July 13, 2023 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the latest update to the Jon Gruden leaked email scandal, Pelicans GM David Griffin saying that Zion trade rumors were manufactured, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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in our lead this hour, coming from the Speculation Machine,
working overtime we're gonna flashback to a couple years ago
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and a big mid NFL season scandal involving John Grude.
Remember this the email scandal. So there's some new revelations
that popped up this week. We're glad they did, and
they randomly popped up. I'm sure that was not conveniently
planned for the Major League Baseball All Star break for
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full attention. Unless it was. But maybe he didn't see it.
Perhaps you missed it. So we've learned now the new
details about the John Gruden email story from a couple
of years ago. More information about this congressional report containing
testimony that claimed that Dan Snyder Danny Boy, was the
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person that leaked the infamous John Gruden emails as an
attempt to try to divert attention from the scandal involving
his team used to be called the Redskins, but they
changed that. Couldn't call it that anymore now. In a
wordy story from the fledgling sports network out of Bristol, Connecticut,
apparently they haven't fired everyone. There's still some people working
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there that put the story together. So they lay out
the case. But it's not just Dan Snyder in this story.
They're all over the place. They've got the nfl PA
boss d Maurice Smith. He is alleged to have bragged
that he was responsible for leaking the emails, and then
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there's others. So the story is all over. It's Helter
Skelter claiming that the actual leakers identity remains unknown despite
reading this seven thousand words story, we don't know who
heaked it. And everyone's pointing at each other. It's like
the spider Man spider Man meme where they pointed each other.
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So let us discuss the question what is the big takeaway?
What's the big takeaway from this John Gruden scandal? Update?
So I've got Blues Singer, Mulligan Man and artificially made
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make a vote because you can
vote for the winner of the malord pallusan that we
already vote. We have more on that coming up, but
we already voted on the show last night. But if
you missed it, go back and get that podcast. The
vote is open. More information on that coming up, but
again the question, what's the big takeaway? What is the
big takeaway from this John Gruden scandal? Update. So a
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my head was betting round and round and round like
a Merry go round. From reading this story, it reads
like an episode of Billions or something. It's wealth, it's power,
it's power porn. If you will, John Gruden and Roger Goodell,
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if you believe the story, hated each other's guts, and
Gruden despised Roger Goodell before Roger Goodell was the commission
of the NFL. Gruden's emails the emails that the New
York Times and the Wall Street Journal put out a
couple of years ago. They contained the emails between him
and some of his friends racist, homophobic, and misogynist. I
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think that's the big three remarks, and those were weaponized
against Gruden because Gruden had enemies in high places. Racist
also states that Al Davis, who's been dead for over
a decade. Apparently Al's spinning in his grave right now.
He died in twenty eleven, but he also played a
role in his vitriol between John Gruden and the league office.
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Now it goes into details. Is Mark Davis the spawn
of Al and the polyester jumpsuit wearing owner Al Davis
his son Mark Davis did not want to fire John Gruden,
but felt that he had no choice because of lesbian
WNBA players and Carl Nasseb the gay Raider, that he
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felt like he had to do it because of what
John Gruden had said in the email league, the homophobic
stuff that that he had to get rid of of Gruden.
And so it also lays out a map that says
the email leak was the final body blow that led
to Dan Snyder being forced to sell the Commander. So
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there's a lot of stretching going on. It's a hum
dinger of a story, and so to sum it up,
it's it's really channeling the spirit of a blues singer,
Muddy Waters. My intuition reading this John Gruden expos is
that the NFL help facilitate the story, and while it
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certainly makes them look petty and shallow as a league,
it accomplishes the main mission something bigger, And I don't
really care if you think they're petty and shallow, and
not that many people are actually gonna read that story.
Most people have a worse attention span than a goldfish,
so you're not gonna read a wordy story about what
goes on in the palace. Intrigue of the NFL. You
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might hear some gasbag or blowhard like you know, like
me talk about it. But the accomplishment is it helps
torpedo John Gruden's lawsuit against the Shield and Roger Goodell.
It blurs the lines, obfuscating what actually happen. Because if
you read this story, on one part of the story,
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you're gonna think, well, de Marie Smith leaked some email.
Then in another part you're gonna be like na, Na,
it was Dan Snyder. And then there's someone else named
Desire Perez. I don't know who that is. She's apparently
a CEO for Jay Z's Rock Nation. Never heard of
this person, but that person also mentioned as someone who
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leaked some emails. So the story does help undermine the
John Gruden lawsuit as he goes scorched earth against the NFL.
But I'm pulling for John Gruden. Why not? And we'll
see how that goes as he continues his legal fight,
not backing down, not backing down John Gruden, now turning
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the page on that. The next stop here, we're gonna
go away from John Gruden. We're gonna to Minnesota. The
Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson was recently asked to rank the
top five quarterbacks in the NFL, he said, who cares
about that? Well, it's it's the perfect time of the now.
I don't do this radio, but Justin Jefferson does list
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radio the Viking Hide receiver. So Jefferson, who's by any account,
any measurement, a top five receiver in the NFL. But
what about the quarterbacks? So at number number one he
had Patrick Patrick Mahomes as his number one. That's Kenny, okay.
Number two was Aron Raders, number three Joe Burrow, number
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four Jalen Hurts, and number five Josh Allen. You know
who's not on the list ding Ning Ning Ning name, Yes,
Kirk Cousins, who happens to play quarterback for who. That's right,
the Purple people Eaters. So how much trouble is Justin
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Jefferson in for omitting Kirk Cousins his quarterback from his
top five list? So the amount of trouble that Justin
Jefferson is in is zero zero. The bluster over this story,
which is passed around a little bit, I find amusing.
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The only name on that list that does not belong
there in real time is Aaron Rogers. Because Aaron Rodgers
was not only a quarterback in Wisconsin last year, he
sucked at a time you cannot suck for Green Bay.
And by his account and by all accounts, he was
not that good. And head to head, Cousins, who did
not have a stellar year last year, either was better
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in most statistical categories head to head regardless. Justin Jefferson
in this story is like the Mulligan man. He gets
a mulligan, You get a mulligan, a big Mulligan, and
another Mulligan. Why he's good and when you're good, it
doesn't matter. Kirk Cousins will be feeding him extra targets
when the Vikings start playing, because this story is just
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supter fuge, all right, last, so let's move on. Franchise tag.
Oh it's so exciting. Less than a week away. Tell
me you're not a little excited. We're less than a
week away from the franchise tag extension deadline, and we
have the three Musketeers, the three Musketeers who have not
signed their franchise tender, Sequon Barkley of the New Jersey Giants,
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Evan Ingram of your Jacksonville Jags, and from Our Raiders,
Josh Jacobs that's it. That's the list now. If no
ex extensions are inked by Monday four pm Eastern Time
Monday deadline, the three players, the three Musketeers, will not
be obligated to show up to training camp, which starts
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also for most teams next week. It's been floated that
Sequon Barkley is going to stay away from the Giants
and he will not show up and he'll miss week one,
that he will not be available Giant open up in
a game that's gonna get a little juice against the
Dallas Cowboys, and that that is said to be in
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serious pero in no extension likely to be agreed upon.
So level of concern, level of concern about Sequan Barkley
missing the Giant's opener on the Malard scale of worry
one to ten, with ten being oh my god, we're screwed.
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I'm out of two. I'm out a two. I look
at this storyline, I look at the calendar, and I say,
this is artificially made. That's what I'm I'm thinking on
this one right, contrived for just before training camp. Story
could have been written four months ago. If Sequon Barkley
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wants to leave money on the table. Good luck, Mozletobe.
You're not a mensh if you do that. But we're
talking about a game shack. Now. I think of a
check as a reason a lot of money, but when
you're a professional athlete, it's not a reasonable amount of money.
