June 12, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Nuggets coach Michael Malone warning the team that the Heat will be "desperate & hungry" in Game 5 of the NBA Finals and if that is true, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one, a
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As we begin a new week, the NBA Finals coach
Michael Malone warning his Nuggets players that the Heat will
be desperate and hungry in Game five of the Finals.
How likely is that? As Michael Malone is the god
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of all cliches? And what chance do you give the
Heat of winning Game five? What does the path back
to compete for a championship in the finals look like
for Miami. We'll talk about all of that and much
more right now here. It is our number one, looking
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Bouncy Ball. Did you watch Game five of the NBA Finals?
Did you check it out? No, of course you didn't
watch Game five of the NBA Finals. There was no
Game five, even though Sunday night is a big television night.
(02:14):
The dumb dumbs over at the NBA said, you know
what we're gonna We're gonna hold off on that because
of the grueling travel. These NBA teams actually travel by
stagecoach to go from city to city, so they had
to have that extra travel day to accommodate the long
haul trip from Miami to Denver. So, in an odd
scheduling situations, there was no NBA game on Sunday night.
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The arenas were all silent, there was nothing going on normally,
It is a big night if you're in the television business,
which we're not. We're in radio, But in television's a
big night, big ratings and all that nonsense. So Denver
goes into game five and eight and a half point favorite.
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They were as big as a ten point face at
some places when the opening line came out after the
game on Friday, another systematic Denver victory. So the Nuggets
favored by eight and a half going into Monday night,
and the Heat there are they're facing their last supper
at this point here for Jimmy Butler and the Heat.
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The Nuggets one win away, one stinking win away from
getting that little hunk of metal. As a commissioner another
sport calls, it doesn't really care about those championships and
all that. So Michael Malone chimed in on this. We
have no game to break down, but we do have
Michael Malone, who's one of these guys who's always a
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little angry, always a little worked up about something, whether
it's contrived or not. But the Nuggets head coach, Michael
Malone addressing the media, and of course he's very concerned.
Even those teams one went away from the Championship. You
wouldn't know that from the commentary the list of worries
of the Nuggets coach, as Warner wil used to say,
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let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
My biggest concern going into any close out game is
human nature and fighting against that. You know, you're up
three to one, and you know most teams, when you're
up three one, they come up for air, they relax
and they just kind of take it for granted that
we're going to win this. And the neat thing for
us is that going back to the bubble. You know,
we've been down three to one before and we've come
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back in one, and we know anything as possible. And
that's why, like my message to our team before we
came down to the media and the open portion of
practices was our approach has to be that we're down
three to one. You know, they're desperate, we have to
be more desperate. They're hungry, We have to be hungrier,
and there is no celebrating after Game four. We have
another game that we have to win and the close
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that game is always the hardest game ever. So I'm
looking forward to seeing our approach. You know, we had
it in game six against Phoenix, we had it in
Game five against Minnesota, we had it in Game four
against the Lakers. And my hope is that tomorrow, in
front of just an unbelievable crowd, incredible environment, that our
players understand the opportunity in front of them and take
full advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All Right, that was a lot of cliches. That was
like a stream of consciousness of all of sportscliche dot
Com from Michael Malone, the Nuggets coach. But the meat
of that was the Denver coach, Michael Malone saying and
giving a warning through the media as he is communicating
yet again through the media, the message being that hey,
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wait a minute here, this Miami team's gonna come out desperate.
They are gonna be desperate and hungry in game five
of the five. Now, how likely is this? How likely
is Well? So I've got Henry Ford stethoscope and supporting actors,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we will make some baba ganoosh is what we're gonna make.
We're gonna make the babaganoosh. So to answer the question,
will Miami come out desperate and hungry? Yes? Does it matter? No,
it doesn't matter. This is the standard knit picker coach
from Michael Malone's like, you know, you can never be happy.
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You always have to have something to harp on. There's
nothing good going on. Everything's negative, negative, negative. He should
be a talk show host, Michael Malone with this attitude.
That's how we do talk radio. The way Michael Malone's
going about this is like he's hardwired that way, and
it really annoys him when the Nuggets play consistently well,
because then he really has to go into the sewer
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to find things to complain about. Right, But yes, Miami
is of course gonna come out and play desperate and hungry.
That's the DNA. That's how they got to the NBA Finals,
the Miami Heat playing that way and carrying the water,
chopping the wood and all that, and wonderful. Those are
great habits to have. Those are really good habits to have.
But you also have to make wide open shots, something
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they have not done a lot of the wide open
shots there. And you might want to occasionally slow down
the joker, but what do I know, I just do
the overnight show. Maybe I'm completely wrong on that, and
you don't ever need to make a wide open shot
and you never have to slow down the other team's
best player. Yes, uh. And ultimately, talent trump's hard work
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if the talent actually puts the work in, and the
Nuggets have put the work in. You look at Jamal
Murray and Nikola Jokich, the yin and the yang, the peanut,
butter and jelly of the Denver Nuggets, and they have
channeled what the Nuggets have done here in these NBA
Finals and really the playoffs all through. They've channeled Henry Ford.
They have an assembly line of execution that's like they're
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making the model t and game now, Game two was
not great. They still had play well in Game two
of this series, and they still had a chance to
tie it at the end on a Jamal Murray three
point shot that clanked uh and did not go in obviously.
But they the tenacity and the determination and all that's wonderful.
But I'd rather have the better players if they play
hard all the time, something that doesn't normally happen in
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the in the NBA. Now page two here from the
Miami side of things, I heard from Michael Malone from
the Miami side of things, this is now a NCAA tournament,
single elimination situation. You win and you get to play
another day, you lose and goodbye. So with that being said,
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Eric Spolstra has chimed in, we have some audio will
play for you. It's either win or get decapitated and
go on a nice vacation. And Eric Spolster heard that
Michael Malone spit out seven thousand cliches, so he said,
you know, anything he does, I can do better. So
here is Coach Spoe, the Miami coach, discussing what the
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heat are excited about. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Love playing in these kind of environments, you know, were
the crowd's going to be great. You know tomorrow everybody's
counting us out. We're used to that. But ultimately it
has to be decided between those four lines. The crowd's
not going to decide it. The narratives aren't going to
decide it. Whatever the analytics are about three to one,
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that ain't going to decide it. It's going to be
decided between those four lines. Whose game can get to
whose game and ultimately win at the end.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's what our guys love. Yeah, they love it. Oh,
they love it so they intentionally fell behind three games
to one because they love it so much, the Miami Heat.
This reminds me of a spolster years ago. We were
in here on these microphones ranting. I believe it was
the Dwayne Wade NBA Finals without not the last heatals
(09:50):
wereun This is Dwayne Wade. I think Shaq was there.
