December 12, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Lakers decision to hoist an In-Season Tournament banner, the idea that the winner of the In-Season Tournament should be guaranteed at least the 7th seed, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb to talking pro bouncy
ball and what a story from the NBA. When you
first saw the Lakers it was announced they're going to
hoist up one of these in season tournament banners. What
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did you think when you first saw it? What do
you think? And is there more to the Lakers in
season titles celebration than meets the ear the NBA, there's
a story going around the NBA may guarantee the winner
of future in season tournaments getting at worst the seven
seed at the end of the season. Your thoughts on
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that possibility. We'll talk about all of it and more
right now here. It is our number two. Raise it
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be focused in on basketball. But man, alive, what a gift.
Sometimes you don't have to do anything. You just turn
the mic on. You're good to go. You're good to go.
And this is one of those hours. The news coming
out of King James Land, if you will, if you
did not hear, and maybe not, we learned that the
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Lakers who celebrated with cigars and champagne after winning their
little make believe title over the weekend. The Lakers who
had said a week ago they were not not going
to put any kind of a banner up. They had
a team policy that they only put championship banners up.
They don't put division titles up, they don't put conference
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championships up. They only put world championships up. Well, the Lakers.
The jokes on you if you believe them. The Lakers
have done a one point eighty now and they will
will raise a banner for winning the Fugasey in season tournament.
This is not a drill. This is not a drill.
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They're actually Ethan doing it. They're going to do it.
How amazing is this? The once proud franchise and the
now tarnished franchise in Los Angeles will put up a
banner to celebrate games that were played in November and December. Unbelievable.
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Right now that they're trying to spin this off saying, well,
it's gonna be different. It's not gonna be the same thing.
It's gonna be like your high school banner where they
just put a year's up. He put a year's up,
So they're gonna put a banner up, and boy, you
talk about what an embarrassment. Everyone is just laughing their
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ass off at the Lakers. And I'm here for it.
I am absolutely here for it. Now we're told the
new banner for the Lakers will go up here this weekend.
They have not talked about exactly what will be on there.
Say it will be a different shape, and I guess
there'll be some different colors on there and things like that.
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So let us discuss the question when you first saw
this story that the Lakers were hoisting an in season
tournament banner to the heavens, to the rafters, what did
you think. So I've got Melrose, Bruski and Road and
we will combine all of these things together and we
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are going to make laughing gas, which is what I
thought I had ingested when I first saw this story.
I thought I had come in contact with laughing gas.
I could not stop chuckling. So number W Yeah, So
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I sleep during the day, as you know, I we
do an overnight show. If you're listening live, you also
worked overnight, so you have insomnia. But I sleep during
the day, so when I wake up, I find out
what happened in the world when I was sleeping, and
I awoke to several very passionate messages from people I've
associated with over the years in sports media who could
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not wait. With the glee and the joy, they could
not wait to reach out to me and send me
this message, and so they sent me a clip. The
first first one I saw was a clip that said
Lakers to raise in season banner, and so then I
was like, Okay, this must be Sports Talk Barry. This
has got to be the work of Sports Talk Barry.
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He's an artisan in this kind of stuff. And that's that. Well,
maybe it's buck Butt Crack Sports. Maybe it's them Babylon Bee,
possibly the Onion. No, no, it's real. Oh that yeah,
it's real. Who raises a banner after less than twenty
five games? Well, we now have the answer, the Lakers.
That's the answer. Last I checked. Maybe I'm wrong on this,
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I don't know. I just do the overnight show, but
I think the Lakers play. Every NBA team plays eighty
two games, not just the Lakers, every team, and then
they have it's called the it's called their in season
tournament to make the playoffs, and then they have a
playoff tournament and then the team that wins that they
then get to celebrate a championship. So wow, I mean, geez, geez, geez,
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geez geez, what are we doing? I mean, my I
thought it was parody. I did. I'm not I'm not exaggerating,
you know, I'm just doing it because you know I'm
a Laker hater and all that. I thought it was parody.
All the people I know, and I know a lot
of people that like the Lakers, they all are bragged docias.
We don't do things like that. That's what the other
teams do. We do not operate that way. No, that's
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what your little Fugese teams over there. No, now we're different.
We only put championship banners up. We're the Lakers A
so goot, AND's south fricking gut. They're putting a batter
up for a stupid thing that was only put in
there to get ratings for television because no one watches
the NBA In November December, me and then The other
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thought I had was, you know, boy our guy Jay Moore,
who's part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. He
now owns the Lakers. Jay Moore is rubbing off on
the Laker franchise there. It's like the Lakers are having
team meetings on on Melrose at the Hollywood improv over there,
and they're all doing stand up right. It's like, hey,
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memo to the people running the Lakers, the the you
will give you the U for useless. That's what the
n season Tournament was in terms of any kind of viability,
in terms of any kind of reality. It's useless crown
all right, a lot of artificial fillers, sweeteners to inflate
dying TV ratings this time of the year. Now, page two, here,
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is there more to the story that is bouncing around
out to the Lakers are indeed are indeed going to
put this banner up? Is it more than meets the ear?
So there's obviously more than we know on the surface, right,
You got to dig a little deeper, and I'll nod
my head. Yes, there's more to this story than just
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the headline. One thing for sure, though, the Lakers are
absolutely cheapening legit him at championships, and there's no way
you can spin this outside of that. What they are
doing is spitting a lougie at Kobe Bryant's legacy, the
Jerry West and the legends of the Lakers, right, the Great,
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the Great Lake. Kareem abdul Jabbar, there's a lugie right
in your eyeball, Kareem from the Laker franchise, Magic Johnson,
there's a kick to the nuts right there Byron Scott.
We're gonna poke you in the eye. That's how this goes.
And there's no way, there's no way. So I sent
some messages out, some correspondence, and that's trying to figure
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out what's going on. And you're celebrating this, and it's
it's cheapening all those other championships in a masculating situation.
It is, right, and I'm so happy it's happening to
the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's emasculating enough that the franchise embarrassed themselves and everyone
laughed at them a few years ago when they celebrated
a Mickey Mouse ring. Right, I mean, how embarrassing is
that you you had four months off, you were at
a resort in or Lando. That's not how you award championships.
So I guess we should have known if the Laker
franchise has lost their their compass and they celebrate that,
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that they would certainly celebrate this, right right. I mean,
this is like a whole Mike Bruski situation to the
in the championship, which was ridiculous because that's that. We
can get in that again if you want. But the
whispers around the NBA are that Genie Buss got a
phone call from Adam Silver and the big shots over there,
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the big cheese at the NBA, and they're like, hey,
we know this is kind of a ridiculous thing, but
we want you to raise a banner up because it'll
legitimize how stupid this n season tournament is in terms
of any real meaning. It's just play a bunch of
players that are horny to get money so they can
go on vacation and spend their money and blow their
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money in can Kun or wherever they choose to go
on vacation. That's not my opinion. By the way, D'Angelo
Russell of the Lakers said the five hundred thousand dollars
bounty that he's going to get is going to cover
about three vacations. About three I wonder where he's going
on vacation. My god. But in the eyes of the NBA, right,
they have to legitimize this thing, so put a banner
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up and all that. But to everyone else, anyone else
who follows sport, who knows anything about sport, the other
championships are collateral damage. I'm sorry, We've got to celebrate
this stupid d season thing, so we're gonna cheapen everything else.
