June 5, 2023 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about the Miami Heat taking Game 2 of the NBA Finals in Denver, the Dodgers losing their series against the Yankees, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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Play the Hits. The NBA Finals going on in Colorado.
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There was a bit of a hiatus, a couple of
nights off. Game two, the Nuggets favored at home against
the Miami Heat, Jimmy Butler trying to square things up
against Nicola Jokic, the Joker and company. Did you watch?
Were you checking out the festivities in Denver? Maybe not?
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Maybe you had other things going on, your weekend coming
to an end, and you said, you know what, I
don't need to watch that just to hear what that
dumbass says on the radio. Right. So anyway, here's what happened.
If you didn't watch it, perhaps you missed it. Duncan
Robinson not dunkin donus, Duncan Robinson and Jimmy Butler taking
turns in the fourth quarter as Miami squares the Bucks.
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They're one one heading back home as they take care
of the Nuggets, and they went it one to eleven,
to one to eight as Jamal Murray had a chance
a three point shot clank at the end as time expired,
and so the Denver Nuggets go down. The Heat get
the road win first time this postseason that Denver has
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lost on the home court, and so Duncan Robinson ten points,
all ten of his points, most of them coming early
in the fourth go in the fourth quarter, but early
in the fourth quarter, and then late in the fourth
quarter Jimmy Butler with eight of his twenty one points,
and he was able to close the door at the end.
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So let us discuss the question the Nuggets losing it
home for the first time of the playoffs. Who whar's
the Dunce cap the Denver dunch cap in this chapter
of the NBA Finals. So I have tropical depression, hostage negotiation,
and nineteen eighties TV going to old school, way back
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in the way back machine. So A, did we expect
the series to be over in four games?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Do we expect the series to be over at two games?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Not that it matters our prediction, but we had the
Nuggets winning in six. Did not anticipate the Nuggets losing
game two though, did not have that on our BINGO
card heading into this NBA Finals. So this does change
th agr feather in the cap for the Miami Heat
to win this series because they're gonna be much better
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at home. Those supporting actors for Jimmy Butler will be
able to be more productive that if you go by
the history books, that's the way this is gonna go.
But as far as wearing the Dunce cap for the Nuggets,
I hope they go to the haberdasherie and there's enough
hats Dunce caps left, but the one in particular. You
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do not allow a team if you're if you're trying,
you do not allow a team to put up almost
seventy percent from the floor in the fourth quarter, which
is what Miami. Maami shot sixty eight point eight percent
from the field in the fourth quarter on the road
or in a supposed hostile environment. I mean, my goodness here,
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if you're playing with maximum energy and effort, you do
not allow the other team to shoot almost seventy percent
in your own gymnasium. But that's exactly what happened now
to be Miami also missed a bunch of shots that
were makeable shots in Game one. We'd mentioned that in
a previous episode of the show that the Heat were
getting decent looks at the basket, they were clanking them,
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they were not making them, and that certainly helped out
the Nuggets cause in Game one. In Game two, a
spoiler alert, they made them. The Miami Heat made them.
But in terms of the actual haberdashery handing out the
dunch cap, you gotta start with Michael Porter Junior of
the Nuggets, who so far in this NBA Finals, he's
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an auxiliary guys, is the third option if you will,
for Denver. But he's taken twenty nine shots or twenty
four shots. Rather, he's made seven of them, which means
he's missed seventeen of the twenty four shots he's taken.
That is less than thirty percent from the floor from
Michael Porter Junior in the NBA Finals didn't matter in
Game one, they won Game one. Now it matters in
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Game two, and from three point range off and left
wide open from outside, Michael Porter Junior shooting a robust
seventeen point six percent three of seventeen, and you've got opportunity.
You're wide open a lot of time, you're wide open,
get a rhythm, make the shot and not doing it.
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And you look at those other stars Porter KCP Aaron
Gordon in this game too. While they were out on
the cord, the Denver Nuggets were outscored collectively by forty
points with those guys on the cord, and so you
also have to look at the strategy. It blows me
away the rest in some of these games, like for example,
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Denver had an eight point lead going to the fourth court.
He saw the game. You know that they had an
eight point lead, and so there's like, you know what,
We're gonna rest NIKOLEA. Jokic at the start of the
fourth court. God forbid he plays the rest of the game.
He might have a heart attack and die. So they
decided to rest him at the start of the fourth quarter,
and he was only on the bench for a short
amount of time by the time he had gotten back
in the game, instead of if he had been out there,
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conceivably Denver could have extended the lead out to like
twelve or fourteen points. Instead, by the time Jokic comes
back in the game, it's a two point game, as
Duncan Robinson had knocked down some shots and the heat
had snuck within two. But Michael Porter Junior, you talk
about a tropical depression at a time you cannot have
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a tropical depression. You've sucked at a time you cannot
suck that's a big one, but it's a collective defensively,
and also these little things like the Kola Jokic not
being out there at the start of the fourth quarter.
Now page two here, how concerned should Denver coach Michael
Malone be with the turn of events? So before we
get to the malar scale of concern, we actually have
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some audio here as Michael Malone exploded, I was asked
about the nuggets. I don't think he was even asked
specifically about the effort. But listen to Michael Malone getting
more work. He gets worked up into a tizzy here
describing Game two of the NBA Finals. Listen here in Denver,
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can you kind of, I don't know, figure out why
do you think your starters that weren't Joker struggled scoring?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I guess, well, I don't think that's the biggest question.
Let's talk about effort.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Now here we go, He's I mean, this is a finals,
We're talking about effort.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's a huge concern of mine. You know, and you
guys probably thought I was just making up some storyline
after Game one when I said we didn't play well.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
We didn't play well.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And tonight you know that the starting lineup to start
the game is ten to two Miami start the third quarter.
They scored eleven points in two minutes and ten seconds,
and we just got We had guys out there that
were just whether feeling sorry for themselves and not making
shots or thinking they can just turn it on or off.
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This is not the preseason, it's not the regular season,
it's not a round. This is the NBA Finals, and that,
to me is really really perplexing, disappointing. And I asked
the team, I asked that play you guys, tell me
why we lost, and they knew the answer. Miami came
in here and outworked us, and we were by far
at least disciplined game of these sixteen or seventeen playoff
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games whatever it is now. So many breakdowns and they
exploited every one of those breakdowns and scores. So if
we're gonna try to go down there and regain control
of this series and get home court advantage back, we're
gonna have to outwork Miami, which we didn't do tonight,
and our discipline is gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Have to be all the charts, all right. So I
was Michael Malone in a postgame rant with a lot
of ambient sound in the background. So listen, here's the deal.
On the Malard scale of concern one to ten, with
ten being at the very top, this is an eight
point five for Michael Mollen. Did that sound like somebody
that was very comfortable with what was going on? I
know you're supposed to be over the top when you're
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a coach and all that he's negotiating. It's like a
hostage negotiation for Michael Malone. That was a message to
the team. I've determined now based on I heard this
a couple of times. Malone's rant after the game. He's
using the media to get his point across that he's
yelled and screamed behind closed doors in the Nuggets' locker room.
