June 6, 2024 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about Jayson Tatum shrugging off the criticism from pundits, Dak Prescott saying that he's willing to gamble on himself, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and much more!
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later this hour. It's a big night on the show,
the return of an old friend. We will tell you
who's gonna win the NBA Finals because we open up
the verbal udegone every man, woman and child fun for
all ages. The verbal locagon will be coming up at
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the bottom of the hour, as we have scheduled a
representative of the Boston Celtic Marching in Chowder Society on
one side, and then a cowboy boot wearing ten gallon
hat Totin Dallas Maverick face. So we have this schedule'll
see if both can bat ands. I don't even mention
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their names because if one of them doesn't show up,
it's false advertising. But listen, I'm looking forward to this,
and if one of them bails, we'll just go to
the phones and we'll get somebody else to come in. Understand,
and we've done this off and on over the years,
and we'll make an argument here. Each side will make
an argument. You will be the jury and you will
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decide who makes the more compelling argument, who deserves a medal,
who wins the Great Debate, if you will. But our
lead this hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball. It was
a lazy media day, lazy media hump day. There no
real fireworks. We didn't get pyrotechnics. The brightest star for Boston.
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If you watch television commercials, Madison Avenue thinks this guy's
the brightest star. He did leave a little meat on
the bone. There was a little meat on the bone.
So if you didn't hear about this, perhaps not Jason Tatum.
That's the guy, Jason Tatman. So, Jason Tatum was asked
about the media scrutiny that he is facing, and he
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gave a rather elongated response. He said, it's a long
break without basketball, which it is right, there's no no
games here for a while in the NBA. He went
on to say, so they, meaning the pugnits, had to
overanalyze every little thing to have something to talk about,
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and he said, did it get old? He asked himself
for a rhetorical question. He said, yes, but it's the finals,
and then he patted himself on the back, saying they
would not talk about me if I wasn't good, Tatum stated.
He then said he tries to take some positives out
of it, and then changes the channel. He said, I
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didn't say that. He said, he said he changes the channel.
So let us discuss the question. Celtics star Jason Tatum
revealing on the eve of the NBA Finals that the
criticism from the many talking heads, the pundings that he
does consume me and then he changes the channel. So
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how do you interpret this quote. I've got the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis sandbox and press your luck and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a smiling emoji is what we're
going to make. So a we'll start here. Jason Tatum
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not a very good poker player, not a great poker
face for Jason Tatum. Now, that was a relatively argent
admission that he is in that Lebron James slash Kevin
Durant class. There was a time, and maybe this is
I'm just dating myself, but there was a time athletes
would never admit to consuming media that was below them.
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They were above consumption of media content. However, that is
not what is going on here. Jason tails like, yeah,
you know, on this one. I turned to the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis consumer spending. Jason Tatum is spending
the single most valuable resource that he has. It's the
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same single most valuable resource that we all have, and
he's spending it consuming NBA chatter, which is just filler
until the games continue. And we're talking about time, right,
I mean, time is the most valuable commodity. It is
the most preshoest thing that you have. You can't buy anymore,
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I can't buy anymore. Where do you buy time?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Can't?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I mean by watch meek by time. And once you
lose it, you can never get it back. Right, You're done.
That's it, lights out, and you don't know how much
you have left in the tank. That's it. That's time.
And Jason Tatum, we'd like to welcome him to the
malad milities. Likely upright now. He has insomnia and he's
up listening, biting his fingernails, in a tizzy, worried about
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what's going to happen later on on Thursday night. And Jason,
you are welcome to call. All the lines are open
right now. So if Jason Tatum wants to call in
and just get a rant going, you're more than welcome now.
Page two here another highlight from Media Day. The unicorn
speaks no. You probably thought unicorns weren't real, and certainly
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if they were real, they couldn't talk. Well. Surprise, surprise,
the door opened up and in walked the unicorn. Chris
Stops Porzingis. We should do a pool on which game
Porzingis will get re injured in? Can we do that?
We allow? I used to do that with NASCAR with
which last with Danica Patrick Rekin and then we had
to get rid of that because I had a producer
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that get all freaked out. But Christops Porzingis was asked
a loaded question. A lot of chatter, some of it
coming from former NBA players raining down pitchforks here that
there was some bad blood between krisps Porzingis and Luka.
Danci Porzingis, for what it's worth, said that he has
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quote no ill will towards Luka. Of course, there are
many reports that that is that is the opposite. He said,
it's all Christop said, it's all noise, just noise. Do
you agree? Do you agree that all of this chatter
about disagreement between Luca and Christops is just noise? So
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I'm shaking my head. No. In the public sandbox, which
is what we're talking about. Yeah, Luca and Porzingis are
playing nice. I wouldn't push back on that. Is this
a full throated scene fire in the media, Yeah, sure, sure.
Is it a temporary peace treaty probably, But when you
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peel back the onion, the animosity is still there. There's
still at Loggerheads. And here's why humans gone to human
Humans got a human and Chris SOPs Worzingis and Luca
were a partnership that failed. It was an abject failure.
The Mavericks were supposed to go to the NBA Finals
with Porzingis and Luca side by side and together. They
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couldn't handle the bright lights. They they went blind and
it worked. It worked out like he ever had diarrhea
and been stuck in an elevator. That's not a good combination. Well,
Porzingis and Luca also not a great combination on the
steamy side, but not the good kind of steamy. So
now now they can settle the scores. So wow, lucas
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much better than Porzingis. Well, okay, I wouldn't push back
on that. However, However, Porzingis is on the better team,
so if they get done it whether he plays all
the games or not, we don't think he will. I'd
a huge upset of he plays all the games, the
way he's talking, the noise around the Celtics and all that.
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But either way, he's gonna get one of those little
trinkets that they give out when you win. Going forward,
all right, last word here, So what level villain are
the Luka Donzick Mavericks in these NBA Finals? Now, you
have to have good versus evil. It's a staple of
watching athletic competition, any kind of endeavor like this. You
have good guys and bad guys. That's how it works,
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much like professional wrestling. So what's the level of villain
of the Luka Doncick Mavericks in these finals? So they
are actually sneaky good bad guys. Does that make sense?
They're sneaky good bad guys. And here's why. It's like
an episode of a iconic game show from a different generation.
Press your luck. The Mavericks have the double whammy, no wammy, wamy,
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double whammy, double whammy because on one hand, you've got
Kyrie Irving, who is not the most polarizing player in basketball.
That's Lebron James but next to Lebron James, Kyrie Irving's
right there, and Kyrie's polarizing for different reasons. He has
become over the last couple of years, the really prominent
face of anti Semitism in sport. I'm sure he's proud
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of that. Maybe he is, and he refused to Opolgiz.
Remember he did not apologize until the NETS suspended him
indefinitely during that little episode back in the day. I
guess we're supposed to all forget about that. The NBA
marketing people have done a really bango job trying to
pump the tires on Kyrie. Then on the other side,
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you also have another reason to hate the Mavericks, which
is not related to Kyrie Irving at all. It's the big,
big building block that Dallas was rewarded for tanking. All right,
people forgotten, but the NBA fined the Mavericks seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for conduct detrimental to the league,
and they issued a mean statement after the Mavericks intentionally
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lost multiple games. In an era of sports wagering, they
tanked to get a higher draft pick, and those ill
begotten gains are The first round pick was Derek Lively,
the seven to one center who has occasionally made big
impacts on what Dallas has been doing on the court.
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So the Mavericks are a team that was built on
tanking and they have a looney tune in Kyrie Irving
as one of their top players. That's reason enough to
put a curse, put my own whammy on Dallas as
the Celtics will end up winning the championship. Not that
the Celtics are that great either, because the two top
guys with the Celtics, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, are
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disciples of Kyrie Irving, so it's like they're they're not
quite to that level. They haven't reached that advanced level,
but they're not far away. They're not far.
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who pretty much forfeited. Is that an omen? Is that
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Here?
