May 27, 2024 • 44 mins
In the Best Of The Ben Maller Show, Ben breaks down down the NBA Western Conference Finals Game 3! Ronald Acuna Jrs injury and where does it leave the Braves? Is Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s wonky hamstring cause for concern? And so much more!
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The human drama of athletic competition.
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There's nothing quite like all those big moments in a
competitive conference finals series.
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And boy are we getting that in pro bouncy ball.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Our lead this hour coming from Big d That was
the stage. That was the playground for Game three of
the Western Finals, the Mavericks winning two games in Minnesota.
So Minnesota trying to come back and say, Okay, we
can go to Texas. We'll win a couple of games.
No big deal with the Mavericks trying to put another
nail in the old coffin of a Minnesota sports team. Now,
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I don't know if you watched this or not. Maybe
you had stuff going on. It's a holiday weekend. He
went tied down to watching on your phone or the
TV somewhere whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
But don't worry, we watched. We watched. We have no life,
so you would not have to.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Luka Luka and the guy Kyrie Irving, who I hate.
May he have terrible things happened to him in these
games so far. Not the better if he loses to
the Celtics. But Luca and Kyrie each had thirty three
points Dallas puts together. In the final five or so
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minutes of the game, they went after burners and they
beat Minnesota one sixteen to one oh seven. The final
Dallas basketball team gets to win. They're up now three
games to none in the Western Finals. I did not
play in the NBA, but I think if it's a
best of four out of seven and you've won the
first three.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You're doing pretty well. You're doing pretty well now.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The game ended on a fourteen to three finish or
sixteen to seven run, depending how you want to break
it down.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
There the MAVs a.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Fifth consecutive playoff win. This after the man being credited
as a glue guy, Derek Lively, left with a sprain
that oh my neck. He took an accidental, not body blow,
a head headshot from Karl Anthony Towns in knee, which
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I don't think is good.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
But no team in the.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
History of that sport has ever rallied from three games
to none down to win.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Game four will be Tuesday in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The better story is in that's right, the losing locker room.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So that is where we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Another close game, another game that came down to the
final minutes. That goes the way of Dallas and not
the team from Minneapolis. So let's discuss the question why
have Anthony Edwards Wolves been so bad?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Bad to a bone down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So I've got electoral college contaminated and the multiverse, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a pancake, which is what the
Minnesota basketball team is at this point.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
They're becoming a pancake.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And the Dallas basketball team feasting on that pancake.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
But in these games with the MAVs, the.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Margins, despite the three nothing margin in favor of the Mavericks,
the margins have been extremely thin, as they often are,
And all that matters is who is better in the moment.
Right in any of these athletic competitions, who's better in
the moment. And you don't have to hear the dumbbo
on the radio tell you. Just by paying attention, you
know that Luke and Kyrie in this series been head
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and shoulders above.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Ant Man and Kitty Cat.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And the Wolves had been running around in the final
minutes of these games like a headless chicken. Bock bock chicken.
Yet and they played like chicken. And this game Sunday
night a perfect microcosm of the underlying condition for the
Timber Puffs in this particular situation, game on the line,
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the Wolves wagon was on empty. They were sputtering down
the stretch and now they were down by ten points
or so most of the game until they flipped it
on in the second half a bit got back. Had
the lead, not a huge leap, but they had the lead.
Game was tied at one hundred, was six point fifty
eight to go. MAVs finished the game outscoring the Wolves
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sixteen to seven.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Dallas in that stretch at the end of the.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Game final six plus minutes of the game shot seventy
five percent against the number one defense of Minnesota. The
wolveshot twenty five percent, and Luca and Kyrie in that
that closive game had ten points.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
An ant Man and Kitty Cat.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Combined for four points, all of them by ant who
played well in the third quarter. But that's about it,
and overall, a special place in the Suck Hall of
Fame for Karl Anthony Towns, who should get a game
ball from the Mavericks should give him a game ball
because in this matchup and really this series altogether. But
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we'll just focus in on the game three, Karl Anthony
Towns he won the electoral College.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He is now the mayor of Barf City.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So congratulations to Kat Kitty Cat now the mayor of
bar City. Karl Anthony Towns took eighteen shots. He missed
thirteen of them for fourteen points. Now oh of eight
from three point range. Karl Anthony Towns in his head,
that little cartoon bubble over his head. I'm convinced he
believed he's a better shooter than Stephen Curry. But then
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when you actually see him in these big mallments, he
shoots like John Starks back in the old That's an
outdated reference, but you get it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
A real clunker, real clunker.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Now page two, So Anthony Edwards was asked what in
the box score? What about the box score from Game
three stood out? He was asked about that. His response
he said, quote, they meaning Dallas at thirty one free throws,
We had seventeen close group, So how do you classify
Anthony Edwards, star of the Minnesota basketball team's performance in
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the Western Finals and that commentary. So I have this
as unbecoming and unacceptable. In the lead up to the
Western Finals, I paid attention. Now I have a talk show,
so I have to pay attention. You probably don't have
to pay attention. But let me tell you the bull
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crap that was being said and written about Anthony Edwards.
He was being I propped up as a hybrid. It
was like a masterclass on how to build up a ballplayer.
He's got the skill set of Michael Jordan and he's
got the toughness of Mike Tyson. Couple of old nineteen
eighties references, bigger mouth, bigger game Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
However, the proof is in the pudding. In the Western Finals,
he has been contaminated. Anthony Edwards in key elements.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
With dragon breath, wallowing, with a defeatist attitude.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Edwards now has not one, but two two more.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Excuses than he does wins in the Western Conference Finals.
Remember the famous line that you really just cringed at
when you heard it Game one of the Western Finals Dallas, Minnesota,
and the twenty two year old Anthony Edwards essentially said
he was gassed. They were exhausted. He was exhausted too hard.
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It was too hard for Minneso. And now he's got
the zebras so wear and tear, fatigue and officiating. Yet
the game was anyone's game. It was a toss up.
And it's not like there were a series of terrible
calls in the final couple of minutes of the game.
So even if the officiating was bad, and I don't
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disagree that the NBA product in terms of officiating is bush League,
but still that was not the reason that the Wolves
lost this game. And for Anthony Edwards, what an abject
failure he has been in this series. Do better and
be better. This was supposed to be your coming out party.
You ain't going anywhere all right, last word here, So
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if you look out at the landscape here, the East
and the Western Finals are both three nothing series leads.
We told you before all this began. Television wanted Boston
in Dallas. They want Kyrie the bad guy, going back
to Boston, even though all the Celtic players worship the
altar of Kyrie. But that's the TV matchup. They want
big market Dallas, Boston sports crazy place.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's what they want.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Now, Minnesota's not done yet. Well, we'll focusing on this.
