June 23, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the odds that Victor Wembanyama becomes a megastar, how important Wembanyama is to the NBA, what could cause Wemby to fail, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird two. It is
a draft sore in the NBA, and much of the
focus about the number one overall. Pick what are the
odds that Victor Wembanyama becomes a megastar in the Alamo?
How important is Victor Wembanyama for the NBA as a
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whole as he heads off to San Antonio? And what
would cause Wemby to fail? What would lead Wemby to
go down in a heap? We'll talk about that as well.
Here it is our number two doing the Wemby walk.
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That's right, we're doing the Wemby walk. Well, goume and
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The seventy seventh Annual NBA Draft took place on Thursday
night in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, our embedded reporter, Marcel and Brooklyn,
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was unable to attend, but a bevy of blue chip
players were picked. The NBA hyping up all of these players,
at least some of them the very top players there.
There were only fifty eight picks. It's a two round draft,
but a couple of teams were dinged for tampering, so
they lost draft picks, and so there were only seven.
There was fifty eight instead of sixty picks and these
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seventy seventh annual Draft. There'll be a quiz on this later,
so I don't know if you watched it. I had
interest in three picks and then that's it. I didn't
have any interest in anything else after that. The main
event was at the very beginning Victor Wembanyama, the seven
foot three Parisian prodigy. I've seen he's seven foot two,
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seven foot three, seven foot four, seven foot five. He
looks like the size of a sequoia tree to me,
like I'm in the giant forest watching this guy when
he walks around. He's a very tall human being. But
he was drafted. And here's how it sounded, the announcement
from the Lizard person, commissioner of the NBA.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
With the first pick in the twenty twenty three NBA draft,
the San Antonio Spurs select Victor Wembanyama, Montar.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
France, Montar. There he is, Oh, look at that, he's
doing this straw across the stage. There he shakes hands
with Adam Silver and can I go back to your
home planet anyway? So he's picked number one overall.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
There.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
The Hornets took Brandon Miller, as the fans booed on
Tobacco Road at number two, and that was just months
after he was tied to a deadly shooting, and the
Hornets talked about how great how much great character he
has A Scoot Henderson went number three. I don't know
whether or not Scoot Henderson can play. I love the name.
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I love the name. It's the name of a star.
He's on the Oregon Trail now, much to the dismay
of Dame Lillard, as he goes to the Blazers, Scoot Henderson,
but don't bear the lead, my man. It's all about Wemby.
It's all about Wemby. So let us discuss the question
is this now that the draft is over and what
we all anticipated happened, which is not that exciting. You know,
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when you watch a TV show or a movie, or
listen to a radio drama or a podcast druma, you
don't want to know the ending. You want a surprise.
We kind of knew the ending on this. But what
are the odds? Here's the question. What are the odds
that Victor wemban Yama becomes a mega mega mega mega
mega star. So the malarods on this after a thorough review.
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I spent several minutes cooking up these odds minus six
hundred that implies in eighty five per chance that when
Banyama goes platinum, I am Bannie Brightside on Victor. I've
got village people, pork bellies, and mozzarella, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make an upset stomach is what we're going to make.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
So number while the Spurs are not a sexy match
for wem Banyama, I said that when the lottery happened.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm not taking away from that take. I am confirming
that I believe that take. And this is not sexy
for my job, for the sports media landscape. It's just not.
This does have a high probability of success. And here's
why I'm going eighty five percent. You start out with
the basics. He's won the genetic lottery. If you're drafted
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number one, you win the genetic lottery. I remember Yaoming
was drafted number one. I was like, oh my god,
look how massive that guys. But Yao Ming was like
filled out and this guy's got some work in that department.
But I know the scouting community, they're all horny for Wemby.
They're all excited. He's got the high, unprecedented length. The
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wingspan they measured it's as big as a plane. At
John F. Kennedy airport there in New York it is
just humongous eight feet. He's only two hundred and ten pounds.
So the Spurs are gonna fatten him up, right, They're
gonna fatten him up and all that. And he's got
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all the tools allegedly. But in the Alamo he will
be surrounded by the village people. Right. It takes a
village to raise a generational player and all that stuff,
so he will have that. If you read the label,
it does take a village. So San Antonio, it's sleepy
in terms of exciting headlines, but it's also sleepy that
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he can evolve and develop without the extra buzz to
mudgeon social justice warrior coach pop on the sidelines. They've
got the infrastructure there. There's a track record that doesn't
really mean it to me. It's not all perfect because
I looked at the Spurs roster and barring some kind
of dramatic change, Wemby will be surrounded by flotsam on
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one side and jets them on the other. That's what
he's got. The Spurs are the ultimate no name bunch, faceless, empty,
devoid of talent, So good luck with that. You're gonna
be out there by yourself. And there's not a lot
around you there, it's a one man band. Now, page two,
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How important is it that Victor Wembanyama succeeds for the NBA?
How important is Victor Wembanyama's success for the NBA. So
he's in the on deck circle right now. He's got
the bat out, he's got the donut on the bat
and the NBA, like all of these professional sports leagues,
they are assembly lines, they're factories, and they have to
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continually produce a product that is compelling. They need actors
that are compelling. They have a Shakespearean drama. And the
NBA has been laying the groundwork for Wemby for a
couple of years. We started hearing about this guy a
couple of years ago, pervasive marketing and proclamations of his greatness.
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And when you think of this, like Wall Street, Victor
Wembanyama is soybeans and pork bellies right. His commodity too
big to fail, too big to fail in terms of marketing.
Not only is the NBA betting a lot, there are
a bunch of people who have hitched their wagon to
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the Wemby wagon. Yeah, the Wemby wagon. Wembanyama is projected
to land a con tract of one hundred million dollars,
not from the Spurs, from Nike, and that will pass
the ninety million that Lebron James got twenty years ago
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when he entered the NBA. So if it is one
hundred million, it would be the biggest contract ever given
to a player who had not yet played in the NBA.
That's how confident Nike is, or that's how much disposable
money they have liquid assets they can just throw around,
but one hundred million allegedly for Wembanyama. He's also expected
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to sign a massive memorabilia agreement with the people over
at Fanatics, so they're gonna pay him millions of dollars.
All of this without scoring a point, all of this
without getting a rebound. He will be one of the
most commercially successful athletes in the history of America and
the world without playing a game. Why because people pay
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on the P word potential, Oh, potential, which means you
haven't done anything yet. But he's already got the star power.
The bots love him. He's got a lot of fake followers.
There one point seven followers on the Gram, a lot
of those probably fake one million on TikTok who knows,
I'm not there, one hundred ninety thousand on Twitter. So
he's got all that covered, and that's important the people
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who are on Madison Avenue who value that very much.
His on court salary not exactly chop livery one. Banyama
will make an estimated fifty four million from his rookie contract,
the standard rookie contract, by being the number one pick.
So if I do the math on this and we
say that Nike's gonna give Hm one hundred million, he's
gonna get fifty plus million from the Spurs. So he's
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already at one fifty hasn't played a game yet. How
much do you think Fanatics is gonna payim? I have
no idea. What do you think that's a few million dollars?
I don't think it's that much. Let's say five million,
ten million. It's a lot for me. Uh And then
what are we looking at here? We're looking at about
one hundred and sixty something million dollars without playing a game.