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Is this a harbinger of things to come for the Mavericks?
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But our lead this hour is from the Western front
and that is where a team in Downs but not
the Mavericks, has our attention. NFL Most Important, most important,
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NFL quarterback filling the content play destination, Jerry's world take
a spin. If you didn't see this, perhaps not Cowboy's
quarterback Dakota Prescott. He goes by his shortened name dak
but it's Dakota. Dakota. Prescott says that he does not
does not mind the pressure of playing the twenty twenty
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four season with unrestricted free agency coming up after the season. Right,
he's got one year left. He cannot be franchise tag.
Dak Prescott telling the assembled Dallas media quote. I have
been in this position before. I'm a gambling man. Oh,
somebody call the NFL. He says, I'm a gambling man.
I'll I'll gamble on myself. Just to prove I'm not
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making this up. Here is Dak Prescott, in his own words,
saying what I just said.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
This is the urgest you should always have to be honest.
So so maybe guys who normally would fill it phill it.
So so I don't mind it. I've been in this
position before from a gambling man, will gamble on myself
and my guys. So not actually guys, I understand that underst.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, I'm glad he clarified. Glad he clarified on that.
That's very good. I liked that he was like mister Swagger,
he's a tough guy. Oh yeah, I'm gonna put on
myself all right. Some guys can't handle it, but I can.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
So.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Dak Prescott heading into the final year of his contract
that he signed back in twenty twenty one. So let
us discuss the question. Dak Prescott, you just heard it.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
He said it.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You heard it. I don't have to say that he's
willing to gamble on himself. But not literally on a
future Cowboys contract. Is this foolish or intelligent? So I've
got el Chapo, old fashioned yo yo, and a yellow flag,
and we'll combine all of these things together and we'll
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have an uphill struggle, which Dak Prescott made it seem
the Cowboys are having an uphill struggle or he's having
an uphill struggle to get that contract. But number one, okay, okay,
eat some more hummus. Calm down. So Dak Prescott really
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sticking his neck out. This is a bold take by Dak.
Right now, I will say that it is neither foolish
nor intelligent. I disagree that it is not foolish. He
is also not intelligent. Dak Prescott, the way I see
this year, has not been offered a contract. So it's
not like he's turning down something. He hasn't been offered anything.
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What Dak Prescott is doing in this chapter of the
book is spinning his wheels. The wheels on the bus
go round and round. The wheels on the bus go around.
That's what he's doing. He's idling. He's idling. The ball
is in Jerry Jones court, and Jerry is playing the
four corners offense right now, he's just passing the ball
and there's no shot clock, and he's doing his thing.
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It's kind of like what Dak's doing here is and
he's being bold unless he's not. It's like government bonds
and people invest money and you can I'll tell you why.
Government bonds is a good example. That's a low risk investment.
He's a low risk investment. And you look at Dak Prescott.
He is sitting on a pile of pesos right This
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is not a volatile investment. This is not options, high
end bonds, it's none of that stuff. It's not crypto.
Dak Prescott is playing the long game for the treasury
notes and he can do that while he's sitting on
El Chapo's buried pile of cash. Is what he's doing.
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Dakota has earned one hundred and sixty two million dollars
on the field so far. And that's only on the field. Now,
take a couple of steps back. A bunch of other
mickey mouse dollars coming in from various endorsement deals that
he's picked up over the years. So he knows whether
it's in Dallas or somewhere else, that some sucker will
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pay him no matter what. And Dakota is gambling, but
he's gambling with house money. It's a lot easier to
gamble when it's not your money. And Dak's already taken
care of. Generations of his family are taken care of.
Unless he's blown at all gambling. But outside of that,
he's good. Now page two, we go to Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami.
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A lot of people with the Dolphins are acting like
they've got scrambled eggs in their head. They're trying to
figure out what's going on with their quarterback who has
had a dramatic weight loss. We do not think he
has some kind of medical condition causing him to lose
the weight. Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, Mike mcdane, you know that. Yeah,
he's a goofy quote guy. Mike McDaniel said that Tua
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talking about lawa lost weight, a lot of weight to
quote find another level in his game. What are your
thoughts on that's rip the band aid off this. I've
seen the photos, the video deck's got dak Tua tua
interesting hair situation. He's changed his look dramatically. It's always
odd when you get a visual of an athlete in
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your head, and then they dramatically change their appearance. It's bizarre.
Oh so bizarre. Anyway, that's aside the point. So Mike
mcdan again saying that to a tongue of Ila lost
weight to take another level, to find another level to
his game. What are your thoughts on that? So I
would say to take what Mike McDaniel says with a
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couple of ice cubes. He's compromised. All right, now my take,
and I'm gonna own the take because I'm proud of
the take. I love to take what Tua is doing
confessional to a tongue of Iloa is going to the confrofessional.
He's telling you, he's telling me, he's telling the bozo
in the back of the room, the dumb dumb over there.
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He's telling all of us that, hey, that weight that
I gained I bulked up last year was a net negative.
It was a net negative. And if everything was sunshine
and lollipops, he would not be making the chance. He
would not have gone and lost the weight. The weight
loss is an old fashioned yo yo. Been doing this
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shop for a long time. We talk about these stories
every year. There's a couple of players that do this
in every sport. It's not just a football story. It
happens in baseball and basketball. I'm sure it happens in hockey.
But athletes who it's like the yoyo. They bounce back
and forth between one year they bulk up. You gotta
add strength. You gotta get stronger to survive the season, right,
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you gotta get it stronger, and you need durability. Yeah,
you gotta be a bull. You gotta be a bull,
all right, And then they slim down the following year
because they have to focus on flexibility and conditioning and
all that. And it goes back and forth. Yeah, it's
like a seesaw or yo yo up and down, up
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and down, up and down. And that's just the way
that So two is like he's lost some weight, worried
about flexibility and conditioning, and first time he gets molly
wopped and ends up on the ground in the injury tent,
he'll go back to eating donuts and fatten up.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Final point, we heading out of Foxboro. That's where we go.
Whispers this week. This week, Whispers saying that the New
England Patriots have are you decided that Jacoby Brissett America's
stiff at quarterback. Jacoby Brissett is QB one, that he'll
be the QB one over Drake May. Is that how
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you see it? So no, no, no, no, this is
a story that is foggy. I have it as a foggy.
So we are sitting here in early June, the first
week in June, and we are making a decree that
Jacoby Brissett is going to be the starter when the
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season begins in early September. That is worth a yellow flag.
That is a false start penalty, five yard penalty. Replay
the down in this case, replay the take. I do
know Jacoby Brissett a little bit. We watched him play
a lot of the years. I do know he stinks.
I know that that's a truism of life. I don't
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need to watch him play more to know that. So
Drake May was the number three overall pick. Now, I'm
sure we'll do a million more of these type of
monologues when we get closer to football season. This is
a preview of coming attraction. But I hear a lot
of well you got you gotta sit the first round
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quarterback and let him learn on the sidelines. I have
always said, on the job training is the way to go.
You don't learn from standing on a sideline holding a
clipboard with one hand and picking boogers out of your
nose with the other. You don't. What about Aaron Rogers
and Patrick Behoves? Okay, you want to go there. That's
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called cherry picking. That's called cherry picking to fit your argument,
because I can make the same argument. What about JP
Losmid What about Jake Locker? They had to wait, they
sat out, They didn't play until year two. And guess
what they sucked at a time you cannot suck. They
were manure and there's no other way to say it.
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They absolutely blew they did. But they said they had
on the job. They didn't have all the job training.
They sat there and they watched and they learned, and yeah,
not so good. Not so good.
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is one big vent gets grilled.
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M We say all over Kobelo.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Then CJ.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Stroud made a random podcast appearance this week where he
revealed that he would take Eli Manning's career over Aaron
Rodgers because of the two rings, Ben, would you do
the same?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
No, Aaron Rodgers ten times the player that Eli Manning
was in his day. Eli Manning is not even a
Hall of Fame player. So CJ. Stroud is essentially saying
he would rather be a mid level quarterback than a
Hall of famer an all time great in Aaron Rodgers.
