April 22, 2024 • 35 mins
Big Ben talks about James Harden and the Clippers handling Luka and the Mavs, LeBron James saying that the Lakers have "no room for error" against the Nuggets, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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this show, you do know we're the leadoff hitter for
the lineup here at at the companies. Very exciting, you're
not excited, Bad job by you. But our lead this
hour does come from Pro bouncy Ball, and as we
always remind you this time of the year, our public
service announcement. If you despise the NBA, you hate pro basketball,
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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 not at this point. So our lead here to
begin the offestive. Through the course of the night, we
will discuss many of the things that happen over the
course of not everything, not everything, but a lot of
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things that took place in the postseason. So not the
Fugazi playing tournament that ended on Friday. We were not here,
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.
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I didn't see too much of that on Sunday. I
don't know what happened. Maybe your WiFi went out. Maybe
that's the problem. No, your WiFi didn't go out. Okay,
I got you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
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 gutted. You know how
you gut a turkey and you kind of carve a
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turkey and all that for things. That's what the Clippers
did the Mavericks. They smashed them, guttered 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? So they're gonna lose
the number, I figure, but they might call back if
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the MAVs win a game, but they probably won't call
right now. So the Clippers led by his many as
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
the Nuggets had to come back in. This a half.
This game not close. In fact, Dallas never led a second,
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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 Byka Luka Doncik and the Mavericks with the suckage.
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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. If they
put out there a tray of garlic fries, those would
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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 prepared for a playoff, get playoffs? That is an
indictment of Jason Kidd. I buried the lead. Don't bury
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the lead, mo 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 that's a different conversation. Stay, folks.
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So Quhi didn't play. So Kawhi didn't play. 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 they had no interest in
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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 a
athletic competition, the more aggressive team often wins, not necessarily
more talented team, but the more aggressive team. Now, in
this case, the Clippers are more talented from top to bottom,
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and they were more 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 basted it off what had been
written about Dallas, you would have been convinced this is
an unstoppable juggernaut that Luka Doncik and the Mavericks ran off.
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That they 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 postseason,
so 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
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Leonard had no chance. Okay, So that's the story. 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? I know?
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
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honor of the great Dick Stockton, longtime sportscast. 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
on as a guest, and Dick Stockton was doing the
worst game on Fox, a absolute god awful matchup between
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two morbid teams, and he was on to promote the game,
and I was like, listen, why would anyone want to
watch this game? Mister Stockton? 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. There's moment but
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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 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
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these years in the plus Luca. He's perfect for Dallas
because he reminds me a lot of Dakota Prescott. He
does like if Dakota Prescott was a if dak Prescott
was a basketball player, he'd be Luca, And if Luca
was a football player, he'd be dak the more I
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watch 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
at a twenty nine point lead early second half, twenty
nine point lead. From that point forward, Luca put up
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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 vault. Oh look at his numbers.
And when they winking a nod to Kyrie Irving because
I wrote some a note down on Kyrie. Kyrie Irving
scored twenty five points in garbage time, but you look
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at their numbers. Ah, 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.
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
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thirty four. They throttled these 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 he'll be
in in vacation somewhere in the Bahamas. But nonetheless, this
this game not a talker for what we do for
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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.
But he told NBC Sports Boston that he thought the
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heat and Caleb Martin that 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 Scalabrini. He said Eric Spolster called the
timeout one thirty left down by sixteen thirty seconds later,
so about a minute to go. In the game. The
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play happens where Caleb Martin's going up to get a
rebound or trying to get a rebound, and he undercuts
Tatum down, Gowst Tatum down, Gos Tatum and it. Scalum
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 Scalabrin,
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because that 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 Holliday would have to be in cahoots on this.
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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 a
little tap, little tap. The story here is actually let
him play Joe Choe Mizzoula, who left his starters in
there at the end of the game and in garbage
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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 Tatum. It appears as okay, but
that's the story, all right. Last word, did we pinwheel quickly?
In Milwaukee where Dame Lillard the Dame train Dame Lillard
put up a monster first to have he had thirty
five points, all of his points in the first half.
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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 two emailed me to point out that what happened,
You said, Doc Rivers was gonna be the unknowing of
the Bucks. All right, So how did the Bucks avoid
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the doc Rivers effect? 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
to describe it, like a volcano, because a volcano can
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lay dormant for several games, in this case in basketball. Uh.
And then the unthinkable, the unimaginable happens. Indiana is such
a lightweight defensively that I don't even think they know
how to play defense. They don't even want to play defense.
That Doc rivers. It's conceivable he'll be all right in
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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 looks like he
was back in Portland, and without Yiannis there, it is
kind of like he's back in Portland. But it's only
a matter of when, not if. At some point this
is going to be a splendid failure. And I'll be
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here with a big bucket of popcorn for all of it, and.