They were playing Dallas, Dirk Novitsky and and he came
out and famously said after the the Heat had fallen
behind that series by a bunch of games and they
had to go back to Dallas, and he said, I
wouldn't have it any other way. We played that for
like five years on Fox Sports Radier because it was
(10:10):
so stupid. We wouldn't have it any other way the
other way. Yea, yeah, yeah, all right, So what chances
Let's get down to business. What chances do you give
Miami in game number five here on a Monday night
in Colorado? So microscopic would be the way I would
answer that. Microscopic would be the chances. There'll be a
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lot of scratching and clawing, a lot of that, a
lot of that at some point if Denver maintains a
comfortable lead of around ten points or so at some
point the white flag will go up. The flag is up,
and that'll be that. But ultimately, listen, if you look
at what's going on here and a crazy crowd and
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the four lines and all the cliches, you can spew
all the cliches, and it's true. They analytics don't tell
you who's gonna win, and they tell you what has happened,
not necessarily what's going to happen and all that. But
Denver has been able to put on a basketball clinic
and it's like they're wearing Jokic is wearing a stethoscope
and Jamal Murray's got one of those white doctor coats
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on and they have a very surgical approach here as Nikolea.
Jokic is shooting double nichols in the NBA Finals, fifty
five percent in the NBA Finals, forty four percent from
downtown and averaging over thirty points a game and over
thirteen rebounds and eight assists per game. It has been
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like the hockey team in Colorado. For the basketball team,
it has been an avalanche, is what it has been.
It's been an absolute avalanche. Now the last word here,
let's get down to business. So what does the path
back into the finals look like for Miami. We've already
given them a microscopic opportunity to win Game five and
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get the series back to Miami. The path is not outrageous.
It's really get the game back home. But they just
played a bunch of games in Miami and didn't play well.
The Heat did on their home court. So it's not
like getting it back home suddenly shifts the pendulum the
direction of the Heat. Because the Nuggets were fine at
sea level, they were all right, are we gonna hear
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a bunch about the altitude in Denver again and all
that stuff? But the ultimate here, I'll give some free advice,
the ultimate advice here from your favorite overnight gas baggery.
If I'm advising the Miami Heat, and they should be
paying me for this advice, I'm giving it out free.
A bad job by me, But here's what I would do.
You've got to create roadblocks. You've gotta toss out obstacles here.
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Create something that they get a lot of in the
Sunshine State, sinkholes. You create some sinkholes there, and you're
only a sprained ankle or a messed up knee ligament
away from being right back in this series. So oh,
you should never speak that out into the cosmos. But
that's the reality of the sport that as long as
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Nikola Jokic and or Jamal Murray stay healthy, everything's fine.
But if you get a sprained ankle or a knee
ligament to twist the wrong way and all of a sudden,
you have a flotilla of problems. But even with that,
if I look around these supporting actors from Miami, you
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talk about the cast and how it's an ensemble cast,
they're not. They're not living up to their end of
the bargain here. And it's like the turtles here, the
teenage mutant ninja turtles. These are not teenage mutant ninja turtles.
These are just turtles turtling up and Max struce. This
is one of the single worst Finals performances we've ever seen.
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It is unbelievably stinky. I mean, Max Strews is shooting
sixteen percent from the floor. All he's there to do
is to make shots from the wide open shots. Most
of those shots have been pretty open. Shooting sixteen percent
from three point range, he's shooting nineteen percent. Caleb Martin
is shooting thirty five percent from three point range, and
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Gabe Vincent, who actually played pretty well the first couple games.
The last two games back in Miami, Gabe Vincent shooting
under twenty percent from the floor and under ten percent
from three point range. I think you get the point.
So there's still a chance they haven't been destroyed to
get them been buried, but it's looking pretty bad. The potatoes,
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the funeral potatoes, are in the oven right now. It
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it was a mystery woman at the NBA Finals, but
there are no mysteries in the age of the Internet.
Many people got a big surprise when they found out
who that mystery woman was. We'll get to that and
we will do it next.
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The Twilight's own it. You never know what's going to
happen next.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Why you tune in for a second. I was like,
wait a minute, I dreamed.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I thought Mark told me in my headphofs that monologue
sucks so much. You gotta do it over that monologue, Blue,
nobody wanted that monologue. Do it again, do.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
It redo everybody in sports as a kid, do it over?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Read it a mulligan, A mulligan. Alright. Uh. Nature Boy
writes in and says, you mocked me, You mocked me
on Friday. I'm sticking with the Nuggets in five of course. Yeah,
that's the guy. Nature Boy's the guy who looks like
he might get the pick right. So he wants to
make sure everyone knows that he might get to pick right.
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But it's not over yet. It's not over yet. He says.
The only way the Nuggets will not win is if
Tanya Harding sends in the Thugs on the starting five.
So she says Paul r So he says. Paul writes in,
says Jimmy Buckets leads the three to one rally come
back in the NBA Finals to win in seven. Then
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Paul likely wakes up. Maverick writes in and says, awesome
work there, Ben, Even though I pull for the heat,
I am with you. Denver is just too good When
you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Do you
put the jelly on first or vice versa. So not
to get sidetracked, but there is a method to the Mattus.
(17:46):
We've been through this before over the years on the show.
But I do one side peanut butter, one side jelly.
It does not matter which side you do first. You
could do the jelly first if you choose, you could
do the peanut butter first. But the key is the
pressing of the jelly and the peanut butter, the fusion
where they get together, and that's where they make little
(18:07):
peanut butter and jelly babies right there in your mouth.
It's amazing. So it's really really good. Uh yeah, no, no, no, sure,
let's just go with that chip and the que says
a plus. On the monologue, whoever heard of an avalanche
in Colorado? Pete the machinist writes, and he says, we've
seen a final series go the two three to one.
(18:28):
But I want so badly the Heat to win. I'm
hoping they can extend these series. The fact is this
team with Butler and a bunch of nobody's fighting this
well oiled machine. I want Butler and then nobody's so, so,
he says. Also, what's more likely to happen the heat
win or Lizzo eats a salad?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
No, no, I disagree. I'll tell you why I disagree.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Now, let me tell you why. You know how you
can get a salad but it's covered with like a
whole chicken and Barbie sauce on it, or you know,
honey mustard sauce or whatever kind of sauce you like. No,
I think you could convince Lizzo to eat a salad,
but you'd have to put like non salad items on
top of it.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Then that's not a salad.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, they still call a salad. It's called what's called marketing. Hey,
it's called marketing. You put just that's what you sell
it like. It wasn't that story a couple of years ago.
It's been many years now. But McDonald's when they debuted
their salad, the Big Mac had fewer calories than the salad.
You'd be better off eating if just from a calorie standpoint,
you'd be better off eating the big Mac. Who else
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do we have? Page dan uh, I can't read that
on the air, spocks Weed writes and says funeral potatoes.
I've never heard that one before. Who I thought everyone
knew about funeral potatoes.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You've never have you been to You've been to funerals, right,
I mean you've I have been to funerals. Yes, I've
been to a few myself. And there's a dish it
traditionally at the funeral. It's the few they call the
funeral potatoes. It's it's like a casse role.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Coop is also shaking his head.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now, well, I've been to more funerals than you.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
That may be the case.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I've been, unfortunately, a lot of funerals, and I am
well aware of funeral potatoes. I'm not making google it.