And that's a bad job by CEEJ. Strack. I know
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that that plays well with the electorate and the fans
go crazy, but people forget how bad a quarterback Eli
Manning was. Look up his numbers. The guy was a
turt Burger.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Next, a report revealed that Joel Embiid is eligible for
a big money contract extension from the seventy six ers
this summer.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
Do you think Philly will lock him up for even longer?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yes, because they have no one else Coop and by
I think Tyrese Max. He's gonna be great. Maybe he
will be great, but he's not great yet, and so
they only have Joel emb They gotta pay him. They
got rid of Harden and the Aussie Muffett.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Next, in a recent interview, James Harden called himself misunderstood
and underrated Ben.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Is he either of those things?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
No, he's a dope, he said. He said he loves
Kobe Bryant, Right, he said, I grew up loving Kobe Bryant. Well,
why don't you have the mam momentality in the playoffs?
The mentality you disappearing big games? Don't get me started
with hard and how do we do coop?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Ben?
Speaker 9 (26:05):
You said mambo mentality? You fail?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
You knew what I meant, You knew what I met?
You loser, You don't.
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Speaker 9 (27:03):
All right, let's uh, what's so funny?
Speaker 10 (27:06):
What do you left?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Well, this question came in and then I saw who
it was from, and it's not who I was expecting
it to be from.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
Uh, but the question it's not.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
It's not for you or me, Ben Uh, it's uh,
it says for the half Mexican. Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Wow, is that from Justin and Cincinnati?
Speaker 9 (27:24):
That's what I was expecting. But it from INCA Terror.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh, Inca Terror getting spicy.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Well, he's not, he's not. It is accurate.
Speaker 10 (27:32):
Yeah, I'm fine with that. I'll have to determine which
half of me will be answering the question.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I guess my my favorite INCA Terror story is remember
the video he sent us any of him shooting at
a shooting range? No, oh, I don't know. Maybe he
didn't send that to you, but he sent me a
video of him boy shooting, yeah, shooting boom boom with
a gun.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Well it seems like that should be illegal. But anyway,
maybe it was.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't know, but he looked like he was having
a great time.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
That's all the matter, he says, Uh, I can never
keep straight the taco enchilada, burrito, chimmy choga.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
How do you remember the difference?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Well, I mean that's like asking how do you know
the difference between a hamburger and a hot dog and
a sandwich. I mean, they're just different things. I don't
know what to tell you. It's it's pretty easy to
keep keep those straight. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
Yeah, yeah, Well he can't see them, so I guess
you know.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Oh, but I mean he can feel them. You can take.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Grabbing a chimmy choga and squeezing it.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
Well, you have to write yes before you eat something.
I would think if you're blind, you would examine it
with your fingers.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
We have to get our blind experts on to tell
us what's going on. I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
All right, Cowboy Killer wants to know for everybody, what
kind of milk do you purchase?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, I don't. I'm not a milk drinker. I did
buy some milk for the wife. It was whole milk,
so that's the kind of purchase. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 10 (29:04):
I used to drink milk like crazy when I was younger.
And now I hardly ever drink it, but I do
really like to have it with something very sweet, you know,
like a puppy supie or cake or something like that.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Two percent milk. Okay, thank you Loraina for approving of that.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, it's very important that Reina gives you a rubber
stamp of approval. And what type of milk you drink? Yeah,
what about you, Lorain?
Speaker 11 (29:27):
I'm a lot like Eddie. I used to drink milk
all the time, like we drink a gallon every three.
Speaker 12 (29:32):
Days, but it's slowed down.
Speaker 11 (29:34):
And I do like really creamy milk though, like whole milk,
and then I'll dump some creamer inside of it, like
some half in half oh wow, to make it extra wow.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Okay, goodness.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, is this the part of the this is this
the part where I should explain that that, like that
whole milk, you know, helps your bones things kind of
a scam.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
Yeah, we're allergic to milk.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
It doesn't.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
It does not do a body good.
Speaker 12 (29:58):
You know what we should never mind?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Oh what is next?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Coop didn't get to answer the milk question.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I know I'm saying, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Yeah, I now currently buy two percent. I used to
buy whole milk. Hole milk is awesome, it's the best.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But why do you not drink hole milking.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
It's just because I've got like super high cholesterol and I.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Just need to you know. It's it's just it's just.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Better getting that age. You're getting old.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Yeah, you know, I have like three bowls of cereal
every night after the show. WHOA, So if I'm using
whole milk, it's just that much worse than it already is.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
All right to ask Ben? Why don't we pause for
your costs? And then we'll have a big giant block
It'll be a block party of ask Ben questions, and
you can still send your questions in and just use
that hashtag ask Ben. We'll get to ask Ben for
the rest of the hour and we'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two a I'm Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Who wow this year?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Questions on Twitter?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Now I feel like I've heard this before, but it
is asked Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour, and if the question suck, we'll just
keep playing the open over and over and over and
over and over back to the kopolo for the reading
of the questions.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
All right, Ferd Dog would like to know can you
do any fancy dances like the waltz, the fox trot
or the mambo.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I know how to do the Charleston. I learned that
because I was in Charleston and that's where the Charleston
came from. So I know how to do that. But
I don't want to embarrass everyone with my dance skills.
But my friend when I was a child was mc hammer.
My friend Eddie. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 10 (31:51):
Yeah, I was very excited to see reously that break
dancing is an Olympic sport this year time. If I
had known, I could be competing in France for goal.
But yeah, unfortunately, no, it's not happening. But a great
breakdancer my.
Speaker 12 (32:05):
Gold Do you mean Ferrero roches?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Sure, whatever you say, Lourene, Lorraine.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
I'm a skilled dancer. Ben, there's no dance like that.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yes, yes, what about you do the rumba, all of it,
electric boogaloo. Yes you can do that.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
I don't leave you stop it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yes, you should believe about.
Speaker 11 (32:27):
I will post, We'll do a dance off, We'll do
all the videos online.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Okay, do the tango right now.
Speaker 12 (32:33):
I don't have another person with me.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Oh, come on, air tango.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Yes, back in the day I could.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I did a ballroom dancing class in back in college.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
I don't remember anyone.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Matt, Yeah, what about do you do square dancing? Coop?
You've never done?
Speaker 12 (32:54):
I love their outfits?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
All right? What is next?
Speaker 9 (32:58):
Mad Jack would like to know him?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Mad Jack?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Can can guys said?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Hello? You hear that? He said? Oh my got a ghost? Said,
oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Can guys have a girlfriend and also have girls that
are just friends?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
H Well, it depends on who the girlfriend is. Some
some girlfriends a little sensitive about that. I would say,
so it's a game time decision.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Eddie, I would say, they can but good. It also
can be a.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Little uh uncomfortable.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
It can be a little difficult. Perhaps, got to handle
it to the right way.
Speaker 11 (33:36):
The Rain as the love expert, I hate this. You
should be able to be friends with whatever gender is.
If you have trust issues, say you have trust issues.
Speaker 12 (33:45):
And move on with it.
Speaker 11 (33:46):
Okay, if you're with someone, you're with someone, and that's
it all right.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
But human beings are wired way though, No, they are.
People get jealous.
Speaker 12 (33:55):
You can't have female friends after you're married. That makes
no sense. The dudest thing I've ever heard, ever, control yourself.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
I agree with you, all right.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
I think Ben's talking about it, though from the possible
spouse aingle, not necessarily the man involved exactly woman.
Speaker 12 (34:14):
Yeah, can the woman have male friends?
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Sure you can?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Fine, Well, you could technically do anything you want can Alright?
What is next year? What do we have? Is ask man?
As we hip hop and we don't start. We rock
till we drop here Coop is what we do?