And that doesn't include any other advertisers that hitch there there,
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you know what to the Wemby wagon. All right, final point?
So what would cause Wemby to fill I'm giving her
an eighty five percent chance to succeed. That leaves fifteen
percent to go curplunk and be outrageously bad, like so
bad you gotta cover your nose because he smells so much.
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Looking into the crystal ball that I have, there are
two things that pop up. Both of them involve eating habits.
I've got mozzarella and rice crispies. Now that's obvious. Snap, crackle, pop.
And when Banyama looks so thin, it reminds me of
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when I was in elementary school and I was bored,
and I would take those number two pencils we used
to use when I was a kid, and I would
snap them in half and it was very easy to
snap them in half. And I look at Wehm Banyama,
and I'm like, wow, that guy looks like somebody could
stay app him in half. And he must have had
fun with Adam Silver, because Adam Silver also looks that
way fat and those guys up a little bit. And
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then the other thing is the mozzarella. Right ergo, don't
eat the cheese. You start reading the social media praise,
buying the hype, and Wemby this guy's been fond all
over it. Right now, there are three people sucking his
toes as we speak. He's getting his back scratched. People
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have literally gotten on bended knee for this guy, and
he has not earned any of it other than being
really tall. Other than being really tall, and so that
that has not happened. And for every number one pick
that is really good, you get number one picks like
the one that really killed it for me on the
NBA draft, Michael Olowa Kandhi. And remember the Toronto Raptors
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drafted an Italian guy Bonyani who was like a point guard,
except he was like six ' eleven or something like that,
and that was a problem because you had actually like
big man stuff at that time. In the NBA, there
have been plenty of number one picks that have been
terribly cleveland. Cavaliers drafted a guy from UNLV out of
Canada who should have immediately, immediately just left the NBA
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and gotten a job selling insurance somewhere because he would
have done better at that anyway. Other than the speculation
about the when Banyama's future, what about Damian Lillard? Now
that did not go down. All those rumors all that bluster, nothing,
a lot of chatter, nothing that matters, a lot of chatter. Though.
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The good news is that Dame Lillard will continue to
be banteaed about on the trading Block because we still
have If you hate the NBA and NBA chatter on radio,
you're not gonna like the fact that for the next
two months is the silly season of the end. It
really liked the next month, right, I would say July,
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late June through July. That's when the main gusto of
rumors pops up in the NBA. And then after that,
once NFL training camp gets going, which happens in mid
to late July, and then preseason games in August, I
move away from the from the NBA, but I do
expect us to circle back as they used to stay
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at the White House to these Damian Lillard rumors. And
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It's the kind of movie I would want to watch.
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Speaker 1 (16:36):
A whimby monologue? How many of those will I do
in my sports radio career? Is this guy going to
be around? If he's around twenty years? I don't know
what else to be doing this. After twenty years, I
don't know how long I'll be doing this. It's really
not up to me. It's up to the bosses. But
is he going to be with sports in a big
way for the rest of my time in sports radio
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is going to last that long? Or is he going
to vanish? Who knows? We will find out. But he
goes to San Antonio with the number one pick, chip
and the q'es writes in he says, a plus on
the maule of monologue, flotsam and jetsam. I didn't see
any player listed on the Spurs roster with those last names.
What are their first names? Lenny and George George George,
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George George. Yeah. I think that's that's the ticket, that
could be the ticket. Who else we have? Paige Awn Milkman.
Mike Colorado writes in he says, great monologue on the
draft and referring to the prodigy and to pork bellies.
The next thing, you know, you'll compare his first season
to frozen concentrated orange juice. Yeah, well that's the Iowa
(17:42):
Sam influence, because Iowa Sam the son of a farmer
from Iowa. You grew up on a farm in Iowa,
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Iowa saym uh kind of trying to grow oranges in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Unfortunately I didn't have any.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I didn't say anything that was A guy said something
about it orange.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I thought that he was making reference to trading places.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You know, he probably was, but oly, I was just
touching up and those things. I was trying to. I
was trying.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
My grandfather was a farmer, yeah, and I was. I
was a farmer myself, a smaller scale for like eight years.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Did you wear overalls when.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I sent you pictures? Remember?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
No, I know that, But the listeners don't know that.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They don't know that.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They don't know, they don't know where it happens. Those
are like private conversations.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
I know.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Then there's like they're eavesdropping in on our conversation. We
got to pretend it's like when people call up and said,
I was just talking to your screener and I was like, well, no,
nobody heard that. You know, that didn't happen, That didn't exist.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I was trying to be transparent with the listeners, that's all.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
No, nobody wants transparency when they listened to the show.
They do not want that, right, nobody, right, they do
not want that at all. We'll take some calls here.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number,
and let's go to I don't know who's still I
mean board had been up there. Let's go to Andrea
and the common Well, we'll see if he's still there. Hello, Andre, welcome.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
What's going on? Ben? Yes, indeed I'm still here. Look, Ben,
you gave this Chris Paul Jordan Pool trade a D. Ben,
this is a B plus trade minimum.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
And here's why.
Speaker 10 (19:16):
Here's why that's the case. What is Chris Paul good at?
Still at thirty eight?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
He's getting hurt, set up, man, getting hurt.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Okay, this is your Nick Foles here, Ben. Okay. He's
gonna put people in position. He's going to step up,
step and clay for those three balls that they like.
And oh, by the way, Chris Paul is gonna be
a force multiplier for Jonathan Kaminga coming off the bench.
What is Jonathan Kaminga known for? What does he do?
He's a scorer? What is the scorer needs? He needs
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somebody to put him in positions to get buckets? I e.
John Stockton, Carl Malone. Now I'm not making that one
to one comparison, but that's what Jonathan Cominga needs to
maximize his talent. And that's why so many teams are
calling Ben about Jonathan Kaminga and the word from Golden
State absolutely not so yes, man for man, Jordan Pool
is ten times better than Christian.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Andre Andre I love you. That's that's one of your
worst takes of all time. That's a very that's the
kind of take that I mean, it's gonna get me fired.
That's how bad that takeaway. That's such a bad take.
The microphone literally smells right now from that take. I
gotta I gotta now change the mic cover. That's how
bad that take was.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
That's been my last point, my last point on this
that I have to get in. Yeah, Jordan Poole is
so talented. Why did he take that fifty foot three
point shot against who was who is at the Kings
and not pass the ball to step and cost them
a ball game? That's why he's out of there. He's
a great, he's not.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
He's out of there because Draymond Green didn't like him
and punched him. That's why he's out of there.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
Yes, and he takes crazy and they all take crazy
ill advice shots.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Come on, please smell. Here's what you get with Chris Paul. Okay,
here's what you get. Let me go down. A right
thumb injury, heel groin injury, left hamstring injury, left leg injury.
Those are all on his I'm looking at the injury
chart of Chris Paul. We can't read all of them
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because we will be off the air if we read
all of the injuries.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
You understand, understood, Ben, He's gonna sit down half the
regular season. He'll be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
He will be ready for the playoffs. Here's what's gonna happen.
I already have seen this. Okay, he'll play the he'll
play in the playoffs. He'll play the first three games
or the opening round, and then he will his right leg.
There will be a problem with his right ankle, and
he's he's gonna be a game time decision. He won't play.
