. Of course they are.
Why wouldn't they That's what all the teams do, Oh,
everything's great, Oh we're good. No, not really, not really right,
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I mean, what else did you expect them to do?
Say that we lost the transaction releasing releasing the player.
But the naked truth is, and you're not going to
get this a lot of places, but DeAndre Hopkins at
this point is a C level player who thinks he's
an A level player. That's a problem, right, that's a problem.
Don't let a falling star fall on you. And he's
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past the age of thirty. Check, that's a problem when
you get to this wide receiver. Very rarely do you
get top NOTx production from a receiver past the age
of thirty, So declining value on that. And he's also
got the stank of a PD cheat that doesn't really
work all that much in Football's more of a baseball thing,
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but that's on his resume as well. So you've got injuries,
you've got the classical dival wide receiver tendencies, and you
do the arithmetic and ninety nine point nine percent of
receivers have a little Diva in them if they're any good.
But spoiler, even with all that noise, the Cardinals could
have still gotten something and they got enough. Instead, they're
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claiming victory because they saved eight million dollars in salary
cap space. But by the way, they're still going to
have a dead salary cap hit of twenty two point
six million. Now on this show, we are salary cap truthers.
On this show, we know the manipulation of the salary
cap app that you use it to explain anything. It's
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the ultimate explanation the confessional. It's like, well, the reason
we we got rid of those players because we couldn't
afford him anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Say blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
If you want to keep someone, if the Cardinals wanted
to keep DeAndre Hopkins, and we know what they're trying
to do, they're trying to suck. But if they wanted
to keep him, they could have worked it out. They
could have kept him on the roster, but they did.
The salary cap is a object that is manipulated easily.
You can move the numbers around, cook the books. It's
like having a good accountant, and these teams all have
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good accounts, all right, Last and final point, So we'll
take a couple steps back from DeAndre Hopkins. Does this
movement by the Cardinals indicate that Kyler Murray is on
thin ice in Arizona. D yes yes to infinity and
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beyond now he us on thin ice. Whether DeAndre Hopkins
stayed in Arizona or not. This is furthers along the
storyline thousand percent. There is a roadmap, and if you
follow the roadmap, the roadmap has Alligator Arms Murray next
out of town among the high profile players in Arizona,
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with the last one left.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Turn out the lights. The party's over there.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And it makes a lot of sense because when you
follow the roadmap, Cardinals get out the old Irish spring
and scrub a Dub dub right, get that, scrub a
dub dub soap out and reset the franchise.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Murray is out already.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
He's gonna miss part of the next season anyway, as
he's coming off medical procedure there in acl I believe
the injury there, so he might miss the entire year.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Colt McCoy is.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
The de facto starter, so you end up in full
tanky mctank mode. If you're the Cardinals, Arizona is going
to win based on what I've read of their roster
and this buffoon they hired as a coach, they'll win
anywhere from two to four games. So they'll win two
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to four games, and that means that the Cardinals will
be in position to have the number one overall pick,
and they have a great chance, even if they don't
get the number one pick, to trade up for it
because the Cardinals also have the Houston Texans pick they're
gonna blow from a trade they made this year as
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Houston the Texans moved up in the draft, so it's
conceivable the Cardinals could have the top two picks in
next year's NFL Draft, and the draft Knicks already are
hyping up generational talents at quarterback in Caleb Williams, the
Heisman winner from sc and Drake May from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Those two are the.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Next wave of can't miss blue chip NFL suspects or prospects.
So Arizona with two shots to get a top two
pick in the draft and get one of those quarterbacks,
and that would mean they would be open for business.
Get read of alligator arms Murray. Remember already the general
manager that gave him the contract was fired. How do
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we know that he was working for us during the
NFL Draft. Also, the head coach Cliff Kingsbury is now
going to college football to coach Caleb Williams. So those
guys are gone and Kyler Murray's passion is video games.
It was a terrible contract. The Cardinals knew it was
a terrible contract. That's why they put a clause in
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there saying that you actually have to study. He raised
a hullabaloo. The Cardinals caved in. They took the clause
out of the contract. And so it's setting up as
he's the next to go, and where does he go
the usual suspects. You look at the teams that'll be
back in the Quarterback Derby next year. You're looking at
the Tennessee Titans, the Atlanta Falcons, Las Vegas Raiders, the
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Those are the teams, the commanders. We're all in.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
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Also next our of the instant advice line and the
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in our number four. As we began with a DeAndre
Hopkins Steam Mallard monologue, Robin Vegas as, I agree with
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your top three teams to land, DeAndre, but I would
add the j e ts suck suck, suck on the
big board, not a list.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It is a big board, that's right, because we do
not do we do not do this radio.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
The Real Housewife of Malartown writes in says, honey, DeAndre
Hopkins maybe pecky about where he wants to play, However,
he is far from being a diva.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Trust me.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I know Davas avigator arms Murray maybe on thin ice,
but his tail will keep him buoyant should he crash
through the valley of the sun frozen tundra. Okay, very
very very nice. As go to the phones. We'll say
hello to Will, who is in southern California in a
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town called Whittier.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Will in Whittier, Hello, Will.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Then how's this going? I don't have a class to
teach tomorrow, so I get to stay up till two
or twelve thirty am. So I'm not going to talk
to your ear off about Saint John's if I could
normally do, but I wanted to bring something up and
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it might be a little bit down the third rail.
So I might be dragging.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
You down with you.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, yeah, that would be I don't think that the
phrasing on that was. So you're you're announcing to the
world right now, you're going to the third rail, which
is very, very dangerous and very concerning, very troubling, the
third rail. Okay, let's go to the third rail. I've
got my bouncer, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Go ahead, go ahead, and if if it's too edgy,
go ahead, and just you can just knock me off.
The other day and I'm very pro l G B
t Q plus the Dodgers decided to bring back the
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgences and we don't have to take
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any sides here. You know, I'm very pro l G
B t Q. Plus.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You're putting a lot of You're putting a lot of
qualified on this. Yes, you want everyone to know.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yeah, I don't want to get trashed.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What's the question.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I just want you to.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Think, since there's so many uh Catholic Dodger fans, do
you think there's gonna be some repercussions in sales.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I don't think it's going to hurt the ticket sales.
I think that their people will be very voisterous though
that night. I would imagine that there'll be people that
will not be very happy. I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I don't know. I I think a lot of the.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I don't know the team marketing, not just the Dodgers.
I don't know. I'm just there for the sports. I
don't need I don't need to be told how to
live my life one way or the other. I just
want to watch the sports. But all these teams are
into it, man.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
They love it.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
They can't get enough of it. They love they love
that type of marketing. It's not really for me either way.
I just want to watch the games. But I'm old
school that way.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Have you put a one hundred grand on Saint John's yet?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Let me check here?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Do I have one hundred thousand laying around Roberto's in
the other room over there, right?
