Hour 2 - It's Not FAIR

Ben Maller talks about Mavs guard Kyrie Irving saying that Karl-Anthony Towns has been receiving unfair criticism, the odds that Minnesota trades KAT after the playoffs, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two hour two Ready
to go. Pro bouncy ball is up up front here,
so the Mavericks. They have a guard named Kyrie Irving.
And he made some comments recently. He said the Wolf
Center Karl Anthony Towns has received quote unfair criticism. Is

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that take based in reality and people have been unfair
to Carl Anthony Towns. Also, what are the odds that
Minnesota trades cat after the playoff run comes to an end?
And we'll talk about the Clippers, the people's team they
have locked up Tylo. Is that a big deal, a
little deal or no deal will work up a sweat
talk about all of it right now in our number two.

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It's not fair. No, it's not fair. Welme. In the
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we go to the Twin Cities. They had a travel

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day in the Western Finals. They traveled by stagecoach from
Dallas to Minnesota. Unless they didn't, but the festivities will
continue two nights. It is game number five on this
Thursday night, last Thursday of the month of May, Anthony
Edwards and the Minnesota basketball team opened up a four

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point favorite over Lukeka. The turnover machines Mavericks now the
latest line. Last I checked, Minnesota favored by four and
a half. Four and a half. Now, this comes after
Carl Anthony Towns, kitty Icat dominated in Game four. His

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performance sparked a mini rant from Kyrie, and you know,
we're all open to that. We're all open to it.
We're all used to that. So if you didn't see
this or hear about it, now, Kyrie Irving talking about
the performance of Karl Anthony Towns back in game number four,
Kyrie Irving said, despite the unfair criticism that he has received,

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this quote, despite the unfair criticism that he's received, kat
He's a great player. Close quote. All right, So let's
discuss the question the Maverick guard Kyrie Irving saying that
Karl Anthony Towns of Minnesota basketball team has received unfair criticism.

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Is that based in any reality? Is it any reality
at all? So I've got Tony Award, Centaur and Hogwarts,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to have a fire breathing dragon pop
up right here in the magic radio box, a fire

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breathing dragon. So to answer the question, was the criticism
of Carl Anthony Towns unfair? According to Kyrie Irving, it
was so. Kyrie Irving has long been against the cartel
of basketball. His soundtrack is a rage against the machine.
And like many of his common terry's over the years,

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Kyrie Irving is misguided on this one. Also misguided on
this one. It is ridiculous, right, absolutely ridiculous. Now we
will give Kyrie Irving a Tony Award for his latest
bad take, and I'll tell you why, because much like
the Broadway musical, It's all about the Jersey Boys. That

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is my theory, all right, that's my theory on Kyrie Irving,
Uncle Drew and his commentary because Kyrie Irving and Karl
Anthony Towns both are kids that grew up in northern
New Jersey. They were both drafted number one over. They
grew up in town separated by about twenty miles as
the crow flies, So they've lived similar lives. They're in

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the same demographic in terms of four years apart or
so four or five years apart. But the level of scrutiny,
and maybe I'm crazy, what do I know, I just
do the Overnight Show. But the level of scrutiny that
an elite NBA player faces is always going to be high, right,
It's always going to be high, especially in the Hello

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the playoffs, playoffs. But nobody's being unfair. Carl Anthony Towns
was historically horrible for three games in a row in
the Western Finals. That's not my opinion. That is fact.
It's on the public record, it's on the interweb. How

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bad Carl Anthony Towns was then, and he showed up.
He's late to the party, but he looked wonderful in
game four, mazletow, he looked great. But you play well,
it's not that hard. This is not solving big time
problems in the world. You play well and they will
kiss your tushi. You play poorly and they will give

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you a nooggie. That's what they will do, a metaphorical noggie,
a knuckle right to the head right there, all right now,
page two. So, speaking of Karl Anthony Towns, Minnesota has
a shovel in their hand right now. I don't know if
you know this or not. They have a shovel in
their hand, and they are trying to dig their way
out of a rather sizable hole that they created by

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being unable to close games against the Dallas basketball team.
And while the Mavericks are sitting pretty and Kyrie Irving's
talking about just another game and for the Wolves it's
a super Bowl. But if Minnesota doesn't make history, if
they do lose and go down to defeat, here, what
happens next. With out a doubt, you and I both

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know every man wounded child knows that what happens next
is the vultures come out. They start circling the rotting
carcass of the other team and Karl Anthony Towns. Even
though he is maddeningly inconsistent, he just put your hair
out the inconsistencies of Karl Anthony Towns. He is still
on the wish list of teams looking to shuffle the deck.

