June 13, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the passing of Jerry West at age 86 and how he will be remembered, former Hornets coach James Borrego being a leading candidate for the Lakers job, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number two, hammering down the hot takes. The
man that got the People's team, the Clippers, into the
Final four, has died. Jerry West passed away. It's spent
the last seven years working for the Clippers. Better known
as the logo of the NBA and a dominant supernova
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in the sport of basketball. How are you going to
remember the logo? I will tell you some of my
personal interactions in my younger days. Also, former Hornets coach
James Berego is being called a leading candidate for the
Laker job. Is this believable? And the Nets guard Ben Simmons,
the Ausie muffed it. Ben Simmons says he is betting
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on himself. Are you buying what he is selling? As
he stands in muddy waters? All of that and more
right now, as we seize the moment in our number two,
a legend exiting stage left. Well come in the beginning
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of another hour of the Ben Mahlor Show.
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We'll circle back to that, but there were other fish
to fry, and we'll start this hour with the loss
of a legendsume you've heard by now, but maybe not
the bigger than basketball life legend.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Jerry West has died. News came down early on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Jerry West the dead at age eighty six, and he
is He's been remember by everybody. All kinds of tributes
coming in, all the usual suspects. There at the NBA Finals,
the fans who attended Game three there in Dallas, they
paid their tribute of the NBA paid their tribute, forcing
the fans to pay respects to the Basketball Hall of
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Famer multiple times. There. They had a pregame video tribute,
a lengthy moment of silence before the game. Jerry West
most associated with the Lakers, but more on that in
a second. For the past seven years, West has provided
his wisdom to the people's team, his final chapter as
an NBA a big wig and all that. He was
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a senior advisor to the Clippers and responsible for them
getting to the Final four a couple of years back.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But let us discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So Jerry West passes away, and it's the proper thing, right,
We're all gonna die at some point. It's a good,
healthy life. Eighty six years is a good run. But
Jerry West passing away, how do you how are you
gonna remember the logo? How you gonna remember the logo?
So it's very important to do this now, and we're
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gonna save this in the podcast because over time, your
memory fades and you you forget certain things and you
only remember certain things, and that's just the way it is.
But my observations, I've got Midas ac DC and the
Kickapoo Medicine Company, and we will combine all of these
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things together and we are going to create some witchcraft.
I know that Justin and Cincinnati loves the witchcraft. He's
a big fan of that. So num Bird, all right, Stopy,
thanks broking. The cockroaches got in there. So my first
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thought on eulogizing Jerry West is a class personify. There's
only one person I know in the LA media my
years of being around LA. I'm mean to the National
Show now for years, but people I know that were
around in Jerry west heyday with the Lakers. Only one
person I know doesn't like everyone else likes him. And
(05:21):
I can just base this off my personal experience. I'm
a big believer in you just judge people how they
treat you. I think that's a big, big thing. But
not based for example, on some cheeseball film which was
made somewhat recently about the Showtime Lakers that made Jerry
West look like a total dope.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But I was lucky enough to have a mutual friend.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
A couple of people that knew Jerry West, and.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So I got to be around him a bit.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It was after the Showtime Lakers, but before the Kobe
Shack Lakers. It was the Club Said Lakers, the Nick
Van Exel Lakers, that era of the Lakers before I
hated them with a passion.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But anyway, this guy, big Joe McDonald was.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
A larger than life in more ways than the one
talk shost in Los Angeles. He had the afternoon drive show,
and Joe was a buddy buddy of mine, and he
would hang out at the Laker and Dodger games all
the time. He knew everybody, and so sometimes I'd tag
along and just hanging out in the shadows of the
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forum back in the day, and I was able to
see behind the curtain and watch Jerry and be around
him a little bit. And I saw how he made
the sausage and you don't need me to tell you
the one thing that stood out. I mean, Jerry was
a fine player, and he's the logo and all that,
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but talent evaluation. He didn't use a computer. You today
it's all about big data on computers and algorithms. Now,
Jerry just watched the player and he said, well, this
guy's pretty good. I think this guy's going to great.
And he didn't hit on everyone, but he hit it
on enough, and the biggest of them all was Kobe Bryant.
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But even with the Clippers, he recommended shake Yogos Alexander,
who was traded to get Paul George, which also got
Kawhi Leonard and then that led to the Final four.
But Jerry West had he was the midast man. He
had the mightest touch when it came to that. He
had this uncanny knack of finding a talent. And that's
the Jerry West I'm going to remember. And I didn't
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see him as a player. I saw clips on the
internet and all that, and part of nine championships. Most
of that he only went won as a player. Most
of that as an executive was the finals MVP on
a losing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Team, for God's sakes. But Jerry West.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The thing that isn't often talked about is Jerry got
absolutely screwed over by the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean they gave.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Him You talked about the Montreal screw job. How about
the Inglewood screw job. I guess they were in downtown
skid row screwed job by then. But Jerry loved the
Lakers and he absolutely got pushed out by Genie Buss
and the Bus family there because Jeanie was really into
Phil Jackson and I'm really into Phil Jackson. And they
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picked the zen Master over the logos. A battle of
egos there, and Jerry West really was broken up by that.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He really really pissed them off.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And he didn't get upset by a lot of things,
but he was annoyed, from the people that I've talked
to who are around him at that time, very upset
that the Lakers did him dirty like that because Geenie
Buss was happy, you know, was sleeping with Phil Jackson. Mean,
they were in a relationship, and so it was a mess.
And then Jerry left, though he went on he worked
for the Grizzlies. They actually had some good teams when
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he was in Memphis. The Warriors was there as an
advisor and is credited loosely with some of the secondary
pickups the Warriors had in their glory run in the
Bay Area and then the Final Four with the Clippers
and all of that after he got kicked out of
the Lakers bill. So rest in peace, Jerry West. Eighty
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six years on the planet and forever in my life.
I don't see them changing the NBA logo. So every
time you look at the NBA logo, you're looking at
Jerry West, the silhouette of Jerry West. All right. Now,
page two to the coaching carousel, and someone named James
Barrego remains the leading candidate for the Laker coaching job
if you believe the reporting. Now. Barrego also a finalist
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for the Calves job. This guy was an absolute failure
with the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
But here we are. He's back, guys and.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Being called a leading candidate. James Barrego being called a
leading candidate for the Laker coaching job. Is this believable?
So I'm gonna answer it this way. The Lakers right now,
the historians are listening to ac DC music Thunderstruck in
a loop because they are absolutely thunderstruck Dan Hurley?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
What he did? You talking about doing?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Someone? Dirty? Dirty, dirty old Dan Hurley flying all the
way out to the West Coast, whined and dined by
the Lakers, only to fly back to New York and
say screw you, you losers after they offered him seventy million.
So Lakers, after Hurley left, they were left disheveled, staggered,
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and bedraggled after that. And so I don't have this
guy Barrego on my big board in the number one spot.