Naz Reid is not throwing in, at least publicly, not
throwing in the sponge or the timber puffs, not yet,
he said.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
If anyone can win four straight in this scenario, I
think it's us close. Quote, So, what are the odds
that Minnesota will come back? One are the odds they
will come back in this series? They have not to
won a game yet. Yeah, suck at a time you
cannot suck. So I'm gonna open up the Mallard of
sports book gods. And they're not zero. They're not They're
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not zero. The Mallard sports book odds I have at
plus five thousand. Now that implies a less than two
percent chance, which again is not zero.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
At this moment of time, we are watching the.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Surgical dismemberment of the Wolves late close game situations. Minnesota
has been absolutely eviscerated. The kind of performance in these
games that gets a coach fired. It's hard to fire
the coach though, because he's already on crutches. But this
is the type of performance where your star player has
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been a no show in Key Molmons and your other
star player can't make a shot to save his life
from outside.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
This is the moment that gets a coach fired.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Regardless of all that, the question at hand was what
are the odds Minnesota will come back in While it's
two percent chance plus five thousand regardless of that.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
We live in the multiverse. So if you go.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Far enough, OK, bear with me, If you go far enough,
you'll fall into Wonderland and on a different planet living
in a parallel universe.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Luca and Kyrie collide. Kaboom.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
They collide right, and maybe a practice injury. They get
knocked out, not career anything, but knocks him out for
the rest of the series one or both.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And then Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And Kitty Kat stop overdosing on stupid pills. And at
some point, here's the way I look at the stuff
like this, at some point a team will come back.
We've seen teams get to a game seven but not
win a game seven in that sport. But a team
eventually will come back. And whether we're alive or not,
somebody's gonna come back from down oh three.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And it just hasn't happened yet. But I do know this.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Minnesota can be totally loosey goosey now because the Eulogis
have already been written their toast, and they deserve to
be written because of the way they play. With every
Wolves win, the knob gets turned a little bit more
on Luca.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And the Mavericks to not screw this up. They should
win in four games.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Maybe Minnesota wins a single game, you get a gentleman's
sweep out of it. But if the Dallas Mavericks futs
around with this, don't close out. Minnesota gets a game
and then they get another game, and all of a sudden, well,
now you gotta win or else you gotta go to
a game seven. Things can change very very quickly. Now
do I think that's actually going to happen? No, I
don't think that's actually gonna happen. Are you talking about
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Kitty Cat playing well for four games in a row?
Come on, come on now, don't see it. It's not
regular season matchups against the Sacramento and San Antonio.
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Report out of the Delaware Valley says the Sixers or
Windows shopping and eyeing Lebron James, but would he actually
play in Philadelphia? Would Lebron actually play in Philadelphia, and
why is hawk star Trey Young taking shrapnel on the
NBA rumor mill the.
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Trade market of the NBA. We'll talk about that.
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Also a report over the weekend saying that teams have
been warned that Bronni James Gronnie Bronni, the spawn of
lebron won't do the Jilie not interested in that. We'll
talk about that and more. Right now, give it up
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this hour from the Grape Line. The NBA not all
that great conversation point as far as the games are concerned.
Conference finals have been a dud. They sell competition. We
have not gotten that, at least in terms of each
team winning games. Indiana and Minnesota or on life support.
Pacers facing their last supper in the Eastern Conference Finals
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on Monday.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Night, and the.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Western Conference Finals that should be over on Tuesday, unless
unless Mavericks start futzing around playing with their food. We'll
see what happens with that. But as the NBA playoffs
ramp up, although it doesn't seem like it, the ac
of cool gossip is starting to crank up as well
the speculation room working overtime. For example, the latest on
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these self titled King James, Lebron Lebron James. I know
you're very concerned about where a forty year old, almost
forty year old athlete is going to end up.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That's the most pressing concern you have in your life. Well,
you've come to the right place.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
So Lebron James was revealed by his agent is going
to opt out of his contract with the Lakers later
this summer and will enter the transfer portal.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
He will be a free agent.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Now keep in mind, from a financial standpoint, it makes
sense for Lebron to opt out, even if he's planning
on staying in La La Land, because he can get
more money. But we're hearing that the Sixers are one
of the latest teams that has entered the chat and
are said to be considering a run at Lebron James.
Of course, there are multiple teams that are lining up
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to take a flyer on that stiff Bronni James to
try to convince Lebron to come to their team. So
the Sixers, though, are considering several impact players. They're trying
to find someone, anyone that can be a number two
to Joel eNB They tried James Harden, that didn't work.
They had Ben Simmons, he's, you know, the Aussie MA.
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He can't play, He's a weak sauce. So they're trying
to find somebody who could be that number two option
and Philadelphia can go on a run in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The Sixers ports over the weekend saying that the Sixers
are window shopping Lebron James would he play in Philadelphia?
Would Lebron play in Philadelphia? So I am shaking my head.
You can't see me, but I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And if I keep shaking my head, no, I'm gonna
get a headache and I'm gonna get dizzy. So I'm
not gonna keep shaking my head.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But I've got miniature horses down range and French and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make the baba ganooshe. We're gonna make the
baba ganous So number wha. So if you look at
the track record of Lebron, because typically the track record
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tells you what's going to happen, I don't guaranteed it's
gonna happen, but it gives you a pretty good indo
cater of what's going to happen. So Lebron has played
in Cleveland, He's from Akron, so that's geographically desirable. Played
in Miami, Lavina Loca, and La laland those are what's
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known in basketball parlance as safe spaces on the professional
sports map. Lebron is used to being swooned all over. Yes, right,
this massage Lebron. That's what's happened, everywhere's gone. Absolutely that
does not happen in Philly. It will not happen so
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known as the of course the city of brotherly Love.
We have great listeners in Philadelphia, but that's a place
for their athletes does not always go so well. And
when riddled me this batman, when has Lebron been willing
to take a back seat to anybody? The idea that
Lebron would go to Philadelphia and be a number two
option to Joel embiid is arsicle. It's poppycock. It's not
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gonna happen, right, And Lebron spends much of his time
ver klempt. He's hyper sensitive, even though he's in places
where they kisses dary air like Miami La, you know,
in Cleveland back in the day. But he would need
around the clock access Lebron if he played in Philadelphia
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to an emotional support. Miniature horse. Gotta get one of
those miniature horses for Lebron because he does have faulty wiring.
Things would get very chippy, very fast. As a talk
show host, I would love it. I fully rubber stamp
Lebron going to a place like Philadelphia. No more, mister
nice guy in Philly, Man Man, would that be a
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bad fit, but I would love to see it. It's
much more realistic to see lebron go to a place
like Arizona, the Valley of the Sun. There's certain places.
Now you go to Florida because you got Ponce de Leon.
But if you're in the West and you want to
return are a lot of people go to Arizona. You
go hang out and hang out in the area. Is
a great golfing, a bronze of golfer there. It's close
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enough to La you can get back. It's a short
flight until they have a team in Vegas. That's a
good option. Now page two to the swap meet we
go again. This a buy pride, This mal of monologue
a byproduct by the Conference finals being a total dud.
