June 1, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Monty Williams changing his mind and taking a gigantic contract with the Pistons, MLB vs regional networks, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. Round and round and round and round,
round and round we go on the coaching carousel. We
talked some pro bouncy ball. Major story, a neutron bomb
blowing up the pay structure for coaches. Why did Monty
Williams have a change of heart? He was agreed he
did agree to a contract to coach the Pistons. That
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coming down just before we came on the air. How
does the path to winning big with the Pistons look
in the near future for Monty? And thumbs up or
thumbs down on Monty Williams having a major impact on
the great turnaround of Detroit basketball. We'll talk about all
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that and who knows what else is gonna pop up.
You got to listen to find out. Thank you for
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Call it the full monthy oh yeah. Welmeme and the
beginning of another hour of the Ben Malor Show. We
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our lead this hour, coming from the coaching carousel, another
chair has been filled on the sidelines of the NBA.
The finals will begin tonight, but there is moving and
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shaking as we head into the first day of June.
As we are all on the supersonic time machine and
way we go. All right, So, if you haven't heard this,
Detroit Basketball, maybe not. Monty Williams, the man that had
decided he did not want to coach in the state
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of Michigan. Monty Williams has agreed to an earth shattering
contract to coach a basketball team, the Pistons, And yeah,
he's the next head coach. It's the same job that
Monty Williams reportedly rejected several weeks ago. We are told
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that Williams receives, at the very minimum, a six year
contract for seventy eight point five million Now keep in mind,
Monty Williams will not score a point, he will not
grab a rebound, he will not steal the pass, he
will not have an assist. Seventy eight point five million,
he is the highest paid now head coach in the
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history of the NBA, Holy Phil Jackson and Red Arbach Batman.
He will replace Dwayne Casey, who was forced out after
five years at the end of this past regular season.
He was given a figurehead front office position Dwayne Casey
because he's a good guy. They like him. They think
he's a terrible coach. So now it's Monty Williams era
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in the Motor City. So there's a big story, and
let us discuss the question why did Monty Williams have
a change of heart on the Detroit Piston coaching job.
So I've got home Depot, Cornfield, and totem poll and
we will combine all of these things together and we
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are going to make a house the size of the
taj Ma Hall, because you can afford any kind of
house you want with seventy eight point five million. So
to lead off here, Monty Williams, I give the guy credit. Man,
what a wonderful negotiation he played hard to get, played
hard to get. In my mind, I don't think he
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was playing. This is not a good job. Monty Williams
was sitting on an oil reserve, and we talked about
this in the previous Mallet monologue. They made a promo
out of it. I was going ranting and raving, going
through the fact that he had already won the lottery,
that he was given Monty Williams the ultimate severance package,
that Monty Williams was going to get paid over twenty
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million dollars from the Suns to sit on his fat
ass and not work. How wonderful would that be?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I like to work, so for me it would be awkward.
I'd like the money, though. But Monty could sit on
a beach, any beach he wants, for a year or
two years, and possibly for the rest of his life
and enjoy the good life. But he ends up playing
this cat and mouse game. It's like they often say
in the dating game, the ones that play hard to
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get are the ones that people want. And Monty Williams
played hard to get cat and mouse game with the Pistons.
The ownership group Tom Gores, I believe is in the
name for old the Michigan State guy who's the owner
of the Pistons. And he would not take no for
an answer, and he kept going and it got higher
and higher and higher and higher, and Monty Williams ends
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up with the home Depot special the hammer, the Golden
Hammer for Monty Williams. WHOA when the dust settles, this
guy's contract could end up reaching one hundred million dollars
with incentives one hundred million. So they're already give him
seventy eight point five million, but then if he actually
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is good, they'll give him even more money includes team
options after six year deal. Now, furthermore, how does the
path to winning big with the Pistons look in the
near future? So you got the micro and the macro
in the micro boyd does the forecast look bad? Detroit
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is in a precarious situation. They're not the worst of
the worst. They just feel like the worst of the worst.
They're also not really anywhere close to contending status. Detroit
is on unstable footing. I've been told by management if
I talk too much about the Pistons, I'll lose my job.
But Monty Williams inherits a mess. He is in slum
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lord territory, a well paid man at the very top
and a total slum he's overseeing if this was a
premier job, right, this is a premier job the Pistons.
It's better obvious. You don't need me to tell you this.
Every man, woman, and child knows the Pistons would not
have to pay a tariff a bounty to get a
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name brand coach. The Pistons, even with Monty Williams, are
like a rat in a cornfield maze going blindly down
random pass trying to get the cheese. Now they have
some players that were highly decorated coming into the NBA,
a lot of undercooked ingredients. One of the reasons it's
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not great job. It's not even an average job. It's
a below average job. Kid Cunningham and Jade and Ivy
are the blue chip backcourt. They hope that these guys,
it's hope, not reality, on a wing and a prayer
that these guys will turn into Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.
Good luck on that. Heck, you'd like to have Isaiah
Thomas and Joe Dumars, good luck on that. Neither is
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close to sniffing all NBA status. You've then got flotsam
and jetsam to fill out the roster. Marvin Bagley and
James Weissman, couple of lottery picks for Sacramento and Golden
State respectively. Who who have fai That's why they're not
playing for Sacramento in Golden State. If they were good,
they'd still be with those teams. And you get a
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lot of flim flam, so we anticipate Detroit. They'll also
have to make some other moves here and spend some money,
and they are relatively highdraftic. They can make a trade,
make some kind of splash move to improve the roster
and get rid of some of these cast offs and leftovers.
The big takeaway here from this is simple. Everyone's got
their price. Monty Williams, he's got a sway. Sorry, I
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had twenty million. It's like, all right, how do I
turn twenty million into seventy eight and a half or
one hundred million? Ding ding ding ding ning. Yeah you
did it, Congratulations. It's like pulling a rabbit out of
the hat. Manty Williams is willing to stick his head
in the microwave to coach a bunch of stiffs for
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a king's ransom. And good luck all right, parting shot
thumbs up or thumbs down on Monty Williams having a
major impact on the Piston turning things around. It's gonna
be there a while, so I am going thumbs down.
I'm going thumbs down. This ain't the NFL coaches are
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marginalized more in pro bouncy ball than anyo sport, where
a close second being hockey and then baseball. Also, baseball
managers used to manage. They used to manage the game
based on feel of the game. Now they go by
the three ring binder. So it's essentially AI is managing
baseball teams and in basketball. Look at the Celtics Joe Missoula.
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You think he was actually coaching the team or you
think he was just repeating. He was the middleman, middle manager,
repeating what they, the nerds, told him to do. I'm
going with the ladder, but you can go with the
opposite if you want. But just in general, you're coaching
the Pistons, you're the low man on the totem pole.
That's where the dogs you're innate all over you the
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dregs of basketball society, and it's been that way for you.
There are very few exceptions. People will bring up the
Miami Heat and they'll say, well, there's an exception. But
I would argue that Jimmy Butler is one of the
great players of this generation, and if you take him
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out of the equation and put a middling player in that,
Coach Spoe and the Heat culture are not what people
are talking about. Players rule the roost, they ride in
the pole position. And you know who knows that more
than anyone, Monty Williams, Because when Monty Williams has had
terrible players, he's had losing records. When he's coaching the
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New Orleans Pelicans, I guess they were the Hornets when
he coached them. Then they became the Pelicans. But he
had years where they won twenty one games, twenty seven games,
thirty four games. You know why, they didn't have good players.