They say that they'll hope he'll be available for like
Game seven, and then you'll never see him again.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
That very well may happen. But in the game before
he doesn't play, he's gonna get fort Smithsis. He's gonna
set everybody up and it's gonna be combaya. But he
might get injured in the playoffs. I'm not notwithstanding that.
But on the surface, this quick pol deal will work.
It's gonna be a great chemistry books.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
It's gonna be plenty of them.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yes, what is this Albert Einstein with chemistry? Come on, chemistry? Yay?
All right? If you look at Chris Paul's numbers, hard
to really judge the numbers too much because these guys
hardly play. But year to year Chris Paul's shooting percentage
this past season went down by I think I think
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he was about he went from like a forty nine
percent shooter to forty four percent shooter. The points per
game were down, the assists were down, the rebounds were down,
and he's only going to get older. But I why
I just sit here and yap in the middle of
the night. So who knows. Let's go to Adam. Who's
in Miami? What's going on? Adam? Miami, Miami, Miami.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Good evening, Ben and monts how are we doing?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
If I was any better, I'd be in Miami.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
But I'm not fair.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Now you're better off over there. Ben, you know that,
you know that anyway, you know, if I get to
my quick sports spot, I gotta say this is like,
you know, a special night, like a lunar and a
solar eclipse all the same time. We got Monty who
is super talented, great voice on our talent. He should
like even replace that Jason guy on the Coward Show.
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And he's lucky. You get her for the night to work.
And she's lucky because she gets to work with the
best show on the network and entertaining and like all
the other guys are afraid to take calls like a
it's like a great it's like a great team.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And can you can you send this air check to
Don Martin? Please? Can you send this over to Don?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
You gotta talk to GM. Don. You gotta tell the
other guys to take some more calls, because listen, you
guys just say a lot of good things. You know, no, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You know that they have these things called consultants Adham
and they hate a lot of the consultants. They can't
stand callers. They hate you guys they call the show.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
They need the callers, Ben because listen, I don't want
to get too much into the weeds. But you know
I'm on the road all night, so you know, I
switched stations stuff here and there. The Four Letter Network
takes no calls because they're boring. The Three Letter Network
takes a lot of calls, but they're to New York centric.
You know, and you guys are what.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Are you from, Adam, aren't you from New York?
Speaker 9 (24:13):
I am, but you know, but you know, all the
top talent goes to the fan, you know, the national
that is. You know that. So you guys are really smart.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
You know.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
I got Brady in the morning. Is fantastic. Anyway, you
guys don't take enough calls. You got to tell Don
I told him. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I'm sure he's listening. All bosses listening in the middle
of the night, So I'm sure.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Well, you're the star man, you know that. And Monty
is great and and and she is not and she
doesn't have a voice made for radio. She is better
than Okay, great, Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I don't think you missed a spot at him. I
think you did everything a.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Job I had. I had a short failed career in radio,
so I'm not as good as you. But you know,
I got something.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You should talk to me like this guy, Coop. Why
don't you talk to me like this guy, Adam, Coop?
Come on, come on, all right, all right, I'm blushing,
Thank you, Adam. I gotta go, but tremendous. That is
great for my ego, which.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Me and Coop got no mention.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I know he said nothing about you.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
We've just forgotten dust in the corner.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Not care less about you, not care less.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
We do care about you.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I mean that guy's got to jump in a cold
shower now. He needs a cup of coffee and a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
If you drove people around Uber in Miami, you'd probably
need to take a shower every night too.
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Grady Dick, who was the thirteenth pick by the Raptors
in the NBA draft, did you see what he wore?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Ben? Yes, I'm now blind, Emmett if I looked at
what he wore? What a what a dick move? I mean, my.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
God, So for if you don't know what he wore.
He's from Kansas, played for the Jay.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
He was a jam in Kansas anymore.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
He is not in Kansas anymore.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
He wore a glittery red suit that was supposed to
be like Dorothy slippers, what you know, balls of the
walls on that like.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Yeah, he committed, He committed.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He wasn't the only one that was the most outrageous.
For the most outrageous as were dressed up together, the
fellows were dressed up for the draft.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
You would not dress up like that. You would keep
it like cash. When he wore like a forest green suit,
I'd wear.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Like a burka so no one could see that. I
would wear so no one could look at me.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Oh goodness, Oh no, you have to dress up?
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Okay, Oh yes, I.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Mean I'm radio. That's TV people. I could dress up.
I'm in radio.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
A little Kawhi Leonard news, which is not surprising is no.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
SPN reports that he did undergo a cleanup on his tornmniscus.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
It's supposed to be an eight week guess he's.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Gonna miss half of next season.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Not yet, not yet, but possibly don't don't roll that out.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
There is a big possibility.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
A source close to Kawai says he needs to rehab
at his casa in San Diego until April.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Stop jinxing it stop.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Jason Lawrence Frank says that he is expected to be
a full go though for training camp.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Well, yeah, sure, full going.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Absolutely little Major League Baseball action, that's right. It's the
Braves who are hot. Eight in a row for Atlanta.
They beat the Phillies. It took ten innings, five to
one was the final score. But the best team in
baseball is obviously the Rays, but not by much. Atlanta's
record is forty eight and twenty six Tampa Bay's fifty
two and twenty six. But Tampa Bay did lose today,
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not just to the Royals. Their ace Shane McClanahan left
the game with back tightness, but there's no further information.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
They're hoping it's not anything too serious.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
The Padres snapped the Giants ten game winning streak and
shut them out ten.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Reality for the Giants, yep, yeah over a.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
The Guardians win streak is now four after beating the
A's and now the A's losing streak is eight, so
that's also over.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
The A's are back on track. But that brief like
that one week where they played well, yes, that was
right leading into the boycott verse boycott Rob Manford was
not impressed with and then since.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Such an ass.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
He's such an ass now his comments. I was just
like somebody punched him.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Somebody just right now, drop kick him.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
He is the definition of the Peter principle that he
just he got hired during a labor negotiation. They just
kept him around baseball, and he stayed there and he
became the commissioner.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
He's so annoying.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
He's the highest level of incompetence and he's still there.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
You know, I hope he's like tripping somewhere and scraping
his knees and ripping his pants or something like that.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
The Twins shut out there a migraine headache, that's what Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Sig zero Joe Ryan pitched the first complete game shutout
in five years from Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
A whole complete game.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
In five years for Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yes, the Twins have gone five years without a complete game.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Yep, yep. But I just want.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Twins tickets right now at at the ballpark. Come on down,
go hang out. You know the Twins. I walked around.
I didn't go to a Twins game. I was in Minnesota,
but I walked around the stadium. They had a Rod
Creuse statue, they had a statue for the one of
the old Twins owners, and they had their mascot had
a statue. So I took a photo with the statue
of the mascot.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
That's a good one.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
It was that.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Man, when next time you are in the Twin Cities,
you need to go to a you need to go
to Target Field for a game.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It is.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
It is a great stadium.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
It looked very nice.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I went there for a game.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
It was.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
It was cool, really cool state.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I liked that they had this whole underground city in Minnesota.
I didn't really explore it too much, but it's so
cold there. They have tunnels you don't have to go outside.
And like I walked through the Target Center where the
Timberwolves play because there's like a tunnel leading to like
a subway, and then you can walk through there and
then get to the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
So it's like Siberia. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I found there was a Sid Hartman. You guys don't
know who that is, but Sid Hartman was a famous
Minnesota radio writer guy, and they had a statue for him,
a lot of statues. It was just like Staple Center.
