June 13, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the PGA/LIV Golf "merger" hitting a snag as the PGA commissioner says it is NOT a merger and that Congress did not help them fend off the Saudis, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome. It's our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Don't call it a merger, at least if you're the PGA.
They don't want you to call it a merger. The
PGA's deal with the Live Golf Tour hitting a snag.
What is the PGA Commissioner J. Monahan hoping to accomplish?
He sent a letter to Congress. Where do you see
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this PGA agreement with the Saudi's going next? And what
are the odds that this deal between the Saudi government,
Live and PGA ends up happening. We'll talk about that
much more right now here. It is our number two.
Don't call it a merger. Whatever you do, it is
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not a merger. Welcome and the beginning of another.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
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Denver Nuggets, they've won the championship. Poo your parade on Thursday,
Big Rally in Denver? Will they have more people attend
that parade than the parade they've had in the past
with the Broncos or the Avalanche. We'll find out, And
those crowd estimates are always wonderful. The creative math that
goes into crowd estimates championship parades. There should be a
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study done on how they come up with the number
of people that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Go to championship parades.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But we'll get back to the basketball as the Joker
and Denver celebrates. But our lead this hour coming from golf.
Why we go where the story of the day takes us?
And this is quite the tail here. The deal between
the Saudis and the PGA Tour is not done yet.
In fact, there's a bit of a snag. And what
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is that snag?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You asked?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
There's some new developments here. If you've not been following
the story, perhaps not. It's starting to get pretty good.
It was good when it started, and now we've added on.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
A little extra sugar.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So if you haven't been following along, now we've learned
the PGA Tour Commissioner, the head weasel J Monaghan, has
penned a letter is not a love note, a letter
to Congress that his organization is sitting out in the
ethos here that the alignment the PGA is about to
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undergo with the live golf folks, the Public Investment Fund
known as the piff. It's kind of piff. We would
all like to have the Public Investment Fund the sovereign
wealth fund of your oil money in Saudi Arabia, they
say the PGA in this letter, the guy running the
PGA said, it is not a merger. It is not
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a merger. This seemingly open letter, it ended up in
the media. It wouldn't end up in.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The media unless somebody leaked it to the media.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So the open letter, which popped up at a couple
of news outfits said this is from J Monaghan, the
guy in charge of the PGA. Let me be clear
that despite numerous reports, this arrangement is not a merger
between the PGA Tour Live Golf and the piff Monahan
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writing to members of the political class. But wait, there's more.
He also claimed that the in action from Congress forced
the PG eight's hand playing the victim, blaming Congress in
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not helping the PGA Tour in their fight with the
live golf people. In fact, that part of the letter,
as it continues, quote, we were largely left on our
own to fend off the attacks. Ostensibly, Jay Monahan, the
head of the PGA wrote, due to the United States
complex geopolitical alliance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which
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is code for you're doing it too, That's what that's
code for. This left, according to the letter, the very
real prospect of another decade of expensive and distracting the
gation and the PGA Tour's long term existence under threat.
Close quote from the letter, the PGA Tours President J. Monahan,
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the commissioner of the PGA Tour wrote, So let us
discuss the question, all right, what is the PGA Commissioner J. Monahan,
hoping to accomplish with this letter getting out in the public.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So I've got.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Bloodhounds, jumbo tron and piranhas, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
over six hundred billion dollars, which is what the Saudi
Sovereign Wealth Fund is up to the piff Wow. All right,
So first of all, the PGA's claim, let's break this
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down brick by brick. So the PGA claims that it
reached the deal with the Live Slash shouties to avoid
legal bills. I've been open about that. I've seen that
in multiple media reports. It's in this letter that was
sent to some politicians. Now that is only partially true, right.
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The legal fight, though, is far from over. So the
idea that you're avoiding legal bills, well, yeah, you you're
not going to be the one that's paying the legal bills.
But here's the way I see this. Now, we are
far from the bottom of the ninth inning. We're probably
in the third inning or so of a nine inning game,
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and we might have extra innings as well. We could
have extra innings. But here's the deal. All the documents
have not been notarized. That they have not the t's
have not been crossed, the eyes have not been dotted
on the agreement. And this by the PGA is a
preemptive strike by the Commissioner of the PGA.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Why is this a preemptive strike. It's a good question.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The reason why is because there are a bunch of
United States senators right now that have released the bloodhounds
and they're sniffing around at this PGA deal with the
Saudi Wealth Fund right They're kicking the tires on this.
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They're seeing what this is all about. And j Monahan
is attempting it's a futile attempt, but he's attempting to
avoid anti trust litigation. That's what's this all about. Now,
the one leading the charge. And I'll give you an
example here. There's a Senator named Richard Blumenthal. He's a
Democrat from Connecticut, and he sent a letter to the
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Live CEO, Greg Norman, so Greg Norman's still tied to this,
and requested documents, a lot of them, not just a
couple tons of documents and other information related to the
formation agreement between the PGA and the Saudis. Now this
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guy has some power, Bloomenthal. He's on the Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committee, which sounds very important.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I don't really know what that does, but it sounds important.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He's also the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on investigations,
which also sounds scary. If you get investigated by the government,
that sounds scary. If you've ever been audited by the IRS,
you know what I'm talking about. But just imagine that
on the next level. And so anyway, this guy political
hacker came out and said he had concerns over the
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Saudi government's role in influencing the effort with the PGA,
and talked about this being one of the cherished American institutions, etc.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Is the PGA, Torah, cherished American institution.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I don't know about that, all right, So listen, all
of this is being telegraphed. It's all being telegraphed on
both sides. It's all well scripted. You've got the PGA
preemptive strike, You've got the politicians who are involved in this,
and they want they want some skin.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
They got, you know, little skin in the game.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
They want more skin now page two here, where do
you see this PGA agreement with the Saudi's going next?
So next is a little commune called Nastyville. It is
gonna get nasty. That's what's next in the near future.
As this thing continues to get dragged out between the
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PGA and the United States government. Why it is a
political hot potato. And when you talk about politicians, if
you want to know what gets their attention, you always
have to look at the jumbo tron, what gets political points.
And this is something that will resonate with many men,
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women and children who are just regular working stiffs, and
they will see this and they're like, you know what, Yeah,
the government should be attacking the PGA taking that money
from the sovereign Wealth Fund. Meanwhile, ninety nine point nine
percent of people would do the same damn thing.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
We all know human nature, We're all wired the same way.
I don't care where you're from, where you grew up,
what country you're from, whether you're from the States or
anywhere else. That everyone's got their price, and the PGA
had their price. But it comes down to politicians, and
I keep going back to the jumbo tron and political points.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So you can get points.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Even if the same people that are complaining would be
the same people cutting checks or taking checks, it doesn't matter, right,
And so this guy Bloomenthal requesting this massive pile of
documents which goes from like the state of Maine through
Hawaii and then down across the Pacific to you know,
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just far out. I think Guam is where it stops,
which is American territory. So it just keeps going and
going and going. Now, what those documents include. We are
told that those documents include in its entirety, all communications
between the PGA and the Saudis, including email, the WhatsApp messages,
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text messages, calendar invites, voicemails, you name it, any communication,
all records related to any of the negotiations between the
Saudi government, which is the Live people and the PGA
tour and also the governor of the Public Wealth Fund
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for the Saudis Is he's been involved in this as well.
