June 21, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the idea that Draymond Green is the difference maker of NBA free agency, Kevin Durant saying he's a fan of Twitter because he's "driven by hate", Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the pro Bouncy Ball Malard Monologue.
It is all about the NBA as tomorrow is the
NBA Draft. A lot of rumors flying around. You buy
or sell Draymond Green being a difference maker an NBA
free agency. The Heat say they passed on Bradley Beal
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because of Sowry issues, but they're still interested in Dame Lillard,
you believe it or not. Kevin Durant says, hey, listen,
I am driven by hate too much. Love will kill you.
Are you in or out on that statement? Also, Lebron James,
we'll get to that this hour. Lebron entering the chatter
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and is a surprise player possibly going to be traded
before the draft. We'll talk about that as well. All
of it coming your way here in hour number two.
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we'll get back to the Jack Jones conversation in a
couple of minutes. Here we had a hearty conversation. See
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a lot of people on hold want to talk about
that as a twist, a plot twist. The patriot defensive
back at Logan Airport brought his clocks to the party
on a twist. Yeah, they were not welcome. And now
he is, through his lawyer, playing the race card that
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somehow will play into this. Our lead this hour. We'll
get back to that. But our lead this hour comes
from pro Bouncy Ball and Draymond Green. I was reprimanded
by some of our listeners in northern California who say,
listen to your stupid show, Draymond Green. This is a
big story. You didn't even really get into it. I
did mention it, but I didn't do a full mallon monologue.
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And this is not gonna be a full mall of
monologue about this. But the NBA Draft is tomorrow and
it's a big time for rumors and gossip and all that,
and Draymond Green has been getting a lot of clout
in the last news cycle in the NBA. And because
of the draft and all that, the Warriors start declining
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twenty seven point six million dollars. I would like the
bosses here at Fox Sports Rated to know I will
never ever decline twenty seven point six million dollars. If
they are kind enough to offer me that money, I
will take that money. I will not decline that money.
But Draymond knows he'll get more than that. He declined
his player option for next season. And while most people
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think Draymond does not have the balls to leave the Warriors.
That's his happy place. Even though he punches people in
his happy place, most people don't think that Draymond's actually
going to leave the Warriors. That would be awkward. Is
he going to go The Lakers can't afford to give
him any real money because of the salary cap rules,
So is he going to play for peanuts? And then
Lebron will feed him money under the table? Where is
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he going to go?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
There?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Would have to be a sign and trade deal, as
I understand it, and so the Warriors would have to
be complicit in allowing Draymond Green Tali. So there was
a story that caught my attention on this topic of conversation.
We're told that a lot of teams around the NBA
are convinced that Draymon will push them to the very
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top of the mountain where the joker is currently hanging out,
and that Draymond Green on you know, three or four
other teams around the NBA, all of a sudden, that
team is where the Denver Nuggets are atop the NBA.
So let us discuss it, you know, buy or sell,
buy or sell Draymond Green being a difference maker on
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the NBA free agency market. So there's a couple of
things here. Do I think he's a difference maker?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Do I think he's going to change teams? No, I've
got chest set stovetop an M eighteen hell cat, and
we will combine these things together and we are going
to make a haymaker bam right to the shnas, right
to the face. So Number one, that Draymond Green narrative
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smells a little fishy to me. It smells a little
fishy to me. And Draymond was not the reason the
Warriors were winning. Now, he wasn't a negative for the Warriors,
right and when the words when the Glory Days winning
all those championships for the last decade, that was great.
Draymond was part of that and all. But he was
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in comparison a bit player. In fact, you could make
the argument that he was a net negative when he
kept kicking guys in the nuts and got suspended and
that helped propel Cleveland to come back and beat Golden
State in the NBA Finals while Draymond was watching an
A's game across the parking lot in Oakland there at
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the coliseum. So you can make that argument. But his
role in comparison, Draymond's role in comparison to Steph Curry
and Klay Thompson and others, by the way, and others,
you would say he was a bit player. Would say
that he had in Hollywood there was he had a
non speaking role, but he spoke a lot. He's got
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his own podcast. Everyone does, even I have my own podcast.
And you'd also make the point, you could make the
point talk about Draymond Green that he was like the
stunt man for the worst. He liked physical comedy. That's
what he liked. You know, I punch a guy here,
even if your own teammate kick a guy in the balls,
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that happens. You know, scream, scream at, you do all that.
But these stories that have been popping up the last
twenty four to forty eight hours by Draymond being the
missing puzzle piece, they are too rich for my taste.
And I like a lot of sugar. I was very
fat for a long time. I loved sugar, and even
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that is too rich for my taste. And I would
advise you to check the chest set here because this
is some pawn action. The media pawns for Draymond, and
they're using these stories. They're floating these lovey dovey stories
in the media about the Draymond. He's pumping up his
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tires and everyone wants this guy and all that. But ultimately,
when you do the back of the napkin math, the
malor math, Draymond is of much more value to the
Warriors than he is to Miami or the Lakers, or
god forbid, the Clippers or anybody.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He's just much more valuable to the Warriors because it's
a legacy play. He's a legacy play. Anywhere else he's
got no legacy. There is no legacy play would be
where he's at all. Right now, he's part of the
glory days. We all know that. Now for a different team,
let me ask you this. Do you think anyone goes
out of their way to watch a game or to
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buy tickets to a game because Draymond's coming to town?
Maybe if you're related to him, but you get probably
get free tickets. I would think. So he's in a
move tickets. Does he move television ratings? Maybe he says
stupid stuff people watch because he says stupid stuff. But
I don't even know that he does that. And who's
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going out of their way to watch him? Set a
screen or box out try to get a rebound? Right?
I mean, that's the stuff that you're not going out
of your way to watch. The dancing Bear, which is
one of his nicknames. There he avered about nine points
a game, have about seven rebounds a game, and he'll
elbow some people and scream at officials and that's his game.
And he'll get a few assists now and again, about
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seven assists. But he's also a liability because the guy
can't shoot, and we know how that works now. The
Warriors have so many other players that can shoot that
it didn't often cause a problem, although you could argue
that Draymond against the Lakers in the playoffs this year,
that he was part of the issue because Klay Thompson
couldn't make a shot even when he was wide open,
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and Draymond didn't attempt that many, but he was wide
open quite a bit, missed a whole lot. Plus he's
passed his prime. I don't know if he's a good
teammate or not. I would think I don't want to
speak for Jordan Poole, but I would think Jordan Pool
does not have Draymond Green very high up on his
good teammate list. But maybe maybe they're buddies. Maybe it's
all you know, guys punch guys in the face, that
happens and all that, and why not? All right, So,
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turning the page on that, we have learned the story
out of Miami. The Bradley Beal trade. We talked about
this earlier in the week in a previous episode of
the show. But Bradley Beal traded from the Wizards to
the Suns, and that story got a lot of attention.
Why didn't he go to Miami? Well, now what the
heat are floating out in the media. They're trying to
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pacify their fan base saying, well, listen, the reason Miami
didn't end up trading for Bradley Beal was because they
were worried about the new salary tax that's in the
NBA and that instead they're focused on getting Dame Lillard
and that's the guy that they want, and then they
just decided to pass on Bradley Beal. So with that
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being said, the heat, what they're leaking, the Miami heat,
what they're leaking to the media here that this was intentional,
that they wanted Lillard more than Beale and they didn't
want to go over that other apron because of Bradley
Bual's contract that he signed with Washington. Do you believe
it or not? I am not a believer. I'm agnostic
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on this. I am not and much like the NFL,
I am a salary cap truther. I know there are
no new rules, there are new rules in the NBA.
