July 5, 2024 • 55 mins
Today on The Ben Maller Show, Ben opens the show reacting to the news that Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was seen in a walking boot. Is this cause for concern? Jeff Bezos has been selling significant Amazon stock... Ben wonders if he could be preparing to purchase the Seahawks. Later, Big Ben wrestles with how to interpret Aaron Judge's personal hitting coach taking a shot at the Yankees, recaps all of the competitive eating madness from a wild 4th of July, and gives his thoughts on the Warriors trading for Buddy Hield. Plus, a new edition of Maller to the 5th degree!
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I get asked from time to time I do these
mallard meet and greets, and people say, why do you
work most of these holidays? What's wrong with you? Don't
you have any friends, don't you have any family? What's
wrob out? Your loser coward doesn't work the holidays? And
my rebuttal is always there's like important crap that happens,
like big stuff happens on the holidays, and I'm here,
and those other guys don't get to talk about it.
They have to wait. They have to wait all weekend.
(02:03):
For example, our lead this hour coming from the fourth
of July. Surprise, this was not just a quiet Fourth
of July weekend, No, no, no, he was interrupted rudely
by some unexpected drama arama deep in the heart of Texas. Well.
(02:23):
Actually it was at a resort. But if you didn't
hear about this, maybe not maybe actually have friends and
family and you were doing things, and good for you.
You were swimming, you're eating, having a grand time, and
you might have missed it. So the Cowboys, that's a
football team, not a good one. They never won anything.
But the Cowboys quarterback dak Prescott started a digital wildfire.
(02:43):
Why there was a photo that popped up on the
socials now the phone him explained the photo for a blindness.
So the photo showed Dakota Prescott wearing a walking boot.
Oh my god, a walking boat right down the right ankle.
He's on vacation in Cabo and he's got a walking boot.
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A booty. He had a booty. Now, Dak quickly attempted
to say, nothing to see here, move along, everything is good.
I tried to put out the fire, put out the flames.
He quickly contacted Wall on vacation in Cabo San Lucas.
He contacted a Cowboy beat writer. You want to take
(03:27):
a guess that somebody from the Cowboys, somebody from his
agency said, hey, Dak, you might want to want to
call one of the beat guys. So he called one
of the beat reporters with the Cowboys, we assumed Wall
on vacation, and he said that the boot, the walking
boot is all. Oh, everything's okay, part of his regular maintenance.
Everything's fine, nothing to see here, and that he's had
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to do it since he fractured his ankle a couple
years back. The same ankle, same issue. Dak Prescott told
the scribe that was forced to do little work on
the holiday. So let us discuss the question Cowboys quarterback
Dak Prescott's walking boots storyline cause for concern question mark. So,
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I've got medical journal, Harry Styles, and lunchables and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to have a blast, is what we're going to have.
So ay, the arrow on this one is pointing down, down, down,
down down. Okay, that's not good. We are not, Dak
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Prescott sands. I get email from time to time from
our listeners in the greater Dallas area. Well, Cowboy fans
are everybody. I assume they're in Dallas, and they remind
me that I am not part of the marching and
chowder society for Dakota Prescott. So even though that is true,
despite that, here's the problem. Have you seen the depth
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chart for the Calgaries. So the backup is Cooper Rush
and then Trey Lance that's playing B. So one of
those two guys would be playing B. That's the great Unknow. Now,
the great unknown does not mean bad, It just means
you don't know. They haven't had an opportunity, a real opportunity.
But here's the way I look at this, Dakota Prescott,
that's his real name, Dakota. He can sugarcoat things all
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he wants, regardless though I'm not buying what he's selling. Okay,
I'm not. And if you look at any medical journal,
this is a textbook underlying health condition. It affects Dak's activities.
The guy's on vacation at Cabo. He's gotta wear a
walking boot. It requires continuous medical attention. And the definition
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in the medical journal say if you have something that
lasts longer than a year. Okay, so let's do the
malor math on this. Dak Prescott injured his ankle almost
four years ago in the cold mid season of twenty twenty.
So this is a mitigating factor also for Jerry Jones,
if we hope it's a if more likely a when
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when Dallas decides to rob a couple of train cars
and give all the gold bouyon to their quarterback and
give him another jackpot. All right, now, page two to
the Pacific Northwest, we go. No, we are not going
to stop in and visit with Robbie the Mariner fan
or JJ and Renton or Emmett the blind Seahawk fan,
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or any other guys that call the show or contribute
the show from Seattle. But this is tech time, Okay.
This guy named Jeff Bezos, he's kind of a big deal.
He founded this online bookstore called Amazon. It did, okay.
So Jeff Bezos is selling another portion of his steak
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in the company. Now, he stepped down years ago as
the day to day CEO of the Bezos plans to
sell twenty five million Amazon shares. How much is that
worth in money? Real money? How about four point nine billion?
With a B like ben So Bezos selling twenty five
billion shares for four point nine billion? Now, the Internet
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tells me that Bezos is raising the cash to make
a push to own an NFL team. Outright, He's not
going to finance it. He's the reason he's doing this
is because he is going to give cash and buy
the team. And that team is the one that plays
in Seattle. So the question on this one is Jeff
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Bezos selling his Amazon stock? Not all of it, of course,
but a big chunk of it is he's selling his
Amazon stock to purchase the Seahawks. So here's how I
look at this. This is the soundtrack to This is
like a Harry Styles song. Daydreaming. Okay, it's day dream
Jeff Bezos is going to He's going to be Okay.
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I don't think we need to start a GoFundMe so
he can get enough money to buy the Seahawks. That's
just silly, right, He doesn't need to sell off the
Amazon stock. There's people I know that know much more
about money than I do. Otherwise I wouldn't still be
doing the Overnight Show here. They tell me, though, when
you've got that level of money, you're just playing a
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game with the stock market, where the stock goes up
to a certain point. Stock markets, I understand, has been
doing pretty well and then you sell it. You take
your profit, got to pay the capital gains tax. But
for him it doesn't matter. He's got so much money,
and then you put your money elsewhere. But Bezos is
worth lest I checked over two hundred and fifteen billion dollars.
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The Seattle Seahawks, according to Forbes, are valued at five
billion sooner than later. The Paul Allen Trust teams being
run by a sister. But the team is going to
be sold at some point here and these teams don't
end up with one ownership forever. And so Paul Allen
trust the sister is going to have to sell the team.
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And when that happens, and it'll happen sooner or later,
the old Amazon boss if if Bezos wants to bite it,
he can buy. He can buy every team in the NFL.
He's got Saudi Oil money at this point. Right now,
my intuition on this one is that this is a
mis calculation, right this is a miscalculation. There's somebody to
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do with just basically money management for Bezos and the
people that are advising him selling the stock. Now, maybe
he's selling the stock to pay for his wedding to
Lauren Sanchez. That still blows me away. I gotta tell you.
In my early days, I used to games a lot,
and I was never friends with Lauren Saniens, but I
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knew her and she covered the teams for television. She
was a local TV anchor in la She worked at
the Fox affiliate and had dinner at the same table
with her. It blows my mind to think that she's
about to be married to a guy worth two hundred
and ten billion dollars or whatever it is. Crazy. But
as far as Jeff Bezos, this guy is living the
hedonistic lifestyle. He has prioritized pleasure vacationing abroad. Right, He's
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got a five hundred million dollar yacht. Five hundred million
dollar yacht, all right? Then he goes around and what
do you get for five hundred million. I don't know
what you get, but I do know it costs him
to run that boat every year, twenty five million a
year he's got to put up just to cover the
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cost for the crew, the fuel, all the gadgets that
are on that boat. Man, you think that boat has
like a spaceship. And he goes out to somewhere far
in the Milky Way, far out there could all right,
follow up? Last word, follow up? Remember the story a
couple months back the Bengals received an F minus grade
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for nutrition and the food. There were people very upset
there for the food. The quality of the food in Cincinnati.
He must have been serving that Skyline chili, which just
and in Cincinnati loves so much our p one. So anyway,
that was on the the report card. The Players Association
report are fine. No one player recently, like in the
(11:11):
last few days here said that the chow is so
bad in Cincinnati. How bad is it? It's so bad
that some of the players don't even eat at the stadium. Okay,
so how do you how do you break this down right?
Joe Burrow's Bengals, how do they look? How did Joe
Burrow's Bengals look for ripping the facilities on the food
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the cafeteria. So tell me you're pampered without telling me
you're pampered, and that you just have these ridiculous expectations. Yeah,
I work for the number one national sports radio network
in the country. We are on more fillis. We do
better than anyone else at this You might say that
doesn't matter much, but it matters to our bosses. We
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have a smurf kitchen and we have have a vending
machine that was really popular in nineteen eighty four. That's
what we have. And I'm fine with that. I don't
even eat at work. I don't do it. But this
story keeps popping up again and again. Every time it does.
