April 22, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Clippers dominant victory over the Mavericks in Game 1, if the Heat targeted Jayson Tatum with a cheap shot, how the Bucks avoided the Doc Rivers effect, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one of the
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today on this Monday, the twenty second day of April
NFL Draft Week, we of course start with the NBA.
Are you more impressed with James Harden's Clippers or stunned
by Luka doncikas Mavericks and their performance and their opening
playoff game? Did the Miami Heat target Celtic star Jason
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Tatum with a cheap shot? We'll discuss that, and how
did the Bucks avoid the Doc Rivers effect at least
in Game one against the Pacers. We'll discuss all that
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despise the NBA, if you hate pro basketball, it's going
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We've pretty much ignored the NBA all regular season, but
we will not ignore it during the postseason, at least
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not at this point. So our lead here to begin
the officives. Through the course of the night, we will
discuss many of the things that happen over the course
of were not everything, not everything, but a lot of
things that took place in the postseason. So not the
Fugazi playing tournament that ended on Friday. We were not here,
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so I did not watch a second of it. I
had no interest in that, so didn't check that out.
But I did watch these playoff games over the weekend
on Saturday and Sunday, and many of you told me
that James Harden blows. You were talking a lot of crap.
I didn't see too much of that on Sunday. I
don't know what happened. Maybe your WiFi went out. Maybe
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that's the problem. No, your WiFi didn't go out. Okay,
I got you. Well, James Harden, who sucks. Everyone tells
me that he sucks. Twenty eight points in his playoff
debut as a Clipper, and the Great Zubots put up
a playoff career high twenty points, fifteen rebounds, and La
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gutted you know how you gut a turkey, and you
kind of car of a turkey and all that for things.
That's what the Clippers did. The Mavericks. They smashed them
gutter every want to say it, and they kicked a
snot out of them one oh nine to ninety seven.
That final non indicative of how big a rat kill
this game was, what are those tough guys from Dallas?
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So they're gonna lose the number, I figure, but they
might call back if the MAVs win a game, but
they probably won't call right now. So the Clippers led
by has made his twenty nine points. Now, I never
played in the NBA, but I think that's a lot.
It's a fair amount. A Denver, the reigning champions over
the weekend played the Lakers. That was a close game, right,
That was a game that the Nuggets had to come
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back and say this game not close. In fact, Dallas
never led a second, not a second. It's up with that,
all right. So let us discuss the question are you
more impressed with James Harden in his Clipper playoff debut
or are you stunned byca Luka Doncik and the Mavericks
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with the suckage. So after a thorough review of this
athletic contest, I've got Stockton, Zebruder and Volcano and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make garlic fries, which would have put up
more of a fight than the Dallas Mavericks against the Clippers.
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If they put out there a tray of garlic fries,
those would have done a better job in the first
half of trying to stop the Clippers. So, hey, listen,
we are absolutely stunned that that's the performance by the Mavericks.
How unprepared, unprepared for a playoff, get playoffs. That is
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an indictment of Jason Kidd. I buried the lead. Don't
bury the lead, my man, I bury the lead. Kawhi
Leonard does what Kawhi Leonard always does in these games.
He didn't show up. Well, he was there, but he
didn't play. It's unreal. This guy is unreal. Man built
out of glass, built out of glass, Kawhi leonar. But
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that's a different conversation. Stay, folks. So Kawhi didn't play.
So Kawhi un and you're Dallas, you are absolutely set up.
They are putting it there on it it's t ball.
They're putting it on a tee and all you have
to do is swing the bat boom prime opportunity. To
draw first blood, and that's the Mavericks. Listen, I'm happy
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they had no interest in competing in the first half.
I'm happy about that. Thank them, good for them, very appreciative,
and many a coach have told me over the years
that when you watch an athletic competition, the more aggressive
team often wins. Not necessarily more talented team, but the
more aggresive team. Now, in this case, the Clippers are
more talented from top to bottom, and they were more
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aggressive than Dallas in Game one and in the lead
up to this game. Reading some of the crap that
was thrown out there in the media, and if you
just based it off what had been written about Dallas,
you would have been convinced. This is an unstoppable juggernaut
that Luca don Chick and the Mavericks ran off. They
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were sixteen and two at one stretch near the end
of the regular season. Then they started resting players so
they had extra rest ahead of the postseasons. They had
that going for him. You had breathless fanboys in the
basketball media who said that the Mavericks were carrying real momentum.
I love that real momentum into the postseason and the
Clippers were banged up. Without Kawhi, Leonard had no chance. Okay,
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so that's the start. We were told the Mavericks are
the team nobody wants to see in the playoffs. That
was written, who Goofed? I've got to know who Goofed?
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I know?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I know their names, a lot of them. So the
lesson here, it's a reminder something that we point out
from time to time. We call it the Stockton in
honor of the great Dick Stockton, longtime sportscasts. He's retired now,
but famously, if you're new to the show, years ago,
Dick Stockton was calling NFL games on Fox and I
was doing a football show on Sundays and he came
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on as a guest. Stockton was doing the worst game
on Fox, a absolute god awful matchup between two morbid teams,
and he was on to promote the game and I
was like, listen, why would anyone want to watch this game?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Mister Stockton?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know, I mean, it's a bad game. And he said,
you know what, Ben Stat, tell you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. And yeah, of course we
know there's no such thing as momentum, not in sports
and science this moment but not in sports. And the
Mavericks prove that by riding the vombit cobbt in that game.
And by the way, the more I watch Luca, and
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it seems like it's a birthright. The Mavericks and the
Clippers have to play each other every fricking year in
the plug. Can we get somebody else? Is there anyone
else out there? My god? Anyway, So watching the Clippers
and Mavericks and seeing Luca all these years in the
plus Luca, he's perfect for Dallas because he reminds me
a lot of Dakota Prescott. He does like to Prescott
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was a If dak Prescott was a basketball player, he'd
be Luca. And if Luca was a football player, he'd
be Dak. And the more I watched Luca, stat bandito,
stat bandito, and he fools the uneducated fan, the low
information fan, he fools them, the casuals. Now, what is
my evidence on this? All Right? The Clippers had a
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twenty nine point lead early second half, twenty nine point lead.
From that point forward, Luca put up twenty two points.
He had five rebounds, four assists, and everyone that gets
all horny for stats was Oh my god, looker's line.
It's not his fault. Oh look at his numbers, And
with a wink and a nod to Kyrie Irving because
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I wrote some a note down on Kyrie. Kyrie Irving
scored twenty five points in garbage time. But you look
at their numbers. Oh they're so impressive. Oh man or
Gasmik not so much. All right, now we head to
Boston and we'll go there where Jason Tatum led the way.
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It was a balance attack and another game that was
non competitive. Twenty three points for Tatum. Derek White had twenty.
The Celtics they have this game by as many as
thirty four. They throttled the shorthanded Miami Heatles by twenty.
