June 24, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Stanley Cup Final Game 7 between the Oilers & Panthers on Monday night, what has allowed Edmonton to get back into this series, which team has the most pressure on them, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one of the
original Recipe podcast. Happy Monday to you. We start the
new week on this twenty fourth day of June, and
I'm Ben. It's the radio show we do overnight. It's
really a podcast we just recorded overnight. It's all about
believe it or not. The Stanley Cup Game seven tonight
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in South Florida. What has changed for Edmonton to storm back? Also,
do the Oilers have all the momentum in this Stanley
Cup Final? And where does the pressure stand heading into
Game seven? We'll talk about all of that and more.
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a bridge and was really bad at one of the
game shows and he hung up, and you know, he's
trying to listen like ten thousand times, but he sees
that number ten thousand is like, wow, that's impressive. But
don't bury the lead. My man. We're not We're not well.
You're going to start in a place that we rarely,
if ever start. But I'm a man of my word.
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I said, if things went a certain way, we would
go there. And I'm here and I'm perfectly fine with that.
I assume, you know, as this is our Sunday night
in the Monday show, Monday morning and Monday night. Yeah,
a hum danger of an event. I'm actually looking forward
to this. I'm I'm excited about this. I'm not this
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is not the bull crap. You know, we hear that
that phrase often in what we do for a living
that the most exciting two words in sports. Game seven.
Well we have that now because back on Friday, a
domination situation by my Edmonton Oilers, not any he's Edminson, Noyl.
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My Edmonton Oilers who dominated the game was close, what
even close? Came out dominated early and that was it.
They stormed back to even up this series with Florida
three to three. And we have editorial control for now
of the show, and so we've decided to start with
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with hockey. So Oilers and Panthers winner gets to hoist
the Stanley Cups. So let us discuss the question, the
obvious question here. And I've been watching these games, although
we haven't done monologues on them. The question is this
what changed for Edmonton to storm back and even things up.
So I've got George Clooney, psychobabble, and Grandfather Clock and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a pool party, which is what
the Oilers will be doing. They'll be taking the Stanley
Cup and they'll be having a pool party and they'll
toss it around different swimming pools, around Can't, around the
North America and around the world, and around the world.
So hey, to answer the question, what changed for Edmonton
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to storm back in this game? The oilers have really
simple here. They've stopped sucking at a time you cannot suck,
right you play. They've played better. They've been better in
these last three games in terms of what has tangibly
changed here. I am not an NHL pundit, but I
did recently stay, had a holiday and express and this
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is like an Ocean's eleven style situation. What has happened here?
Connor McDavid playing the role of George Clooney or Danny
Ocean's if you remember that movie Ocean's Eleven, And they
have cracked the code. They've cracked the code on the
goaltender for Sergei Bobrovsky of the Panthers. There, Game four
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was up until now the turning points got obvious. Otherwise
the series winning over because the Panthers won the first
three games. But Bobrovski was so bad he got pulled
from that game in game four, and he does not
appear the man has recovered from that particular situation. Going
into that game four, he was the favorite to be
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the MVP of the series. They cat call it con smite,
but it's the MVP. Would have been the MVP if
they closed out Game four in a suite. And I
am told if I understand this correctly, I believe I
do that Bobrovski is so shaken up by what has
happened here that he was not even on the ice
for practice on Sunday. They gave him a mental day
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off from Panthers practice, which I don't think that's a
great sign. I don't think that's a great sign. Now Bobrovski,
who has absolutely malfunctioned in that three games of dominance
and now he's like a wrestler from Mexico, El Stinko
of late. The Oilers, the team that I'm backing for
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this series, Edmonton Oilers, that get eight to one win
in Game four, right, So that was domination. He got pulled, Bobrovsky.
But the Oilers have outscored the Panthers eighteen to five
in the last few games. Eighteen to five. It's insane
talking about flying through some dark clouds if you're Sergey
Bobrovski and this Edmonton run, much like Ocean's eleven, they've
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cracked the code. They have cracked the code. Now page
two here, This is this is something I would like
to address because I know a lot of dumb people
love to run to this and I'm not going to
change my position. Some of you sent me email over
the over the weekend. Well you see, you see, man,
the oilers, you know what they have? They got Uncle Mo.
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Now do the oilers have all the momentum? Now they don't.
And I'll tell you why they can't have all the
momentum because it doesn't exist in sport. It doesn't not exist.
In fact, this series is proof there is no such
thing as momentum. That is an example, a living, breathing
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example of the fact that momentum is not real. And
yet I still got some email over the weekend, say
wha momentum momentum, momentum, momentum. Okay, so Florida, let's just
play this out right, bear with me. So Florida is
cruising around, They're driving a Maserati on the Autoban dominated
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Panthers had a ten to four edge in goals through
the first three games. In fact, if I remember correctly,
I might have jotted this down. Edmonton did not even
score until the seventy first minute of the series, the
complete momentum, as you idiots like to say, right, Oh,
that all the momentum. So if that's true, if you
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believe in momentum, explain this to me. So why would Florida.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Give that up?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Why they had it all, I mean dominating? Why would
they say no to that? Why would they give it back?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Was it stolen? How did the others get Uncle Mo back?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
The answer is they didn't. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Momentum in sport is an illusionary phenomena. It just is
that's the reality, right, It's not real and momentum and
I've known this for many years, have done this job
for a long time. Momentum is simply something after the fact,
an explanation for why something happened, the outcome of an event.
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And it's sports media cycle babble. It started out in
the early days of sports writing. It was in the
vernacular of sports media, and it's just been repeated. It's
kind of like student athlete. The NC double A came
up with student athlete to get out of paying workers
comp because people were dying playing football, and they just
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kept repeating it over the years, and people like, oh, momental,
it's shut an athlete. You know, it's like, I'll give
you an example. Right, Everyone's like, oh look at that
right now, Edmondon's got all the momentum in the Stanley Cup. Fine, okay, Fine,
So let's say Florida wins and I'm not sitting here
say it's over, like there's no way Florida. Go and
say Florida wins. Let's say they win Game seven here
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on Monday night. Are we gonna hear all the momentum. No,
we're not gonna hear that. It'll be ignored because it
didn't fit the narrative, so you'll ignore it. Right, The
alleged momentum just vanished in the thin air. But it doesn't.
It can't vanish because it doesn't exist. All right now,
last word here, Now, I always love Game seven because
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in my profession, it's the choke that is the greatest, right,
That's that's the thing the dramas. I've said for a
long time that the better story is in the losing
locker room because that's where the anger is. That's where
the rage is. When you win, everyone kisses your ass,
they love you, you're the greatest, and all that stuff.
But when you lose, it's finger pointing, it's talk, it's clicks,
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behind the scenes talk, right, He's like locker room broken,
that kind of thing. So where does the pressure lie
heading into Game seven here in hockey for Edmonton and Florida.
And I turned to the Grandfather clock, and I look
at the Grandfather clock, and the pendulum is clearly swung
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in the direction of really one guy in particular, but
an entire team because he represents that team, and that's
Sergey Barbrovski and Florida. Because this is the great thing.
It's like that movie Men in Black, and they've got
the neuralizer, and if Florida wins Game seven, then all
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sins are forgiven. Just won't talk about this and that's it.
