June 20, 2024 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about Rich Paul saying that LeBron & Bronny aren't a package deal, reports that J.J. McCarthy has a very slim chance of starting for the Vikings, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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He also thinks I'm gonna give him a shout out
because it was his birthday this week, and I'm not.
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these parts. But our lead this hour, I'm not a
morning zoucchial. Our lead this hour coming from pro bouncy ball.
Say why I know? Just bear with me. Okay, we're
six days away from the NBA's raft. Are you excited?
Are you come on, No, you're not excited either, min
But I do find one element to this mildly interesting,
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and so that's what I'm gonna focus on. It's coming
up this Wednesday. This is our Thursday show where I
know on the West Coast, we're heading into Thursday. It's
still late Wednesday night, but we're we're heading into Thursday,
and so we're six days away this coming Wednesday, the
flag is up on the NBA Draft. The Atlanta Hawks
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are on the clock with the number one overall pick,
but the noise continues to be about a backup, not
a starter, not a starter, a backup for a bad
college basketball team in the University of Southern California in
that big ten, not Juggernaut, No no, no, this goes
(02:54):
way back to and then we're in the old PAC
twelve back in the day. But is there some deplorable
activity going on behind the scenes, a grand conspiracy, if
you will, for a father son duo to don the court.
So if you haven't the latest on this, and perhaps
you missed it because you actually have a life, I'll
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fill in the blanks here. So we have learned that
the agent for not only Lebron but also Scrownie Bronni
says the father in this little ditty and the son
are not not a package deal. They're not heading into
the draft. Now, Rich Paul, you talk about winning the lottery.
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Rich Paul claims that Lebron James is off the idea
that he had openly discussed for years, for years, that
he wants to play with his kid, Bronny. And according
to the spokes hack for Lebron, he said, Rich Paul,
if he does, he does, but if he doesn't, he doesn't. Okay,
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that's like saying it is what it is, It be
what it be, all right. Anyway, he says, if he does,
he does, he does it. He doesn't. There's no deal made.
Rich Paul stated that it is guaranteed that if the
Lakers draft Bronni, the Lakers draft Brownie at pick number
fifty five, Lebron will resign you right. If that was
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the case, then rich Paul said, I would force them,
the Lakers to take him at number seventeen. It's not
off the table at this point from what I've heard.
He says, the Lebron James family does not need leverage,
no leverage, they don't need it. The Lakers can draft Bronni,
he said, and Lebron doesn't re sign now. Ridge Paul
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also later on said that Lebron is not going to
go to Phoenix on a minimum deal. He didn't say
Lebron's not going to Phoenix. He said Lebron will not
sign for the minimum contract. That was his commisation and
squashed that. So let us discuss a lot unpack here
the question. Let's get to the meat of the matter.
Rich Paul says, Lebron James and Scrannie Browni are not
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a package deal. Do you believe the agent? So I've
got Tony Sperano a box office and criminal indictment and
we'll combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make the amazing dish of spaghetti and meatballs. Spaghetti meat
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It was kind of like Lebron and Bronni, right, spaghetti meatballs,
peanut butter and jelly. But we are agnostic on this one.
We are AGNOSTI. Lebron and Bronni side by side is
good theater for the NBA. The NBA is in the
theater business. They're in the show business. And that makes
sense even though Bronni has no business being drafted, right.
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The guy sucks. But speaking of sucking, you have to
be a total room if you believe there is no
funny business going on right now behind the scenes. And
if you're that person that thinks, oh no, this is
all on the up and ob then the village is
missing their idiot. Okay they are. If you look at
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the clues. The Lakers are this close you can't see
my fingers, but they're this close to hiring Lebron's podcast
pal as coach, who also has no business coaching in
the NBA. So why would they do that if Lebron
was going to leave? So what's really going on here? Oh,
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here's what we believe is going on. As I understand it,
lebron is working the back channels here Tony Serrano style,
right the Sopranos back in the day, like a mob
boss flexing his influence, hobnobbing with who he needs to
hobnob with. The executive by proxy, but he always has
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plausible deniability said, well, I'm not the GM, I'm not
the owner of okay, but he is the puppeteer. And
Bronni James again this guy. Have you have you seen
what he did both the eyeball test and the statistics.
Oh my god, I mean maybe he can get a
job playing overseas somewhere because of his dad. That's what
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should happen. But it's nepotism. Happens in Hollywood, happens in sports.
And you can change my mind if you want. My
goodness terrible all right now, we turned the page to
the as my old mentor said back in the day,
the High Speed Sports Wire, and we are hearing now
Pascal Siakam. Gotta be careful how I say that name,
(07:46):
because of one of our callers from Brooklyn. But Pascal
Siakam is set to ink a four year, one hundred
and eighty nine million dollars max extension with the Indian
and a basketball team. That's gonna happen next month. Sam
can't sign the deal till July six. You talk about
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first world problems. That's when the free agency moratorium period ends,
which for some reason, the NBA still has. Now Siakam
is going to get that almost one hundred and ninety
million dollar max contract with the Pacers. Is he worth
that kind of investment, that kind of capital. Well, I
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am a believer. You are worth what you can get,
and this is what he can get. The better question, though,
is will the Siakam laed Pacers find more playoff glory?
And the answer to that is unlikely. Feeling pretty good, right,
they smell themselves a little bit, a very fortuitous playoff run.
(08:48):
Here a fluky year for the Pacers. Pascal Siakam, Here's
the way I would describe me. He's a good co star.
He's a good co star. He's not a leading man.
And my issue with this, and it's not my money,
it's his money. Good for him and the Pacers clearly
think he can produce for them, But it's the b oe,
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it's the box office and the eyeballs doesn't sell tickets.
Nobody said I gotta go out and see Team X
because Pascal Siakam's on the team. So that doesn't happen.
And I don't know any man, woman, or child other
than DNA relations who's like, I gotta watch the game
over there. I'm gonna turn that game on because Pascal
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Siakam's playing. He's a solid player. It doesn't really help
the business in terms of money. He doesn't generate money
for you. He's certainly making a lot of money. It's
just not spectacular, all right. Last word, here we go
to TV land and that is where the report card is.
In the twenty twenty four NBA playoffs saw the downward dog,
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or in this case, the downward dive, a significant reduction
in concer consumers shopping at the store, the viewership compared
to last year twenty twenty three down. The ratings dropped
eleven percent overall viewership. Myself was like twelve percent down.
So who's the blame. Who's the blame for the NBA
(10:16):
Finals of twenty twenty four the ratings decline. So this
is rather simple, it's not that difficult. It is a
straw poll. It is a how popular are you contest
pulse of the people, and the people have spoken and
they have determined that you ain't it. You got your
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little trophy, congratulations, but it is a criminal indictment of
the faux stars, the bumbling of the bag, the audience
bag here. Now, Jason Tatum has a lot of endorsements.
I go to the store and I see his face
on potato chips and all kinds of other crap. But
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Jason Tatum, despite all of that, he is also not
appointment viewing. And Jalen Brown, for all of his trophies
that he won this postseason, he doesn't bring the boys
to the yard. He does not bring the audience there.