I find it amusing. Players complaining about you're not taking
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care of us enough, We're not getting enough food. It's embarrassing.
It's also subterfuge. That's the thing. About it's subterfuge, right.
Spiler alert, Spiler alert. You don't need to have all
these high falutant dietitians and fancy health healthy food to
succeed in the NFL. Chad Ocho Cinco had a great
career playing in Cincinnati. He ate at McDonald's. He loved
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the McDonald's. In fact, a better example than that this
team in Kansas City. You might have heard about him
a couple the Chiefs. They had an F grade on
that Same Players Association survey for nutrition. And maybe I'm
wrong on this. I don't know. You might be living
in a different world than I'm in. But in my
part of multiverse, the Chiefs that won the last two
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Super Bowls. So okay, So here's what you do. You
eat a balanced diet. If you're the Bengals, you eat
lunchables on crustables, Dino nuggets and forget about it. You
just forget about it, all right? Is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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hour coming from the burrow of the Bronx Trouble in
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Paradise as it continues to bubble up. Another plot twist
to the season slipping away from the Yankees. Is that
too dramatic? Yeah, probably so, but they suck right now.
Whether they're good again or not, it doesn't matter in
this moment. We do the show today. We do the
show today, and in today's show, the Yankees are terrible.
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So you haven't been following along while that has been
going on. El Capitan of the Yankees has not chimed in.
Aaron Judge. He's not said anything negative about the Yankees,
but someone very close to him has. Aaron Judge, he
has a personal hitting coach who patty whacked the Bronx
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bombers on social media might have seen this, someone named
Richard Schneck. I believe it is his name. I've never
heard of him, but we are told that he is
Aaron Judge's personal coach. Hitting coach, been that way since
his rookie season, and he put the Yankees on blast.
Let's get to the good stuff. He ripped the Yankees
(18:09):
for terrible. He's the word terrible, player development, turning their terming,
determining their young players do not know how to hit offensively.
He posted this in the public specter on the Socials.
Aaron Judges personal hitting coach posted this. So let us
discuss how do you interpret the meaning of Aaron Judge,
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the captain of the Yankees's private hitting coach, taking a
shot at the Yankees. So I've got Krusty the Clown,
the Theater District, and Deputy Dog, and we will combine
all of these things together and we'll take a walk
down memory Lane. Is what we're going to do. Number Alright,
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So how did I interpret this story? I l O
V E. I loved it. I loved it. I loved it.
I loved it. Air Judge has been bawling, absolutely balling,
But in terms of what's around him, the foundation has
started a crack in the bronx, and Judge has for
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the most part, had a gag order here. He either
can't say anything or has chosen not to say anything
in the negative specter. And as the Capitan El Capitan
or the Yankees, he obviously has to be measured in
his words. I get that. But the private hitting Coach
can go row unfiltered and can shoot from the hip
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now channeling in this particular chapter of the book, Aaron
Judges hitting Coach, his personal coach channeling Krusty the Klown.
Here's a bonus fun fact for you. The term of
saying the quiet part out loud. That started with Krusty
the Clown on The Simpsons in nineteen ninety five. I'm
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not making this you look it up. I'm not making
that up. That phrase, and that's essentially what the hitting
coach is doing, right He's saying the quiet part out
loud is what he's doing. And that's exactly what's happening
here and the raw emotion. If you're Aaron Judges coach,
he's already gotten the forever contract. Boy, you want to
see the team have some success in Aaron Judge. To
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truly be an icon with the Yankees, you actually have
to win a World Series. And while he has been
monster mashing in the summer air there in the Bronx,
the Pinstripes have lost fourteen of their last nineteen games.
That is the worst stretch of baseball. Fertilizer. It's fertilizer,
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is what it is. In the last couple a month,
it's been about a month. They're the worst team in
baseball right now. Page two. Staying in Gotham, we're told
that the Miami baseball team, which does not play in Gotham,
less of the road team. But the Miami baseball team
has put infielder, Jazz Chisholm junior up for sale. He's
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on the mid season flea market. We're about a month away.
Less than that, about a month away from the trade deadline.
Eagle eyed baseball pundits tell us that the Bronx Bombers
are interested. They are interested in jazz, They want some jazz.
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They would like to have him. The question is this,
would the Marlins Jazz Chisholm infielder play second base? Yankees
don't have a second baseman this year? Would that make
sense for the Bronx Bombers. So I'm nodding my head yes,
and I'm never wrong about these things, but not for
the reasons you probably think he would be a proper
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fit in this vintage of the yank And here's why
the Yankees might say they play in the Bronx, but
they really are stuck in the theater district. And I'm
not talking about Broadway. I'm talking about kabuki theater, right
style over substance, and that has been one of the
knocks on jazz chism as it has been this Yankee team.
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But he's a guy that people have criticized and they
said that jazz while he's made an All Star team
in his career. He's obsessed with trying to look as
cool as possible, and he often will take plays off
give minimal effort, and he's not very popular. There was
a survey done behind a paywall a couple of months
ago and Jazz Chisholm was voted one of the if
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not the most overrated. I think he was in the
top two. I think he was the most overrated. So
I bring this up because Aaron Boone, the way he
manages the Yankees, it's like he's managing a country club,
laid back, lase fair, la la la la la, just
like that right doesn't hold players accountable. I'll give you
an example. If you're watching the Yankee game on the
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fourth of July yesterday out further Trent Grisham was out
there in center field and there was a well basic
base hit hit right to him, and he lackadaisically came
in and then of course booted the ball, giving up
an extra base. And it's not the first time that's happened.
Juan Soto has mastered the big league jog, for example,
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and cutting corners and not playing at full speed, and
Aaron Boone doesn't seem to care. He doesn't care. He
is just a middle manager. He just follows what the
nerds tell him to do, and he doesn't really want
to get the players upset, so he lets them be lazy. No,
that's how that goes all right, Now, final point. We
stay in the American League East, but.
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We moved to Allada, where the poutine is fresh and
the baseball is manure.
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Vladi Guerrero Junior is he going to be traded? Well,
he has announced he wants to stay in Toronto, but
he did also point out he understands that it's a business.
He said. Quote this is a direct quote, a quote
from Vladdy Guerrero. He said, man, I don't want to leave,
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he said of the Blue Jays. Quote continues, I want
to stay here all my life, but this is business.
So here we will. We're gonna look at this way.
So the question here is does it matter? Does it
matter that Vladdy Guerrero Junior says he doesn't want to
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leave the Blue Jays. So I'm shaking my head. No
is what I'm doing with my eyes closed. And this
whole story is cartoonish, And Vladdie is going Deputy dog
old cartoon deputy. Or he's deputizing the Canadian, the nice
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Canadian fan, the blue Jay fan. He's playing good cop.
Vlattie is the good cop. I want to stay in Toronto.
I love Toronto. It's wonderful, international city, clean, beautiful, politics,
a little messed up, but I love it, you know.
Hold They, however, the Jays in this story are the
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bad cop. They don't want to pay him. Boo hoo hoo,
Scrooge McDuck. They don't want to pay him. So again Vlattie,
he's deputizing the Blue Jay fans to make a ruckus
on social media, sports radio and push them to give
him the contract his heart desires. If you look at
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the flow chart of the Blue Jays season here, they
have not been very productive. Like the work production has
not been there, and as the trope goes, they can
finish in last place without Vlattiguirero Junior. They don't need
Vlattygeriol in last place. It is the Ben Malord Show.
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faux Paul. We have that, and a Major League Baseball
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What happened. We'll get to it and we will do
it next Hello and welcome. It's our birthree. It's all
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about the sausage. It's all about the sausage and our three.
How do you evaluate the Ethan's hot Dog contest? Sands?
Joey Chestnut, he wasn't there, he was doing his own thing. Also,
were you impressed with bad Lands Booker smashing the world
record for a lemonade chug at the hot dog eating contest?
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And we'll leave me go back to baseball. Where are
you at on the grassroots movement? The debate if you
will to get pirate pitcher Paul Skens as the starter
in Baseball's Midsummer Classic, the All Star Game. We'll talk
about that as well. It is all coming your way
right now. Fire in the hole, here it is, and
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lame jokes. It is our number three. It's all about
the sausage Boss. It's all about that. Welcome in the
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Island in New York and American tradition continued on the
fourth of July, but it didn't have the same sparkle
(29:02):
it's had in the past. The thousands of people braved
the hot weather in the summer here to watch grown
men and women gobble wieners. It was much different the
experience than it has been in recent years. Now, I
don't even saw this or not. I have no idea.
Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But the Nathan's Hot
Dog Eating Contest has a new chapin Pat Bertiletti. Who
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Pat Bertoletti ate fifty eight dogs and buns. Bertoletti's victory
comes with an asterisk. Because of some funny business, the
sixteen time champion, the greatest winner of my life, Joey
Jaws Chestnut, was outlawed, he was banned, he was verboten,
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all because of a dispute over an evil vegan dog.
That's right, Joey Chestnut took the money and the people
that Nathan's Hot Dogs said, get out out of here.
You're done. You're dead to me. So instead of competing
on Coney Island, Joey Chestnut faced off against soldiers trying
to make the people at Coney Island look bad, right,
(30:11):
because you're doing it for a hot dog business. We're
just doing it for the soldiers. We're giving back. So
he faced off against soldiers at the Pop Goes the
Fort event in El Paso. That's right at the army
base there in El Paso, Fort Bliss. Now, Joey Jaws
took on a bunch of soldiers, the crew of soldiers there.
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You might have seen this, maybe you didn't. It's on
the interweb. And he won. He ate fifty seven hot
dogs and buns to claim victory beat a collection of
soldiers who ate forty nine and then immediately had to
run to lose the weight because you gotta getta make weight. Now,
let us discuss the question, how do you evaluate the
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Nathan's hot Dog contest sans Joey Chestnut and he's off
doing his own thing. So I have Bliss point four
and catwalk, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we will say Hurrah, is what we're going to say.
Because you know it's a military story. It's a military
we can say that.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
No, anyway, we don't do shout outs, but if we did,
my guy, my guy already, I would give one to him. So,
first of all, this day, it was a little bit
of a there was a numb feeling for this day.
I was dreading this day because I always look forward
to the hot dog contest because of greatness. We're always
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chasing greatness. And we didn't get that. We didn't right
the hot dog contest. It was the horseman. But it
was the headless Horseman. That's the sleepy hollows, the headless Horseman.
It was a soulless event. It was a major downgrade
the actual hot Dog Union contest. And it didn't have
to be like this. Joey chestnutt pounding Glizzies in El
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Paso while the Gluttney super Bowl, the biggest event in
Major League eating every year, was two thousand, one hundred
and eighty one miles away in the Big Apple. That
is the d word demoralizing. And the fans, the people
that are purest when it comes to Gluttney, that have
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watched this sport evolve. It's more popular than most of
our major sports, more popular than the WNBA and soccer
in this country. But those of us that appreciate the sport,
the art of the sport, the essence of the sport,
we were hoodwinked. We were bamboozled. We were Horton swaga.
We were led us straight. All of that, right, all
(32:46):
of it, and even more upsetting, You and I were
deprived of history. We missed the bliss point. We were
this close to this point because in El Paso, the
event that joined Chestnut was at he ate all those
hot dogs. I ate fifty seven hot dogs and buns,
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and he did it in five minutes and thirty seconds,
which is just a little bit over half the time
allotted in the Nathan's Hot Dog contest. So, doing some
back of the Napkin malor math, Joey Jaws, if my
math is correct, my dad was a math major. Joey
Jaws was averaging ten point three dogs and buns per minute,
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So if my math is correct on that, that means
he was headed for in a ten minute contest, assuming
he didn't slow down one hundred and three wieners one
hundred and that's a lot of wieners one hundred and three,
which would have crushed his own and the all time
(33:54):
record Chestnuts current record seventy six dogs and buns a
couple of years back at the Nathan's Content Test. Keep
in mind that Joey chestnutt ate one less dog than
Pat Bertoletti, but yet he did it in four and
a half minutes left, making a mockery of the Nathans event,
(34:16):
making a mockery of it all right now. Secondly, turning
our lonely eyes to the sidebar event that they started
a couple years back, Eric bad Lands Booker, He's a
bad man. Eric Badlands Booker said a new world record,
he chugged an entire gallon of lemonade in how long?
(34:41):
Twenty one seconds? Twenty one seconds and easily winning this contest.
Now he has now won four straight, four straight titles
in this competition. Question, were you impressed with bad Lands
Booker smash the record for a lemonade chug a lug
(35:03):
lug at the hot dog eating contest? So I'm nodding
my head yes on this absolutely and unpopular opinion. This
was more impressive. I was more impressed with bad Lands
Booker than Pat Bertoletti. And here's why. I work in
radio and a few times over the years, radio stations
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have done contests where you have to drink certain beverages water, alcohol, whatever,
and you have to do it in a certain finite
amount of time, and there have been people unfortunately this
happened maybe ten years ago, maybe longing, that a woman
died at a radio contest trying to drink as much
(35:44):
water as quickly as possible, and so you could die
doing this. So it's very impressive. I look at Badlands
Booker as a modern day Chugging four, the four of
chugging that he should be featured. I don't know the
show still, but Chris Hemsworth, who portrayed the Marvel comic
hero author. He had a show called Limitless, testing the
(36:09):
boundaries of the body. And this guy, Badlands Booker, is
making all of us middle aged people feel very good
about ourselves. He's fifty five years out and he beat
children half his age. Get off the social media, the
video games. This fifty double Nichols, Badlands Booker, double Nichols man.
(36:36):
Now this is something I should add on a caveat here.
He better win this event. This is what's known as
his sweet spot. Okay. Bad Lands Booker is best known
as a influencer. He's a YouTuber at age fifty five.
His YouTube persona is bad Lands Chugs, and bad Lands
(36:57):
Chugs has a whole channel featuring him chugging soda. Okay,
so that's what he does, that's his thing. My belief
is we all have a superpower in life. You have one,
I have one, We all have one. And his superpower
is chugging, chugging soda. So I was impressed. All right,
final thought, We're gonna pivot over to Major League Baseball
(37:19):
and we'll go back to baseball. There's a debate, really
a grassroots move I would say grassroots movement, maybe not
debate over whether or not the Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skens
should be starting the All Star Game, which is coming
up here in a short amount of time in Arlington.
To me, there is no debate. If I look at
(37:41):
the National League and I do they still go by
National and American League. Paul Skiing should start, And let
me tell you why he's earned it. He has earned
the opportunity to start. Put him in there.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I know he didn't start the year in the major leagues,
but he has an ERA of two point h six.
I know mold school, I go by urn Ron average,
but that would be the lowest by a starting pitcher
if he had enough innings to qualify. He doesn't because
the Pirates are a cheap franchise and they're trying to
Jerry rig service time and keep him in Pittsburgh longer
before he eventually goes to the Dodgers, Yankees, a Red Sox,
(38:17):
and so that's what that's all about. So he didn't qualify.
He also his ERA is fifty percent better than the
league average. Strikeout to walk ratio is bananas. But more importantly,
the All Star Game doesn't count. I'm old enough to
remember when there was a tie in the All Star
Game and Bud Selik had this dazed and confused look.
(38:40):
He was the old Commissioner of Baseball on his face,
and he put his arms out and he shrugged his shoulder.
I don't know what to do. I don't know what
to do. But the All Star Game now is what
they call him soccer. It's a friendly. It's a non
competitive event. The players don't take it seriously. The fans
some do, but many don't. There's a lot of nerds
now in baseball fandom, and they're like, well, we don't
(39:01):
want anyone to get hurt, and we don't think you're
using up your your quota of pictures. And yeah, your
arm's gonna fall off, it's gonna turn green, and then
that's it. But put Paul Skins on the catwalk, put
him on the catwalk or on the mound. Let him
strutter around to a pirouet on the mound. I'm fine
with that. Who says no, Nobody says no. No right
(39:25):
minded person would say no. To that. Who else you
put Chris Sale out there? Come on, it is the
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it right, he'll be banned from the show. Serena Williams,
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that's a former tennis player. Serena Williams says she would
grunt loudly during her tennis matches back in her day
because of Blank. Again, Serena Williams recently said the reason
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incompetent of a certain professional basketball team. We had Independence
Day transactions to discuss the transaction wire on fire. We
head to northern California. Now have you heard maybe not?
Perhaps you overdosed on burgers and hot dogs and other
delicious foods on griddles and barbecues and missed out. Don't worry,
(42:22):
we got you. We got your back. Now we have
learned that Buddy Heel not his real name, Buddy Heel
is joining the Warriors. Say what this is after a
sign in trade with the Sixers and he had options,
but he just said, he said, you know what, I
want to play for the Dubs. Maybe he didn't get
(42:44):
the message that they're not any good anymore. I don't know,
but the streets are talking. They tell us that Buddy Heel,
veteran NBA player. Buddy Heel had offers from multiple teams,
including the Lakers who were all horny to get him,
and the Pistons. Now we're gonna disiss the Pistons because
who would want to play for the Pistons. Isaiah Thomas
isn't walking through that door, and either is Bill Ambier.
(43:06):
But ultimately it was a phone call with coach Steve Kerr.