He'll get to raise up the cup the first ever
for that franchise, the Florida Panthers, and if they get
that done, everything else is erased. And should he fail,
there will be stank. There's not enough Irish spring to
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wash the stank off that that will follow him and
many of these players around, because this doesn't happen that often.
In fact, it hasn't happened in what eighty years something
like that, So that's that's where we are on that.
But over time, because we have other stuff to worry about,
like overtime, you don't really remember all the ins and
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outs of what happened in a series, or you'll you'll
remember two things. You're gonna remember the turning point, which
at this point is Game four when Bobrovsky got benched,
and you're gonna remember the outcome whoever won the series.
You're not gonna remember much else about this over time.
But for Connor McDavid and the Edmonton hockey team, this
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is a loosey, goosey situation. It should be breathe easy, breezy,
breathe easy, and nothing to worry about. If you're playing
with house money. If you've ever gotten house money, that's
the way to gamble, I mean cheese. The eulogies have
already been written by people like Eddie Garcia that they're
not good enough, they can't win, no chance zero. All
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of that has already been written for Edmonton, So you've
already pretty much dead according to the experts. If you're
Edmonton here, not good enough, laude roster inferior, goaltending down
the line, fluke run okay. But if McDavid gets it
done here. If Connor McDavid and the Oilers win, then
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he moves up a couple of notches in the NHL
Book of Legends. This is the fairy tale type stuff.
You win these games. This is a fair He was
so good he spotted the other team three games and
then they came back and won. So you can gamble
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So we started with hockey, but this story, and it's
not something that we normally touch on, but this is
such a great story also that I had to get
to it. And you know, for me to talk about
the Olympics, something really good had to happen, right, something
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really good had to happen now. The Olympics are coming
up this summer in Perie and wait till you hear
I laughed my ass off when I heard about this.
I want to I want to share this week. If
you don't smile of this story, there's something wrong with
you. You might want to go see a doctor. We'll get
to that and we will do it next.
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Eddie Garcia, your humble sidekick, the voice of reason, your
news guy. You're announcer guy. I'm at Eddie on Fox.
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It's Ben Mallin, Jill nervous in there at all?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Okay, mister Hockey, he's no such thing. Okay, that's right,
there is not There.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Is panthers on whole eyes and get it done to
the story right down the crap.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, the only crap will be on the back of
Sergei Bobrovsky's uniform. When there's there's skid marks there. He
might there might be a Ben Bishop practice. Ready to roll, Eddie,
you are delusional. You are delusional on this bad job
by you bad job.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You wait till Ben moves to Canada.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And that's my audition tip. I'm gonna go to Moose Jawsaskatchewan.
When I lose this job that I'll pop up. I'll
do local.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Schedules and he's gonna do buy my car and he's
gonna drive up north of the border.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I had a buddy of mine used to do. He
did like afternoons in Winnipeg. So I know I know
people who Okay, I know people. I can talk to
people I think I don't know anyway, Cowboy Drew says,
I hope Edmonton wins. Nothing worse than a hockey team
in states that never get ice. So shut up. That's
so stupid. All right, come down, Uh, I can't close
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the deal. Neil is up with us, he says. Eddie
is in hog Heaven hearing expert NHL analysis in a
Mallard model.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's right about the expert. But I did enjoy the
rare and appropriate hockey.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, this is your once a year treat, Eddie, Well,
could be two times a year deplading what happens on
Monday night? Now, how about this guy? The specialist says,
Let's be honest. Ben Maller currently the best sports talk
radio show host not only at FSR but all of
sports radio. He says, but day check this out. Eddie said.
This is what's known as a backhanded compliment. He says,
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is been the best of all time? Is he better
than the fabulous sportsman? Well, how dare you? Well, you
know what they say about the best. That's right. Lorena
Loren's got she's got her Star Wars haircut. Do you
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see that, she's got her princess? Yes, you look like
from Star Wars right there?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
A little you know a little bit maybe maybe a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I have a I have a I have a great,
fabulous sports babe story.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So many people have no idea what you're talking.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah. So, in the early days of sports radio, when
the first sports radio station on the East Coast was
w f A N. On the West coast, it was
the mighty sixth ninety. So I worked at the mighty
sixth ninety in San Diego, which was a Mexican station.
Their transmitter was in Mexico. Whatever. They didn't decide they
want to start a station in La So I got
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transferred to the station in Los Angeles to work at,
and we had carried the fabulous sports pape. She did
like a three she started in Seattle, but she did
like a three hour syndicated show in the time slot
where Dan Patrick is now I believe or Coward, one
of those two. I think maybe Coward. So she did
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a three hour show. So we had this big gala
party for the radio station, and the person that ran
the radio station had invited all these big people to
this party we were having. It was actually a Dodger
STADIU because we were the Dodger radio station. So they
invited all these people from big media people to be there,
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and they invited the fabulous sports Pape to show up
to the event. What they did not anticipate was the
news would get out they were planning on dumping her show,
and she found out about it and showed up to
the showed up if I remember correctly, and was not
in a very good mood. It was quite the spicy
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night there. Made for a very awkward night.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Matt be Warm Also, we know it's radio. But for
those who don't know, yes, she was not a babe.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Well, I mean that's what it depends any I mean,
I'm sure there's there's someone for everyone, Eddie, you know, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Mean, if you're going to call yourself that you know,
isn't there an expectation that the baby might actually the babe.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, well the problem was they put her on television too,
and that kind of ruined the whole the illusion. Matt
the Warrior Raider fan says, I'd argue there's pressure on
both sides. The oilers have the pressure to compete, complete
the comeback and the hopes of an entire nation turned
the cup to Canada thirty one years. Florida has pressure
to not complete the choke dew. No, the Oilers were
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already buried by people like Eddie Garcia. So I disagree, Yeah,
completely disagree. What else we have? The Burner account says,
don't take this the wrong way, Benjamin, but you're one
game away from beating steamboat Willie fairn square as always,
so I want to give you an early congratulation. You
tried to warn him. In your face, Garcia, in your face.
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Robin Minnesota says man, you are clearly the greatest mind
that knows everything about the NHL. Oh my God, you
don't have to say God's not involved in the city.
Can you please help us, all of us here in
Minnesota and sign a petition to bring the North Stars back?
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's so funny the north Stars nobody went to the games.
Was part of the reason why they But Eddie, here's
now everybody in hindsight, Oh, the north Stars and north Stars,
when they would have supported him when they were there,
they'd still be there when.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I become the all knowing, almighty, all powerful, all encompassing
leader of sport. If you relocate, if your team leaves,
you leave all championships, all records, and the name behind.
And that's just the way it would be. And you
gotta leave everything mine. And that would mean the Dodgers,
the Lakers, the Clippers all have to have new names.
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I'm fine with that. I'm perfectly fine, Nick and Wis
Constance says, if my memory reserves me, right, Eddie said
Edmonton was going to lose to Dallas in the conference finals.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
That's true, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Come on, this is bad and this is not going
well for you.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You're a you're by the way, you are a band
wagoner on this.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I was on Edmton in the conference finals. I picked
him to beat the Stars. Alf the Alien Potter, says
Magna fique. He points out, let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Roy, who is deep in the
Heart of Texas. Hello, Roy, welcome, you're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Hey man, A plus on the matter mount Lot tonight.
