July 9, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Paul George saying that he wanted to stay with the Clippers but thought their offer was disrespectful, Steph Curry saying he only wants to play for the Warriors but things change quickly in the NBA, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome by George. It's our number two of
the original Recipe podcast. Paul George said he wanted to
stay in La however, the Clippers offer of sixty million
dollars for two years was disrespectful. What does that tell you? Also,
Stephen Curry said he only wants to play for the Warriors. However,
(00:23):
things changed quickly in the NBA. How do you unscrabble
this one? And Jason Tatum showed up to Team USA's
camp in Vegas and declared that the Celtics NBA title
ends the debate on elite status? Is that how you
see it? We'll go there as well. All of it's
coming your way right now in our number two not
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Be.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So you change jobs, it happens. I work in a
business where you change jobs often. Although I believe the
Peter principles in effect, I've reached my highest level of incompetence,
and here I am after all these years. But I
used to change jobs a lot. You leave one place,
you go to another. It's kind of normal. It's what
grown ups do. And you go to the new job,
and that's it. Sometimes you're a professional basketball player and
(02:09):
you decide to go to a different team and say
goodbye to the other team. You move on to the
next team, and you continue on in the cartel of basketball.
So the autopsy report is in on Paul George, by George.
Paul George, who did not want the sunshine, the fun
of the glamour team in La the people's team in
(02:33):
the hood in Inglewood, right there at that new end
to it to him, couldn't handle that, so he skidaddle
off to the Delaware Valley. Good luck, it's messy, very messy. Now,
if you've not been following along, and maybe you've missed
it here, let me give you the thumbnail recap. So
we have now learned that Paul George says he never
(02:55):
wanted to leave Los Angeles. The Clippers offered him contracts.
He didn't choose to take those contracts, but he never
wanted to leave LA. That's the first point that podcast.
He wants you to know. Those are his words. Also,
he said that the turning point was the negotiation, that
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there was an offer made by the Clippers to keep
him in his beloved Los Angeles, and Paul George said
that the opening offer was quote disrespectful, disrespectful. First off,
what was it? How disrespectful was it? Did they make
him have to wash dishes when he played basketball? After
(03:38):
the game, he had to go in the kitchen, clean
up the dishes, maybe vacuum a little bit, wash the cars.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
On his Fledgling Podcast podcast, p said the Clippers had
the goal to offer him a two year contract for
thirty million dollars a year per season, so sixty million
dollars for two years, and to which PG thirteen podcasts
he said, whoa, whoa, whoa WHOA, that's crazy. This is
(04:07):
a quote that's crazy. I'm like, nah, I'm not signing that. Yeah,
close quote. Okay, not signing that. So let us discuss
the question. Paul George saying that he wanted to stay
in Los Angeles, however, the Clippers sixty million dollar offer
was disrespectful. What does that tell you? All Right, So
(04:31):
I've got Ann Robinson, Bruno, Mars and Kellogg's and we
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make the long walk through the hallways of Fox Sports
Radio to the vending machine. We're in my peripheral vision,
I noticed that Eddie Garcia walking over towards the vending machine.
What will Edie get? Will he get soda? Will he
(04:52):
get potato chips? Will it be candy? Will it be cookies?
Inquiring minds would like to know. The good news is
there's nothing healthy in the vending machine, so whatever you
get will not be healthy, will not be a healthy option.
So num ber w Yeah, Paul George, the word is disingenuous.
(05:14):
He was being disingenuous with his commentary. He doesn't want
to look like the bad guys, so instead he's trying
to make the Clippers look like the bad guy in
this little play. I don't buy it. Who gets worked
up over an opening offer? Does that make any sense? Seriously,
does it make any sense to get all worked into
a tizzy because of an opening offer? Now, I'm pretty low,
(05:39):
pretty low on the totem pole. Here at Fox Sports Radio,
I am there's two types of radio. There's radio between
six am and six pm. There's radio between six pm
and six am. They're two totally different worlds and you
should never cross. And I'm reminded of that every time
I negotiate a new contract. So, but that said, I understand,
(06:01):
I understand the art of negotiation, and that just being
a HOI POLOI overnight guy that we're fighting over peanuts here.
And yet I know the opening offer is not the
offer you take. You have a counteroffer, and it's called
a negotiation. Hello, we're not going to CarMax here. This
(06:22):
is not the gimmick of no haggle pricing. No, there's
haggling involved. It's like a tug of war, is what
it's like. And we know that you know that there's
a little bit of back and forth. It's kind of
like when weed man hippies out there panhandling on the streets. Right.
He says he's negotiating from more Money's what he's doing.
But the Clippers, the way I look at this, based
(06:44):
on what Paul George said, he's trying to make the
Clippers look like the bad guys. The Clippers were the
grown ups in the room here. They were like PG.
Thirteen in his mid thirties is what's known as a
diminishing asset. And yet the Clipper We're still gonna pamp
thirty million dollars a year for a couple of years.
So when given the contract, Paul George said, no, I'm
(07:08):
gonna mutambo you and I'm gonna block you. So the
Clippers turned to Ann Robinson, who told Paul George, you
are the weakest link. Goodbye. Remember that show. Yeah. So
now he's gonna go eat hogis and cheese steaks and
tasty cakes and the Delaware Valley and those delicious pretzels,
and there'll be an absolute attack by the Philadelphia fan
(07:34):
and I will be rubbernecking. I will be there with
a big bucket of popcorn for the feeding frenzy that
inevitably will take place. Maybe it doesn't happen during the
regular season. However, more likely than not by the time
the playoffs come around. Plank could clink, clank, It's going
to happen. Now, turning the page, we go to the
Bay Area across the country, but will stop in Vegas
(07:56):
because this story originated from Vegas. And this after Clay
Thompson exits stage laught heading from the Bay Area to Dallas.
Stephan Curry the last man's standing Draymond Green's podcasting, so
he's sitting down. So Steph Curry said that he only
(08:16):
wants to play for the Warriors, whom sure allow me
to lose excited about that all? He wants to play
for the wars However, things change quickly in the NBA.
Steph Curry said, so, how do you unscramble the commentary
from Stephan Curry? So I've got on this one. It's
a measured response. I think that's kind of straightforward here.
