May 27, 2024 • 42 mins
Its the Memorial day special! Ben Maller breaks down the NBA Western Conference Finals Game 3! The Mavericks are now 3-0 in the series, will they close it out and how do you classify Anthony Edwards performance?! All that and more on the Ben Maller Show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one of the
original Recipe podcast, just saying, well, wait a minute, it's
a holiday. What kind of strange cat works on a
holiday supposed to be off your big time radio person,
Why would you work on a holiday? No one else's worked. Well, yeah,
I'm here, not exactly rain Man, but I'm here. I'm
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But don't forget.
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We also have the fifth Hour podcast available from the weekend.
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If you missed it, we had a mailbag.
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On Sunday meandering around the podcast dojo. It's the fifth
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And you can hear all of that content.
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But here in hour number one, talk about the Western
Conference Finals, the Wolves and the MAVs. A close game,
final few minutes and in the end Dallas wins again.
Why have the Wolves been so bad down the stretch
in the Western Finals and how do you classify Anthony
Edwards performance and his words? He brought up the officiating
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in Game three in these Western Finals and one of
the odds that the Minnesota basketball team trailing by three games,
a single loss away from elimination, what are the odds
that they come back nas Red is trying to be
optimistic for the Timberwolves. We'll talk about that and more
right now here it is give it up for our
number one, howling into the loss column yet again. Well come,
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The human drama of athletic competition.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
There's nothing quite like all those big moments in a
competitive conference finals series, and boy are we getting that
in pro bouncy ball. 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
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and say, okay, we can go to Texas, will win
a couple of games, no big deal. But the Mavericks
trying to put another nail in the old coffin of
a Minnesota sports team.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
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 2 (03:03):
But don't worry, we watched. We watched. We have no life,
so you would not have.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
To Luka Luka and the guy Kyrie Irving, wha 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 minutes
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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 2 (03:48):
You're doing pretty well. You're doing pretty well. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The game ended on a fourteen to three finish or
sixteen to seven run, depending.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
How you want to break it down. There the MAVs a.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Fifth consecutive playoff win. This after the man being credited
as a glue guy, Derek Lively.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Left with a sprain neck. Oh my neck.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
He took an accidental, not body blow, a headshot from
Carl Anthony Towns in knee, which I don't think is good.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But no team in the.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
History of that sport has ever rallied from three games
to none down to win.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Game four will be Tuesday in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The better story is in that's right, the losing locker room.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So that is where we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
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 2 (04:57):
Bad to a bone down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
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, they're becoming a
pancake and the Dallas basketball team feasting on that pancake.
But in these games with the MAVs, the margins, despite
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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 competition, who's better in
the moment.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And you don't have to hear the dumbbo on the
radio tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Just by paying attention, you know that Luke and Kyrie
in this series have been head and shoulders above.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Ant Man and Kitty Kat.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And the Wolves have been running around in the final
minutes of these games like a headless chicken bocket 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.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Game on the line, the Wolves wagon was on empty.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
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 sixteen to seven.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Dallas in that stretch.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
At the end of the game final six plus minutes
of the game shot seventy five percent against the number
one defense of Minnesota. The Wolve shot twenty five percent,
and Luka and Kyrie in that that closive game had
ten points.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
An ant Man and Kitty Cat.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Combined four points, all of them by Aunt, who played
well in the third quarter.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But that's about it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
In 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
we'll just focus in on the game three. Karl Anthony Towns,
he won the electoral college. He is now the mayor
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of Barf City. So congratulations to Kat Kitty Kat 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 believes he's a better shooter than Stephen Curry.
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But then 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 2 (07:57):
A real clunker, real clunker.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Now, Page two, So Anthony Edwards was asked what in
the box score? What about the box score from game
three stood out?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
He was asked about that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
His response he said, quote, they meaning Dallas at thirty
one free throws, we had seventeen close quo. So how
do you classify Anthony Edwards, star of the Minnesota basketball
team's performance in the Western Finals and that commentary?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So I have this.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
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
crap that was being said and written about Anthony Edwards.
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He was being 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 couple of old nineteen eighties references,
bigger mouth, bigger game. Anthony Edwards. However, the proof is
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in the pudding. In the Western Finals, he has been contaminated.
Anthony Edwards in key moments with dragon breath, wallowing with
a defeatist attitude. Edwards now has not one, but two
two more excuses than he does wins in the Western
Conference Finals. Remember the famous line that you really just
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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. It was too hard for Minnesota.
And now he's got the zebras so wear and tear,
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fatigue and officiating. Yet the game was anyone. 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 disagree that the NBA product in terms
officiating is bush league, but still that was not the
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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 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.
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Television wanted Boston in Dallas. They want Kyrie the bad
guy going back to Boston, even though all the Celtic
players worship at the altar of Kyrie. But that's the
TV matchup. They want big market Dallas, Boston sports crazy plays.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's what they want. Now Minnesota is not done yet.
Well we'll focusing on this.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Naz Reid is not throwing in, at least publicly, not
throwing in the sponge or the timber puffs.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Not yet.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
He said, quote if anyone can win four straight in
this scenario, I think it's us close.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Quote. So one of the odds that Minnesota will come back,
one are the odds they will come back in this series.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They have not won a game yet. Ye suck at
a time you cannot suck. So I'm going to open
up the mallard of sports book gods, and they're not zero.
They're not They're 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.
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At this moment of time, we are watching the 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
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the type of performance where your star player has been
a no show in Key Molmons and your other star
player can't make a shot to save his life.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
From out outside. This is the mall maent that gets
a coach fired.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Regardless of all that, the question at hand was what
are the odds Minnesota will come back in Wall It's
two percent chance plus five thousand.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Regardless of that.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We live in the multiverse, So if you go far enough, okay,
bear with me, If you go far enough, you'll fall
into Wonderland and on a different planet living in a
parallel universe. Luke and Kyrie collide, kaboom, they collide, right,
and maybe a practice injury. They get knocked out not
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career anything, but knocks him out for the rest of
the series one or both, and then Anthony Edwards and
Kitty Kat stop overdosing on stupid pills. And at some point,
here's the way I look at it like this, at
some point a team will come back. We've seen teams
get to a game seven but not win a game
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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 2 (13:13):
And it just hasn't happened yet. But I do know this.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
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 and the Mavericks to not screw this up.
They should win in four games. Maybe Minnesota wins a
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single game, you get a gentleman's sweep out of it.
But if the Dallas Mavericks futs around with this and
don't close out, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Gets a game, and then they get another.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
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 Kitty Kat playing
well for four games in a row? Come on, come
on now, don't see it. It's not regular season matchups
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against the Sacramento and San Antonio. It's not all right.
This is the Ben Mahlor Show. Though we are glad
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been called out for lying. You're a liar, liar, liar,
pants on fire. What did that player say and why
is he being called out for what he said as
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Rolling on all night.
