June 13, 2024 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about the Mavs losing Game 3 of the NBA Finals in Dallas to fall 0-3 to the Celtics, NBA legend Jerry West passing away at age 86, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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So you thought you were gaining a competitive NBA finals
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coming from promouncy vault. After another brief hiatus, the finals
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have resumed. Now I don't know if you're into this
or up. The scene shifted and they say they whoever
they are, well, that serious doesn't start until the road
team wins. Okay, So to the heart of Texas we go.
I don't know if you were watching. Probably not. Perhaps
you were staring at grass growing out in the distance
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somewhere on a prairie. But don't worry, we watched so
you would not have to. Jason Tatum didn't do much late,
but he had thirty one points. Jalen Brown was the
better of the two. We had thirty, though, so we
had one less point. And the Boston Celtics, who felt
behind early by double digits, they weathered that storm and
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then hold off a late push, a futile late push
by the Dallas basketball team, And now the Celtics are
on the brink of exterminating the mav Rex, a lowly
number five seed, and they are playing like you what
a joke. The Mavericks have been in these NBA finals.
So Boston one more win and they get their eighteenth title.
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They went by seven, They were a slight dog on
the Roadston Celtics, and they win. They have a three
to nothing lead in the NBA Finals. Now Jalen Brown,
not only they have the thirty points, he had eight rebounds,
eight assists. Timing matters. His timing was pretty good, pretty good.
And so the Celtics have now extended a franchise record
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for success in the playoffs, which means something because they've
had a lot of it over the years. Ten consecutive
playoff wins. Now for the Boston Celtics, they are seven
to zher on the road, trying to match the Kobe
shack Lakers back in the day that they won all
of their their road games. Now they can win the series,
and they can do that on Friday, or Dallas can win.
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We'll go back to Boston. But the record for most championships,
which is the Celtics franchise record, they'll tack on another title.
But the better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we go. It's all about
six degrees, not of Kevin Bacon, of Luka Doncik, who
was Bacon and not the good kind of bacon. In
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this game, Look fouled out with over four minutes to go.
In the final game, Game three, fouled out. He fouled
out of the end, and then he had the gall
After the game, he implied the referees were to blame
for not allowing the Mavericks to play physical basketball. He
went on a rant, and he tried not to get
(04:24):
himself fine, but he made it all about him. I've
worked with people like that, So let us discuss the question, Louka.
Luca Dannci thinks that the officials are to blame for
the Mavericks not having a chance to win based on physicality.
What is your verdict on this latest decree from the
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headliner in Dallas? My thoughts, I've got SpongeBob, SquarePants, Circus show,
and the amazing Cresken, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make jumbo
side cinnabuns, which Luca can eat when he's at the airport,
when he's going on vacation. He can to be in
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a couple of days. So a we'll start it. Luca
sounding like an unhinged whack job. Uh, In fact, just
to prove I'm not making this this little taste of
what Luca sounds like when he goes on a little rant.
Take a listen, Luca, what did you think of the
whistles that would against you in the fourth quarter?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I mean, yeah, I don't know. We couldn't play physical, so, uh,
I don't know. I don't want to say nothing. But
you know, six fallow in the NBA Finals, Basically, I'm
like this, come on, man, better than that. Every time
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they joyed, basically call a foul. So I tried to
be better. Uh so, uh gotta get better.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You gotta get all right. So he threw a well
timed butt in there. And you know, from the way
we use dialogue, if you use the butt, the word butt,
everything before the word butt is a lie. So he
just said that and then after that that's what he
really meant. But Lucas got a lot of hoots. Maybe
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my television's not that great. I don't know. I'm doing
the overnight shows, so I might not have the greatest TV.
But certainly looked like those were all legitimate fouls, and
it looked like he could have been called for seven
or eight other fouls throughout the game, so he's got
a lot of hoots. As my grandfather would say, it
was in the best interest of the NBA. Maybe am
I wrong on this? I think it was in the
best interest of the NBA and the media partners of
the NBA, the advertisers for Dallas to win Game three,
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because then that brings a little bit of excitement into it,
and you say, you got a shot, you got a chance.
So it wasn't like there was this grand conspiracy against Dallas.
It would have benefited the sport, the business of basketball
for the Mavericks to win. All the juice has been
emptied in this series. Now it's all but done. Now
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is there a path for the Mavericks to come back? Sure,
Tatum and Brown could collide together, get injured and both leave,
and then then it's a whole new deal. Strange things
can happen, but we both know more likely than not
it's a toast. But it's not because of that. It's
just because Dallas is not that good, right, they're not.
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Luka Doncik is at this point a character from SpongeBob
square Pants. When he's on defense, he's Gary the slug.
Remember those stories about oh Luca's changed. He's no longer
just a one way player. No, he's a slug. He
slows down to a snail's pace one on defense and
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selectively makes any kind of effort on defense. If you've
noticed this in this series, and maybe I should have
noticed it earlier, I don't know, Maybe he's just doing
it now, but it's like he's he picks his spots
and he'll play defense ten percent of the time where
he'll actually put some effort into it, and even on
the possessions where he puts effort into it, he's always
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doing the old reach around. Well not that kind of reach,
but he's doing the reach around. He's trying to draw
an offensive foul and Luca, you are who he thought
you were, and you're a liability on defense he is,
and then he has the standard conniption fit when he
doesn't get the whistle, thus putting a larger spotlight. And
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a lot of these calls were easy. You don't have
to be in the tank for the NBA to oh,
that's a foul. That's a foul. There's another foul. Booooo
all right now. Page two. One of the other storylines
leading into this game was about the unicorn. You probably
think unicorns aren't real because you're an adult, But in
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pro bouncy ball there is one. He plays for Boston,
occasionally plays for Boston. But the unicorn was on ice.
So what happened to the narrative? The Celtics are going
to have issues with Chris stops Porzingis out of the lineup.
Without him and the lineup, they were going to have
a lot of problems. In fact, several well known pundits
told you there was little chance the Celtics could even
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compete in this series without Porzingis. So what happened is
that take was a circus show take. It was a
spinning play right, balancing hope and fear. And this was
always a contrived storyline by my fellow blowhards and gasbags.
The Celtics have been a wagon, they continue to be
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a wagon, and they are playing with a fluidity whatever
term you want to hear. In all cylinders, there's confidence there.
