June 22, 2023 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about MLB commish Rob Manfred saying that he should have punished the cheating Astros players, Kristaps Porzingis getting traded to the Boston Celtics, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
A change of heart, A surprising change of heart. Welcome
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our Thursday show. The draft has arrived.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Whoo. And then I realized, well, wait a minute here Nan,
for our purposes, there's something much more important than the
NBA draft. So we are going to zig when everyone
else zags, and our lead this hour coming from baseball.
Why we have new revelations. The book of revelations has
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been opened involving the cheating. Eh yes, throws the scandal.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's back, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Still got legs. It popped back up on our sonar.
And if you have not heard the latest buckle up.
We are now told that the commissioner of Major League Baseball,
who goes by the name Rob Manford, has had a
change of heart. Say what, yes, yes, Now he is
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singing from a different song sheet. The commissioner now saying
that he should should have handled the astro scandal differently.
Manford saying that he would like a do over on
some of the decisions surrounding the Houston situation.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That's a direct quote, some of the decisions.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now he was referring to the espionage scandal, the single
greatest scandal to North American sport that went unpunished. In
a very worthy interview with Time. Yeah that's still a
thing Time, but we all need Time. But the magazine
which is now just a website. So anyway, he sat down,
did a little chit chat with the people over a time,
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and Manford was spilling the take. Quote this is from
the Commissioner of Baseball. Quote I'm not sure what I
would have approached it with giving players immunity, he said.
I'm not sure what I would have approached it with
with giving players immunity, he admitted. Once we gave players immunity,
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Manford stated, it puts you in a box as to
what exactly you were going to do in terms of punishment.
Quote continues, I might have gone about the investigation process
without the grant of immunity and see where it takes us.
Starting with Manford said, I'm not going to punish anybody.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Maybe not my best decision ever. Close quote.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
All right, So let us discuss the question here. How
do you interpret these latest comments from Baseball's Commissioner Rob Manford.
So I've got the dripping knife, IOC and as an
added bonus, the cloud, and we will connect all of
these things together and we are going to make an
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empty suit, which is what Rob Manford is now. Fortunately,
when you do a talk show, you have to have
a decoder ring. So I have my super secret decoder ring.
And my first thought here is that Rob Manford's a dope.
That's a rehash of an old take. But it's taken
almost four years because remember the punishment, even though the
twenty seventeen A holes they cheated in twenty seventy and
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likely twenty eighteen, and who knows, I think.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
They're still cheating, that's my opinion.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Anyway, they were not punished right away right The punishment
came out almost four years ago. And now he has
had become the Jesus mollmon He's seen the light. But
this validates what we have been preaching from the bully
pulpit for many years here at Fox Sports Radio. The
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Commissioner's got no integrity. It's vindication for the seven three
and seventy nine Malard monologues that we have done on
the cheating astros. Rob Manford absolutely, beyond a doubt, botched
this entire chapter of his book as commissioner.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
He screwed it up. He absolutely screwed it up. He
should change his name.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I know he likes golf. How about instead of Rob Manford,
Rob Mulligan. How many times has Rob Manford come out said,
you know, in hindsight, maybe I should have done something
else here. The guy's an empty mouthpiece. Now, the Commissioner
of Baseball's job is to be a shill for the owners,
and that's what he does. He's the boat Zoh of baseball.
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But this is the darkest period in modern baseball and
worse than the steroid here a stereoder're a home runs
your team cheatingly the a holes from Houston. But why
why now? Why is he now going into the confessional booth?
Rob manfin So I have a theory on why he
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gave this quote right now.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It is cathartic. That was the first thought I had
on that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And I can say I I made a mistake, And
I can look up at the jumbo tron there, and
if you look at the jumbo tron for the commissioner,
you look at the Q score. It's in the toilet, right.
He wants some sympathy points from the electorate. Now there's
always the soccer fan, and we try not to appeal
to the soccer fan. But there's a sucker fan there.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, give him a break. Come on, I
love when the people from Houston everyone was doing it
like that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I guess yat at a jail spoiler alert, by the way,
a man for not getting any empathy on this show.
He had one job to do, yet, one job to
do and use the iron fist.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And what did Manford do?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
We know what he did.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
He did a Vaudvillian pratfall. The trap door opened up
and he fell down and a tripped. He falls a
very theatrical, dramatic way. This was malfeasance by Major League
Baseball's commissioner. He gave immunity to a tea that cheated
to win the World Series. Why did he not have
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to give immunity? Why is this wrongdoing well? For many reasons,
but the obvious one is there was a whistle blower hello,
which is ironic because that was one of the tools
the a holes.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Were used to cheat.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Whistle whistle, whistle bang bang on the trash game. Mike
Fires is the guy's name. You might might have forgotten
that he was a big league pitcher for a long time,
and he explained everything. He spilled his guts. He had
to cleanse his soul about what was going on inside
that den of inequity in Houston. And so you have
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corroborating evidence to back up what Mike Fire says. So
it's not just that he said, he said situation. You
have evidence. What is that evidence? The World Series video
by Major League Baseball Productions.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Hello, Yes, that is in the video.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It shows the dripping knife with blood all over it.
The DNA matches. Major League Baseball's own production arm in
the Fall Classic video showed the very setup behind the
A holes dugout, including a table, trash can, laptop monitoring nang. Yes,
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just as Mike Fires had laid out, the evidence is straightforward.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It is indisputable.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You do not need anyone in the locker room to
back it up.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's right there in front of you, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And secondly, is there anything Rob Manford can do now,
now that he's had this epiphany, is there anything that
he can do to help correct this great injustice of
the astro scandal?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And I say yes, I'm a believer.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No justice, no peace, and there was no justice for
Rob Manford in this case with the A holes. So retroactively,
here's what we advise two things can be done. Right,
You take a page out of the IOC playbook. Not
a big fan of the International Olympic Committee, but I
would copy what they do. The governing body of the
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Olympic Games, which is tremendously corrupt, regularly rules that athletes
have violated certain guidelines to be part of the Games.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
And what do they do They strip away Olympic medals,
sometimes years after the Olympics. So here's the first thing
you do. You start, mister commissioner by rescinding the hunk
of metal. All right, that's the first thing you avoid.
The twenty seventeen World Series.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Now, I would advise you to retroactively suspend all the
players that are still left.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
In Major League Baseball that were part of that team.
That likely will not happen.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But when you advise the Hall of Fame, when you
talk to your buddies over there to Hall of Fame,
you recommend, in your opinion, based on the fact that
you've seen the light, none of the players associated with
the A Holes should be eligible for Cooperstown. Now, there's
only a handful of players that would even be in
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consideration at that level. But Jose Altuve al boooo, Carlos
Beltrot see you later, Justin Verlander sorry not sorry, yeah,
and the other guys have fallen off. Bregman's not a
Hall of Fame or Correa, that punk in Minnesota, He's not.
And while I admit these things are mostly token gestures,
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it is a starting point. The real commissioner, if we
had one, would have banned all the players, would have
done his job and banned all the players involved for life.
And also the a holes would have been banned from
the postseason for ten years. And I don't count anything
they've done since then. So to me, there's no reigning
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world champion. I think it's the same thing that happened
back in the in the nineties when there was no
World Championship crown because there was no World Series because
of a workstop. I look at it the same way
in any anyone that has integrity. If you have no integrity,
you count the a holes as champions. So that's a
sign that's a tail, all right, final thought, So I
want to pivot away from that. Rob Manford has another
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problem on his hands. So Major League Baseball has now
been accused of blacklisting.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
A bunch of old dudes who are scouts.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Does he go to a baseball game, some old guy
in the back there with the radar gun and a
clipboard and a pencil, and they're sitting there and they're
doing things. So there's a new lawsuit alleging that baseball
used analytics and the pandemic as a pretext to coordinate
and systemically discriminate based on age. There's seventeen formally employed
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veteran scouts who have gone scorched earth. They have filed
suit with a Denver attorney in US District Court there
in Colorado, and they've named Rob Manford as a defendant. Also,
all thirty of the major league teams have been named
as defenders. Now, what are the chances that the scouts
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beat Big Baseball in a courtroom in this age a
nation lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So I read the lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Based on what I've read and the information I have,
I give them a fifteen percent chance. That's a one
fifty batting average in baseball, right, and the chatter is,
listen here here's the thing. I do believe that Major
League Baseball systematically took the guillotine and stopped. They started
chopping heads off of the scouts they they thought were
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just old geezers, and they used the pandemic as a
smoke screen. I believe that to be true. The problem
is you have to show it. You have to have
direct evidence to prove it. You know, because you can fire.