And then when he got good players, they had good records.
You think there's a connection. Possibly, you think that's a
that's a factor that you've got a way in here
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that you could put anybody out there if you've got
a good team. And so Manty Williams himself gonna be
one hundred million dollar coach possibly now the only wiggle
room he's got is that he's gonna be making more
money than most of the players on the Pistons likely
and he'll be under contract longer than anyone in the roster.
But that only gets you so far. Over the years,
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it has been a proven fact that coaches do not
matter much at all. In fact, the way they mostly
matter is getting in the way. See Doc Rivers as
an example. Right, if you have a championship level roster,
you will win because of the players. The coach can medal,
can only medal and get rid of that that good vibration,
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Like Joe Missoula in Boston, Right, let him play Joe.
You know who also believes in this theory, the various
aristocrats that happen to own pro bouncy ball teams. Ask
the guy that owns the Milwaukee who fired Mike Budenholzer
a couple of years after they beat the championship and
beat the Suns in the championship round, or the Toronto
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Raptors who let go of Nick Nurse, both of them excommunicated.
There have been three coaches in the last five six
years that were on championship teams supposedly that were let
go so the teams don't think they matter that much,
which makes us all the more outrageous, Like what are
you doing? Was this just like a urinating match and
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you had to win the owner of the pistons like
a piece of art, and you're in a bidding war
and you have to get the piece of art and
the arts Monty Williams, whatever it takes, My goodness, Dad zooks.
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It's not going well right now for Rob Manford and
the boys over at Major League Baseball. They're having a
few issues. We'll celebrate, We'll do a little shot in
freude at the powers that be at Major League Baseball.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, Lee, Lee loves this Eddie. He really none of
the other shows even take calls. I think. I mean,
there's like maybe one other show that takes.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
I was gonna say, it's a little different for him
to have to talk to people. Yeah, and old friends here.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, that's right. He told me off there. He's going
to go take a shower right away after the show.
He feels dirty talking again. But I don't know that's
about it.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, all right. Not live from the tyrack dot
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
I did a Pistons monologue, a rather harmless Monty Williams monologue,
and I've upset a guy named b who I don't know.
I don't know who this guy is. I I have
no idea. His name's be. Well, that's what he says
on his social media. I don't know. I don't know guys.
He says, let's put the Pistons against the Clippers all time.
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He's annoyed that I was ripping the Pistons because they're
a terrible team and they don't have good players. He says,
you mad the dude got paid. What's your issue with this? Well,
my issue is it's it's rather embarrassing for the Pistons,
because clearly Monty Williams did not want to coach the Pistons.
And I go back to the great, the great deep
thinker of our time, Mike Tomlin. Remember Tomlin had that
(15:49):
great quote when he talks about players that are unhappy there.
I think he talked about Antonio Brown this way or
Leveon Bell. He said, we want volunteers, not hostages. And
when you pay, you have to pay seventy eight or
one hundred million dollars for a coach. That's the coach
telling you I really don't want to be there, but
if you give me a godfather offer, I'll coach you.
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So like, what are you doing? Like, there's plenty of
other people you could have hired that would have wanted
the job, and maybe one of that will be fine
because Monty Williams, if you look at his track record,
when he's had good players, he's won. When he hasn't
had good players, he's lost. And spoiler alert, the Pistons
don't have good players. And then for you, b who
what do you? Your name is? You coward? Hiding behind
(16:32):
social media? But for you to say what about is it?
What about the Clippers? We're talking about the Pissons, you dummy,
you moron, I'm talking about the Clippers. By the way,
the Clippers have been a model franchise for the last
ten years. All right, Art Puffin says, you're killing me
a magnificent maount of monologue, and then he says, too
bad for your Clippers monologues did not materialize in your eyes.
(16:55):
He says, well, same thing happens. That happens every year,
kawhi ln it ends up going snap Crackle Pop, late
night drug tester. Right, since, says great Mallard monologue. Fun fact, though,
if you were to build the taj mahall now, it
would only cost you eight hundred and twenty seven million
dollars unless Just Josh gave a Mallard militia discount. Oh yeah,
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we could. We have enough contractors like just Josh that
listened to the show that I think we'd be okay,
I think we'd be all right on that. Uh app
so bleeping loot. Let's go to the phones. It is
a call in show, and let's see here. Eeny meanie
miny Moe. Let's say hello to sir Scratch off the
Highways and Byways of Arkansas. Hello, sir, scratch off. Oh
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there he is right there, my man, my my party planner,
sir scratch off.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Moll t you what just for a second, being going
bathroom or something? Will tell you something. Every last night
I was beating my windshield, beat my steering wheel, man,
that bag gum game too much, not enough? That was
so rigged. Man, I'm gonna tell you right now.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Why would you be surprised by that?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Though?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Oh my gosh, okay, fair enough, Honey's go ahead, and
here's your answer. Now, I'm not sure you get off
five rice, so I'd give you a bunch of gold tickets.
Oh you on, don't you be in my goodness?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Now? Sure, scratch off. I'm offender by what you just said. Uh,
you're just jealous that the contestant in this case it
just happened to be, uh, Fergie. That Fergie was really good.
I didn't I didn't help him out. I didn't tell
him the answer. I didn't. I didn't say here's the answer.
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I just wanted to make sure that he gave the
answer that he was comfortable with. He did, and he
happened to get all five right. I think it was
great and for you to spit a loogie at him,
Sir scratch off. I mean, come on, that's a bad
job by you. Now, what do you have to say,
sir scratch off? Hey, way, what do you have to
say to the our international caller who called us this
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guy ripped you? The auto bond guy ripped you. I
don't worry. Was he in Tunisia or something like that.
I don't even remember where he was.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He his time frame was eight thirty am in the morning.
I said that to you. Which out of one hundred
things I send you, I mean my last name eight
thir dogs. So I don't get rid. But anyway, I.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Won't take all you're so jealous of further listen, do
not be jealous of game.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
No, I just get a kick out you being You
got so many people man sending you buckages, and you
hardly ever read some of them. And there's something that's
the problem.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Like you know, I get the show is not me
reading tweets. I mix that in, but there's other things
that there's a lot of moving parts. It's like spinning plates.
You gotta spin a lot of plates. You scratch off.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Do you know what, man?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
We have fun with you.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Man, We dedicated. We listen to you every night, dude
for a long time, but you won't take something right now,
that old boy the OLLI get a guy, man, I
want to catch a daddy and he's gonna call in
like next week when when the Cooper gets back. Oh, Billy,
get my number because my company's in twelve different states.
Matter of fact, where he lives. We got a company
down there, but he's coming to lit Rock. That's for
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my main office I deal out of. And man, I
can hook him up with the driving job. Man.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I mean, look at you, sir, scratch you. You're like
the chamber of commerce for the entire state of Arkansas. Well,
just when you roll out the.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Red carpet, I just get used to people. Man, I
tell you what we I'm I'm at three and a
half years of perfect contendants. I don't miss I love
coming out and listen to you at night driving my route.
But right now I got a Mosquite in this truck
and I'm hoping to guy before the night told was
I kill him or I want to? I don't use guns,
but I'm gonna be use the ball man because he's
about to drive me crazy twin these roads. Being a
better scratch AfOR up and down.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, I gotta tell you, I think this kill a mosquito.
