May 30, 2023 • 41 mins
In Hour 1 of tonight’s edition of the Ben Maller show, Ben begins the hour recapping the Boston Celtic’s embarrassing performance in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Celtics were blown out at home by the Miami Heat after crawling back down from 3-0 in the series, and Ben says there’s no excuse, not even Jayson Tatum’s twisted ankle. Plus, the crew gives their pick for MLB Pick ‘Em and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb or one hour one
of our podcast, The Ben Maler Show. You have found us.
Thank you for that. Appreciate your loyalty as we are
back at it again, another night of debauchery, talking sport,
the Heat and Celtics Eastern Conference Finals Game seven, the
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winner getting the Nuggets in the NBA Finals. That you
watch this game, it was not even close, the road
team getting it done, Miami, Miami, Miami. The better story
though in the losing locker room. Who gets the bulk
of the blame for the Celtics blowing it at home
and not ending up in the NBA Finals. What's the
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big takeaway from the Celtics losing and worthy Heat the
more talented team after all, after all they won. We'll
talk about that and more right now here. It is
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So there are many nights we walk into the studio
we're like, I don't know what's going on, and then
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there's a few nights it's kind of obvious. This would
be one of those nights. Our lead coming from Pro
Bouncy Ball the never ending NBA postseason as they played
their final game in the month of May. Don't worry,
there'll be more games in June, just a couple of
days away. But it's the moment that everyone was talking about.
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Game seven, Eastern Finals. Everyone all dressed. It was a
coronation for the Celtics. They just had to show up
and they were gonna be the first team in NBA
history to close the deal. They historical comeback over the
Miami Heat, and they were big favorites. They were at home.
Everyone was all dulled up, ready to go Memorial Day
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night madness in Boston. And then they had to play
the game. Then they had to play the game, which
is the problem. And if you didn't see it, you
probably know by now what happened. Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets
had twenty eight points, but he was not even the story.
Here was Caleb Martin who Caleb Martin did not have
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him on my Bengo card. But Caleb Martin added twenty
six points in the Heat, burning scolding hot the Celtics.
They're one three to eighty four of the final. In
a game that was dominated from the late stages of
the second quarter to the end of the game. He
fellas from South Beach get to win, so Miami. They
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did not trail after the early part of the first quarter,
they led by as many as twenty three and so
a team that was the last one in in that
fugayse playing tournament and they are now representing the Eastern
Conference of the NBA a chance to win a championship.
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Game seven was a garden party, but not for the
home team. The better story, though, is in that losing
locker room. So that is where we were going to
go and let us discuss how did this happen? The
question who gets the bulk of the play for the
Celtics blowing a golden opportunity in Game seven after winning
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three games in a row and then it came down
to Game seven and then a no show performance. So
I've got jersey, uncle, and tebow, and we will combine
all of these things to get We'll put them in
the blender and we are going to make a nice
dessert which the Celtics can enjoy because they will not
be playing basketball anytime soon. So A, you have to
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look at Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, that's the obvious one.
These guys did not step up. They step down. They're
the ones that own the star. But dust in Boston,
the powerhouse players We've been told that they've been given
a bunch of accolades over recent years, and this was
the big stage. You were watching, I was watching, and
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what did we see? What do we see? What are
these all NBA guys do? What do they do? Tatum
and Brown, Well, it was a Jersey like performance as
in Jersey Mike's. They grabbed a HOGI. They chowed down
on a panic sandwich. And as we anticipated in a
previous episode of the show, when you look at a
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game seven we love game sevens because oftentimes it does
not come down to who plays better. It comes down
to who plays worse. And you saw early on Tatum
and Brown they had tight Touki syndrome. They chowed down
on the panic sandwich. It was insubordination, had the tail
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between their legs. Now, Jason Tatum, some will give him
a pass, the usual losers in the media. Who wasn't
his fault? He was stinged up? Yeah, okay, okay, here
his ankle. He stayed in the game. He stayed in
the game. First offensive time down the court for the Celtics,
he came down awkwardly on the first offensive possession for Boston.
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But the fact that he stayed in the game, and
you don't get you don't get a pass on that
I don't give you, But maybe other people will. I'm
sure there'll be plenty of people, plenty of losers with microphones,
dopes that have TV shows and they're hipsters online. But
he was not a difference maker. He wasn't And this
was a legendary mode for Jason Tatum and all these
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tam bozos. Oh you don't want to get a game
seven with Jason Tatum at home stuff of legends. No,
then you got Jalen Brown who was also shooting blanks.
And Jalen Brown had nineteen points. He managed to have
eight turnovers. Tatum, by the way, had fourteen points. You
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can really cock it up. Yeah, well they did. Combined.
They shot two of thirteen from behind the arc. Jalen
Brown guilty of non compliance with doing your job. Here
is Jalen Brown following the loss, pointing out that there's
a lot of people that the Celtics really well, they
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just kind of blew it.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Just a terrible game when my team needed me most,
Like jt Artis Ankle first played a game, you know,
and you could see it like swelling up on him
and he couldn't move out there. It was tough for him.
And you know, my team learned to me to make
plays and etc. And I came up short. I failed.
I expected to win the day and move on. That's
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what my focus was on. That's what my focus has
been on. We fail, I fail, And it's hard to
think about anything else right now.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, you are a failure. Congratulations. Would you like some
cheese with your wine? Cheese and crackers? That we have
something actually in the cafeteria here at Fox Sports Rado.
So the Celtics turned out to be all bark and
no bite in the end. That's the story of this
Celtic team. Maybe it'll be better next year, maybe it'll
be worse. Who knows. Now the second page here, what's
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the big takeaway though, what's the big takeaway from the
Celtics losing the way they did. It wasn't a close game.
It wasn't Jimmy Butler taking over in the final two minutes. Now,
the game was decided by the time the early part
of the fourth quarter was going on. You could argue
the game was decided midway through the third quarter, that
there was no reasonable expectation that Boston would come back. Now.
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The thing that I enjoy the most about this game
seven the myth busters angle to it, all of the
bullshoy that was being tossed out by the dumb dumbs
in the media trying to explain what was going on
when the Celtics had won a few games in a row,
such as one of my favorites, the Celtics bonded because
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they went the top golf. That's right. They had some
drinks and they were hitting golf balls and that turned
their entire playoff series around. That was a popular narrative
that was being peddled by members of the Celtics, and
of course media dopes loved that kind of stuff. They
were running wild with it. Jalen Brown, we just played
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a Jalen Brown sound bite. How about how dumb does
he look? He had the warning, remember his famous warning,
don't let us win one. Don't let us win one. Okay,
how'd that go?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You won three and right out the window, Right out
the window. Now, the person I actually genuinely feel bad
for is because the Derek White game goes out the window.
It is no longer an iconic moment in Boston sports
because that tip in with a nanosecond on the clock
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in Miami that fades away. The Celtics didn't even go
to the NBA Finals, forget winning the championship. And then
the ultimate, the ultimate takeaway from the Celtics losing home
court Game number seven to Miami is uncle, as in,
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cry uncle. All the nonsense by the Mans.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Marron momdam mo uncle mo whoa yeah, okay, yeah, put
that in your pipe and smoke at you and your momentum. Okay,
the Seas were all but guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They had won three in a row, and then all
the momentum, home court advantage, Robert Kraft was there, all
the Boston celebrities were out. It was games seven, Jason Titum,
oh man, everything was set up, and then Miami went
out there. They grabbed a mop and they mopped the
floor with the Celtics is what they did. What happened
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to the momentum. I don't understand. There is no such thing
as momentum in sports. You morons, stop with this, and
Miami should have swept the Celtics by that standard, right,
they had won three in a row, they had all
the momentum. It doesn't exist. It's just something people bring
up at the end to explain the outcome or try
to rationalize what they witnessed. But the Celtics, I mean,
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where have you gone? Bill Russell and Larry Bird and
even Paul Pierce. The Celtics played eleven home games in
the postseason this year and had a losing record on
the Parque when five and six at home at home
in the postseason. Now, if I'm not mistaken, the eight
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Celtics who overcame the great Albatross Doc Rivers as their coach.