There is no such thing as momentum. The Celtics don't
have momentum because momentum doesn't exist. They're just better. But
there is a report going around here from Wojes that
says there is real doubt about Porzingis returning to the
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NBA Finals because of his leg injury. That report is
a dog whistle. He ain't playing right. Boston only needs
to win one more game. They will win that game
without Porzingis, who essentially played one game. All right, Well,
he played most of game two. Yeah, but his impact
was in game one and that was it, and they
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could have won that without him. It's not like they
needed him to win that game. Somebody else would have
made those shots, all right. Last word here, So now
we go up to ten thousand feet in the sky
and we look down and we say who gets to
wear the Texas size ten gallon hat of shame for Dallas.
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So it starts with the aforementioned Loo Donch starts with him.
He's got to be the dumbest player in the NBA
in terms of playing the game right. You have to
be a statue you when you're in foul trouble little
boat store players that are not supposed to foul outstart. Plus,
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I get it, I understand, but when you whine and
bitch on every call like Luca does, you're putting a
bigger onus because these are still I think human beings.
Maybe they're androids. I don't know. They look human. But
when you get your fifth foul, that is a dead
give what dead give what? You got me a statue?
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Don't even try, And like Luca doesn't really try. So
now he's like, well, I want to do the old
rich around, try to get a foul instead of just
being a statue. He's the leaning tower of Pisa. He's
leaning in. You can't do that. You got to be
the statue of liberty, arm in the air everywhere, hold
that torch up in the air. And so that was
certainly the kill shot Luca being an idiot and getting
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you know, making it easy for the referee to call
foul on. But Dallas was unable to keep the fire burning.
They had all the momentum, you idiots, tell me at
all the momentum in the first color up thirteen points.
They came out like that, tas Maybia devil oh man,
were they great? Oh there's on the broad test. They're like, oh,
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if they can just stay within ten by the time
we get to the second quarter, and it was like
a one point game. And then many will say, well,
that's the supporting cast. And I heard all these great
things about the players around Luca and Kyrie. This is
the greatest backcourt of all time. But these other role
players were wonderful, and they they'd stepped up. But I'm
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gonna say the quiet part out locked. You're not gonna
hear this a lot of places. Both Luca and Uncle
Drew got together, they huddled up, They rode the vomit comet.
They went amazing Cresken as the game progressed. It's one
of these things if you just look at the box scorers, well,
you know, look at the numbers. There's solid numbers. They
are but hocus pocus, losing focus as the game went on.
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They vanished for almost eleven minutes a game time. Dall
was leading fifty nine to fifty eight. Early third court.
I jotted down a note there was nine thirty three
to go in the third quarter. It has a lot
of basketball, we get it, I understand, but it's a
one point game. From that point forward, they got outscored
by twenty two points, ended up down twenty one. How
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did that happen? Boston went on a thirty three to
eleven burner at that point, and it spilled into the
fourth quarter, and in that stretch Luka Doncik and Kyrie
Irvings shot a combined thirty three point three percent, which
is half the sign of the devil. They faded like flowers,
all right, They fited like and Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown,
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who he's already wrapped up the MV. Does anyone disagree
that he's the MVP. He's wrapped up the MVP on
res on my ballot by outscoring Dallas in that stretch,
the game turning stretch, he outscored them fourteen to eleven.
By himself, it was thirty three to eleven overall, but
see those points by Jalen Brown and Brown. Then at
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the end when things got a little closer, even though
you never really believe the Mavericks could actually win, even
when they were within three points of a tie, but
Jalen Brown helped calm the waters there in the final
three and a half minutes or so.
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hour 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
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victory for the Boston basketball team as the Celtics taking
advantage of the generosity of Luca Dumbass, the floundering star
there lolly gagging around and ends up fouling out with
four over four minutes to go in the game, and
the Celtics, who we are up by twenty one anyway,
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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. Jerry
West has died. News came down early on Wednesday. Jerry
West the dead at age eighty six, and he is
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He's been remembered 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 Famer
multiple times. There. They had a pregame video tribute, a
lengthy moment of silence before the game. Jerry West most
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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 a senior
advisor to the Clippers and responsible for them getting to
the Final four a couple years back. But let us
discuss the question. So Jerry West passes away, and it's
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the proper thing, right, I mean, we were 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 going to remember the logo?
How are you going to remember the logo? So it's
very important to do this now, and we're gonna save
this in the podcast because over time, your memory fades
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and 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 things together and
we are going to create some witchcraft. I know that
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Justin and Cincinnati loves the witchcraft. He's a big fan
of that. So num Bird, all right, stop sty of
thanks broken that cockroaches got in there. So my first
thought on eulogizing Jerry West is a class personify there's
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only one person I know in the LA media my
years of being around LA let me do the national
show now for years. But the people I know that
we're around in Jerry West heyday with the Lakers, only
one person I know doesn't like him. Everyone else likes him.
And 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 but
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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. But I was lucky
enough to have a mutual friend, a couple of people
that knew Jerry West, and so I got to be
around him a bit. It was after the Showtime Lakers,
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but before the Kobe Shack Lakers. It was the Club
Said Lakers, the Nick Van Exell Lakers, that era of
the Lakers before I hated them with a passion. But anyway,
this guy, Big Joe McDonald was a larger than life
in more ways than the one talk shows in Los Angeles.
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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 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
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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, but talent evaluation. He didn't use
a computer. You today it's all about big data on
computers and algorithms.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Jerry just watched the player and he said, well, this
guy's pretty good. I think this guy's going to be great.
And he didn't hit on everyone, but he hit on enough.
And the biggest of them all was Kobe Bryant. But
even with the Clippers, he recommended shake Yogos Alexander, who
was traded to get Paul George, which also got Kawhi
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Leonard and then that led to the final four. But
Jerry West had he was the Midas man. He had
the Midas touch. When it came to that, he had
this uncanny knack of finding a ten. And that's the
Jerry West I'm going to remember. And I didn't see
him as a player. I saw clips on the Internet
and all that, and part of nine Championships. Most of
that he only when won as a player. Most of
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that as an executive was the finals MVP on a
losing team, for God's sakes. But Jerry West. The thing
that isn't often talked about is Jerry got absolutely screwed
over by the Lakers. I mean, they gave him. You
talk 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
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he absolutely got pushed out by Genie Buss and the
Bus family there because Genie was really into Phil Jackson
and I'm really into Phil Jackson. And they picked the
zen Master over the logos, a battle of egos there,
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and Jerry West really was broken up by that. He
really really pissed him off. And he didn't get upset
by a lot of things, but he's 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 Jeanie Buss was happening, you know, was
sleeping with Bil Jackson. I mean they were in a relationship,
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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 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
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after he got kicked out of the Lakers book. So
rest in peace, Jerry West. Eighty 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 Barret remains the leading
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candidate for the Laker coaching job if you believe the reporting.
Now Barrego also a finalist for the Cavs job. This
guy was an absolute failure with the Charlotte Hornets. But
here we are he's back and being called a leading candidate.