You don't use a baseball bat. I would think like
that tennis racket would be gone.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Dude, are huge. I mean these boys come out of
a big voice. I mean I've got how big.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
How big is in Arkansas mosquito? Like compared it to
the size of your hand? How big is it?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
When he shakes my hand out, when I get my
truck and say, hey man, I'm gonna be with you
all night, dude, I just let go because he ain't
gonna be turned down. I mean, he wants to ride
with me all that. Listen to being a bottle show
sign to you. I'm proud of you right now because
I can hear being show when I'm on hole because
we got Lee's after putting me on. I'll tell you
what I can hear the show.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I hear all right, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're running
out of things to say. You're kissing Lee to lapse
ass And not that we don't love that, but nobody
wants to hear that. Thank you all right, Lee wants
to hear that. I think I think he would like
to hear that, but the rest of us probably not.
It is the Ben Malard Show. So interesting couple of
days in Major League Baseball. As Rob Manford's in an
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awkward position here, there's some strange things going on. I'll
explain what that's all about. But right now, let's get
you caught up on everything going on in the world
of sports. Games of note, Garcia right over there, exhilarated
as you will elevate the show. I think, I don't know,
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we'll find out.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
We will find out, Thank you, Ben. One of the
games of note coming up on Thursday, undoubtedly Game one
of the NBA Finals, eight thirty Eastern in Denver, where
the Nuggets are undefeated so far this postseason. Taken on
the Miami Heat. Of course, Denver the one seed in
the West looking for their first ever NBA title, while
Miami looking to make some history as the first eight
seed ever to win an NBA championship. NBA news you
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were talking about with your opening monologue of the hour,
Detroit Pistons agreeing on a six year, seventy eight point
five million dollar deal to highre former Sunset coach Monty
Williams as their next head coach. It's the largest coaching
deal in NBA history. Lee might want to take note
of this for the next show, as somebody on that
show happens to work on the show. But college football
early season kickoffs have been announced in Colorado with Coach
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Prime will be featured on Fox's Big nuone kickoff back
to back weeks to start the season.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Now, why would that be any Colorado's last.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Year at the TSOW and home against Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
No, but I mean horrific last year. Let me see,
could it be prime Time? Dion Sanders is good television? Eddy?
Could that be? Say second is FU one and eleven
last season? Yeah? One and eleven. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I'm not buying into the hype personally.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
But I am buying you to live. I love Deon Sanders.
He's interesting. He's somebody that colle Here's not too many
guys in college football that we can move the needle with,
and Deon's one of those guys. Nick Sabans on that list.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah, he's moving the needle. But ultimately, you gotta win games.
We'll see I will win you. I don't know he will.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Coach Prime, Coach Preme. You want to take a bet.
What's the over under on Colorado wins.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Six?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I say they go over, I say they under. Okay,
all right, we bet. I bet a sandwich, all right? Yeah,
you won't pay anyway, of course I always pay my
bets off. Yeah, I'll make the greatest snicker doodle cookies
you've ever had? How about that homemade?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Why don't you just bring those in for show morale?
How about that?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah? I keep forgetting to be honest with you. I mean,
it's such a I'm so flustered. I have such a
long drive, Eddie from where I am out in the
north Woods. When I come in, it's a it's always
as a. It's a big process. It's a lot of things,
a lot of moving parts to that also, So anyway,
it is the ben I should bring them in because
I bake and then if I eat them, I get fatter.
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And if I give them to you, you guys get fatter.
I'd rather you get fatter than I get fatter. So
for personal reasons, I should absolutely bring them in. This
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Progressive dot com. So interesting times in Major League Baseball
is a couple of stories here. One of them this
big lawsuit legal preceding the regional sports networks owned by
under the Bally's brand and Major League Baseball in court.
Rob Manford actually testified in a courtroom on Wednesday, I
(25:09):
believe this was in Texas, and Manford had a quote.
He said, the regional sports networks, whoever the hell owned them,
have made hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in
profit off these long term agreements. To turn around and
say we're going to squeeze you and make you take
lower rights fees did not sit very well with us.
(25:31):
Manford said, remember what we talked about in a previous episode.
So baseball, the cable industry has changed a lot. There's
less people paying for cable and as a result, the
people that ran these regional sports networks said, well, we
can't pay you. The money is not there. So Major
League Baseball is like, well, screw you, we need our money.
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We're entitled to our money, which is just outstanding arrogance
by Major League Baseball, just outstanding arrogance by Major League Baseball.
And the equivalent we talked about would be like, you know,
you know, a baby Mama drama. You're getting knocked up
by some athlete and then they've got a lot of
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money and then they stopped playing and they have no money.
You go to court saying I'm entitled to my money
and then well there's no money to get. What are
you gonna do? That money's not there, the money's gone,
So good luck on that. The other stories wild so baseball.
We talked about this also on the show. There was
a Clayton Kershaw ripped the Dodgers. Because the Dodgers flip flopped,
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they brought in this group, which is deemed anti Catholic,
for their Pride Night. Then there was some blowback. I
believe Rob Manford called up and said, hey, you got
to get rid of this group. There's a lot of
political pressure. So of course the Dodgers then agreed to
get rid of them, and then a couple of days
later said screw you guys, screw you Catholic guys. We're
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bringing this group back. So that then upset a bunch
of people. Clayton Kershaw came out and was critical of
the Dodgers and whatnot, and so he had a picture
into the Blue Jays pitcher who was also got in
trouble for some stuff he said on social media. So, anyway,
get to the point, please, We are told the Major
League Baseball Players Union has filed a formal complaint with
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Major League Baseball. The players enough players around baseball have
complained to the union that this is now a union complaint.
The union steward, the shop stewarts have gone to Major
League Baseball. They are concerned. They feel like the players
have been pushed into these awkward positions where it appears
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they endorse all of the bull crap that Major League
Baseball is shoving down fans throats, uh and and so
the players are like, we're not, we don't support all
this stuff, but it's making it seem like we support
this stuff. And it's a it's an on going issue,
and so we'll see what happens. But the union in
baseball is more powerful than any other union in sports.
(28:07):
It's going to be fascinating to see what happens. And
you know what, this reminds me of Eddie's sport hockey,
because we have seen in hockey how many times three
four times in the last year or so that NHL
players have decided they didn't want to wear whatever theme.
I think it was mostly pride jerseys or whatever they
(28:27):
didn't want to wear, and that created blowback and pushback
and people got all upset and all that stuff because
they were some of the players didn't want to do it.
I feel like we're on a collision course in Major
League Baseball, like the same things going to happen here,
and we'll see how they navigate through this. But what
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a hot potato. And of course we pointed out that
I guess we're dinosaurs here. We just actually want to
watch the games. We're not really there for you. Whatever
your agenda is to tell us. We can form our
own opinions on things. We don't need you to tell
us here. And the problem is when you go down
the road of having a night for every possible person
(29:12):
in group you can have a night for, you run
out of nights. It does become problematic, and so you
have to end up picking and choosing, and then you
leave some people out, or you include people that other
people are upset about and you can't please everybody, but
they're trying to. Well, actually they're not trying to please everybody.
They select people they're trying to please. Let's go to
the phones and we'll say hello to blind Emmett. Hello,
(29:37):
blind Emmitt.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
What's going on? Big Ben? How you been?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
If I was any better, I would be a Seahawk,
but not a Seattle Seahawk because it's kind.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Of blah, you know, I mean, are the Rams much better?