And then you've got Luka Doncik, International Man of Mystery,
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all time great player. Well, it does appear that he
does not play well in Peoria. That's a problem. You
gotta play well in Peori. And even the flat earther
bad guy who I was so happy I almost overdosed
in shotenfreude watching him go down and being unable to
handle the fans in Boston and melting under the immense
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pressure the bright lights of the Hecklers throwing raspberries his direction,
flat earther, Kyrie Irving and all of his kookiness did
not budge the needle. So that is all of it,
the indictment for Tatum Brown, Donchik and Irving. And remember
that's the matchup TV wanted when we got to the
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final four. That's who they wanted to play. It would
have been a doomsday scenario if it had been Indiana
and Minnesota. They wanted that matchup, They got the matchup,
they wanted it the final four point and it's still
crumbled in their hands.
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status update, status update out of Minnesota. The Vikings made
a big splash, Well they think it was a big splash.
(14:23):
We'll see whether it was or not. But the Vikings
at the draft, remember they got Michigan man JJ McCarthy,
the guy that was so good at Michigan. He was
often used as a decoy by Jim Harball. Now it
sounds like he will indeed be collecting dust on the sidelines.
As our obligatory Maller monologue update on the life and
times of every rookie quarterback, Now we go to Minnesota
(14:45):
for the McCarthy update. If you have not heard, we
are told, have you missed it? We're told there is
a less than ten percent chance, less than ten percent
chance that the Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy will start as
the Viking quarterback over Sam Arnold in week number one.
We always monitor the airwaves. We don't want radio silence,
(15:07):
we want noise. There is chatter that says coach Kevin
O'Connell has put together a detailed, step by step plan
for McCarthy that will require he hit certain milestones before
the team will allow him to be the starting quarterback.
So let us discuss the question, what do you make
of the report saying that McCarthy JJ McCarthy has a
(15:30):
less than ten percent chance of starting as QB one
for the Vikings right out of the gates. So I've
got diagnosis, shopping cart and Donald Trump, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to head to the outback is where we're going to head.
So number Kevin O'Connell, the head coach in Minnesota, is
(16:03):
getting flowers from many of the media elites for this
meticulous approach. I've seen a couple of stories that have
crossed my radar. The football scribes, social media pundits are
praising this methodical approach way to go Brabo, And to that,
(16:26):
I say, excuse my French fui. I'm not gonna go
full tuna from Laguna because then I would be dumped.
But listen, we don't know if McCarthy can play. I'm
not gonna sit here and say that Jajon McCarthy can play.
I have my doubts. I absolutely have my doubts. But
we do know that Sam Donald stinks. That is proven.
(16:48):
We have a lot of data on Sam Donald being
a dog with fleas. Now, I am not a doctor,
but I can't play one on the radio and my diagnosis,
this is some old fashioned paralysis by analysis. You learn
from playing, you don't learn from watching. I've said that
for years, and I believe you toss them in the
ocean or in this case, Lake Minnetonka, and you see
(17:09):
whether or not they can swim or not, and do
not be stuck in neutral spinning your wheels. But what
do we know, right? We just sit here and do
the Overnight Show, and we watch these teams attempt to
have quarterbacks sit out for long periods of time and
then play, and then it rarely works. And then when
it does work, you bring that up everything about Mahomes Well, okay,
(17:32):
I'll say what about Jake Locker? Yeah? Anyway, page do
we go to the Bayou the shores of the mighty
Mississippi River, And that is where running back Alvin Camara
address the Komodo dragon in the room, comparisons being made
by many between himself and forty nine or back Christian McCaffrey,
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the cover boy for the Madden video game franchise, who
recently signed a Mega Mega Mega Mega contract extension with
the forty nine ers. Now, Alvin Kamara was very polite.
He praised, he praised McCarthy, McCaffrey, He praised McCaffrey, said
how great he is and all that, And Christian McCaffrey
is this, that, and the other thing. But then Alvin
(18:19):
Kamara issued a cryptic quote about the statistical gap. And
there is a divide when you crossed the rubicon from
Christian McCaffrey and you head over to Alvin Kamara. Now,
Kamar has put up some big numbers in his time
with the Saints, but side by side, not close. And
(18:40):
to that Alvin, not the chipmunks, but just Alvin said,
I'm not a stat dude. Now that is what's known
as the money quote. How do you decode the Saints
running back Alvin Kamara saying I'm not a stat dude.
How do you decode that? Common? So my verdict on
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this Kamara, he's on the internet, he's got this little
shopping card out on Amazon, and he's got that book
backhanded compliments for dummies. Is this not Aaron Rodgers like
or Lebron James like. It's passive aggressive. It is not
a stat dude, not a stat dude. Yeah, okay, that
(19:24):
is a not so subtle insult at Christian McCaffrey and
Alvin Kamara, based on my minutes long interpretation of this quote,
is wallowing in victimhood. That's what he's doing here. He's
implying that, unlike Christian McCaffrey, who's a stat effort and
a stat bandito with the forty nine ers, Alvin Kamar
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is a team player. He does whatever whatever the Saints want,
even if it hurts his numbers, and even if it
means he has to beat a guy up at a
casino in Vegas, He'll do it because that's what the
Saints want. And he's a team player. I might have
made up last part. All right, final point. We now
go to the ballot box, and oh what a story
(20:05):
this is. Decision twenty twenty four. Our democracy is at stake,
Our children's future is at stake. I love the bull
craft that politicians say and it never really changes all
that much. But anyway, the NFL version of this Decision
twenty twenty four. Is it true that the Associated Press,
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the wire service of record has changed the guidelines for
those that vote on who is the NFL's Comeback Player
of the Year Award. Is it also true that those
that have a ballot have been mandated, instructed and ordered
to only vote only vote for players who overcome illness,
(20:53):
physical injury, or other circumstances that led them to miss
playing time the previous season. So okay, that's all legit.
Why is the NFL tweaking the criteria for Comeback Player
of the Year. What is the motivation for this? And
(21:15):
this is because of one guy, Joe Flaco. Joe Flacco
in this election, Joe Flacco is like Donald Trump, President Trump,
right of the NFL Comeback Player of the Year award.
So many people were flustered, they were taken aback, they
(21:37):
were hornon swaggle. There was skulduggery that went on because
Joe Flacco upset the world of football, the deep state
of Pigskin by winning the Comeback Player of the Year,
And now the swamp monsters are pushing back against Joe Flacco,
not necessarily just Joe Flacco, but the whole entire process.
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And so they're changing things up. And if you didn't
see the details on this and read defined print, we
are sure that this is just a Kawinki dig. It's
just a coincidence that the news on the change of
the Comeback Player of the Year vote came just four
months four months after Then Brown's quarterback current Indianapolis Colts
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backup quarterback Joe Flacco was given Comeback Player of the
Year over Bill's safety DeMar Hamlin. I'm sure that's just
that's just coincidence. Ignore the fact, of course, that Damar
Hamlin played in just five regular season games for the
Bills in twenty twenty three, less than one hundred total snaps,
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most of those on special teams. He had two more
tackles than you and two combined tackles. But no, it
was supposed to be DeMar Hamlin. He didn't win it,
and Joe Flacco won it. And Joe Flacco was riding
around to John deere lawnmower at his home when he
got a call, Hey, how would you like to play
quarterback for the Cleveland Browns? And so the people who
(23:04):
put this together like wait can have that. The entire
story is chicken feathers.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
The entire story, chicken feathers.
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Here we go, Here we go, Here we.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Go to the third degree.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
This is one big Ben gets great.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
According to oddsmakers at Draft Kings, the AFC East will
be the most tightly contested division in football, as the
Bills are only plus one seventy favorites to win the division,
with the Jets and the Dolphins right behind at plus
one ninety and plus two hundred, respectively. Ben, do you
think this is the most wide open division in football?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
No, it's a two team It's really a two teams.