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weekend of the nb A postseason. And this hour we're
gonna start out in Denver. Now we're gonna go back
to Saturday after the Lakers Game one loss. Some of
you got suckered in. You thought, hey, pretty well in
the first half, they got a chance to win this game,
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and then they had to play the second half, well,
specifically the third quarter when the trap door opened up
and things went sideways. But Lebron James gave a State
of the Union style address following the Lakers defeat against
the Nuggets. If you didn't see this, and maybe not,
Lebron declared, they'll give you the money quote. He said,
we know we just don't have much room for error
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versus a Denver team. He said, he's talking about the Nuggets,
and he says, you got to execute, got to make shots,
you've got to defense. So let us discuss the question
Lebron James the money quote. Lebron's saying that there is
no room for error. That's his quote there against the Nuggets.
How do you decode the commentary by Lebron? So, I've
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got zigzag maintenance and indoctrinated, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a six pack of wings. Chicken wings, which is what
the Laker players can be eating when they watch the
Nuggets in the next round of the playoffs. They can
go out to a nice restaurant and need some chicken wings,
possibly some pretzels soft pretzel. I recommend the soft pretzel.
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So number one, Yes, thing's broken. Thing's broken, all right,
So Lebron, James, we know what Lebron's doing, all right.
Now to the to the untrained ear, WHOA, there's nothing
Lebron said. That's a benign comment by Lebron saying there's
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no room for error. But Lebron is using his old,
time tested playbook. He is. The Lakers played as well
as possible and still ended up disemboweled by Denver. Lebron
knows it. Everyone in that locker room knows it. They
can't play any better than that, and they got smoked
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in the third quarter by by Denver. And so Lebron
realizing the end game, he knows what the end game
on this is for the Lakers. They're gonna be eliminated
by the Nuggets in the first Nune. Of the players,
Lebron he haven't won a championship as a Laker yet,
hasn't won anything as a Laker, an abject failure in
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LA and he's gonna get knocked out in the first
round of the playoffs now. And so Lebron's doing the
ground work here, the old zigzag, the misdirection play by
Lebron James to the untrained ear. Not to the untrained ear.
It sounds like he's complimenting Nicola Yo Kitchen, the Nuggets,
saying nice things. Do you have to play perfect? It's
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really camouflage, though it's camo. It's camouflaged, and it's a
shot at his own locker room. Lebron. See this is
Lebron's like a ninja. How he does it? He takes
a shot at his own guys. Well, it sounds like
he's just praising the other team, and dumb fans are like, oh,
I don't understand what that's about. It's just you're reading
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too much into this. I know I'm not. So when
the Lakers inevitably lose, Lebron can say, oh, it ain't
my fault. I mean, we just don't have a good
enough team because my teammates blow and the ones that
don't blow, they suck, and so that's the problem. Lebron
would appreciate it if you I'm talking about you, not
the person behind you. I'm talking to you. If you
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have amnesia when it comes to him allowing Nikola Jokic
to run right past me. There's one play late in
the game Lakers and Nuggets when lebron allowed Jokic to
sprint past them while Anthony Davis was gassed and he
had his hands on his knees and couldn't make it
past half court in the fourth quarter. And the altitude thing,
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I don't buy is an excuse. And the reason I
don't buy it is my entire life. I've heard broadcasters
talk about how it's impossible to win in Denver, and
yet I only recall the Broncos winning a few in
the Avalanche, you know, once in a while. The Nuggets,
but it's not like they win every year. They don't.
It's not like they're in the championship round every year,
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but they have this altitude advantage and all that. I
don't buy it. All right, Pattter, we heading out of
South Beach. This is by request from a consumer of
this show in South Florida who was very upset because
over the weekend, Michael Wilbon, I'm told that's a commentator
and Kendrick Perkins were told that's a former player called
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out the Miami fan. So the Heat played the playing
championship game. If it's called that, I don't know what
it's called. It's stupid. I didn't watch it, but apparently
they very upset with the lack of attendance, the lack
of passion from the Miami fan, and they called the
Heat fans. This is talking about Kendrick Perkins and Michael Wilbon.
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They called the Heat fans front runners. So what do
you make of that? What do you make of the
front runner statement? So I'm going to defend the Heat backer, Okay.
And I think that's part of the reason that I
got sent this this email, because this guy knows he's
a listener to the show, and he knows my position
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on this, and I've been very consistent about it. The
Heat fan and I did not see the game on Friday.
From what I was reading about it, they were not
a lot of people. They are a lot of empty seeds.
People were not that didn't do it. Fine. But I
look at the Miami fan. They're not cheap, they're not suckers.