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Jeeus No, I'm I'm reading one of these questions and
it's like, these thirsty guys, come on, relax.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
This one that says I forty Ian says just for Coop,
Eddie and Lorena. Do you think Ben ever hit the
reset button on his Nintendo when he was losing at
NBA James Matt in RBI Baseball?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
You turned it off all the time?
Speaker 9 (34:58):
Never, he blamed He blamed the computer.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Hey, hey, I forty, and I hope you liked having
me read your comments on the air because I'm never
doing again. You loser your fan from the show, you schmuck.
It just turned off the computer guy's dead to me, Eddie,
I've made that guy a star. I forty okay, and
that's how he does me.
Speaker 9 (35:22):
Screw you, Matt the Warrior Raider fan.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And Tom Brady roast fan, don't forget that.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
And a fan still it's just well, ye, it's just
why why are you not long as a fan of
the A's because that the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Went to the.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
And by the way, yeah they which with traffics, like
an hour and a half drive from where they used
to play it where they stayed out.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Anyway, he said, if you could go back in time
and sit in the live studio audience of any sitcom
from the past, which show would you want to see
in person?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I mean the ones I watched. I don't mean the
ones that I think were wilder, that I probably would
have liked more. Be like, what was that one with
the guy who said all the offensive stuff Eddie.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Archie Bunker all in the family, all the.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Family, Yeah, that probably would have been wild to watch that,
But I mean I I watched like Cheers and Seinfeld
things like that, so probably probably one of those. Although
I've heard I've never been to a TV show taping. Well,
I heard they're not, it's not all it's cracked up
to be. What about you though it?
Speaker 10 (36:25):
I think I would go with a show that's near
and dear to the show that follows us. Sanford and
Sun was a very funny show back in the day.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Very nice, Lorena, I feel so young.
Speaker 12 (36:35):
I'm really like sitcom. I'm like, what would I What
would I choose?
Speaker 11 (36:39):
And I don't want to be weird and say Friends
because I don't I don't watch friends like that, So
I don't know if I would pick one.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Okay, Lorena is deferring, Go ahead, Coop.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
I think I would have to pick Friends just because
it was my favorite sitcom. But yeah, it would it
would be cool to have sat in like you know,
The Fresh Prince or something like that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Also, yeah, well there it is asked man, your questions
and our answers, and we think we do it every
week and about this time every single week.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (37:21):
Let's get right back over to Eddie right now and
we will puck thever.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
Thank you man.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Stanley Cup Final is set.
Speaker 10 (37:30):
But when we last left you, the Eastern and Western
Conference finals were tied at two to two. In the East,
Florida Panthers beat the New York Rangers in games five
and game six.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
They won Game five hockey score. I'm setting up the
sei here.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Hold on, we're doing talk radio.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
It's twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Kid, give old scores, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I'm telling you to the Standard Cup Final.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Nobody wants to hear this, Eddie.
Speaker 9 (37:53):
Nobody was weird.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Goal five. They won Game six two to one.
Speaker 10 (37:59):
New York had a won leading the series and then
lost three in a row, much to the dismay of
Uncle Moe. So the final five games of the series
all decided by one goal. That means the ragning president
Trophy winners were eliminated. And that means we have not
had a President's Trophy winner win the Stanley Cup since
Chicago back in twenty thirty. Second straight year the Panthers
(38:22):
have knocked out the President's Trophy winners. They beat Boston
in the first round last year. They beat New York
in the Conference final this year. So Florida going back
to the Stanley Cup Final for a second straight season,
a fifth straight season a team from Florida is representing
the Eastern Conference in the Stanley Cup Final. Last two
years Florida three years before that in a row was
the Tampa Bay Lightning. In the West, the Edmonton Oilers
(38:43):
beat the Dallas Stars in games five and six. Oiler's
one game five to three to one, game six two
to one. So the Dallas, the number one seed in
the West, win four and six on home ice this postseason.
They were zero for fourteen on the power play and
that decide in that sighting series against the Oilers. So
Edmonton going to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time.
It's two thousand and six, all right, So.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Eddy, can I get a score from twenty twenty two? Eddie?
Can you a score? Set the scene, Eddie?
Speaker 10 (39:07):
So, Stanley Cup Final is set. Florida Panthers against the
Edmondson Northerers. First time, please let me finish. First time
these two teams have ever met in Stanley Cup Final.
It's the eighth trip to the final for the Oilers.
They've won it five times. Florida making their third trip
on the final. They've never won it before. As matter
of fact, the all time record in the Stanley Cup
Final for the Florida Panthers. It is one to eight
(39:29):
going into the series. Now the Panthers eliminated the Lightning,
Bruins and Rangers. Oilers take down the Kings, Canucks and
Stars to meet up now. Edmonton start of the year
five twelve and one, but sixty eight games since then
when they made a coaching change, had the most points
in the NHL with ninety five in the best record
forty five eighteen and five. Florida this postseason six and
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three at home, six and two on the road, Edmonton
six and three at home, six and three on the road.
Eilers special teams will have been amazing so far this postseason.
Number one power play thirty seven point three percent.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
That's my statuity. I had that the other night.
Speaker 10 (40:04):
Number one penalty kill at ninety three point nine percent,
which is insane. So officiating could be huge in the
Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
How they're gonna call it, how they gonna call it?
Speaker 10 (40:15):
And will the Oilers get a lot of different power
play opportunities, Will Florida be able to stay out.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
The hilly box?
Speaker 10 (40:19):
No, no, I'm saying official could be huge in the series.
So Game one of the Stanley Cup Finals business knowing
knotts Game one of the Stanley Cup Finals Saturday, a
pm Eastern on ABC.
Speaker 9 (40:31):
Now Stanley Cup Finals fun.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Facts five facts Now.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
We told you earlier in the week.
Speaker 10 (40:38):
Longest distance between two finals opponents two thousand, five hundred
and forty miles between Edmonton and Sunrise, Florida. We have
the biggest disparity in games coached by the two coaches,
Florida's Paul Maurice one forty nine NHL games coached Edmonton's
Chrisnoblocks sixty nine. The last time a team from Canada
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won the Stanley Cup nineteen three, they are now zero
to six since.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Then, before I was alive, anybody.
Speaker 10 (41:06):
The Canucks have lost twice, the Flames, Oilers, Senators, and
Canadians once since that last Cup by a Canadian team
in ninety three by the Montreal Canadians. Corey Perry is
a player for the Edmonton Oilers. This is his fifth
different team that he's played on that has made the
Stanley Cup Final for the Ducks, Ducks, Stars, Lightning, Canadians
(41:26):
and now the Oilers, and every Stanley Cup final since
nineteen eighty except one has either had Yarimir Yager or
one of his teammates involved this year. It is Alexander
Barkoff of the Florida Panthers.
Speaker 9 (41:42):
A couple of isn't that.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Like Shaquille O'Neal or something every NBA finals going back
a billion years that somebody related to the teammate.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
Of Shaquille possibly sounds like it could be sounds like that.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I mean, that's stat Andrews.
Speaker 10 (41:54):
But a couple of quidding notes other than the Stanley
Cup final. Dallas Stars veteran Joe Pavelski says not a
fish official, but he's not planning on playing next season
if he calls it quits. Eighteen years in the NHL
oney three hundred and thirty two games, seven hundred and
sixty one points, but he never won a Stanley Cup.
Jacob Slaven wins the Lady Being Trophy for the most
(42:14):
gentlemanly player in.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
The AHL should be the gender neutral trophy at interesting
And finally, we have to have some sort of an
update on the Utah hockey team. So we still don't
know the name yet.
Speaker 10 (42:25):
We don't know the name yet, but apparently we know
the colors of the team. It will be black, white
and a light blue kind of reminiscent of the Carolina
Blue for North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
There.