Here's why you can fire anyone, anytime, for any reason
or no reason at all, is wake up, you're an
a hole boss.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You're fired. However, you can't violate federal law when it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Comes to discrimination generally speak and I'm not a lawyer,
but I do play one on the radio.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Just do the overnight show.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So the employee has the burden to prove that they
would not have been laid off but because of their age.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
So that is a relatively high standard. How are you
going to prove that?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Scouts are going to need direct or a whole lot
of circumstantial evidence of discrimination. So really what they need
here to win this lawsuit is the cloud with a
silver lining, or go a digital paper trail. You know
what I'm saying. You're feeling me on that, So meeting
text messages between some nerdy GM and higher ups, emails, etc.
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Because I will gare on to you that Major League
Baseball will just argue that all they were doing was
modernizing the workforce.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
And streamlining things.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And the scouts, they weren't fired because they were as
old as Methuselah.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
They were just removed because their job was no longer.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
They outsourced the job or eliminated it all together.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
They just had a computer do what those guys did.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And they don't really value a bunch of guys that
have been in baseball for thirty and forty years and
their opinion the eyeball test.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's so old school. You're such a boomer with your
eyeball test. It's all about what's in the algorithm. That's
what it's all about. Your big dummy that's gonna be.
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We talked some baseball, but now we get to what
everyone else says is the number one story.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
We gotta trade.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We gotta trade. Our league comes from pro bouncy Ball.
This hour twas the morning before the NBA Draft, and
all was not quiet in the land. The swap meet
is open for business, and we are told it's been
an interesting twenty four hours. So we were originally told
the Celtics, the Clippers and the Wizards had agreed to
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the hour line on a three team trade that would
have sent Christops Porzingis to Boston.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
He would have gone there.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
The Clippers are going to get Malcolm Brogden and the
Wizards would get some leftover spaghetti. That was how that
was going to go. Well, then the deal fell apart.
Even the framework was done, it crumbled. There were reports
that Porzingis, who's got a player option, was going to
opt out he did not want to play in Boston
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and the old SWITCHERU was done well.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It turns out that.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Reports of Perzingis not wanting to go to Boston were incorrect.
It would appear because if you didn't see it, perhaps not,
maybe you just waking up to the world here of sports.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
For the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
In a trade that has now been agreed upon a updated,
updated trade center, Christops Porzingis goes to the Celtics garden.
Marcus Smart, a glue guy, heads to the Grizzlies and
guard Highas Jones, who was supposed to fill in for
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John Morant. He now learns how to become a sorcerer
as he is a wizard now. WOJ tells us there's
other players involved in this. Memphis will be sending a
draft pick, sending Boston its first round pick, the twenty
fifth overall selection, and also the Golden State Warriors draft
pick for twenty twenty four as part of this trade.
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There's other picks moving around, and the Celtics will also
send Danilo Gallinari, who never even played a game as
a Celtic. He got hurt before the season. Gallinari goes
to the Beltway and senter Mike Muscala, also heading to
Washington as part of the deal. There will be a
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quiz on this later. Hopefully you will get a passing grade.
So let us discuss the question who wants one? The
Chris stops porzingis convoluted trade for Marcus smart So on
the Malar report card, the Malord report card, I give
these Celtics a B minus, a B minus. I give
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the Grizzlies a C and the Wizards get an F.
So that's how I have the grating on this trade.
I'll explain why my.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
To get there. I know you're dying to know that
I've got home depot, the floor is lava and.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Hello Kitty, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a switcheroo.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Which is what we've had here, the old switcheroo.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
So a this deal does not change the time space continuum.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And we had a.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Call from Paul and Rhode Island last hour, who's all
worked off.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He needs his therapy dog. He's very upset by Marcus
Smart being traded.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
But when I look at the Celtics, this is actually
a good thing, right, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum are
the meat and potatoes of the Boston basketball team. And
so one of the reasons I went to beat as
one of the main reasons, is because I think this
is actually a step to grow Tatum and Brown. And
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I'm not a huge Chris stops Perzingis guy.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Fact I loathe Porzingis. He's he's empty. Calories is what
he is, form over function and Porzingis is yes, that's right.
He's got music and all. But his stats are aesthetically
pleasing to the low information fan. But he doesn't contribute
all that much to winning. And that explains why he's
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been passed around like a bottle of whiskey. He's go
some cities said he was with the Knicks, Mavericks, Wizards.
Now he's on to the Celtics. But when you look
at the team that plays on the parque there, this
trade is essentially a trip to home depot. Right. You're
attempting to spackle over the imperfections. You're looking to hide
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the holes and the cracks and that Marcus Smart had
some really good games with us some terrible games, and
you think that Porzingis will be more consistent. So I
gave them a B minus because I believe this is
mainly to try to evolve Brown and Tatum, that they
fell into this trap, if you will, of depending on
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Marcus Smart where they often deferred to Marcus Smart, but
do better, be better? And then the other part of this,
what do you make of the Celtics. And we've kind
of outlined this, what do you make of the Celtics
trading Marcus Smart? So it's a shockwave type thing, right
because he's been there for so long, longest tenured player
on the Celtics been there nine years.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
And so the.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Message is, hey, Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, you can't
lean on Marcus Smart.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
We're gonna pay you three hundred million dollars each and
you you gotta do it. You gotta get it done now.
So it messes with the zeitgeist in the locker room.
But I believe that was intentional.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
That Marcus Smart is a firecracker. He oozes green. Literally,
the man ooses green. Have you seen his hair? That
green hair? Dyet oozes out of his hair, and so
the guy has own cereal in Boston at the grocery stores.
And on how many times did Jason Tatum and Jalen
Brown defer to Marcus Smart on end of game situations
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where they deferred and they gave it to Marcus Smart
and he would shoot a three pointer and oftentimes he
would miss it right, And that was a common occurrence.
Am I imagining that? I don't think I'm imagining that?
Am I imagining that?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh? My guy?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And so now that there's like, hey, you got you
gotta do it, man, we need you to take the
shots at the end of the game, right, And there
were Jason Tatum passed over open shots. Jaylen Brown was
so passive he didn't even attempt a lot of shots
in late game situations.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
But now, as for Marcus Smart and starting over on.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Beal Street, I don't think it's a great fit assuming
he stays there, and it looks like he will.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
But for the Celtics, it's an odd return. Why the unicorn?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Why I'm really scratching my and I'm not just doing
this for talk radio purposes. Like Porzingis's skill set is
extremely limited. A pretty good rim protector. He's very tall,
He's an above average outside shooter. Get some baskets around
the rim on put backs and the old pick and
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pop and all that. But that's that's about it. When
you look at his game. The big fundamental was Tim
Duncan back in the day. Whatever the antithesis of the
big fundamental that would be Chris tops Porzings whatever.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
That term is.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
When it comes to screen passing, out of double teams,
boxing out, rebounding, he is useless. I would rather have
crying Craig do those things. He rarely takes advantage. And
you go back to his days in Dallas. I know
this because the Mavericks played the Clippers back to back
years in the playoffs and Prezingis was there, and the
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mismatches against smaller players, if I if I'm not mistaken,
he got out rebounded by Marcus Morris and Marcus Morris.
All he does is pretty much stand out around the
three point line and just wait for the ball and
then shoot it and does nothing else.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
He's really good at that, but that's all he does.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
So needless to say, we are not part of the
unicorn marching and chowder society, and porzingis will bring a
level of cool, whip softness that the Boston fan has
not seen. Some of you guys have say, well what
about Jason Titum. Jason titumself none? Side by side, Porzingis
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will make Jason Tatum look like Rambo side by side.
I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. So the trade is
also a tell. All trades are a tell. It's a
big admission. A guy like Porzingis is doubling down on
the Celtic franchise charge to trade for Chris tops Erzingis
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is the Green Team analytical department winning whatever battle there was.
They love three pointers. If you love three pointers, Porzingis
is a dream boat. He's the perfect arcade player.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Papa shot.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That is a vote of confidence to let him play
Joe Joe Missoula in the playoffs last year when the
Celtics said defensive breakdowns?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
What did pors What did the Mosilla? What did he say?
Joe Mosula? Joe Mozula said what he said, Hey, we
gotta shoot the three points? Shot better?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Anything went wrong, Mosula's we gotta shoot better. That was
his answer to everything. So Porzingis, what he loves to
do is shoot endless moneyballs. He's allergic to pounding the paint.
In fact, even though he's a grown up, in many ways,
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he's like a child playing. The floor is lava game.