It's it's a lottery payment. Sakwan Barkley every game check
five hundred and sixty thousand dollars, so he would have
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to walk away from over half a million dollars to
make some kind of stand against the man in the NFL.
I just made a lot of money. But I don't
care how much money you've made five hundred and sixty
thousand dollars unless you're Elon Musk or Zuckerberg or one
of those dopes. That's that's crazy money for one check.
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But it's his right if he wants to pull a
leveon bell and go ride the jet skis in Miami
and drink cocktails. Knock yourself out. You're not really that essential.
You're not even as good as Sakwan Barkley is with
those legs little like tree trunks. Every running back is replaceable.
In fact, just about everyone is replaceable. Because when I
started watching football, not a single one of those players
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is still around, and they were all very important. Just
ask them and they would have told you how important
they are.
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Ball and always always lobbing softballs this time of the
year of these sports radio content Kitty, we start with
who else but the blubber of the Bayou. He flashed
across our sonar. Now you didn't see this, perhaps not
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we're paying attention. I get it. But we are told
that the wide spread Zion Williamson trade speculation and old man,
was there a ton of Zion trade speculation over the
last month and a half. That that was fake news,
fake news is what it was. Say what so, David Griffin,
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We're gonna plut some audio here in to stay with.
David Griffin is the person in the center square. He also,
if you don't know who that is, he's the Pelicans
executive vice president of basketball Operations. Back in the old days,
they used to say he's the GM, but now they
had it add a lot of different titles because you
sound more important when you got a lot of titles,
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and they pay these guys a lot of money, so
they got him a lot of titles. So he's not
just the general manager, he's the executive pay of basketball operations.
So he recently appeared on state sponsored NBA radio and
he was asked about Zion Williamson because there's no one
else on the Pelicans that anyone's ever heard of, and so
he was asked about Zion Williamson and his relationship with
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the franchise, and he said it's as good as it's
ever been. Then he got on the soapbox and started
ranting about Zion, and well, rather than me going to it,
let's go to the audio tape. Here's David Griffin on
the Zion on trade chatter.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I think what's unfortunate is he is a name that
generates clicks. No matter what the link says, Zion puts
on his socks, people click on that, and so it
makes it really easy for people to manufacture rumor around
him because they don't have to have any kind of
actual credibility behind what they say to generate link clicks.
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And we've as a society this isn't true of sports,
this is true across all platforms. Reality doesn't matter anymore.
Generating clicks matters. And so unfortunately for Zion, he's just
he's an oddity and somebody that people pay a great
deal of attention to and manufacture a lot of stories around.
We never had a single conversation that Zion was part.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Of Okay, his nose was growing, so let us discuss
you heard it right there, the GM I'll call him
the GM David Griffin of The Pelican says that these
Zion trade rumors were manufactured for clickety clicks. Is this
inbounds or is it out of bounds? So I am
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going to go out of bounds. I've got assembly line, Walgreens,
and baptism and we will combine all of these things
together and we're gonna make a nice bottle of wine.
I don't know if it's red wine or white wine,
but we're gonna make a bottle of wine. So number one,
David Griffin is a polished spinmeister, is what this guy is,
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and he knows he knows how to deliver a very
eloquent soliloquy. He's got the gift of gap. Now I
should point out that by the very nature a rumor
in sports, and I've loved rumors since I was a kid.
I used to run a rumor website based on trade rumors,
mostly in gossip. And when I did that, all rumors
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are manufactured. None of them have credibility until there are
a trade, and then after that people forget. It's no
longer a rumor, it's reality. And so it is newsworthy.
When Zion Williamson puts his socks on or has an
OnlyFans porno lady take them off. Watching the video clips
of this, we noticed some tells. I go to the
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FBI Handbook on Lying and Griffin the executive from the Pelicans.
His head was bobbing back and forth like he was
on top of a mountain and he was the lookout
and he was trying to see if anyone was coming
at him. He had purse lips at one point, and
those two things are signs of a liar, liar, liar,
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pants on fire. Now, David Griffin was working here at
the assembly line. Okay, not the Model T assembly line,
but he was manufacturing airtight bags of organic composts better
known by their gangster name, as my friend Luni used
to say, manure right. Zion was absolutely tossed out his
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name into the flea market. I will Gary Effet to
you that his name was tossed out on the flea market.
But teams were reluctant to give up the max contract
for a guy that is an all start of fat
farm right now and not in the NBA. And they also,
I don't really have enough flee in tick powder, if
you know what I'm saying, Williamson at this point is
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a bust until proven otherwise. Now the fanboys and the
toastsuckers will say, whoa wait a minute, when he plays,
So you averagers or gazillion points on the gazilion rebound
when he plays. When he plays, if the NBA went
down to a seven game season, he would still miss
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six of the seven games. But yeah, teams did not
want to mess around with this. And you are what
your record says you are. And so even though when
he plays he puts up big numbers, he played twenty
nine games, that's it last season. The year before he
missed the entire season. All right, So, and he's got
the foot problem, he's got the baby mama drama problem,
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he's got the dieting problem. He's got all kinds of problem.
He's got popcorn problems. They're popping up all over the place.
So I don't buy the spin coming out of the
Mighty Mississippi, the mouth of the Mighty Mississippi there in Louisiana.
So page two, let's move over to Rich Paul. And
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you've heard the Rich Paul joke. If he didn't know
Lebron James, he would just be Paul. But he's a superagent,
Rich Paul superagent there, and he did an interview recently
insinuating that the Lebron James, who turns thirty nine years
old in December, could play into his mid forties. He
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said this during a recent appearance. He said, five or
six more years. Listen, he's one guy that I'm not
gonna say no about. You better not say no about.
Your entire career is based on Lebron James. I wouldn't
say no about that either, or about him. He went
on and on, rambling, and now he was asked a
leading question to be fair to Rich Paul, and he
took the bait and ran with it. But he said,
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when Lebron loses his athleticism, he'll just be in the
words of Rich Paul, Karl Malone. Does that mean he's
going to be hosting a lunchtime one hour talk show
in Los Angeles on AM radio? Is that because that's
what Carl Malone did back in the day. But Rich
Paul said, he can literally play for as long as
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he wants. Okay, so here's the question. Could Lebron James
play until his mid forties? But at an elite level,
I'm not saying he can't play till his mid forties
because you can always get hemorrhoids on the bench. But
can you play until your mid forties at an elite
level if you're Lebron James? So could he? Sure? Why not?
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I could also get a call from management when I
wake up saying hey, I'd like you to switch time
slots with Colin Coward. We want to see how he
does in the old That could happen. It's unrealistic, but
it could happen. Rich Paul on this one shopping at Walgreens,
he was buying eyewash, is what he was buying. Lebron again,
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he can hang around and you know, he can play
with all of his kids. He can go over to
the WNBA, identify as a woman and play with his daughter.
Have He can have a blast, do whatever he wants
with his kids. But in terms of dominance, I don't
think so. I do not think so. Lebron can play,
but not an elite level. We've already seen at age
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thirty eight, signs of performance declined by Lebron James. He
absolutely ran out of gas against the Nuggets in that sweep.
In the entire NBA Playoffs, against Memphis, Golden State and Denver,
Lebron shot twenty six percent from three point range. Usually
you're he's never been a great outside shooter, but he's
never been that bad from downtown. That's a sign your
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issue with your legs there. He also had that famous
windmill dunk attempt. I think that was against the Nuggets
where he fumbled the ball out of bounds. Remember that
that was a great highlight. And if you look back
the last five years for Lebron James, he has averaged
fifty five games per year. That's an average season for Lebron.
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He's gotten hurt. Now are those legitimate injuries? Is that
load management disguised mass as a fugaze injury? I don't know.
I know that he hasn't won any championships as a Laker.