And Genie Boss and he was like, Wow, she had
no choice. She's part of the cartel of basketball and
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she has to do what the NBA wants. That's not true.
She could have not. Genu inflected to the NBA. But
in pathetically pumping the tires on this in season tournament,
you've downgraded the eleven championships Lakers have won. That's it.
They've eleven championsp A lot of people are bad at math.
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They think they've won seventeen, but they've not won seventeen championships.
As we pointed out many times over the years, the
Lakers only have eleven championships, and the number seventeens of
bogus number because five of those belonged to Minneapolis. So
right off the top, you shave five championships. So that's
Minneapolis Lakers, not La Lakers. Minneapolis. I was in Minnesota
earlier this year and they had a George Mikeens statue.
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It had Minneapolis. There was like a Minneapolis thing next
to it, and it didn't say did say LA did
not say that? Now the Disney Resort one, we don't
count because that's not legit. So that's we eliminate six
right there. And then we look a little further and
we're like, well, since they haven't won since Kobe was
alive and he's been dead for a while now, and
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they have won since twenty ten, that's the last time
they won. Thirteen year drought in that time. All right,
final point, So the NBA, there's a rumor going around
that the NBA is going to guarantee the winner of
the playing tournament starting next season going forward, that they
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will get at worst the number seven seed at the
end of the season. So what are your thoughts on
the possibility of the NBA will just hand out you're
guaranteed no matter what happened, you could lose every game
the rest of the season. You're going to be at
least the number seven seed in the playoffs based on
what you do in November and December. So I don't
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know anybody that thinks that's a good idea, other than
some people on Fifth Avenue in New York who are like, hey,
we could make this even bigger. But you're talking about
twenty eight percent of the schedule, hangting out a prize
for twenty It's bad enough that they're doing this anyway,
but it's not for me. I have more people watched,
and that's great, we more people watched, wonderful, congratulations. But
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the Lakers, for example, they are fifty nine games to
go in the season, and how many times have we
seen teams that peak too soon, that get off the
quick starts and then fade away as the season goes
on the War of Attrition. But if Adam Silver, if
Adam Silver was involved in the New York road Runners,
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forget that twenty six point two miles, No, no, no,
you would be guaranteed a medal after seven point three miles.
Because the New York Marathon all marathons twenty six point
two miles, right, full marathon twenty six point two miles.
What the NBA has done, is they have manipulated this
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to say, all right, we're gonna give title out. It's
a fake title, but we'll give it out after seven
point three percent or seven point three miles, which is
twenty eight percent of a marathon. That and the Lakers
are complicit. They are on board with this. How embarrassing,
How the mighty have fallen. It is the lebronization of
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Speaker 1 (17:26):
You think Jim Ersay bought the Lakers and we didn't
know about it?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Ersa puts up like banners for random crap, right, That's
what the Colts knew. There was one infamous banner. I
do remember that he he put up the people AFC finalists. Yeah,
that was the AFC finalist. That was was that after
the Andrew Luck the Colts got smoked by the Patriots
and they blamed the air pressure, the PSI and the balls.
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I think that was the game. INCA terror from New York, right,
it's in a classically trained musician, he says, a perfect
Mallard model. Law says, inca terror. So, Benny, this is
how the fraud achieves his not one, not two, not
three peers to be the case. Here's to be the case,
mister nice guy says, when you go through powerhouses like
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New Orleans and Indiana, you deserve to hang a banner.
Ben Well, that's a fair point. Now, will Indiana hang
a Eastern Conference finalist banner that they won the Eastern
Conference of the in season tournament? You think they're gonna
hang that in Indiana?
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Can liket the Clippers hung a Pacific Division champion banner?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Who might sit this one out? Cooper Loop, You of
all you, of all people.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
One of the most ridiculous monologues I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh my god, this is so embarrassing monologue. Tobe Bryant
is turning over in his his grave right now. That
Genie Buss would would deface his accomplishments with this ridiculous
banner for an in season tournament is so absurd and you,
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of all people, you were always the Lakers don't operate
like these other teams. We don't. We only hanging championship batteries.
Go ahead, defend it.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Okay, So first of championship, cost of all.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Yes, it is the season tournament, championship championship.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It was not well, what the are they calling it?
It doesn't matter what it because not it was a budget.
It was a bunch of players who are soldier of fortune.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
It's about ridiculous monologue.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
This is a guy that celebrates the Clippers making the
final four in the NBA. It's ten minutes talking about
how ridiculous it is because herman doesn't wish anything.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's tom than the Lakers. Parison is more, it is
more impressive to make the final door only did the
NBA playoffs, not only in the season tournament.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Not only are you a hypocrite because you celebrate the
final four for the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You're celebrating but not even Christmas, and is not even
it's a new tournament. What are they supposed to do?
You did twelve minutes.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Flashing the Lakers, and then at the end of your
monologue you quietly slipped in about how the NBA asked
them to do it, and then you're like, they should
They should have told the NBA off.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
It doesn't work like that. It does work. The world
doesn't work work like that. You're the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
I'm sticking into the NBA.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
The Lakers, right, the gold Oh yeah, I know, I do.
I tell them all the time. I tell Scott Shapiro
five times a week. I get out of here, Scott,
That's what I tell him. Oh listen, you just admit
your owner, the Laker ownership has no balls. There a
new nickname for for Ben that includes the word hypocrite.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
So somebody think it's something clever.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I should show the message I coop over the years,
how many times you, oh, we do We're the Lakers, shout,
we do things differently. We're the Lakers. We don't hang
these nonsense bands.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Yeah, we don't hang division championship banners.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh my god, you are out of your freaking mind.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
You are you can't mind stop yelling it right now,
dress you're a trash.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
My god, if the Clippers that won this thing, he'd
be the Clippers won. The James got champions, and the
Clippers are on the come. By the way, Clippers are
on right now. Well, you listen, all those eleven championships
the Lakers have won have all been downgraded because of this.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
You also sympathetic when you do your whole like taking
away championship things.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Not taking away championship is.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
What it's like to win an NBA championship.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
It doesn't mean that you can make sis and and
nit pick championship.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I've been in Minneapolis and it's nothing like Los Angeles. Okay,
it's much different. People actually nice there, they're respectful. It's
gas is cheap compared to It's much different.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Right, So those team team got relocated, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, and they keep the championships in the city they
relocated from that other team. What other team does that?
They all do it.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Sport.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
What other team does that? It doesn't matter. You gotta
have some scruples. You have no more. Okay, so dumb
explain Now, all the Celtic championships were won in Boston.