I've been saying it for years. You can't have a
Mexican giving out hockey takes no wow.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Where's the wow?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Find the rao incredibility right there? So if wanted, when
I gotta be some sort of punishment, He's like, Eddie
can't do the world for a year or something like that,
Like you got to be the hockey guy for a year?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Should should we make him walk into a fountain or
something like that?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
He's really done that.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Let me tell you what's happening. And I think Eddie
knows a lot about hockey, doesn't He does a very
successful podcast about hockey, which I don't listen to, but
people love. Uh that's right. I know you don't because
I try, I talk trash about your son, but but no,
so so I respect when Eddie coming knows he knows hockey.
So that's the one. But what happened here his judgment
has been clouded. If you look at the the bad
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hockey analysis from Eddie corresponds with him becoming the woge
of w n b A for us. So I feel
like this is the Eddie's become the w n B
A guy and that's taking away from the hockey because
you're so worried about the w n B. Yes, you
see what I'm saying. Roy? Do you feel you feel
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where I'm coming from on this?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
How about this as punishment if the if the Panthers lose,
as punishment that I don't have to You don't have
to call me the w n B A guy anymore.
How about that? That would be no, no, no, that
would be lethal.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Well, we'll have the boys come up with the proper punishment, right, Roy,
We we can't have you can't come up with your
own punish.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
This guy is still in the air.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
By the way, I don't know, drop on are you?
Are you a big at Roy? Is that where you are?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Roy? No?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Thank you? All right? Go all right?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I don't know left him on for some reason anyway,
Jason in Kansas City right since says ten out of
ten on the Mallard monologue, Bend the Oilers are simply
too fast and quick for the plodding Florida Panthers. The
streak of Canadian teams not winning the Stanley Cup will
come to an end on Monday Night Jason in Denver,
the Casey car Hollow says, a plus on the Mallar monologue.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
See that you should have more hockey monologues. Are you're
getting great grades for this?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
No, because it's rare and appropriate. If I did more
of these, I get killed, all right? He says, you
can put momentum in sports in the same category as
muscle memory. No such thing. I don't know about muscle mariny.
I I ride a bike and bike.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
What I'm saying is I learned how to ride a bike,
and I don't. I have not ridden a bike in
a long time. Why would I. I have a car
car Trump's the bike exercise. I guess it's like I
used to tell my dad. My dad would go to
China these restaurants you loved eating chopsticks, and I tell
my dad listened the fort Trump's the chopstick go?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It does? I recently used chopsticks the first time.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
You know what I did the other day. Don't shake
your head of me.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I needed chopsticks. The restaurant did not have chopsticks, and
I ordered an awe heat salad. So I grabbed two
straws and I made them into chopsticks. Over the top
were the paper straws. Yes, oh that's even worse. Ts
yeah yeah, oh boy. Anyway, all right, we will. I
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would say there's only one scenario where chopsticks trump forks,
and that's when you're eating sushi. But if you don't
have chopsticks, you can just pick it up with your hands.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Because that's how you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You're an animal?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Hard to eat rice with chopsticks? Do you understand the
amount of effort that goes in?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You gotta put it up to your mouth, Ben, you
shovel it in?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
No, it's it sounds like.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
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Speaker 2 (25:11):
And as Ben was talking about Game seven Stanley Cup
Finals tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
As here we go, everybody, now here we go, oilers.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Here we eight pm Eastern time in Florida.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Come.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I was the only one doing that because you're the
only one who ready for bad show spirit by e
been to looking to become the second team ever to
rally down three oh to win a playoff series, not
a playoffs, The Stanley Cup final.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Last time was nineteen forty two Toronto Maple Leafs and
of course Florida. With a win, they'd win their first
ever Stanley Cup. Time all right, circling back now to
Edwin Diaz. Yes, I I'm not watching a lot of
baseball these days. But so they inspected him before even
threw up. Yeah, yeah, because when are they doing that?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They've been doing it for years. I thought they did
it after though. When you come in from the bullpen,
though you're a relief pitcher, they check you.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
So is this like a random thing they don't check?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
No, No, because everyone was cheating for they just were putting.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Are they checking every closer before the before the.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Everything, every as I understand, every relief pitcher gets checked
when they come in out of the bullpen. Yeah, and
when they were at the end of every inning, when
they're walking off the mound, they check. They checked the gloves.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But no, they were there. I didn't know they were
doing it before they took the mound though. That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Okay, But the thing about the Daz deal, there's two
things going on. So Edwin Diaz is coming off an injury.
Remember we missed all the last year, so he signed
that record set in contract, got one hundred and two
million dollar contract as the Mets closer. His urn run
average since late April is seven point four. It's over seven.
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So this is as story as old as time. Edy
pitchers don't pitch. Well, they got a big contract. They
want to you know, they want to get something back.
So what do they do. They rubbed pine tar all
over the balls. They rubbed their balls.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
He claims it was just a sweat and resin.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's what they always claim. They always cut. Matt Schurzer
got dinged for that with the Mets. You know, watery balls.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Oh look the.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Ball, big ball talk. All right, are you done?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Alright, I have fun. I have some fun malord fun fact.
Here's my first fun fact of the week. A lot
of a lot going on with the fun fact. Well,
the Panthers and Oilers Game seven Stanley Cup Final here
on Monday night, eighteenth time championship. We decided winner take all.
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But here we go. The home team is twelve and
five in Game sevens, but the road team has won
each of the past three. How fun is that the
road team like my Edmonton Oils. Now in twenty nineteen,
the Saint Louis Blues stunned the Garden. They won the
Cup first time since entering the NHL nineteen sixty seven,
(27:53):
and it wasn't even that close. They won four to
one over the Bruins in twenty nineteen Game seven. The
Bruins won a Game seven on the road in twenty eleven,
and didn't they make a documentary again the Vancouver Vancouver
That was the Bruins. They won their first Stanley Cup
in thirty nine years in twenty eleven, winning on the
road in Game seven. And then you're gonna go back
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all the way fifteen years twenty nine the Pittsburgh Penguins
and the Detroit Red Wings. Do you remember that one, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I do?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And they won Game seven on the road, they being
Pittsburgh as Marc Andre Fleury helping the Penguins get the win,
and and the Red Wings were trying for back to back.
There was a time the Red Wings had good teams
every year.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's true, not anymore. I remember that one most about
Marion Hosa. He was on Pittsburgh when they lost, and
then the in the offseason he went to Detroit. He
lost together this old team.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
All right, Well, that is my fun fact of the
hour because we put the fun in the fun fact.
Stevie Meatballs says, holy crap, dude, your anti momentum ran
and stuck in my cross so bad that I refuse
to square off with you on it over written word
or on my phone call. You just wait till I
(29:10):
visit my uncle Vinnie in Bueleton. I'll make good on
my in studio invite and end this in person. All right,
you come to Buleton. I've been to Buleton. Steven mean
Paul's you come to Buleton. Mark the full name Guy says,
you claim that momentum does not exist. A physics scholar
can't explain to you how a momentium can shift. Mark. Yes,
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in life, momentum exists. In sports, it does not. And
if you're not that bright and you can't figure that out,
that's more about you. Fergnog says, I can't get over
how premature and reckless it was of Eddie to declare
the Stanley Cup over after only three games. Is the
former hockey guy are ready to admit, ready to admit
(29:52):
he was wrong and beg for our forgiveness? Yet, Eddie,
are you willing to admit your sins. Going to confessional
now and we can begin the redemption problem.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
For the record, I did pick Panthers in seven before
the series started.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That's spin by Garcia that you wouldn't know anything about that.