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Roberto?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I got one hundred thousand over there in the other room.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah sure, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah sure, why not Rick
Patino coach Patino with the one last shining moment with
Rick Pattino hoisting the championship trophy for Saint John's right,
All right, go, I go to bed, I get out
of here. It is the Ben Malor Show. As we
continue on through these late night hours and boom wap
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bang while we were away was reported the trade papers
in Hollywood reported that they're making a John Madden movie
based on the video game based on his life, and
a guy that went to my high school is gonna
play John Madden.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Will Ferrell is one of the many high schools I attended.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
But Will Ferrell went there and uh irv Line and
at University of High School, and he is agreed he's
going to be in the biopic based on the life
of John Matten. Who's gonna play Pat Summer All? That's
what I want to know. Who's gonna be Pat summer All.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
In the movie?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Well, just about anyone could play Pat Summer All. Let's
be honest, there's just be monotone and don't say a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, Pat Summer All? Who a lot of young people
probably don't know who that is.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But he's one of the better scrippers in all the NFL.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Well that's that's of course great, mad but some are
all He would turn an Emmett Smith ninety five yard
touchdown run into four words. Yeah, it's just amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
But they were a great duo though together.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, they were wonderful.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
But John Madden, we're getting old now when they're making
movies about people we grew up watching.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
We're not getting old, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I like to I like to be positive, but I
think Will Ferrell will do very well.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I agree. I thought when I first heard about it,
I thought, oh, that's interesting. But I mean John Adam
was kind of a cartoon character, and you need somebody
who can be kind of flamboyant and funny to play
that kind of a role.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I think, Yeah, And he's a guy that's you know,
some some people in Hollywood just don't really like into sports.
But he's into it like he's a fan, Like I
think he really would. That's to me, that's an important
part of that. So that'll be cool. Whence that that
two years or something like that, he just takes a
while for them to make these things.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
But there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So Will Ferrell and a John Madden bio pick. It
is produced by Amazon and MGM Studios and some guy
I've never heard of that's won a bunch of Academy
Awards named David O.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Russell.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, I've heard of him director.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Oh boy, that's a good question. I definitely heard of it.
Probably because to the O part David Russell, you'd be like,
that's generic, but he put the O in there make
him stand out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
All right, Well that's the guy who will be directing
the Madden the film titled Matt So see how that
turns out.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Maybe next year, two years. Who knows? Six a while
would make those movies.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
He did uh A Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter also, yeah,
so he's done some sports movies.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Who else would be in a Madden movie, Pat Summer
all obviously, I guess Al Michaels maybe.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Maybe it depends on how long they show his career.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I guess they could also do it like they did
the Jordan movie Where Air, where they just don't show
anyone in the show. Vin didn't start with in Yeah,
I think he did I think he did when he
was beginning, when it.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Was first starting.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, that's crazy to think about that, all right. Anyway,
it is that the Ben Matters show. So good luck
to Will Ferrell. I look forward to seeing that movie.
Madden passed away. Got's parady dto twenty twenty one. So
it's time keeps marching on, all right, we'll press on.
We will march on as well. We'll take some calls.
I promise here some more amazing phone calls. We have
Mallard of the third degree. Also some prime time cash
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and Brown Town wait to hear that story. But right now,
let's get over to Edmund Dallas Steamboat, Willie Judas solid
goal nine to five, Corporate Eli.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He's working on a holiday company holiday Garcia.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
And of course we're counting down to that big game
seven in the Eastern Conference Finals. NBA Playoffs coming up tonight,
eight thirty Eastern time in Boston, Celtics hosting the Heat
Boston looking to become the first team in NBA history
to rally down three to win a playoff series. Teams
that have been in that position, oh in one hundred
and fifty. Also coming up tonight, You've got game number
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six of the Western Conference Finals in the NHL Stanley
Cup Playoffs. That's eight o'clock Eastern and Dallas Stars hosting
the Golden Nights. Dallas trying to do what Boston has
done rally down three to force a game.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Seat for US City Will everyone else will be watching
the basketball game.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But you'll be watching that.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Well, flip over to the basketball game in the fourth quarter.
See what the score is.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It's close.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Yeah, okay, that was a great finish the other night.
Even I have to meet the NBA hater. It's a
great finish.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh yeah, the heat. If you bet on the heat
with the points, the bet about that.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
In fact, in baseball games a note from Sunday, we
had a battle of two of the top teams in
the Big leagues, with the Rays edging of the Dodgers
eleven to ten Tampa Bay now big league best thirty
nine and sixteen, twenty six and six and home Dodgers
at five home runs two from Chris Taylor in a
losing effort. The Braves had moved a half game up
on the Dodgers of the best record in the National
League after an eleven to four winner with the Phillies
Matt Olsen a couple of homers for Atlanta. They're thirty
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two and twenty one on the year. Orioles our second
best in their division, the AL East, but half the
second best record in all of baseball, trailing the Rays
with the thirty four to nineteen mark. They edge the
AL West leading Rangers three to two. On Sunday, Brewers
over the Giants seven to five. Twins were blank but
the Blue Jays three to nothing in Minnesota despite a
one game over five hundred record twenty seven to twenty six,
leading the Ale Central Yankees get a home run from
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Aaron Judges fifteenth Garrett Cole to win He's six to zero,
beating the Padres ten to seven. Mets lose to the
Rockies eleven to ten. Ryan McMahon a homer, five RBI
for Colorado Diamondbacks over the Red Sox four to two.
Astros BFA's ten to one. Jord On Alvarez a couple
of homers for Houston. For Oakland, they'd been swept eight
times this season. They've lost eleven in a row and
fall to ten and forty five on the season. Red
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Z over the Cubs eight five. Cincinnati with a three
game sweep. Marlins shut out the Angels two othern Miami
with a three game series sweep. So apparently an NBA
referee has a burner account.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, we talked about this last weekend. This is great.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't know if you were here that night, but
we talked about it last week and this is wonderful.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yeah, Eric Lewis, it's been a nineteenth season as a referee.
NBA opening up an investigation into a Twitter account responding
to numerous posts on league officiating, and he defended Lewis
another NBA resid.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh no, the account some internet sluice. They realized that
this one account only talked about NBA officials and almost
all about Eric Lewis, so really hard to get down
to who that could be really hard to get that
down And so they yes, they was outed last week
and they The cool thing is because they took screenshots
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of because they knew the out would be deleted, so they.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Saved everything for the archive. And yeah, guys in.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Some trouble and he has not officiated a game since
I think early May, so he might be done. That's
it might be all for him. Interesting, Yeah, wild, Eric goes, Now,
how about this. You do you believe in Jinks's Eddie?
