April 18, 2024 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about the latest results of the NBA Play-in Tournament with the Sixers advancing and the Hawks getting eliminated, Jontay Porter getting a lifetime ban from the NBA, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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tire buying should be and we're back again. Blah blah
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blah blah. No, our lead this hour coming from the
Losers series. The NBA artificially creating a tournament to get
into the tournament when they already have a tournament to
get into the tournament, they have a second tournament to
get in the tournament. It's very so I have an
eighty two game tournament to get into the tournament, but
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that's not enough, so they added another tournament to get
into the tournament. Hoo, goofed, I've got to them. So
the Heat and Sixers were on the undercard, but they
were the main event from Philadelphia. That was the game
that had a little little rasthmataz to it, the winner
getting the number seven seed. Now we're gonna assume the
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position that you did not watch. Maybe you did, but
we are watching these games as a public service for you,
the consumer, so you don't have to worry about watching
these NBA games. So Joel and Bid did not play
particularly well, but he's the headliner. So the fact that
he had twenty three points and fifteen rebounds on an
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off night, he did have a big assist to Kelly
Oubre junior on a go ahead three pointer that helped
the Sixers to a win, a one point win over
the Heat in the Eastern Conference. Playing games, Battoom, a
former Clipper, doing what Clippers do this time of the year.
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He had a game shifting three point seven. He hit
three points at halftime, and he looked like Klay Thompson
used to play in the playoffs in the second half.
There is several big shots for Batoom, who was part
of the James Harden trade, But the better story is
where that's right, you are a good student. The better
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story is in the losing locker room. So Miami's Jimmy
Buckets and full disclosure, we are big fans, big fans
of Jimmy Buckets and the approach, the grinded out approach,
the king the kitchen sink approach where he just throws
everything out there every game. So we like the guy.
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He's getting absolutely cooked speaking of the kitchen for being
the star for Miami and blowing a fourteen point lead.
Of course, he also suffered an injury that never happened.
NBA players never get hurt. It's so rare to have
an NBA game where a player gets hurt. It just
almost never happens. So it's shocking when someone gets hurt.
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It's like it's like, you know, they say in the
news business dog bites man. Not a story. Man bites dog.
That's the story. NBA player gets hurt, that's a big story.
So anyway, let us discuss true or false. Jimmy Butler
in the Heat deserve to be vilified for losing to
the Sixers. So this much, I know it is true.
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I know that I'm not in my head. Yes it
is true. I've got the Commodoores, Sotheby's, and sleeve tattoo,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to create a talking parrot. Someday I
will be replaced by a talking parrot that will be
AI generated. I'm convinced of that, all right, So a
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listen to answer the question again. It's true, Jimmy Butler
in the heat do deserve to be crucified and villified
and all that. That's how this works. If you haven't
figured that out, I don't. I don't know what I
can do for you, Okay, I don't. I don't. I
don't I get I can't help you. Miami had a
power outage. Jimmy Butler and Tyler Hero combined for forty
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four points. It sounds pretty good, right, sounds pretty good,
somewhat impressive if you didn't watch the game, which she
probably didn't, the dynamic duo was shooting blanks. The soundtrack
of this performance was nineteen seventies disco the Commodores Brick House.
They shot a combined thirty one percent thirty one percent,
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fourteen to forty five and, as we like to say
on this show, sucking at a time you cannot suck.
Butler was playing on emotion. You know word you want
to use here? Adrenaline, I guess is the word many
will use. But he was a decoy down the stretch.
He got hurt early in the game. He was a
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decoy down the stretch. We are told that he is
likely out for the rest of the play in which
is one more game here. He's out in definitely with
an MCL injury, pending further medical tests. That puts the
heat behind the proverbial eight ball when they go back
to South Beach with the Bulls coming in for a
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playing game to be the eight seed. More on that
in a minute. Either way, to get back to the
premise of this. It was a famous line by Bill Parcels,
who won a lot in his day, and he said,
no matter how much you win, no matter how many games,
no matter any championships, you're not winning now, So you stink.
And that's the way that sports works now be I
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did say we would take the express trend. We are
taking the express train to sweet Home Chicago, where the
deep dish pizza is great and the basketball is not
so much. Kobe White, Kobe who not Kobe Bryant, Kobe White,
a virtuoso performance. Have a night doesn't even count. It
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doesn't count as a playoff game, It doesn't count a
regular season game. Stuck in the middle of Kobe White
painting a masterpiece here, he had forty two points, led
the Bulls to a barbecue of the Hawks. Yeah, I
don't think that's a lot. I think they're in danger
of the Hawks. You're not allowed to barbecue them. But
they did. They win going away a big lead early,
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blew the lead Chicago, and then ended up fattening up
the lead late in the game. So Chicago will now
play the aforementioned heat. I was gonna keep this plan
simple here for the right to be disemboweled by the
number one see number Celtics in the first round. Now,
the spicy meatball on this one is not on the
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Chicago side. I try to accommodate your femi and all that.
But the story here the spicy meatballs on the four
or four. What a great area code that is. It's
an error code on the internet, but it's the area
code in Atlanta. So did Trey Young just play his
final game for the Hawks? So the scales are certainly
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leaning significantly that way, right, Not that way, They're leaning
this way over here. And I'll tell you why Atlanta
has gone stale. They were lucky dogs a couple years ago,
Maye to run to the Eastern finals, a couple of
wins away from the finals. But they have done the
moonwalk and they have regressed since twenty twenty one. You
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look at professional sports, the industrial complex at professional sports,
and if you're just stuck treading water, you're going to
make a big move. It happens all the time. That's
the normal paint by numbers approach to sports, and these
things many say running their course here as a distant
relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas. He lives in Seattle.
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We believe the Hawks have already reached out to Sotheby's,
the fine auction house, and Trey Young will be put
up for auction with those contemporary paintings, the jewelry, the
other collectibles at Southeby's and it just events. Will the Lakers,
the Heat, the Bulls, the MAVs, the Clippers, somebody like that.
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Meet the buy now price tack. Stay tuned, developing hot
dot dot dot. All right, last word here, We now
hop on the train we go out to the Bay Area.
They are still conducting an autopsy on the Warriors here.
The body is not cold yet. Warriors have been eliminated.
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We have heard in the last twenty four hours that
Chris Paul says he will not retire, not retire, and
they're very concerned about that. He will continue to collect
a lot of money for very little performance, but likely
will not be back with Golden State. Andrew Wiggins, his
name has been floated out and he was not exactly
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tearing up the dance floor there for the Warriors. He
will to be entering the transfer portal. Meanwhile, the Komodo
Dragonal room here, the Warriors Sea Captain. It's like the Titanic.
Klay Thompson, Oh for ten Clay. He says that he
has not given much thought to his NBA future. Do
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you believe him? Do you believe Clay Thompson? So the answer,
I'm gonn combine a couple of letters here, N plus
Oh no, I don't believe now. He played his final
game like a guy with a lot of anxiety, like
a guy that was going through all the great memories
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of his salad days with the Warriors. That's what he
looked like. He looked like a guy that was wearing
it on his sleeve tattoo. Right. The basketball scribes are
already trying to get him on to his next team.
They're floating outs and innarios where Clay Thompson goes to
Dallas or Orlando and that those are safe spaces for
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the fallen splash brother. But I will gare on to
you there was not going to be a bidding war.
I think that's easy to say. Clay is an acquired
taste at this point. It appears in many performances he
has made out of Clay and not the good kind.
Not the good kind. He's no longer a force multiplier.
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I would put him in the Ham and Eggert category
these days. He does have an impressive Wikipedia page if
you're into that kind of thing. So that's a positive.