I don't do anything. No, I'm too danse to spin, Eddie,
I can't. All right, Midnight Walker the poet Lauri It says,
the big nights upon us. Game seven is nigh and
Eddie Garcia on a natural high, both teams will be ready.
(30:27):
Just one more thing to say. Is there even a
chance that Wayne Gretzky will play? Yeah? Bring him back,
Mark Messi, I put him all out there. Robin Vegas
is nice to hear a hockey monologue to open the show,
but he says the fairy tale comeback ends tonight Florida
for Edmonton. Two Barkoff wins the conspy. Well, Rob bet,
all of you might go to one of those big
(30:48):
sports books in Vegas, but all your money, okay, and
then I'll laugh at you when you have no money,
I will laugh at you. All right, let's go to
the phones. Andre is in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, welcome.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yes, Ben, it's good to be with you all once again. Look,
Game seven is no laughing matter. This was kind of
the lead into the show, and I got to say,
listen to Florida Panthers, they can save this thing. I'm
going with the hot team. I'm going with Edmonton. NHL playoffs.
I don't know if we give it enough respect. In
the world of sporting me, there's no correlation, bend between
(31:24):
the regular season and the postseason. These things happen all
the time in hockey.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Great, It's like baseball. The same thing goes on in baseball.
Where you look at the Rangers won the World Series.
They're a middling team midseason. Philly's got to the World
Series a couple years ago. They weren't that good during
the season. It's getting in the playoffs and you can
go on a burner.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You can go on a burner, and I've been enjoying
it now. You know again, I'm leaning Edmonton just because
this is what Boston should have done last year, right Titletown,
USA is back and everybody's waving the banners and we
won the championship. And then even though I'm a Knicks fan,
but you know what I mean, the Unstan I'm Sam
called from the Commonwealth but they're the favorites for next year.
(32:06):
But Ben, the fact of the matter is this team
should have went to three straight NBA finals, right because
the Miami Heat was injured last year and then Celtics
won three straight. But then they got blown out at
home and couldn't have been the first NBA team to
do it, even though they really should have backed the
hockey again, I'm gonna go Edmontoning, but it doesn't really
matter what I think. If anybody thinks, it's just whose
team and whose goalie is hot when the puck goes down,
(32:28):
and I just think that level of unknown that's not
even really a word, right, unknowing this, but the level
of uncertainty I think, right, and then it's not scripted
and you really could see anything happen. It's a credit
to the game of hockey. Now, Ben, just in conclusion,
the fighting is something I don't really understand and it
doesn't really happen in any other sport. But again, for hockey,
it works for that.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Sport, right, well, it works, but they've tried to get
rid of it in the last ten to fifteen years.
So yeah, when I used that believe it or not.
In another life, Andre I covered hockey on a regular basis,
and there was fire love the fight, and you was
some nights. You knew right after they dropped the puck
to start the game, it's gonna be a massive fight
to begin because somebody that happened in a previous matchup
between teams. But you hardly see that at all. All Right,
(33:11):
I'll leave there. I'm good to hear from you, Andre
the Great, Andre and the Commonwealth checking in time. Now
for the who am I?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
you have to try to answer it. And we'll continue
a theme of the hour. And here's the who am I?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I am the only player on either Edmonton or Florida
who has appeared in a Game seven of a Stanley
Cup Final. Heading into Monday nights Game seven, I'm the
only one, the only one on either team who has
appeared in a Game seven of a Stanley Cup Final.
Who am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll
get to it.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
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Out for who am My game is? We hang out
with you here on a Sunday into a Monday, and
I am the only player on either Edmonton or Florida
who has appeared in Game seven of the Stanley Cup Final.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer? Listen?
(34:46):
Does anyone know the answer? We'll go page down here.
Chuck Porky Mitchell from Art Puffin, first name Mo, last
name Mentum, good luck on that Stevie Meat Paul's Big Cat,
Andres Galara Go from The Cowboy Killer, Benito and about
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twelve thousand other dudes sent the Hawk to a girl.
Did you see that Eddie?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
You know?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Internet famous, Yes, congratulations to her. I know yes. Bill
Goldberg guessed by Rob in Vegas. The specialist got this right.
Bad job by him. Zam Bony guess by Jordan first
name Zam, last name Bonie.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Created in California by the Zamboni.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yes by a family name, right in the family name.
Larry reporting from Nashville said Edwin Diaz sponsored by Elmer's Glue.
I used to love Elmer's glue. You just eat it
when I was in elementary. So are you aer? Yes,
I eat her.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
He was anatold.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Pour it on my hands and then I wait for
to dry and then pick it off, and then I
do that with candle wax. Same thing. Eric Lindres, guest
by the Midnight Walker Mallard prop guy says, Eddie money
shot Garcia is the answer transgender blind. Scott from Boston
guests by some other guy named Scott. Who else do
(36:07):
you have? Paige down? Chris Knoblock, head coach of our
Edmonton oilers from ferg Dog.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
You could not pick him out of a lineup, by the.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Way, No, but I did like his Gordy Today the
Late Night Drug tester talking about that podcast or the
Lakers hired Ecan Roseville, Minnesota, got it right? Who else
do we have? Page down? Dakota Prescott from alf the
Alien Opiner. All right, Eddie, what say you?
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Here we go. That's the only player, mister hockey over there,
Eddie Garcia, the only player who has Game seven Stanley
Cup Final experience heading into game seven.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Here. Well, I was gonna say Corey Perry, but then
you reminded me that the Blues actually played seven games
against the Bruins. So I gotta go with Vladimir Tarasenko.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Oh, Eddie, I gave the y, Eddie. It is Vladimir
Tarasenko the only player on either team to do it
game seven, twenty nineteen. So that that is not right.
I gotta mention this. So this is my favorite Olympics story.
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So they have this river, the river sen Or Senn River.
You've been in parasites, yes, yeah, all right's famous river.
So they're having the Olympics this summer. They had an event.
They're trying to prove that the water in France is
not dirty, that it's safe for the swimmers. So there
was a poop protest that ended up being poststponed because
the French officials refused to swim in the water because
(37:35):
it's not safe. They canceled the Parisian poop protests postponed
because officials refused to swim in the sen because they
claimed it was political reasons. But and I've never been there,
as I understand it, though, swimming in that river has
been illegal for more than one hundred years because of pollution.
And they're going to put Olympic athletes in the river
(37:59):
coming up this summer. They will be swimming in feces
for the Olympics. They're gonna do it for the Olympics.
Can't wait. Hopefully they have paramedics standing by, ambulances, standing
by what you will do to win a gold medal
swimming poop poop, poope
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one of the
original Recipe podcast. Happy Monday to you. We start the
new week on this twenty fourth day of June, and
I'm Ben. It's the radio show we do overnight. It's
really a podcast we just recorded overnight. It's all about
believe it or not. The Stanley Cup Game seven tonight
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in South Florida. What has changed for Edmonton to storm back? Also,
do the Oilers have all the momentum in this Stanley
Cup Final? And where does the pressure stand heading into
Game seven? We'll talk about all of that and more.