I'm not making it up.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
By the way, I'm not gonna google.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Why is it just the potatoes? Well, that's a dish
that is served traditionally like a side dish. You have
the main at the funeral, you'll have like the it
depends what who died, but you have cold cuts, so
you might have a chicken dish.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Well, why don't they call them funeral cold cuts?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
They don't. They don't call them that because cold cuts
they can go anywhere. This particular type of potato is designed.
It's perfect when somebody croaks.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
They so it can't just be any like form of potatoes.
It has to be a specific potato dish like potatoes.
Potatoes O grotten wouldn't be funeral potatoes or.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
No, those would be potatoes with grotten. Those are not
funeral potatoes. Potato funeral it's a cheesy brown casserole.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Oh, I'm back, I'm back interested.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, ooh okay, So it's like cheesy, but it's it's
called fund.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
That looks good.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Now I'm hoping I can invite.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Just not your own. You don't want to go to
your own.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
To enjoin the funeral potatoes.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
In that situation, somebody somebody else croaks and you get
the potatoes there. G Manage in Chicago, says he plus
on the monologue, hoping the Nuggets close it out before
the NHL does. Waiting for the Alien to give Ja
Morant a historic suspension, Yes, so do they wait until
the parade assuming the Nuggets win? Does the NBA have
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the courtesy to wait until the parade or do they
still do they just drop the drop the bomb like
the next morning after the NBA Finals will find out Uh,
nature boy, want to know about the mystery woman? Is
it Shakira? No, So, if you're watching the game on
Friday night in Miami, you saw a woman wearing red pants.
I assume none of you guys were watching the NBA
(21:58):
Finals on Friday, but I was slipping back and forth.
And so there's this the Internet. Of course, anytime you
see a beautiful person, usually if it's a woman, dudes
get all horny and they're like, who's that woman? You know?
And she's sitting like right there near the court, and
so they're trying to find this mystery one at the
NBA Finals game. Well, it didn't take long for Internet
investigators to find out who it was, and many were surprised.
(22:21):
So though they shouldn't be surprised when they found out
who it was.
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Speaker 5 (23:06):
We did have some tennis Novak Djokovic winning the French Open,
twenty third Grand Slam of his career. That passes a
tie he had or breaks a tie he had with
Rafael and Nadal for the all time lead in Grand
Slam titles one So right now, I guess he could
say I am the greatest until Nadal wins one and
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then ties him again. He beat somebody named Casper Rude
to win this title.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Casper Rude, Yeah, should have been a teacher, mister rude
name perhaps you know all kinds of other things, so yeah,
what other things? Uh, well, mister rude. It could be
like a professional wrestler.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Maybe no, but I'm saying like the wrestlers use stage names.
But if you're mister rude to.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Be an insult comic, perhaps.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
But if you're comedians use fake names. You want to say.
If you're a teacher, sure you have to like if
you're a substitute teacher, Hello, welcome to mister rude. I'm
in today r.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
U U D.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
By the way, that's it's not as good.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
You got a fun factor and it's that NHL story.
Is that something you're talking teasing. I'll get to that
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Speaker 1 (24:32):
So the first the the lady in red pants at
the NBA Finals game for the mystery woman. People trying
to figure out who's that lady. She's she's easy on
the eyes and they're trying to figure out who she is.
And then after a while they figured out who she was,
and it turns out Eddie that she was the girl
(24:53):
next door. If you live next door to a porn star,
if your neighbor's a porn star, it's the girl next door.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Well, in this area that we work in, that's actually possible.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yes, allow. A lot of the business has moved to
Vegas in Miami, but there's still many of the movies
are shot right near where we work from. But her
name is her stage name, adult film star, a bella danger.
Does that ring a bell for anybody a fan of
her work?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
No?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
I should should? Are we allowed to google for show
purpose research?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Well? I don't know, but that's her name there. And
so she was sitting courtside there and got some TV time,
and the boys got all excited there. They were trying
to track her down, and then, much to their surprise,
they realized that she's she was. Indeed, there's a lot,
a lot to see that. They don't need the red pants.
(25:48):
There's nothing left to nothing left to surprise there, Eddie,
everything's right.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I did a Google search and to my shock, none
of the images that I see are actually these are
all safe for work?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Actually?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Amazing?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You must have some kind of filter on.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
You possibly, Well, what did you say?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Your name was, it's A and then Bella.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Okay, I typed in. I typed in Bella without the A,
So maybe that helped my search a little bit. But
it's all uh, it's all safe for work stuff here.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Oh good. Oh, she's got her own Wikipedia page, not
my search, eddie. She's twenty seven, she's from Miami and
she's been she's been active in the business since twenty fourteen.
So that's a lot of a wear and tear, a
lot of mileage. Does she take any load management days?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Yes, a lot every day.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
What you're talking about there, I have no idea. But
she's won some awards. She's an award winning actor.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
What are you guys doing?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
She's an award winning actress.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Here.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I'm sure that's her best scene for actress was Starlet.
She won that award, So like that's like the rookie
of the year in the porn business. So congratulations. Uh okay.
I don't think we can read any more of these
awards that she's won. But there's some different I guess
you'd call him ensemble performances and he was part of
(27:20):
by the way, not a fan, not a fan, oh man. Oh.
Because of that We had a guy that was a
potato expert along up Eddie got I was gonna get
it turned on funeral potatoes, but the guy hung up.
We will never know about funeral potato.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
I'm actually gonna google that now. I think I'll enjoy
looking at that more than this.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You would rather look at a castle all the cheesy potatoes,
then a porn star with a lot of mileage on
the odometer. I got you, I got you. So the
the NHL player who is apparently not tied into pop
culture very much would be Jack Eichele of the gold
The Knight's a team that's on the cusp but winning
(28:02):
the Stanley Cup. Now, how do we know that the
the rotund Jack Ikeel rotund? Well, you know he's he
likes you know, he's my hockey standards.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Any right, you're talking about Phil Kessel.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oh I confuse Phil Kessel and Jack you know those
white dudes. I don't know anyway. Uh So I I apologize,
So I apologize to Jack Igo. So Jack Keel, the
Golden Knight star, he's at the team hotel in Florida
and this guy comes up to him, walks up to
(28:36):
him and says, how how great, he thinks you are.
He's some random guy at the hotel and Jack Icel
looks at this guy and like, who the hell are you?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That person Eddie was a guy by the name of
Charles Barkley. Jack Iykele apparently either does not like basketball
or does not like watching commercials for sandwiches and other
things that Barkley pimps out. But yeah, Barkley told the story.
He says, the other day he was at the team hotel.