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So what are the odds, right, what are the odds
that the Minnesota basketball team would end up training Karl
Anthony Towns after the playoffs? So the Mather Sportsbook odds
on Kinnicat being traded, I have it at plus one
point fifty. That is a forty percent chance. That implies

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a forty percent chance that Towns will go out of
town from the Minnesota basketball team. And here's why. To me,
when I analyze what's going to happen in the dimension
where the Wolves lose, this comes down to the centaur,
half man, half horse, Alex Rodriganz a rod A rod

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is in a legal brew haha. It is a battle
for the purse strings of the Wolves. He's fighting Glenn Taylor,
who foolishly worked out an agreement to sell the Minnesota
timber Wolves and then realized the team was worth a
hell of a lot more money than he was getting
for the team, so he said, wait a minute, I

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don't want to sell the team anymore. But a Rod's like, hey,
we've got a deal. A deal is a deal. We
came up with the money, we get the team. So
it's up to the legal system. It's up to attorneys
to figure out what's going to happen and arbitration and
all that stuff. But the chatter that we hear is
that if a Rod wins the team, he is going

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to be a slum lord owner, all right. He is
going to run on a bare bones budget because a
Rod doesn't actually have the money to run a professional
sports franchise properly. And so what he's going to do,
and this, according to the word on the street, is
that a Rod is going to just use the money
that would have gone the players and pocket the extra money,

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which you know a lot of people will do the
same thing, but that maybe you don't want your owner
of your team to do that. Now, Glenn Taylor, he's
invested more money recently. I assume if he got the
team back, he would just sell it to somebody else
who would have deeper pockets than a Rod. But if
a Rod gets the Timberwolves, it's not only Karl Anthony Towns.

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You're going to see a mass exodus of big money players.
They'll repackage Rudy Gobaert and get rid of a bunch
of those guys. All right, last word here by request,
I am told it is time now for our obligatory
portion of the mall of monologue about the people seem
the most interesting team in the entire NBA. Now, how

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do I know that? Anytime the Clippers do anything, I
don't even have to I don't have to look it up.
I don't even have to pay attention because I'll have
eighty five people tell me, Oh, just see what they did. Oh,
that's such a bad move. Okay, like that loser Tom Brady,
roast fan Matt all his teams have left. Every one
of his teams is relocated. You know, every one of

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his teams is relocated. Anyway, the people seem the Clippers.
Big coaching news here. The Clippers have locked up tylu
he standing around five years seventy million. One report said,
so Tyleru keeping his job as coach of the Clippers.
Is this a big deal, a little deal or no deal?

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For the Clippers, so financially and for Tyleru, it's a
massive amount of money. They're moving into the taj Mahal,
greatest arena in the history of the world. That'll be
happening next NBA season for the People's team. But in reality, okay,
in terms of wins and losses, as the late Tony
Phillips told me old baseball player, wins and losses, wins

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and blankety blank losses, this is a little deal. It's
not no deal. It's not no deal. It's a little deal.
And well, I do think Tyler is pretty good at
what he does. I also am of the belief NBA
coaching can only really hurt you and can't help you
that much, and it's the players stupid. My evidence on this,

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let me even my evidence. I'm gonna make my elevator
pitch why I believe that to be true. I think
what's left in the playoffs is a great example. You've
got three teams left. Does anyone think the Dallas Mavericks
are in the position they're in because of the brilliant
coaching of Chasing Kidd. How about let him play Joe
Joe Missoula in Boston. You talk about getting a sweetheart deal.

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The other coach was stooping one of the assistants for
the Celtics. So Joe Missoula gets promoted and now he's
about to win a championship. But do you think Joe
Mosula is the reason why the Celtics are where they are?
And how about Chris Finch who's injured and has to
sit behind the Minnesota bench? Are those all great coaches?