But Bradley Beal the trade, first of all, was an
inside job, as we talked about the agent, the confidant
of Bradley Beial negotiated with his son. The trade was
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announced on Father's Day. There's nothing odd about that at all.
But here's my position on the Miami Heat and pat
Riley that pat Riley in the Heat did not punt
away from Bradley Beal because they were worried about going
over a certain salary threshold and all that. That was
not why they did this. The real reason you got
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to check the stovetop. And I'm not talking about the
stovetop stuff. I'm talking about the fact that they consider
Bradley Beal and this is a legitimate argument. They don't
think he's an alpha dog, that they think he's more
of a lapdog, and that he's not a guy who's
gonna make your team dramatically better. And this is one
of the arguments against Bradley Beal. Will find out how
he does in Phoenix, as he's like the third wheel
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in the Valley of the Sun. But Bradley Beal, if
you look at the stovetop, he's like an electric stove
and Dame Lillard is a gas stove. And anyone that
does cooking will tell you they would much rather use
a gas stove than an electric stove if they had
their choice. Just the quality, the control of the gas
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stove is better than the electric stove. And so that's
the difference, right. Any chef worth their assault would say, Hey,
that's the way that it is. And Bradley Beal has
to prove, and he'll have a chance to do it,
that he's just not not the freeto Banditto the stat banditto,
And he's got to prove he's not that guy. My
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final point here, Kevin Durant has explained how he operates.
I know you're dying to know that, right. That's ah,
you know, I tune into the show because I want
to hear the mind of Kevin Durant. Well, good news.
So Durant recently explained why he uses social media to
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engage and enrage the trolls. Yeah, he loves Durant telling
a random fan that the reason he responds to the
haters and not people that are positive is because of
the M word motivation. That M word, he said, hate
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drives me too much, Love will kill you. I thought
it was the other way, but what do I know?
All right, So are you in or out on Kevin
Durant being driven by hate and too much love will
kill him. So I'm actually in on this to a point.
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I'm in with Durant to a point because if you
look at human nature kind of we're all pretty much
the same. People like to put us in different groups
and separate us, and I think we're that much different,
but we're really all kind of the same when you
break it all apart. Here the wants, the desires of life,
why we're motivated to do things, and one of the
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great motivations. It's been something we've goofed on over the
years behind these microphones because it is so ridiculous that
every team that wins a championship, nobody thought we could
do it. Denver number one seed in the Western Conference,
nobody thought we could do it. Patriots Dynasty, Tom Brady
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and the Patriots after winning the Super Bowl, when they
were the favorite before training camp, people didn't believe in us.
That is a condition of the human mind, especially in athletics.
But humans in general and so athletes are hardwired to
prove the doubters wrong. And Durant just likes to take
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things into the hidden dementia to the matrix. He likes
to go deep into the matrix and dig around in that.
And he's essentially driving an M eighteen Hellcat and right
into the hater's den, right where they hang out, all
the haters hang out, and he's serving them supper from
the Hellcat. He's just here. You go. You get some soup,
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you get some burgers over there, some steak over there.
Here's a little red meat for you in the hater's den.
Knock yourself out. But I was always told feeding the
monsters just makes more monsters. But Durant likes monsters. He
wants the monsters. So here's the cheat code. If you
want to get a reaction from the Slim Reaper, don't
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say hey, I really like your game. I think you're
really good man. I enjoyed watching say you are the
biggest schmuck. You are such a loser. Durant terrible, and
he will be likely to respond loser. Yeah, that us
versus the world mentality. It's a great trope in sports.
It's been going on my entire life. It we'll go
on forever long after I'm gone. Manufactured outrage. Manufactured outrage,
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all right? Is the Ben Mahler Show. You want to
come out on any of that eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine sixty
sixty nine. Also last hoar, we had to pop up
last minute rumor that the Clippers are gauging interest on
Paul George. I'm all for that. I'm all for I'll
drive him to the airport if you want. I don't care.
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As long as the Clippers cover my gus. I'll drive
into the airport, absolutely one. We'll do that, no questions.
And so you cannot have you cannot have the NBA
gossip being at the very top of the conversation in
sports without Lebron entering the chat. Yes there is a
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Lebron revelation somewhere Supermarket Steve and his bride on their
wedding anniversary saying, oh I knew it. I called it. Yes,
What why is Lebron entering the gossip mill before the
NBA Draft. We'll talk about that and we will do
it next.
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Speaker 1 (17:12):
NBA heavy hour two monologue. Ferg Dog writes. It says, Ben,
do not give up on Paul George just yet. Let's
grab Draymond and give it one more shot. What do
we have to lose? No, I'm good. I think Draymons,
if he comes to the Clippers, should just focus on
his podcast with Cowhard full time. That's what he should do.
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Late night drug test, he says. If Duran is motivated
by haters, he should have never left. Draymond Green could
have won a couple more rings with the Dubs. And
who else do we have? Let's see page down, Let's
see here.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Four to oh one.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I forget her name, but she writes and she says, hello, Mahler.
Last week, a man phoned in with a comment how
he lives in his car and listens to you every
night for encouragement. How is the caller? Has he called
in again? No, Well, we had a couple of people
that were down on their luck. But you're talking about
the gentlemen in Seattle who says that he tries to
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find a safe place and then he tunes in. This
is the entertainment. But he called on a newbie night
and we have not heard from him. Hopefully he's doing
well and he will check in with us from time
to time. He did tell me though, when he gets
back on his feet and gets his own place and stuff,
he'll call in and give us an update. So we
look forward to that. Derek says, Son's Nation backs the
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icon KD who will deliver a championship to Phoenix next season. Yeah, okay,
I'm sure sure that will happen, just like he gave
the championship to the Brooklyn Nets. Now, this other story
which we talked about the beginning of the show in
our number one, involving the New England Patriots guns at
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the airport. Still a lot of attention on that. As
Jack Jones, attorney came out like a fire breathing dragon
outside the courthouse there in East Boston. I should have
sent blind Scott. We were talking about sending blind Scott
down there. How great would it have been if blind
Scott had shown up at the courthouse and asked some
(19:17):
rude questions to the attorney or or remember Wayne from
southee right, that would have been good to Wayne from
Southeye who used to call the show back in the day. Hey, Mala,
I did it for Mala. Yeah that guy. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to Tony who's
in the Bay area. Hello, Tony, welcome.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I just wanted to finish my dream from the other night,
so after I it's a romantic dream. So don't cut
me off here, Tony.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
This is a bit of a non sequitor.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
It always is with me, you know that.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
So the romantic dream with me shooting the gu in
the face, and the reason why I kept shooting him
is because the bulletry duds and then and then the
best looking girl at the party chose me. So that's
why it wound up being a romantic dream.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That is that how you knew it was a dream
because the best looking girl picked you, so you knew
it must have been a dream. It couldn't be reality, right, Oh,
he just dissed you, Tony. No, I did not that.