The tour commissioner, Jay Monahan, he's his name has popped
up obviously, and all responses. This is a major bureaucracy situation.
Like the red tape on this is massive, massive amounts
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of red tape. So what happens get to the point, please,
so what happens here the Senate? Right, they could then,
let's say, the Soud's say we're not interested because it's
just a request at this point, so they could technically
decline it, as I understand it, and they said, well,
we're just not giving you the documents.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Go pound sand, get out of here. We're done.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So if that happens, then at that point the politicians
can say, Okay, you've declined. We tried to play nice,
you wouldn't play along with us. And so then the
Senate could then issue subpoenas and threaten contempt and criminal
charges for non compliance to the PGA and the officials
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from the Live group. And that means Greg Norman could
be compelled to go and testify. And the guy that's
in charge for Saudi Arabia who's bankrolling everything, he's in
charge of the money, that guy could be called out.
Jay Monahan could all be requested demanded to appear as
witnesses and have to testify under oath. All right, final
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thought on this, The PGA not out of the woods
yet with this live Golf deal, not by a long shot.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So the final part of this, what are the odds
at this point? We like to play the odds game.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What are the odds at this point that the deal
between the PGA and the Saudi's Slash Live ends up happening.
So I'm gonna set the Malord Sportsbook odds on this
at plus one fifty and I'm going plus one fifty.
That implies a forty percent chance, which means there's a
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sixty percent chance this goes cup put. But I'm going
forty percent chance. Now, listen, in baseball parlance, if you
are down by a run, you have the bases loaded,
two out in the bottom of the ninth inning, and
you've got a four hundred hitter up, you're thinking, you're
you're in pretty good shape. Now if you have a
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six hundred hitter up, you're in even better shape. But
I'm going with the four hundred hitter. I think there's
a again, a plus one fifty chance, a forty percent
chance that this works out and this deal is done.
There's a lot of moving parts to it. The main
reason why though I call it the Piranha factor. I
call it the Piranha factor because when politicians smell blood
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in the water, then watch out right. They like piranhas.
They got the sharp teeth and they latch on. But
there's also something that is a placebo for politicians. And
I'm not sure how this would work because it's a
foreign entity. But one thing I know about political weasels
is they love donations. So if somehow the Saudi government
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can siphon money through some other way to get to
the politicians. Then the politicians will back down.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
They always back down in the end.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
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Tomorrow's a newby Night, So all new callers the entire night.
Maybe no one will call.
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A lot of calls have no idea, but the regulars,
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Speaker 1 (16:37):
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
As we began here talking about this live golf PGA situation,
as the political class is getting involved in the United States,
and we'll see how far they want to go down
this road. They could certainly delay things for a number
of years and cause a lot of headaches. If you're
the PGA, you're not really concerned too much because the
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Outi government has six hundred billion dollars to pay lawyers,
and that's the big concern of people in the in
the golf world. Let's go to Scott, who's in Kentucky. Hello, Scott,
Welcome and how are you all?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Scott?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
If I was any better, I'd be in Miami, but
I would not be a member of the Miami Heat
because they just lost the NBA Finals.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
So that I've been driving, it's getting up at work
and I really forgot a lot cold because I smoked it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Oh was it? Was it an enjoyable?
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, sir, you should not and I do a PSA.
They will see you before you see them, So you
should not smoke and drive.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
How dare you? Bad job by you? But you're clearly
feeling no pain, Scotty.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Clearly clearly not getting in there putting the PGA. They
wouldn't want to be known with lib golf. Wouldn't it
be like getting pad with the mafia againdas I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, I remember when I was a kid, I watched
the documentary about the Mob and people in Chicago, for example,
that they loved the Mob because a lot of they
took care of people.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I don't know, it's a weird situ And to May,
I'm kind of looking forward.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, well it's gonna play out with lawyers getting a
lot of money. This Saudi governor will pay for lawyers,
and then and then politicians will get some political favors.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Out of it and and all that.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
All right, Well, thank you, Scott. I don't think that
was what you were hoping for, but thank you for
Caring's go to Blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan. Hello blind Emmitt.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Hello Big Ben. Now I have a question for kind
of everybody here.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh is this is this Ask Ben and Friends.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
We're doing a preview of Ask Ben and Friends, which
is not till later in the week.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Yeah, you got you got tuned in an hour three Thursday.
But have you guys ever been on like a plane
or a train or something and you've had someone who
just knows terrible like around you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So so somebody with a really disgusting body odor, like
it smells like weak old spaghetti and meatballs that's been
sitting outside in the summer like that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, No,
I've had people that that have been on flights that
don't smell to me very good. But I don't are
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you looking for any of you. I think we've all
been in that. We're old, we've all been around people
that occasionally don't smell good.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Right, Yeah. I think the worst for me is you
occasionally will run across someone who stinks, but then they've
tried to cover it up with too much cologne or
something like that, and there's this psychical just mix of
this is too much cologne and a lot of bo
It's pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
There's a corcophony of different It's just it smells and sound.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It's just.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
The reason I'm bringing all this up, man, is I
was taking a train back today, right, and it was
from like sunbere and Oregon over to Olympia where I
am right now. And I was sitting in a in
a chair by myself the train, right and the first
like three three and a half hours of it are fine.
You know, I don't I don't smell anything, but I'm
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sitting there and you know, like sorry, right as the
final wrapper because I listened to on my phone. I like,
smell like something. It smells like really weird. I'm like,
oh okay, and like I couldn't figure out where it
was coming from too. I just strown up as a
guy behind me or some dude off on the right,
I was just like, come on, like and I think
I can't.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Came to the conclusion.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Then this guy took his shoes off and he had
stinky feet and were just resting on like the feet
or something.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
It was.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, it might not have been his feet. Maybe he
just smells naturally. Maybe that's his natural body order. He
smells like an elephant's ass, So you know, you never know.
It could be exactly exactly good part. Yeah, all right,
but very good. Well I'm glad we got that update
to blind It and you're back home now, right, your
back home now your travels Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Oh yeah, he just got back at the start of
the show.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Very exciting. Good timing by you to make it back
just in time for the show.
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Because well, it's great to hear the live show, but
if you miss any part of the show, where can
you hear the show?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Blind Emmett? Where can you hear the show.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
If you miss any part of it, you can go
to wherever you did your podcast. Just type in the
Beer Show.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
That's right there it is.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Start one goes to our four.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, it's rapid fire, one after another. All right, thank you,
all right, hanging up on you, go away, all right,
go away, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
T the Ben Mathers Show.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
As we continue on in the Mallard militia, a lot
to say. Let's see, uh, case Carr Hollers is, do
you think the NBA will hit the same people who
calculate crowd numbers for presidential inaugurations for the Nuggets parade?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Well the greatest example of that, though, Casey car Holler
was in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Didn't they say that was one of.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
The ten greatest migrations of humanity in the history of
the modern world.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Now seriously, but I think I heard that, Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Like one of the great largest migrations of humanity. Was
the largest gathering in human history. Yes, yes, the Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Was it like two million or something?