The painted area, by the way, is the lava on
the floor there. You can't go in the painted area
because his face melts. You're that famous scene from the
iconic Indiana Josephraider is a lost ark man. The scene
where the face melts, that's porzingis when he goes in
the lake.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Good luck, good luck Now.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
The good news is for now, Lucky the Leprechaun is
going to have a field day with goofing on porzingis.
And there's a lot to work with. There's a lot
of materials. I feel happy for my brothers and sisters
that do sports radio in Boston because when they do
talk about the Celtics, they'll be able to goof on
on porzingis pretty good. All right, last word here, So
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we've got two other teams. We haven't really gotten too
much into those teams. So explain the logic. Explain the
logic for the Wizards and the Grizzlies in this trade.
So for Memphis, we gave them on the mallor report
card we gave them. See, other people are right now
slobbering all over Memphis giving them an A plus.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And what a great trade.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I'm not as big a Marcus Smart guy as others are.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
He's a fine player.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
He plays hard, but I don't think he puts you
over the top.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I only puts you over the top.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
And in this scenario, I've looked at the script, and
the Grizzlies are counting on Marcus Smart being a Hello
Kitty band aid that while John Morant is out cleaning
his guns and the lighting cakes on fire with his
gun candle, then Marcus Smart can hold down the four
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and he fits into the whole marketing campaign hidden grind,
and that's what they go with and all that.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And this is gonna be the first time in NBA
history we are told that the.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Last two defensive players of the year will play on
the same team. Marcus Smart a couple of years ago,
Jared Jackson Junior is still there in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And that sounds wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And all that, But is anybody like Denver Aby in
the West, Like, oh crap, now, now now this puts
Memphis over the top. Me thinks not so much as
for the Wizards, they are continuingly liquidation sale. They're going
out of business. Just go back and call themselves the
Bullets again. Everything must go. So incoming, they've got Mike Muscala,
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Tyris Jones, and Danilo Gallinari, and those players are roster
spam if they aren't traded now. Now, Tyris Jones, you
say he's gonna play, He'll be the starting guard there
because Chris Paul's gonna be bought out for Washington. Okay,
so maybe he's not completely a roster spam, but Gallinari
and Moscalo absolutely are, and if they're not repackaged now,
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they will be made available once the season begins at
the trade deadline. On all that, so, the Wizards are
running and gunning for L and L as in losses
and lottery aka lottery balls and Bradley Beal. Bradley Beal
was given away for some pocket lint, and now Porzingis
has been sent away and the return coming into Washington
(29:30):
is slightly better. It's like some old m and ms
but not peanut m and m's, regular m and ms
that have been laying around, and then some potato chips
but not crisp potato chips.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So more dirty tricks inside the belt.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Wait, and the good news is the wizards will continue
to be off our radar and there's really no reason
to pay attention to them anytime soon.
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Speaker 1 (30:38):
Rich give me the hell, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Here It's mallard.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
To the third degree?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
This is one big Ben gets Grill Googlou.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
It's being reported that the Bulls are open to trading
Zach Levine and would be looking for quote, a good
young player, multiple first round picks, and salary filler. They'd
also consider a high end player and one first round pick.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Do you think they could get either of those for Levin?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Oh, the way players are being traded, they're not being
traded for much of anything, but Zactly.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I say yes. And here's why. He's in the prime
of his career. Zach Lavine.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
He's been an All Star a couple of times. He's
the master, the Ninja of the slam dunk. He's not perfect,
but his playoff resume is incomple I say yeah. If
the Bulls are hell bent to trade him, they will
find someone to take him.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Next.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Giants legend Tiki Barber appeared on a podcast Tuesday and
said that he isn't sure that the Giants would be
worse off without Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Ben. Is he right?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Well, that is first of all, blasphemy, Coop. As you
know in the running Back fraternity, you're gonna have to
do extra burpies if you're Tiki Barbara because of that, but.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
He's actually not wrong.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
As long as you get a serviceable running bay, the
Giants would be much different without Tiki Barber. But you
can have a good offensive line and the passing game
does its job, you can be productive. The Chiefs did
have a great running back. The Eagles didn't have a
great running back, and they were able to win.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Next Jet safety Jordan Whitehead said that he thinks this
team could be very similar to the twenty twenty Buccaneers,
which he was also a part of. He pointed to
having a good defense the year before and then finding
the missing piece with an upgraded quarterback. Ben can he
be onto something?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
We could is a weasel word. So could? Yes, I
could win the lottery, I could get Morning Drive.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I could, But no history rarely repeats itself that quickly.
Aaron Rodgers is a threat. I don't know what Rogers
is going to show up though? Is it the MVP Rodgers?
And here's the that Emoy and Green Bay was good
with Rogers, they didn't win that much.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
How do we dokopolo? You pass? That is a whin
I put on the bar.
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Speaker 3 (33:09):
As we seize the hour, here ask Ben. For the
rest of the hour, we dive right in. Your questions,
are answers or Ben?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
That would be me talking to the third person. I
know in the third person and friends, no cat calls.
Let's pass the mic over to the Kooper loop. It's
a real cliffhanger for the reading of the questions. As
we unleash ask Ben.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Here we go.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
All right, so we're gonna start off with a question
from Cowboy Killer. He wants to know would you rather
be stuck in a submarine underwater or a hot air balloon?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Hot air balloon? Yeah, I don't want to be the
bottom at the bottom of the ocean. I'm good. I
don't I don't need to be the bottom of the ocean.
I read that there are more people that have gone
to space than have been to the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Do you know that I saw that as well. Yeah,
that is.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Fascinating to me, but I would know not that I
want to be in a hot I have been in
a hot air balloon before, but I'll pick that.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
What about you, Eddie, I completely agree with you. I'm
a little bit claustrophobic to begin with, and my my
greatest fear is drowning, So I'll take the hot air balloon.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
You'd rather die falling out of a hot air balloon?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
I would?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yeah, okay, good? What about you?
Speaker 7 (34:22):
I was saying, definitely the hot air balloon, Like, let's
just look at this rationally, Like if you were slowly
losing you know, like a pressure in the balloon, you
would have just kind of sink towards the ground, and
if you were gonna you could just land on the ground,
right unless it just popped and then you go falling
to your death. But otherwise I would just sort of
be like, all right, let's just wait until the balloon
(34:43):
just sort of loses its uh, you know, loses.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
A way to look.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Yeah, I would not want to be in that submersible.
That's a night absolute hellish nightmare.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah. What do you need to do in that thing?
Right now?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I don't know, maybe peace with whatever God they believe in.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
Not trying to breathe too fast because it's taking up
more air faster.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I was actually thinking about this, Ben, and I think,
I mean, obviously they have time, so you would think
they're probably if they can, like writing.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
That will point yeah, there's a billionaire in there.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Do we know, Like you guys are talking as if
as if we know that they're still alive.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Well they had they yeah, I mean they suppose they
had auction.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Who knows if they do not.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
But you think they beat up the guy that took
him down. You think they beat that guy up, you know,
because he's the.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Guy that was I don't think that's going to help you,
So I'm gonna say no.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Plus heus I think he's the captain, he's the pilot, right, But.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
If you're the guy that took them down, you want
to get out. But if the guy gets if they
find these people, how many lawsuits will be filed against
that guy?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Right?
Speaker 7 (35:42):
I think that they might have gotten what I've heard of, mate,
they might have gotten stuck. I mean it might have
been something out of their control or out of the
pilot's control.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It doesn't mean they won't be lowsuits.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Of course. It's two hundred fifty thousand dollars to go
on one of these expeditions.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Who do you want to answer the question?
Speaker 8 (35:56):
I would have to like, my first thought is to
agree with that. I'm also kind of claustrophobic and that
would be terrifying to me. But if I knew I
was gonna die either way, I did read that if
it was some sort of thing where like the you know,
the window was damaged, the death would be instantaneous.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
You would just it would just be like you'd just
be crushed pressure.
Speaker 8 (36:16):
Yes, But if it was like, you know, the hot
air balloon was popping, you're gonna die, that'd be like,
I don't know, if you're falling for a little while,
and because.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
You're immediately crushed still, there's a second, like a split second,
you realize.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
That, Yeah, that's that's true.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
All right, What is next? Dar?
Speaker 8 (36:29):
What do we Courtesy Flusher wants to know what kind
of Cheetos and Doritos are your favorites.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
So I'm a purist when it comes to the Freedo's.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
I don't were not listed here?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Do I hate cool range?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So I use I like the nacho cheese variety, and
I like the taco flavor Doritos and the Cheetos. I
like the crunchy Cheetos, that's my favorite. I don't like
the offs is okay, but I like the and I
don't like the spicy ones. I like the regular, crunchy,
old spirit free eddie.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Yeah, I have to agree with you. I'm I guess
the traditionalist as well. I'm not into the flaming hot whatever.