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We will have the normal Why I say normal, nothing's
normal about this show. But we'll have the regularly scheduled
bits throughout the overnight, next hour, Mallard of the third Degree,
the Instant Advice Line, the Riddle of the Day, and
the Mallard Militia feud, among other things.
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That our schedule. If you're with us all night.
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And most don't have an excuse and you're not working,
a lot of people off.
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And I got some emails from people.
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Say, hey, I'm gonna be up all night and I can't.
I usually can't stay up late and listen to the
live show, but I'm gonna listen.
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So whop you damn do? Very exciting, very very exciting.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yes, nature Boy, says the liar said, David Vess is
the reason we watched Dodger baseball. Holy crap, that's from
the Nature Boy. We had no update. I did not
get any updates from foot soldiers that there were escalations
in the hostilities that have taken place with me and
David Vessa, who does Dodger postgame programming.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I will point.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Out, ever since this thing blew up, the Dodgers have
not won a game. Is there a correlation between these
two things.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You'll have to decide on that. But I'll just tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Since I was attacked harmlessly minding my own business twiddling
my thumbs. The Dodgers have not won a game and
made the Cincinnati Reds look like the big Red machine
over the week. Let's see here, who else do we have?
Page Dan the King Roy says, let's not forget why
we celebrate this holiday to honor people who pay the
ultimate sacrifice. So we the people and enjoy things like
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Eddie Garcia giving us w NBA scores during games of note. Yeah,
well Eddie went woke. I don't know what to tell you.
He's all about that w NBA. We tried to talk
him out of it. We tried to do an intervention,
but once you go there, it's hard to come back.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well, this has not worked throughout history. But I am
just following orders.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh okay, yeah, that's that.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That did actually not work at As you know, there
was a famous I even Nurnberg and did not did
not go well, did not go well.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
But that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Shane in des Moines says, I need another mark the
full name guy like Lebron needs more ego. He said, yeah, absolute,
So we have a Minnesota player called out as a liar.
We'll get to that coming up a minute's get to
the phones, though, is as many calls as we can,
assuming they don't suck. And I see a guy already
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trying to weasel his way in with a bogus golden ticket,
keg drinking Steve in Cansa City. Hello, Steve, you don't
have a you don't have a golden take.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You're making up. You're making up a golden ticket.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Go ticket.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Don't you don't making that up. You're a liar.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You don't have a golden ticket. Where's your proof? Where's
your proof? I want I don't want family.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I'm defeated.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
A family.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You can't beat me, you can't be me. Just I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't play with family. Few What are you talking
about it? You don't even know the game. You don't
even know the game.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Trying to do that Boston, then mather voodoo on my
Dallas Maverick. It ain't gonna work. Well, you're you're you're
always doing that. Heck does that voodoo? Mark Cuban, you know,
got rid of this team because.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
He didn't want to.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
He didn't want to buy this team anymore because it
thought the economy is going down. It's gonna be fantastic
when you're Boston chokers when they chose and Dallas, Dallas
pounds you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Oh no, no, the Celtics, even with their flaws, and
the Celtics are.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
A flawed team. I don't I'll just talk.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Over you, Steve. I don't give a crap. Listen, the
Celtics are winning the championship. They're not gonna lose to
Kyrie and Luca. It's not gonna happen. And Kyrie is
gonna have a meltdown in the NBA Finals because someone's
gonna pester him about some world issue and Kyrie can't
keep his mouth shut, and next thing you know, there'll
be people out protesting outside the arena because he'll say
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something that will upset a large group of people and
it'll just be on like Donkey Kong, and the whole
team will be distracted.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
It will be wonderful and the Celtics will win.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
We're getting this week started on the right note. When
I was a little tiny cake drinking Steve, I would
be in awe the Dallas Mavericks, or the Houston Rockets
or the kids Ate Kings of the Sudden. We'd be
in awe of going to the Boston Guard. This team
is a bunch of old man and chokers. Is gonna
get beat by Luca in the NBA, could get house
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by Luca and a bunch of a bunch of draft picks.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You're completely completely wrong, You're completely wrong. This is where
Luca comes up short and not ready to get get
it done. There and the Celtics. The immense depth of
the Boston Celtics, they win the championship. From pillar to post,
the Celtics will win.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Right. I'm done with you though, I'm hanging up on you.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Go away, So a Minnesota player called out as a
liar post game. If you're watching the t n T coverage,
got to enjoy this because every other studio show blows,
so you gotta got to enjoy this. Although it's not
as good with Draymond Green, he's pretty bad. But Barkley's great,
and Shack's good and all that stuff. I don't I
don't need Draymond Green.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I don't need him on there. Let him stick to
his little podcast. We're good on that. But Carl Anthony Towns,
who took eight three point shots and missed all of
them after the game.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Seemingly was straight face.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Karl Anthony Towns claimed that he had been putting up
fifteen hundred shots a day, fifteen hundred shots a day,
to which Charles Barkley responded by saying, first of all,
he's lying, he's lying. Then they did the math on
how long that would take to take fifteen hundred shots
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a day, and they determined that Karl Anthony.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Towns was fibbing. Of course, here's the thing about that.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And I was in locker rooms a lot back in
the day when I was getting started in radio, interviewed
athletes all the time, and it was always a pinocchio situation.
It was always a pinocchio. It was a Jimminity cricket pinocchio.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And so it's not like it's ever changed.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I mean, occasionally they will use exaggeration and they will
do a little half truth and things like that, and
then other times they will just lie right to your face.
They're always economical with the truth. But I love and
I point this out all the time, the excuses. Then
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then you've got the lies biomission. It's like I didn't lie,
I just didn't tell.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You what actually was going on.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
We get a lot of that when when athletes fail
and their teams are eliminated once the series is over,
you get a lot of lies biomissions like well, I
was actually heard, but I didn't tell you I was heard,
and oftentimes it's bull crap. But anyway, Karl Anthony Town's kittycat,
We're no longer cat.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Was just gonna call hi kittikcat.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Because he plays like a kitta cat, uh and lying
lying postgame, So there was was some of that. Also,
we had a major pop culture icon rejected expecting cheers
and getting.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Booze for the world to see. We'll get to that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We'll take some more of these calls as well, but
right now, let's get you caught up on everything going
on in the and we say hello too the Cobana boy,
Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
We start, of course with the NBA playoffs, and we
did have game number three of the Western Conference Finals
and the Mavericks do it again, topping the Timberwolves one
sixteen to two, one oh seven on their home court,
Dallas outscoring Minnesota fourteen to three in the final five minutes.