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You're doing? What about him? Don't do what about zim? Okay,
you're blind em at the Seahawks fan.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Well, I think we're gonna make the playoffs next year.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
But you can think all I think you're wrong.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
I mean, we can bet on it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I already got bet with Eddie. I gotta bet over
under six wins Colorado.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I mean you can bet.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I'm betting on Dean. I believe in prime time Deon Sanders.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I mean, I I think it could work, and I definitely,
like you were saying, though, they definitely put him on.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Could could alis a word? Yeah? Could a wise a word? Yes?
Or no? Is it gonna work? Is it gonna work? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
He's gonna win?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I think it will tweet that out leader lap blind
Emmitt agrees with me. Ben Me and blind Emmett. We
agree that Colorado will win over six games this year.
I don't know how they're gonna do it. They might
have to cheat, but they'll win over six games.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
So what I was calling about was the finals, but
I was scoring through Twitter, waiting on hold and uh.
It goes to the point where earlier you were saying
how how Van Gundy does not like halftime. Damian Lillard
actually agrees with him on this statement, which I think
is interesting. If I'm a player, I think I would
like that break, you know, go get you know, use
(31:11):
the bathroom, talk to the coaches, you know, get the
game plan right, you know, hydrate up a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I don't why.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
A lot of guys hate it, because they once you
start moving and you start getting your body, you sit
around for fifteen minutes at halftime and you're you know,
you gotta go warm up again. It's a big pain
in the ass.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Yeah, but like you said, the owners are not They're
not letting that happen. There's no shot that changes and no.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
No plus, we need we need Charles Barkley at halftime.
When ESPN does the games, we should have no halftime
because their people suck. But when when TNT has the games,
we should have a longer halftime. How about that?
Speaker 5 (31:46):
You know, may sound by Charles Barkley gives you guys
like in the sports media like he's.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Carrying He's wonderful. Is Barkley's tremendous? Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
And for my NBA Finals prediction, I again we're agreeing.
I think the Nuggets are going to win this one.
I think that, you know, the Nikole Jokitch and Jamal
Murray show is going to take over. And you know,
like you said, like you're saying it, Jimmy Buckets, he's
gonna make it hard. I think he's gonna make it hard.
Is it gonna be like a six or seven game series.
I think it's gonna be a great series. But overall,
I think Nikole Jokitch and the Denver Nuggets are going
(32:18):
to come through and get that championship.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And yeah, I see Miami winning a couple of games
at home. I don't think they'll win in Denver. I
think the the Nuggets are eight. No, I don't think
they'll lose one of the games. In Denver, So I'd
be surprised if they lose there.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
The Nuggets are such a d team too, like they
have like these like Pep, like Michael Porter just come
out of nowhere, or like Jamal Murray. Mean obviously they be.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I don't really think they're that deep to be. I
think they're top heavy. But I will leave it there.
Thank you, Blinda. There he goes fan favorite blind em
where he goes only he knows and he's off running away.
We have Mallard to the third degree. That's coming up.
Time now for the Insta Trivia, the Insta Trivia, and
(32:59):
here it is the Instant tribut So Blank was a
virallly famous musician with several hit songs in his heyday.
He was named in honor of Hank Aaron. Again, Blank
was a virallly famous musician with several popular songs in
(33:21):
his day. He was named in honor of Hank Aaron.
That is the Instead Trivia. The answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
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and here it is. Blank was a virally famous musician
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several of popular songs in his day. He was named
in honor of Hank Aaron. That is the question. What
is the answer unless he does anyone in the malor
militia know the answer. Let's see your page down here,
Paige down can't read that on the air, and Bean
(35:17):
moot Maker, Bob's going with meadow World Peace, ak Ron
Artest Miguel on Fire says, Whitney Houston is the answer.
Cowboy Killer says it's got to be Hank Hill. That
that is the selection. Who else do we have? Swifty
Taylor Swift from Black Cowboy, John Brad in Windsor, Jessica
(35:39):
got it right, bat job by her Easy E from
Bengal fan Bryan ferg Dog says my biggest fan, Sir
scratch Off is the answer. Little Jimmy from Big Greg
in Iowa. Who else do we have? Casey Carl Holler
going with Schroeder from Peanuts. Oh, that's an interesting answer.
(35:59):
Who else following James from Alf the Alien O Pineter. Eddie,
do you have an answer and it's not Inka Terror, Eddie,
that is not the answer.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
No, it is not. In Katara's close though, it is
Stanley Burrell aka MC hammer, MC hammer.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Is that your final answer, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (36:18):
Final answer?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That is correct? It is mc hammer. He was a
ball boy, I said, clubhouse attendant for the athletics in
the nineteen seventies, and the players on the the players
on the A said, hey, you kind of look like
Hank Aaron, So you're the hammer and the first.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Name little Hammer. I think they called him.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Well, you know why they call him mc because he
was he took care of all the craft for the players.
They called him the master of ceremonies. That's where the
mc comes from, an mc hammer. There's a fun fact.
You can't touch this, Eddie. You can't touch this.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Too legit to quit.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
That's why I'm too legit to quit, because we have
this to get to right now here we go hit
how about that?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
To the third degree?
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This is one big Ben gets krilled and a man
who is very excited to be here. That's right, fired
up lead.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
A lap Ben al Lafford was pulling double duty in
the Celtics season ending loss to the Heat. Bill Simmons
reports that Horford was not only playing but also coached
the team during timeouts, Well, Joe Miszula would conference with
the assistants, Ben, do you even believe that's possible.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
No, nobody was coaching the Celtics. Did you watch the Celtics.
It was like a nine year old was playing video games, like,
here's what you do, boys, dribble down. The first guy
that gets to the three point line, shoot a shot,
three point shot right. There was no stretch. It was
Papa shot for the Celtics, even when they kept missing.
Now we have heard from boots on the ground in
(37:45):
Boston that Joe Missoula is legendary for wasting most of
the time during timeouts meeting with his assistant coaches, and
then at the very end he'll say like two sentences
to his players. So that's ridiculous, But that's what he's
been doing all year apparently. But do I think Al
Horfor was coaching? No, because no one was coaching the Celtics.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Next, Ben, the Pelicans are planning to overhold their entire
medical staff this offseason. To get Zion Williamson back on
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make Zion look?
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So? It makes him look terrible? Zion? He's not a
coach killer. I guess they have gotten rid of coach there.
But he's a trained assassin when it comes to trainers,
A trainer assassin assassin. This is a debacle. There are
bad trainers, I get that, but based on the word
around basketball, this is not an issue of people giving
bad advice to Zion. It's Zion not listing right and
(38:39):
he's been ravaged by all kinds of ailments, some of
them real, some of them embellished. But he needs an intervention,
is what Zion Williamson needs at this point here. And
a good luck on that, because it appears the cow
has left the barn literally on persuading Zion Williamson.
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Next, David Beckham thinks Tom Brady looks a little bored
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back out of retirement once again.
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Are you buying this, Ben Well, I do believe he's bored.
I think that that's kind of obviously Brady has nothing else.
There's nothing else in his life. He's got his family
left him, right, He's he's just that football was one
thousand percent of his life and he can only the
people he's hanging out with look very boring. These hipsters,
these celebrities. Who wants to hang out with those people?
(39:28):
They're boring people. So I think he's bored. I don't
think he's coming back. How do we know past be blessed?