They didn't win them in somewhere other than Boston.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Game.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They were the Boston Celtics. That's right, that's right. They
have won, so they haven't moved, they haven't had to move.
The Lakers were losing franchise, and they.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Didn't give for some reason, the Boston Celtics relocated somewhere else.
They would just ignore all those championship They leave them
on the North End, and they would leave them on
the North end of Boston. Let's go to Eric in
the OC.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Hello, Eric, Hey, Ben was going, I just got back
from get back to it. I would right to some
money show. Ran into a guy that you went to
high school with. He says, yeah, nothing but good thing
to say about you. But he said you were the
one guy known as falling on the quarterback and running
the season for the football team.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Huh, what do you say you fell on the quarterback
and ruined the season?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
He broke his arm.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Uh No, that's that's okay. That's a good line, though
I don't know where that I mean. I mean, you
spend a lot of time on hold for that. You
come up with better materials. Let's go. Let's go to
he was.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I think he thought he had a good story.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
About you there. Yeah, I don't. It's an urban legend, Charles.
What's going on, Charles? Oh, there's a lot of ambient noise. Yes, yes, Charles, Yes, Charles,
would you like to goof on the Lakers like everyone
else's goofing on the Lakers.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
No, I just like to say that I'm a big
fan of your man, but I just don't agree with
Thomas about the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Well, what did I say that was incorrect?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Well, let me tell you if that was the women
shipping your ship?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Okay, so you're doing what you're doing, sir, is what
about ism? We're not doing? What about it? We're not doing?
What about Is that wrong?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Guess what about ism? It's a it's a you've lost
the argument with what about is? So I said a lot.
I did about fifteen minutes of a monologue. So tell
me what I said that was incorrect? Go ahead, I'll wait,
I'll correct myself.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
No, you're not saying anything wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Okay, so my take I had. You're just you're just
upset because you don't like the truth.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
What a skeazy like like scheme to do? Here you're
asking what did you say that was wrong? When your
entire monologue was not about any facts. It was subjective.
So obviously you can't point to anything that you said
was wrong because it was your.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So you're agreeing my monologue was correct? No, I agree
that it was. We all agree it's a great monologue.
It was a wonderful monologue. I'm going to send that.
You know, I'm gonna win a Marconi for that, Charles, Oh, oh.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Go ahead, but I mean championship.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh, it's absolute legit. The players were soldiers of fortuns,
like the A team. They're trying to get their money
to go on vacation. Good for them, they got it. Congratulations.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Well what happened if the Clippers won the answer? Championship?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Again, you're doing what about ism? I don't do what
about him? You're doing what about him? What do you do?
What do you love? What about ism? It's a fallacy,
and you're you're losing the argument.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
I want.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well listen, I know, I know, and I get it.
If I was a Laker guy, i'd be jealous. The
Clippers run LA the last ten years. They get all
the great players and they don't get you know, that loser,
Lebron James. Who wants that guy?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
He won't answer the question.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
He won't answer the question, Charles, because it defeats his
whole argument about the fact Lebron has not won a
championship with the Lakers, like an NBA Championship with the Lakers,
and that's what a disgrace for his resume.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's also another theory why the NBA rigged this. Remember
the the famous uh play against the Suns in that
end season tournament where the ball there's a loose ball
and they gave a time out to first time ever
a ball was not in possession of a team and
they gave him a time out. It's never happened before
in NBA history. Usually you have to have possession to
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get a time out.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Okay, okay, let's okay, let's get that out the way.
I want to join the malin militia.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
After all that, you want to join the MILITIAU. Well, listen, Charles,
how about this? You call me, call me tomorrow, Charles,
I'll do the oath with you. I don't have time
for it right now. Okay, I get to let some
other people have a chance. O Thank you, Charles. All right,
there you go, our buddy, Charles. Charles. Very mellow, Charles's not,
you know, a worked up about anything. Very mellow, very mellow, guys.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
How we all should approach a discussions is what Charles's approached,
you know.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Just laid back.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
The ball.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
You know, it's just like you tell me, you explain
to me.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
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Speaker 2 (27:05):
I know you're hanging on every word. But the Jah
Morant trial is apparently underway, first day of a hearing
in the Shelby County Circuit Court.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
This is a which one is this because he's done
a lot of yeah, answering questions.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
This was about the altercation he got into with a
seventeen year.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Old punk kids man on the playground. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
So I guess the kid threw the ball and hit
Moran on the side of the head. That's not nice,
and it isn't. But the attorney asked John Morant, who
took the stand, you testified the basketball was a weapon.
Moran replied, yes, she said a lethal weapon. He replied,
it hurt. It was self defense. He's claiming self defense
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was why he punched a seventeen year old and he
pick up astlaw game.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah no, I mean if you stood like ten feet
or five feet in front of me and I took
a basketball like it was a like a sling shot
or something like that. Or I mean I could do
a little bit of damage, right, a little bit, but
you know this lawsuit thing anyway, It is the Ben
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agree with Mallard, but on this monologue, I agree that
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tournament is a championship as a joke, he says. Robin
Minnesota says, tell Coop, the Minnesota Twins moved from Washington, DC,
and we do not count their nineteen twenty four World
Series victory along with the twins nineteen eighty seven, nineteen
ninety one victories. Case closed. Ferg Dog Rights and says Ben,
your monologue was spot on. Coop was being completely nonsensical.
(29:09):
We need more good people like you on the radio. Well,
thank you. I appreciate that. Joseph writes, and he says
Malor is right. It is not a championship. Championships are
the crown for the year's best team. The n Season
Tournament was created to make sure players showed up mid season.
So the fan that can only afford a game and
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maybe a jersey a year. The fact that they made
a banner this is this is dumb. This is absolutely correct.
I don't even understand. They don't have the comprehension. Cool.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Whether or not it's a joke, the n Season Tournament
is a joke. The fact of the matter is it's
something that the NBA is trying to promote.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's something that they're trying to do. So why you're
the Lakers. Why don't you say no, we're the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
We don't what are they going to take the team happen?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
That's how it works, Cooled. The Yankees, the Yankees don't
pay it. Baseball nas my own, the NBA, the Yankees
in baseball I know from Major League Baseball marketing people,
the Yankees have tried to get or Baseball's tried to
get the Yankees to wear all kinds of weird jerseys
and all these you know, these ridiculous clown costumes that
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all these baseball teams are doing because Nike is trying
to get their money back, and the Yankees have for
the most part, refused to do that stuff, and but
Baseball's asked them to do it. So if the Yankees
can say no, why can't the Lakers say no? It's
the same possible They asked them to wear the different
colored hats and the jerseys and all that stuff. The
the alternative uniforms.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
They want to know that is not an apt comparison.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Is absolutely it's business. No, it is absolutely business. This
is business for the NBA, that's business for baseball. That's
business for a corporate partner Nike that wants to sell
jerseys and they make their money, and Baseball gets a
ton of money from Nike to make the jerseys and
they put the stupid swoosh on the jersey and all that.
It's the same thing. The Yankee said no. How come
the Lakers don't say no because they have no intestinal fortitude?