Luka Dacic and Kyrie Irving each thirty three points in
the win from Minnesota. Anthony Edwards was their high score
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with twenty six points. As you mentioned, Carl Anthony Town
struggled fourteen points five of eighteen from the field. So
Dallas leads a series three games to nothing. Game four
Tuesday in Dallas, and I am now obligated to tell
you that no team in the history of the National
Basketball Association has ever won a series when trailing three
games to nothing.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
With's gonna happen, Eddie. At some point it will happen.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
At some point, it could, but I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
It's gonna happen. So's going to happen?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
We well, maybe not in our lifetime. Who knows. In
that vein, the Pacers will be hosting the Celtics in
Game four of their series coming.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Up one day night. This game does suck.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
This game and that is also a three to nothing
lead for Boston.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
One more fetitive conference final, very memorable conference final, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
They're true.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, Game three, Eastern Conference Finals, overtime
for the Rangers to meet the Panthers in Florida, five
to four. Alex Wenberg deflecting in the game winning goal
in sudden death. Alexis La Frenier and Barkley Goudro each
had two goals for New York as well, as they
now take a two to one series lead. Game four
b Tuesday back in Florida, So Baseball Games of note,
you had the Guardians over the Angels five to four.
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Cleveland gets its third straight three games series sweep. They
won nine in a row. They are now percentage points
up on the Yankees for the top record in the
American League at thirty six and seventeen. Yankees are thirty
seven and eighteen. After losing to the Padres five to two.
Philly is followed the Rockies five to two, but Philadelphia
still leading the National League with thirty eight and sixteen record. Dodgers,
as you mentioned, have lost five in a row, losing
to the Reds getting swept by Cincinnati four won the final.
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Orioles wrap up a four game series sweep of the
White Sox four to one, Royals to the Rays for
to one, and the Braves knockoff. The Pirates got score
of eight to one. And speaking of the.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Braves, Crackle pop Eddie is right.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
The Atlanta Braves have lost Star Ronald Lacuna Junior for
the rest of the season. Stuff for a torn ACL. Obviously,
it's it's a tough blow. The reigning National League MVP
gonna miss the rest of the season. Of course, they
lost Spencer Strider, their top pitcher earlier as well this year.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Last time the Braves lost Ronald Lacune Junior for the year,
they won the World Series, So it is conceivable they
could win the World Series again. Remember no no, I
had twenty twenty one Eddie the Braves, And we'll talk
more about this later as we go through the overnight.
The big story in baseball the injury to Ronald Cuno Junior.
But the Braves they lost him in twenty twenty one
and they won the World Series, beat the Dodgers in
the NLCS. And if you remember, in that NLCS, they
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had Pete Rose Eddie Rosario batted over five hundred against
the Dodgers in the NLCS, and that's the guy they
picked up to fill in for a Kune. He's available
game if they want him. He's hitting like under two
hundred for the Nationals, So if they want to get him,
they can get him. But more I have more on
that later it is the Ben Malor Show. As we
continue on through the overnight. Did you see it? Were
(28:10):
you paying attention? You see the clips online. A couple
of big wigs from the reigning back to back champions
of the NFL, Hans Cities Chiefs, were hanging out in
Dallas watching the MAVs and the Timberwolves. You had Patrick
Mahomes there hanging out there, Travis, Travis Kelcey sitting courtside
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at the game, and the Dallas fan does not like
they're not pro swifty. They took an anti swifty position
because the first man of the Swifty Kingdom, Travis Kelcey,
was booed, was booed in Dallas by the hometown fans there,
(28:52):
and it appeared he was baffled.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
He was gobsmacked by that. He could not believe it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
But the rest the Kansas City contingent got a loud ovation.
So this is an anti Travis Kelsey rant by the
people of Dallas, and Kelsey did appear that he was
surprised by the negative reaction.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
He's so used not to having it. He's so used
to having his ass kissed.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
By everyone in pop culture and all that the fans
I loved it. You know, he's sitting there, he's got
sunglasses on, because you know, nobody looks like a douchebag
when they were sunglasses inside at a night game, right,
I mean, it's like, you know, you don't.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Look like that at all.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But there he was hanging out with Patrick Mahomes on
one side and Marquise Hollywood Brown on the other and
certain other Dallas receiver that likes to play speed racer
or Kansas City receiver who likes to play speed racer.
I did not see him sitting there. He's probably talking
to his lawyers or whatever. But Travis Kelsey booed. But
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the crowd went crazy for Patrick Mahomes. They loved him.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Well, he is from Dallas or the Tech area, right, Dallas.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Area, Texas about a large state, dy. I don't know
if you know this. It's but it's a lot of
geographies there.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
That's why they liked him.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Oh, that's exactly why they liked him.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I don't know what he's from there. He went to
college there.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
That's why they liked to Texas Tech, which is out
in the middle of nowhere. That's what I'm saying, it's
a big state in the and that's not why they
cheered him. They booed Travis Kelcey because of Swift, Taylor Swift.
They don't like speculation. That's opinion, and that's a fact.
My opinion is a fact, and that's my opinion. So
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it's a fact they boots Kelsey because of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
They're they're over it. They're over people saying.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You have to listen to that cheese Wall podcast and
all this crap and Travis Kelsey hosting dopey game shows
and it's it's ridiculous. So the good people in the
greater Dallas area there at that American Airline Center, let
Travis Kelcey, I have it, just rained down booze, and
I loved it. And he did not appear to handle
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it very well, which makes it even better. Let's go
to the phones. Tony is in the Bay. Hello, Tony
in the Bay. Had one of the great calls we've
had last week, although you only heard it on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Hello Tony, Hey, man, is Lorena in today?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No, Lorena is not. She She is not here. She
took good the night. If we have Mark in Mark's.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
In here and he's in charge of the music.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Mark is the DJ.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Yes, well, in honor of Memorial Day, I wouldn't mind
hearing James Brown living in America and uh what else
did I have on my pleasure?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Geez, you'll thank you?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Good job.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Well, you knew that was going, you knew that was coming.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
I'm trying here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh, he's still on the air. Look at this, all right.
I guess Shay doesn't mind the effort. He's gone, okay,
all right, and she's like, hey, we'll work blue. Why not?
Who cares? Just go for It's a holiday. You're allowed
to say the f wort and the holiday?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Is that true? You're not allowed to say the wort.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
We appreciate the freedoms we have, but we're not quite
that free.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
No, we are not with the land of the free,
but not when it comes to language. Because there's one
person that has to stick up their keyster when they
hear the f wort, one person, and that person we
have to protect. And all the kids listening at this time,
you know, so many children up late listening. It's very
popular with the children. They love overnight sports radio always
have always will. Let's say hello to tiger Man, who's
(32:39):
in Utah. Hello, tiger Man.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
I'm a little mad Tonai. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
And what is upset you? What happened involving LSU sports
that is upset you?
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Well, I'm not trying to It's just something I'm seeing
in sports. Right. So, and I or today we lost
to Tennessee the SEC championship game. Right, So I go
on Twitter after the game and everybody is like, oh,
We're so proud of this team, and you know, they
work so.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Hard and this and that.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
I'm reading the comments, right and I'm trying to, you know,
keep my composure because you know, I take losing very seriously.
And I don't understand fans.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
That are like, you know, O, well, you know, yeah,
I got let me fill in the gaps here, let
me fill in the game. So you are of an
age where you and this is how I feel too.