Miami playing without Jimmy Buckets. He's likely not back at
all by the time the heater eliminated. He'll be in
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in vacation somewhere in the Bahamas. But nonetheless, this this
game not a talker for what we do for our purpose,
is not really a talker, which is a problem. So
we did get a storyline. The storyline here the subplot.
It comes courtesy of Brian Scalabrini say what he didn't play. No,
I know he's not He's not a player, he's a broadcast.
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But he told NBC Sports Boston that he thought the
Heat and Caleb Martin they he was playing the role
of the goon. He thought that the Heat put the
hit on Jason Tatum late game, Eric Spolster. This is
according to Brian Scalabrin. He said Eric Spolster called the
timeout one thirty left down by sixteen thirty seconds later,
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so about a minute to go in the game. The
play happens where Caleb Martin's going up to get a
rebound or go trying to get a rebound, and he
undercuts Tatum down gos Titum down, gos Titum, and Scalabrina
says it looked shady to him, So did the Miami
Heat target Jason Tatum with a cheap shot? So I
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use the Mallard microscope and I watched this play over
and over again. We went Supruder film style, meticulous frame
by frame analysis of this and after about a minute
of watching it over and over again, unfortunately the answer
is no. I wish I could agree with Brian Scalabrine
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because boy, that would be a good story, man, that'd
be fun. That would be a good talk radio story
that the Miami Heat tried to take out Jason Tatum
at the end of the game. That would have been wonderful.
The problem, and this is where I have a tough
time going with it, is if you watch the play
over and over again, you see that Celtic guard Drew
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Holliday would have to be in cahoots on this. He'd
have to be in on the Shenanigans. You see, Holiday
actually shoved Caleb Martin into Jason Tatum. Now Martin was
headed that way, but Drew Holiday gave him little tap,
little tap. The story here is actually let him play
Joe Choel Mizzoula, who left his starters in there at
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the end of the game and in garbage time the
game was already decided, but he left his starters in
and let him play Joe, never take him out, and
then that happened. Now Tatum appears as okay, but that's
the story, all right. Last word, did we pinwheel quickly
to Milwaukee where Dame Lillard the Dame train. Dame Lillard
put up a monster first to have he had thirty
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five points, all of his points in the first half.
The Bucks without the Greek freak led by as many
as thirty and they dry roasted the Pacers. That's what
they did there. And many of you emailing me, I
say many too, emailed me to point out that what happened,
you said, Doc Rivers, was gonna be the unknowing of
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the Bucks. All right, So how did the Bucks avoid
the Doc Rivers affect? I'll address it. I don't care.
I'm not afraid to address it. The Doc Rivers. Let
me explain this, okay, And for those of you in
the back of room, the Doc Rivers voodoo doll. It
works as a scattershot okay's a little scattershot situation. Here's
more like a volcano. Maybe volcano is a better way
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to describe it. Like a volcano, because a volcano can
lay dormant for several games, in this case in basketball. Uh,
and then the unthinkable, the unimaginable happens. Indiana is such
a lightweight defend that I don't even think they know
how to play defense. They don't even want to play defense.
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That Doc Rivers, It's conceivable he'll be all right in
this round of the playoffs. It's the second round that's
the issue there. But the Voodoo Doll will turn against
Milwaukee and dam Lillard massive wonderful, great to look like
he was back in Portland, and without Giannis there, it
is kind of like he's back in Portland. But it's
only a matter of when, not if. At some point
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this is going to be a splendid failure. And I'll
be here with a big bucket of popcorn for all
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And is it true an NBA star threatening to out
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a basketball scribe for conduct detrimental to said NBA player.
We'll get to all that. We will do it next.
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Art Puffin writes this as top flight Malard monologue. Great
win for the People's team that run LA without Kawhi Leonard,
who and James Harden out there on the court getting
it done. Absolutely, Art Puffing, they do run LA. Good
job by you, King Rory writes in. He says, uh,
just like your Clippers. Nobody believes in my Bucks. Sure,
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I don't trust Doc Rivers and everything might backfire, but
this is a great confidence booster to start the playoffs
Clippers Bucks NBA five. But that would be the most
painful way for the Bucks season to end. The wonderful
Doc Rivers going down to the Clippers. Matt the Warrior
Raider had the Warriors do this weekend? Where were the world?
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I didn't did they play? They didn't play? They did
not play. They did not play. And Matt's is James
Harden Hall of Fame performance. Congratulations on the win, well
deserved for the Clippers there, and I can't wait to
see James Harden continue to do this throughout the playoffs
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absolutely drew rights. Since that the Tea Wolves are winning
it all as long as they play the Suns. I
would tend to agree with you if they can just
keep playing the suns. Boy was at a great effort
by the fellows from Arizona. Way to go, berner Count
writes and says, easy, there, Benjamin, an early victory lap
on James Harden. Just be sure the sun shines. As
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sure as the sun shines, we know the real James
Harden will show up and there you go. All right,
well again, Berner Count, let me explain this, because clearly
you don't listen. You might want to go to the
year doctor. I have a show to do today. I
have to worry about today's show. I'm not worried about
a week from now or two weeks from now. I've
got to get through the show today. So today, at
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the time we're doing the show, James Harden was poetry
in motion. You freaking morons. He was wonderful. If you
didn't see it, that's on you. Firk Dog says, no, Kalai,
no problem, there's no sinking the Clipper ship. Eddie and
Coop missed their chance to board the Clipper ship, and
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now they're gonna drown with the Lakers. Yeah, I saw
Eddie little down Fergie. Edie's a little upset there. He
wanted to bash the Clippers and he again having material
right now, he's disappointed. He's got his head down, a
little bit tail between his legs. He's upset.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I'll be a right when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He's upset. He's a little concerned.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Not gonna be wearing that clipper that much longer.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Little concerned. Jason right said, good, look at half. By
the way, I never even bother that they changed logos again.
But I didn't change I didn't go with that old
that new logo, which is this is the old school logo.
That one the new logo blue, and then the next
one is not that good either. Jason in Kansas City,
right saying, says ten out of ten on the mall
of monologue, Ben, the mav Rex are following in the
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footsteps of a fellow home teams, the Dallas Stars and
Cowboys and choking the playoffs, although the MAVs are not
as good as those teams in reality. Here and let's see,
I know we're on the let's see here lorrain U.
We're broadcasting right, the show is being broadcast out there, right.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I do believe so.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I don't see anyone on my board from Dallas. How
could that be? Why would they not call in the raider.
We're on the radio all over Dallas. Why would they
not call in? They obviously have no words. It's a
bad job by them. I can't get. I can't get
somebody from like over in Arlington. Nobody as pathetic, pathetic
our GMN better exactly be better, do better. G Man's right,
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sinceys I appreciate the monologue band problem I have as
the NBA turned the sport into a game day's long,
fake energy, fake injuries, bad officiating, week players alien commissioner
g Mans. I agree with all of that. I agree
with everything you said, every single point. I agree with. Yes,
the days off, the fake energy, the fake inje, all
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of that, I agree. But here, I am watching. Here,
I am. I spent my Sunday watching most of the day.