I have the podcaster, that annoying, pompous a hold, JJ Reddick,
who can't make a big shot to save his life
and is almost responsible than anyone for the downfall of
Lob City Clippers. But JJ Reddick is still my default
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favorite for the job. But Barrego, he's not off my
my big board.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I don't I don't do this. I do big boards.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
He's not off my big board because of the discount
rack nature of that higher. He's a retread, lifelong assistant coach,
an occasional head coach, and that is someone that's pretty
important and valuable for a penny rich dollar. Poor Genie
boss who runs the Lakers, all right, final point and
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the final stop is in Brooklyn, Brookland in the house.
We have great callers like Uncle Mooe and Marcel and
Brooklyn and others that have called the show from Brooklyn.
But that nets Guard Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons says he's
betting on himself. He said it, he posted it on social.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Betting on himself.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Are you buying what Ben Simmons is selling the nets Guard? Yeah?
Not only am I not buying this. This is the
kind of product that has you go out of business.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's how bad the product he is selling is.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Now, I can't tell you beyond a reasonable doubt that
Ben Simmons is the employee of the Year for the
Kickapoo Medicine Company. Now, if you don't know the Kickapoo
Medicine Company, they were the ones that were hawking snake
oil back in the day. That was them. They were
the ones they went around to fairs and boardwalks and
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they had a cure for just about everything. Kind of
like Ben Simmons. Every off season it's the circle of
Ben Simmons. He hops on social media promising cures for
just about everything wrong with his game. Eventually we'll get
a sizzle reel of him knocking down fifteen to three
point shots in a row. Perfect, nothing but net. He's
got all kinds of magic potions Ben Simmons. And then
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the season starts. He sucks, he suffers a phantom injury.
He is then shut down for the season and then
starts selling the snake oil all over again. Wash, rinse, repeat, period, stop.
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It's Ben Maller, Milkman Mike in Colorado, says Marconi eligible
Mallard monologue on the career and impact of Jerry West.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
But I do have to correct you.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I think Phil Jackson was more into Genie Buss, not
the other way around. Okay, there you go, thank you
for that. Justin in Cincinnati says a great tribute to
Jerry West there, and he then some some other offensive things,
which he often does.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That's how he does it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Mister nice guy says, thanks for the memories, Jerry. He says,
who else do we have? Kathy and Madison sent to
an old photo of Jerry West see page down. Keith Ocho,
Texas says, as impressive as Jerry West's resume is, the
thing I will remember most is that his first name
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is Jerome, Rest in peace, Jerome Allen West. Bringing home
Jerome from beautiful West Virginia. Yeah, a lot of moving
parts of that, Jerry West. A lot a lot of
things going on with that, Jerry West. Clearly, let's go
to the phones. We'll say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis,
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minnesot Hello, hollering James, welcome.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Sure West. I know who read the Minneapolis Lakers when
they were here, which brought him to LA when they
made there, which was Mike Kent. But I'm not dating myself.
I wasn't even born yet. But the figure of this
ben do I win worst color of the year or
the other color of the night.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But by the way, by the way, James, before eighteen,
people send me messages saying, hey, dumb ass, Jerry West
did not play for the Minneapolis Lakers. He only played
for the LA Lakers. He came he was on the
first team in lad gay up. I think you know,
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was he off Eddie think he was offended that I
touched up his work.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I'm going to say he was so embarrassed by.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That. Yeah. Now, Jerry West missed the Minneapolis Lakers by
one year. The Lakers last year in Minneapolis was nineteen
fifty nine into nineteen sixty and then they began in
LA in nineteen sixty sixty one. And I still love
the story that the late Tommy Hawkins told me when
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he played for the Laker franchise when they moved from
Minneapolis to LA in the early days. Tommy Hawkins, who
was known as Tom Hawkins when he played out of
Notre Dame, and he I think he spent the last
year in Minnesota and then the first year in LA.
And he said nobody gave a crap about the Lakers
in LA, and the players at like four o'clock in
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the afternoon would go the Laker players would get on flatbed.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Trucks with megaphones.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
And Tommy Hawkins was saying, like, a few hours before
the game, they drive arounds, Hey, we're playing the Saint
Louis Hawks tonight at the Sports Arena.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You want to see some basketball?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And they were giving away tickets to get people to
go to the game. And imagine trying to get Lebron James.
I know, obviously things are different, but hey, lebri it's
four o'clock. Can you drive around some of the high
schools and see if the kids want to go to
the game or something like that, or the elementary school
see if their parents want to take the kids to
the game. And yeah, so crazy, crazy, crazy. Let's go
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to Jason, who is in the Bayou. Hello Jason, welcome, Hello.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Enjoying the show. Got to say a little bit about
Caitlin Clark. I think the Olympics is just absolutely crazy
not to take her on the team. These girls must
have egos the size of a skyscraper to think that
anybody's ever going to watch them without Caitlin Clark. I'm
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sorry myself. I never watched a WNBA game until this year.
I love everything about Caitlin Clark. What's not to like.
She played for IOWA, put that team on her, made
it all the way to the national finals, and two
years ago they beat.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
South Carolina, a team that's unbeatable, and she put it.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Really is a Sigwa Sam.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't know. It might be his cousin, But but Jason,
what you're saying is you're not really a women's basketball fan.
Neither is ninety nine percent of the population. You're a
Caitlin Clark fan. That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And that's what I've been saying the entire time.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
And so I think, yes, I always bust Eddy's balls
because he gives all the WOL scores. The only thing
people care about is Caitlin Clark. And the WNBA sent
out all this propaganda about how great the ratings were
and all that, and they are, they are very good.
But if you take away the Caitlin Clark games and
the attendance of games Caitlin Clark's at, it's the same
crappy product that's always been.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
No one's watching, no one's going to the games.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
But you're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud,
and so people like make it that they pretend they
live in this fantasy world where it's not all because
of Caitlyn Clark, even though it obviously is. She's the
old only story that's worthy of people's attention. All these
other players are Caddie schmucks right, thank you, all right,
that was a great How was my take? Eddie's my
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w NB? How's that take? Eddie? Was that good?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Fantastic?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh thank you Eddie.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Well, the thing is, Iowa's never been good in women's basketball.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I wouldn't know that.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
This isn't like you. Diana Tarazzi talks about winning three
national championships at Yukon's. Well, you're a failure if you
don't win a national championship at Ukon. That's the way
it works. I mean, alright, Olympics.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Okay, all right, I've reached my my I'm full, I'm
full of my stomach's full. Thank you, Jason, my god. Okay,
just to put in perspective, how ridiculous all the media
covers of the w NB. It should only be Kitlin Clark, Like,
I wouldn't have a problem. Eddie just gave Kitlin Clark scores.
That's fine, I'd be fine with that, But to give
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these other teams, no one gives a crap about Caitlin Clark.
I saw this number bouncing around here. Here are the
actual numbers. Caitlin Clark is responsible for thirty three point
five percent of all WNBA attendants this season. Thirty three
point five percent. It's insane, is that insane?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
One one person?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
No one else cares about the anyone in the wOBA.