I'm not into the different flavors of the Dorito's just
the regular, original flavored dorito and the regular Cheeto. Although
I do like the puff Cheeto a little bit. That's
a nice little mix every once in a while.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
What about the knockoff brands of Chetos? Sometimes they have a.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Con no except no substitutes, only the uh healthier for you.
I always about that.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
Yeah, I am. I'm a big fan, and I know
this is gonna this is gonna scare you.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Man.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
I'm a big fan of Ranch the condiment, but I
am not.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
A fan getting the job.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Well, let me finish, let me fish. I'm not a
fan of the cool ranch dorito so much. Definitely like
the original one or like I don't know. There's some
other spicy ones those are fine, but I like the
original one. The nacho cheesier it is.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
You are able to eat the cool ranch dorito if
you don't like ranch, because there's actually no ranch dressing
was used.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Actually, but it's like powdered ranch splashed on the air
or whatever. Uh. And then Cheetah wise, I can do
some spicy the flaming hot ones, but just like a
couple before I'm taxed, so I'll just go with the
regular Cheetos.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
You're saying, you're a i owen with a tongue that
does not have fire on.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
No, I do like I do like spicy food, but
that's like artificially spicy, Like it's like, you know, powdered
crap on there.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
That's what about What about you coop? We gotta pick
up the pascer? What about you cool?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (38:31):
I like, I prefer the cool ranch over nacho, but
my favorites probably salsa verde dorito. Those are great. And
then I prefer the the Cheetos puffs.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Well, you're on the wrong side of history. What is
next to your cupolo? All right? Uh, let's go with
one from ferg Dog Hi Fergie, he says.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
He says, are ice cubes good or do they ruin
drinks by watering them down?
Speaker 1 (38:59):
So ice cream tubes are useless if you get a
drink at a restaurant because they are a way to
not give you the proper amount of beverage. But I
love ice. In fact, we have an ice machine here.
That's one of the greatest things I've ht My wife
ever got, which I love, and I'm a big ice
got the house.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
But when I go to restaurants, I'm like, light ice,
no ice.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Eddie, You're such a tight one. Uh No. I love
ice as well. If I ever got stranded on a
desert island, much like I believe the character in Castaway,
I would, I would miss ice. Probably one of the
one of the most things of all. I love ice.
Speaker 7 (39:32):
I was saying, good pull there, Eddie. Yeah, definitely iced. Yeah,
if it fills ice, yes cool. I go light ice always.
You can't without no ice, because a fountain drink with
no ice. It's just kind of weird to me. I
don't know why it's still cold though it's still cold.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
If there's smaller ice cubes, by the way, I do.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
Like to crunch on them, shaved ice, maybe cane cane's ice.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
They have really good.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I have cane style ice at the Malamine. I'm a baller,
nice baller. When it comes to ice, ice ice baby,
that is me. I am the king of the all ice.
I'm the iceman, is what I am? Actually? I think?
Ask Ben. Oh that's true.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
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Speaker 3 (40:15):
It's time to talk hockey.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
You said there's no hockey, there's hockey puck the worldld
then we go over to any ghet right now?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
All right, thanks Ben. We had the Stanley Cup champion.
Vegas Golden Knights had one of those annoying championship parades
this past weekend. I had wondered, why in the world
would they have a championship parade at nights on the weekend. Well,
turns out it's hot in Las Vegas and it would
be a bad idea for them to have a weekday
(40:47):
parade during the day. I'm told it's in the nineties,
so it's hot for it.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
That's not hot.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Well that's easy for you to say in your air
conditioned house right now. But anyway, they say they had
over one hundred thousand fans showing up for the two
hour parade on the Vegas Strip. That wrapped up with
a rally at T Mobile Arena where they play their games,
and the team took the stage. They had several players
drunk out of their minds addressing the crowd to the
delight of all the fans there. It's a drunken rain.
(41:16):
That's all they do. Know, It's all they do. Now,
just get up there and ramble and curse and drink
and have a good time.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
No, they get up there and say, nobody thought we
could do it.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Screw the haters.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
The Hockey Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty three
announced earlier on.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Tuesday, Num There's Anger, Eddy, There's anger at the Hockey
Hall of.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
It includes three goalies, Henrik Lundquist, Tom Barrasso, and Mike Vernon,
as well as forward Pierre Turjon, former coach Ken Hitchcock,
the late Pierre Lacroix, who was an executive and also
a women's hockey player that nobody knows. Lundquist gets into
the Hall in his first year of eligibility. The induction
(41:56):
is scheduled for November thirteenth at the Hockey Hall of
tam Eddie Eddie.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Nobody cares about who gets in. They care about the snubs.
That's who people care about it, all right, who are
the snubs?
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Let's see Alexander Mulgilney. I know it was a snub.
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Chris osgood, come on, Chris osgood. Hall of Famer, come on?
He won three Stanley Cups.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Yeah, it was never one of the greatest goalies though
he was on a good team.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Good for him, but wow, disrespect disrespect man, nobody else.
You don't got nothing, Eddie. You missed an opportunity for controversy.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
I don't think there was any big snubs. Keith Kachak.
I mean NHL Draft coming up on Wednesday. Much like
Victor wabin Yama is going to be the number one
clear pick in the NBA draft lader tonight, Connor Bedard
will go number one to the Chicago Blackhawks. He is
billed as a generational talent.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
I just saw.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Here we go, Eddiere's people upset that Rod Brindamore did
not make the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
There you go, right there.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
People are really upset about that in Carolina, and maybe
in Carolin, nobody.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Else said they're going to throw tobacco at you.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
I'm sure New Jersey Devil said forward. Yes, per Bratt
to an eight year, sixty three dollars contract. He was
restricted free agent, gonna make seven point eight million per season.
He was a sixth round pick in twenty sixteen. They
only have seven rounds of the NHL draft, so that's
quite the steal for them and quite the contract for him.
Multiple reports say that Toronto Maple Leafs are going to
(43:22):
keep their head coach, Sheldon Keith. He took over in
never heard of twenty nineteen twenty season. Toronto has not
missed the playoffs since he's been head coach. Matter of fact,
they made it out of the first round of the
first time since two thousand and four. However, there was
a question whether he'd stay or not because the GM
that hired him, Kyle Dubas, was fired and as you know,
when a new GM comes in sometimes they like to
(43:43):
hire their own guy.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
All that happens in radio in a new prop program, No, no, never,
never heard of the talent ever.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
But apparently Brad Tree living the new GM in Toronto
is going to keep him on on as the head coach.
And speaking of the Maple Leafs, their chairman, Larry Tannenbaum
reportedly is selling a portion of his holdings in Maple
League Sports and Entertainment. Now it's said to be valuated
over eight billion dollars, and I'm like, wait a minute,
that that can't be right. The Dallas Cowboys are not
(44:11):
worth eight billion dollars. But it turns out that a
portion of the Maple League Sports and Entertainment also includes
not just a part of the Maple Leafs, but also
the Toronto Raptors, Toronto FC of MLS, the Toronto Argonauts,
and all of the respective venues where all those teams play.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
That's what's called all inclusive package, Eddie's I will say,
so that would say a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
How do we get in on that? Can we get
some of that action?
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Well, we have to have a lot more money than
we yea want.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
I don't even want that.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I just want to own the revenue from a parking
lot across from a ballpark. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
I've heard you talk about this before, the old Frank McCourt.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Low overhead and just easy money.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
Yeah, easy money. Just like the storage units right, same thing,
storage storage wards.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Yeah, and the great scam with the George storage places
that they they charge you a very cheap rate to
get it. It's like first month is one dollar, and
then the second months like you know, sixty dollars or whatever,
and then like three months or six months later it
goes up to one hundred and fifty dollars a way.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
Yeah, and then once you get your crap in there,
it's way you're way too lazy to want to have
to take it out and where you gonna put it
on for it?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
What a hustle, What a scam they've got.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yeah, Well, the parking people do the same thing. Have
you noticed every city I go to. I got a
trip coming up to New York. You go to these
big cities, and they're like parkings, you know, five dollars
and then the fine print underneath first twenty minutes after
that it's five dollars every half hour.
Speaker 4 (45:40):
We got that here where we work exactly.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Well yeah, yeah, the parking at the building we work
is insane, man. And those people, those people that do
that hot yoga, Yeah, they they get validated for a
couple of hours, but those people hang out longer than that.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
They end up having to pay for the parking. Crazy
and that you puck the World Report and hot yoga
as well, yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 4 (46:00):
Should be coind in yoga, yeah,
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Speaker 3 (01:24):
The way tirebuind shoot me so I was debating. I
was like, I know the NBA's draft this year. It's
our Thursday show. The draft has arrived.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Whoo. And then I realized, well, wait a minute here Nan,
for our purposes, there's something much more important than the
NBA draft. So we are going to zig when everyone
else zags, and our lead this hour coming from baseball.