He was saying there he walked up to Jack Eigel
(29:09):
and said how great he was, and Barkley said he
had zero idea who he was, and he looked at him, like,
who the hell are you? So wow?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
That is I believe Jack Eikele was American too, so
I mean that kind of if he was, I guess Canadian,
maybe that would give him a little bit of a pass.
I don't know, but well, he just maybe he just
doesn't watch Turner. I still though, as you said, he's
on all these commercials.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
He would think Barkley's transcended just being a basketball guy.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
He's that's not nearly as bad though as a few
years back gold former NHL goal I guess he still
might be around the league. Jonathan Bernier, Oh yeah, you
remember the story twenty fourteen. He was at a benefit
for Nelson Mandela or something, some honor of Nelson Mandela,
and he was asked in the red carpet about Nelson Mandela.
(29:59):
No idea who he was, but he tried to act
like he did and talked about how what a great
athlete Nelson.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Well he did survive a long internment, so well, yeah, sure,
all right, it's at the Bey Mallard Show on Fox.
Let's say hello to Jed who fled. Who's in the
Sunshine State? Maybe do you know anything about funeral potatoes?
We had a potato farmer but he hung up, do
(30:28):
you know anything about funeral potatoes? I'm having to push
my vehicle out of the yard.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
That didnt wake anybody about.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Crank it to come back to me a little bit.
I'm sorry, I'm literally pushing the vehicles that cross. Okay,
it's what do you do. It's almost three in the
morning there and he's he's pushing, randomly, pushing a vehicle
out in the middle of nowhere in the sticks in Florida.
It's great. Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, let's see hear.
(30:57):
Jason writes in from Kansas City says height at ten
of the Mallard model, Michael Malone seems to be channeling
his inner Steve Kerr with those cliches. The more talented
nugget should win on a Monday night. So so he says,
who else do we have? Page down a page Den?
Now we're getting people sending me pictures of funeral potatoes.
(31:19):
Thank you for that. See can't can't read that Justin
has some knowledge on that porn star. Shocking that Justin
would have some knowledge on that nature boy had a
pretty funny line there. And GM Manage says that abba
Abella Danger has Apparently she's she's enjoyed the company of
(31:41):
many athletes. Apparently, according to GM Mange, I don't know.
I've not looked at her her rap sheet. All right,
it is the Ben Malors show. As we continue on,
and we'll have the MLB pick him. Here's the who
am I game? I hold the record for the most
baseball games played, most professional big games major League Baseball
(32:02):
games played by a former NFL player. Been a number
of players that have played in the NFL and Major
League Baseball, but I hold the record for the most
Major League Baseball games played in by a former NFL player.
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We
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A lot of players have played both Major League Baseball
and the NFL, but I hold the record for the
most Major League Baseball games played by a former NFL player.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer? Listen?
Does anyone know the answer? Matt the Warrior Raider as
(33:34):
fan use a chat tool to get it right. Bad
job by him. Pauly D also cheated. Shame on you,
Colonel Sanders. Guest by the Cowboy Killer ferg Dog's going
with the Jokers as the answer. Justin in Cincinnati says
his favorite all time Atlanta Brave. The answer is John Rocker.
Who else do we have? Andrew in the Bay Area.
(33:58):
He got a right bad job by him. Jim Thorpe
guest by Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, the very athletic Nelson
Mandela from the Eddie Garcia Burner account. George Hallis tossed
out by Dan Willie McCovey from Robin, Minnesota. Nate Newton
from Sean in Portland, Newt Rockney from Mark in Santa Monica.
(34:23):
In SoCal Calligan Tim and Michigan's going with the Candy
Man Tom Candiotti as his answer. Bo Jackson from Johnny
Q Yinka Dare guest by Shane of Des Moines, Mike
Marshall from Miguel on Fire, Steve the Misplaced San Diegan
says Dave Winfield the Padres Dave Winfield is the answer.
(34:45):
Pete the Machinist, He got a right. Heathcliff Slocum guest
by Chris in the Moines Cubs Legend. Heathcliff, Heathcliff Slocumb.
Cafey went with that porn star at the heat game.
Very funny, Kathy, very nice there, Art Doc guests by
Darren Who else do we have? Dion Sanders from Chip
and the Ques Spocks Weed went with Bo Jackson. Eddie,
(35:07):
Do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 5 (35:09):
I was gonna guess coach Prime.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Coach Prime. Yes, that is incorrect, the correct answer. This
guy played I think it was like fifteen years in
the Major League. He played mostly for the Cardinals and
the Braves. Does that ring a bell to you?
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Oh well, Brian, what's.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
His last name?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Was a very famous basketball player. Brian Jordan, Yeah, Brian Jordan.
He played fourteen hundred and fifty six Major League baseball games,
mostly for the Cardinals and the Braves, but at the
end of his career. He played for the Dodgers and
the Texas Rangers, and that is more than any other
NFL player in Major League Baseball. So Brian Jordan, was.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
It Darren Dalton that he creamed at home played? I
remember he had one home play collision whre he just destroyed.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Some of well, my favorite, my favorite Jordan stories. He
was at the last ever ball Night at Dodger Stadium
when the game, the last time ever the game was forfeited.
Dodgers had to forfeit that game to the Cardinals because
they gave away the baseballs and there was a controversial
call and the late Tommy Lesorta waddled out of the
dugout and complained and people started throwing the baseballs on
(36:15):
the field. And Brian Jordan was a young outfielder for
the Cardinals and they was at Dodger State. Obviously that's
what happened. And he was so happy. I remember after
that game I interviewed him. He was so excited. Was
like the coolest thing he'd ever been part of. And
I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
All.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Right, here we go, time now for the m LB
pick them. What is that you ask, Well, we are
going to pick a pitcher, what a hitter?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Actually two hitters? And whoever gets the most points will
be declared the smartest person in the room and will
then go first in the next round. And uhup first
here as we start the new week, the Coop de
Loop picking first.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
I've now tied you in the season long standings.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
By the way, you have no chance of actually winning,
so feel feel fine.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
Zach Effln will be my first pick.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
That is a bad pick by you, Dane Dunning of
my Rangers. Do you see who he's going up again?
My god, yes, going up again? Tim Anderson who sucks
or whatever his name is, Andrews Dodge, Tim Tyler whatever,
all those Anderson suck. I go ahead, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
I'm gonna go with my cousin odonlas Garcia.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
All right, Mark, who do you have here? Mark Ron
saying Ron?
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
One more h George Foster, George Foster.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Okay, old school, Go ahead, Eddie, go ahead, I'm gonna
take let's go with chop Ellie de la Cruz.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I will take Ozzie Albi's of my Atlanta Braves. Go ahead,
Coop the back.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
To back, I'll go with Showy Otani the batter Bad
pick Uh, and I will also go with Wander Franco.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I'm gonna take the red Hot. I don't even know
who this guy is. I've never heard of him, but
Corbin Carroll of the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Annie, somebody named Tommy Henry.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Alright, last Pig Mark Kik Gibson track Big Jimmy Watch
Gimmy Bam. I'm right handed, but I'm swinging like Gibson
right here. That's what I'm doing
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As we begin a new week, the NBA Finals coach
Michael Malone warning his Nuggets players that the Heat will
be desperate and hungry in Game five of the Finals.