That's a good thing, So read about the glory days.
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The final bet you make is a losing bet. Wel
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and our lead this hour coming from the sportsbook. This
would be a much bigger story if it was about
someone we've heard of. It's not. But there is a
pro bouncy ball bombshell scandal, and you know how this works.
We put a full court press. We have in depth
team coverage of scandal radio. There's nothing we like more
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than a nice scandal. So if somehow you have missed
it and you have not been paying attention, it is
conceivable that you actually have things go on and you
were not paying attention. So if you missed it, NBA
Commissioner from somewhere outside the Cosmos, Adam Silver. Adam Silver
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has given the career death penalty to John tay Porter
that's a basketball player, not a good one, not a
good one, but a basketball player. He gets a lifetime
ban for breaking the cardinal rule of professional sports. You
don't bet on the sport that you play in. You
can't do it. It's taboo. Now, the league was able
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to collaborate those early internet reports that we had talked
about in previous episodes of the show that he was
on the Internet giving out picks to people on discords.
Wild right, He was actually doing it. Now. Porter gave
certain gamblers confidential information on Wall Street. They call it
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insider trading. It is kind of odd, though, because the
way it works on Wall Street. If you're if you're
just a regular person and you get insider information, you
go to jail for it. But if you're in Congress
you get rich from It's it's odd, very odd anyway,
So this kat portl Porter. John tay Porter had been
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on games, even a team he was associated with, the
Toronto Raptors. He bet on the Raptors to lose smart Man.
All right, so let us discuss the question. You're unfamiliar
the n b A. The NBA has given Raptors forward
John tay Porter a lifetime ban for gamling. How do
you react to this news? So I've got Billy Madison,
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Kamakazi and Orwellian and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a slot machine,
which is what John day Porter can now play. He
can play the penny slots because he ain't gonna be
making any money anytime soon. So nahum w a, right,
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here we go lock these things all together like a
fourteen parlay. So full disclosure here, full disclosure. As we
had mentioned, we have never heard or we had never
heard of Johntay Porter before this episode, and reading the
details of this pretty good reading, pretty good reading. He's
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got to be on the spectrum, right what a pea brain?
Porter giving Better Better's random betters information about his health
prior to games. The eighty thousand dollars bet was the
Waterloo momont So some jamoke, some random dude bet eighty
thousand dollars on Johntay Porter that he would not reach
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his his statistics for that game. The prop bets for
that game and set him in parlays through an online
sports didn't name the sports book, but that bet would
have won one point one million dollars. I say would
have because that was the game where Porter conveniently took
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himself out of the game after only a few minutes,
claiming illness, and none of the stats met the totals
that were required, so the parlay would have won the bet,
though they did not cash the ticket because the people
at the gambling house said, wait a minute, somebody bet
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eighty thousand dollars on John Day Porter. That must be
somebody that knows Jontay Porter, and so the bet was
frozen and not paid out. Back in the old days
they used to circle games. The game was circle, they'd
limited how much you could better, but that bet was frozen,
and at that moment, from what we understand, the gambling
outfit contacted the NBA and said, hey, we we got something.
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It doesn't smell right here and something's not right. So
the NBA started an investigation, but they actually started it
because of the gambling people, not because of their own
inside information, and that has led to the current excommunication
from the Church of pro Bouncy Ball. So John Day Porter,
guy's twenty four years old, young cat, twenty four years old,
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he placed at least thirteen bets. I'm gonna say that
he placed many more bets on random NBA games using
someone else's account, so at least he attempted to hide
it a little bit. But then you see that he
won on a discord and was giving out information about
him when everyone else probably on that discord, had no
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idea who he was. The bets he made this is
the thing that pulls me. He made bets ranging from
fifteen dollars to twenty two thousand all together, the wagers,
the thirteen wagers, he bet fifty four ninety four dollars.
At least that's according to the story that's going around,
and that iterated a payout of seventy six thousand dollars
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a little over that, so he actually won twenty one thousand,
nine hundred and sixty five dollars. But the further you
go down the rabbit hole, this is a Billy Madison special.
It is one of the most insanely idiotic things I
have ever heard or read. John tay Porter earned four
hundred and fifteen thousand dollars this season to be a
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two way player. Let me rebeate that for those who
have back four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, Where I
come from, your rich at four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars,
and in his NBA career he has made almost three
million dollars with Memphis and Toronto, and he flushed all
of it away to win twenty one almost twenty two
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thousand dollars. So again I'm using maln math here, but
I don't think I'm wrong. If you have a career
that'll pay you two point eight million, he probably could
have hung around for another two or three years and
made another four or five hundred thousand dollars a year.
So that's another million and a half dollars to do nothing,
and instead he was betting fifteen dollars one hundred dollars
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a couple thousand dollars. He did win twenty one thousand,
but if you're gonna lose your entire career, shouldn't you
bet more? At no point did he have any rational thought.
And maybe I should get out of us. Everyone in
the room is now dumber for having heard about this.
And as they said in Billy Madison, I ward you
no points you and may God have mercy on your soul.
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Now page two here, as we continue in depth team coverage,
what do you surmise legged Johntay Porter on a ride
to the wild side or the dark side here? So
what maybe he was a huge Pete Rose fan. Could
he have been buddies with Otani's interpreter. Is his favorite
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NFL player a certain wide receiver that likes betting on parlays?
I don't know. I'm just asking now. It is more
likely than not, based on what I know about gambling,
that he's been betting for a long time, and it's
highly doubtful that he just started betting when he got
to the NBA. I find that hard to believe. Now. Listen, obviously,
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these people that have issues. You can get addicted to gambling,
just like you can get addicted to alcohol, any kind
of vice. I was addicted to food. You can be
addicted to anything. A lot of human beings are prone
to addiction, and we're all wired the same way when
it comes to that. And so betting on the NBA, though,
while playing in the NBA is a mortal city is
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a Kamakazi mission is what it is. You know how
it's going to end. It's like to meme and you
can get that chart out f around and find out
completely unnecessary. Right, most people that are Jones in the
gamble and I'm a gambler. It's about the action. Michael
Jordan was a prolific gamb but we believe he was
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suspended from the NBA and sent to Birmingham to play
baseball in the minor leagues because of his gambling problem
by David Stern. But they hit it and it went
to the grave with David Stern. That's a different conversation.
But John day Porter here if you're into it for
the action, it is allowed. NBA players and employees of
the NBA are allowed to bet on other sports outside
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the NBA if it's legal where you are and so
you can get your fix. You can bet during basketball season.
You can bet on hockey games. You can bet on
NFL games, college football, you can bet on Major League
Baseball games. But if you bet on the NBA, you're
a dumbass. Okay, and listen highlight gambling. Have a TV show.
I had a TV show last year. Hopefully'll be back
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this year. I don't know yet about gambling. We've talked
a lot of gambling the show. I support it, but
I don't bet on Fox Sports Radio. I don't bet
against Fox Sports Radio. I don't bet on sports radio.
I don't. I've never place to bet on the Sports
Hub in Boston or the Fan in New York, or
AM five seventy in LA or any of these stations. No,
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I don't bet on them. No, I could bet a
three team parlay, right, I could bet a three team
parlay on all these different affiliates that we have around
around the country. Nor final point, So is there a
lesson to be learned from this NBA gambling scandal? Of
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course there is. It's not going to be learned, but
it is a teachable moment. The NBA already mandates gambling
training for all of their employees, which is one of
those corporate bull crap things. So we don't want to
get sued and we can say, hey, we forced you
to get training and you didn't do what you were
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supposed to do and all that, but you can't sue
us because we told you to do it. But yeah,
this is clearly a teachable moment. It is Orwellian one
oh one Orwellian one o one in all walks of life,
Big brother is watching you. The PSA copy that I've
done over the years is right. They'll see you before
you see them. Sports gambling is no different sports gambling companies,
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and they're great advertisers here and we love them. But
they spend a lot of money, right with surveillance monitoring everything,
and they're watching for squiggly lines, shall we say, They're
looking for unusual things that pop up on their computer screens, like,
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for example, somebody betting eighty thousand dollars on Johntay Porter
on a random Wednesday night. They're looking at things like that.