I don't think you get credit for doing what you're
supposed to do. I get the baseline is just to
(33:48):
work hard. That's like the baseline. It's like the old
the Chris Rock bit where you don't get credit for
stuff you're supposed to do and.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
People people today.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
And I don't even think it's like in real life
because I don't think that goes on in real life.
But I think on the social media platforms, it's not
really real.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
It's fake.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It's the matrix, and there's a higher percentage whether it's
real people or bots of people that they're like, oh yeah,
we should celebrate.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Everyone gets treated like they're in Little League. It's it's
the fanboys. It's the fan boys. That's what it is.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Yeah, I know that. I mean it's you know, the
SEC Championship game. I mean, if you're content with losing,
you know, then sign your kid up for fencing or
for soccer. I mean, I don't understand why people are
happy with losing. And you know, like the Lion fans
that I'm not trying to call out anyone, but the
Lions were so proud of their season and they don't
(34:44):
win anything. It's like, what are you proud of? You're
proud of losing? Your team spent so much money to lose,
Like I just I just don't get it back. Like
when I lose, like I feel like I get punched
in the face over and over again. And people are
happy with losing makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
You know what those people are, They're losers. That's what
those people are when they're happy to lose, their losers.
And I'm not. I want winners. I want people that
want to win. I can't win with them.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
You're a winner, You're damn right.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I'm a winner. I mean in the game of life,
I'm a winner. Damn right.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Thank you. Tiger Man. Tigerman. Tigerman, Tigerman Tigerman to the rescue,
unless that's not not the case.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Art Puffin writes, since a plus and some backyard chicken
skewers on the Mallard monologue, the Wolves will be swept
and the mass will go on to win the NBA
Chip for two over the Boston leprechauns, says Art Puffin.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Who else do we have? Page Dawn.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Andy, Andy the comic book guy says, A polish these
bad boys off today in honor of the crew, And
I drank the Jews for Eddie and he's putting up
some devil spit pickle chips, and then some I can't
even read the label on some other things, some kind
of just pickle thing. It says A lot about Andy
(36:15):
the comic book guy and his lack of decision making,
poor decision making, much like a Buffalo bill player in
a playoff game, poor decision making. Ferg Dog says, thank
you for not leading with Fresno State Baseball winning the
Mountain West Championship. Eddie doesn't deserve it after.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
He went woke. That's from Fergdog. That's right. Cannot mention it,
cannot do it at dogs, Ye dump that. Nobody can
hear that? Who else do you have? Page down here?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
We'll skip over. That's a lot of random shots being fired.
Cameron says, Boston can kiss my ass. Pacers should be
up to one, going to owe you a pie in
the face, says Cameron. Should have, could have, would have.
I don't know about you, but should have, could have.
Worlder would absolutely dominate. If should have, could have, would
(37:09):
have was included, but unfortunately it is not. It does
not work that way, does not work that way at all.
All right, So Ben Maller show time now for the
who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
And we'll go to the statistical sheet in pro bouncy ball,
I have the lowest three point percentage in a conference
final series in NBA history, minimum five attempts per game.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Again, I have the lowest three point percentage in.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
A conference final series an NBA history, minimum five attempts
per game.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
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Speaker 2 (38:23):
Hey, we'll get back to the chitter chatter coming up
in a moment. Here's the who in my game?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
And I have the lowest three point shooting percentage in
a conference final series in NBA history, minimum five attempts
per game. Lowest three point percentage in a conference final
in NBA history.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
There's some really bad.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Three point shooting we've seen in this series as an example,
and let's see, does anyone have the answer? Art Puffins says,
push it by salt and pepper, which by the way,
would be a clever drop whenever.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
You mentioned buttons here. He says, thank you Art for
the advice. Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Page Dwan Sergeant Slaughter guests by Cowboy Killer, Sir William
Regal from Rob in Lost Wages, Nevada. Matt the Warrior
Raider fan says. Adam Carolla, who turned sixty on Monday,
says Matt Warrior Raider, Tom Brady roast Fanwell, happy birthday
(39:26):
to Adam Carolla. Fun fact had Adam on the show
when he was doing sports at k Rock in La.
He had him on and the cursed I had to
dump Adam Carolla on the airways of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
He's doing pretty good for himself, unless he's not. I
think he sold his house to a Tani.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
So yeah, Ferd Dog says Lisa Leslie, is the answer
that's trying to curry favor with Eddie Garcia, Page Down Snufflelofagus,
Sesame Street Legend from alf.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
The Alien O. Who else do you have?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
A page down? Jim Cornett from Donkey's Sausage. Leandro Barbosa
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Sam Posi, who turned eighty today?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Eddie? A guy named Eddie obviously cheating? Got it right?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Randy Brown from Double O Mexican in Sandy Ago. Page
down here, Stuck in Sacramento says, the answer is who
is Dave Roberts filling filing for unemployment? Or whereas where
is he filing for unemployment? I think it was with
the message was Jason Kidd guest by Manolo.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Who else you have? Slim Tim got it right? Page now?
Dennis Rodman from Johnny Q. James says the woke version of.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Eddie Garcia, Kevin Duckworth from spockxwed Rajon Rondo from Thomas
Big Lou. He's on number two and he's going with
Lee Ilya. Eighty five percent of the world's work. The
other fifteen percent come out here. It's a playground for
the blank blanks. Single Greatest All Time rant, Sing's single
(41:12):
greatest all time rant. If you don't know what I'm
talking about, it's on the YouTube. Lee Ilya on April
twenty ninth. I think it was nineteen eighty two, nineteen
eighty three, something like that. Lee Ilia just exploded at
the cub Fan and it was outstanding, outstanding. Rayfer Austin
guessed by Eric. That's his answer. Who else do we
(41:33):
have paid down? I can't read that on the air.
A lot of these things cannot be read our Eddie,
do you have an answer?
Speaker 8 (41:41):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (41:41):
H Yeah, I'm gonna go with la Laker legend von Wafer?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Is it von Wafer?
Speaker 7 (41:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (41:47):
That is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
It's also not Ray Allen guessed by Cameron, and nor
is it Dave Concepcion of the Big Red Machine, who
I think had four or five hits this weekend. From
g Manach in Chicago. Larry said in Nashville, Smoky the
Bear brought to you by the ad Council. No, that's
also in correct. The correct answer again, I have the
lowest three point percentage in conference finals series in NBA history,
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thirteen point six percent, minimum five attempts per game. It
is none other than Kitty Kat Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Right now, that is the answer.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
In these Western Conference Finals, there's only one game left
unless Minnesota wins, and he has the worst three point
shooting in the history of the conference finals.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Way to go, Carl.