I was. I was watching even when I went out
to get exercise and I had my phone on. I
was watching on my phone when I was walking around.
Get little time there. Eh, let's see page down here
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mark off topic Mark in Santa Monica says, as a
Yankee fan, I'm so happy Blake Snell. That's a non sequitor,
but that's fine. So happy that Blake Snell rejected the
Yankees six year, one hundred and fifty million dollars offer.
He has been awful for the Giants. Yeah, he's he's
been pretty bad. You have a moto. We're gonna talk
about him later from the Dodgers. He got and not
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lit off, but he pitched well enough to lose in
the Dodgers game over the weekend against the New York Metropolitans.
Was not good, David says. Mahler will call for Harden
to be signed to the MAX extension like Kawhi, only
after the Clippers win the championship. Right after the parade.
Let me tell you, ask him to go, David, I
have a crystal ball. And so the Clippers win the championship,
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What a perfect gift to move into their new palace
to taj Mahal in the hood in Inglewood, away from
skid Row where they play right now at that career,
here't been to la Uh. It's literally in skid Row,
the arena in downtown. It's it's horrific. It's a nightmare.
Take your life in your hands, going down there, and
it makes me nervous to walk in the middle of
the night.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
It's not saying please say you cannot go by yourself
all the time about diet of a panic attack. Eddie's
probably one of the criminals out there, that's why he's
not afraid. But everyone else who's a law abiding citizen, Lorena,
it's not safe, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, Lorena, what's wrong with you? What are you? What
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I have nice legs, Eddie, that's all your face. See
you don't have good legs, Eddie, you have good legs.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
No, you do not.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's not not leg off. No, No, I do not
want to see your I definitely do not want to
see those legs. My leg man, unbelievable. Anyway, it is
the Ben Malish. We'll take more your comes on X
at ben mallor there some big name calls there, some
celebrity callers who are lined up here, which is very
exciting and we look forward to to talking to some
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of them if they stay on Hold. The Kiss of
Death though, that came from the game. James Worthy, of
all people, James Worthy comparing Nicola Jokic to Kareem abdul
Jabbar and Magic Johnson a little over time. That's a
little too dramatic for me. Now, listen, James Worthy has
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been doing this a while and all that. I get it.
He played in the NBA a long time. But when
I look at Nicola Jokic, I do not get the
Kareem abdul Jabbar vibes. Maybe the Magic Johnson vibes was
not the Kareem abdul Jabar vibs. But James Worthy was
layding on thick because he knows. Worthy knows that he'll
be on vacation soon, just like the Laker players, because
they'll be lucky if they win one game against the
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Joker and the Denver Nuggets.
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Speaker 2 (23:49):
I'm sure you're very excited the corner copia of mascots
at that Phillies game. I guess it was the Fanatics
birthday or something.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
He said.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Well, I have been to a mascot birthday party. Truck
Condor's birthday party. They bring out all the mascots.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Is a little bit more famous than whatever that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I mean, I've been a Phillies game before or two
and the Fedags. Fine, that's great, wonderful and all that.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But yeah, I know you're a fan of the mascots.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I am a fan.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
If you saw that, it was who's who of mascots
there for the.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's a birthday bash though.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I even think the Phillies wore his likeness on their
hats for this game. I believe I saw that in
the highlights.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I have to get one of those hats then, yeah,
size eight. But I see there was a cake.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Well, it's a birthday party, there has to be a cake.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Speaking of Philly, though, did you see our guy Fats
in Philly? He went to the gravestone of Harry Callous
and took a photo.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, huh, that's a lot, right.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I mean, we like Fats, but that seems a lot,
you know.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I mean, was he did he happen to be in
the area for something else?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I think he went to the cemetery just look at
the gravestone of the.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
As you were. I did send you a picture of
a gravestone when I was in Washington, DC, of your
favorite fat president. Yeah. But that's a little different there
Atarlington National Cemetery.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, no, I hear, but it was you. They actually
put seats on the grave of Hary. You could like, oh,
I think those are from Veterans Stadium, so you could
sit there. Cop a squad there, huh, yeah, you can
sit down. And he has a giant he has a
I sent the photo because Fat sent it to me,
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so I sent it around and it's a giant microphone.
But it's a fallous looking microphone, Eddie. It's a well yeah,
and so from a distance it doesn't look like a microphone.
It looks like well, I mean you can think like
a what bend? You know, it was standing at attention
whatever it was, you know, the microphone was standing at attention.
So I see that the Reds mascot, mister Mett was
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also the Giants mask. That Giants mascot is so stupid.
What is that the Walrus? What mascot is a familiar with?
I don't know, Yeah, I don't. I don't recognize it.
But I'm looking at the mascot the celebrator. There's a
video of them celebrating on the field there, and I
can see the Reds mascot. Is that mister red legs?
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Is that the name of that? No, he's got nice legs,
got better legs than Eddie. No, no chance, no chance
of that Eddie. Proud of your prout of your legs.
See I M fast forward through the videos you can
see more of the mascots. Ask screwt who cares? Uh? Anyway,
there were a bunch of mascots there. Good for them.
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to the phones. Jerome, bring it home, Jerome and Charleston.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Hello, Jerome, I was your conquistadors today against the mav
wrex WR e CTF, and I'm telling you that James
Harden he was making him from South Central LA. He
was so hot today, had the Florida going, had a
step back going, and wasash breaking the man of three Porter.
(27:57):
Oh hell no, you know it's gonna be a.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Hey Westbrook. Westbrook bought the energy man. I don't want
him to shoot from the outside ever. I think I
would bench him if he shoots again from the outside.
But yeah, he was being the energy. Westbrook was flying around.
It was great, talking trash dude.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
He got into it with one guy. The guy went
in for like he thought he had an easy one
and west were kind of graduate kind of jossly a little.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Well, that's good, Joe, because he usually Westbrook talks trash
with fans. At least he was talking trash with the Mavericks.
So that's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Yeah, someone must have called him west Brick. He said,
I'll show you a west Brick kick back.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah you think you think Jerome the fans in Dallas
will be chanting west Brick west Brick to get under
his skin when they moved back to Texas next, you know,
a couple of days here, next week, this coming.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yeah, I have I have a sneaky suspicion that may
come up in the conversation. The conversation, of.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Course, I mean rhythmy chanting. He'll be over the top
orythmke chanting.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Hey, but you know what to set Let me tell
you a bunch of clippers. They can beat anybody, or
they can lose anybody. But I think they're afraid of
the numbers. Okay, they can say look when they come
to play, man, they can pay the house. But sometimes
I just wonder about, what the hell is that? Man?
