June 2, 2023 • 41 mins
Celtics keeping Joe Mazzulla... How do you interpret the Celtics keeping Joe Mazzulla? Does this make sense for Jayson Tatum? What's next for the Celtics roster?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two. Back at it
here an hour two another pro bouncy ball monologue, but
not about the NBA Finals. No, the Celtics keeping Joe Missoula. Yeah,
we ripped him during the playoffs. He did a terrible job,
but he's sticking around. How do you interpret the vote
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of confidence keeping Joe Missoula in Boston? And does this
make sense for Jason Tatum and what the heck is
next for the Celtics. We'll talk about all that much
more right now here. It is our number two, Keep
them around, Joe, Welcome. In the beginning of another hour
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leave this hour coming from pro bouncy Ball, I was
debating whether or not to do another NBA Finals monologue,
but much to the dismay of my friends who live
in Denver, in the Greater Denver area, I could only
squeeze out one one NBA Finals mall monologue. So therefore, no, no,
we will not do another NBA Finals monologue. There's other
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stuff going on. Game one a dominating when, even though
the final score was not indicative of a domination, Denver
was up by twenty four or twenty six points at
at one point they were controlled the game. And so
the Miami Heat, Miami Heat lose Game one, Denver wins
Game number one, and it will spend a few good
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minutes chatting about some things that caught my turn, and
this one in particular. I really want to focus on
this out of Boston because the Celtics are making waves
now Miami is in the NBA Finals. That's an embarrassment.
Is a testimonial to the incompetence of the Boston Celtics,
who were much more talented. But it doesn't matter if
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you're the more talented team. If you play like Crapola,
you don't win, so but Boston making some news here.
If you did not hear about this, maybe not Brad Stevens.
He's the guy that used to coach the Celtics and
then couldn't hack it anymore, so he got bumped up
to the front office to replace Danny Ainge. And Brad
Stevens had his end of year remarks on the state
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of the Celtics, the State of the Union address, and
what did Brad Stevens have to say, Well, he was
asked about retaining his head coach. Get to the point,
please get to the money quote. So the Celtics president
confirming that Joe Missoula, the guy that was in over
his head in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals and the
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series before that, Joe Misula will return as the bench
jockey for the Celtics, despite being provably bad at his job,
he will come back. And Brad Stevens was gushing all
over Joe Missoula. I wonder whether or not he's actually
Joe Mizula's father. I do not know. Among the comments,
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just to pretend I'm Brad Stevens, he said of Joe Mizula,
he's a terrific leader, terrific leader. Is what Brad Stevens said,
He'll only get better. How do you know that? How
do you know he's going to get better? Is that
because he can't get any worse? Quote continues, He says
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he can learn. Well, yeah, he can learn. He said
he can learn from this year because he constantly's trying
to learn and he's accountable. Did he sound accountable? Just
between me and a light post? Did he sound accountable?
After Game seven when a reporter who was just doing
their jobs said, do you think maybe after you missed
your ninety seven three point shot you might have tried
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to take a two point shot? And he dismissed the reporter. Yeah,
that's a guy who's accountable. Yes, that is a guy
that's accountable. But Missoula took over for e may Udoka
because email Udoka couldn't keep it in the pants and
he stooped somebody he should not have stooped, and that
led to a problem. And I also saw that there's
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a mass exodus that Missoula is going to be back,
but three of his assistant coaches are out the door.
They're They're like, I'm sorry, we're out of here. I'm
gonna go hang out in Houston with e may Udoka
because that's where he's at now. He got the rock
catch job, and so that's that's what's going on with that. Now,
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let us discuss the question on this one. How do
you interpret the Celtics giving a ringing endorsement to Joe
Missoula keeping him around as coach. So I've got Nurnberg, Vatican,
and Hamlet, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are going to make a marginal Malard monologue,
is what we're gonna make. So number one, I'm only
worth one of them. Do it again? I need to,
all right, So Boston, what I take away from this
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is Boston's Brad Stevens is like me. He's stubborn. He
is not willing to budge an inch, not an inch
when it comes to this coach, and he's going full
steam ahead and refusing to admit to you, or to me,
or to the person over the back over there, refusing
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to admit that he made a mistake and that maybe
Joe mazzul is a nice guy, but he's not getting
it done. Rather than concede that the critics are right,
that Missoula needs a lifeguard because he's in choppy water
and he does not know how to swim and there
are sharks around him right now. Instead, the Celtics are
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doubling down, which I had that as unexpected. I did
not expect that to happen, but it is indeed taking
place right now. But keep in mind that I have
ranted many a time in the middle of the night
here that coaches don't matter in the NBA, and I
really believe that. However, I've also said out of the
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other side of my mouth that while coches don't matter,
meaning a coach is not going to push you over
the top, but a bad coach can drag you to
the bottom and can cause you to lose because of incompetence.
And that's where I'm at at Joe Missoula until proven otherwise.
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And I thought of the Boston Celsius. Maybe I'm the
problem here because iway was thought the Celtics was not
a starter job. You know how, there's like starter jobs
like the Charlotte Hornets or the Orlando Magic that's a
starter job. The Celtics is not a starter job. It's
not an on the job training type situation. So my
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hypothesis on this is why would you let let him play?
Joe keep his job. First of all, Brad Stevens is like,
this guy's a sock puppet. Missoula gets a vote of
confidence because one of the theories is it's the Nuremberg
defense that all Missoula is doing is just he is
a sock puppet, a sock puppet. He's just following orders.
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That's it. That he's not actually coaching the team. The
nerds are coaching the team. You know, this is happening
in baseball for years, where like the Yankees are not
actually managed by Aaron Boone, the Dodgers are not actually
managed by Dave Roberts. That's why those guys keep their
jobs because the teams are like, no, they're not actually
managing these teams. And my theories like Joe Mazzulla's like
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he's not really managing the Celtics. He's not coaching the Celtics.
He's not and he's just a middle manager. He's a pigeon,
He's a messenger pigeon. He's just repeating the message from
the analytical membrane. As Joe Madden, the old baseball manager,
would say about a story like this said, this is
the analytical membrane. He's just repeating the Celtics their strategy.
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The people that crunch the numbers and do the AI
and all that for the team are like, you've got
to take three point shots because that's worth more than
two and if you miss him, just keep shooting them.
Eventually you're gonna make them. So when you take forty
two three point shots and only make nine of them,
which is what happened in Game seven, no, we're gonna
keep doing that. Yes, I'm not gonna bring up the
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fact that is the definition of insanity. I'm not gonna
do it. That's the company line. That is the coming line. Now,
does keeping coach Joe let him play Joel Mosula makes
sense if you're Jason Tatum. What about that part of it?
So from that perspective, I'm gonna nod my head yes.
And here's why I'm gonna nod my head yes. Because
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even though the Seas have flopped. They flopped in the
finals a couple of years ago, this year they flopped
in the Eastern Conference Finals, the fact is they as
I said, the Sea's front office is really the one
calling shots on a lot of stuff, But for Jason Tatum.
They would not allow Joel Missoula to continue unless Tatum
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was okay with this. It's kind of like going to
the Vatican and if you're a religious sort and you
go there, you're hoping that the Pope will give you
the blessing right. And so in the NBA, if you
look at the way the NBA is set up, the
class structure of the NBA with very few exceptions, the
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social hierarchy, and we believe it's this way in Boston.
Why would it be any different. Is the star player
has to approve. So Jason Tatum is like, all right, yes,
I like this guy. I get my stats, I get
my shots. And if I hadn't hurt my ankle, we
would have beaten the Miami Heat. Yeabit, yeabbit, yeabit. And
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so even though Joe mazool is like a lounge act
with the media calling timeouts, not calling timeouts and all
of that, even with all of that, Jason thams like,
I get my shots. It's a good thing. Celtics won
a lot of games in the regular season. That's true.
They win a lot of games in the regular season.
And even though they've been turbulent at times and underachieving
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in some playoff situations. You know it, all right, keep
him round. It's probably just Tatum's I can I can
roll this guy, all right? Final point? What is next?