Aaron Rodgers is going to get hurt. So it's the
Dolphins and the Bills. The Bills aren't as good if
you look at a depth chart, and the Dolphins have
a fatal flaw into a quarterback. So from that standpoint, yeah,
but I don't the Jets. Seriously, Aaron Rodgers will be
on a darkness retreat by early Deceberate next.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Ohio State reportedly spent over twenty million dollars building their
football roster for the upcoming season. In a recent video,
Urban Meyer and Jim Tressel call it the most talented
roster in the history of the program. Then, are we
gonna see something special this season? Or is this all
just hyperbole?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah? They should have asked the opinion of a couple
of old Michigan coaches what they think of the Ohio
State roster. No, it's like if it was a fish,
it would be a puffer fish. These are huge, They're
they're building up. The legend of Ohio State football is
like the greatest twenty million dollars payroll.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And all that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I bet your Ohio State back in the day spent
more than twenty million. They just did it under the table.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Next, with Al Horford winning a championship, James Harden is
now the active player with the most career playoff games
without a ring at one hundred and sixty six, Ben,
do you think he can break Karl Malone's all time
record of one hundred and ninety three.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So, first of all, can he break the record? Yes,
it's really up to James Harden. Now if he wants
to win a championship, you stay with the Clippers into
a dome, into the championship. It's up to Harden. How
do we know you are so close to I won?
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It's now time for time for horrrr. Wait, ask Ben?
Twitter said us your questions on Twitter now and away
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It is the pot of gold at the end of
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the rainbow. We passed the mic over to coop a
loop for the reading of the question.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
So this is an interesting one, Milkman. Mike would like
to know if you could steal anyone's talent for one day,
who would you take? Whose would you take?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Warren Buffett? How about that? Warren Buffett? His ability to
make money on the stock market is insane to the membrane.
And maybe not just him. There's others that probably made
more money than him. But somebody like that that has
great financial savviness. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
That is a great question. I'm surprised though, I guess
that was kind of a predictable answer by you. But
I'm surprised being what do.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You mean by that? Well, I'm a great I'm a
great cook gas bag.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Like you know, Houdini or something, because you're always a
love magic.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I do love magic, but I like Matt idn't tell her.
I like Penn and Teller too. Although I'm upset with
pen Giletti turned me down. I tried to book him
for my podcast so screw him.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Yeah, I'll go who's the greatest chef out there? I'll
take I'll go with that guy since we're.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Talking about that Anthony board Day, but he's dead.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
But you have somebody, Okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Lorena, I'm gonna go with Britney Spears, Ben, Britney Spears.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Britney Spear, not Taylor Swift. You're going to old school
Britney Spears.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Yes, what, I don't know, because I love him.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Okay, we didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Do you love her?
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Now?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
She's having a few issues these days, she doesn't have issues,
no issues of things are going well. Okay, what about you, Cooper?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
I think I would have to go with, like, uh,
Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Edwards of all people, Anthony who wants to be able
to dunk, throw down some monster.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Jams, kill it on stage and look awesome. Well, see,
I thought about it. I thought about a rock star,
because you know, rock stars live wild lives. But and
but I've just I've always wanted to be able to
throw down a vicious dunk. And you know, and you
can also be one of the you know, top talents
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Why not, I'll buy you a trampoline, goopy dunk, whatever
you want.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
It's nick and dreams come true.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
What is next? What do we have? Let's see, let's
ask Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest of
the hour. The art of sports talk, My art of
sports talk.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I would like to know. Do you have a certain
hotel chain that you stay at when you're on the road.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yes, the cheapest one I can get. Actually, lately I've
been staying we've been staying at more Airbnb type places,
so we we've actually left a lot of the hotels
behind and stayed more at Airbnb places. So but yeah,
whatever's cheaper, and we usually what we do is all
we'll go on the road and we'll do crush. The
numbers were like, what's cheaper hotel or Airbnb? And usually
(28:49):
the Airbnb or one of those type places is cheaper.
What about you, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
My wife usually does all the trip planning in the
itinerary and all that kind of stuff, so you just
have to sup Yeah, pretty much. Okay, she doesn't trust me,
which is probably a good good on her part. So
usually night we usually stay up very nice places. The
place in Pittsburgh we're gonna stay at is where the
Chargers are staying. It's right across the street from the
where the Penguins play. It's very nice.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
All right, I can get you to place Pete and
Pittsburgh's there the bread Man if you want.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Now, I'm good. Although I'm going to visit Breadman.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I think, oh you are yeah, oh good. Yeah, I've
visited the music but he's a family man now. He
was a swinging bachelor back.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Of those I'm gonna check out his man cave, which
is impressive.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh cool, nice, let me know, all RIGHTA I free
ball it, Ben, that's hard for you to do. It's interesting. Interesting. Yes,
what do you sleep in your car?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Sometimes I do, Yeah, I've done that before.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
I sleep in my car. I'll pick random hotels along
the way whenever I get tired.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Hold on, hold on, you will sleep in your car.
You'll travel somewhere and just sleep in your car, in
my car.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
Yes, yeah, Sometimes you don't need a full eight hour rest.
Sometimes you just need a good three hour nap sometimes.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Sounded like Doc, Remember Doc Mike Edi told the story
he drove from Chicago to Nashville and he stopped early
pull over the side of the road and sleep for
like like five minutes and then get back on the road.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Yeah, sometimes you don't need a full break.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I did that once, and I felt awful when I
woke back up. It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I'll have to I don't have time to tell you now, Lamandon.
But I did spend a night in my car in Buffalo.
I slept in my car in Buffalo. I couldn't get
a hotel room. What is coop? Go ahead, cool?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I'm sorry, uh no, I'll just I'll pick somewhere. You know,
it depends on the trip. It's it's it's you know,
individual to eat trip, unless I'm going to Vegas and
then I stay in an MGM property.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Now, I have friends that are sports writers, and remember
years ago and I did the Dodger stuff, the baseball writers,
they always stay at the same hotels and at the time,
I don't know if this is true still true. Bob Ryan,
longtime Boston sports writer. He retired years ago, but Bob
Ryan had the most Barriott points of anyone in the
history of the country because he only stayed at Marriott
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when he traveled. All right, what is next? What do
we have here?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
The King Rory. Hi, Rory would like to know how
often do you use your car horn while driving?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Well, I had a car for a while that had
like a clown sounding horn, so I was embarrassed to
use it, so I wouldn't use. The car I'm driving
now has a pretty masculine horn. But normally what I
do is I don't use the horn. I just give
the under the dashboard bird is my mood. I feel
good about that. I feel like and no one shoots
you exactly, but I feel good. Sometimes I'll even take
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both hands off the steering wheel and give you the
double bird, but you won't even see it. I don't
that was what it did sound like. But I don't
use the horn very often, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Almost never. If I ever blow my horn at you,
you know you've done something really bad.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
You're going to time out right now.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
My wife uses the horn often, way off.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Them same same. I only use it if someone like
cuts me off or if they almost hit me.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Well, that happens every day, couplo rarely ever, and if
I do, it's usually like if somebody's asleep at the
red light, I just a quick little like, hey, wake up,
don't or at the green light.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
I mean say, that's so casually like you just well
see yeah, yeah, yeah, my new my.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
New, mister gos is the people that don't stop on
the sensor to trigger to trigger. Oh god, yes there's
a pandemic. It's it's what is next? Quick way? Quick?