It was like a mausoleum out there with all the statues.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Maybe we'll put a statue of you outside our studios.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yes, so the homeless people communnate on it and the
birds can crap on it. Absolutely, that would be great.
Right there at the corner of Ventura and Sebpalveda, right
there in the middle of the action.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
There would be action.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Oh there's always action at that intersection, some of it good,
some of it bad. You never know.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
You can't see it anymore though, because we're now we're
in a window list studio.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It's a nicer one. But I do miss seeing the
sun and the bums.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
That's that's nice, and the buns nice.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I saw. I saw some things I was saying that
I can't unsee. Sitting in that.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Studio, fire a gun at you want.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yes, I was on the air on a Sunday night
and when somebody shot a gun at our I was
doing to show with Jim Daniels on a Sunday night,
and horribly we looked over and the glass was shattered.
There's bulletproof glass.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Now it's like. Now it's like fortified, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Well, my favorite part of that story is this guy,
Jerry was my board off. And let's just say Jerry
might have had some run into the police. So I said, hey, Jerry,
you might want to call the cops. Somebody just shot
the window out, you know it. Said, I don't worry, Bro,
I got it, bro. And then he what he did
was he closed all of the blind so you figured,
at least if they shoot again, they won't know where
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they're shooting.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
So it was a attempted hit job on Jerry. Maybe
I know, we think.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Well, I don't know if I should say what we think.
Who knows. We might know what happened, But that's that'll
be in my book someday. That's all I'll leave it there.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Well, there we go, the attempted assassination of Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
We'll end up you give all the crappy sports radio
that you would have been saved from listening to if
that had been the anyway, all right, thank you? Is
that it?
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Are you good?
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Good? Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
All right done? I thought you had a little more. Okay,
O good, that's the last derailed everything.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Sorry that your fault.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
You have me to tell you that the Yankees lost.
I can tell you he's lost.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You're a Yankee fan.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
I do like the Yankees. They're my American League team.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
It's because I'm a Derek Jeter fans I love, I know,
but he made me like bass.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
Can.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
They hardly ever see each other hardly.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Now they're going to play every year now schedule in baseball.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Every other year they're gonna come here.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Though.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
That means next year you gotta go to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
I would love to. Yeah, you should do it too.
Maybe I will there.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You take a little trip, a little roadie. Just to
make sure you bring your bulletproof vest when you go
to the Bronx. Okay, you might want to have that
on there. Anyway. It is the Ben Malor Show as
we continue on through the overnight hours, and glad you
have chosen to spend a little bit of time with us.
We do thank you. We know you have options, not
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And we had a great conversation about random things, and
because of that, we're gonna have to move on with
(33:49):
the broadcast. But let me let me just mention real quick,
I love this story from the NBA Draft, and we'll
get we'll circle back to this a little bit later
to use that line, which I've already used a couple
of times tonight. So this this guy figured out out
that you don't actually have to be a basketball player
to be eligible for the NBA Draft, That the NBA
bylaws do not require you to actually be able to
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play basketball. So this guy from Florida, he's a law
student in Florida. He figured this out and he submitted
his application to the NBA. He's never played in the
G League, he's never played in a traveling league or
college basketball or any of that stuff. But he was
at the Barclays Center there in Brooklyn. And because he
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filled out the necessary paperwork and he realized that to
be eligible you can anyone can sign up. You have
to you have to be of the proper age and
you have to. It says basically, four years after you
graduate high school, you have a little bit of a
window and you're eligible for the draft. And so this
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guy was eligible and he I think he's in his
early twenties. And how great a stories that Cati he
showed up. He was at the draft. I'm sure they
kept him quarantined away from all the cool people, but
he was there anyway. Hey, it is the Bend Malor Show.
As we continue on to now for the insta trivia,
Blank holds the Big League hit record for a hitter
(35:19):
for the most consecutive games with a strikeout. That's the
instant trivia the answer next.
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Now back to Big Ben.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Hey you Monci and Blank holds the Big League record
for a hitter for the most consecutive games with a strikeout.
That's the question we'll have a lot of times, so
we'll give you some answers. Here Calli and Tim in
Michigan went my role Mondesssee who else do we have?
Doctor John Dorian from ferg Dog Okay, who else? Page down?
Page down? Dora the Explorer guess by Cowboy Killer neymar
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from the Garcia Berner account, Ladanian, Tomlinson, Who's forty four today?
From the Late Night Drug Tester, Willie the Mess going
with Sonny List and Richie Sexon Good Name from Matt
the Warrior Raider as fan do you have an answer?
Speaker 7 (36:45):
Manzi not even a little bit.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Okay, he's one of your heroes, Monzi. Aaron Judges. Aaron Judges,
a rookie back in twenty seventeen, struck out in thirty
seven consecutive games. That is the all time record.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Here we go, it's maller. How about that to the
third degree. This is one thing that gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
The most impressive thing about the judge record is the
record had been held by a bunch of pitchers before
they were in judge, when they were hitting. Anyway, Comelo,
what do we at.
Speaker 12 (37:18):
The Cincinnati Reds have been getting all the attention, But
the San Francisco Giants have had their own impressive turnaround here.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Not anymore, Coop.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
They lost, Oh it doesn't matter.
Speaker 12 (37:27):
They still won like nine out of you know, thirteen
out of the last fourteen or fifteen something like that. Anyway, Ben,
is this a flash of the pan or is it
a legit threat the giants?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I'm not worried about the giants. The giants are They're
not a heavyweight contender. They're a middleweight. They don't have
the star power. They got a bunch of Raindom Lamont
Wade Junior, JD. Davis, Michael Confordo. No, I think the
Reds actually have more razzle dazzle with Elie de la
Cruz as the star there, they got Joey Vado back.
I rather have the Reds than the Giants. The pitching,
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neither team's got big name pitchck.
Speaker 12 (38:01):
Next, Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence told the media on
Wednesday that he doesn't see that big of a gap
between the Cowboys and the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Ben, how big of a gap is it?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Well, I agree with him. It's the size. Remember when
Jean steratre the referee es that index card. It's about
that size. The Cowboys are They're a good team, They're
not a great team. The Eagles overachieved last year. Eagles
have a talented roster, but it really comes down Jalen
Hurts played better than Dak Prescott and is he gonna
do that again? We'll find out, but they're very close.
Speaker 12 (38:30):
Next there will be a major change this year at Wimbledon.
Apparently the broadcast team will include artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Thank god, Ben, how long.
Speaker 12 (38:39):
Before there is a sports talk radio show hosted by
Ai well.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
A'sk going me tough? Because nobody with intelligence does sports
talk radio? So that would be very difficol, but I
promise you my boss is at iHeartMedia. As soon as
they can get the algorithm down, I'm out of here.
I'm fired, baby.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
How do we do?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Kobolo? You pass? That's a well nine one put watts
in from i PM on
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird two. It is
a draft sore in the NBA, and much of the
focus about the number one overall. Pick what are the
odds that Victor Wembanyama becomes a megastar in the Alamo?
How important is Victor Wembanyama for the NBA as a
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whole as he heads off to San Antonio? And what
would cause Wemby to fail? What would lead Wemby to
go down in a heap? We'll talk about that as well.