James Parrego being called a leading candidate for the Laker
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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? What he did you talking
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about doing? Someone?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Dirty?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
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 Laker,
after Hurley left, they were left disheveled, staggered, and bedraggled
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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 Redick is still my default
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favorite for the job. But Barrego, He's not off my
big board. I don't. I don't do this. I do
big boards. He's not off my big board because of
the discount rack nature of that higher He's a reshread,
lifelong assistant coach, an occasional head coach, and that is
someone that's pretty important and valuable for a penny rich dollar.
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Poor Genie Buss who runs the Lakers. All right, final
point and 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
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it on social betting on himself. Are you buying what
Ben Simmons is selling the nets Guard? Not only am
I not buying this, This is the kind of product
that has you go out of business. That's how bad
the product he is selling is. Now, I can't tell
you beyond a reasonable doubt that Ben Simmons is the
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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
affairs and boardwalks and they had a cure for just
about everything, kind of like Ben Simmons. Every off season
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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 the season starts, he sucks, he suffers a
(27:24):
phantom injury. He is then shut down for the season,
and then starts selling the snake oil all over again.
Wash rins, repeat, period stop.
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Here we go, we go, It's Mallard. How about that
to the third degree?
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This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And I would like to ask the Pirates, says 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 we have here.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
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 at least six
hundred million. Ben do you think his deal will reach
those heights?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I think the five hundred the five hundred millions doable.
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 Podresje 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 a
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therapist if I turned down four hundred million. So he'd
be 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 7 (28:51):
Next, it's being reported that Saudi Arabia's public investment fund
isn't to the PITH. Yes, they're in talks with seven
different box organizations to unify the sport under one league, Ben,
do you think they'll make it happen?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah? 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 7 (29:22):
Jamaar 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 1 (29:34):
No. He plays for the Cincinnati Begos. 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? Are you insane? No,
Jamarg He'll get a lot of money. You're not gonna
get more money than Jefferson. How did we do Kuboo?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
He passes edision?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Matt say, wait, I.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Won Justin and Cincinnati I won.
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Speaker 7 (30:13):
It's now time for time for Horry Horry Honey Wait.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Ask Ben Twitter, send us your questions on Twitter. Now
the flag us up. It is time now for the
audio jackpot that is Ask Ben. Your questions are answers
right now. For this is not the mailbag that's on
the Fifth Hour podcast on Sunday, but today it is
all about ask Ben. And we passed the microphone over
(30:39):
to the Cooper Loope will bounce pass and unlike Luka Doncik,
we will make the shot in the fourth quarter as
we go the extra mile with the reading of the
questions from Coop on asked Ben.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
All right, Cowboy Killer would like to know.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
How about Hi, Cowboy Keller? Hi?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Do you prefer chips and salsa or the r a
choke dip for an appetizer?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, I'm not against the artist choke dip. It's not
my favorite. I prefer chips and salsa, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Generally speaking, I would go chips and salsa.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I can't go wrong with chips and salsa. Loraina, I'm
disappointed in both right, Oh my gosh, artichoke dip all
the way.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
And you know what I really like when like I
think it's chilis and Applebee's.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
They also give you a side of salsa with your
artichoke dip, so you get both.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You're on the wrong side of history of Lorena. That's
that's fine.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Artichoke dip is fantastic. I love artichoke dip so good.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I don't hate it, but it's not mine my favorite.
What is next? It's ask Ben your questions all answers
for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
King Rory would like to know.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Hi, King Rory.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
Do you properly use your turn indicators while driving?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
And it annoys the hell out of me. If you're
gonna drive like a douche canoe, at least have the
courtesy of signaling when you're about to cut me off.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
It is beyond. It drives me nuts. You're driving. It's
like being Butcher in Germany and driving the auto bond
at night in la and during the day, you don't
get anywhere during the day because there's traffic. But at night,
when we're driving around in the early morning hours, you
can actually drive and it's like the autobond, but at
least signal. It is so lazy. I hate it, so yeah,
(32:27):
I signaled. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
I would agree with that. I would probably even say
that I use it even when I don't really have to.
But it's a good habit to get into it.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, you don't want to stop using it because yeah, yeah,
for you guys are boomers. What about you, Lorena? Well
Ben always return my cart. I also doll rain.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's only when I know I'm really making a very
dedicated move.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I'm here, I'm not here to give a warning.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
I'm getting over.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
No, Oh, it's so bad.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Uh. For the most part, I'd say the only times
that I maybe don't use it is if I'm like
in a left turn lane that you can only turn
left in. You know what I mean, Like you're waiting
for the left turn arrow, Like I don't necessarily have
it on when I'm sitting in that lane, everybody's going left.
That's that's just.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
The rain is not courteous.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Who told me I don't have to if i'm lane
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
If you're in the lane with the arrow, you do
not have to use your blinker.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah yeah, good cock gone bad bad apples there? Now
what what about? Now? I was told, and I don't
know if this is true or not, that if you're
in the left turn lane, but you're going to make
a U turn, you shouldn't signal because you're making the
U turn. So that's a sign you're going to make
a U turn to the people that are turning right
into the oncoming traffic. About that, I don't know if
(33:57):
that's true. Somebody told me that years ago, and I've
just I've operated that way. Uh, Coop, if you answered this,
I don't Yeah, you did right. What's next?
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Art Puffin would like to know my arts. I want
somebody to fact check Lorain out. By the way, Art
Puffin wants to know what was the first Super Bowl
that you watched?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
That is a good question. Now, watched or remember? Uh?
Because I think I remember they were like the Giants
and Broncos. I mean the I remember what. I know.
I watched the Rams as a kid, but I don't
remember it. So they were in there playing the Steelers,
but I don't really remember that, So I guess the
one I kind of fond memories up because I got
(34:37):
a T shirt from it. My mom made a big
deal to go down to the store. We paid like
four bucks for a T shirt. Was I think it
was the it made the like mid eighties Giants and Broncos.
I think I think that's bring about it. What about you, Eddie?
You probably you're older than me.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Yeah, I think it's part of the reason why I
was a Steelers fan. Steelers Rams in nineteen eighty was
the first one I really remember, and I was like, Oh,
I like that team. They won. I'm going to be
a fan of that team.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I did a radio show with Terry Bradshaw years ago.
He said if he had known I was a little
fat kid watching, he would have thrown the game for
the Rams.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
That's what he told me.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, I'm not making that fighter. He did tell me that.
I think he might have been kidding.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
Though, have no idea.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Don't hear a super Bowl? Okay?