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a bridge and was really bad at one of the
game shows and he hung up, and you know, he's
trying to listen like ten thousand times, but he sees
that number ten thousand is like, wow, that's impressive. But
don't bury the lead. My man. We're not We're not well.
You're going to start in a place that we rarely,
if ever start. But I'm a man of my word.
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I said, if things went a certain way, we would
go there. And I'm here and I'm perfectly fine with that.
I assume, you know, as this is our Sunday night
in the Monday show, Monday morning and Monday night. Yeah,
a hum danger of an event. I'm actually looking forward
to this. I'm I'm excited about this. I'm not this
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is not the bull crap. You know, we hear that
that phrase often in what we do for a living
that the most exciting two words in sports. Game seven.
Well we have that now because back on Friday, a
domination situation by my Edmonton Oilers, not any he's Edminson, Noyl.
(03:00):
My Edmonton Oilers who dominated the game was close, what
even close? Came out dominated early and that was it.
They stormed back to even up this series with Florida
three to three. And we have editorial control for now
of the show, and so we've decided to start with
(03:21):
with hockey. So Oilers and Panthers winner gets to hoist
the Stanley Cups. So let us discuss the question, the
obvious question here. And I've been watching these games, although
we haven't done monologues on them. The question is this
what changed for Edmonton to storm back and even things up.
So I've got George Clooney, psychobabble, and Grandfather Clock and
(03:46):
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a pool party, which is what
the Oilers will be doing. They'll be taking the Stanley
Cup and they'll be having a pool party and they'll
toss it around different swimming pools, around Can't, around the
North America and around the world, and around the world.
So hey, to answer the question, what changed for Edmonton
(04:07):
to storm back in this game? The oilers have really
simple here. They've stopped sucking at a time you cannot suck,
right you play. They've played better. They've been better in
these last three games in terms of what has tangibly
changed here. I am not an NHL pundit, but I
did recently stay, had a holiday and express and this
(04:29):
is like an Ocean's eleven style situation. What has happened here?
Connor McDavid playing the role of George Clooney or Danny
Ocean's if you remember that movie Ocean's Eleven, And they
have cracked the code. They've cracked the code on the
goaltender for Sergei Bobrovsky of the Panthers. There, Game four
(04:52):
was up until now the turning points got obvious. Otherwise
the series winning over because the Panthers won the first
three games. But Bobrovski was so bad he got pulled
from that game in game four, and he does not
appear the man has recovered from that particular situation. Going
into that game four, he was the favorite to be
(05:15):
the MVP of the series. They cat call it con smite,
but it's the MVP. Would have been the MVP if
they closed out Game four in a suite. And I
am told if I understand this correctly, I believe I
do that Bobrovski is so shaken up by what has
happened here that he was not even on the ice
for practice on Sunday. They gave him a mental day
(05:37):
off from Panthers practice, which I don't think that's a
great sign. I don't think that's a great sign. Now Bobrovski,
who has absolutely malfunctioned in that three games of dominance
and now he's like a wrestler from Mexico, El Stinko
of late. The Oilers, the team that I'm backing for
(05:59):
this series, Edmonton Oilers, that get eight to one win
in Game four, right, So that was domination. He got pulled, Bobrovsky.
But the Oilers have outscored the Panthers eighteen to five
in the last few games. Eighteen to five. It's insane
talking about flying through some dark clouds if you're Sergey
Bobrovski and this Edmonton run, much like Ocean's eleven, they've
(06:22):
cracked the code. They have cracked the code. Now page
two here, This is this is something I would like
to address because I know a lot of dumb people
love to run to this and I'm not going to
change my position. Some of you sent me email over
the over the weekend. Well you see, you see, man,
the oilers, you know what they have? They got Uncle Mo.
(06:46):
Now do the oilers have all the momentum? Now they don't.
And I'll tell you why they can't have all the
momentum because it doesn't exist in sport. It doesn't not exist.
In fact, this series is proof there is no such
thing as momentum. That is an example, a living, breathing
(07:10):
example of the fact that momentum is not real. And
yet I still got some email over the weekend, say
wha momentum momentum, momentum, momentum. Okay, so Florida, let's just
play this out right, bear with me. So Florida is
cruising around, They're driving a Maserati on the Autoban dominated
(07:31):
Panthers had a ten to four edge in goals through
the first three games. In fact, if I remember correctly,
I might have jotted this down. Edmonton did not even
score until the seventy first minute of the series, the
complete momentum, as you idiots like to say, right, Oh,
that all the momentum. So if that's true, if you
(07:53):
believe in momentum, explain this to me. So why would Florida.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Give that up?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Why they had it all, I mean dominating? Why would
they say no to that? Why would they give it back?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Was it stolen? How did the others get Uncle Mo back?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
The answer is they didn't. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Momentum in sport is an illusionary phenomena. It just is
that's the reality, right, It's not real and momentum and
I've known this for many years, have done this job
for a long time. Momentum is simply something after the fact,
an explanation for why something happened, the outcome of an event.
(08:34):
And it's sports media cycle babble. It started out in
the early days of sports writing. It was in the
vernacular of sports media, and it's just been repeated. It's
kind of like student athlete. The NC double A came
up with student athlete to get out of paying workers
comp because people were dying playing football, and they just
(08:56):
kept repeating it over the years, and people like, oh, momental,
it's shut an athlete. You know, it's like, I'll give
you an example. Right, Everyone's like, oh look at that
right now, Edmondon's got all the momentum in the Stanley Cup. Fine, okay, Fine,
So let's say Florida wins and I'm not sitting here
say it's over, like there's no way Florida. Go and
say Florida wins. Let's say they win Game seven here
(09:18):
on Monday night. Are we gonna hear all the momentum. No,
we're not gonna hear that. It'll be ignored because it
didn't fit the narrative, so you'll ignore it. Right, The
alleged momentum just vanished in the thin air. But it doesn't.
It can't vanish because it doesn't exist. All right now,
last word here, Now, I always love Game seven because
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in my profession, it's the choke that is the greatest, right,
That's that's the thing the dramas. I've said for a
long time that the better story is in the losing
locker room because that's where the anger is. That's where
the rage is. When you win, everyone kisses your ass,
they love you, you're the greatest, and all that stuff.
But when you lose, it's finger pointing, it's talk, it's clicks,
(10:06):
behind the scenes talk, right, He's like locker room broken,
that kind of thing. So where does the pressure lie
heading into Game seven here in hockey for Edmonton and Florida.
And I turned to the Grandfather clock, and I look
at the Grandfather clock, and the pendulum is clearly swung
(10:27):
in the direction of really one guy in particular, but
an entire team because he represents that team, and that's
Sergey Barbrovski and Florida. Because this is the great thing.
It's like that movie Men in Black, and they've got
the neuralizer, and if Florida wins Game seven, then all
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sins are forgiven. Just won't talk about this and that's it.