As we head in to the wild blue yonder for
the Celtics in particular here, So we will be heading
into the silly season as soon as these NBA Finals end,
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and the way the Nuggets played and the way the
Heat played that could be in three more games, will
be heading into the silly season. And the NBA silly
season is just wonderful because they just make crap up
just to get clicks. It's clickbait, clickbait here, clickbait there.
And the clickbait for Boston is Damian Lillard, Zach Lavine
from Chicago, Trey Young from Atlanta. That one of those
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guys will end up going to the Celtics. Now, in
order to facilitate that kind of transaction, the Celtics are
gonna have to say bye bye to Jalen Brown. They
would have to say bye bye to Jalen Brown. That
has to be the first domino, the big domino, to fall.
And it's like Shakespeare's Hamlet to be a Celtic or
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not to be a Celtic and really to pay three
hundred million dollars. That's the bounty if you want to
keep Jalen Brown three hundred million dollars or do you
trade him? Now, My guy's in Boston, Like No, he's
buying a new house down near the water there in
the city. He'll be be staying in Boston. Well, maybe
that's just a good real estate deal. Maybe he's Jalen
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Brown's just doing that because he wants to make money,
and there's money in real estate and Boston real estate
doesn't seem to go down, it only goes up. And
and why not. But the word on the street is
that the Celtics will not trade Jalen Brown. That's the
message they're getting out. We hope that's wrong. That what
the Celtics are going to do is go and they
do some shopping. It's a fora and they'll make cosmetic
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They'll buy some cosmetics, will make some cosmetic changes. Is
what They're going to do. A little fine tuning with
some secondary players. Maybe they get rid of Marcus Smart,
he's been there a while, shoots a lot of bricks.
Get rid of a guy like that. Al Horford one
of those guys, or are both of them, and bring
in some players at those positions. It is the Ban
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up for you, and these are great. Now one of them,
I have an original take on a big story brewing
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theory on what's going on here, and we'll see if
I'm right on that, coming up in a couple of weeks.
But also, you ever been scammed out of money? You
get those emails? You know those emails? Hey, you know
my uncle here in Nigeria, he passed away and he
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left one hundred and twenty billion dollars and if you
just loan me ten thousand dollars, I will give you
half the money. And every once in a while, dumb
people do that. Unfortunately, older people get suckered into that. Well,
what if I told you a bunch of young professional
athletes have essentially been hoodwinked, bamboozled, let astray by not
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is the case, absolutely the case. There, absolutely the case
on that coop Daddy writes in says a plus on
the mouth of monologue. I simply don't understand keeping Joe,
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But like you said, Jason Tatum's gonna get all his
stats he needs, so old Joe stays, what the heck? Okay,
sure that'll be a wonderful Thomas in the five one
three says Joe is out as head coach of the
Celtics by the All Star Game, and Brad comes back
to coach to clean up the mess. Let's go to
the phones. And I've been told that I better take
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Reek in Colorado. Who's next? Hello, Reek' That's what I
told That's what they call them. I told him that's
his first mistake. I told him that Darren first.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I call her. Anyways, Oh all right, why you call it?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Why you call it nuggets?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I just want to say it, the Nuggets, the officiating,
it's pretty good. The Nuggets. You're getting paid back for
all the Lakers calls that they played.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So yes, that's that is correct. That is payback. That
is a dagger to the historians.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And look like was it a border to star in
the face and never got called? So they weren't calling
all the calls?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah for both sides. Yeah, well you can't sleep, you're
so excited the Nuggets one. You're up all night here?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Yes, I am go to bed.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
What's wrong with you? It's late.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, they can't sleep? Had a friend Ike for Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Well, no, I feel terrible now I feel horrible. Now
you've made me feel just disgusting. I feel like a
horrible human being.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Now, no, it's all right. I did spend in two
easterns ago.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Now, oh okay, Well, Mike, Mike, and my condolences. Man.
I know it's always hard, you know, I've lost a
bunch of people over these As I've gotten older, more
people have died. I hate how that happens. But uh,
you know, it's always like the late night hours, the worst, right,
they're the worst sucks, man, it really does. All right,
we're here for you. Thank you, sir. Feel better. I
hope I'll help you get over that. Thank you sir.
All right, go away, I had up on you. Let's
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go to Eenie meenie miney moe. What would a Klondike
What would you do for a Klondike call? What would
you do?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I don't know what would you do?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah? Take it? You would take the Klondike call, is
what you would do. We've taken the Klondike call. This
is amazing and you're gonna dazzle everyone right now, Klondyke.
I like that. You're listening not to that other show
that puts you to sleep, but you're listening to this show.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You remember that?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Man, how could I forget? You ask a question you
don't know the answer, you gave me the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Oh well, the other show makes me fall asleep?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah all right, well good, I.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Don't need to fall asleep tonight. Because the Nuggets are
on a roll.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well, actually they're on a court. They play on a court.
They don't play a role. They play in a court. Yes,
if they played on a roll, what kind of role
would they play on? Like a biscuit. What kind of
is a biscuit? A roll?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Well? You know what, though, I will come back to
Tammy saying something about Bob and Tom. You know what,
Tammy girl, get a life.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I mean, okay, it's not first all. I wasn't Tammy.
You've got the wrong name there. But yeah, it was
our friend. It was our friend Kathy in Madison. She
she mentioned Bob and Time. Are they still on the air,
Bob and Tony are?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I think they are?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
They opened on the air for seventy years. Those guys.
Good for them. Wow, I met you know, I met
Bob and Tom years ago. Do you know that?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I did remember the guy who's the guy who was
the Dodger hat on that show. No, I don't know
him either. I met him. They were not. It was
awkward though, because I was doing local radio at the
time and they'd carried Bob and Tom and I met them,
and then right after that they took that show off
the air and they were very upset, those guys, because
they'd found out about it.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
So they should have took the show off the air
way longer before they met you.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, that's a hot that's a hot take thank you
col NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
It's like a tale of two teslas. It's like the
Hang Tough versus the Edison's Medicine. You I mean you.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Don't hold on? Say what time out? Brian Finley? What
does that mean? Brian? What is Klondyke getting it? I
don't understand interpret the call, Brian Finley.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Please, there's alliterations. There's some rhyming going on. I think
it's a flashy way of trying to sound like you
know what you're talking about, but maybe not sure.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Just put enough big words in there and people will
not take the time to google them. That's what I do.
I don't know half the things I say. I just
I just speeled them out. Yes, all right, is that it? Klondike?
I think we're done with it. Oh you got more?
There's more from Klondike. We're not done with this. Clow
what I know?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You're a Boston Hank and it's all good. I know
you're Eastern.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yes, I live in Boston. Actually do the show from Boston.
Would never live in Los Angeles. That's a liberal hellhole.
I would never live there.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Stop that. Yes, but it's all good. You know, it's
nuggets in five.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's all Nuggets in five. All right, that's great, that's
what go away. Okay, all right, it's the Ben Mathers Show.
So this story here, I got an original take. I'd
like to alert all ther fils. For the first time
in years, I've had an original take. So John Morant,
the investigation has wrapped up. Adam Silver announced that the
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NBA Finals in his State of the League address, that
the suspension has already been decided. According to Adam Silver,
but it has not been announced yet. Now my theory
on this is the reason it has not been announced
is because the hammer of God is about to come
down on Jahn Morant and that he will be suspended
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for the entire season next year, and this would take
away from the NBA Finals. And so therefore the NBA
does not want this to steal the spotlight and upstage
the Nuggets in the Miami Heat. And even though they
could have announced it if they were going to announce it,
think about this. Logically, if they were gona announce Jah
Moran got suspend. Now you can make the other argument
that they're only suspending for like a ten days, and
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then that's that's too little. But I'm I'm going all
year and this will be like, hey, we're gonna send
a message UF with big Basketball and Big Basketball is
gonna f with you for John Moran. And but they're
waiting until right after the finals because they want to
they want to have that the finals be the focus.
So that's my that's my working theory on that. And
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also we mentioned this earlier, the you were got those
emails from the Nigerian scammers, that kind of thing. So
in a way, a bunch of young athletes have been
taken to the cleaners in a somewhat similar way. We'll
explain what that's about. And more of these calls. Why
not they're so wonderful. But right now, let's get out
to a man who just turned on his mic and
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his posture improved. I'm gonna be like, Matt Patricia, You're
you're gonna sit up straight over there? What's wrong with you?