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But my theory on this is Michael Malone went on
this rant because he knew it would be repackaged and
put out into the social networks and it'll be all
over the place on TikTok and Instagram. That's the playground
the Nuggets players hang out in. That's all NBA players
hang out in, so they will be seeing this. Maybe
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they didn't pay attention when Malone ranted after the game.
But I guarreraon tay. They will see this, the Nugget players,
and maybe they'll react to That's what Malone is banking on.
He's negotiating through the media. That's gonna get graffitied all
over the place to the Malone rant. And then his
anticipation is that that will be then lad that will
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lead rather to a successful performance in Game three. That
the Miami Heat, who have done this the entire postseason.
We watched them against the Bucks and against the Knicks,
and the Boston Celtics are now here in the NBA
Finals against Denver in Game two, and they are the
maestros at exploiting weaknesses and Denver provided many. Right last
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word here, last word? So do you fancy a thought
on how things are going for the Heat at this
particular point. Is they lose Game one, come back win
game two. So when you look at this coach spoke
can be bushy tailed, bright eyed, big smile. Why not?
What the heck? They got the road win, the first
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team to win in Colorado on the road. But he
really should go like old school nineteen eighties action adventured TV,
the A team. I love it when a plan comes together,
because that was the plan and Spolster got all worked up.
I don't think we have the sound by it. He
got all worked up when he was asked about Nikola
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Jokic only having four assists and the Nuggets unable to
get Jokic going now, to be fair, and Spolstra ranted
and raved about that, and he said, this guy is
the greatest player in the world two of the last
three years or something like that. He's rant from coach
po But Jokic only had four assists in the game.
Now he should have had at least, by my count,
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four or five more assists on open shots that were
missed by his teammates who typically don't miss those shots,
but did miss them here. But for Miamis, I love
it when a plan comes together. It's the eighteam and
everything they needed to do they did. You don't hear
any more noise about the altitude. Oh my god, Denver,
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so far five eighty feet above sea level. Suddenly that
wasn't a factor. Suddenly that went away. Hey, Miami had
stronger legs in the fourth quarter, they were better. They
didn't need an oxygen tank. That storyline went away, and
you look at what the heat were able to do.
Throughout this game, and yet Jokic was not a facilitator
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because of missed opportunities by his teammates to miss shots.
But if you look around the supporting actors for Miami
early on, if you're watching the game, in the first quarter,
Max Struce was gunning from outside. He made four of
seven and at one point it was even better than
that from three point range in the first quarter. Then
in the middle part of the game, the second in
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the third quarter, Gabe Vincent had fourteen points. Then early
in the fourth quarter, it was Duncan Robinson going bananas
for Miami from outside, knocking down shots and getting in
the basket. Also not just knocking out down outside shots.
And then Jimmy Butler came in and he was the executioner,
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delivering the kill shot. In the final couple of minutes,
we'll head back to Miami home cooking for the heat.
All the South Beach celebrities will be out, and the
Nuggets have their work cut out for them.
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We'll get back to the NBA Finals later as the
Miami Heat win Game two of that. Certainly open to
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talking about the Heat and the Nuggets. But there is
baseball regular season June Baseball that is on my radar,
a made for television matchup the two most valuable franchises
in professional baseball, locking Horns Mono Amano at Chavez Ravine,
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the Yankees and Dodgers, two iconic MLB franchises, And did
you watch? Were you checking this out? It was primetime
exposure all weekend Friday, Saturday, and Sunday massive for the
television partners of Major League Bay. So Aaron Judge did
not play in the game on Sunday. He had a booboo.
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He hurt his foot in the game on Saturday, because
of course he did. He made an effort play and
his foot collided with the bullpen gate which opened up.
So of course that means you must get a day off,
so Judge was not in the lineup the Yankees. Do
you think of the Bronx Bombers? The Yankees using small
ball as the Dodgers played the infield up in the
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late innings, and the Yankees were able to squeeze a
couple of runs across in the late innings seventh and
eighth innings on soft contact ground balls, and they also
got a home run later to extend the lead. But
the Yankees win four to one over the Dodgers. They
win the rubber match and take this series two games
to one, so the Yankees get the win there. JD.
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Martinez had a home run for the Dodgers, went very
well after coming over from the Red Sox, so the
Dodgers lose the last couple of games, and Clay Old
what up Holmes? Clay Holmes out of the Yankee bullpen,
one inning you got to win. And Wandy Peralta, the
Great Wandy Peralta, the new Mariano Rivera. Unless it's not
the Yankees rotating closers, because everyone does that. Now, all
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the nerds say you should just rotate closers. Therefore, we
don't have to pay a closer a lot of money.
And he got the final four outs to get the save.
So let us discuss now. Rather than focus in on
this series, there are some things I will talk about
in this series, but rather than focus in at the
start the Yankees and Dodgers, it is more interesting to
me to use a toss up question. So here is
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the toss up question. You've got the Dodgers on one side,
You've got the Yankees on the other. You can only
pick one who has a better chance of getting to
the World Series come October. Dodgers or Yankees. Now the
arrow on this one even with the outcome this week,
and the arrow is pointing at the Dodgers. Now, I'm
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not being a houseman. Let me give you my logic
on this. I've got treasure map, time card, and pink slime,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will make a failed at bat, which is what
the Dodgers had, many of them against Domingo Harman and
the other pitchers for the Yankees. I guess that pine
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tar was good at Dodger Stadium now number why so
I give the edge to the Dodgers, But it is
a slight edge if you use the toss up question.
Yankees are Dodgers more likely to get to the twenty
twenty three World Series. I give the edge to the Dodgers.
The reason why. We are roughly sixty games into the season.
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So you look around, there's gonna be a bunch of
trades that happened between now and the July trade deadline
late July, so there'll be a bunch of transactions moving
parts all over the place. But the main reason to
have more confidence than the Dodgers and the Yankees is
not because all of a sudden, I like Dave Roberts,
I don't. The reason to trust the Dodgers rather than
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the Yankees is the thing we always say in real estate, location, location, location,
you can have the same house that's on the Pacific
Ocean overlooking the cliffs in Malbu. That same house can
be on the hard scrabble streets of the wrong part
of town, and the price of that house will be
dramatically different because location, location, location. Despite the hype the
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National League, which was supposed to be the power league
in professional baseball, that has not been the case. The
expectations of the pundits were wrong up until this point,
and so when you look at the hand drawn treasure map,
it is more realistic to think that the Dodgers can
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get it done in the National League as opposed to
the Yankees in the American Leg. You look at the Dodgers,
who's the other monster team in the league which would
currently be in the playoffs? There's only one other team
that you consider a monster, and that's the Atlanta Braves.
That's it, right, It's either Dodgers of Braves. Those are
the two top teams. You look around the other teams
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right now in this moment who would be playoff teams.
They do not have the fear factor. They don't as
of this moment. The New York Mets, the San Diego Padres,
and the Philadelphia Affilies would not qualify for the postseason,
and you look at the playoff field right now today.