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Art Puffin wants to know, have you ever been caught
looking at another woman's dunk dunk or in Lorena's case,
another man, have you ever been checking out the other
person by your caught by your singing another?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, my wife didn't really care, but no, I mean yeah,
we all get caught.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Look at one point another Eddie sunglasses.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Lorena sunglasses do not work all the time. I was
staring at this homeless guy and he was like, I
can see through your glasses.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Manreina hot homeless guys cool quick way, Yeah, my wife
doesn't care. Yeah, I see. There you go in the
same boat. There you go, and look all you want.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
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Speaker 1 (33:09):
Let's puck the world right now.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Too.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
A man who does not appreciate greatness Eddie Garson, All.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Right, man, the Stanley Cup Finals still going on the
Florida Panthers against the Edmonds and Oilers. When we last
left you in our last Pucked the World episode, Florida
had a two zero series lead, winning games one and
two on home ice. They then took Game three four
to three, on the verge of a sweep, but behind
superstar conom McDavid, the Oilers have won the last two games,
taking Game four eight to one. In Game five five three,
McDavid hosting back to back four board games, first player
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in NHL Finals history to do that, Game six and
Edmonton on Friday, and if necessary, Game seven Monday in
Florida on the Monday NNY.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
When the Oilers win Eddie on Monday into Tuesday, I
will do an entire Hockey modelogue dedicated to my ed
McDon Oilers.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yeah, well that's not gonna happen, So I guess you
should have one about the Florida Panthers, But I guess you. Yeah, boring,
not boring, But anyway, If the Oilers win, it would
be their sixth Stanley Cup title, first since nineteen ninety
and the first for Canadian teams it ninety three. If
the Panthers win, it would be their first ever title
in franchise history. Who doesn't want that? There are a
couple of notes as far as trades from Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
The are you killing you? Did not mention Connor McDavid
the first player is Stanley Cup history back to back
four point games?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Did mention that thanks for listening, dummy, I wasn't listening well.
First couple of We had a couple of trades on Wednesday.
The La King shipped out disappointing forward Pier luth tu
Baugh and the remaining seven years and eight point five
million per season on his contract with the Washington Capitals
in exchange for veteran goalie Darcy Kemper's a bad trade.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
That's a bad trade, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
That's a bad trade for Washington.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
No, it's a bad trade for the King. He's in
his mid thirties, he's washed up and overpaid. Bad jobling, he.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Was in his twenties and he's sacks and he's making
eight job you trade.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Don't let a fall in goaltender fall on you, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
You don't care about who we're getting.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Really bad contract the hockey guy, Eddy, you're.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
An Idiot's do's a bad contract? The Kings just got
rid of and he didn't have to retain any of
the salary. You're just ridiculous, ridiculous. Thank you, Washington, Thank
you job for hands. New Jersey Devils acquired goalie Jacob
Markstrom from the Calgary Flames in exchange for a first
round pick in twenty twenty five and player Kevin Ball.
Flames are going to retain four point one two five
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million on Markstrom salary. Vancouver Canuckside defendsment Philip Ronic to
an eight year contract extension. He gets seven point two
five million annually, and forward Patrick Lainey has asked to
be traded by the Columbus Blue Jackets. The team says
it will try to accommodate his request. Alexander Steen is
in line to become the first Swedish NHL general manager
after the Saint Lewis Blues announced their front office succession plan.
(35:47):
Steen was named special assistant to general manager Doug Armstrong,
with the intent of taking over for Armstrong in twenty
twenty six. Then we've also came with Armstrong getting a
three year extension as president of hockey operations through twenty
twenty nine, as Blue Jackets fired their head coach Pascal
Vincent for less than one season on the job, got
into the Blue Jackets to a twenty seven forty three
to twelve record. They finished with the fewest points in
(36:09):
the Eastern Conference. Columbus has now gone through three head
coaches in the last fourteen months, Brad Larsen, Mike Babcock
and Pascal Vincent.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
And I'm actually going to be coaching them in a
couple months.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
As wow, that's what bottom.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
My god, I'm a hockey guy. After my analysis in
the Edmonton Oily, fuh.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Yeah, it's the worst coach in NHL history, Ben Maller.
San Jose Sharks promoted assistant Ryan Warsofski to head coach,
thirty six year old, now the youngest coach in NHL.
In the NHL, I was an assistant for two years
in San Jose, gets promoted. Sharks had the worst record
in the NHL nineteen fifty four and nine and an
NHL low forty seven points. Carolina Hurricanes are sticky with
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Eric Tolski as their general manager. They remove the interim
tag after the departure of Don Waldell to Columbus. Toulski
holds a PhD in chemistry from cal and conduct a
two year post doctoral study at the Naval Research Press.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Stady, how does that helped the hockey?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
He holds twenty seven US patents according to his team.
Bio worked in the tech industry for a dozen years
and managed research teams for nanotechnology areas. I don't know
how how does that help you run a hockey team?
I don't know, but apparently he's smart. The sale of
the Arizona Coytes franchise to Utah Jazz owners has been finalized.
Team will officially known as the Utah Hockey Club for
(37:22):
next season until they figure out the nickname, but the
color scheme has been released.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
It looks good rock black.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Which represents both the darkness of night in the mountains
and the volcanic rock of the Utah Desert. That's some
pr hacks salt whites that illustrates both the snow of
Utah's peaks and their famous salt flats.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And dot does on the weekend, Yes and when mountain blue, which.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Represents the team's winter sports history. And it's clear skies
for two hundred and thirty days out of the year.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
So you see did you see where the ducks uniforms
of the new dunk. Oh my god, they look like gritty.
They're gritty like orange.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
You like that?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Wow? Other option? My god, what are they trying to
be the Philadelphia Flyers? What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Uh, trying to be like Clemson orange orange?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I mean that clearly somebody color blind came up with
those uniforms.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
My god, least favorite color orange.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I don't know if it's my least favorite color, but
it ain't. They don't look good. I saw a photo
somebody sent me a photo like that. Those are pretty ugly.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Well, it does match their franchise, which is an ugly.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
They got to go back to when I covered the
ducs Eddie, they had the purple that back in the
old day they called it egg plants. The egg plant
that's what they got to go back there.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
They need to disband. That franchise is just you know,
send them.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Any Eddie wants one less hockey team. Oh my, did
you not give the NHL propaganda, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (38:49):
That whole thing was NHL propaganda?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
No, no, no, no. The NBA ratings went down, but
according to the NHL, I'm sure they didn't spend these
numbers at all. They claim that across North America, the
twenty twenty four Stanley Cup Final Game five saw an
increase of sixty one percent from last year's Game.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Five, and across the pools game on Earth and across.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
North America, the Stanley Cup Final is averaging seven point
two million viewers. That is up sixty four percent from
last year's Stanley Cup Final across North America. Of course,
they are spinning a lot of numbers.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
It's also on you know, ABC, so I'm sure that
didn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Well, no, but it's not. They don't in Canada though
it's it's not on ABC.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
They don't understand that we're talking about the United States.
You're not talking about No, we are.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
They're including the Canadian television ratings, is what they're doing.
They're not just doing the ABC ratings. They're including the
CBC and whatever channels in Canada broadcast the Stanley Cup Final.
So they're spinning the numbers, is what they're doing. But
that's fine,
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Say why I know? Just bear with me. Okay, we're
six days away from the NBA's raft. Are you excited?