You were covering the lions? Uh? Anyway, here he is
a numb nut, say man who does have almond butter
at any moment, because boy, he's he's interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I took a picture of the almond butter and you
and studio I tweeted that out and I tagged you
on that just don't follow you on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
So I just so you know, not only am.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I watching you, I'm taking pictures of you while you're
doing your monologue.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Thanks that creeps you out at all? Yes, yes, next hour,
are you gonna tell me you envisioned me naked? Which
even my wife does not envision me naked, so I
doubt yes. All right, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Well, speaking of those NBA Finals, Game one is a
rap and the Denver Nuggets get it done one, four
to ninety three against the Miami Heat. Nicol Jokic had
a triple double. He and Jamal Murrie combined fifty three points.
The Nuggets are nine to zero this postseason.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
At home.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
In defeat, Heat, head coach Eric Spolstra had some words
of encouragement of what he needs to do as a
team to get back on the right footing.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
It's not always going to happen perfectly. It's not always
going to happen based on the scheme. That's the nature
of our team is we find a way to compete
and overcome whatever it is, and we need a lot
more of that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Being in Game two, I expected Spolster to come out
and say Well, that's it. It's a rap boys. We're
going back to Miami to go surfing. We're out of here,
see you later.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, don't despair, because Tyler Hero in Game two might
be coming back and that might be the elixir that
the Heat are looking on. The problem with that is
they're gonna play hero ball.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
That's the problem. You can't play hero ball. I love
that cliche too, don't play hero ball. Yeah, so there
is a chance he can come back.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
As he's coming and dealing with that surgery or the
surgically repaired, right, he makes.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Stanman Gundy happy because then Tyler Hero won't he won't
be wearing clown shoes on the bench anymore. So that'll
be good.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yes, well, said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. Has been mentioned
that final decision on John Moran's punishment. They know what
it is internally, it's not going to be made public
until after the finals. And this all stems due to
Moran having repeated run ins on social media and videos
holding a gun, not once, but multiple times. The Celtics
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are going to retain, as Ben mentioned at the top
of this last hour, the thirty four year old head
coach Joe Mizzoula for next season after a very whole
hummed after Game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals press
conference where he's very subdued.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Did not say a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Ben was a man of one word answers, didn't give
off a great impression, but they're gonna bring him back.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I was told by one of my boots on the
ground in Boston that Missoula thinks he's like Greg Popovich.
He likes being the a hole, but you gotta be
good to be the a whole like Belichick, even Belichick.
You know, when Belichick coached the Cleveland Browns, he did
a comedy skit about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He
wasn't an a hole. He was rough around the edges.
He became an a hole when we got to Boston
(27:32):
with the Patriots. Why is it the coach Pop? The
last couple of years, Ben has had atrocious seasons and
nobody is calling him out on just how poor that
team has been as far as winning and not doing
a whole lot over the last few years. Ah My
theory is because coach Pop doesn't talk basketball. He just
rips random people. Yes, that's it. He's fixing the world.
(27:53):
He has all the answers. Coach Pop, just ask him.
He knows what's right and wrong, and he'll shove it
down your throat. That's right. Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Lastly, been Major League Baseball astros of the Angels five
to two. Alex Bregman, one of your favorite players, had
two RBI.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
In the game.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Cheta cheatah, cheatah, Cheata Red Socks over the Reds eight
to two. Diamondbacks flush down the Rockies five to four.
That win for Arizona gets them into a share of
first place in the NL West with your LA Dodgers.
Day of the off date on this Thursday. And lastly, Ben,
the Padres disfigure the Marlins stand to one. Joe Musgrove
(28:29):
had a no hitter into the sixth inning, and then
the Padres bats came alive. Three doubles from Fernando Datist
Junior back to Big Bend.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Know what he sacked though, because they've gone back to
the old they're only on radio now, there's no Padre
baseball on television.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
As I mentioned, Ben, I think the only way to
get scores from the Padres is you have to have
the newspaper delivered to your front door.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yes, yes to people actually buy that. Yeah, to get
the scores exactly. You put a star on that one.
It is the Benett Mallards Show. Oh, as we press
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but they say that in you invest money, they give
you that warning. It's a boilerplate warning to give give
the people that advise you plausible deniability. They say that
past results do not guarantee future outcomes. I bring this
(29:38):
up because the NFL Players Association, this is a wild story.
It's a wild story here, the NFLPA. They didn't get
hoodwinked by scammers from Nigeria. They got hoodwinked by the
the NFT market, the collapse of the NF team, that
(30:02):
is the non fungible token. We talked about this a
couple It was like a year or two ago. It
was a total It was ridiculous. People were paying all
this insane amount of money to get their hands on
rights to a video clip. But it wasn't exclusive rights.
It just was so stupid. We thought, well, there's ridiculous.
But maybe we're just boomers. We're old guys. We don't
(30:24):
know what's going on. So anyway, hey, this is outstanding.
There is a report that the NFL Players Association has
been bamboozled because of the collapse of the NFTE market,
and there's a financial report. This was published behind a
(30:44):
paywall on the Athletic but they claim that they they
could not collect twenty five percent of their annual commercial revenue.
Why because the nfteam market, the non fungible token market collapsed.
(31:04):
Wait for that. You want to take a guess. Did
you see Brian? Did you see the story, Brian Finley,
did you see this story? Put your headphones on morn
But what did you see the story?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
There was the is this the one involving Tom Brady?
But no, that is crypto, that crypts NFT non fungible tokens.
I don't know what I'm saying. How much much, just
how much money do you think? Give me prices? Right? Rules,
don't go over Okay, be reason we don't go crazy.
How much money do you think they lost the NFL
(31:32):
Players Association by investing in NFT three million? All right,
very good. Mark, would you like to play our game? Mark?
We'll do a round robin here. Mark, would you like
to play our game in for Roberto? Fifty five million?
Fifty five million? All right, and Shay, what's your number?
I'll go right in the middle. Twenty million, twenty million.
All right. We said showcase, showdown rules. So the winner
(31:52):
is Shay. You win. Because it turns out the NFL
Players Association is believed to have lost forty one point
eight million dollars on NFT's Holy crap, Wow, that is insane.
(32:13):
Man oh man, old man, old man. Uh yeah, you can.
It's on the Athletic. You can read about it, the
collapse of the NFT market, the nosedive and all that.
The NFT partners, I guess they did not. It's like
I have friends giving me advice.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I did get burned. You know what I got burned out?
I was a small at a small play on doge
coin to the moon. It was actually to the middle
of the Earth. The molten heat of the middle of
the earth. That's where it went. All right, let's go
to the phones cashing a golden ticket. So he goes
to the front of line, fer Dog, Fergie, Hello, Fergie,
(32:54):
hey man.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Let the record show this golden ticket was one fair square.
I dominated that game was too much or not enough
to do?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
He did? And how upset was sir, scratch off at
your brilliance here. I had nothing to do with that.
You were so sharp, as sharp as a razor.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I patched things up with him, but I think he's
just a little jealous of my performance.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You know, it's a perfect game five and oh he's
an attention horse or scratch off. He wants everyone everything
to be about him, and he's upset.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
So what's up with the Bennettes. Roberto's gone cous a
wall and it's only a matter of time before Eddie
gets discovered by the Houston Astros, right, he'd be perfect.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Fit there, That is correct. Yes, in fact, he's an
advisor I understand to the Astros and Alex cor the
Red Sox manager as well.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
You know what I say. Though, out with the old
and in with the new. Let's talk about the new
and improved Bennettes. Now, he's got Mark, who not much
is known about, but I know he likes the nectar
of the gods rance dressing. Now, well, man, he must
be a man of strong character and great tale.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Well, no one's perfect. And I heard he's from the
South side of Chicago, the baddest part of town, the
baddest part of town in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
And then there's Shay, who did a really fan tactic
job answering the phone.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
And oh, yeah, that's a hard job the phone. Hello,
what would you like to talk about? Very that's why
the man went to Arizona State. And it's probably paying
off student loans right now because of that, right, Yes,
are you paying off student loans? Oh, it's tough. That's tough.