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It's all about the maintenance. They're a high maintenance They're
a high maintenance Fanmius. But I don't think that's a
bad thing. Other people look down upon the Heat fans.
Oh it's a bad fan, it's a bad fan. But
I look at it like, no, that's the way it
ought to be. They have expensive taste and they're not
easily entertained. There's a lot of rubes, a lot of
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dumb people that just blindly support teams and they get
taken advantage of. They're called suckers. Miami not quite like that.
They don't operate that way, and they got plenty of
distractions in South Florida, and the NBA is just one
of the entertainment options that you have. You're not beholden
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to fill up the arena, right if you don't feel
like it, if it doesn't have enough juice to you
to your taste, you don't have to go. And so
don't be a sucker. That's the lesson. They're not suckers.
And you need to provide a little extra to get
the Miami fan excited, and that's fine. These sports teams
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have been gouging fans, not just in Miami but everywhere
for generations. It's like how high can you go? It's
like going to Disneyland to go to a sporting event
in most places. So it's not like they're looking out
for you, right, They're not exactly looking out for you.
There that's not happening. So hey, good for the Heat fan.
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If they want to stay home or go somewhere else
and spend their entertainment dollars somewhere else, I'm fine with that.
And I honest see why Michael Wilbond or Kendrick Perkins
would care. It's not their money. They go to those
games for free. What do they care? They were paid
for tickets, and when's last time they paid for tickets?
All right? Final point. So we saw a bunch of
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routes or roots in the NBA playoffs. In if you
put a basket of blowouts on one side and a
basket of competitive games on the other, the basket of blowouts,
you'd have to get a second bag for the basket
because it's completely full. The Thunder and Pelicans game was
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a close game, but I can't talk about that game
because nobody cares about nationally those teams. We do broadcasting,
not narrow casting. And if I sit here to a
Thunder Pelicans monologue, they're gonna come in here with baseball
bats and they're gonna bludget me. So I'm not gonna
do that. The Bucks, Clippers and Celtics all built up
massive leads were never threatened. Clippers twenty nine point lead.
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I believe the Bucks thirty Celtics thirty four points a
domination situation, as these opponents were completely flummoxed. But I
want to see if you notice what I noticed because
watching these games this weekend, I noticed that despite the
games clearly being lopsided, not competitive at all, all of
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those games had announcers to varying degrees who attempted to
make it seem like the unthinkable, the unimaginable rally was
going to take place, that the Pacers were going to
come back against the Box even though Dame Lillard was
going gaga in the first half, and the mad Recks
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were going to come back in the second half. And
now watch out there, this could be the greatest comeback
of all the time. But now the heat maybe not
as much, but still you got that vibe. So the
question why to these NBA broadcasters, universally, universe, across the
board advertised big comeback on the horizon, Big comeback on
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the horizon. So they have all been here's my theory,
They've all been indoctrinated. They went to the clown College
of Sportscasting. It's the same dogma. It's the same dog
They keep repeating it. Oh you gotta want you can't
turn it off, And as somebody that is in the business,
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I understand how it works. Right in this case, they're
treating the people watching the game as blithering idiots that, oh, no,
this is going to be the day, this is going
to be the day there's a comeback, because they're trying
to keep the audience. It's obviously we know that they're
paranoid about losing viewers, and I understand it's easier to
keep the audience that you have then artificially generate a
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new audience. It's like in our business we talk about
TSL time spent listening in audio, and it's time spent watching,
if you will, on television. But it's pretty difficult to
get people to turn on a blowout and get them
engaged in all that, and so they sell FuMO fear
of missing out. You cannot turn the game off just
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in case the historical come back happens, you will be
soap upset. It's manure. It is fresh laid manure. That's
what it is. You can if you go back and
look when it goes, team goes up by thirty point
twenty nine to thirty points. In the history of the NBA,
comebacks like that have only happened a handful of times,
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and it usually happens once or twice a generation. It
does not happen most ninety nine percent of the time,
it doesn't happen. So if you're gonna watch for the
one percent, you're a loser. Okay, go get a life,
go out, go outside, get some get some fresh air.
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Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. It's Mallard. How about that? To the third degree.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
This is one big fent gets quatl open Ben.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
The Broncos have said that they don't plan to trade
wide receiver Courtland Sutton this despite offers.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Ben. Do you believe them? No, I don't believe anybody
in the NFL's lying season, Coop. The draft is this week,
and if the Broncos want let's say JJ McCarthy, and
they have to trade up to get him, of course
they're gonna throw Courtland Sutland Courtland Sutton rather in the trade.
So I don't believe they're not going to trade him.