Here it is our number two doing the Wemby walk.
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That's right, we're doing the Wemby walk. Well, goume and
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The seventy seventh Annual NBA Draft took place on Thursday
night in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, our embedded reporter, Marcel and Brooklyn,
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was unable to attend, but a bevy of blue chip
players were picked. The NBA hyping up all of these players,
at least some of them the very top players there.
There were only fifty eight picks. It's a two round draft,
but a couple of teams were dinged for tampering, so
they lost draft picks, and so there were only seven.
There was fifty eight instead of sixty picks and these
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seventy seventh annual Draft. There'll be a quiz on this later,
so I don't know if you watched it. I had
interest in three picks and then that's it. I didn't
have any interest in anything else after that. The main
event was at the very beginning Victor Wembanyama, the seven
foot three Parisian prodigy. I've seen he's seven foot two,
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seven foot three, seven foot four, seven foot five. He
looks like the size of a sequoia tree to me,
like I'm in the giant forest watching this guy when
he walks around. He's a very tall human being. But
he was drafted. And here's how it sounded, the announcement
from the Lizard person, commissioner of the NBA.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
With the first pick in the twenty twenty three NBA draft,
the San Antonio Spurs select Victor Wembanyama, Montar.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
France, Montar. There he is, Oh, look at that, he's
doing this straw across the stage. There he shakes hands
with Adam Silver and can I go back to your
home planet anyway? So he's picked number one overall.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
There.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
The Hornets took Brandon Miller, as the fans booed on
Tobacco Road at number two, and that was just months
after he was tied to a deadly shooting, and the
Hornets talked about how great how much great character he
has A Scoot Henderson went number three. I don't know
whether or not Scoot Henderson can play. I love the name.
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I love the name. It's the name of a star.
He's on the Oregon Trail now, much to the dismay
of Dame Lillard, as he goes to the Blazers, Scoot Henderson,
but don't bear the lead, my man. It's all about Wemby.
It's all about Wemby. So let us discuss the question
is this now that the draft is over and what
we all anticipated happened, which is not that exciting. You know,
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when you watch a TV show or a movie, or
listen to a radio drama or a podcast druma, you
don't want to know the ending. You want a surprise.
We kind of knew the ending on this. But what
are the odds? Here's the question. What are the odds
that Victor wemban Yama becomes a mega mega mega mega
mega star. So the malarods on this after a thorough review.
(04:51):
I spent several minutes cooking up these odds minus six
hundred that implies in eighty five per chance that when
Banyama goes platinum, I am Bannie Brightside on Victor. I've
got village people, pork bellies, and mozzarella, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make an upset stomach is what we're going to make.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
So number while the Spurs are not a sexy match
for wem Banyama, I said that when the lottery happened.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm not taking away from that take. I am confirming
that I believe that take. And this is not sexy
for my job, for the sports media landscape. It's just not.
This does have a high probability of success. And here's
why I'm going eighty five percent. You start out with
the basics. He's won the genetic lottery. If you're drafted
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number one, you win the genetic lottery. I remember Yaoming
was drafted number one. I was like, oh my god,
look how massive that guys. But Yao Ming was like
filled out and this guy's got some work in that department.
But I know the scouting community, they're all horny for Wemby.
They're all excited. He's got the high, unprecedented length. The
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wingspan they measured it's as big as a plane. At
John F. Kennedy airport there in New York it is
just humongous eight feet. He's only two hundred and ten pounds.
So the Spurs are gonna fatten him up, right, They're
gonna fatten him up and all that. And he's got
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all the tools allegedly. But in the Alamo he will
be surrounded by the village people. Right. It takes a
village to raise a generational player and all that stuff,
so he will have that. If you read the label,
it does take a village. So San Antonio, it's sleepy
in terms of exciting headlines, but it's also sleepy that
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he can evolve and develop without the extra buzz to
mudgeon social justice warrior coach pop on the sidelines. They've
got the infrastructure there. There's a track record that doesn't
really mean it to me. It's not all perfect because
I looked at the Spurs roster and barring some kind
of dramatic change, Wemby will be surrounded by flotsam on
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one side and jets them on the other. That's what
he's got. The Spurs are the ultimate no name bunch, faceless, empty,
devoid of talent, So good luck with that. You're gonna
be out there by yourself. And there's not a lot
around you there, it's a one man band. Now, page two,
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How important is it that Victor Wembanyama succeeds for the NBA?
How important is Victor Wembanyama's success for the NBA. So
he's in the on deck circle right now. He's got
the bat out, he's got the donut on the bat
and the NBA, like all of these professional sports leagues,
they are assembly lines, they're factories, and they have to
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continually produce a product that is compelling. They need actors
that are compelling. They have a Shakespearean drama. And the
NBA has been laying the groundwork for Wemby for a
couple of years. We started hearing about this guy a
couple of years ago, pervasive marketing and proclamations of his greatness.
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And when you think of this, like Wall Street, Victor
Wembanyama is soybeans and pork bellies right. His commodity too
big to fail, too big to fail in terms of marketing.
Not only is the NBA betting a lot, there are
a bunch of people who have hitched their wagon to
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the Wemby wagon. Yeah, the Wemby wagon. Wembanyama is projected
to land a con tract of one hundred million dollars,
not from the Spurs, from Nike, and that will pass
the ninety million that Lebron James got twenty years ago
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when he entered the NBA. So if it is one
hundred million, it would be the biggest contract ever given
to a player who had not yet played in the NBA.
That's how confident Nike is, or that's how much disposable
money they have liquid assets they can just throw around,
but one hundred million allegedly for Wembanyama. He's also expected
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to sign a massive memorabilia agreement with the people over
at Fanatics, so they're gonna pay him millions of dollars.
All of this without scoring a point, all of this
without getting a rebound. He will be one of the
most commercially successful athletes in the history of America and
the world without playing a game. Why because people pay
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on the P word potential, Oh, potential, which means you
haven't done anything yet. But he's already got the star power.
The bots love him. He's got a lot of fake followers.
There one point seven followers on the Gram, a lot
of those probably fake one million on TikTok who knows,
I'm not there, one hundred ninety thousand on Twitter. So
he's got all that covered, and that's important the people
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who are on Madison Avenue who value that very much.
His on court salary not exactly chop livery one. Banyama
will make an estimated fifty four million from his rookie contract,
the standard rookie contract, by being the number one pick.
So if I do the math on this and we
say that Nike's gonna give Hm one hundred million, he's
gonna get fifty plus million from the Spurs. So he's
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already at one fifty hasn't played a game yet. How
much do you think Fanatics is gonna payim? I have
no idea. What do you think that's a few million dollars?
I don't think it's that much. Let's say five million,
ten million. It's a lot for me. Uh And then
what are we looking at here? We're looking at about
one hundred and sixty something million dollars without playing a game.
And that doesn't include any other advertisers that hitch there there,
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you know what to the Wemby wagon. All right, final point?
So what would cause Wemby to fill I'm giving her
an eighty five percent chance to succeed. That leaves fifteen
percent to go curplunk and be outrageously bad, like so
bad you gotta cover your nose because he smells so much.
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Looking into the crystal ball that I have, there are
two things that pop up. Both of them involve eating habits.