Another day and another report on the trade speculation machine
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about Trey Young and his absolute lack of popularity. Now,
Trey Young has a lot of accolades if you go
to his basketball reference page, He's had a lot of
accomplishments in his career, All Star appearances, things like that.
But Atlanta sucked at a time you cannot suck, and
they're said to be looking to shake it up, and
it's said that the Hawks are looking to unload either Trey.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Young and or and or Dejonte Murray.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
But the speculation is that among rival NBA teams looking
to acquire a player from Atlanta, Dejonte Murray is more
of a palatable option for those teams looking to make
a move. So the question why is a bona fide
all star like Trey Young getting shrapnel on the NBA
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trade market speculation, So some of this is likely false,
but Trey Young does have diva personified. He's the epitome
of a diva and that does end up boomeranging back
in your face. He's been known as a coach killer
in Atlanta that the Hawks have changed coaches quite often,
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and Trey believes he doesn't need to listen to any
of them. And people also have just loose lips and
Trey Young getting caught down range. You don't want to
get caught down range. He's been caught down range. He's
catching some strays, and it appears that many people have
those vendetta s. They have a vendetta against this guy. Right,
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Trey Young's reputation precedes him excess baggage making him an
acquired taste.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Now that's it. If the Hawks continue to fish, someone
is going to buy it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Right, Trey Young scores too many points. He's too dynamic
and offensive player. He's like a designated hitter in baseball.
He doesn't play much defense, but he's a very good
offensive player.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
All right, final point.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I want to circle back, circle back now, I want
to circle back to the spawn of Lebron as we
like to call him on this show, Scrownie Bronni. So,
Scrownie Bronni. We are thirty days away from the collegiate slash.
I didn't go to college. I went to the G
League or I went to europe selection show and Bronnie
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James making some headlines over the holiday weekend.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Bronnie james reputation is one of you.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I'm the son of Lebron, but I'm not a great
I'm not getting this attention because of Lebron. Right, I'm
not here. I'm not being talked about for the draft
because of Lulan, which we know is is complete. You
know what a right, So Bronnie James agent wants you
to know and me to know, and every team in
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the association to know that the former USC guard will
not be signing one of those two way contracts should he.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Be selected, say in the second round of the upcoming draft.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Now, the guy involved in this clutch sports kingpin lebron James,
Tody Rich Paul, has confirmed that he would not would
not agree to terms on a two way deal if
Bronnie were to be offered such by a select team
in the NBA. Now, it's essentially a warning shot. It's
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a warning shot from the teams of the for the
teams in the NBA, It's like, hey, don't even mess around.
Bronnie James is not going to the G league.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Now, the question this warning that Bronnie James will not
go to the G league? What does this tell you?
What does this tell you? So I will psychoanalyze this.
It tells you that Bronnie James is high maintenance. Is
a high maintenance ballplayer. He has been empowered by the
luxury lifestyle of his daddy, right, and you would expect that, right.
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He grew up in the lap of luxury as the
spawn of Lebron and he wants special treatment. And I
would say, check yourself before you wreck yourself. This is
a six to one guard who was a backup on
a sub five hundred college team averaged less than five
points a game, and now you're telling the world you're
too good to go to the G League. Excuse my French,
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but that is chicken feathers, that is horse. But dounky dunk,
all right, come on right. Most second round picks, most
find themselves like a human yo yo, up and down,
spin it all around in between the NBA and the
G League. That's just the way life is when you're
a second round pick.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
And then eventually, if you stick.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Around long enough and you show something that you're able
to find your way to use a crowbar to open
up the door.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And get a spot on a roster, but you're not
given one.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And from the sound of it, it's all chatter, but
it's from Rich Paul that Bronnie James is not going
to settle for a two way contrary.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
So, if you believe Rich Paul, Scrownie Brownie is way
too good for that.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And of course, if all things were equal, this would
eliminate any chance of Brownie James being drafted.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
But since teams.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Think that they can get lebron it's a brilliant move
by Lebron to opt out of his Laker contract because
he can then lead these teams on and wait until
after the draft to make sure his kid is drafted.
The whole thing is an OI base situation, right, So
I'm already seriously what's going.
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On with this? Anyway? It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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At where you are.
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Do you have a realistic chance, Are you a real contender?
Are you a foll contender? And while we will do
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I will have that conversation in a future episode of
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When we look at those kind of things, there is
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no no way to say that this is a good
thing because we have a developing story out of.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
The atl in NVP has come up. Lame hobbling, hob
hobble hobble.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Now, if you didn't hear about this over the weekend
because you were doing other things.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I'll help you. Perhaps you missed it. Atlanta Braves are
Ronald Alcuno Junior, the reigning National League MVP, is going
to miss the rest of the season as he tore
up his anterior cruciate ligament. The ACL in his left
knee happened on Sunday in the Burgh in Pittsburgh. You're
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nationally MVP let off a game with a double a
right center field, and then right after that he was
trying to steal third and his left knee buckled and warped.
It gave out right there, and Kuno Junior remained down
for several minutes. The training staff hobbled out from the
Atlanta Dog out.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
They were checking him out there. He was being treated
by the medical people. The manager was there. They were
pointing in his left leg and he walked off under
his own power.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
So initially the diagnosis was, ah, just he's got a swordindy,
that nothing sordiny, you know, He's gotta be like our
guy Ronald. Just rubbed some dirt on it and that's it. Well,
the Braves diagnosis of left knee it was a sore
left knee, but a few hours later the team announced
it is the ultimate kind of.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
A sword knee.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
The MRI showed a not partial, a complete ACL tear snap, crackle, pop,
just like that.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
See later. It going to require season ending surgery. Season
ending surgery.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
So let us discuss the question what does this injury
do for Ronald Lacuno Junior and where does it leave
the Braves. So I've got pitchman, lifestyle choices and sleep number,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make crunchy tacos, the perfect taco,
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the crunchy taco.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
So, first of all, this is obviously a punch in
the solar plexus for the Atlanta baseball team which has underperformed,
underperformed in comparison to how Philadelphia has played, and when
you look at it in terms of star value, this
is a good afternoon, good evening, and good night situation
for the Braves. Also, this is a Peanuts character. It's
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Rerun van Pelt. We have seen this before. For all
of his superpowers, for all of his abilities the field
to break records and marks that we have not seen broken,
accomplishments that we have not seen in baseball, Ronald Lacuna Junior,
what he needs is help from dungeons and dragons. The
Braves have to find the cloak of protection because whatever
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he's using is not working. And while he is sitting
out the rest of the season all of June, July, August, September,
October and however far the Braves go after that. Now
Akuna has time to be the pitchman for Kellogg's Rice Chrispies.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
He can do the commercial Snap.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Crackle Pop goes the Bravo star Acunah Junior. He now
has a matching set of mangled acls. Congratulations. Back in
twenty twenty one, he tore his right acl. The last
time that this happened to the Braves, they went out
and they won the World Series. They won the World Series,
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and now it is up to the front office to
go out and find someone, anyone and put them in. Now,
I will tell you, while the Atlanta Braves are not
as good as the Phillies, they're still right there. All
you have to do is get in the playoffs and
that's all that matters. But it's not like Ronald Lacune
Junior was having another stellar season.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
He was.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
He's hitting two fifty for the Braves. He was on pace.