What kind of effing was that? Because that kinds from
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watching them off and on and I'm thinking, and look,
they went to the they went to Boston and they
house the Telpics during the season.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, I don't pay much attention to the regular season though,
because you know, these guys don't really try most of
the time. It's a pathetic.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You were you know, you were talking about the Hall
of Fame stuff. Look I almost lost in a couple
of weeks ago when I heard the guys say, well,
Mawew Slater should be in the Hall of Fame. He
used to get some Hall of Fame recognitions. And then
I said, let me look up Matthew Slater's numbers. There
was nothing there. Okay, in the Hall of Fame, they
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ain't got nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Huh Well, because the argument, Jerome would be special teams
are the third run. You have offense, defense and special teams,
and Matthew Slater one of the all time great special
team slayers. But I would agree you can tell the
story of football without Matthew Slater's name, although I am biased.
I love his dad, Jackie Slater, so he's a Hall
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of Famer.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
I gotta ask you. I gotta ask you about this
story about your Jacksonville jagu warres twenty two your dollars, yeah,
twenty two billion dollars, Man, twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I saw it.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
No funny about it. For five damn yere.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
How well. But here's the thing though, that's a little
different than Otani because that guy was in he was
in charge of the finances. He was the one that oversaw.
He was the oversight from what I understand in that story,
So that makes a little more sense. But how many
times a day do you check your money?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Jerome?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
At two or three? Three? Yeah? You yeah, every two minutes?
All right? Well, most people aren't like I know, most people.
I know, most people are not like us room. Most
people check maybe you know, once a week or something
like that, maybe a couple of times a week at
the most. But to go that many years with losing
sixteen million, oh my god, that's that's something smell I got.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Ask about Michigan though, Michigan.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh you're all look at you, Jerome, I man, I
was ready to hang up on you, and now you
want to ask about Michigan. I was ready to move
on quickly.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
They got three years probation, man, three years probation. It
ain't nobody talk about it. I wonder why.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, Jerome, you know, you know why Jerome, because there's
games on television in Michigan. They need Michigan on there.
They need Michigan contending for a championship, whether it's the
Big Ten or whatever they're gonna when they change all
the conferences in a couple of years, all have different names.
Are thank You Room, It is the band Malor Show.
As we continue on the Ron James threatening to expose
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a basketball scribe who voted and robbed him of a
unanimous Most Valuable Player award, Lebron says he's gonna save
that information. He knows who it is. He said there
was a writer, he said he isn't necessarily a writer.
He sai, there was somebody from Boston who voted for
Carmelo Anthony. This goes back over a decade, and Carmelo's
(32:23):
still holding a grudge or or Lebron holding a grudge,
and so he says he's going to expose the person,
but he's gonna wait to a documentary to do it.
So I can't wait for that. Unless I can wait
for that, I'm sure that'll give us content five years
from now or ten years from now, or whenever it
comes out, and we'll get the pop goes the weasel.
Time now for the who am I game? And here
we go. I have the most playoff wins while shooting
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below forty percent from the field on ten or more
field goal attempts since twenty twenty. Again, pay close attention.
I have the most playoff wins while shooting below forty
percent field goal percent on ten or more field goal
at Thames since twenty twenty. Who am I the answer?
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well yet again, the Major League Baseball marketing people brilliant.
I went online to try to find the fanatic at
I was gonna buy it right there and went to
the Phillies Team Store did not have it. Went to
a couple of other websites did not have it. So
screw them not buying it. Can't I can't buy it.
Even I wanted to buy it, I can't buy it.
They the Philly Fanatic hat. Uh, they had the logo
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of the fanatics.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I see them here a little Google search. I see
some fanatic hat.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That's not the authentic one, though, I that's a that's
a ripoff version.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Where you're looking at there's a new era like that.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
That's not the one they wore, though. I'm looking for
the one that they wore. I did not see it.
It is not on I'm looking at the Phillies the
team store. It's not on there. Telling you you think
I'm making that up? You want to fight?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Oh yes, I want.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I want to fight over the fanatics hat. Let's go
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I have the most playoff wins while shooting below forty
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percent from the floor on ten or more field goal
attempts since twenty twenty. Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? And we'll see if anybody knows
the answer. Fats from Philly says Dick Paul is the answer.
(35:57):
The old pitching coach back of the day who designed
Harry Callis's headstone who else do we have about Ryan Garcia?
Guess by Youaphoeme. I saw that fight on Saturday. Watched that?
Uh he dominated that?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Did you watch that?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah? You know there's the ways you can watch it.
Eddie who able to a friend's house or something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Richard Simmons guessed by Mallard prop guy Marshawn Lynch, who
was thirty eight today from Late Night drug tester John
Dillinger from Mister Luciano. That's his answer. Mike Tyson tossed
out by mister nice guy, the Great Mike Test. You
know he used to play for the Cardinals back and
a lot of people don't know that about Mike Tyson,
but he played for the Saint Louis Cardinals the team. Yeah.
(36:40):
Andy from Lionel Lakes, Minnesota going with Jimmy Buckets as
his answer. Mister big Shot Robert Rory from Fergdog Hedo
Turkalou tossed out by I forty Ian Whitey Bulger from
Art puffin Roscoe, the Parrot from alf the Alien of Putter.
That guy David in Winter Park, Florida. He vanished, man,
he got up with me because I wouldn't do that,
(37:01):
gambling contest with him, so he left the show, and
I'll always have the memory alf of him driving all
the way from Florida to Boston from Mala meet and
greet with the Roscoe of the Paris stuffed Animal. Who
else do we have? Rudy tom Janovitch guessed by Ike
and Roseville, Minnesota. Bengo the Bucks mascot from King Rory
al Jolson from Robin, Minnesota. Tiger Woods tossed out by
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Shannon des Moines. Giants mascot lou Seal from Scorpio nine
Get a better mascot? Clay Thompson guest by Paul d.
Who else do we have? Mason and hunting the beach,
says the Iron Horse of basketball Kawhi Leonard Blades the
mascot from Masshole Mickey, did you know that's the Bruins
mascot Eddie Blades?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
This is the mascot. I know it's a bear. I
didn't know his name was his names Blades Blades?
Speaker 3 (37:47):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I have the most playoff wins while shooting below forty
percent on ten or more field goal attempts since twenty twenty.
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
What's the answer?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
At a former Magic legend in for knee Hardaway. Don't
call him Penny.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Don't call him Penny. No, he's incorrect. Addy, bad job,
but your correct answer. A man who's currently playing for
the Boston Celtics, Drew Holiday, although he's only playing this season,
but he's number one.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Is Jason Tatum. So Drew Holliday and Jason Tatum the
dynamic duo there in Boston, and they have dominated winning
games when they don't shoot the ball particularly well.
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Are you more impressed with James Harden's Clippers or stunned
by Luka doncikas Mavericks and their performance and their opening
playoff game? Did the Miami Heat target Celtic star Jason
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The weekday lineup at Fox Sports Radio begins. Now when
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Pro Bouncy Ball, and as we always remind you this
time of the year, our public service announcement. If you
despise the NBA, if you hate pro basketball, it's going
to be tough for you the next couple of months.