(08:40):
It's measured. Steph humming a few bars of an old
Bruno Mars song, Leave the door open. He's leaving the
door open to say bye bye to the Golden State
Basketball But I don't want to say that right now.
He's not at that point, so he's leaving the door open.
If the multiverse, the Warriors continue to bounce down a
(09:03):
never ending staircase, going lower and lower and lower, back
to the Donald Foyle years, the Mike Montgomery years in
the Bay Area there and the power rankings. Then all
of a sudden, you're like, Okay, what do we got here?
Steph Curry has He's left himself and out he can
at some point in the next couple of years cherry
(09:23):
pick the chance to go somewhere else and get that
cheap end of career championship run. Get that one somewhere
in the wild blue yonder out, far away, change the GPS,
get an off ramp away from the Warriors, and it's like, well,
he's a veter and he wants to one more chance
to taste the celebration, the champagne and all that, and
(09:46):
just file this one away, file this one. If Buddy
Heal does not turn out to be good, I think
he'll be fine. But if not, in the Wars the Warriors,
even if he's well, If Buddy Hild plays well, he's
a slightly better version than Klay Thompson at this point
because Klay Thomps has washed up the Maverick don't know
that yet. They will know that once he starts missing
shots for them. So Buddy Heal will be okay, be
a little bit better than Klay Thompson was last year
(10:07):
because he can do more things. And at that point
there'll still be a mid level Western Conference team. All right,
final point, a story that's bouncing around via Jason Tatum
from the Boston Shamrocks. As our friend from Rhode Island
used to say, so Jason Tatum showed up to the
(10:28):
Team USA camp in Viva Las Vegas, where the partying
must be off the hooks there in Vegas. And so
Jason Tatum at Team USA camp settled in and declared
that Celtics winning the championship this summer has ended the debates.
It ends the debate on his elite status in the NBA.
(10:53):
Is that how you see it? Is that how you
see it? So even our friends inca Terror Blind Scott,
blind Emmett, blind Sea Bass, all the great blind heroes
on the show. Stevie Meatball's another part of the blind mafia.
There another guy's part of the blind mafia. All these
(11:14):
guys know right that the answer is you gotta shake
your head now, right. The debate is never ending. It
is the eternal flame, the eternal flame of debate. And
that's good for business. It should never end. The debate
is important. You need the debate. The debate is what
keeps people engaged, and people engaged consume your product. It's
(11:36):
a wonderful thing. So the debate is never ending. It
goes on and on and on. And here here's how
it undergoes a metamorphosis. It changes, it evolves if you
will the debate. So the argument, now, it's hard to debunk.
This is that Jason Tatum, Yeah, he won a championship,
(11:57):
but it's the yabbott Yeah but yeah, but yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah, but yeah, but that's an
old Rams coach, Mike Martz. There is a drop in
there by the way, the rain of Mike Martz saying
yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah, but yeah,
but he was talking about Mark Bolger, who is the
quarterback of the Saint Louis Rams at the time. But
the yeah but crowd will say yeah, but Jason Tatum
was dining on a breakfast of lucky Charms. Kellogg's Lucky
(12:20):
Charms is what he had. That's what he was eating
as seemingly every opponent of Celtics played had a major
catastrophic injury to a star player. Yeah but yeah, but
yeah but it yeah, but yeah it yeah. So you
do that, then you're like breaking it apart the debate.
You're like, well, Jason Tatum, Celtics were a juggernaut. They
(12:41):
were a wagon. They were magically delicious during the regular season,
and then again the playoffs came around and it was
like out of the Bible, Moses parting, the not the
Red Sea, the Eastern Conference, and Jason Tatum. They just
say what happened? Just being intellectually honest, Jason Tatum played
(13:01):
like a hobgoblin for big stretches in the playoffs. He
was inconsistent. It was not a case where he said, Okay,
I'm going to go up the mountain. I'm a mule,
I'm the donkey, and I'm going to put the team
on my back and I'm going to lead them, even
though they're good players, I'm going to lead them to
the championship. That's not what happened. It was Jalen Brown
(13:24):
who did that. He's the one that was a warrior.
But not a Golden State Warrior, and he's the one
that reached elite status, winning Eastern Conference Finals MVP and
the NBA Finals MVP and Jason Tatum side by side.
You can only pick one. Jalen Brown was the bus
driver like our friend Roberto, and Jason Tatum was the
(13:47):
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Late Night Drug tester says six out of ten on
the Mallard monologue, I would have been higher. But Lucky
Charms is a General Mills, a serial. But you probably
refer to Kellogg's lineup of serials. That's all the same,
it's all same crap.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It is.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
You suck.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Let me check here, I say Kellogg's Lucky Charms. Let
me see here. Oh yeah, it is General Mills. I
thought it was Kellogg's. Who knew Yeah? Last time, I
oh no, last time, I ate. Last time I ate
Lucky Charms. I think I was seven or eight years old.
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Do they have the blue diamonds back then? Because they
added those in later.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I don't think they mean there's a long time ago,
you big Lucky Charms guy.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Back in the day. Yeah, it's been quite a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's a long time, right, I know, I got Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I was gonna say, Loraina, you have a daughter.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
She like Lucky Charms like cereal. Wow, she's weird anyways,
But I was curious, when you eat Lucky Charms, do
you all the grain pieces first? The marshmallows? You go, No,
even need the grain, you just eat whatever goes exactly. No, No, no,
you eat the marshmallows. You go marshmallows. Big No. You
(17:40):
know they have the rip off Lucky Charms, which is
all like marshmallows. You can get that at some.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Disgusted full bag.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I saw that. Yeah that's pretty good.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Right, No, it's gross the middle. That's like my wife
who just wants to eat like a container of frosting.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But I love the frosting to the killer.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
No, that's a lot. That's a lot, that's what That's
what Big Cake tells you. Big Cake tells you that
you need the cake with the frost. No, all you
need is the frosty right the yes.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Boom?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah? Oh yeah see that boom gross. You don't want
to cook your brownie mix either, guys, Okay, just eat
the better put eggs and that about that one.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I no, no, they're safe.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
How do they make cookie dough ice cream? Because when
I was a kid, we weren't allowed to eat cookie
dough because we would die because of the egg. That
was a lie, Ben, it was a lie. You're not
going to die by big cookie? Yeah, okay, you got
your Yeah, let's go to the phones. Weed Man, hippie,
he's not in jail, but I man, he has changed
his number apparently because I don't have his number anymore.