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Five million?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They counted everyone in the greater Chicago land area.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
And it's like, I mean, it did look like a
lot of people.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But I mean how they figure this out, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Make it off.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
They just make it up the funniest though it's not funny.
It's not funny in the cubs. But the NFL one
of the early games in London. I remember I was
doing a weekend show and the NFL released a crowd
figure on how many people were at the They had
a rally for the NFL, and they counted all the
people who were leaving in that part of London as
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being in attendance.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Wasn't there also some other event going on?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yes, yes, and lo they no one ever questions. It
was like, well I read it online.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
I was like, yeah, anyway, it's the only one in
the USA in the top ten.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
What's number one, Coop.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's got to be some kind of religious. You got
to be a religious probably all.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Religious Kumbamelai pilgrimage in India.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yes, that's how they pronounced it in India.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yes, as far as you know, you got to say
it with confidence, Coope.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Just say it like you know it and just and
then there you go, see perfect thirty million, three million people.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yes, I think that's bogus too.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
That's like almost twice the second place one, which was
the although you know, have.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You seen I think that's in India. Have you seen
is it Pakistan? Those trains where they have the people
standing on top?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yes, isn't that wild? Is that an India or Pakistan India?
It's in India. There's a lot of people in India.
Could you imagine being like on the top of the tree.
There must be I think I actually read this. There's
one train.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Is it a weak or I don't know, it's There's
not very many trains obviously, so if you missed that train,
you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
The people really make sure they stand on top of
the train. This is interesting.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
These huge gatherings of the top ten, all of them
are either funerals or like religious, you know, gatherings other
than the except for the Cubs World.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Series, some would say that was sort of a religious gathering.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And a Rod Stewart concert in Brazil. Oh, of course
Rod short in Brazil. Come on, can't mess with him.
That's that's great. Uh, Well, Chicago when it comes like
politics in Chico, they never messed with the vote in Chicago, right,
you know, everything's kosher with that, and they don't the
crowd counts.
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So the field of eight is set for the College
World Series. Now we knew six of the teams going
into Monday, Florida, LSU, Oral, Roberts, TCU, Virginia and the
number one seed, Wake Forest. There were two more tickets
to be punched on Monday, Tennessee gets one of them
with a five nothing shutout of Southern miss And did
you see how Stanford got into the College World Series?
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Tied six to six, in the bottom of the ninth
routine flyball to right field, the center fielder and the
right fielder both lost the ball. It lands harmlessly in
the outfield. Stanford gets the walk off win on a
missed routine fly into right fow.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The metal is, Eddie, that's when I'm coaching. When I'm
a manager, you gotta work in the fun of mouse and.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
College baseball fields don't have quite the same lighting as
your major league parks and whatnot. So you're making excuses
Eddie out there, I'm just saying I don't.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
I don't want to derail the the trending here, but
this got me thinking because I saw this replay. I
never One rule that I never understood in baseball is
the infield fly rule. Why do you get an automatic
out if it's a pop fly in the infield but
not if it's a pop fly in the outfield.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well. It has to do with intentionally dropping pop up
to get a double play exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's hard to do that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Gotcha? Gotcha? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Because that how many times do you think that happens? Gotcha?
Okay question, I don't know. It must have happened before that.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Somebody got smart and thing. Wait a minute, if I
dropped this, this guy's not running. Yeah, you can get
a double player.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, just let it. That's smart baseball. I would be
like a high baseball IQ. Just let it drop.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Is that it?
Speaker 9 (26:56):
Eddie?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Are you that's it? You did not derail the trending.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Was but my fun fact here.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Let's see if you guys mind blowing fun factor, every mind.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Blowing fun factor.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
The Denver Nuggets are the first Western Conference NBA champion
not from California or Texas since blank.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I think you said it earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Seattle, that is correct, the Seattle Supersichs nineteen seventy nine,
a generation ago. The Superscike is the last team not
from Texas or California. When you had the Rockets winning
a couple of Spurs won a bunch. Mavericks have won
a couple, The Lakers, the Warriors, the Clippers will win
some in the next generation, but they've have not quite
(27:35):
yet done that. But they're waiting for the Intuit dome
with all those toilets and boys, that's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Those toilets are going to be.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
A wonderful And this one from Alf the Alien Opineer
his fun Factor the Hour says Mri. Scans of dog's
brains show that they see their owners as family and
prioritize the smell of humans over anything else. So line, Emmett,
you're not like a dog because you're not prioritizing human
smells like he's anti human smell. He didn't like the
(28:07):
nasty well plan. Emmett probably has more of a sense
of smell.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Because right as you've said, with the nocturnal creatures on
the podcast, you know they have yes, hence senses exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
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And today today the beginning of the silly season in
the NBA, and we have a player who is joining
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the silly season now that the Nuggets have won the championship.
The next wave of player movement, we have a Canadian exodus.
Fred van Vliet, good name, Fred Late, should have played
for the Knicks like pet trick you. Fred van Vliet
has declined a contract option. You gotta have some some
(29:02):
hair on your chest to turn down twenty two point
eight million dollars, which is what he's doing. Of course,
he'll get probably one hundred and fifty million dollars by
turning down twenty two point eight million. But Fred van Vliet,
if you're interested in him, he rode the code tails
of Kawhi Leonard to win a championship back in Toronto
a couple of years ago. He will be an unrestricted
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free agent. As the silly season gets going. And some
old laundry, some very expensive old laundry. Wilt Chamberlain, Wilt
the stilt, the only man to score one hundred points
in an NBA game, The rookie uniform that Wilt Chamberlain wore.
Old dirty laundry being auctioned off and the auction house
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believes it will fetch over two million dollars. Yes, the
auction house has a bid of one point two million.
There are five days remaining until that old game worn
jersey worn by Will Chamberlain of nineteen fifty nine sixty
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Philadelphia Warriors, and he wore the same jersey in shorts
for every home game. Course back then there was no
such thing as sports memorabilia collectors and memorabilia horrors, and
then they were trying to save money, and so they
wore the same uniforms for every game, and they reason
(30:27):
they aren't do it much anymore. The road grays that
teams would wear is because a lot of the arenas
and the baseball stadiums did not have laundry on site,
and so they determined that the color gray would block
out the dirt and so therefore they would look more
presentable on the road when they were traveling from city
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to city wearing their road graz But this is a
Wil Chamberlain uniform.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
They're wonderful.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Let's say hello to Jed who fled? Hello, Jed who fled?