And again, in case you've lived in a shoe box
your entire life, they spend a ton of mucho de
naro to prevent insider trading you see in the gambling world.
And even though I love to bet, the house usually wins, right,
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that's the frustrating part. The house usually wins. They're guaranteed
solid profits just based on the juice the veig They're
guaranteed pretty good profits. The only way they don't get
that is if things are crooked. If things are crooked,
the whole house of cards comes falling down. They fall
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into oblivion, kind of like Johntay Porter is going to
fall into oblivion oblivion at this particular.
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Here we go, Heller, how about that? To the third degree?
This is one big Ben gets grilled, Coop daalu.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
According to reports, the NBA is considering using the n
season tournament as the first tiebreaker for playoff seeding next year. Ben,
how'd you feel about this idea?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
All right? So I put this in the same category
with when Bud Celix said this time it counts for
the All Star Game. It's so stupid, dumb. You know,
the end season tournament is lame. You're you're trying to
give it some substance when it shouldn't. It shouldn't even exist.
It's so ridiculous. In the in the Annals of Bad ideas,
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Adam Silver is like the king of a bad idea.
Just stop stop next.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Lebron James revealed on the most recent episode of his
HBO show that he is still salty about not getting
an NBA Defensive Player of the Year award in his career,
and he said that he should have got it in
twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Is he right?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Well, Coop, as you know it's twenty twenty four. You
want me to go back and watch every game of
twenty thirty thirteen. No, here's my memory. Okay, here's my
memory of Lebron in that era. As a defender, he
was a selectively good defender. There are a lot of
the game, A lot of the game he would just
kind of lag, and then there select plays he would
make amazing plays and highlight plays that he would end
(26:54):
up on Sports Center back when people used to watch that.
But I don't ever remember him a consistently eight shutdown defender.
So I'm gonna say Lebron's full of crap.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Next, the NBA media is upset that they were unable
to vote for Nick's guard Dante DiVincenzo for the most
Improved Player because he was ineligible. Even though Devincenzo played
in eighty one games, many of those that he played
were less than twenty minutes, which is apparently the minimum
requirement for the game to count towards that threshold. Then,
is this something that needs to be tweaked.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
No, I mean, it's great he played eighty one games,
but if you're playing less than twenty minutes a game,
there's forty eight minutes in the game, so you're not
even playing half the game, like what are we doing here?
Like what the hell are we doing here? And how
we don't come out?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
You fail this edition?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
What are you talking about? For what reason?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Your last two answers suck?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
They were great at Lebron was a selective defender.
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Time for time for.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Howry I can wait? Ask Bed? Twitter said, this is
your questions on Twitter now the way we go ask Ben.
Your questions are answers, even the oddball ones. For the
rest of the hours, the late great broadcaster Larry King
said back in his day, and we passed the microphone
over to the Kooper loop for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
All right, we're gonna start with a question from Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Hi, Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
He wants to know if the drive through lane is
too long, do you get out to buy the food
or do you go somewhere else?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, So I hate waiting online. I've reached that age
in life where I don't like to wait online for anything,
So I will go in. Plus, I get a few
steps in there, so I will go in, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Depends if I'm in a hurry, then yeah, I'll go in.
If I'm not, if I don't have anything going on,
then I'll just sit in the drive through and twiddle
around on my phone.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Okay, Lorain, Oh you used to have it delivered. I
know you.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
No, I'm really not that fancy. It's my friend who
has it delivered. But no, I'm actually I put a
lot of thought into this. It depends on where I'm going,
so it like in.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And out fought into a question. Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
No.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
When I go to drive through places and the line's long, like,
if I know that they can get.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
It out fast, I just go through it.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
But like some places, they really they hold you up,
dairy queen, I never go through the drive through.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I will be there for forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
No, I hate. I also hate when you go through
a nice restaurant and you don't get the bill for
like twenty minutes. Oh that's the worst, sucks, Coop.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Now it's funny that he should ask this today because
earlier tonight for dinner, I went to Taco Bell and
I pull into the drive through. There's a line and
as soon as I pull up, this guy comes out
of the Taco Bell and he walks up to my
window and he's like he's motioning for me to put
the window down, and I do, and he's like, hey, man,
I just want to give you a heads up, like
something's going on in the drive through. That truck in
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that car. They haven't moved for the last fifteen minutes,
so you should probably just get out. And I'm like, oh, cool,
good looking out man. And I get out of the
car and I go in and I place my order
on the screen and Taco Bell, and then I proceed
to sit there for like twenty five minutes and watch
that truck in that car just drive on through.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
I thought you dirty. I thought this guy was like.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I was like, oh, what a bro. Yeah, But normally
I'll just sit in the drive through line here because
if I if I want what it is, that's what I want,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Okay, I got you all right? What's next? By the way,
speaking to what's next, I did get an email and
it turns out Lorraine, Ah, your wish will be the
command of the fry Daddy. He says, Lorena will get
the sneakers, Lady size six, stop it, baby said, but
they haven't even made them yet. I don't think. But
he said, he says he's gonna hook you up.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Okay, this guy, that'd be crazy. I think this guy
sent the Tasty cakes. This guy's he said, Oh my gosh.
So he's a good friend.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Then, yeah, he's a friend of the show Tasty.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
This guy's a big fan, a big fan of show.
All right, I was next.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Uh double A Mexican wants to know. Have you ever
puked while on a roller coaster or ride?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, I did one time. Look like I wet my
pants at Disneyland on the I think they got rid
of it Splash Mountain.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
I think that's gone now they did get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, yeah, I actually liked that right a lot.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Well, it's still there. It's just called isn't it, isn't
it Princess.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Well, it's under construction, so it's going to be the same.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
It's gonna be the same ride with different characters because
the old one was racist.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Everything's right.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I love that you blamed it on the ride, Ben,
you know it was you Well, you.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Know sometimes you just gotta go, you know, it's yeah
Eddie any.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
No, I haven't, but I have been close a few times,
and so I get motion sickness pretty bad, and my
wife likes to go on a lot of those, Like
the only one I can handle at Disneyland is the
h the no no no, that's fine, the Oh Lorraine
and helped me out the roller coaster Space Mountain.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
No no no, not that one.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
No Thunder Okay, I got it. Should know that one's
my daughter's favorite.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Yeah that's great. Me and your daughter can go on
the ride together.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
You know, it's a big thunder Mountain I can handle,
But like the big one in California.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Adventures, I can't take that one.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Credit coaster, I can't.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Take Space Mountain.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I can't do the uh the one where you drop
the galaxy the gardens. But we so we bought this
thing that's supposed to help you with motion sickness. It's
like looks like a watch and has this electrical current
that turns on. Actually it helped, it helped, But the
bad thing was that I decided to get, you know,
go over the top with it and we went on everything,
(32:45):
and that ended up being too much. So I have
not puked the answer the question, but I've been close
a few times.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
As we learned as kids, everything in moderation. What about you, Loraid, Oh,
I love coasters.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
I was raised on coasters. I've never been a puker,
but I I cannot do the spinny ones like where
you hold onto the wall or you don't hold onto
the wall.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I cannot do those. I will puke.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, and the ones that really annoyed me a like
at Universal Studios they have the ones that just got you.