I know that no, no, no championships that real basketball
fans count. And the Lakers also missed the playoffs twice
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since he arrived in town. All right, final point, So
let's move over to Victor Wembanyama. This guy big time content.
When he's not getting into it with Britney Spears, he's
causing headlines here. He's commented on what it's like after
a couple of games playing in the Summer League, Victor
Wembanyama has noticed some subtle differences between euro basketball and
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the NBA. What are those differences he said recently? First
of all, he said the court is more open in
the NBA. He says it's going fast, but it's less physical.
He said, less physical. That's the money quote, right there.
Don't bear the lead, my man, that's the money quote.
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So how will Wemby's comments on physicality in the NBA playout?
They will be played out with a shrug? A shrug.
You played two games in the Summer League and you've
already made this determination. I listen. I agree the NBA
compared to what it was before. It's hard for me
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to say this. Before web min Yama was alive, it
was it was there was philic caality. Now it's a
cool whip league. The players are saw off, the coaches
a saw off the man when people are soft out
of an abundance of caution. That's the catchphrase. Right. They
love that we can't play back to back games because
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I'm going to predict this leg is going to collapse
because these people are made out of glass. So it
is interesting to note though, when the European player started
coming to the NBA, they were the ones that were
called soft. They were the floppers, and they were shamed
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by the NBA players. They were like, these guys are
so soft, these euro players, and you talk about a
one eighty and here in this era, a generation later,
now the euro guys are seen as tougher and the
NBA players are frauds. The American NBA players are fraud
It's wild how that has changed. But back to the
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quote the NBA being less physical. So while it is
less physical, nevertheless there are some players that do actually
bring a level of physicality with him. And so this
is more cork against wem Ban Yama as far as
a bigger bulls eye, and that cork on the bulls
eye there. And because you've got that that handful of
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fake tough guys in the NBA who will attempt to
give Wemby a baptism by fire. Now he's already gonna
face that because he was the number one overall pick.
And when you're the number one over that appens. And
Wemby is like a leaf in the wind. I saw
this leaf blowing around in the wind and I thought
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it was a butterfly because it just was crazy. He's
very scrawny, kind of floats in the in the in
the air there. He's anorexic, he looks like. And yet
his agent's like, I don't know that he should gain
any weight. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. I
look at Wembanyama and I say, this guy is so skinny.
If he needs to get shade here in the summer,
he can just kind of hang out right under the
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clothesline and he'll get He'll get a nice amount of shade.
It's wild, It's wild and crazy.
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To the third degree.
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He's unemployed. By the way, you can have Carson Wentz Coupolo.
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It was reported Tuesday that friends of Bill Belichick have
privately said that they are worried that he is on
the hot seat in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Well, no, that's not private, it's public. Now you're talking
about it.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Oh yeah, sure, Ben, is Bill Belichick on the hot seat?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
No, I don't buy it. This is just trying to
get some traffic, if you will. This time there, Belichick
is twenty seven wins away from passing Don Schule as
the winnings coach in the NFL. I don't see a
scenario outside of scandal or health that he does not
continue to coach until Belichick passes Don Schule bye as
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the all time winnings coach. As a Patriot, I don't
think Robert Kraft has the balls to get rid of
Belichick until then.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Next the NBA is implementing a rule change that could
have a big impact on the game. Instead of just
defined players will now receive an in game penalty for flopping.
If a player is deemed to a flop, the opposing
team will get a technical free throw. Ben, do you
think this rule change will be successful?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
No, It's another tool for the NBA to manipulate the
outcoma games. Here's the problem. It's like speeding. You know,
if you're a traffic cop, you can write a ticket.
Everyone speeds, right, everyone speeds, And I'm a skeptic. They're
not gonna call flopping. Lebron James flops. He gets in
a bed, he flops and puts his slippers on. He
brushes his teeth, he flops when he pushes the toothbrush down.
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They're not gonna call I'm not gonna call Steph Curry.
They're gonna call a bunch of scrubs for flopping, all right.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Next, Kenny Smith made a bold prediction when asked his
victor Wembin Yama could be part of the Defensive Player
of the Year conversation within five years, Smith said instead
that Wemby will be the league MVP in year four. Yeah, Ben,
do you think this is a serious prediction or is
Kenny just fueling the hype train?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Now it's hyperbole with a capital H. Is what it is.
And I like Kenny Smith. This he works for the
NBA is a broadcast and they gotta be approved by
the NBA. Those people that work at the league office
had smiles from ear to ear on Fifth Avenue there.
And if he's right, people praise Kenny Smith. If he's wrong,
people forget about it. But nah, you gotta be on
a really good team. The Spurs are not anywhere close
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to being a good team at this point. There's no
guarantee they're gonna get another great player. I don't buy it.
I'll believe it when it happens. How did we do?
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about to find out.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Go ahead, all right, We're gonna start off with an
easy one. This is from Donkey Sausage. He says for everyone,
did you get a Grimace Shake?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
No? No, I hate that they're selling out Grimace. Grimace
was always a character with integrity and no listen they are.
I mean, this is a blatant marketing by McDonald. It's pathetic,
over the top marketing and really fat shamming. Why not
have Grimace sell a salad? How about that? Get some
purple lettuce instead, you're doing the Grimace shake because he's fat.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yes, Eddy, Now, I have not had the Grimace shake.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
No, I've not had you. I've not eaten Donalds for
a while. I do like the fries, but I've not
eaten there in a while.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Chris, So, I didn't have the shake, but I'm led
to believe that it's birthday cake flavored, and I have
had a birthday cake flavored shake before.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Down at Zaxby's.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
So I didn't think I was gonna be missing much
other than the purple coloring and the weird TikTok meeting.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
It says, Zaxby's not that good. It's not as good
as knees and not as salads.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
I would just have the grimace face because I don't
think it's worth the axe rollin for getting to the
juicy lucy of the Minnesota event.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yes, yes, well, said Regina. Wonderful turn into Marcel. What's next? Cool?
What do we have? Alright? Let's see?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Uh all right, milkman, Mike wants to know for everybody,
which would you rather do? Stay at an Airbnb ran
by Marcel or go on a road trip with Angry Bill.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh wow, I do not want to be in a
car with Angry Bill, because you'd find me in the
woods somewhere five years from now. So Marcel would be
great because we have a similar diet. I like Chef Boyard,
I like pizza. Hey, I like that, I like burgers.
These are all the foods that Marcell eats. So I
could totally go on the Marcel diet for a week
at his Airbnb. I'ld be wonderful. I could be on
(32:53):
Marcel in the morning every Tuesday. That'd be a lot
of fun. I get my own little TV time on
the internet, be a lot of fun. What about you, Eddie, Yes,
I would.
Speaker 8 (33:03):
I would definitely pick doing anything with Marcel over anything
with Angry Bill.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Chris.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
I'm gonna take Angry Bill partly because Marcel still doesn't
know my name. The other part is over it all right,
I will not, I will not. The other thing is
that name. I've listened to Angry Bill enough that I
think I've listened to him crack. I'm pretty sure the
angry is a facade, and I'm sure he's.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
A normal man beneath him. Wow. Otherwise, I can you
know he's robbed a bank before, which.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Is exactly why my answer would be the road trip.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
With Angry Bill.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
We're getting up to so much, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yes, Oh you would agree, Regia, Angry Bill, angry What
about your husband Doc.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Mike though, Oh Doc Mike is out?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You mean his where is Doc?
Speaker 8 (33:52):
Yeah, he's he's spreading the good word of Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
You know, he hasn't called the show in a while.
He's kind of moved on from the show. Used to
call every day for twenty years now he calls like
once every couple of months.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I kind of used him up.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Oh Luina, look at that. I about that? All right, fascinating, Okay,
what is next? All right? I really like this version
of Regina. This is quite quite the Regina we're getting here. Callagan,
no filter.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Coop's trying to move on.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Calligan.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Tim said, do you go to Michigan? Do you go
to the same place slash person to get your haircut?