Speaker 7 (30:58):
What's going on? Man, I've been listening to the show, dude,
but I've got such a such an ability with these
dark dogs. You should over the years. I can immediately
wipe it and go blank right now. And if you're
reminded me I could probably come up on it. Some
guy called a blind damn it, dude, who has ever
ridden a train? Man? What is just realize to get
out of it? Take it the red field man, I've
(31:20):
got the train to come time to college. Other that
she got too drunk. But besides that, I don't think
I've ever been on a train in my life. Your
training's experienced. Interesting though.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I see what you do, Jed. You speak so fast
you think we won't hear what you said. That's what
you do. You just figure like you said.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Yeah, dude, yeah, I've been I like to wait on
a whole two three, maybe four hours. Sometimes you can't
understand me.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
That's the goal.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
That's the that's the that's the all of that to
make a train joke. All of that for a train joke.
You did all that work for a train joke. Do
you feel good about yourself?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Dude?
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Do I feel good about it?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
No?
Speaker 7 (31:53):
But am I gonna make another joke about it if
I think of it on the flock? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Now, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Because tomorrow's a newbie name, which means you're not allowed
to call the show tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Are you concerned?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
About that. It's going to affect your whole life's work. Here, jed,
you won't be able to get on the air tomorrow night.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Who's felling it for you? Here's a movie you got.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
But you really do listen?
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Just the coop are gonna be working?
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Yes or no?
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Ye bans on?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh so you think if Coop's here you will not
get on, But if Coop's not here, you'll get on
the air.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
No, I took you the other night when I snuck
in and go play password and you kick me off.
I love heavy metal, mouth, I don't. I don't know
if that guy is a real guy.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
No, you don't like that guy. Come on, Nah, you
don't like that guy. Come on, that guy's annoying.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Have you ever played password? He's like, have you ever
play heavy?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I don't want an answer.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I don't understand that. I'm gonna go back and listen
to it right now.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, go back and download the pot.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
Yeah, get the joke. I did all this to the
joke man, thank.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
You, And nobody heard the joke but hearing on the podcast.
Nobody actually heard the joke, but they it'll be on
the podcast. I'm sure it'll be there. Wonderful. Thank you
for that. Don't ever call again. Time now for the
install trivia, the Insta trivia, And this is a blatant
attempt to get you to listen a little bit longer
with us. It's called the Insta trivia. So Blank is
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the only player in NFL history to have had three
or more sacks and two or more interceptions in the
same game. Again, Blank, the only player in NFL history
to have three or more sacks and two or more
interceptions in the same game. That's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
The answer. We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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And here's the instant trivia.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Blank the only player in NFL history to have recorded
three or more sacks and two or more interceptions in
the same game. That is the answer, Trivia? What is
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at Progressive dot com. And see does anyone listening in
the Mallard Militia here know the answer? And we go
to the magic Twitter machine here to see if anybody
knows the answer, will go page down here, page down.
A lot of random answers. John Gottie guessed by the
Eddie Garcia Burner account. Late Night Truck Tester says you
are the Olsen twins who are thirty seven?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Okay, Bean boot Maker Bob going with Carl Banks, mister
nice guy say as the great Jesse Barfield part of
that All Time Blue Jay outfield with George Taco Bell,
Jesse Barfield, Lloyd Mosby in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Sean Springs guessed by Fields of Green Carl Mecklenburg from
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Sir scratch Off says it's Jed
who fled. Holding blind Emmett's hand on top of a
train is the answer. Matt the Warrior Raider as fan
went with Bill Shatner as his answer.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Who else do you have?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Mark in Santa Monica says Crazy Legs hirsh is the
way to go. Alf the Alien Ol Pinal. I say
Alf made it to Yankee Stadium, says Ben Maller. Chicken
figures Yankee Stoll. That looks pretty good. That only costs
just seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
I bet al for that. I bet Ronnie Lott.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Guessed by Steve the Misplaced San Diegan Boris di Al
from Shane in Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Do you have an answer, Eddie? Please? I need an answer?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Is not yes I do. It's former Seattle Seahawks legendary
linebacker Brian bos No.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
It's also not Charles. What's in the correct answer? None
other than a former Steeler ready. Joey Porter back in
twenty oh two easy against the Raiders. He had seven tackles,
three sacks, two interceptions, two passes defended, and a partridge
in a pear tree.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
It's maller how about that?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets
grilled and.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
We bring in the coop Dalu.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
It's being reported that the Houston Rockets are looking into
Kyrie Irving as a backup plan if they're James to
return to the team. Ben, who would you rather have
if you were a Rockets fan?
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I would rather go into business.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Okay, if I had to choose, and no lies here
with al Capone, I would rather go into business with
al Capone than Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
You can't trust that here.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Come on, you go with the Beard, Okay, you know
the Beard's got his own issues, But I would rather
go with James Harden.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Kyrie Irvings track record speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And even though he'll play well when he plays, he's
not available and he does all kinds of crazy crap
off the court.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Next, according to a recent report, the Patriots kickers are
exclusively working on squibkicks during OTAs. Now this is in
reaction to the league's new kickoff rules. Ben, do you
think we'll be seeing nothing but squibkicks this season to
try and force returns?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It would be a wonderful tribute to Mike Leach. One
of my favorite Mike Leach quotes of all time when
he was coaching at Texas Tech. He said, squib kick
it to the fat guy. That was his quote, right,
And it's a great idea. Listen, the NFL owners they
forced this rule in. The coaches didn't want it, So
what a great way to screw over the owners and
squibkick every single time? How delicious would that be? How
(37:46):
upset would the NFL owners be? I love it, and
then I gonna do it every time. But I could
see it happening about half the time.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Next, the Arizona Cardinals are moving forward with Marquise Brown
as their number one receiver after releasing DeAndre Hopkins. Brown
said he won to prove that he can be the guy. Yeah, Ben,
do you think he can be the guy?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well? As I was.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Told by someone years ago that someone will lead the
Cardinals in reception, someone will lead the Cardinals in yards.
Why not Marquise Hollywood Brown? That team sucks. They'll be
lucky if they win three games in Arizona. So sure
he can be the guy on a terrible team. How
did Wake dows that is?
Speaker 7 (38:24):
I won the game.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I won the game. That's a win, he said. I passed,
that's a win.
Hello, and welcome. It's our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Don't call it a merger, at least if you're the PGA.
They don't want you to call it a merger. The
PGA's deal with the Live Golf Tour hitting a snag.
What is the PGA Commissioner J. Monahan hoping to accomplish?
He sent a letter to Congress. Where do you see
(00:26):
this PGA agreement with the Saudi's going next? And what
are the odds that this deal between the Saudi government,
Live and PGA ends up happening. We'll talk about that
much more right now here. It is our number two.
Don't call it a merger. Whatever you do, it is
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not a merger. Welcome and the beginning of another.