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Hello and welcome. Round and round and round and round,
round and round we go on the coaching carousel. We
talked some pro bouncy ball. Major story, a neutron bomb
blowing up the pay structure for coaches. Why did Monty
Williams have a change of heart? He was agreed he
did agree to a contract to coach the Pistons. That
(00:22):
coming down just before we came on the air. How
does the path to winning big with the Pistons look
in the near future for Monty? And thumbs up or
thumbs down on Monty Williams having a major impact on
the great turnaround of Detroit basketball. We'll talk about all
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that and who knows what else is gonna pop up.
You got to listen to find out. Thank you for
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our lead this hour, coming from the coaching carousel, another
chair has been filled on the sidelines of the NBA.
The finals will begin tonight, but there is moving and
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shaking as we head into the first day of June.
As we are all on the supersonic time machine and
way we go. All right, So, if you haven't heard this,
Detroit Basketball, maybe not. Monty Williams, the man that had
decided he did not want to coach in the state
(02:31):
of Michigan. Monty Williams has agreed to an earth shattering
contract to coach a basketball team, the Pistons, And yeah,
he's the next head coach. It's the same job that
Monty Williams reportedly rejected several weeks ago. We are told
(02:51):
that Williams receives, at the very minimum, a six year
contract for seventy eight point five million Now keep in mind,
Monty Williams will not score a point, he will not
grab a rebound, he will not steal the pass, he
will not have an assist. Seventy eight point five million,
he is the highest paid now head coach in the
(03:13):
history of the NBA, Holy Phil Jackson and Red Arbach Batman.
He will replace Dwayne Casey, who was forced out after
five years at the end of this past regular season.
He was given a figurehead front office position Dwayne Casey
because he's a good guy. They like him. They think
he's a terrible coach. So now it's Monty Williams era
(03:36):
in the Motor City. So there's a big story, and
let us discuss the question why did Monty Williams have
a change of heart on the Detroit Piston coaching job.
So I've got home Depot, Cornfield, and totem poll and
we will combine all of these things together and we
(03:57):
are going to make a house the size of the
taj Ma Hall, because you can afford any kind of
house you want with seventy eight point five million. So
to lead off here, Monty Williams, I give the guy credit. Man,
what a wonderful negotiation he played hard to get, played
hard to get. In my mind, I don't think he
(04:19):
was playing. This is not a good job. Monty Williams
was sitting on an oil reserve, and we talked about
this in the previous Mallet monologue. They made a promo
out of it. I was going ranting and raving, going
through the fact that he had already won the lottery,
that he was given Monty Williams the ultimate severance package,
that Monty Williams was going to get paid over twenty
(04:41):
million dollars from the Suns to sit on his fat
ass and not work. How wonderful would that be?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
I like to work, so for me it would be awkward.
I'd like the money, though. But Monty could sit on
a beach, any beach he wants, for a year or
two years, and possibly for the rest of his life
and enjoy the good life. But he ends up playing
this cat and mouse game. It's like they often say
in the dating game, the ones that play hard to
(05:09):
get are the ones that people want. And Monty Williams
played hard to get cat and mouse game with the Pistons.
The ownership group Tom Gores, I believe is in the
name for old the Michigan State guy who's the owner
of the Pistons. And he would not take no for
an answer, and he kept going and it got higher
and higher and higher and higher, and Monty Williams ends
(05:32):
up with the home Depot special the hammer, the Golden
Hammer for Monty Williams. WHOA when the dust settles, this
guy's contract could end up reaching one hundred million dollars
with incentives one hundred million. So they're already give him
seventy eight point five million, but then if he actually
(05:54):
is good, they'll give him even more money includes team
options after six year deal. Now, furthermore, how does the
path to winning big with the Pistons look in the
near future? So you got the micro and the macro
in the micro boyd does the forecast look bad? Detroit
(06:16):
is in a precarious situation. They're not the worst of
the worst. They just feel like the worst of the worst.
They're also not really anywhere close to contending status. Detroit
is on unstable footing. I've been told by management if
I talk too much about the Pistons, I'll lose my job.
But Monty Williams inherits a mess. He is in slum
(06:37):
lord territory, a well paid man at the very top
and a total slum he's overseeing if this was a
premier job, right, this is a premier job the Pistons.
It's better obvious. You don't need me to tell you this.
Every man, woman, and child knows the Pistons would not
have to pay a tariff a bounty to get a
(07:00):
name brand coach. The Pistons, even with Monty Williams, are
like a rat in a cornfield maze going blindly down
random pass trying to get the cheese. Now they have
some players that were highly decorated coming into the NBA,
a lot of undercooked ingredients. One of the reasons it's
(07:21):
not great job. It's not even an average job. It's
a below average job. Kid Cunningham and Jade and Ivy
are the blue chip backcourt. They hope that these guys,
it's hope, not reality, on a wing and a prayer
that these guys will turn into Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.
Good luck on that. Heck, you'd like to have Isaiah
Thomas and Joe Dumars, good luck on that. Neither is
(07:44):
close to sniffing all NBA status. You've then got flotsam
and jetsam to fill out the roster. Marvin Bagley and
James Weissman, couple of lottery picks for Sacramento and Golden
State respectively. Who who have fai That's why they're not
playing for Sacramento in Golden State. If they were good,
they'd still be with those teams. And you get a
(08:05):
lot of flim flam, so we anticipate Detroit. They'll also
have to make some other moves here and spend some money,
and they are relatively highdraftic. They can make a trade,
make some kind of splash move to improve the roster
and get rid of some of these cast offs and leftovers.
The big takeaway here from this is simple. Everyone's got
their price. Monty Williams, he's got a sway. Sorry, I
(08:27):
had twenty million. It's like, all right, how do I
turn twenty million into seventy eight and a half or
one hundred million? Ding ding ding ding ning. Yeah you
did it, Congratulations. It's like pulling a rabbit out of
the hat. Manty Williams is willing to stick his head
in the microwave to coach a bunch of stiffs for
(08:48):
a king's ransom. And good luck all right, parting shot
thumbs up or thumbs down on Monty Williams having a
major impact on the Piston turning things around. It's gonna
be there a while, so I am going thumbs down.
I'm going thumbs down. This ain't the NFL coaches are
(09:11):
marginalized more in pro bouncy ball than anyo sport, where
a close second being hockey and then baseball. Also, baseball
managers used to manage. They used to manage the game
based on feel of the game. Now they go by
the three ring binder. So it's essentially AI is managing
baseball teams and in basketball. Look at the Celtics Joe Missoula.
(09:33):
You think he was actually coaching the team or you
think he was just repeating. He was the middleman, middle manager,
repeating what they, the nerds, told him to do. I'm
going with the ladder, but you can go with the
opposite if you want. But just in general, you're coaching
the Pistons, you're the low man on the totem pole.
That's where the dogs you're innate all over you the
(09:54):
dregs of basketball society, and it's been that way for you.
There are very few exceptions. People will bring up the
Miami Heat and they'll say, well, there's an exception. But
I would argue that Jimmy Butler is one of the
great players of this generation, and if you take him
(10:15):
out of the equation and put a middling player in that,
Coach Spoe and the Heat culture are not what people
are talking about. Players rule the roost, they ride in
the pole position. And you know who knows that more
than anyone, Monty Williams, Because when Monty Williams has had
terrible players, he's had losing records. When he's coaching the
(10:38):
New Orleans Pelicans, I guess they were the Hornets when
he coached them. Then they became the Pelicans. But he
had years where they won twenty one games, twenty seven games,
thirty four games. You know why, they didn't have good players.