They just shake you.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Oh in the VR ones where you have like where
it's three D in your face.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
I can't do that. It's my coop pretty much the
exact same answer as the rain. I love roller coasters.
I'm a thrilled junkie. I've never thrown up on a ride,
but I have thrown up immediately after getting off. You
see them at the carnival and they look like a
UFO and you lay down on the thing and it
spins and then you like go up and down and
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then that that I have thrown up afterwards, but never
never on a ride.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I try to sneak a couple more will tighten up
our answer. Shit what's next? Cool?
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Donkey Sausage wants to know how often do you run
your dishwasher?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Usually I'm the dishwasher once a day, usually once a day,
that's it, Coop or Eddie.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
If only once a day, not three times a day,
I'd say we probably use it probably four or five
times a week.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh wow, okay, we'll cry out a couple of days.
Well what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I am the dish washer and I do not like
to run.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, all right, what about you? Cool?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Probably twice a week, that's it?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
All right, what's next? What do we have here?
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Fields of Green wants to know what's the longest realistic
amount of years in jail slash prison that you could make?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
It?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Zero? I don't know. I mean I think my I
wouldn't do well there. Maybe in like a couple of months,
Eddie a week? Maybe maybe Loreno, sixteen hours was too much?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Wow, all right, bore on that later. Cool, Yeah, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
I wouldn't last to night.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
We're all this is except Loraino. She's apparently alright.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
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Speaker 1 (34:53):
Let's get to Eddie though, right now, get you caught
up on everything hockey wise, Puck. It's almost playoff time, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
That's right, Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
We've got one day left in the NHL regular season,
which ends on Thursday.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
NHL playoffs start on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
We know all the matchups in the East, half of
them in the West and the East. Who got the
New York Rangers who won the President's Trophy for the
most points one hundred and fourteen, one more than the
Dallas Stars. That could be bad news though for the
Blue Shirts. Last eleven President's Trophy winners have failed to
win the Stanley Cup. Last team to do it was
the twenty thirteen Chicago Blackhawks. Rangels face the Washington Capitals
in the opening round. Cap squeaked in in their final
(35:28):
game thanks to an empty net goal against the Flyers.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
It was tied one one in the third.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Philadelphia I had to win the game in regulation to
keep their playoff hopes alive, and that's why Washington got
the empty net goal and that win eliminated Philadelphia, Detroit
and Pittsburgh and Washington got in Florida Panthers beat out
the Boston Bruins on the final day of the regular
season for the Atlantic Division title. Panthers will face in
state rivals the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round.
That series starts Sunday. Bruins will face the Toronto mape
be Leiefs in a series that starts Saturday. And the
(35:53):
final playoff matchup in the East as the Carolina Hurricanes
against the New York Islanders for a second straight year,
and that will start on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
In the we know two of the playoff matchups.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Dallas Stars are the Central Division champs, that the one
seed in the West and they will face the Nashville Predators.
And then you got the Winnipeg Jets taking on the
Color Avalanche. That's the two to three matchup out of
the Central Division. Pacific Division champion Vancouver Canucks and the
Edmonton Oilers will find out who they'll play with a
pair of games coming up on Thursday, Vegas against Anaheim
and LA against Chicago. If the Golden Knights win, Vegas
(36:22):
will take on Edmonton, LA would face Dallas. If the
Kings win and the Golden Knights Louise, the Kings would
face Edmonton and the Golden Knights would take on the Stars.
Western Conference playoffs are going to start on Monday, so
Miles Stones. As the season game to an end. Toronto
Maye believes star Austin Matthews fell one goal short of
seventy on the season. I did not what a loser.
Did not have a goal in the last night's lost
to Tampa Bayser. Washington Capitol's Hall of famer Alexandrovechkin scored
(36:46):
on the team's final regular season game. He's got thirty
one on the season, eight to fifty three in his career.
He'll enter next season forty two away from Wayne Gretzky's
all time record.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Very good.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
In the history of the NHL, we've had three players
Wayne Gretzky, Marley Mew and Bobby Orr post one hundred
assists in a season before this year. This year, two
players did it, Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Tampa Bay's The
Key to Kucherov had a couple of hockey voices calling
it a career. Jeff Rimmer, longtime columns Bluejacks TV voice,
announced his retirement after twenty seasons.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Did his son work here?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
I don't know. I didn't know that it was a case.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Oh wow, yeah, in the early days. Huh. I believe
that's the same guy. Josh Rimmer is his kid.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
I'm not sure about that, right.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Jack Edwards TV voice the Boston Bruins announce his retirement
after nineteen seasons.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
He's had some hell but.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yes, yeah, he said it. He was a little off
his game. He sounded kind of like Ralph Waller, the
Clipper guy at the end there.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Yeah, say, he said, it's an undiagnosed medical issue that's
been affecting his speech. They don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah, you can't find it.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
We had our final coaching change of the season, Buffalo
Sabers firing their head coach Don Granado after five years.
The Buffalo Sabers had missed the playoffs and angel record
thirteen straight seasons. Last night in Arizona maybe the final
game of NHL hockey in the Desert. At least this
version of the Coyote has played their final game before
heading off to Salt Lake City.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
The NHL Board of govern is officially going to vote
on this tomorrow. They're gonna approve it. Coyotes won the game,
eating the oilers five to two. There were tears in
Arizona and also Ben your favorite rhythmic chanting, We have it.
Here you go go, let's listen.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Oh yeah, bit sucks.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
No, No, they're saying Salt Lake sucks.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh I thought they said Batman suck.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
I get Oh, salt Lake, Salt Lake sucks.
Speaker 7 (38:29):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I think that's illegal. And salt Kitty. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
One final thing.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Wait, who's the greatest Arizona coyote assuming they don't come back?
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Shane Don?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
What about Keith Chuck?
Speaker 7 (38:44):
No, Shane Don?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
What about Jeremy Rode?
Speaker 7 (38:46):
He played there on Shane Done?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Is the answer?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Three times?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Now, I'm gonna go kut Chuck.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
I got this from FSR affiliate manager Kirk Krushmeyer, who
was at the game. He saw I saw him video
and pictures of the final game there.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
He said.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
He talked to some Utah media folks and you mentioned
this earlier. The two front runners for the name of
the Utah NHL team are the Blizzard.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
Or the name that Larna came up the stoped.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yes, how about that, there, Eddie, there are AI jerseys.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
It looked pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
Actually, yeah, the the Utah, Yetti, I will buy you
a jersey.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
If they don't go with the Yeti name, it'd be
a travesty.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
They got between Yedi your Blizzards. Definitely Eddie ye played.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
It'll continue the tradition of hockey having the most team
names without an S on the end.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Right, maybe you'll have to switch teams because ice hockey
has always been my favorite sport.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You've grown on even more now, why you're sucking up?