Are you come on, No, you're not excited either, min
But I do find one element to this mildly interesting,
(02:09):
and so that's what I'm gonna focus on. It's coming
up this Wednesday. This is our Thursday show where I
know on the West Coast, we're heading into Thursday. It's
still late Wednesday night, but we're we're heading into Thursday,
and so we're six days away this coming Wednesday, the
flag is up on the NBA Draft. The Atlanta Hawks
(02:31):
are on the clock with the number one overall pick,
but the noise continues to be about a backup, not
a starter, not a starter, a backup for a bad
college basketball team in the University of Southern California in
that big ten, not Juggernaut, No no, no, this goes
(02:54):
way back to and then we're in the old PAC
twelve back in the day. But is there some deplorable
activity going on behind the scenes, a grand conspiracy, if
you will, for a father son duo to don the court.
So if you haven't the latest on this, and perhaps
you missed it because you actually have a life, I'll
(03:17):
fill in the blanks here. So we have learned that
the agent for not only Lebron but also Scrownie Bronni
says the father in this little ditty and the son
are not not a package deal. They're not heading into
the draft. Now, Rich Paul, you talk about winning the lottery.
(03:39):
Rich Paul claims that Lebron James is off the idea
that he had openly discussed for years, for years, that
he wants to play with his kid, Bronny. And according
to the spokes hack for Lebron, he said, Rich Paul,
if he does, he does, but if he doesn't, he doesn't. Okay,
(04:04):
that's like saying it is what it is, It be
what it be, all right. Anyway, he says, if he does,
he does, he does it. He doesn't. There's no deal made.
Rich Paul stated that it is guaranteed that if the
Lakers draft Bronni, the Lakers draft Brownie at pick number
fifty five, Lebron will resign you right. If that was
(04:27):
the case, then rich Paul said, I would force them,
the Lakers to take him at number seventeen. It's not
off the table at this point from what I've heard.
He says, the Lebron James family does not need leverage,
no leverage, they don't need it. The Lakers can draft Bronni,
he said, and Lebron doesn't re sign now. Ridge Paul
(04:53):
also later on said that Lebron is not going to
go to Phoenix on a minimum deal. He didn't say
Lebron's not going to Phoenix. He said Lebron will not
sign for the minimum contract. That was his commisation and
squashed that. So let us discuss a lot unpack here
the question. Let's get to the meat of the matter.
Rich Paul says, Lebron James and Scrannie Browni are not
(05:15):
a package deal. Do you believe the agent? So I've
got Tony Sperano a box office and criminal indictment and
we'll combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make the amazing dish of spaghetti and meatballs. Spaghetti meat
(05:37):
It was kind of like Lebron and Bronni, right, spaghetti meatballs,
peanut butter and jelly. But we are agnostic on this one.
We are AGNOSTI. Lebron and Bronni side by side is
good theater for the NBA. The NBA is in the
theater business. They're in the show business. And that makes
sense even though Bronni has no business being drafted, right.
(05:59):
The guy sucks. But speaking of sucking, you have to
be a total room if you believe there is no
funny business going on right now behind the scenes. And
if you're that person that thinks, oh no, this is
all on the up and ob then the village is
missing their idiot. Okay they are. If you look at
(06:20):
the clues. The Lakers are this close you can't see
my fingers, but they're this close to hiring Lebron's podcast
pal as coach, who also has no business coaching in
the NBA. So why would they do that if Lebron
was going to leave? So what's really going on here? Oh,
(06:41):
here's what we believe is going on. As I understand it,
lebron is working the back channels here Tony Serrano style,
right the Sopranos back in the day, like a mob
boss flexing his influence, hobnobbing with who he needs to
hobnob with. The executive by proxy, but he always has
(07:02):
plausible deniability said, well, I'm not the GM, I'm not
the owner of okay, but he is the puppeteer. And
Bronni James again this guy. Have you have you seen
what he did both the eyeball test and the statistics.
Oh my god, I mean maybe he can get a
job playing overseas somewhere because of his dad. That's what
(07:23):
should happen. But it's nepotism. Happens in Hollywood, happens in sports.
And you can change my mind if you want. My
goodness terrible all right now, we turned the page to
the as my old mentor said back in the day,
the High Speed Sports Wire, and we are hearing now
Pascal Siakam. Gotta be careful how I say that name,
(07:46):
because of one of our callers from Brooklyn. But Pascal
Siakam is set to ink a four year, one hundred
and eighty nine million dollars max extension with the Indian
and a basketball team. That's gonna happen next month. Sam
can't sign the deal till July six. You talk about
(08:06):
first world problems. That's when the free agency moratorium period ends,
which for some reason, the NBA still has. Now Siakam
is going to get that almost one hundred and ninety
million dollar max contract with the Pacers. Is he worth
that kind of investment, that kind of capital. Well, I
(08:28):
am a believer. You are worth what you can get,
and this is what he can get. The better question, though,
is will the Siakam laed Pacers find more playoff glory?
And the answer to that is unlikely. Feeling pretty good, right,
they smell themselves a little bit, a very fortuitous playoff run.
(08:48):
Here a fluky year for the Pacers. Pascal Siakam, Here's
the way I would describe me. He's a good co star.
He's a good co star. He's not a leading man.
And my issue with this, and it's not my money,
it's his money. Good for him and the Pacers clearly
think he can produce for them, But it's the b oe,
(09:09):
it's the box office and the eyeballs doesn't sell tickets.
Nobody said I gotta go out and see Team X
because Pascal Siakam's on the team. So that doesn't happen.
And I don't know any man, woman, or child other
than DNA relations who's like, I gotta watch the game
over there. I'm gonna turn that game on because Pascal
(09:30):
Siakam's playing. He's a solid player. It doesn't really help
the business in terms of money. He doesn't generate money
for you. He's certainly making a lot of money. It's
just not spectacular, all right. Last word, here we go
to TV land and that is where the report card is.
In the twenty twenty four NBA playoffs saw the downward dog,
(09:54):
or in this case, the downward dive, a significant reduction
in concer consumers shopping at the store, the viewership compared
to last year twenty twenty three down. The ratings dropped
eleven percent overall viewership. Myself was like twelve percent down.
So who's the blame. Who's the blame for the NBA
(10:16):
Finals of twenty twenty four the ratings decline. So this
is rather simple, it's not that difficult. It is a
straw poll. It is a how popular are you contest
pulse of the people, and the people have spoken and
they have determined that you ain't it. You got your
(10:36):
little trophy, congratulations, but it is a criminal indictment of
the faux stars, the bumbling of the bag, the audience
bag here. Now, Jason Tatum has a lot of endorsements.
I go to the store and I see his face
on potato chips and all kinds of other crap. But
(10:56):
Jason Tatum, despite all of that, he is also not
appointment viewing. And Jalen Brown, for all of his trophies
that he won this postseason, he doesn't bring the boys
to the yard. He does not bring the audience there.
And then you've got Luka Doncik, International Man of Mystery,
(11:17):
all time great player. Well, it does appear that he
does not play well in Peoria. That's a problem. You
gotta play well in Peori. And even the flat earther
bad guy who I was so happy I almost overdosed
in shotenfreude watching him go down and being unable to
handle the fans in Boston and melting under the immense
(11:42):
pressure the bright lights of the Hecklers throwing raspberries his direction,
flat earther, Kyrie Irving and all of his kookiness did
not budge the needle. So that is all of it,
the indictment for Tatum Brown, Donchik and Irving. And remember
that's the matchup TV wanted when we got to the
(12:04):
final four. That's who they wanted to play. It would
have been a doomsday scenario if it had been Indiana
and Minnesota. They wanted that matchup, They got the matchup,
they wanted it the final four point and it's still
crumbled in their hands.