Hello weed Man, hippie, I love you. On Lincoln Road
(18:49):
in Miami. I think.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
What Bronie James what? He had a heart attack?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I don't know. There was a heart attack. He had
had a problem with his his heart. There was a
there was a cardiac event. Was it described? Was it
an actual heart heart attack or was it something?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (19:09):
I think it was. And it's like he's twenty years old.
What's he doing playing basketball?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
He's playing back because that's what the family businesses. They
played basketball that's what they do. He's making millions. He's
without even being able to play basketball at a high level.
Bronnie James because of his dad, because of nepotism.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Yeah, cardiac event, not a heart attack?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
What is that? What does that even mean? Well, didn't
they have to call the paramedics?
Speaker 7 (19:38):
And then yes they did, Yes they did.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I was under the impression his heart stopped beating on
the basketball floor and they had to resuscitate him.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Wouldn't that be an attack of the heart. That sounds
like a whole love song, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Yes, it does, total attack of the.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Ya see the rain. It does not understand, like me
explain something we've man so Lorraine is like yelling. I
make musical references. I have a loose knowledge of music.
I don't really have the music gene, so I'll make
a loose reference to music, and lorraina gets offended if
I don't hit the bullseye. And I've tried to explain it.
It's broadcasting. It's not narrow casting. And I play the
hits and all that stuff. I just think you should
(20:18):
give credit where credit is due. Bad what I told you?
It is not just brun O mars I know, but
he's the name. Bruno Mars is the name. It's the brand.
It's all about branding.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You know, good job, we made, good job. Connected, I
don't know, don't do that. We've made the man's he's
living on the streets in Miami. How Darren, how dare you?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Apparently a heart attack, the heart attack comes from a blockage,
and a cardiac arrest is something that you would not see,
you know, in young our car heart attack wouldn't be
in younger people because they don't have block gage of
the arteries, that kind of thing. Okay, so that it
comes from something else. So like like so they're both
(21:05):
serious and they both can kill you, but they're they're
different causes, I guess.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So, like I know my dad, my dad had I'm
trying to talk to medicine. I don't know anything about medicine.
I stay at a holiday and express the other But
that makes way. So that's an outdated reverence. But so
so Eddie, like my dad had a stroke at one point,
but it's like that's like a part of the brain, right,
the stroke, that's a brain.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
I think that I don't know that that's how doctors
would turn on.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's my Yeah, it's like your brain farts and you
have a stroke, and so some some are worse than others.
You're just like farts. Some are worse than others. But
that like the hard thing, like.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Lead to lap.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
His farts are apparently different here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
He doesn't find that funny because she has to share
room with him.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You remember our old boss, uh these coop would not
know and neither of the rain. But we had this guy,
Andrew Ashwood. It was a bigger than life guy. He
ran Fox Sports Radio years ago and he died. But
he had a heart attack. I remember. I remember him
pulling me aside multiple times in the hall, waiting these
signs of a heart attack, And like you, I think
it just comes from he said it. Would you feel
it from the arms like it comes out of the arms.
(22:08):
I think it's different for women, but for men. If
you feel like a shooting pain sensation from the arms
towards the heart, yeah, that's a sign you're having a
heart attack.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I've heard that as well. Yeah all right, weed man,
what were you saying?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We met? Any of thought you want to touch up?
We met? How about can we have pancreatis anything on pegreeis?
Weed man?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Hey, if Bronnie didn't have a heart attack, what's your
what's your arrested hard? What's the difference?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
What did you what did your what did your dad do?
Weed man? When you were a kid, your old man?
What do your old man do?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Toy store?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Oh that's right, you worked at there. Okay, so you
and you inherited the toy store and then that went away. Yeah,
because people stopped buying toys, or because the stock market collapsed.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
No, because no, because uh the stock market collapse. It was.
It was a big thing, toys and rush blaying.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oh you were you were competing with Toys r Us. Well,
now you can they somebody did be Toys r Us.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
They're gone.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I was a Toys r Us kid.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
We man.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't want to offend you, but I was a
Toys r Us kid when I was younger. Yeah, yeah,
it was that was Did you.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Have a jingle for your store, weed man, that's probably
the problem.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
What was the name of the store, weed Man, I'm
sure suns. It was in Manhattan. It was Queen Oh
Queens all right? Interesting, all right, Well we're good and
we man there's some people want to help you out,
so make sure you contact them. I wouldn't call them
right now because they'll probably be annoyed if you call
him in the middle of the night. But they are
listeners and so maybe they'll be awake. But call them
when the sun's up.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
All right, them in the morning.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
All right? Keep me posted. All right, there's a weed man.
I just found an article about what really Yeah, I'll
send that.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
To meucans to close its doors. The end of an era.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
What year was that?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Uhh nine?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh? Okay, not long ago?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Then.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
For more than eighty years, Sukhon served the communities of
Ozone Park, Howard Beach and the Richmond Hill. The first
toy store carrying everything from nineteen twenties radio fire wagons
and Raging fire Wagon to nineteen eighties cabbage patch dolls
and computer games.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
That's it, Wait to go, weed Man waiting would have
run that place of the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
If I understand correctly. Weed Men may have made some
poor financial choices with the stock market, which led to
not owning the toy store long because he's yeah, weed
Man's been calling me since like eight so he's been
in Miami homeless.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, he's going to say, they list the list, they
list the name of the owners on here, and it's
I don't recognize.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, we go way back mean in weed man. So
he's been been out of the out of the loop. Anyway,
It is the Ben Mahler Show. As we continue on
and on and on, the the Zach Edy attack, the yeah,
the ma I guess are you gonna talk about this anyre?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
You know, no, but I did see this, and you
and I are rooting for this.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, we're pulling for this. Yeah. Like the Big Lumbering Center,
it's a throat back.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Like Bronnie had a nice summer League debut.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
There, and this is a guy in a different generation
would have been the number one overall pick. People would
have been like having orgasms because they got this guy
who's a giant seven foot four monster in the middle
and all that. And he played very well. Now I
don't get too worked up over some of it, but
he looked like he could play a little bit. So
he played against Walker Kessler, who's an NBA player, and
he had five blocks and seven of twelve shooting in
(25:32):
a good stat line, bunch of rebounds and the buzzer. Yeah,
that's all good stuff. That's all good stuff. We're pulling for.