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That's no, because you're talking about it.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
You're comparing a uniform decount to an entire tournament that
they did marketing and spent millions of dollars on.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
So how come last week the Lakers were asked, they said, well,
what about the championship thing? You're gonna hang a back
and they said, no, we only hang this is a
week ago. They said, yes, why not prove it proves
my point a week ago?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Obviously, somebody from the nb Jemmy and no, if you
guys want to hang a banner, we're trying to make
this a thing. You would derail everything if you didn't
hang this banner. They're not they're going to derail anything.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
All it is is a bunch of players that are
desperate to get the money, the ones that are trying
to get the money, like the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
If the Lakers, they asked the Lakers not to to
to hang a championship banner, and the Lakers said, no,
we're not doing that. You don't think it would be
a huge story. Lakers have basically no legitimate would. People
would celebrate the Lakers. They would hold the Lakers on
a pedestal.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
They say, oh my god, the Lakers have some guts,
they actually have a back. Got Your team is spineless, Coop,
just admit it right now, go ahead, admit it. The
team has no guts. Go ahead, we can all handle it.
You've lost all credibility. You can't make any jokes about
clip championships or anything like that. You can't make any
jokes about that. Embarrassing, What a bad time you lost
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the Angels this week. They couldn't afford O Taani, who,
by the way, is making two million dollars a year already.
Marino couldn't afford that. That's embarrassing. Uh, and the Broncos
are not going to make the play. I mean, it's
a bad time for you. It's a bad time in
your life, Coop. And now the Lakers have embarrassed you.
They've sullied the sullied their legacy, spitting loogies at Kobe
Bryant and all the legends of Lakerland.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
All right, have fun with your division championship banners.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Oh, you have fun with your season tournament banner.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
Yeah, to go along with our seventeen championship.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Eleven eleven eleven eleven. Understands the Minneapolis Lakers won five
the the COVID one doesn't count, so you've won eleven.
Just own the eleven. Why be happy with the election,
there's such a clown. Be happy with the eleven? You
don't have seventeen. You got eleven. Okay, you got eleven. Uh,
And that's the reality. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
(33:25):
We're gonna have Mallard of the third degree that'll be
coming up momentarily and boy, that'll go well. Uh, here's
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the Dolphins. Raheem Moster tied blanks Miami Dolphins franchise record
with his eighteenth touchdown of the season, and he also
took the lead for touchdowns this season from Christian McCaffrey
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of the Niners. Again. Raheem Moster tied blanks Miami Dolphin
franchise record for with his eighteenth eighteenth touchdown of the
season and takes the lead in touchdowns this season from
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And here is the Insta trivia Raheem Moster if you
saw one of the two Monday night games where he
Moster tying the Miami Dolphins franchise record with his eighteenth
touchdown of the season. He takes the lead and touchdowns
this season from Christian McCaffrey of the forty nine ers.
But phill in the blank, that is the question? What
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is the answer? And Ferd Dog joined with Tim Kats
is his answer LA Radios. Tim Kates Cowboy Killer says
it has to be Mexican pizza from Taco Bell, Paige Down,
Lieutenant Frank Dreben from Chris our favorite bartender in Des Moines?
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on the Ricky Williams guest by Alf the Alien Opiner,
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his answer. Carnell Cadillac Williams another great name from the
k C. Car Haller, Don Hasselbeck from Bay City, Tony
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abdul Kareem al Jabbar from Rory. I don't think you
said that right, Marshawn Lynch from the Art of Sports Talk. Eddie,
do you have an answer? Does not? Joe Cleco guess
by Mike in the Mountains. No, that's a silly answer.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
It's actually former New York Giants running back a MODD Bradshaw.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Is it a MODD Bradshaw? Is that the correct answer? Oh,
that is not the correct answer. The correct answer. Rahie Moster,
tying Mark Clayton's Miami Dolphins team record with his eighteenth
touchdown reception Holy nineteen eighty four Dolphins, Dan Marino.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
It's Mallard.
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How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
To the third degree? This is one big fan gets.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Grail and the Kupolou to nearly everyone's surprised. Joe Flacco
has been great in his two games starting for the Browns.
Kevin Stefanski named him the starter for the rest of
the season. After Sunday's win over the Jags, Ben, at
what point do you think the magic wears off?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So I would push back, I want you as my teacher.
If you think he's been great, I don't think he's
been good. He's been alright, he's been average. He's like
the same guy Joe Flacco since he took over the
Browns is the twenty third ranked quarterback in the NFL.
But the reason he looks good is it's kind of
like you walk into a bar with three ugly people,
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you'll look really good because he had PJ. Walker, dtr
and Deshaun Watson, the creepy quarterback who he followed in Cleveland,
and those guys all have their issues, and so Flacco
looks okay. But and then the Browns have a manageable schedule.
I don't think he's gonna play much worse than he's played,
So I think he can play this way as the
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twenty third rank quarterback the rest of the year.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Next So the NFC South is a jumbled mess. Now,
the Bucks went over the Falcons. Falcons put them in
first place, but Tampa, Atlanta, and New Orleans all have
the same exact record, Ben, who comes out on top
in the end?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Oh, it's gonna be a ball burner. Well, Atlanta plays
Carolina next week in Week fifteen, so they should win
that game. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers go to Green Bay,
which means they should lose that game just because it's
gonna be cold, So they're not gonna win that game.
So it's by default Atlanta's gonna have the edge here.
(38:05):
I don't trust New Orleans with Derek Carr, but I
guess if you had a gun to the head, New
Orleans has the better defense, So I would take New
Orleans next.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
There was a common reaction after the Lakers drubbing of
the Pelicans in the semi finals of the nd Season Tournament.
The common reaction was that Zion Williamson looks fat and
out of shape. Ben is Zion's career gonna go the
way of Eddie Curry.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
No, what Zion will do is he'll eat himself out
of New Orleans and then he'll go to a good
team as a reclamation project and then have a decent career.
That's how this is going to go. But he just
is lacking that inner fire. Zion Williamson How did we
know he passed because I have integrity unlike you. Well,
I passed because I earned that pass.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
I earned the win.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
That's why I won.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I earned it.
Hello and welcome. It's our numb to talking pro bouncy
ball and what a story from the NBA. When you
first saw the Lakers it was announced they're going to
hoist up one of these in season tournament banners. What
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did you think when you first saw it? What do
you think? And is there more to the Lakers in
season titles celebration than meets the ear the NBA, there's
a story going around the NBA may guarantee the winner
of future in season tournaments getting at worst the seven
seed at the end of the season. Your thoughts on
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that possibility. We'll talk about all of it and more
right now here. It is our number two. Raise it
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monologue later on about the game that was played in Jersey.
The Giants end up winning Tommy Cutlets over the Green
Bay Packer as the Giants have won three in a
row with a guy that looked like he had never
played quarterback before when the Giants tossed him out there
earlier this year. So the Giants upset the Packers, green
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Bay favored on the road in that game, and the
Miami Dolphins were upset by the Tennessee Titans. Some wild
and crazy things happening in the NFL. We'll get back
to that later. But our lead this hour from pro
bouncy ball, and you know it has to be good.