The very dramatic reporting that a late night conversation with
Steve Kerr and that convinced swayed mesmerized Golden State to
(43:27):
get him is I'll go to Golden State. I talked
to Steve Kerr. So let us discuss the question what
do you make of Buddy Heal picking the Warriors over
the Lakers, because that's really what it came down to.
So I've got kiss FM, Gorilla marketing, and Shakespearean and
(43:50):
we will combine all of this together and we are
going to pinch and scrape, which is what our friend
in Miami is doing right now now. So to lead off, though,
I let out a hearty guffaw when I saw this,
And this is what I woke up to on the
fourth of July doing the overnight show. I wake up
(44:11):
a little later than most, and I said, oops, it
happened again. It happened again. Another target, another player that
the team that wears purple and gold wanted, and another
target said, talk to the hand, We're good. No, Moss
(44:32):
not interested, and they the player said, no, are you
telling me the Lakers now are turned down by Buddy
Healed that he's too good to go play for the Lakers.
Like time to do some soul searching, all right, Time
for some introspection at that point in the cartoon bubble
(44:53):
over my head and I hope this is not too mean,
because I don't want to be mean. It's a holiday weekend.
But in the cartoon bubble over my head, I imagined
that Buddy Heel made two phone calls. One of them
was to Steve Kerr. The other was to JJ Reddick.
And when he called up JJ Reddick, the Laker coach,
(45:13):
by proxy, that Reddick picked up the phone. They had
about a ten minute conversation. They talked about plumbers and
firemen and podcasters, and it just didn't resonate with Buddy Heel.
But the NBA offseason for the once proud Lakers and
their historians, it is like kiss a f fam. It's
top forty radio. The hits just keep coming, poking the
(45:38):
eye here in need of the growing there. I got
to update my big board. It's hard to keep track
of all this. So Lebron James has been rejected. Lebron
has been rejected by James Harden, Clay Thompson, Jonas Valencunis
who chose to go play for the Washington Wizards. Buddy
(45:59):
Head has now added his name the list wowsers. Now,
I'm sure there's others, and if I've missed any, please
let me know. But King James is validating what he's doing.
Here is giving take validation. He is validating a previous
take that Lebron James has an infection, he's got cooties,
and at least it's not all bad. I'll be a
(46:20):
little bit positive here be Benning brightside. It's not all
bad for Lebron because at least he was able to
procure his podcast Personal Hawktua Coach, and he got the
net Bo baby right there, the Netbo Kid to get
a million dollar job from the company that he works
for the family business. So that's pretty good, all right.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Furthermore, now we get down to the meat and potatoes
of Golden State's trade. For Buddy Heel the post mortem.
I saw this bouncing around and caught my attention that
the warriors, Stephen Curry and Buddy Hiel, they are now
being hyped up as the They're not the Splash brother.
They're being called these Splash buddies. It's the Buddy System,
(47:04):
the Splash See what they did there, all right? Is
that a valid or invalid take? The Splash Buddies. So
I'm giving this the valid sign. I'm nodding my head
in approval at this point. For a Golden State from
just a pure basketball standpoint. Not that we do too
(47:26):
much hard o sports talk here, but at this point
it's a zero sum game. So I'm gonna put this
as a win when you grade the trade for the Warriors.
They gave up some draft picks and some other spare
parts in all, but Buddy Buddy Heal is actually better.
This is an unpopular opinion, but he's better bang for
(47:47):
the buck than Klay Thompson at this point. He's a
three point specialist, he's a gunner, he's slightly younger than
Klay Thompson. He's been better in terms of availability. And
you and I both know that Steve Kerr and all
the nerds, all of them will get together with their
(48:08):
supercomputers and all that, and they will find ways to
get Buddy Healed wide open three point shots. And so
I expect his performance to improve with Steph Curry that
that'll be a pretty good one two punch, and I
wouldn't be shocked to see him have better numbers Buddy
Healed than Klay Thompson in Dallas. And I also like
(48:29):
the whole splash Buddies thing. It's it's sexy grilla marketing, right,
It's it's great marketing. It creates a little bit of
a buzz and Buddy Healed whose real name is Trevano
Rainer Healed, and if my name was that, I would
also go with Buddy as my nickname. All right, now,
he'll at least be a breath of fresh air. Okay,
we'll be a breath afair. Last thing here to Chicago,
(48:52):
we go. Zach Levine. Guy puts up good numbers but
doesn't win anything in Chicago. So zach Levine's a Rich
Paul also Lebron's agent. Zach Lavine's agent on the fourth
of July weekend, announced to the media when asked that
his client, zach Lavine deserves better amid reports of allegedly
(49:16):
bad blood, a strained relationship between the Chicago basketball team
with their mascot Benny the Bull and the player. All right,
so Rich Paul again, the agent says that zach Lavine
deserves better after being criticized by the Bulls. Is this
how it works? Does he really deserve better? Shaking my head, No,
(49:39):
I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
This is another one of those cookie cutter Shakespearean dramas.
A cookie cutter shakespeare drama, it has become for whatever reason.
A toxic relationship. It is a toxic relationship. It appears
on both sides. I'm not in the middle of that.
Yaphim in Chicago, Eugene in Chicago, and those guys. They
(50:04):
can let me know. But here's the way I look
at it, right, it cuts both ways. Here's my evidence, right,
I'll give you my evidence. So Rich Paul was indirectly
responding to a published report in Chicago that said the
relationship between Zach Lavine and the Bulls was filled with mistrust.
Both sides argumented it. Now, what was the point that
(50:30):
sent this off into an inferno? The tinder box lit
it on fire. So the Bulls, this goes back to
last season. They were trying to make the playoffs, or
at least the play in tournament. The Bulls thought that Levine,
opting for season ending right foot surgery when rehab was available,
(50:51):
could have tried to rehab and continue to play. That
that was payback, that was vengeance because the Bulls had
not traded Zach Levine and so he was upset. Now,
as Ron Burgundy would say, well that escalated rather quickly.
He got out of hand pretty fast, pretty the pretty
(51:13):
fast it got out of hand, I would say it
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Anyway, the dare what is the dare all about? And
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Well, we're on television. As you know, I signed up
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Who knew. Anyway, here's the insta trip. You gotta go quick.
Somebody named Elliott Ramo says hit twelve home runs most
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five in his first fifty one games of a season
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DJ Spin says it's himself because he's been on hold
for a while. Ordo Sapeida from Johnny Q. Bobby Rayburn
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Marina Fan. Very nice photo there, Joe Garagiola, good name
from Alfieano Piner. What say you, Eddie? I say, Oh
(53:13):
I see I said Eddie back. Oh my gosh, Are
you serious? I wish Eddie was here. That's a that's
a Freudian slip. I wish Eddie was here. All right,
we don't have time for your answer. The answer John
Dave Kingman, how about that. I'm on tight Talk, I'm
on ty malor I'm on times.
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Speed Run, Speed Run Eagles. A. J. Brown praised Saquon
Barkley and sent a warning to the Giants. Ben, should
New York be worried?
Speaker 1 (53:43):
Now? Saquon Barkley is a running back. You don't worry
about running backs in modern football. They're marginalized. And the
Eagles lost the star of their offensive line, Jason Kelsey,
to become a podcaster. So no, you can talk to
talk bark We will have some good games and Philadelphia
and everybody. He's gonna get hurt and then that's it.
Speaker 6 (54:03):
Next talk around the NBA says the Nuggets have quote
tangible interest in Clipper's point guard Russell Westbrook. So, Ben,
would the Clips be making a mistake sending Russ to
the Western rival?
Speaker 1 (54:14):
No, listen, I like the effort that Restwork plays with. Okay,
the energy, the perseverance that he plays with. But he's
a liability in the place. We saw it this year
against the Mavericks when he kept shooting from the outside
and missing. He was even missing around the basket. So no,
if you send Westbrook to Denver, you then want to
(54:35):
play the Nuggets because you know all of his weak spots,
You know all of his kryptonite, so there's no problem
with that. I don't know why the Nuggets would want
him at this point.
Speaker 6 (54:44):
Next, Chicago skyrookie Angel Reese is in talks with Hershey's
about a potential endorsement.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Are you Eddie got.
Speaker 6 (54:54):
Involving Reese's ben? Is this a match made in chocolate Heaven?
Speaker 1 (54:57):
Well, I get it, it's you Angel Reese. Reese's pieces like,
I get that, but I'm not going to go buy
chocolate because of this. And I would like to have
My name is Mallard most people say Maller, So I
would like to have an endorsement deal with malls. Why
are there any malls left? There's like outdoor malls. I'd
(55:18):
like to cash in on that name connection thing. Anyway,
how do we do we ad it's a win? That
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I get asked from time to time I do these
mallard meet and greets, and people say, why do you
work most of these holidays? What's wrong with you? Don't
you have any friends, don't you have any family? What's
wrob out? Your loser coward doesn't work the holidays? And
my rebuttal is always there's like important crap that happens,
like big stuff happens on the holidays, and I'm here,
and those other guys don't get to talk about it.