Do you believe in curses?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I mean, deep down, I probably don't, but I don't know.
I might have somewhat superstitious, but but I don't really
think that anything I do affects anything. But you know,
like the Pirates suddenly sucking when idwagon.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
But they would have sucked anywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Well, Jimmy Butler playoff Jimmy is Jimmy Butler jinx in
the playoffs. I saw the stat over the weekend. So
in NBA postseason history, there have been six game winning
buzzer beaters in an elimination game in NBA playoff history,
and after the game on Saturday, Jimmy Butler has now
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been on the wrong end of three of those. This
fifty in the history of the NBA, Jimmy Butler has
been a part of where a team loses on an
elimination game on a game winning bucket. It happened when
Jimmy Butler was playing for the Chicago Bulls against the
Milwaukee Bucks in a game that was played in Milwaukee.
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There was a basket right at the buzzer there in
Game four of that series. And then playing for the
Philadelphia seventy six ers in Toronto Game seven, Kawhi Leonard,
who would go on to cause great heartache in my
life with the Clippers. But he hit that game winning
shot that bounced a couple times on the rim for
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the Raptors in Game seven. And then on Saturday in Miami,
Derek White with the tip end basket. So Jimmy Butler
on the wrong end of three of the six buzzer
beater baskets in an elimination game, put that in your
pipe and smoking. Let's go to Kathy, a fan favorite.
(31:04):
She's back again. I thought, Kathy's I'm calling for like
you don't know Kathy in Portland? Never heard of if
you said, hello, Kathy, Oh, I love basketball.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
What a difference a week makes. Man. Last Sunday I
went crawling into church. My pastor is a Laker guy,
and you gotta find.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
A different church. Come on, yeah, I know why.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
And we were both commiserating. Our teams were both down
zero and three. And man, it's a good thing I'm
blind because he was hiding from me today. I couldn't
find him anywhere. I was really looking forward to this. Man.
I hope we win. I hope we win tonight, it
is going to be fun. Go Dereck White. I'm gonna
have to go out by a Derek White T shirt now.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And you don't need to do that, you know, yeah
I do.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Oh man, I'm this is even worth than than last year.
It's really exciting. Well, we has just turned life around. Boy,
the Oakland asier ten and forty five. I mean that's
less than twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well are you bringing up Kathy? Are you bringing up baseball? Kathy?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 7 (32:06):
That?
Speaker 4 (32:07):
It's pretty amazing, that's awful. I mean, batters, don't Matt
two hundred.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I think we could put you up there. We could
put Blind Scott with Sea bass like all our blind listeners,
and you do as well as the Oakland Athletics.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
It makes you feel better about having the Trailblazers in town,
you know. I mean, we even make it into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I did notice, Kathy, you didn't even call the first
couple of rounds of the playoffs. I noticed you waited
until later on before you started calling the shows.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
You haven't been very into ball. I've been kind of
discouraged with it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
The Trailblazers are frustrating to watch. We haven't been anything.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well, you ever.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Watched the Blazers game all year? What are you talking
about easy for you to watch? Come on, Oh no,
they're not.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
They're agonizing. Yeah, they're frustrating. And when you listen to
them on the radio, have the same commercials every day
every game, you're going.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Well, Fortunately this show we don't repeat any commercials at all.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Right, no note at all.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
By the way, Kathy, let me tell you something in
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Speaker 4 (33:40):
Okay, key, hey real quick and I'll go away. Your music, music,
novelty stuff that your listeners do is incredible. Is there
there ought to be somewhere they ought to sell it
or do something.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I agree, Well, we're not going to sell it because
they're the ones that made it. They should have to
make money on today. We have great people.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
But I did I did do wait mission, you know,
I did do.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
A podcast where I put a lot of the great
songs on there. And I will probably do that again
later on in late maybe later in the month of June,
I'll do a podcast. But yeah, there's some wonderful tunes
in there, so.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
We have wonderful detail they do.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
All right, thank you, Kathy, all right, bye bye, there
you go, my friend Kathy the Celtic fean in Portland.
She is back limited time only. And speaking of limited time,
Deon Sanders likely won't be in Colorado very long. But
boy are they making money. Holy Canoli, are they making
money there? The spring football game, which normally about two
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people show up to it Colorado, well this year they
made two hundred thousand dollars in profit on ticket sales.
And what about all the merchandise people bought. They made
one hundred and twenty three thousand dollars in merchandise.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So you do the math.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Dion Sanders, who's yet to coach a real game for
the Colorado Buffaloes, has created a profit of over three
hundred thousand dollars already, so talk about return on investment,
and a lot of people who are rooting against Dion
Sanders because he's he's not somebody that came up the
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traditional way in the coaching world, and they're like, what
about all these old time coaches, Like, it's not that
easy when you get to the big time. I'm pulling
for Deon Sanders. He's good for my business. I hope
he does well in Colorado. And with the changes in
USC and UCLA, some other teams leaving the Pac twelve
conference and the realignment in a couple of years here,
Deon Sanders could rule the roost in the Pac twelve.
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We have Mallor to the third degree. We'll get to that.
Here's the Insta Trivia. Over the weekend, Pete Alonso became
the first player in the big leagues to reach the
twenty home run mark this season. He reached the mark
in fifty three games, the second fewest games needed to
reach twenty home runs in a season in Mets history.
Trailing blank. That is the Insta Trivia. The answer next.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
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Speaker 2 (36:26):
We will have coming up momentarily Mallard the Third Degree,
but time now with debut Obnu Guy Patrick. He's been here,
but I've seen him in the shadows, Eddie, but now
he's primetime.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
I talked to him before the show. He is very
excited about producing the Ben Mallers.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
No, I'm saying he's a fellow big guy. I pull
for the big guys in radio.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
So I hope hell a big man, Yes, sir, right.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We need well, there's too many skinny little twarps that
work here. We need some guys that got some muscle,
some beef. Where's the beef? Anyway, here's the Insta trivia
and here it is. Over the weekend, Pete Alonzo became
the first player in MLB to reach the twenty home
run mark this season. He reached the mark with in
fifty three games, second fewest games needed to get twenty
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home runs in a season in Metropolitan's history. Trailing blank,
That is the question, What is the answer? Mallard prop
guys going with Benny the Bopper. It's his answer, Big
Greg and Iowa says the Madden ambulance driver.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
That was iconic. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Latino Heat Eddie Guerrero guest by Rob in Vegas. That
is his answer? Upie, the iconic Montreal Canadians mascot from
Mister Nice Guy former Expo Butch Husky also a legend
from Real John the Pie got Chili Davis tossed out
by Ferk Dog ahead Chili's looking good there.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Alfred Ogilvie of the Bad News Bears guest by Alf
the Alien opiner Hershey Hawkins from the Philly Rob tribute
to Count Mike Piazza guest by our buddy Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
The Old Lady from the nineteen eighties Life Alert commercial
Eddie do you have an answer? Office from Scott and
Rhode Island. Do you have an answer?