We do the show today. We don't do the show
at the end of the year. We do the show today.
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We worry about that show at the end of the year.
But right now, if you look at the National League,
these are the playoff teams other than the Dodgers, of braves,
You've got the Diamondbacks, which nobody's taking seriously, the Brewers,
the Pirates, and the Marlins. Those are the other tea.
Of course, the Dodgers have a better chance of getting
to the World Series. They're in the National League. Hello.
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And then you look at the American League and you're like, well,
that's where the good teams are. That's it. He said, Well,
some of these teams are frauds. They'll be exposed in
the playoffs. Okay, maybe the Rangers will be exposed in
the playoffs, but they have a real lineup. They have
a legitimate lineup. The Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay plays
this weird Frankenstein style of baseball, and they did get
to the World Series, the hardest playoff of all time
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twenty twenty World Series. Dodgers rays in that Fall Classic.
So the Yankees have to get through all those teams,
the Orioles. There's a bunch of teams that are also
lurking that are pretty good. Now page two here, I
would like to address with you for a couple of minutes.
Here something that happened in this game on Sunday Dodgers
and Yankees, because it annoyed me, and I have the
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bully pulpit here. When things annoy me, I can complain
and you can choose to listen or not listen. So
this Dodger pitching feed. Now, this guy Bobby Miller really good. Yeah,
young guys, he's living up to the hype. All these
young guys don't live up to night. He's done it
so far. He's stow an appe bbs up against the
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Yankee lineup without Aaron Judge for six innings. Bobby Miller
had the Yankee batters corkscrewing themselves into the ground. For
the most part. It was just dominance. It's great. Guy's
throwing right around one hundred miles an hour, give or take,
and he's just doing everything you want from a pitcher
to do. And even though the Yankees did not have
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Judge in the lineup, they're not really a surprise. Even
though Aaron Judge is built like a lumberjack, he still
has baseball DNA and baseball DNA. When you go to
the ground, you make contact with the wall, you need
medical intervention. That's just the way it is. But to
answer the question, why did Dave Roberts take Bobby Miller
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out of a game? He's shutting down the Yankee lineup.
They look like they should be in Triple A. The
Yankee hitters against Bobby Miller, and you take him out
after six innings. So why would you do that? Why?
Because it's the Dave Roberts Dodger way. That's why it's
the most maddening thing. And it's been going on for years.
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And you're not allowed to say anything because the Dodgers
went around one hundred games every year and they're in
the playoffs. But it's insane that this continues to go on.
I know, you're just a boomer, you're old school. You've
gotta protect the pictures strow you listen. Bobby Miller was
great to me. There should be value on perseverance, and
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the fact that there is no value placed on going
deeper into games sets you up for heartache down the line. Now,
I understand everyone's doing it. Everyone's doing it, okay, But
wouldn't you be better off just between me and you
and a light post if you created a culture like
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the Miami heat culture we love to hear about these days,
a culture of pride for going deeper indie games. Maniocal
work ethic if you will. Is that such a bad thing?
It's like, no, you shouldn't be shamed if you only
come out after six innings. But the Dodgers this entire time,
they've had all these great teams, there is no value
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pressed on pressed on going the extra mile. Right, He's like,
just do enough. You don't need to get a's and b's.
Just get sez sez it, get degrees. And that is true.
Sees do get you in the playoffs. They don't seem
to win you a ton of World Series. They win
you one. Sees when you won a's and b's might
win you more than one. I'm just saying, what do
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I know? Right? What do I know? But under Dave Roberts,
the requirement for pictures has been the bare minimum. That's it,
and they don't care. He just follows the instructions of
the nerds in the front office and all that, the
Dodgers of coddled pitchers. And it's enough to give you
a migraine headache if you if you have a vested
interest and you watch this from the outside. Bobby Miller,
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the guy we're talking about, eighty six pitches, he allowed
one hit to the New York Yankees, one hit, seven
strikeouts over six innings, but eighty six pitches. And rather
than say, why don't you go out there, give us
two extra pitches, go to one hundred and ten pitches,
get through that seventh and eighth inning. We'll go to
the bullpen in the night to get the final three out. No, no, no, no,
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are you kidding? May are you? You're a loser? You're bonkers?
What is this the nineteen eighties? What's wrong with you?
That's what I get these and then these Mama Lukes
on television defend Dave robertson what exactly are you saving
Bobby Miller for. I'm asking for a friend, because here's
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what I've seen. I remember last year Clayton Kershaw had
a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins early in the season.
They took him out of the game to save him
for the playoffs so they could get then get eliminated
by the Padres in the first round they played in
the postseason. So what did you save Kershaw for? What
are you saving Bobby Mill so he can go out
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and play golf somewhere while the other teams are in
the National League Championship Series. He's twenty four years old.
The kurs Off things that I was old. Okay, Bobby
Miller is not old? And what are you doing? And
spoiler the Dodger bulpin. I don't know if anyone's noticed.
They're not all that good right now? All right? A
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final point, So what did you make of the overall
television coverage of Yankees and Dodgers? And I did focus,
and I was flipping back and forth between the Nuggets
and the Heat, which started an hour or so after
the Dodgers and Yankees. So I was slipping back and forth,
and watching the coverage of the Yankee Dodgers was about
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as enjoyable as if you've ever cut yourself and then
there's a scab and then you grab the scab and
pull the scab off before it's fully healed. About as
enjoyable as that. And it was painful. It was unnecessary.
I didn't go to the mute button quite a bit.
There was a lot of spam. And I get this
from a lot of my baseball broadcasts that I watched.
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There's a lot of I call it pink slime, that
chicken nugget, hot dog filler, the pink slime. It's like
the people who do the television broadcast. They have these
production meetings and they try to cook up as many
distractions to get you away from what you're actually tuning
in for, for example, the Dodger Yankee game. If you
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were watching this game on Sunday night, you noticed a
lot of fluff, a lot of fluff pieces. And unlike
TNT and Charles Barkley, for example, that there's value added
in an NBA broadcast when these guys are playing grab ass,
the ESPN guys are not entertaining. David Cone, Dwardo Perez
and kar Ravage. I would rather bang my head against
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the wall until it starts to bleed. I would think
that would be more entertaining than listening to these yahoos
talk about that the game, and they don't even feature
so much the game itself because they're talking about for example,
they did a fluff piece on Dave Roberts and Aaron
Boone who went to college at the same time. One
went to UCLA Roberts the other one to USC and
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this became a big piece that they had to show
clips of. They interviewed them before the game and they
spent about ten to fifteen minutes of game time on this,
and it was a one run game. It was a
one run game late in the game, and we're learning
about the history of Dave Roberts and Aaron. But I
don't need to hear about that. I don't do you
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need that? I don't need that. Who needs that? Does
anyone need you know? The people that need it? Nobody,
nobody needs it zero zero, So anyway that is a
constant distraction is the way I would describe it.
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Here's why listen, that is the standard inflating of tires.