They're all meaningless, like you know, the flotsam and jets
of these women, and they think they matter. They don't matter.
Women's basketball sucks. The only one that moves the needle
is Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
At thirty three point five percent of the WNBA's total attendance.
And it's insane anyway, all right. It is the The
Ben Mahlor Show. When when Kaitlin Clark plays in a
in a game, they average almost sixteen thousand fans. When
she doesn't play in a game, they average a little
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over seven thousand fans a game, which is about what
it was.
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Speaker 6 (23:14):
I don't think point Scott mentioned this, and I honestly
didn't know about it, But they had the Tom Brady
Hall of Fame. My god, what a gala event this was.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Oh they were kissing the other's ass.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Oh my god, sixty thousand fans at Gillette Stadium.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
To see this. They were retired as number. They were tired.
You know why they did it, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Why would they have it, By the way, on the
day the Celtics are playing, well.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
There's such lose they wanted to. They did it because
they wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
To sell T shirts because the date was six twelve,
number twelve, six championships and all that.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That's why they did it.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Six twelve.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
They did announce that they're going to have a twelve
foot tall Tom Brady statue that's going to be unveiled
sometime during.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That means the coming season, the Patriots are out of
the winning business. They're going to build a mausoleum like
the Lakers have out in front of their.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Apparently this was was this broadcast on live TV? There
was this like this whole big Was this a made
for TV event?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, it was, it was. I saw clips of it
on TV and the whole thing was on TV or
part I assume all everything's on TV, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I suppose John Cena was there. Jay Z did a
special song for Tom.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
They had n d A's, so nobody was allowed to
say who was going to be there the last couple
of days leading up to it.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yeah, Peyton Manning made a surprise appearance apparent.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh yeah, Belichick wax poetic. There they went back and forth.
Actually it was like instead of dueling pianos, it was
who can kiss the other person with more slobber. It
was wonderful, riveting. Yeah, well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Did we do a fun fact last nar I don't
think we did.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I don't think we did either.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
My I gotta I gotta do two fun facts. Fun fact?
All right, fun fact number one? That fat slob that
tubagoo Luka doncik? Miss I do, but I like goofing
on people, so Luca, it's fair to say, Eddie, he's
not built for the full forty eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I foul out with four minutes to go over four.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Minutes in this game. But is it true that Luka
doncik in the fourth quarter? Jerry the twenty twenty four
NBA Finals, eight point six rebounds, five assists.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He's taken fifteen shots, he's only.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Made three of them. He has not made a three
point shot in the fourth quarter, and he has four
turnovers and four fouls in the fourth quarter of the
NBA Finals. Now, I didn't play in the NBA, and
what do I know. I just host the overnight show.
But I don't think that's good. That's a fun fact.
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Luca three games into the NBA Finals, eight point six rebounds,
three of fifteen shooting, five assists, and four turnovers, four fouls,
twenty three point nine percent true shooting percentage. I don't
even know what that is, but it sounds bad. So
that's my first fun fact. You want another fun fact,
give me another hit.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
It aga malor fun fact.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Back to back at Belly and to Belly.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Another fun fact. Jason Tatum. Now, some people said, well
Tatum had a big game on Wednesday night, so he's
back in the MVP Rais for the Celtic.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Now he's not.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Now he's not Jason Tatum in the fourth quarter of
the NBA Finals. Now he's not as bad as Luka
in some categories. In other categories, he's actually worse than Luca.
Say what, yeah, Jason Tatum in the NBA Finals fourth quarter.
Celtics have won all three a couple of games close.
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Tatum has taken seventeen shots. He's three of seventeen in
the fourth quarter. Cats your MVP twelve total points, So
he has four more points than Luca does in the
fourth quarter. But he's shooting the basketball worse because he's
missed two more shots, one of four from three point
ran so at least he's made one of those. He's
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not okay from the foul line and a twenty nine
point nine percent true shooting percentage. So Jason Tatum, and
if you have him as your MVP, you are a
dumb move. Dumb bo is what you are. So put
that out there. We put it out there, and now
we move on. So get out the eye chart. I
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thought this was a bizarre story. I was unaware of this.
Maybe I should have been aware of it, but I wasn't.
The Broncos head coach, guy named Sean Payton's a football coach,
and Sean Payton had a medical procedure that we learned
about this week.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
The Bronco coach, Yeah, everyone in there, and.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He was he's been wearing sunglasses at practice and said, well,
it's daytime. It's fine. Well, Peyton actually had surgery on
his left eye last week, cataract surgery, and.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He's gonna have cataract surgery on his right eye.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I guess I think he already had it. I believe
so he last week he did the one eye, the
left eye, and then this week they did they did
do the other eye. You say, well, I just did
say see, that's why I said that. And then yeah,
so Peyton, he's sixty years old, and he claimed.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That the cataracts there.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I guess you're having trouble obviously with his vision and
all that, so he'll be able to see his play sheet.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Sean Payton, So things for looking up, Coop.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You didn't add any good players, but you got your
coach's vision back. So his eyes are fixed. And he
famously called the wrong play on the play sheet during
these twenty twenty only one wrong. I think he called
more than one wrong play last season. But anyway, well
that's good. Is that what we have to look forward
to as we get older, ready, or we're gonna have
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cataract operations and things like that.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I g yes, if we live long enough.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, okay, great, wonderful. Go on WebMD and look at
all the stuff you're gonna get if you're fortunate enough
to live long enough. It's just absolutely great, something to
look forward to for everybody. Now the Godfather offer. We
turned the page. Godfather offer. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are
a football team, not a good one, not a good one.
Their general manager, Todd Licked, is the GM there in Tampa,
(29:24):
and he says that NFL executives would offer he said,
literally ten first round picks for a high caliber, caliber
quarterback prospect, he said, and he says, the way that
you draft the quarterbacks. So it's gonna be lights out.
(29:44):
You know, he's going to be Patrick Mahomes. With Joe Burrow,
you'd offer literally ten first round picks.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
For the guy.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It wouldn't matter, it would be worth it. But he said,
it's such a crapshoot. Yeah, so Joe Burrow, I get
Joe Burrow was supposed to be good. We loved him
in college at LSU and Baton Rouge and he's lived
up to the billy. But Patrick Mahomes was not supposed
to be amazing. In fact, I recall when he was
(30:11):
drafted by the Chiefs at the I think it was
like the tenth of the eleventh think or something that
in the draft, and people were like, that's an overdraft,
Like what are you doing drafted in that high? Has
Andy Reid lost it? What do you have Alex Smith there?
What are you doing? This guy was a gunslinger when
he was playing at Texas Tech. And Mahomes was the
tenth pick in that draft. And there were a bunch
(30:36):
of players who never made it that were drafted ahead
of him in that draft, the great Solomon Thomas uh
who John Ross was drafted Mike Williams wide receiver and
didn't really make much much of impact. And then the
big one is Mitch Trubisky, the great Mitch Trubisky, who
(30:56):
was the first quarterback drafted by the Chicago Bears, much
to the dismay of Yapimi and the others in Chicago.