Chris told me to say that. I didn't. I didn't
come up with that of my own.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
No, I knew. I knew ahead of time. I knew
almost instantly when I was dreaming what was going.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Does anyone have a dry humping? Guys?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Is something that I feel very strongly about.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
There's a serious question. Does anyone have a dream? Any
dude have a dream where they end up with the
ugliest person at the party, like the absolute most disgusted,
like Medusa, like a cow named Medusa. One time you
had that dream one time. I don't even know if
that would that be a nightmare though, that would be
more of a nightmare, not a dream. I'm gonna plead
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the fifth. Okay, maybe you're into that kind of thing.
I know, whatever, whatever floats your boat. So how can
we help you, Tony? So you had a dream, you
wanted to finish the dream? And have you had any
other dreams? This is this is a long time ago.
Haven't called in a while?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, I do have a real quick one that happened
the other day. So I was in my car counting
money out and I look over and there's a homeless
chick hooker with nice eyes, and I got to drinking.
I was like, oh, she saw me count my money out.
So I won't be able to duor for head, but
I won't think.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I think you can say the way you phrased that there.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Well, I mean it's the truth though, and then.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Well I know, yes, all right.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Well then I woke up before we can negotiate. So
that's how that one ended.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, okay, thank you, you're welcome. Okay, good bye. This
is my nightmare. Yeah, these calls, it gets better and better.
Let's go to Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, what's
going on?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Good to be with you this evening. We have a
story from the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So, oh we have a story. Here we go. We
got a story. We got a story, as.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You alluded to, you know, is Jack Jones here and
this business and his lawyer. I appreciate that drop tick Murphy,
that that's near and dear to my heart, you know,
in the background. But here's what it comes down to, Ben, Okay,
I don't have time for this lawyer playing the race
card from the bottom of the deck to start with,
When you bring two firearms to the airport and are
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facing up to thirty years in prison, Okay, that's your argument.
You're gonna make it a cultural racial argument to start
when you bring two loaded weapons to the airport and
you're facing thirty years in prison. No, as a magistrate,
as a lawyer, as somebody you know who went through
large school and passed the bar, I need more from
this attorney, Ben, I'm not pleasing.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And though if you're the attorney, what else are you
gonna do. All she has to do is get one
person that agrees where they that this is racist, and
then he's free. Even if he did it, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You're going to meet one person to come around that
bring two loaded weapons to the airport is somehow related
to culture or race.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
No, I think this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard,
but I think it could work. Listen, Listen, we live
in crazy times. Andreas of the last five years or
so have not told you that we're living in nutsoll Land.
I don't know what else I need to do.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Here, Ben, this is not a good look for the Commonwealth.
We're supposed to leave the nation in research and development.
We have the number one public schools in the nation. Okay,
we don't go out here putting forth these inflammatory, incendiary,
nonsensical arguments. By the way, Patriots none to please with
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mister Jones. And the story that's kind of gettingwept under the rug.
As I conclude, is what we've been talking about in
the Commonwealth is Bill Belichick and his you know, junction
boys practices getting tentioned by the NFL because he's afraid
that the Patriots are going to finish last last in
the AFC East, which they most likely will. And this
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so so yes the case itself, but this is not
a good look for the Patriots, who we're in uncertain
times here. Ben. In conclusion, you know, the goat is
what was what was the quote? The owl is not
so wise without his goat. That's how people are looking
at Bill Belichick right now. It's been some difficult years
since Tom Brady left, and if we finished last and
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the AFC East, which can be very well likely could
that's the real overarching argument that people need to be
talking about. This lawyer needs to get her act together. Okay,
use the law use common sense and use reason. You
don't start with the race card. When somebody brings two
loaded weapons to a dog on airports, they're still going
to call.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I'll tell you what, if I was facing criminal charges,
I would hire her as my attorney. She I would
not want to be in the same room with her,
but I would hire her and quick, uh, spur of
the moment take I have on the AFC East. I
could make a compelling argument that every team in the
AFC East is combustible, every single team. I'm gonna make
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that argument coming up in a moment.
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Speaker 5 (25:57):
So we know they're coming up. On Thursday is the
NBA drafting Victor Webbin Yama is going to be the
number one pick for the San Antonio Spurs. The draft
is gonna be at the Barclay Center there in Brooklyn.
And when Mayama was at the Yankee Stadium last night,
you throw out the first pitch of the game. Now
keep in mind he is from France. I don't think
they play a lot of baseball there, so critiquing the
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pitch actually had a pretty good wind up, decent velocity.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It was the location on the pitch was not good.
It was very good.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
It was very wide outside the catcher that could not
get a hold of it.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It went to the backstop.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
But there was an interesting picture of him holding the baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I saw that he was.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Holding like a golf ball. It was this tiny little
thing in his gigantic hands and his spider like fingers.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The most impressive thing that I noticed was the jersey
that he was wearing. He's seven foot three or something
like that. One bo Yama, Right, this guy the Parisian
prodigy and he's wearing a number five, you know, Jolton
Joe Demaggio jersey. But it wasn't too short on him?
How like was that extra extra long?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I had?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, and it looked like it fit him pretty good.
There and there you go. So all right, man Yama,
are people gonna be upset in San Antonio is wearing
a Yankee jersey? They have no baseball? I don't think
I have to worry about that. Do they have a
Triple A team in San Antonio?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
They used to have, like was it the Missions or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's that's old school. Do they still have I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Wasn't it. I don't thought there were a Dodger farm
from team.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
At one time they were a Double A affiliate for
the Dodgers. Triple A was Albuquerque, Double A was San Antonio.
But that's a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It is still the San Antonio Missions of the Padres.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It should have been that San Antonio Alamos here coming
to the Alamo. It didn't work. Chris is Lions could
be the the Alamos there the way it works out
for them. But the Dungeons, right, you're old coach Jim
Caldwell and the dungeon, Yeah, the dungeon of Doo, the
dungeon of what he called the press. Is the Ben
(28:05):
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Patriots could finish in the last place and all that
I can make a compelling argument in less than one
minute that every team in the AFC East is screwed
and there are problems on the horizon. We'll start with Buffalo.
This is obvious. You've got Stefan Diggs, who's at loggerheads
with Josh Allen. He's an attention wore, he's a diva.
(28:51):
He's one of their most important players and any moment
cob boom Verstefon Diggs. We then go to the Patriots.
Now this is obviously Patriots have Mac Jones, who snakes,
but Jack Jones, one of the key defensive players, might
not play at all. That's possibly he plays, but you
don't know, Patriots could still release him, so that's an issue.
(29:12):
And then you go to Miami. You got Tyreek Hill,
who at any moment could slap someone. He's not supposed
to slap. He does not keep his hands to himself.
And if you take Tyreek away from the Dolphins, they're
not as lethal. I think that's you know what do
I know? I just in the Overnight show. And then
and then the Jets j e ts suck, suck suck.
Aaron Rodgers goes to one too many Broadway shows, tries
(29:35):
to win a Tony Award rather than an MVP Award.
Jets suck suck suck anyway, so those every team is
a ticking time bomb in the AFCAS. That's my hot tach.
Let's go to Jed who fled? Hello Jed who fled?