How likely is that? As Michael Malone is the god
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Heat of winning Game five? What does the path back
to compete for a championship in the finals look like
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Bouncy Ball. Did you watch Game five of the NBA Finals?
Did you check it out? No, of course you didn't
watch Game five of the NBA Finals. There was no
Game five, even though Sunday night is a big television night.
(02:14):
The dumb dumbs over at the NBA said, you know
what we're gonna We're gonna hold off on that because
of the grueling travel. These NBA teams actually travel by
stagecoach to go from city to city, so they had
to have that extra travel day to accommodate the long
haul trip from Miami to Denver. So, in an odd
scheduling situations, there was no NBA game on Sunday night.
(02:37):
The arenas were all silent, there was nothing going on normally,
It is a big night if you're in the television business,
which we're not. We're in radio, But in television's a
big night, big ratings and all that nonsense. So Denver
goes into game five and eight and a half point favorite.
(02:58):
They were as big as a ten point face at
some places when the opening line came out after the
game on Friday, another systematic Denver victory. So the Nuggets
favored by eight and a half going into Monday night,
and the Heat there are they're facing their last supper
at this point here for Jimmy Butler and the Heat.
(03:19):
The Nuggets one win away, one stinking win away from
getting that little hunk of metal. As a commissioner another
sport calls, it doesn't really care about those championships and
all that. So Michael Malone chimed in on this. We
have no game to break down, but we do have
Michael Malone, who's one of these guys who's always a
(03:39):
little angry, always a little worked up about something, whether
it's contrived or not. But the Nuggets head coach, Michael
Malone addressing the media, and of course he's very concerned.
Even those teams one went away from the Championship. You
wouldn't know that from the commentary the list of worries
of the Nuggets coach, as Warner wil used to say,
(04:00):
let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
My biggest concern going into any close out game is
human nature and fighting against that. You know, you're up
three to one, and you know most teams, when you're
up three one, they come up for air, they relax
and they just kind of take it for granted that
we're going to win this. And the neat thing for
us is that going back to the bubble. You know,
we've been down three to one before and we've come
(04:25):
back in one, and we know anything as possible. And
that's why, like my message to our team before we
came down to the media and the open portion of
practices was our approach has to be that we're down
three to one. You know, they're desperate, we have to
be more desperate. They're hungry, We have to be hungrier,
and there is no celebrating after Game four. We have
another game that we have to win and the close
(04:47):
that game is always the hardest game ever. So I'm
looking forward to seeing our approach. You know, we had
it in game six against Phoenix, we had it in
Game five against Minnesota, we had it in Game four
against the Lakers. And my hope is that tomorrow, in
front of just an unbelievable crowd, incredible environment, that our
players understand the opportunity in front of them and take
full advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
All Right, that was a lot of cliches. That was
like a stream of consciousness of all of sportscliche dot
Com from Michael Malone, the Nuggets coach. But the meat
of that was the Denver coach, Michael Malone saying and
giving a warning through the media as he is communicating
yet again through the media, the message being that hey,
(05:28):
wait a minute here, this Miami team's gonna come out desperate.
They are gonna be desperate and hungry in game five
of the five. Now, how likely is this? How likely
is Well? So I've got Henry Ford stethoscope and supporting actors,
and we will combine all of these things together and
(05:49):
we will make some baba ganoosh is what we're gonna make.
We're gonna make the babaganoosh. So to answer the question,
will Miami come out desperate and hungry? Yes? Does it matter? No,
it doesn't matter. This is the standard knit picker coach
from Michael Malone's like, you know, you can never be happy.
(06:10):
You always have to have something to harp on. There's
nothing good going on. Everything's negative, negative, negative. He should
be a talk show host, Michael Malone with this attitude.
That's how we do talk radio. The way Michael Malone's
going about this is like he's hardwired that way, and
it really annoys him when the Nuggets play consistently well,
because then he really has to go into the sewer
(06:33):
to find things to complain about. Right, But yes, Miami
is of course gonna come out and play desperate and hungry.
That's the DNA. That's how they got to the NBA Finals,
the Miami Heat playing that way and carrying the water,
chopping the wood and all that, and wonderful. Those are
great habits to have. Those are really good habits to have.
But you also have to make wide open shots, something
(06:56):
they have not done a lot of the wide open
shots there. And you might want to occasionally slow down
the joker, but what do I know, I just do
the overnight show. Maybe I'm completely wrong on that, and
you don't ever need to make a wide open shot
and you never have to slow down the other team's
best player. Yes, uh. And ultimately, talent trump's hard work
(07:20):
if the talent actually puts the work in, and the
Nuggets have put the work in. You look at Jamal
Murray and Nikola Jokich, the yin and the yang, the peanut,
butter and jelly of the Denver Nuggets, and they have
channeled what the Nuggets have done here in these NBA
Finals and really the playoffs all through. They've channeled Henry Ford.
They have an assembly line of execution that's like they're
(07:42):
making the model t and game now, Game two was
not great. They still had play well in Game two
of this series, and they still had a chance to
tie it at the end on a Jamal Murray three
point shot that clanked uh and did not go in obviously.
But they the tenacity and the determination and all that's wonderful.
But I'd rather have the better players if they play
hard all the time, something that doesn't normally happen in
(08:06):
the in the NBA. Now page two here from the
Miami side of things, I heard from Michael Malone from
the Miami side of things, this is now a NCAA tournament,
single elimination situation. You win and you get to play
another day, you lose and goodbye. So with that being said,
(08:29):
Eric Spolstra has chimed in, we have some audio will
play for you. It's either win or get decapitated and
go on a nice vacation. And Eric Spolster heard that
Michael Malone spit out seven thousand cliches, so he said,
you know, anything he does, I can do better. So
here is Coach Spoe, the Miami coach, discussing what the
(08:53):
heat are excited about. Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Love playing in these kind of environments, you know, were
the crowd's going to be great. You know tomorrow everybody's
counting us out. We're used to that. But ultimately it
has to be decided between those four lines. The crowd's
not going to decide it. The narratives aren't going to
decide it. Whatever the analytics are about three to one,
(09:17):
that ain't going to decide it. It's going to be
decided between those four lines. Whose game can get to
whose game and ultimately win at the end.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's what our guys love. Yeah, they love it. Oh,
they love it so they intentionally fell behind three games
to one because they love it so much, the Miami Heat.
This reminds me of a spolster years ago. We were
in here on these microphones ranting. I believe it was
the Dwayne Wade NBA Finals without not the last heatals
(09:50):
wereun This is Dwayne Wade. I think Shaq was there.