But that was that was back in the day. I
saw the Dodgers made a trade, not a good one,
but they picked up the son of a Hall of Famer,
Craig Bgo's son, Cavan Bgo. They got him from the
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Blue Jays. Now that he must have known he was
going to be traded a couple days ago because he
was designated for assignment by Toronto, and he made his
Dodger debut actually at home run hit a home run
or not a homer. He had a baseit, not a
home run. He had a baseit for the Dodgers in
that game against the Rangers. But this guy another one
of these prospects. It's just like I've said all along,
a prospect is a suspect until proven odwas was a
(31:38):
couple years back. The Blue Jays were all fired up.
They had Bgo's son, Guerrero's son, and they had Bashet's son.
And here we are a few years later, blue Jays
teams underachieved. Bgo's already gone. He's now, he's a super
utility guy. He's going to try to hang out with
the Dodgers for a while. He was hitting two hundred
(31:59):
this year in Toronto, and he's a career two twenty
seven hitter. The Blue Jays are debating whether or not
the trade Guerrero Junior and Bashet's kid bowl Boshet. So
it's conceivable all of those guys, the spawn of the
great players of baseball past, will be out of Canada.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
All coda.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
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Time Now for the Insta Trivia. We're gonna have Mallard
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the Insta trivia. Pittsburgh and Baseball's latest phenom, Paul Skeens.
He's the one dating the what's the woman's name? He's
dating the famous internet the celebrity of the gymnast. I
forget her name, but she's apparently very popular anyway, and
(32:47):
nobody answered that, so nobody knows. Paul Skeens, Pittsburgh pitcher.
The first pitcher to have forty five or more strikeouts
and six or fewer walks in his first six career
appearance is since blank again. Paul Skeins picture for the
Pittsburgh Pirates the Bucos. The first pitcher to have forty
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five plus strikeouts and six or fewer walks in his
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Warming up right now. It's on the back burner. We're
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Speaker 2 (34:07):
Here's the answer trivia. Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes the first pitcher
to have forty five or more strikeouts and six or
fewer walks in his first six career appearances since blank.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
That is the question.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
What is the answer? Late night drug test are going with?
Mike Blecki has the answer. Cowboy Killer, says vernon mad
Max Maxwell, who famously a basketball player. He went into
the crowd to fight a fan years ago. It was
one of the great moments before social media, though, so
we don't remember Evan from the division leading Mariner fan
(34:44):
no longer a long suffering Mariner fan, says Mariner's legend
Jamie Moyer the curse or the cure for crime rather
Cobra the cure for com Corobra, Milkman Mike and Colorado,
Mister Wonderful Paul Orndorf. There is the answer from Mark Puffin.
Tippy Martinez from alf the Alien Opino. That's a pretty
good name, Big Unit. Randy Johnson from Andy in Lion o' Lakes, Minnesota.
(35:08):
Harold square Pants from ferg Dog was watching SpongeBob. Who else?
Henry row Garter from King Rory blind Caller Legend Vision
from Shandon to One. Whatever happened to vision? El Roy
roy Face from I forty Ian that's his answer. Greg
(35:30):
Brady guest by Mala prop Guy Paige Down, Lou Dobbs
guessed by Justin in Cincinnati the Glue Farm Glue Factory
owner Lou Dobbson. Who else? Jackie Stewart who turns eighty
five today from Malibu, Rubin h. Livvy Dunn is the
answer from Supermarket Steve. That's who I was looking for.
(35:52):
The name there, Tim Lincecum from Matt the Warrior Raider fan.
All right, Eddie, do you have an answer? It is
not Whitey Ford guessed by Mark in Santa Monica or
Rick Aguilera from Kyle.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
I'm gonna go with former Bucco's great Doug Dravak.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Doug Draviik.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Fine, answer that's wrong, Eddy, be correct.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Answer Masa Hero Tanaka ten years ago, Massa Hero Tanaka.
Last one to.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Do before Paul schemes.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You're gonna buy a Paul Skeins Jersey, Eddy, Now you're
too old for that.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
He'll be gone in a few years.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
My Dodgers, Yeah, probably the Dodgers Yankees at red suss
it's from Southern Californias. Is probably the Dodgers are.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 4 (36:33):
To the third degree, This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
And I would like to ask the Pirates if they
are a Triple A affiliate of the Dodgers. Just make
sure you don't mess up Paul skin so he's ready
when he gets to the big leagues with the Dodgers, Coobolo,
what do we have here?
Speaker 10 (36:48):
A group of twenty eight MLB agents and executives were
pulled about the type of contract Juan Soto could secure.
Seventeen predicted that Soto would sign for over five hundred million,
and three even said that he'd get it least six
hundred million. Ben, do you think his deal will reach
those heights?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I think the five hundred the five hundred million is
doa well. Here's why he turned down. If my sources
are correct, he turned down three hundred million from the Nationals.
He then got traded to the Padres won Soto and
a little birdie who likes fish tacos in San Diego
tells me that he turned down over four hundred million dollars.
Now I would I would be a I would need
(37:27):
a therapist if I turned down four hundred million. So
if he turned down three hundred and four hundred million
with the Biden putin price hike, then five hundred millions
absolutely doable. So I'm gonna go five hundred million. Yes.
Speaker 10 (37:38):
Next, it's being reported that Saudi Arabia's public investment fund
isn't the topif the piff, Yes, they're in talks with
seven different boxing organizations to unify the sport under one league, Ben,
do you think they'll make it happen?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
This is just fu money the Saudi government has and
they want to mess You know, they want to get
into American culture and we know that if you offer
enough money, you can do whatever you want. They've already
ruined golf. I could see them doing boxing next. That's
a global sport that makes some sense. Why not next?
Speaker 10 (38:10):
Jamar Chase is another Star Wide receiver looking for a
contract extension. Despite sitting out OTA's, Chase did show up
for a mandatory mini camp, Ben, do you think Chase's
eventual deal will top Justin Jefferson's No.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
He plays for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
They just had a sale at the stadium to get
rid of televisions. At you could buy an old TV.
You think they're gonna pay him more money than Justin Jefferson?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Are you insane?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, Jamarg he'll get a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
He's not gonna get more money than Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
How did we do? Kobola? He passes editionion.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Nattie say, wait, I won Justin and Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I run
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number two, hammering down the hot takes. The
man that got the People's team, the Clippers, into the
Final four, has died. Jerry West passed away. It's spent
the last seven years working for the Clippers. Better known
as the logo of the NBA and a dominant supernova
(00:23):
in the sport of basketball. How are you going to
remember the logo? I will tell you some of my
personal interactions in my younger days. Also, former Hornets coach
James Berego is being called a leading candidate for the
Laker job. Is this believable? And the Nets guard Ben Simmons,
the Ausie muffed it. Ben Simmons says he is betting
(00:45):
on himself. Are you buying what he is selling? As
he stands in muddy waters? All of that and more
right now, as we seize the moment in our number two,
a legend exiting stage left. Well come in the beginning
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of another hour of the Ben Mahlor Show.