A court expert, it says on my screen with more
(29:58):
on this Jack Jones story. Hello Jed, U flag You've
spent many hours in court rooms over the years.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
No colors here you calling it, says a Ben Mall
a radio show, and every single one of y'all sucks.
Why didn't he go to me first? Now, bro, I'm
just kidding now that I've been in a court more
than shot polished wood. And you know, I I just
got a black robe and a gabble. But the judge
didn't think it's funny when I walk in.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Now, have you ever you ever actually paid for an
attorney or is it all a public defender.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
I'm gonna tell you my first arrest. I was a
school teacher. Man. I passed out at a gas pump
about three am, and it's on the school night, and yeah, yeah,
I got it. I got dropped it. But most of
my inheritangs from my grandma. And got a private attorney,
and I was about a day away from begetting the
six month probation completed, and I was like, what the
hell with it? I'm smoking marijuana back in the day,
I'm not smoking no matter what. Which if you're not
don't have a medical marijuana card is not wise at all, dude.
(30:51):
And so so you blew.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You blew the family money, the grandma's money on an attorney.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
It blew I burnt it. I mean I wish I burned.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
It, smoked smoked it. Yeah, okay, yeah it.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Was so Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
I don't know if you remember DJ DJ Small's dude,
he was an obscure remember seven Smoke. It is one
of the things that yeah, because you know, I mean
you've heard, you've heard the rap guys think something. Where'd
you find this? Like real tramp stuff? I don't know
how much rap music you girl listen to. It was
very critical from my white boys stuff, you know. And
that Woods that was snow West Florida.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Was damn son, where'd you find this?
Speaker 8 (31:28):
God saying something like tally but go get you a man?
What's your noise? You a't like you got you got?
I mean they all got noises. What's your noise there?
What's your go to noise?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
What do you what are you on right now?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I'm gonna been down radio, so dumb ass.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
That's a drop. We gotta save that one. Yeah, that's
a drop? All right?
Speaker 8 (31:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Oh, I I don't know what this is? Thank you, Jed?
All Right. Tremendous legal advice, Jed, who fled you should
start your own ambulance chasing law firm in the boondocks
of Florida is what you should do. Thank you, jeez.
So Lebron has entered the chat here, good old Lebron James.
He can't go too long without getting attention. There is
a rumor being floated around that Lebron is not happy
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with Anthony Davis. Lebron frustrated with Anthony Davis. Say what, well,
this sounds like a manure to me. But yeah, there's
this story, yeah, that there's a power struggle going on
between Lebron and Rob Polinka and that the implication is
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Lebron would like the Lakers to trade Anthony Davis. Now,
that would be that would be a big one. Chances
of that happening. I'm gonna gos minus fifty percent minus
fifty percent at this point based on the information that
I have. But there is that story being passed around.
The streets are talking that Lebron is on it. Why
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why is he in that? Because Anthony Davis is not
available all the time and he misses a bunch of games.
He's always missed a bunch of games, right, but he
missed last season? Might mean it was forty games and uh,
I just hadn't he played more last year, but a
couple years ago missed forty games. Anyway, is the Ben
Mahlord Show. As we continue on, we've got Mallard of
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the third degree. Time now for the instat trivia. Here
we go in honor of an accomplishment that was made
by Kansas City Royal Jordan Lyles. This week, Blank holds
the longest streak of losses by a starting pitcher with
one team in Major League history. Blank holds the longest
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streak of losses by a starting pitcher with one team
in modern we'll say modern major League history. That is
the instant trivia. The answer, We'll get to it. We'll
do it.
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It's Ben Maler, gotta go quick here, Let's get it
in right now. The Institivia Blank holds the longest streak
of losses by a starting pitcher with one team now,
Jordan Lyles and the Royals has the record to start
the season fifteen losses in a row to start the year.
Everyone of the starts the Royals have lost, and Blank
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holds the longest all time record. Dice K guest by
Bengal fan Bryan. Who else you have? Kevin Millwood from
Fields of Green? I can't read that on the air
Angel Great Chuck Finley guest by Kyle lima time from
Miguel on Fire the Engineer tossed out by Ferg Dog.
Who else do you have? Page Down Elton John having
(35:26):
a croissant? Guessed by Robbie the Mariner fan Mookie Blaylock
from Buzzy or Bubbsy. Who else do we have? Stefan
Diggs tossed out by Scott in Rhode Island? Something Stefan
likes a lot of Greg the real estate mogul in
Baltimore's going with Anthony Young New York Mets legend as
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his answer, Bloom Moon Odom from Mark in Santa Monica,
Salvador Perez of the Royals from the Philly rob Tribute
burner account, Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie? I do.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
It's Former Baltimore Orioles leg and Sidney pun Sol.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Sidney Punson is that the correct answer is not the
correct answer. The correct answer in the modern ear The
longest streak is by Chris Capauano of the Brewers. Nineteen
straight starts. The Brewers loss, although he did have Tommy
John surgery in the middle of that. But nineteen straight
starts by him they lost. Here we go, it's Mallard.
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How about that?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
To the third degree, This is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
And the Angels are no strangers to huge free agent busts.
They've had a lot of them over the years. My
question for you is Anthony Rendon the biggest of them all.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
So you want me to say yes, but I'm not
gonna say yes. I believe it's Albert Poolhos. I believe
here's why that makes way because the money's about the same.
Re rendon't got like five million more than Pools, but
Pools was considered the top player in baseball with the Cardinals.
Nobody on god screeners said Anthony Rendon was the top
player in baseball with the Washington Nationals. He was a
(37:03):
good player, he played well, but Albert Pulos as soon
as he got to Anaheim, he became like ten slots
less of a player than he was in Saint Louis.
So I'm going with Albert, Prince Albert next.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
So apparently there's a wide receiver named Noah Brown who
has spent the last six years on the Cowboys, but
he's now with the Houston Texans. He said in a
recent interview that rookie quarterback CJ. Stroud has the potential
to be as good as or better than Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Ben Thumb's upper down. I don't know who Noah Brown is,
but i'll go thumbs off because that's weasel terminology. Everyone's
got potential, but yes, that Texas. They got to hope CJ.
Stroud's better than Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott's a middle middling
NFL quarterback. You'd like to think CJ. Stroud's gonna be
a top ten player, Dak Prescott's not attempted top ten
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player next.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
A former NFL executive recently said that Chargers head coach
Brandon Staley has the hottest seat of anyone heading into
the upcoming NFL's and deservedly so.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Ben, do you agree.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
Yes, they blew a twenty seven point late in the
playoffs in Jacksonville. The only reason he's still there is
because the Chargers owners a tight wad. That's why he's
a defensive guy. The defense wasn't even that good. I mean,
what are they doing?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
All right? How did we do? Coopolope?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
You failed?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
That is a win, Albert. That's something Rendon shows up.
He's in the clubhouse eating, is what he's doing.
Hello, and welcome to the pro Bouncy Ball Malard Monologue.
It is all about the NBA as tomorrow is the
NBA Draft. A lot of rumors flying around. You buy
or sell Draymond Green being a difference maker an NBA
free agency. The Heat say they passed on Bradley Beal
(00:22):
because of Sowry issues, but they're still interested in Dame Lillard,
you believe it or not. Kevin Durant says, hey, listen,
I am driven by hate too much. Love will kill you.