That Celtic team with Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett and
Ray Allen, all those guys together, they lost six home
games during the entire regular season. This Celtic team this
year lost six home games in the postseason. You gotta
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be joke, and so it destroys the fairy tale of
Derek White. As we mentioned. Also, I gotta critique to
stan Van Gundy here. So this game was a Freemasonry
type game with a lot of misshots. The Celtics were
ho horrifically terrible from the outside. So Ben Gundy attempted
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to spin and sugarcoat what we were all watching, clearly
thinking everyone watching is a dope. He was in my
in my mind, he was defending the Celtics when he
said that the defensive intensity has picked up, and maybe
he should get some new glasses because when I was watching,
maybe my TV was broken. I don't know, it's possible,
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that's to the but that's fooey, that's excuse making. I
didn't think it was amazing defense by the Miami Heat.
There were a lot of three point shots, many of
them were open, and they missed them right, and they
didn't even try to do anything else. Now the last
word here, now that the series is over and Miami
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has been crowned the winner and they will take on
the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Finals starting later this week,
worthy Miami Heat the more talented team in hindsight answers
still no right. And this is a refresher course. Though
It was a professor named Tebow Tim Tebow who taught
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me years ago the talent is great, but all it
does is give you a head start. Gives you a
head start, you still have to work hard, and if
you work harder than the other team, and the other
team kind of goes through the motions and lollygags that
that team that works harder will win. And you also
learned another lesson. You live by the three and you
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have nothing else. You have no other gear. You have
one speed on the car. It's very hard to win
a race when you have one speed and you live
by the three, and you die by the three. The
Celtics did not adapt, and this was a bit of Darwinism.
Boston started this game zero for twelve from downtown. It
was a brick house, a dereliction of duties that kept
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settling for three point shots. God forbid, you go to
the Basket's just the way the NBAS played these days, right,
They can't change the way they play and the amount
of time players will go into the painted area and
then rather than golf for a shot, they will turn
around to throw the ball outside, lop it thirty feet
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outside for a three point shot. But player for player,
you would still rather have the Celtics roster. The Heat
become the first playing team in the brief history of
that Fugase tournament to make the NBA finals, and Boston
had a chance. But they're just an another loser. At
now it's zero to one. Fifty one teams that had
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fallen behind three games to none in a playoff series
in NBA history. But Boston was not a great team
in the Plauffs. They played choppy all the way through.
You knew it when they played Atlanta. They'd played particularly
well consistently against the Atlanta in that series. The Philly series,
they had some games they didn't show up. But they're
a total Papa Shot type of team. And Miami's got
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Jimmy Butler and with all due respect, a lot of
flotsam and jetsam, but the flotsam and jetsam's work. And
so it's not because of heat culture. It's not because
of that. They didn't suffocate the under pressure. There was
no leaking gut syndrome there. Caleb Martin and Jimmy Butler
were better on this night, in the moment than Jason
Tatum and Jaylen Brown, and those two combined, Martin and
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Butler outscored Tatum and Brown by twenty one points head
to head. This was the Caleb Martin game eleven of
sixteen from the floor, ten rebounds, and twenty six points
of silky smooth performance. Caleb Martin, I know who the
hell is that. I don't know what the guy is either,
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Speaker 1 (18:30):
And we will take your costs coming up momentarily. Ferg
dog Wright Sin says, it's simple. Ben the Shambrocks loss,
because beating the same opponent four times in a row
is hard. It's so hard. Miami was due there. You go,
very nice. Many people asking for we'll hear from the
Boston Hater. I'm gonna go and say no, I have not.
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I have not heard from the Boston hater. And he
did not call up after the Bruins were eliminated, and
I did not get an email or anything. So I
am concerned that the Boston hater has checked out that
he has left this mortal coil. I hope I'm wrong,
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but we have not heard from him this year, so
he was last time we talked to him. He did
sound very old, so that normally happens. That's what follows
that up. Coop Daddy Wrights since says a plus on
the Mallard monologue, I'm truly surprised there wasn't a mid
series firing of old Joe. Let him play Joe Mozzouli.
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It would have set the standard for the next coach.
There you go, Derek says. Jimmy Buckets owns the Celtics
and the Garden. According to Derek, that's what Derek has
to say right there. One hundred percent. Who else do
we have? Page down, a page down. Our friend Skeeter
in Montana Alive and Well, he says, five star Mallard monologue,
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mister malor go Denver, I would like to know what
you think of the moniker rebels, he says, for the
Washington football team. Well, that's a non sequitor, Skeeter, And
the rebel sounds generic to me too. It's like Commanders
is generic. Rebel sounds generic. I want something a little
with a little rasmatas, a little rasmatas. That's what I
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would think racist. A chip in the ques rites and
says a plus on the mouth of monologue. The fact
the Celtics lost the way they did should result in
a call from the Boston hater. If it doesn't happen,
I fear that means he's either passed away it's too
ill to call. Yeah, I think we've addressed that chet
in San Diego, but actually he's in La. Now he's
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back in La, but it's from Boston, he says. I
will eat Crow. I thought my Celtics could pull off
in zero four Red Sox, but they were too sloppy
with the ball, he says. Eugene in Chicago rights, since
says Boston, you live by the three and tonight you
die by the three. Boston, what happened to Plan B?
There is there's no Plan B. Now a head rights
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in head News, he says, fire Joe Mosula right now.
I don't know that's the guy's Twitter handle. I don't
know that, guys, and you chuck rights and says Ben,
you were right. There is no momental man, Joe Mosula
should be fired for implying the Celtics weren't wrong shooting
threes even though they sucked, and they're not making any adjustments. Yeah.
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I was hoping we would have that sound by but
I guess we didn't have it. The editors did not
put that in. But Joe, there was a very telling sound. Bye.
You can look it up on the internet. You'll find
it better than us. But Joe Missoula was asked whether
or not the Celtics, I'm paraphrasing you, whether or not
they should have done something other than just keep shooting
three point shots, and he said stoically basically no short answer. Angry, Joe,
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I get it. You lost your upset. You realize you're
probably gonna get fired. This is a great job. You
had no business getting the job. You only got the
job because email Udoka was stooping somebody he should have
been stooping, so they gave you the job. You're in
over your head, but you weren't exposed. Joe Missoula until
the playoffs is being in over your head and the
main job here's the main job is to stay out
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of the way. He got in the way. There were
multiple games early on and in I guess Atlanta and
against Philadelphia where Missoula made fatal mistakes and he was
able to overcome those of the team was able to
overcome him. But ultimately in the NBA Finals did not
or the NBA Eastern Finals did not happen. We'll take
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your calls. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox is
the number, and let's say hello to blind Scott, who's
in Boston. Blind Scott the number one Celtic apologists. Tell o,
blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Hey, what happened? Yeah? The Boston hitter was like eighty
five years old, so if he's not around, rest in peace.