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Denver Nuggets, they've won the championship. Poo your parade on Thursday,
Big Rally in Denver? Will they have more people attend
that parade than the parade they've had in the past
with the Broncos or the Avalanche. We'll find out, And
those crowd estimates are always wonderful. The creative math that
goes into crowd estimates championship parades. There should be a
(02:02):
study done on how they come up with the number
of people that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Go to championship parades.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But we'll get back to the basketball as the Joker
and Denver celebrates. But our lead this hour coming from golf.
Why we go where the story of the day takes us?
And this is quite the tail here. The deal between
the Saudis and the PGA Tour is not done yet.
In fact, there's a bit of a snag. And what
(02:30):
is that snag?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You asked?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
There's some new developments here. If you've not been following
the story, perhaps not. It's starting to get pretty good.
It was good when it started, and now we've added on.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
A little extra sugar.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So if you haven't been following along, now we've learned
the PGA Tour Commissioner, the head weasel J Monaghan, has
penned a letter is not a love note, a letter
to Congress that his organization is sitting out in the
ethos here that the alignment the PGA is about to
(03:07):
undergo with the live golf folks, the Public Investment Fund
known as the piff. It's kind of piff. We would
all like to have the Public Investment Fund the sovereign
wealth fund of your oil money in Saudi Arabia, they
say the PGA in this letter, the guy running the
PGA said, it is not a merger. It is not
(03:30):
a merger. This seemingly open letter, it ended up in
the media. It wouldn't end up in.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The media unless somebody leaked it to the media.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So the open letter, which popped up at a couple
of news outfits said this is from J Monaghan, the
guy in charge of the PGA. Let me be clear
that despite numerous reports, this arrangement is not a merger
between the PGA Tour Live Golf and the piff Monahan
(04:02):
writing to members of the political class. But wait, there's more.
He also claimed that the in action from Congress forced
the PG eight's hand playing the victim, blaming Congress in
(04:22):
not helping the PGA Tour in their fight with the
live golf people. In fact, that part of the letter,
as it continues, quote, we were largely left on our
own to fend off the attacks. Ostensibly, Jay Monahan, the
head of the PGA wrote, due to the United States
complex geopolitical alliance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which
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is code for you're doing it too, That's what that's
code for. This left, according to the letter, the very
real prospect of another decade of expensive and distracting the
gation and the PGA Tour's long term existence under threat.
Close quote from the letter, the PGA Tours President J. Monahan,
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the commissioner of the PGA Tour wrote, So let us
discuss the question, all right, what is the PGA Commissioner J. Monahan,
hoping to accomplish with this letter getting out in the public.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
So I've got.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Bloodhounds, jumbo tron and piranhas, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
over six hundred billion dollars, which is what the Saudi
Sovereign Wealth Fund is up to the piff Wow. All right,
So first of all, the PGA's claim, let's break this
(05:49):
down brick by brick. So the PGA claims that it
reached the deal with the Live Slash shouties to avoid
legal bills. I've been open about that. I've seen that
in multiple media reports. It's in this letter that was
sent to some politicians. Now that is only partially true, right.
(06:11):
The legal fight, though, is far from over. So the
idea that you're avoiding legal bills, well, yeah, you you're
not going to be the one that's paying the legal bills.
But here's the way I see this. Now, we are
far from the bottom of the ninth inning. We're probably
in the third inning or so of a nine inning game,
(06:31):
and we might have extra innings as well. We could
have extra innings. But here's the deal. All the documents
have not been notarized. That they have not the t's
have not been crossed, the eyes have not been dotted
on the agreement. And this by the PGA is a
preemptive strike by the Commissioner of the PGA.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Why is this a preemptive strike. It's a good question.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
The reason why is because there are a bunch of
United States senators right now that have released the bloodhounds
and they're sniffing around at this PGA deal with the
Saudi Wealth Fund right They're kicking the tires on this.
(07:13):
They're seeing what this is all about. And j Monahan
is attempting it's a futile attempt, but he's attempting to
avoid anti trust litigation. That's what's this all about. Now,
the one leading the charge. And I'll give you an
example here. There's a Senator named Richard Blumenthal. He's a
Democrat from Connecticut, and he sent a letter to the
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Live CEO, Greg Norman, so Greg Norman's still tied to this,
and requested documents, a lot of them, not just a
couple tons of documents and other information related to the
formation agreement between the PGA and the Saudis. Now this
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guy has some power, Bloomenthal. He's on the Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committee, which sounds very important.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I don't really know what that does, but it sounds important.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
He's also the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on investigations,
which also sounds scary. If you get investigated by the government,
that sounds scary. If you've ever been audited by the IRS,
you know what I'm talking about. But just imagine that
on the next level. And so anyway, this guy political
hacker came out and said he had concerns over the
(08:32):
Saudi government's role in influencing the effort with the PGA,
and talked about this being one of the cherished American institutions, etc.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Etc.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Is the PGA, Torah, cherished American institution.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I don't know about that, all right, So listen, all
of this is being telegraphed. It's all being telegraphed on
both sides. It's all well scripted. You've got the PGA
preemptive strike, You've got the politicians who are involved in this,
and they want they want some skin.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
They got, you know, little skin in the game.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
They want more skin now page two here, where do
you see this PGA agreement with the Saudi's going next?
So next is a little commune called Nastyville. It is
gonna get nasty. That's what's next in the near future.
As this thing continues to get dragged out between the
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PGA and the United States government. Why it is a
political hot potato. And when you talk about politicians, if
you want to know what gets their attention, you always
have to look at the jumbo tron, what gets political points.
And this is something that will resonate with many men,
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women and children who are just regular working stiffs, and
they will see this and they're like, you know what, Yeah,
the government should be attacking the PGA taking that money
from the sovereign Wealth Fund. Meanwhile, ninety nine point nine
percent of people would do the same damn thing.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
We all know human nature, We're all wired the same way.
I don't care where you're from, where you grew up,
what country you're from, whether you're from the States or
anywhere else. That everyone's got their price, and the PGA
had their price. But it comes down to politicians, and
I keep going back to the jumbo tron and political points.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So you can get points.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Even if the same people that are complaining would be
the same people cutting checks or taking checks, it doesn't matter, right,
And so this guy Bloomenthal requesting this massive pile of
documents which goes from like the state of Maine through
Hawaii and then down across the Pacific to you know,
(10:47):
just far out. I think Guam is where it stops,
which is American territory. So it just keeps going and
going and going. Now, what those documents include. We are
told that those documents include in its entirety, all communications
between the PGA and the Saudis, including email, the WhatsApp messages,
(11:08):
text messages, calendar invites, voicemails, you name it, any communication,
all records related to any of the negotiations between the
Saudi government, which is the Live people and the PGA
tour and also the governor of the Public Wealth Fund
(11:29):
for the Saudis Is he's been involved in this as well.
The tour commissioner, Jay Monahan, he's his name has popped
up obviously, and all responses. This is a major bureaucracy situation.