We don't have to talk about that. I appreciate you, though, Ferg.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Yeah, and I saved the best for last, the man,
the myth, the legend, get the.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Name, Get the knee pads out here, Ferg.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Think about a murderers row. I don't know about you, Ben,
but I think this new crew puts the old one
to shame. What do you think?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
No comment? Next question, next question, next question.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
All right, if it's okay with you, Ben, can I
ask Fenley a question.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
No, yes, all right, oh he said, yes, okay, I.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Like most of Ben's listeners, love tennis. Yes, who do
you think is the favorite to win the French Open?
Is it Novak or Alcarez?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
You can't go wrong with either one? How about the
big upset with Medvedev going out in the first round
the Russian the two?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
See, yeah, Ferg, Doug, I got something for you, fer
Are you ready for it? Wait for Doug? All right,
hold hold, I'll giving you here. It is right here,
it's there, It is all right, enjoy that. Guess what
I was gonna say, Ferg, Doug.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Make sure when because you know we're roommates, Yes, make
sure he makes the bed when I get back.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, well, your roommates in a studio apartment with one
one bed? Yeah, single, it's a single. It's not even
a queen or yeah, I got you all right, wonderful,
Yeah it is the Ben Mahler Show. Take some more
of these gues. Actually have Mallard of the third degree
the first time. Shay will do Mallard of the third degree.
And I've told him I'll be completely fair and if
he fails me, I will not punish him. I won't
(35:38):
kick him. I won't punch him any of that time.
Now for the Insta trivia, we'll go to baseball for this.
The Philadelphia Phillies Kyle Schwarber. Back in May, he had
only ten hits, seven of them were home runs. He
becomes just the seventh player in Big League history and
the first since Blank to have seventy percent or more
(35:59):
of their it's coming via a home run in a
calendar month with a minimum of ten hits in that
calendar month. That is the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll
get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
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for the world of football or fighting or even shows
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entire life. I have lived in something I refer to
as the grey depression anxiety. So now I'm coming out
with a new podcast, Unbreakable, a mental health podcast with
Jay Glazer, where each week, while we talk.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
About mental health, I hope to describe it, give it words.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
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With that, let's get it back to the craziness and
(37:04):
it's big Ben.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Well. I have Mallard of the third degree coming up
momentarily the debut of Shay. If he screws us up,
he will be going back to Arizona State for more schooling.
But here is the insta trivia. Philadelphia Phillies Kyle Schwarber
ten hits in May and seven of them went out
of the yard. He becomes the seventh player in Big
League history in the first since Blank to have seventy
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percent or more of their hits coming via the home
run in a calendar month and had to have at
least ten hits to qualify for that statistic. Let's see,
does anyone know the answer? Bean boot Maker Bob's going
with Dave Kingman ferg Dog laying naked on Brian Finley's
bed says Taylor Fritz is the answer. Xavier Nadi of
(37:51):
the Mets guess by Late Night drug tester Nick and
Wisconsin is going with Michael Kadire as his answer. Page
down the legend Alf by the Eddie Garcia Berner account
page Dan Dan please act by Miguel on fire. I
can't read that on the Justin said not a Mariner player,
(38:11):
which is true. Not a Mariner player. Howard Stern's genitals
guessed by Scott in Rhode Island and Dale Ellis Nuggets
legend from Shane in Des Moines. That's his answer. Miguel Soono,
don't you know? From my pal Rob in Minnesota. Men
him at the Maler Meet and greet a couple of
weeks ago in the Twin Cities. Who else do we have?
Adam Dunn guessed by Coop Daddy Chris Carter from Robbie beat.
(38:36):
Long suffering Mariner fan Benito says the answer is doge coin.
That's the answer, Philly. Do you have an answer, Brian please?
I need an answer. Yeah. Eminem the American Rapper, Yes, Eminem. Okay,
I glad you said American rapper. That's very important here. No,
the correct answer on that is none other than Cody
Ross of all people fifteen years ago, the rather generic
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Cody Ross.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
It's Maller.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
How about that? To the third degree. This is one
big Ben gets grilled. Now it is time for a
brand new edition of Mallard of the third Degree, making
his maiden voyage. A man that is part of the
Fox Sports radio farm system. He's now in the big
leagues every day with Shay. What do we have Shae?
Speaker 7 (39:25):
It was reported that Roger Goodell personally lobbied the owners
to flip votes for the controversial fair catch ule.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
The commissioner was able.
Speaker 7 (39:32):
To convince eight teams to change from a note to
a yes vote in the new regulation passed. Then, what
does this say about the owners?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
It says they're gutlass, is what it says, Shay. That's
what it says. They're easily manipulated. And that's it. These
Raga muffins are wishy washy the owners because, as I
understand it, the coaches for these teams said, don't do it.
Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. Gooddell
very cunning as a commissioner. He took the had a
(40:00):
private meeting away from the football people. He said, listen,
there's liability here. We're gonna get sued up the wazoo.
We have to have this rule in place so we
don't get sued and you have to pay more money.
And so the owners, the robber barons all got in
lockstep and they're like, all right, I'm like cave in
like a sinkhole in Florida. And that's what they did. Next.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
The Oakland A's owner is considering all games during the
week in Vegas at four pm. The reason he wants
to make it convenient for Taurus is to see the
game at four pm in a show at eight pm? Ben,
is this a good idea or a mistake?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
So I heard Covino and Rich talking about this, and
I disagree with their take. Bad take by them. This
is foolish because the A's are doing this when they
moved to Vegas. They're gonna be doing this to only
get people staying at hotels. You know how many there's
over two million people that live in Vegas. Those are
the people you should be appealing to. They don't get
off work at three in the afternoon to go to
(40:57):
an A's game at four o'clock. They estimate theyll get
about n nine thousand fans who are out of town
to go to A's games. So why would you start
the game at four o'clock. Plus it's the hardest, it's
the hottest part of the day. I know they'll be
in a dome. It's dumb. The dumb, dumb, dumb.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
Next, LSU announced that football team will wear air conditioned
helmets in practices and games this season.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yeah, Ben, what do you think of this new technology?
All right? So I think it's I have mixed emotions
because I would have loved it when I was a
fat guy playing football back in high school. I was
like al Bundi. I dominated high school. But uh, it
just it seems wrong. Like football is supposed to be
braving the elements, whether it's hot early in the year
or arctically cold late in the year. And if you
(41:40):
put an air condition and eventually they'll put a heater
in the helmets, it just seems wrong. I don't like it,
but it's the way of the future. There it is
quickly Mallard of the third degree in your debut, Shay,
how did we do? I think we passed? Back that
I think we passed I have to go back to Azona,
say wonderful alright,
Hello and welcome. It's our number two. Back at it
here an hour two another pro bouncy ball monologue, but
not about the NBA Finals. No, the Celtics keeping Joe Missoula. Yeah,
we ripped him during the playoffs. He did a terrible job,
but he's sticking around. How do you interpret the vote
(00:20):
of confidence keeping Joe Missoula in Boston? And does this
make sense for Jason Tatum and what the heck is
next for the Celtics. We'll talk about all that much
more right now here. It is our number two, Keep
them around, Joe, Welcome. In the beginning of another hour
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leave this hour coming from pro bouncy Ball, I was
debating whether or not to do another NBA Finals monologue,
but much to the dismay of my friends who live
in Denver, in the Greater Denver area, I could only
squeeze out one one NBA Finals mall monologue. So therefore, no, no,
we will not do another NBA Finals monologue. There's other
(01:48):
stuff going on. Game one a dominating when, even though
the final score was not indicative of a domination, Denver
was up by twenty four or twenty six points at
at one point they were controlled the game. And so
the Miami Heat, Miami Heat lose Game one, Denver wins
Game number one, and it will spend a few good
(02:11):
minutes chatting about some things that caught my turn, and
this one in particular. I really want to focus on
this out of Boston because the Celtics are making waves
now Miami is in the NBA Finals. That's an embarrassment.