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one of the
original Recipe podcast, just saying, well, wait a minute, it's
a holiday. What kind of strange cat works on a
holiday supposed to be off your big time radio person,
Why would you work on a holiday? No one else's worked. Well, yeah,
I'm here, not exactly rain Man, but I'm here. I'm
here for you and on this Memorial Day. A full
(00:24):
original Recipe podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
But don't forget.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
We also have the fifth Hour podcast available from the weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
If you missed it, we had a mailbag.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
On Sunday meandering around the podcast dojo. It's the fifth
Hour podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And you can hear all of that content.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
But here in hour number one, talk about the Western
Conference Finals, the Wolves and the MAVs. A close game,
final few minutes and in the end Dallas wins again.
Why have the Wolves been so bad down the stretch
in the Western Finals and how do you classify Anthony
Edwards performance and his words? He brought up the officiating
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in Game three in these Western Finals and one of
the odds that the Minnesota basketball team trailing by three games,
a single loss away from elimination, what are the odds
that they come back nas Red is trying to be
optimistic for the Timberwolves. We'll talk about that and more
right now here it is give it up for our
number one, howling into the loss column yet again. Well come,
(01:25):
in the beginning of a brand new week of the
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Speaker 2 (02:20):
The human drama of athletic competition.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
There's nothing quite like all those big moments in a
competitive conference finals series, and boy are we getting that
in pro bouncy ball. 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
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and say, okay, we can go to Texas, will win
a couple of games, no big deal. But the Mavericks
trying to put another nail in the old coffin of
a Minnesota sports team.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
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 2 (03:03):
But don't worry, we watched. We watched. We have no life,
so you would not have.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
To Luka Luka and the guy Kyrie Irving, wha 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 minutes
(03:28):
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 2 (03:48):
You're doing pretty well. You're doing pretty well. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The game ended on a fourteen to three finish or
sixteen to seven run, depending.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
How you want to break it down. There the MAVs a.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Fifth consecutive playoff win. This after the man being credited
as a glue guy, Derek Lively.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Left with a sprain neck. Oh my neck.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
He took an accidental, not body blow, a headshot from
Carl Anthony Towns in knee, which I don't think is good.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
But no team in the.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
History of that sport has ever rallied from three games
to none down to win.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Game four will be Tuesday in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
The better story is in that's right, the losing locker room.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
So that is where we're gonna go.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
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 2 (04:57):
Bad to a bone down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
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, they're becoming a
pancake and the Dallas basketball team feasting on that pancake.
But in these games with the MAVs, the margins, despite
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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 competition, who's better in
the moment.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And you don't have to hear the dumbbo on the
radio tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Just by paying attention, you know that Luke and Kyrie
in this series have been head and shoulders above.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Ant Man and Kitty Kat.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And the Wolves have been running around in the final
minutes of these games like a headless chicken bocket 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.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Game on the line, the Wolves wagon was on empty.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
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 sixteen to seven.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Dallas in that stretch.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
At the end of the game final six plus minutes
of the game shot seventy five percent against the number
one defense of Minnesota. The Wolve shot twenty five percent,
and Luka and Kyrie in that that closive game had
ten points.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
An ant Man and Kitty Cat.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Combined four points, all of them by Aunt, who played
well in the third quarter.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But that's about it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
In 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
we'll just focus in on the game three. Karl Anthony Towns,
he won the electoral college. He is now the mayor
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of Barf City. So congratulations to Kat Kitty Kat 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 believes he's a better shooter than Stephen Curry.
(07:50):
But then 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 2 (07:57):
A real clunker, real clunker.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Now, Page two, So Anthony Edwards was asked what in
the box score? What about the box score from game
three stood out?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
He was asked about that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
His response he said, quote, they meaning Dallas at thirty
one free throws, we had seventeen close quo. So how
do you classify Anthony Edwards, star of the Minnesota basketball
team's performance in the Western Finals and that commentary?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So I have this.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
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
crap that was being said and written about Anthony Edwards.
(08:46):
He was being 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 couple of old nineteen eighties references,
bigger mouth, bigger game. Anthony Edwards. However, the proof is
(09:08):
in the pudding. In the Western Finals, he has been contaminated.
Anthony Edwards in key moments with dragon breath, wallowing with
a defeatist attitude. Edwards now has not one, but two
two more excuses than he does wins in the Western
Conference Finals. Remember the famous line that you really just
(09:32):
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. It was too hard for Minnesota.
And now he's got the zebras so wear and tear,
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fatigue and officiating. Yet the game was anyone. 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 disagree that the NBA product in terms
officiating is bush league, but still that was not the
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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 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.
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Television wanted Boston in Dallas. They want Kyrie the bad
guy going back to Boston, even though all the Celtic
players worship at the altar of Kyrie. But that's the
TV matchup. They want big market Dallas, Boston sports crazy plays.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's what they want. Now Minnesota is not done yet.
Well we'll focusing on this.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Naz Reid is not throwing in, at least publicly, not
throwing in the sponge or the timber puffs.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Not yet.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
He said, quote if anyone can win four straight in
this scenario, I think it's us close.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Quote. So one of the odds that Minnesota will come back,
one are the odds they will come back in this series.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They have not won a game yet. Ye suck at
a time you cannot suck. So I'm going to open
up the mallard of sports book gods, and they're not zero.
They're not They're 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.
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At this moment of time, we are watching the 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
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the type of performance where your star player has been
a no show in Key Molmons and your other star
player can't make a shot to save his life.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
From out outside. This is the mall maent that gets
a coach fired.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Regardless of all that, the question at hand was what
are the odds Minnesota will come back in Wall It's
two percent chance plus five thousand.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Regardless of that.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We live in the multiverse, So if you go far enough, okay,
bear with me, If you go far enough, you'll fall
into Wonderland and on a different planet living in a
parallel universe. Luke and Kyrie collide, kaboom, they collide, right,
and maybe a practice injury. They get knocked out not
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career anything, but knocks him out for the rest of
the series one or both, and then Anthony Edwards and
Kitty Kat stop overdosing on stupid pills. And at some point,
here's the way I look at it like this, at
some point a team will come back. We've seen teams
get to a game seven but not win a game
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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 2 (13:13):
And it just hasn't happened yet. But I do know this.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
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 and the Mavericks to not screw this up.
They should win in four games. Maybe Minnesota wins a
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single game, you get a gentleman's sweep out of it.
But if the Dallas Mavericks futs around with this and
don't close out, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Gets a game, and then they get another.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
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 Kitty Kat playing
well for four games in a row? Come on, come
on now, don't see it. It's not regular season matchups
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against the Sacramento and San Antonio. It's not all right.
This is the Ben Mahlor Show. Though we are glad
to have you. Speakeasy rules are not ineffected.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
As a holiday.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
So if you'd like to be part eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox, that's eight seven seven nine nine
six sixty three six ' nine. Also available on X
at Ben Mahlor. That is at Ben Mahlor. If you
would like to be.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Part upset program, we will take.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Your comments on X as well. You can be part
of the festivus of talk. But one Minnesota player has
been called out for lying. You're a liar, liar, liar,
pants on fire. What did that player say and why
is he being called out for what he said as
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a liar. We'll get to that. We'll take your calls,
the whole thing, and we will do it next Buday.