Or do you just go wherever?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
In fact, I have so little hair at this point,
I cut my own hair, so that's what I do.
I got I figured out there's this razor especial raising
and get you to cut your ownir It's not that hard,
and so I do that now. But I used to
go there was a barber, this old Italian barber, this
barber shop in LA that had been around for a
long time by LA standards, by LA standards, and I
love the guy that used to go there. And then
they were gonna build a condo building, so he had
(34:58):
to move. And then I stopped going to that barber,
and so now I just got do it on my
own there, what about you, Addie.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
I used to go to just whoever.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
And then during COVID, we had a family member cut
our hair because right we were supposed to go to
the barber or whatever, and so ever since then, I
just kept going to her.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
So, okay, very good.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
What about you, Chris, don't go to whoever? Because I
went to my one friend and he said, oh, you
have split and starling. We're going to take care of those,
and all of a sudden, two and a half feet
are gone from that.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Well, you know, Regina, men's and women's say are very similar.
What about you, Chris?
Speaker 6 (35:42):
I'm with you, Ben. I Well, unlike you, I still
have hair, but I cut my own hair. I haven't
the wall trimmer and a series of.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
You don't have to give the brand.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
Yeah I'm going to because it's a nice razor, all right.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
But during the pandemic I did start to.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Cut my own hair.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Spot which is this Lion's podcast. I would love to
do wall spots. I go to the same person. It's
a girl I went to high school with.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Oh about that? You tell old high school stories. You're
reminisced about the old days. Yeah, the glory days. Sometimes
I got you what's next? Year? To ask? Ben? Your
questions are answers with our guest Regina. She's in here
for the rest of the hour. Wow, Ryan wants to
know from you, Ben.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Have you ever done a monologue on someone or a
topic that management spoke to you about because you made
the wrong people mad.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yes. Yes, that has happened multiple times over the years.
I have been called into the principal's office. The last
time I got in trouble was Major League Baseball got
upset with one of the monologues I did, and the
commissioner's office was not happy with some of the things
I was saying, and so they got upset with me.
But there have been other people that have been been annoyed.
(36:51):
When I did my website, I got multiple cease and
assist letters from my website, a stupid blog that I
did from my apartment in Hollywood. I got seasoned assist letters.
So it has happened, and I think that's all we
have time for. Regina. It's so great having you. You're
indispensable on the show. We love you so much. I
love you all right, please go to sleep, Do not
(37:13):
drive anywhere Regina at all, and we thank you this.
She goes, how about that ass man?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 1 (37:24):
It's hockey season. No, it's not. I lied, it's not
hockey season, but for Eddie it is hockey season. So
let's puck the world right now with Eddie Garcy.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
All right, Ben. Some moves made in the off season
involving some signings of players and an occasional trade That
was the big story in the NHL this week, where
the Detroit Red Wings made a deal to acquire forward
alex To Brinkett from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for
Dominic Koobalik, a prospect the first round picking a fourth
round pick in next year's draft now to bring it.
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Scored forty one goals in two of his six NHL seasons.
He is a native of Farmington Hills, Michigan. He grew
up a Red Wings fan. So it's going back home
to play for the for the Red Wings there, and
they hope he can help.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Enough to remember when the Red Wings were good.
Speaker 8 (38:11):
Yeah, I would say so, okay, not quite the heyday,
but yeah, he's a young guy, but he can still
remember that. So we're still waiting on some other big
names like Vladimir Tarasenko. There's rumors of him being heading
to Ottawa. Patrick Camps still out there. I guess they
would pay him the most money is probably a good
reason why. But there's still some pretty big names out there,
(38:31):
like Patrice Bergeron and David Crachi. You don't know if
they're going to come back and play for Boston next year.
Jonathan Tave's future Hall of Famer for the BLACKHAWKSA like all.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Those guys, they play there forever, we'll see they leave
they go back.
Speaker 8 (38:44):
La King Sun Captain and j Coopetard to a two
year extension where fourteen million is now under contract through
the twenty twenty five to twenty sixth season. Just finished
his seventeenth season in the NHL, all with the Kings,
who was their leading scorer this past season at the
age of thirty five. New York Rangers agree on a
two year extension defenseman Caandre Miller. He gets seven point
seventy five million. The San Jose Sharks signed former Red
(39:05):
Wings first round pick Phillips Adina to a one year,
one point one million dollar contract. He's twenty two years old.
Was the sixth overall pick in twenty eighteen. It did
not work out in Detroit, and he actually basically turned
down five million dollars from the Red Wings to have
his contract terminated so he could move on and try
and resurrect his career with another team. So he basically
(39:25):
left about four million dollars on the table to try
and go someplace else to see if he could turn things around.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I like to let every NHL team knowody, I will
not leave four million dollars on the table.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
I was pretty sure that that was going to be
the case.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, not a dimeback. No, not a dimeback.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
And Lane Vignon announced his retirement after nineteen seasons as
NHLA coach. Sixty two year old and is the all
time winning was coach in Canucks history. He won the
Coach of the Year award back in two thousand and
sixty seven, twice, got teams to the Stanley Cup Final,
won in Vancouver, won in New York with the Rangers,
but did not win the Stanley Cup. He says he's done,
but we'll we'll see. I would imagine if somebody offered.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Him a pretty good job, he'd probably probably come out
of retirement.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Right Boxers they don't really retire as long as they
have a pulse, they can come.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Back two times.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
Stanley Cup champ Patrick Hornquist announced his retirement after thirteen seasons.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
I was a member of two Stanley Cup winning teams
in Pittsburgh, had a couple of concussions this year and
sat out the rest of the year. Decided that's going
to be it for me. And veteran goalie Thomas Greist
retired after fourteen NHL seasons, three hundred and sixty three
games played for the Blues, Red Wings, Islanders, Penguins, Coyotes, Sharks.
He was the first German born goalie to play one
hundred games in the NHL. And you know, Ben, as
(40:37):
a radio veteran, you need to always assume that the
microphone is hot. There was an embarrassing moment that the
Philadelphia Flyers had to apologize for this week. They had
a conference call with members of the media involving player
Garnet Hathaway.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
This did not involve Jonesy did it.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
It didn't, Well, I did, because he ended up apologizing
for what happened. But so they had this conference call
going on. People in the media were, you know, on
there answering questions or asking questions, and well, the guy
running the meeting that worked for the Flyers, he didn't
mute his microphone apparently, and a female reporter asked a question,
and he responded by saying, how many times is she
(41:17):
gonna ask this effing question? Everybody heard it. It's out
there on the internet if you'd like to hear it
as well. But yeah, that didn't go over well, and
the Flyers and Keith Jones specifically issued an apology for
that hot mic.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
He mic not muted in the conference call.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
I feel like that could have gone worse, could have
could always be worse.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Scoop the naked gun, that old movie when they went
he went to the bathroom, remember, yes.
Speaker 8 (41:45):
That's yeah, you got. It's gotta mute that mic when
you're on the conference calls, and that is your puck.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
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working overtime we're gonna flashback to a couple years ago
(01:37):
and a big mid NFL season scandal involving John Grude.
Remember this the email scandal. So there's some new revelations
that popped up this week. We're glad they did, and
they randomly popped up. I'm sure that was not conveniently
planned for the Major League Baseball All Star break for
(01:57):
full attention. Unless it was. But maybe he didn't see it.
Perhaps you missed it. So we've learned now the new
details about the John Gruden email story from a couple
of years ago. More information about this congressional report containing
testimony that claimed that Dan Snyder Danny Boy, was the
(02:19):
person that leaked the infamous John Gruden emails as an
attempt to try to divert attention from the scandal involving
his team used to be called the Redskins, but they
changed that. Couldn't call it that anymore now. In a
wordy story from the fledgling sports network out of Bristol, Connecticut,
apparently they haven't fired everyone. There's still some people working
(02:40):
there that put the story together. So they lay out
the case. But it's not just Dan Snyder in this story.