Is a testimonial to the incompetence of the Boston Celtics,
who were much more talented. But it doesn't matter if
(02:32):
you're the more talented team. If you play like Crapola,
you don't win, so but Boston making some news here.
If you did not hear about this, maybe not Brad Stevens.
He's the guy that used to coach the Celtics and
then couldn't hack it anymore, so he got bumped up
to the front office to replace Danny Ainge. And Brad
Stevens had his end of year remarks on the state
(02:53):
of the Celtics, the State of the Union address, and
what did Brad Stevens have to say, Well, he was
asked about retaining his head coach. Get to the point,
please get to the money quote. So the Celtics president
confirming that Joe Missoula, the guy that was in over
his head in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals and the
(03:15):
series before that, Joe Misula will return as the bench
jockey for the Celtics, despite being provably bad at his job,
he will come back. And Brad Stevens was gushing all
over Joe Missoula. I wonder whether or not he's actually
Joe Mizula's father. I do not know. Among the comments,
(03:39):
just to pretend I'm Brad Stevens, he said of Joe Mizula,
he's a terrific leader, terrific leader. Is what Brad Stevens said,
He'll only get better. How do you know that? How
do you know he's going to get better? Is that
because he can't get any worse? Quote continues, He says
(03:59):
he can learn. Well, yeah, he can learn. He said
he can learn from this year because he constantly's trying
to learn and he's accountable. Did he sound accountable? Just
between me and a light post? Did he sound accountable?
After Game seven when a reporter who was just doing
their jobs said, do you think maybe after you missed
your ninety seven three point shot you might have tried
(04:22):
to take a two point shot? And he dismissed the reporter. Yeah,
that's a guy who's accountable. Yes, that is a guy
that's accountable. But Missoula took over for e may Udoka
because email Udoka couldn't keep it in the pants and
he stooped somebody he should not have stooped, and that
led to a problem. And I also saw that there's
(04:44):
a mass exodus that Missoula is going to be back,
but three of his assistant coaches are out the door.
They're They're like, I'm sorry, we're out of here. I'm
gonna go hang out in Houston with e may Udoka
because that's where he's at now. He got the rock
catch job, and so that's that's what's going on with that. Now,
(05:05):
let us discuss the question on this one. How do
you interpret the Celtics giving a ringing endorsement to Joe
Missoula keeping him around as coach. So I've got Nurnberg, Vatican,
and Hamlet, and we will combine all of these things
(05:26):
together and we are going to make a marginal Malard monologue,
is what we're gonna make. So number one, I'm only
worth one of them. Do it again? I need to,
all right, So Boston, what I take away from this
(05:49):
is Boston's Brad Stevens is like me. He's stubborn. He
is not willing to budge an inch, not an inch
when it comes to this coach, and he's going full
steam ahead and refusing to admit to you, or to me,
or to the person over the back over there, refusing
(06:10):
to admit that he made a mistake and that maybe
Joe mazzul is a nice guy, but he's not getting
it done. Rather than concede that the critics are right,
that Missoula needs a lifeguard because he's in choppy water
and he does not know how to swim and there
are sharks around him right now. Instead, the Celtics are
(06:34):
doubling down, which I had that as unexpected. I did
not expect that to happen, but it is indeed taking
place right now. But keep in mind that I have
ranted many a time in the middle of the night
here that coaches don't matter in the NBA, and I
really believe that. However, I've also said out of the
(06:57):
other side of my mouth that while coches don't matter,
meaning a coach is not going to push you over
the top, but a bad coach can drag you to
the bottom and can cause you to lose because of incompetence.
And that's where I'm at at Joe Missoula until proven otherwise.
(07:17):
And I thought of the Boston Celsius. Maybe I'm the
problem here because iway was thought the Celtics was not
a starter job. You know how, there's like starter jobs
like the Charlotte Hornets or the Orlando Magic that's a
starter job. The Celtics is not a starter job. It's
not an on the job training type situation. So my
(07:39):
hypothesis on this is why would you let let him play?
Joe keep his job. First of all, Brad Stevens is like,
this guy's a sock puppet. Missoula gets a vote of
confidence because one of the theories is it's the Nuremberg
defense that all Missoula is doing is just he is
a sock puppet, a sock puppet. He's just following orders.
(08:01):
That's it. That he's not actually coaching the team. The
nerds are coaching the team. You know, this is happening
in baseball for years, where like the Yankees are not
actually managed by Aaron Boone, the Dodgers are not actually
managed by Dave Roberts. That's why those guys keep their
jobs because the teams are like, no, they're not actually
managing these teams. And my theories like Joe Mazzulla's like
(08:22):
he's not really managing the Celtics. He's not coaching the Celtics.
He's not and he's just a middle manager. He's a pigeon,
He's a messenger pigeon. He's just repeating the message from
the analytical membrane. As Joe Madden, the old baseball manager,
would say about a story like this said, this is
the analytical membrane. He's just repeating the Celtics their strategy.
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The people that crunch the numbers and do the AI
and all that for the team are like, you've got
to take three point shots because that's worth more than
two and if you miss him, just keep shooting them.
Eventually you're gonna make them. So when you take forty
two three point shots and only make nine of them,
which is what happened in Game seven, no, we're gonna
keep doing that. Yes, I'm not gonna bring up the
(09:05):
fact that is the definition of insanity. I'm not gonna
do it. That's the company line. That is the coming line. Now,
does keeping coach Joe let him play Joel Mosula makes
sense if you're Jason Tatum. What about that part of it?
So from that perspective, I'm gonna nod my head yes.
And here's why I'm gonna nod my head yes. Because
(09:25):
even though the Seas have flopped. They flopped in the
finals a couple of years ago, this year they flopped
in the Eastern Conference Finals, the fact is they as
I said, the Sea's front office is really the one
calling shots on a lot of stuff, But for Jason Tatum.
They would not allow Joel Missoula to continue unless Tatum
(09:48):
was okay with this. It's kind of like going to
the Vatican and if you're a religious sort and you
go there, you're hoping that the Pope will give you
the blessing right. And so in the NBA, if you
look at the way the NBA is set up, the
class structure of the NBA with very few exceptions, the
(10:08):
social hierarchy, and we believe it's this way in Boston.
Why would it be any different. Is the star player
has to approve. So Jason Tatum is like, all right, yes,
I like this guy. I get my stats, I get
my shots. And if I hadn't hurt my ankle, we
would have beaten the Miami Heat. Yeabit, yeabbit, yeabit. And
(10:30):
so even though Joe mazool is like a lounge act
with the media calling timeouts, not calling timeouts and all
of that, even with all of that, Jason thams like,
I get my shots. It's a good thing. Celtics won
a lot of games in the regular season. That's true.
They win a lot of games in the regular season.
And even though they've been turbulent at times and underachieving
(10:52):
in some playoff situations. You know it, all right, keep
him round. It's probably just Tatum's I can I can
roll this guy, all right? Final point? What is next?
As we head in to the wild blue yonder for
the Celtics in particular here, So we will be heading
into the silly season as soon as these NBA Finals end,
(11:15):
and the way the Nuggets played and the way the
Heat played that could be in three more games, will
be heading into the silly season. And the NBA silly
season is just wonderful because they just make crap up
just to get clicks. It's clickbait, clickbait here, clickbait there.
And the clickbait for Boston is Damian Lillard, Zach Lavine
from Chicago, Trey Young from Atlanta. That one of those
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guys will end up going to the Celtics. Now, in
order to facilitate that kind of transaction, the Celtics are
gonna have to say bye bye to Jalen Brown. They
would have to say bye bye to Jalen Brown. That
has to be the first domino, the big domino, to fall.