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from the Hardwood, but not not. What happened in Dallas
is the Mavericks are on life support right now. The
Celtics one went away from winning the title, another victory
for the Boston basketball team as the Celtics taking advantage
of the generosity of Luca Dumbass, the floundering star there
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lolly gagging around and ends up fouling out with four
over four minutes to go in the game, and the Celtics,
who are up by twenty one anyway, end up winning.
We'll circle back to that, but there were other fish
to fry, and we'll start this hour with the loss
of a legendsume you've heard by now, but maybe not
the bigger than basketball life legend.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Jerry West has died. News came down early on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Jerry West the dead at age eighty six, and he
is He's been remember by everybody. All kinds of tributes
coming in, all the usual suspects. There at the NBA Finals,
the fans who attended Game three there in Dallas, they
paid their tribute of the NBA paid their tribute, forcing
the fans to pay respects to the Basketball Hall of
(03:24):
Famer multiple times. There. They had a pregame video tribute,
a lengthy moment of silence before the game. Jerry West
most associated with the Lakers, but more on that in
a second. For the past seven years, West has provided
his wisdom to the people's team, his final chapter as
an NBA a big wig and all that. He was
(03:46):
a senior advisor to the Clippers and responsible for them
getting to the Final four a couple of years back.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But let us discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So Jerry West passes away, and it's the proper thing, right,
We're all gonna die at some point. It's a good,
healthy life. Eighty six years is a good run. But
Jerry West passing away, how do you how are you
gonna remember the logo? How you gonna remember the logo?
So it's very important to do this now, and we're
(04:16):
gonna save this in the podcast because over time, your
memory fades and you you forget certain things and you
only remember certain things, and that's just the way it is.
But my observations, I've got Midas ac DC and the
Kickapoo Medicine Company, and we will combine all of these
(04:36):
things together and we are going to create some witchcraft.
I know that Justin and Cincinnati loves the witchcraft. He's
a big fan of that. So num Bird, all right, Stopy,
thanks broking. The cockroaches got in there. So my first
(05:00):
thought on eulogizing Jerry West is a class personify. There's
only one person I know in the LA media my
years of being around LA. I'm mean to the National
Show now for years, but people I know that were
around in Jerry west heyday with the Lakers. Only one
person I know doesn't like everyone else likes him. And
(05:21):
I can just base this off my personal experience. I'm
a big believer in you just judge people how they
treat you. I think that's a big, big thing. But
not based for example, on some cheeseball film which was
made somewhat recently about the Showtime Lakers that made Jerry
West look like a total dope.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But I was lucky enough to have a mutual friend.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
A couple of people that knew Jerry West, and.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So I got to be around him a bit.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It was after the Showtime Lakers, but before the Kobe
Shack Lakers. It was the Club Said Lakers, the Nick
Van Exel Lakers, that era of the Lakers before I
hated them with a passion.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But anyway, this guy, big Joe McDonald was.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
A larger than life in more ways than the one
talk shost in Los Angeles. He had the afternoon drive show,
and Joe was a buddy buddy of mine, and he
would hang out at the Laker and Dodger games all
the time. He knew everybody, and so sometimes I'd tag
along and just hanging out in the shadows of the
(06:26):
forum back in the day, and I was able to
see behind the curtain and watch Jerry and be around
him a little bit. And I saw how he made
the sausage and you don't need me to tell you
the one thing that stood out. I mean, Jerry was
a fine player, and he's the logo and all that,
(06:47):
but talent evaluation. He didn't use a computer. You today
it's all about big data on computers and algorithms. Now,
Jerry just watched the player and he said, well, this
guy's pretty good. I think this guy's going to great.
And he didn't hit on everyone, but he hit it
on enough, and the biggest of them all was Kobe Bryant.
(07:08):
But even with the Clippers, he recommended shake Yogos Alexander,
who was traded to get Paul George, which also got
Kawhi Leonard and then that led to the Final four.
But Jerry West had he was the midast man. He
had the mightest touch when it came to that. He
had this uncanny knack of finding a talent. And that's
the Jerry West I'm going to remember. And I didn't
(07:31):
see him as a player. I saw clips on the
internet and all that, and part of nine championships. Most
of that he only went won as a player. Most
of that as an executive was the finals MVP on
a losing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Team, for God's sakes. But Jerry West.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The thing that isn't often talked about is Jerry got
absolutely screwed over by the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean they gave.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Him You talked about the Montreal screw job. How about
the Inglewood screw job. I guess they were in downtown
skid row screwed job by then. But Jerry loved the
Lakers and he absolutely got pushed out by Genie Buss
and the Bus family there because Jeanie was really into
Phil Jackson and I'm really into Phil Jackson. And they
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picked the zen Master over the logos. A battle of
egos there, and Jerry West really was broken up by that.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He really really pissed them off.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And he didn't get upset by a lot of things,
but he was annoyed, from the people that I've talked
to who are around him at that time, very upset
that the Lakers did him dirty like that because Geenie
Buss was happy, you know, was sleeping with Phil Jackson. Mean,
they were in a relationship, and so it was a mess.
And then Jerry left, though he went on he worked
for the Grizzlies. They actually had some good teams when
(08:50):
he was in Memphis. The Warriors was there as an
advisor and is credited loosely with some of the secondary
pickups the Warriors had in their glory run in the
Bay Area and then the Final Four with the Clippers
and all of that after he got kicked out of
the Lakers bill. So rest in peace, Jerry West. Eighty
(09:13):
six years on the planet and forever in my life.
I don't see them changing the NBA logo. So every
time you look at the NBA logo, you're looking at
Jerry West, the silhouette of Jerry West. All right. Now,
page two to the coaching carousel, and someone named James
Barrego remains the leading candidate for the Laker coaching job
if you believe the reporting. Now. Barrego also a finalist
(09:35):
for the Calves job. This guy was an absolute failure
with the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
But here we are. He's back, guys and.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Being called a leading candidate. James Barrego being called a
leading candidate for the Laker coaching job. Is this believable?
So I'm gonna answer it this way. The Lakers right now,
the historians are listening to ac DC music Thunderstruck in
a loop because they are absolutely thunderstruck Dan Hurley?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
What he did? You talking about doing?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Someone? Dirty? Dirty, dirty old Dan Hurley flying all the
way out to the West Coast, whined and dined by
the Lakers, only to fly back to New York and
say screw you, you losers after they offered him seventy million.
So Lakers, after Hurley left, they were left disheveled, staggered,
(10:32):
and bedraggled after that. And so I don't have this
guy Barrego on my big board in the number one spot.