They're all over the place. They've got the nfl PA
boss d Maurice Smith. He is alleged to have bragged
that he was responsible for leaking the emails, and then
(03:02):
there's others. So the story is all over. It's Helter
Skelter claiming that the actual leakers identity remains unknown despite
reading this seven thousand words story, we don't know who
heaked it. And everyone's pointing at each other. It's like
the spider Man spider Man meme where they pointed each other.
(03:22):
So let us discuss the question what is the big takeaway?
What's the big takeaway from this John Gruden scandal? Update?
So I've got Blues Singer, Mulligan Man and artificially made
and we will combine all of these things together and
(03:43):
we are going to make a vote because you can
vote for the winner of the malord pallusan that we
already vote. We have more on that coming up, but
we already voted on the show last night. But if
you missed it, go back and get that podcast. The
vote is open. More information on that coming up, but
again the question, what's the big takeaway? What is the
big takeaway from this John Gruden scandal? Update. So a
(04:07):
my head was betting round and round and round like
a Merry go round. From reading this story, it reads
like an episode of Billions or something. It's wealth, it's power,
it's power porn. If you will, John Gruden and Roger Goodell,
(04:28):
if you believe the story, hated each other's guts, and
Gruden despised Roger Goodell before Roger Goodell was the commission
of the NFL. Gruden's emails the emails that the New
York Times and the Wall Street Journal put out a
couple of years ago. They contained the emails between him
and some of his friends racist, homophobic, and misogynist. I
(04:51):
think that's the big three remarks, and those were weaponized
against Gruden because Gruden had enemies in high places. Racist
also states that Al Davis, who's been dead for over
a decade. Apparently Al's spinning in his grave right now.
He died in twenty eleven, but he also played a
role in his vitriol between John Gruden and the league office.
(05:14):
Now it goes into details. Is Mark Davis the spawn
of Al and the polyester jumpsuit wearing owner Al Davis
his son Mark Davis did not want to fire John Gruden,
but felt that he had no choice because of lesbian
WNBA players and Carl Nasseb the gay Raider, that he
(05:36):
felt like he had to do it because of what
John Gruden had said in the email league, the homophobic
stuff that that he had to get rid of of Gruden.
And so it also lays out a map that says
the email leak was the final body blow that led
to Dan Snyder being forced to sell the Commander. So
(05:57):
there's a lot of stretching going on. It's a hum
dinger of a story, and so to sum it up,
it's it's really channeling the spirit of a blues singer,
Muddy Waters. My intuition reading this John Gruden expos is
that the NFL help facilitate the story, and while it
(06:19):
certainly makes them look petty and shallow as a league,
it accomplishes the main mission something bigger, And I don't
really care if you think they're petty and shallow, and
not that many people are actually gonna read that story.
Most people have a worse attention span than a goldfish,
so you're not gonna read a wordy story about what
goes on in the palace. Intrigue of the NFL. You
(06:42):
might hear some gasbag or blowhard like you know, like
me talk about it. But the accomplishment is it helps
torpedo John Gruden's lawsuit against the Shield and Roger Goodell.
It blurs the lines, obfuscating what actually happen. Because if
you read this story, on one part of the story,
(07:03):
you're gonna think, well, de Marie Smith leaked some email.
Then in another part you're gonna be like na, Na,
it was Dan Snyder. And then there's someone else named
Desire Perez. I don't know who that is. She's apparently
a CEO for Jay Z's Rock Nation. Never heard of
this person, but that person also mentioned as someone who
(07:23):
leaked some emails. So the story does help undermine the
John Gruden lawsuit as he goes scorched earth against the NFL.
But I'm pulling for John Gruden. Why not? And we'll
see how that goes as he continues his legal fight,
not backing down, not backing down John Gruden, now turning
(07:44):
the page on that. The next stop here, we're gonna
go away from John Gruden. We're gonna to Minnesota. The
Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson was recently asked to rank the
top five quarterbacks in the NFL, he said, who cares
about that? Well, it's it's the perfect time of the now.
I don't do this radio, but Justin Jefferson does list
(08:04):
radio the Viking Hide receiver. So Jefferson, who's by any account,
any measurement, a top five receiver in the NFL. But
what about the quarterbacks? So at number number one he
had Patrick Patrick Mahomes as his number one. That's Kenny, okay.
Number two was Aron Raders, number three Joe Burrow, number
(08:29):
four Jalen Hurts, and number five Josh Allen. You know
who's not on the list ding Ning Ning Ning name, Yes,
Kirk Cousins, who happens to play quarterback for who. That's right,
the Purple people Eaters. So how much trouble is Justin
(08:49):
Jefferson in for omitting Kirk Cousins his quarterback from his
top five list? So the amount of trouble that Justin
Jefferson is in is zero zero. The bluster over this story,
which is passed around a little bit, I find amusing.
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The only name on that list that does not belong
there in real time is Aaron Rogers. Because Aaron Rodgers
was not only a quarterback in Wisconsin last year, he
sucked at a time you cannot suck for Green Bay.
And by his account and by all accounts, he was
not that good. And head to head, Cousins, who did
not have a stellar year last year, either was better
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in most statistical categories head to head regardless. Justin Jefferson
in this story is like the Mulligan man. He gets
a mulligan, You get a mulligan, a big Mulligan, and
another Mulligan. Why he's good and when you're good, it
doesn't matter. Kirk Cousins will be feeding him extra targets
when the Vikings start playing, because this story is just
(09:58):
supter fuge, all right, last, so let's move on. Franchise tag.
Oh it's so exciting. Less than a week away. Tell
me you're not a little excited. We're less than a
week away from the franchise tag extension deadline, and we
have the three Musketeers, the three Musketeers who have not
signed their franchise tender, Sequon Barkley of the New Jersey Giants,
(10:21):
Evan Ingram of your Jacksonville Jags, and from Our Raiders,
Josh Jacobs that's it. That's the list now. If no
ex extensions are inked by Monday four pm Eastern Time
Monday deadline, the three players, the three Musketeers, will not
be obligated to show up to training camp, which starts
(10:44):
also for most teams next week. It's been floated that
Sequon Barkley is going to stay away from the Giants
and he will not show up and he'll miss week one,
that he will not be available Giant open up in
a game that's gonna get a little juice against the
Dallas Cowboys, and that that is said to be in
(11:06):
serious pero in no extension likely to be agreed upon.
So level of concern, level of concern about Sequan Barkley
missing the Giant's opener on the Malard scale of worry
one to ten, with ten being oh my god, we're screwed.
(11:29):
I'm out of two. I'm out a two. I look
at this storyline, I look at the calendar, and I say,
this is artificially made. That's what I'm I'm thinking on
this one right, contrived for just before training camp. Story
could have been written four months ago. If Sequon Barkley
(11:50):
wants to leave money on the table. Good luck, Mozletobe.
You're not a mensh if you do that. But we're
talking about a game shack. Now. I think of a
check as a reason a lot of money, but when
you're a professional athlete, it's not a reasonable amount of money.
It's it's a lottery payment. Sakwan Barkley every game check
five hundred and sixty thousand dollars, so he would have
(12:11):
to walk away from over half a million dollars to
make some kind of stand against the man in the NFL.
I just made a lot of money. But I don't
care how much money you've made five hundred and sixty
thousand dollars unless you're Elon Musk or Zuckerberg or one
of those dopes. That's that's crazy money for one check.
(12:37):
But it's his right if he wants to pull a
leveon bell and go ride the jet skis in Miami
and drink cocktails. Knock yourself out. You're not really that essential.