Speaker 10 (42:38):
So that's the colors for the Utah hockey team apparently,
and that's your puck.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
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representative of the Boston Celtic Marching in Chowder Society on
one side, and then a cowboy boot wearing ten gallon
hat Totin Dallas Maverick face. So we have this schedule'll
see if both can bat ands. I don't even mention
(02:24):
their names because if one of them doesn't show up,
it's false advertising. But listen, I'm looking forward to this,
and if one of them bails, we'll just go to
the phones and we'll get somebody else to come in. Understand,
and we've done this off and on over the years,
and we'll make an argument here. Each side will make
an argument. You will be the jury and you will
(02:45):
decide who makes the more compelling argument, who deserves a medal,
who wins the Great Debate, if you will. But our
lead this hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball. It was
a lazy media day, lazy media hump day. There no
real fireworks. We didn't get pyrotechnics. The brightest star for Boston.
(03:05):
If you watch television commercials, Madison Avenue thinks this guy's
the brightest star. He did leave a little meat on
the bone. There was a little meat on the bone.
So if you didn't hear about this, perhaps not Jason Tatum.
That's the guy, Jason Tatman. So, Jason Tatum was asked
about the media scrutiny that he is facing, and he
(03:28):
gave a rather elongated response. He said, it's a long
break without basketball, which it is right, there's no no
games here for a while in the NBA. He went
on to say, so they, meaning the pugnits, had to
overanalyze every little thing to have something to talk about,
(03:51):
and he said, did it get old? He asked himself
for a rhetorical question. He said, yes, but it's the finals,
and then he patted himself on the back, saying they
would not talk about me if I wasn't good, Tatum stated.
He then said he tries to take some positives out
of it, and then changes the channel. He said, I
(04:12):
didn't say that. He said, he said he changes the channel.
So let us discuss the question. Celtics star Jason Tatum
revealing on the eve of the NBA Finals that the
criticism from the many talking heads, the pundings that he
does consume me and then he changes the channel. So
(04:32):
how do you interpret this quote. I've got the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis sandbox and press your luck and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a smiling emoji is what we're
going to make. So a we'll start here. Jason Tatum
(04:54):
not a very good poker player, not a great poker
face for Jason Tatum. Now, that was a relatively argent
admission that he is in that Lebron James slash Kevin
Durant class. There was a time, and maybe this is
I'm just dating myself, but there was a time athletes
would never admit to consuming media that was below them.
(05:14):
They were above consumption of media content. However, that is
not what is going on here. Jason tails like, yeah,
you know, on this one. I turned to the US
Bureau of Economic Analysis consumer spending. Jason Tatum is spending
the single most valuable resource that he has. It's the
(05:36):
same single most valuable resource that we all have, and
he's spending it consuming NBA chatter, which is just filler
until the games continue. And we're talking about time, right,
I mean, time is the most valuable commodity. It is
the most preshoest thing that you have. You can't buy anymore,
(05:57):
I can't buy anymore. Where do you buy time?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Can't?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I mean by watch meek by time. And once you
lose it, you can never get it back. Right, You're done.
That's it, lights out, and you don't know how much
you have left in the tank. That's it. That's time.
And Jason Tatum, we'd like to welcome him to the
malad milities. Likely upright now. He has insomnia and he's
up listening, biting his fingernails, in a tizzy, worried about
(06:21):
what's going to happen later on on Thursday night. And Jason,
you are welcome to call. All the lines are open
right now. So if Jason Tatum wants to call in
and just get a rant going, you're more than welcome now.
Page two here another highlight from Media Day. The unicorn
speaks no. You probably thought unicorns weren't real, and certainly
(06:42):
if they were real, they couldn't talk. Well. Surprise, surprise,
the door opened up and in walked the unicorn. Chris
Stops Porzingis. We should do a pool on which game
Porzingis will get re injured in? Can we do that?
We allow? I used to do that with NASCAR with
which last with Danica Patrick Rekin and then we had
to get rid of that because I had a producer
(07:03):
that get all freaked out. But Christops Porzingis was asked
a loaded question. A lot of chatter, some of it
coming from former NBA players raining down pitchforks here that
there was some bad blood between krisps Porzingis and Luka.
Danci Porzingis, for what it's worth, said that he has
(07:24):
quote no ill will towards Luka. Of course, there are
many reports that that is that is the opposite. He said,
it's all Christop said, it's all noise, just noise. Do
you agree? Do you agree that all of this chatter
about disagreement between Luca and Christops is just noise? So
(07:46):
I'm shaking my head. No. In the public sandbox, which
is what we're talking about. Yeah, Luca and Porzingis are
playing nice. I wouldn't push back on that. Is this
a full throated scene fire in the media, Yeah, sure, sure.
Is it a temporary peace treaty probably, But when you
(08:07):
peel back the onion, the animosity is still there. There's
still at Loggerheads. And here's why humans gone to human
Humans got a human and Chris SOPs Worzingis and Luca
were a partnership that failed. It was an abject failure.
The Mavericks were supposed to go to the NBA Finals
with Porzingis and Luca side by side and together. They
(08:32):
couldn't handle the bright lights. They they went blind and
it worked. It worked out like he ever had diarrhea
and been stuck in an elevator. That's not a good combination. Well,
Porzingis and Luca also not a great combination on the
steamy side, but not the good kind of steamy. So
now now they can settle the scores. So wow, lucas
(08:53):
much better than Porzingis. Well, okay, I wouldn't push back
on that. However, However, Porzingis is on the better team,
so if they get done it whether he plays all
the games or not, we don't think he will. I'd
a huge upset of he plays all the games, the
way he's talking, the noise around the Celtics and all that.
(09:16):
But either way, he's gonna get one of those little
trinkets that they give out when you win. Going forward,
all right, last word here, So what level villain are
the Luka Donzick Mavericks in these NBA Finals? Now, you
have to have good versus evil. It's a staple of
watching athletic competition, any kind of endeavor like this. You
have good guys and bad guys. That's how it works,
(09:38):
much like professional wrestling. So what's the level of villain
of the Luka Doncick Mavericks in these finals? So they
are actually sneaky good bad guys. Does that make sense?
They're sneaky good bad guys. And here's why. It's like
an episode of a iconic game show from a different generation.
Press your luck. The Mavericks have the double whammy, no wammy, wamy,
(10:03):
double whammy, double whammy because on one hand, you've got
Kyrie Irving, who is not the most polarizing player in basketball.
That's Lebron James but next to Lebron James, Kyrie Irving's
right there, and Kyrie's polarizing for different reasons. He has
become over the last couple of years, the really prominent
face of anti Semitism in sport. I'm sure he's proud
(10:25):
of that. Maybe he is, and he refused to Opolgiz.
Remember he did not apologize until the NETS suspended him
indefinitely during that little episode back in the day. I
guess we're supposed to all forget about that. The NBA
marketing people have done a really bango job trying to
pump the tires on Kyrie. Then on the other side,
(10:47):
you also have another reason to hate the Mavericks, which
is not related to Kyrie Irving at all. It's the big,
big building block that Dallas was rewarded for tanking. All right,
people forgotten, but the NBA fined the Mavericks seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for conduct detrimental to the league,
and they issued a mean statement after the Mavericks intentionally
(11:12):
lost multiple games. In an era of sports wagering, they
tanked to get a higher draft pick, and those ill
begotten gains are The first round pick was Derek Lively,
the seven to one center who has occasionally made big
impacts on what Dallas has been doing on the court.
(11:33):
So the Mavericks are a team that was built on
tanking and they have a looney tune in Kyrie Irving
as one of their top players. That's reason enough to
put a curse, put my own whammy on Dallas as
the Celtics will end up winning the championship. Not that
the Celtics are that great either, because the two top
guys with the Celtics, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, are
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quite to that level. They haven't reached that advanced level,
but they're not far away. They're not far.
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a sign of future events?
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Here?
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Is this a harbinger of things to come for the Mavericks?