Speaker 5 (39:58):
That's the first sport I went to.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
Awesome?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, what team do you like now?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (40:03):
It's the Ducks.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
My heart has been broken forward.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
Come on, come on, Yettie.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yeah, here we go. That's your uh the world play
got Eddie Eddie. I think they play spaghetti.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
They'll probably call them mascot Eddie, the Yetie, right, we.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Have to something like that. And they serve Yeti spaghetti
and he could do that as well, and yeah, yeah,
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tire buying should be and we're back again. Blah blah
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blah blah. No, our lead this hour coming from the
Losers series. The NBA artificially creating a tournament to get
into the tournament when they already have a tournament to
get into the tournament, they have a second tournament to
get in the tournament. It's very so I have an
eighty two game tournament to get into the tournament, but
(02:01):
that's not enough, so they added another tournament to get
into the tournament. Hoo, goofed, I've got to them. So
the Heat and Sixers were on the undercard, but they
were the main event from Philadelphia. That was the game
that had a little little rasthmataz to it, the winner
getting the number seven seed. Now we're gonna assume the
(02:22):
position that you did not watch. Maybe you did, but
we are watching these games as a public service for you,
the consumer, so you don't have to worry about watching
these NBA games. So Joel and Bid did not play
particularly well, but he's the headliner. So the fact that
he had twenty three points and fifteen rebounds on an
(02:45):
off night, he did have a big assist to Kelly
Oubre junior on a go ahead three pointer that helped
the Sixers to a win, a one point win over
the Heat in the Eastern Conference. Playing games, Battoom, a
former Clipper, doing what Clippers do this time of the year.
(03:05):
He had a game shifting three point seven. He hit
three points at halftime, and he looked like Klay Thompson
used to play in the playoffs in the second half.
There is several big shots for Batoom, who was part
of the James Harden trade, But the better story is
where that's right, you are a good student. The better
(03:26):
story is in the losing locker room. So Miami's Jimmy
Buckets and full disclosure, we are big fans, big fans
of Jimmy Buckets and the approach, the grinded out approach,
the king the kitchen sink approach where he just throws
everything out there every game. So we like the guy.
(03:47):
He's getting absolutely cooked speaking of the kitchen for being
the star for Miami and blowing a fourteen point lead.
Of course, he also suffered an injury that never happened.
NBA players never get hurt. It's so rare to have
an NBA game where a player gets hurt. It just
almost never happens. So it's shocking when someone gets hurt.
(04:07):
It's like it's like, you know, they say in the
news business dog bites man. Not a story. Man bites dog.
That's the story. NBA player gets hurt, that's a big story.
So anyway, let us discuss true or false. Jimmy Butler
in the Heat deserve to be vilified for losing to
the Sixers. So this much, I know it is true.
(04:30):
I know that I'm not in my head. Yes it
is true. I've got the Commodoores, Sotheby's, and sleeve tattoo,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to create a talking parrot. Someday I
will be replaced by a talking parrot that will be
AI generated. I'm convinced of that, all right, So a
(04:53):
listen to answer the question again. It's true, Jimmy Butler
in the heat do deserve to be crucified and villified
and all that. That's how this works. If you haven't
figured that out, I don't. I don't know what I
can do for you, Okay, I don't. I don't. I
don't I get I can't help you. Miami had a
power outage. Jimmy Butler and Tyler Hero combined for forty
(05:13):
four points. It sounds pretty good, right, sounds pretty good,
somewhat impressive if you didn't watch the game, which she
probably didn't, the dynamic duo was shooting blanks. The soundtrack
of this performance was nineteen seventies disco the Commodores Brick House.
They shot a combined thirty one percent thirty one percent,
(05:35):
fourteen to forty five and, as we like to say
on this show, sucking at a time you cannot suck.
Butler was playing on emotion. You know word you want
to use here? Adrenaline, I guess is the word many
will use. But he was a decoy down the stretch.
He got hurt early in the game. He was a
(05:56):
decoy down the stretch. We are told that he is
likely out for the rest of the play in which
is one more game here. He's out in definitely with
an MCL injury, pending further medical tests. That puts the
heat behind the proverbial eight ball when they go back
to South Beach with the Bulls coming in for a
(06:17):
playing game to be the eight seed. More on that
in a minute. Either way, to get back to the
premise of this. It was a famous line by Bill Parcels,
who won a lot in his day, and he said,
no matter how much you win, no matter how many games,
no matter any championships, you're not winning now, So you stink.
And that's the way that sports works now be I
(06:40):
did say we would take the express trend. We are
taking the express train to sweet Home Chicago, where the
deep dish pizza is great and the basketball is not
so much. Kobe White, Kobe who not Kobe Bryant, Kobe White,
a virtuoso performance. Have a night doesn't even count. It
(07:00):
doesn't count as a playoff game, It doesn't count a
regular season game. Stuck in the middle of Kobe White
painting a masterpiece here, he had forty two points, led
the Bulls to a barbecue of the Hawks. Yeah, I
don't think that's a lot. I think they're in danger
of the Hawks. You're not allowed to barbecue them. But
they did. They win going away a big lead early,
(07:20):
blew the lead Chicago, and then ended up fattening up
the lead late in the game. So Chicago will now
play the aforementioned heat. I was gonna keep this plan
simple here for the right to be disemboweled by the
number one see number Celtics in the first round. Now,
the spicy meatball on this one is not on the
(07:43):
Chicago side. I try to accommodate your femi and all that.
But the story here the spicy meatballs on the four
or four. What a great area code that is. It's
an error code on the internet, but it's the area
code in Atlanta. So did Trey Young just play his
final game for the Hawks? So the scales are certainly
(08:06):
leaning significantly that way, right, Not that way, They're leaning
this way over here. And I'll tell you why Atlanta
has gone stale. They were lucky dogs a couple years ago,
Maye to run to the Eastern finals, a couple of
wins away from the finals. But they have done the
moonwalk and they have regressed since twenty twenty one. You
(08:27):
look at professional sports, the industrial complex at professional sports,
and if you're just stuck treading water, you're going to
make a big move. It happens all the time. That's
the normal paint by numbers approach to sports, and these
things many say running their course here as a distant
relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas. He lives in Seattle.
(08:50):
We believe the Hawks have already reached out to Sotheby's,
the fine auction house, and Trey Young will be put
up for auction with those contemporary paintings, the jewelry, the
other collectibles at Southeby's and it just events. Will the Lakers,
the Heat, the Bulls, the MAVs, the Clippers, somebody like that.
(09:11):
Meet the buy now price tack. Stay tuned, developing hot
dot dot dot. All right, last word here, We now
hop on the train we go out to the Bay Area.
They are still conducting an autopsy on the Warriors here.
The body is not cold yet. Warriors have been eliminated.
(09:35):
We have heard in the last twenty four hours that
Chris Paul says he will not retire, not retire, and
they're very concerned about that. He will continue to collect
a lot of money for very little performance, but likely
will not be back with Golden State. Andrew Wiggins, his
name has been floated out and he was not exactly
(09:57):
tearing up the dance floor there for the Warriors. He
will to be entering the transfer portal. Meanwhile, the Komodo
Dragonal room here, the Warriors Sea Captain. It's like the Titanic.
Klay Thompson, Oh for ten Clay. He says that he
has not given much thought to his NBA future. Do
(10:19):
you believe him? Do you believe Clay Thompson? So the answer,
I'm gonn combine a couple of letters here, N plus
Oh no, I don't believe now. He played his final
game like a guy with a lot of anxiety, like
a guy that was going through all the great memories
(10:40):
of his salad days with the Warriors. That's what he
looked like. He looked like a guy that was wearing
it on his sleeve tattoo. Right. The basketball scribes are
already trying to get him on to his next team.
They're floating outs and innarios where Clay Thompson goes to
Dallas or Orlando and that those are safe spaces for
(11:00):
the fallen splash brother. But I will gare on to
you there was not going to be a bidding war.
I think that's easy to say. Clay is an acquired
taste at this point. It appears in many performances he
has made out of Clay and not the good kind.
Not the good kind. He's no longer a force multiplier.
(11:23):
I would put him in the Ham and Eggert category
these days. He does have an impressive Wikipedia page if
you're into that kind of thing. So that's a positive.
That's a good thing, So read about the glory days.