It has to be good on a night when there's
two NFL games for the hour. Two mallar monologue to
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be focused in on basketball. But man, alive, what a gift.
Sometimes you don't have to do anything. You just turn
the mic on. You're good to go. You're good to go.
And this is one of those hours. The news coming
out of King James Land, if you will, if you
did not hear, and maybe not, we learned that the
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Lakers who celebrated with cigars and champagne after winning their
little make believe title over the weekend. The Lakers who
had said a week ago they were not not going
to put any kind of a banner up. They had
a team policy that they only put championship banners up.
They don't put division titles up, they don't put conference
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championships up. They only put world championships up. Well, the Lakers.
The jokes on you if you believe them. The Lakers
have done a one point eighty now and they will
will raise a banner for winning the Fugasey in season tournament.
This is not a drill. This is not a drill.
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They're actually Ethan doing it. They're going to do it.
How amazing is this? The once proud franchise and the
now tarnished franchise in Los Angeles will put up a
banner to celebrate games that were played in November and December. Unbelievable.
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Right now that they're trying to spin this off saying, well,
it's gonna be different. It's not gonna be the same thing.
It's gonna be like your high school banner where they
just put a year's up. He put a year's up,
So they're gonna put a banner up, and boy, you
talk about what an embarrassment. Everyone is just laughing their
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ass off at the Lakers. And I'm here for it.
I am absolutely here for it. Now we're told the
new banner for the Lakers will go up here this weekend.
They have not talked about exactly what will be on there.
Say it will be a different shape, and I guess
there'll be some different colors on there and things like that.
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So let us discuss the question when you first saw
this story that the Lakers were hoisting an in season
tournament banner to the heavens, to the rafters, what did
you think. So I've got Melrose, Bruski and Road and
we will combine all of these things together and we
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are going to make laughing gas, which is what I
thought I had ingested when I first saw this story.
I thought I had come in contact with laughing gas.
I could not stop chuckling. So number W Yeah, So
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I sleep during the day, as you know, I we
do an overnight show. If you're listening live, you also
worked overnight, so you have insomnia. But I sleep during
the day, so when I wake up, I find out
what happened in the world when I was sleeping, and
I awoke to several very passionate messages from people I've
associated with over the years in sports media who could
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not wait. With the glee and the joy, they could
not wait to reach out to me and send me
this message, and so they sent me a clip. The
first first one I saw was a clip that said
Lakers to raise in season banner, and so then I
was like, Okay, this must be Sports Talk Barry. This
has got to be the work of Sports Talk Barry.
(06:10):
He's an artisan in this kind of stuff. And that's that. Well,
maybe it's buck Butt Crack Sports. Maybe it's them Babylon Bee,
possibly the Onion. No, no, it's real. Oh that yeah,
it's real. Who raises a banner after less than twenty
five games? Well, we now have the answer, the Lakers.
That's the answer. Last I checked. Maybe I'm wrong on this,
(06:32):
I don't know. I just do the overnight show, but
I think the Lakers play. Every NBA team plays eighty
two games, not just the Lakers, every team, and then
they have it's called the it's called their in season
tournament to make the playoffs, and then they have a
playoff tournament and then the team that wins that they
then get to celebrate a championship. So wow, I mean, geez, geez, geez,
(06:56):
geez geez, what are we doing? I mean, my I
thought it was parody. I did. I'm not I'm not exaggerating,
you know, I'm just doing it because you know I'm
a Laker hater and all that. I thought it was parody.
All the people I know, and I know a lot
of people that like the Lakers, they all are bragged docias.
We don't do things like that. That's what the other
teams do. We do not operate that way. No, that's
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what your little Fugese teams over there. No, now we're different.
We only put championship banners up. We're the Lakers A
so goot, AND's south fricking gut. They're putting a batter
up for a stupid thing that was only put in
there to get ratings for television because no one watches
the NBA In November December, me and then The other
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thought I had was, you know, boy our guy Jay Moore,
who's part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. He
now owns the Lakers. Jay Moore is rubbing off on
the Laker franchise there. It's like the Lakers are having
team meetings on on Melrose at the Hollywood improv over there,
and they're all doing stand up right. It's like, hey,
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memo to the people running the Lakers, the the you
will give you the U for useless. That's what the
n season Tournament was in terms of any kind of viability,
in terms of any kind of reality. It's useless crown
all right, a lot of artificial fillers, sweeteners to inflate
dying TV ratings this time of the year. Now, page two, here,
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is there more to the story that is bouncing around
out to the Lakers are indeed are indeed going to
put this banner up? Is it more than meets the ear?
So there's obviously more than we know on the surface, right,
You got to dig a little deeper, and I'll nod
my head. Yes, there's more to this story than just
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the headline. One thing for sure, though, the Lakers are
absolutely cheapening legit him at championships, and there's no way
you can spin this outside of that. What they are
doing is spitting a lougie at Kobe Bryant's legacy, the
Jerry West and the legends of the Lakers, right, the Great,
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the Great Lake. Kareem abdul Jabbar, there's a lugie right
in your eyeball, Kareem from the Laker franchise, Magic Johnson,
there's a kick to the nuts right there Byron Scott.
We're gonna poke you in the eye. That's how this goes.
And there's no way, there's no way. So I sent
some messages out, some correspondence, and that's trying to figure
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out what's going on. And you're celebrating this, and it's
it's cheapening all those other championships in a masculating situation.
It is, right, and I'm so happy it's happening to
the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's emasculating enough that the franchise embarrassed themselves and everyone
laughed at them a few years ago when they celebrated
a Mickey Mouse ring. Right, I mean, how embarrassing is
that you you had four months off, you were at
a resort in or Lando. That's not how you award championships.
So I guess we should have known if the Laker
franchise has lost their their compass and they celebrate that,
(10:09):
that they would certainly celebrate this, right right. I mean,
this is like a whole Mike Bruski situation to the
in the championship, which was ridiculous because that's that. We
can get in that again if you want. But the
whispers around the NBA are that Genie Buss got a
phone call from Adam Silver and the big shots over there,
(10:31):
the big cheese at the NBA, and they're like, hey,
we know this is kind of a ridiculous thing, but
we want you to raise a banner up because it'll
legitimize how stupid this n season tournament is in terms
of any real meaning. It's just play a bunch of
players that are horny to get money so they can
go on vacation and spend their money and blow their
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money in can Kun or wherever they choose to go
on vacation. That's not my opinion. By the way, D'Angelo
Russell of the Lakers said the five hundred thousand dollars
bounty that he's going to get is going to cover
about three vacations. About three I wonder where he's going
on vacation. My god. But in the eyes of the NBA, right,
they have to legitimize this thing, so put a banner
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up and all that. But to everyone else, anyone else
who follows sport, who knows anything about sport, the other
championships are collateral damage. I'm sorry, We've got to celebrate
this stupid d season thing, so we're gonna cheapen everything else.