What didn't you expect him to say? Could you imagine
if Romeo Dobbs had said, boy, this guy blows man,
I wish we had Aaron Rodgers, this guy this guy Love.
I don't I'm not feeling you can't say that right,
and so it doesn't matter all this hyped up the
Packers have been trying to pump up Jordan Love. We
(30:05):
will not know until September, October, November what the Packers
have with Jordan Love. It's all just throwing crap against
the wall. Take it with a grand assault next.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Over the weekend, it was reported that Russell Wilson turned
down a deal to the Eagles last offseason. Ben, what
does this tell us about Philly's belief in Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, it tells us that Russ could have saved you
a lot of heartache, Coop, if he had just merely
stayed in Philadelphia and not Arth. This year is the year, yeah,
this is the year.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
No, It tells us that the chaos theory of the
universe is alive and well, that the people in Philadelphia
had no idea Jalen Hurts was any good. They were
willing to get rid of him. They wanted Russell Wilson,
and surprise, surprise, surprise, they got the shock of their lives.
And so that's what that tells us. Here, my god,
(30:52):
next all hail Sean Payton. Yeah sure.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Suns associate head coach Kevin Young has reported the remaining
with the team in that role under a new head coach,
and Frank Vogel Phoenix is making Young the NBA's top
paid assistant coach, Ben, why don't the Sounds just hire
Young as their head coach?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
It makes no sense. If you were so GUNGHI, you
had to keep this guy. I'm told he is the
spirit advisor to Devin Booker. But if you love this guy,
why that's just make him make go? What does Frank
Vogel have over this guy, Kevin Young? I don't understand.
It makes no sense. Kobolo, how did we do? I'm
gonna fail you. That is a win for me. I
(31:29):
won the game. That is a win, he told me
off here. I won. I won the game.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
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Speaker 1 (31:50):
Who get here? Were you talking to?
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Sons? Here? Some instant advice hold that though no one's
paid attention to me for ten whole seconds, and if.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You don't like it, you and away we go. Is
the insta advice line. You can call this the Nuggets
of Wisdom edition of the instant advice line. The Denver
Nuggets they need their advice. They lost at home. They
had not lost at home the entire NBA postseason, but
Miami got them in the game on Sunday night. So
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any advice to the Denver Nuggets, any advice This is
unscreened radio eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is
the number eight seven seven nine nine six six three
sixty nine. You are live on the air. When you
hear my voice, We are giving advice to Michael Malone,
the Kola Yokis, Jamal Murray, and the Denver Nuggets as
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they lose Game two of the Finals to the Heatls
in a dramatic fourth quarter comeback. Miami was down by
eight going to the fourth quarter comeback and win the
game thanks to a Jamal Murray missed three pointer. Next
game of the Finals not till Wednesday night, But here
we go off to the races. You're on the airline
on Hello. Line one, your advice to the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Until Lebron gets tired of nobody missing him in the
finals and starts tweeting outside song.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Larry, Yes, I'm sure he will do that, Supermarket Seve.
Hello line three. You're on the airline three. Hello, Welcome.
Watch the new Mighty Ducks documentary.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Don't be a hater like Eddie.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
That's right, Eddie hates the Ducks man. He does not.
He doesn't even eat duck. That's so much. He hates
the Mighty Ducks. Line four, you're live on the Airline four. Hello,
Line four, Yeah, you just have Mark.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Bolus to make the recipiet have.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
A great segment.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Okay, see now Roberto's not even here. You're still ripping him.
How dare you get out of here? Line five, you're
on the Airline five. Were giving advice to the Denver Nuggets.
They just lost at home for the first time of
the playoffs, and they play on Wednesday back in Florida.
But they're now tied one one. Hello, line number five.
It's really easy, buddy, smoke every day.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
There you go. That's a buddy from Vegas. Hello. Let's
go to you live set. Yes. Line six, you're on
the Airline six. Go hey, Emilio Atabazay duck Man himself. Okay,
thank you, yes, lie, I don't know what that meant.
Line two, you're on the air eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Hello, Line two, okay, thank you for that.
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Glad you checked in. Line three. You're on the Airline three. Hello,
it's the incident of ice. Line Line three is not there.
You're live on the air. When you hear my voice,
no dilly dallying, no wasting time. Line four you're on
the air. Go gm O go it. Okay, thank you
for that. Yes, have some gumbo for me. Line line five.
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We're going to line five. That's ringing at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox unscreened radio. This is why
we have a call screener. Hello, line five. Line five
is not there. We'll go to line six. Hello, line six,
you're on the Airline six, go. Line six is not there.
We have one more bad call that'll end the segment.
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Line number two. Hello, line two. Oh see, there you go.
What's going on, ben guy? That saved the segment. That's
a great call. Line three. Hello, line three, you're on
the air at eight seven seven ninety nine f Fox.
Hello ambuster, all right. Line four Hello, line four, he
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didn't go to.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Some fancy culinary school.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
He hass theory, just like jokes. All right. Line five,
That lunatic in Maine is added again. Line five, Hello, Hello,
big man, is all University of Arizona.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Lineup, you guys with Aaron Gordon keep kerr.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yes, thank you, Okay, enough Arizona propaganda. Line five. I
think you're gonna mention Arnie Spaniard, but we didn't have
time for that. Line six Hello, Line six, a high
volume of calls. Line six, Hello, ox bags lucky eh, okay,
a line let's go back to line one. Hello, line one,
(36:11):
scratch off, just like a cardinalden. Oh that was our
buddy in Iowa trashing, sir scratch off. Man, all right,
a line three, you're on the Airline three, Hello, it's.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Roberto's gone for until further notice.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
We need to get his last track back on the
show somehow.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Okay, I don't know. We'll have to dig that up.
It's in the cobweb department. Line with all the other
sound byes he used to play. Line four, Hello, line four.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Jokers should have his brother's pay Jimmy a little dizzy,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Oh, okay, bring in the bring in the goons, bring
in the goon squad. Line five, Hello, line five, Now
we have dueling fudge. That's great. Line six, Hello, line six.
(37:03):
You should hire Brian Finley to look longly into the
player's eyes. Yeah, well that would devlong with the tongue,
wagon boy, that was creepy last week. Man, Now I
know what like strippers feel like, you know, and the
guys are staring at him with your tongues. Wagon man,
that's not a good feeling. Okay, we'll do one more,
and only one more. If it's good, I'll take credit.
If not, I will blame. The Koople Loop is about
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to pick the final call on the incident of ice
line for the Denver Nuggets, who are now in an
even NBA Finals after losing it home on Sunday night.
Koble Loop Line four line for the final call on
the incident of ice. Line line for you're on the air, go.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
As long as there's no hair pulling or on conta game.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
There you go, all right, hair pulling and eye contact,
the very nice the it's the advice line in the
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Play the Hits. The NBA Finals going on in Colorado.
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There was a bit of a hiatus, a couple of
nights off. Game two, the Nuggets favored at home against
the Miami Heat, Jimmy Butler trying to square things up
against Nicola Jokic, the Joker and company. Did you watch?
Were you checking out the festivities in Denver? Maybe not?