Very rarely we pull for a Memphis Grizzly player, but
that's who we're pulling for, so we hope he does well.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Let's go back to the NFL, where Bengals quarterback Joe
Burrow suggests the NFL should or if they go to
eighteen games, which you know we know they will, that
they have a second by week and that second bye
week should be around week thirteen. Apparently he's put a
lot of thought on this, and the entire league should
be off that week and during that week they should
have the Pro Bowl festivities similar to an NBA All
(26:12):
Star weekend.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Joe Burrow, I'm good suggesting you need that, Eddie. Is
that what you need? They don't even have the but
it's no game, there's no probo. It's just a bunch
of peats, volleyball or whatever they're doing that. No, I
know we don't need.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You won't go out what he needs to play the game.
Most exciting pro Bowl moment, Eddie. Many people say it
was Taylor taking out the punter. I said, was it
was it? Or Morstead the punter?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Remember, yeah, I do remember that. Uh. The only thing
I remember the Pro Bowl was that Peyton Manning had
that famous idiot kicker rant on the sideline, vander Jack
the kicker during an interviewer in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
My favorite Pro Bowl moment was the game you were at, Eddie,
when Alvin Kamara beat the crap out of a guy
at a casino and then was allowed to play in
the game, and they took him into because after the
game was at the final Pro Bowl that they yes
it was.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
That was what a way to go out, glad I
saw that that dog get put down.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
My god, yeah yeah. I went to a Pro Bowl
at a Loja Stadium bowl there.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
I went to God, I don't even know what that was.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I have one of the great Pro Bowl stories of
all time. I was there. You stole something, he stole
No I I No, I did not he did. It
was left for me.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
No, it was not left for you. It was behind
and you said.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It was left I was doing interviews at the Pro
Bowl in Hawaii. I know the story I ever heard
it before, Yeah, okay. And so there was a guy
named Javon Curse, the freak. Yeah, very good player for
the Tennessee Titans. He was a pro bowler and he
was there and it was after practice. It was very hot,
and so he took off his practice jersey and uh
oh no, no, no, that wasn't his lawyer Maloy. Actually,
(27:53):
excuse me. Javon Curse is the guy that signed everything
at the table, including the newspaper. He says, he's the
one that signed the newspaper. Malloy, who was a safety
for the Patriots, he's the guy that left his his
jersey there and Javan Kurs signed it. That's the story, Eddie.
And that was that was so long ago. Andy Reid
was coaching the NFC because he was the Eagles coach
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and they lost the NFC championship game, and I was
in the NFC locker room and it was so laid
back in Hawaii. They didn't even they had a team meeting.
They didn't kick me out. I stood in and Andy
Reid team meeting. I think I paid more attention than
the players who were actually in the game.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
That's probably very true.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They didn't seem to injer me.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Why even have a team meeting at the Pro Bowl.
But back to the point.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It was mostly a pep talk from Andy.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Back to the point of the story. Lawyer Malloy accidentally
left his jersey behind, was in an accident, and then
you decided I'm going to take that. That's stealing it
was left.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
We were the only ones in the bloody stadium, Eddie, but.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
You act like you media guy saw large and you
stole it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I didn't seal anything. He left it, Eddie. He left
it on the damn table and I and everything was done.
We were We're packing up our.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Little radio equipment rything, laying around with Ben around me.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Eddie's a liar, Eddie is this is why people don't
He's the Altuve of the show. He's a liar and
a cheater. Okay, you two enough. Okay, let's sailor to
blind Scott Who's and I have a fun fact? Hit
that fun fact. That's not fun. This is fun.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Hit the fun fact.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
So the Angels have an outfit to name Joe Adell,
who is on pace to break the all time record
for the lowest ops for a player that hit twenty
five or more home runs in a season. Let's go. Yeah,
this would be the worst season in baseball history for
a player to hit twenty five or more home runs.
The record is currently held by Rube ned o'door. He
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actually set the record in twenty seventeen. But Joe Adell
of the Angels is on pace to hit a little
over twenty five home runs and his ops would be
lower than rug ned Odor. So there's some Angel history
right there. Light up the halo on that one, Cooper Loop,
Light the halo up, Frog dog, Blind Scott, are you there,
Blind Scott?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to talk on Red Sox
and Yankees. So the Sucks are obviously the most dominant
team in baseball. I don't get why we need to
bring anybody. It's a tradeline trade deadline. It makes until
we're going to bring in some overpaid a hole like
Blake Sneller Jordan Montgomery. The team's shy the way.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
No, No, you gotta make a trade. You've got to
make a trade. Blind, that's a bad take by You
improve the team. You improve the team, get another starting pitcher.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
What we're playing small ball here? Small ball works in baseball. Now,
look at the Yankees. They signed all those big games.
That doesn't that doesn't work in baseball. That only satisfies
their fan base. You know what I'm saying, Boston would you?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
But but you know, if you're in like Kansas City, they
don't make moves at the trade nine. Seattle doesn't usually
make me. The Boston Red Sox are supposed to make moves.
They have a money a cash cow called Finnway Park,
and they have their cable channel which is still making
a ton of money while these other cable channels are struggling.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
They should. You know, who do you know who Duce
Tatum is? I know some people, Well.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Well that's his kid. He'll be in the draft in
twenty years, right or eight fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Jason Tatum's learning and had a golf too. He's over
at the Olympics now, but he's he's a pretty good
golfer too. Maybe these guys, these guys, I don't know
why Jenvin Browning on that basketball team over there overseas.
You know, he got he got ripped off. He's the
best Celtics ever, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You're admitting he's better than Jason Tatum and Larry Bird.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, Yeah, Larry Bird. Is Larry Bird gonna buy the Celtics?
I heard he might buy the Cellar team.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
He's not gonna how's he gonna buy? How's he gonna
come with five billion dollars?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
The Cheam's gonna be in like a crew. You think
Magic Johnson tries to buy the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Too, That would be a story, That would be a story.