I love the on pace thing. But he was projected
hit thirteen home runs this year and driving forty nine
runs and he plays every day, so he had not
been the super nova this year that he had been
in the past, he was tied for one hundred and
fiftieth in home runs at the time he got hurt
one hundred and fiftieth plus and runs batted in and
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the ops, which is the almighty nerd stat A lot
of the older nerds use that was one hundred and
first in baseball. So he's not even a top one
hundred player. And the Braves are six games back of
the Phillies in the National League East.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
So what I'm.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Saying is wall he's a dynamic player, and he's great.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
To watch and all that. The idea that.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
The Braves battleship is sunk because he's out.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
I don't buy that. I don't buy that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
And they will make a move between now and the
trade deadline, and I still have nightmares. I know Tommy
in Atlanta, who came to the Mall of Meat and
Greed listens with the evil and Evil bosses will not
allow him to call a show anymore as he drives
his truck around Atlanta. But I don't know this came
up in our conversation. I've mentioned in a bunch. I mean,
when the Braves lost Ronald Acudo Jr. I was at
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the NLCS against the Dodgers, and they picked up the
modern day Pete Rose. For a couple of weeks in October,
Eddie Rosario was Pete Rose. He betted five to sixty
seven against the Dodgers in the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
That doesn't sane, and as.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I mentioned earlier in the show, he is available again.
If the Braves want to go down memory Lane, Eddie
Rosario can be yours for a bag of potato chips.
He's betting one to seventy seven. Does not have that
natitude in DC. I'm pretty sure the Nationals, considering their
five game under five hundred, would be more than happy
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to trade Eddie Rosario to the Atlanta Braves for a
marginal suspect to be named later. Now, moving on from
that to La La Land we go, well, actually Cincinnati,
where the Red Legs completed the sweet sweep of the
Boys in Blue, that big Blue wrecking crew choking on
the skyline Chilli over the weekend. La now on the
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longest losing streak they've had since way back in twenty nineteen,
pre pandemic. Pre pandemic twenty nineteen, barely remember twenty nineteen,
five years ago, Dodgers have dropped five straight, not one,
not two, not three and a four, five straight games.
The Doyers have dropped and don't bury the lead, my man,
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all right, we're not going to bear the lead. Well,
this is not as big a deal as the Braves
losing Ronald Loacuno Junior for the season. Nonetheless, it should
be pointed out that sho hey Otani dinged up now.
He had three hits in twelve with bats in the
series against the Cincinnati Reds. He's got a bum hamstring.
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It hasn't popped yet, bruised hamstring. Dave Roberts I liked
him in that spot. Dave Roberts said the hammy is
about ninety percent, and he said that assuming it.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Will keep getting better.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Roberts said, I feel confident that he can play smart
and not push it, meaning don't actually try to steal bases,
be aggressive things like that. So is Dodger star shoe
Otani and his wonky hamstring cause for concern? So I
will beat Benny bright Side. I would be the voice
of reason. I am going to go know, And the
main reason I'm going to know, go know is because
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shoe ha Otani.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
He's not really playing baseball the way baseball was designed
to be played. He's playing a hybrid version of baseball,
and the kind of version of baseball that you can
play when you're not one hundred percent. Getting dinged up
is part of sport. I think it's part of sport
where I come from. And Otani is a one trick
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pony at this point, right, recovering from the Tommy John surgery.
So he's not pitching. He's doing not the bare necessities.
He's doing the bare minimum. You talk about lifestyle choices
in baseball, what shoey Otani is doing is living a
sedentary life as a baseball player. He doesn't play defense.
He goes up and pinch hits four or five times
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a day. That's what the designated hitter position does. You
don't have to worry about that. You go up there,
If you hit the ball, you have to run a
little bit, but that's it.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
You know, if you make contact, it's time to run.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
If you can't stay healthy doing that, I don't know
what to tell you. Right, that's the easiest job in
all of sports, designated hitter. It's half a job and
that's the job he's got, all right. Final thought, We
head now to Gotham. We pivot where the Metropolitans are
sticking up the joint, but they are sticking by their
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stinky closer, Edwin Diaz, despite his high level of suckage
this season. Now Diaz over the weekend blew is force
save opportunity. Despite this, it does not for now appear,
at least based on the words of the Mets brass,
the Diaz will be out of the Mets bullpen as
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the closer.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
They already took him out for.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Like a week, but they said they put him back,
according to someone named Carlos Mendoza, who I'm told is
the manager of the Mets, not for long.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
He said, quote, he's our closer.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Meaning Edwin Diaz, in order for us to win games
and get to where we want to get to. He's
got the pitch. And I felt like that was a
in the right spot. Oh, it's like at Dave Roberts quote.
I liked him in that spot. So the Mets brass
deciding to stick with Edwin Diaz is blank. So I
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have a sleep number bend hybrid. He's setting not one hundred,
not zero how about nails as in Lennydister like a
bed of nails, a bed of nails for the Mets
because the Mets broke the bank. They bet on the
wrong horse. Edwin Diaz had a career year. You don't
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pay guys after a career year. You wait until they
do it again and prove some vindication. And while it
has worked for another New York team, there's a guard
named Jalen Brunson who had a career breakthrough season with Dallas,
and the Knickerbockers signed him and it's worked out well.
Edwin Diaz as a Met, had a career year and
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then he needed diapers. One hundred million dollar contract, biggest
ever for a relief pitcher per year, twenty million dollars
a year. He's got the cute little intro song Timmy trumpet,
and he's also in need of oxygen because he can't
even blow into the Timmy trumpet song and all that
because there's not enough oxygen in his lungs at this.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Point, particular point.
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suffered burn.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Injuries on his knee.
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After blank Again, Angels infielder Miguel Sono former twin suffered
some earn injuries on his knee after blank. That is
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The human drama of athletic competition.
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There's nothing quite like all those big moments in a
competitive conference finals series.
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And boy are we getting that in pro bouncy ball.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Our lead this hour coming from Big d That was
the stage. That was the playground for Game three of
the Western Finals, the Mavericks winning two games in Minnesota.
So Minnesota trying to come back and say, Okay, we
can go to Texas. We'll win a couple of games.