Are you in or out on that statement? Also, Lebron James,
we'll get to that this hour. Lebron entering the chatter
(00:42):
and is a surprise player possibly going to be traded
before the draft. We'll talk about that as well. All
of it coming your way here in hour number two.
A different kind of Green team. Welcome in the beginning
of another of the Ben Maler Show. We are in
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we'll get back to the Jack Jones conversation in a
couple of minutes. Here we had a hearty conversation. See
(01:51):
a lot of people on hold want to talk about
that as a twist, a plot twist. The patriot defensive
back at Logan Airport brought his clocks to the party
on a twist. Yeah, they were not welcome. And now
he is, through his lawyer, playing the race card that
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somehow will play into this. Our lead this hour. We'll
get back to that. But our lead this hour comes
from pro Bouncy Ball and Draymond Green. I was reprimanded
by some of our listeners in northern California who say,
listen to your stupid show, Draymond Green. This is a
big story. You didn't even really get into it. I
did mention it, but I didn't do a full mallon monologue.
(02:34):
And this is not gonna be a full mall of
monologue about this. But the NBA Draft is tomorrow and
it's a big time for rumors and gossip and all that,
and Draymond Green has been getting a lot of clout
in the last news cycle in the NBA. And because
of the draft and all that, the Warriors start declining
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twenty seven point six million dollars. I would like the
bosses here at Fox Sports Rated to know I will
never ever decline twenty seven point six million dollars. If
they are kind enough to offer me that money, I
will take that money. I will not decline that money.
But Draymond knows he'll get more than that. He declined
his player option for next season. And while most people
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think Draymond does not have the balls to leave the Warriors.
That's his happy place. Even though he punches people in
his happy place, most people don't think that Draymond's actually
going to leave the Warriors. That would be awkward. Is
he going to go The Lakers can't afford to give
him any real money because of the salary cap rules,
So is he going to play for peanuts? And then
Lebron will feed him money under the table? Where is
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he going to go?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
There?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Would have to be a sign and trade deal, as
I understand it, and so the Warriors would have to
be complicit in allowing Draymond Green Tali. So there was
a story that caught my attention on this topic of conversation.
We're told that a lot of teams around the NBA
are convinced that Draymon will push them to the very
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top of the mountain where the joker is currently hanging out,
and that Draymond Green on you know, three or four
other teams around the NBA, all of a sudden, that
team is where the Denver Nuggets are atop the NBA.
So let us discuss it, you know, buy or sell,
buy or sell Draymond Green being a difference maker on
(04:24):
the NBA free agency market. So there's a couple of
things here. Do I think he's a difference maker?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Do I think he's going to change teams? No, I've
got chest set stovetop an M eighteen hell cat, and
we will combine these things together and we are going
to make a haymaker bam right to the shnas, right
to the face. So Number one, that Draymond Green narrative
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smells a little fishy to me. It smells a little
fishy to me. And Draymond was not the reason the
Warriors were winning. Now, he wasn't a negative for the Warriors,
right and when the words when the Glory Days winning
all those championships for the last decade, that was great.
Draymond was part of that and all. But he was
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in comparison a bit player. In fact, you could make
the argument that he was a net negative when he
kept kicking guys in the nuts and got suspended and
that helped propel Cleveland to come back and beat Golden
State in the NBA Finals while Draymond was watching an
A's game across the parking lot in Oakland there at
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the coliseum. So you can make that argument. But his
role in comparison, Draymond's role in comparison to Steph Curry
and Klay Thompson and others, by the way, and others,
you would say he was a bit player. Would say
that he had in Hollywood there was he had a
non speaking role, but he spoke a lot. He's got
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his own podcast. Everyone does, even I have my own podcast.
And you'd also make the point, you could make the
point talk about Draymond Green that he was like the
stunt man for the worst. He liked physical comedy. That's
what he liked. You know, I punch a guy here,
even if your own teammate kick a guy in the balls,
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that happens. You know, scream, scream at, you do all that.
But these stories that have been popping up the last
twenty four to forty eight hours by Draymond being the
missing puzzle piece, they are too rich for my taste.
And I like a lot of sugar. I was very
fat for a long time. I loved sugar, and even
(06:46):
that is too rich for my taste. And I would
advise you to check the chest set here because this
is some pawn action. The media pawns for Draymond, and
they're using these stories. They're floating these lovey dovey stories
in the media about the Draymond. He's pumping up his
(07:08):
tires and everyone wants this guy and all that. But ultimately,
when you do the back of the napkin math, the
malor math, Draymond is of much more value to the
Warriors than he is to Miami or the Lakers, or
god forbid, the Clippers or anybody.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He's just much more valuable to the Warriors because it's
a legacy play. He's a legacy play. Anywhere else he's
got no legacy. There is no legacy play would be
where he's at all. Right now, he's part of the
glory days. We all know that. Now for a different team,
let me ask you this. Do you think anyone goes
out of their way to watch a game or to
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buy tickets to a game because Draymond's coming to town?
Maybe if you're related to him, but you get probably
get free tickets. I would think. So he's in a
move tickets. Does he move television ratings? Maybe he says
stupid stuff people watch because he says stupid stuff. But
I don't even know that he does that. And who's
(08:06):
going out of their way to watch him? Set a
screen or box out try to get a rebound? Right?
I mean, that's the stuff that you're not going out
of your way to watch. The dancing Bear, which is
one of his nicknames. There he avered about nine points
a game, have about seven rebounds a game, and he'll
elbow some people and scream at officials and that's his game.
And he'll get a few assists now and again, about
(08:27):
seven assists. But he's also a liability because the guy
can't shoot, and we know how that works now. The
Warriors have so many other players that can shoot that
it didn't often cause a problem, although you could argue
that Draymond against the Lakers in the playoffs this year,
that he was part of the issue because Klay Thompson
couldn't make a shot even when he was wide open,
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and Draymond didn't attempt that many, but he was wide
open quite a bit, missed a whole lot. Plus he's
passed his prime. I don't know if he's a good
teammate or not. I would think I don't want to
speak for Jordan Poole, but I would think Jordan Pool
does not have Draymond Green very high up on his
good teammate list. But maybe maybe they're buddies. Maybe it's
all you know, guys punch guys in the face, that
happens and all that, and why not? All right, So,
(09:11):
turning the page on that, we have learned the story
out of Miami. The Bradley Beal trade. We talked about
this earlier in the week in a previous episode of
the show. But Bradley Beal traded from the Wizards to
the Suns, and that story got a lot of attention.
Why didn't he go to Miami? Well, now what the
heat are floating out in the media. They're trying to
(09:34):
pacify their fan base saying, well, listen, the reason Miami
didn't end up trading for Bradley Beal was because they
were worried about the new salary tax that's in the
NBA and that instead they're focused on getting Dame Lillard
and that's the guy that they want, and then they
just decided to pass on Bradley Beal. So with that
(09:58):
being said, the heat, what they're leaking, the Miami heat,
what they're leaking to the media here that this was intentional,
that they wanted Lillard more than Beale and they didn't
want to go over that other apron because of Bradley
Bual's contract that he signed with Washington. Do you believe
it or not? I am not a believer. I'm agnostic
(10:24):
on this. I am not and much like the NFL,
I am a salary cap truther. I know there are
no new rules, there are new rules in the NBA.