They have to wait. They have to wait all weekend.
(02:03):
For example, our lead this hour coming from the fourth
of July. Surprise, this was not just a quiet Fourth
of July weekend, No, no, no, he was interrupted rudely
by some unexpected drama arama deep in the heart of Texas. Well.
(02:23):
Actually it was at a resort. But if you didn't
hear about this, maybe not maybe actually have friends and
family and you were doing things, and good for you.
You were swimming, you're eating, having a grand time, and
you might have missed it. So the Cowboys, that's a
football team, not a good one. They never won anything.
But the Cowboys quarterback dak Prescott started a digital wildfire.
(02:43):
Why there was a photo that popped up on the
socials now the phone him explained the photo for a blindness.
So the photo showed Dakota Prescott wearing a walking boot.
Oh my god, a walking boat right down the right ankle.
He's on vacation in Cabo and he's got a walking boot.
(03:06):
A booty. He had a booty. Now, Dak quickly attempted
to say, nothing to see here, move along, everything is good.
I tried to put out the fire, put out the flames.
He quickly contacted Wall on vacation in Cabo San Lucas.
He contacted a Cowboy beat writer. You want to take
(03:27):
a guess that somebody from the Cowboys, somebody from his
agency said, hey, Dak, you might want to want to
call one of the beat guys. So he called one
of the beat reporters with the Cowboys, we assumed Wall
on vacation, and he said that the boot, the walking
boot is all. Oh, everything's okay, part of his regular maintenance.
Everything's fine, nothing to see here, and that he's had
(03:50):
to do it since he fractured his ankle a couple
years back. The same ankle, same issue. Dak Prescott told
the scribe that was forced to do little work on
the holiday. So let us discuss the question Cowboys quarterback
Dak Prescott's walking boots storyline cause for concern question mark. So,
(04:12):
I've got medical journal, Harry Styles, and lunchables and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to have a blast, is what we're going to have.
So ay, the arrow on this one is pointing down, down, down,
down down. Okay, that's not good. We are not, Dak
(04:34):
Prescott sands. I get email from time to time from
our listeners in the greater Dallas area. Well, Cowboy fans
are everybody. I assume they're in Dallas, and they remind
me that I am not part of the marching and
chowder society for Dakota Prescott. So even though that is true,
despite that, here's the problem. Have you seen the depth
(05:00):
chart for the Calgaries. So the backup is Cooper Rush
and then Trey Lance that's playing B. So one of
those two guys would be playing B. That's the great Unknow. Now,
the great unknown does not mean bad, It just means
you don't know. They haven't had an opportunity, a real opportunity.
But here's the way I look at this, Dakota Prescott,
that's his real name, Dakota. He can sugarcoat things all
(05:23):
he wants, regardless though I'm not buying what he's selling. Okay,
I'm not. And if you look at any medical journal,
this is a textbook underlying health condition. It affects Dak's activities.
The guy's on vacation at Cabo. He's gotta wear a
walking boot. It requires continuous medical attention. And the definition
(05:47):
in the medical journal say if you have something that
lasts longer than a year. Okay, so let's do the
malor math on this. Dak Prescott injured his ankle almost
four years ago in the cold mid season of twenty twenty.
So this is a mitigating factor also for Jerry Jones,
if we hope it's a if more likely a when
(06:11):
when Dallas decides to rob a couple of train cars
and give all the gold bouyon to their quarterback and
give him another jackpot. All right, now, page two to
the Pacific Northwest, we go. No, we are not going
to stop in and visit with Robbie the Mariner fan
or JJ and Renton or Emmett the blind Seahawk fan,
(06:34):
or any other guys that call the show or contribute
the show from Seattle. But this is tech time, Okay.
This guy named Jeff Bezos, he's kind of a big deal.
He founded this online bookstore called Amazon. It did, okay.
So Jeff Bezos is selling another portion of his steak
(06:54):
in the company. Now, he stepped down years ago as
the day to day CEO of the Bezos plans to
sell twenty five million Amazon shares. How much is that
worth in money? Real money? How about four point nine billion?
With a B like ben So Bezos selling twenty five
billion shares for four point nine billion? Now, the Internet
(07:16):
tells me that Bezos is raising the cash to make
a push to own an NFL team. Outright, He's not
going to finance it. He's the reason he's doing this
is because he is going to give cash and buy
the team. And that team is the one that plays
in Seattle. So the question on this one is Jeff
(07:36):
Bezos selling his Amazon stock? Not all of it, of course,
but a big chunk of it is he's selling his
Amazon stock to purchase the Seahawks. So here's how I
look at this. This is the soundtrack to This is
like a Harry Styles song. Daydreaming. Okay, it's day dream
Jeff Bezos is going to He's going to be Okay.
(07:56):
I don't think we need to start a GoFundMe so
he can get enough money to buy the Seahawks. That's
just silly, right, He doesn't need to sell off the
Amazon stock. There's people I know that know much more
about money than I do. Otherwise I wouldn't still be
doing the Overnight Show here. They tell me, though, when
you've got that level of money, you're just playing a
(08:18):
game with the stock market, where the stock goes up
to a certain point. Stock markets, I understand, has been
doing pretty well and then you sell it. You take
your profit, got to pay the capital gains tax. But
for him it doesn't matter. He's got so much money,
and then you put your money elsewhere. But Bezos is
worth lest I checked over two hundred and fifteen billion dollars.
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The Seattle Seahawks, according to Forbes, are valued at five
billion sooner than later. The Paul Allen Trust teams being
run by a sister. But the team is going to
be sold at some point here and these teams don't
end up with one ownership forever. And so Paul Allen
trust the sister is going to have to sell the team.
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And when that happens, and it'll happen sooner or later,
the old Amazon boss if if Bezos wants to bite it,
he can buy. He can buy every team in the NFL.
He's got Saudi Oil money at this point. Right now,
my intuition on this one is that this is a
mis calculation, right this is a miscalculation. There's somebody to
(09:22):
do with just basically money management for Bezos and the
people that are advising him selling the stock. Now, maybe
he's selling the stock to pay for his wedding to
Lauren Sanchez. That still blows me away. I gotta tell you.
In my early days, I used to games a lot,
and I was never friends with Lauren Saniens, but I
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knew her and she covered the teams for television. She
was a local TV anchor in la She worked at
the Fox affiliate and had dinner at the same table
with her. It blows my mind to think that she's
about to be married to a guy worth two hundred
and ten billion dollars or whatever it is. Crazy. But
as far as Jeff Bezos, this guy is living the
hedonistic lifestyle. He has prioritized pleasure vacationing abroad. Right, He's
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got a five hundred million dollar yacht. Five hundred million
dollar yacht, all right? Then he goes around and what
do you get for five hundred million. I don't know
what you get, but I do know it costs him
to run that boat every year, twenty five million a
year he's got to put up just to cover the
(10:29):
cost for the crew, the fuel, all the gadgets that
are on that boat. Man, you think that boat has
like a spaceship. And he goes out to somewhere far
in the Milky Way, far out there could all right,
follow up? Last word, follow up? Remember the story a
couple months back the Bengals received an F minus grade
(10:50):
for nutrition and the food. There were people very upset
there for the food. The quality of the food in Cincinnati.
He must have been serving that Skyline chili, which just
and in Cincinnati loves so much our p one. So anyway,
that was on the the report card. The Players Association
report are fine. No one player recently, like in the
(11:11):
last few days here said that the chow is so
bad in Cincinnati. How bad is it? It's so bad
that some of the players don't even eat at the stadium. Okay,
so how do you how do you break this down right?
Joe Burrow's Bengals, how do they look? How did Joe
Burrow's Bengals look for ripping the facilities on the food
(11:34):
the cafeteria. So tell me you're pampered without telling me
you're pampered, and that you just have these ridiculous expectations. Yeah,
I work for the number one national sports radio network
in the country. We are on more fillis. We do
better than anyone else at this You might say that
doesn't matter much, but it matters to our bosses. We
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have a smurf kitchen and we have have a vending
machine that was really popular in nineteen eighty four. That's
what we have. And I'm fine with that. I don't
even eat at work. I don't do it. But this
story keeps popping up again and again. Every time it does.
I find it amusing. Players complaining about you're not taking
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care of us enough, We're not getting enough food. It's embarrassing.
It's also subterfuge. That's the thing. About it's subterfuge, right.