No big deal with the Mavericks trying to put another
nail in the old coffin of a Minnesota sports team. Now,
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I don't know if you watched this or not. Maybe
you had stuff going on. It's a holiday weekend. He
went tied down to watching on your phone or the
TV somewhere whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
But don't worry, we watched. We watched. We have no life,
so you would not have to.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Luka Luka and the guy Kyrie Irving, who I hate.
May he have terrible things happened to him in these
games so far. Not the better if he loses to
the Celtics. But Luca and Kyrie each had thirty three
points Dallas puts together. In the final five or so
(02:40):
minutes of the game, they went after burners and they
beat Minnesota one sixteen to one oh seven. The final
Dallas basketball team gets to win. They're up now three
games to none in the Western Finals. I did not
play in the NBA, but I think if it's a
best of four out of seven and you've won the
first three.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
You're doing pretty well. You're doing pretty well now.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The game ended on a fourteen to three finish or
sixteen to seven run, depending how you want to break
it down.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
There the MAVs a.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Fifth consecutive playoff win. This after the man being credited
as a glue guy, Derek Lively, left with a sprain
that oh my neck. He took an accidental, not body blow,
a head headshot from Karl Anthony Towns in knee, which
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I don't think is good.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
But no team in the.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
History of that sport has ever rallied from three games
to none down to win.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Game four will be Tuesday in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The better story is in that's right, the losing locker room.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So that is where we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Another close game, another game that came down to the
final minutes. That goes the way of Dallas and not
the team from Minneapolis. So let's discuss the question why
have Anthony Edwards Wolves been so bad?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Bad to a bone down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So I've got electoral college contaminated and the multiverse, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a pancake, which is what the
Minnesota basketball team is at this point.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
They're becoming a pancake.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And the Dallas basketball team feasting on that pancake.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
But in these games with the MAVs, the.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Margins, despite the three nothing margin in favor of the Mavericks,
the margins have been extremely thin, as they often are,
And all that matters is who is better in the moment.
Right in any of these athletic competitions, who's better in
the moment. And you don't have to hear the dumbbo
on the radio tell you. Just by paying attention, you
know that Luke and Kyrie in this series been head
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and shoulders above.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Ant Man and Kitty Cat.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And the Wolves had been running around in the final
minutes of these games like a headless chicken. Bock bock chicken.
Yet and they played like chicken. And this game Sunday
night a perfect microcosm of the underlying condition for the
Timber Puffs in this particular situation, game on the line,
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the Wolves wagon was on empty. They were sputtering down
the stretch and now they were down by ten points
or so most of the game until they flipped it
on in the second half a bit got back. Had
the lead, not a huge leap, but they had the lead.
Game was tied at one hundred, was six point fifty
eight to go. MAVs finished the game outscoring the Wolves
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sixteen to seven.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Dallas in that stretch at the end of the.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Game final six plus minutes of the game shot seventy
five percent against the number one defense of Minnesota. The
wolveshot twenty five percent, and Luca and Kyrie in that
that closive game had ten points.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
An ant Man and Kitty Cat.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Combined for four points, all of them by ant who
played well in the third quarter. But that's about it,
and overall, a special place in the Suck Hall of
Fame for Karl Anthony Towns, who should get a game
ball from the Mavericks should give him a game ball
because in this matchup and really this series altogether. But
(06:33):
we'll just focus in on the game three, Karl Anthony
Towns he won the electoral College.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He is now the mayor of Barf City.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So congratulations to Kat Kitty Cat now the mayor of
bar City. Karl Anthony Towns took eighteen shots. He missed
thirteen of them for fourteen points. Now oh of eight
from three point range. Karl Anthony Towns in his head,
that little cartoon bubble over his head. I'm convinced he
believed he's a better shooter than Stephen Curry. But then
(07:03):
when you actually see him in these big mallments, he
shoots like John Starks back in the old That's an
outdated reference, but you get it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
A real clunker, real clunker.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Now page two, So Anthony Edwards was asked what in
the box score? What about the box score from Game
three stood out? He was asked about that. His response
he said, quote, they meaning Dallas at thirty one free throws,
We had seventeen close group, So how do you classify
Anthony Edwards, star of the Minnesota basketball team's performance in
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the Western Finals and that commentary. So I have this
as unbecoming and unacceptable. In the lead up to the
Western Finals, I paid attention. Now I have a talk show,
so I have to pay attention. You probably don't have
to pay attention. But let me tell you the bull
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crap that was being said and written about Anthony Edwards.
He was being I propped up as a hybrid. It
was like a masterclass on how to build up a ballplayer.
He's got the skill set of Michael Jordan and he's
got the toughness of Mike Tyson. Couple of old nineteen
eighties references, bigger mouth, bigger game Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
However, the proof is in the pudding. In the Western Finals,
he has been contaminated. Anthony Edwards in key elements.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
With dragon breath, wallowing, with a defeatist attitude.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Edwards now has not one, but two two more.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Excuses than he does wins in the Western Conference Finals.
Remember the famous line that you really just cringed at
when you heard it Game one of the Western Finals Dallas, Minnesota,
and the twenty two year old Anthony Edwards essentially said
he was gassed. They were exhausted. He was exhausted too hard.
(09:01):
It was too hard for Minneso. And now he's got
the zebras so wear and tear, fatigue and officiating. Yet
the game was anyone's game. It was a toss up.
And it's not like there were a series of terrible
calls in the final couple of minutes of the game.
So even if the officiating was bad, and I don't
(09:22):
disagree that the NBA product in terms of officiating is bush League,
but still that was not the reason that the Wolves
lost this game. And for Anthony Edwards, what an abject
failure he has been in this series. Do better and
be better. This was supposed to be your coming out party.
You ain't going anywhere all right, last word here, So
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if you look out at the landscape here, the East
and the Western Finals are both three nothing series leads.
We told you before all this began. Television wanted Boston
in Dallas. They want Kyrie the bad guy, going back
to Boston, even though all the Celtic players worship the
altar of Kyrie. But that's the TV matchup. They want
big market Dallas, Boston sports crazy place.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's what they want.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Now, Minnesota's not done yet. Well, we'll focusing on this.
Naz Reid is not throwing in, at least publicly, not
throwing in the sponge or the timber puffs, not yet,
he said.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
If anyone can win four straight in this scenario, I
think it's us close. Quote, So, what are the odds
that Minnesota will come back? One are the odds they
will come back in this series? They have not to
won a game yet. Yeah, suck at a time you
cannot suck. So I'm gonna open up the Mallard of
sports book gods. And they're not zero. They're not They're
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not zero. The Mallard sports book odds I have at
plus five thousand. Now that implies a less than two
percent chance, which again is not zero.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
At this moment of time, we are watching the.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Surgical dismemberment of the Wolves late close game situations. Minnesota
has been absolutely eviscerated. The kind of performance in these
games that gets a coach fired. It's hard to fire
the coach though, because he's already on crutches. But this
is the type of performance where your star player has
(11:19):
been a no show in Key Molmons and your other
star player can't make a shot to save his life
from outside.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
This is the moment that gets a coach fired.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Regardless of all that, the question at hand was what
are the odds Minnesota will come back in While it's
two percent chance plus five thousand regardless of that.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
We live in the multiverse. So if you go.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Far enough, OK, bear with me, If you go far enough,
you'll fall into Wonderland and on a different planet living
in a parallel universe.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Luca and Kyrie collide. Kaboom.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
They collide right, and maybe a practice injury. They get
knocked out, not career anything, but knocks him out for
the rest of the series one or both.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And then Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
And Kitty Kat stop overdosing on stupid pills. And at
some point, here's the way I look at the stuff
like this, at some point a team will come back.