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It's Ben Maller.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Rolling on all night.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
We will have the normal Why I say normal, nothing's
normal about this show. But we'll have the regularly scheduled
bits throughout the overnight, next hour, Mallard of the third Degree,
the Instant Advice Line, the Riddle of the Day, and
the Mallard Militia feud, among other things.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That our schedule. If you're with us all night.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
And most don't have an excuse and you're not working,
a lot of people off.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And I got some emails from people.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Say, hey, I'm gonna be up all night and I can't.
I usually can't stay up late and listen to the
live show, but I'm gonna listen.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
So whop you damn do? Very exciting, very very exciting.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yes, nature Boy, says the liar said, David Vess is
the reason we watched Dodger baseball. Holy crap, that's from
the Nature Boy. We had no update. I did not
get any updates from foot soldiers that there were escalations
in the hostilities that have taken place with me and
David Vessa, who does Dodger postgame programming.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I will point.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Out, ever since this thing blew up, the Dodgers have
not won a game. Is there a correlation between these
two things.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You'll have to decide on that. But I'll just tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Since I was attacked harmlessly minding my own business twiddling
my thumbs. The Dodgers have not won a game and
made the Cincinnati Reds look like the big Red machine
over the week. Let's see here, who else do we have?
Page Dan the King Roy says, let's not forget why
we celebrate this holiday to honor people who pay the
ultimate sacrifice. So we the people and enjoy things like
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Eddie Garcia giving us w NBA scores during games of note. Yeah,
well Eddie went woke. I don't know what to tell you.
He's all about that w NBA. We tried to talk
him out of it. We tried to do an intervention,
but once you go there, it's hard to come back.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well, this has not worked throughout history. But I am
just following orders.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh okay, yeah, that's that.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That did actually not work at As you know, there
was a famous I even Nurnberg and did not did
not go well, did not go well.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
But that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Shane in des Moines says, I need another mark the
full name guy like Lebron needs more ego. He said, yeah, absolute,
So we have a Minnesota player called out as a liar.
We'll get to that coming up a minute's get to
the phones, though, is as many calls as we can,
assuming they don't suck. And I see a guy already
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trying to weasel his way in with a bogus golden ticket,
keg drinking Steve in Cansa City. Hello, Steve, you don't
have a you don't have a golden take.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
You're making up. You're making up a golden ticket.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Go ticket.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Don't you don't making that up. You're a liar.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You don't have a golden ticket. Where's your proof? Where's
your proof? I want I don't want family.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
I'm defeated.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
A family.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You can't beat me, you can't be me. Just I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't play with family. Few What are you talking
about it? You don't even know the game. You don't
even know the game.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Trying to do that Boston, then mather voodoo on my
Dallas Maverick. It ain't gonna work. Well, you're you're you're
always doing that. Heck does that voodoo? Mark Cuban, you know,
got rid of this team because.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
He didn't want to.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
He didn't want to buy this team anymore because it
thought the economy is going down. It's gonna be fantastic
when you're Boston chokers when they chose and Dallas, Dallas
pounds you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Oh no, no, the Celtics, even with their flaws, and
the Celtics are.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
A flawed team. I don't I'll just talk.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Over you, Steve. I don't give a crap. Listen, the
Celtics are winning the championship. They're not gonna lose to
Kyrie and Luca. It's not gonna happen. And Kyrie is
gonna have a meltdown in the NBA Finals because someone's
gonna pester him about some world issue and Kyrie can't
keep his mouth shut, and next thing you know, there'll
be people out protesting outside the arena because he'll say
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something that will upset a large group of people and
it'll just be on like Donkey Kong, and the whole
team will be distracted.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
It will be wonderful and the Celtics will win.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
We're getting this week started on the right note. When
I was a little tiny cake drinking Steve, I would
be in awe the Dallas Mavericks, or the Houston Rockets
or the kids Ate Kings of the Sudden. We'd be
in awe of going to the Boston Guard. This team
is a bunch of old man and chokers. Is gonna
get beat by Luca in the NBA, could get house
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by Luca and a bunch of a bunch of draft picks.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You're completely completely wrong, You're completely wrong. This is where
Luca comes up short and not ready to get get
it done. There and the Celtics. The immense depth of
the Boston Celtics, they win the championship. From pillar to post,
the Celtics will win.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Right. I'm done with you though, I'm hanging up on you.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Go away, So a Minnesota player called out as a
liar post game. If you're watching the t n T coverage,
got to enjoy this because every other studio show blows,
so you gotta got to enjoy this. Although it's not
as good with Draymond Green, he's pretty bad. But Barkley's great,
and Shack's good and all that stuff. I don't I
don't need Draymond Green.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I don't need him on there. Let him stick to
his little podcast. We're good on that. But Carl Anthony Towns,
who took eight three point shots and missed all of
them after the game.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Seemingly was straight face.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Karl Anthony Towns claimed that he had been putting up
fifteen hundred shots a day, fifteen hundred shots a day,
to which Charles Barkley responded by saying, first of all,
he's lying, he's lying. Then they did the math on
how long that would take to take fifteen hundred shots
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a day, and they determined that Karl Anthony.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Towns was fibbing. Of course, here's the thing about that.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
And I was in locker rooms a lot back in
the day when I was getting started in radio, interviewed
athletes all the time, and it was always a pinocchio situation.
It was always a pinocchio. It was a Jimminity cricket pinocchio.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And so it's not like it's ever changed.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I mean, occasionally they will use exaggeration and they will
do a little half truth and things like that, and
then other times they will just lie right to your face.
They're always economical with the truth. But I love and
I point this out all the time, the excuses. Then
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then you've got the lies biomission. It's like I didn't lie,
I just didn't tell.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You what actually was going on.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
We get a lot of that when when athletes fail
and their teams are eliminated once the series is over,
you get a lot of lies biomissions like well, I
was actually heard, but I didn't tell you I was heard,
and oftentimes it's bull crap. But anyway, Karl Anthony Town's kittycat,
We're no longer cat.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Was just gonna call hi kittikcat.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Because he plays like a kitta cat, uh and lying
lying postgame, So there was was some of that. Also,
we had a major pop culture icon rejected expecting cheers
and getting.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Booze for the world to see. We'll get to that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We'll take some more of these calls as well, but
right now, let's get you caught up on everything going
on in the and we say hello too the Cobana boy,
Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
We start, of course with the NBA playoffs, and we
did have game number three of the Western Conference Finals
and the Mavericks do it again, topping the Timberwolves one
sixteen to two, one oh seven on their home court,
Dallas outscoring Minnesota fourteen to three in the final five minutes.