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The final bet you make is a losing bet. Wel
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and our lead this hour coming from the sportsbook. This
would be a much bigger story if it was about
someone we've heard of. It's not. But there is a
pro bouncy ball bombshell scandal, and you know how this works.
We put a full court press. We have in depth
team coverage of scandal radio. There's nothing we like more
(13:50):
than a nice scandal. So if somehow you have missed
it and you have not been paying attention, it is
conceivable that you actually have things go on and you
were not paying attention. So if you missed it, NBA
Commissioner from somewhere outside the Cosmos, Adam Silver. Adam Silver
(14:10):
has given the career death penalty to John tay Porter
that's a basketball player, not a good one, not a
good one, but a basketball player. He gets a lifetime
ban for breaking the cardinal rule of professional sports. You
don't bet on the sport that you play in. You
can't do it. It's taboo. Now, the league was able
(14:32):
to collaborate those early internet reports that we had talked
about in previous episodes of the show that he was
on the Internet giving out picks to people on discords.
Wild right, He was actually doing it. Now. Porter gave
certain gamblers confidential information on Wall Street. They call it
(14:55):
insider trading. It is kind of odd, though, because the
way it works on Wall Street. If you're if you're
just a regular person and you get insider information, you
go to jail for it. But if you're in Congress
you get rich from It's it's odd, very odd anyway,
So this kat portl Porter. John tay Porter had been
(15:16):
on games, even a team he was associated with, the
Toronto Raptors. He bet on the Raptors to lose smart Man.
All right, so let us discuss the question. You're unfamiliar
the n b A. The NBA has given Raptors forward
John tay Porter a lifetime ban for gamling. How do
you react to this news? So I've got Billy Madison,
(15:40):
Kamakazi and Orwellian and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a slot machine,
which is what John day Porter can now play. He
can play the penny slots because he ain't gonna be
making any money anytime soon. So nahum w a, right,
(16:03):
here we go lock these things all together like a
fourteen parlay. So full disclosure here, full disclosure. As we
had mentioned, we have never heard or we had never
heard of Johntay Porter before this episode, and reading the
details of this pretty good reading, pretty good reading. He's
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got to be on the spectrum, right what a pea brain?
Porter giving Better Better's random betters information about his health
prior to games. The eighty thousand dollars bet was the
Waterloo momont So some jamoke, some random dude bet eighty
thousand dollars on Johntay Porter that he would not reach
(16:48):
his his statistics for that game. The prop bets for
that game and set him in parlays through an online
sports didn't name the sports book, but that bet would
have won one point one million dollars. I say would
have because that was the game where Porter conveniently took
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himself out of the game after only a few minutes,
claiming illness, and none of the stats met the totals
that were required, so the parlay would have won the bet,
though they did not cash the ticket because the people
at the gambling house said, wait a minute, somebody bet
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eighty thousand dollars on John Day Porter. That must be
somebody that knows Jontay Porter, and so the bet was
frozen and not paid out. Back in the old days
they used to circle games. The game was circle, they'd
limited how much you could better, but that bet was frozen,
and at that moment, from what we understand, the gambling
outfit contacted the NBA and said, hey, we we got something.
(17:56):
It doesn't smell right here and something's not right. So
the NBA started an investigation, but they actually started it
because of the gambling people, not because of their own
inside information, and that has led to the current excommunication
from the Church of pro Bouncy Ball. So John Day Porter,
guy's twenty four years old, young cat, twenty four years old,
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he placed at least thirteen bets. I'm gonna say that
he placed many more bets on random NBA games using
someone else's account, so at least he attempted to hide
it a little bit. But then you see that he
won on a discord and was giving out information about
him when everyone else probably on that discord, had no
(18:40):
idea who he was. The bets he made this is
the thing that pulls me. He made bets ranging from
fifteen dollars to twenty two thousand all together, the wagers,
the thirteen wagers, he bet fifty four ninety four dollars.
At least that's according to the story that's going around,
and that iterated a payout of seventy six thousand dollars
(19:04):
a little over that, so he actually won twenty one thousand,
nine hundred and sixty five dollars. But the further you
go down the rabbit hole, this is a Billy Madison special.
It is one of the most insanely idiotic things I
have ever heard or read. John tay Porter earned four
hundred and fifteen thousand dollars this season to be a
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two way player. Let me rebeate that for those who
have back four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, Where I
come from, your rich at four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars,
and in his NBA career he has made almost three
million dollars with Memphis and Toronto, and he flushed all
of it away to win twenty one almost twenty two
(19:51):
thousand dollars. So again I'm using maln math here, but
I don't think I'm wrong. If you have a career
that'll pay you two point eight million, he probably could
have hung around for another two or three years and
made another four or five hundred thousand dollars a year.
So that's another million and a half dollars to do nothing,
and instead he was betting fifteen dollars one hundred dollars
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a couple thousand dollars. He did win twenty one thousand,
but if you're gonna lose your entire career, shouldn't you
bet more? At no point did he have any rational thought.
And maybe I should get out of us. Everyone in
the room is now dumber for having heard about this.
And as they said in Billy Madison, I ward you
no points you and may God have mercy on your soul.
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Now page two here, as we continue in depth team coverage,
what do you surmise legged Johntay Porter on a ride
to the wild side or the dark side here? So
what maybe he was a huge Pete Rose fan. Could
he have been buddies with Otani's interpreter. Is his favorite
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NFL player a certain wide receiver that likes betting on parlays?
I don't know. I'm just asking now. It is more
likely than not, based on what I know about gambling,
that he's been betting for a long time, and it's
highly doubtful that he just started betting when he got
to the NBA. I find that hard to believe. Now. Listen, obviously,
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these people that have issues. You can get addicted to gambling,
just like you can get addicted to alcohol, any kind
of vice. I was addicted to food. You can be
addicted to anything. A lot of human beings are prone
to addiction, and we're all wired the same way when
it comes to that. And so betting on the NBA, though,
while playing in the NBA is a mortal city is
(21:40):
a Kamakazi mission is what it is. You know how
it's going to end. It's like to meme and you
can get that chart out f around and find out
completely unnecessary. Right, most people that are Jones in the
gamble and I'm a gambler. It's about the action. Michael
Jordan was a prolific gamb but we believe he was
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suspended from the NBA and sent to Birmingham to play
baseball in the minor leagues because of his gambling problem
by David Stern. But they hit it and it went
to the grave with David Stern. That's a different conversation.
But John day Porter here if you're into it for
the action, it is allowed. NBA players and employees of
the NBA are allowed to bet on other sports outside
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the NBA if it's legal where you are and so
you can get your fix. You can bet during basketball season.
You can bet on hockey games. You can bet on
NFL games, college football, you can bet on Major League
Baseball games. But if you bet on the NBA, you're
a dumbass. Okay, and listen highlight gambling. Have a TV show.
I had a TV show last year. Hopefully'll be back
(22:46):
this year. I don't know yet about gambling. We've talked
a lot of gambling the show. I support it, but
I don't bet on Fox Sports Radio. I don't bet
against Fox Sports Radio. I don't bet on sports radio.
I don't. I've never place to bet on the Sports
Hub in Boston or the Fan in New York, or
AM five seventy in LA or any of these stations. No,
(23:08):
I don't bet on them. No, I could bet a
three team parlay, right, I could bet a three team
parlay on all these different affiliates that we have around
around the country. Nor final point, So is there a
lesson to be learned from this NBA gambling scandal? Of
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course there is. It's not going to be learned, but
it is a teachable moment. The NBA already mandates gambling
training for all of their employees, which is one of
those corporate bull crap things. So we don't want to
get sued and we can say, hey, we forced you
to get training and you didn't do what you were
(23:48):
supposed to do and all that, but you can't sue
us because we told you to do it. But yeah,
this is clearly a teachable moment. It is Orwellian one
oh one Orwellian one o one in all walks of life,
Big brother is watching you. The PSA copy that I've
done over the years is right. They'll see you before
you see them. Sports gambling is no different sports gambling companies,
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and they're great advertisers here and we love them. But
they spend a lot of money, right with surveillance monitoring everything,
and they're watching for squiggly lines, shall we say, They're
looking for unusual things that pop up on their computer screens, like,
(24:35):
for example, somebody betting eighty thousand dollars on Johntay Porter
on a random Wednesday night. They're looking at things like that.