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Methinks not so much. And so Tyler good tactician, solid
with the media, and that good SoundBite, knows how to
talk in sound bites. Nevertheless, if I'm Steve Balmer, if
I'm the richest fat cat owner in the entire world
of the NBA, you know what I do. If I'm Balmer,
I said, you know, I don't really need ty Lou.

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I'm gonna go over to Hogwarts for my next coach.
I am going to pay someone I'm not sure who
at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I'm gonna
get one of those protection spells, because it doesn't matter.
You could have Phil Jackson in his prime, a Red Arbach,
the great Bill Fitch Hall of Fame, any of those guys.

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Kawhi Leonard goes into an injury tent and hibernates every postseason,
every postseason, and there's a bunch of media lap dogs
that slobber all over as Oh it's not as fall
they be fun. So get one of those dumb protection spells.
And it doesn't even hire my fat ass as coach,

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and the Clippers would win if Kawhi is healthy. Everyone
knows they've got the top team of kawhis. You never
have a that's the fatal flaw in the people's team.
So Tylu staying as coach move the needle at all.
At least it's not Doc Rivers right. Could have been worse.
It could have been Doc Rivers coming back to coach.
Always got a job, not a good one. In Wisconsin,

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get to it. It's been a tough time for Fatty
in baseball. I'll explain what I mean by that. Also,
does the NFL owe you money? Is there a chance
that the NFL would cut you a check. I'll explain
what that's all about. We'll get to it, and we
will do it. Next.

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Speaker 1 (15:11):
Coming up later this hour, we'll have Malardly third degree
be coming your way also next hour. Ask Ben your
questions are answers. You can send those questions in right now.
Used to hashtag ask ben bergdog Rights and says anyone
who thinks the Clippers are overpaying Tay Lud does not
understand how wealthy Steve Balmer really is. If he wanted to,

(15:35):
he could probably buy all of San Bernardino County, which
I think is the biggest county in the country. I
know it's the biggest in California. I think it's the
biggest county in the country. Milkman Mike in Colorado says,
great second hour monologue. Seeing a Rod sitting courtside at
all these games reminds me of politicians who go to

(15:55):
games to be seen but look very out of place.
It just feels weird. It is is it? The other
night a Rod grabbed the ball. The ball bounced his
way and he grabbed It was kind of just awkward
seeing a Rod holding up a basketball. Who else do
we have? Let's see page down. He says, Hey, Ben,

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you realize a Rod is not the only owner. Mark Lore,
who is a billionaire, also is buying the team. Yet
I realized that. I realized that. But the word is
that they are not planning on investing in the roster
of the Minnesota basketball team. So good luck on that.
And there are plenty of rich people that don't like
to spend money. They own a lot of them own

(16:39):
sports teams. You make a lot of money not spending
money on player Payroy make extra money. Absolutely great money.
Alf the Alien pinter says Malor, I missed the hour
one monologue. Did you touch on this? No? No, I
did not talk about the incredible testament to the growth

(16:59):
of women's hockey. No, did not did not do that?
Who else do you have? Page down? We'll skip over that.
All right, Let's go to the phones, and who shall
we go to. Let's say, oh, he's back, he's back
for more. Let's say hello to Big Sean, who's in
Niagara Falls. Hello, Sean?

Speaker 5 (17:20):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Benny Radio?

Speaker 6 (17:21):
And I heard that?

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Who is Big Sew?

Speaker 5 (17:23):
You heard him the first time? Baby, I'll bet And
you know Benny Radio very rarely do I hear you
say something that's so head scratching and the absurd that
I gotta call it. You know, there was Johnny Football
something about donuts the other day. But now I hear
you saying the coaching in the NBA doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
And doesn't matter, doesn't matter, doesn't That is crazy?