I've got mozzarella and rice crispies. Now that's obvious. Snap, crackle, pop.
And when Banyama looks so thin, it reminds me of
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when I was in elementary school and I was bored,
and I would take those number two pencils we used
to use when I was a kid, and I would
snap them in half and it was very easy to
snap them in half. And I look at Wehm Banyama,
and I'm like, wow, that guy looks like somebody could
stay app him in half. And he must have had
fun with Adam Silver, because Adam Silver also looks that
way fat and those guys up a little bit. And
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then the other thing is the mozzarella. Right ergo, don't
eat the cheese. You start reading the social media praise,
buying the hype, and Wemby this guy's been fond all
over it. Right now, there are three people sucking his
toes as we speak. He's getting his back scratched. People
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have literally gotten on bended knee for this guy, and
he has not earned any of it other than being
really tall. Other than being really tall, and so that
that has not happened. And for every number one pick
that is really good, you get number one picks like
the one that really killed it for me on the
NBA draft, Michael Olowa Kandhi. And remember the Toronto Raptors
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drafted an Italian guy Bonyani who was like a point guard,
except he was like six ' eleven or something like that,
and that was a problem because you had actually like
big man stuff at that time. In the NBA, there
have been plenty of number one picks that have been
terribly cleveland. Cavaliers drafted a guy from UNLV out of
Canada who should have immediately, immediately just left the NBA
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and gotten a job selling insurance somewhere because he would
have done better at that anyway. Other than the speculation
about the when Banyama's future, what about Damian Lillard? Now
that did not go down. All those rumors all that bluster, nothing,
a lot of chatter, nothing that matters, a lot of chatter. Though.
(13:38):
The good news is that Dame Lillard will continue to
be banteaed about on the trading Block because we still
have If you hate the NBA and NBA chatter on radio,
you're not gonna like the fact that for the next
two months is the silly season of the end. It
really liked the next month, right, I would say July,
(13:59):
late June through July. That's when the main gusto of
rumors pops up in the NBA. And then after that,
once NFL training camp gets going, which happens in mid
to late July, and then preseason games in August, I
move away from the from the NBA, but I do
expect us to circle back as they used to stay
(14:20):
at the White House to these Damian Lillard rumors. And
it's it's like a hurricane. You know that, here's the
storm surge from the hurricane. It's kind of the same
same concept. It is the Ben Mallard Show. As we
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use that content on the show, so you get all
of that and straight ahead though, there's something that happened
at the NBA draft in Brooklyn that will be made
into a movie and it's gonna be a really good movie.
It's the kind of movie I would want to watch.
(15:45):
Although it does not involve Adam Silver. It does not
involve any of the players that were drafted in the
NBA Jet But something happened that is a hell of
a sort. It's a humdinger of a story. We'll get
to that, and we will do it.
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Speaker 1 (16:36):
A whimby monologue? How many of those will I do
in my sports radio career? Is this guy going to
be around? If he's around twenty years? I don't know
what else to be doing this. After twenty years, I
don't know how long I'll be doing this. It's really
not up to me. It's up to the bosses. But
is he going to be with sports in a big
way for the rest of my time in sports radio
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is going to last that long? Or is he going
to vanish? Who knows? We will find out. But he
goes to San Antonio with the number one pick, chip
and the q'es writes in he says, a plus on
the maule of monologue, flotsam and jetsam. I didn't see
any player listed on the Spurs roster with those last names.
What are their first names? Lenny and George George George,
(17:19):
George George. Yeah. I think that's that's the ticket, that
could be the ticket. Who else we have? Paige Awn Milkman.
Mike Colorado writes in he says, great monologue on the
draft and referring to the prodigy and to pork bellies.
The next thing, you know, you'll compare his first season
to frozen concentrated orange juice. Yeah, well that's the Iowa
(17:42):
Sam influence, because Iowa Sam the son of a farmer
from Iowa. You grew up on a farm in Iowa,
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Iowa saym uh kind of trying to grow oranges in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Unfortunately I didn't have any.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I didn't say anything that was A guy said something
about it orange.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I thought that he was making reference to trading places.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You know, he probably was, but oly, I was just
touching up and those things. I was trying to. I
was trying.
Speaker 8 (18:09):
My grandfather was a farmer, yeah, and I was. I
was a farmer myself, a smaller scale for like eight years.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Did you wear overalls when.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I sent you pictures? Remember?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
No, I know that, But the listeners don't know that.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They don't know that.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They don't know, they don't know where it happens. Those
are like private conversations.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
I know.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Then there's like they're eavesdropping in on our conversation. We
got to pretend it's like when people call up and said,
I was just talking to your screener and I was like, well, no,
nobody heard that. You know, that didn't happen, That didn't exist.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I was trying to be transparent with the listeners, that's all.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
No, nobody wants transparency when they listened to the show.
They do not want that, right, nobody, right, they do
not want that at all. We'll take some calls here.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number,
and let's go to I don't know who's still I
mean board had been up there. Let's go to Andrea
and the common Well, we'll see if he's still there. Hello, Andre, welcome.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
What's going on? Ben? Yes, indeed I'm still here. Look, Ben,
you gave this Chris Paul Jordan Pool trade a D. Ben,
this is a B plus trade minimum.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
And here's why.
Speaker 10 (19:16):
Here's why that's the case. What is Chris Paul good at?
Still at thirty eight?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
He's getting hurt, set up, man, getting hurt.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Okay, this is your Nick Foles here, Ben. Okay. He's
gonna put people in position. He's going to step up,
step and clay for those three balls that they like.
And oh, by the way, Chris Paul is gonna be
a force multiplier for Jonathan Kaminga coming off the bench.
What is Jonathan Kaminga known for? What does he do?
He's a scorer? What is the scorer needs? He needs
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somebody to put him in positions to get buckets? I e.
John Stockton, Carl Malone. Now I'm not making that one
to one comparison, but that's what Jonathan Cominga needs to
maximize his talent. And that's why so many teams are
calling Ben about Jonathan Kaminga and the word from Golden
State absolutely not so yes, man for man, Jordan Pool
is ten times better than Christian.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Andre Andre I love you. That's that's one of your
worst takes of all time. That's a very that's the
kind of take that I mean, it's gonna get me fired.
That's how bad that takeaway. That's such a bad take.
The microphone literally smells right now from that take. I
gotta I gotta now change the mic cover. That's how
bad that take was.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
That's been my last point, my last point on this
that I have to get in. Yeah, Jordan Poole is
so talented. Why did he take that fifty foot three
point shot against who was who is at the Kings
and not pass the ball to step and cost them
a ball game? That's why he's out of there. He's
a great, he's not.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
He's out of there because Draymond Green didn't like him
and punched him. That's why he's out of there.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
Yes, and he takes crazy and they all take crazy
ill advice shots.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Come on, please smell. Here's what you get with Chris Paul. Okay,
here's what you get. Let me go down. A right
thumb injury, heel groin injury, left hamstring injury, left leg injury.
Those are all on his I'm looking at the injury
chart of Chris Paul. We can't read all of them
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because we will be off the air if we read
all of the injuries.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
You understand, understood, Ben, He's gonna sit down half the
regular season. He'll be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
He will be ready for the playoffs. Here's what's gonna happen.
I already have seen this. Okay, he'll play the he'll
play in the playoffs. He'll play the first three games
or the opening round, and then he will his right leg.