They might not plan on trading him, but that doesn't
mean they're not gonna trap Next.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
The Yankees are said to be interested in Pete Alonzo
if the Mets end up with Juan Soto next season, Ben,
could you see the New York Baseball Stars changing uniforms?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, so Pete Alonso will go anywhere for the money,
so will want Soto. So I guess the answer to
that is yes, although I do not see Juan Soto
as I don't know is as a met I'll go
yes as a possibility but a highly unlikely.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Next, Raiders fan were seeing Raiders fans were seen heckling
Patrick Mahomes and his wife during their Cabo vacation. They
appeared to be genuinely annoyed. Ben, did the Silver and
Black fans cross the line with Mahomes?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
No, coop? This is, in fact, this is the ultimate
sign of riespect It is because Holmes, He's sitting there
in Cobbo with his uh, with his wife there, and
they're they're heckling him.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Mahomes has lost a couple of games with the Raiders
in recent years, but still overall with the championships and
all that a complete domination situation side by side. But
now I shouldn't be upset. I should be honest. You
should be honored. Now, I bet you if you go
to Pyongyang, nobody knows who you are. So if you
want to go on vacation to Pyongyang, they'll leave you alone. Anyway,
there it is, how.
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Kop mallin a third degrade? You passes, I don't wait
for me? Won the game.
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Oh my God, it's full moon. Yes, that'd be tomorrow, Tuesday,
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and a couple of days after the full moon. It's
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going already. So wait till tomorrow peak full moon illumination
seven nine Eastern. So somebody to look forward to on Tuesday.
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Hello in morning time, if that cockroach doesn't have a
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A you are friend from Boston A. Line one, you're
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the intruder, the uninvited guest here the cockroach. Hello line one, Yeah, hello,
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trying to win the game. Line two, you're on the air,
advice to the cockroach. Line two, Oh no, that's the
cockroach you need to name. Line three, you're on the
Airline three. Is there a cockroach ambulence that we can call?
I really thought that was the cockro That was the cockroach?
So good? How do you know it's not? Have you
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could be? It? Yes, got a little baby cockroach. Phone
line three. You're on the Airline three, Hello, I think
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Ben uh win one game in Dallas first and then
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Five, Miss Cleo says golf Permanax.
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Man, I know about all kind of gangster roaches, blind roaches, roches.
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You're a roach expert, show the guy. Line one, Hello,
line one, we're giving advice. We have a cockroach that
is playing dead in the hallway, but we believe not dead,
moving his little arms around. Hello, line and tentacles and
all that. Line one, Hello, cookies. Oh look at that
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is that? That was just James here, I'm hollering James
screaming something. Yeah. Hello, alright, Line four, Hello, line four,
Line four, not paying attention, We're going to line five.
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lemb me take you something, brother, that's you cockroach.
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Cock groove o. It was serted out pretty good. I
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I'd be SCC approved. Line three, you're on the air, Hello,
line three, Tim ben Pecker. Al right, that there you go. Yeah, yeah,
all right a line four, Hello, line four, Michael Jordan
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one and Rafe Yeah alright. I had to cut off
the I knew the punchline was going to be over that.
We'll do one more now. We don't really have time
for one more, right, we don't even have time for
one more. There is the instant advice line for the
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this show, you do know we're the leadoff hitter for
the lineup here at at the companies. Very exciting, you're
not excited, Bad job by you. But our lead this
hour does come from Pro bouncy Ball, and as we
always remind you this time of the year, our public
service announcement. If you despise the NBA, you hate pro basketball,
(02:01):
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 not at this point. So our lead here to
begin the offestive. Through the course of the night, we
will discuss many of the things that happen over the
course of not everything, not everything, but a lot of
(02:24):
things that took place in the postseason. So not the
Fugazi playing tournament that ended on Friday. We were not here,
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.
(02:48):
I didn't see too much of that on Sunday. I
don't know what happened. Maybe your WiFi went out. Maybe
that's the problem. No, your WiFi didn't go out. Okay,
I got you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
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 gutted. You know how
you gut a turkey and you kind of carve a
(03:18):
turkey and all that for things. That's what the Clippers
did the Mavericks. They smashed them, guttered 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? So they're gonna lose
the number, I figure, but they might call back if
(03:41):
the MAVs win a game, but they probably won't call
right now. So the Clippers led by his many as
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
the Nuggets had to come back in. This a half.
This game not close. In fact, Dallas never led a second,
(04:05):
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 Byka Luka Doncik and the Mavericks with the suckage.
(04:25):
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. If they
put out there a tray of garlic fries, those would
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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 prepared for a playoff, get playoffs? That is an
indictment of Jason Kidd. I buried the lead. Don't bury
(05:08):
the lead, mo 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 that's a different conversation. Stay, folks.