But hey, since two thousand and nine there was a
Boston team and a championship game every year, so that
street continues this year. You know, we're gonna get rid
of Joe Mizzulo and bringing out that nurse dude Nick.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Nurse No got he got hired in Philadelphia. Can't hire me.
You can't have him.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Stuck at the time when they couldn't stuck it in Philadelphia.
That dude grabbed Jalen Brown's flag there, and that fires
the whole team up. Why couldn't somebody from the Miami
Heat grabbed Jalen Brown's leg. These guys, they don't They
make way too much money. They don't want to play.
Did Jason Tatum's mother like still changes that dude's diaper.
She falls around everywhere. I don't want him spend his money,
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cut his steak up and everything. You know, that's why
he plays so crappy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You know, hey, blind Scott, Doc Rivers is available, Blind Scott,
you can have the doc back your championship. He's a
big doc riggers back.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Yeah, I said I have met Doc on Hanover Street before.
He's a good dude to Quill and Neil was he
was frequenting the North End during his media before media
representation on the NBA.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh yeah, you got any you got any shack stores?
Was he Boba's Bakery.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
He was at Bobas he like he really liked the
Daily Catch. That's really small steatfood restaurant. I guess he's
a big he's a big seafood guy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, Sha, Shack is so large he can't really go
to a small restaurant. He would take up the entire restaurant.
He's a massive human being.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
I don't know what the hell he got in there,
but they said he was in there, and it's tiny,
so you know what, he must have went in there
when it was before it was open, like at three
or four, before anybody was there.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
He said, Shack, let me hit. I'm shacked. I gotta
go in there. I gotta eat some seafood.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Come on, you didn't get that lot. He didn't get
that loss to role that coopad. I was walking around
Boston with Coop for like five hours. Coop we were
smoking a joint in the Boston Common and Coop's girlfriend
got so paranoid that she thought that these people in
parad trooper outfits were going to come and arrest us.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So I was like, you should have said you should
have said, yes, that was absolutely gonnapen. I get it.
Thank you, Blind Scott. There he goes Blind Scott from
the North end of Boston and getting worked.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Up, sat on the toilet with the plunger in it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The other day Air Jordan catching strays. We'll get to
that and also a historical fun fact. But right now,
let's get over the sporting news desk and the merman
Eddie Garcia gets you cut up on everything going on
in me overnight.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
All right, thanks man. We start with the game seven
in the NBA Playoffs Eastern Conference Finals, and it wasn't
a great game. The heat going to Boston cruise to
a one to oh three eighty four victory Miami, eating
fourteen to three pointers. They were fifty percent for buying
the three point line Jimmy Butler twenty eight points Caleb
Martin twenty six points to win for Boston. They were
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not fifty percent from behind the three point line. They
were nine of forty two from three point rangs.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well, they did start zero for twelve, so after that
they were nine of thirty.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Yeah, it's good. H eighty four points the fewest points
they scored in any game this season. They picked a
good time for that. Jason Tatum, they started twisting an
ankle early in the first quarter. He finished the fourteen points.
He was five to thirteen from the field.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
If it wasn't for that sticking ankle, the Celtics would
be celebrating right now.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
I no, I don't think so. I don't think so.
But that's just you know, this one reporter's opinion. With
Miami winning teams that take a three to zero serious lead,
the NBA playoffs are now one hundred and fifty one
and zero. Mimi the first playing team ever to make
an NBA Finals, the second eighth seed ever to make it,
joining the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Well, historically, Eddie, this was the greatest opportunity for that
streak to end. Based on the gambling odds, the Celtics
were only I think it was plus seven hundred when
they fell behind three games to none, which is by
far the top odds for any team in that situation.
So the Celtics, based on the gambling market, had the
greatest chance to do it because they had Game seven
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at home, and they got the game seven and then
they took a ride on the vomit comic.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Indeed they did. So the NBA Finals is set. It
will be the Denver Nuggets, hosting the Miami Heat in
Game one of the finals coming up starting on Thursday,
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs had a Game six in the
Western Conference Finals. This one equally non competitive, with the
Golden Knights beating up on the Stars in Dallas six nothing.
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Vegas shipped out to an early three to nothing lead
never looked back. William Carlson at a couple of goals.
Aiden Hill stopped all twenty three shots he saw in
the shutout victory. Vegas wins the series four games two
to make their second ever trip to the Stanley Cup Finals.
They will host the Florida Panthers starting on Saturday. Baseball
games of notes some wacky scores from baseball on Memorial Day,
with the A's beating the Braves seven to two, Oakland
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snapping their eleven game losing skid, knocking off the team
that came into the day with the top record in
the National League. Cubs over the Rays one nothing thanks
to Marcus stroman complete game, one hit, shutout, struck out eight,
walked only one. Chicago, one of the worst teams in
the NL, knocking off the top team in the major leagues.
Dodgers beat the Nationals six to one. LA rookie starter
Bobby Miller now two to zero. He's allowed two earned
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runs in eleven innings pitch so time and the Dodgers
moved past the Braves to take over the top record
in the NL at thirty three and twenty two. Rangers
shut off the Tigers five nothing. Texas. The Als leaders
now have the second best record in all of baseball
at thirty four and nineteen. Starter Nathan Nivaldi gets his
seventh win of the year. He and three relievers combining
on a five hit shutout. The Orioles were blank, but
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the Guardians five zip. Cleveland starter a Logan Allen seven
shutout ennings Y. Yeah, I don't know who he is,
but he had a nice game. Team maybe he and
two relievers combining on a five hit shutout. He had
the Twins over the Astros seven to five in ten innings.
Domin Backs beat the Rocky seven to four, and Aaron
Judge two home runs numbers sixteen and seventeen for him
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as the Yankees beat the Mariners ten to four and
back to the NBA. As Blind Scott just found out
moments ago, Nick Nurse not available for his boss and
salavents because he has agreed to become the next head
coach of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. Nurses desire to
coach Joe limb beat and his history Darryl Moore a
significant part and deciding to choose the Sixers head coaching
(29:04):
job over the Suns.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
According to reports, Yeah, yeah, it's all because of Joel Embiid.
It's like, I would love the coaches star that vanishes
in big games. Sign me up for that. That's the
guy I want to coach. What coach wouldn't want that guy?
Come on, now, here's the fun fact of the hour.
Any congratulations to our friends in Boston. As you know,
we are on the Blowtorch, the Sports Hub in Boston,
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one of the top sports radio stations in the country.
They carry our show when everyone's sleeping. And the city
of Boston has become the first town to have their
hometown teams lose at home game seven to number eight
seeds in both hockey and basketball in the same year.
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So congratulations to the Bruins and the Celtics, and they
ended up both losing two teams from the Sunshine State
the same the same re So congratulations to a way
to go boys. The Bruins and the Celtics tremendous job
talk about things that would be hard to duplicate and
hard to match. Yeah, that's right there, right there, both
(30:15):
going down there. The Celtics, I thin kast. The Celtics
won a few rounds in the playoffs, but the Bruins,
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dot com. So Michael Jordan is catching strays as he
had nothing to do with the Miami Heat game against
the Celtics. He was not in the arena. He was
not part of this series at all. The reason Michael
Jordan is getting destroyed is because Michael Jordan, who still
owns the pro bouncy ball team in Charlotte, North Carolina,
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had a forward on that team a couple of years
ago named Caleb Martin. He'd been with the Hornets organization
for a couple of years, and in August of twenty
twenty one, after two seasons with the franchise, the Charlotte
Hornets fired Caleb Martin. They got rid of him, and
(31:20):
now Caleb Martin, who had Billy to be fair, hasn't
done much other than this. This is pretty nice what
he's just done. But it's not like he's been a
household name. But Caleb Martin the hero for the Miami
Heat and Michael Jordan being called out because his team,
the Charlotte Hornets, had this guy. He was playing for
The Hornets were number ten for Charlotte, and they got
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rid of him, and now here he is in the
NBA Finals as a key figure in what is going
on with this team. Let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to Let's go to the international line
Ozzie momentum, even though there is no momentum, we'll just
call him Ozzie. Hello, Ozzy, Hey Ben, Hey, you doing that?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
You will?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
If I was any better, I'd be a Celtic, but
not a Boston Celtic. Well, actually I would because they're
going on vacation and they can afford a night.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say the Celtics are bad
as good as what you are and say, is pola pie.