And Genie Boss and he was like, Wow, she had
no choice. She's part of the cartel of basketball and
(11:34):
she has to do what the NBA wants. That's not true.
She could have not. Genu inflected to the NBA. But
in pathetically pumping the tires on this in season tournament,
you've downgraded the eleven championships Lakers have won. That's it.
They've eleven championsp A lot of people are bad at math.
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They think they've won seventeen, but they've not won seventeen championships.
As we pointed out many times over the years, the
Lakers only have eleven championships, and the number seventeens of
bogus number because five of those belonged to Minneapolis. So
right off the top, you shave five championships. So that's
Minneapolis Lakers, not La Lakers. Minneapolis. I was in Minnesota
earlier this year and they had a George Mikeens statue.
(12:18):
It had Minneapolis. There was like a Minneapolis thing next
to it, and it didn't say did say LA did
not say that? Now the Disney Resort one, we don't
count because that's not legit. So that's we eliminate six
right there. And then we look a little further and
we're like, well, since they haven't won since Kobe was
alive and he's been dead for a while now, and
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they have won since twenty ten, that's the last time
they won. Thirteen year drought in that time. All right,
final point, So the NBA, there's a rumor going around
that the NBA is going to guarantee the winner of
the playing tournament starting next season going forward, that they
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will get at worst the number seven seed at the
end of the season. So what are your thoughts on
the possibility of the NBA will just hand out you're
guaranteed no matter what happened, you could lose every game
the rest of the season. You're going to be at
least the number seven seed in the playoffs based on
what you do in November and December. So I don't
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know anybody that thinks that's a good idea, other than
some people on Fifth Avenue in New York who are like, hey,
we could make this even bigger. But you're talking about
twenty eight percent of the schedule, hangting out a prize
for twenty It's bad enough that they're doing this anyway,
but it's not for me. I have more people watched,
and that's great, we more people watched, wonderful, congratulations. But
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the Lakers, for example, they are fifty nine games to
go in the season, and how many times have we
seen teams that peak too soon, that get off the
quick starts and then fade away as the season goes
on the War of Attrition. But if Adam Silver, if
Adam Silver was involved in the New York road Runners,
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forget that twenty six point two miles, No, no, no,
you would be guaranteed a medal after seven point three miles.
Because the New York Marathon all marathons twenty six point
two miles, right, full marathon twenty six point two miles.
What the NBA has done, is they have manipulated this
(14:32):
to say, all right, we're gonna give title out. It's
a fake title, but we'll give it out after seven
point three percent or seven point three miles, which is
twenty eight percent of a marathon. That and the Lakers
are complicit. They are on board with this. How embarrassing,
How the mighty have fallen. It is the lebronization of
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the Laker franchise. It is all right, it's the Ben
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You don't know crap about the poor?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Why am I even own this crap?
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
That's the wrong tape.
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Wrong tape.
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Just forget that.
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Look.
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iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast herever you get your podcasts.
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Big man loves to flow.
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He is.
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He sure knows.
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How to turn a preak. The militia, they're all in.
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Hey man, he doesn't give you.
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Justin Cooper and he's at uh bronco fan.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
But I want to mount it and I'll lie from.
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Me tyrack dot com. Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You think Jim Ersay bought the Lakers and we didn't
know about it?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Ersa puts up like banners for random crap, right, That's
what the Colts knew. There was one infamous banner. I
do remember that he he put up the people AFC finalists. Yeah,
that was the AFC finalist. That was was that after
the Andrew Luck the Colts got smoked by the Patriots
and they blamed the air pressure, the PSI and the balls.
(17:52):
I think that was the game. INCA terror from New York, right,
it's in a classically trained musician, he says, a perfect
Mallard model. Law says, inca terror. So, Benny, this is
how the fraud achieves his not one, not two, not
three peers to be the case. Here's to be the case,
mister nice guy says, when you go through powerhouses like
(18:13):
New Orleans and Indiana, you deserve to hang a banner.
Ben Well, that's a fair point. Now, will Indiana hang
a Eastern Conference finalist banner that they won the Eastern
Conference of the in season tournament? You think they're gonna
hang that in Indiana?
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Can liket the Clippers hung a Pacific Division champion banner?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Who might sit this one out? Cooper Loop, You of
all you, of all people.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
One of the most ridiculous monologues I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh my god, this is so embarrassing monologue. Tobe Bryant
is turning over in his his grave right now. That
Genie Buss would would deface his accomplishments with this ridiculous
banner for an in season tournament is so absurd and you,
(18:58):
of all people, you were always the Lakers don't operate
like these other teams. We don't. We only hanging championship batteries.
Go ahead, defend it.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Okay, So first of championship, cost of all.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Yes, it is the season tournament, championship championship.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
It was not well, what the are they calling it?
It doesn't matter what it because not it was a budget.
It was a bunch of players who are soldier of fortune.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
It's about ridiculous monologue.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
This is a guy that celebrates the Clippers making the
final four in the NBA. It's ten minutes talking about
how ridiculous it is because herman doesn't wish anything.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's tom than the Lakers. Parison is more, it is
more impressive to make the final door only did the
NBA playoffs, not only in the season tournament.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Not only are you a hypocrite because you celebrate the
final four for the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You're celebrating but not even Christmas, and is not even
it's a new tournament. What are they supposed to do?
You did twelve minutes.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Flashing the Lakers, and then at the end of your
monologue you quietly slipped in about how the NBA asked
them to do it, and then you're like, they should
They should have told the NBA off.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
It doesn't work like that. It does work. The world
doesn't work work like that. You're the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
I'm sticking into the NBA.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
The Lakers, right, the gold Oh yeah, I know, I do.
I tell them all the time. I tell Scott Shapiro
five times a week. I get out of here, Scott,
That's what I tell him. Oh listen, you just admit
your owner, the Laker ownership has no balls. There a
new nickname for for Ben that includes the word hypocrite.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
So somebody think it's something clever.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I should show the message I coop over the years,
how many times you, oh, we do We're the Lakers, shout,
we do things differently. We're the Lakers. We don't hang
these nonsense bands.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Yeah, we don't hang division championship banners.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh my god, you are out of your freaking mind.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
You are you can't mind stop yelling it right now,
dress you're a trash.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
My god, if the Clippers that won this thing, he'd
be the Clippers won. The James got champions, and the
Clippers are on the come. By the way, Clippers are
on right now. Well, you listen, all those eleven championships
the Lakers have won have all been downgraded because of this.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
You also sympathetic when you do your whole like taking
away championship things.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Not taking away championship is.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
What it's like to win an NBA championship.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
It doesn't mean that you can make sis and and
nit pick championship.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I've been in Minneapolis and it's nothing like Los Angeles. Okay,
it's much different. People actually nice there, they're respectful. It's
gas is cheap compared to It's much different.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Right, So those team team got relocated, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, and they keep the championships in the city they
relocated from that other team. What other team does that?