Are they going to get off to a good start
in the NBA Finals and then go belly up? Inquiring
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But our lead this hour is from the Western front
and that is where a team in Downs but not
the Mavericks, has our attention. NFL Most Important, most important,
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NFL quarterback filling the content play destination, Jerry's world take
a spin. If you didn't see this, perhaps not Cowboy's
quarterback Dakota Prescott. He goes by his shortened name dak
but it's Dakota. Dakota. Prescott says that he does not
does not mind the pressure of playing the twenty twenty
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four season with unrestricted free agency coming up after the season. Right,
he's got one year left. He cannot be franchise tag.
Dak Prescott telling the assembled Dallas media quote. I have
been in this position before. I'm a gambling man. Oh,
somebody call the NFL. He says, I'm a gambling man.
I'll I'll gamble on myself. Just to prove I'm not
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making this up. Here is Dak Prescott, in his own words,
saying what I just said.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
This is the urgest you should always have to be honest.
So so maybe guys who normally would fill it phill it.
So so I don't mind it. I've been in this
position before from a gambling man, will gamble on myself
and my guys. So not actually guys, I understand that underst.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, I'm glad he clarified. Glad he clarified on that.
That's very good. I liked that he was like mister Swagger,
he's a tough guy. Oh yeah, I'm gonna put on
myself all right. Some guys can't handle it, but I can.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
So.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Dak Prescott heading into the final year of his contract
that he signed back in twenty twenty one. So let
us discuss the question. Dak Prescott, you just heard it.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
He said it.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You heard it. I don't have to say that he's
willing to gamble on himself. But not literally on a
future Cowboys contract. Is this foolish or intelligent? So I've
got el Chapo, old fashioned yo yo, and a yellow flag,
and we'll combine all of these things together and we'll
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have an uphill struggle, which Dak Prescott made it seem
the Cowboys are having an uphill struggle or he's having
an uphill struggle to get that contract. But number one, okay, okay,
eat some more hummus. Calm down. So Dak Prescott really
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sticking his neck out. This is a bold take by Dak.
Right now, I will say that it is neither foolish
nor intelligent. I disagree that it is not foolish. He
is also not intelligent. Dak Prescott, the way I see
this year, has not been offered a contract. So it's
not like he's turning down something. He hasn't been offered anything.
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What Dak Prescott is doing in this chapter of the
book is spinning his wheels. The wheels on the bus
go round and round. The wheels on the bus go around.
That's what he's doing. He's idling. He's idling. The ball
is in Jerry Jones court, and Jerry is playing the
four corners offense right now, he's just passing the ball
and there's no shot clock, and he's doing his thing.
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It's kind of like what Dak's doing here is and
he's being bold unless he's not. It's like government bonds
and people invest money and you can I'll tell you why.
Government bonds is a good example. That's a low risk investment.
He's a low risk investment. And you look at Dak Prescott.
He is sitting on a pile of pesos right This
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is not a volatile investment. This is not options, high
end bonds, it's none of that stuff. It's not crypto.
Dak Prescott is playing the long game for the treasury
notes and he can do that while he's sitting on
El Chapo's buried pile of cash. Is what he's doing.
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Dakota has earned one hundred and sixty two million dollars
on the field so far. And that's only on the field. Now,
take a couple of steps back. A bunch of other
mickey mouse dollars coming in from various endorsement deals that
he's picked up over the years. So he knows whether
it's in Dallas or somewhere else, that some sucker will
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pay him no matter what. And Dakota is gambling, but
he's gambling with house money. It's a lot easier to
gamble when it's not your money. And Dak's already taken
care of. Generations of his family are taken care of.
Unless he's blown at all gambling. But outside of that,
he's good. Now page two, we go to Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami.
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A lot of people with the Dolphins are acting like
they've got scrambled eggs in their head. They're trying to
figure out what's going on with their quarterback who has
had a dramatic weight loss. We do not think he
has some kind of medical condition causing him to lose
the weight. Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, Mike mcdane, you know that. Yeah,
he's a goofy quote guy. Mike McDaniel said that Tua
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talking about lawa lost weight, a lot of weight to
quote find another level in his game. What are your
thoughts on that's rip the band aid off this. I've
seen the photos, the video deck's got dak Tua tua
interesting hair situation. He's changed his look dramatically. It's always
odd when you get a visual of an athlete in
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your head, and then they dramatically change their appearance. It's bizarre.
Oh so bizarre. Anyway, that's aside the point. So Mike
mcdan again saying that to a tongue of Ila lost
weight to take another level, to find another level to
his game. What are your thoughts on that? So I
would say to take what Mike McDaniel says with a
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couple of ice cubes. He's compromised. All right, now my take,
and I'm gonna own the take because I'm proud of
the take. I love to take what Tua is doing
confessional to a tongue of Iloa is going to the confrofessional.
He's telling you, he's telling me, he's telling the bozo
in the back of the room, the dumb dumb over there.
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He's telling all of us that, hey, that weight that
I gained I bulked up last year was a net negative.
It was a net negative. And if everything was sunshine
and lollipops, he would not be making the chance. He
would not have gone and lost the weight. The weight
loss is an old fashioned yo yo. Been doing this
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shop for a long time. We talk about these stories
every year. There's a couple of players that do this
in every sport. It's not just a football story. It
happens in baseball and basketball. I'm sure it happens in hockey.
But athletes who it's like the yoyo. They bounce back
and forth between one year they bulk up. You gotta
add strength. You gotta get stronger to survive the season, right,
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you gotta get it stronger, and you need durability. Yeah,
you gotta be a bull. You gotta be a bull,
all right, And then they slim down the following year
because they have to focus on flexibility and conditioning and
all that. And it goes back and forth. Yeah, it's
like a seesaw or yo yo up and down, up
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and down, up and down. And that's just the way
that So two is like he's lost some weight, worried
about flexibility and conditioning, and first time he gets molly
wopped and ends up on the ground in the injury tent,
he'll go back to eating donuts and fatten up.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Final point, we heading out of Foxboro. That's where we go.
Whispers this week. This week, Whispers saying that the New
England Patriots have are you decided that Jacoby Brissett America's
stiff at quarterback. Jacoby Brissett is QB one, that he'll
be the QB one over Drake May. Is that how
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you see it? So no, no, no, no, this is
a story that is foggy. I have it as a foggy.
So we are sitting here in early June, the first
week in June, and we are making a decree that
Jacoby Brissett is going to be the starter when the
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season begins in early September. That is worth a yellow flag.
That is a false start penalty, five yard penalty. Replay
the down in this case, replay the take. I do
know Jacoby Brissett a little bit. We watched him play
a lot of the years. I do know he stinks.
I know that that's a truism of life. I don't
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need to watch him play more to know that. So
Drake May was the number three overall pick. Now, I'm
sure we'll do a million more of these type of
monologues when we get closer to football season. This is
a preview of coming attraction. But I hear a lot
of well you got you gotta sit the first round
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quarterback and let him learn on the sidelines. I have
always said, on the job training is the way to go.
You don't learn from standing on a sideline holding a
clipboard with one hand and picking boogers out of your
nose with the other. You don't. What about Aaron Rogers
and Patrick Behoves? Okay, you want to go there. That's
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called cherry picking. That's called cherry picking to fit your argument,
because I can make the same argument. What about JP
Losmid What about Jake Locker? They had to wait, they
sat out, They didn't play until year two. And guess
what they sucked at a time you cannot suck. They
were manure and there's no other way to say it.
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They absolutely blew they did. But they said they had
on the job. They didn't have all the job training.
They sat there and they watched and they learned, and yeah,
not so good. Not so good.
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Speaker 1 (24:37):
M We say all over Kobelo.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
Then CJ.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Stroud made a random podcast appearance this week where he
revealed that he would take Eli Manning's career over Aaron
Rodgers because of the two rings, Ben, would you do
the same?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
No, Aaron Rodgers ten times the player that Eli Manning
was in his day. Eli Manning is not even a
Hall of Fame player. So CJ. Stroud is essentially saying
he would rather be a mid level quarterback than a
Hall of famer an all time great in Aaron Rodgers.