And then when he got good players, they had good records.
You think there's a connection. Possibly, you think that's a
that's a factor that you've got a way in here
(11:00):
that you could put anybody out there if you've got
a good team. And so Manty Williams himself gonna be
one hundred million dollar coach possibly now the only wiggle
room he's got is that he's gonna be making more
money than most of the players on the Pistons likely
and he'll be under contract longer than anyone in the roster.
But that only gets you so far. Over the years,
(11:22):
it has been a proven fact that coaches do not
matter much at all. In fact, the way they mostly
matter is getting in the way. See Doc Rivers as
an example. Right, if you have a championship level roster,
you will win because of the players. The coach can medal,
can only medal and get rid of that that good vibration,
(11:46):
Like Joe Missoula in Boston, Right, let him play Joe.
You know who also believes in this theory, the various
aristocrats that happen to own pro bouncy ball teams. Ask
the guy that owns the Milwaukee who fired Mike Budenholzer
a couple of years after they beat the championship and
beat the Suns in the championship round, or the Toronto
(12:06):
Raptors who let go of Nick Nurse, both of them excommunicated.
There have been three coaches in the last five six
years that were on championship teams supposedly that were let
go so the teams don't think they matter that much,
which makes us all the more outrageous, Like what are
you doing? Was this just like a urinating match and
(12:29):
you had to win the owner of the pistons like
a piece of art, and you're in a bidding war
and you have to get the piece of art and
the arts Monty Williams, whatever it takes, My goodness, Dad zooks.
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I was gonna say, it's a little different for him
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
I did a Pistons monologue, a rather harmless Monty Williams monologue,
and I've upset a guy named b who I don't know.
I don't know who this guy is. I I have
no idea. His name's be. Well, that's what he says
on his social media. I don't know. I don't know guys.
He says, let's put the Pistons against the Clippers all time.
(15:28):
He's annoyed that I was ripping the Pistons because they're
a terrible team and they don't have good players. He says,
you mad the dude got paid. What's your issue with this? Well,
my issue is it's it's rather embarrassing for the Pistons,
because clearly Monty Williams did not want to coach the Pistons.
And I go back to the great, the great deep
thinker of our time, Mike Tomlin. Remember Tomlin had that
(15:49):
great quote when he talks about players that are unhappy there.
I think he talked about Antonio Brown this way or
Leveon Bell. He said, we want volunteers, not hostages. And
when you pay, you have to pay seventy eight or
one hundred million dollars for a coach. That's the coach
telling you I really don't want to be there, but
if you give me a godfather offer, I'll coach you.
(16:10):
So like, what are you doing? Like, there's plenty of
other people you could have hired that would have wanted
the job, and maybe one of that will be fine
because Monty Williams, if you look at his track record,
when he's had good players, he's won. When he hasn't
had good players, he's lost. And spoiler alert, the Pistons
don't have good players. And then for you, b who
what do you? Your name is? You coward? Hiding behind
(16:32):
social media? But for you to say what about is it?
What about the Clippers? We're talking about the Pissons, you dummy,
you moron, I'm talking about the Clippers. By the way,
the Clippers have been a model franchise for the last
ten years. All right, Art Puffin says, you're killing me
a magnificent maount of monologue, and then he says, too
bad for your Clippers monologues did not materialize in your eyes.
(16:55):
He says, well, same thing happens. That happens every year,
kawhi ln it ends up going snap Crackle Pop, late
night drug tester. Right, since, says great Mallard monologue. Fun fact, though,
if you were to build the taj mahall now, it
would only cost you eight hundred and twenty seven million
dollars unless Just Josh gave a Mallard militia discount. Oh yeah,
(17:18):
we could. We have enough contractors like just Josh that
listened to the show that I think we'd be okay,
I think we'd be all right on that. Uh app
so bleeping loot. Let's go to the phones. It is
a call in show, and let's see here. Eeny meanie
miny Moe. Let's say hello to sir Scratch off the
Highways and Byways of Arkansas. Hello, sir, scratch off. Oh
(17:43):
there he is right there, my man, my my party planner,
sir scratch off.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Moll t you what just for a second, being going
bathroom or something? Will tell you something. Every last night
I was beating my windshield, beat my steering wheel, man,
that bag gum game too much, not enough? That was
so rigged. Man, I'm gonna tell you right now.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Why would you be surprised by that?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Though?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Oh my gosh, okay, fair enough, Honey's go ahead, and
here's your answer. Now, I'm not sure you get off
five rice, so I'd give you a bunch of gold tickets.
Oh you on, don't you be in my goodness?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Now? Sure, scratch off. I'm offender by what you just said. Uh,
you're just jealous that the contestant in this case it
just happened to be, uh, Fergie. That Fergie was really good.
I didn't I didn't help him out. I didn't tell
him the answer. I didn't. I didn't say here's the answer.
(18:38):
I just wanted to make sure that he gave the
answer that he was comfortable with. He did, and he
happened to get all five right. I think it was
great and for you to spit a loogie at him,
Sir scratch off. I mean, come on, that's a bad
job by you. Now, what do you have to say,
sir scratch off? Hey, way, what do you have to
say to the our international caller who called us this
(19:00):
guy ripped you? The auto bond guy ripped you. I
don't worry. Was he in Tunisia or something like that.
I don't even remember where he was.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He his time frame was eight thirty am in the morning.
I said that to you. Which out of one hundred
things I send you, I mean my last name eight
thir dogs. So I don't get rid. But anyway, I.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Won't take all you're so jealous of further listen, do
not be jealous of game.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
No, I just get a kick out you being You
got so many people man sending you buckages, and you
hardly ever read some of them. And there's something that's
the problem.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Like you know, I get the show is not me
reading tweets. I mix that in, but there's other things
that there's a lot of moving parts. It's like spinning plates.
You gotta spin a lot of plates. You scratch off.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Do you know what, man?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
We have fun with you.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Man, We dedicated. We listen to you every night, dude
for a long time, but you won't take something right now,
that old boy the OLLI get a guy, man, I
want to catch a daddy and he's gonna call in
like next week when when the Cooper gets back. Oh, Billy,
get my number because my company's in twelve different states.
Matter of fact, where he lives. We got a company
down there, but he's coming to lit Rock. That's for
(20:03):
my main office I deal out of. And man, I
can hook him up with the driving job. Man.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I mean, look at you, sir, scratch you. You're like
the chamber of commerce for the entire state of Arkansas. Well,
just when you roll out the.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Red carpet, I just get used to people. Man, I
tell you what we I'm I'm at three and a
half years of perfect contendants. I don't miss I love
coming out and listen to you at night driving my route.
But right now I got a Mosquite in this truck
and I'm hoping to guy before the night told was
I kill him or I want to? I don't use guns,
but I'm gonna be use the ball man because he's
about to drive me crazy twin these roads. Being a
better scratch AfOR up and down.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, I gotta tell you, I think this kill a mosquito.