(02:03):
Maybe you had other things going on, your weekend coming
to an end, and you said, you know what, I
don't need to watch that just to hear what that
dumbass says on the radio. Right. So anyway, here's what happened.
If you didn't watch it, perhaps you missed it. Duncan
Robinson not dunkin donus, Duncan Robinson and Jimmy Butler taking
turns in the fourth quarter as Miami squares the Bucks.
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They're one one heading back home as they take care
of the Nuggets, and they went it one to eleven,
to one to eight as Jamal Murray had a chance
a three point shot clank at the end as time expired,
and so the Denver Nuggets go down. The Heat get
the road win first time this postseason that Denver has
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lost on the home court, and so Duncan Robinson ten points,
all ten of his points, most of them coming early
in the fourth go in the fourth quarter, but early
in the fourth quarter, and then late in the fourth
quarter Jimmy Butler with eight of his twenty one points,
and he was able to close the door at the end.
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So let us discuss the question the Nuggets losing it
home for the first time of the playoffs. Who whar's
the Dunce cap the Denver dunch cap in this chapter
of the NBA Finals. So I have tropical depression, hostage negotiation,
and nineteen eighties TV going to old school, way back
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in the way back machine. So A, did we expect
the series to be over in four games?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Do we expect the series to be over at two games?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Not that it matters our prediction, but we had the
Nuggets winning in six. Did not anticipate the Nuggets losing
game two though, did not have that on our BINGO
card heading into this NBA Finals. So this does change
th agr feather in the cap for the Miami Heat
to win this series because they're gonna be much better
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at home. Those supporting actors for Jimmy Butler will be
able to be more productive that if you go by
the history books, that's the way this is gonna go.
But as far as wearing the Dunce cap for the Nuggets,
I hope they go to the haberdasherie and there's enough
hats Dunce caps left, but the one in particular. You
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do not allow a team if you're if you're trying,
you do not allow a team to put up almost
seventy percent from the floor in the fourth quarter, which
is what Miami. Maami shot sixty eight point eight percent
from the field in the fourth quarter on the road
or in a supposed hostile environment. I mean, my goodness here,
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if you're playing with maximum energy and effort, you do
not allow the other team to shoot almost seventy percent
in your own gymnasium. But that's exactly what happened now
to be Miami also missed a bunch of shots that
were makeable shots in Game one. We'd mentioned that in
a previous episode of the show that the Heat were
getting decent looks at the basket, they were clanking them,
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they were not making them, and that certainly helped out
the Nuggets cause in Game one. In Game two, a
spoiler alert, they made them. The Miami Heat made them.
But in terms of the actual haberdashery handing out the
dunch cap, you gotta start with Michael Porter Junior of
the Nuggets, who so far in this NBA Finals, he's
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an auxiliary guys, is the third option if you will,
for Denver. But he's taken twenty nine shots or twenty
four shots. Rather, he's made seven of them, which means
he's missed seventeen of the twenty four shots he's taken.
That is less than thirty percent from the floor from
Michael Porter Junior in the NBA Finals didn't matter in
Game one, they won Game one. Now it matters in
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Game two, and from three point range off and left
wide open from outside, Michael Porter Junior shooting a robust
seventeen point six percent three of seventeen, and you've got opportunity.
You're wide open a lot of time, you're wide open,
get a rhythm, make the shot and not doing it.
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And you look at those other stars Porter KCP Aaron
Gordon in this game too. While they were out on
the cord, the Denver Nuggets were outscored collectively by forty
points with those guys on the cord, and so you
also have to look at the strategy. It blows me
away the rest in some of these games, like for example,
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Denver had an eight point lead going to the fourth court.
He saw the game. You know that they had an
eight point lead, and so there's like, you know what,
We're gonna rest NIKOLEA. Jokic at the start of the
fourth court. God forbid he plays the rest of the game.
He might have a heart attack and die. So they
decided to rest him at the start of the fourth quarter,
and he was only on the bench for a short
amount of time by the time he had gotten back
in the game, instead of if he had been out there,
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conceivably Denver could have extended the lead out to like
twelve or fourteen points. Instead, by the time Jokic comes
back in the game, it's a two point game, as
Duncan Robinson had knocked down some shots and the heat
had snuck within two. But Michael Porter Junior, you talk
about a tropical depression at a time you cannot have
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a tropical depression. You've sucked at a time you cannot
suck that's a big one, but it's a collective defensively,
and also these little things like the Kola Jokic not
being out there at the start of the fourth quarter.
Now page two here, how concerned should Denver coach Michael
Malone be with the turn of events? So before we
get to the malar scale of concern, we actually have
(07:45):
some audio here as Michael Malone exploded, I was asked
about the nuggets. I don't think he was even asked
specifically about the effort. But listen to Michael Malone getting
more work. He gets worked up into a tizzy here
describing Game two of the NBA Finals. Listen here in Denver,
(08:08):
can you kind of, I don't know, figure out why
do you think your starters that weren't Joker struggled scoring?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I guess, well, I don't think that's the biggest question.
Let's talk about effort.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Now here we go, He's I mean, this is a finals,
We're talking about effort.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's a huge concern of mine. You know, and you
guys probably thought I was just making up some storyline
after Game one when I said we didn't play well.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
We didn't play well.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And tonight you know that the starting lineup to start
the game is ten to two Miami start the third quarter.
They scored eleven points in two minutes and ten seconds,
and we just got We had guys out there that
were just whether feeling sorry for themselves and not making
shots or thinking they can just turn it on or off.
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This is not the preseason, it's not the regular season,
it's not a round. This is the NBA Finals, and that,
to me is really really perplexing, disappointing. And I asked
the team, I asked that play you guys, tell me
why we lost, and they knew the answer. Miami came
in here and outworked us, and we were by far
at least disciplined game of these sixteen or seventeen playoff
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games whatever it is now. So many breakdowns and they
exploited every one of those breakdowns and scores. So if
we're gonna try to go down there and regain control
of this series and get home court advantage back, we're
gonna have to outwork Miami, which we didn't do tonight,
and our discipline is gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Have to be all the charts, all right. So I
was Michael Malone in a postgame rant with a lot
of ambient sound in the background. So listen, here's the deal.
On the Malard scale of concern one to ten, with
ten being at the very top, this is an eight
point five for Michael Mollen. Did that sound like somebody
that was very comfortable with what was going on? I
know you're supposed to be over the top when you're
(09:58):
a coach and all that he's negotiating. It's like a
hostage negotiation for Michael Malone. That was a message to
the team. I've determined now based on I heard this
a couple of times. Malone's rant after the game. He's
using the media to get his point across that he's
yelled and screamed behind closed doors in the Nuggets' locker room.
(10:20):
But my theory on this is Michael Malone went on
this rant because he knew it would be repackaged and
put out into the social networks and it'll be all
over the place on TikTok and Instagram. That's the playground
the Nuggets players hang out in. That's all NBA players
hang out in, so they will be seeing this. Maybe
(10:41):
they didn't pay attention when Malone ranted after the game.