There will be a problem with his right ankle, and
he's he's gonna be a game time decision. He won't play.
They say that they'll hope he'll be available for like
Game seven, and then you'll never see him again.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
That very well may happen. But in the game before
he doesn't play, he's gonna get fort Smithsis. He's gonna
set everybody up and it's gonna be combaya. But he
might get injured in the playoffs. I'm not notwithstanding that.
But on the surface, this quick pol deal will work.
It's gonna be a great chemistry books.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
It's gonna be plenty of them.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yes, what is this Albert Einstein with chemistry? Come on, chemistry? Yay?
All right? If you look at Chris Paul's numbers, hard
to really judge the numbers too much because these guys
hardly play. But year to year Chris Paul's shooting percentage
this past season went down by I think I think
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he was about he went from like a forty nine
percent shooter to forty four percent shooter. The points per
game were down, the assists were down, the rebounds were down,
and he's only going to get older. But I why
I just sit here and yap in the middle of
the night. So who knows. Let's go to Adam. Who's
in Miami? What's going on? Adam? Miami, Miami, Miami.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Good evening, Ben and monts how are we doing?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
If I was any better, I'd be in Miami.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
But I'm not fair.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Now you're better off over there. Ben, you know that,
you know that anyway, you know, if I get to
my quick sports spot, I gotta say this is like,
you know, a special night, like a lunar and a
solar eclipse all the same time. We got Monty who
is super talented, great voice on our talent. He should
like even replace that Jason guy on the Coward Show.
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And he's lucky. You get her for the night to work.
And she's lucky because she gets to work with the
best show on the network and entertaining and like all
the other guys are afraid to take calls like a
it's like a great it's like a great team.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And can you can you send this air check to
Don Martin? Please? Can you send this over to Don?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
You gotta talk to GM. Don. You gotta tell the
other guys to take some more calls, because listen, you
guys just say a lot of good things. You know, no, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You know that they have these things called consultants Adham
and they hate a lot of the consultants. They can't
stand callers. They hate you guys they call the show.
Speaker 9 (23:53):
They need the callers, Ben because listen, I don't want
to get too much into the weeds. But you know
I'm on the road all night, so you know, I
switched stations stuff here and there. The Four Letter Network
takes no calls because they're boring. The Three Letter Network
takes a lot of calls, but they're to New York centric.
You know, and you guys are what.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Are you from, Adam, aren't you from New York?
Speaker 9 (24:13):
I am, but you know, but you know, all the
top talent goes to the fan, you know, the national
that is. You know that. So you guys are really smart.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
You know.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
I got Brady in the morning. Is fantastic. Anyway, you
guys don't take enough calls. You got to tell Don
I told him. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I'm sure he's listening. All bosses listening in the middle
of the night, So I'm sure.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Well, you're the star man, you know that. And Monty
is great and and and she is not and she
doesn't have a voice made for radio. She is better
than Okay, great, Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I don't think you missed a spot at him. I
think you did everything a.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
Job I had. I had a short failed career in radio,
so I'm not as good as you. But you know,
I got something.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
You should talk to me like this guy, Coop. Why
don't you talk to me like this guy, Adam, Coop?
Come on, come on, all right, all right, I'm blushing,
Thank you, Adam. I gotta go, but tremendous. That is
great for my ego, which.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Me and Coop got no mention.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I know he said nothing about you.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
We've just forgotten dust in the corner.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Not care less about you, not care less.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
We do care about you.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I mean that guy's got to jump in a cold
shower now. He needs a cup of coffee and a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
If you drove people around Uber in Miami, you'd probably
need to take a shower every night too.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
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Speaker 1 (26:18):
Podcasts, give me your hell yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:22):
Grady Dick, who was the thirteenth pick by the Raptors
in the NBA draft, did you see what he wore?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Ben? Yes, I'm now blind, Emmett if I looked at
what he wore? What a what a dick move? I mean, my.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
God, So for if you don't know what he wore.
He's from Kansas, played for the Jay.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
He was a jam in Kansas anymore.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
He is not in Kansas anymore.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
He wore a glittery red suit that was supposed to
be like Dorothy slippers, what you know, balls of the
walls on that like.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
Yeah, he committed, He committed.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He wasn't the only one that was the most outrageous.
For the most outrageous as were dressed up together, the
fellows were dressed up for the draft.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
You would not dress up like that. You would keep
it like cash. When he wore like a forest green suit,
I'd wear.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Like a burka so no one could see that. I
would wear so no one could look at me.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
Oh goodness, Oh no, you have to dress up?
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Okay, Oh yes, I.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Mean I'm radio. That's TV people. I could dress up.
I'm in radio.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
A little Kawhi Leonard news, which is not surprising is no.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
SPN reports that he did undergo a cleanup on his tornmniscus.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
It's supposed to be an eight week guess he's.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Gonna miss half of next season.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Not yet, not yet, but possibly don't don't roll that out.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
There is a big possibility.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
A source close to Kawai says he needs to rehab
at his casa in San Diego until April.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Stop jinxing it stop.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
Jason Lawrence Frank says that he is expected to be
a full go though for training camp.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Well, yeah, sure, full going.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Absolutely little Major League Baseball action, that's right. It's the
Braves who are hot. Eight in a row for Atlanta.
They beat the Phillies. It took ten innings, five to
one was the final score. But the best team in
baseball is obviously the Rays, but not by much. Atlanta's
record is forty eight and twenty six Tampa Bay's fifty
two and twenty six. But Tampa Bay did lose today,
(28:20):
not just to the Royals. Their ace Shane McClanahan left
the game with back tightness, but there's no further information.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
They're hoping it's not anything too serious.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
The Padres snapped the Giants ten game winning streak and
shut them out ten.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Reality for the Giants, yep, yeah over a.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
The Guardians win streak is now four after beating the
A's and now the A's losing streak is eight, so
that's also over.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
The A's are back on track. But that brief like
that one week where they played well, yes, that was
right leading into the boycott verse boycott Rob Manford was
not impressed with and then since.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Such an ass.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
He's such an ass now his comments. I was just
like somebody punched him.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Somebody just right now, drop kick him.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
He is the definition of the Peter principle that he
just he got hired during a labor negotiation. They just
kept him around baseball, and he stayed there and he
became the commissioner.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
He's so annoying.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
He's the highest level of incompetence and he's still there.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
You know, I hope he's like tripping somewhere and scraping
his knees and ripping his pants or something like that.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
The Twins shut out there a migraine headache, that's what Yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Sig zero Joe Ryan pitched the first complete game shutout
in five years from Minnesota.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
A whole complete game.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
In five years for Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yes, the Twins have gone five years without a complete game.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Yep, yep. But I just want.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Twins tickets right now at at the ballpark. Come on down,
go hang out. You know the Twins. I walked around.
I didn't go to a Twins game. I was in Minnesota,
but I walked around the stadium. They had a Rod
Creuse statue, they had a statue for the one of
the old Twins owners, and they had their mascot had
a statue. So I took a photo with the statue
of the mascot.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
That's a good one.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
It was that.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Man, when next time you are in the Twin Cities,
you need to go to a you need to go
to Target Field for a game.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It is.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
It is a great stadium.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
It looked very nice.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I went there for a game.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
It was.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
It was cool, really cool state.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I liked that they had this whole underground city in Minnesota.