I think there's a better chance that Magic Johnson to
own the Celtics. There's a better chance that Republicans and
Democrats hug each other and love each other. How about that?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh yeah, Hey, you know it's so hot. Have you
ever smelled one of those barrels from outside a restaurant
when it's one hundred degrees out?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yes, it is disgusting. It is horrible. All not quite
as bad in Boston as it is in New York,
but it's still bad. So anyway you live on the
North End, it's terrible. It's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Hey, when are they going to legalized gambling in California?
It makes no sense that you guys don't have leake
light gambling. It would it would figure that the tax stuff,
it's like that.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I agree with you, well, because they they were going
to do it a couple of years ago, and then
the the Native American casinos were able to block the
gambling companies. I was told it's gonna happen soon, but
I thought it was gonna be on the election in
November in California. I don't know if that's still the case,
but I thank you. I gotta go time, Dog says
weed Man must not have watched Brownie's summer league debut.
(33:04):
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playing basketball out there. Inca terror writes in from Rochester. Says,
as a certified world famous musician, I utterly approve of
and endorse my boy Benny's musical knowledge. Take that, Lorena,
I just and despite Lorena's criticism of Benny, my radio
(33:26):
crush of her has not diminished. So there is that.
Despite your bad take there, Lorena, he's still still a fan.
Siria Sean The Travels of Siria Sewan. He's in San Diego.
It appears at least he sent a photo claiming he
was in San Diego, and we're very worried about that.
What else we have page down King Roy says possession
(33:49):
is nine tenths of the law. Plus I do believe
finders keepers implies here as well applies here as well
with the jersey. So yeah, uh, Ferdducks is a man
cut cheating in game shows, many times accusing Ben of theeft.
That's rich. Yeah, that's right, but not radio rich because
we don't know that he's alive anymore.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Radio rich.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
But he used to call the show back in the
day from West Virginia. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
As we continue on and on and on. Time Now
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least fifty extra base hits and twenty stolen bases prior
(34:32):
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Insta Trivia the answer next.
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(35:14):
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Speaker 1 (35:18):
And here is the insta trivia, a blatant attempt to
get you to listen a bit longer show. Hey Otani
of the Doyer is the second National League player to
have at least fifty fifty extra base hits and twenty
stolen basis prior to the All Star break. He joins blank,
that is the question. What is the answer? Donkey Sausage
(35:39):
going with George Fatty Hackett is his answer. Willie Mays
from Matt the Warrior Raider, Tom Brady, Rose Fan, George
Costanza from Malaprop Goutt but just the Bobblehead, the Texas
Rattlesnake Stone Cold, Steve Austin, guests by Rob and Vegas,
Bo Jackson from Ike and Roseville, Minnesota, Inspector Gadget from
Milkman Mike in Colorado. Who else do we have? Eddie
(36:02):
the water bottle thief Garcia from the Cowboy Killer. That's right,
Eddie stole a water bottle, that job by him. Shame
on it. When all right, Eddie, do you have an answer?
I need an answer? Hurry up, Bettie, I need an answer.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
Let's go with former White Sox legend Vance Law.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
That's a good name, but incorrect. The correct answer is
the son of a cheater or the father of a cheater.
I should say Barry Bonds.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Father Bobby Bonds.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Bobby Bonds with the Giants in nineteen seventy three. Now
his dad didn't. But here we go, here we go.
It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 4 (36:38):
To the third degree? This is one big gets grilled
all loop Ben.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
The Orioles players are apparently fuming that the team only
had three players selected to represent them at the All
Star Game. Do you think Baltimore should have had more?
Speaker 4 (36:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Because it's a popularity contest and they're not popular, and
you get popular by winning big games in the playoffs
and having your story told and having the baseball community
rally around you. The Oriels have some really good young players,
but they sucked at a time. You cannot suck in
the playoffs that will come. If you win in the playoffs,
you'll get more attention, but you're never gonna getting much
(37:17):
attention as the Dodgers and the Red Sox and the
Yankees and teams like that next.
Speaker 9 (37:22):
There's been a lot of optimism about what the Pistons
have done this offseason, with some believing that they have
finally given Kid Cunningham the space and freedom that he
needs to thrive. Ben, do you expect a breakout season
from Cunningham?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Now he put up empty numbers on a bad team,
He'll continue to put up empty numbers on a bad team.
Instead of being the worst team in the NBA, the
Pistons are now like a little closer to the middle
because they added Tim Hardaway Junior and Tobias Harris and
players like that Malik Beasley. Those are average NBA players.
They're not great. So I'm not gonna get all excited
(37:56):
about the future of the Pistons next.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
One of them made your storylines.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
As the MLB season passes, the halfway point is that
hitting his way down?
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Ben?
Speaker 9 (38:05):
In fact, yes, there have only been two seasons in
history with a lower league wide batting average than this
year's two forty two average. To this point, Ben, what
can baseball do to turn things around?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
So you should you get a big giant plane filled
up with all the nerds and send it to Siberia.
Send the nerds to Siberia. Coo, that's what you do.
How do we do you pass? That is a win.
I gotta win. That's a win. Win, win, and win
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Hello, and welcome by George. It's our number two of
the original Recipe podcast. Paul George said he wanted to
stay in La however, the Clippers offer of sixty million
dollars for two years was disrespectful. What does that tell you? Also,
Stephen Curry said he only wants to play for the Warriors. However,
(00:23):
things changed quickly in the NBA. How do you unscrabble
this one? And Jason Tatum showed up to Team USA's
camp in Vegas and declared that the Celtics NBA title
ends the debate on elite status? Is that how you
see it? We'll go there as well. All of it's
coming your way right now in our number two not
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Be.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So you change jobs, it happens. I work in a
business where you change jobs often. Although I believe the
Peter principles in effect, I've reached my highest level of incompetence,
and here I am after all these years. But I
used to change jobs a lot. You leave one place,
you go to another. It's kind of normal. It's what
grown ups do. And you go to the new job,
and that's it. Sometimes you're a professional basketball player and
(02:09):
you decide to go to a different team and say
goodbye to the other team. You move on to the
next team, and you continue on in the cartel of basketball.
So the autopsy report is in on Paul George, by George.