And that's a bad job by CEEJ. Strack. I know
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that that plays well with the electorate and the fans
go crazy, but people forget how bad a quarterback Eli
Manning was. Look up his numbers. The guy was a
turt Burger.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Next, a report revealed that Joel Embiid is eligible for
a big money contract extension from the seventy six ers
this summer.
Speaker 9 (25:27):
Do you think Philly will lock him up for even longer?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Yes, because they have no one else Coop and by
I think Tyrese Max. He's gonna be great. Maybe he
will be great, but he's not great yet, and so
they only have Joel emb They gotta pay him. They
got rid of Harden and the Aussie Muffett.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Next, in a recent interview, James Harden called himself misunderstood
and underrated Ben.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Is he either of those things?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
No, he's a dope, he said. He said he loves
Kobe Bryant, Right, he said, I grew up loving Kobe Bryant. Well,
why don't you have the mam momentality in the playoffs?
The mentality you disappearing big games? Don't get me started
with hard and how do we do coop?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Ben?
Speaker 9 (26:05):
You said mambo mentality? You fail?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
You knew what I meant, You knew what I met?
You loser, You don't.
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the questions.
Speaker 9 (27:03):
All right, let's uh, what's so funny?
Speaker 10 (27:06):
What do you left?
Speaker 7 (27:06):
Well, this question came in and then I saw who
it was from, and it's not who I was expecting
it to be from.
Speaker 9 (27:13):
Uh, but the question it's not.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
It's not for you or me, Ben Uh, it's uh,
it says for the half Mexican. Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Wow, is that from Justin and Cincinnati?
Speaker 9 (27:24):
That's what I was expecting. But it from INCA Terror.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Oh, Inca Terror getting spicy.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Well, he's not, he's not. It is accurate.
Speaker 10 (27:32):
Yeah, I'm fine with that. I'll have to determine which
half of me will be answering the question.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I guess my my favorite INCA Terror story is remember
the video he sent us any of him shooting at
a shooting range? No, oh, I don't know. Maybe he
didn't send that to you, but he sent me a
video of him boy shooting, yeah, shooting boom boom with
a gun.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Well it seems like that should be illegal. But anyway,
maybe it was.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't know, but he looked like he was having
a great time.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
That's all the matter, he says, Uh, I can never
keep straight the taco enchilada, burrito, chimmy choga.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
How do you remember the difference?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Well, I mean that's like asking how do you know
the difference between a hamburger and a hot dog and
a sandwich. I mean, they're just different things. I don't
know what to tell you. It's it's pretty easy to
keep keep those straight. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
Yeah, yeah, Well he can't see them, so I guess
you know.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Oh, but I mean he can feel them. You can take.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Grabbing a chimmy choga and squeezing it.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
Well, you have to write yes before you eat something.
I would think if you're blind, you would examine it
with your fingers.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
We have to get our blind experts on to tell
us what's going on. I'm not sure.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
All right, Cowboy Killer wants to know for everybody, what
kind of milk do you purchase?
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, I don't. I'm not a milk drinker. I did
buy some milk for the wife. It was whole milk,
so that's the kind of purchase. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 10 (29:04):
I used to drink milk like crazy when I was younger.
And now I hardly ever drink it, but I do
really like to have it with something very sweet, you know,
like a puppy supie or cake or something like that.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Two percent milk. Okay, thank you Loraina for approving of that.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Yeah, it's very important that Reina gives you a rubber
stamp of approval. And what type of milk you drink? Yeah,
what about you, Lorain?
Speaker 11 (29:27):
I'm a lot like Eddie. I used to drink milk
all the time, like we drink a gallon every three.
Speaker 12 (29:32):
Days, but it's slowed down.
Speaker 11 (29:34):
And I do like really creamy milk though, like whole milk,
and then I'll dump some creamer inside of it, like
some half in half oh wow, to make it extra wow.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Okay, goodness.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, is this the part of the this is this
the part where I should explain that that, like that
whole milk, you know, helps your bones things kind of
a scam.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
Yeah, we're allergic to milk.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
It doesn't.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
It does not do a body good.
Speaker 12 (29:58):
You know what we should never mind?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Oh what is next?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Coop didn't get to answer the milk question.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I know I'm saying, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
Yeah, I now currently buy two percent. I used to
buy whole milk. Hole milk is awesome, it's the best.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But why do you not drink hole milking.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
It's just because I've got like super high cholesterol and I.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Just need to you know. It's it's just it's just.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Better getting that age. You're getting old.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Yeah, you know, I have like three bowls of cereal
every night after the show. WHOA, So if I'm using
whole milk, it's just that much worse than it already is.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
All right to ask Ben? Why don't we pause for
your costs? And then we'll have a big giant block
It'll be a block party of ask Ben questions, and
you can still send your questions in and just use
that hashtag ask Ben. We'll get to ask Ben for
the rest of the hour and we'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (31:06):
Who wow this year?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Questions on Twitter?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Now I feel like I've heard this before, but it
is asked Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour, and if the question suck, we'll just
keep playing the open over and over and over and
over and over back to the kopolo for the reading
of the questions.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
All right, Ferd Dog would like to know can you
do any fancy dances like the waltz, the fox trot
or the mambo.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
I know how to do the Charleston. I learned that
because I was in Charleston and that's where the Charleston
came from. So I know how to do that. But
I don't want to embarrass everyone with my dance skills.
But my friend when I was a child was mc hammer.
My friend Eddie. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 10 (31:51):
Yeah, I was very excited to see reously that break
dancing is an Olympic sport this year time. If I
had known, I could be competing in France for goal.
But yeah, unfortunately, no, it's not happening. But a great
breakdancer my.
Speaker 12 (32:05):
Gold Do you mean Ferrero roches?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Sure, whatever you say, Lourene, Lorraine.
Speaker 12 (32:13):
I'm a skilled dancer. Ben, there's no dance like that.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yes, yes, what about you do the rumba, all of it,
electric boogaloo. Yes you can do that.
Speaker 9 (32:23):
I don't leave you stop it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yes, you should believe about.
Speaker 11 (32:27):
I will post, We'll do a dance off, We'll do
all the videos online.
Speaker 9 (32:31):
Okay, do the tango right now.
Speaker 12 (32:33):
I don't have another person with me.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Oh, come on, air tango.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Yes, back in the day I could.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I did a ballroom dancing class in back in college.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
I don't remember anyone.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Matt, Yeah, what about do you do square dancing? Coop?
You've never done?
Speaker 12 (32:54):
I love their outfits?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
All right? What is next?
Speaker 9 (32:58):
Mad Jack would like to know him?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Mad Jack?
Speaker 9 (33:02):
Can can guys said?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Hello? You hear that? He said? Oh my got a ghost? Said,
oh yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
Can guys have a girlfriend and also have girls that
are just friends?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
H Well, it depends on who the girlfriend is. Some
some girlfriends a little sensitive about that. I would say,
so it's a game time decision.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Eddie, I would say, they can but good. It also
can be a.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Little uh uncomfortable.
Speaker 10 (33:31):
It can be a little difficult. Perhaps, got to handle
it to the right way.
Speaker 11 (33:36):
The Rain as the love expert, I hate this. You
should be able to be friends with whatever gender is.
If you have trust issues, say you have trust issues.
Speaker 12 (33:45):
And move on with it.
Speaker 11 (33:46):
Okay, if you're with someone, you're with someone, and that's
it all right.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
But human beings are wired way though, No, they are.
People get jealous.
Speaker 12 (33:55):
You can't have female friends after you're married. That makes
no sense. The dudest thing I've ever heard, ever, control yourself.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
I agree with you, all right.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
I think Ben's talking about it, though from the possible
spouse aingle, not necessarily the man involved exactly woman.
Speaker 12 (34:14):
Yeah, can the woman have male friends?
Speaker 5 (34:17):
Sure you can?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Fine, Well, you could technically do anything you want can Alright?
What is next year? What do we have? Is ask man?
As we hip hop and we don't start. We rock
till we drop here Coop is what we do?