We've seen teams get to a game seven but not
win a game seven in that sport. But a team
eventually will come back. And whether we're alive or not,
somebody's gonna come back from down oh three.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And it just hasn't happened yet. But I do know this.
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Minnesota can be totally loosey goosey now because the Eulogis
have already been written their toast, and they deserve to
be written because of the way they play. With every
Wolves win, the knob gets turned a little bit more
on Luca.
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And the Mavericks to not screw this up. They should
win in four games.
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Maybe Minnesota wins a single game, you get a gentleman's
sweep out of it. But if the Dallas Mavericks futs
around with this, don't close out. Minnesota gets a game
and then they get another game, and all of a sudden, well,
now you gotta win or else you gotta go to
a game seven. Things can change very very quickly. Now
do I think that's actually going to happen? No, I
don't think that's actually gonna happen. Are you talking about
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Kitty Cat playing well for four games in a row?
Come on, come on now, don't see it. It's not
regular season matchups against the Sacramento and San Antonio.
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Report out of the Delaware Valley says the Sixers or
Windows shopping and eyeing Lebron James, but would he actually
play in Philadelphia? Would Lebron actually play in Philadelphia, and
why is hawk star Trey Young taking shrapnel on the
NBA rumor mill the.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Trade market of the NBA. We'll talk about that.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Also a report over the weekend saying that teams have
been warned that Bronni James Gronnie Bronni, the spawn of
lebron won't do the Jilie not interested in that. We'll
talk about that and more. Right now, give it up
for our number two looking for the King or any
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this hour from the Grape Line. The NBA not all
that great conversation point as far as the games are concerned.
Conference finals have been a dud. They sell competition. We
have not gotten that, at least in terms of each
team winning games. Indiana and Minnesota or on life support.
Pacers facing their last supper in the Eastern Conference Finals
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on Monday.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Night, and the.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Western Conference Finals that should be over on Tuesday, unless
unless Mavericks start futzing around playing with their food. We'll
see what happens with that. But as the NBA playoffs
ramp up, although it doesn't seem like it, the ac
of cool gossip is starting to crank up as well
the speculation room working overtime. For example, the latest on
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these self titled King James, Lebron Lebron James. I know
you're very concerned about where a forty year old, almost
forty year old athlete is going to end up.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That's the most pressing concern you have in your life. Well,
you've come to the right place.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
So Lebron James was revealed by his agent is going
to opt out of his contract with the Lakers later
this summer and will enter the transfer portal.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
He will be a free agent.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Now keep in mind, from a financial standpoint, it makes
sense for Lebron to opt out, even if he's planning
on staying in La La Land, because he can get
more money. But we're hearing that the Sixers are one
of the latest teams that has entered the chat and
are said to be considering a run at Lebron James.
Of course, there are multiple teams that are lining up
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to take a flyer on that stiff Bronni James to
try to convince Lebron to come to their team. So
the Sixers, though, are considering several impact players. They're trying
to find someone, anyone that can be a number two
to Joel eNB They tried James Harden, that didn't work.
They had Ben Simmons, he's, you know, the Aussie MA.
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He can't play, He's a weak sauce. So they're trying
to find somebody who could be that number two option
and Philadelphia can go on a run in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So let us discuss the question.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The Sixers ports over the weekend saying that the Sixers
are window shopping Lebron James would he play in Philadelphia?
Would Lebron play in Philadelphia? So I am shaking my head.
You can't see me, but I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And if I keep shaking my head, no, I'm gonna
get a headache and I'm gonna get dizzy. So I'm
not gonna keep shaking my head.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
But I've got miniature horses down range and French and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make the baba ganooshe. We're gonna make the
baba ganous So number wha. So if you look at
the track record of Lebron, because typically the track record
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tells you what's going to happen, I don't guaranteed it's
gonna happen, but it gives you a pretty good indo
cater of what's going to happen. So Lebron has played
in Cleveland, He's from Akron, so that's geographically desirable. Played
in Miami, Lavina Loca, and La laland those are what's
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known in basketball parlance as safe spaces on the professional
sports map. Lebron is used to being swooned all over. Yes, right,
this massage Lebron. That's what's happened, everywhere's gone. Absolutely that
does not happen in Philly. It will not happen so
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known as the of course the city of brotherly Love.
We have great listeners in Philadelphia, but that's a place
for their athletes does not always go so well. And
when riddled me this batman, when has Lebron been willing
to take a back seat to anybody? The idea that
Lebron would go to Philadelphia and be a number two
option to Joel embiid is arsicle. It's poppycock. It's not
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gonna happen, right, And Lebron spends much of his time
ver klempt. He's hyper sensitive, even though he's in places
where they kisses dary air like Miami La, you know,
in Cleveland back in the day. But he would need
around the clock access Lebron if he played in Philadelphia
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to an emotional support. Miniature horse. Gotta get one of
those miniature horses for Lebron because he does have faulty wiring.
Things would get very chippy, very fast. As a talk
show host, I would love it. I fully rubber stamp
Lebron going to a place like Philadelphia. No more, mister
nice guy in Philly, Man Man, would that be a
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bad fit, but I would love to see it. It's
much more realistic to see lebron go to a place
like Arizona, the Valley of the Sun. There's certain places.
Now you go to Florida because you got Ponce de Leon.
But if you're in the West and you want to
return are a lot of people go to Arizona. You
go hang out and hang out in the area. Is
a great golfing, a bronze of golfer there. It's close
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enough to La you can get back. It's a short
flight until they have a team in Vegas. That's a
good option. Now page two to the swap meet we
go again. This a buy pride, This mal of monologue
a byproduct by the Conference finals being a total dud.
Another day and another report on the trade speculation machine
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about Trey Young and his absolute lack of popularity. Now,
Trey Young has a lot of accolades if you go
to his basketball reference page, He's had a lot of
accomplishments in his career, All Star appearances, things like that.