(05:28):
So Quhi didn't play. So Kawhi didn't play. 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 they had no interest in
(05:49):
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 a
athletic competition, the more aggressive team often wins, not necessarily
more talented team, but the more aggressive team. Now, in
this case, the Clippers are more talented from top to bottom,
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and they were more 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 basted it off what had been
written about Dallas, you would have been convinced this is
an unstoppable juggernaut that Luka Doncik and the Mavericks ran off.
(06:32):
That they 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 postseason,
so 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
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Leonard had no chance. Okay, So that's the story. 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? I know?
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
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honor of the great Dick Stockton, longtime sportscast. 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
on as a guest, and Dick Stockton was doing the
worst game on Fox, a absolute god awful matchup between
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two morbid teams, and he was on to promote the game,
and I was like, listen, why would anyone want to
watch this game? Mister Stockton? 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. There's moment but
(07:59):
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 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
(08:20):
these years in the plus Luca. He's perfect for Dallas
because he reminds me a lot of Dakota Prescott. He
does like if Dakota Prescott was a if dak Prescott
was a basketball player, he'd be Luca, And if Luca
was a football player, he'd be dak the more I
(08:40):
watch 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
at a twenty nine point lead early second half, twenty
nine point lead. From that point forward, Luca put up
(09:01):
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 vault. Oh look at his numbers.
And when they winking a nod to Kyrie Irving because
I wrote some a note down on Kyrie. Kyrie Irving
scored twenty five points in garbage time, but you look
(09:25):
at their numbers. Ah, 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.
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
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thirty four. They throttled these 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 he'll be
in in vacation somewhere in the Bahamas. But nonetheless, this
this game not a talker for what we do for
(10:07):
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.
But he told NBC Sports Boston that he thought the
(10:27):
heat and Caleb Martin that 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 Scalabrini. He said Eric Spolster called the
timeout one thirty left down by sixteen thirty seconds later,
so about a minute to go. In the game. The
(10:48):
play happens where Caleb Martin's going up to get a
rebound or trying to get a rebound, and he undercuts
Tatum down, Gowst Tatum down, Gos Tatum and it. Scalum
says it looked shady to him, So did the Miami
Heat target Jason Tatum with a cheap shot? So I
(11:09):
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 Scalabrin,
(11:30):
because that 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 Holliday would have to be in cahoots on this.
(11:53):
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 a
little tap, little tap. The story here is actually let
him play Joe Choe Mizzoula, who left his starters in
there at the end of the game and in garbage
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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 Tatum. It appears as okay, but
that's the story, all right. Last word, did we pinwheel quickly?
In Milwaukee where Dame Lillard the Dame train Dame Lillard
put up a monster first to have he had thirty
five points, all of his points in the first half.
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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 two emailed me to point out that what happened,
You said, Doc Rivers was gonna be the unknowing of
the Bucks. All right, So how did the Bucks avoid
(12:57):
the doc Rivers effect? 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
to describe it, like a volcano, because a volcano can
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lay dormant for several games, in this case in basketball. Uh.
And then the unthinkable, the unimaginable happens. Indiana is such
a lightweight defensively that I don't even think they know
how to play defense. They don't even want to play defense.
That Doc rivers. It's conceivable he'll be all right in
(13:41):
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 looks like he
was back in Portland, and without Yiannis there, it is
kind of like he's back in Portland. But it's only
a matter of when, not if. At some point this
is going to be a splendid failure. And I'll be
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here with a big bucket of popcorn for all of it, and.
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(16:02):
I love you, Eugene, but you're the only one. Okay,
you're the only We owe plenty of NFL Draft content
throughout the course of tonight and throughout the weeks. We
have in depth team coverage, but I lead this hour
from Pro bouncy Ball in depth coverage of the opening
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weekend of the nb A postseason. And this hour we're
gonna start out in Denver. Now we're gonna go back
to Saturday after the Lakers Game one loss. Some of
you got suckered in. You thought, hey, pretty well in
the first half, they got a chance to win this game,
(16:42):
and then they had to play the second half, well,
specifically the third quarter when the trap door opened up
and things went sideways. But Lebron James gave a State
of the Union style address following the Lakers defeat against
the Nuggets. If you didn't see this, and maybe not,
Lebron declared, they'll give you the money quote. He said,
we know we just don't have much room for error
(17:04):
versus a Denver team. He said, he's talking about the Nuggets,
and he says, you got to execute, got to make shots,
you've got to defense. So let us discuss the question
Lebron James the money quote. Lebron's saying that there is
no room for error. That's his quote there against the Nuggets.
How do you decode the commentary by Lebron? So, I've
(17:26):
got zigzag maintenance and indoctrinated, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a six pack of wings. Chicken wings, which is what
the Laker players can be eating when they watch the
Nuggets in the next round of the playoffs. They can
go out to a nice restaurant and need some chicken wings,
possibly some pretzels soft pretzel. I recommend the soft pretzel.