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status update, status update out of Minnesota. The Vikings made
a big splash, Well they think it was a big splash.
(14:23):
We'll see whether it was or not. But the Vikings
at the draft, remember they got Michigan man JJ McCarthy,
the guy that was so good at Michigan. He was
often used as a decoy by Jim Harball. Now it
sounds like he will indeed be collecting dust on the sidelines.
As our obligatory Maller monologue update on the life and
times of every rookie quarterback, Now we go to Minnesota
(14:45):
for the McCarthy update. If you have not heard, we
are told, have you missed it? We're told there is
a less than ten percent chance, less than ten percent
chance that the Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy will start as
the Viking quarterback over Sam Arnold in week number one.
We always monitor the airwaves. We don't want radio silence,
(15:07):
we want noise. There is chatter that says coach Kevin
O'Connell has put together a detailed, step by step plan
for McCarthy that will require he hit certain milestones before
the team will allow him to be the starting quarterback.
So let us discuss the question, what do you make
of the report saying that McCarthy JJ McCarthy has a
(15:30):
less than ten percent chance of starting as QB one
for the Vikings right out of the gates. So I've
got diagnosis, shopping cart and Donald Trump, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to head to the outback is where we're going to head.
So number Kevin O'Connell, the head coach in Minnesota, is
(16:03):
getting flowers from many of the media elites for this
meticulous approach. I've seen a couple of stories that have
crossed my radar. The football scribes, social media pundits are
praising this methodical approach way to go Brabo, And to that,
(16:26):
I say, excuse my French fui. I'm not gonna go
full tuna from Laguna because then I would be dumped.
But listen, we don't know if McCarthy can play. I'm
not gonna sit here and say that Jajon McCarthy can play.
I have my doubts. I absolutely have my doubts. But
we do know that Sam Donald stinks. That is proven.
(16:48):
We have a lot of data on Sam Donald being
a dog with fleas. Now, I am not a doctor,
but I can't play one on the radio and my diagnosis,
this is some old fashioned paralysis by analysis. You learn
from playing, you don't learn from watching. I've said that
for years, and I believe you toss them in the
ocean or in this case, Lake Minnetonka, and you see
(17:09):
whether or not they can swim or not, and do
not be stuck in neutral spinning your wheels. But what
do we know, right? We just sit here and do
the Overnight Show, and we watch these teams attempt to
have quarterbacks sit out for long periods of time and
then play, and then it rarely works. And then when
it does work, you bring that up everything about Mahomes Well, okay,
(17:32):
I'll say what about Jake Locker? Yeah? Anyway, page do
we go to the Bayou the shores of the mighty
Mississippi River, And that is where running back Alvin Camara
address the Komodo dragon in the room, comparisons being made
by many between himself and forty nine or back Christian McCaffrey,
(17:56):
the cover boy for the Madden video game franchise, who
recently signed a Mega Mega Mega Mega contract extension with
the forty nine ers. Now, Alvin Kamara was very polite.
He praised, he praised McCarthy, McCaffrey, He praised McCaffrey, said
how great he is and all that, And Christian McCaffrey
is this, that, and the other thing. But then Alvin
(18:19):
Kamara issued a cryptic quote about the statistical gap. And
there is a divide when you crossed the rubicon from
Christian McCaffrey and you head over to Alvin Kamara. Now,
Kamar has put up some big numbers in his time
with the Saints, but side by side, not close. And
(18:40):
to that Alvin, not the chipmunks, but just Alvin said,
I'm not a stat dude. Now that is what's known
as the money quote. How do you decode the Saints
running back Alvin Kamara saying I'm not a stat dude.
How do you decode that? Common? So my verdict on
(19:01):
this Kamara, he's on the internet, he's got this little
shopping card out on Amazon, and he's got that book
backhanded compliments for dummies. Is this not Aaron Rodgers like
or Lebron James like. It's passive aggressive. It is not
a stat dude, not a stat dude. Yeah, okay, that
(19:24):
is a not so subtle insult at Christian McCaffrey and
Alvin Kamara, based on my minutes long interpretation of this quote,
is wallowing in victimhood. That's what he's doing here. He's
implying that, unlike Christian McCaffrey, who's a stat effort and
a stat bandito with the forty nine ers, Alvin Kamar
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is a team player. He does whatever whatever the Saints want,
even if it hurts his numbers, and even if it
means he has to beat a guy up at a
casino in Vegas, He'll do it because that's what the
Saints want. And he's a team player. I might have
made up last part. All right, final point. We now
go to the ballot box, and oh what a story
(20:05):
this is. Decision twenty twenty four. Our democracy is at stake,
Our children's future is at stake. I love the bull
craft that politicians say and it never really changes all
that much. But anyway, the NFL version of this Decision
twenty twenty four. Is it true that the Associated Press,
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the wire service of record has changed the guidelines for
those that vote on who is the NFL's Comeback Player
of the Year Award. Is it also true that those
that have a ballot have been mandated, instructed and ordered
to only vote only vote for players who overcome illness,
(20:53):
physical injury, or other circumstances that led them to miss
playing time the previous season. So okay, that's all legit.
Why is the NFL tweaking the criteria for Comeback Player
of the Year. What is the motivation for this? And
(21:15):
this is because of one guy, Joe Flaco. Joe Flacco
in this election, Joe Flacco is like Donald Trump, President Trump,
right of the NFL Comeback Player of the Year award.
So many people were flustered, they were taken aback, they
(21:37):
were hornon swaggle. There was skulduggery that went on because
Joe Flacco upset the world of football, the deep state
of Pigskin by winning the Comeback Player of the Year,
And now the swamp monsters are pushing back against Joe Flacco,
not necessarily just Joe Flacco, but the whole entire process.
(21:58):
And so they're changing things up. And if you didn't
see the details on this and read defined print, we
are sure that this is just a Kawinki dig. It's
just a coincidence that the news on the change of
the Comeback Player of the Year vote came just four
months four months after Then Brown's quarterback current Indianapolis Colts
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backup quarterback Joe Flacco was given Comeback Player of the
Year over Bill's safety DeMar Hamlin. I'm sure that's just
that's just coincidence. Ignore the fact, of course, that Damar
Hamlin played in just five regular season games for the
Bills in twenty twenty three, less than one hundred total snaps,
(22:40):
most of those on special teams. He had two more
tackles than you and two combined tackles. But no, it
was supposed to be DeMar Hamlin. He didn't win it,
and Joe Flacco won it. And Joe Flacco was riding
around to John deere lawnmower at his home when he
got a call, Hey, how would you like to play
quarterback for the Cleveland Browns? And so the people who
(23:04):
put this together like wait can have that. The entire
story is chicken feathers.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Is what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
The entire story, chicken feathers.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
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Speaker 1 (23:17):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Go to the third degree.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
This is one big Ben gets great.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
According to oddsmakers at Draft Kings, the AFC East will
be the most tightly contested division in football, as the
Bills are only plus one seventy favorites to win the division,
with the Jets and the Dolphins right behind at plus
one ninety and plus two hundred, respectively. Ben, do you
think this is the most wide open division in football?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
No, it's a two team It's really a two teams.