I didn't really explore it too much, but it's so
cold there. They have tunnels you don't have to go outside.
And like I walked through the Target Center where the
Timberwolves play because there's like a tunnel leading to like
a subway, and then you can walk through there and
then get to the ballpark.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
So it's like Siberia. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I found there was a Sid Hartman. You guys don't
know who that is, but Sid Hartman was a famous
Minnesota radio writer guy, and they had a statue for him,
a lot of statues. It was just like Staple Center.
It was like a mausoleum out there with all the statues.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Maybe we'll put a statue of you outside our studios.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yes, so the homeless people communnate on it and the
birds can crap on it. Absolutely, that would be great.
Right there at the corner of Ventura and Sebpalveda, right
there in the middle of the action.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
There would be action.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Oh there's always action at that intersection, some of it good,
some of it bad. You never know.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
You can't see it anymore though, because we're now we're
in a window list studio.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It's a nicer one. But I do miss seeing the
sun and the bums.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
That's that's nice, and the buns nice.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I saw. I saw some things I was saying that
I can't unsee. Sitting in that.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Studio, fire a gun at you want.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yes, I was on the air on a Sunday night
and when somebody shot a gun at our I was
doing to show with Jim Daniels on a Sunday night,
and horribly we looked over and the glass was shattered.
There's bulletproof glass.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Now it's like. Now it's like fortified, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Well, my favorite part of that story is this guy,
Jerry was my board off. And let's just say Jerry
might have had some run into the police. So I said, hey, Jerry,
you might want to call the cops. Somebody just shot
the window out, you know it. Said, I don't worry, Bro,
I got it, bro. And then he what he did
was he closed all of the blind so you figured,
at least if they shoot again, they won't know where
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they're shooting.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
So it was a attempted hit job on Jerry. Maybe
I know, we think.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Well, I don't know if I should say what we think.
Who knows. We might know what happened, But that's that'll
be in my book someday. That's all I'll leave it there.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Well, there we go, the attempted assassination of Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
We'll end up you give all the crappy sports radio
that you would have been saved from listening to if
that had been the anyway, all right, thank you? Is
that it?
Speaker 9 (32:29):
Are you good?
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Good? Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
All right done? I thought you had a little more. Okay,
O good, that's the last derailed everything.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Sorry that your fault.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
You have me to tell you that the Yankees lost.
I can tell you he's lost.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
You're a Yankee fan.
Speaker 7 (32:42):
I do like the Yankees. They're my American League team.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
It's because I'm a Derek Jeter fans I love, I know,
but he made me like bass.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
Can.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
They hardly ever see each other hardly.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Now they're going to play every year now schedule in baseball.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Every other year they're gonna come here.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Though.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
That means next year you gotta go to Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
I would love to. Yeah, you should do it too.
Maybe I will there.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You take a little trip, a little roadie. Just to
make sure you bring your bulletproof vest when you go
to the Bronx. Okay, you might want to have that
on there. Anyway. It is the Ben Malor Show as
we continue on through the overnight hours, and glad you
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And we had a great conversation about random things, and
because of that, we're gonna have to move on with
(33:49):
the broadcast. But let me let me just mention real quick,
I love this story from the NBA Draft, and we'll
get we'll circle back to this a little bit later
to use that line, which I've already used a couple
of times tonight. So this this guy figured out out
that you don't actually have to be a basketball player
to be eligible for the NBA Draft, That the NBA
bylaws do not require you to actually be able to
(34:10):
play basketball. So this guy from Florida, he's a law
student in Florida. He figured this out and he submitted
his application to the NBA. He's never played in the
G League, he's never played in a traveling league or
college basketball or any of that stuff. But he was
at the Barclays Center there in Brooklyn. And because he
(34:35):
filled out the necessary paperwork and he realized that to
be eligible you can anyone can sign up. You have
to you have to be of the proper age and
you have to. It says basically, four years after you
graduate high school, you have a little bit of a
window and you're eligible for the draft. And so this
(34:58):
guy was eligible and he I think he's in his
early twenties. And how great a stories that Cati he
showed up. He was at the draft. I'm sure they
kept him quarantined away from all the cool people, but
he was there anyway. Hey, it is the Bend Malor Show.
As we continue on to now for the insta trivia,
Blank holds the Big League hit record for a hitter
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Speaker 7 (36:08):
Now back to Big Ben.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Hey you Monci and Blank holds the Big League record
for a hitter for the most consecutive games with a strikeout.
That's the question we'll have a lot of times, so
we'll give you some answers. Here Calli and Tim in
Michigan went my role Mondesssee who else do we have?
Doctor John Dorian from ferg Dog Okay, who else? Page down?
Page down? Dora the Explorer guess by Cowboy Killer neymar
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from the Garcia Berner account, Ladanian, Tomlinson, Who's forty four today?
From the Late Night Drug Tester, Willie the Mess going
with Sonny List and Richie Sexon Good Name from Matt
the Warrior Raider as fan do you have an answer?
Speaker 7 (36:45):
Manzi not even a little bit.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Okay, he's one of your heroes, Monzi. Aaron Judges. Aaron Judges,
a rookie back in twenty seventeen, struck out in thirty
seven consecutive games. That is the all time record.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
Here we go, it's maller. How about that to the
third degree. This is one thing that gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
The most impressive thing about the judge record is the
record had been held by a bunch of pitchers before
they were in judge, when they were hitting. Anyway, Comelo,
what do we at.
Speaker 12 (37:18):
The Cincinnati Reds have been getting all the attention, But
the San Francisco Giants have had their own impressive turnaround here.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Not anymore, Coop.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
They lost, Oh it doesn't matter.
Speaker 12 (37:27):
They still won like nine out of you know, thirteen
out of the last fourteen or fifteen something like that. Anyway, Ben,
is this a flash of the pan or is it
a legit threat the giants?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I'm not worried about the giants. The giants are They're
not a heavyweight contender. They're a middleweight. They don't have
the star power. They got a bunch of Raindom Lamont
Wade Junior, JD. Davis, Michael Confordo. No, I think the
Reds actually have more razzle dazzle with Elie de la
Cruz as the star there, they got Joey Vado back.
I rather have the Reds than the Giants. The pitching,
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neither team's got big name pitchck.
Speaker 12 (38:01):
Next, Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence told the media on
Wednesday that he doesn't see that big of a gap
between the Cowboys and the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Ben, how big of a gap is it?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Well, I agree with him. It's the size. Remember when
Jean steratre the referee es that index card. It's about
that size. The Cowboys are They're a good team, They're
not a great team. The Eagles overachieved last year. Eagles
have a talented roster, but it really comes down Jalen
Hurts played better than Dak Prescott and is he gonna
do that again? We'll find out, but they're very close.
Speaker 12 (38:30):
Next there will be a major change this year at Wimbledon.
Apparently the broadcast team will include artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Thank god, Ben, how long.
Speaker 12 (38:39):
Before there is a sports talk radio show hosted by
Ai well.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
A'sk going me tough? Because nobody with intelligence does sports
talk radio? So that would be very difficol, but I
promise you my boss is at iHeartMedia. As soon as
they can get the algorithm down, I'm out of here.
I'm fired, baby.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
How do we do?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Kobolo? You pass? That's a well nine one put watts
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