Why we have new revelations. The book of revelations has
(01:55):
been opened involving the cheating. Eh yes, throws the scandal.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's back, that's right.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Still got legs. It popped back up on our sonar.
And if you have not heard the latest buckle up.
We are now told that the commissioner of Major League Baseball,
who goes by the name Rob Manford, has had a
change of heart. Say what, yes, yes, Now he is
(02:29):
singing from a different song sheet. The commissioner now saying
that he should should have handled the astro scandal differently.
Manford saying that he would like a do over on
some of the decisions surrounding the Houston situation.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
That's a direct quote, some of the decisions.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Now he was referring to the espionage scandal, the single
greatest scandal to North American sport that went unpunished. In
a very worthy interview with Time. Yeah that's still a
thing Time, but we all need Time. But the magazine
which is now just a website. So anyway, he sat down,
did a little chit chat with the people over a time,
(03:15):
and Manford was spilling the take. Quote this is from
the Commissioner of Baseball. Quote I'm not sure what I
would have approached it with giving players immunity, he said.
I'm not sure what I would have approached it with
with giving players immunity, he admitted. Once we gave players immunity,
(03:35):
Manford stated, it puts you in a box as to
what exactly you were going to do in terms of punishment.
Quote continues, I might have gone about the investigation process
without the grant of immunity and see where it takes us.
Starting with Manford said, I'm not going to punish anybody.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Maybe not my best decision ever. Close quote.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
All right, So let us discuss the question here. How
do you interpret these latest comments from Baseball's Commissioner Rob Manford.
So I've got the dripping knife, IOC and as an
added bonus, the cloud, and we will connect all of
these things together and we are going to make an
(04:26):
empty suit, which is what Rob Manford is now. Fortunately,
when you do a talk show, you have to have
a decoder ring. So I have my super secret decoder ring.
And my first thought here is that Rob Manford's a dope.
That's a rehash of an old take. But it's taken
almost four years because remember the punishment, even though the
twenty seventeen A holes they cheated in twenty seventy and
(04:48):
likely twenty eighteen, and who knows, I think.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
They're still cheating, that's my opinion.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Anyway, they were not punished right away right The punishment
came out almost four years ago. And now he has
had become the Jesus mollmon He's seen the light. But
this validates what we have been preaching from the bully
pulpit for many years here at Fox Sports Radio. The
(05:15):
Commissioner's got no integrity. It's vindication for the seven three
and seventy nine Malard monologues that we have done on
the cheating astros. Rob Manford absolutely, beyond a doubt, botched
this entire chapter of his book as commissioner.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
He screwed it up. He absolutely screwed it up. He
should change his name.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I know he likes golf. How about instead of Rob Manford,
Rob Mulligan. How many times has Rob Manford come out said,
you know, in hindsight, maybe I should have done something
else here. The guy's an empty mouthpiece. Now, the Commissioner
of Baseball's job is to be a shill for the owners,
and that's what he does. He's the boat Zoh of baseball.
(06:02):
But this is the darkest period in modern baseball and
worse than the steroid here a stereoder're a home runs
your team cheatingly the a holes from Houston. But why
why now? Why is he now going into the confessional booth?
Rob manfin So I have a theory on why he
(06:25):
gave this quote right now.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It is cathartic. That was the first thought I had
on that.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And I can say I I made a mistake, And
I can look up at the jumbo tron there, and
if you look at the jumbo tron for the commissioner,
you look at the Q score. It's in the toilet, right.
He wants some sympathy points from the electorate. Now there's
always the soccer fan, and we try not to appeal
to the soccer fan. But there's a sucker fan there.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, give him a break. Come on, I
love when the people from Houston everyone was doing it
like that.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I guess yat at a jail spoiler alert, by the way,
a man for not getting any empathy on this show.
He had one job to do, yet, one job to
do and use the iron fist.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
And what did Manford do?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
We know what he did.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
He did a Vaudvillian pratfall. The trap door opened up
and he fell down and a tripped. He falls a
very theatrical, dramatic way. This was malfeasance by Major League
Baseball's commissioner. He gave immunity to a tea that cheated
to win the World Series. Why did he not have
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to give immunity? Why is this wrongdoing well? For many reasons,
but the obvious one is there was a whistle blower hello,
which is ironic because that was one of the tools
the a holes.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Were used to cheat.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Whistle whistle, whistle bang bang on the trash game. Mike
Fires is the guy's name. You might might have forgotten
that he was a big league pitcher for a long time,
and he explained everything. He spilled his guts. He had
to cleanse his soul about what was going on inside
that den of inequity in Houston. And so you have
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corroborating evidence to back up what Mike Fire says. So
it's not just that he said, he said situation. You
have evidence. What is that evidence? The World Series video
by Major League Baseball Productions.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Hello, Yes, that is in the video.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It shows the dripping knife with blood all over it.
The DNA matches. Major League Baseball's own production arm in
the Fall Classic video showed the very setup behind the
A holes dugout, including a table, trash can, laptop monitoring nang. Yes,
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just as Mike Fires had laid out, the evidence is straightforward.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It is indisputable.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You do not need anyone in the locker room to
back it up.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It's right there in front of you, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And secondly, is there anything Rob Manford can do now,
now that he's had this epiphany, is there anything that
he can do to help correct this great injustice of
the astro scandal?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And I say yes, I'm a believer.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
No justice, no peace, and there was no justice for
Rob Manford in this case with the A holes. So retroactively,
here's what we advise two things can be done. Right,
You take a page out of the IOC playbook. Not
a big fan of the International Olympic Committee, but I
would copy what they do. The governing body of the
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Olympic Games, which is tremendously corrupt, regularly rules that athletes
have violated certain guidelines to be part of the Games.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
And what do they do They strip away Olympic medals,
sometimes years after the Olympics. So here's the first thing
you do. You start, mister commissioner by rescinding the hunk
of metal. All right, that's the first thing you avoid.
The twenty seventeen World Series.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Now, I would advise you to retroactively suspend all the
players that are still left.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
In Major League Baseball that were part of that team.
That likely will not happen.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
But when you advise the Hall of Fame, when you
talk to your buddies over there to Hall of Fame,
you recommend, in your opinion, based on the fact that
you've seen the light, none of the players associated with
the A Holes should be eligible for Cooperstown. Now, there's
only a handful of players that would even be in
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consideration at that level. But Jose Altuve al boooo, Carlos
Beltrot see you later, Justin Verlander sorry not sorry, yeah,
and the other guys have fallen off. Bregman's not a
Hall of Fame or Correa, that punk in Minnesota, He's not.
And while I admit these things are mostly token gestures,
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it is a starting point. The real commissioner, if we
had one, would have banned all the players, would have
done his job and banned all the players involved for life.
And also the a holes would have been banned from
the postseason for ten years. And I don't count anything
they've done since then. So to me, there's no reigning
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world champion. I think it's the same thing that happened
back in the in the nineties when there was no
World Championship crown because there was no World Series because
of a workstop. I look at it the same way
in any anyone that has integrity. If you have no integrity,
you count the a holes as champions. So that's a
sign that's a tail, all right, final thought, So I
want to pivot away from that. Rob Manford has another
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problem on his hands. So Major League Baseball has now
been accused of blacklisting.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
A bunch of old dudes who are scouts.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Does he go to a baseball game, some old guy
in the back there with the radar gun and a
clipboard and a pencil, and they're sitting there and they're
doing things. So there's a new lawsuit alleging that baseball
used analytics and the pandemic as a pretext to coordinate
and systemically discriminate based on age. There's seventeen formally employed
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veteran scouts who have gone scorched earth. They have filed
suit with a Denver attorney in US District Court there
in Colorado, and they've named Rob Manford as a defendant. Also,
all thirty of the major league teams have been named
as defenders. Now, what are the chances that the scouts
(12:55):
beat Big Baseball in a courtroom in this age a
nation lawsuit?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So I read the lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Based on what I've read and the information I have,
I give them a fifteen percent chance. That's a one
fifty batting average in baseball, right, and the chatter is,
listen here here's the thing. I do believe that Major
League Baseball systematically took the guillotine and stopped. They started
chopping heads off of the scouts they they thought were
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just old geezers, and they used the pandemic as a
smoke screen. I believe that to be true. The problem
is you have to show it. You have to have
direct evidence to prove it. You know, because you can fire.