(17:49):
So number one, Yes, thing's broken. Thing's broken, all right,
So Lebron, James, we know what Lebron's doing, all right.
Now to the to the untrained ear, WHOA, there's nothing
Lebron said. That's a benign comment by Lebron saying there's
(18:13):
no room for error. But Lebron is using his old,
time tested playbook. He is. The Lakers played as well
as possible and still ended up disemboweled by Denver. Lebron
knows it. Everyone in that locker room knows it. They
can't play any better than that, and they got smoked
(18:33):
in the third quarter by by Denver. And so Lebron
realizing the end game, he knows what the end game
on this is for the Lakers. They're gonna be eliminated
by the Nuggets in the first Nune. Of the players,
Lebron he haven't won a championship as a Laker yet,
hasn't won anything as a Laker, an abject failure in
(18:53):
LA and he's gonna get knocked out in the first
round of the playoffs now. And so Lebron's doing the
ground work here, the old zigzag, the misdirection play by
Lebron James to the untrained ear. Not to the untrained ear.
It sounds like he's complimenting Nicola Yo Kitchen, the Nuggets,
saying nice things. Do you have to play perfect? It's
(19:17):
really camouflage, though it's camo. It's camouflaged, and it's a
shot at his own locker room. Lebron. See this is
Lebron's like a ninja. How he does it? He takes
a shot at his own guys. Well, it sounds like
he's just praising the other team, and dumb fans are like, oh,
I don't understand what that's about. It's just you're reading
(19:38):
too much into this. I know I'm not. So when
the Lakers inevitably lose, Lebron can say, oh, it ain't
my fault. I mean, we just don't have a good
enough team because my teammates blow and the ones that
don't blow, they suck, and so that's the problem. Lebron
would appreciate it if you I'm talking about you, not
the person behind you. I'm talking to you. If you
(20:00):
have amnesia when it comes to him allowing Nikola Jokic
to run right past me. There's one play late in
the game Lakers and Nuggets when lebron allowed Jokic to
sprint past them while Anthony Davis was gassed and he
had his hands on his knees and couldn't make it
past half court in the fourth quarter. And the altitude thing,
(20:24):
I don't buy is an excuse. And the reason I
don't buy it is my entire life. I've heard broadcasters
talk about how it's impossible to win in Denver, and
yet I only recall the Broncos winning a few in
the Avalanche, you know, once in a while. The Nuggets,
but it's not like they win every year. They don't.
It's not like they're in the championship round every year,
(20:45):
but they have this altitude advantage and all that. I
don't buy it. All right, Pattter, we heading out of
South Beach. This is by request from a consumer of
this show in South Florida who was very upset because
over the weekend, Michael Wilbon, I'm told that's a commentator
and Kendrick Perkins were told that's a former player called
(21:07):
out the Miami fan. So the Heat played the playing
championship game. If it's called that, I don't know what
it's called. It's stupid. I didn't watch it, but apparently
they very upset with the lack of attendance, the lack
of passion from the Miami fan, and they called the
Heat fans. This is talking about Kendrick Perkins and Michael Wilbon.
(21:31):
They called the Heat fans front runners. So what do
you make of that? What do you make of the
front runner statement? So I'm going to defend the Heat backer, Okay.
And I think that's part of the reason that I
got sent this this email, because this guy knows he's
a listener to the show, and he knows my position
(21:52):
on this, and I've been very consistent about it. The
Heat fan and I did not see the game on Friday.
From what I was reading about it, they were not
a lot of people. They are a lot of empty seeds.
People were not that didn't do it. Fine. But I
look at the Miami fan. They're not cheap, they're not suckers.
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It's all about the maintenance. They're a high maintenance They're
a high maintenance Fanmius. But I don't think that's a
bad thing. Other people look down upon the Heat fans.
Oh it's a bad fan, it's a bad fan. But
I look at it like, no, that's the way it
ought to be. They have expensive taste and they're not
easily entertained. There's a lot of rubes, a lot of
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dumb people that just blindly support teams and they get
taken advantage of. They're called suckers. Miami not quite like that.
They don't operate that way, and they got plenty of
distractions in South Florida, and the NBA is just one
of the entertainment options that you have. You're not beholden
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to fill up the arena, right if you don't feel
like it, if it doesn't have enough juice to you
to your taste, you don't have to go. And so
don't be a sucker. That's the lesson. They're not suckers.
And you need to provide a little extra to get
the Miami fan excited, and that's fine. These sports teams
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have been gouging fans, not just in Miami but everywhere
for generations. It's like how high can you go? It's
like going to Disneyland to go to a sporting event
in most places. So it's not like they're looking out
for you, right, They're not exactly looking out for you.
There that's not happening. So hey, good for the Heat fan.