But I guarreraon tay. They will see this, the Nugget players,
and maybe they'll react to That's what Malone is banking on.
He's negotiating through the media. That's gonna get graffitied all
over the place to the Malone rant. And then his
anticipation is that that will be then lad that will
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lead rather to a successful performance in Game three. That
the Miami Heat, who have done this the entire postseason.
We watched them against the Bucks and against the Knicks,
and the Boston Celtics are now here in the NBA
Finals against Denver in Game two, and they are the
maestros at exploiting weaknesses and Denver provided many. Right last
(11:27):
word here, last word? So do you fancy a thought
on how things are going for the Heat at this
particular point. Is they lose Game one, come back win
game two. So when you look at this coach spoke
can be bushy tailed, bright eyed, big smile. Why not?
What the heck? They got the road win, the first
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team to win in Colorado on the road. But he
really should go like old school nineteen eighties action adventured TV,
the A team. I love it when a plan comes together,
because that was the plan and Spolster got all worked up.
I don't think we have the sound by it. He
got all worked up when he was asked about Nikola
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Jokic only having four assists and the Nuggets unable to
get Jokic going now, to be fair, and Spolstra ranted
and raved about that, and he said, this guy is
the greatest player in the world two of the last
three years or something like that. He's rant from coach
po But Jokic only had four assists in the game.
Now he should have had at least, by my count,
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four or five more assists on open shots that were
missed by his teammates who typically don't miss those shots,
but did miss them here. But for Miamis, I love
it when a plan comes together. It's the eighteam and
everything they needed to do they did. You don't hear
any more noise about the altitude. Oh my god, Denver,
(12:54):
so far five eighty feet above sea level. Suddenly that
wasn't a factor. Suddenly that went away. Hey, Miami had
stronger legs in the fourth quarter, they were better. They
didn't need an oxygen tank. That storyline went away, and
you look at what the heat were able to do.
Throughout this game, and yet Jokic was not a facilitator
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because of missed opportunities by his teammates to miss shots.
But if you look around the supporting actors for Miami
early on, if you're watching the game, in the first quarter,
Max Struce was gunning from outside. He made four of
seven and at one point it was even better than
that from three point range in the first quarter. Then
in the middle part of the game, the second in
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the third quarter, Gabe Vincent had fourteen points. Then early
in the fourth quarter, it was Duncan Robinson going bananas
for Miami from outside, knocking down shots and getting in
the basket. Also not just knocking out down outside shots.
And then Jimmy Butler came in and he was the executioner,
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delivering the kill shot. In the final couple of minutes,
we'll head back to Miami home cooking for the heat.
All the South Beach celebrities will be out, and the
Nuggets have their work cut out for them.
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We'll get back to the NBA Finals later as the
Miami Heat win Game two of that. Certainly open to
(15:21):
talking about the Heat and the Nuggets. But there is
baseball regular season June Baseball that is on my radar,
a made for television matchup the two most valuable franchises
in professional baseball, locking Horns Mono Amano at Chavez Ravine,
(15:44):
the Yankees and Dodgers, two iconic MLB franchises, And did
you watch? Were you checking this out? It was primetime
exposure all weekend Friday, Saturday, and Sunday massive for the
television partners of Major League Bay. So Aaron Judge did
not play in the game on Sunday. He had a booboo.
(16:05):
He hurt his foot in the game on Saturday, because
of course he did. He made an effort play and
his foot collided with the bullpen gate which opened up.
So of course that means you must get a day off,
so Judge was not in the lineup the Yankees. Do
you think of the Bronx Bombers? The Yankees using small
ball as the Dodgers played the infield up in the
(16:29):
late innings, and the Yankees were able to squeeze a
couple of runs across in the late innings seventh and
eighth innings on soft contact ground balls, and they also
got a home run later to extend the lead. But
the Yankees win four to one over the Dodgers. They
win the rubber match and take this series two games
to one, so the Yankees get the win there. JD.
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Martinez had a home run for the Dodgers, went very
well after coming over from the Red Sox, so the
Dodgers lose the last couple of games, and Clay Old
what up Holmes? Clay Holmes out of the Yankee bullpen,
one inning you got to win. And Wandy Peralta, the
Great Wandy Peralta, the new Mariano Rivera. Unless it's not
the Yankees rotating closers, because everyone does that. Now, all
(17:13):
the nerds say you should just rotate closers. Therefore, we
don't have to pay a closer a lot of money.
And he got the final four outs to get the save.
So let us discuss now. Rather than focus in on
this series, there are some things I will talk about
in this series, but rather than focus in at the
start the Yankees and Dodgers, it is more interesting to
me to use a toss up question. So here is
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the toss up question. You've got the Dodgers on one side,
You've got the Yankees on the other. You can only
pick one who has a better chance of getting to
the World Series come October. Dodgers or Yankees. Now the
arrow on this one even with the outcome this week,
and the arrow is pointing at the Dodgers. Now, I'm
(17:57):
not being a houseman. Let me give you my logic
on this. I've got treasure map, time card, and pink slime,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will make a failed at bat, which is what
the Dodgers had, many of them against Domingo Harman and
the other pitchers for the Yankees. I guess that pine
(18:18):
tar was good at Dodger Stadium now number why so
I give the edge to the Dodgers, But it is
a slight edge if you use the toss up question.
Yankees are Dodgers more likely to get to the twenty
twenty three World Series. I give the edge to the Dodgers.
The reason why. We are roughly sixty games into the season.
(18:42):
So you look around, there's gonna be a bunch of
trades that happened between now and the July trade deadline
late July, so there'll be a bunch of transactions moving
parts all over the place. But the main reason to
have more confidence than the Dodgers and the Yankees is
not because all of a sudden, I like Dave Roberts,
I don't. The reason to trust the Dodgers rather than
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the Yankees is the thing we always say in real estate, location, location, location,
you can have the same house that's on the Pacific
Ocean overlooking the cliffs in Malbu. That same house can
be on the hard scrabble streets of the wrong part
of town, and the price of that house will be
dramatically different because location, location, location. Despite the hype the
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National League, which was supposed to be the power league
in professional baseball, that has not been the case. The
expectations of the pundits were wrong up until this point,
and so when you look at the hand drawn treasure map,
it is more realistic to think that the Dodgers can
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get it done in the National League as opposed to
the Yankees in the American Leg. You look at the Dodgers,
who's the other monster team in the league which would
currently be in the playoffs? There's only one other team
that you consider a monster, and that's the Atlanta Braves.
That's it, right, It's either Dodgers of Braves. Those are
the two top teams. You look around the other teams
(20:12):
right now in this moment who would be playoff teams.
They do not have the fear factor. They don't as
of this moment. The New York Mets, the San Diego Padres,
and the Philadelphia Affilies would not qualify for the postseason,
and you look at the playoff field right now today.
We do the show today. We don't do the show
at the end of the year. We do the show today.
(20:32):
We worry about that show at the end of the year.
But right now, if you look at the National League,
these are the playoff teams other than the Dodgers, of braves,
You've got the Diamondbacks, which nobody's taking seriously, the Brewers,
the Pirates, and the Marlins. Those are the other tea.