We've pretty much ignored the NBA all regular season, but
we will not ignore it during the postseason, at least
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not at this point. So our lead here to begin
the officives. Through the course of the night, we will
discuss many of the things that happen over the course
of were not everything, not everything, but a lot of
things that took place in the postseason. So not the
Fugazi playing tournament that ended on Friday. We were not here,
(03:01):
so I did not watch a second of it. I
had no interest in that, so didn't check that out.
But I did watch these playoff games over the weekend
on Saturday and Sunday, and many of you told me
that James Harden blows. You were talking a lot of crap.
I didn't see too much of that on Sunday. I
don't know what happened. Maybe your WiFi went out. Maybe
(03:22):
that's the problem. No, your WiFi didn't go out. Okay,
I got you. Well, James Harden, who sucks. Everyone tells
me that he sucks. Twenty eight points in his playoff
debut as a Clipper, and the Great Zubots put up
a playoff career high twenty points, fifteen rebounds, and La
(03:44):
gutted you know how you gut a turkey, and you
kind of car of a turkey and all that for things.
That's what the Clippers did. The Mavericks. They smashed them
gutter every want to say it, and they kicked a
snot out of them one oh nine to ninety seven.
That final non indicative of how big a rat kill
this game was, what are those tough guys from Dallas?
(04:06):
So they're gonna lose the number, I figure, but they
might call back if the MAVs win a game, but
they probably won't call right now. So the Clippers led
by has made his twenty nine points. Now, I never
played in the NBA, but I think that's a lot.
It's a fair amount. A Denver, the reigning champions over
the weekend played the Lakers. That was a close game, right,
That was a game that the Nuggets had to come
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back and say this game not close. In fact, Dallas
never led a second, not a second. It's up with that,
all right. So let us discuss the question are you
more impressed with James Harden in his Clipper playoff debut
or are you stunned byca Luka Doncik and the Mavericks
(04:51):
with the suckage. So after a thorough review of this
athletic contest, I've got Stockton, Zebruder and Volcano and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make garlic fries, which would have put up
more of a fight than the Dallas Mavericks against the Clippers.
(05:12):
If they put out there a tray of garlic fries,
those would have done a better job in the first
half of trying to stop the Clippers. So, hey, listen,
we are absolutely stunned that that's the performance by the Mavericks.
How unprepared, unprepared for a playoff, get playoffs. That is
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an indictment of Jason Kidd. I buried the lead. Don't
bury the lead, my man, I bury the lead. Kawhi
Leonard does what Kawhi Leonard always does in these games.
He didn't show up. Well, he was there, but he
didn't play. It's unreal. This guy is unreal. Man built
out of glass, built out of glass, Kawhi leonar. But
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that's a different conversation. Stay, folks. So Kawhi didn't play.
So Kawhi un and you're Dallas, you are absolutely set up.
They are putting it there on it it's t ball.
They're putting it on a tee and all you have
to do is swing the bat boom prime opportunity. To
draw first blood, and that's the Mavericks. Listen, I'm happy
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they had no interest in competing in the first half.
I'm happy about that. Thank them, good for them, very appreciative,
and many a coach have told me over the years
that when you watch an athletic competition, the more aggressive
team often wins. Not necessarily more talented team, but the
more aggresive team. Now, in this case, the Clippers are
more talented from top to bottom, and they were more
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aggressive than Dallas in Game one and in the lead
up to this game. Reading some of the crap that
was thrown out there in the media, and if you
just based it off what had been written about Dallas,
you would have been convinced. This is an unstoppable juggernaut
that Luca don Chick and the Mavericks ran off. They
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were sixteen and two at one stretch near the end
of the regular season. Then they started resting players so
they had extra rest ahead of the postseasons. They had
that going for him. You had breathless fanboys in the
basketball media who said that the Mavericks were carrying real momentum.
I love that real momentum into the postseason and the
Clippers were banged up. Without Kawhi, Leonard had no chance. Okay,
(07:26):
so that's the start. We were told the Mavericks are
the team nobody wants to see in the playoffs. That
was written, who Goofed? I've got to know who Goofed?
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I know?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I know their names, a lot of them. So the
lesson here, it's a reminder something that we point out
from time to time. We call it the Stockton in
honor of the great Dick Stockton, longtime sportscasts. He's retired now,
but famously, if you're new to the show, years ago,
Dick Stockton was calling NFL games on Fox and I
was doing a football show on Sundays and he came
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on as a guest. Stockton was doing the worst game
on Fox, a absolute god awful matchup between two morbid teams,
and he was on to promote the game and I
was like, listen, why would anyone want to watch this game?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Mister Stockton?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know, I mean, it's a bad game. And he said,
you know what, Ben Stat, tell you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. And yeah, of course we
know there's no such thing as momentum, not in sports
and science this moment but not in sports. And the
Mavericks prove that by riding the vombit cobbt in that game.
And by the way, the more I watch Luca, and
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it seems like it's a birthright. The Mavericks and the
Clippers have to play each other every fricking year in
the plug. Can we get somebody else? Is there anyone
else out there? My god? Anyway, So watching the Clippers
and Mavericks and seeing Luca all these years in the
plus Luca, he's perfect for Dallas because he reminds me
a lot of Dakota Prescott. He does like to Prescott
(09:00):
was a If dak Prescott was a basketball player, he'd
be Luca. And if Luca was a football player, he'd
be Dak. And the more I watched Luca, stat bandito,
stat bandito, and he fools the uneducated fan, the low
information fan, he fools them, the casuals. Now, what is
my evidence on this? All Right? The Clippers had a
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twenty nine point lead early second half, twenty nine point lead.
From that point forward, Luca put up twenty two points.
He had five rebounds, four assists, and everyone that gets
all horny for stats was Oh my god, looker's line.
It's not his fault. Oh look at his numbers, And
with a wink and a nod to Kyrie Irving because
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I wrote some a note down on Kyrie. Kyrie Irving
scored twenty five points in garbage time. But you look
at their numbers. Oh they're so impressive. Oh man or
Gasmik not so much. All right, now we head to
Boston and we'll go there where Jason Tatum led the way.
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It was a balance attack and another game that was
non competitive. Twenty three points for Tatum. Derek White had twenty.
The Celtics they have this game by as many as
thirty four. They throttled the shorthanded Miami Heatles by twenty.
Miami playing without Jimmy Buckets. He's likely not back at
all by the time the heater eliminated. He'll be in
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in vacation somewhere in the Bahamas. But nonetheless, this this
game not a talker for what we do for our purpose,
is not really a talker, which is a problem. So
we did get a storyline. The storyline here the subplot.
It comes courtesy of Brian Scalabrini say what he didn't play. No,
I know he's not He's not a player, he's a broadcast.