They all do it.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Sport.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
What other team does that? It doesn't matter. You gotta
have some scruples. You have no more. Okay, so dumb
explain Now, all the Celtic championships were won in Boston.
They didn't win them in somewhere other than Boston.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Game.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They were the Boston Celtics. That's right, that's right. They
have won, so they haven't moved, they haven't had to move.
The Lakers were losing franchise, and they.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Didn't give for some reason, the Boston Celtics relocated somewhere else.
They would just ignore all those championship They leave them
on the North End, and they would leave them on
the North end of Boston. Let's go to Eric in
the OC.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Hello, Eric, Hey, Ben was going, I just got back
from get back to it. I would right to some
money show. Ran into a guy that you went to
high school with. He says, yeah, nothing but good thing
to say about you. But he said you were the
one guy known as falling on the quarterback and running
the season for the football team.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Huh, what do you say you fell on the quarterback
and ruined the season?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
He broke his arm.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Uh No, that's that's okay. That's a good line, though
I don't know where that I mean. I mean, you
spend a lot of time on hold for that. You
come up with better materials. Let's go. Let's go to
he was.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I think he thought he had a good story.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
About you there. Yeah, I don't. It's an urban legend, Charles.
What's going on, Charles? Oh, there's a lot of ambient noise. Yes, yes, Charles, Yes, Charles,
would you like to goof on the Lakers like everyone
else's goofing on the Lakers.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
No, I just like to say that I'm a big
fan of your man, but I just don't agree with
Thomas about the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Well, what did I say that was incorrect?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Well, let me tell you if that was the women
shipping your ship?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Okay, so you're doing what you're doing, sir, is what
about ism? We're not doing? What about it? We're not doing?
What about Is that wrong?
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Guess what about ism? It's a it's a you've lost
the argument with what about is? So I said a lot.
I did about fifteen minutes of a monologue. So tell
me what I said that was incorrect? Go ahead, I'll wait,
I'll correct myself.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
No, you're not saying anything wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Okay, so my take I had. You're just you're just
upset because you don't like the truth.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
What a skeazy like like scheme to do? Here you're
asking what did you say that was wrong? When your
entire monologue was not about any facts. It was subjective.
So obviously you can't point to anything that you said
was wrong because it was your.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So you're agreeing my monologue was correct? No, I agree
that it was. We all agree it's a great monologue.
It was a wonderful monologue. I'm going to send that.
You know, I'm gonna win a Marconi for that, Charles, Oh, oh.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Go ahead, but I mean championship.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Oh, it's absolute legit. The players were soldiers of fortuns,
like the A team. They're trying to get their money
to go on vacation. Good for them, they got it. Congratulations.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Well what happened if the Clippers won the answer? Championship?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Again, you're doing what about ism? I don't do what
about him? You're doing what about him? What do you do?
What do you love? What about ism? It's a fallacy,
and you're you're losing the argument.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
I want.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Well listen, I know, I know, and I get it.
If I was a Laker guy, i'd be jealous. The
Clippers run LA the last ten years. They get all
the great players and they don't get you know, that loser,
Lebron James. Who wants that guy?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
He won't answer the question.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
He won't answer the question, Charles, because it defeats his
whole argument about the fact Lebron has not won a
championship with the Lakers, like an NBA Championship with the Lakers,
and that's what a disgrace for his resume.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's also another theory why the NBA rigged this. Remember
the the famous uh play against the Suns in that
end season tournament where the ball there's a loose ball
and they gave a time out to first time ever
a ball was not in possession of a team and
they gave him a time out. It's never happened before
in NBA history. Usually you have to have possession to
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get a time out.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Okay, okay, let's okay, let's get that out the way.
I want to join the malin militia.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
After all that, you want to join the MILITIAU. Well, listen, Charles,
how about this? You call me, call me tomorrow, Charles,
I'll do the oath with you. I don't have time
for it right now. Okay, I get to let some
other people have a chance. O Thank you, Charles. All right,
there you go, our buddy, Charles. Charles. Very mellow, Charles's not,
you know, a worked up about anything. Very mellow, very mellow, guys.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
How we all should approach a discussions is what Charles's approached,
you know.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Just laid back.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
The ball.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
You know, it's just like you tell me, you explain
to me.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
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Speaker 2 (27:05):
I know you're hanging on every word. But the Jah
Morant trial is apparently underway, first day of a hearing
in the Shelby County Circuit Court.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
This is a which one is this because he's done
a lot of yeah, answering questions.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
This was about the altercation he got into with a
seventeen year.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Old punk kids man on the playground. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
So I guess the kid threw the ball and hit
Moran on the side of the head. That's not nice,
and it isn't. But the attorney asked John Morant, who
took the stand, you testified the basketball was a weapon.
Moran replied, yes, she said a lethal weapon. He replied,
it hurt. It was self defense. He's claiming self defense
(27:57):
was why he punched a seventeen year old and he
pick up astlaw game.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah no, I mean if you stood like ten feet
or five feet in front of me and I took
a basketball like it was a like a sling shot
or something like that. Or I mean I could do
a little bit of damage, right, a little bit, but
you know this lawsuit thing anyway, It is the Ben
Mala Show. Sue Sue, Sue, sue, sue. It's brought to
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my blood rivals in Houston Rocket Vix is. I never
agree with Mallard, but on this monologue, I agree that
(28:45):
tournament is a championship as a joke, he says. Robin
Minnesota says, tell Coop, the Minnesota Twins moved from Washington, DC,
and we do not count their nineteen twenty four World
Series victory along with the twins nineteen eighty seven, nineteen
ninety one victories. Case closed. Ferg Dog Rights and says Ben,
your monologue was spot on. Coop was being completely nonsensical.
(29:09):
We need more good people like you on the radio. Well,
thank you. I appreciate that. Joseph writes, and he says
Malor is right. It is not a championship. Championships are
the crown for the year's best team. The n Season
Tournament was created to make sure players showed up mid season.
So the fan that can only afford a game and
(29:30):
maybe a jersey a year. The fact that they made
a banner this is this is dumb. This is absolutely correct.
I don't even understand. They don't have the comprehension. Cool.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Whether or not it's a joke, the n Season Tournament
is a joke. The fact of the matter is it's
something that the NBA is trying to promote.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's something that they're trying to do. So why you're
the Lakers. Why don't you say no, we're the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
We don't what are they going to take the team happen?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
That's how it works, Cooled. The Yankees, the Yankees don't
pay it. Baseball nas my own, the NBA, the Yankees
in baseball I know from Major League Baseball marketing people,
the Yankees have tried to get or Baseball's tried to
get the Yankees to wear all kinds of weird jerseys
and all these you know, these ridiculous clown costumes that
(30:22):
all these baseball teams are doing because Nike is trying
to get their money back, and the Yankees have for
the most part, refused to do that stuff, and but
Baseball's asked them to do it. So if the Yankees
can say no, why can't the Lakers say no? It's
the same possible They asked them to wear the different
colored hats and the jerseys and all that stuff. The
the alternative uniforms.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
They want to know that is not an apt comparison.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Is absolutely it's business. No, it is absolutely business. This
is business for the NBA, that's business for baseball. That's
business for a corporate partner Nike that wants to sell
jerseys and they make their money, and Baseball gets a
ton of money from Nike to make the jerseys and
they put the stupid swoosh on the jersey and all that.