He'll get to raise up the cup the first ever
for that franchise, the Florida Panthers, and if they get
that done, everything else is erased. And should he fail,
there will be stank. There's not enough Irish spring to
(11:09):
wash the stank off that that will follow him and
many of these players around, because this doesn't happen that often.
In fact, it hasn't happened in what eighty years something
like that, So that's that's where we are on that.
But over time, because we have other stuff to worry about,
like overtime, you don't really remember all the ins and
(11:30):
outs of what happened in a series, or you'll you'll
remember two things. You're gonna remember the turning point, which
at this point is Game four when Bobrovsky got benched,
and you're gonna remember the outcome whoever won the series.
You're not gonna remember much else about this over time.
But for Connor McDavid and the Edmonton hockey team, this
(11:52):
is a loosey, goosey situation. It should be breathe easy, breezy,
breathe easy, and nothing to worry about. If you're playing
with house money. If you've ever gotten house money, that's
the way to gamble, I mean cheese. The eulogies have
already been written by people like Eddie Garcia that they're
not good enough, they can't win, no chance zero. All
(12:15):
of that has already been written for Edmonton, So you've
already pretty much dead according to the experts. If you're
Edmonton here, not good enough, laude roster inferior, goaltending down
the line, fluke run okay. But if McDavid gets it
done here. If Connor McDavid and the Oilers win, then
(12:38):
he moves up a couple of notches in the NHL
Book of Legends. This is the fairy tale type stuff.
You win these games. This is a fair He was
so good he spotted the other team three games and
then they came back and won. So you can gamble
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So we started with hockey, but this story, and it's
not something that we normally touch on, but this is
such a great story also that I had to get
to it. And you know, for me to talk about
the Olympics, something really good had to happen, right, something
(13:45):
really good had to happen now. The Olympics are coming
up this summer in Perie and wait till you hear
I laughed my ass off when I heard about this.
I want to I want to share this week. If
you don't smile of this story, there's something wrong with
you. You might want to go see a doctor. We'll get
to that and we will do it next.
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It's Ben Mallin, Jill nervous in there at all?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Okay, mister Hockey, he's no such thing. Okay, that's right,
there is not There.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Is panthers on whole eyes and get it done to
the story right down the crap.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, the only crap will be on the back of
Sergei Bobrovsky's uniform. When there's there's skid marks there. He
might there might be a Ben Bishop practice. Ready to roll, Eddie,
you are delusional. You are delusional on this bad job
by you bad job.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You wait till Ben moves to Canada.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And that's my audition tip. I'm gonna go to Moose Jawsaskatchewan.
When I lose this job that I'll pop up. I'll
do local.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Schedules and he's gonna do buy my car and he's
gonna drive up north of the border.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I had a buddy of mine used to do. He
did like afternoons in Winnipeg. So I know I know
people who Okay, I know people. I can talk to
people I think I don't know anyway, Cowboy Drew says,
I hope Edmonton wins. Nothing worse than a hockey team
in states that never get ice. So shut up. That's
so stupid. All right, come down, Uh, I can't close
(16:28):
the deal. Neil is up with us, he says. Eddie
is in hog Heaven hearing expert NHL analysis in a
Mallard model.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's right about the expert. But I did enjoy the
rare and appropriate hockey.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, this is your once a year treat, Eddie, Well,
could be two times a year deplading what happens on
Monday night? Now, how about this guy? The specialist says,
Let's be honest. Ben Maller currently the best sports talk
radio show host not only at FSR but all of
sports radio. He says, but day check this out. Eddie said.
This is what's known as a backhanded compliment. He says,
(16:58):
is been the best of all time? Is he better
than the fabulous sportsman? Well, how dare you? Well, you
know what they say about the best. That's right. Lorena
Loren's got she's got her Star Wars haircut. Do you
(17:19):
see that, she's got her princess? Yes, you look like
from Star Wars right there?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
A little you know a little bit maybe maybe a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I have a I have a I have a great,
fabulous sports babe story.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
So many people have no idea what you're talking.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah. So, in the early days of sports radio, when
the first sports radio station on the East Coast was
w f A N. On the West coast, it was
the mighty sixth ninety. So I worked at the mighty
sixth ninety in San Diego, which was a Mexican station.
Their transmitter was in Mexico. Whatever. They didn't decide they
want to start a station in La So I got
(17:57):
transferred to the station in Los Angeles to work at,
and we had carried the fabulous sports pape. She did
like a three she started in Seattle, but she did
like a three hour syndicated show in the time slot
where Dan Patrick is now I believe or Coward, one
of those two. I think maybe Coward. So she did
(18:17):
a three hour show. So we had this big gala
party for the radio station, and the person that ran
the radio station had invited all these big people to
this party we were having. It was actually a Dodger
STADIU because we were the Dodger radio station. So they
invited all these people from big media people to be there,
(18:38):
and they invited the fabulous sports Pape to show up
to the event. What they did not anticipate was the
news would get out they were planning on dumping her show,
and she found out about it and showed up to
the showed up if I remember correctly, and was not
in a very good mood. It was quite the spicy
(18:59):
night there. Made for a very awkward night.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Matt be Warm Also, we know it's radio. But for
those who don't know, yes, she was not a babe.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Well, I mean that's what it depends any I mean,
I'm sure there's there's someone for everyone, Eddie, you know, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Mean, if you're going to call yourself that you know,
isn't there an expectation that the baby might actually the babe.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, well the problem was they put her on television too,
and that kind of ruined the whole the illusion. Matt
the Warrior Raider fan says, I'd argue there's pressure on
both sides. The oilers have the pressure to compete, complete
the comeback and the hopes of an entire nation turned
the cup to Canada thirty one years. Florida has pressure
to not complete the choke dew. No, the Oilers were
(19:43):
already buried by people like Eddie Garcia. So I disagree, Yeah,
completely disagree. What else we have? The Burner account says,
don't take this the wrong way, Benjamin, but you're one
game away from beating steamboat Willie fairn square as always,
so I want to give you an early congratulation. You
tried to warn him. In your face, Garcia, in your face.
(20:05):
Robin Minnesota says man, you are clearly the greatest mind
that knows everything about the NHL. Oh my God, you
don't have to say God's not involved in the city.
Can you please help us, all of us here in
Minnesota and sign a petition to bring the North Stars back?
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's so funny the north Stars nobody went to the games.
Was part of the reason why they But Eddie, here's
now everybody in hindsight, Oh, the north Stars and north Stars,
when they would have supported him when they were there,
they'd still be there when.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I become the all knowing, almighty, all powerful, all encompassing
leader of sport. If you relocate, if your team leaves,
you leave all championships, all records, and the name behind.
And that's just the way it would be. And you
gotta leave everything mine. And that would mean the Dodgers,
the Lakers, the Clippers all have to have new names.
(20:55):
I'm fine with that. I'm perfectly fine, Nick and Wis
Constance says, if my memory reserves me, right, Eddie said
Edmonton was going to lose to Dallas in the conference finals.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
That's true, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Come on, this is bad and this is not going
well for you.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You're a you're by the way, you are a band
wagoner on this.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I was on Edmton in the conference finals. I picked
him to beat the Stars. Alf the Alien Potter, says
Magna fique. He points out, let's go to the phones.