(10:52):
But he told NBC Sports Boston that he thought the
Heat and Caleb Martin they he was playing the role
of the goon. He thought that the Heat put the
hit on Jason Tatum late game, Eric Spolster. This is
according to Brian Scalabrin. He said Eric Spolster called the
timeout one thirty left down by sixteen thirty seconds later,
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so about a minute to go in the game. The
play happens where Caleb Martin's going up to get a
rebound or go trying to get a rebound, and he
undercuts Tatum down gos Titum down, gos Titum, and Scalabrina
says it looked shady to him, So did the Miami
Heat target Jason Tatum with a cheap shot? So I
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use the Mallard microscope and I watched this play over
and over again. We went Supruder film style, meticulous frame
by frame analysis of this and after about a minute
of watching it over and over again, unfortunately the answer
is no. I wish I could agree with Brian Scalabrine
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because boy, that would be a good story, man, that'd
be fun. That would be a good talk radio story
that the Miami Heat tried to take out Jason Tatum
at the end of the game. That would have been wonderful.
The problem, and this is where I have a tough
time going with it, is if you watch the play
over and over again, you see that Celtic guard Drew
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Holliday would have to be in cahoots on this. He'd
have to be in on the Shenanigans. You see, Holiday
actually shoved Caleb Martin into Jason Tatum. Now Martin was
headed that way, but Drew Holiday gave him little tap,
little tap. The story here is actually let him play
Joe Choel Mizzoula, who left his starters in there at
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the end of the game and in garbage time the
game was already decided, but he left his starters in
and let him play Joe, never take him out, and
then that happened. Now Tatum appears as okay, but that's
the story, all right. Last word, did we pinwheel quickly
to Milwaukee where Dame Lillard the Dame train. Dame Lillard
put up a monster first to have he had thirty
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five points, all of his points in the first half.
The Bucks without the Greek freak led by as many
as thirty and they dry roasted the Pacers. That's what
they did there. And many of you emailing me, I
say many too, emailed me to point out that what happened,
you said, Doc Rivers, was gonna be the unknowing of
(13:23):
the Bucks. All right, So how did the Bucks avoid
the Doc Rivers affect? I'll address it. I don't care.
I'm not afraid to address it. The Doc Rivers. Let
me explain this, okay, And for those of you in
the back of room, the Doc Rivers voodoo doll. It
works as a scattershot okay's a little scattershot situation. Here's
more like a volcano. Maybe volcano is a better way
(13:45):
to describe it. Like a volcano, because a volcano can
lay dormant for several games, in this case in basketball. Uh,
and then the unthinkable, the unimaginable happens. Indiana is such
a lightweight defend that I don't even think they know
how to play defense. They don't even want to play defense.
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That Doc Rivers, It's conceivable he'll be all right in
this round of the playoffs. It's the second round that's
the issue there. But the Voodoo Doll will turn against
Milwaukee and dam Lillard massive wonderful, great to look like
he was back in Portland, and without Giannis there, it
is kind of like he's back in Portland. But it's
only a matter of when, not if. At some point
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this is going to be a splendid failure. And I'll
be here with a big bucket of popcorn for all
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And is it true an NBA star threatening to out
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a basketball scribe for conduct detrimental to said NBA player.
We'll get to all that. We will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (16:40):
Art Puffin writes this as top flight Malard monologue. Great
win for the People's team that run LA without Kawhi Leonard,
who and James Harden out there on the court getting
it done. Absolutely, Art Puffing, they do run LA. Good
job by you, King Rory writes in. He says, uh,
just like your Clippers. Nobody believes in my Bucks. Sure,
(17:04):
I don't trust Doc Rivers and everything might backfire, but
this is a great confidence booster to start the playoffs
Clippers Bucks NBA five. But that would be the most
painful way for the Bucks season to end. The wonderful
Doc Rivers going down to the Clippers. Matt the Warrior
Raider had the Warriors do this weekend? Where were the world?
(17:26):
I didn't did they play? They didn't play? They did
not play. They did not play. And Matt's is James
Harden Hall of Fame performance. Congratulations on the win, well
deserved for the Clippers there, and I can't wait to
see James Harden continue to do this throughout the playoffs
(17:47):
absolutely drew rights. Since that the Tea Wolves are winning
it all as long as they play the Suns. I
would tend to agree with you if they can just
keep playing the suns. Boy was at a great effort
by the fellows from Arizona. Way to go, berner Count
writes and says, easy, there, Benjamin, an early victory lap
on James Harden. Just be sure the sun shines. As
(18:12):
sure as the sun shines, we know the real James
Harden will show up and there you go. All right,
well again, Berner Count, let me explain this, because clearly
you don't listen. You might want to go to the
year doctor. I have a show to do today. I
have to worry about today's show. I'm not worried about
a week from now or two weeks from now. I've
got to get through the show today. So today, at
(18:33):
the time we're doing the show, James Harden was poetry
in motion. You freaking morons. He was wonderful. If you
didn't see it, that's on you. Firk Dog says, no, Kalai,
no problem, there's no sinking the Clipper ship. Eddie and
Coop missed their chance to board the Clipper ship, and
(18:54):
now they're gonna drown with the Lakers. Yeah, I saw
Eddie little down Fergie. Edie's a little upset there. He
wanted to bash the Clippers and he again having material
right now, he's disappointed. He's got his head down, a
little bit tail between his legs. He's upset.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I'll be a right when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He's upset. He's a little concerned.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Not gonna be wearing that clipper that much longer.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Little concerned. Jason right said, good, look at half. By
the way, I never even bother that they changed logos again.
But I didn't change I didn't go with that old
that new logo, which is this is the old school logo.
That one the new logo blue, and then the next
one is not that good either. Jason in Kansas City,
right saying, says ten out of ten on the mall
of monologue, Ben, the mav Rex are following in the
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footsteps of a fellow home teams, the Dallas Stars and
Cowboys and choking the playoffs, although the MAVs are not
as good as those teams in reality. Here and let's see,
I know we're on the let's see here lorrain U.
We're broadcasting right, the show is being broadcast out there, right.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I do believe so.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I don't see anyone on my board from Dallas. How
could that be? Why would they not call in the raider.
We're on the radio all over Dallas. Why would they
not call in? They obviously have no words. It's a
bad job by them. I can't get. I can't get
somebody from like over in Arlington. Nobody as pathetic, pathetic
our GMN better exactly be better, do better. G Man's right,
(20:22):
sinceys I appreciate the monologue band problem I have as
the NBA turned the sport into a game day's long,
fake energy, fake injuries, bad officiating, week players alien commissioner
g Mans. I agree with all of that. I agree
with everything you said, every single point. I agree with. Yes,
the days off, the fake energy, the fake inje, all
(20:43):
of that, I agree. But here, I am watching. Here,
I am. I spent my Sunday watching most of the day.