And it's like Shakespeare's Hamlet to be a Celtic or
(11:58):
not to be a Celtic and really to pay three
hundred million dollars. That's the bounty if you want to
keep Jalen Brown three hundred million dollars or do you
trade him? Now, My guy's in Boston, Like No, he's
buying a new house down near the water there in
the city. He'll be be staying in Boston. Well, maybe
that's just a good real estate deal. Maybe he's Jalen
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Brown's just doing that because he wants to make money,
and there's money in real estate and Boston real estate
doesn't seem to go down, it only goes up. And
and why not. But the word on the street is
that the Celtics will not trade Jalen Brown. That's the
message they're getting out. We hope that's wrong. That what
the Celtics are going to do is go and they
do some shopping. It's a fora and they'll make cosmetic
(12:43):
They'll buy some cosmetics, will make some cosmetic changes. Is
what They're going to do. A little fine tuning with
some secondary players. Maybe they get rid of Marcus Smart,
he's been there a while, shoots a lot of bricks.
Get rid of a guy like that. Al Horford one
of those guys, or are both of them, and bring
in some players at those positions. It is the Ban
(13:04):
Mallard Show. If you'd like to comment on any of that,
you can join us here. The lines are open at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, also on Twitter
at Ben Malor. We will roll through a bunch of
phone calls, you know, this couple of stories we'll get
to this hour that I want to want to bring
up for you, and these are great. Now one of them,
I have an original take on a big story brewing
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in basketball that you're gonna want here. I got a
theory on what's going on here, and we'll see if
I'm right on that, coming up in a couple of weeks.
But also, you ever been scammed out of money? You
get those emails? You know those emails? Hey, you know
my uncle here in Nigeria, he passed away and he
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left one hundred and twenty billion dollars and if you
just loan me ten thousand dollars, I will give you
half the money. And every once in a while, dumb
people do that. Unfortunately, older people get suckered into that. Well,
what if I told you a bunch of young professional
athletes have essentially been hoodwinked, bamboozled, let astray by not
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necessarily that, but something similar. We'll get to that. We'll
take your calls eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
also on Twitter at Ben Malor. We will do it next.
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Speaker 2 (15:36):
Join the mind blowing world of the Ben Mallor Show online.
It is pain free and easy to do. All you
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You can also follow our executive producer today. No, it's
not justin Cooper. He's at a weed retreat. It is
our guy she and he is on Twitter. Let's get
him to over one hundred followers?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
How about that? Can we get him to over one
hundred follower We only have having people listening, so that
would be very difficult. That would be very difficult to
get him that. Well, how many follows does he have? Right?
He's got ninety three right now? Okay, pur let's get
it one hundred and seven? Okay, nice? Yes, what's his
Twitter handle? It is s m O G H A
N G A R D.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
All right, you can check Mogan guard. Yeah, Shaye Mogan Guard.
By the way, let's get it back to Ben Mallor,
who is a serial Jocketch sufferer.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, I'd rather have that than you're You're the reason
you scratch is a disease. But I I just I
saw Shaye went to Arizona State.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
This guy's legit man and a volleyball player. Yeah, as
you got the cron kite school of the media school there.
And I was telling Shae in our production meeting, I
was saying, like, when I was a kid, it was
always Syracuse. But it's like there's three schools a lot
of people in the media all want to go to.
If you want to work in the media business, it's Syracuse.
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That was always sports. Like Dick Stock. I talked to
Dick Stocked in my podcast and he's like, yeah, when
I went to Syracuse, nobody wanted to go there, but
everyone want to go there. And now like Arizona State,
there's tons of people in the media business from Arizona
State and Northwestern. A lot of writers come out of Northwestern,
and then Missouri too has to be pretty high up there.
Uh no, I think Mississippi, right, is that the old
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miss miss That's so my dad.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
My dad was a journalism major, never used that degree,
went into air cargo so made more.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Money, made a lot of money, and it's very happy
and of course underrated. One of the the hidden Ivy
League school, Saddleback College. Yes, many people understand that that
is the case, absolutely the case. There, absolutely the case
on that coop Daddy writes in says a plus on
the mouth of monologue. I simply don't understand keeping Joe,
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But like you said, Jason Tatum's gonna get all his
stats he needs, so old Joe stays, what the heck? Okay,
sure that'll be a wonderful Thomas in the five one
three says Joe is out as head coach of the
Celtics by the All Star Game, and Brad comes back
to coach to clean up the mess. Let's go to
the phones. And I've been told that I better take
(18:15):
Reek in Colorado. Who's next? Hello, Reek' That's what I
told That's what they call them. I told him that's
his first mistake. I told him that Darren first.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
I call her. Anyways, Oh all right, why you call it?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Why you call it nuggets?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I just want to say it, the Nuggets, the officiating,
it's pretty good. The Nuggets. You're getting paid back for
all the Lakers calls that they played.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
So yes, that's that is correct. That is payback. That
is a dagger to the historians.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And look like was it a border to star in
the face and never got called? So they weren't calling
all the calls?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah for both sides. Yeah, well you can't sleep, you're
so excited the Nuggets one. You're up all night here?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Yes, I am go to bed.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
What's wrong with you? It's late.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, they can't sleep? Had a friend Ike for Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Well, no, I feel terrible now I feel horrible. Now
you've made me feel just disgusting. I feel like a
horrible human being.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Now, no, it's all right. I did spend in two
easterns ago.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Now, oh okay, Well, Mike, Mike, and my condolences. Man.
I know it's always hard, you know, I've lost a
bunch of people over these As I've gotten older, more
people have died. I hate how that happens. But uh,
you know, it's always like the late night hours, the worst, right,
they're the worst sucks, man, it really does. All right,
we're here for you. Thank you, sir. Feel better. I
hope I'll help you get over that. Thank you sir.
All right, go away, I had up on you. Let's
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go to Eenie meenie miney moe. What would a Klondike
What would you do for a Klondike call? What would
you do?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I don't know what would you do?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah? Take it? You would take the Klondike call, is
what you would do. We've taken the Klondike call. This
is amazing and you're gonna dazzle everyone right now, Klondyke.
I like that. You're listening not to that other show
that puts you to sleep, but you're listening to this show.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You remember that?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Man, how could I forget? You ask a question you
don't know the answer, you gave me the answer.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Oh well, the other show makes me fall asleep?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah all right, well good, I.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Don't need to fall asleep tonight. Because the Nuggets are
on a roll.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well, actually they're on a court. They play on a court.
They don't play a role. They play in a court. Yes,
if they played on a roll, what kind of role
would they play on? Like a biscuit. What kind of
is a biscuit? A roll?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Well? You know what, though, I will come back to
Tammy saying something about Bob and Tom. You know what,
Tammy girl, get a life.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I mean, okay, it's not first all. I wasn't Tammy.
You've got the wrong name there. But yeah, it was
our friend. It was our friend Kathy in Madison. She
she mentioned Bob and Time. Are they still on the air,
Bob and Tony are?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I think they are?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
They opened on the air for seventy years. Those guys.
Good for them. Wow, I met you know, I met
Bob and Tom years ago. Do you know that?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I did remember the guy who's the guy who was
the Dodger hat on that show. No, I don't know
him either. I met him. They were not. It was
awkward though, because I was doing local radio at the
time and they'd carried Bob and Tom and I met them,
and then right after that they took that show off
the air and they were very upset, those guys, because
they'd found out about it.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
So they should have took the show off the air
way longer before they met you.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, that's a hot that's a hot take thank you
col NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
It's like a tale of two teslas. It's like the
Hang Tough versus the Edison's Medicine. You I mean you.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Don't hold on? Say what time out? Brian Finley? What
does that mean? Brian? What is Klondyke getting it? I
don't understand interpret the call, Brian Finley.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Please, there's alliterations. There's some rhyming going on. I think
it's a flashy way of trying to sound like you
know what you're talking about, but maybe not sure.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Just put enough big words in there and people will
not take the time to google them. That's what I do.
I don't know half the things I say. I just
I just speeled them out. Yes, all right, is that it? Klondike?
I think we're done with it. Oh you got more?
There's more from Klondike. We're not done with this. Clow
what I know?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You're a Boston Hank and it's all good. I know
you're Eastern.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yes, I live in Boston. Actually do the show from Boston.
Would never live in Los Angeles. That's a liberal hellhole.
I would never live there.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Stop that. Yes, but it's all good. You know, it's
nuggets in five.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's all Nuggets in five. All right, that's great, that's
what go away. Okay, all right, it's the Ben Mathers Show.