Speaker 6 (35:20):
He ever watched the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yes, okay, just for the commercial the commercials. Yeah, so
the halftime with the game.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Yeah, all right, the cool Broncos Packers.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Oh yeah, late was that late nineties?
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Yeah, ninety ninety seven, Okay, that was.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I think that was was that the one I interviewed. No,
that wasn't the one. I interviewed Shannon Sharp before one
of the Broncos Super Bowls and he told me. I
asked he actually, I guess he wasn't. He was one
in San Diego. He didn't play in it, but he
he said he didn't watch football. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Gess you missed all the other ones, Coop because they
didn't go well for your Broncos.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Yeah. No, no, I mean that's that's why I became
a Broncos fan. That was the first, like really it
was really the first like football game that I sat
and watched, like start to finish.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
All right, what is next? Just ask Ben the Extended
Dance Remix. Your questions are answers. If you like this,
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Speaker 2 (36:16):
Cool?
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Donkey Sausage would like to know when was the h
Docky When was the last time he went to a library?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
So I went to a.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Virtual library because I wanted to watch a Phil Henry
documentary for free, and I got to get a library card,
So I wanted the virtual library. My radio, not my
radio friend but Phil Henry used to work at Premiere,
so he.
Speaker 7 (36:39):
Spent forty five minutes signing up for the library.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
But I saved like five bucks watching the documentary, so
it was totally worth it. But I could go to
the library and pick up the card. But I haven't
been in years eighty.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Quickly, a couple of years ago, I think I went
to get a passport photo taken or something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
All right, sounds low, rain.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
No. I love libraries.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
And I go to the college one and I go
to the county one in West Pavina and in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Okay, go cool.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Yeah, college was probably the last time I went to
a library.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
All right, what's the next?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Quickly, Matt Jack wants to know what's your favorite Mexican food?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Oh, crunchy tacos all day and all night for the wind.
Tacos dorado is what they call them, Eddy quicker, not
chos no larina. Oh it's so hard, trim chagaslas. All right,
No crunchy taco all day, all night for the win.
Tacos dorado. That's the way.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
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Speaker 1 (37:41):
Let's get over to Eddie though right now, and we
will puck the whirl with Eddie Garcy.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Then.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
The Stanley Cup Final is through two games so far
between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers, the Panthers
winning the first two games on home ice. Game one
a three nothing shot out behind Goalie's Surgame Rovsky's thirty
two saves, while Edmundson was zero for three on the
power play, and that went in their stars, Conor McDavid
and Leandrey said, obviously not getting any points in the
shoutout loss. Game two, the Panthers win it four to
(38:10):
one to take a two oher series lead. Evan Rodriguez
with a pair of balls, one of them on the
power play. That's stepped to streak of thirty four straight
power pace killed off by Edmondson and the Oilers went
zero for four on the power play, so that oh
for seven in the series, only one shot of negative?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Why are you so negative? Why can't you be positive?
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Well, how do you turn a positive into going oh
for seven on the power play?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
They're due?
Speaker 6 (38:31):
That's stupid averages. Flourida is a plus seventeen through the
first two games rusts the first two games through the
playoffs so far.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
That tells you what they have done, not what they're
going to do it.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
No, I don't know what they're going to do, So
I can only tell you what they have done.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I know what they're going to do in relative of.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
The way he was, Yes, he was.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
You're a hater, ready, go look look up the history
of coming in had Anti.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
Is a wacko.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
No one's respecting their time and it's only after they
die their respect.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
So Florida is a plus seventeen in the third period
so far this postseason, and a plus four so far
in the series. So that means they're the better team
as the game goes on and that will probably continue.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Edmonton one one game going to the third curd the
last game. Oh, it was such.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
A one at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
The game.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
It does matter. Actually the final score actually does matter.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
That's a weird one. Bound to the off the Zamboni.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
So teams that have had a two zero series lead
fifty four and five in the history of the Stanley
Cup Final, and again game three tonight in Edmonton as
the Oilers basically if they don't win. It's just like
the Celtics. It's the series is over. NHL commissioner Gary
Bettman healthy State of the League address ahead of the
opening game, with the final.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Love that that's very ertaing.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Yeah, what do you think you said? All as well?
Of course, the salary cap going up next season to
eighty eight million dollars. They're not gonna have an All
Star Game next year. They're gonna have a new thing
called the Four Nations Tournament in US, US, Canada, Finland
and Sweden will be competing in a round robin tournament.
The games we played February twelfth through the twenty of twenty.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Twenty five, and we have that it's called the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (40:11):
You moron om because are only four years and they
don't control the Olympics. This They make all the money
from this event, which is why they want to not.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I'm not supporting that, Eddie. As a hockey purist, I
go back to the original six Eddie. I don't see.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
Yeah, four games in Montreal and then the metal Round
games I guess you want to call them, will be
in Boston. Bettman also declining to offer a timeline on
the future of NHL expansion. It's coming soon. Don't worry
about that.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Where are they going? They're going to Houston, back to
Phoenix made Yeah, probably most likely.
Speaker 7 (40:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
There is talk of the Florida Panthers hosting an outdoor
game at the home of the Miami Barlins next season.
The Panthers and the Coyotes slash Utah team the only
teams have yet done it yet to participate in an
NHL outdoor game. Jim Mill of the Dallas Stars named
Your General Manager of the Year for a second time,
received one hundred and eighteen votes. The Utah Hockey Team
(41:02):
are down to six finalists.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Hockey Club they haven't decided yet.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
It was a terrible blizzards and of course yety is
the one that has to be the credit.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Here we got.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
NHL unveiled something new for the Stanley Cup final.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
They did a broadcast in American sign language, which got
a lot of praise from people.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah, did anyone? Did anyone hear it?
Speaker 7 (41:35):
Is?
Speaker 2 (41:35):
No?
Speaker 6 (41:35):
Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I get if they
want to have that for like a pregame show in
between periods kind of a thing, But do they need
to do play by play can't you watch the game?
I mean, if you're watching the sign language, do you
know what are you? You have a closed caption already?
I don't. I mean, it's one of those things. I
(41:56):
think they are looking for pats on the back, and
they probably got them, But is it really necessary to
do play language?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
And that's like that's virtue of singling. It's like, you know,
that's what that is. It's like, oh, we're better people.
You know. It's okay, you're wonderful. Congratulations, you know, way
to go.
Speaker 6 (42:11):
Obviously, I I do have my hearing, but if I didn't,
I think I just watched what was happening. I don't
think I need anyone to explain it to me anyway.
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(01:52):
have resumed. Now I don't know if you're into this
or up. The scene shifted and they say they whoever
they are, well, that serious doesn't start until the road
team wins. Okay, So to the heart of Texas we go.