Like the red tape on this is massive, massive amounts
(11:51):
of red tape. So what happens get to the point, please,
so what happens here the Senate? Right, they could then,
let's say, the Soud's say we're not interested because it's
just a request at this point, so they could technically
decline it, as I understand it, and they said, well,
we're just not giving you the documents.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Go pound sand, get out of here. We're done.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So if that happens, then at that point the politicians
can say, Okay, you've declined. We tried to play nice,
you wouldn't play along with us. And so then the
Senate could then issue subpoenas and threaten contempt and criminal
charges for non compliance to the PGA and the officials
(12:35):
from the Live group. And that means Greg Norman could
be compelled to go and testify. And the guy that's
in charge for Saudi Arabia who's bankrolling everything, he's in
charge of the money, that guy could be called out.
Jay Monahan could all be requested demanded to appear as
witnesses and have to testify under oath. All right, final
(12:57):
thought on this, The PGA not out of the woods
yet with this live Golf deal, not by a long shot.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
So the final part of this, what are the odds
at this point? We like to play the odds game.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
What are the odds at this point that the deal
between the PGA and the Saudi's Slash Live ends up happening.
So I'm gonna set the Malord Sportsbook odds on this
at plus one fifty and I'm going plus one fifty.
That implies a forty percent chance, which means there's a
(13:30):
sixty percent chance this goes cup put. But I'm going
forty percent chance. Now, listen, in baseball parlance, if you
are down by a run, you have the bases loaded,
two out in the bottom of the ninth inning, and
you've got a four hundred hitter up, you're thinking, you're
you're in pretty good shape. Now if you have a
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six hundred hitter up, you're in even better shape. But
I'm going with the four hundred hitter. I think there's
a again, a plus one fifty chance, a forty percent
chance that this works out and this deal is done.
There's a lot of moving parts to it. The main
reason why though I call it the Piranha factor. I
call it the Piranha factor because when politicians smell blood
(14:15):
in the water, then watch out right. They like piranhas.
They got the sharp teeth and they latch on. But
there's also something that is a placebo for politicians. And
I'm not sure how this would work because it's a
foreign entity. But one thing I know about political weasels
is they love donations. So if somehow the Saudi government
(14:36):
can siphon money through some other way to get to
the politicians. Then the politicians will back down.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
They always back down in the end.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
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Some very expensive old laundry and a Canadian exodus will
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Speaker 1 (15:21):
We'll go there as well, and we will do it.
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Speaker 2 (16:11):
You know, Tomorrow is different than all other nights, New
Me Night. Tomorrow's a newbe Night, Tomorrow Night, nob Night,
New Night, newby Night, not tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Tomorrow's a newby Night, So all new callers the entire night.
Maybe no one will call.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I don't know. Maybe the calls.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
A lot of calls have no idea, but the regulars,
if you're if you're a regular, you probably should call
the night because you'll be verboating tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
As we began here talking about this live golf PGA situation,
as the political class is getting involved in the United States,
and we'll see how far they want to go down
this road. They could certainly delay things for a number
of years and cause a lot of headaches. If you're
the PGA, you're not really concerned too much because the
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Outi government has six hundred billion dollars to pay lawyers,
and that's the big concern of people in the in
the golf world. Let's go to Scott, who's in Kentucky. Hello, Scott,
Welcome and how are you all?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Scott?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
If I was any better, I'd be in Miami, but
I would not be a member of the Miami Heat
because they just lost the NBA Finals.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
So that I've been driving, it's getting up at work
and I really forgot a lot cold because I smoked it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Oh was it? Was it an enjoyable?
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Well, sir, you should not and I do a PSA.
They will see you before you see them, So you
should not smoke and drive.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
How dare you? Bad job by you? But you're clearly
feeling no pain, Scotty.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Clearly clearly not getting in there putting the PGA. They
wouldn't want to be known with lib golf. Wouldn't it
be like getting pad with the mafia againdas I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, I remember when I was a kid, I watched
the documentary about the Mob and people in Chicago, for example,
that they loved the Mob because a lot of they
took care of people.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I don't know, it's a weird situ And to May,
I'm kind of looking forward.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, well it's gonna play out with lawyers getting a
lot of money. This Saudi governor will pay for lawyers,
and then and then politicians will get some political favors.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Out of it and and all that.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
All right, Well, thank you, Scott. I don't think that
was what you were hoping for, but thank you for
Caring's go to Blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan. Hello blind Emmitt.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Hello Big Ben. Now I have a question for kind
of everybody here.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh is this is this Ask Ben and Friends.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
We're doing a preview of Ask Ben and Friends, which
is not till later in the week.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Yeah, you got you got tuned in an hour three Thursday.
But have you guys ever been on like a plane
or a train or something and you've had someone who
just knows terrible like around you.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So so somebody with a really disgusting body odor, like
it smells like weak old spaghetti and meatballs that's been
sitting outside in the summer like that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, No,
I've had people that that have been on flights that
don't smell to me very good. But I don't are
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you looking for any of you. I think we've all
been in that. We're old, we've all been around people
that occasionally don't smell good.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Right, Yeah. I think the worst for me is you
occasionally will run across someone who stinks, but then they've
tried to cover it up with too much cologne or
something like that, and there's this psychical just mix of
this is too much cologne and a lot of bo
It's pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
There's a corcophony of different It's just it smells and sound.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It's just.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
The reason I'm bringing all this up, man, is I
was taking a train back today, right, and it was
from like sunbere and Oregon over to Olympia where I
am right now. And I was sitting in a in
a chair by myself the train, right and the first
like three three and a half hours of it are fine.
You know, I don't I don't smell anything, but I'm
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sitting there and you know, like sorry, right as the
final wrapper because I listened to on my phone. I like,
smell like something. It smells like really weird. I'm like,
oh okay, and like I couldn't figure out where it
was coming from too. I just strown up as a
guy behind me or some dude off on the right,
I was just like, come on, like and I think
I can't.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Came to the conclusion.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Then this guy took his shoes off and he had
stinky feet and were just resting on like the feet
or something.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
It was.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
It was terrible.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, it might not have been his feet. Maybe he
just smells naturally. Maybe that's his natural body order. He
smells like an elephant's ass, So you know, you never know.
It could be exactly exactly good part. Yeah, all right,
but very good. Well I'm glad we got that update
to blind It and you're back home now, right, your
back home now your travels Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Oh yeah, he just got back at the start of
the show.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Very exciting. Good timing by you to make it back
just in time for the show.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Because well, it's great to hear the live show, but
if you miss any part of the show, where can
you hear the show?
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Blind Emmett? Where can you hear the show.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
If you miss any part of it, you can go
to wherever you did your podcast. Just type in the
Beer Show.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
That's right there it is.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Start one goes to our four.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, it's rapid fire, one after another. All right, thank you,
all right, hanging up on you, go away, all right,
go away, thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
T the Ben Mathers Show.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
As we continue on in the Mallard militia, a lot
to say. Let's see, uh, case Carr Hollers is, do
you think the NBA will hit the same people who
calculate crowd numbers for presidential inaugurations for the Nuggets parade?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Well the greatest example of that, though, Casey car Holler
was in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Didn't they say that was one of.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
The ten greatest migrations of humanity in the history of
the modern world.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Now seriously, but I think I heard that, Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Like one of the great largest migrations of humanity. Was
the largest gathering in human history. Yes, yes, the Chicago Cubs.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Was it like two million or something?