They were playing Dallas, Dirk Novitsky and and he came
out and famously said after the the Heat had fallen
behind that series by a bunch of games and they
had to go back to Dallas, and he said, I
wouldn't have it any other way. We played that for
like five years on Fox Sports Radier because it was
(10:10):
so stupid. We wouldn't have it any other way the
other way. Yea, yeah, yeah, all right, So what chances
Let's get down to business. What chances do you give
Miami in game number five here on a Monday night
in Colorado? So microscopic would be the way I would
answer that. Microscopic would be the chances. There'll be a
(10:32):
lot of scratching and clawing, a lot of that, a
lot of that at some point if Denver maintains a
comfortable lead of around ten points or so at some
point the white flag will go up. The flag is up,
and that'll be that. But ultimately, listen, if you look
at what's going on here and a crazy crowd and
(10:54):
the four lines and all the cliches, you can spew
all the cliches, and it's true. They analytics don't tell
you who's gonna win, and they tell you what has happened,
not necessarily what's going to happen and all that. But
Denver has been able to put on a basketball clinic
and it's like they're wearing Jokic is wearing a stethoscope
and Jamal Murray's got one of those white doctor coats
(11:16):
on and they have a very surgical approach here as Nikolea.
Jokic is shooting double nichols in the NBA Finals, fifty
five percent in the NBA Finals, forty four percent from
downtown and averaging over thirty points a game and over
thirteen rebounds and eight assists per game. It has been
(11:38):
like the hockey team in Colorado. For the basketball team,
it has been an avalanche, is what it has been.
It's been an absolute avalanche. Now the last word here,
let's get down to business. So what does the path
back into the finals look like for Miami. We've already
given them a microscopic opportunity to win Game five and
(11:59):
get the series back to Miami. The path is not outrageous.
It's really get the game back home. But they just
played a bunch of games in Miami and didn't play well.
The Heat did on their home court. So it's not
like getting it back home suddenly shifts the pendulum the
direction of the Heat. Because the Nuggets were fine at
sea level, they were all right, are we gonna hear
(12:21):
a bunch about the altitude in Denver again and all
that stuff? But the ultimate here, I'll give some free advice,
the ultimate advice here from your favorite overnight gas baggery.
If I'm advising the Miami Heat, and they should be
paying me for this advice, I'm giving it out free.
A bad job by me, But here's what I would do.
You've got to create roadblocks. You've gotta toss out obstacles here.
(12:45):
Create something that they get a lot of in the
Sunshine State, sinkholes. You create some sinkholes there, and you're
only a sprained ankle or a messed up knee ligament
away from being right back in this series. So oh,
you should never speak that out into the cosmos. But
that's the reality of the sport that as long as
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Nikola Jokic and or Jamal Murray stay healthy, everything's fine.
But if you get a sprained ankle or a knee
ligament to twist the wrong way and all of a sudden,
you have a flotilla of problems. But even with that,
if I look around these supporting actors from Miami, you
(13:26):
talk about the cast and how it's an ensemble cast,
they're not. They're not living up to their end of
the bargain here. And it's like the turtles here, the
teenage mutant ninja turtles. These are not teenage mutant ninja turtles.
These are just turtles turtling up and Max struce. This
is one of the single worst Finals performances we've ever seen.
(13:48):
It is unbelievably stinky. I mean, Max Strews is shooting
sixteen percent from the floor. All he's there to do
is to make shots from the wide open shots. Most
of those shots have been pretty open. Shooting sixteen percent
from three point range, he's shooting nineteen percent. Caleb Martin
is shooting thirty five percent from three point range, and
(14:12):
Gabe Vincent, who actually played pretty well the first couple games.
The last two games back in Miami, Gabe Vincent shooting
under twenty percent from the floor and under ten percent
from three point range. I think you get the point.
So there's still a chance they haven't been destroyed to
get them been buried, but it's looking pretty bad. The potatoes,
(14:34):
the funeral potatoes, are in the oven right now. It
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it was a mystery woman at the NBA Finals, but
there are no mysteries in the age of the Internet.
Many people got a big surprise when they found out
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Speaker 1 (16:18):
The Twilight's own it. You never know what's going to
happen next.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Why you tune in for a second. I was like,
wait a minute, I dreamed.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I thought Mark told me in my headphofs that monologue
sucks so much. You gotta do it over that monologue, Blue,
nobody wanted that monologue. Do it again, do.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
It redo everybody in sports as a kid, do it over?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Read it a mulligan, A mulligan. Alright. Uh. Nature Boy
writes in and says, you mocked me, You mocked me
on Friday. I'm sticking with the Nuggets in five of course. Yeah,
that's the guy. Nature Boy's the guy who looks like
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make sure everyone knows that he might get to pick right.
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But it's not over yet. It's not over yet. He says.
The only way the Nuggets will not win is if
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work there, Ben, Even though I pull for the heat,
I am with you. Denver is just too good When
you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Do you
put the jelly on first or vice versa. So not
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(17:46):
We've been through this before over the years on the show.
But I do one side peanut butter, one side jelly.
It does not matter which side you do first. You
could do the jelly first if you choose, you could
do the peanut butter first. But the key is the
pressing of the jelly and the peanut butter, the fusion
where they get together, and that's where they make little
(18:07):
peanut butter and jelly babies right there in your mouth.
It's amazing. So it's really really good. Uh yeah, no, no, no, sure,
let's just go with that chip and the que says
a plus. On the monologue, whoever heard of an avalanche
in Colorado? Pete the machinist writes, and he says, we've
seen a final series go the two three to one.
(18:28):
But I want so badly the Heat to win. I'm
hoping they can extend these series. The fact is this
team with Butler and a bunch of nobody's fighting this
well oiled machine. I want Butler and then nobody's so, so,
he says. Also, what's more likely to happen the heat
win or Lizzo eats a salad?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
No, no, I disagree. I'll tell you why I disagree.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Now, let me tell you why. You know how you
can get a salad but it's covered with like a
whole chicken and Barbie sauce on it, or you know,
honey mustard sauce or whatever kind of sauce you like. No,
I think you could convince Lizzo to eat a salad,
but you'd have to put like non salad items on
top of it.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Then that's not a salad.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
No, they still call a salad. It's called what's called marketing. Hey,
it's called marketing. You put just that's what you sell
it like. It wasn't that story a couple of years ago.
It's been many years now. But McDonald's when they debuted
their salad, the Big Mac had fewer calories than the salad.
You'd be better off eating if just from a calorie standpoint,
you'd be better off eating the big Mac. Who else
(19:38):
do we have? Page dan uh, I can't read that
on the air, spocks Weed writes and says funeral potatoes.
I've never heard that one before. Who I thought everyone
knew about funeral potatoes.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I've never heard of that before.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You've never have you been to You've been to funerals, right,
I mean you've I have been to funerals. Yes, I've
been to a few myself. And there's a dish it
traditionally at the funeral. It's the few they call the
funeral potatoes. It's it's like a casse role.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Coop is also shaking his head.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now, well, I've been to more funerals than you.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
That may be the case.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I've been, unfortunately, a lot of funerals, and I am
well aware of funeral potatoes. I'm not making google it.