But Atlanta sucked at a time you cannot suck, and
they're said to be looking to shake it up, and
it's said that the Hawks are looking to unload either Trey.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Young and or and or Dejonte Murray.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
But the speculation is that among rival NBA teams looking
to acquire a player from Atlanta, Dejonte Murray is more
of a palatable option for those teams looking to make
a move. So the question why is a bona fide
all star like Trey Young getting shrapnel on the NBA
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trade market speculation, So some of this is likely false,
but Trey Young does have diva personified. He's the epitome
of a diva and that does end up boomeranging back
in your face. He's been known as a coach killer
in Atlanta that the Hawks have changed coaches quite often,
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and Trey believes he doesn't need to listen to any
of them. And people also have just loose lips and
Trey Young getting caught down range. You don't want to
get caught down range. He's been caught down range. He's
catching some strays, and it appears that many people have
those vendetta s. They have a vendetta against this guy. Right,
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Trey Young's reputation precedes him excess baggage making him an
acquired taste.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Now that's it. If the Hawks continue to fish, someone
is going to buy it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Right, Trey Young scores too many points. He's too dynamic
and offensive player. He's like a designated hitter in baseball.
He doesn't play much defense, but he's a very good
offensive player.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
All right, final point.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I want to circle back, circle back now, I want
to circle back to the spawn of Lebron as we
like to call him on this show, Scrownie Bronni. So,
Scrownie Bronni. We are thirty days away from the collegiate slash.
I didn't go to college. I went to the G
League or I went to europe selection show and Bronnie
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James making some headlines over the holiday weekend.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Bronnie james reputation is one of you.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I'm the son of Lebron, but I'm not a great
I'm not getting this attention because of Lebron. Right, I'm
not here. I'm not being talked about for the draft
because of Lulan, which we know is is complete. You
know what a right, So Bronnie James agent wants you
to know and me to know, and every team in
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the association to know that the former USC guard will
not be signing one of those two way contracts should he.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Be selected, say in the second round of the upcoming draft.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Now, the guy involved in this clutch sports kingpin lebron James,
Tody Rich Paul, has confirmed that he would not would
not agree to terms on a two way deal if
Bronnie were to be offered such by a select team
in the NBA. Now, it's essentially a warning shot. It's
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a warning shot from the teams of the for the
teams in the NBA, It's like, hey, don't even mess around.
Bronnie James is not going to the G league.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Now, the question this warning that Bronnie James will not
go to the G league? What does this tell you?
What does this tell you? So I will psychoanalyze this.
It tells you that Bronnie James is high maintenance. Is
a high maintenance ballplayer. He has been empowered by the
luxury lifestyle of his daddy, right, and you would expect that, right.
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He grew up in the lap of luxury as the
spawn of Lebron and he wants special treatment. And I
would say, check yourself before you wreck yourself. This is
a six to one guard who was a backup on
a sub five hundred college team averaged less than five
points a game, and now you're telling the world you're
too good to go to the G League. Excuse my French,
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but that is chicken feathers, that is horse. But dounky dunk,
all right, come on right. Most second round picks, most
find themselves like a human yo yo, up and down,
spin it all around in between the NBA and the
G League. That's just the way life is when you're
a second round pick.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
And then eventually, if you stick.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Around long enough and you show something that you're able
to find your way to use a crowbar to open
up the door.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And get a spot on a roster, but you're not
given one.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
And from the sound of it, it's all chatter, but
it's from Rich Paul that Bronnie James is not going
to settle for a two way contrary.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
So, if you believe Rich Paul, Scrownie Brownie is way
too good for that.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And of course, if all things were equal, this would
eliminate any chance of Brownie James being drafted.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
But since teams.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Think that they can get lebron it's a brilliant move
by Lebron to opt out of his Laker contract because
he can then lead these teams on and wait until
after the draft to make sure his kid is drafted.
The whole thing is an OI base situation, right, So
I'm already seriously what's going.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
On with this? Anyway? It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
If you would like to be part. Speakeasy rules are
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forces and those that have have spent their time and
paid the ultimate price and those that came out of it.
We have a lot of the fellows that were in
the military that listened to the show. Unfortunately got beat
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about him possibly going Philadelphia. His names we've mentioned with
the Suns, the six Ers, munch of other teams that
are horny to sell some tickets and get national TV games.
But Lakers star Lebron James caught red handed. People very
upset with Lebron James. What is this all about. We'll
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get to it and we will.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Do it.
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Major League Baseball. It is filling up rather quickly. We're
not even not even at June first, but normally Memorial
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Day is an opportunity to look.
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At where you are.
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Do you have a realistic chance, Are you a real contender?
Are you a foll contender? And while we will do
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I will have that conversation in a future episode of
the show. As we are at that Memorial Day weekend.
When we look at those kind of things, there is
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no no way to say that this is a good
thing because we have a developing story out of.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
The atl in NVP has come up. Lame hobbling, hob
hobble hobble.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Now, if you didn't hear about this over the weekend
because you were doing other things.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I'll help you. Perhaps you missed it. Atlanta Braves are
Ronald Alcuno Junior, the reigning National League MVP, is going
to miss the rest of the season as he tore
up his anterior cruciate ligament. The ACL in his left
knee happened on Sunday in the Burgh in Pittsburgh. You're
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nationally MVP let off a game with a double a
right center field, and then right after that he was
trying to steal third and his left knee buckled and warped.
It gave out right there, and Kuno Junior remained down
for several minutes. The training staff hobbled out from the
Atlanta Dog out.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
They were checking him out there. He was being treated
by the medical people. The manager was there. They were
pointing in his left leg and he walked off under
his own power.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
So initially the diagnosis was, ah, just he's got a swordindy,
that nothing sordiny, you know, He's gotta be like our
guy Ronald. Just rubbed some dirt on it and that's it. Well,
the Braves diagnosis of left knee it was a sore
left knee, but a few hours later the team announced
it is the ultimate kind of.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
A sword knee.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
The MRI showed a not partial, a complete ACL tear snap, crackle, pop,
just like that.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
See later. It going to require season ending surgery. Season
ending surgery.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
So let us discuss the question what does this injury
do for Ronald Lacuno Junior and where does it leave
the Braves. So I've got pitchman, lifestyle choices and sleep number,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make crunchy tacos, the perfect taco,
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the crunchy taco.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
So, first of all, this is obviously a punch in
the solar plexus for the Atlanta baseball team which has underperformed,
underperformed in comparison to how Philadelphia has played, and when
you look at it in terms of star value, this
is a good afternoon, good evening, and good night situation
for the Braves. Also, this is a Peanuts character. It's
(34:53):
Rerun van Pelt. We have seen this before. For all
of his superpowers, for all of his abilities the field
to break records and marks that we have not seen broken,
accomplishments that we have not seen in baseball, Ronald Lacuna Junior,
what he needs is help from dungeons and dragons. The
Braves have to find the cloak of protection because whatever
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he's using is not working. And while he is sitting
out the rest of the season all of June, July, August, September,
October and however far the Braves go after that. Now
Akuna has time to be the pitchman for Kellogg's Rice Chrispies.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
He can do the commercial Snap.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Crackle Pop goes the Bravo star Acunah Junior. He now
has a matching set of mangled acls. Congratulations. Back in
twenty twenty one, he tore his right acl. The last
time that this happened to the Braves, they went out
and they won the World Series. They won the World Series,
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and now it is up to the front office to
go out and find someone, anyone and put them in. Now,
I will tell you, while the Atlanta Braves are not
as good as the Phillies, they're still right there. All
you have to do is get in the playoffs and
that's all that matters. But it's not like Ronald Lacune
Junior was having another stellar season.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
He was.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
He's hitting two fifty for the Braves. He was on pace.