Luka Dacic and Kyrie Irving each thirty three points in
the win from Minnesota. Anthony Edwards was their high score
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with twenty six points. As you mentioned, Carl Anthony Town
struggled fourteen points five of eighteen from the field. So
Dallas leads a series three games to nothing. Game four
Tuesday in Dallas, and I am now obligated to tell
you that no team in the history of the National
Basketball Association has ever won a series when trailing three
games to nothing.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
With's gonna happen, Eddie. At some point it will happen.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
At some point, it could, but I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
It's gonna happen. So's going to happen?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
We well, maybe not in our lifetime. Who knows. In
that vein, the Pacers will be hosting the Celtics in
Game four of their series coming.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Up one day night. This game does suck.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
This game and that is also a three to nothing
lead for Boston.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
One more fetitive conference final, very memorable conference final, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
They're true.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, Game three, Eastern Conference Finals, overtime
for the Rangers to meet the Panthers in Florida, five
to four. Alex Wenberg deflecting in the game winning goal
in sudden death. Alexis La Frenier and Barkley Goudro each
had two goals for New York as well, as they
now take a two to one series lead. Game four
b Tuesday back in Florida, So Baseball Games of note,
you had the Guardians over the Angels five to four.
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Cleveland gets its third straight three games series sweep. They
won nine in a row. They are now percentage points
up on the Yankees for the top record in the
American League at thirty six and seventeen. Yankees are thirty
seven and eighteen. After losing to the Padres five to two.
Philly is followed the Rockies five to two, but Philadelphia
still leading the National League with thirty eight and sixteen record. Dodgers,
as you mentioned, have lost five in a row, losing
to the Reds getting swept by Cincinnati four won the final.
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Orioles wrap up a four game series sweep of the
White Sox four to one, Royals to the Rays for
to one, and the Braves knockoff. The Pirates got score
of eight to one. And speaking of the.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Braves, Crackle pop Eddie is right.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
The Atlanta Braves have lost Star Ronald Lacuna Junior for
the rest of the season. Stuff for a torn ACL. Obviously,
it's it's a tough blow. The reigning National League MVP
gonna miss the rest of the season. Of course, they
lost Spencer Strider, their top pitcher earlier as well this year.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Last time the Braves lost Ronald Lacune Junior for the year,
they won the World Series, So it is conceivable they
could win the World Series again. Remember no no, I
had twenty twenty one Eddie the Braves, And we'll talk
more about this later as we go through the overnight.
The big story in baseball the injury to Ronald Cuno Junior.
But the Braves they lost him in twenty twenty one
and they won the World Series, beat the Dodgers in
the NLCS. And if you remember, in that NLCS, they
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had Pete Rose Eddie Rosario batted over five hundred against
the Dodgers in the NLCS, and that's the guy they
picked up to fill in for a Kune. He's available
game if they want him. He's hitting like under two
hundred for the Nationals, So if they want to get him,
they can get him. But more I have more on
that later it is the Ben Malor Show. As we
continue on through the overnight. Did you see it? Were
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you paying attention? You see the clips online. A couple
of big wigs from the reigning back to back champions
of the NFL, Hans Cities Chiefs, were hanging out in
Dallas watching the MAVs and the Timberwolves. You had Patrick
Mahomes there hanging out there, Travis, Travis Kelcey sitting courtside
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at the game, and the Dallas fan does not like
they're not pro swifty. They took an anti swifty position
because the first man of the Swifty Kingdom, Travis Kelcey,
was booed, was booed in Dallas by the hometown fans there,
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and it appeared he was baffled.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
He was gobsmacked by that. He could not believe it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
But the rest the Kansas City contingent got a loud ovation.
So this is an anti Travis Kelsey rant by the
people of Dallas, and Kelsey did appear that he was
surprised by the negative reaction.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
He's so used not to having it. He's so used
to having his ass kissed.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
By everyone in pop culture and all that the fans
I loved it. You know, he's sitting there, he's got
sunglasses on, because you know, nobody looks like a douchebag
when they were sunglasses inside at a night game, right,
I mean, it's like, you know, you don't.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Look like that at all.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
But there he was hanging out with Patrick Mahomes on
one side and Marquise Hollywood Brown on the other and
certain other Dallas receiver that likes to play speed racer
or Kansas City receiver who likes to play speed racer.
I did not see him sitting there. He's probably talking
to his lawyers or whatever. But Travis Kelsey booed. But
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the crowd went crazy for Patrick Mahomes. They loved him.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Well, he is from Dallas or the Tech area, right, Dallas.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Area, Texas about a large state, dy. I don't know
if you know this. It's but it's a lot of
geographies there.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
That's why they liked him.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Oh, that's exactly why they liked him.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I don't know what he's from there. He went to
college there.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
That's why they liked to Texas Tech, which is out
in the middle of nowhere. That's what I'm saying, it's
a big state in the and that's not why they
cheered him. They booed Travis Kelcey because of Swift, Taylor Swift.
They don't like speculation. That's opinion, and that's a fact.
My opinion is a fact, and that's my opinion. So
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it's a fact they boots Kelsey because of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
They're they're over it. They're over people saying.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You have to listen to that cheese Wall podcast and
all this crap and Travis Kelsey hosting dopey game shows
and it's it's ridiculous. So the good people in the
greater Dallas area there at that American Airline Center, let
Travis Kelcey, I have it, just rained down booze, and
I loved it. And he did not appear to handle
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it very well, which makes it even better. Let's go
to the phones. Tony is in the Bay. Hello, Tony
in the Bay. Had one of the great calls we've
had last week, although you only heard it on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Hello Tony, Hey, man, is Lorena in today?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No, Lorena is not. She She is not here. She
took good the night. If we have Mark in Mark's.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
In here and he's in charge of the music.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Mark is the DJ.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Yes, well, in honor of Memorial Day, I wouldn't mind
hearing James Brown living in America and uh what else
did I have on my pleasure?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Geez, you'll thank you?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Good job.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Well, you knew that was going, you knew that was coming.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
I'm trying here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh, he's still on the air. Look at this, all right.
I guess Shay doesn't mind the effort. He's gone, okay,
all right, and she's like, hey, we'll work blue. Why not?
Who cares? Just go for It's a holiday. You're allowed
to say the f wort and the holiday?
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Is that true? You're not allowed to say the wort.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
We appreciate the freedoms we have, but we're not quite
that free.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
No, we are not with the land of the free,
but not when it comes to language. Because there's one
person that has to stick up their keyster when they
hear the f wort, one person, and that person we
have to protect. And all the kids listening at this time,
you know, so many children up late listening. It's very
popular with the children. They love overnight sports radio always
have always will. Let's say hello to tiger Man, who's
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in Utah. Hello, tiger Man.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
I'm a little mad Tonai. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
And what is upset you? What happened involving LSU sports
that is upset you?
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Well, I'm not trying to It's just something I'm seeing
in sports. Right. So, and I or today we lost
to Tennessee the SEC championship game. Right, So I go
on Twitter after the game and everybody is like, oh,
We're so proud of this team, and you know, they
work so.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Hard and this and that.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
I'm reading the comments, right and I'm trying to, you know,
keep my composure because you know, I take losing very seriously.