Aaron Rodgers is going to get hurt. So it's the
Dolphins and the Bills. The Bills aren't as good if
you look at a depth chart, and the Dolphins have
a fatal flaw into a quarterback. So from that standpoint, yeah,
but I don't the Jets. Seriously, Aaron Rodgers will be
on a darkness retreat by early Deceberate next.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
Ohio State reportedly spent over twenty million dollars building their
football roster for the upcoming season. In a recent video,
Urban Meyer and Jim Tressel call it the most talented
roster in the history of the program. Then, are we
gonna see something special this season? Or is this all
just hyperbole?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah? They should have asked the opinion of a couple
of old Michigan coaches what they think of the Ohio
State roster. No, it's like if it was a fish,
it would be a puffer fish. These are huge, They're
they're building up. The legend of Ohio State football is
like the greatest twenty million dollars payroll.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
And all that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I bet your Ohio State back in the day spent
more than twenty million. They just did it under the table.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Next, with Al Horford winning a championship, James Harden is
now the active player with the most career playoff games
without a ring at one hundred and sixty six, Ben,
do you think he can break Karl Malone's all time
record of one hundred and ninety three.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So, first of all, can he break the record? Yes,
it's really up to James Harden. Now if he wants
to win a championship, you stay with the Clippers into
a dome, into the championship. It's up to Harden. How
do we know you are so close to I won?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
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Speaker 1 (25:26):
It's now time for time for horrrr. Wait, ask Ben?
Twitter said us your questions on Twitter now and away
we go to ask Ben. Your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour questions to me and the Bennetts.
It is the pot of gold at the end of
(25:47):
the rainbow. We passed the mic over to coop a
loop for the reading of the question.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
So this is an interesting one, Milkman. Mike would like
to know if you could steal anyone's talent for one day,
who would you take? Whose would you take?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Warren Buffett? How about that? Warren Buffett? His ability to
make money on the stock market is insane to the membrane.
And maybe not just him. There's others that probably made
more money than him. But somebody like that that has
great financial savviness. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
That is a great question. I'm surprised though, I guess
that was kind of a predictable answer by you. But
I'm surprised being what do.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
You mean by that? Well, I'm a great I'm a
great cook gas bag.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Like you know, Houdini or something, because you're always a
love magic.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I do love magic, but I like Matt idn't tell her.
I like Penn and Teller too. Although I'm upset with
pen Giletti turned me down. I tried to book him
for my podcast so screw him.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Yeah, I'll go who's the greatest chef out there? I'll
take I'll go with that guy since we're.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Talking about that Anthony board Day, but he's dead.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
But you have somebody, Okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Lorena, I'm gonna go with Britney Spears, Ben, Britney Spears.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Britney Spear, not Taylor Swift. You're going to old school
Britney Spears.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Yes, what, I don't know, because I love him.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Okay, we didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Do you love her?
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Now?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
She's having a few issues these days, she doesn't have issues,
no issues of things are going well. Okay, what about you, Cooper?
Speaker 6 (27:32):
I think I would have to go with, like, uh,
Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Edwards of all people, Anthony who wants to be able
to dunk, throw down some monster.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Jams, kill it on stage and look awesome. Well, see,
I thought about it. I thought about a rock star,
because you know, rock stars live wild lives. But and
but I've just I've always wanted to be able to
throw down a vicious dunk. And you know, and you
can also be one of the you know, top talents
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Why not, I'll buy you a trampoline, goopy dunk, whatever
you want.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
It's nick and dreams come true.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
What is next? What do we have? Let's see, let's
ask Ben. Your questions are answers for the rest of
the hour. The art of sports talk, My art of
sports talk.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I would like to know. Do you have a certain
hotel chain that you stay at when you're on the road.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yes, the cheapest one I can get. Actually, lately I've
been staying we've been staying at more Airbnb type places,
so we we've actually left a lot of the hotels
behind and stayed more at Airbnb places. So but yeah,
whatever's cheaper, and we usually what we do is all
we'll go on the road and we'll do crush. The
numbers were like, what's cheaper hotel or Airbnb? And usually
(28:49):
the Airbnb or one of those type places is cheaper.
What about you, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
My wife usually does all the trip planning in the
itinerary and all that kind of stuff, so you just
have to sup Yeah, pretty much. Okay, she doesn't trust me,
which is probably a good good on her part. So
usually night we usually stay up very nice places. The
place in Pittsburgh we're gonna stay at is where the
Chargers are staying. It's right across the street from the
where the Penguins play. It's very nice.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
All right, I can get you to place Pete and
Pittsburgh's there the bread Man if you want.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Now, I'm good. Although I'm going to visit Breadman.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I think, oh you are yeah, oh good. Yeah, I've
visited the music but he's a family man now. He
was a swinging bachelor back.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Of those I'm gonna check out his man cave, which
is impressive.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh cool, nice, let me know, all RIGHTA I free
ball it, Ben, that's hard for you to do. It's interesting. Interesting. Yes,
what do you sleep in your car?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Sometimes I do, Yeah, I've done that before.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
I sleep in my car. I'll pick random hotels along
the way whenever I get tired.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Hold on, hold on, you will sleep in your car.
You'll travel somewhere and just sleep in your car, in
my car.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
Yes, yeah, Sometimes you don't need a full eight hour rest.
Sometimes you just need a good three hour nap sometimes.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Sounded like Doc, Remember Doc Mike Edi told the story
he drove from Chicago to Nashville and he stopped early
pull over the side of the road and sleep for
like like five minutes and then get back on the road.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Yeah, sometimes you don't need a full break.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I did that once, and I felt awful when I
woke back up. It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I'll have to I don't have time to tell you now, Lamandon.
But I did spend a night in my car in Buffalo.
I slept in my car in Buffalo. I couldn't get
a hotel room. What is coop? Go ahead, cool?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I'm sorry, uh no, I'll just I'll pick somewhere. You know,
it depends on the trip. It's it's it's you know,
individual to eat trip, unless I'm going to Vegas and
then I stay in an MGM property.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Now, I have friends that are sports writers, and remember
years ago and I did the Dodger stuff, the baseball writers,
they always stay at the same hotels and at the time,
I don't know if this is true still true. Bob Ryan,
longtime Boston sports writer. He retired years ago, but Bob
Ryan had the most Barriott points of anyone in the
history of the country because he only stayed at Marriott
(31:03):
when he traveled. All right, what is next? What do
we have here?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
The King Rory. Hi, Rory would like to know how
often do you use your car horn while driving?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Well, I had a car for a while that had
like a clown sounding horn, so I was embarrassed to
use it, so I wouldn't use. The car I'm driving
now has a pretty masculine horn. But normally what I
do is I don't use the horn. I just give
the under the dashboard bird is my mood. I feel
good about that. I feel like and no one shoots
you exactly, but I feel good. Sometimes I'll even take
(31:36):
both hands off the steering wheel and give you the
double bird, but you won't even see it. I don't
that was what it did sound like. But I don't
use the horn very often, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Almost never. If I ever blow my horn at you,
you know you've done something really bad.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
You're going to time out right now.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
My wife uses the horn often, way off.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Them same same. I only use it if someone like
cuts me off or if they almost hit me.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Well, that happens every day, couplo rarely ever, and if
I do, it's usually like if somebody's asleep at the
red light, I just a quick little like, hey, wake up,
don't or at the green light.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
I mean say, that's so casually like you just well
see yeah, yeah, yeah, my new my.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
New, mister gos is the people that don't stop on
the sensor to trigger to trigger. Oh god, yes there's
a pandemic. It's it's what is next? Quick way? Quick?