We'll say hello to Roy, who is deep in the
Heart of Texas. Hello, Roy, welcome, you're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Hey man, A plus on the matter mount Lot tonight.
I've been saying it for years. You can't have a
Mexican giving out hockey takes no wow.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Where's the wow?
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Find the rao incredibility right there? So if wanted, when
I gotta be some sort of punishment, He's like, Eddie
can't do the world for a year or something like that,
Like you got to be the hockey guy for a year?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Should should we make him walk into a fountain or
something like that?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
He's really done that.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Let me tell you what's happening. And I think Eddie
knows a lot about hockey, doesn't He does a very
successful podcast about hockey, which I don't listen to, but
people love. Uh that's right. I know you don't because
I try, I talk trash about your son, but but no,
so so I respect when Eddie coming knows he knows hockey.
So that's the one. But what happened here his judgment
has been clouded. If you look at the the bad
(22:18):
hockey analysis from Eddie corresponds with him becoming the woge
of w n b A for us. So I feel
like this is the Eddie's become the w n B
A guy and that's taking away from the hockey because
you're so worried about the w n B. Yes, you
see what I'm saying. Roy? Do you feel you feel
(22:38):
where I'm coming from on this?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
How about this as punishment if the if the Panthers lose,
as punishment that I don't have to You don't have
to call me the w n B A guy anymore.
How about that? That would be no, no, no, that
would be lethal.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Well, we'll have the boys come up with the proper punishment, right, Roy,
We we can't have you can't come up with your
own punish.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
This guy is still in the air.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
By the way, I don't know, drop on are you?
Are you a big at Roy? Is that where you are?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Roy? No?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Thank you? All right? Go all right?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I don't know left him on for some reason anyway,
Jason in Kansas City right since says ten out of
ten on the Mallard monologue, Bend the Oilers are simply
too fast and quick for the plodding Florida Panthers. The
streak of Canadian teams not winning the Stanley Cup will
come to an end on Monday Night Jason in Denver,
the Casey car Hollow says, a plus on the Mallar monologue.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
See that you should have more hockey monologues. Are you're
getting great grades for this?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
No, because it's rare and appropriate. If I did more
of these, I get killed, all right? He says, you
can put momentum in sports in the same category as
muscle memory. No such thing. I don't know about muscle mariny.
I I ride a bike and bike.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
What I'm saying is I learned how to ride a bike,
and I don't. I have not ridden a bike in
a long time. Why would I. I have a car
car Trump's the bike exercise. I guess it's like I
used to tell my dad. My dad would go to
China these restaurants you loved eating chopsticks, and I tell
my dad listened the fort Trump's the chopstick go?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It does? I recently used chopsticks the first time.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
You know what I did the other day. Don't shake
your head of me.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I needed chopsticks. The restaurant did not have chopsticks, and
I ordered an awe heat salad. So I grabbed two
straws and I made them into chopsticks. Over the top
were the paper straws. Yes, oh that's even worse. Ts
yeah yeah, oh boy. Anyway, all right, we will. I
(24:34):
would say there's only one scenario where chopsticks trump forks,
and that's when you're eating sushi. But if you don't
have chopsticks, you can just pick it up with your hands.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Because that's how you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
You're an animal?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Hard to eat rice with chopsticks? Do you understand the
amount of effort that goes in?
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You gotta put it up to your mouth, Ben, you
shovel it in?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
No, it's it sounds like.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And as Ben was talking about Game seven Stanley Cup
Finals tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
As here we go, everybody, now here we go, oilers.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Here we eight pm Eastern time in Florida.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Come.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I was the only one doing that because you're the
only one who ready for bad show spirit by e
been to looking to become the second team ever to
rally down three oh to win a playoff series, not
a playoffs, The Stanley Cup final.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Last time was nineteen forty two Toronto Maple Leafs and
of course Florida. With a win, they'd win their first
ever Stanley Cup. Time all right, circling back now to
Edwin Diaz. Yes, I I'm not watching a lot of
baseball these days. But so they inspected him before even
threw up. Yeah, yeah, because when are they doing that?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They've been doing it for years. I thought they did
it after though. When you come in from the bullpen,
though you're a relief pitcher, they check you.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
So is this like a random thing they don't check?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
No, No, because everyone was cheating for they just were putting.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Are they checking every closer before the before the.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Everything, every as I understand, every relief pitcher gets checked
when they come in out of the bullpen. Yeah, and
when they were at the end of every inning, when
they're walking off the mound, they check. They checked the gloves.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
But no, they were there. I didn't know they were
doing it before they took the mound though. That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Okay, But the thing about the Daz deal, there's two
things going on. So Edwin Diaz is coming off an injury.
Remember we missed all the last year, so he signed
that record set in contract, got one hundred and two
million dollar contract as the Mets closer. His urn run
average since late April is seven point four. It's over seven.
(26:44):
So this is as story as old as time. Edy
pitchers don't pitch. Well, they got a big contract. They
want to you know, they want to get something back.
So what do they do. They rubbed pine tar all
over the balls. They rubbed their balls.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
He claims it was just a sweat and resin.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's what they always claim. They always cut. Matt Schurzer
got dinged for that with the Mets. You know, watery balls.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Oh look the.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Ball, big ball talk. All right, are you done?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Alright, I have fun. I have some fun malord fun fact.
Here's my first fun fact of the week. A lot
of a lot going on with the fun fact. Well,
the Panthers and Oilers Game seven Stanley Cup Final here
on Monday night, eighteenth time championship. We decided winner take all.
(27:32):
But here we go. The home team is twelve and
five in Game sevens, but the road team has won
each of the past three. How fun is that the
road team like my Edmonton Oils. Now in twenty nineteen,
the Saint Louis Blues stunned the Garden. They won the
Cup first time since entering the NHL nineteen sixty seven,
(27:53):
and it wasn't even that close. They won four to
one over the Bruins in twenty nineteen Game seven. The
Bruins won a Game seven on the road in twenty eleven,
and didn't they make a documentary again the Vancouver Vancouver
That was the Bruins. They won their first Stanley Cup
in thirty nine years in twenty eleven, winning on the
road in Game seven. And then you're gonna go back
(28:15):
all the way fifteen years twenty nine the Pittsburgh Penguins
and the Detroit Red Wings. Do you remember that one, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I do?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And they won Game seven on the road, they being
Pittsburgh as Marc Andre Fleury helping the Penguins get the win,
and and the Red Wings were trying for back to back.
There was a time the Red Wings had good teams
every year.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's true, not anymore. I remember that one most about
Marion Hosa. He was on Pittsburgh when they lost, and
then the in the offseason he went to Detroit. He
lost together this old team.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
All right, Well, that is my fun fact of the
hour because we put the fun in the fun fact.
Stevie Meatballs says, holy crap, dude, your anti momentum ran
and stuck in my cross so bad that I refuse
to square off with you on it over written word
or on my phone call. You just wait till I
(29:10):
visit my uncle Vinnie in Bueleton. I'll make good on
my in studio invite and end this in person. All right,
you come to Buleton. I've been to Buleton. Steven mean
Paul's you come to Buleton. Mark the full name Guy says,
you claim that momentum does not exist. A physics scholar
can't explain to you how a momentium can shift. Mark. Yes,
(29:31):
in life, momentum exists. In sports, it does not. And
if you're not that bright and you can't figure that out,
that's more about you. Fergnog says, I can't get over
how premature and reckless it was of Eddie to declare
the Stanley Cup over after only three games. Is the
former hockey guy are ready to admit, ready to admit
(29:52):
he was wrong and beg for our forgiveness? Yet, Eddie,
are you willing to admit your sins. Going to confessional
now and we can begin the redemption problem.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
For the record, I did pick Panthers in seven before
the series started.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That's spin by Garcia that you wouldn't know anything about that.