But Bradley Beal the trade, first of all, was an
inside job, as we talked about the agent, the confidant
of Bradley Beial negotiated with his son. The trade was
(10:44):
announced on Father's Day. There's nothing odd about that at all.
But here's my position on the Miami Heat and pat
Riley that pat Riley in the Heat did not punt
away from Bradley Beal because they were worried about going
over a certain salary threshold and all that. That was
not why they did this. The real reason you got
(11:07):
to check the stovetop. And I'm not talking about the
stovetop stuff. I'm talking about the fact that they consider
Bradley Beal and this is a legitimate argument. They don't
think he's an alpha dog, that they think he's more
of a lapdog, and that he's not a guy who's
gonna make your team dramatically better. And this is one
of the arguments against Bradley Beal. Will find out how
he does in Phoenix, as he's like the third wheel
(11:29):
in the Valley of the Sun. But Bradley Beal, if
you look at the stovetop, he's like an electric stove
and Dame Lillard is a gas stove. And anyone that
does cooking will tell you they would much rather use
a gas stove than an electric stove if they had
their choice. Just the quality, the control of the gas
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stove is better than the electric stove. And so that's
the difference, right. Any chef worth their assault would say, Hey,
that's the way that it is. And Bradley Beal has
to prove, and he'll have a chance to do it,
that he's just not not the freeto Banditto the stat banditto,
And he's got to prove he's not that guy. My
(12:12):
final point here, Kevin Durant has explained how he operates.
I know you're dying to know that, right. That's ah,
you know, I tune into the show because I want
to hear the mind of Kevin Durant. Well, good news.
So Durant recently explained why he uses social media to
(12:34):
engage and enrage the trolls. Yeah, he loves Durant telling
a random fan that the reason he responds to the
haters and not people that are positive is because of
the M word motivation. That M word, he said, hate
(12:58):
drives me too much, Love will kill you. I thought
it was the other way, but what do I know?
All right, So are you in or out on Kevin
Durant being driven by hate and too much love will
kill him. So I'm actually in on this to a point.
(13:19):
I'm in with Durant to a point because if you
look at human nature kind of we're all pretty much
the same. People like to put us in different groups
and separate us, and I think we're that much different,
but we're really all kind of the same when you
break it all apart. Here the wants, the desires of life,
why we're motivated to do things, and one of the
(13:41):
great motivations. It's been something we've goofed on over the
years behind these microphones because it is so ridiculous that
every team that wins a championship, nobody thought we could
do it. Denver number one seed in the Western Conference,
nobody thought we could do it. Patriots Dynasty, Tom Brady
(14:04):
and the Patriots after winning the Super Bowl, when they
were the favorite before training camp, people didn't believe in us.
That is a condition of the human mind, especially in athletics.
But humans in general and so athletes are hardwired to
prove the doubters wrong. And Durant just likes to take
(14:26):
things into the hidden dementia to the matrix. He likes
to go deep into the matrix and dig around in that.
And he's essentially driving an M eighteen Hellcat and right
into the hater's den, right where they hang out, all
the haters hang out, and he's serving them supper from
the Hellcat. He's just here. You go. You get some soup,
(14:48):
you get some burgers over there, some steak over there.
Here's a little red meat for you in the hater's den.
Knock yourself out. But I was always told feeding the
monsters just makes more monsters. But Durant likes monsters. He
wants the monsters. So here's the cheat code. If you
want to get a reaction from the Slim Reaper, don't
(15:10):
say hey, I really like your game. I think you're
really good man. I enjoyed watching say you are the
biggest schmuck. You are such a loser. Durant terrible, and
he will be likely to respond loser. Yeah, that us
versus the world mentality. It's a great trope in sports.
It's been going on my entire life. It we'll go
on forever long after I'm gone. Manufactured outrage. Manufactured outrage,
(15:36):
all right? Is the Ben Mahler Show. You want to
come out on any of that eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine sixty
sixty nine. Also last hoar, we had to pop up
last minute rumor that the Clippers are gauging interest on
Paul George. I'm all for that. I'm all for I'll
drive him to the airport if you want. I don't care.
(15:58):
As long as the Clippers cover my gus. I'll drive
into the airport, absolutely one. We'll do that, no questions.
And so you cannot have you cannot have the NBA
gossip being at the very top of the conversation in
sports without Lebron entering the chat. Yes there is a
(16:20):
Lebron revelation somewhere Supermarket Steve and his bride on their
wedding anniversary saying, oh I knew it. I called it. Yes,
What why is Lebron entering the gossip mill before the
NBA Draft. We'll talk about that and we will do
it next.
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Speaker 1 (17:12):
NBA heavy hour two monologue. Ferg Dog writes. It says, Ben,
do not give up on Paul George just yet. Let's
grab Draymond and give it one more shot. What do
we have to lose? No, I'm good. I think Draymons,
if he comes to the Clippers, should just focus on
his podcast with Cowhard full time. That's what he should do.
(17:34):
Late night drug test, he says. If Duran is motivated
by haters, he should have never left. Draymond Green could
have won a couple more rings with the Dubs. And
who else do we have? Let's see page down, Let's
see here.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Four to oh one.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I forget her name, but she writes and she says, hello, Mahler.
Last week, a man phoned in with a comment how
he lives in his car and listens to you every
night for encouragement. How is the caller? Has he called
in again? No, Well, we had a couple of people
that were down on their luck. But you're talking about
the gentlemen in Seattle who says that he tries to
(18:11):
find a safe place and then he tunes in. This
is the entertainment. But he called on a newbie night
and we have not heard from him. Hopefully he's doing
well and he will check in with us from time
to time. He did tell me though, when he gets
back on his feet and gets his own place and stuff,
he'll call in and give us an update. So we
look forward to that. Derek says, Son's Nation backs the
(18:37):
icon KD who will deliver a championship to Phoenix next season. Yeah, okay,
I'm sure sure that will happen, just like he gave
the championship to the Brooklyn Nets. Now, this other story
which we talked about the beginning of the show in
our number one, involving the New England Patriots guns at
(18:57):
the airport. Still a lot of attention on that. As
Jack Jones, attorney came out like a fire breathing dragon
outside the courthouse there in East Boston. I should have
sent blind Scott. We were talking about sending blind Scott
down there. How great would it have been if blind
Scott had shown up at the courthouse and asked some
(19:17):
rude questions to the attorney or or remember Wayne from
southee right, that would have been good to Wayne from
Southeye who used to call the show back in the day. Hey, Mala,
I did it for Mala. Yeah that guy. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to Tony who's
in the Bay area. Hello, Tony, welcome.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I just wanted to finish my dream from the other night,
so after I it's a romantic dream. So don't cut
me off here, Tony.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
This is a bit of a non sequitor.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
It always is with me, you know that.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
So the romantic dream with me shooting the gu in
the face, and the reason why I kept shooting him
is because the bulletry duds and then and then the
best looking girl at the party chose me. So that's
why it wound up being a romantic dream.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That is that how you knew it was a dream
because the best looking girl picked you, so you knew
it must have been a dream. It couldn't be reality, right, Oh,
he just dissed you, Tony. No, I did not that.