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I do? It's former New York Mets legend Bobby Benia.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Bobby Benia a great name.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Incorrect. Wally and Florida got this right. The correct answer
Dave Kingman. What's your opinion of Kingman's performance? Nineteen seventy six?
Dave Kingman Mets outfielder twenty home runs in fifty one games.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Here it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets quill.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
And making his debut here in the coop chair our
friend Patrick, Hello, Pat.
Speaker 7 (38:44):
Hello Ben, Hello Eddie, and hello Roberto. Now let's get
into some questions here, all right, Ben the heat guard
Tyler Hero responded to TNT commentator Stan Van Gundy's sideline
fashion jab by implying he was a bad coach. Now,
Van Gundy countered by suggesting Hero was soft for taking
his remarks to heart. Now, Ben, I got to ask,
(39:06):
who do you side with? Tyler Hero or Stan van Gundy?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
All right, So I am not a fan of Stan
van Gundy as a broadcaster, but I think he's a
whack a doodle. But I think he's right in this
in this regard, right, Tyler Hero made a fatal mistake.
He responded, right, you're the NBA player, even though he's
not playing right now, you're the NBA player. You respond
to the broadcaster, what are you doing right? You're going
down to his level and showing the world that you've
(39:33):
got rabbit ears. You're giving the victory to Van Gundy.
And I agree. I think self deprecating humor is the
best kind of humor. It's like, come on, Tyler, he
did look silly on this on the bench. All right, next,
all right, next question.
Speaker 7 (39:47):
We got report over the week and imply the Dodgers
are preparing a big contract offer for show hey O
Tani this offseason. Now, Ben, do you buy the Dodgers
breaking the bank for TONI yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I know, I do. I mean Roberto has been saying
he's been reporting this.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Roberto Flores has been reporting this for over a year,
that this is the Dodgers move here. And it makes
all the sense. O Tani likes the area he lives.
I think in Irvine. I heard somebody said that he
enjoys southern California. You could still live in Irvine, commute
to Dodger Stadium and somebody's gonna pay him fur hundred
(40:23):
and fifty million, five hundred million if it's between the
Dodgers and the Yankees, and he wants to stay on
the West coast, then why not go to the Dodgers next?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
All right, next question.
Speaker 7 (40:33):
We got Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett who had his car
stolen over the weekend during a radio interview. Now, Ben,
what's the strangest thing that happened to you during a
radio interview?
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Well, I never had somebody have their car stolen. I
did have.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
One of the funniest I remember is there's a guy,
an outfielder for the Houston Astros before they were the Cheaters,
named Derek Bell, and he calls from his hotel. They
were playing the Dodgers that night, and he put the
phone down because somebody had come to his hotel door,
and we heard a female's voice and he never picked
the phone up again. He just left us on hold.
We could hear some moving around in the background. Anyway,
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that's it, mald to the third degree.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
How do we know.
Speaker 7 (41:14):
The guy?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I want the guy?
Speaker 5 (41:15):
That is what I want you to put up a
good John Patrick.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I won the guy, Buddy, I won the game. That's
a winner. Rovertop, I won
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numb bird two hour two of the Ben
Malar Radio Show. Here an hour number two. It's a hop,
a skip and a jump about DeAndre Hopkins. Where does
DeAndre Hopkins end up in free agency? He was fired
from his job over the weekend. And why did the
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Cardinals release Hopkins rather than trade him at least get
something in return? And does this DeAndre Hopkins move signal
that Kyler Murray is on thin ice? We'll talk about
that as well. Right now here, it is our number two. Hey,
thanks for listening to the Ben Maler Show podcast. It's
me Ben. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
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Over the weekend, while we were away from the watchtower.
You're at Fox Sports Radio for a rare and appropriate
weekend away from the microphones of FSR. The Transaction Wire
burned up Burn Baby burn, and a story that we
talked about for several months had become reality. A name
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that had been mentioned and whispered and hushed tones as
a player that was going to change teams. The first
leg of that happened. If you didn't see, and you
don't have no idea what we're talking about, what's the riddle?
Get to the point place, all right? So DeAndre Hopkins
was fired from his job.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
In the NFL.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Now, the NFL doesn't use the word fired when it
comes to players, they say you were released, which is
a nice way of saying you were fired, but he
was let go from his job with the Arizona Cardinals.
It's a softer way to say you got fired when
you say you were released, but he was fired. Hopkins
spent three years in Arizona, seventeen touchdown receptions on his
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resume with the Birds, the Desert variety of the Birds
still had two years left on his contract for.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Thirty four million dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Maybe we all have two years left on our contract
for thirty four million dollars like the Andre Hopkins had.
So now the question becomes who's got next? Who's got next?
So let us discuss the way we'll frame it. We'll
keep it simple. It's sports talk radio. But the way
we're gonna frame this is as follows. So, where does
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de Andre Hopkins end up now that he is free
to roam around the NFL country. I've got Stevie ray Vaughn,
Disco Tech, and Irish Spring and we will combine all
of these things together, will squish them together, and we
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are going to make a nice, big moving van, which
is what DeAndre is going to need as he moves
all his crap out of Arizona somewhere else on the
NFL circuit. So number number there is a limited market
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for DeAndre Hopkins, believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm the one that just said it. I'll tell you why,
all right. He is promoting himself. He's propping himself up.
Maybe that's a better way of saying it as a
high end commodity, but the numbers recently don't back that up.
That's a problem. And the whispers around the NFL say
that Hopkins only wants to play for a legitimate super
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Bowl contender. Well what if those legitimate super Bowl contenders
do not want DeAndre Hopkins? Then what do you do.
That's a quagmire of a situation. Now we're not there yet,
but nobody else, nobody else, apparently, will solve his unquenchable
thirst to play for a winning team. Of course, I
think that's a lot of malarkey. And then ultimately DeAndre
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Hopkins will end up going where the money is, assuming
all things are equal. If there's a team that is
a contender that offers a similar contract, he will go
to that team that's better. But it's not like he's
going to totally eliminate the teams that are fringe contenders.
But we'll talk about what his people have tossed out
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into the echo chamber, the people who are on Team
Hopkins and whatnot. So there are three obvious super Bowl contenders.
If I gave you a list of three teams, then
I said, you've got to come up with three teams
that I can guarantee you are going to be in
the conversation for the Super Bowl next time it's being
played in Vegas. Those three teams on my big board,
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not a list because we don't do list radio, but
my big board, I've got Kansas City that's obvious, Buffalo
here we go, Buffalo, and Cincinnati ben Gals. Those three teams.