You're not even as good as Sakwan Barkley is with
those legs little like tree trunks. Every running back is replaceable.
In fact, just about everyone is replaceable. Because when I
started watching football, not a single one of those players
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is still around, and they were all very important. Just
ask them and they would have told you how important
they are.
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Ball and always always lobbing softballs this time of the
year of these sports radio content Kitty, we start with
who else but the blubber of the Bayou. He flashed
across our sonar. Now you didn't see this, perhaps not
(14:37):
we're paying attention. I get it. But we are told
that the wide spread Zion Williamson trade speculation and old man,
was there a ton of Zion trade speculation over the
last month and a half. That that was fake news,
fake news is what it was. Say what so, David Griffin,
(15:00):
We're gonna plut some audio here in to stay with.
David Griffin is the person in the center square. He also,
if you don't know who that is, he's the Pelicans
executive vice president of basketball Operations. Back in the old days,
they used to say he's the GM, but now they
had it add a lot of different titles because you
sound more important when you got a lot of titles,
(15:22):
and they pay these guys a lot of money, so
they got him a lot of titles. So he's not
just the general manager, he's the executive pay of basketball operations.
So he recently appeared on state sponsored NBA radio and
he was asked about Zion Williamson because there's no one
else on the Pelicans that anyone's ever heard of, and so
he was asked about Zion Williamson and his relationship with
(15:42):
the franchise, and he said it's as good as it's
ever been. Then he got on the soapbox and started
ranting about Zion, and well, rather than me going to it,
let's go to the audio tape. Here's David Griffin on
the Zion on trade chatter.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I think what's unfortunate is he is a name that
generates clicks. No matter what the link says, Zion puts
on his socks, people click on that, and so it
makes it really easy for people to manufacture rumor around
him because they don't have to have any kind of
actual credibility behind what they say to generate link clicks.
(16:22):
And we've as a society this isn't true of sports,
this is true across all platforms. Reality doesn't matter anymore.
Generating clicks matters. And so unfortunately for Zion, he's just
he's an oddity and somebody that people pay a great
deal of attention to and manufacture a lot of stories around.
We never had a single conversation that Zion was part.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Of Okay, his nose was growing, so let us discuss
you heard it right there, the GM I'll call him
the GM David Griffin of The Pelican says that these
Zion trade rumors were manufactured for clickety clicks. Is this
inbounds or is it out of bounds? So I am
(17:04):
going to go out of bounds. I've got assembly line, Walgreens,
and baptism and we will combine all of these things
together and we're gonna make a nice bottle of wine.
I don't know if it's red wine or white wine,
but we're gonna make a bottle of wine. So number one,
David Griffin is a polished spinmeister, is what this guy is,
(17:30):
and he knows he knows how to deliver a very
eloquent soliloquy. He's got the gift of gap. Now I
should point out that by the very nature a rumor
in sports, and I've loved rumors since I was a kid.
I used to run a rumor website based on trade rumors,
mostly in gossip. And when I did that, all rumors
(17:51):
are manufactured. None of them have credibility until there are
a trade, and then after that people forget. It's no
longer a rumor, it's reality. And so it is newsworthy.
When Zion Williamson puts his socks on or has an
OnlyFans porno lady take them off. Watching the video clips
of this, we noticed some tells. I go to the
(18:14):
FBI Handbook on Lying and Griffin the executive from the Pelicans.
His head was bobbing back and forth like he was
on top of a mountain and he was the lookout
and he was trying to see if anyone was coming
at him. He had purse lips at one point, and
those two things are signs of a liar, liar, liar,
(18:37):
pants on fire. Now, David Griffin was working here at
the assembly line. Okay, not the Model T assembly line,
but he was manufacturing airtight bags of organic composts better
known by their gangster name, as my friend Luni used
to say, manure right. Zion was absolutely tossed out his
(19:00):
name into the flea market. I will Gary Effet to
you that his name was tossed out on the flea market.
But teams were reluctant to give up the max contract
for a guy that is an all start of fat
farm right now and not in the NBA. And they also,
I don't really have enough flee in tick powder, if
you know what I'm saying, Williamson at this point is
(19:22):
a bust until proven otherwise. Now the fanboys and the
toastsuckers will say, whoa wait a minute, when he plays,
So you averagers or gazillion points on the gazilion rebound
when he plays. When he plays, if the NBA went
down to a seven game season, he would still miss
(19:43):
six of the seven games. But yeah, teams did not
want to mess around with this. And you are what
your record says you are. And so even though when
he plays he puts up big numbers, he played twenty
nine games, that's it last season. The year before he
missed the entire season. All right, So, and he's got
the foot problem, he's got the baby mama drama problem,
(20:05):
he's got the dieting problem. He's got all kinds of problem.
He's got popcorn problems. They're popping up all over the place.
So I don't buy the spin coming out of the
Mighty Mississippi, the mouth of the Mighty Mississippi there in Louisiana.
So page two, let's move over to Rich Paul. And
(20:26):
you've heard the Rich Paul joke. If he didn't know
Lebron James, he would just be Paul. But he's a superagent,
Rich Paul superagent there, and he did an interview recently
insinuating that the Lebron James, who turns thirty nine years
old in December, could play into his mid forties. He
(20:47):
said this during a recent appearance. He said, five or
six more years. Listen, he's one guy that I'm not
gonna say no about. You better not say no about.
Your entire career is based on Lebron James. I wouldn't
say no about that either, or about him. He went
on and on, rambling, and now he was asked a
leading question to be fair to Rich Paul, and he
took the bait and ran with it. But he said,
(21:09):
when Lebron loses his athleticism, he'll just be in the
words of Rich Paul, Karl Malone. Does that mean he's
going to be hosting a lunchtime one hour talk show
in Los Angeles on AM radio? Is that because that's
what Carl Malone did back in the day. But Rich
Paul said, he can literally play for as long as
(21:31):
he wants. Okay, so here's the question. Could Lebron James
play until his mid forties? But at an elite level,
I'm not saying he can't play till his mid forties
because you can always get hemorrhoids on the bench. But
can you play until your mid forties at an elite
level if you're Lebron James? So could he? Sure? Why not?
(21:53):
I could also get a call from management when I
wake up saying hey, I'd like you to switch time
slots with Colin Coward. We want to see how he
does in the old That could happen. It's unrealistic, but
it could happen. Rich Paul on this one shopping at Walgreens,
he was buying eyewash, is what he was buying. Lebron again,
(22:13):
he can hang around and you know, he can play
with all of his kids. He can go over to
the WNBA, identify as a woman and play with his daughter.
Have He can have a blast, do whatever he wants
with his kids. But in terms of dominance, I don't
think so. I do not think so. Lebron can play,
but not an elite level. We've already seen at age
(22:35):
thirty eight, signs of performance declined by Lebron James. He
absolutely ran out of gas against the Nuggets in that sweep.
In the entire NBA Playoffs, against Memphis, Golden State and Denver,
Lebron shot twenty six percent from three point range. Usually
you're he's never been a great outside shooter, but he's
never been that bad from downtown. That's a sign your
(22:58):
issue with your legs there. He also had that famous
windmill dunk attempt. I think that was against the Nuggets
where he fumbled the ball out of bounds. Remember that
that was a great highlight. And if you look back
the last five years for Lebron James, he has averaged
fifty five games per year. That's an average season for Lebron.
(23:19):
He's gotten hurt. Now are those legitimate injuries? Is that
load management disguised mass as a fugaze injury? I don't know.
I know that he hasn't won any championships as a Laker.
I know that no, no, no championships that real basketball
fans count. And the Lakers also missed the playoffs twice
(23:39):
since he arrived in town. All right, final point, So
let's move over to Victor Wembanyama. This guy big time content.