So this story here, I got an original take. I'd
like to alert all ther fils. For the first time
in years, I've had an original take. So John Morant,
the investigation has wrapped up. Adam Silver announced that the
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NBA Finals in his State of the League address, that
the suspension has already been decided. According to Adam Silver,
but it has not been announced yet. Now my theory
on this is the reason it has not been announced
is because the hammer of God is about to come
down on Jahn Morant and that he will be suspended
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for the entire season next year, and this would take
away from the NBA Finals. And so therefore the NBA
does not want this to steal the spotlight and upstage
the Nuggets in the Miami Heat. And even though they
could have announced it if they were going to announce it,
think about this. Logically, if they were gona announce Jah
Moran got suspend. Now you can make the other argument
that they're only suspending for like a ten days, and
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then that's that's too little. But I'm I'm going all
year and this will be like, hey, we're gonna send
a message UF with big Basketball and Big Basketball is
gonna f with you for John Moran. And but they're
waiting until right after the finals because they want to
they want to have that the finals be the focus.
So that's my that's my working theory on that. And
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also we mentioned this earlier, the you were got those
emails from the Nigerian scammers, that kind of thing. So
in a way, a bunch of young athletes have been
taken to the cleaners in a somewhat similar way. We'll
explain what that's about. And more of these calls. Why
not they're so wonderful. But right now, let's get out
to a man who just turned on his mic and
(24:27):
his posture improved. I'm gonna be like, Matt Patricia, You're
you're gonna sit up straight over there? What's wrong with you?
You were covering the lions? Uh? Anyway, here he is
a numb nut, say man who does have almond butter
at any moment, because boy, he's he's interesting.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
I took a picture of the almond butter and you
and studio I tweeted that out and I tagged you
on that just don't follow you on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
So I just so you know, not only am.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I watching you, I'm taking pictures of you while you're
doing your monologue.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Thanks that creeps you out at all? Yes, yes, next hour,
are you gonna tell me you envisioned me naked? Which
even my wife does not envision me naked, so I
doubt yes. All right, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Well, speaking of those NBA Finals, Game one is a
rap and the Denver Nuggets get it done one, four
to ninety three against the Miami Heat. Nicol Jokic had
a triple double. He and Jamal Murrie combined fifty three points.
The Nuggets are nine to zero this postseason.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
At home.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
In defeat, Heat, head coach Eric Spolstra had some words
of encouragement of what he needs to do as a
team to get back on the right footing.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
It's not always going to happen perfectly. It's not always
going to happen based on the scheme. That's the nature
of our team is we find a way to compete
and overcome whatever it is, and we need a lot
more of that.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Being in Game two, I expected Spolster to come out
and say Well, that's it. It's a rap boys. We're
going back to Miami to go surfing. We're out of here,
see you later.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Well, don't despair, because Tyler Hero in Game two might
be coming back and that might be the elixir that
the Heat are looking on. The problem with that is
they're gonna play hero ball.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
That's the problem. You can't play hero ball. I love
that cliche too, don't play hero ball. Yeah, so there
is a chance he can come back.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
As he's coming and dealing with that surgery or the
surgically repaired, right, he makes.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Stanman Gundy happy because then Tyler Hero won't he won't
be wearing clown shoes on the bench anymore. So that'll
be good.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yes, well, said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. Has been mentioned
that final decision on John Moran's punishment. They know what
it is internally, it's not going to be made public
until after the finals. And this all stems due to
Moran having repeated run ins on social media and videos
holding a gun, not once, but multiple times. The Celtics
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are going to retain, as Ben mentioned at the top
of this last hour, the thirty four year old head
coach Joe Mizzoula for next season after a very whole
hummed after Game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals press
conference where he's very subdued.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Did not say a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Ben was a man of one word answers, didn't give
off a great impression, but they're gonna bring him back.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I was told by one of my boots on the
ground in Boston that Missoula thinks he's like Greg Popovich.
He likes being the a hole, but you gotta be
good to be the a whole like Belichick, even Belichick.
You know, when Belichick coached the Cleveland Browns, he did
a comedy skit about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He
wasn't an a hole. He was rough around the edges.
He became an a hole when we got to Boston
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with the Patriots. Why is it the coach Pop? The
last couple of years, Ben has had atrocious seasons and
nobody is calling him out on just how poor that
team has been as far as winning and not doing
a whole lot over the last few years. Ah My
theory is because coach Pop doesn't talk basketball. He just
rips random people. Yes, that's it. He's fixing the world.
(27:53):
He has all the answers. Coach Pop, just ask him.
He knows what's right and wrong, and he'll shove it
down your throat. That's right. Yes.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Lastly, been Major League Baseball astros of the Angels five
to two. Alex Bregman, one of your favorite players, had
two RBI.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
In the game.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Cheta cheatah, cheatah, Cheata Red Socks over the Reds eight
to two. Diamondbacks flush down the Rockies five to four.
That win for Arizona gets them into a share of
first place in the NL West with your LA Dodgers.
Day of the off date on this Thursday. And lastly, Ben,
the Padres disfigure the Marlins stand to one. Joe Musgrove
(28:29):
had a no hitter into the sixth inning, and then
the Padres bats came alive. Three doubles from Fernando Datist
Junior back to Big Bend.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Know what he sacked though, because they've gone back to
the old they're only on radio now, there's no Padre
baseball on television.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
As I mentioned, Ben, I think the only way to
get scores from the Padres is you have to have
the newspaper delivered to your front door.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yes, yes to people actually buy that. Yeah, to get
the scores exactly. You put a star on that one.
It is the Benett Mallards Show. Oh, as we press
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but they say that in you invest money, they give
you that warning. It's a boilerplate warning to give give
the people that advise you plausible deniability. They say that
past results do not guarantee future outcomes. I bring this
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up because the NFL Players Association, this is a wild story.
It's a wild story here, the NFLPA. They didn't get
hoodwinked by scammers from Nigeria. They got hoodwinked by the
the NFT market, the collapse of the NF team, that
(30:02):
is the non fungible token. We talked about this a
couple It was like a year or two ago. It
was a total It was ridiculous. People were paying all
this insane amount of money to get their hands on
rights to a video clip. But it wasn't exclusive rights.
It just was so stupid. We thought, well, there's ridiculous.
But maybe we're just boomers. We're old guys. We don't
(30:24):
know what's going on. So anyway, hey, this is outstanding.
There is a report that the NFL Players Association has
been bamboozled because of the collapse of the NFTE market,
and there's a financial report. This was published behind a
(30:44):
paywall on the Athletic but they claim that they they
could not collect twenty five percent of their annual commercial revenue.
Why because the nfteam market, the non fungible token market collapsed.
(31:04):
Wait for that. You want to take a guess. Did
you see Brian? Did you see the story, Brian Finley,
did you see this story? Put your headphones on morn
But what did you see the story?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
There was the is this the one involving Tom Brady?
But no, that is crypto, that crypts NFT non fungible tokens.
I don't know what I'm saying. How much much, just
how much money do you think? Give me prices? Right? Rules,
don't go over Okay, be reason we don't go crazy.
How much money do you think they lost the NFL
(31:32):
Players Association by investing in NFT three million? All right,
very good. Mark, would you like to play our game? Mark?
We'll do a round robin here. Mark, would you like
to play our game in for Roberto? Fifty five million?
Fifty five million? All right, and Shay, what's your number?
I'll go right in the middle. Twenty million, twenty million.
All right. We said showcase, showdown rules. So the winner
(31:52):
is Shay. You win. Because it turns out the NFL
Players Association is believed to have lost forty one point
eight million dollars on NFT's Holy crap, Wow, that is insane.
(32:13):
Man oh man, old man, old man. Uh yeah, you can.
It's on the Athletic. You can read about it, the
collapse of the NFT market, the nosedive and all that.
The NFT partners, I guess they did not. It's like
I have friends giving me advice.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I did get burned. You know what I got burned out?
I was a small at a small play on doge
coin to the moon. It was actually to the middle
of the Earth. The molten heat of the middle of
the earth. That's where it went. All right, let's go
to the phones cashing a golden ticket. So he goes
to the front of line, fer Dog, Fergie, Hello, Fergie,
(32:54):
hey man.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Let the record show this golden ticket was one fair square.