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Five million?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They counted everyone in the greater Chicago land area.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
And it's like, I mean, it did look like a
lot of people.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But I mean how they figure this out, you know.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Make it off.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
They just make it up the funniest though it's not funny.
It's not funny in the cubs. But the NFL one
of the early games in London. I remember I was
doing a weekend show and the NFL released a crowd
figure on how many people were at the They had
a rally for the NFL, and they counted all the
people who were leaving in that part of London as
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being in attendance.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Wasn't there also some other event going on?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yes, yes, and lo they no one ever questions. It
was like, well I read it online.
Speaker 8 (22:54):
I was like, yeah, anyway, it's the only one in
the USA in the top ten.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
What's number one, Coop.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It's got to be some kind of religious. You got
to be a religious probably all.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
Religious Kumbamelai pilgrimage in India.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yes, that's how they pronounced it in India.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Yes, as far as you know, you got to say
it with confidence, Coope.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Just say it like you know it and just and
then there you go, see perfect thirty million, three million people.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yes, I think that's bogus too.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
That's like almost twice the second place one, which was
the although you know, have.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You seen I think that's in India. Have you seen
is it Pakistan? Those trains where they have the people
standing on top?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yes, isn't that wild? Is that an India or Pakistan India?
It's in India. There's a lot of people in India.
Could you imagine being like on the top of the tree.
There must be I think I actually read this. There's
one train.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Is it a weak or I don't know, it's There's
not very many trains obviously, so if you missed that train,
you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
The people really make sure they stand on top of
the train. This is interesting.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
These huge gatherings of the top ten, all of them
are either funerals or like religious, you know, gatherings other
than the except for the Cubs World.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Series, some would say that was sort of a religious gathering.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
And a Rod Stewart concert in Brazil. Oh, of course
Rod short in Brazil. Come on, can't mess with him.
That's that's great. Uh, Well, Chicago when it comes like
politics in Chico, they never messed with the vote in Chicago, right,
you know, everything's kosher with that, and they don't the
crowd counts.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
What do you get when you combine a three time
Manager of the Year at a three time National Sports
Writer of the Year.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It's the Book of Joe Podcast.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Hey, this is Tom Ferducci from Fox Sports, MLB Network
and Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
And I'm Joe Madden, and we're going to be around
to talk a little bit about managerial decisions, playoff games,
and what may have accredited to a dugout maybe in
the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I can't wait for this, Joe.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
We're going to dive into what goes on in the
dugout and behind the scenes in Major League.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Baseball, cars, wind, whatever else we want to talk about.
Speaker 9 (25:13):
Listen to the Book of Joe podcast on the iHeartRadio app,
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Speaker 3 (25:20):
So the field of eight is set for the College
World Series. Now we knew six of the teams going
into Monday, Florida, LSU, Oral, Roberts, TCU, Virginia and the
number one seed, Wake Forest. There were two more tickets
to be punched on Monday, Tennessee gets one of them
with a five nothing shutout of Southern miss And did
you see how Stanford got into the College World Series?
(25:42):
Tied six to six, in the bottom of the ninth
routine flyball to right field, the center fielder and the
right fielder both lost the ball. It lands harmlessly in
the outfield. Stanford gets the walk off win on a
missed routine fly into right fow.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The metal is, Eddie, that's when I'm coaching. When I'm
a manager, you gotta work in the fun of mouse and.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
College baseball fields don't have quite the same lighting as
your major league parks and whatnot. So you're making excuses
Eddie out there, I'm just saying I don't.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
I don't want to derail the the trending here, but
this got me thinking because I saw this replay. I
never One rule that I never understood in baseball is
the infield fly rule. Why do you get an automatic
out if it's a pop fly in the infield but
not if it's a pop fly in the outfield.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well. It has to do with intentionally dropping pop up
to get a double play exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's hard to do that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Gotcha? Gotcha? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Because that how many times do you think that happens? Gotcha?
Okay question, I don't know. It must have happened before that.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Somebody got smart and thing. Wait a minute, if I
dropped this, this guy's not running. Yeah, you can get
a double player.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, just let it. That's smart baseball. I would be
like a high baseball IQ. Just let it drop.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Is that it?
Speaker 9 (26:56):
Eddie?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Are you that's it? You did not derail the trending.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Was but my fun fact here.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Let's see if you guys mind blowing fun factor, every mind.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Blowing fun factor.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
The Denver Nuggets are the first Western Conference NBA champion
not from California or Texas since blank.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I think you said it earlier.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Seattle, that is correct, the Seattle Supersichs nineteen seventy nine,
a generation ago. The Superscike is the last team not
from Texas or California. When you had the Rockets winning
a couple of Spurs won a bunch. Mavericks have won
a couple, The Lakers, the Warriors, the Clippers will win
some in the next generation, but they've have not quite
(27:35):
yet done that. But they're waiting for the Intuit dome
with all those toilets and boys, that's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Those toilets are going to be.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
A wonderful And this one from Alf the Alien Opineer
his fun Factor the Hour says Mri. Scans of dog's
brains show that they see their owners as family and
prioritize the smell of humans over anything else. So line, Emmett,
you're not like a dog because you're not prioritizing human
smells like he's anti human smell. He didn't like the
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nasty well plan. Emmett probably has more of a sense
of smell.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Because right as you've said, with the nocturnal creatures on
the podcast, you know they have yes, hence senses exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
It is the Ben Mather Show. This portion of the
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And today today the beginning of the silly season in
the NBA, and we have a player who is joining
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the silly season now that the Nuggets have won the championship.
The next wave of player movement, we have a Canadian exodus.
Fred van Vliet, good name, Fred Late, should have played
for the Knicks like pet trick you. Fred van Vliet
has declined a contract option. You gotta have some some
(29:02):
hair on your chest to turn down twenty two point
eight million dollars, which is what he's doing. Of course,
he'll get probably one hundred and fifty million dollars by
turning down twenty two point eight million. But Fred van Vliet,
if you're interested in him, he rode the code tails
of Kawhi Leonard to win a championship back in Toronto
a couple of years ago. He will be an unrestricted
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free agent. As the silly season gets going. And some
old laundry, some very expensive old laundry. Wilt Chamberlain, Wilt
the stilt, the only man to score one hundred points
in an NBA game, The rookie uniform that Wilt Chamberlain wore.
Old dirty laundry being auctioned off and the auction house
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believes it will fetch over two million dollars. Yes, the
auction house has a bid of one point two million.