Of course, the Dodgers have a better chance of getting
to the World Series. They're in the National League. Hello.
(20:55):
And then you look at the American League and you're like, well,
that's where the good teams are. That's it. He said, Well,
some of these teams are frauds. They'll be exposed in
the playoffs. Okay, maybe the Rangers will be exposed in
the playoffs, but they have a real lineup. They have
a legitimate lineup. The Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay plays
this weird Frankenstein style of baseball, and they did get
to the World Series, the hardest playoff of all time
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twenty twenty World Series. Dodgers rays in that Fall Classic.
So the Yankees have to get through all those teams,
the Orioles. There's a bunch of teams that are also
lurking that are pretty good. Now page two here, I
would like to address with you for a couple of minutes.
Here something that happened in this game on Sunday Dodgers
and Yankees, because it annoyed me, and I have the
(21:40):
bully pulpit here. When things annoy me, I can complain
and you can choose to listen or not listen. So
this Dodger pitching feed. Now, this guy Bobby Miller really good. Yeah,
young guys, he's living up to the hype. All these
young guys don't live up to night. He's done it
so far. He's stow an appe bbs up against the
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Yankee lineup without Aaron Judge for six innings. Bobby Miller
had the Yankee batters corkscrewing themselves into the ground. For
the most part. It was just dominance. It's great. Guy's
throwing right around one hundred miles an hour, give or take,
and he's just doing everything you want from a pitcher
to do. And even though the Yankees did not have
(22:23):
Judge in the lineup, they're not really a surprise. Even
though Aaron Judge is built like a lumberjack, he still
has baseball DNA and baseball DNA. When you go to
the ground, you make contact with the wall, you need
medical intervention. That's just the way it is. But to
answer the question, why did Dave Roberts take Bobby Miller
(22:44):
out of a game? He's shutting down the Yankee lineup.
They look like they should be in Triple A. The
Yankee hitters against Bobby Miller, and you take him out
after six innings. So why would you do that? Why?
Because it's the Dave Roberts Dodger way. That's why it's
the most maddening thing. And it's been going on for years.
(23:07):
And you're not allowed to say anything because the Dodgers
went around one hundred games every year and they're in
the playoffs. But it's insane that this continues to go on.
I know, you're just a boomer, you're old school. You've
gotta protect the pictures strow you listen. Bobby Miller was
great to me. There should be value on perseverance, and
(23:30):
the fact that there is no value placed on going
deeper into games sets you up for heartache down the line. Now,
I understand everyone's doing it. Everyone's doing it, okay, But
wouldn't you be better off just between me and you
and a light post if you created a culture like
(23:52):
the Miami heat culture we love to hear about these days,
a culture of pride for going deeper indie games. Maniocal
work ethic if you will. Is that such a bad thing?
It's like, no, you shouldn't be shamed if you only
come out after six innings. But the Dodgers this entire time,
they've had all these great teams, there is no value
(24:17):
pressed on pressed on going the extra mile. Right, He's like,
just do enough. You don't need to get a's and b's.
Just get sez sez it, get degrees. And that is true.
Sees do get you in the playoffs. They don't seem
to win you a ton of World Series. They win
you one. Sees when you won a's and b's might
win you more than one. I'm just saying, what do
(24:38):
I know? Right? What do I know? But under Dave Roberts,
the requirement for pictures has been the bare minimum. That's it,
and they don't care. He just follows the instructions of
the nerds in the front office and all that, the
Dodgers of coddled pitchers. And it's enough to give you
a migraine headache if you if you have a vested
interest and you watch this from the outside. Bobby Miller,
(25:00):
the guy we're talking about, eighty six pitches, he allowed
one hit to the New York Yankees, one hit, seven
strikeouts over six innings, but eighty six pitches. And rather
than say, why don't you go out there, give us
two extra pitches, go to one hundred and ten pitches,
get through that seventh and eighth inning. We'll go to
the bullpen in the night to get the final three out. No, no, no, no,
(25:21):
are you kidding? May are you? You're a loser? You're bonkers?
What is this the nineteen eighties? What's wrong with you?
That's what I get these and then these Mama Lukes
on television defend Dave robertson what exactly are you saving
Bobby Miller for. I'm asking for a friend, because here's
(25:41):
what I've seen. I remember last year Clayton Kershaw had
a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins early in the season.
They took him out of the game to save him
for the playoffs so they could get then get eliminated
by the Padres in the first round they played in
the postseason. So what did you save Kershaw for? What
are you saving Bobby Mill so he can go out
(26:01):
and play golf somewhere while the other teams are in
the National League Championship Series. He's twenty four years old.
The kurs Off things that I was old. Okay, Bobby
Miller is not old? And what are you doing? And
spoiler the Dodger bulpin. I don't know if anyone's noticed.
They're not all that good right now? All right? A
(26:22):
final point, So what did you make of the overall
television coverage of Yankees and Dodgers? And I did focus,
and I was flipping back and forth between the Nuggets
and the Heat, which started an hour or so after
the Dodgers and Yankees. So I was slipping back and forth,
and watching the coverage of the Yankee Dodgers was about
(26:45):
as enjoyable as if you've ever cut yourself and then
there's a scab and then you grab the scab and
pull the scab off before it's fully healed. About as
enjoyable as that. And it was painful. It was unnecessary.
I didn't go to the mute button quite a bit.
There was a lot of spam. And I get this
from a lot of my baseball broadcasts that I watched.
(27:07):
There's a lot of I call it pink slime, that
chicken nugget, hot dog filler, the pink slime. It's like
the people who do the television broadcast. They have these
production meetings and they try to cook up as many
distractions to get you away from what you're actually tuning
in for, for example, the Dodger Yankee game. If you
(27:31):
were watching this game on Sunday night, you noticed a
lot of fluff, a lot of fluff pieces. And unlike
TNT and Charles Barkley, for example, that there's value added
in an NBA broadcast when these guys are playing grab ass,
the ESPN guys are not entertaining. David Cone, Dwardo Perez
and kar Ravage. I would rather bang my head against
(27:52):
the wall until it starts to bleed. I would think
that would be more entertaining than listening to these yahoos
talk about that the game, and they don't even feature
so much the game itself because they're talking about for example,
they did a fluff piece on Dave Roberts and Aaron
Boone who went to college at the same time. One
went to UCLA Roberts the other one to USC and
(28:13):
this became a big piece that they had to show
clips of. They interviewed them before the game and they
spent about ten to fifteen minutes of game time on this,
and it was a one run game. It was a
one run game late in the game, and we're learning
about the history of Dave Roberts and Aaron. But I
don't need to hear about that. I don't do you
(28:35):
need that? I don't need that. Who needs that? Does
anyone need you know? The people that need it? Nobody,
nobody needs it zero zero, So anyway that is a
constant distraction is the way I would describe it.