I don't know if you were watching. Probably not. Perhaps
you were staring at grass growing out in the distance
(02:13):
somewhere on a prairie. But don't worry, we watched so
you would not have to. Jason Tatum didn't do much late,
but he had thirty one points. Jalen Brown was the
better of the two. We had thirty, though, so we
had one less point. And the Boston Celtics, who felt
behind early by double digits, they weathered that storm and
(02:33):
then hold off a late push, a futile late push
by the Dallas basketball team, And now the Celtics are
on the brink of exterminating the mav Rex, a lowly
number five seed, and they are playing like you what
a joke. The Mavericks have been in these NBA finals.
So Boston one more win and they get their eighteenth title.
(02:54):
They went by seven, They were a slight dog on
the Roadston Celtics, and they win. They have a three
to nothing lead in the NBA Finals. Now Jalen Brown,
not only they have the thirty points, he had eight rebounds,
eight assists. Timing matters. His timing was pretty good, pretty good.
And so the Celtics have now extended a franchise record
(03:18):
for success in the playoffs, which means something because they've
had a lot of it over the years. Ten consecutive
playoff wins. Now for the Boston Celtics, they are seven
to zher on the road, trying to match the Kobe
shack Lakers back in the day that they won all
of their their road games. Now they can win the series,
and they can do that on Friday, or Dallas can win.
(03:40):
We'll go back to Boston. But the record for most championships,
which is the Celtics franchise record, they'll tack on another title.
But the better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we go. It's all about
six degrees, not of Kevin Bacon, of Luka Doncik, who
was Bacon and not the good kind of bacon. In
(04:03):
this game, Look fouled out with over four minutes to go.
In the final game, Game three, fouled out. He fouled
out of the end, and then he had the gall
After the game, he implied the referees were to blame
for not allowing the Mavericks to play physical basketball. He
went on a rant, and he tried not to get
(04:24):
himself fine, but he made it all about him. I've
worked with people like that, So let us discuss the question, Louka.
Luca Dannci thinks that the officials are to blame for
the Mavericks not having a chance to win based on physicality.
What is your verdict on this latest decree from the
(04:45):
headliner in Dallas? My thoughts, I've got SpongeBob, SquarePants, Circus show,
and the amazing Cresken, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make jumbo
side cinnabuns, which Luca can eat when he's at the airport,
when he's going on vacation. He can to be in
(05:07):
a couple of days. So a we'll start it. Luca
sounding like an unhinged whack job. Uh, In fact, just
to prove I'm not making this this little taste of
what Luca sounds like when he goes on a little rant.
Take a listen, Luca, what did you think of the
whistles that would against you in the fourth quarter?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I mean, yeah, I don't know. We couldn't play physical, so, uh,
I don't know. I don't want to say nothing. But
you know, six fallow in the NBA Finals, Basically, I'm
like this, come on, man, better than that. Every time
(05:48):
they joyed, basically call a foul. So I tried to
be better. Uh so, uh gotta get better.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
You gotta get all right. So he threw a well
timed butt in there. And you know, from the way
we use dialogue, if you use the butt, the word butt,
everything before the word butt is a lie. So he
just said that and then after that that's what he
really meant. But Lucas got a lot of hoots. Maybe
(06:21):
my television's not that great. I don't know. I'm doing
the overnight shows, so I might not have the greatest TV.
But certainly looked like those were all legitimate fouls, and
it looked like he could have been called for seven
or eight other fouls throughout the game, so he's got
a lot of hoots. As my grandfather would say, it
was in the best interest of the NBA. Maybe am
I wrong on this? I think it was in the
best interest of the NBA and the media partners of
the NBA, the advertisers for Dallas to win Game three,
(06:44):
because then that brings a little bit of excitement into it,
and you say, you got a shot, you got a chance.
So it wasn't like there was this grand conspiracy against Dallas.
It would have benefited the sport, the business of basketball
for the Mavericks to win. All the juice has been
emptied in this series. Now it's all but done. Now
(07:08):
is there a path for the Mavericks to come back? Sure,
Tatum and Brown could collide together, get injured and both leave,
and then then it's a whole new deal. Strange things
can happen, but we both know more likely than not
it's a toast. But it's not because of that. It's
just because Dallas is not that good, right, they're not.
(07:29):
Luka Doncik is at this point a character from SpongeBob
square Pants. When he's on defense, he's Gary the slug.
Remember those stories about oh Luca's changed. He's no longer
just a one way player. No, he's a slug. He
slows down to a snail's pace one on defense and
(07:50):
selectively makes any kind of effort on defense. If you've
noticed this in this series, and maybe I should have
noticed it earlier, I don't know, Maybe he's just doing
it now, but it's like he's he picks his spots
and he'll play defense ten percent of the time where
he'll actually put some effort into it, and even on
the possessions where he puts effort into it, he's always
(08:13):
doing the old reach around. Well not that kind of reach,
but he's doing the reach around. He's trying to draw
an offensive foul and Luca, you are who he thought
you were, and you're a liability on defense he is,
and then he has the standard conniption fit when he
doesn't get the whistle, thus putting a larger spotlight. And
(08:36):
a lot of these calls were easy. You don't have
to be in the tank for the NBA to oh,
that's a foul. That's a foul. There's another foul. Booooo
all right now. Page two. One of the other storylines
leading into this game was about the unicorn. You probably
think unicorns aren't real because you're an adult, But in
(08:56):
pro bouncy ball there is one. He plays for Boston,
occasionally plays for Boston. But the unicorn was on ice.
So what happened to the narrative? The Celtics are going
to have issues with Chris stops Porzingis out of the lineup.
Without him and the lineup, they were going to have
a lot of problems. In fact, several well known pundits
told you there was little chance the Celtics could even
(09:19):
compete in this series without Porzingis. So what happened is
that take was a circus show take. It was a
spinning play right, balancing hope and fear. And this was
always a contrived storyline by my fellow blowhards and gasbags.
The Celtics have been a wagon, they continue to be
(09:41):
a wagon, and they are playing with a fluidity whatever
term you want to hear. In all cylinders, there's confidence there.
There is no such thing as momentum. The Celtics don't
have momentum because momentum doesn't exist. They're just better. But
there is a report going around here from Wojes that
says there is real doubt about Porzingis returning to the
(10:03):
NBA Finals because of his leg injury. That report is
a dog whistle. He ain't playing right. Boston only needs
to win one more game. They will win that game
without Porzingis, who essentially played one game. All right, Well,
he played most of game two. Yeah, but his impact
was in game one and that was it, and they
(10:24):
could have won that without him. It's not like they
needed him to win that game. Somebody else would have
made those shots, all right. Last word here, So now
we go up to ten thousand feet in the sky
and we look down and we say who gets to
wear the Texas size ten gallon hat of shame for Dallas.