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Art Puffin wants to know, have you ever been caught
looking at another woman's dunk dunk or in Lorena's case,
another man, have you ever been checking out the other
person by your caught by your singing another?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, my wife didn't really care, but no, I mean yeah,
we all get caught.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
Look at one point another Eddie sunglasses.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Lorena sunglasses do not work all the time. I was
staring at this homeless guy and he was like, I
can see through your glasses.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Manreina hot homeless guys cool quick way, Yeah, my wife
doesn't care. Yeah, I see. There you go in the
same boat. There you go, and look all you want.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Let's puck the world right now.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Too.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
A man who does not appreciate greatness Eddie Garson, All.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Right, man, the Stanley Cup Finals still going on the
Florida Panthers against the Edmonds and Oilers. When we last
left you in our last Pucked the World episode, Florida
had a two zero series lead, winning games one and
two on home ice. They then took Game three four
to three, on the verge of a sweep, but behind
superstar conom McDavid, the Oilers have won the last two games,
taking Game four eight to one. In Game five five three,
McDavid hosting back to back four board games, first player
(33:41):
in NHL Finals history to do that, Game six and
Edmonton on Friday, and if necessary, Game seven Monday in
Florida on the Monday NNY.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
When the Oilers win Eddie on Monday into Tuesday, I
will do an entire Hockey modelogue dedicated to my ed
McDon Oilers.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yeah, well that's not gonna happen, So I guess you
should have one about the Florida Panthers, But I guess you. Yeah, boring,
not boring, But anyway, If the Oilers win, it would
be their sixth Stanley Cup title, first since nineteen ninety
and the first for Canadian teams it ninety three. If
the Panthers win, it would be their first ever title
in franchise history. Who doesn't want that? There are a
couple of notes as far as trades from Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
The are you killing you? Did not mention Connor McDavid
the first player is Stanley Cup history back to back
four point games?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Did mention that thanks for listening, dummy, I wasn't listening well.
First couple of We had a couple of trades on Wednesday.
The La King shipped out disappointing forward Pier luth tu
Baugh and the remaining seven years and eight point five
million per season on his contract with the Washington Capitals
in exchange for veteran goalie Darcy Kemper's a bad trade.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
That's a bad trade, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
That's a bad trade for Washington.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
No, it's a bad trade for the King. He's in
his mid thirties, he's washed up and overpaid. Bad jobling, he.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Was in his twenties and he's sacks and he's making
eight job you trade.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Don't let a fall in goaltender fall on you, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
You don't care about who we're getting.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Really bad contract the hockey guy, Eddy, you're.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
An Idiot's do's a bad contract? The Kings just got
rid of and he didn't have to retain any of
the salary. You're just ridiculous, ridiculous. Thank you, Washington, Thank
you job for hands. New Jersey Devils acquired goalie Jacob
Markstrom from the Calgary Flames in exchange for a first
round pick in twenty twenty five and player Kevin Ball.
Flames are going to retain four point one two five
(35:26):
million on Markstrom salary. Vancouver Canuckside defendsment Philip Ronic to
an eight year contract extension. He gets seven point two
five million annually, and forward Patrick Lainey has asked to
be traded by the Columbus Blue Jackets. The team says
it will try to accommodate his request. Alexander Steen is
in line to become the first Swedish NHL general manager
after the Saint Lewis Blues announced their front office succession plan.
(35:47):
Steen was named special assistant to general manager Doug Armstrong,
with the intent of taking over for Armstrong in twenty
twenty six. Then we've also came with Armstrong getting a
three year extension as president of hockey operations through twenty
twenty nine, as Blue Jackets fired their head coach Pascal
Vincent for less than one season on the job, got
into the Blue Jackets to a twenty seven forty three
to twelve record. They finished with the fewest points in
(36:09):
the Eastern Conference. Columbus has now gone through three head
coaches in the last fourteen months, Brad Larsen, Mike Babcock
and Pascal Vincent.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
And I'm actually going to be coaching them in a
couple months.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
As wow, that's what bottom.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
My god, I'm a hockey guy. After my analysis in
the Edmonton Oily, fuh.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Yeah, it's the worst coach in NHL history, Ben Maller.
San Jose Sharks promoted assistant Ryan Warsofski to head coach,
thirty six year old, now the youngest coach in NHL.
In the NHL, I was an assistant for two years
in San Jose, gets promoted. Sharks had the worst record
in the NHL nineteen fifty four and nine and an
NHL low forty seven points. Carolina Hurricanes are sticky with
(36:44):
Eric Tolski as their general manager. They remove the interim
tag after the departure of Don Waldell to Columbus. Toulski
holds a PhD in chemistry from cal and conduct a
two year post doctoral study at the Naval Research Press.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Stady, how does that helped the hockey?
Speaker 5 (37:00):
He holds twenty seven US patents according to his team.
Bio worked in the tech industry for a dozen years
and managed research teams for nanotechnology areas. I don't know
how how does that help you run a hockey team?
I don't know, but apparently he's smart. The sale of
the Arizona Coytes franchise to Utah Jazz owners has been finalized.
Team will officially known as the Utah Hockey Club for
(37:22):
next season until they figure out the nickname, but the
color scheme has been released.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
It looks good rock black.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Which represents both the darkness of night in the mountains
and the volcanic rock of the Utah Desert. That's some
pr hacks salt whites that illustrates both the snow of
Utah's peaks and their famous salt flats.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And dot does on the weekend, Yes and when mountain blue, which.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Represents the team's winter sports history. And it's clear skies
for two hundred and thirty days out of the year.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
So you see did you see where the ducks uniforms
of the new dunk. Oh my god, they look like gritty.
They're gritty like orange.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
You like that?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Wow? Other option? My god, what are they trying to
be the Philadelphia Flyers? What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Uh, trying to be like Clemson orange orange?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
I mean that clearly somebody color blind came up with
those uniforms.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
My god, least favorite color orange.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
I don't know if it's my least favorite color, but
it ain't. They don't look good. I saw a photo
somebody sent me a photo like that. Those are pretty ugly.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Well, it does match their franchise, which is an ugly.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
They got to go back to when I covered the
ducs Eddie, they had the purple that back in the
old day they called it egg plants. The egg plant
that's what they got to go back there.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
They need to disband. That franchise is just you know,
send them.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Any Eddie wants one less hockey team. Oh my, did
you not give the NHL propaganda, Eddie?
Speaker 5 (38:49):
That whole thing was NHL propaganda?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
No, no, no, no. The NBA ratings went down, but
according to the NHL, I'm sure they didn't spend these
numbers at all. They claim that across North America, the
twenty twenty four Stanley Cup Final Game five saw an
increase of sixty one percent from last year's Game.
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Five, and across the pools game on Earth and across.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
North America, the Stanley Cup Final is averaging seven point
two million viewers. That is up sixty four percent from
last year's Stanley Cup Final across North America. Of course,
they are spinning a lot of numbers.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
It's also on you know, ABC, so I'm sure that
didn't hurt.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Well, no, but it's not. They don't in Canada though
it's it's not on ABC.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
They don't understand that we're talking about the United States.
You're not talking about No, we are.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
They're including the Canadian television ratings, is what they're doing.
They're not just doing the ABC ratings. They're including the
CBC and whatever channels in Canada broadcast the Stanley Cup Final.
So they're spinning the numbers, is what they're doing. But
that's fine,
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