There are five days remaining until that old game worn
jersey worn by Will Chamberlain of nineteen fifty nine sixty
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Philadelphia Warriors, and he wore the same jersey in shorts
for every home game. Course back then there was no
such thing as sports memorabilia collectors and memorabilia horrors, and
then they were trying to save money, and so they
wore the same uniforms for every game, and they reason
(30:27):
they aren't do it much anymore. The road grays that
teams would wear is because a lot of the arenas
and the baseball stadiums did not have laundry on site,
and so they determined that the color gray would block
out the dirt and so therefore they would look more
presentable on the road when they were traveling from city
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to city wearing their road graz But this is a
Wil Chamberlain uniform.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
They're wonderful.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Let's say hello to Jed who fled? Hello, Jed who fled?
Speaker 7 (30:58):
What's going on? Man, I've been listening to the show, dude,
but I've got such a such an ability with these
dark dogs. You should over the years. I can immediately
wipe it and go blank right now. And if you're
reminded me I could probably come up on it. Some
guy called a blind damn it, dude, who has ever
ridden a train? Man? What is just realize to get
out of it? Take it the red field man, I've
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got the train to come time to college. Other that
she got too drunk. But besides that, I don't think
I've ever been on a train in my life. Your
training's experienced. Interesting though.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I see what you do, Jed. You speak so fast
you think we won't hear what you said. That's what
you do. You just figure like you said.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
Yeah, dude, yeah, I've been I like to wait on
a whole two three, maybe four hours. Sometimes you can't
understand me.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
That's the goal.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
That's the that's the that's the all of that to
make a train joke. All of that for a train joke.
You did all that work for a train joke. Do
you feel good about yourself?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Dude?
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Do I feel good about it?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
No?
Speaker 7 (31:53):
But am I gonna make another joke about it if
I think of it on the flock? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Now, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Because tomorrow's a newbie name, which means you're not allowed
to call the show tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Are you concerned?
Speaker 2 (32:02):
About that. It's going to affect your whole life's work. Here, jed,
you won't be able to get on the air tomorrow night.
Speaker 7 (32:08):
Who's felling it for you? Here's a movie you got.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
But you really do listen?
Speaker 7 (32:14):
Just the coop are gonna be working?
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Yes or no?
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Ye bans on?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh so you think if Coop's here you will not
get on, But if Coop's not here, you'll get on
the air.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
No, I took you the other night when I snuck
in and go play password and you kick me off.
I love heavy metal, mouth, I don't. I don't know
if that guy is a real guy.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
No, you don't like that guy. Come on, Nah, you
don't like that guy. Come on, that guy's annoying.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Have you ever played password? He's like, have you ever
play heavy?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I don't want an answer.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I don't understand that. I'm gonna go back and listen
to it right now.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah, go back and download the pot.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
Yeah, get the joke. I did all this to the
joke man, thank.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
You, And nobody heard the joke but hearing on the podcast.
Nobody actually heard the joke, but they it'll be on
the podcast. I'm sure it'll be there. Wonderful. Thank you
for that. Don't ever call again. Time now for the
install trivia, the Insta trivia, And this is a blatant
attempt to get you to listen a little bit longer
with us. It's called the Insta trivia. So Blank is
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the only player in NFL history to have had three
or more sacks and two or more interceptions in the
same game. Again, Blank, the only player in NFL history
to have three or more sacks and two or more
interceptions in the same game. That's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
The answer. We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (34:07):
And here's the instant trivia.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Blank the only player in NFL history to have recorded
three or more sacks and two or more interceptions in
the same game. That is the answer, Trivia? What is
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at Progressive dot com. And see does anyone listening in
the Mallard Militia here know the answer? And we go
to the magic Twitter machine here to see if anybody
knows the answer, will go page down here, page down.
A lot of random answers. John Gottie guessed by the
Eddie Garcia Burner account. Late Night Truck Tester says you
are the Olsen twins who are thirty seven?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Okay, Bean boot Maker Bob going with Carl Banks, mister
nice guy say as the great Jesse Barfield part of
that All Time Blue Jay outfield with George Taco Bell,
Jesse Barfield, Lloyd Mosby in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Sean Springs guessed by Fields of Green Carl Mecklenburg from
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Sir scratch Off says it's Jed
who fled. Holding blind Emmett's hand on top of a
train is the answer. Matt the Warrior Raider as fan
went with Bill Shatner as his answer.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Who else do you have?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Mark in Santa Monica says Crazy Legs hirsh is the
way to go. Alf the Alien Ol Pinal. I say
Alf made it to Yankee Stadium, says Ben Maller. Chicken
figures Yankee Stoll. That looks pretty good. That only costs
just seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
I bet al for that. I bet Ronnie Lott.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Guessed by Steve the Misplaced San Diegan Boris di Al
from Shane in Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Do you have an answer, Eddie? Please? I need an answer?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Is not yes I do. It's former Seattle Seahawks legendary
linebacker Brian bos No.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
It's also not Charles. What's in the correct answer? None
other than a former Steeler ready. Joey Porter back in
twenty oh two easy against the Raiders. He had seven tackles,
three sacks, two interceptions, two passes defended, and a partridge
in a pear tree.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
It's maller how about that?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets
grilled and.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
We bring in the coop Dalu.
Speaker 8 (36:29):
It's being reported that the Houston Rockets are looking into
Kyrie Irving as a backup plan if they're James to
return to the team. Ben, who would you rather have
if you were a Rockets fan?
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I would rather go into business.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Okay, if I had to choose, and no lies here
with al Capone, I would rather go into business with
al Capone than Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
You can't trust that here.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Come on, you go with the Beard, Okay, you know
the Beard's got his own issues, But I would rather
go with James Harden.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Kyrie Irvings track record speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
And even though he'll play well when he plays, he's
not available and he does all kinds of crazy crap
off the court.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
Next, according to a recent report, the Patriots kickers are
exclusively working on squibkicks during OTAs. Now this is in
reaction to the league's new kickoff rules. Ben, do you
think we'll be seeing nothing but squibkicks this season to
try and force returns?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It would be a wonderful tribute to Mike Leach. One
of my favorite Mike Leach quotes of all time when
he was coaching at Texas Tech. He said, squib kick
it to the fat guy. That was his quote, right,
And it's a great idea. Listen, the NFL owners they
forced this rule in. The coaches didn't want it, So
what a great way to screw over the owners and
squibkick every single time? How delicious would that be? How
(37:46):
upset would the NFL owners be? I love it, and
then I gonna do it every time. But I could
see it happening about half the time.
Speaker 8 (37:52):
Next, the Arizona Cardinals are moving forward with Marquise Brown
as their number one receiver after releasing DeAndre Hopkins. Brown
said he won to prove that he can be the guy. Yeah, Ben,
do you think he can be the guy?
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well? As I was.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Told by someone years ago that someone will lead the
Cardinals in reception, someone will lead the Cardinals in yards.
Why not Marquise Hollywood Brown? That team sucks. They'll be
lucky if they win three games in Arizona. So sure
he can be the guy on a terrible team. How
did Wake dows that is?
Speaker 7 (38:24):
I won the game.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I won the game. That's a win, he said. I passed,
that's a win.
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