I promise a love to deliver very very.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Little, all time wins.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
King.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I believe I've delivered. I have more wins than anyone
in the history of the game shows on Fox Sports Radio,
documented verified, and you know that, and I know that,
and everyone knows that.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
Now you gobbage and everyone knows it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
And the fact is all time, all time, you dummy,
all time, I have won the most game shows on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Hey, no, all right, Well, like I said, I was
titalizing it for a while, and then you know, it
was quite clear that you were.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, you gave up. You gave up because I was
winning and it was running. It's much like the NFL.
Remember they were keeping the pressure on the on the
footballs after the Patriots the Patriots Colts AFC Championship game.
They were keeping track of the air pressure in footballs.
And then all of a sudden that story went away
because it didn't fit the narrative the NFL had. And Ozzy,
(33:27):
you were keeping track of the game shows, but it
did not fit the narrative you had in your head
that I'm terrible to the game shows and so therefore
you conveniently stopped keeping track of who was winning the
game shows because it didn't fit what you had in
your head. Yes, actually reality.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
Actually, Ben, that is actually incorrect.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
You were losing.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
And the only reason I started was because I figured
that people went taking much notice and you know, like
you got in the Bennies, the the you know, the
social media content creator and I didn't even get nominated,
and ILL thinkured that I was, you know, I was
taking all these you know, it was actually annoying.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Is this a SOB story? Are do we need to
get the vinyl len out here? Is this a SOB store?
There's a Greek tragedy. Ozzi Momentum. Are you the victim?
Speaker 10 (34:16):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Are you wallowing in victimhood? Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 9 (34:19):
I'm basically saying that I couldn't be bothered anymore. And
you old garbage at the games.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And again the record speaks for itself. Ozzy Momentum, You're wrong,
and you stop keeping track, and I promise you, I
know your troll and I know how trolls operate. If
the total had gone the other way, you would still
be keeping track of it. But you're not. But thank you,
You're it's costing you a lot of money. I must
(34:46):
go and have a thank you. It is not free
to call on the international line. You have to pay
your own money. So that guy spent his own money.
What do you think that cost him forty to fifty
bucks to make that phone call to that What are
you doing? Seriously? What is going on? My guy?
Speaker 11 (35:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I bet Mather Show on Fox as we roll on
time now for the who am I?
Speaker 7 (35:11):
Game?
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And we'll go to baseball for the who am I?
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Game?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
And as we'll have the MLB pick him coming up momentarily.
But here's the who am I?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I am the only player in Major League history to
hit a pinch hit Grand Slam with two out on
an O two count down three runs in the ninth inning. Again,
there's a lot of variables, so keep track. I'm the
only player in MLB history to hit a pinch hit
Grand Slam with two out on an O two count
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down three in the ninth inning. Who am I? That
is the question the answer, And we'll have the MLB
pick and we'll get to it. We will do it
next remain season.
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And time now for the who Am I Game? A
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longer The who am I?
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Game?
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Every single day at this time, just about unless there's
something else better going on. But here we go. The
who am I Game? Very vary, simplicit. Does anyone know
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I'm the only player in MLB history to hit a
pinch hit Grand Slam with two out and an O
two count down three runs in the ninth inning. Who
am I? That's the question? What is the answer? And
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many answers coming in. Cowboy Killer says it has to
be the Kool Aid Man. Oh yeah, who else do
we have? Scott Spiezio with the worst MLB tattoo of
all time from Miguel on Fire. Little Richard guests by
Bengal fan Bryan. That's his answer. Malard prop Guy says,
you'd expect me to say Betty the Bopper. However, we
(37:44):
know Benny the Bopper never pinch hits. He's already in
the lineup, so he's going Chase Utley as his answer.
Bernard Guilkey guessed by the late night drug tester Sergeant Slaughter,
iconic wrestling name from Rob in Vegas, the real Martin
at the airport in Denver, Suys. He has no idea,
(38:05):
no idea. Paulina Gretzky guess by a black cowboy John
Brad That's his answer. Derek Didrich A guess by Just
Josh in Cincinnati calling and Tim in Michigan's going with
the Wizard of Oz, Ozzie Smith, Jason Giambi, the Giambino
guests by Gumby Dave Evil Homer from ferg Dog, Bernie
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Carbo guests by Matthew Warrior raiderres Fan Chris in Des
Moines going with the Powder Blue wearing Jim eisen Reich
of the Royals, Francisco Lindor from Shane of Des Moines,
Mark Man the Bronco Fans going with Thurman Munson is
his answer, Eddie? Do you have an answer, Eddie?
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Yes, an hondor of producer Brandon who's wearing a Padres hat.
Let's go with former Padre great Archie c and Froco.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
That's a good name, but not the greatest Padrey name
of all time. Now the correct so that is incorrect, Eddie.
The correct answer is justin Smoke of the Blue Jays.
He's no longer playing, but a couple of years ago
twenty eighteen, which I guess it is five years ago now,
Holy crap, but he did it against the Marlins. Justin Smoke.
The answer here we go. It is time now four
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the m l B PICKHM. We have a rotation of producers,
and when that happens, we go by the order on
the show. So that means I will be going first
with the first pick, and then Eddie will be going second,
and then after that will be Roberto and then Brandon
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the long suffering padre fan. All right, our first pick.
I'm gonna take Tony Gonsolin, my first pick from the Dodgers.
Go ahead, great, to the hell of a pick to
one of the picks.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
The obvious pick was Shane McClanahan.
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They raised to go in the wrong direction. Now, go ahead, Roberto.
I will go with Aaron Jo baring Brand in the
back to back.
Speaker 11 (40:03):
Brandon'll go with Dodger Great, Trevor Bauer, meet you out
Bach second?
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How about that in shocking? How about who else? You got,
Bip Roberts maybe a little bit brou.
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I'm going to go with Khalil Green.
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Okay, well, great pods all the time. Go Erberto, go ahead, Roberto,
Zach Gallon, Zach Gallon, Eddie, Let's go with Pete Alonzo,
Peter Alonzo. I'll take Freddie Freeman and Boba shit.
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Eddie my cousin Odonas Garcia, Our.
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Dallas Garcia, Roberto Mookie Betts, Mookie Betts and the last pick,
the Padre Guy branded Let's.
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the Heat and Celtics Eastern Conference Finals Game seven, the
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winner getting the Nuggets in the NBA Finals. That you
watch this game, it was not even close, the road
team getting it done, Miami, Miami, Miami. The better story
though in the losing locker room. Who gets the bulk
of the blame for the Celtics blowing it at home
and not ending up in the NBA Finals. What's the
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big takeaway from the Celtics losing and worthy Heat the
more talented team after all, after all they won. We'll
talk about that and more right now here. It is
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So there are many nights we walk into the studio
we're like, I don't know what's going on, and then
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there's a few nights it's kind of obvious. This would
be one of those nights. Our lead coming from Pro
Bouncy Ball the never ending NBA postseason as they played
their final game in the month of May. Don't worry,
there'll be more games in June, just a couple of
days away. But it's the moment that everyone was talking about.