Spiler alert, Spiler alert. You don't need to have all
these high falutant dietitians and fancy health healthy food to
succeed in the NFL. Chad Ocho Cinco had a great
career playing in Cincinnati. He ate at McDonald's. He loved
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the McDonald's. In fact, a better example than that this
team in Kansas City. You might have heard about him
a couple the Chiefs. They had an F grade on
that Same Players Association survey for nutrition. And maybe I'm
wrong on this. I don't know. You might be living
in a different world than I'm in. But in my
part of multiverse, the Chiefs that won the last two
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Super Bowls. So okay, So here's what you do. You
eat a balanced diet. If you're the Bengals, you eat
lunchables on crustables, Dino nuggets and forget about it. You
just forget about it, all right? Is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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hour coming from the burrow of the Bronx Trouble in
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Paradise as it continues to bubble up. Another plot twist
to the season slipping away from the Yankees. Is that
too dramatic? Yeah, probably so, but they suck right now.
Whether they're good again or not, it doesn't matter in
this moment. We do the show today. We do the
show today, and in today's show, the Yankees are terrible.
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So you haven't been following along while that has been
going on. El Capitan of the Yankees has not chimed in.
Aaron Judge. He's not said anything negative about the Yankees,
but someone very close to him has. Aaron Judge, he
has a personal hitting coach who patty whacked the Bronx
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bombers on social media might have seen this, someone named
Richard Schneck. I believe it is his name. I've never
heard of him, but we are told that he is
Aaron Judge's personal coach. Hitting coach, been that way since
his rookie season, and he put the Yankees on blast.
Let's get to the good stuff. He ripped the Yankees
(18:09):
for terrible. He's the word terrible, player development, turning their terming,
determining their young players do not know how to hit offensively.
He posted this in the public specter on the Socials.
Aaron Judges personal hitting coach posted this. So let us
discuss how do you interpret the meaning of Aaron Judge,
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the captain of the Yankees's private hitting coach, taking a
shot at the Yankees. So I've got Krusty the Clown,
the Theater District, and Deputy Dog, and we will combine
all of these things together and we'll take a walk
down memory Lane. Is what we're going to do. Number Alright,
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So how did I interpret this story? I l O
V E. I loved it. I loved it. I loved it.
I loved it. Air Judge has been bawling, absolutely balling,
But in terms of what's around him, the foundation has
started a crack in the bronx, and Judge has for
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the most part, had a gag order here. He either
can't say anything or has chosen not to say anything
in the negative specter. And as the Capitan El Capitan
or the Yankees, he obviously has to be measured in
his words. I get that. But the private hitting Coach
can go row unfiltered and can shoot from the hip
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now channeling in this particular chapter of the book, Aaron
Judges hitting Coach, his personal coach channeling Krusty the Klown.
Here's a bonus fun fact for you. The term of
saying the quiet part out loud. That started with Krusty
the Clown on The Simpsons in nineteen ninety five. I'm
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not making this you look it up. I'm not making
that up. That phrase, and that's essentially what the hitting
coach is doing, right He's saying the quiet part out
loud is what he's doing. And that's exactly what's happening
here and the raw emotion. If you're Aaron Judges coach,
he's already gotten the forever contract. Boy, you want to
see the team have some success in Aaron Judge. To
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truly be an icon with the Yankees, you actually have
to win a World Series. And while he has been
monster mashing in the summer air there in the Bronx,
the Pinstripes have lost fourteen of their last nineteen games.
That is the worst stretch of baseball. Fertilizer. It's fertilizer,
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is what it is. In the last couple a month,
it's been about a month. They're the worst team in
baseball right now. Page two. Staying in Gotham, we're told
that the Miami baseball team, which does not play in Gotham,
less of the road team. But the Miami baseball team
has put infielder, Jazz Chisholm junior up for sale. He's
(21:12):
on the mid season flea market. We're about a month away.
Less than that, about a month away from the trade deadline.
Eagle eyed baseball pundits tell us that the Bronx Bombers
are interested. They are interested in jazz, They want some jazz.
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They would like to have him. The question is this,
would the Marlins Jazz Chisholm infielder play second base? Yankees
don't have a second baseman this year? Would that make
sense for the Bronx Bombers. So I'm nodding my head yes,
and I'm never wrong about these things, but not for
the reasons you probably think he would be a proper
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fit in this vintage of the yank And here's why
the Yankees might say they play in the Bronx, but
they really are stuck in the theater district. And I'm
not talking about Broadway. I'm talking about kabuki theater, right
style over substance, and that has been one of the
knocks on jazz chism as it has been this Yankee team.
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But he's a guy that people have criticized and they
said that jazz while he's made an All Star team
in his career. He's obsessed with trying to look as
cool as possible, and he often will take plays off
give minimal effort, and he's not very popular. There was
a survey done behind a paywall a couple of months
ago and Jazz Chisholm was voted one of the if
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not the most overrated. I think he was in the
top two. I think he was the most overrated. So
I bring this up because Aaron Boone, the way he
manages the Yankees, it's like he's managing a country club,
laid back, lase fair, la la la la la, just
like that right doesn't hold players accountable. I'll give you
an example. If you're watching the Yankee game on the
(23:01):
fourth of July yesterday out further Trent Grisham was out
there in center field and there was a well basic
base hit hit right to him, and he lackadaisically came
in and then of course booted the ball, giving up
an extra base. And it's not the first time that's happened.
Juan Soto has mastered the big league jog, for example,
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and cutting corners and not playing at full speed, and
Aaron Boone doesn't seem to care. He doesn't care. He
is just a middle manager. He just follows what the
nerds tell him to do, and he doesn't really want
to get the players upset, so he lets them be lazy. No,
that's how that goes all right, Now, final point. We
stay in the American League East, but.
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We moved to Allada, where the poutine is fresh and
the baseball is manure.
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Vladi Guerrero Junior is he going to be traded? Well,
he has announced he wants to stay in Toronto, but
he did also point out he understands that it's a business.
He said. Quote this is a direct quote, a quote
from Vladdy Guerrero. He said, man, I don't want to leave,
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he said of the Blue Jays. Quote continues, I want
to stay here all my life, but this is business.
So here we will. We're gonna look at this way.
So the question here is does it matter? Does it
matter that Vladdy Guerrero Junior says he doesn't want to
(24:40):
leave the Blue Jays. So I'm shaking my head. No
is what I'm doing with my eyes closed. And this
whole story is cartoonish, And Vladdie is going Deputy dog
old cartoon deputy. Or he's deputizing the Canadian, the nice
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Canadian fan, the blue Jay fan. He's playing good cop.
Vlattie is the good cop. I want to stay in Toronto.
I love Toronto. It's wonderful, international city, clean, beautiful, politics,
a little messed up, but I love it, you know.
Hold They, however, the Jays in this story are the
(25:22):
bad cop. They don't want to pay him. Boo hoo hoo,
Scrooge McDuck. They don't want to pay him. So again Vlattie,
he's deputizing the Blue Jay fans to make a ruckus
on social media, sports radio and push them to give
him the contract his heart desires. If you look at
(25:43):
the flow chart of the Blue Jays season here, they
have not been very productive. Like the work production has
not been there, and as the trope goes, they can
finish in last place without Vlattiguirero Junior. They don't need
Vlattygeriol in last place. It is the Ben Malord Show.
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faux Paul. We have that, and a Major League Baseball
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What happened. We'll get to it and we will do
it next Hello and welcome. It's our birthree. It's all
(26:54):
about the sausage. It's all about the sausage and our three.
How do you evaluate the Ethan's hot Dog contest? Sands?
Joey Chestnut, he wasn't there, he was doing his own thing. Also,
were you impressed with bad Lands Booker smashing the world
record for a lemonade chug at the hot dog eating contest?
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And we'll leave me go back to baseball. Where are
you at on the grassroots movement? The debate if you
will to get pirate pitcher Paul Skens as the starter
in Baseball's Midsummer Classic, the All Star Game. We'll talk
about that as well. It is all coming your way
right now. Fire in the hole, here it is, and
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lame jokes. It is our number three. It's all about
the sausage Boss. It's all about that. Welcome in the
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Island in New York and American tradition continued on the
fourth of July, but it didn't have the same sparkle
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it's had in the past. The thousands of people braved
the hot weather in the summer here to watch grown
men and women gobble wieners. It was much different the
experience than it has been in recent years. Now, I
don't even saw this or not. I have no idea.
Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But the Nathan's Hot
Dog Eating Contest has a new chapin Pat Bertiletti. Who
(29:28):
Pat Bertoletti ate fifty eight dogs and buns. Bertoletti's victory
comes with an asterisk. Because of some funny business, the
sixteen time champion, the greatest winner of my life, Joey
Jaws Chestnut, was outlawed, he was banned, he was verboten,
(29:49):
all because of a dispute over an evil vegan dog.
That's right, Joey Chestnut took the money and the people
that Nathan's Hot Dogs said, get out out of here.