I love the on pace thing. But he was projected
hit thirteen home runs this year and driving forty nine
runs and he plays every day, so he had not
been the super nova this year that he had been
in the past, he was tied for one hundred and
fiftieth in home runs at the time he got hurt
one hundred and fiftieth plus and runs batted in and
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the ops, which is the almighty nerd stat A lot
of the older nerds use that was one hundred and
first in baseball. So he's not even a top one
hundred player. And the Braves are six games back of
the Phillies in the National League East.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
So what I'm.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Saying is wall he's a dynamic player, and he's great.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
To watch and all that. The idea that.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
The Braves battleship is sunk because he's out.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
I don't buy that. I don't buy that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
And they will make a move between now and the
trade deadline, and I still have nightmares. I know Tommy
in Atlanta, who came to the Mall of Meat and
Greed listens with the evil and Evil bosses will not
allow him to call a show anymore as he drives
his truck around Atlanta. But I don't know this came
up in our conversation. I've mentioned in a bunch. I mean,
when the Braves lost Ronald Acudo Jr. I was at
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the NLCS against the Dodgers, and they picked up the
modern day Pete Rose. For a couple of weeks in October,
Eddie Rosario was Pete Rose. He betted five to sixty
seven against the Dodgers in the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
That doesn't sane, and as.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I mentioned earlier in the show, he is available again.
If the Braves want to go down memory Lane, Eddie
Rosario can be yours for a bag of potato chips.
He's betting one to seventy seven. Does not have that
natitude in DC. I'm pretty sure the Nationals, considering their
five game under five hundred, would be more than happy
(38:01):
to trade Eddie Rosario to the Atlanta Braves for a
marginal suspect to be named later. Now, moving on from
that to La La Land we go, well, actually Cincinnati,
where the Red Legs completed the sweet sweep of the
Boys in Blue, that big Blue wrecking crew choking on
the skyline Chilli over the weekend. La now on the
(38:24):
longest losing streak they've had since way back in twenty nineteen,
pre pandemic. Pre pandemic twenty nineteen, barely remember twenty nineteen,
five years ago, Dodgers have dropped five straight, not one,
not two, not three and a four, five straight games.
The Doyers have dropped and don't bury the lead, my man,
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all right, we're not going to bear the lead. Well,
this is not as big a deal as the Braves
losing Ronald Loacuno Junior for the season. Nonetheless, it should
be pointed out that sho hey Otani dinged up now.
He had three hits in twelve with bats in the
series against the Cincinnati Reds. He's got a bum hamstring.
(39:05):
It hasn't popped yet, bruised hamstring. Dave Roberts I liked
him in that spot. Dave Roberts said the hammy is
about ninety percent, and he said that assuming it.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Will keep getting better.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Roberts said, I feel confident that he can play smart
and not push it, meaning don't actually try to steal bases,
be aggressive things like that. So is Dodger star shoe
Otani and his wonky hamstring cause for concern? So I
will beat Benny bright Side. I would be the voice
of reason. I am going to go know, And the
main reason I'm going to know, go know is because
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shoe ha Otani.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
He's not really playing baseball the way baseball was designed
to be played. He's playing a hybrid version of baseball,
and the kind of version of baseball that you can
play when you're not one hundred percent. Getting dinged up
is part of sport. I think it's part of sport
where I come from. And Otani is a one trick
(40:08):
pony at this point, right, recovering from the Tommy John surgery.
So he's not pitching. He's doing not the bare necessities.
He's doing the bare minimum. You talk about lifestyle choices
in baseball, what shoey Otani is doing is living a
sedentary life as a baseball player. He doesn't play defense.
He goes up and pinch hits four or five times
(40:29):
a day. That's what the designated hitter position does. You
don't have to worry about that. You go up there,
If you hit the ball, you have to run a
little bit, but that's it.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
You know, if you make contact, it's time to run.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
If you can't stay healthy doing that, I don't know
what to tell you. Right, that's the easiest job in
all of sports, designated hitter. It's half a job and
that's the job he's got, all right. Final thought, We
head now to Gotham. We pivot where the Metropolitans are
sticking up the joint, but they are sticking by their
(41:00):
stinky closer, Edwin Diaz, despite his high level of suckage
this season. Now Diaz over the weekend blew is force
save opportunity. Despite this, it does not for now appear,
at least based on the words of the Mets brass,
the Diaz will be out of the Mets bullpen as
(41:21):
the closer.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
They already took him out for.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Like a week, but they said they put him back,
according to someone named Carlos Mendoza, who I'm told is
the manager of the Mets, not for long.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
He said, quote, he's our closer.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Meaning Edwin Diaz, in order for us to win games
and get to where we want to get to. He's
got the pitch. And I felt like that was a
in the right spot. Oh, it's like at Dave Roberts quote.
I liked him in that spot. So the Mets brass
deciding to stick with Edwin Diaz is blank. So I
(41:55):
have a sleep number bend hybrid. He's setting not one hundred,
not zero how about nails as in Lennydister like a
bed of nails, a bed of nails for the Mets
because the Mets broke the bank. They bet on the
wrong horse. Edwin Diaz had a career year. You don't
(42:16):
pay guys after a career year. You wait until they
do it again and prove some vindication. And while it
has worked for another New York team, there's a guard
named Jalen Brunson who had a career breakthrough season with Dallas,
and the Knickerbockers signed him and it's worked out well.
Edwin Diaz as a Met, had a career year and
(42:37):
then he needed diapers. One hundred million dollar contract, biggest
ever for a relief pitcher per year, twenty million dollars
a year. He's got the cute little intro song Timmy trumpet,
and he's also in need of oxygen because he can't
even blow into the Timmy trumpet song and all that
because there's not enough oxygen in his lungs at this.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Point, particular point.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
The way he has performed it is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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Also we are allowing suggestions for later this hour because
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(43:41):
answer the Mallor Riddle of the day. And here is
the Mallard riddle of the day. Angels infielder Miguel Snau
suffered burn.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Injuries on his knee.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
After blank Again, Angels infielder Miguel Sono former twin suffered
some earn injuries on his knee after blank. That is
the Mallor riddle of the day. The answer will get
to it and we will do it next
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