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Game seven, Eastern Finals. Everyone all dressed. It was a
coronation for the Celtics. They just had to show up
and they were gonna be the first team in NBA
history to close the deal. They historical comeback over the
Miami Heat, and they were big favorites. They were at home.
Everyone was all dulled up, ready to go Memorial Day
(03:19):
night madness in Boston. And then they had to play
the game. Then they had to play the game, which
is the problem. And if you didn't see it, you
probably know by now what happened. Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets
had twenty eight points, but he was not even the story.
Here was Caleb Martin who Caleb Martin did not have
(03:42):
him on my Bengo card. But Caleb Martin added twenty
six points in the Heat, burning scolding hot the Celtics.
They're one three to eighty four of the final. In
a game that was dominated from the late stages of
the second quarter to the end of the game. He
fellas from South Beach get to win, so Miami. They
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did not trail after the early part of the first quarter,
they led by as many as twenty three and so
a team that was the last one in in that
fugayse playing tournament and they are now representing the Eastern
Conference of the NBA a chance to win a championship.
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Game seven was a garden party, but not for the
home team. The better story, though, is in that losing
locker room. So that is where we were going to
go and let us discuss how did this happen? The
question who gets the bulk of the play for the
Celtics blowing a golden opportunity in Game seven after winning
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three games in a row and then it came down
to Game seven and then a no show performance. So
I've got jersey, uncle, and tebow, and we will combine
all of these things to get We'll put them in
the blender and we are going to make a nice
dessert which the Celtics can enjoy because they will not
be playing basketball anytime soon. So A, you have to
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look at Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, that's the obvious one.
These guys did not step up. They step down. They're
the ones that own the star. But dust in Boston,
the powerhouse players We've been told that they've been given
a bunch of accolades over recent years, and this was
the big stage. You were watching, I was watching, and
(05:36):
what did we see? What do we see? What are
these all NBA guys do? What do they do? Tatum
and Brown, Well, it was a Jersey like performance as
in Jersey Mike's. They grabbed a HOGI. They chowed down
on a panic sandwich. And as we anticipated in a
previous episode of the show, when you look at a
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game seven we love game sevens because oftentimes it does
not come down to who plays better. It comes down
to who plays worse. And you saw early on Tatum
and Brown they had tight Touki syndrome. They chowed down
on the panic sandwich. It was insubordination, had the tail
(06:19):
between their legs. Now, Jason Tatum, some will give him
a pass, the usual losers in the media. Who wasn't
his fault? He was stinged up? Yeah, okay, okay, here
his ankle. He stayed in the game. He stayed in
the game. First offensive time down the court for the Celtics,
he came down awkwardly on the first offensive possession for Boston.
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But the fact that he stayed in the game, and
you don't get you don't get a pass on that
I don't give you, But maybe other people will. I'm
sure there'll be plenty of people, plenty of losers with microphones,
dopes that have TV shows and they're hipsters online. But
he was not a difference maker. He wasn't And this
was a legendary mode for Jason Tatum and all these
(07:03):
tam bozos. Oh you don't want to get a game
seven with Jason Tatum at home stuff of legends. No,
then you got Jalen Brown who was also shooting blanks.
And Jalen Brown had nineteen points. He managed to have
eight turnovers. Tatum, by the way, had fourteen points. You
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can really cock it up. Yeah, well they did. Combined.
They shot two of thirteen from behind the arc. Jalen
Brown guilty of non compliance with doing your job. Here
is Jalen Brown following the loss, pointing out that there's
a lot of people that the Celtics really well, they
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just kind of blew it.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Just a terrible game when my team needed me most,
Like jt Artis Ankle first played a game, you know,
and you could see it like swelling up on him
and he couldn't move out there. It was tough for him.
And you know, my team learned to me to make
plays and etc. And I came up short. I failed.
I expected to win the day and move on. That's
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what my focus was on. That's what my focus has
been on. We fail, I fail, And it's hard to
think about anything else right now.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, you are a failure. Congratulations. Would you like some
cheese with your wine? Cheese and crackers? That we have
something actually in the cafeteria here at Fox Sports Rado.
So the Celtics turned out to be all bark and
no bite in the end. That's the story of this
Celtic team. Maybe it'll be better next year, maybe it'll
be worse. Who knows. Now the second page here, what's
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the big takeaway though, what's the big takeaway from the
Celtics losing the way they did. It wasn't a close game.
It wasn't Jimmy Butler taking over in the final two minutes. Now,
the game was decided by the time the early part
of the fourth quarter was going on. You could argue
the game was decided midway through the third quarter, that
there was no reasonable expectation that Boston would come back. Now.
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The thing that I enjoy the most about this game
seven the myth busters angle to it, all of the
bullshoy that was being tossed out by the dumb dumbs
in the media trying to explain what was going on
when the Celtics had won a few games in a row,
such as one of my favorites, the Celtics bonded because
(09:22):
they went the top golf. That's right. They had some
drinks and they were hitting golf balls and that turned
their entire playoff series around. That was a popular narrative
that was being peddled by members of the Celtics, and
of course media dopes loved that kind of stuff. They
were running wild with it. Jalen Brown, we just played
(09:42):
a Jalen Brown sound bite. How about how dumb does
he look? He had the warning, remember his famous warning,
don't let us win one. Don't let us win one. Okay,
how'd that go?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You won three and right out the window, Right out
the window. Now, the person I actually genuinely feel bad
for is because the Derek White game goes out the window.
It is no longer an iconic moment in Boston sports
because that tip in with a nanosecond on the clock
(10:12):
in Miami that fades away. The Celtics didn't even go
to the NBA Finals, forget winning the championship. And then
the ultimate, the ultimate takeaway from the Celtics losing home
court Game number seven to Miami is uncle, as in,
(10:33):
cry uncle. All the nonsense by the Mans.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Marron momdam mo uncle mo whoa yeah, okay, yeah, put
that in your pipe and smoke at you and your momentum. Okay,
the Seas were all but guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They had won three in a row, and then all
the momentum, home court advantage, Robert Kraft was there, all
the Boston celebrities were out. It was games seven, Jason Titum,
oh man, everything was set up, and then Miami went
out there. They grabbed a mop and they mopped the
floor with the Celtics is what they did. What happened
(11:12):
to the momentum. I don't understand. There is no such thing
as momentum in sports. You morons, stop with this, and
Miami should have swept the Celtics by that standard, right,
they had won three in a row, they had all
the momentum. It doesn't exist. It's just something people bring
up at the end to explain the outcome or try
to rationalize what they witnessed. But the Celtics, I mean,
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where have you gone? Bill Russell and Larry Bird and
even Paul Pierce. The Celtics played eleven home games in
the postseason this year and had a losing record on
the Parque when five and six at home at home
in the postseason. Now, if I'm not mistaken, the eight
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Celtics who overcame the great Albatross Doc Rivers as their coach.