You're done. You're dead to me. So instead of competing
on Coney Island, Joey Chestnut faced off against soldiers trying
to make the people at Coney Island look bad, right,
(30:11):
because you're doing it for a hot dog business. We're
just doing it for the soldiers. We're giving back. So
he faced off against soldiers at the Pop Goes the
Fort event in El Paso. That's right at the army
base there in El Paso, Fort Bliss. Now, Joey Jaws
took on a bunch of soldiers, the crew of soldiers there.
(30:34):
You might have seen this, maybe you didn't. It's on
the interweb. And he won. He ate fifty seven hot
dogs and buns to claim victory beat a collection of
soldiers who ate forty nine and then immediately had to
run to lose the weight because you gotta getta make weight. Now,
let us discuss the question, how do you evaluate the
(30:58):
Nathan's hot Dog contest sans Joey Chestnut and he's off
doing his own thing. So I have Bliss point four
and catwalk, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we will say Hurrah, is what we're going to say.
Because you know it's a military story. It's a military
we can say that.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
No, anyway, we don't do shout outs, but if we did,
my guy, my guy already, I would give one to him. So,
first of all, this day, it was a little bit
of a there was a numb feeling for this day.
I was dreading this day because I always look forward
to the hot dog contest because of greatness. We're always
(31:39):
chasing greatness. And we didn't get that. We didn't right
the hot dog contest. It was the horseman. But it
was the headless Horseman. That's the sleepy hollows, the headless Horseman.
It was a soulless event. It was a major downgrade
the actual hot Dog Union contest. And it didn't have
to be like this. Joey chestnutt pounding Glizzies in El
(32:04):
Paso while the Gluttney super Bowl, the biggest event in
Major League eating every year, was two thousand, one hundred
and eighty one miles away in the Big Apple. That
is the d word demoralizing. And the fans, the people
that are purest when it comes to Gluttney, that have
(32:24):
watched this sport evolve. It's more popular than most of
our major sports, more popular than the WNBA and soccer
in this country. But those of us that appreciate the sport,
the art of the sport, the essence of the sport,
we were hoodwinked. We were bamboozled. We were Horton swaga.
We were led us straight. All of that, right, all
(32:46):
of it, and even more upsetting, You and I were
deprived of history. We missed the bliss point. We were
this close to this point because in El Paso, the
event that joined Chestnut was at he ate all those
hot dogs. I ate fifty seven hot dogs and buns,
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and he did it in five minutes and thirty seconds,
which is just a little bit over half the time
allotted in the Nathan's Hot Dog contest. So, doing some
back of the Napkin malor math, Joey Jaws, if my
math is correct, my dad was a math major. Joey
Jaws was averaging ten point three dogs and buns per minute,
(33:33):
So if my math is correct on that, that means
he was headed for in a ten minute contest, assuming
he didn't slow down one hundred and three wieners one
hundred and that's a lot of wieners one hundred and three,
which would have crushed his own and the all time
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record Chestnuts current record seventy six dogs and buns a
couple of years back at the Nathan's Content Test. Keep
in mind that Joey chestnutt ate one less dog than
Pat Bertoletti, but yet he did it in four and
a half minutes left, making a mockery of the Nathans event,
(34:16):
making a mockery of it all right now. Secondly, turning
our lonely eyes to the sidebar event that they started
a couple years back, Eric bad Lands Booker, He's a
bad man. Eric Badlands Booker said a new world record,
he chugged an entire gallon of lemonade in how long?
(34:41):
Twenty one seconds? Twenty one seconds and easily winning this contest.
Now he has now won four straight, four straight titles
in this competition. Question, were you impressed with bad Lands
Booker smash the record for a lemonade chug a lug
(35:03):
lug at the hot dog eating contest? So I'm nodding
my head yes on this absolutely and unpopular opinion. This
was more impressive. I was more impressed with bad Lands
Booker than Pat Bertoletti. And here's why. I work in
radio and a few times over the years, radio stations
(35:23):
have done contests where you have to drink certain beverages water, alcohol, whatever,
and you have to do it in a certain finite
amount of time, and there have been people unfortunately this
happened maybe ten years ago, maybe longing, that a woman
died at a radio contest trying to drink as much
(35:44):
water as quickly as possible, and so you could die
doing this. So it's very impressive. I look at Badlands
Booker as a modern day Chugging four, the four of
chugging that he should be featured. I don't know the
show still, but Chris Hemsworth, who portrayed the Marvel comic
hero author. He had a show called Limitless, testing the
(36:09):
boundaries of the body. And this guy, Badlands Booker, is
making all of us middle aged people feel very good
about ourselves. He's fifty five years out and he beat
children half his age. Get off the social media, the
video games. This fifty double Nichols, Badlands Booker, double Nichols man.
(36:36):
Now this is something I should add on a caveat here.
He better win this event. This is what's known as
his sweet spot. Okay. Bad Lands Booker is best known
as a influencer. He's a YouTuber at age fifty five.
His YouTube persona is bad Lands Chugs, and bad Lands
(36:57):
Chugs has a whole channel featuring him chugging soda. Okay,
so that's what he does, that's his thing. My belief
is we all have a superpower in life. You have one,
I have one, We all have one. And his superpower
is chugging, chugging soda. So I was impressed. All right,
final thought, We're gonna pivot over to Major League Baseball
(37:19):
and we'll go back to baseball. There's a debate, really
a grassroots move I would say grassroots movement, maybe not
debate over whether or not the Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skens
should be starting the All Star Game, which is coming
up here in a short amount of time in Arlington.
To me, there is no debate. If I look at
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the National League and I do they still go by
National and American League. Paul Skiing should start, And let
me tell you why he's earned it. He has earned
the opportunity to start. Put him in there.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
I know he didn't start the year in the major leagues,
but he has an ERA of two point h six.
I know mold school, I go by urn Ron average,
but that would be the lowest by a starting pitcher
if he had enough innings to qualify. He doesn't because
the Pirates are a cheap franchise and they're trying to
Jerry rig service time and keep him in Pittsburgh longer
before he eventually goes to the Dodgers, Yankees, a Red Sox,
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and so that's what that's all about. So he didn't qualify.
He also his ERA is fifty percent better than the
league average. Strikeout to walk ratio is bananas. But more importantly,
the All Star Game doesn't count. I'm old enough to
remember when there was a tie in the All Star
Game and Bud Selik had this dazed and confused look.
(38:40):
He was the old Commissioner of Baseball on his face,
and he put his arms out and he shrugged his shoulder.
I don't know what to do. I don't know what
to do. But the All Star Game now is what
they call him soccer. It's a friendly. It's a non
competitive event. The players don't take it seriously. The fans
some do, but many don't. There's a lot of nerds
now in baseball fandom, and they're like, well, we don't
(39:01):
want anyone to get hurt, and we don't think you're
using up your your quota of pictures. And yeah, your
arm's gonna fall off, it's gonna turn green, and then
that's it. But put Paul Skins on the catwalk, put
him on the catwalk or on the mound. Let him
strutter around to a pirouet on the mound. I'm fine
with that. Who says no, Nobody says no. No right
(39:25):
minded person would say no. To that. Who else you
put Chris Sale out there? Come on, it is the
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so he better get it right. If he doesn't get
it right, he'll be banned from the show. Serena Williams,
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that's a former tennis player. Serena Williams says she would
grunt loudly during her tennis matches back in her day
because of Blank. Again, Serena Williams recently said the reason
she grunted loudly during her tennis matches is all because
of blank. That is the mallor in love to day.
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this hour from pro bouncy Ball, and in honor of
our old friend Roberto, we get to point out the
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incompetent of a certain professional basketball team. We had Independence
Day transactions to discuss the transaction wire on fire. We
head to northern California. Now have you heard maybe not?
Perhaps you overdosed on burgers and hot dogs and other
delicious foods on griddles and barbecues and missed out. Don't worry,
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we got you. We got your back. Now we have
learned that Buddy Heel not his real name, Buddy Heel
is joining the Warriors. Say what this is after a
sign in trade with the Sixers and he had options,
but he just said, he said, you know what, I
want to play for the Dubs. Maybe he didn't get
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the message that they're not any good anymore. I don't know,
but the streets are talking. They tell us that Buddy Heel,
veteran NBA player. Buddy Heel had offers from multiple teams,
including the Lakers who were all horny to get him,
and the Pistons. Now we're gonna disiss the Pistons because
who would want to play for the Pistons. Isaiah Thomas
isn't walking through that door, and either is Bill Ambier.
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But ultimately it was a phone call with coach Steve Kerr.