(10:44):
So it starts with the aforementioned Loo Donch starts with him.
He's got to be the dumbest player in the NBA
in terms of playing the game right. You have to
be a statue you when you're in foul trouble little
boat store players that are not supposed to foul outstart. Plus,
(11:06):
I get it, I understand, but when you whine and
bitch on every call like Luca does, you're putting a
bigger onus because these are still I think human beings.
Maybe they're androids. I don't know. They look human. But
when you get your fifth foul, that is a dead
give what dead give what? You got me a statue?
(11:27):
Don't even try, And like Luca doesn't really try. So
now he's like, well, I want to do the old
rich around, try to get a foul instead of just
being a statue. He's the leaning tower of Pisa. He's
leaning in. You can't do that. You got to be
the statue of liberty, arm in the air everywhere, hold
that torch up in the air. And so that was
certainly the kill shot Luca being an idiot and getting
(11:47):
you know, making it easy for the referee to call
foul on. But Dallas was unable to keep the fire burning.
They had all the momentum, you idiots, tell me at
all the momentum in the first color up thirteen points.
They came out like that, tas Maybia devil oh man,
were they great? Oh there's on the broad test. They're like, oh,
(12:09):
if they can just stay within ten by the time
we get to the second quarter, and it was like
a one point game. And then many will say, well,
that's the supporting cast. And I heard all these great
things about the players around Luca and Kyrie. This is
the greatest backcourt of all time. But these other role
players were wonderful, and they they'd stepped up. But I'm
(12:30):
gonna say the quiet part out locked. You're not gonna
hear this a lot of places. Both Luca and Uncle
Drew got together, they huddled up, They rode the vomit comet.
They went amazing Cresken as the game progressed. It's one
of these things if you just look at the box scorers, well,
you know, look at the numbers. There's solid numbers. They
are but hocus pocus, losing focus as the game went on.
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They vanished for almost eleven minutes a game time. Dall
was leading fifty nine to fifty eight. Early third court.
I jotted down a note there was nine thirty three
to go in the third quarter. It has a lot
of basketball, we get it, I understand, but it's a
one point game. From that point forward, they got outscored
by twenty two points, ended up down twenty one. How
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did that happen? Boston went on a thirty three to
eleven burner at that point, and it spilled into the
fourth quarter, and in that stretch Luka Doncik and Kyrie
Irvings shot a combined thirty three point three percent, which
is half the sign of the devil. They faded like flowers,
all right, They fited like and Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown,
(13:42):
who he's already wrapped up the MV. Does anyone disagree
that he's the MVP. He's wrapped up the MVP on
res on my ballot by outscoring Dallas in that stretch,
the game turning stretch, he outscored them fourteen to eleven.
By himself, it was thirty three to eleven overall, but
see those points by Jalen Brown and Brown. Then at
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the end when things got a little closer, even though
you never really believe the Mavericks could actually win, even
when they were within three points of a tie, but
Jalen Brown helped calm the waters there in the final
three and a half minutes or so.
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hour 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
(16:55):
victory for the Boston basketball team as the Celtics taking
advantage of the generosity of Luca Dumbass, the floundering star
there lolly gagging around and ends up fouling out with
four over four minutes to go in the game, and
the Celtics, who we are up by twenty one anyway,
(17:16):
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. Jerry
West has died. News came down early on Wednesday. Jerry
West the dead at age eighty six, and he is
(17:40):
He's been remembered 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 Famer
multiple times. There. They had a pregame video tribute, a
lengthy moment of silence before the game. Jerry West most
(18:05):
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 a senior
advisor to the Clippers and responsible for them getting to
the Final four a couple years back. But let us
discuss the question. So Jerry West passes away, and it's
(18:31):
the proper thing, right, I mean, we were 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 going to remember the logo?
How are you going to remember the logo? So it's
very important to do this now, and we're gonna save
this in the podcast because over time, your memory fades
(18:52):
and 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 things together and
we are going to create some witchcraft. I know that
(19:13):
Justin and Cincinnati loves the witchcraft. He's a big fan
of that. So num Bird, all right, stop sty of
thanks broken that cockroaches got in there. So my first
thought on eulogizing Jerry West is a class personify there's
(19:38):
only one person I know in the LA media my
years of being around LA let me do the national
show now for years. But the people I know that
we're around in Jerry West heyday with the Lakers, only
one person I know doesn't like him. Everyone else likes him.
And 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 but
(20:01):
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. But I was lucky
enough to have a mutual friend, a couple of people
that knew Jerry West, and so I got to be
around him a bit. It was after the Showtime Lakers,
(20:22):
but before the Kobe Shack Lakers. It was the Club
Said Lakers, the Nick Van Exell Lakers, that era of
the Lakers before I hated them with a passion. But anyway,
this guy, Big Joe McDonald was a larger than life
in more ways than the one talk shows in Los Angeles.
(20:44):
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 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
(21:07):
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, but talent evaluation. He didn't use
a computer. You today it's all about big data on
computers and algorithms.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Jerry just watched the player and he said, well, this
guy's pretty good. I think this guy's going to be great.
And he didn't hit on everyone, but he hit on enough.
And the biggest of them all was Kobe Bryant. But
even with the Clippers, he recommended shake Yogos Alexander, who
was traded to get Paul George, which also got Kawhi
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Leonard and then that led to the final four. But
Jerry West had he was the Midas man. He had
the Midas touch. When it came to that, he had
this uncanny knack of finding a ten. And that's the
Jerry West I'm going to remember. And I didn't see
him as a player. I saw clips on the Internet
and all that, and part of nine Championships. Most of
that he only when won as a player. Most of
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that as an executive was the finals MVP on a
losing team, for God's sakes. But Jerry West. The thing
that isn't often talked about is Jerry got absolutely screwed
over by the Lakers. I mean, they gave him. You
talk 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
(22:32):
he absolutely got pushed out by Genie Buss and the
Bus family there because Genie was really into Phil Jackson
and I'm really into Phil Jackson. And they picked the
zen Master over the logos, a battle of egos there,
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and Jerry West really was broken up by that. He
really really pissed him off. And he didn't get upset
by a lot of things, but he's 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 Jeanie Buss was happening, you know, was
sleeping with Bil Jackson. I mean they were in a relationship,
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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 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
(23:38):
after he got kicked out of the Lakers book. So
rest in peace, Jerry West. Eighty 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 Barret remains the leading
(24:02):
candidate for the Laker coaching job if you believe the reporting.