Speaker 5 (17:50):
Then if that's the case, and the best team with
the most talented player would win the finals every year,
and that isn't.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
No, no, that's not. That's not the way it wor
that people play well at points. They don't play well
at points, But it's not because of coaching in the NBA.
The coaches job just wait, Sean. The coaches job is
to deal with the media, right, and the massage egos
in terms of actual coaching during the game. No, I don't.
I don't think there's much of that that goes on

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at all.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
I don't simple who subs the players in out because
they don't sell themselves out. The players not gonna sell
themselves out when they're old.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Ye okay, So what do you think? What do you
think about? I just tell me what happens, Sean. If
I don't know, coaches said, I'm not gonna play Lebron James,
I'm gonna sit him. Do you think Lebron would put
up with that? Or you think Lebron would say, no,
I'm gonna play. Here's how how many minutes I'm gonna play?
And uh, when I'm gonna come in and come out
of the game.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
That is a special case.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
That is not that special, believe it or not. I
just read the Donovan Mitchell Donovan Mitchell in Cleveland as
lead Lebron package. Donovan Mitchell, come on, they're not.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
Gonna play Darius Garland. And guess what. Darius Garland is
not gonna play. He's gonna have a seat on the bench.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
But Lebrin all right, listen, Sean, Sean, I love you
completely wrong about this. You don't know how it works
in the NBA. You don't sing.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
The last team that could you could say that one
in spite of coaching was the Boston Celtics. And O wait,
other than that, coaching matters, Benny.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Radio, that's not you think. Well, you can go down
the I can go through every coach if you want,
and we don't. That would be terrible, Radio, Sean. But
there are plenty of coaches that have won that were
were not They weren't special. It just happened to be
in the right place at the right time and their
players played well. And that's fine, great and wonderful.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
You're off your rock run this and you can bake
donuts as well as prior.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Benny Radio.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, you say what you you mocked me, But I
have proof that I am on the right side of
history when it comes to the great Cinnamon Roll de
debate of twenty twenty four, and you, Sean, are on
the wrong side. You can laugh all you want. I
don't care. You're wrong.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
I disagree and we will agree to disagree.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
There you go, all right, go away, thank you, All right.
Here's my evidence, yo, yo, ma, Benny. It says that's
Barry who I met at the Malard Meet and greet
in South Carolina. He says he was at the food
Lion grocery store, very popular chain in certain parts of
the country. The Food Lion grocery store. I saw more

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of those than the Piggley Wigglies when I was in
the Carolinas. I saw more Food Lion where I was
than the Pigley Wiggly. So, he says, at my local
food Line grocery store, here is what they call the
cinema roole, and here it is, it says a food Lion, bakery,
cinnamon roll donut. Mike drop, I just dropped the mic.

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I just dropped the mic. Is what I did. Food Line,
major grocery chain in parts of the country. Bakery, cinnamon
roll donut. Dame over. Let's say hello to Dave, who's
in upstate New York and Dave is up next. Hello,
Welcome to the Ben Malers Show on Fox.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
Hello Dave, Hey, Ben, you're out of your mind. I'm
gonna make three points here. Clipper monologue. Yeah, you might
have the riches owner, but you pay a player that
plays since he's been there, you pay him over one
hundreds of millions of dollars and he's played about twenty
games for you. Two, the Clippers are not the people's team.

(21:21):
They are South California. That's it. You don't see loads
of freaking.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
People going You're you're to stay. No, you don't even
know you're talking about you.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
I know.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
And the third thing is they're probably the six lost
tipular team in the whole state of California.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
You just you're just silly. You're just being silly here.
You're absolutely silly, is what you are. You are silly, Ben, No,
you're more silly. You are so silly. You're the silliest
of the silly. You're so so silly. Are the people's See,
you don't understand. They represent the working class. The Lakers

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are for elitists, they're for Hollywood f's, They're for the wokesters.
The Clippers are the people. Here we go, Clippers, here
we go. And by the way, when the Clippers moving
to jarj Mahall, Clipper Darryl will be able to return
because he went to that that that mad infesti graffiti
covered dump in downtown Lawdy where he used to play.

(22:33):
It's a dump, it's a dump, and some thug, some
loser punched the great Clipper Daryl Sucker punched him. I
don't even know who the loser why? And Clipper Daryl
will return? Sheer the Clippers on at.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
The New Arena Championship teams are dump all right.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Let me let me tell you. Listen, Dave, you're trying
to be a troll. You're not even good at it.
Be better at it, do better, Dave, you're a bad troll. Dave,
You're not not even a good troll.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
I gave.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
I gave you three good takes.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
No, those are those who are not good takes. Even
Lorena Larna thinks those are embarrassing takes. That's what she
told me. She's embarrassed for you. All right, go get
the mini bar again. Get out of here, loser, all right,
big fan, though, thanks for calling. Not a good time

(23:28):
for fat he's in baseball. I'm very upset as a
fan of the fat athlete. Me and Robbie, the Mariner
fan are not happy at all. I saw the news
that Mike Ford. You know who Mike Ford is, Eddie, No,
I don't. He's a baseball He used to be with
the Yankees, and he when I was with the Yankees,
I remember him being in shape. He went to the
Cincinnati Reds this year and he's like he blew up.