The very dramatic reporting that a late night conversation with
Steve Kerr and that convinced swayed mesmerized Golden State to
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get him is I'll go to Golden State. I talked
to Steve Kerr. So let us discuss the question what
do you make of Buddy Heal picking the Warriors over
the Lakers, because that's really what it came down to.
So I've got kiss FM, Gorilla marketing, and Shakespearean and
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we will combine all of this together and we are
going to pinch and scrape, which is what our friend
in Miami is doing right now now. So to lead off, though,
I let out a hearty guffaw when I saw this,
And this is what I woke up to on the
fourth of July doing the overnight show. I wake up
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a little later than most, and I said, oops, it
happened again. It happened again. Another target, another player that
the team that wears purple and gold wanted, and another
target said, talk to the hand, We're good. No, Moss
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not interested, and they the player said, no, are you
telling me the Lakers now are turned down by Buddy
Healed that he's too good to go play for the Lakers.
Like time to do some soul searching, all right, Time
for some introspection at that point in the cartoon bubble
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over my head and I hope this is not too mean,
because I don't want to be mean. It's a holiday weekend.
But in the cartoon bubble over my head, I imagined
that Buddy Heel made two phone calls. One of them
was to Steve Kerr. The other was to JJ Reddick.
And when he called up JJ Reddick, the Laker coach,
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by proxy, that Reddick picked up the phone. They had
about a ten minute conversation. They talked about plumbers and
firemen and podcasters, and it just didn't resonate with Buddy Heel.
But the NBA offseason for the once proud Lakers and
their historians, it is like kiss a f fam. It's
top forty radio. The hits just keep coming, poking the
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eye here in need of the growing there. I got
to update my big board. It's hard to keep track
of all this. So Lebron James has been rejected. Lebron
has been rejected by James Harden, Clay Thompson, Jonas Valencunis
who chose to go play for the Washington Wizards. Buddy
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Head has now added his name the list wowsers. Now,
I'm sure there's others, and if I've missed any, please
let me know. But King James is validating what he's doing.
Here is giving take validation. He is validating a previous
take that Lebron James has an infection, he's got cooties,
and at least it's not all bad. I'll be a
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little bit positive here be Benning brightside. It's not all
bad for Lebron because at least he was able to
procure his podcast Personal Hawktua Coach, and he got the
net Bo baby right there, the Netbo Kid to get
a million dollar job from the company that he works
for the family business. So that's pretty good, all right.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Furthermore, now we get down to the meat and potatoes
of Golden State's trade. For Buddy Heel the post mortem.
I saw this bouncing around and caught my attention that
the warriors, Stephen Curry and Buddy Hiel, they are now
being hyped up as the They're not the Splash brother.
They're being called these Splash buddies. It's the Buddy System,
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the Splash See what they did there, all right? Is
that a valid or invalid take? The Splash Buddies. So
I'm giving this the valid sign. I'm nodding my head
in approval at this point. For a Golden State from
just a pure basketball standpoint. Not that we do too
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much hard o sports talk here, but at this point
it's a zero sum game. So I'm gonna put this
as a win when you grade the trade for the Warriors.
They gave up some draft picks and some other spare
parts in all, but Buddy Buddy Heal is actually better.
This is an unpopular opinion, but he's better bang for
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the buck than Klay Thompson at this point. He's a
three point specialist, he's a gunner, he's slightly younger than
Klay Thompson. He's been better in terms of availability. And
you and I both know that Steve Kerr and all
the nerds, all of them will get together with their
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supercomputers and all that, and they will find ways to
get Buddy Healed wide open three point shots. And so
I expect his performance to improve with Steph Curry that
that'll be a pretty good one two punch, and I
wouldn't be shocked to see him have better numbers Buddy
Healed than Klay Thompson in Dallas. And I also like
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the whole splash Buddies thing. It's it's sexy grilla marketing, right,
It's it's great marketing. It creates a little bit of
a buzz and Buddy Healed whose real name is Trevano
Rainer Healed, and if my name was that, I would
also go with Buddy as my nickname. All right, now,
he'll at least be a breath of fresh air. Okay,
we'll be a breath afair. Last thing here to Chicago,
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we go. Zach Levine. Guy puts up good numbers but
doesn't win anything in Chicago. So zach Levine's a Rich
Paul also Lebron's agent. Zach Lavine's agent on the fourth
of July weekend, announced to the media when asked that
his client, zach Lavine deserves better amid reports of allegedly
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bad blood, a strained relationship between the Chicago basketball team
with their mascot Benny the Bull and the player. All right,
so Rich Paul again, the agent says that zach Lavine
deserves better after being criticized by the Bulls. Is this
how it works? Does he really deserve better? Shaking my head, No,
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I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
This is another one of those cookie cutter Shakespearean dramas.
A cookie cutter shakespeare drama, it has become for whatever reason.
A toxic relationship. It is a toxic relationship. It appears
on both sides. I'm not in the middle of that.
Yaphim in Chicago, Eugene in Chicago, and those guys. They
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can let me know. But here's the way I look
at it, right, it cuts both ways. Here's my evidence, right,
I'll give you my evidence. So Rich Paul was indirectly
responding to a published report in Chicago that said the
relationship between Zach Lavine and the Bulls was filled with mistrust.
Both sides argumented it. Now, what was the point that
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sent this off into an inferno? The tinder box lit
it on fire. So the Bulls, this goes back to
last season. They were trying to make the playoffs, or
at least the play in tournament. The Bulls thought that Levine,
opting for season ending right foot surgery when rehab was available,
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could have tried to rehab and continue to play. That
that was payback, that was vengeance because the Bulls had
not traded Zach Levine and so he was upset. Now,
as Ron Burgundy would say, well that escalated rather quickly.
He got out of hand pretty fast, pretty the pretty
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fast it got out of hand, I would say it
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the overnight hours and we take your your calls, I
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know it's exciting call in radio. We had our friend
Roberto phony phone call us last hour. I didn't even
recognize him. It's been so long, I didn't even recognize him. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Anyway, the dare what is the dare all about? And
building up the folklore of a pro bouncy ball coach?
Building up the folklore. We'll get to that and we
will do it next.
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Well, we're on television. As you know, I signed up
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some reason, and so they put us on the internet.
Who knew. Anyway, here's the insta trip. You gotta go quick.
Somebody named Elliott Ramo says hit twelve home runs most
by San Francisco Giants player under the age of twenty
five in his first fifty one games of a season
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since Blank Abner doubled day guests by Kathy in Madison.
DJ Spin says it's himself because he's been on hold
for a while. Ordo Sapeida from Johnny Q. Bobby Rayburn
from James that's his answer. Brandon Phillips from Robbie the
Marina Fan. Very nice photo there, Joe Garagiola, good name
from Alfieano Piner. What say you, Eddie? I say, Oh
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I see I said Eddie back. Oh my gosh, Are
you serious? I wish Eddie was here. That's a that's
a Freudian slip. I wish Eddie was here. All right,
we don't have time for your answer. The answer John
Dave Kingman, how about that. I'm on tight Talk, I'm
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Speed Run, Speed Run Eagles. A. J. Brown praised Saquon
Barkley and sent a warning to the Giants. Ben, should
New York be worried?
Speaker 1 (53:43):
Now? Saquon Barkley is a running back. You don't worry
about running backs in modern football. They're marginalized. And the
Eagles lost the star of their offensive line, Jason Kelsey,
to become a podcaster. So no, you can talk to
talk bark We will have some good games and Philadelphia
and everybody. He's gonna get hurt and then that's it.
Speaker 6 (54:03):
Next talk around the NBA says the Nuggets have quote
tangible interest in Clipper's point guard Russell Westbrook. So, Ben,
would the Clips be making a mistake sending Russ to
the Western rival?
Speaker 1 (54:14):
No, listen, I like the effort that Restwork plays with. Okay,
the energy, the perseverance that he plays with. But he's
a liability in the place. We saw it this year
against the Mavericks when he kept shooting from the outside
and missing. He was even missing around the basket. So no,
if you send Westbrook to Denver, you then want to
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play the Nuggets because you know all of his weak spots,
You know all of his kryptonite, so there's no problem
with that. I don't know why the Nuggets would want
him at this point.
Speaker 6 (54:44):
Next, Chicago skyrookie Angel Reese is in talks with Hershey's
about a potential endorsement.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Are you Eddie got.
Speaker 6 (54:54):
Involving Reese's ben? Is this a match made in chocolate Heaven?
Speaker 1 (54:57):
Well, I get it, it's you Angel Reese. Reese's pieces like,
I get that, but I'm not going to go buy
chocolate because of this. And I would like to have
My name is Mallard most people say Maller, So I
would like to have an endorsement deal with malls. Why
are there any malls left? There's like outdoor malls. I'd
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like to cash in on that name connection thing. Anyway,
how do we do we ad it's a win? That
is a win? I what the game's a Twitter
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