It's the same thing. The Yankee said no. How come
the Lakers don't say no because they have no intestinal fortitude?
(31:07):
That's no, because you're talking about it.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
You're comparing a uniform decount to an entire tournament that
they did marketing and spent millions of dollars on.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
So how come last week the Lakers were asked, they said, well,
what about the championship thing? You're gonna hang a back
and they said, no, we only hang this is a
week ago. They said, yes, why not prove it proves
my point a week ago?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Obviously, somebody from the nb Jemmy and no, if you
guys want to hang a banner, we're trying to make
this a thing. You would derail everything if you didn't
hang this banner. They're not they're going to derail anything.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
All it is is a bunch of players that are
desperate to get the money, the ones that are trying
to get the money, like the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
If the Lakers, they asked the Lakers not to to
to hang a championship banner, and the Lakers said, no,
we're not doing that. You don't think it would be
a huge story. Lakers have basically no legitimate would. People
would celebrate the Lakers. They would hold the Lakers on
a pedestal.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
They say, oh my god, the Lakers have some guts,
they actually have a back. Got Your team is spineless, Coop,
just admit it right now, go ahead, admit it. The
team has no guts. Go ahead, we can all handle it.
You've lost all credibility. You can't make any jokes about
clip championships or anything like that. You can't make any
jokes about that. Embarrassing, What a bad time you lost
(32:32):
the Angels this week. They couldn't afford O Taani, who,
by the way, is making two million dollars a year already.
Marino couldn't afford that. That's embarrassing. Uh, and the Broncos
are not going to make the play. I mean, it's
a bad time for you. It's a bad time in
your life, Coop. And now the Lakers have embarrassed you.
They've sullied the sullied their legacy, spitting loogies at Kobe
Bryant and all the legends of Lakerland.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
All right, have fun with your division championship banners.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Oh, you have fun with your season tournament banner.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
Yeah, to go along with our seventeen championship.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Eleven eleven eleven eleven. Understands the Minneapolis Lakers won five
the the COVID one doesn't count, so you've won eleven.
Just own the eleven. Why be happy with the election,
there's such a clown. Be happy with the eleven? You
don't have seventeen. You got eleven. Okay, you got eleven. Uh,
And that's the reality. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
(33:25):
We're gonna have Mallard of the third degree that'll be
coming up momentarily and boy, that'll go well. Uh, here's
the inster trivia. Raheem Mostert. That's a football player for
the Dolphins. Raheem Moster tied blanks Miami Dolphins franchise record
with his eighteenth touchdown of the season, and he also
took the lead for touchdowns this season from Christian McCaffrey
(33:47):
of the Niners. Again. Raheem Moster tied blanks Miami Dolphin
franchise record for with his eighteenth eighteenth touchdown of the
season and takes the lead in touchdowns this season from
Christian McCaffrey. Fill in the blank. That's the insta trivia
the answer next, Boy, that escalated quickly. What happened there?
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It's Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
And here is the Insta trivia Raheem Moster if you
saw one of the two Monday night games where he
Moster tying the Miami Dolphins franchise record with his eighteenth
touchdown of the season. He takes the lead and touchdowns
this season from Christian McCaffrey of the forty nine ers.
But phill in the blank, that is the question? What
(35:08):
is the answer? And Ferd Dog joined with Tim Kats
is his answer LA Radios. Tim Kates Cowboy Killer says
it has to be Mexican pizza from Taco Bell, Paige Down,
Lieutenant Frank Dreben from Chris our favorite bartender in Des Moines?
(35:28):
Who else do you have? Paige Down? Can't read that
on the Ricky Williams guest by Alf the Alien Opiner,
Ronnie Brown, a dolphin legend from Fields of Green. That's
his answer. Carnell Cadillac Williams another great name from the
k C. Car Haller, Don Hasselbeck from Bay City, Tony
(35:50):
abdul Kareem al Jabbar from Rory. I don't think you
said that right, Marshawn Lynch from the Art of Sports Talk. Eddie,
do you have an answer? Does not? Joe Cleco guess
by Mike in the Mountains. No, that's a silly answer.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
It's actually former New York Giants running back a MODD Bradshaw.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Is it a MODD Bradshaw? Is that the correct answer? Oh,
that is not the correct answer. The correct answer. Rahie Moster,
tying Mark Clayton's Miami Dolphins team record with his eighteenth
touchdown reception Holy nineteen eighty four Dolphins, Dan Marino.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
It's Mallard.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (36:28):
To the third degree? This is one big fan gets.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Grail and the Kupolou to nearly everyone's surprised. Joe Flacco
has been great in his two games starting for the Browns.
Kevin Stefanski named him the starter for the rest of
the season. After Sunday's win over the Jags, Ben, at
what point do you think the magic wears off?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So I would push back, I want you as my teacher.
If you think he's been great, I don't think he's
been good. He's been alright, he's been average. He's like
the same guy Joe Flacco since he took over the
Browns is the twenty third ranked quarterback in the NFL.
But the reason he looks good is it's kind of
like you walk into a bar with three ugly people,
(37:09):
you'll look really good because he had PJ. Walker, dtr
and Deshaun Watson, the creepy quarterback who he followed in Cleveland,
and those guys all have their issues, and so Flacco
looks okay. But and then the Browns have a manageable schedule.
I don't think he's gonna play much worse than he's played,
So I think he can play this way as the
(37:30):
twenty third rank quarterback the rest of the year.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Next So the NFC South is a jumbled mess. Now,
the Bucks went over the Falcons. Falcons put them in
first place, but Tampa, Atlanta, and New Orleans all have
the same exact record, Ben, who comes out on top
in the end?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Oh, it's gonna be a ball burner. Well, Atlanta plays
Carolina next week in Week fifteen, so they should win
that game. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers go to Green Bay,
which means they should lose that game just because it's
gonna be cold, So they're not gonna win that game.
So it's by default Atlanta's gonna have the edge here.
(38:05):
I don't trust New Orleans with Derek Carr, but I
guess if you had a gun to the head, New
Orleans has the better defense, So I would take New
Orleans next.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
There was a common reaction after the Lakers drubbing of
the Pelicans in the semi finals of the nd Season Tournament.
The common reaction was that Zion Williamson looks fat and
out of shape. Ben is Zion's career gonna go the
way of Eddie Curry.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
No, what Zion will do is he'll eat himself out
of New Orleans and then he'll go to a good
team as a reclamation project and then have a decent career.
That's how this is going to go. But he just
is lacking that inner fire. Zion Williamson How did we
know he passed because I have integrity unlike you. Well,
I passed because I earned that pass.
Speaker 7 (38:46):
I earned the win.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
That's why I won.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
I earned it.
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