And I don't understand fans.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
That are like, you know, O, well, you know, yeah,
I got let me fill in the gaps here, let
me fill in the game. So you are of an
age where you and this is how I feel too.
I don't think you get credit for doing what you're
supposed to do. I get the baseline is just to
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work hard. That's like the baseline. It's like the old
the Chris Rock bit where you don't get credit for
stuff you're supposed to do and.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
People people today.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
And I don't even think it's like in real life
because I don't think that goes on in real life.
But I think on the social media platforms, it's not
really real.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
It's fake.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It's the matrix, and there's a higher percentage whether it's
real people or bots of people that they're like, oh yeah,
we should celebrate.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Everyone gets treated like they're in Little League. It's it's
the fanboys. It's the fan boys. That's what it is.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Yeah, I know that. I mean it's you know, the
SEC Championship game. I mean, if you're content with losing,
you know, then sign your kid up for fencing or
for soccer. I mean, I don't understand why people are
happy with losing. And you know, like the Lion fans
that I'm not trying to call out anyone, but the
Lions were so proud of their season and they don't
(34:44):
win anything. It's like, what are you proud of? You're
proud of losing? Your team spent so much money to lose,
Like I just I just don't get it back. Like
when I lose, like I feel like I get punched
in the face over and over again. And people are
happy with losing makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
You know what those people are, They're losers. That's what
those people are when they're happy to lose, their losers.
And I'm not. I want winners. I want people that
want to win. I can't win with them.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
You're a winner, You're damn right.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I'm a winner. I mean in the game of life,
I'm a winner. Damn right.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I gotta go.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Thank you. Tiger Man. Tigerman. Tigerman, Tigerman Tigerman to the rescue,
unless that's not not the case.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Art Puffin writes, since a plus and some backyard chicken
skewers on the Mallard monologue, the Wolves will be swept
and the mass will go on to win the NBA
Chip for two over the Boston leprechauns, says Art Puffin.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Who else do we have? Page Dawn.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Andy, Andy the comic book guy says, A polish these
bad boys off today in honor of the crew, And
I drank the Jews for Eddie and he's putting up
some devil spit pickle chips, and then some I can't
even read the label on some other things, some kind
of just pickle thing. It says A lot about Andy
(36:15):
the comic book guy and his lack of decision making,
poor decision making, much like a Buffalo bill player in
a playoff game, poor decision making. Ferg Dog says, thank
you for not leading with Fresno State Baseball winning the
Mountain West Championship. Eddie doesn't deserve it after.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
He went woke. That's from Fergdog. That's right. Cannot mention it,
cannot do it at dogs, Ye dump that. Nobody can
hear that? Who else do you have? Page down here?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
We'll skip over. That's a lot of random shots being fired.
Cameron says, Boston can kiss my ass. Pacers should be
up to one, going to owe you a pie in
the face, says Cameron. Should have, could have, would have.
I don't know about you, but should have, could have.
Worlder would absolutely dominate. If should have, could have, would
(37:09):
have was included, but unfortunately it is not. It does
not work that way, does not work that way at all.
All right, So Ben Maller show time now for the
who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
And we'll go to the statistical sheet in pro bouncy ball,
I have the lowest three point percentage in a conference
final series in NBA history, minimum five attempts per game.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Again, I have the lowest three point percentage in.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
A conference final series an NBA history, minimum five attempts
per game.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
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Speaker 2 (38:23):
Hey, we'll get back to the chitter chatter coming up
in a moment. Here's the who in my game?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
And I have the lowest three point shooting percentage in
a conference final series in NBA history, minimum five attempts
per game. Lowest three point percentage in a conference final
in NBA history.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
There's some really bad.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Three point shooting we've seen in this series as an example,
and let's see, does anyone have the answer? Art Puffins says,
push it by salt and pepper, which by the way,
would be a clever drop whenever.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
You mentioned buttons here. He says, thank you Art for
the advice. Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Page Dwan Sergeant Slaughter guests by Cowboy Killer, Sir William
Regal from Rob in Lost Wages, Nevada. Matt the Warrior
Raider fan says. Adam Carolla, who turned sixty on Monday,
says Matt Warrior Raider, Tom Brady roast Fanwell, happy birthday
(39:26):
to Adam Carolla. Fun fact had Adam on the show
when he was doing sports at k Rock in La.
He had him on and the cursed I had to
dump Adam Carolla on the airways of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
He's doing pretty good for himself, unless he's not. I
think he sold his house to a Tani.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
So yeah, Ferd Dog says Lisa Leslie, is the answer
that's trying to curry favor with Eddie Garcia, Page Down Snufflelofagus,
Sesame Street Legend from alf.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
The Alien O. Who else do you have?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
A page down? Jim Cornett from Donkey's Sausage. Leandro Barbosa
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Sam Posi, who turned eighty today?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Eddie? A guy named Eddie obviously cheating? Got it right?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Randy Brown from Double O Mexican in Sandy Ago. Page
down here, Stuck in Sacramento says, the answer is who
is Dave Roberts filling filing for unemployment? Or whereas where
is he filing for unemployment? I think it was with
the message was Jason Kidd guest by Manolo.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Who else you have? Slim Tim got it right? Page now?
Dennis Rodman from Johnny Q. James says the woke version of.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Eddie Garcia, Kevin Duckworth from spockxwed Rajon Rondo from Thomas
Big Lou. He's on number two and he's going with
Lee Ilya. Eighty five percent of the world's work. The
other fifteen percent come out here. It's a playground for
the blank blanks. Single Greatest All Time rant, Sing's single
(41:12):
greatest all time rant. If you don't know what I'm
talking about, it's on the YouTube. Lee Ilya on April
twenty ninth. I think it was nineteen eighty two, nineteen
eighty three, something like that. Lee Ilia just exploded at
the cub Fan and it was outstanding, outstanding. Rayfer Austin
guessed by Eric. That's his answer. Who else do we
(41:33):
have paid down? I can't read that on the air.
A lot of these things cannot be read our Eddie,
do you have an answer?
Speaker 8 (41:41):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (41:41):
H Yeah, I'm gonna go with la Laker legend von Wafer?
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Is it von Wafer?
Speaker 7 (41:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (41:47):
That is incorrect.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
It's also not Ray Allen guessed by Cameron, and nor
is it Dave Concepcion of the Big Red Machine, who
I think had four or five hits this weekend. From
g Manach in Chicago. Larry said in Nashville, Smoky the
Bear brought to you by the ad Council. No, that's
also in correct. The correct answer again, I have the
lowest three point percentage in conference finals series in NBA history,
(42:11):
thirteen point six percent, minimum five attempts per game. It
is none other than Kitty Kat Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Right now, that is the answer.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
In these Western Conference Finals, there's only one game left
unless Minnesota wins, and he has the worst three point
shooting in the history of the conference finals.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Way to go, Carl.
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