I have the podcaster, that annoying, pompous a hold, JJ Reddick,
who can't make a big shot to save his life
and is almost responsible than anyone for the downfall of
Lob City Clippers. But JJ Reddick is still my default
(10:56):
favorite for the job. But Barrego, he's not off my
my big board.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I don't I don't do this. I do big boards.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
He's not off my big board because of the discount
rack nature of that higher. He's a retread, lifelong assistant coach,
an occasional head coach, and that is someone that's pretty
important and valuable for a penny rich dollar. Poor Genie
boss who runs the Lakers, all right, final point and
(11:25):
the final stop is in Brooklyn, Brookland in the house.
We have great callers like Uncle Mooe and Marcel and
Brooklyn and others that have called the show from Brooklyn.
But that nets Guard Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons says he's
betting on himself. He said it, he posted it on social.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Betting on himself.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Are you buying what Ben Simmons is selling the nets Guard? Yeah?
Not only am I not buying this. This is the
kind of product that has you go out of business.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's how bad the product he is selling is.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Now, I can't tell you beyond a reasonable doubt that
Ben Simmons is the employee of the Year for the
Kickapoo Medicine Company. Now, if you don't know the Kickapoo
Medicine Company, they were the ones that were hawking snake
oil back in the day. That was them. They were
the ones they went around to fairs and boardwalks and
(12:24):
they had a cure for just about everything. Kind of
like Ben Simmons. Every off season it's the circle of
Ben Simmons. He hops on social media promising cures for
just about everything wrong with his game. Eventually we'll get
a sizzle reel of him knocking down fifteen to three
point shots in a row. Perfect, nothing but net. He's
got all kinds of magic potions Ben Simmons. And then
(12:48):
the season starts. He sucks, he suffers a phantom injury.
He is then shut down for the season and then
starts selling the snake oil all over again. Wash, rinse, repeat, period, stop.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show as we hobble around
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I can't guarantee that. I can't guaran maybe you're an idiot.
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get out the eye chart. Get out the eye chart
and talk about the Godfather. We'll get to all that
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It's Ben Maller, Milkman Mike in Colorado, says Marconi eligible
Mallard monologue on the career and impact of Jerry West.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
But I do have to correct you.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I think Phil Jackson was more into Genie Buss, not
the other way around. Okay, there you go, thank you
for that. Justin in Cincinnati says a great tribute to
Jerry West there, and he then some some other offensive things,
which he often does.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That's how he does it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Mister nice guy says, thanks for the memories, Jerry. He says,
who else do we have? Kathy and Madison sent to
an old photo of Jerry West see page down. Keith Ocho,
Texas says, as impressive as Jerry West's resume is, the
thing I will remember most is that his first name
(16:28):
is Jerome, Rest in peace, Jerome Allen West. Bringing home
Jerome from beautiful West Virginia. Yeah, a lot of moving
parts of that, Jerry West. A lot a lot of
things going on with that, Jerry West. Clearly, let's go
to the phones. We'll say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis,
(16:51):
minnesot Hello, hollering James, welcome.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
Sure West. I know who read the Minneapolis Lakers when
they were here, which brought him to LA when they
made there, which was Mike Kent. But I'm not dating myself.
I wasn't even born yet. But the figure of this
ben do I win worst color of the year or
the other color of the night.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But by the way, by the way, James, before eighteen,
people send me messages saying, hey, dumb ass, Jerry West
did not play for the Minneapolis Lakers. He only played
for the LA Lakers. He came he was on the
first team in lad gay up. I think you know,
(17:42):
was he off Eddie think he was offended that I
touched up his work.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I'm going to say he was so embarrassed by.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That. Yeah. Now, Jerry West missed the Minneapolis Lakers by
one year. The Lakers last year in Minneapolis was nineteen
fifty nine into nineteen sixty and then they began in
LA in nineteen sixty sixty one. And I still love
the story that the late Tommy Hawkins told me when
(18:11):
he played for the Laker franchise when they moved from
Minneapolis to LA in the early days. Tommy Hawkins, who
was known as Tom Hawkins when he played out of
Notre Dame, and he I think he spent the last
year in Minnesota and then the first year in LA.
And he said nobody gave a crap about the Lakers
in LA, and the players at like four o'clock in
(18:32):
the afternoon would go the Laker players would get on flatbed.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Trucks with megaphones.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
And Tommy Hawkins was saying, like, a few hours before
the game, they drive arounds, Hey, we're playing the Saint
Louis Hawks tonight at the Sports Arena.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You want to see some basketball?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And they were giving away tickets to get people to
go to the game. And imagine trying to get Lebron James.
I know, obviously things are different, but hey, lebri it's
four o'clock. Can you drive around some of the high
schools and see if the kids want to go to
the game or something like that, or the elementary school
see if their parents want to take the kids to
the game. And yeah, so crazy, crazy, crazy. Let's go
(19:15):
to Jason, who is in the Bayou. Hello Jason, welcome, Hello.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Enjoying the show. Got to say a little bit about
Caitlin Clark. I think the Olympics is just absolutely crazy
not to take her on the team. These girls must
have egos the size of a skyscraper to think that
anybody's ever going to watch them without Caitlin Clark. I'm
(19:45):
sorry myself. I never watched a WNBA game until this year.
I love everything about Caitlin Clark. What's not to like.
She played for IOWA, put that team on her, made
it all the way to the national finals, and two
years ago they beat.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
South Carolina, a team that's unbeatable, and she put it.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Really is a Sigwa Sam.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I don't know. It might be his cousin, But but Jason,
what you're saying is you're not really a women's basketball fan.
Neither is ninety nine percent of the population. You're a
Caitlin Clark fan. That's it.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And that's what I've been saying the entire time.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
And so I think, yes, I always bust Eddy's balls
because he gives all the WOL scores. The only thing
people care about is Caitlin Clark. And the WNBA sent
out all this propaganda about how great the ratings were
and all that, and they are, they are very good.
But if you take away the Caitlin Clark games and
the attendance of games Caitlin Clark's at, it's the same
crappy product that's always been.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
No one's watching, no one's going to the games.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
But you're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud,
and so people like make it that they pretend they
live in this fantasy world where it's not all because
of Caitlyn Clark, even though it obviously is. She's the
old only story that's worthy of people's attention. All these
other players are Caddie schmucks right, thank you, all right,
that was a great How was my take? Eddie's my
(21:09):
w NB? How's that take? Eddie? Was that good?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Fantastic?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh thank you Eddie.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Well, the thing is, Iowa's never been good in women's basketball.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I wouldn't know.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I wouldn't know that.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
This isn't like you. Diana Tarazzi talks about winning three
national championships at Yukon's. Well, you're a failure if you
don't win a national championship at Ukon. That's the way
it works. I mean, alright, Olympics.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Okay, all right, I've reached my my I'm full, I'm
full of my stomach's full. Thank you, Jason, my god. Okay,
just to put in perspective, how ridiculous all the media
covers of the w NB. It should only be Kitlin Clark, Like,
I wouldn't have a problem. Eddie just gave Kitlin Clark scores.
That's fine, I'd be fine with that, But to give
(22:00):
these other teams, no one gives a crap about Caitlin Clark.