I'm not making it up.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
By the way, I'm not gonna google.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Why is it just the potatoes? Well, that's a dish
that is served traditionally like a side dish. You have
the main at the funeral, you'll have like the it
depends what who died, but you have cold cuts, so
you might have a chicken dish.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Well, why don't they call them funeral cold cuts?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
They don't. They don't call them that because cold cuts
they can go anywhere. This particular type of potato is designed.
It's perfect when somebody croaks.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
They so it can't just be any like form of potatoes.
It has to be a specific potato dish like potatoes.
Potatoes O grotten wouldn't be funeral potatoes or.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
No, those would be potatoes with grotten. Those are not
funeral potatoes. Potato funeral it's a cheesy brown casserole.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Oh, I'm back, I'm back interested.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, ooh okay, So it's like cheesy, but it's it's
called fund.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
That looks good.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Now I'm hoping I can invite.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Just not your own. You don't want to go to
your own.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
To enjoin the funeral potatoes.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
In that situation, somebody somebody else croaks and you get
the potatoes there. G Manage in Chicago, says he plus
on the monologue, hoping the Nuggets close it out before
the NHL does. Waiting for the Alien to give Ja
Morant a historic suspension, Yes, so do they wait until
the parade assuming the Nuggets win? Does the NBA have
(21:37):
the courtesy to wait until the parade or do they
still do they just drop the drop the bomb like
the next morning after the NBA Finals will find out Uh,
nature boy, want to know about the mystery woman? Is
it Shakira? No, So, if you're watching the game on
Friday night in Miami, you saw a woman wearing red pants.
I assume none of you guys were watching the NBA
(21:58):
Finals on Friday, but I was slipping back and forth.
And so there's this the Internet. Of course, anytime you
see a beautiful person, usually if it's a woman, dudes
get all horny and they're like, who's that woman? You know?
And she's sitting like right there near the court, and
so they're trying to find this mystery one at the
NBA Finals game. Well, it didn't take long for Internet
investigators to find out who it was, and many were surprised.
(22:21):
So though they shouldn't be surprised when they found out
who it was.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
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Speaker 5 (23:06):
We did have some tennis Novak Djokovic winning the French Open,
twenty third Grand Slam of his career. That passes a
tie he had or breaks a tie he had with
Rafael and Nadal for the all time lead in Grand
Slam titles one So right now, I guess he could
say I am the greatest until Nadal wins one and
(23:27):
then ties him again. He beat somebody named Casper Rude
to win this title.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Casper Rude, Yeah, should have been a teacher, mister rude
name perhaps you know all kinds of other things, so yeah,
what other things? Uh, well, mister rude. It could be
like a professional wrestler.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Maybe no, but I'm saying like the wrestlers use stage names.
But if you're mister rude to.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Be an insult comic, perhaps.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
But if you're comedians use fake names. You want to say.
If you're a teacher, sure you have to like if
you're a substitute teacher, Hello, welcome to mister rude. I'm
in today r.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
U U D.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
By the way, that's it's not as good.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
You got a fun factor and it's that NHL story.
Is that something you're talking teasing. I'll get to that
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Speaker 1 (24:32):
So the first the the lady in red pants at
the NBA Finals game for the mystery woman. People trying
to figure out who's that lady. She's she's easy on
the eyes and they're trying to figure out who she is.
And then after a while they figured out who she was,
and it turns out Eddie that she was the girl
(24:53):
next door. If you live next door to a porn star,
if your neighbor's a porn star, it's the girl next door.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Well, in this area that we work in, that's actually possible.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yes, allow. A lot of the business has moved to
Vegas in Miami, but there's still many of the movies
are shot right near where we work from. But her
name is her stage name, adult film star, a bella danger.
Does that ring a bell for anybody a fan of
her work?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
No?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
I should should? Are we allowed to google for show
purpose research?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Well? I don't know, but that's her name there. And
so she was sitting courtside there and got some TV time,
and the boys got all excited there. They were trying
to track her down, and then, much to their surprise,
they realized that she's she was. Indeed, there's a lot,
a lot to see that. They don't need the red pants.
(25:48):
There's nothing left to nothing left to surprise there, Eddie,
everything's right.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
I did a Google search and to my shock, none
of the images that I see are actually these are
all safe for work?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Actually?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Amazing?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You must have some kind of filter on.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
You possibly, Well, what did you say?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Your name was, it's A and then Bella.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Okay, I typed in. I typed in Bella without the A,
So maybe that helped my search a little bit. But
it's all uh, it's all safe for work stuff here.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Oh good. Oh, she's got her own Wikipedia page, not
my search, eddie. She's twenty seven, she's from Miami and
she's been she's been active in the business since twenty fourteen.
So that's a lot of a wear and tear, a
lot of mileage. Does she take any load management days?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Yes, a lot every day.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
What you're talking about there, I have no idea. But
she's won some awards. She's an award winning actor.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
What are you guys doing?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
She's an award winning actress.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Here.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I'm sure that's her best scene for actress was Starlet.
She won that award, So like that's like the rookie
of the year in the porn business. So congratulations. Uh okay.
I don't think we can read any more of these
awards that she's won. But there's some different I guess
you'd call him ensemble performances and he was part of
(27:20):
by the way, not a fan, not a fan, oh man. Oh.
Because of that We had a guy that was a
potato expert along up Eddie got I was gonna get
it turned on funeral potatoes, but the guy hung up.
We will never know about funeral potato.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
I'm actually gonna google that now. I think I'll enjoy
looking at that more than this.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You would rather look at a castle all the cheesy potatoes,
then a porn star with a lot of mileage on
the odometer. I got you, I got you. So the
the NHL player who is apparently not tied into pop
culture very much would be Jack Eichele of the gold
The Knight's a team that's on the cusp but winning
(28:02):
the Stanley Cup. Now, how do we know that the
the rotund Jack Ikeel rotund? Well, you know he's he
likes you know, he's my hockey standards.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Any right, you're talking about Phil Kessel.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Oh I confuse Phil Kessel and Jack you know those
white dudes. I don't know anyway. Uh So I I apologize,
So I apologize to Jack Igo. So Jack Keel, the
Golden Knight star, he's at the team hotel in Florida
and this guy comes up to him, walks up to
(28:36):
him and says, how how great, he thinks you are.
He's some random guy at the hotel and Jack Icel
looks at this guy and like, who the hell are you?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
That person Eddie was a guy by the name of
Charles Barkley. Jack Iykele apparently either does not like basketball
or does not like watching commercials for sandwiches and other
things that Barkley pimps out. But yeah, Barkley told the story.
He says, the other day he was at the team hotel.
He was saying there he walked up to Jack Eigel
(29:09):
and said how great he was, and Barkley said he
had zero idea who he was, and he looked at him, like,
who the hell are you? So wow?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
That is I believe Jack Eikele was American too, so
I mean that kind of if he was, I guess Canadian,
maybe that would give him a little bit of a pass.