So those would be the first three teams. If this
reporting is accurate. DeAndre Hopkins wants to play for a
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Whitner and not some team in the outskirts of that.
So you go Kansas City, Buffalo, and Cincinnati as the
first three teams. But we eliminate the Bengals. They're eliminated
because they do not make moves like this. They don't,
so you're gonna race them off your big board. And
then you're like well, wait a minute. Here it becomes
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an old Stevie ray Vaughn song love Struck Baby, and
you say, okay, in terms of contenders, they have a
clear need here the process of elimination. It is the
cheap all day that should be where DeAndre Hopkins ends
up if he's wants to play for a winner, a
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team that has.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
A need there.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Buffalo not as much. But Patrick Mahomes is the measuring stick.
Do we all agree on that Mahomes is the measuring
stick for quarterbacks right now? In that business. He's the
top guy of his generation. And Andy Reid is a
top three coach in the NFL. So there is also
a void there when you peruse the roster of the
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Chiefs and you're like, wait a minute, where did all
the receivers go? I know they won last year without
having a top notch receiver, but the depth chart has
Marquez Valdez Scantling as the number one receiver, Kadarius Tony
as the number two, and Sky Moore as number three
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on the list. That's the top three receivers right there.
Not exactly a murderer's row of past catchers. And you
look crossover at Buffalo, well, Yeah, they got josh Adamon.
He's pretty good. He's had some hiccups now and again.
And then you look at Stefan Diggs and Gabe Davis.
Both those guys are would be number one receivers on
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Kansas City. And also the other problem you get not
that the weather's great in Kansas City late in the year,
but in Buffalo you get anywhere from two to four
Lake effect blizzard games where the Bills become a running team,
and therefore DeAndre Hopkins would just be out there blocking
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and would not be part of the offense there because
you just don't throw the ball in those nasty cold
the late season Bills home games one of the reasons
the Bills offensive players have a huge hill to climb
in order to win a Most Valuable Player now award. Now,
the other team that we're tossing out this is not
a contender. They're not going to win anything. But you
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toss them out for DeAndre Hopkins as we're playing the
speculation game.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And that would be Cleveland and the Browns.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Now, why the Browns because of the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson.
They played together in Houston and so that would of
course be another mistake by the Lake. But DeAndre Hopkins
could go to Cleveland, he would be the number one
receiver ahead of Amari Cooper and Donovan People's Jones and
ex jet Elijah Moore who are hanging out there in
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northern Ohio now page two here. So why did the
Cardinals just get rid of DeAndre Hopkins to release him
rather then trade him, even if it was for a
conditional late round draft pick, when you have been better
off making the trade. Of course, you don't have to
be an executive for an NFL team. The Cardinals would
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have absolutely been better off if they had made a trade.
The short answers the reason they didn't. There are a bunch
of ragamuffins, that's the short answer there. Now to expand
on that, rather than make a lopsided deal that would
have been giving up a talent for a low round
draft pick, they made no trade at all. They went
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to the discothech and they did the dance of the
clueless is what the Cardinals did here. Getting something, even
if it's not great, is better than nothing. And the
Cardinals are spinning this as a victory. Of course they are.
Why wouldn't they That's what all the teams do, Oh,
everything's great, Oh we're good. No, not really, not really right,
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I mean, what else did you expect them to do?
Say that we lost the transaction releasing releasing the player.
But the naked truth is, and you're not going to
get this a lot of places, but DeAndre Hopkins at
this point is a C level player who thinks he's
an A level player. That's a problem, right, that's a problem.
Don't let a falling star fall on you. And he's
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past the age of thirty. Check, that's a problem when
you get to this wide receiver. Very rarely do you
get top NOTx production from a receiver past the age
of thirty, So declining value on that. And he's also
got the stank of a PD cheat that doesn't really
work all that much in Football's more of a baseball thing,
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but that's on his resume as well. So you've got injuries,
you've got the classical dival wide receiver tendencies, and you
do the arithmetic and ninety nine point nine percent of
receivers have a little Diva in them if they're any good.
But spoiler, even with all that noise, the Cardinals could
have still gotten something and they got enough. Instead, they're
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claiming victory because they saved eight million dollars in salary
cap space. But by the way, they're still going to
have a dead salary cap hit of twenty two point
six million. Now on this show, we are salary cap truthers.
On this show, we know the manipulation of the salary
cap app that you use it to explain anything. It's
(12:03):
the ultimate explanation the confessional. It's like, well, the reason
we we got rid of those players because we couldn't
afford him anymore.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Say blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
If you want to keep someone, if the Cardinals wanted
to keep DeAndre Hopkins, and we know what they're trying
to do, they're trying to suck. But if they wanted
to keep him, they could have worked it out. They
could have kept him on the roster, but they did.
The salary cap is a object that is manipulated easily.
You can move the numbers around, cook the books. It's
like having a good accountant, and these teams all have
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good accounts, all right, Last and final point, So we'll
take a couple steps back from DeAndre Hopkins. Does this
movement by the Cardinals indicate that Kyler Murray is on
thin ice in Arizona. D yes yes to infinity and
(12:57):
beyond now he us on thin ice. Whether DeAndre Hopkins
stayed in Arizona or not. This is furthers along the
storyline thousand percent. There is a roadmap, and if you
follow the roadmap, the roadmap has Alligator Arms Murray next
out of town among the high profile players in Arizona,
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with the last one left.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Turn out the lights. The party's over there.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And it makes a lot of sense because when you
follow the roadmap, Cardinals get out the old Irish spring
and scrub a Dub dub right, get that, scrub a
dub dub soap out and reset the franchise.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Murray is out already.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
He's gonna miss part of the next season anyway, as
he's coming off medical procedure there in acl I believe
the injury there, so he might miss the entire year.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Colt McCoy is.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
The de facto starter, so you end up in full
tanky mctank mode. If you're the Cardinals, Arizona is going
to win based on what I've read of their roster
and this buffoon they hired as a coach, they'll win
anywhere from two to four games. So they'll win two
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to four games, and that means that the Cardinals will
be in position to have the number one overall pick,
and they have a great chance, even if they don't
get the number one pick, to trade up for it
because the Cardinals also have the Houston Texans pick they're
gonna blow from a trade they made this year as
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Houston the Texans moved up in the draft, so it's
conceivable the Cardinals could have the top two picks in
next year's NFL Draft, and the draft Knicks already are
hyping up generational talents at quarterback in Caleb Williams, the
Heisman winner from sc and Drake May from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Those two are the.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Next wave of can't miss blue chip NFL suspects or prospects.
So Arizona with two shots to get a top two
pick in the draft and get one of those quarterbacks,
and that would mean they would be open for business.