Chris told me to say that. I didn't. I didn't
come up with that of my own.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
No, I knew. I knew ahead of time. I knew
almost instantly when I was dreaming what was going.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Does anyone have a dry humping? Guys?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Is something that I feel very strongly about.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
There's a serious question. Does anyone have a dream? Any
dude have a dream where they end up with the
ugliest person at the party, like the absolute most disgusted,
like Medusa, like a cow named Medusa. One time you
had that dream one time. I don't even know if
that would that be a nightmare though, that would be
more of a nightmare, not a dream. I'm gonna plead
(20:55):
the fifth. Okay, maybe you're into that kind of thing.
I know, whatever, whatever floats your boat. So how can
we help you, Tony? So you had a dream, you
wanted to finish the dream? And have you had any
other dreams? This is this is a long time ago.
Haven't called in a while?
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Yeah, I do have a real quick one that happened
the other day. So I was in my car counting
money out and I look over and there's a homeless
chick hooker with nice eyes, and I got to drinking.
I was like, oh, she saw me count my money out.
So I won't be able to duor for head, but
I won't think.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I think you can say the way you phrased that there.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Well, I mean it's the truth though, and then.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Well I know, yes, all right.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Well then I woke up before we can negotiate. So
that's how that one ended.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, okay, thank you, you're welcome. Okay, good bye. This
is my nightmare. Yeah, these calls, it gets better and better.
Let's go to Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, what's
going on?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Good to be with you this evening. We have a
story from the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So, oh we have a story. Here we go. We
got a story. We got a story, as.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You alluded to, you know, is Jack Jones here and
this business and his lawyer. I appreciate that drop tick Murphy,
that that's near and dear to my heart, you know,
in the background. But here's what it comes down to, Ben, Okay,
I don't have time for this lawyer playing the race
card from the bottom of the deck to start with,
When you bring two firearms to the airport and are
(22:33):
facing up to thirty years in prison, Okay, that's your argument.
You're gonna make it a cultural racial argument to start
when you bring two loaded weapons to the airport and
you're facing thirty years in prison. No, as a magistrate,
as a lawyer, as somebody you know who went through
large school and passed the bar, I need more from
this attorney, Ben, I'm not pleasing.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And though if you're the attorney, what else are you
gonna do. All she has to do is get one
person that agrees where they that this is racist, and
then he's free. Even if he did it, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You're going to meet one person to come around that
bring two loaded weapons to the airport is somehow related
to culture or race.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
No, I think this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard,
but I think it could work. Listen, Listen, we live
in crazy times. Andreas of the last five years or
so have not told you that we're living in nutsoll Land.
I don't know what else I need to do.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Here, Ben, this is not a good look for the Commonwealth.
We're supposed to leave the nation in research and development.
We have the number one public schools in the nation. Okay,
we don't go out here putting forth these inflammatory, incendiary,
nonsensical arguments. By the way, Patriots none to please with
(23:47):
mister Jones. And the story that's kind of gettingwept under the rug.
As I conclude, is what we've been talking about in
the Commonwealth is Bill Belichick and his you know, junction
boys practices getting tentioned by the NFL because he's afraid
that the Patriots are going to finish last last in
the AFC East, which they most likely will. And this
(24:07):
so so yes the case itself, but this is not
a good look for the Patriots, who we're in uncertain
times here. Ben. In conclusion, you know, the goat is
what was what was the quote? The owl is not
so wise without his goat. That's how people are looking
at Bill Belichick right now. It's been some difficult years
since Tom Brady left, and if we finished last and
(24:28):
the AFC East, which can be very well likely could
that's the real overarching argument that people need to be
talking about. This lawyer needs to get her act together. Okay,
use the law use common sense and use reason. You
don't start with the race card. When somebody brings two
loaded weapons to a dog on airports, they're still going
to call.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I'll tell you what, if I was facing criminal charges,
I would hire her as my attorney. She I would
not want to be in the same room with her,
but I would hire her and quick, uh, spur of
the moment take I have on the AFC East. I
could make a compelling argument that every team in the
AFC East is combustible, every single team. I'm gonna make
(25:08):
that argument coming up in a moment.
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Speaker 8 (25:54):
And Rich give me the hell yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
So we know they're coming up. On Thursday is the
NBA drafting Victor Webbin Yama is going to be the
number one pick for the San Antonio Spurs. The draft
is gonna be at the Barclay Center there in Brooklyn.
And when Mayama was at the Yankee Stadium last night,
you throw out the first pitch of the game. Now
keep in mind he is from France. I don't think
they play a lot of baseball there, so critiquing the
(26:18):
pitch actually had a pretty good wind up, decent velocity.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
It was the location on the pitch was not good.
It was very good.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
It was very wide outside the catcher that could not
get a hold of it.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
It went to the backstop.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
But there was an interesting picture of him holding the baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I saw that he was.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Holding like a golf ball. It was this tiny little
thing in his gigantic hands and his spider like fingers.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
The most impressive thing that I noticed was the jersey
that he was wearing. He's seven foot three or something
like that. One bo Yama, Right, this guy the Parisian
prodigy and he's wearing a number five, you know, Jolton
Joe Demaggio jersey. But it wasn't too short on him?
How like was that extra extra long?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I had?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, and it looked like it fit him pretty good.
There and there you go. So all right, man Yama,
are people gonna be upset in San Antonio is wearing
a Yankee jersey? They have no baseball? I don't think
I have to worry about that. Do they have a
Triple A team in San Antonio?
Speaker 5 (27:22):
They used to have, like was it the Missions or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That's that's old school. Do they still have I don't know.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Wasn't it. I don't thought there were a Dodger farm
from team.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
At one time they were a Double A affiliate for
the Dodgers. Triple A was Albuquerque, Double A was San Antonio.
But that's a long time ago.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It is still the San Antonio Missions of the Padres.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It should have been that San Antonio Alamos here coming
to the Alamo. It didn't work. Chris is Lions could
be the the Alamos there the way it works out
for them. But the Dungeons, right, you're old coach Jim
Caldwell and the dungeon, Yeah, the dungeon of Doo, the
dungeon of what he called the press. Is the Ben
(28:05):
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in honor of Andrea's phone call. Now, Andreas said the
(28:28):
Patriots could finish in the last place and all that
I can make a compelling argument in less than one
minute that every team in the AFC East is screwed
and there are problems on the horizon. We'll start with Buffalo.
This is obvious. You've got Stefan Diggs, who's at loggerheads
with Josh Allen. He's an attention wore, he's a diva.
(28:51):
He's one of their most important players and any moment
cob boom Verstefon Diggs. We then go to the Patriots.
Now this is obviously Patriots have Mac Jones, who snakes,
but Jack Jones, one of the key defensive players, might
not play at all. That's possibly he plays, but you
don't know, Patriots could still release him, so that's an issue.
(29:12):
And then you go to Miami. You got Tyreek Hill,
who at any moment could slap someone. He's not supposed
to slap. He does not keep his hands to himself.
And if you take Tyreek away from the Dolphins, they're
not as lethal. I think that's you know what do
I know? I just in the Overnight show. And then
and then the Jets j e ts suck, suck suck.
Aaron Rodgers goes to one too many Broadway shows, tries
(29:35):
to win a Tony Award rather than an MVP Award.