I saw this number bouncing around here. Here are the
actual numbers. Caitlin Clark is responsible for thirty three point
five percent of all WNBA attendants this season. Thirty three
point five percent. It's insane, is that insane?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
One one person?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
No one else cares about the anyone in the wOBA.
They're all meaningless, like you know, the flotsam and jets
of these women, and they think they matter. They don't matter.
Women's basketball sucks. The only one that moves the needle
is Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
At thirty three point five percent of the WNBA's total attendance.
And it's insane anyway, all right. It is the The
Ben Mahlor Show. When when Kaitlin Clark plays in a
in a game, they average almost sixteen thousand fans. When
she doesn't play in a game, they average a little
(23:04):
over seven thousand fans a game, which is about what
it was.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven PM Pacific.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
I don't think point Scott mentioned this, and I honestly
didn't know about it, But they had the Tom Brady
Hall of Fame. My god, what a gala event this was.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Oh they were kissing the other's ass.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Oh my god, sixty thousand fans at Gillette Stadium.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
To see this. They were retired as number. They were tired.
You know why they did it, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Why would they have it, By the way, on the
day the Celtics are playing, well.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
There's such lose they wanted to. They did it because
they wanted.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
To sell T shirts because the date was six twelve,
number twelve, six championships and all that.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That's why they did it.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Six twelve.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
They did announce that they're going to have a twelve
foot tall Tom Brady statue that's going to be unveiled
sometime during.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That means the coming season, the Patriots are out of
the winning business. They're going to build a mausoleum like
the Lakers have out in front of their.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Apparently this was was this broadcast on live TV? There
was this like this whole big Was this a made
for TV event?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, it was, it was. I saw clips of it
on TV and the whole thing was on TV or
part I assume all everything's on TV, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I suppose John Cena was there. Jay Z did a
special song for Tom.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
They had n d A's, so nobody was allowed to
say who was going to be there the last couple
of days leading up to it.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yeah, Peyton Manning made a surprise appearance apparent.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Oh yeah, Belichick wax poetic. There they went back and forth.
Actually it was like instead of dueling pianos, it was
who can kiss the other person with more slobber. It
was wonderful, riveting. Yeah, well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Did we do a fun fact last nar I don't
think we did.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
I don't think we did either.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
My I gotta I gotta do two fun facts. Fun fact?
All right, fun fact number one? That fat slob that
tubagoo Luka doncik? Miss I do, but I like goofing
on people, so Luca, it's fair to say, Eddie, he's
not built for the full forty eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I foul out with four minutes to go over four.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Minutes in this game. But is it true that Luka
doncik in the fourth quarter? Jerry the twenty twenty four
NBA Finals, eight point six rebounds, five assists.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He's taken fifteen shots, he's only.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Made three of them. He has not made a three
point shot in the fourth quarter, and he has four
turnovers and four fouls in the fourth quarter of the
NBA Finals. Now, I didn't play in the NBA, and
what do I know. I just host the overnight show.
But I don't think that's good. That's a fun fact.
(25:50):
Luca three games into the NBA Finals, eight point six rebounds,
three of fifteen shooting, five assists, and four turnovers, four fouls,
twenty three point nine percent true shooting percentage. I don't
even know what that is, but it sounds bad. So
that's my first fun fact. You want another fun fact,
give me another hit.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
It aga malor fun fact.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Back to back at Belly and to Belly.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Another fun fact. Jason Tatum. Now, some people said, well
Tatum had a big game on Wednesday night, so he's
back in the MVP Rais for the Celtic.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Now he's not.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Now he's not Jason Tatum in the fourth quarter of
the NBA Finals. Now he's not as bad as Luka
in some categories. In other categories, he's actually worse than Luca.
Say what, yeah, Jason Tatum in the NBA Finals fourth quarter.
Celtics have won all three a couple of games close.
(26:42):
Tatum has taken seventeen shots. He's three of seventeen in
the fourth quarter. Cats your MVP twelve total points, So
he has four more points than Luca does in the
fourth quarter. But he's shooting the basketball worse because he's
missed two more shots, one of four from three point
ran so at least he's made one of those. He's
(27:04):
not okay from the foul line and a twenty nine
point nine percent true shooting percentage. So Jason Tatum, and
if you have him as your MVP, you are a
dumb move. Dumb bo is what you are. So put
that out there. We put it out there, and now
we move on. So get out the eye chart. I
(27:27):
thought this was a bizarre story. I was unaware of this.
Maybe I should have been aware of it, but I wasn't.
The Broncos head coach, guy named Sean Payton's a football coach,
and Sean Payton had a medical procedure that we learned
about this week.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
The Bronco coach, Yeah, everyone in there, and.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
He was he's been wearing sunglasses at practice and said, well,
it's daytime. It's fine. Well, Peyton actually had surgery on
his left eye last week, cataract surgery, and.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He's gonna have cataract surgery on his right eye.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
I guess I think he already had it. I believe
so he last week he did the one eye, the
left eye, and then this week they did they did
do the other eye. You say, well, I just did
say see, that's why I said that. And then yeah,
so Peyton, he's sixty years old, and he claimed.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
That the cataracts there.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I guess you're having trouble obviously with his vision and
all that, so he'll be able to see his play sheet.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Sean Payton, So things for looking up, Coop.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You didn't add any good players, but you got your
coach's vision back. So his eyes are fixed. And he
famously called the wrong play on the play sheet during
these twenty twenty only one wrong. I think he called
more than one wrong play last season. But anyway, well
that's good. Is that what we have to look forward
to as we get older, ready, or we're gonna have
(28:56):
cataract operations and things like that.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I g yes, if we live long enough.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, okay, great, wonderful. Go on WebMD and look at
all the stuff you're gonna get if you're fortunate enough
to live long enough. It's just absolutely great, something to
look forward to for everybody. Now the Godfather offer. We
turned the page. Godfather offer. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are
a football team, not a good one, not a good one.
Their general manager, Todd Licked, is the GM there in Tampa,
(29:24):
and he says that NFL executives would offer he said,
literally ten first round picks for a high caliber, caliber
quarterback prospect, he said, and he says, the way that
you draft the quarterbacks. So it's gonna be lights out.
(29:44):
You know, he's going to be Patrick Mahomes. With Joe Burrow,
you'd offer literally ten first round picks.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
For the guy.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
It wouldn't matter, it would be worth it. But he said,
it's such a crapshoot. Yeah, so Joe Burrow, I get
Joe Burrow was supposed to be good. We loved him
in college at LSU and Baton Rouge and he's lived
up to the billy. But Patrick Mahomes was not supposed
to be amazing. In fact, I recall when he was
(30:11):
drafted by the Chiefs at the I think it was
like the tenth of the eleventh think or something that
in the draft, and people were like, that's an overdraft,
Like what are you doing drafted in that high? Has
Andy Reid lost it? What do you have Alex Smith there?