When he's not getting into it with Britney Spears, he's
causing headlines here. He's commented on what it's like after
a couple of games playing in the Summer League, Victor
Wembanyama has noticed some subtle differences between euro basketball and
(24:06):
the NBA. What are those differences he said recently? First
of all, he said the court is more open in
the NBA. He says it's going fast, but it's less physical.
He said, less physical. That's the money quote, right there.
Don't bear the lead, my man, that's the money quote.
(24:27):
So how will Wemby's comments on physicality in the NBA playout?
They will be played out with a shrug? A shrug.
You played two games in the Summer League and you've
already made this determination. I listen. I agree the NBA
compared to what it was before. It's hard for me
(24:48):
to say this. Before web min Yama was alive, it
was it was there was philic caality. Now it's a
cool whip league. The players are saw off, the coaches
a saw off the man when people are soft out
of an abundance of caution. That's the catchphrase. Right. They
love that we can't play back to back games because
(25:08):
I'm going to predict this leg is going to collapse
because these people are made out of glass. So it
is interesting to note though, when the European player started
coming to the NBA, they were the ones that were
called soft. They were the floppers, and they were shamed
(25:29):
by the NBA players. They were like, these guys are
so soft, these euro players, and you talk about a
one eighty and here in this era, a generation later,
now the euro guys are seen as tougher and the
NBA players are frauds. The American NBA players are fraud
It's wild how that has changed. But back to the
(25:49):
quote the NBA being less physical. So while it is
less physical, nevertheless there are some players that do actually
bring a level of physicality with him. And so this
is more cork against wem Ban Yama as far as
a bigger bulls eye, and that cork on the bulls
eye there. And because you've got that that handful of
(26:12):
fake tough guys in the NBA who will attempt to
give Wemby a baptism by fire. Now he's already gonna
face that because he was the number one overall pick.
And when you're the number one over that appens. And
Wemby is like a leaf in the wind. I saw
this leaf blowing around in the wind and I thought
(26:33):
it was a butterfly because it just was crazy. He's
very scrawny, kind of floats in the in the in
the air there. He's anorexic, he looks like. And yet
his agent's like, I don't know that he should gain
any weight. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. I
look at Wembanyama and I say, this guy is so skinny.
If he needs to get shade here in the summer,
he can just kind of hang out right under the
(26:55):
clothesline and he'll get He'll get a nice amount of shade.
It's wild, It's wild and crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
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Speaker 1 (27:08):
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Would mean a lot to have you join us on
our weekly auditory journey. You're asking, what in God's name
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Speaker 2 (27:40):
To the third degree.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
He's unemployed. By the way, you can have Carson Wentz Coupolo.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
It was reported Tuesday that friends of Bill Belichick have
privately said that they are worried that he is on
the hot seat in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Well, no, that's not private, it's public. Now you're talking
about it.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Oh yeah, sure, Ben, is Bill Belichick on the hot seat?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
No, I don't buy it. This is just trying to
get some traffic, if you will. This time there, Belichick
is twenty seven wins away from passing Don Schule as
the winnings coach in the NFL. I don't see a
scenario outside of scandal or health that he does not
continue to coach until Belichick passes Don Schule bye as
(28:25):
the all time winnings coach. As a Patriot, I don't
think Robert Kraft has the balls to get rid of
Belichick until then.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Next the NBA is implementing a rule change that could
have a big impact on the game. Instead of just
defined players will now receive an in game penalty for flopping.
If a player is deemed to a flop, the opposing
team will get a technical free throw. Ben, do you
think this rule change will be successful?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
No, It's another tool for the NBA to manipulate the
outcoma games. Here's the problem. It's like speeding. You know,
if you're a traffic cop, you can write a ticket.
Everyone speeds, right, everyone speeds, And I'm a skeptic. They're
not gonna call flopping. Lebron James flops. He gets in
a bed, he flops and puts his slippers on. He
brushes his teeth, he flops when he pushes the toothbrush down.
(29:07):
They're not gonna call I'm not gonna call Steph Curry.
They're gonna call a bunch of scrubs for flopping, all right.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Next, Kenny Smith made a bold prediction when asked his
victor Wembin Yama could be part of the Defensive Player
of the Year conversation within five years, Smith said instead
that Wemby will be the league MVP in year four. Yeah, Ben,
do you think this is a serious prediction or is
Kenny just fueling the hype train?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Now it's hyperbole with a capital H. Is what it is.
And I like Kenny Smith. This he works for the
NBA is a broadcast and they gotta be approved by
the NBA. Those people that work at the league office
had smiles from ear to ear on Fifth Avenue there.
And if he's right, people praise Kenny Smith. If he's wrong,
people forget about it. But nah, you gotta be on
a really good team. The Spurs are not anywhere close
(29:52):
to being a good team at this point. There's no
guarantee they're gonna get another great player. I don't buy it.
I'll believe it when it happens. How did we do?
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Speaker 2 (30:21):
Twitter, Send us your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
And no way We're going to ask Ben and friends
with her pal spin Psycher Regina, the hostess with the
most who hang it out here as well, so so
answer some of these questions, but we head over to
the Koopal loop for the reading of the questions. These
are actual questions sent in by actual listeners to the show.
(30:46):
And here we go. We'll coop snick the landing we're
about to find out.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Go ahead, all right, We're gonna start off with an
easy one. This is from Donkey Sausage. He says for everyone,
did you get a Grimace Shake?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
No? No, I hate that they're selling out Grimace. Grimace
was always a character with integrity and no listen they are.
I mean, this is a blatant marketing by McDonald. It's pathetic,
over the top marketing and really fat shamming. Why not
have Grimace sell a salad? How about that? Get some
purple lettuce instead, you're doing the Grimace shake because he's fat.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yes, Eddy, Now, I have not had the Grimace shake.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
No, I've not had you. I've not eaten Donalds for
a while. I do like the fries, but I've not
eaten there in a while.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Chris, So, I didn't have the shake, but I'm led
to believe that it's birthday cake flavored, and I have
had a birthday cake flavored shake before.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Down at Zaxby's.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
So I didn't think I was gonna be missing much
other than the purple coloring and the weird TikTok meeting.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
It says, Zaxby's not that good. It's not as good
as knees and not as salads.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
I would just have the grimace face because I don't
think it's worth the axe rollin for getting to the
juicy lucy of the Minnesota event.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yes, yes, well, said Regina. Wonderful turn into Marcel. What's next? Cool?
What do we have? Alright? Let's see?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Uh all right, milkman, Mike wants to know for everybody,
which would you rather do? Stay at an Airbnb ran
by Marcel or go on a road trip with Angry Bill.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh wow, I do not want to be in a
car with Angry Bill, because you'd find me in the
woods somewhere five years from now. So Marcel would be
great because we have a similar diet. I like Chef Boyard,
I like pizza. Hey, I like that, I like burgers.
These are all the foods that Marcell eats. So I
could totally go on the Marcel diet for a week
at his Airbnb. I'ld be wonderful. I could be on
(32:53):
Marcel in the morning every Tuesday. That'd be a lot
of fun. I get my own little TV time on
the internet, be a lot of fun. What about you, Eddie, Yes,
I would.
Speaker 8 (33:03):
I would definitely pick doing anything with Marcel over anything
with Angry Bill.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Chris.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
I'm gonna take Angry Bill partly because Marcel still doesn't
know my name. The other part is over it all right,
I will not, I will not. The other thing is
that name. I've listened to Angry Bill enough that I
think I've listened to him crack. I'm pretty sure the
angry is a facade, and I'm sure he's.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
A normal man beneath him. Wow. Otherwise, I can you
know he's robbed a bank before, which.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Is exactly why my answer would be the road trip.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
With Angry Bill.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
We're getting up to so much, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yes, Oh you would agree, Regia, Angry Bill, angry What
about your husband Doc.