Here's why you can fire anyone, anytime, for any reason
or no reason at all, is wake up, you're an
a hole boss.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You're fired. However, you can't violate federal law when it.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Comes to discrimination generally speak and I'm not a lawyer,
but I do play one on the radio.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Just do the overnight show.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So the employee has the burden to prove that they
would not have been laid off but because of their age.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
So that is a relatively high standard. How are you
going to prove that?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Scouts are going to need direct or a whole lot
of circumstantial evidence of discrimination. So really what they need
here to win this lawsuit is the cloud with a
silver lining, or go a digital paper trail. You know
what I'm saying. You're feeling me on that, So meeting
text messages between some nerdy GM and higher ups, emails, etc.
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Because I will gare on to you that Major League
Baseball will just argue that all they were doing was
modernizing the workforce.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
And streamlining things.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And the scouts, they weren't fired because they were as
old as Methuselah.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
They were just removed because their job was no longer.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
They outsourced the job or eliminated it all together.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
They just had a computer do what those guys did.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And they don't really value a bunch of guys that
have been in baseball for thirty and forty years and
their opinion the eyeball test.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's so old school. You're such a boomer with your
eyeball test. It's all about what's in the algorithm. That's
what it's all about. Your big dummy that's gonna be.
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We talked some baseball, but now we get to what
everyone else says is the number one story.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
We gotta trade.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We gotta trade. Our league comes from pro bouncy Ball.
This hour twas the morning before the NBA Draft, and
all was not quiet in the land. The swap meet
is open for business, and we are told it's been
an interesting twenty four hours. So we were originally told
the Celtics, the Clippers and the Wizards had agreed to
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the hour line on a three team trade that would
have sent Christops Porzingis to Boston.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
He would have gone there.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
The Clippers are going to get Malcolm Brogden and the
Wizards would get some leftover spaghetti. That was how that
was going to go. Well, then the deal fell apart.
Even the framework was done, it crumbled. There were reports
that Porzingis, who's got a player option, was going to
opt out he did not want to play in Boston
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and the old SWITCHERU was done well.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
It turns out that.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Reports of Perzingis not wanting to go to Boston were incorrect.
It would appear because if you didn't see it, perhaps not,
maybe you just waking up to the world here of sports.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
For the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
In a trade that has now been agreed upon a updated,
updated trade center, Christops Porzingis goes to the Celtics garden.
Marcus Smart, a glue guy, heads to the Grizzlies and
guard Highas Jones, who was supposed to fill in for
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John Morant. He now learns how to become a sorcerer
as he is a wizard now. WOJ tells us there's
other players involved in this. Memphis will be sending a
draft pick, sending Boston its first round pick, the twenty
fifth overall selection, and also the Golden State Warriors draft
pick for twenty twenty four as part of this trade.
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There's other picks moving around, and the Celtics will also
send Danilo Gallinari, who never even played a game as
a Celtic. He got hurt before the season. Gallinari goes
to the Beltway and senter Mike Muscala, also heading to
Washington as part of the deal. There will be a
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quiz on this later. Hopefully you will get a passing grade.
So let us discuss the question who wants one? The
Chris stops porzingis convoluted trade for Marcus smart So on
the Malar report card, the Malord report card, I give
these Celtics a B minus, a B minus. I give
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the Grizzlies a C and the Wizards get an F.
So that's how I have the grating on this trade.
I'll explain why my.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
To get there. I know you're dying to know that
I've got home depot, the floor is lava and.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Hello Kitty, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a switcheroo.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Which is what we've had here, the old switcheroo.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
So a this deal does not change the time space continuum.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And we had a.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Call from Paul and Rhode Island last hour, who's all
worked off.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
He needs his therapy dog. He's very upset by Marcus
Smart being traded.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
But when I look at the Celtics, this is actually
a good thing, right, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum are
the meat and potatoes of the Boston basketball team. And
so one of the reasons I went to beat as
one of the main reasons, is because I think this
is actually a step to grow Tatum and Brown. And
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I'm not a huge Chris stops Perzingis guy.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Fact I loathe Porzingis. He's he's empty. Calories is what
he is, form over function and Porzingis is yes, that's right.
He's got music and all. But his stats are aesthetically
pleasing to the low information fan. But he doesn't contribute
all that much to winning. And that explains why he's
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been passed around like a bottle of whiskey. He's go
some cities said he was with the Knicks, Mavericks, Wizards.
Now he's on to the Celtics. But when you look
at the team that plays on the parque there, this
trade is essentially a trip to home depot. Right. You're
attempting to spackle over the imperfections. You're looking to hide
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the holes and the cracks and that Marcus Smart had
some really good games with us some terrible games, and
you think that Porzingis will be more consistent. So I
gave them a B minus because I believe this is
mainly to try to evolve Brown and Tatum, that they
fell into this trap, if you will, of depending on
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Marcus Smart where they often deferred to Marcus Smart, but
do better, be better? And then the other part of this,
what do you make of the Celtics. And we've kind
of outlined this, what do you make of the Celtics
trading Marcus Smart? So it's a shockwave type thing, right
because he's been there for so long, longest tenured player
on the Celtics been there nine years.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
And so the.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Message is, hey, Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, you can't
lean on Marcus Smart.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
We're gonna pay you three hundred million dollars each and
you you gotta do it. You gotta get it done now.
So it messes with the zeitgeist in the locker room.
But I believe that was intentional.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
That Marcus Smart is a firecracker. He oozes green. Literally,
the man ooses green. Have you seen his hair? That
green hair? Dyet oozes out of his hair, and so
the guy has own cereal in Boston at the grocery stores.
And on how many times did Jason Tatum and Jalen
Brown defer to Marcus Smart on end of game situations
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where they deferred and they gave it to Marcus Smart
and he would shoot a three pointer and oftentimes he
would miss it right, And that was a common occurrence.
Am I imagining that? I don't think I'm imagining that?
Am I imagining that?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Oh? My guy?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And so now that there's like, hey, you got you
gotta do it, man, we need you to take the
shots at the end of the game, right, And there
were Jason Tatum passed over open shots. Jaylen Brown was
so passive he didn't even attempt a lot of shots
in late game situations.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
But now, as for Marcus Smart and starting over on.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Beal Street, I don't think it's a great fit assuming
he stays there, and it looks like he will.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
But for the Celtics, it's an odd return. Why the unicorn?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Why I'm really scratching my and I'm not just doing
this for talk radio purposes. Like Porzingis's skill set is
extremely limited. A pretty good rim protector. He's very tall,
He's an above average outside shooter. Get some baskets around
the rim on put backs and the old pick and
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pop and all that. But that's that's about it. When
you look at his game. The big fundamental was Tim
Duncan back in the day. Whatever the antithesis of the
big fundamental that would be Chris tops Porzings whatever.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
That term is.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
When it comes to screen passing, out of double teams,
boxing out, rebounding, he is useless. I would rather have
crying Craig do those things. He rarely takes advantage. And
you go back to his days in Dallas. I know
this because the Mavericks played the Clippers back to back
years in the playoffs and Prezingis was there, and the
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mismatches against smaller players, if I if I'm not mistaken,
he got out rebounded by Marcus Morris and Marcus Morris.
All he does is pretty much stand out around the
three point line and just wait for the ball and
then shoot it and does nothing else.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
He's really good at that, but that's all he does.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
So needless to say, we are not part of the
unicorn marching and chowder society, and porzingis will bring a
level of cool, whip softness that the Boston fan has
not seen. Some of you guys have say, well what
about Jason Titum. Jason titumself none? Side by side, Porzingis
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will make Jason Tatum look like Rambo side by side.
I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. So the trade is
also a tell. All trades are a tell. It's a
big admission. A guy like Porzingis is doubling down on
the Celtic franchise charge to trade for Chris tops Erzingis
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is the Green Team analytical department winning whatever battle there was.
They love three pointers. If you love three pointers, Porzingis
is a dream boat. He's the perfect arcade player.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Papa shot.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
That is a vote of confidence to let him play
Joe Joe Missoula in the playoffs last year when the
Celtics said defensive breakdowns?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
What did pors What did the Mosilla? What did he say?
Joe Mosula? Joe Mozula said what he said, Hey, we
gotta shoot the three points? Shot better?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Anything went wrong, Mosula's we gotta shoot better. That was
his answer to everything. So Porzingis, what he loves to
do is shoot endless moneyballs. He's allergic to pounding the paint.
In fact, even though he's a grown up, in many ways,
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he's like a child playing. The floor is lava game.