What are you doing? This guy was a gunslinger when
he was playing at Texas Tech. And Mahomes was the
tenth pick in that draft. And there were a bunch
(30:36):
of players who never made it that were drafted ahead
of him in that draft, the great Solomon Thomas uh
who John Ross was drafted Mike Williams wide receiver and
didn't really make much much of impact. And then the
big one is Mitch Trubisky, the great Mitch Trubisky, who
(30:56):
was the first quarterback drafted by the Chicago Bears, much
to the dismay of Yapimi and the others in Chicago.
But that was that was back in the day. I
saw the Dodgers made a trade, not a good one,
but they picked up the son of a Hall of Famer,
Craig Bgo's son, Cavan Bgo. They got him from the
(31:17):
Blue Jays. Now that he must have known he was
going to be traded a couple days ago because he
was designated for assignment by Toronto, and he made his
Dodger debut actually at home run hit a home run
or not a homer. He had a baseit, not a
home run. He had a baseit for the Dodgers in
that game against the Rangers. But this guy another one
of these prospects. It's just like I've said all along,
a prospect is a suspect until proven odwas was a
(31:38):
couple years back. The Blue Jays were all fired up.
They had Bgo's son, Guerrero's son, and they had Bashet's son.
And here we are a few years later, blue Jays
teams underachieved. Bgo's already gone. He's now, he's a super
utility guy. He's going to try to hang out with
the Dodgers for a while. He was hitting two hundred
(31:59):
this year in Toronto, and he's a career two twenty
seven hitter. The Blue Jays are debating whether or not
the trade Guerrero Junior and Bashet's kid bowl Boshet. So
it's conceivable all of those guys, the spawn of the
great players of baseball past, will be out of Canada.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
All coda.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Before you know it, it is the Ben Mallard Show.
Time Now for the Insta Trivia. We're gonna have Mallard
of the third degree coming up molentarily. But here is
the Insta trivia. Pittsburgh and Baseball's latest phenom, Paul Skeens.
He's the one dating the what's the woman's name? He's
dating the famous internet the celebrity of the gymnast. I
forget her name, but she's apparently very popular anyway, and
(32:47):
nobody answered that, so nobody knows. Paul Skeens, Pittsburgh pitcher.
The first pitcher to have forty five or more strikeouts
and six or fewer walks in his first six career
appearance is since blank again. Paul Skeins picture for the
Pittsburgh Pirates the Bucos. The first pitcher to have forty
(33:09):
five plus strikeouts and six or fewer walks in his
first six career appearances since blank. That is the Insta Trivia.
The answer, We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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Speaker 2 (33:56):
It's Ben Maller and here is your install Trivia with
Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Warming up right now. It's on the back burner. We're
gonna move to the front burner and then we're gonna
serve it to you.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Here's the answer trivia. Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes the first pitcher
to have forty five or more strikeouts and six or
fewer walks in his first six career appearances since blank.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
That is the question.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
What is the answer? Late night drug test are going with?
Mike Blecki has the answer. Cowboy Killer, says vernon mad
Max Maxwell, who famously a basketball player. He went into
the crowd to fight a fan years ago. It was
one of the great moments before social media, though, so
we don't remember Evan from the division leading Mariner fan
(34:44):
no longer a long suffering Mariner fan, says Mariner's legend
Jamie Moyer the curse or the cure for crime rather
Cobra the cure for com Corobra, Milkman Mike and Colorado,
Mister Wonderful Paul Orndorf. There is the answer from Mark Puffin.
Tippy Martinez from alf the Alien Opino. That's a pretty
good name, Big Unit. Randy Johnson from Andy in Lion o' Lakes, Minnesota.
(35:08):
Harold square Pants from ferg Dog was watching SpongeBob. Who else?
Henry row Garter from King Rory blind Caller Legend Vision
from Shandon to One. Whatever happened to vision? El Roy
roy Face from I forty Ian that's his answer. Greg
(35:30):
Brady guest by Mala prop Guy Paige Down, Lou Dobbs
guessed by Justin in Cincinnati the Glue Farm Glue Factory
owner Lou Dobbson. Who else? Jackie Stewart who turns eighty
five today from Malibu, Rubin h. Livvy Dunn is the
answer from Supermarket Steve. That's who I was looking for.
(35:52):
The name there, Tim Lincecum from Matt the Warrior Raider fan.
All right, Eddie, do you have an answer? It is
not Whitey Ford guessed by Mark in Santa Monica or
Rick Aguilera from Kyle.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
I'm gonna go with former Bucco's great Doug Dravak.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Doug Draviik.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Fine, answer that's wrong, Eddy, be correct.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Answer Masa Hero Tanaka ten years ago, Massa Hero Tanaka.
Last one to.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Do before Paul schemes.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
You're gonna buy a Paul Skeins Jersey, Eddy, Now you're
too old for that.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
He'll be gone in a few years.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
My Dodgers, Yeah, probably the Dodgers Yankees at red suss
it's from Southern Californias. Is probably the Dodgers are.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 4 (36:33):
To the third degree, This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
And I would like to ask the Pirates if they
are a Triple A affiliate of the Dodgers. Just make
sure you don't mess up Paul skin so he's ready
when he gets to the big leagues with the Dodgers, Coobolo,
what do we have here?
Speaker 10 (36:48):
A group of twenty eight MLB agents and executives were
pulled about the type of contract Juan Soto could secure.
Seventeen predicted that Soto would sign for over five hundred million,
and three even said that he'd get it least six
hundred million. Ben, do you think his deal will reach
those heights?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I think the five hundred the five hundred million is
doa well. Here's why he turned down. If my sources
are correct, he turned down three hundred million from the Nationals.
He then got traded to the Padres won Soto and
a little birdie who likes fish tacos in San Diego
tells me that he turned down over four hundred million dollars.
Now I would I would be a I would need
(37:27):
a therapist if I turned down four hundred million. So
if he turned down three hundred and four hundred million
with the Biden putin price hike, then five hundred millions
absolutely doable. So I'm gonna go five hundred million. Yes.
Speaker 10 (37:38):
Next, it's being reported that Saudi Arabia's public investment fund
isn't the topif the piff, Yes, they're in talks with
seven different boxing organizations to unify the sport under one league, Ben,
do you think they'll make it happen?
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
This is just fu money the Saudi government has and
they want to mess You know, they want to get
into American culture and we know that if you offer
enough money, you can do whatever you want. They've already
ruined golf. I could see them doing boxing next. That's
a global sport that makes some sense. Why not next?
Speaker 10 (38:10):
Jamar Chase is another Star Wide receiver looking for a
contract extension. Despite sitting out OTA's, Chase did show up
for a mandatory mini camp, Ben, do you think Chase's
eventual deal will top Justin Jefferson's No.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
He plays for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
They just had a sale at the stadium to get
rid of televisions. At you could buy an old TV.
You think they're gonna pay him more money than Justin Jefferson?
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Are you insane?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
No, Jamarg he'll get a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
He's not gonna get more money than Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
How did we do? Kobola? He passes editionion.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Nattie say, wait, I won Justin and Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
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