That Celtic team with Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett and
Ray Allen, all those guys together, they lost six home
games during the entire regular season. This Celtic team this
year lost six home games in the postseason. You gotta
(12:17):
be joke, and so it destroys the fairy tale of
Derek White. As we mentioned. Also, I gotta critique to
stan Van Gundy here. So this game was a Freemasonry
type game with a lot of misshots. The Celtics were
ho horrifically terrible from the outside. So Ben Gundy attempted
(12:37):
to spin and sugarcoat what we were all watching, clearly
thinking everyone watching is a dope. He was in my
in my mind, he was defending the Celtics when he
said that the defensive intensity has picked up, and maybe
he should get some new glasses because when I was watching,
maybe my TV was broken. I don't know, it's possible,
(12:59):
that's to the but that's fooey, that's excuse making. I
didn't think it was amazing defense by the Miami Heat.
There were a lot of three point shots, many of
them were open, and they missed them right, and they
didn't even try to do anything else. Now the last
word here, now that the series is over and Miami
(13:20):
has been crowned the winner and they will take on
the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Finals starting later this week,
worthy Miami Heat the more talented team in hindsight answers
still no right. And this is a refresher course. Though
It was a professor named Tebow Tim Tebow who taught
(13:40):
me years ago the talent is great, but all it
does is give you a head start. Gives you a
head start, you still have to work hard, and if
you work harder than the other team, and the other
team kind of goes through the motions and lollygags that
that team that works harder will win. And you also
learned another lesson. You live by the three and you
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have nothing else. You have no other gear. You have
one speed on the car. It's very hard to win
a race when you have one speed and you live
by the three, and you die by the three. The
Celtics did not adapt, and this was a bit of Darwinism.
Boston started this game zero for twelve from downtown. It
was a brick house, a dereliction of duties that kept
(14:21):
settling for three point shots. God forbid, you go to
the Basket's just the way the NBAS played these days, right,
They can't change the way they play and the amount
of time players will go into the painted area and
then rather than golf for a shot, they will turn
around to throw the ball outside, lop it thirty feet
(14:42):
outside for a three point shot. But player for player,
you would still rather have the Celtics roster. The Heat
become the first playing team in the brief history of
that Fugase tournament to make the NBA finals, and Boston
had a chance. But they're just an another loser. At
now it's zero to one. Fifty one teams that had
(15:06):
fallen behind three games to none in a playoff series
in NBA history. But Boston was not a great team
in the Plauffs. They played choppy all the way through.
You knew it when they played Atlanta. They'd played particularly
well consistently against the Atlanta in that series. The Philly series,
they had some games they didn't show up. But they're
a total Papa Shot type of team. And Miami's got
(15:29):
Jimmy Butler and with all due respect, a lot of
flotsam and jetsam, but the flotsam and jetsam's work. And
so it's not because of heat culture. It's not because
of that. They didn't suffocate the under pressure. There was
no leaking gut syndrome there. Caleb Martin and Jimmy Butler
were better on this night, in the moment than Jason
Tatum and Jaylen Brown, and those two combined, Martin and
(15:51):
Butler outscored Tatum and Brown by twenty one points head
to head. This was the Caleb Martin game eleven of
sixteen from the floor, ten rebounds, and twenty six points
of silky smooth performance. Caleb Martin, I know who the
hell is that. I don't know what the guy is either,
(16:14):
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time for sure. So of all people, someone that didn't
play in the Eastern Finals, someone that does not in
any way involved in the Eastern Conference finals. Air Jordan
(16:57):
catching strays because of what happened in the Eastern Finals.
What the heck is that all about. We will get
to it and we will do it next. Hi, this
is Jay Glazer.
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Speaker 1 (18:30):
And we will take your costs coming up momentarily. Ferg
dog Wright Sin says, it's simple. Ben the Shambrocks loss,
because beating the same opponent four times in a row
is hard. It's so hard. Miami was due there. You go,
very nice. Many people asking for we'll hear from the
Boston Hater. I'm gonna go and say no, I have not.
(18:54):
I have not heard from the Boston hater. And he
did not call up after the Bruins were eliminated, and
I did not get an email or anything. So I
am concerned that the Boston hater has checked out that
he has left this mortal coil. I hope I'm wrong,
(19:15):
but we have not heard from him this year, so
he was last time we talked to him. He did
sound very old, so that normally happens. That's what follows
that up. Coop Daddy Wrights since says a plus on
the Mallard monologue, I'm truly surprised there wasn't a mid
series firing of old Joe. Let him play Joe Mozzouli.
(19:36):
It would have set the standard for the next coach.
There you go, Derek says. Jimmy Buckets owns the Celtics
and the Garden. According to Derek, that's what Derek has
to say right there. One hundred percent. Who else do
we have? Page down, a page down. Our friend Skeeter
in Montana Alive and Well, he says, five star Mallard monologue,
(19:57):
mister malor go Denver, I would like to know what
you think of the moniker rebels, he says, for the
Washington football team. Well, that's a non sequitor, Skeeter, And
the rebel sounds generic to me too. It's like Commanders
is generic. Rebel sounds generic. I want something a little
with a little rasmatas, a little rasmatas. That's what I
(20:19):
would think racist. A chip in the ques rites and
says a plus on the mouth of monologue. The fact
the Celtics lost the way they did should result in
a call from the Boston hater. If it doesn't happen,
I fear that means he's either passed away it's too
ill to call. Yeah, I think we've addressed that chet
in San Diego, but actually he's in La. Now he's
(20:40):
back in La, but it's from Boston, he says. I
will eat Crow. I thought my Celtics could pull off
in zero four Red Sox, but they were too sloppy
with the ball, he says. Eugene in Chicago rights, since
says Boston, you live by the three and tonight you
die by the three. Boston, what happened to Plan B?
There is there's no Plan B. Now a head rights
(21:03):
in head News, he says, fire Joe Mosula right now.
I don't know that's the guy's Twitter handle. I don't
know that, guys, and you chuck rights and says Ben,
you were right. There is no momental man, Joe Mosula
should be fired for implying the Celtics weren't wrong shooting
threes even though they sucked, and they're not making any adjustments. Yeah.
(21:25):
I was hoping we would have that sound by but
I guess we didn't have it. The editors did not
put that in. But Joe, there was a very telling sound. Bye.
You can look it up on the internet. You'll find
it better than us. But Joe Missoula was asked whether
or not the Celtics, I'm paraphrasing you, whether or not
they should have done something other than just keep shooting
three point shots, and he said stoically basically no short answer. Angry, Joe,
(21:49):
I get it. You lost your upset. You realize you're
probably gonna get fired. This is a great job. You
had no business getting the job. You only got the
job because email Udoka was stooping somebody he should have
been stooping, so they gave you the job. You're in
over your head, but you weren't exposed. Joe Missoula until
the playoffs is being in over your head and the
main job here's the main job is to stay out
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of the way. He got in the way. There were
multiple games early on and in I guess Atlanta and
against Philadelphia where Missoula made fatal mistakes and he was
able to overcome those of the team was able to
overcome him. But ultimately in the NBA Finals did not
or the NBA Eastern Finals did not happen. We'll take
(22:33):
your calls. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox is
the number, and let's say hello to blind Scott, who's
in Boston. Blind Scott the number one Celtic apologists. Tell o,
blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Hey, what happened? Yeah? The Boston hitter was like eighty
five years old, so if he's not around, rest in peace.
But hey, since two thousand and nine there was a
Boston team and a championship game every year, so that
street continues this year. You know, we're gonna get rid
of Joe Mizzulo and bringing out that nurse dude Nick.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Nurse No got he got hired in Philadelphia. Can't hire me.
You can't have him.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Stuck at the time when they couldn't stuck it in Philadelphia.