Speaker 7 (33:45):
Mike though, Oh Doc Mike is out?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You mean his where is Doc?
Speaker 8 (33:52):
Yeah, he's he's spreading the good word of Uh.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
You know, he hasn't called the show in a while.
He's kind of moved on from the show. Used to
call every day for twenty years now he calls like
once every couple of months.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
I kind of used him up.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Oh Luina, look at that. I about that? All right, fascinating, Okay,
what is next? All right? I really like this version
of Regina. This is quite quite the Regina we're getting here. Callagan,
no filter.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Coop's trying to move on.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Calligan.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Tim said, do you go to Michigan? Do you go
to the same place slash person to get your haircut?
Or do you just go wherever?
Speaker 5 (34:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
In fact, I have so little hair at this point,
I cut my own hair, so that's what I do.
I got I figured out there's this razor especial raising
and get you to cut your ownir It's not that hard,
and so I do that now. But I used to
go there was a barber, this old Italian barber, this
barber shop in LA that had been around for a
long time by LA standards, by LA standards, and I
love the guy that used to go there. And then
they were gonna build a condo building, so he had
(34:58):
to move. And then I stopped going to that barber,
and so now I just got do it on my
own there, what about you, Addie.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
I used to go to just whoever.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
And then during COVID, we had a family member cut
our hair because right we were supposed to go to
the barber or whatever, and so ever since then, I
just kept going to her.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
So, okay, very good.
Speaker 7 (35:22):
What about you, Chris, don't go to whoever? Because I
went to my one friend and he said, oh, you
have split and starling. We're going to take care of those,
and all of a sudden, two and a half feet
are gone from that.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Well, you know, Regina, men's and women's say are very similar.
What about you, Chris?
Speaker 6 (35:42):
I'm with you, Ben. I Well, unlike you, I still
have hair, but I cut my own hair. I haven't
the wall trimmer and a series of.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
You don't have to give the brand.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
Yeah I'm going to because it's a nice razor, all right.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
But during the pandemic I did start to.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Cut my own hair.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
Spot which is this Lion's podcast. I would love to
do wall spots. I go to the same person. It's
a girl I went to high school with.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Oh about that? You tell old high school stories. You're
reminisced about the old days. Yeah, the glory days. Sometimes
I got you what's next? Year? To ask? Ben? Your
questions are answers with our guest Regina. She's in here
for the rest of the hour. Wow, Ryan wants to
know from you, Ben.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Have you ever done a monologue on someone or a
topic that management spoke to you about because you made
the wrong people mad.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yes. Yes, that has happened multiple times over the years.
I have been called into the principal's office. The last
time I got in trouble was Major League Baseball got
upset with one of the monologues I did, and the
commissioner's office was not happy with some of the things
I was saying, and so they got upset with me.
But there have been other people that have been been annoyed.
(36:51):
When I did my website, I got multiple cease and
assist letters from my website, a stupid blog that I
did from my apartment in Hollywood. I got seasoned assist letters.
So it has happened, and I think that's all we
have time for. Regina. It's so great having you. You're
indispensable on the show. We love you so much. I
love you all right, please go to sleep, Do not
(37:13):
drive anywhere Regina at all, and we thank you this.
She goes, how about that ass man?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
It's hockey season. No, it's not. I lied, it's not
hockey season, but for Eddie it is hockey season. So
let's puck the world right now with Eddie Garcy.
Speaker 8 (37:34):
All right, Ben. Some moves made in the off season
involving some signings of players and an occasional trade That
was the big story in the NHL this week, where
the Detroit Red Wings made a deal to acquire forward
alex To Brinkett from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for
Dominic Koobalik, a prospect the first round picking a fourth
round pick in next year's draft now to bring it.
(37:55):
Scored forty one goals in two of his six NHL seasons.
He is a native of Farmington Hills, Michigan. He grew
up a Red Wings fan. So it's going back home
to play for the for the Red Wings there, and
they hope he can help.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Enough to remember when the Red Wings were good.
Speaker 8 (38:11):
Yeah, I would say so, okay, not quite the heyday,
but yeah, he's a young guy, but he can still
remember that. So we're still waiting on some other big
names like Vladimir Tarasenko. There's rumors of him being heading
to Ottawa. Patrick Camps still out there. I guess they
would pay him the most money is probably a good
reason why. But there's still some pretty big names out there,
(38:31):
like Patrice Bergeron and David Crachi. You don't know if
they're going to come back and play for Boston next year.
Jonathan Tave's future Hall of Famer for the BLACKHAWKSA like all.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Those guys, they play there forever, we'll see they leave
they go back.
Speaker 8 (38:44):
La King Sun Captain and j Coopetard to a two
year extension where fourteen million is now under contract through
the twenty twenty five to twenty sixth season. Just finished
his seventeenth season in the NHL, all with the Kings,
who was their leading scorer this past season at the
age of thirty five. New York Rangers agree on a
two year extension defenseman Caandre Miller. He gets seven point
seventy five million. The San Jose Sharks signed former Red
(39:05):
Wings first round pick Phillips Adina to a one year,
one point one million dollar contract. He's twenty two years old.
Was the sixth overall pick in twenty eighteen. It did
not work out in Detroit, and he actually basically turned
down five million dollars from the Red Wings to have
his contract terminated so he could move on and try
and resurrect his career with another team. So he basically
(39:25):
left about four million dollars on the table to try
and go someplace else to see if he could turn things around.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
I like to let every NHL team knowody, I will
not leave four million dollars on the table.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
I was pretty sure that that was going to be
the case.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, not a dimeback. No, not a dimeback.
Speaker 8 (39:40):
And Lane Vignon announced his retirement after nineteen seasons as
NHLA coach. Sixty two year old and is the all
time winning was coach in Canucks history. He won the
Coach of the Year award back in two thousand and
sixty seven, twice, got teams to the Stanley Cup Final,
won in Vancouver, won in New York with the Rangers,
but did not win the Stanley Cup. He says he's done,
but we'll we'll see. I would imagine if somebody offered.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Him a pretty good job, he'd probably probably come out
of retirement.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Right Boxers they don't really retire as long as they
have a pulse, they can come.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Back two times.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
Stanley Cup champ Patrick Hornquist announced his retirement after thirteen seasons.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
That's right.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
I was a member of two Stanley Cup winning teams
in Pittsburgh, had a couple of concussions this year and
sat out the rest of the year. Decided that's going
to be it for me. And veteran goalie Thomas Greist
retired after fourteen NHL seasons, three hundred and sixty three
games played for the Blues, Red Wings, Islanders, Penguins, Coyotes, Sharks.
He was the first German born goalie to play one
hundred games in the NHL. And you know, Ben, as
(40:37):
a radio veteran, you need to always assume that the
microphone is hot. There was an embarrassing moment that the
Philadelphia Flyers had to apologize for this week. They had
a conference call with members of the media involving player
Garnet Hathaway.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
This did not involve Jonesy did it.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
It didn't, Well, I did, because he ended up apologizing
for what happened. But so they had this conference call
going on. People in the media were, you know, on
there answering questions or asking questions, and well, the guy
running the meeting that worked for the Flyers, he didn't
mute his microphone apparently, and a female reporter asked a question,
and he responded by saying, how many times is she
(41:17):
gonna ask this effing question? Everybody heard it. It's out
there on the internet if you'd like to hear it
as well. But yeah, that didn't go over well, and
the Flyers and Keith Jones specifically issued an apology for
that hot mic.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
He mic not muted in the conference call.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
I feel like that could have gone worse, could have
could always be worse.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Scoop the naked gun, that old movie when they went
he went to the bathroom, remember, yes.
Speaker 8 (41:45):
That's yeah, you got. It's gotta mute that mic when
you're on the conference calls, and that is your puck.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
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