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Speaker 2 (29:26):
It's maller. How about that to the third degree, This
is get gripped cool.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Packer's wide receiver.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Romeo Dobbs recently said that he doesn't see a big
difference between Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love and how much
stock do you put in this zero?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Here's why listen, that is the standard inflating of tires.
What didn't you expect him to say? Could you imagine
if Romeo Dobbs had said, boy, this guy blows man,
I wish we had Aaron Rodgers, this guy this guy Love.
I don't I'm not feeling you can't say that right,
and so it doesn't matter all this hyped up the
Packers have been trying to pump up Jordan Love. We
(30:05):
will not know until September, October, November what the Packers
have with Jordan Love. It's all just throwing crap against
the wall. Take it with a grand assault next.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Over the weekend, it was reported that Russell Wilson turned
down a deal to the Eagles last offseason. Ben, what
does this tell us about Philly's belief in Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, it tells us that Russ could have saved you
a lot of heartache, Coop, if he had just merely
stayed in Philadelphia and not Arth. This year is the year, yeah,
this is the year.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
No, It tells us that the chaos theory of the
universe is alive and well, that the people in Philadelphia
had no idea Jalen Hurts was any good. They were
willing to get rid of him. They wanted Russell Wilson,
and surprise, surprise, surprise, they got the shock of their lives.
And so that's what that tells us. Here, my god,
(30:52):
next all hail Sean Payton. Yeah sure.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Suns associate head coach Kevin Young has reported the remaining
with the team in that role under a new head coach,
and Frank Vogel Phoenix is making Young the NBA's top
paid assistant coach, Ben, why don't the Sounds just hire
Young as their head coach?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
It makes no sense. If you were so GUNGHI, you
had to keep this guy. I'm told he is the
spirit advisor to Devin Booker. But if you love this guy,
why that's just make him make go? What does Frank
Vogel have over this guy, Kevin Young? I don't understand.
It makes no sense. Kobolo, how did we do? I'm
gonna fail you. That is a win for me. I
(31:29):
won the game. That is a win, he told me
off here. I won. I won the game.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
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Speaker 1 (31:50):
Who get here? Were you talking to?
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Sons? Here? Some instant advice hold that though no one's
paid attention to me for ten whole seconds, and if.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You don't like it, you and away we go. Is
the insta advice line. You can call this the Nuggets
of Wisdom edition of the instant advice line. The Denver
Nuggets they need their advice. They lost at home. They
had not lost at home the entire NBA postseason, but
Miami got them in the game on Sunday night. So
(32:18):
any advice to the Denver Nuggets, any advice This is
unscreened radio eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is
the number eight seven seven nine nine six six three
sixty nine. You are live on the air. When you
hear my voice, We are giving advice to Michael Malone,
the Kola Yokis, Jamal Murray, and the Denver Nuggets as
(32:40):
they lose Game two of the Finals to the Heatls
in a dramatic fourth quarter comeback. Miami was down by
eight going to the fourth quarter comeback and win the
game thanks to a Jamal Murray missed three pointer. Next
game of the Finals not till Wednesday night, But here
we go off to the races. You're on the airline
on Hello. Line one, your advice to the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Until Lebron gets tired of nobody missing him in the
finals and starts tweeting outside song.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Larry, Yes, I'm sure he will do that, Supermarket Seve.
Hello line three. You're on the airline three. Hello, Welcome.
Watch the new Mighty Ducks documentary.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Don't be a hater like Eddie.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
That's right, Eddie hates the Ducks man. He does not.
He doesn't even eat duck. That's so much. He hates
the Mighty Ducks. Line four, you're live on the Airline four. Hello,
Line four, Yeah, you just have Mark.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Bolus to make the recipiet have.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
A great segment.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Okay, see now Roberto's not even here. You're still ripping him.
How dare you get out of here? Line five, you're
on the Airline five. Were giving advice to the Denver Nuggets.
They just lost at home for the first time of
the playoffs, and they play on Wednesday back in Florida.
But they're now tied one one. Hello, line number five.
It's really easy, buddy, smoke every day.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
There you go. That's a buddy from Vegas. Hello. Let's
go to you live set. Yes. Line six, you're on
the Airline six. Go hey, Emilio Atabazay duck Man himself. Okay,
thank you, yes, lie, I don't know what that meant.
Line two, you're on the air eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Hello, Line two, okay, thank you for that.
(34:24):
Glad you checked in. Line three. You're on the Airline three. Hello,
it's the incident of ice. Line Line three is not there.
You're live on the air. When you hear my voice,
no dilly dallying, no wasting time. Line four you're on
the air. Go gm O go it. Okay, thank you
for that. Yes, have some gumbo for me. Line line five.
(34:45):
We're going to line five. That's ringing at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox unscreened radio. This is why
we have a call screener. Hello, line five. Line five
is not there. We'll go to line six. Hello, line six,
you're on the Airline six, go. Line six is not there.
We have one more bad call that'll end the segment.
(35:06):
Line number two. Hello, line two. Oh see, there you go.
What's going on, ben guy? That saved the segment. That's
a great call. Line three. Hello, line three, you're on
the air at eight seven seven ninety nine f Fox.
Hello ambuster, all right. Line four Hello, line four, he
(35:29):
didn't go to.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Some fancy culinary school.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
He hass theory, just like jokes. All right. Line five,
That lunatic in Maine is added again. Line five, Hello, Hello,
big man, is all University of Arizona.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Lineup, you guys with Aaron Gordon keep kerr.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yes, thank you, Okay, enough Arizona propaganda. Line five. I
think you're gonna mention Arnie Spaniard, but we didn't have
time for that. Line six Hello, Line six, a high
volume of calls. Line six, Hello, ox bags lucky eh, okay,
a line let's go back to line one. Hello, line one,
(36:11):
scratch off, just like a cardinalden. Oh that was our
buddy in Iowa trashing, sir scratch off. Man, all right,
a line three, you're on the Airline three, Hello, it's.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Roberto's gone for until further notice.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
We need to get his last track back on the
show somehow.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Okay, I don't know. We'll have to dig that up.
It's in the cobweb department. Line with all the other
sound byes he used to play. Line four, Hello, line four.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Jokers should have his brother's pay Jimmy a little dizzy,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Oh, okay, bring in the bring in the goons, bring
in the goon squad. Line five, Hello, line five, Now
we have dueling fudge. That's great. Line six, Hello, line six.
(37:03):
You should hire Brian Finley to look longly into the
player's eyes. Yeah, well that would devlong with the tongue,
wagon boy, that was creepy last week. Man, Now I
know what like strippers feel like, you know, and the
guys are staring at him with your tongues. Wagon man,
that's not a good feeling. Okay, we'll do one more,
and only one more. If it's good, I'll take credit.
If not, I will blame. The Koople Loop is about
(37:23):
to pick the final call on the incident of ice
line for the Denver Nuggets, who are now in an
even NBA Finals after losing it home on Sunday night.
Koble Loop Line four line for the final call on
the incident of ice. Line line for you're on the air, go.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
As long as there's no hair pulling or on conta game.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
There you go, all right, hair pulling and eye contact,
the very nice the it's the advice line in the
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