That dude grabbed Jalen Brown's flag there, and that fires
the whole team up. Why couldn't somebody from the Miami
Heat grabbed Jalen Brown's leg. These guys, they don't They
make way too much money. They don't want to play.
Did Jason Tatum's mother like still changes that dude's diaper.
She falls around everywhere. I don't want him spend his money,
(23:37):
cut his steak up and everything. You know, that's why
he plays so crappy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You know, hey, blind Scott, Doc Rivers is available, Blind Scott,
you can have the doc back your championship. He's a
big doc riggers back.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Yeah, I said I have met Doc on Hanover Street before.
He's a good dude to Quill and Neil was he
was frequenting the North End during his media before media
representation on the NBA.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh yeah, you got any you got any shack stores?
Was he Boba's Bakery.
Speaker 8 (24:07):
He was at Bobas he like he really liked the
Daily Catch. That's really small steatfood restaurant. I guess he's
a big he's a big seafood guy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, Sha, Shack is so large he can't really go
to a small restaurant. He would take up the entire restaurant.
He's a massive human being.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
I don't know what the hell he got in there,
but they said he was in there, and it's tiny,
so you know what, he must have went in there
when it was before it was open, like at three
or four, before anybody was there.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
He said, Shack, let me hit. I'm shacked. I gotta
go in there. I gotta eat some seafood.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Come on, you didn't get that lot. He didn't get
that loss to role that coopad. I was walking around
Boston with Coop for like five hours. Coop we were
smoking a joint in the Boston Common and Coop's girlfriend
got so paranoid that she thought that these people in
parad trooper outfits were going to come and arrest us.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So I was like, you should have said you should
have said, yes, that was absolutely gonnapen. I get it.
Thank you, Blind Scott. There he goes Blind Scott from
the North end of Boston and getting worked.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Up, sat on the toilet with the plunger in it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
The other day Air Jordan catching strays. We'll get to
that and also a historical fun fact. But right now,
let's get over the sporting news desk and the merman
Eddie Garcia gets you cut up on everything going on
in me overnight.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
All right, thanks man. We start with the game seven
in the NBA Playoffs Eastern Conference Finals, and it wasn't
a great game. The heat going to Boston cruise to
a one to oh three eighty four victory Miami, eating
fourteen to three pointers. They were fifty percent for buying
the three point line Jimmy Butler twenty eight points Caleb
Martin twenty six points to win for Boston. They were
(25:45):
not fifty percent from behind the three point line. They
were nine of forty two from three point rangs.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well, they did start zero for twelve, so after that
they were nine of thirty.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
Yeah, it's good. H eighty four points the fewest points
they scored in any game this season. They picked a
good time for that. Jason Tatum, they started twisting an
ankle early in the first quarter. He finished the fourteen points.
He was five to thirteen from the field.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
If it wasn't for that sticking ankle, the Celtics would
be celebrating right now.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
I no, I don't think so. I don't think so.
But that's just you know, this one reporter's opinion. With
Miami winning teams that take a three to zero serious lead,
the NBA playoffs are now one hundred and fifty one
and zero. Mimi the first playing team ever to make
an NBA Finals, the second eighth seed ever to make it,
joining the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Well, historically, Eddie, this was the greatest opportunity for that
streak to end. Based on the gambling odds, the Celtics
were only I think it was plus seven hundred when
they fell behind three games to none, which is by
far the top odds for any team in that situation.
So the Celtics, based on the gambling market, had the
greatest chance to do it because they had Game seven
(26:49):
at home, and they got the game seven and then
they took a ride on the vomit comic.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Indeed they did. So the NBA Finals is set. It
will be the Denver Nuggets, hosting the Miami Heat in
Game one of the finals coming up starting on Thursday,
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs had a Game six in the
Western Conference Finals. This one equally non competitive, with the
Golden Knights beating up on the Stars in Dallas six nothing.
(27:15):
Vegas shipped out to an early three to nothing lead
never looked back. William Carlson at a couple of goals.
Aiden Hill stopped all twenty three shots he saw in
the shutout victory. Vegas wins the series four games two
to make their second ever trip to the Stanley Cup Finals.
They will host the Florida Panthers starting on Saturday. Baseball
games of notes some wacky scores from baseball on Memorial Day,
with the A's beating the Braves seven to two, Oakland
(27:37):
snapping their eleven game losing skid, knocking off the team
that came into the day with the top record in
the National League. Cubs over the Rays one nothing thanks
to Marcus stroman complete game, one hit, shutout, struck out eight,
walked only one. Chicago, one of the worst teams in
the NL, knocking off the top team in the major leagues.
Dodgers beat the Nationals six to one. LA rookie starter
Bobby Miller now two to zero. He's allowed two earned
(27:58):
runs in eleven innings pitch so time and the Dodgers
moved past the Braves to take over the top record
in the NL at thirty three and twenty two. Rangers
shut off the Tigers five nothing. Texas. The Als leaders
now have the second best record in all of baseball
at thirty four and nineteen. Starter Nathan Nivaldi gets his
seventh win of the year. He and three relievers combining
on a five hit shutout. The Orioles were blank, but
(28:19):
the Guardians five zip. Cleveland starter a Logan Allen seven
shutout ennings Y. Yeah, I don't know who he is,
but he had a nice game. Team maybe he and
two relievers combining on a five hit shutout. He had
the Twins over the Astros seven to five in ten innings.
Domin Backs beat the Rocky seven to four, and Aaron
Judge two home runs numbers sixteen and seventeen for him
(28:42):
as the Yankees beat the Mariners ten to four and
back to the NBA. As Blind Scott just found out
moments ago, Nick Nurse not available for his boss and
salavents because he has agreed to become the next head
coach of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. Nurses desire to
coach Joe limb beat and his history Darryl Moore a
significant part and deciding to choose the Sixers head coaching
(29:04):
job over the Suns.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
According to reports, Yeah, yeah, it's all because of Joel Embiid.
It's like, I would love the coaches star that vanishes
in big games. Sign me up for that. That's the
guy I want to coach. What coach wouldn't want that guy?
Come on, now, here's the fun fact of the hour.
Any congratulations to our friends in Boston. As you know,
we are on the Blowtorch, the Sports Hub in Boston,
(29:27):
one of the top sports radio stations in the country.
They carry our show when everyone's sleeping. And the city
of Boston has become the first town to have their
hometown teams lose at home game seven to number eight
seeds in both hockey and basketball in the same year.
(29:48):
So congratulations to the Bruins and the Celtics, and they
ended up both losing two teams from the Sunshine State
the same the same re So congratulations to a way
to go boys. The Bruins and the Celtics tremendous job
talk about things that would be hard to duplicate and
hard to match. Yeah, that's right there, right there, both
(30:15):
going down there. The Celtics, I thin kast. The Celtics
won a few rounds in the playoffs, but the Bruins,
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dot com. So Michael Jordan is catching strays as he
had nothing to do with the Miami Heat game against
the Celtics. He was not in the arena. He was
not part of this series at all. The reason Michael
Jordan is getting destroyed is because Michael Jordan, who still
owns the pro bouncy ball team in Charlotte, North Carolina,
(30:59):
had a forward on that team a couple of years
ago named Caleb Martin. He'd been with the Hornets organization
for a couple of years, and in August of twenty
twenty one, after two seasons with the franchise, the Charlotte
Hornets fired Caleb Martin. They got rid of him, and
(31:20):
now Caleb Martin, who had Billy to be fair, hasn't
done much other than this. This is pretty nice what
he's just done. But it's not like he's been a
household name. But Caleb Martin the hero for the Miami
Heat and Michael Jordan being called out because his team,
the Charlotte Hornets, had this guy. He was playing for
The Hornets were number ten for Charlotte, and they got
(31:43):
rid of him, and now here he is in the
NBA Finals as a key figure in what is going
on with this team. Let's go to the phones and
we'll say hello to Let's go to the international line
Ozzie momentum, even though there is no momentum, we'll just
call him Ozzie. Hello, Ozzy, Hey Ben, Hey, you doing that?