I don't know, but well, he just maybe he just
doesn't watch Turner. I still though, as you said, he's
on all these commercials.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
He would think Barkley's transcended just being a basketball guy.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
He's that's not nearly as bad though as a few
years back gold former NHL goal I guess he still
might be around the league. Jonathan Bernier, Oh yeah, you
remember the story twenty fourteen. He was at a benefit
for Nelson Mandela or something, some honor of Nelson Mandela,
and he was asked in the red carpet about Nelson Mandela.
(29:59):
No idea who he was, but he tried to act
like he did and talked about how what a great
athlete Nelson.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Well he did survive a long internment, so well, yeah, sure,
all right, it's at the Bey Mallard Show on Fox.
Let's say hello to Jed who fled. Who's in the
Sunshine State? Maybe do you know anything about funeral potatoes?
We had a potato farmer but he hung up, do
(30:28):
you know anything about funeral potatoes? I'm having to push
my vehicle out of the yard.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
That didnt wake anybody about.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Crank it to come back to me a little bit.
I'm sorry, I'm literally pushing the vehicles that cross. Okay,
it's what do you do. It's almost three in the
morning there and he's he's pushing, randomly, pushing a vehicle
out in the middle of nowhere in the sticks in Florida.
It's great. Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, let's see hear.
(30:57):
Jason writes in from Kansas City says height at ten
of the Mallard model, Michael Malone seems to be channeling
his inner Steve Kerr with those cliches. The more talented
nugget should win on a Monday night. So so he says,
who else do we have? Page down a page Den?
Now we're getting people sending me pictures of funeral potatoes.
(31:19):
Thank you for that. See can't can't read that Justin
has some knowledge on that porn star. Shocking that Justin
would have some knowledge on that nature boy had a
pretty funny line there. And GM Manage says that abba
Abella Danger has Apparently she's she's enjoyed the company of
(31:41):
many athletes. Apparently, according to GM Mange, I don't know.
I've not looked at her her rap sheet. All right,
it is the Ben Malors show. As we continue on,
and we'll have the MLB pick him. Here's the who
am I game? I hold the record for the most
baseball games played, most professional big games major League Baseball
(32:02):
games played by a former NFL player. Been a number
of players that have played in the NFL and Major
League Baseball, but I hold the record for the most
Major League Baseball games played in by a former NFL player.
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We
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Speaker 1 (32:51):
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A lot of players have played both Major League Baseball
and the NFL, but I hold the record for the
most Major League Baseball games played by a former NFL player.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer? Listen?
Does anyone know the answer? Matt the Warrior Raider as
(33:34):
fan use a chat tool to get it right. Bad
job by him. Pauly D also cheated. Shame on you,
Colonel Sanders. Guest by the Cowboy Killer ferg Dog's going
with the Jokers as the answer. Justin in Cincinnati says
his favorite all time Atlanta Brave. The answer is John Rocker.
Who else do we have? Andrew in the Bay Area.
(33:58):
He got a right bad job by him. Jim Thorpe
guest by Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, the very athletic Nelson
Mandela from the Eddie Garcia Burner account. George Hallis tossed
out by Dan Willie McCovey from Robin, Minnesota. Nate Newton
from Sean in Portland, Newt Rockney from Mark in Santa Monica.
(34:23):
In SoCal Calligan Tim and Michigan's going with the Candy
Man Tom Candiotti as his answer. Bo Jackson from Johnny
Q Yinka Dare guest by Shane of Des Moines, Mike
Marshall from Miguel on Fire, Steve the Misplaced San Diegan
says Dave Winfield the Padres Dave Winfield is the answer.
(34:45):
Pete the Machinist, He got a right. Heathcliff Slocum guest
by Chris in the Moines Cubs Legend. Heathcliff, Heathcliff Slocumb.
Cafey went with that porn star at the heat game.
Very funny, Kathy, very nice there, Art Doc guests by
Darren Who else do we have? Dion Sanders from Chip
and the Ques Spocks Weed went with Bo Jackson. Eddie,
(35:07):
Do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 5 (35:09):
I was gonna guess coach Prime.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Coach Prime. Yes, that is incorrect, the correct answer. This
guy played I think it was like fifteen years in
the Major League. He played mostly for the Cardinals and
the Braves. Does that ring a bell to you?
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Oh well, Brian, what's.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
His last name?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Was a very famous basketball player. Brian Jordan, Yeah, Brian Jordan.
He played fourteen hundred and fifty six Major League baseball games,
mostly for the Cardinals and the Braves, but at the
end of his career. He played for the Dodgers and
the Texas Rangers, and that is more than any other
NFL player in Major League Baseball. So Brian Jordan, was.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
It Darren Dalton that he creamed at home played? I
remember he had one home play collision whre he just destroyed.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Some of well, my favorite, my favorite Jordan stories. He
was at the last ever ball Night at Dodger Stadium
when the game, the last time ever the game was forfeited.
Dodgers had to forfeit that game to the Cardinals because
they gave away the baseballs and there was a controversial
call and the late Tommy Lesorta waddled out of the
dugout and complained and people started throwing the baseballs on
(36:15):
the field. And Brian Jordan was a young outfielder for
the Cardinals and they was at Dodger State. Obviously that's
what happened. And he was so happy. I remember after
that game I interviewed him. He was so excited. Was
like the coolest thing he'd ever been part of. And
I don't disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
All.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Right, here we go, time now for the m LB
pick them. What is that you ask, Well, we are
going to pick a pitcher, what a hitter?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Actually two hitters? And whoever gets the most points will
be declared the smartest person in the room and will
then go first in the next round. And uhup first
here as we start the new week, the Coop de
Loop picking first.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
I've now tied you in the season long standings.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
By the way, you have no chance of actually winning,
so feel feel fine.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
Zach Effln will be my first pick.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
That is a bad pick by you, Dane Dunning of
my Rangers. Do you see who he's going up again?
My god, yes, going up again? Tim Anderson who sucks
or whatever his name is, Andrews Dodge, Tim Tyler whatever,
all those Anderson suck. I go ahead, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
I'm gonna go with my cousin odonlas Garcia.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
All right, Mark, who do you have here? Mark Ron
saying Ron?
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
One more h George Foster, George Foster.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Okay, old school, Go ahead, Eddie, go ahead, I'm gonna
take let's go with chop Ellie de la Cruz.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I will take Ozzie Albi's of my Atlanta Braves. Go ahead,
Coop the back.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
To back, I'll go with Showy Otani the batter Bad
pick Uh, and I will also go with Wander Franco.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I'm gonna take the red Hot. I don't even know
who this guy is. I've never heard of him, but
Corbin Carroll of the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Annie, somebody named Tommy Henry.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Alright, last Pig Mark Kik Gibson track Big Jimmy Watch
Gimmy Bam. I'm right handed, but I'm swinging like Gibson
right here. That's what I'm doing
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