You don't use a baseball bat. I would think like
that tennis racket would be gone.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Dude, are huge. I mean these boys come out of
a big voice. I mean I've got how big.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
How big is in Arkansas mosquito? Like compared it to
the size of your hand? How big is it?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
When he shakes my hand out, when I get my
truck and say, hey man, I'm gonna be with you
all night, dude, I just let go because he ain't
gonna be turned down. I mean, he wants to ride
with me all that. Listen to being a bottle show
sign to you. I'm proud of you right now because
I can hear being show when I'm on hole because
we got Lee's after putting me on. I'll tell you
what I can hear the show.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I hear all right, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're running
out of things to say. You're kissing Lee to lapse
ass And not that we don't love that, but nobody
wants to hear that. Thank you all right, Lee wants
to hear that. I think I think he would like
to hear that, but the rest of us probably not.
It is the Ben Malard Show. So interesting couple of
days in Major League Baseball. As Rob Manford's in an
(21:41):
awkward position here, there's some strange things going on. I'll
explain what that's all about. But right now, let's get
you caught up on everything going on in the world
of sports. Games of note, Garcia right over there, exhilarated
as you will elevate the show. I think, I don't know,
(22:03):
we'll find out.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
We will find out, Thank you, Ben. One of the
games of note coming up on Thursday, undoubtedly Game one
of the NBA Finals, eight thirty Eastern in Denver, where
the Nuggets are undefeated so far this postseason. Taken on
the Miami Heat. Of course, Denver the one seed in
the West looking for their first ever NBA title, while
Miami looking to make some history as the first eight
seed ever to win an NBA championship. NBA news you
(22:24):
were talking about with your opening monologue of the hour,
Detroit Pistons agreeing on a six year, seventy eight point
five million dollar deal to highre former Sunset coach Monty
Williams as their next head coach. It's the largest coaching
deal in NBA history. Lee might want to take note
of this for the next show, as somebody on that
show happens to work on the show. But college football
early season kickoffs have been announced in Colorado with Coach
(22:48):
Prime will be featured on Fox's Big nuone kickoff back
to back weeks to start the season.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Now, why would that be any Colorado's last.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Year at the TSOW and home against Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
No, but I mean horrific last year. Let me see,
could it be prime Time? Dion Sanders is good television? Eddy?
Could that be? Say second is FU one and eleven
last season? Yeah? One and eleven. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
I'm not buying into the hype personally.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
But I am buying you to live. I love Deon Sanders.
He's interesting. He's somebody that colle Here's not too many
guys in college football that we can move the needle with,
and Deon's one of those guys. Nick Sabans on that list.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah, he's moving the needle. But ultimately, you gotta win games.
We'll see I will win you. I don't know he will.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Coach Prime, Coach Preme. You want to take a bet.
What's the over under on Colorado wins.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Six?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I say they go over, I say they under. Okay,
all right, we bet. I bet a sandwich, all right? Yeah,
you won't pay anyway, of course I always pay my
bets off. Yeah, I'll make the greatest snicker doodle cookies
you've ever had? How about that homemade?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Why don't you just bring those in for show morale?
How about that?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah? I keep forgetting to be honest with you. I mean,
it's such a I'm so flustered. I have such a
long drive, Eddie from where I am out in the
north Woods. When I come in, it's a it's always
as a. It's a big process. It's a lot of things,
a lot of moving parts to that also, So anyway,
it is the ben I should bring them in because
I bake and then if I eat them, I get fatter.
(24:27):
And if I give them to you, you guys get fatter.
I'd rather you get fatter than I get fatter. So
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Progressive dot com. So interesting times in Major League Baseball
is a couple of stories here. One of them this
big lawsuit legal preceding the regional sports networks owned by
under the Bally's brand and Major League Baseball in court.
Rob Manford actually testified in a courtroom on Wednesday, I
(25:09):
believe this was in Texas, and Manford had a quote.
He said, the regional sports networks, whoever the hell owned them,
have made hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in
profit off these long term agreements. To turn around and
say we're going to squeeze you and make you take
lower rights fees did not sit very well with us.
(25:31):
Manford said, remember what we talked about in a previous episode.
So baseball, the cable industry has changed a lot. There's
less people paying for cable and as a result, the
people that ran these regional sports networks said, well, we
can't pay you. The money is not there. So Major
League Baseball is like, well, screw you, we need our money.
(25:52):
We're entitled to our money, which is just outstanding arrogance
by Major League Baseball, just outstanding arrogance by Major League Baseball.
And the equivalent we talked about would be like, you know,
you know, a baby Mama drama. You're getting knocked up
by some athlete and then they've got a lot of
(26:13):
money and then they stopped playing and they have no money.
You go to court saying I'm entitled to my money
and then well there's no money to get. What are
you gonna do? That money's not there, the money's gone,
So good luck on that. The other stories wild so baseball.
We talked about this also on the show. There was
a Clayton Kershaw ripped the Dodgers. Because the Dodgers flip flopped,
(26:36):
they brought in this group, which is deemed anti Catholic,
for their Pride Night. Then there was some blowback. I
believe Rob Manford called up and said, hey, you got
to get rid of this group. There's a lot of
political pressure. So of course the Dodgers then agreed to
get rid of them, and then a couple of days
later said screw you guys, screw you Catholic guys. We're
(26:58):
bringing this group back. So that then upset a bunch
of people. Clayton Kershaw came out and was critical of
the Dodgers and whatnot, and so he had a picture
into the Blue Jays pitcher who was also got in
trouble for some stuff he said on social media. So, anyway,
get to the point, please, We are told the Major
League Baseball Players Union has filed a formal complaint with
(27:23):
Major League Baseball. The players enough players around baseball have
complained to the union that this is now a union complaint.
The union steward, the shop stewarts have gone to Major
League Baseball. They are concerned. They feel like the players
have been pushed into these awkward positions where it appears
(27:46):
they endorse all of the bull crap that Major League
Baseball is shoving down fans throats, uh and and so
the players are like, we're not, we don't support all
this stuff, but it's making it seem like we support
this stuff. And it's a it's an on going issue,
and so we'll see what happens. But the union in
baseball is more powerful than any other union in sports.
(28:07):
It's going to be fascinating to see what happens. And
you know what, this reminds me of Eddie's sport hockey,
because we have seen in hockey how many times three
four times in the last year or so that NHL
players have decided they didn't want to wear whatever theme.
I think it was mostly pride jerseys or whatever they
(28:27):
didn't want to wear, and that created blowback and pushback
and people got all upset and all that stuff because
they were some of the players didn't want to do it.
I feel like we're on a collision course in Major
League Baseball, like the same things going to happen here,
and we'll see how they navigate through this. But what
(28:49):
a hot potato. And of course we pointed out that
I guess we're dinosaurs here. We just actually want to
watch the games. We're not really there for you. Whatever
your agenda is to tell us. We can form our
own opinions on things. We don't need you to tell
us here. And the problem is when you go down
the road of having a night for every possible person
(29:12):
in group you can have a night for, you run
out of nights. It does become problematic, and so you
have to end up picking and choosing, and then you
leave some people out, or you include people that other
people are upset about and you can't please everybody, but
they're trying to. Well, actually they're not trying to please everybody.
They select people they're trying to please. Let's go to
the phones and we'll say hello to blind Emmett. Hello,
(29:37):
blind Emmitt.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
What's going on? Big Ben? How you been?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
If I was any better, I would be a Seahawk,
but not a Seattle Seahawk because it's kind.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Of blah, you know, I mean, are the Rams much better?