Get read of alligator arms Murray. Remember already the general
manager that gave him the contract was fired. How do
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we know that he was working for us during the
NFL Draft. Also, the head coach Cliff Kingsbury is now
going to college football to coach Caleb Williams. So those
guys are gone and Kyler Murray's passion is video games.
It was a terrible contract. The Cardinals knew it was
a terrible contract. That's why they put a clause in
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there saying that you actually have to study. He raised
a hullabaloo. The Cardinals caved in. They took the clause
out of the contract. And so it's setting up as
he's the next to go, and where does he go
the usual suspects. You look at the teams that'll be
back in the Quarterback Derby next year. You're looking at
the Tennessee Titans, the Atlanta Falcons, Las Vegas Raiders, the
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Those are the teams, the commanders. We're all in.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Play for Kyler Murray. It is the Ben Malors Show.
If you'd like to be part eight seven seven ninety
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Speaker 1 (16:35):
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Coming up later in the hour, We've got malardly third degree.
Also next our of the instant advice line and the
militia feud. The Mallard Militia fear to be coming up
in our number four. As we began with a DeAndre
Hopkins Steam Mallard monologue, Robin Vegas as, I agree with
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your top three teams to land, DeAndre, but I would
add the j e ts suck suck, suck on the
big board, not a list.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It is a big board, that's right, because we do
not do we do not do this radio.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
The Real Housewife of Malartown writes in says, honey, DeAndre
Hopkins maybe pecky about where he wants to play, However,
he is far from being a diva.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Trust me.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I know Davas avigator arms Murray maybe on thin ice,
but his tail will keep him buoyant should he crash
through the valley of the sun frozen tundra. Okay, very
very very nice. As go to the phones. We'll say
hello to Will, who is in southern California in a
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town called Whittier.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Will in Whittier, Hello, Will.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Then how's this going? I don't have a class to
teach tomorrow, so I get to stay up till two
or twelve thirty am. So I'm not going to talk
to your ear off about Saint John's if I could
normally do, but I wanted to bring something up and
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it might be a little bit down the third rail.
So I might be dragging.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
You down with you.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, yeah, that would be I don't think that the
phrasing on that was. So you're you're announcing to the
world right now, you're going to the third rail, which
is very, very dangerous and very concerning, very troubling, the
third rail. Okay, let's go to the third rail. I've
got my bouncer, Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Go ahead, go ahead, and if if it's too edgy,
go ahead, and just you can just knock me off.
The other day and I'm very pro l G B
t Q plus the Dodgers decided to bring back the
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgences and we don't have to take
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any sides here. You know, I'm very pro l G
B t Q. Plus.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
You're putting a lot of You're putting a lot of
qualified on this. Yes, you want everyone to know.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yeah, I don't want to get trashed.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What's the question.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I just want you to.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
Think, since there's so many uh Catholic Dodger fans, do
you think there's gonna be some repercussions in sales.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I don't think it's going to hurt the ticket sales.
I think that their people will be very voisterous though
that night. I would imagine that there'll be people that
will not be very happy. I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I don't know. I I think a lot of the.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I don't know the team marketing, not just the Dodgers.
I don't know. I'm just there for the sports. I
don't need I don't need to be told how to
live my life one way or the other. I just
want to watch the sports. But all these teams are
into it, man.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
They love it.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
They can't get enough of it. They love they love
that type of marketing. It's not really for me either way.
I just want to watch the games. But I'm old
school that way.
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Have you put a one hundred grand on Saint John's yet?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Let me check here?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Do I have one hundred thousand laying around Roberto's in
the other room over there, right?
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Roberto?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I got one hundred thousand over there in the other room.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah sure, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah sure, why not Rick
Patino coach Patino with the one last shining moment with
Rick Pattino hoisting the championship trophy for Saint John's right,
All right, go, I go to bed, I get out
of here. It is the Ben Malor Show. As we
continue on through these late night hours and boom wap
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bang while we were away was reported the trade papers
in Hollywood reported that they're making a John Madden movie
based on the video game based on his life, and
a guy that went to my high school is gonna
play John Madden.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Will Ferrell is one of the many high schools I attended.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
But Will Ferrell went there and uh irv Line and
at University of High School, and he is agreed he's
going to be in the biopic based on the life
of John Matten. Who's gonna play Pat Summer All? That's
what I want to know. Who's gonna be Pat summer All.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
In the movie?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Well, just about anyone could play Pat Summer All. Let's
be honest, there's just be monotone and don't say a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, Pat Summer All? Who a lot of young people
probably don't know who that is.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But he's one of the better scrippers in all the NFL.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Well that's that's of course great, mad but some are
all He would turn an Emmett Smith ninety five yard
touchdown run into four words. Yeah, it's just amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
But they were a great duo though together.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, they were wonderful.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
But John Madden, we're getting old now when they're making
movies about people we grew up watching.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
We're not getting old, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I like to I like to be positive, but I
think Will Ferrell will do very well.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I agree. I thought when I first heard about it,
I thought, oh, that's interesting. But I mean John Adam
was kind of a cartoon character, and you need somebody
who can be kind of flamboyant and funny to play
that kind of a role.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I think, Yeah, And he's a guy that's you know,
some some people in Hollywood just don't really like into sports.
But he's into it like he's a fan, Like I
think he really would. That's to me, that's an important
part of that. So that'll be cool. Whence that that
two years or something like that, he just takes a
while for them to make these things.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
But there you go.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So Will Ferrell and a John Madden bio pick. It
is produced by Amazon and MGM Studios and some guy
I've never heard of that's won a bunch of Academy
Awards named David O.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Russell.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, I've heard of him director.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Oh boy, that's a good question. I definitely heard of it.
Probably because to the O part David Russell, you'd be like,
that's generic, but he put the O in there make
him stand out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
All right, Well that's the guy who will be directing
the Madden the film titled Matt So see how that
turns out.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Maybe next year, two years. Who knows? Six a while
would make those movies.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
He did uh A Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter also, yeah,
so he's done some sports movies.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Who else would be in a Madden movie, Pat Summer
all obviously, I guess Al Michaels maybe.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Maybe it depends on how long they show his career.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I guess they could also do it like they did
the Jordan movie Where Air, where they just don't show
anyone in the show. Vin didn't start with in Yeah,
I think he did I think he did when he
was beginning, when it.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Was first starting.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, that's crazy to think about that, all right. Anyway,
it is that the Ben Matters show. So good luck
to Will Ferrell. I look forward to seeing that movie.
Madden passed away. Got's parady dto twenty twenty one. So
it's time keeps marching on, all right, we'll press on.
We will march on as well. We'll take some calls.