The painted area, by the way, is the lava on
the floor there. You can't go in the painted area
because his face melts. You're that famous scene from the
iconic Indiana Josephraider is a lost ark man. The scene
where the face melts, that's porzingis when he goes in
the lake.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Good luck, good luck Now.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
The good news is for now, Lucky the Leprechaun is
going to have a field day with goofing on porzingis.
And there's a lot to work with. There's a lot
of materials. I feel happy for my brothers and sisters
that do sports radio in Boston because when they do
talk about the Celtics, they'll be able to goof on
on porzingis pretty good. All right, last word here, So
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we've got two other teams. We haven't really gotten too
much into those teams. So explain the logic. Explain the
logic for the Wizards and the Grizzlies in this trade.
So for Memphis, we gave them on the mallor report
card we gave them. See, other people are right now
slobbering all over Memphis giving them an A plus.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
And what a great trade.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I'm not as big a Marcus Smart guy as others are.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
He's a fine player.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
He plays hard, but I don't think he puts you
over the top.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I only puts you over the top.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
And in this scenario, I've looked at the script, and
the Grizzlies are counting on Marcus Smart being a Hello
Kitty band aid that while John Morant is out cleaning
his guns and the lighting cakes on fire with his
gun candle, then Marcus Smart can hold down the four
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and he fits into the whole marketing campaign hidden grind,
and that's what they go with and all that.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
And this is gonna be the first time in NBA
history we are told that the.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Last two defensive players of the year will play on
the same team. Marcus Smart a couple of years ago,
Jared Jackson Junior is still there in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And that sounds wonderful.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And all that, But is anybody like Denver Aby in
the West, Like, oh crap, now, now now this puts
Memphis over the top. Me thinks not so much as
for the Wizards, they are continuingly liquidation sale. They're going
out of business. Just go back and call themselves the
Bullets again. Everything must go. So incoming, they've got Mike Muscala,
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Tyris Jones, and Danilo Gallinari, and those players are roster
spam if they aren't traded now. Now, Tyris Jones, you
say he's gonna play, He'll be the starting guard there
because Chris Paul's gonna be bought out for Washington. Okay,
so maybe he's not completely a roster spam, but Gallinari
and Moscalo absolutely are, and if they're not repackaged now,
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they will be made available once the season begins at
the trade deadline. On all that, so, the Wizards are
running and gunning for L and L as in losses
and lottery aka lottery balls and Bradley Beal. Bradley Beal
was given away for some pocket lint, and now Porzingis
has been sent away and the return coming into Washington
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is slightly better. It's like some old m and ms
but not peanut m and m's, regular m and ms
that have been laying around, and then some potato chips
but not crisp potato chips.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So more dirty tricks inside the belt.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Wait, and the good news is the wizards will continue
to be off our radar and there's really no reason
to pay attention to them anytime soon.
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Speaker 2 (30:41):
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Speaker 3 (30:43):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
To the third degree?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
This is one big Ben gets Grill Googlou.
Speaker 8 (30:52):
It's being reported that the Bulls are open to trading
Zach Levine and would be looking for quote, a good
young player, multiple first round picks, and salary filler. They'd
also consider a high end player and one first round pick.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Do you think they could get either of those for Levin?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Oh, the way players are being traded, they're not being
traded for much of anything, but Zactly.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I say yes. And here's why. He's in the prime
of his career. Zach Lavine.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
He's been an All Star a couple of times. He's
the master, the Ninja of the slam dunk. He's not perfect,
but his playoff resume is incomple I say yeah. If
the Bulls are hell bent to trade him, they will
find someone to take him.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Next.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Giants legend Tiki Barber appeared on a podcast Tuesday and
said that he isn't sure that the Giants would be
worse off without Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Ben. Is he right?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Well, that is first of all, blasphemy, Coop. As you
know in the running Back fraternity, you're gonna have to
do extra burpies if you're Tiki Barbara because of that, but.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
He's actually not wrong.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
As long as you get a serviceable running bay, the
Giants would be much different without Tiki Barber. But you
can have a good offensive line and the passing game
does its job, you can be productive. The Chiefs did
have a great running back. The Eagles didn't have a
great running back, and they were able to win.
Speaker 8 (32:04):
Next Jet safety Jordan Whitehead said that he thinks this
team could be very similar to the twenty twenty Buccaneers,
which he was also a part of. He pointed to
having a good defense the year before and then finding
the missing piece with an upgraded quarterback. Ben can he
be onto something?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
We could is a weasel word. So could? Yes, I
could win the lottery, I could get Morning Drive.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
I could, But no history rarely repeats itself that quickly.
Aaron Rodgers is a threat. I don't know what Rogers
is going to show up though? Is it the MVP Rodgers?
And here's the that Emoy and Green Bay was good
with Rogers, they didn't win that much.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
How do we dokopolo? You pass? That is a whin
I put on the bar.
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That would be me talking to the third person. I
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Let's pass the mic over to the Kooper loop. It's
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Speaker 4 (33:32):
Here we go.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
All right, so we're gonna start off with a question
from Cowboy Killer. He wants to know would you rather
be stuck in a submarine underwater or a hot air balloon?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Hot air balloon? Yeah, I don't want to be the
bottom at the bottom of the ocean. I'm good. I
don't I don't need to be the bottom of the ocean.
I read that there are more people that have gone
to space than have been to the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Do you know that I saw that as well. Yeah,
that is.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Fascinating to me, but I would know not that I
want to be in a hot I have been in
a hot air balloon before, but I'll pick that.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
What about you, Eddie, I completely agree with you. I'm
a little bit claustrophobic to begin with, and my my
greatest fear is drowning, So I'll take the hot air balloon.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
You'd rather die falling out of a hot air balloon?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
I would?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yeah, okay, good? What about you?
Speaker 7 (34:22):
I was saying, definitely the hot air balloon, Like, let's
just look at this rationally, Like if you were slowly
losing you know, like a pressure in the balloon, you
would have just kind of sink towards the ground, and
if you were gonna you could just land on the ground,
right unless it just popped and then you go falling
to your death. But otherwise I would just sort of
be like, all right, let's just wait until the balloon
(34:43):
just sort of loses its uh, you know, loses.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
A way to look.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Yeah, I would not want to be in that submersible.
That's a night absolute hellish nightmare.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah. What do you need to do in that thing?
Right now?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I don't know, maybe peace with whatever God they believe in.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
Not trying to breathe too fast because it's taking up
more air faster.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I was actually thinking about this, Ben, and I think,
I mean, obviously they have time, so you would think
they're probably if they can, like writing.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
That will point yeah, there's a billionaire in there.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Do we know, Like you guys are talking as if
as if we know that they're still alive.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Well they had they yeah, I mean they suppose they
had auction.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Who knows if they do not.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
But you think they beat up the guy that took
him down. You think they beat that guy up, you know,
because he's the.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Guy that was I don't think that's going to help you,
So I'm gonna say no.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Plus heus I think he's the captain, he's the pilot, right, But.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
If you're the guy that took them down, you want
to get out. But if the guy gets if they
find these people, how many lawsuits will be filed against
that guy?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Right?
Speaker 7 (35:42):
I think that they might have gotten what I've heard of, mate,
they might have gotten stuck. I mean it might have
been something out of their control or out of the
pilot's control.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It doesn't mean they won't be lowsuits.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Of course. It's two hundred fifty thousand dollars to go
on one of these expeditions.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Who do you want to answer the question?
Speaker 8 (35:56):
I would have to like, my first thought is to
agree with that. I'm also kind of claustrophobic and that
would be terrifying to me. But if I knew I
was gonna die either way, I did read that if
it was some sort of thing where like the you know,
the window was damaged, the death would be instantaneous.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
You would just it would just be like you'd just
be crushed pressure.
Speaker 8 (36:16):
Yes, But if it was like, you know, the hot
air balloon was popping, you're gonna die, that'd be like,
I don't know, if you're falling for a little while,
and because.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
You're immediately crushed still, there's a second, like a split second,
you realize.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
That, Yeah, that's that's true.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
All right, What is next? Dar?
Speaker 8 (36:29):
What do we Courtesy Flusher wants to know what kind
of Cheetos and Doritos are your favorites.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
So I'm a purist when it comes to the Freedo's.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
I don't were not listed here?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Do I hate cool range?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So I use I like the nacho cheese variety, and
I like the taco flavor Doritos and the Cheetos. I
like the crunchy Cheetos, that's my favorite. I don't like
the offs is okay, but I like the and I
don't like the spicy ones. I like the regular, crunchy,
old spirit free eddie.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Yeah, I have to agree with you. I'm I guess
the traditionalist as well. I'm not into the flaming hot whatever.