I was. I was watching even when I went out
to get exercise and I had my phone on. I
was watching on my phone when I was walking around.
Get little time there. Eh, let's see page down here
(21:04):
mark off topic Mark in Santa Monica says, as a
Yankee fan, I'm so happy Blake Snell. That's a non sequitor,
but that's fine. So happy that Blake Snell rejected the
Yankees six year, one hundred and fifty million dollars offer.
He has been awful for the Giants. Yeah, he's he's
been pretty bad. You have a moto. We're gonna talk
about him later from the Dodgers. He got and not
(21:26):
lit off, but he pitched well enough to lose in
the Dodgers game over the weekend against the New York Metropolitans.
Was not good, David says. Mahler will call for Harden
to be signed to the MAX extension like Kawhi, only
after the Clippers win the championship. Right after the parade.
Let me tell you, ask him to go, David, I
have a crystal ball. And so the Clippers win the championship,
(21:50):
What a perfect gift to move into their new palace
to taj Mahal in the hood in Inglewood, away from
skid Row where they play right now at that career,
here't been to la Uh. It's literally in skid Row,
the arena in downtown. It's it's horrific. It's a nightmare.
Take your life in your hands, going down there, and
it makes me nervous to walk in the middle of
the night.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
It's not saying please say you cannot go by yourself
all the time about diet of a panic attack. Eddie's
probably one of the criminals out there, that's why he's
not afraid. But everyone else who's a law abiding citizen, Lorena,
it's not safe, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, Lorena, what's wrong with you? What are you? What
are you doing?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I have nice legs, Eddie, that's all your face. See
you don't have good legs, Eddie, you have good legs.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
No, you do not.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's not not leg off. No, No, I do not
want to see your I definitely do not want to
see those legs. My leg man, unbelievable. Anyway, it is
the Ben Malish. We'll take more your comes on X
at ben mallor there some big name calls there, some
celebrity callers who are lined up here, which is very
exciting and we look forward to to talking to some
(22:56):
of them if they stay on Hold. The Kiss of
Death though, that came from the game. James Worthy, of
all people, James Worthy comparing Nicola Jokic to Kareem abdul
Jabbar and Magic Johnson a little over time. That's a
little too dramatic for me. Now, listen, James Worthy has
(23:17):
been doing this a while and all that. I get it.
He played in the NBA a long time. But when
I look at Nicola Jokic, I do not get the
Kareem abdul Jabbar vibes. Maybe the Magic Johnson vibes was
not the Kareem abdul Jabar vibs. But James Worthy was
layding on thick because he knows. Worthy knows that he'll
be on vacation soon, just like the Laker players, because
they'll be lucky if they win one game against the
(23:40):
Joker and the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
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Speaker 2 (23:49):
I'm sure you're very excited the corner copia of mascots
at that Phillies game. I guess it was the Fanatics
birthday or something.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
He said.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Well, I have been to a mascot birthday party. Truck
Condor's birthday party. They bring out all the mascots.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Is a little bit more famous than whatever that.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I mean, I've been a Phillies game before or two
and the Fedags. Fine, that's great, wonderful and all that.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But yeah, I know you're a fan of the mascots.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I am a fan.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
If you saw that, it was who's who of mascots
there for the.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's a birthday bash though.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I even think the Phillies wore his likeness on their
hats for this game. I believe I saw that in
the highlights.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I have to get one of those hats then, yeah,
size eight. But I see there was a cake.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Well, it's a birthday party, there has to be a cake.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Speaking of Philly, though, did you see our guy Fats
in Philly? He went to the gravestone of Harry Callous
and took a photo.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, huh, that's a lot, right.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I mean, we like Fats, but that seems a lot,
you know.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I mean, was he did he happen to be in
the area for something else?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I think he went to the cemetery just look at
the gravestone of the.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
As you were. I did send you a picture of
a gravestone when I was in Washington, DC, of your
favorite fat president. Yeah. But that's a little different there
Atarlington National Cemetery.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, no, I hear, but it was you. They actually
put seats on the grave of Hary. You could like, oh,
I think those are from Veterans Stadium, so you could
sit there. Cop a squad there, huh, yeah, you can
sit down. And he has a giant he has a
I sent the photo because Fat sent it to me,
(25:30):
so I sent it around and it's a giant microphone.
But it's a fallous looking microphone, Eddie. It's a well yeah,
and so from a distance it doesn't look like a microphone.
It looks like well, I mean you can think like
a what bend? You know, it was standing at attention
whatever it was, you know, the microphone was standing at attention.
So I see that the Reds mascot, mister Mett was
(25:53):
also the Giants mask. That Giants mascot is so stupid.
What is that the Walrus? What mascot is a familiar with?
I don't know, Yeah, I don't. I don't recognize it.
But I'm looking at the mascot the celebrator. There's a
video of them celebrating on the field there, and I
can see the Reds mascot. Is that mister red legs?
(26:14):
Is that the name of that? No, he's got nice legs,
got better legs than Eddie. No, no chance, no chance
of that Eddie. Proud of your prout of your legs.
See I M fast forward through the videos you can
see more of the mascots. Ask screwt who cares? Uh? Anyway,
there were a bunch of mascots there. Good for them.
It is the Banet Maller Show. As we continue on
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(27:20):
This week here eight pm Eastern throughout the first round
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to the phones. Jerome, bring it home, Jerome and Charleston.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Hello, Jerome, I was your conquistadors today against the mav
wrex WR e CTF, and I'm telling you that James
Harden he was making him from South Central LA. He
was so hot today, had the Florida going, had a
step back going, and wasash breaking the man of three Porter.
(27:57):
Oh hell no, you know it's gonna be a.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Hey Westbrook. Westbrook bought the energy man. I don't want
him to shoot from the outside ever. I think I
would bench him if he shoots again from the outside.
But yeah, he was being the energy. Westbrook was flying around.
It was great, talking trash dude.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
He got into it with one guy. The guy went
in for like he thought he had an easy one
and west were kind of graduate kind of jossly a little.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Well, that's good, Joe, because he usually Westbrook talks trash
with fans. At least he was talking trash with the Mavericks.
So that's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Yeah, someone must have called him west Brick. He said,
I'll show you a west Brick kick back.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah you think you think Jerome the fans in Dallas
will be chanting west Brick west Brick to get under
his skin when they moved back to Texas next, you know,
a couple of days here, next week, this coming.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Yeah, I have I have a sneaky suspicion that may
come up in the conversation. The conversation, of.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Course, I mean rhythmy chanting. He'll be over the top
orythmke chanting.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Hey, but you know what to set Let me tell
you a bunch of clippers. They can beat anybody, or
they can lose anybody. But I think they're afraid of
the numbers. Okay, they can say look when they come
to play, man, they can pay the house. But sometimes
I just wonder about, what the hell is that? Man?