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You're doing? What about him? Don't do what about zim? Okay,
you're blind em at the Seahawks fan.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Well, I think we're gonna make the playoffs next year.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
But you can think all I think you're wrong.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
I mean, we can bet on it.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I already got bet with Eddie. I gotta bet over
under six wins Colorado.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I mean you can bet.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I'm betting on Dean. I believe in prime time Deon Sanders.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I mean, I I think it could work, and I definitely,
like you were saying, though, they definitely put him on.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Could could alis a word? Yeah? Could a wise a word? Yes?
Or no? Is it gonna work? Is it gonna work? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
He's gonna win?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I think it will tweet that out leader lap blind
Emmitt agrees with me. Ben Me and blind Emmett. We
agree that Colorado will win over six games this year.
I don't know how they're gonna do it. They might
have to cheat, but they'll win over six games.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
So what I was calling about was the finals, but
I was scoring through Twitter, waiting on hold and uh.
It goes to the point where earlier you were saying
how how Van Gundy does not like halftime. Damian Lillard
actually agrees with him on this statement, which I think
is interesting. If I'm a player, I think I would
like that break, you know, go get you know, use
(31:11):
the bathroom, talk to the coaches, you know, get the
game plan right, you know, hydrate up a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I don't why.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
A lot of guys hate it, because they once you
start moving and you start getting your body, you sit
around for fifteen minutes at halftime and you're you know,
you gotta go warm up again. It's a big pain
in the ass.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Yeah, but like you said, the owners are not They're
not letting that happen. There's no shot that changes and no.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
No plus, we need we need Charles Barkley at halftime.
When ESPN does the games, we should have no halftime
because their people suck. But when when TNT has the games,
we should have a longer halftime. How about that?
Speaker 5 (31:46):
You know, may sound by Charles Barkley gives you guys
like in the sports media like he's.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Carrying He's wonderful. Is Barkley's tremendous? Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
And for my NBA Finals prediction, I again we're agreeing.
I think the Nuggets are going to win this one.
I think that, you know, the Nikole Jokitch and Jamal
Murray show is going to take over. And you know,
like you said, like you're saying it, Jimmy Buckets, he's
gonna make it hard. I think he's gonna make it hard.
Is it gonna be like a six or seven game series.
I think it's gonna be a great series. But overall,
I think Nikole Jokitch and the Denver Nuggets are going
(32:18):
to come through and get that championship.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
And yeah, I see Miami winning a couple of games
at home. I don't think they'll win in Denver. I
think the the Nuggets are eight. No, I don't think
they'll lose one of the games. In Denver, So I'd
be surprised if they lose there.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
The Nuggets are such a d team too, like they
have like these like Pep, like Michael Porter just come
out of nowhere, or like Jamal Murray. Mean obviously they be.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I don't really think they're that deep to be. I
think they're top heavy. But I will leave it there.
Thank you, Blinda. There he goes fan favorite blind em
where he goes only he knows and he's off running away.
We have Mallard to the third degree. That's coming up.
Time now for the Insta Trivia, the Insta Trivia, and
(32:59):
here it is the Instant tribut So Blank was a
virallly famous musician with several hit songs in his heyday.
He was named in honor of Hank Aaron. Again, Blank
was a virallly famous musician with several popular songs in
(33:21):
his day. He was named in honor of Hank Aaron.
That is the Instead Trivia. The answer, We'll get to it.
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
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(33:58):
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Speaker 1 (34:34):
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and here it is. Blank was a virally famous musician
(34:57):
several of popular songs in his day. He was named
in honor of Hank Aaron. That is the question. What
is the answer unless he does anyone in the malor
militia know the answer. Let's see your page down here,
Paige down can't read that on the air, and Bean
(35:17):
moot Maker, Bob's going with meadow World Peace, ak Ron
Artest Miguel on Fire says, Whitney Houston is the answer.
Cowboy Killer says it's got to be Hank Hill. That
that is the selection. Who else do we have? Swifty
Taylor Swift from Black Cowboy, John Brad in Windsor, Jessica
(35:39):
got it right, bat job by her Easy E from
Bengal fan Bryan ferg Dog says my biggest fan, Sir
scratch Off is the answer. Little Jimmy from Big Greg
in Iowa. Who else do we have? Casey Carl Holler
going with Schroeder from Peanuts. Oh, that's an interesting answer.
(35:59):
Who else following James from Alf the Alien O Pineter. Eddie,
do you have an answer and it's not Inka Terror, Eddie,
that is not the answer.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
No, it is not. In Katara's close though, it is
Stanley Burrell aka MC hammer, MC hammer.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Is that your final answer, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (36:18):
Final answer?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That is correct? It is mc hammer. He was a
ball boy, I said, clubhouse attendant for the athletics in
the nineteen seventies, and the players on the the players
on the A said, hey, you kind of look like
Hank Aaron, So you're the hammer and the first.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Name little Hammer. I think they called him.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Well, you know why they call him mc because he
was he took care of all the craft for the players.
They called him the master of ceremonies. That's where the
mc comes from, an mc hammer. There's a fun fact.
You can't touch this, Eddie. You can't touch this.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Too legit to quit.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
That's why I'm too legit to quit, because we have
this to get to right now here we go hit
how about that?
Speaker 2 (36:57):
To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
This is one big Ben gets krilled and a man
who is very excited to be here. That's right, fired
up lead.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
A lap Ben al Lafford was pulling double duty in
the Celtics season ending loss to the Heat. Bill Simmons
reports that Horford was not only playing but also coached
the team during timeouts, Well, Joe Miszula would conference with
the assistants, Ben, do you even believe that's possible.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
No, nobody was coaching the Celtics. Did you watch the Celtics.
It was like a nine year old was playing video games, like,
here's what you do, boys, dribble down. The first guy
that gets to the three point line, shoot a shot,
three point shot right. There was no stretch. It was
Papa shot for the Celtics, even when they kept missing.
Now we have heard from boots on the ground in
(37:45):
Boston that Joe Missoula is legendary for wasting most of
the time during timeouts meeting with his assistant coaches, and
then at the very end he'll say like two sentences
to his players. So that's ridiculous, But that's what he's
been doing all year apparently. But do I think Al
Horfor was coaching? No, because no one was coaching the Celtics.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Next, Ben, the Pelicans are planning to overhold their entire
medical staff this offseason. To get Zion Williamson back on
the court ready for next year, Ben, how does this
make Zion look?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
So? It makes him look terrible? Zion? He's not a
coach killer. I guess they have gotten rid of coach there.
But he's a trained assassin when it comes to trainers,
A trainer assassin assassin. This is a debacle. There are
bad trainers, I get that, but based on the word
around basketball, this is not an issue of people giving
bad advice to Zion. It's Zion not listing right and
(38:39):
he's been ravaged by all kinds of ailments, some of
them real, some of them embellished. But he needs an intervention,
is what Zion Williamson needs at this point here. And
a good luck on that, because it appears the cow
has left the barn literally on persuading Zion Williamson.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
Next, David Beckham thinks Tom Brady looks a little bored
as rumors continue to swirl about the quarterback potentially coming
back out of retirement once again.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Are you buying this, Ben Well, I do believe he's bored.
I think that that's kind of obviously Brady has nothing else.
There's nothing else in his life. He's got his family
left him, right, He's he's just that football was one
thousand percent of his life and he can only the
people he's hanging out with look very boring. These hipsters,
these celebrities. Who wants to hang out with those people?
(39:28):
They're boring people. So I think he's bored. I don't
think he's coming back. How do we know past be blessed?
What he said, I got passed. That's a win. Fox
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