I promise here some more amazing phone calls. We have
Mallard of the third degree. Also some prime time cash
(25:58):
and Brown Town wait to hear that story. But right now,
let's get over to Edmund Dallas Steamboat, Willie Judas solid
goal nine to five, Corporate Eli.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He's working on a holiday company holiday Garcia.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
And of course we're counting down to that big game
seven in the Eastern Conference Finals. NBA Playoffs coming up tonight,
eight thirty Eastern time in Boston, Celtics hosting the Heat
Boston looking to become the first team in NBA history
to rally down three to win a playoff series. Teams
that have been in that position, oh in one hundred
and fifty. Also coming up tonight, You've got game number
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six of the Western Conference Finals in the NHL Stanley
Cup Playoffs. That's eight o'clock Eastern and Dallas Stars hosting
the Golden Nights. Dallas trying to do what Boston has
done rally down three to force a game.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Seat for US City Will everyone else will be watching
the basketball game.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But you'll be watching that.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Well, flip over to the basketball game in the fourth quarter.
See what the score is.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It's close.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Yeah, okay, that was a great finish the other night.
Even I have to meet the NBA hater. It's a
great finish.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh yeah, the heat. If you bet on the heat
with the points, the bet about that.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
In fact, in baseball games a note from Sunday, we
had a battle of two of the top teams in
the Big leagues, with the Rays edging of the Dodgers
eleven to ten Tampa Bay now big league best thirty
nine and sixteen, twenty six and six and home Dodgers
at five home runs two from Chris Taylor in a
losing effort. The Braves had moved a half game up
on the Dodgers of the best record in the National
League after an eleven to four winner with the Phillies
Matt Olsen a couple of homers for Atlanta. They're thirty
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two and twenty one on the year. Orioles our second
best in their division, the AL East, but half the
second best record in all of baseball, trailing the Rays
with the thirty four to nineteen mark. They edge the
AL West leading Rangers three to two. On Sunday, Brewers
over the Giants seven to five. Twins were blank but
the Blue Jays three to nothing in Minnesota despite a
one game over five hundred record twenty seven to twenty six,
leading the Ale Central Yankees get a home run from
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Aaron Judges fifteenth Garrett Cole to win He's six to zero,
beating the Padres ten to seven. Mets lose to the
Rockies eleven to ten. Ryan McMahon a homer, five RBI
for Colorado Diamondbacks over the Red Sox four to two.
Astros BFA's ten to one. Jord On Alvarez a couple
of homers for Houston. For Oakland, they'd been swept eight
times this season. They've lost eleven in a row and
fall to ten and forty five on the season. Red
(28:07):
Z over the Cubs eight five. Cincinnati with a three
game sweep. Marlins shut out the Angels two othern Miami
with a three game series sweep. So apparently an NBA
referee has a burner account.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, we talked about this last weekend. This is great.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I don't know if you were here that night, but
we talked about it last week and this is wonderful.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yeah, Eric Lewis, it's been a nineteenth season as a referee.
NBA opening up an investigation into a Twitter account responding
to numerous posts on league officiating, and he defended Lewis
another NBA resid.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Oh no, the account some internet sluice. They realized that
this one account only talked about NBA officials and almost
all about Eric Lewis, so really hard to get down
to who that could be really hard to get that
down And so they yes, they was outed last week
and they The cool thing is because they took screenshots
(28:59):
of because they knew the out would be deleted, so they.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Saved everything for the archive. And yeah, guys in.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Some trouble and he has not officiated a game since
I think early May, so he might be done. That's
it might be all for him. Interesting, Yeah, wild, Eric goes, Now,
how about this. You do you believe in Jinks's Eddie?
Do you believe in curses?
Speaker 5 (29:23):
I mean, deep down, I probably don't, but I don't know.
I might have somewhat superstitious, but but I don't really
think that anything I do affects anything. But you know,
like the Pirates suddenly sucking when idwagon.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
But they would have sucked anywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Well, Jimmy Butler playoff Jimmy is Jimmy Butler jinx in
the playoffs. I saw the stat over the weekend. So
in NBA postseason history, there have been six game winning
buzzer beaters in an elimination game in NBA playoff history,
and after the game on Saturday, Jimmy Butler has now
(30:01):
been on the wrong end of three of those. This
fifty in the history of the NBA, Jimmy Butler has
been a part of where a team loses on an
elimination game on a game winning bucket. It happened when
Jimmy Butler was playing for the Chicago Bulls against the
Milwaukee Bucks in a game that was played in Milwaukee.
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There was a basket right at the buzzer there in
Game four of that series. And then playing for the
Philadelphia seventy six ers in Toronto Game seven, Kawhi Leonard,
who would go on to cause great heartache in my
life with the Clippers. But he hit that game winning
shot that bounced a couple times on the rim for
(30:43):
the Raptors in Game seven. And then on Saturday in Miami,
Derek White with the tip end basket. So Jimmy Butler
on the wrong end of three of the six buzzer
beater baskets in an elimination game, put that in your
pipe and smoking. Let's go to Kathy, a fan favorite.
(31:04):
She's back again. I thought, Kathy's I'm calling for like
you don't know Kathy in Portland? Never heard of if
you said, hello, Kathy, Oh, I love basketball.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
What a difference a week makes. Man. Last Sunday I
went crawling into church. My pastor is a Laker guy,
and you gotta find.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
A different church. Come on, yeah, I know why.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
And we were both commiserating. Our teams were both down
zero and three. And man, it's a good thing I'm
blind because he was hiding from me today. I couldn't
find him anywhere. I was really looking forward to this. Man.
I hope we win. I hope we win tonight, it
is going to be fun. Go Dereck White. I'm gonna
have to go out by a Derek White T shirt now.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And you don't need to do that, you know, yeah
I do.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Oh man, I'm this is even worth than than last year.
It's really exciting. Well, we has just turned life around. Boy,
the Oakland asier ten and forty five. I mean that's
less than twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Well are you bringing up Kathy? Are you bringing up baseball? Kathy?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 7 (32:06):
That?
Speaker 4 (32:07):
It's pretty amazing, that's awful. I mean, batters, don't Matt
two hundred.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I think we could put you up there. We could
put Blind Scott with Sea bass like all our blind listeners,
and you do as well as the Oakland Athletics.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
It makes you feel better about having the Trailblazers in town,
you know. I mean, we even make it into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I did notice, Kathy, you didn't even call the first
couple of rounds of the playoffs. I noticed you waited
until later on before you started calling the shows.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
You haven't been very into ball. I've been kind of
discouraged with it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
The Trailblazers are frustrating to watch. We haven't been anything.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well, you ever.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Watched the Blazers game all year? What are you talking
about easy for you to watch? Come on, Oh no,
they're not.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
They're agonizing. Yeah, they're frustrating. And when you listen to
them on the radio, have the same commercials every day
every game, you're going.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Well, Fortunately this show we don't repeat any commercials at all.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Right, no note at all.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
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Progressive dot Com is the tag out on that.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Okay, key, hey real quick and I'll go away. Your music, music,
novelty stuff that your listeners do is incredible. Is there
there ought to be somewhere they ought to sell it
or do something.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I agree, Well, we're not going to sell it because
they're the ones that made it. They should have to
make money on today. We have great people.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
But I did I did do wait mission, you know,
I did do.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
A podcast where I put a lot of the great
songs on there. And I will probably do that again
later on in late maybe later in the month of June,
I'll do a podcast. But yeah, there's some wonderful tunes
in there, so.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
We have wonderful detail they do.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
All right, thank you, Kathy, all right, bye bye, there
you go, my friend Kathy the Celtic fean in Portland.