Paul George, who did not want the sunshine, the fun
of the glamour team in La the people's team in
(02:33):
the hood in Inglewood, right there at that new end
to it to him, couldn't handle that, so he skidaddle
off to the Delaware Valley. Good luck, it's messy, very messy. Now,
if you've not been following along, and maybe you've missed
it here, let me give you the thumbnail recap. So
we have now learned that Paul George says he never
(02:55):
wanted to leave Los Angeles. The Clippers offered him contracts.
He didn't choose to take those contracts, but he never
wanted to leave LA. That's the first point that podcast.
He wants you to know. Those are his words. Also,
he said that the turning point was the negotiation, that
(03:15):
there was an offer made by the Clippers to keep
him in his beloved Los Angeles, and Paul George said
that the opening offer was quote disrespectful, disrespectful. First off,
what was it? How disrespectful was it? Did they make
him have to wash dishes when he played basketball? After
(03:38):
the game, he had to go in the kitchen, clean
up the dishes, maybe vacuum a little bit, wash the cars.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
On his Fledgling Podcast podcast, p said the Clippers had
the goal to offer him a two year contract for
thirty million dollars a year per season, so sixty million
dollars for two years, and to which PG thirteen podcasts
he said, whoa, whoa, whoa WHOA, that's crazy. This is
(04:07):
a quote that's crazy. I'm like, nah, I'm not signing that. Yeah,
close quote. Okay, not signing that. So let us discuss
the question. Paul George saying that he wanted to stay
in Los Angeles, however, the Clippers sixty million dollar offer
was disrespectful. What does that tell you? All Right, So
(04:31):
I've got Ann Robinson, Bruno, Mars and Kellogg's and we
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make the long walk through the hallways of Fox Sports
Radio to the vending machine. We're in my peripheral vision,
I noticed that Eddie Garcia walking over towards the vending machine.
What will Edie get? Will he get soda? Will he
(04:52):
get potato chips? Will it be candy? Will it be cookies?
Inquiring minds would like to know. The good news is
there's nothing healthy in the vending machine, so whatever you
get will not be healthy, will not be a healthy option.
So num ber w Yeah, Paul George, the word is disingenuous.
(05:14):
He was being disingenuous with his commentary. He doesn't want
to look like the bad guys, so instead he's trying
to make the Clippers look like the bad guy in
this little play. I don't buy it. Who gets worked
up over an opening offer? Does that make any sense? Seriously,
does it make any sense to get all worked into
a tizzy because of an opening offer? Now, I'm pretty low,
(05:39):
pretty low on the totem pole. Here at Fox Sports Radio,
I am there's two types of radio. There's radio between
six am and six pm. There's radio between six pm
and six am. They're two totally different worlds and you
should never cross. And I'm reminded of that every time
I negotiate a new contract. So, but that said, I understand,
(06:01):
I understand the art of negotiation, and that just being
a HOI POLOI overnight guy that we're fighting over peanuts here.
And yet I know the opening offer is not the
offer you take. You have a counteroffer, and it's called
a negotiation. Hello, we're not going to CarMax here. This
(06:22):
is not the gimmick of no haggle pricing. No, there's
haggling involved. It's like a tug of war, is what
it's like. And we know that you know that there's
a little bit of back and forth. It's kind of
like when weed man hippies out there panhandling on the streets. Right.
He says he's negotiating from more Money's what he's doing.
But the Clippers, the way I look at this, based
(06:44):
on what Paul George said, he's trying to make the
Clippers look like the bad guys. The Clippers were the
grown ups in the room here. They were like PG.
Thirteen in his mid thirties is what's known as a
diminishing asset. And yet the Clipper We're still gonna pamp
thirty million dollars a year for a couple of years.
So when given the contract, Paul George said, no, I'm
(07:08):
gonna mutambo you and I'm gonna block you. So the
Clippers turned to Ann Robinson, who told Paul George, you
are the weakest link. Goodbye. Remember that show. Yeah. So
now he's gonna go eat hogis and cheese steaks and
tasty cakes and the Delaware Valley and those delicious pretzels,
and there'll be an absolute attack by the Philadelphia fan
(07:34):
and I will be rubbernecking. I will be there with
a big bucket of popcorn for the feeding frenzy that
inevitably will take place. Maybe it doesn't happen during the
regular season. However, more likely than not by the time
the playoffs come around. Plank could clink, clank, It's going
to happen. Now, turning the page, we go to the
Bay Area across the country, but will stop in Vegas
(07:56):
because this story originated from Vegas. And this after Clay
Thompson exits stage laught heading from the Bay Area to Dallas.
Stephan Curry the last man's standing Draymond Green's podcasting, so
he's sitting down. So Steph Curry said that he only
(08:16):
wants to play for the Warriors, whom sure allow me
to lose excited about that all? He wants to play
for the wars However, things change quickly in the NBA.
Steph Curry said, so, how do you unscramble the commentary
from Stephan Curry? So I've got on this one. It's
a measured response. I think that's kind of straightforward here.
(08:40):
It's measured. Steph humming a few bars of an old
Bruno Mars song, Leave the door open. He's leaving the
door open to say bye bye to the Golden State
Basketball But I don't want to say that right now.
He's not at that point, so he's leaving the door open.
If the multiverse, the Warriors continue to bounce down a
(09:03):
never ending staircase, going lower and lower and lower, back
to the Donald Foyle years, the Mike Montgomery years in
the Bay Area there and the power rankings. Then all
of a sudden, you're like, Okay, what do we got here?
Steph Curry has He's left himself and out he can
at some point in the next couple of years cherry
(09:23):
pick the chance to go somewhere else and get that
cheap end of career championship run. Get that one somewhere
in the wild blue yonder out, far away, change the GPS,
get an off ramp away from the Warriors, and it's like, well,
he's a veter and he wants to one more chance
to taste the celebration, the champagne and all that, and
(09:46):
just file this one away, file this one. If Buddy
Heal does not turn out to be good, I think
he'll be fine. But if not, in the Wars the Warriors,
even if he's well, If Buddy Hild plays well, he's
a slightly better version than Klay Thompson at this point
because Klay Thomps has washed up the Maverick don't know
that yet. They will know that once he starts missing
shots for them. So Buddy Heal will be okay, be
a little bit better than Klay Thompson was last year
(10:07):
because he can do more things. And at that point
there'll still be a mid level Western Conference team. All right,
final point, a story that's bouncing around via Jason Tatum
from the Boston Shamrocks. As our friend from Rhode Island
used to say, so Jason Tatum showed up to the
(10:28):
Team USA camp in Viva Las Vegas, where the partying
must be off the hooks there in Vegas. And so
Jason Tatum at Team USA camp settled in and declared
that Celtics winning the championship this summer has ended the debates.