And again, in case you've lived in a shoe box
your entire life, they spend a ton of mucho de
naro to prevent insider trading you see in the gambling world.
And even though I love to bet, the house usually wins, right,
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that's the frustrating part. The house usually wins. They're guaranteed
solid profits just based on the juice the veig They're
guaranteed pretty good profits. The only way they don't get
that is if things are crooked. If things are crooked,
the whole house of cards comes falling down. They fall
(25:18):
into oblivion, kind of like Johntay Porter is going to
fall into oblivion oblivion at this particular.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Point, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Here we go, Heller, how about that? To the third degree?
This is one big Ben gets grilled, Coop daalu.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
According to reports, the NBA is considering using the n
season tournament as the first tiebreaker for playoff seeding next year. Ben,
how'd you feel about this idea?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
All right? So I put this in the same category
with when Bud Celix said this time it counts for
the All Star Game. It's so stupid, dumb. You know,
the end season tournament is lame. You're you're trying to
give it some substance when it shouldn't. It shouldn't even exist.
It's so ridiculous. In the in the Annals of Bad ideas,
(26:12):
Adam Silver is like the king of a bad idea.
Just stop stop next.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Lebron James revealed on the most recent episode of his
HBO show that he is still salty about not getting
an NBA Defensive Player of the Year award in his career,
and he said that he should have got it in
twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Is he right?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Well, Coop, as you know it's twenty twenty four. You
want me to go back and watch every game of
twenty thirty thirteen. No, here's my memory. Okay, here's my
memory of Lebron in that era. As a defender, he
was a selectively good defender. There are a lot of
the game, A lot of the game he would just
kind of lag, and then there select plays he would
make amazing plays and highlight plays that he would end
(26:54):
up on Sports Center back when people used to watch that.
But I don't ever remember him a consistently eight shutdown defender.
So I'm gonna say Lebron's full of crap.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Next, the NBA media is upset that they were unable
to vote for Nick's guard Dante DiVincenzo for the most
Improved Player because he was ineligible. Even though Devincenzo played
in eighty one games, many of those that he played
were less than twenty minutes, which is apparently the minimum
requirement for the game to count towards that threshold. Then,
is this something that needs to be tweaked.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
No, I mean, it's great he played eighty one games,
but if you're playing less than twenty minutes a game,
there's forty eight minutes in the game, so you're not
even playing half the game, like what are we doing here?
Like what the hell are we doing here? And how
we don't come out?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
You fail this edition?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
What are you talking about? For what reason?
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Your last two answers suck?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
They were great at Lebron was a selective defender.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
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Speaker 5 (28:00):
Time for time for.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Howry I can wait? Ask Bed? Twitter said, this is
your questions on Twitter now the way we go ask Ben.
Your questions are answers, even the oddball ones. For the
rest of the hours, the late great broadcaster Larry King
said back in his day, and we passed the microphone
over to the Kooper loop for the reading of the questions.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
All right, we're gonna start with a question from Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Hi, Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
He wants to know if the drive through lane is
too long, do you get out to buy the food
or do you go somewhere else?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, So I hate waiting online. I've reached that age
in life where I don't like to wait online for anything,
So I will go in. Plus, I get a few
steps in there, so I will go in, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Depends if I'm in a hurry, then yeah, I'll go in.
If I'm not, if I don't have anything going on,
then I'll just sit in the drive through and twiddle
around on my phone.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Okay, Lorain, Oh you used to have it delivered. I
know you.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
No, I'm really not that fancy. It's my friend who
has it delivered. But no, I'm actually I put a
lot of thought into this. It depends on where I'm going,
so it like in.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
And out fought into a question. Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
No.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
When I go to drive through places and the line's long, like,
if I know that they can get.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
It out fast, I just go through it.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
But like some places, they really they hold you up,
dairy queen, I never go through the drive through.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I will be there for forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
No, I hate. I also hate when you go through
a nice restaurant and you don't get the bill for
like twenty minutes. Oh that's the worst, sucks, Coop.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Now it's funny that he should ask this today because
earlier tonight for dinner, I went to Taco Bell and
I pull into the drive through. There's a line and
as soon as I pull up, this guy comes out
of the Taco Bell and he walks up to my
window and he's like he's motioning for me to put
the window down, and I do, and he's like, hey, man,
I just want to give you a heads up, like
something's going on in the drive through. That truck in
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that car. They haven't moved for the last fifteen minutes,
so you should probably just get out. And I'm like, oh, cool,
good looking out man. And I get out of the
car and I go in and I place my order
on the screen and Taco Bell, and then I proceed
to sit there for like twenty five minutes and watch
that truck in that car just drive on through.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
I thought you dirty. I thought this guy was like.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
I was like, oh, what a bro. Yeah, But normally
I'll just sit in the drive through line here because
if I if I want what it is, that's what I want,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Okay, I got you all right? What's next? By the way,
speaking to what's next, I did get an email and
it turns out Lorraine, Ah, your wish will be the
command of the fry Daddy. He says, Lorena will get
the sneakers, Lady size six, stop it, baby said, but
they haven't even made them yet. I don't think. But
he said, he says he's gonna hook you up.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Okay, this guy, that'd be crazy. I think this guy
sent the Tasty cakes. This guy's he said, Oh my gosh.
So he's a good friend.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Then, yeah, he's a friend of the show Tasty.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
This guy's a big fan, a big fan of show.
All right, I was next.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Uh double A Mexican wants to know. Have you ever
puked while on a roller coaster or ride?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
No, I did one time. Look like I wet my
pants at Disneyland on the I think they got rid
of it Splash Mountain.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
I think that's gone now they did get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, yeah, I actually liked that right a lot.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Well, it's still there. It's just called isn't it, isn't
it Princess.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Well, it's under construction, so it's going to be the same.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
It's gonna be the same ride with different characters because
the old one was racist.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Everything's right.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I love that you blamed it on the ride, Ben,
you know it was you Well, you.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Know sometimes you just gotta go, you know, it's yeah
Eddie any.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
No, I haven't, but I have been close a few times,
and so I get motion sickness pretty bad, and my
wife likes to go on a lot of those, Like
the only one I can handle at Disneyland is the
h the no no no, that's fine, the Oh Lorraine
and helped me out the roller coaster Space Mountain.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
No no no, not that one.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
No Thunder Okay, I got it. Should know that one's
my daughter's favorite.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
Yeah that's great. Me and your daughter can go on
the ride together.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
You know, it's a big thunder Mountain I can handle,
But like the big one in California.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Adventures, I can't take that one.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Credit coaster, I can't.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Take Space Mountain.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
I can't do the uh the one where you drop
the galaxy the gardens. But we so we bought this
thing that's supposed to help you with motion sickness. It's
like looks like a watch and has this electrical current
that turns on. Actually it helped, it helped, But the
bad thing was that I decided to get, you know,
go over the top with it and we went on everything,
(32:45):
and that ended up being too much. So I have
not puked the answer the question, but I've been close
a few times.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
As we learned as kids, everything in moderation. What about you, Loraid, Oh,
I love coasters.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
I was raised on coasters. I've never been a puker,
but I I cannot do the spinny ones like where
you hold onto the wall or you don't hold onto
the wall.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I cannot do those. I will puke.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Yeah, and the ones that really annoyed me a like
at Universal Studios they have the ones that just got you.