Now Barrego also a finalist for the Cavs job. This
guy was an absolute failure with the Charlotte Hornets. But
here we are he's back and being called a leading candidate.
James Parrego being called a leading candidate for the Laker
(24:22):
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? What he did you talking
(24:42):
about doing? Someone?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Dirty?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
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 Laker,
after Hurley left, they were left disheveled, staggered, and bedraggled
(25:05):
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 Redick is still my default
(25:28):
favorite for the job. But Barrego, He's not off my
big board. I don't. I don't do this. I do
big boards. He's not off my big board because of
the discount rack nature of that higher He's a reshread,
lifelong assistant coach, an occasional head coach, and that is
someone that's pretty important and valuable for a penny rich dollar.
(25:53):
Poor Genie Buss who runs the Lakers. All right, final
point and 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
(26:16):
it on social betting on himself. Are you buying what
Ben Simmons is selling the nets Guard? Not only am
I not buying this, This is the kind of product
that has you go out of business. That's how bad
the product he is selling is. Now, I can't tell
you beyond a reasonable doubt that Ben Simmons is the
(26:40):
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
affairs and boardwalks and they had a cure for just
about everything, kind of like Ben Simmons. Every off season
(27:01):
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 the season starts, he sucks, he suffers a
(27:24):
phantom injury. He is then shut down for the season,
and then starts selling the snake oil all over again.
Wash rins, repeat, period stop.
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Here we go, we go, It's Mallard. How about that
to the third degree?
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This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And I would like to ask the Pirates, says 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 we have here.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
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 at least six
hundred million. Ben do you think his deal will reach
those heights?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I think the five hundred the five hundred millions doable.
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 Podresje 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 a
(28:39):
therapist if I turned down four hundred million. So he'd
be 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 7 (28:51):
Next, it's being reported that Saudi Arabia's public investment fund
isn't to the PITH. Yes, they're in talks with seven
different box organizations to unify the sport under one league, Ben,
do you think they'll make it happen?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah? 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 7 (29:22):
Jamaar 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 1 (29:34):
No. He plays for the Cincinnati Begos. 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? Are you insane? No,
Jamarg He'll get a lot of money. You're not gonna
get more money than Jefferson. How did we do Kuboo?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
He passes edision?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Matt say, wait, I.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Won Justin and Cincinnati I won.
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It's now time for time for Horry Horry Honey Wait.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Ask Ben Twitter, send us your questions on Twitter. Now
the flag us up. It is time now for the
audio jackpot that is Ask Ben. Your questions are answers
right now. For this is not the mailbag that's on
the Fifth Hour podcast on Sunday, but today it is
all about ask Ben. And we passed the microphone over
(30:39):
to the Cooper Loope will bounce pass and unlike Luka Doncik,
we will make the shot in the fourth quarter as
we go the extra mile with the reading of the
questions from Coop on asked Ben.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
All right, Cowboy Killer would like to know.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
How about Hi, Cowboy Keller? Hi?
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Do you prefer chips and salsa or the r a
choke dip for an appetizer?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, I'm not against the artist choke dip. It's not
my favorite. I prefer chips and salsa, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Generally speaking, I would go chips and salsa.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
I can't go wrong with chips and salsa. Loraina, I'm
disappointed in both right, Oh my gosh, artichoke dip all
the way.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
And you know what I really like when like I
think it's chilis and Applebee's.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
They also give you a side of salsa with your
artichoke dip, so you get both.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You're on the wrong side of history of Lorena. That's
that's fine.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Artichoke dip is fantastic. I love artichoke dip so good.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I don't hate it, but it's not mine my favorite.
What is next? It's ask Ben your questions all answers
for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
King Rory would like to know.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Hi, King Rory.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
Do you properly use your turn indicators while driving?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
And it annoys the hell out of me. If you're
gonna drive like a douche canoe, at least have the
courtesy of signaling when you're about to cut me off.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
It is beyond. It drives me nuts. You're driving. It's
like being Butcher in Germany and driving the auto bond
at night in la and during the day, you don't
get anywhere during the day because there's traffic. But at night,
when we're driving around in the early morning hours, you
can actually drive and it's like the autobond, but at
least signal. It is so lazy. I hate it, so yeah,
(32:27):
I signaled. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 6 (32:29):
I would agree with that. I would probably even say
that I use it even when I don't really have to.
But it's a good habit to get into it.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, you don't want to stop using it because yeah, yeah,
for you guys are boomers. What about you, Lorena? Well
Ben always return my cart. I also doll rain.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It's only when I know I'm really making a very
dedicated move.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I'm here, I'm not here to give a warning.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
I'm getting over.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
No, Oh, it's so bad.
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Uh. For the most part, I'd say the only times
that I maybe don't use it is if I'm like
in a left turn lane that you can only turn
left in. You know what I mean, Like you're waiting
for the left turn arrow, Like I don't necessarily have
it on when I'm sitting in that lane, everybody's going left.
That's that's just.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
The rain is not courteous.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Who told me I don't have to if i'm lane
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
If you're in the lane with the arrow, you do
not have to use your blinker.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah yeah, good cock gone bad bad apples there? Now
what what about? Now? I was told, and I don't
know if this is true or not, that if you're
in the left turn lane, but you're going to make
a U turn, you shouldn't signal because you're making the
U turn. So that's a sign you're going to make
a U turn to the people that are turning right
into the oncoming traffic. About that, I don't know if
(33:57):
that's true. Somebody told me that years ago, and I've
just I've operated that way. Uh, Coop, if you answered this,
I don't Yeah, you did right. What's next?
Speaker 7 (34:06):
Art Puffin would like to know my arts. I want
somebody to fact check Lorain out. By the way, Art
Puffin wants to know what was the first Super Bowl
that you watched?
Speaker 1 (34:16):
That is a good question. Now, watched or remember? Uh?
Because I think I remember they were like the Giants
and Broncos. I mean the I remember what. I know.
I watched the Rams as a kid, but I don't
remember it. So they were in there playing the Steelers,
but I don't really remember that, So I guess the
one I kind of fond memories up because I got
(34:37):
a T shirt from it. My mom made a big
deal to go down to the store. We paid like
four bucks for a T shirt. Was I think it
was the it made the like mid eighties Giants and Broncos.
I think I think that's bring about it. What about you, Eddie?
You probably you're older than me.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Yeah, I think it's part of the reason why I
was a Steelers fan. Steelers Rams in nineteen eighty was
the first one I really remember, and I was like, Oh,
I like that team. They won. I'm going to be
a fan of that team.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I did a radio show with Terry Bradshaw years ago.
He said if he had known I was a little
fat kid watching, he would have thrown the game for
the Rams.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
That's what he told me.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, I'm not making that fighter. He did tell me that.