Jets suck suck suck anyway, so those every team is
a ticking time bomb in the AFCAS. That's my hot tach.
Let's go to Jed who fled? Hello Jed who fled?
A court expert, it says on my screen with more
(29:58):
on this Jack Jones story. Hello Jed, U flag You've
spent many hours in court rooms over the years.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
No colors here you calling it, says a Ben Mall
a radio show, and every single one of y'all sucks.
Why didn't he go to me first? Now, bro, I'm
just kidding now that I've been in a court more
than shot polished wood. And you know, I I just
got a black robe and a gabble. But the judge
didn't think it's funny when I walk in.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Now, have you ever you ever actually paid for an
attorney or is it all a public defender.
Speaker 8 (30:28):
I'm gonna tell you my first arrest. I was a
school teacher. Man. I passed out at a gas pump
about three am, and it's on the school night, and yeah, yeah,
I got it. I got dropped it. But most of
my inheritangs from my grandma. And got a private attorney,
and I was about a day away from begetting the
six month probation completed, and I was like, what the
hell with it? I'm smoking marijuana back in the day,
I'm not smoking no matter what. Which if you're not
don't have a medical marijuana card is not wise at all, dude.
(30:51):
And so so you blew.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You blew the family money, the grandma's money on an attorney.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
It blew I burnt it. I mean I wish I burned.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
It, smoked smoked it. Yeah, okay, yeah it.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Was so Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
I don't know if you remember DJ DJ Small's dude,
he was an obscure remember seven Smoke. It is one
of the things that yeah, because you know, I mean
you've heard, you've heard the rap guys think something. Where'd
you find this? Like real tramp stuff? I don't know
how much rap music you girl listen to. It was
very critical from my white boys stuff, you know. And
that Woods that was snow West Florida.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Was damn son, where'd you find this?
Speaker 8 (31:28):
God saying something like tally but go get you a man?
What's your noise? You a't like you got you got?
I mean they all got noises. What's your noise there?
What's your go to noise?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
What do you what are you on right now?
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I'm gonna been down radio, so dumb ass.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
That's a drop. We gotta save that one. Yeah, that's
a drop? All right?
Speaker 8 (31:58):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Oh, I I don't know what this is? Thank you, Jed?
All Right. Tremendous legal advice, Jed, who fled you should
start your own ambulance chasing law firm in the boondocks
of Florida is what you should do. Thank you, jeez.
So Lebron has entered the chat here, good old Lebron James.
He can't go too long without getting attention. There is
a rumor being floated around that Lebron is not happy
(32:24):
with Anthony Davis. Lebron frustrated with Anthony Davis. Say what, well,
this sounds like a manure to me. But yeah, there's
this story, yeah, that there's a power struggle going on
between Lebron and Rob Polinka and that the implication is
(32:45):
Lebron would like the Lakers to trade Anthony Davis. Now,
that would be that would be a big one. Chances
of that happening. I'm gonna gos minus fifty percent minus
fifty percent at this point based on the information that
I have. But there is that story being passed around.
The streets are talking that Lebron is on it. Why
(33:07):
why is he in that? Because Anthony Davis is not
available all the time and he misses a bunch of games.
He's always missed a bunch of games, right, but he
missed last season? Might mean it was forty games and uh,
I just hadn't he played more last year, but a
couple years ago missed forty games. Anyway, is the Ben
Mahlord Show. As we continue on, we've got Mallard of
(33:28):
the third degree. Time now for the instat trivia. Here
we go in honor of an accomplishment that was made
by Kansas City Royal Jordan Lyles. This week, Blank holds
the longest streak of losses by a starting pitcher with
one team in Major League history. Blank holds the longest
(33:49):
streak of losses by a starting pitcher with one team
in modern we'll say modern major League history. That is
the instant trivia. The answer, We'll get to it. We'll
do it.
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Speaker 1 (34:42):
It's Ben Maler, gotta go quick here, Let's get it
in right now. The Institivia Blank holds the longest streak
of losses by a starting pitcher with one team now,
Jordan Lyles and the Royals has the record to start
the season fifteen losses in a row to start the year.
Everyone of the starts the Royals have lost, and Blank
(35:03):
holds the longest all time record. Dice K guest by
Bengal fan Bryan. Who else you have? Kevin Millwood from
Fields of Green? I can't read that on the air
Angel Great Chuck Finley guest by Kyle lima time from
Miguel on Fire the Engineer tossed out by Ferg Dog.
Who else do you have? Page Down Elton John having
(35:26):
a croissant? Guessed by Robbie the Mariner fan Mookie Blaylock
from Buzzy or Bubbsy. Who else do we have? Stefan
Diggs tossed out by Scott in Rhode Island? Something Stefan
likes a lot of Greg the real estate mogul in
Baltimore's going with Anthony Young New York Mets legend as
(35:46):
his answer, Bloom Moon Odom from Mark in Santa Monica,
Salvador Perez of the Royals from the Philly rob Tribute
burner account, Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie? I do.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
It's Former Baltimore Orioles leg and Sidney pun Sol.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Sidney Punson is that the correct answer is not the
correct answer. The correct answer in the modern ear The
longest streak is by Chris Capauano of the Brewers. Nineteen
straight starts. The Brewers loss, although he did have Tommy
John surgery in the middle of that. But nineteen straight
starts by him they lost. Here we go, it's Mallard.
(36:24):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
To the third degree, This is one big fan gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
And the Angels are no strangers to huge free agent busts.
They've had a lot of them over the years. My
question for you is Anthony Rendon the biggest of them all.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
So you want me to say yes, but I'm not
gonna say yes. I believe it's Albert Poolhos. I believe
here's why that makes way because the money's about the same.
Re rendon't got like five million more than Pools, but
Pools was considered the top player in baseball with the Cardinals.
Nobody on god screeners said Anthony Rendon was the top
player in baseball with the Washington Nationals. He was a
(37:03):
good player, he played well, but Albert Pulos as soon
as he got to Anaheim, he became like ten slots
less of a player than he was in Saint Louis.
So I'm going with Albert, Prince Albert next.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
So apparently there's a wide receiver named Noah Brown who
has spent the last six years on the Cowboys, but
he's now with the Houston Texans. He said in a
recent interview that rookie quarterback CJ. Stroud has the potential
to be as good as or better than Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Ben Thumb's upper down. I don't know who Noah Brown is,
but i'll go thumbs off because that's weasel terminology. Everyone's
got potential, but yes, that Texas. They got to hope CJ.
Stroud's better than Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott's a middle middling
NFL quarterback. You'd like to think CJ. Stroud's gonna be
a top ten player, Dak Prescott's not attempted top ten
(37:51):
player next.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
A former NFL executive recently said that Chargers head coach
Brandon Staley has the hottest seat of anyone heading into
the upcoming NFL's and deservedly so.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Ben, do you agree.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
Yes, they blew a twenty seven point late in the
playoffs in Jacksonville. The only reason he's still there is
because the Chargers owners a tight wad. That's why he's
a defensive guy. The defense wasn't even that good. I mean,
what are they doing?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
All right? How did we do? Coopolope?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
You failed?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
That is a win, Albert. That's something Rendon shows up.
He's in the clubhouse eating, is what he's doing.
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