What kind of effing was that? Because that kinds from
(29:19):
watching them off and on and I'm thinking, and look,
they went to the they went to Boston and they
house the Telpics during the season.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, I don't pay much attention to the regular season though,
because you know, these guys don't really try most of
the time. It's a pathetic.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You were you know, you were talking about the Hall
of Fame stuff. Look I almost lost in a couple
of weeks ago when I heard the guys say, well,
Mawew Slater should be in the Hall of Fame. He
used to get some Hall of Fame recognitions. And then
I said, let me look up Matthew Slater's numbers. There
was nothing there. Okay, in the Hall of Fame, they
(29:56):
ain't got nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Huh Well, because the argument, Jerome would be special teams
are the third run. You have offense, defense and special teams,
and Matthew Slater one of the all time great special
team slayers. But I would agree you can tell the
story of football without Matthew Slater's name, although I am biased.
I love his dad, Jackie Slater, so he's a Hall
(30:18):
of Famer.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
I gotta ask you. I gotta ask you about this
story about your Jacksonville jagu warres twenty two your dollars, yeah,
twenty two billion dollars, Man, twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I saw it.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
No funny about it. For five damn yere.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
How well. But here's the thing though, that's a little
different than Otani because that guy was in he was
in charge of the finances. He was the one that oversaw.
He was the oversight from what I understand in that story,
So that makes a little more sense. But how many
times a day do you check your money?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Jerome?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
At two or three? Three? Yeah? You yeah, every two minutes?
All right? Well, most people aren't like I know, most people.
I know, most people are not like us room. Most
people check maybe you know, once a week or something
like that, maybe a couple of times a week at
the most. But to go that many years with losing
sixteen million, oh my god, that's that's something smell I got.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Ask about Michigan though, Michigan.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh you're all look at you, Jerome, I man, I
was ready to hang up on you, and now you
want to ask about Michigan. I was ready to move
on quickly.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
They got three years probation, man, three years probation. It
ain't nobody talk about it. I wonder why.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, Jerome, you know, you know why Jerome, because there's
games on television in Michigan. They need Michigan on there.
They need Michigan contending for a championship, whether it's the
Big Ten or whatever they're gonna when they change all
the conferences in a couple of years, all have different names.
Are thank You Room, It is the band Malor Show.
As we continue on the Ron James threatening to expose
(32:02):
a basketball scribe who voted and robbed him of a
unanimous Most Valuable Player award, Lebron says he's gonna save
that information. He knows who it is. He said there
was a writer, he said he isn't necessarily a writer.
He sai, there was somebody from Boston who voted for
Carmelo Anthony. This goes back over a decade, and Carmelo's
(32:23):
still holding a grudge or or Lebron holding a grudge,
and so he says he's going to expose the person,
but he's gonna wait to a documentary to do it.
So I can't wait for that. Unless I can wait
for that, I'm sure that'll give us content five years
from now or ten years from now, or whenever it
comes out, and we'll get the pop goes the weasel.
Time now for the who am I game? And here
we go. I have the most playoff wins while shooting
(32:45):
below forty percent from the field on ten or more
field goal attempts since twenty twenty. Again, pay close attention.
I have the most playoff wins while shooting below forty
percent field goal percent on ten or more field goal
at Thames since twenty twenty. Who am I the answer?
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (33:44):
Well yet again, the Major League Baseball marketing people brilliant.
I went online to try to find the fanatic at
I was gonna buy it right there and went to
the Phillies Team Store did not have it. Went to
a couple of other websites did not have it. So
screw them not buying it. Can't I can't buy it.
Even I wanted to buy it, I can't buy it.
They the Philly Fanatic hat. Uh, they had the logo
(34:08):
of the fanatics.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I see them here a little Google search. I see
some fanatic hat.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That's not the authentic one, though, I that's a that's
a ripoff version.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Where you're looking at there's a new era like that.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
That's not the one they wore, though. I'm looking for
the one that they wore. I did not see it.
It is not on I'm looking at the Phillies the
team store. It's not on there. Telling you you think
I'm making that up? You want to fight?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Oh yes, I want.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I want to fight over the fanatics hat. Let's go
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Insider Jay Glazer, former Cardinals jam Steve Kim, Hollage, Football
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(35:16):
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I have the most playoff wins while shooting below forty
(35:36):
percent from the floor on ten or more field goal
attempts since twenty twenty. Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? And we'll see if anybody knows
the answer. Fats from Philly says Dick Paul is the answer.
(35:57):
The old pitching coach back of the day who designed
Harry Callis's headstone who else do we have about Ryan Garcia?
Guess by Youaphoeme. I saw that fight on Saturday. Watched that?
Uh he dominated that?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Did you watch that?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah? You know there's the ways you can watch it.
Eddie who able to a friend's house or something like that.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Richard Simmons guessed by Mallard prop guy Marshawn Lynch, who
was thirty eight today from Late Night drug tester John
Dillinger from Mister Luciano. That's his answer. Mike Tyson tossed
out by mister nice guy, the Great Mike Test. You
know he used to play for the Cardinals back and
a lot of people don't know that about Mike Tyson,
but he played for the Saint Louis Cardinals the team. Yeah.
(36:40):
Andy from Lionel Lakes, Minnesota going with Jimmy Buckets as
his answer. Mister big Shot Robert Rory from Fergdog Hedo
Turkalou tossed out by I forty Ian Whitey Bulger from
Art puffin Roscoe, the Parrot from alf the Alien of Putter.
That guy David in Winter Park, Florida. He vanished, man,
he got up with me because I wouldn't do that,
(37:01):
gambling contest with him, so he left the show, and
I'll always have the memory alf of him driving all
the way from Florida to Boston from Mala meet and
greet with the Roscoe of the Paris stuffed Animal. Who
else do we have? Rudy tom Janovitch guessed by Ike
and Roseville, Minnesota. Bengo the Bucks mascot from King Rory
al Jolson from Robin, Minnesota. Tiger Woods tossed out by
(37:24):
Shannon des Moines. Giants mascot lou Seal from Scorpio nine
Get a better mascot? Clay Thompson guest by Paul d.
Who else do we have? Mason and hunting the beach,
says the Iron Horse of basketball Kawhi Leonard Blades the
mascot from Masshole Mickey, did you know that's the Bruins
mascot Eddie Blades?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
This is the mascot. I know it's a bear. I
didn't know his name was his names Blades Blades?
Speaker 3 (37:47):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I have the most playoff wins while shooting below forty
percent on ten or more field goal attempts since twenty twenty.
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
What's the answer?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
At a former Magic legend in for knee Hardaway. Don't
call him Penny.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Don't call him Penny. No, he's incorrect. Addy, bad job,
but your correct answer. A man who's currently playing for
the Boston Celtics, Drew Holiday, although he's only playing this season,
but he's number one.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Is Jason Tatum. So Drew Holliday and Jason Tatum the
dynamic duo there in Boston, and they have dominated winning
games when they don't shoot the ball particularly well.
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