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He's like a blimp, which is great for me. I
love the fat ballplayer, but he can't. He's terrible. The
Reds designated for him for assignment. So that's one fat
ball player down. Then we got Rowdy te Lez of
your Pittsburgh Pirates Eddie, who is on the Life Report. Well,
I thought, did they get rid of him? I thought
he was on the Pirates.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
Now run again.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, he's on the Pirates this year. Unless I'm mistaken.
I watched the Pirate game. I swear I saw Rowdy
te Les playing for the Pirates. But he's batting one.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yeah he is. I'm sorry, I was thinking of somebody else.
Yes he is.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
You're thinking of another fat man, I was, Yeah. But
Rowdy Telez is batting one seventy five with three home runs.
He's in danger of also being let go by the
Pirates and a third. That happens in three. Just like
Hollywood death, it happens in threes. The Great Alex Manoa,
the great fat hope of the Toronto Blue Jays coming back.
He was in the minor leagues last year. He came

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back suffered an elbow injury in the game on Wednesday
against the Chicago White Sox, and so, I mean, that's
three faties that are not doing what. One's out, one's hurt,
and one maybe out soon. We need to save the
fat ball player. We need more fat in baseball is

(25:00):
what we need, and less of that guy Dave in
Upstate New York calling the show low level troll. Bad
job by him.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
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Speaker 4 (25:13):
You have some you kind of alluded. You touched on
it a little bit, but we haven't really gotten into it.
Charges have been dropped against Scottie Scheffler. I mentioned it
stemming from his arrest the PGA Championship earlier this month.
He claimed it was a misunderstanding, and the folks there
that decide whether they are going to prosecute someone or
not said that they agreed that it was all just
a misunderstanding. So charges are dropped against Scottish.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's time I get arrested, Eddie. I'll tell the cops
it's just a misunderstanding, you know, just let me go.
You know they'll let me go, right, No.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
You well, you're a celebrity, so I.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Couldn't even get out of a ticket. Remember I got
pulled over that and they asked where I was going,
And then they wanted to know if I knew Petros?
Did you say yes? Yeah? I should have called Petros.
That would have been the boss move.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
I heard a rumor.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
I heard a rumor Petros is sitting in on two
pros and a cup of joke for the next couple
of days.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
No way, Yeah, tonight, tomorrow and Sunday.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
How about that?

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Is that right? Yeah, the old p Man. I assume
he'll be studio.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
He will, I would think, I think so. Yes, the Oaks.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Come to Sherman Oaks. You might see a street takeover,
intersection takeover.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
That did happen the other day?

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah? Wow, Petrols. Now you know Eddie. Back in the day,
the Petros and Money show was on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
I do, yes, I do remember that.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
But Big Afternoon Drives stars in Los Angeles. Petrols and yeah.
Cop pulled me over for speeding on the way to
work and I was running a little late, and he
asked where I was going I said, I'm going to
the very proud of like I'm going to the radio
station back when that was impressive, you know, before the
podcasting thing is oh yeah, I'm going to the radio station.
And it was pretty pretty cool. And then he's like,

(26:54):
oh yeah, well what what station? So then I said
the station, you know, pump my chest out a little bit. Yeah,
this guy's probably a sports guy. You know, cops like sports,
you know, sports radio guy, and you know, I'm stereotyping
and uh and then he said what's your name? And uh,
I said, I get you gave my name?

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Is?