I dominated that game was too much or not enough
to do?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
He did? And how upset was sir, scratch off at
your brilliance here. I had nothing to do with that.
You were so sharp, as sharp as a razor.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I patched things up with him, but I think he's
just a little jealous of my performance.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You know, it's a perfect game five and oh he's
an attention horse or scratch off. He wants everyone everything
to be about him, and he's upset.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
So what's up with the Bennettes. Roberto's gone cous a
wall and it's only a matter of time before Eddie
gets discovered by the Houston Astros, right, he'd be perfect.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Fit there, That is correct. Yes, in fact, he's an
advisor I understand to the Astros and Alex cor the
Red Sox manager as well.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
You know what I say. Though, out with the old
and in with the new. Let's talk about the new
and improved Bennettes. Now, he's got Mark, who not much
is known about, but I know he likes the nectar
of the gods rance dressing. Now, well, man, he must
be a man of strong character and great tale.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Well, no one's perfect. And I heard he's from the
South side of Chicago, the baddest part of town, the
baddest part of town in Chicago.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
And then there's Shay, who did a really fan tactic
job answering the phone.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
And oh, yeah, that's a hard job the phone. Hello,
what would you like to talk about? Very that's why
the man went to Arizona State. And it's probably paying
off student loans right now because of that, right, Yes,
are you paying off student loans? Oh, it's tough. That's tough.
We don't have to talk about that. I appreciate you, though, Ferg.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Yeah, and I saved the best for last, the man,
the myth, the legend, get the.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Name, Get the knee pads out here, Ferg.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Think about a murderers row. I don't know about you, Ben,
but I think this new crew puts the old one
to shame. What do you think?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
No comment? Next question, next question, next question.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
All right, if it's okay with you, Ben, can I
ask Fenley a question.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
No, yes, all right, oh he said, yes, okay, I.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Like most of Ben's listeners, love tennis. Yes, who do
you think is the favorite to win the French Open?
Is it Novak or Alcarez?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
You can't go wrong with either one? How about the
big upset with Medvedev going out in the first round
the Russian the two?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
See, yeah, Ferg, Doug, I got something for you, fer
Are you ready for it? Wait for Doug? All right,
hold hold, I'll giving you here. It is right here,
it's there, It is all right, enjoy that. Guess what
I was gonna say, Ferg, Doug.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Make sure when because you know we're roommates, Yes, make
sure he makes the bed when I get back.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, well, your roommates in a studio apartment with one
one bed? Yeah, single, it's a single. It's not even
a queen or yeah, I got you all right, wonderful,
Yeah it is the Ben Mahler Show. Take some more
of these gues. Actually have Mallard of the third degree
the first time. Shay will do Mallard of the third degree.
And I've told him I'll be completely fair and if
he fails me, I will not punish him. I won't
(35:38):
kick him. I won't punch him any of that time.
Now for the Insta trivia, we'll go to baseball for this.
The Philadelphia Phillies Kyle Schwarber. Back in May, he had
only ten hits, seven of them were home runs. He
becomes just the seventh player in Big League history and
the first since Blank to have seventy percent or more
(35:59):
of their it's coming via a home run in a
calendar month with a minimum of ten hits in that
calendar month. That is the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll
get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
Hi, this is Jay Glazer, and you may know me
for the world of football or fighting or even shows
like HBO's Ballers. Well you don't know is for my
entire life. I have lived in something I refer to
as the grey depression anxiety. So now I'm coming out
with a new podcast, Unbreakable, a mental health podcast with
Jay Glazer, where each week, while we talk.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
About mental health, I hope to describe it, give it words.
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With that, let's get it back to the craziness and
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it's big Ben.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Well. I have Mallard of the third degree coming up
momentarily the debut of Shay. If he screws us up,
he will be going back to Arizona State for more schooling.
But here is the insta trivia. Philadelphia Phillies Kyle Schwarber
ten hits in May and seven of them went out
of the yard. He becomes the seventh player in Big
League history in the first since Blank to have seventy
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percent or more of their hits coming via the home
run in a calendar month and had to have at
least ten hits to qualify for that statistic. Let's see,
does anyone know the answer? Bean boot Maker Bob's going
with Dave Kingman ferg Dog laying naked on Brian Finley's
bed says Taylor Fritz is the answer. Xavier Nadi of
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the Mets guess by Late Night drug tester Nick and
Wisconsin is going with Michael Kadire as his answer. Page
down the legend Alf by the Eddie Garcia Berner account
page Dan Dan please act by Miguel on fire. I
can't read that on the Justin said not a Mariner player,
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which is true. Not a Mariner player. Howard Stern's genitals
guessed by Scott in Rhode Island and Dale Ellis Nuggets
legend from Shane in Des Moines. That's his answer. Miguel Soono,
don't you know? From my pal Rob in Minnesota. Men
him at the Maler Meet and greet a couple of
weeks ago in the Twin Cities. Who else do we have?
Adam Dunn guessed by Coop Daddy Chris Carter from Robbie beat.
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Long suffering Mariner fan Benito says the answer is doge coin.
That's the answer, Philly. Do you have an answer, Brian please?
I need an answer. Yeah. Eminem the American Rapper, Yes, Eminem. Okay,
I glad you said American rapper. That's very important here. No,
the correct answer on that is none other than Cody
Ross of all people fifteen years ago, the rather generic
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Cody Ross.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
It's Maller.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
How about that? To the third degree. This is one
big Ben gets grilled. Now it is time for a
brand new edition of Mallard of the third Degree, making
his maiden voyage. A man that is part of the
Fox Sports radio farm system. He's now in the big
leagues every day with Shay. What do we have Shae?
Speaker 7 (39:25):
It was reported that Roger Goodell personally lobbied the owners
to flip votes for the controversial fair catch ule.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
The commissioner was able.
Speaker 7 (39:32):
To convince eight teams to change from a note to
a yes vote in the new regulation passed. Then, what
does this say about the owners?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
It says they're gutlass, is what it says, Shay. That's
what it says. They're easily manipulated. And that's it. These
Raga muffins are wishy washy the owners because, as I
understand it, the coaches for these teams said, don't do it.
Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. Gooddell
very cunning as a commissioner. He took the had a
(40:00):
private meeting away from the football people. He said, listen,
there's liability here. We're gonna get sued up the wazoo.
We have to have this rule in place so we
don't get sued and you have to pay more money.
And so the owners, the robber barons all got in
lockstep and they're like, all right, I'm like cave in
like a sinkhole in Florida. And that's what they did. Next.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
The Oakland A's owner is considering all games during the
week in Vegas at four pm. The reason he wants
to make it convenient for Taurus is to see the
game at four pm in a show at eight pm? Ben,
is this a good idea or a mistake?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
So I heard Covino and Rich talking about this, and
I disagree with their take. Bad take by them. This
is foolish because the A's are doing this when they
moved to Vegas. They're gonna be doing this to only
get people staying at hotels. You know how many there's
over two million people that live in Vegas. Those are
the people you should be appealing to. They don't get
off work at three in the afternoon to go to
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an A's game at four o'clock. They estimate theyll get
about n nine thousand fans who are out of town
to go to A's games. So why would you start
the game at four o'clock. Plus it's the hardest, it's
the hottest part of the day. I know they'll be
in a dome. It's dumb. The dumb, dumb, dumb.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
Next, LSU announced that football team will wear air conditioned
helmets in practices and games this season.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yeah, Ben, what do you think of this new technology?
All right? So I think it's I have mixed emotions
because I would have loved it when I was a
fat guy playing football back in high school. I was
like al Bundi. I dominated high school. But uh, it
just it seems wrong. Like football is supposed to be
braving the elements, whether it's hot early in the year
or arctically cold late in the year. And if you
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put an air condition and eventually they'll put a heater
in the helmets, it just seems wrong. I don't like it,
but it's the way of the future. There it is
quickly Mallard of the third degree in your debut, Shay,
how did we do? I think we passed? Back that
I think we passed I have to go back to Azona,
say wonderful alright,
Host
Ben Maller
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