They just shake you.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Oh in the VR ones where you have like where
it's three D in your face.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
I can't do that. It's my coop pretty much the
exact same answer as the rain. I love roller coasters.
I'm a thrilled junkie. I've never thrown up on a ride,
but I have thrown up immediately after getting off. You
see them at the carnival and they look like a
UFO and you lay down on the thing and it
spins and then you like go up and down and
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then that that I have thrown up afterwards, but never
never on a ride.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I try to sneak a couple more will tighten up
our answer. Shit what's next? Cool?
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Donkey Sausage wants to know how often do you run
your dishwasher?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Usually I'm the dishwasher once a day, usually once a day,
that's it, Coop or Eddie.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
If only once a day, not three times a day,
I'd say we probably use it probably four or five
times a week.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh wow, okay, we'll cry out a couple of days.
Well what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 5 (34:05):
I am the dish washer and I do not like
to run.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, all right, what about you? Cool?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Probably twice a week, that's it?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
All right, what's next? What do we have here?
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Fields of Green wants to know what's the longest realistic
amount of years in jail slash prison that you could make?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
It?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Zero? I don't know. I mean I think my I
wouldn't do well there. Maybe in like a couple of months,
Eddie a week? Maybe maybe Loreno, sixteen hours was too much?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Wow, all right, bore on that later. Cool, Yeah, I wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
I wouldn't last to night.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
We're all this is except Loraino. She's apparently alright.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Let's get to Eddie though, right now, get you caught
up on everything hockey wise, Puck. It's almost playoff time, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
That's right, Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
We've got one day left in the NHL regular season,
which ends on Thursday.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
NHL playoffs start on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
We know all the matchups in the East, half of
them in the West and the East. Who got the
New York Rangers who won the President's Trophy for the
most points one hundred and fourteen, one more than the
Dallas Stars. That could be bad news though for the
Blue Shirts. Last eleven President's Trophy winners have failed to
win the Stanley Cup. Last team to do it was
the twenty thirteen Chicago Blackhawks. Rangels face the Washington Capitals
in the opening round. Cap squeaked in in their final
(35:28):
game thanks to an empty net goal against the Flyers.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
It was tied one one in the third.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Philadelphia I had to win the game in regulation to
keep their playoff hopes alive, and that's why Washington got
the empty net goal and that win eliminated Philadelphia, Detroit
and Pittsburgh and Washington got in Florida Panthers beat out
the Boston Bruins on the final day of the regular
season for the Atlantic Division title. Panthers will face in
state rivals the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round.
That series starts Sunday. Bruins will face the Toronto mape
be Leiefs in a series that starts Saturday. And the
(35:53):
final playoff matchup in the East as the Carolina Hurricanes
against the New York Islanders for a second straight year,
and that will start on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (35:59):
In the we know two of the playoff matchups.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
Dallas Stars are the Central Division champs, that the one
seed in the West and they will face the Nashville Predators.
And then you got the Winnipeg Jets taking on the
Color Avalanche. That's the two to three matchup out of
the Central Division. Pacific Division champion Vancouver Canucks and the
Edmonton Oilers will find out who they'll play with a
pair of games coming up on Thursday, Vegas against Anaheim
and LA against Chicago. If the Golden Knights win, Vegas
(36:22):
will take on Edmonton, LA would face Dallas. If the
Kings win and the Golden Knights Louise, the Kings would
face Edmonton and the Golden Knights would take on the Stars.
Western Conference playoffs are going to start on Monday, so
Miles Stones. As the season game to an end. Toronto
Maye believes star Austin Matthews fell one goal short of
seventy on the season. I did not what a loser.
Did not have a goal in the last night's lost
to Tampa Bayser. Washington Capitol's Hall of famer Alexandrovechkin scored
(36:46):
on the team's final regular season game. He's got thirty
one on the season, eight to fifty three in his career.
He'll enter next season forty two away from Wayne Gretzky's
all time record.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
Very good.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
In the history of the NHL, we've had three players
Wayne Gretzky, Marley Mew and Bobby Orr post one hundred
assists in a season before this year. This year, two
players did it, Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Tampa Bay's The
Key to Kucherov had a couple of hockey voices calling
it a career. Jeff Rimmer, longtime columns Bluejacks TV voice,
announced his retirement after twenty seasons.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Did his son work here?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
I don't know. I didn't know that it was a case.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Oh wow, yeah, in the early days. Huh. I believe
that's the same guy. Josh Rimmer is his kid.
Speaker 7 (37:24):
I'm not sure about that, right.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Jack Edwards TV voice the Boston Bruins announce his retirement
after nineteen seasons.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
He's had some hell but.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yes, yeah, he said it. He was a little off
his game. He sounded kind of like Ralph Waller, the
Clipper guy at the end there.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Yeah, say, he said, it's an undiagnosed medical issue that's
been affecting his speech. They don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yeah, you can't find it.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
We had our final coaching change of the season, Buffalo
Sabers firing their head coach Don Granado after five years.
The Buffalo Sabers had missed the playoffs and angel record
thirteen straight seasons. Last night in Arizona maybe the final
game of NHL hockey in the Desert. At least this
version of the Coyote has played their final game before
heading off to Salt Lake City.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
The NHL Board of govern is officially going to vote
on this tomorrow. They're gonna approve it. Coyotes won the game,
eating the oilers five to two. There were tears in
Arizona and also Ben your favorite rhythmic chanting, We have it.
Here you go go, let's listen.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Oh yeah, bit sucks.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
No, No, they're saying Salt Lake sucks.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh I thought they said Batman suck.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
I get Oh, salt Lake, Salt Lake sucks.
Speaker 7 (38:29):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I think that's illegal. And salt Kitty. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (38:35):
One final thing.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Wait, who's the greatest Arizona coyote assuming they don't come back?
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Shane Don?
Speaker 1 (38:42):
What about Keith Chuck?
Speaker 7 (38:44):
No, Shane Don?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
What about Jeremy Rode?
Speaker 7 (38:46):
He played there on Shane Done?
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Is the answer?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Three times?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Now, I'm gonna go kut Chuck.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
I got this from FSR affiliate manager Kirk Krushmeyer, who
was at the game. He saw I saw him video
and pictures of the final game there.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
He said.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
He talked to some Utah media folks and you mentioned
this earlier. The two front runners for the name of
the Utah NHL team are the Blizzard.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
Or the name that Larna came up the stoped.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yes, how about that, there, Eddie, there are AI jerseys.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
It looked pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
Actually, yeah, the the Utah, Yetti, I will buy you
a jersey.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
If they don't go with the Yeti name, it'd be
a travesty.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
They got between Yedi your Blizzards. Definitely Eddie ye played.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
It'll continue the tradition of hockey having the most team
names without an S on the end.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Right, maybe you'll have to switch teams because ice hockey
has always been my favorite sport.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You've grown on even more now, why you're sucking up?
Speaker 5 (39:58):
That's the first sport I went to.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
Awesome?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, what team do you like now?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (40:03):
It's the Ducks.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
My heart has been broken forward.
Speaker 7 (40:10):
Come on, come on, Yettie.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Yeah, here we go. That's your uh the world play
got Eddie Eddie. I think they play spaghetti.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
They'll probably call them mascot Eddie, the Yetie, right, we.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Have to something like that. And they serve Yeti spaghetti
and he could do that as well, and yeah, yeah,
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