Speaker 1 (27:10):
I never heard of you? Do you know Petro's.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
You should have said Bill Miller. Maybe he would have recognized.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
That that was that much more famous name.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Well that was I did it out of a ticket.
I love I take it out of a ticket because
I work at Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah all right, I mean I have gotten out of ticket.
I got pulled over a couple times. People thought I
was drunk and I and then they realized I was
just a bad driver and they told me to pay
closer attention. I got pulled over in Hollywood one time
right on, man, I forget the offer. But it was
like you'd see the that famous hotel there where you
go on the one on one in l A. Not

(27:44):
that anyone knows that other than us, Eddie, but uh, anyway,
I got pulled over and yeah, just stay in the lanes,
you know, stupid. They thought I was drunk, but I
was not. But I did not get out of the
four hundred dollars ticket for driving one block with my
lights off. I got a four hundred dollars ticket for that.
So wow, that's such a fun thing. That is a
fun Have you ever gotten a ticket for driving one
block without your lights on? By the way, right there

(28:06):
in leaving the parking lot from the mother ship, Yeah,
you got a ticket. That was That was all fun,
but this is even more fun. Fun fact, I admit
this is a blatant attempt to suck up to our
many listers in the Pacific Northwest, mainly Seattle and beyond
the greater Seattle area. But every once in a while

(28:26):
you have to suck up to an affiliate, and Seattle
has been very good to us. We've done well in
Seattle over the years. People get confused, they think I'm
like softy malers, like brother or something like that. But
I'm not, But anyway, here's the Mariner fun fact of
the hour. The Seattle Mayors last two times the franchise
has gone against the pitcher who ranks in the top
ten in strikeouts in baseball history. It happened on Wednesday

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night against Justin Verlander of the cheating A one one thousand,
two one thousand Holes Justin Verlander. Mariners won that game
two to one on a basis loaded walk in extra
innings walk off an extra innings basis load of walk
against the A Holes. But the last time before that
that the Mariners went against the pitcher who ranked in

(29:13):
the top ten in baseball history and strikeouts was way back.
I was barely around when this happened twenty oh nine.
It's a child in twenty nine against Randy Johnson going
against the Yankees, the long time going for the I
think the Yankees against the against the Seattle Manners, his
old team, Randy Johnson against the Mariners. The Mariners won

(29:36):
that game two to one. YEP, on a basis loader
walk off in extra innings. So you better not toss
out a top ten strikeout pitcher against the Seattle Mariners
or the Mariner moose is going to walk into the
wind column and that's how that's gonna go.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
All right.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Meanwhile, how about this one. Do you subscribe? Have you
paid over the years for the the NFL ticket, the
Sunday NFL ticket, Well, yes, yes, there is a lawsuit
and anti trust lawsuit that is progressing through the court system.
And it turns out that the there's a good chance

(30:16):
now that it's not done done done, done done yet.
But according to the latest reports, two point four million
people that paid for the Sunday ticket could that's a
weasel word, could be eligible to receive over six billion
dollars in damages. Now it works out twenty five hundred

(30:40):
dollars each. Yeah, that's pretty good. Right, that's very good.
It's all part of an anti trust case that has
been going through the court system. This goes all the
way back to twenty fifteen direct TV and whatnot the
Sunday ticket, and so we'll see what happens. Not done, done,

(31:03):
done done yet. But the lawsuit alleges that the exclusive
way the Sunday ticket was presented for out of market
rights in the Sunday ticket violated anti trust law and
created artificially high prices. According to Front Office Sports, and

(31:23):
so the lawsuit making this allegation, and it appears that
it's going it's taking forever, and the NFL keeps appealing
and all that stuff. From what I read, if I
read it right, as I understand that things are looking
pretty good starting June fifth, June fifth, you're going to
have Roger Goodell, Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft among other dignitaries

(31:49):
from the NFL who will testify in this case. And
it is expected it's going to be real ruled on.
It's still going to take a little while, but it's
only maybe like a maybe like a half a year
or so before it is ruled on. And if it happens,
almost twenty five hundred dollars per subscriber, is that per

(32:11):
year or is that just a one time a one
time feet And how much of that six billion dollars
are the attorney's gonna get The NFL is not gonna
actually pay six billion dollars, are they? Who knows, But
that's the that's the story. It's a bouncing around. But
June fifth, you know, coming up next week, I'm sure
we'll talk about it on this show, and do Mallard
monologues about it and all that. But it's coming down

(32:33):
the pike next week. It is the Ben Mahlord Show.
As we continue on, we're gonna have Mallard of the
third degree that is currently warming up in the old
bullpen right now as we speak. Time now for the
who am Actually? Time for the instant tribu. We did
the who am I game last hour. Here's the Insta trivia.
We'll go back to the postseason one more time. Out

(32:54):
of all the players that have played in the playoffs
this year, Blank has the worst field goal percentage in
the NBA Playoffs twenty twenty four among all players with
at least fifty shot attempts. Again, Blank has the worst
field goal percentage of all NBA players in the postseason
this year, among all players with at least fifty shot attempts.
That is the Insta tributa. The answer. We'll get to it.