It ends the debate on his elite status in the NBA.
(10:53):
Is that how you see it? Is that how you
see it? So even our friends inca Terror Blind Scott,
blind Emmett, blind Sea Bass, all the great blind heroes
on the show. Stevie Meatball's another part of the blind mafia.
There another guy's part of the blind mafia. All these
(11:14):
guys know right that the answer is you gotta shake
your head now, right. The debate is never ending. It
is the eternal flame, the eternal flame of debate. And
that's good for business. It should never end. The debate
is important. You need the debate. The debate is what
keeps people engaged, and people engaged consume your product. It's
(11:36):
a wonderful thing. So the debate is never ending. It
goes on and on and on. And here here's how
it undergoes a metamorphosis. It changes, it evolves if you
will the debate. So the argument, now, it's hard to debunk.
This is that Jason Tatum, Yeah, he won a championship,
(11:57):
but it's the yabbott Yeah but yeah, but yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah, but yeah, but that's an
old Rams coach, Mike Martz. There is a drop in
there by the way, the rain of Mike Martz saying
yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah, but yeah,
but he was talking about Mark Bolger, who is the
quarterback of the Saint Louis Rams at the time. But
the yeah but crowd will say yeah, but Jason Tatum
was dining on a breakfast of lucky Charms. Kellogg's Lucky
(12:20):
Charms is what he had. That's what he was eating
as seemingly every opponent of Celtics played had a major
catastrophic injury to a star player. Yeah but yeah, but
yeah but it yeah, but yeah it yeah. So you
do that, then you're like breaking it apart the debate.
You're like, well, Jason Tatum, Celtics were a juggernaut. They
(12:41):
were a wagon. They were magically delicious during the regular season,
and then again the playoffs came around and it was
like out of the Bible, Moses parting, the not the
Red Sea, the Eastern Conference, and Jason Tatum. They just
say what happened? Just being intellectually honest, Jason Tatum played
(13:01):
like a hobgoblin for big stretches in the playoffs. He
was inconsistent. It was not a case where he said, Okay,
I'm going to go up the mountain. I'm a mule,
I'm the donkey, and I'm going to put the team
on my back and I'm going to lead them, even
though they're good players, I'm going to lead them to
the championship. That's not what happened. It was Jalen Brown
(13:24):
who did that. He's the one that was a warrior.
But not a Golden State Warrior, and he's the one
that reached elite status, winning Eastern Conference Finals MVP and
the NBA Finals MVP and Jason Tatum side by side.
You can only pick one. Jalen Brown was the bus
driver like our friend Roberto, and Jason Tatum was the
(13:47):
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Speaker 6 (14:46):
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Speaker 7 (14:50):
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Speaker 4 (14:52):
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totally out of context.
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out and beat you.
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Ohereva you get your podcasts?
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Yea.
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Speaker 1 (15:56):
Coming up later this hour. We will have the third Degree.
We look forward to that. Denied blocked, whatever you want
to say, we'll get to that. Also, NBA Marketing working
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(16:19):
Late Night Drug tester says six out of ten on
the Mallard monologue, I would have been higher. But Lucky
Charms is a General Mills, a serial. But you probably
refer to Kellogg's lineup of serials. That's all the same,
it's all same crap.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
It is.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
You suck.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Let me check here, I say Kellogg's Lucky Charms. Let
me see here. Oh yeah, it is General Mills. I
thought it was Kellogg's. Who knew Yeah? Last time, I
oh no, last time, I ate. Last time I ate
Lucky Charms. I think I was seven or eight years old.
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Do they have the blue diamonds back then? Because they
added those in later.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I don't think they mean there's a long time ago,
you big Lucky Charms guy.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
Back in the day. Yeah, it's been quite a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's a long time, right, I know, I got Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
I was gonna say, Loraina, you have a daughter.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
She like Lucky Charms like cereal. Wow, she's weird anyways,
But I was curious, when you eat Lucky Charms, do
you all the grain pieces first? The marshmallows? You go, No,
even need the grain, you just eat whatever goes exactly. No, No, no,
you eat the marshmallows. You go marshmallows. Big No. You
(17:40):
know they have the rip off Lucky Charms, which is
all like marshmallows. You can get that at some.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Disgusted full bag.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I saw that. Yeah that's pretty good.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Right, No, it's gross the middle. That's like my wife
who just wants to eat like a container of frosting.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
But I love the frosting to the killer.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
No, that's a lot. That's a lot, that's what That's
what Big Cake tells you. Big Cake tells you that
you need the cake with the frost. No, all you
need is the frosty right the yes.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Boom?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah? Oh yeah see that boom gross. You don't want
to cook your brownie mix either, guys, Okay, just eat
the better put eggs and that about that one.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I no, no, they're safe.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
How do they make cookie dough ice cream? Because when
I was a kid, we weren't allowed to eat cookie
dough because we would die because of the egg. That
was a lie, Ben, it was a lie. You're not
going to die by big cookie? Yeah, okay, you got
your Yeah, let's go to the phones. Weed Man, hippie,
he's not in jail, but I man, he has changed
his number apparently because I don't have his number anymore.
Hello weed Man, hippie, I love you. On Lincoln Road
(18:49):
in Miami. I think.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
What Bronie James what? He had a heart attack?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I don't know. There was a heart attack. He had
had a problem with his his heart. There was a
there was a cardiac event. Was it described? Was it
an actual heart heart attack or was it something?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (19:09):
I think it was. And it's like he's twenty years old.
What's he doing playing basketball?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
He's playing back because that's what the family businesses. They
played basketball that's what they do. He's making millions. He's
without even being able to play basketball at a high level.
Bronnie James because of his dad, because of nepotism.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Yeah, cardiac event, not a heart attack?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
What is that? What does that even mean? Well, didn't
they have to call the paramedics?