I'm not into the different flavors of the Dorito's just
the regular, original flavored dorito and the regular Cheeto. Although
I do like the puff Cheeto a little bit. That's
a nice little mix every once in a while.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
What about the knockoff brands of Chetos? Sometimes they have a.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Con no except no substitutes, only the uh healthier for you.
I always about that.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
Yeah, I am. I'm a big fan, and I know
this is gonna this is gonna scare you.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Man.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
I'm a big fan of Ranch the condiment, but I
am not.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
A fan getting the job.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Well, let me finish, let me fish. I'm not a
fan of the cool ranch dorito so much. Definitely like
the original one or like I don't know. There's some
other spicy ones those are fine, but I like the
original one. The nacho cheesier it is.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
You are able to eat the cool ranch dorito if
you don't like ranch, because there's actually no ranch dressing
was used.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Actually, but it's like powdered ranch splashed on the air
or whatever. Uh. And then Cheetah wise, I can do
some spicy the flaming hot ones, but just like a
couple before I'm taxed, so I'll just go with the
regular Cheetos.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
You're saying, you're a i owen with a tongue that
does not have fire on.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
No, I do like I do like spicy food, but
that's like artificially spicy, Like it's like, you know, powdered
crap on there.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
That's what about What about you coop? We gotta pick
up the pascer? What about you cool?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (38:31):
I like, I prefer the cool ranch over nacho, but
my favorites probably salsa verde dorito. Those are great. And
then I prefer the the Cheetos puffs.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Well, you're on the wrong side of history. What is
next to your cupolo? All right? Uh, let's go with
one from ferg Dog Hi Fergie, he says.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
He says, are ice cubes good or do they ruin
drinks by watering them down?
Speaker 1 (38:59):
So ice cream tubes are useless if you get a
drink at a restaurant because they are a way to
not give you the proper amount of beverage. But I
love ice. In fact, we have an ice machine here.
That's one of the greatest things I've ht My wife
ever got, which I love, and I'm a big ice
got the house.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
But when I go to restaurants, I'm like, light ice,
no ice.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Eddie, You're such a tight one. Uh No. I love
ice as well. If I ever got stranded on a
desert island, much like I believe the character in Castaway,
I would, I would miss ice. Probably one of the
one of the most things of all. I love ice.
Speaker 7 (39:32):
I was saying, good pull there, Eddie. Yeah, definitely iced. Yeah,
if it fills ice, yes cool. I go light ice always.
You can't without no ice, because a fountain drink with
no ice. It's just kind of weird to me. I
don't know why it's still cold though it's still cold.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
If there's smaller ice cubes, by the way, I do.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
Like to crunch on them, shaved ice, maybe cane cane's ice.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
They have really good.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I have cane style ice at the Malamine. I'm a baller,
nice baller. When it comes to ice, ice ice baby,
that is me. I am the king of the all ice.
I'm the iceman, is what I am? Actually? I think?
Ask Ben. Oh that's true.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
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Speaker 3 (40:15):
It's time to talk hockey.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
You said there's no hockey, there's hockey puck the worldld
then we go over to any ghet right now?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
All right, thanks Ben. We had the Stanley Cup champion.
Vegas Golden Knights had one of those annoying championship parades
this past weekend. I had wondered, why in the world
would they have a championship parade at nights on the weekend. Well,
turns out it's hot in Las Vegas and it would
be a bad idea for them to have a weekday
(40:47):
parade during the day. I'm told it's in the nineties,
so it's hot for it.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
That's not hot.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Well that's easy for you to say in your air
conditioned house right now. But anyway, they say they had
over one hundred thousand fans showing up for the two
hour parade on the Vegas Strip. That wrapped up with
a rally at T Mobile Arena where they play their games,
and the team took the stage. They had several players
drunk out of their minds addressing the crowd to the
delight of all the fans there. It's a drunken rain.
(41:16):
That's all they do. Know, It's all they do. Now,
just get up there and ramble and curse and drink
and have a good time.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
No, they get up there and say, nobody thought we
could do it.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Screw the haters.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
The Hockey Hall of Fame class of twenty twenty three
announced earlier on.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Tuesday, Num There's Anger, Eddy, There's anger at the Hockey
Hall of.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
It includes three goalies, Henrik Lundquist, Tom Barrasso, and Mike Vernon,
as well as forward Pierre Turjon, former coach Ken Hitchcock,
the late Pierre Lacroix, who was an executive and also
a women's hockey player that nobody knows. Lundquist gets into
the Hall in his first year of eligibility. The induction
(41:56):
is scheduled for November thirteenth at the Hockey Hall of
tam Eddie Eddie.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Nobody cares about who gets in. They care about the snubs.
That's who people care about it, all right, who are
the snubs?
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Let's see Alexander Mulgilney. I know it was a snub.
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Chris osgood, come on, Chris osgood. Hall of Famer, come on?
He won three Stanley Cups.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Yeah, it was never one of the greatest goalies though
he was on a good team.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Good for him, but wow, disrespect disrespect man, nobody else.
You don't got nothing, Eddie. You missed an opportunity for controversy.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
I don't think there was any big snubs. Keith Kachak.
I mean NHL Draft coming up on Wednesday. Much like
Victor wabin Yama is going to be the number one
clear pick in the NBA draft lader tonight, Connor Bedard
will go number one to the Chicago Blackhawks. He is
billed as a generational talent.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
I just saw.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Here we go, Eddiere's people upset that Rod Brindamore did
not make the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
There you go, right there.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
People are really upset about that in Carolina, and maybe
in Carolin, nobody.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Else said they're going to throw tobacco at you.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
I'm sure New Jersey Devil said forward. Yes, per Bratt
to an eight year, sixty three dollars contract. He was
restricted free agent, gonna make seven point eight million per season.
He was a sixth round pick in twenty sixteen. They
only have seven rounds of the NHL draft, so that's
quite the steal for them and quite the contract for him.
Multiple reports say that Toronto Maple Leafs are going to
(43:22):
keep their head coach, Sheldon Keith. He took over in
never heard of twenty nineteen twenty season. Toronto has not
missed the playoffs since he's been head coach. Matter of fact,
they made it out of the first round of the
first time since two thousand and four. However, there was
a question whether he'd stay or not because the GM
that hired him, Kyle Dubas, was fired and as you know,
when a new GM comes in sometimes they like to
(43:43):
hire their own guy.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
All that happens in radio in a new prop program, No, no, never,
never heard of the talent ever.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
But apparently Brad Tree living the new GM in Toronto
is going to keep him on on as the head coach.
And speaking of the Maple Leafs, their chairman, Larry Tannenbaum
reportedly is selling a portion of his holdings in Maple
League Sports and Entertainment. Now it's said to be valuated
over eight billion dollars, and I'm like, wait a minute,
that that can't be right. The Dallas Cowboys are not
(44:11):
worth eight billion dollars. But it turns out that a
portion of the Maple League Sports and Entertainment also includes
not just a part of the Maple Leafs, but also
the Toronto Raptors, Toronto FC of MLS, the Toronto Argonauts,
and all of the respective venues where all those teams play.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
That's what's called all inclusive package, Eddie's I will say,
so that would say a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
How do we get in on that? Can we get
some of that action?
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Well, we have to have a lot more money than
we yea want.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
I don't even want that.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I just want to own the revenue from a parking
lot across from a ballpark. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:47):
I've heard you talk about this before, the old Frank McCourt.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
Low overhead and just easy money.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
Yeah, easy money. Just like the storage units right, same thing,
storage storage wards.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Yeah, and the great scam with the George storage places
that they they charge you a very cheap rate to
get it. It's like first month is one dollar, and
then the second months like you know, sixty dollars or whatever,
and then like three months or six months later it
goes up to one hundred and fifty dollars a way.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
Yeah, and then once you get your crap in there,
it's way you're way too lazy to want to have
to take it out and where you gonna put it
on for it?
Speaker 3 (45:19):
What a hustle, What a scam they've got.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
Yeah, Well, the parking people do the same thing. Have
you noticed every city I go to. I got a
trip coming up to New York. You go to these
big cities, and they're like parkings, you know, five dollars
and then the fine print underneath first twenty minutes after
that it's five dollars every half hour.
Speaker 4 (45:40):
We got that here where we work exactly.
Speaker 1 (45:42):
Well yeah, yeah, the parking at the building we work
is insane, man. And those people, those people that do
that hot yoga, Yeah, they they get validated for a
couple of hours, but those people hang out longer than that.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
They end up having to pay for the parking. Crazy
and that you puck the World Report and hot yoga
as well, yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 4 (46:00):
Should be coind in yoga, yeah,
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