(23:40):
If they want to stay home or go somewhere else
and spend their entertainment dollars somewhere else, I'm fine with that.
And I honest see why Michael Wilbond or Kendrick Perkins
would care. It's not their money. They go to those
games for free. What do they care? They were paid
for tickets, and when's last time they paid for tickets?
All right? Final point. So we saw a bunch of
(24:02):
routes or roots in the NBA playoffs. In if you
put a basket of blowouts on one side and a
basket of competitive games on the other, the basket of blowouts,
you'd have to get a second bag for the basket
because it's completely full. The Thunder and Pelicans game was
(24:23):
a close game, but I can't talk about that game
because nobody cares about nationally those teams. We do broadcasting,
not narrow casting. And if I sit here to a
Thunder Pelicans monologue, they're gonna come in here with baseball
bats and they're gonna bludget me. So I'm not gonna
do that. The Bucks, Clippers and Celtics all built up
massive leads were never threatened. Clippers twenty nine point lead.
(24:45):
I believe the Bucks thirty Celtics thirty four points a
domination situation, as these opponents were completely flummoxed. But I
want to see if you notice what I noticed because
watching these games this weekend, I noticed that despite the
games clearly being lopsided, not competitive at all, all of
(25:09):
those games had announcers to varying degrees who attempted to
make it seem like the unthinkable, the unimaginable rally was
going to take place, that the Pacers were going to
come back against the Box even though Dame Lillard was
going gaga in the first half, and the mad Recks
(25:30):
were going to come back in the second half. And
now watch out there, this could be the greatest comeback
of all the time. But now the heat maybe not
as much, but still you got that vibe. So the
question why to these NBA broadcasters, universally, universe, across the
board advertised big comeback on the horizon, Big comeback on
(25:52):
the horizon. So they have all been here's my theory,
They've all been indoctrinated. They went to the clown College
of Sportscasting. It's the same dogma. It's the same dog
They keep repeating it. Oh you gotta want you can't
turn it off, And as somebody that is in the business,
(26:13):
I understand how it works. Right in this case, they're
treating the people watching the game as blithering idiots that, oh, no,
this is going to be the day, this is going
to be the day there's a comeback, because they're trying
to keep the audience. It's obviously we know that they're
paranoid about losing viewers, and I understand it's easier to
keep the audience that you have then artificially generate a
(26:37):
new audience. It's like in our business we talk about
TSL time spent listening in audio, and it's time spent watching,
if you will, on television. But it's pretty difficult to
get people to turn on a blowout and get them
engaged in all that, and so they sell FuMO fear
of missing out. You cannot turn the game off just
(26:58):
in case the historical come back happens, you will be
soap upset. It's manure. It is fresh laid manure. That's
what it is. You can if you go back and
look when it goes, team goes up by thirty point
twenty nine to thirty points. In the history of the NBA,
comebacks like that have only happened a handful of times,
(27:21):
and it usually happens once or twice a generation. It
does not happen most ninety nine percent of the time,
it doesn't happen. So if you're gonna watch for the
one percent, you're a loser. Okay, go get a life,
go out, go outside, get some get some fresh air.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. It's Mallard. How about that? To the third degree.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
This is one big fent gets quatl open Ben.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
The Broncos have said that they don't plan to trade
wide receiver Courtland Sutton this despite offers.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Ben. Do you believe them? No, I don't believe anybody
in the NFL's lying season, Coop. The draft is this week,
and if the Broncos want let's say JJ McCarthy, and
they have to trade up to get him, of course
they're gonna throw Courtland Sutland Courtland Sutton rather in the trade.
So I don't believe they're not going to trade him.
They might not plan on trading him, but that doesn't
mean they're not gonna trap Next.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
The Yankees are said to be interested in Pete Alonzo
if the Mets end up with Juan Soto next season, Ben,
could you see the New York Baseball Stars changing uniforms?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, so Pete Alonso will go anywhere for the money,
so will want Soto. So I guess the answer to
that is yes, although I do not see Juan Soto
as I don't know is as a met I'll go
yes as a possibility but a highly unlikely.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Next, Raiders fan were seeing Raiders fans were seen heckling
Patrick Mahomes and his wife during their Cabo vacation. They
appeared to be genuinely annoyed. Ben, did the Silver and
Black fans cross the line with Mahomes?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
No, coop? This is, in fact, this is the ultimate
sign of riespect It is because Holmes, He's sitting there
in Cobbo with his uh, with his wife there, and
they're they're heckling him.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Mahomes has lost a couple of games with the Raiders
in recent years, but still overall with the championships and
all that a complete domination situation side by side. But
now I shouldn't be upset. I should be honest. You
should be honored. Now, I bet you if you go
to Pyongyang, nobody knows who you are. So if you
want to go on vacation to Pyongyang, they'll leave you alone. Anyway,
there it is, how.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Do we do?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Kop mallin a third degrade? You passes, I don't wait
for me? Won the game.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to
listen live. Hey you sports figure, guy or girl?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Who here were you talking to?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Sons?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Here some intertent advice? Hold that thought. No one's paid
attention to me for ten whole second, and if you
don't like it, you get away. We go. It's the
in advice line on screen radio. Who in sports needs
are advice? Could be an athlete, It could be a coach,
It could be a media member, cockroach, somebody in the
(30:17):
world of sports. By the way, our friend Andrea, she
is listening, and she said, the next full moon is tomorrow.