She is back limited time only. And speaking of limited time,
Deon Sanders likely won't be in Colorado very long. But
boy are they making money. Holy Canoli, are they making
money there? The spring football game, which normally about two
(34:36):
people show up to it Colorado, well this year they
made two hundred thousand dollars in profit on ticket sales.
And what about all the merchandise people bought. They made
one hundred and twenty three thousand dollars in merchandise.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
So you do the math.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Dion Sanders, who's yet to coach a real game for
the Colorado Buffaloes, has created a profit of over three
hundred thousand dollars already, so talk about return on investment,
and a lot of people who are rooting against Dion
Sanders because he's he's not somebody that came up the
(35:12):
traditional way in the coaching world, and they're like, what
about all these old time coaches, Like, it's not that
easy when you get to the big time. I'm pulling
for Deon Sanders. He's good for my business. I hope
he does well in Colorado. And with the changes in
USC and UCLA, some other teams leaving the Pac twelve
conference and the realignment in a couple of years here,
Deon Sanders could rule the roost in the Pac twelve.
(35:35):
We have Mallor to the third degree. We'll get to that.
Here's the Insta Trivia. Over the weekend, Pete Alonso became
the first player in the big leagues to reach the
twenty home run mark this season. He reached the mark
in fifty three games, the second fewest games needed to
reach twenty home runs in a season in Mets history.
Trailing blank. That is the Insta Trivia. The answer next.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
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Speaker 2 (36:26):
We will have coming up momentarily Mallard the Third Degree,
but time now with debut Obnu Guy Patrick. He's been here,
but I've seen him in the shadows, Eddie, but now
he's primetime.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
I talked to him before the show. He is very
excited about producing the Ben Mallers.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
No, I'm saying he's a fellow big guy. I pull
for the big guys in radio.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
So I hope hell a big man, Yes, sir, right.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We need well, there's too many skinny little twarps that
work here. We need some guys that got some muscle,
some beef. Where's the beef? Anyway, here's the Insta trivia
and here it is. Over the weekend, Pete Alonzo became
the first player in MLB to reach the twenty home
run mark this season. He reached the mark with in
fifty three games, second fewest games needed to get twenty
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home runs in a season in Metropolitan's history. Trailing blank,
That is the question, What is the answer? Mallard prop
guys going with Benny the Bopper. It's his answer, Big
Greg and Iowa says the Madden ambulance driver.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
That was iconic. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Latino Heat Eddie Guerrero guest by Rob in Vegas. That
is his answer? Upie, the iconic Montreal Canadians mascot from
Mister Nice Guy former Expo Butch Husky also a legend
from Real John the Pie got Chili Davis tossed out
by Ferk Dog ahead Chili's looking good there.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Alfred Ogilvie of the Bad News Bears guest by Alf
the Alien opiner Hershey Hawkins from the Philly Rob tribute
to Count Mike Piazza guest by our buddy Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
The Old Lady from the nineteen eighties Life Alert commercial
Eddie do you have an answer? Office from Scott and
Rhode Island. Do you have an answer?
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I do? It's former New York Mets legend Bobby Benia.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Bobby Benia a great name.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Incorrect. Wally and Florida got this right. The correct answer
Dave Kingman. What's your opinion of Kingman's performance? Nineteen seventy six?
Dave Kingman Mets outfielder twenty home runs in fifty one games.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Here it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 3 (38:33):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets quill.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
And making his debut here in the coop chair our
friend Patrick, Hello, Pat.
Speaker 7 (38:44):
Hello Ben, Hello Eddie, and hello Roberto. Now let's get
into some questions here, all right, Ben the heat guard
Tyler Hero responded to TNT commentator Stan Van Gundy's sideline
fashion jab by implying he was a bad coach. Now,
Van Gundy countered by suggesting Hero was soft for taking
his remarks to heart. Now, Ben, I got to ask,
(39:06):
who do you side with? Tyler Hero or Stan van Gundy?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
All right, So I am not a fan of Stan
van Gundy as a broadcaster, but I think he's a
whack a doodle. But I think he's right in this
in this regard, right, Tyler Hero made a fatal mistake.
He responded, right, you're the NBA player, even though he's
not playing right now, you're the NBA player. You respond
to the broadcaster, what are you doing right? You're going
down to his level and showing the world that you've
(39:33):
got rabbit ears. You're giving the victory to Van Gundy.
And I agree. I think self deprecating humor is the
best kind of humor. It's like, come on, Tyler, he
did look silly on this on the bench. All right, next,
all right, next question.
Speaker 7 (39:47):
We got report over the week and imply the Dodgers
are preparing a big contract offer for show hey O
Tani this offseason. Now, Ben, do you buy the Dodgers
breaking the bank for TONI yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I know, I do. I mean Roberto has been saying
he's been reporting this.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Roberto Flores has been reporting this for over a year,
that this is the Dodgers move here. And it makes
all the sense. O Tani likes the area he lives.
I think in Irvine. I heard somebody said that he
enjoys southern California. You could still live in Irvine, commute
to Dodger Stadium and somebody's gonna pay him fur hundred
(40:23):
and fifty million, five hundred million if it's between the
Dodgers and the Yankees, and he wants to stay on
the West coast, then why not go to the Dodgers next?
Speaker 1 (40:31):
All right, next question.
Speaker 7 (40:33):
We got Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett who had his car
stolen over the weekend during a radio interview. Now, Ben,
what's the strangest thing that happened to you during a
radio interview?
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Well, I never had somebody have their car stolen. I
did have.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
One of the funniest I remember is there's a guy,
an outfielder for the Houston Astros before they were the Cheaters,
named Derek Bell, and he calls from his hotel. They
were playing the Dodgers that night, and he put the
phone down because somebody had come to his hotel door,
and we heard a female's voice and he never picked
the phone up again. He just left us on hold.
We could hear some moving around in the background. Anyway,
(41:10):
that's it, mald to the third degree.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
How do we know.
Speaker 7 (41:14):
The guy?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I want the guy?
Speaker 5 (41:15):
That is what I want you to put up a
good John Patrick.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I won the guy, Buddy, I won the game. That's
a winner. Rovertop, I won
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Ben Maller
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