I think he might have been kidding.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
Though, have no idea.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Don't hear a super Bowl? Okay?
Speaker 6 (35:20):
He ever watched the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yes, okay, just for the commercial the commercials. Yeah, so
the halftime with the game.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Yeah, all right, the cool Broncos Packers.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Oh yeah, late was that late nineties?
Speaker 7 (35:34):
Yeah, ninety ninety seven, Okay, that was.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
I think that was was that the one I interviewed. No,
that wasn't the one. I interviewed Shannon Sharp before one
of the Broncos Super Bowls and he told me. I
asked he actually, I guess he wasn't. He was one
in San Diego. He didn't play in it, but he
he said he didn't watch football. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Gess you missed all the other ones, Coop because they
didn't go well for your Broncos.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Yeah. No, no, I mean that's that's why I became
a Broncos fan. That was the first, like really it
was really the first like football game that I sat
and watched, like start to finish.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
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Speaker 2 (36:16):
Cool?
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Donkey Sausage would like to know when was the h
Docky When was the last time he went to a library?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
So I went to a.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Virtual library because I wanted to watch a Phil Henry
documentary for free, and I got to get a library card,
So I wanted the virtual library. My radio, not my
radio friend but Phil Henry used to work at Premiere,
so he.
Speaker 7 (36:39):
Spent forty five minutes signing up for the library.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
But I saved like five bucks watching the documentary, so
it was totally worth it. But I could go to
the library and pick up the card. But I haven't
been in years eighty.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Quickly, a couple of years ago, I think I went
to get a passport photo taken or something like that.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
All right, sounds low, rain.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
No. I love libraries.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
And I go to the college one and I go
to the county one in West Pavina and in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Okay, go cool.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Yeah, college was probably the last time I went to
a library.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
All right, what's the next?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Quickly, Matt Jack wants to know what's your favorite Mexican food?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Oh, crunchy tacos all day and all night for the wind.
Tacos dorado is what they call them, Eddy quicker, not
chos no larina. Oh it's so hard, trim chagaslas. All right,
No crunchy taco all day, all night for the win.
Tacos dorado. That's the way.
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Speaker 1 (37:41):
Let's get over to Eddie though right now, and we
will puck the whirl with Eddie Garcy.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Then.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
The Stanley Cup Final is through two games so far
between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers, the Panthers
winning the first two games on home ice. Game one
a three nothing shot out behind Goalie's Surgame Rovsky's thirty
two saves, while Edmundson was zero for three on the
power play, and that went in their stars, Conor McDavid
and Leandrey said, obviously not getting any points in the
shoutout loss. Game two, the Panthers win it four to
(38:10):
one to take a two oher series lead. Evan Rodriguez
with a pair of balls, one of them on the
power play. That's stepped to streak of thirty four straight
power pace killed off by Edmondson and the Oilers went
zero for four on the power play, so that oh
for seven in the series, only one shot of negative?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Why are you so negative? Why can't you be positive?
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Well, how do you turn a positive into going oh
for seven on the power play?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
They're due?
Speaker 6 (38:31):
That's stupid averages. Flourida is a plus seventeen through the
first two games rusts the first two games through the
playoffs so far.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
That tells you what they have done, not what they're
going to do it.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
No, I don't know what they're going to do, So
I can only tell you what they have done.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I know what they're going to do in relative of.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
The way he was, Yes, he was.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
You're a hater, ready, go look look up the history
of coming in had Anti.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
Is a wacko.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
No one's respecting their time and it's only after they
die their respect.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
So Florida is a plus seventeen in the third period
so far this postseason, and a plus four so far
in the series. So that means they're the better team
as the game goes on and that will probably continue.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Edmonton one one game going to the third curd the
last game. Oh, it was such.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
A one at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
The game.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
It does matter. Actually the final score actually does matter.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
That's a weird one. Bound to the off the Zamboni.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
So teams that have had a two zero series lead
fifty four and five in the history of the Stanley
Cup Final, and again game three tonight in Edmonton as
the Oilers basically if they don't win. It's just like
the Celtics. It's the series is over. NHL commissioner Gary
Bettman healthy State of the League address ahead of the
opening game, with the final.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Love that that's very ertaing.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Yeah, what do you think you said? All as well?
Of course, the salary cap going up next season to
eighty eight million dollars. They're not gonna have an All
Star Game next year. They're gonna have a new thing
called the Four Nations Tournament in US, US, Canada, Finland
and Sweden will be competing in a round robin tournament.
The games we played February twelfth through the twenty of twenty.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Twenty five, and we have that it's called the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (40:11):
You moron om because are only four years and they
don't control the Olympics. This They make all the money
from this event, which is why they want to not.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I'm not supporting that, Eddie. As a hockey purist, I
go back to the original six Eddie. I don't see.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
Yeah, four games in Montreal and then the metal Round
games I guess you want to call them, will be
in Boston. Bettman also declining to offer a timeline on
the future of NHL expansion. It's coming soon. Don't worry
about that.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Where are they going? They're going to Houston, back to
Phoenix made Yeah, probably most likely.
Speaker 7 (40:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
There is talk of the Florida Panthers hosting an outdoor
game at the home of the Miami Barlins next season.
The Panthers and the Coyotes slash Utah team the only
teams have yet done it yet to participate in an
NHL outdoor game. Jim Mill of the Dallas Stars named
Your General Manager of the Year for a second time,
received one hundred and eighteen votes. The Utah Hockey Team
(41:02):
are down to six finalists.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Hockey Club they haven't decided yet.
Speaker 6 (41:11):
It was a terrible blizzards and of course yety is
the one that has to be the credit.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Here we got.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
NHL unveiled something new for the Stanley Cup final.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
They did a broadcast in American sign language, which got
a lot of praise from people.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah, did anyone? Did anyone hear it?
Speaker 7 (41:35):
Is?
Speaker 2 (41:35):
No?
Speaker 6 (41:35):
Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I get if they
want to have that for like a pregame show in
between periods kind of a thing, But do they need
to do play by play can't you watch the game?
I mean, if you're watching the sign language, do you
know what are you? You have a closed caption already?
I don't. I mean, it's one of those things. I
(41:56):
think they are looking for pats on the back, and
they probably got them, But is it really necessary to
do play language?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
And that's like that's virtue of singling. It's like, you know,
that's what that is. It's like, oh, we're better people.
You know. It's okay, you're wonderful. Congratulations, you know, way
to go.
Speaker 6 (42:11):
Obviously, I I do have my hearing, but if I didn't,
I think I just watched what was happening. I don't
think I need anyone to explain it to me anyway.
That is your puckin World Report
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