I don't do anything. No, I'm too danse to spin, Eddie,
I can't. All right, Midnight Walker the poet Lauri It says,
the big nights upon us. Game seven is nigh and
Eddie Garcia on a natural high, both teams will be ready.
(30:27):
Just one more thing to say. Is there even a
chance that Wayne Gretzky will play? Yeah? Bring him back,
Mark Messi, I put him all out there. Robin Vegas
is nice to hear a hockey monologue to open the show,
but he says the fairy tale comeback ends tonight Florida
for Edmonton. Two Barkoff wins the conspy. Well, Rob bet,
all of you might go to one of those big
(30:48):
sports books in Vegas, but all your money, okay, and
then I'll laugh at you when you have no money,
I will laugh at you. All right, let's go to
the phones. Andre is in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, welcome.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yes, Ben, it's good to be with you all once again. Look,
Game seven is no laughing matter. This was kind of
the lead into the show, and I got to say,
listen to Florida Panthers, they can save this thing. I'm
going with the hot team. I'm going with Edmonton. NHL playoffs.
I don't know if we give it enough respect. In
the world of sporting me, there's no correlation, bend between
(31:24):
the regular season and the postseason. These things happen all
the time in hockey.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Great, It's like baseball. The same thing goes on in baseball.
Where you look at the Rangers won the World Series.
They're a middling team midseason. Philly's got to the World
Series a couple years ago. They weren't that good during
the season. It's getting in the playoffs and you can
go on a burner.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
You can go on a burner, and I've been enjoying
it now. You know again, I'm leaning Edmonton just because
this is what Boston should have done last year, right Titletown,
USA is back and everybody's waving the banners and we
won the championship. And then even though I'm a Knicks fan,
but you know what I mean, the Unstan I'm Sam
called from the Commonwealth but they're the favorites for next year.
(32:06):
But Ben, the fact of the matter is this team
should have went to three straight NBA finals, right because
the Miami Heat was injured last year and then Celtics
won three straight. But then they got blown out at
home and couldn't have been the first NBA team to
do it, even though they really should have backed the
hockey again, I'm gonna go Edmontoning, but it doesn't really
matter what I think. If anybody thinks, it's just whose
team and whose goalie is hot when the puck goes down,
(32:28):
and I just think that level of unknown that's not
even really a word, right, unknowing this, but the level
of uncertainty I think, right, and then it's not scripted
and you really could see anything happen. It's a credit
to the game of hockey. Now, Ben, just in conclusion,
the fighting is something I don't really understand and it
doesn't really happen in any other sport. But again, for hockey,
it works for that.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Sport, right, well, it works, but they've tried to get
rid of it in the last ten to fifteen years.
So yeah, when I used that believe it or not.
In another life, Andre I covered hockey on a regular basis,
and there was fire love the fight, and you was
some nights. You knew right after they dropped the puck
to start the game, it's gonna be a massive fight
to begin because somebody that happened in a previous matchup
between teams. But you hardly see that at all. All Right,
(33:11):
I'll leave there. I'm good to hear from you, Andre
the Great, Andre and the Commonwealth checking in time. Now
for the who am I?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
you have to try to answer it. And we'll continue
a theme of the hour. And here's the who am I?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I am the only player on either Edmonton or Florida
who has appeared in a Game seven of a Stanley
Cup Final. Heading into Monday nights Game seven, I'm the
only one, the only one on either team who has
appeared in a Game seven of a Stanley Cup Final.
Who am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll
get to it.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
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Speaker 2 (34:00):
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(34:20):
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Speaker 1 (34:25):
Out for who am My game is? We hang out
with you here on a Sunday into a Monday, and
I am the only player on either Edmonton or Florida
who has appeared in Game seven of the Stanley Cup Final.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer? Listen?
(34:46):
Does anyone know the answer? We'll go page down here.
Chuck Porky Mitchell from Art Puffin, first name Mo, last
name Mentum, good luck on that Stevie Meat Paul's Big Cat,
Andres Galara Go from The Cowboy Killer, Benito and about
(35:09):
twelve thousand other dudes sent the Hawk to a girl.
Did you see that Eddie?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
You know?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Internet famous, Yes, congratulations to her. I know yes. Bill
Goldberg guessed by Rob in Vegas. The specialist got this right.
Bad job by him. Zam Bony guess by Jordan first
name Zam, last name Bonie.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Created in California by the Zamboni.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yes by a family name, right in the family name.
Larry reporting from Nashville said Edwin Diaz sponsored by Elmer's Glue.
I used to love Elmer's glue. You just eat it
when I was in elementary. So are you aer? Yes,
I eat her.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
He was anatold.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Pour it on my hands and then I wait for
to dry and then pick it off, and then I
do that with candle wax. Same thing. Eric Lindres, guest
by the Midnight Walker Mallard prop guy says, Eddie money
shot Garcia is the answer transgender blind. Scott from Boston
guests by some other guy named Scott. Who else do
(36:07):
you have? Paige down? Chris Knoblock, head coach of our
Edmonton oilers from ferg Dog.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
You could not pick him out of a lineup, by the.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Way, No, but I did like his Gordy Today the
Late Night Drug tester talking about that podcast or the
Lakers hired Ecan Roseville, Minnesota, got it right? Who else
do we have? Page down? Dakota Prescott from alf the
Alien Opiner. All right, Eddie, what say you?
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Here we go. That's the only player, mister hockey over there,
Eddie Garcia, the only player who has Game seven Stanley
Cup Final experience heading into game seven.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Here. Well, I was gonna say Corey Perry, but then
you reminded me that the Blues actually played seven games
against the Bruins. So I gotta go with Vladimir Tarasenko.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Oh, Eddie, I gave the y, Eddie. It is Vladimir
Tarasenko the only player on either team to do it
game seven, twenty nineteen. So that that is not right.
I gotta mention this. So this is my favorite Olympics story.
(37:11):
So they have this river, the river sen Or Senn River.
You've been in parasites, yes, yeah, all right's famous river.
So they're having the Olympics this summer. They had an event.
They're trying to prove that the water in France is
not dirty, that it's safe for the swimmers. So there
was a poop protest that ended up being poststponed because
the French officials refused to swim in the water because
(37:35):
it's not safe. They canceled the Parisian poop protests postponed
because officials refused to swim in the sen because they
claimed it was political reasons. But and I've never been there,
as I understand it, though, swimming in that river has
been illegal for more than one hundred years because of pollution.
And they're going to put Olympic athletes in the river
(37:59):
coming up this summer. They will be swimming in feces
for the Olympics. They're gonna do it for the Olympics.
Can't wait. Hopefully they have paramedics standing by, ambulances, standing
by what you will do to win a gold medal
swimming poop poop, poope
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