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Jeeus No, I'm I'm reading one of these questions and
it's like, these thirsty guys, come on, relax.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
This one that says I forty Ian says just for Coop,
Eddie and Lorena. Do you think Ben ever hit the
reset button on his Nintendo when he was losing at
NBA James Matt in RBI Baseball?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
You turned it off all the time?
Speaker 9 (34:58):
Never, he blamed He blamed the computer.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Hey, hey, I forty, and I hope you liked having
me read your comments on the air because I'm never
doing again. You loser your fan from the show, you schmuck.
It just turned off the computer guy's dead to me, Eddie,
I've made that guy a star. I forty okay, and
that's how he does me.
Speaker 9 (35:22):
Screw you, Matt the Warrior Raider fan.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And Tom Brady roast fan, don't forget that.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
And a fan still it's just well, ye, it's just
why why are you not long as a fan of
the A's because that the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Went to the.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
And by the way, yeah they which with traffics, like
an hour and a half drive from where they used
to play it where they stayed out.
Speaker 7 (35:43):
Anyway, he said, if you could go back in time
and sit in the live studio audience of any sitcom
from the past, which show would you want to see
in person?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
I mean the ones I watched. I don't mean the
ones that I think were wilder, that I probably would
have liked more. Be like, what was that one with
the guy who said all the offensive stuff Eddie.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Archie Bunker all in the family, all the.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Family, Yeah, that probably would have been wild to watch that,
But I mean I I watched like Cheers and Seinfeld
things like that, so probably probably one of those. Although
I've heard I've never been to a TV show taping. Well,
I heard they're not, it's not all it's cracked up
to be. What about you though it?
Speaker 10 (36:25):
I think I would go with a show that's near
and dear to the show that follows us. Sanford and
Sun was a very funny show back in the day.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Very nice, Lorena, I feel so young.
Speaker 12 (36:35):
I'm really like sitcom. I'm like, what would I What
would I choose?
Speaker 11 (36:39):
And I don't want to be weird and say Friends
because I don't I don't watch friends like that, So
I don't know if I would pick one.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Okay, Lorena is deferring, Go ahead, Coop.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
I think I would have to pick Friends just because
it was my favorite sitcom. But yeah, it would it
would be cool to have sat in like you know,
The Fresh Prince or something like that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Also, yeah, well there it is asked man, your questions
and our answers, and we think we do it every
week and about this time every single week.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Let's get right back over to Eddie right now and
we will puck thever.
Speaker 9 (37:28):
Thank you man.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Stanley Cup Final is set.
Speaker 10 (37:30):
But when we last left you, the Eastern and Western
Conference finals were tied at two to two. In the East,
Florida Panthers beat the New York Rangers in games five
and game six.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
They won Game five hockey score. I'm setting up the
sei here.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Hold on, we're doing talk radio.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
It's twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Kid, give old scores, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
I'm telling you to the Standard Cup Final.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Nobody wants to hear this, Eddie.
Speaker 9 (37:53):
Nobody was weird.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Goal five. They won Game six two to one.
Speaker 10 (37:59):
New York had a won leading the series and then
lost three in a row, much to the dismay of
Uncle Moe. So the final five games of the series
all decided by one goal. That means the ragning president
Trophy winners were eliminated. And that means we have not
had a President's Trophy winner win the Stanley Cup since
Chicago back in twenty thirty. Second straight year the Panthers
(38:22):
have knocked out the President's Trophy winners. They beat Boston
in the first round last year. They beat New York
in the Conference final this year. So Florida going back
to the Stanley Cup Final for a second straight season,
a fifth straight season a team from Florida is representing
the Eastern Conference in the Stanley Cup Final. Last two
years Florida three years before that in a row was
the Tampa Bay Lightning. In the West, the Edmonton Oilers
(38:43):
beat the Dallas Stars in games five and six. Oiler's
one game five to three to one, game six two
to one. So the Dallas, the number one seed in
the West, win four and six on home ice this postseason.
They were zero for fourteen on the power play and
that decide in that sighting series against the Oilers. So
Edmonton going to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time.
It's two thousand and six, all right, So.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Eddy, can I get a score from twenty twenty two? Eddie?
Can you a score? Set the scene, Eddie?
Speaker 10 (39:07):
So, Stanley Cup Final is set. Florida Panthers against the
Edmondson Northerers. First time, please let me finish. First time
these two teams have ever met in Stanley Cup Final.
It's the eighth trip to the final for the Oilers.
They've won it five times. Florida making their third trip
on the final. They've never won it before. As matter
of fact, the all time record in the Stanley Cup
Final for the Florida Panthers. It is one to eight
(39:29):
going into the series. Now the Panthers eliminated the Lightning,
Bruins and Rangers. Oilers take down the Kings, Canucks and
Stars to meet up now. Edmonton start of the year
five twelve and one, but sixty eight games since then
when they made a coaching change, had the most points
in the NHL with ninety five in the best record
forty five eighteen and five. Florida this postseason six and
(39:50):
three at home, six and two on the road, Edmonton
six and three at home, six and three on the road.
Eilers special teams will have been amazing so far this postseason.
Number one power play thirty seven point three percent.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
That's my statuity. I had that the other night.
Speaker 10 (40:04):
Number one penalty kill at ninety three point nine percent,
which is insane. So officiating could be huge in the
Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
How they're gonna call it, how they gonna call it?
Speaker 10 (40:15):
And will the Oilers get a lot of different power
play opportunities, Will Florida be able to stay out.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
The hilly box?
Speaker 10 (40:19):
No, no, I'm saying official could be huge in the series.
So Game one of the Stanley Cup Finals business knowing
knotts Game one of the Stanley Cup Finals Saturday, a
pm Eastern on ABC.
Speaker 9 (40:31):
Now Stanley Cup Finals fun.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Facts five facts Now.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
We told you earlier in the week.
Speaker 10 (40:38):
Longest distance between two finals opponents two thousand, five hundred
and forty miles between Edmonton and Sunrise, Florida. We have
the biggest disparity in games coached by the two coaches,
Florida's Paul Maurice one forty nine NHL games coached Edmonton's
Chrisnoblocks sixty nine. The last time a team from Canada
(40:58):
won the Stanley Cup nineteen three, they are now zero
to six since.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Then, before I was alive, anybody.
Speaker 10 (41:06):
The Canucks have lost twice, the Flames, Oilers, Senators, and
Canadians once since that last Cup by a Canadian team
in ninety three by the Montreal Canadians. Corey Perry is
a player for the Edmonton Oilers. This is his fifth
different team that he's played on that has made the
Stanley Cup Final for the Ducks, Ducks, Stars, Lightning, Canadians
(41:26):
and now the Oilers, and every Stanley Cup final since
nineteen eighty except one has either had Yarimir Yager or
one of his teammates involved this year. It is Alexander
Barkoff of the Florida Panthers.
Speaker 9 (41:42):
A couple of isn't that.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Like Shaquille O'Neal or something every NBA finals going back
a billion years that somebody related to the teammate.
Speaker 5 (41:49):
Of Shaquille possibly sounds like it could be sounds like that.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I mean, that's stat Andrews.
Speaker 10 (41:54):
But a couple of quidding notes other than the Stanley
Cup final. Dallas Stars veteran Joe Pavelski says not a
fish official, but he's not planning on playing next season
if he calls it quits. Eighteen years in the NHL
oney three hundred and thirty two games, seven hundred and
sixty one points, but he never won a Stanley Cup.
Jacob Slaven wins the Lady Being Trophy for the most
(42:14):
gentlemanly player in.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
The AHL should be the gender neutral trophy at interesting
And finally, we have to have some sort of an
update on the Utah hockey team. So we still don't
know the name yet.
Speaker 10 (42:25):
We don't know the name yet, but apparently we know
the colors of the team. It will be black, white
and a light blue kind of reminiscent of the Carolina
Blue for North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
There.
Speaker 10 (42:38):
So that's the colors for the Utah hockey team apparently,
and that's your puck.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
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