(33:17):
We'll do it next.

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and time now.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
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Here is the Insta trivia. We go to pro bouncy
Ball one more time. Blank has the worst field goal
percentage in the NBA Playoffs this year among all players
with at least fifty field goal attempts. That is the
Insta trivia. What is the answer? Listen? Does anyone know
the answer? We go to the hoy Paloi, the Foot
Soldiers and the Mala Militia to see if they do

(34:35):
know the answer, and Moose hass good find by mister
nice guy who's not so nice? Who else do you have?
Cowboy killer? Says Willie Wonka. That's his answer, Yuli Guriel
from alf the Alien Opiner Manny Ramirez, many would who
turns fifty two years young today? Imperials Ormtroopers guessed by

(35:01):
Milkman Mike. They had the worst shot percentage. Matt the
Warrior Raider, Tom Brady roast fan is a loser. Who
else do we have? JD in Boston or Buddy j
D says The answer is the BUCkies mascot. That that
is the answer. A squatch as in sasquatch from King
Roy the Sonics mascot from Back in the Day. Danny

(35:22):
Woodhead guess by Trucker Joe. Eddie, what say you, Eddie?
I need an answer? It is not Benoyed Benjamin.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
No, that's a terrible guest. It's Portland Trailblaze's legend.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Sebastian Telfair, Is it Sebastian Telfair No, that is incore
the correct answer, Eddie. It is none other than Russell
west Brick. Russell Westbrook shot twenty six percent against the
Mavericks in that playoff series. I wonder why the Clippers lost. Huh,
all right, here we go, here we go.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Here we got that to the third degree. Reddy is
one gets.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Grilled with the crop right now.

Speaker 7 (36:01):
Coople Speaking of the lowly Clippers, hey reports say that
they could target Damar de Rosen this offseason if they're
unable to retain Paul George. Ben, do you think they'll
retain Paul George.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
I do believe they're going to keep Paul George. I
think he will be back, But if they lose him,
I'm not going to lose any sleep. Paul George has
for the most part been a disappointment in big spots
for the Clippers. They did get to the Final Four
a couple years ago, but other than that, he breaks
your heart. And Demartin Rosen is a pretty similar player,
not as good all around as Paul George, but it's

(36:34):
not really that big a drop off, so that would
be fine.

Speaker 7 (36:37):
Next Viking Zicon Jared Allen spoke with the media on
Tuesday and said that the team needs to back the
truck up for Justin Jefferson. He said the team should
do whatever it takes because he is a game changer.

Speaker 4 (36:48):
Do you agree, Ben, Well.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
He's going to get the highest contract of a wide receiver,
but I mean he wants quarterback money. I wouldn't pay
a wide receiver quarterback money. But it's the NFL. They
do crazy things in the end, NFL Justin Jefferson's gonna
get ridiculous money. It's just how ridiculous. What level of
ridiculous is he gonna get? By the way, shocking a
former player would want to see another player get paid
a lot of money. That never happens that and I

(37:11):
know that doesn't happen in radio. We never cheer for
other radio people get paid a lot of money.

Speaker 7 (37:14):
Next, Will Levis said in a recent interview that he
is intent on making sure that he proves the Titans
right for believing in him.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Ben, what are the chances that he proves him right?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah? So you know on a like though, was it
Tinder you swipe right or your swipe left? It's undecided.
At this point. I would say the odds of Will
Levis being the quarterback of the Tennessee Titans three years
from now are about twenty percent. Not good. Not good.
How did we do, Kubblo? You pass this edition? That
is a ring because I said the cookers in the

(37:45):
Final four that took me over the top, that got
me the win.