Speaker 2 (32:08):
You will?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
If I was any better, I'd be a Celtic, but
not a Boston Celtic. Well, actually I would because they're
going on vacation and they can afford a night.
Speaker 9 (32:17):
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say the Celtics are bad
as good as what you are and say, is pola pie.
I promise a love to deliver very very.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Little, all time wins.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
King.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I believe I've delivered. I have more wins than anyone
in the history of the game shows on Fox Sports Radio,
documented verified, and you know that, and I know that,
and everyone knows that.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
Now you gobbage and everyone knows it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
And the fact is all time, all time, you dummy,
all time, I have won the most game shows on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Hey, no, all right, Well, like I said, I was
titalizing it for a while, and then you know, it
was quite clear that you were.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, you gave up. You gave up because I was
winning and it was running. It's much like the NFL.
Remember they were keeping the pressure on the on the
footballs after the Patriots the Patriots Colts AFC Championship game.
They were keeping track of the air pressure in footballs.
And then all of a sudden that story went away
because it didn't fit the narrative the NFL had. And Ozzy,
(33:27):
you were keeping track of the game shows, but it
did not fit the narrative you had in your head
that I'm terrible to the game shows and so therefore
you conveniently stopped keeping track of who was winning the
game shows because it didn't fit what you had in
your head. Yes, actually reality.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
Actually, Ben, that is actually incorrect.
Speaker 10 (33:48):
You were losing.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
And the only reason I started was because I figured
that people went taking much notice and you know, like
you got in the Bennies, the the you know, the
social media content creator and I didn't even get nominated,
and ILL thinkured that I was, you know, I was
taking all these you know, it was actually annoying.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Is this a SOB story? Are do we need to
get the vinyl len out here? Is this a SOB store?
There's a Greek tragedy. Ozzi Momentum. Are you the victim?
Speaker 10 (34:16):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Are you wallowing in victimhood? Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 9 (34:19):
I'm basically saying that I couldn't be bothered anymore. And
you old garbage at the games.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
And again the record speaks for itself. Ozzy Momentum, You're wrong,
and you stop keeping track, and I promise you, I
know your troll and I know how trolls operate. If
the total had gone the other way, you would still
be keeping track of it. But you're not. But thank you,
You're it's costing you a lot of money. I must
(34:46):
go and have a thank you. It is not free
to call on the international line. You have to pay
your own money. So that guy spent his own money.
What do you think that cost him forty to fifty
bucks to make that phone call to that What are
you doing? Seriously? What is going on? My guy?
Speaker 11 (35:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I bet Mather Show on Fox as we roll on
time now for the who am I?
Speaker 7 (35:11):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
And we'll go to baseball for the who am I?
Speaker 11 (35:14):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
And as we'll have the MLB pick him coming up momentarily.
But here's the who am I?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Game?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I am the only player in Major League history to
hit a pinch hit Grand Slam with two out on
an O two count down three runs in the ninth inning. Again,
there's a lot of variables, so keep track. I'm the
only player in MLB history to hit a pinch hit
Grand Slam with two out on an O two count
(35:42):
down three in the ninth inning. Who am I? That
is the question the answer, And we'll have the MLB
pick and we'll get to it. We will do it
next remain season.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
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(36:27):
com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
And time now for the who Am I Game? A
blatant attempt to get you to listen a little bit
longer The who am I?
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Every single day at this time, just about unless there's
something else better going on. But here we go. The
who am I Game? Very vary, simplicit. Does anyone know
the answer? By the way, before we tell you about that,
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Progressive dot Com and the who am I? Game question?
I'm the only player in MLB history to hit a
pinch hit Grand Slam with two out and an O
two count down three runs in the ninth inning. Who
am I? That's the question? What is the answer? And
(37:22):
many answers coming in. Cowboy Killer says it has to
be the Kool Aid Man. Oh yeah, who else do
we have? Scott Spiezio with the worst MLB tattoo of
all time from Miguel on Fire. Little Richard guests by
Bengal fan Bryan. That's his answer. Malard prop Guy says,
you'd expect me to say Betty the Bopper. However, we
(37:44):
know Benny the Bopper never pinch hits. He's already in
the lineup, so he's going Chase Utley as his answer.
Bernard Guilkey guessed by the late night drug tester Sergeant Slaughter,
iconic wrestling name from Rob in Vegas, the real Martin
at the airport in Denver, Suys. He has no idea,
(38:05):
no idea. Paulina Gretzky guess by a black cowboy John
Brad That's his answer. Derek Didrich A guess by Just
Josh in Cincinnati calling and Tim in Michigan's going with
the Wizard of Oz, Ozzie Smith, Jason Giambi, the Giambino
guests by Gumby Dave Evil Homer from ferg Dog, Bernie
(38:29):
Carbo guests by Matthew Warrior raiderres Fan Chris in Des
Moines going with the Powder Blue wearing Jim eisen Reich
of the Royals, Francisco Lindor from Shane of Des Moines,
Mark Man the Bronco Fans going with Thurman Munson is
his answer, Eddie? Do you have an answer, Eddie?
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Yes, an hondor of producer Brandon who's wearing a Padres hat.
Let's go with former Padre great Archie c and Froco.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
That's a good name, but not the greatest Padrey name
of all time. Now the correct so that is incorrect, Eddie.
The correct answer is justin Smoke of the Blue Jays.
He's no longer playing, but a couple of years ago
twenty eighteen, which I guess it is five years ago now,
Holy crap, but he did it against the Marlins. Justin Smoke.
The answer here we go. It is time now four
(39:17):
the m l B PICKHM. We have a rotation of producers,
and when that happens, we go by the order on
the show. So that means I will be going first
with the first pick, and then Eddie will be going second,
and then after that will be Roberto and then Brandon
(39:39):
the long suffering padre fan. All right, our first pick.
I'm gonna take Tony Gonsolin, my first pick from the Dodgers.
Go ahead, great, to the hell of a pick to
one of the picks.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
The obvious pick was Shane McClanahan.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
They raised to go in the wrong direction. Now, go ahead, Roberto.
I will go with Aaron Jo baring Brand in the
back to back.
Speaker 11 (40:03):
Brandon'll go with Dodger Great, Trevor Bauer, meet you out
Bach second?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
How about that in shocking? How about who else? You got,
Bip Roberts maybe a little bit brou.
Speaker 11 (40:15):
I'm going to go with Khalil Green.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Okay, well, great pods all the time. Go Erberto, go ahead, Roberto,
Zach Gallon, Zach Gallon, Eddie, Let's go with Pete Alonzo,
Peter Alonzo. I'll take Freddie Freeman and Boba shit.
Speaker 7 (40:34):
Eddie my cousin Odonas Garcia, Our.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Dallas Garcia, Roberto Mookie Betts, Mookie Betts and the last pick,
the Padre Guy branded Let's.
Speaker 11 (40:45):
Go with Padre Gray one Keelberger, what one icle Berger?
Speaker 4 (40:53):
You? What?
Speaker 5 (40:54):
There?
Speaker 1 (40:55):
It is the MLB pickum who got it in the
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