Oh my God, it's full moon. Yes, that'd be tomorrow, Tuesday,
April twenty third, the pink moon according to Andrea. So
(30:37):
this is what happens here is a couple days before
and a couple of days after the full moon. It's
looning tunes on this show. So we've we've got that
going already. So wait till tomorrow peak full moon illumination
seven nine Eastern. So somebody to look forward to on Tuesday.
Let's get to it. Instant advice line. If you're new
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to the show. We have a interloper, a cockerroach which
we thought was dead, laying in the hall but it's
still moving around. So advice to the pet cockroach. We're
calling it popa roach, the cockroach in the hallways here.
You're live on the air. When you hear my voice
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Line one, Hello,
(31:19):
you're on the airline one. Advice to the cockroach. Please.
Line one's not paying attention. We're gonna line too. Hello
Line two at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
Line two. Hello, when I.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Say la, you say clippers, clippers, clippers.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Line three, you're on the airline three.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Hello in morning time, if that cockroach doesn't have a
Miami heats jersey on still living.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Line four, you're on the air. Hello, line four, Line four,
not paying attention. We're going to line five, eight, seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. We're giving you advice to
the cockroach, which we thought was was dead but playing
possum in the hallway. Hello. Line five, you're on the airline.
Don't you guys know that pest. Don't mess with the
(32:04):
orcan man. Oh yeah, we gotta get the orcan man
in here. Line of line six, Hello, line six, roach
A you are friend from Boston A. Line one, you're
on the Airline one. We're giving advice to the interloper,
the intruder, the uninvited guest here the cockroach. Hello line one, Yeah, hello,
(32:30):
you play to win the game? Yeah, the cockroach is
trying to win the game. Line two, you're on the air,
advice to the cockroach. Line two, Oh no, that's the
cockroach you need to name. Line three, you're on the
Airline three. Is there a cockroach ambulence that we can call?
I really thought that was the cockro That was the cockroach?
So good? How do you know it's not? Have you
(32:50):
ever heard a cockroach? Talk that might be what that
could be? It? Yes, got a little baby cockroach. Phone
line three. You're on the Airline three, Hello, I think
we cant I sit out the first round. Don't you think?
Ben uh win one game in Dallas first and then
we'll be okay with that. Line four. Hello, line four,
(33:10):
All right, Line five, Hello, Line.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Five, Miss Cleo says golf Permanax.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Okay, Well no, we already had the orchand man already.
Line six, you're on the air. Hello, line six.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Man, I know about all kind of gangster roaches, blind roaches, roches.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
You're a roach expert, show the guy. Line one, Hello,
line one, we're giving advice. We have a cockroach that
is playing dead in the hallway, but we believe not dead,
moving his little arms around. Hello, line and tentacles and
all that. Line one, Hello, cookies. Oh look at that
was it was at angry angry. He's banned from the show.
(33:47):
Line two. Hello, line two, James. That don't give who
is that? That was just James here, I'm hollering James
screaming something. Yeah. Hello, alright, Line four, Hello, line four,
Line four, not paying attention, We're going to line five.
It's the instant advice Line eight seven, seven ninety nine
(34:09):
on Fox. Hello, line five, long and tall when I
lay down? Okay, thank you. On line six, Hello, line six,
phone sucks line six. Line one, Hello, line one, You're
on the air. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Advice to the cockroach, Line one, fsr's own cockroach. Well,
(34:29):
lemb me take you something, brother, that's you cockroach.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I'd run and hide because what you're going to do.
What you're gonna do?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Cock groove o. It was serted out pretty good. I
don't know about after that. Line two, Hello, line two,
I'd be SCC approved. Line three, you're on the air, Hello,
line three, Tim ben Pecker. Al right, that there you go. Yeah, yeah,
all right a line four, Hello, line four, Michael Jordan
(34:57):
one and Rafe Yeah alright. I had to cut off
the I knew the punchline was going to be over that.
We'll do one more now. We don't really have time
for one more, right, we don't even have time for
one more. There is the instant advice line for the
FSR cockerroach. What a wonderful roach. It was still there
by the way,
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