Speaker 7 (19:38):
And then yes they did, Yes they did.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I was under the impression his heart stopped beating on
the basketball floor and they had to resuscitate him.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Wouldn't that be an attack of the heart. That sounds
like a whole love song, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
Yes, it does, total attack of the.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Ya see the rain. It does not understand, like me
explain something we've man so Lorraine is like yelling. I
make musical references. I have a loose knowledge of music.
I don't really have the music gene, so I'll make
a loose reference to music, and lorraina gets offended if
I don't hit the bullseye. And I've tried to explain it.
It's broadcasting. It's not narrow casting. And I play the
hits and all that stuff. I just think you should
(20:18):
give credit where credit is due. Bad what I told you?
It is not just brun O mars I know, but
he's the name. Bruno Mars is the name. It's the brand.
It's all about branding.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
You know, good job, we made, good job. Connected, I
don't know, don't do that. We've made the man's he's
living on the streets in Miami. How Darren, how dare you?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
So?
Speaker 7 (20:43):
Apparently a heart attack, the heart attack comes from a blockage,
and a cardiac arrest is something that you would not see,
you know, in young our car heart attack wouldn't be
in younger people because they don't have block gage of
the arteries, that kind of thing. Okay, so that it
comes from something else. So like like so they're both
(21:05):
serious and they both can kill you, but they're they're
different causes, I guess.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
So, like I know my dad, my dad had I'm
trying to talk to medicine. I don't know anything about medicine.
I stay at a holiday and express the other But
that makes way. So that's an outdated reverence. But so
so Eddie, like my dad had a stroke at one point,
but it's like that's like a part of the brain, right,
the stroke, that's a brain.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
I think that I don't know that that's how doctors
would turn on.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's my Yeah, it's like your brain farts and you
have a stroke, and so some some are worse than others.
You're just like farts. Some are worse than others. But
that like the hard thing, like.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Lead to lap.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
His farts are apparently different here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
He doesn't find that funny because she has to share
room with him.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You remember our old boss, uh these coop would not
know and neither of the rain. But we had this guy,
Andrew Ashwood. It was a bigger than life guy. He
ran Fox Sports Radio years ago and he died. But
he had a heart attack. I remember. I remember him
pulling me aside multiple times in the hall, waiting these
signs of a heart attack, And like you, I think
it just comes from he said it. Would you feel
it from the arms like it comes out of the arms.
(22:08):
I think it's different for women, but for men. If
you feel like a shooting pain sensation from the arms
towards the heart, yeah, that's a sign you're having a
heart attack.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I've heard that as well. Yeah all right, weed man,
what were you saying?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
We met? Any of thought you want to touch up?
We met? How about can we have pancreatis anything on pegreeis?
Weed man?
Speaker 8 (22:29):
Hey, if Bronnie didn't have a heart attack, what's your
what's your arrested hard? What's the difference?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
What did you what did your what did your dad do?
Weed man? When you were a kid, your old man?
What do your old man do?
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Toy store?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Oh that's right, you worked at there. Okay, so you
and you inherited the toy store and then that went away. Yeah,
because people stopped buying toys, or because the stock market collapsed.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
No, because no, because uh the stock market collapse. It was.
It was a big thing, toys and rush blaying.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oh you were you were competing with Toys r Us. Well,
now you can they somebody did be Toys r Us.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
They're gone.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I was a Toys r Us kid.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
We man.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't want to offend you, but I was a
Toys r Us kid when I was younger. Yeah, yeah,
it was that was Did you.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Have a jingle for your store, weed man, that's probably
the problem.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
What was the name of the store, weed Man, I'm
sure suns. It was in Manhattan. It was Queen Oh
Queens all right? Interesting, all right, Well we're good and
we man there's some people want to help you out,
so make sure you contact them. I wouldn't call them
right now because they'll probably be annoyed if you call
him in the middle of the night. But they are
listeners and so maybe they'll be awake. But call them
when the sun's up.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
All right, them in the morning.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
All right? Keep me posted. All right, there's a weed man.
I just found an article about what really Yeah, I'll
send that.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
To meucans to close its doors. The end of an era.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
What year was that?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Uhh nine?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh? Okay, not long ago?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Then.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
For more than eighty years, Sukhon served the communities of
Ozone Park, Howard Beach and the Richmond Hill. The first
toy store carrying everything from nineteen twenties radio fire wagons
and Raging fire Wagon to nineteen eighties cabbage patch dolls
and computer games.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
That's it, Wait to go, weed Man waiting would have
run that place of the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
If I understand correctly. Weed Men may have made some
poor financial choices with the stock market, which led to
not owning the toy store long because he's yeah, weed
Man's been calling me since like eight so he's been
in Miami homeless.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, he's going to say, they list the list, they
list the name of the owners on here, and it's
I don't recognize.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, we go way back mean in weed man. So
he's been been out of the out of the loop. Anyway,
It is the Ben Mahler Show. As we continue on
and on and on, the the Zach Edy attack, the yeah,
the ma I guess are you gonna talk about this anyre?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
You know, no, but I did see this, and you
and I are rooting for this.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, we're pulling for this. Yeah. Like the Big Lumbering Center,
it's a throat back.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Like Bronnie had a nice summer League debut.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
There, and this is a guy in a different generation
would have been the number one overall pick. People would
have been like having orgasms because they got this guy
who's a giant seven foot four monster in the middle
and all that. And he played very well. Now I
don't get too worked up over some of it, but
he looked like he could play a little bit. So
he played against Walker Kessler, who's an NBA player, and
he had five blocks and seven of twelve shooting in
(25:32):
a good stat line, bunch of rebounds and the buzzer. Yeah,
that's all good stuff. That's all good stuff. We're pulling for.
Very rarely we pull for a Memphis Grizzly player, but
that's who we're pulling for, so we hope he does well.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Let's go back to the NFL, where Bengals quarterback Joe
Burrow suggests the NFL should or if they go to
eighteen games, which you know we know they will, that
they have a second by week and that second bye
week should be around week thirteen. Apparently he's put a
lot of thought on this, and the entire league should
be off that week and during that week they should
have the Pro Bowl festivities similar to an NBA All
(26:12):
Star weekend.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Joe Burrow, I'm good suggesting you need that, Eddie. Is
that what you need? They don't even have the but
it's no game, there's no probo. It's just a bunch
of peats, volleyball or whatever they're doing that. No, I
know we don't need.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You won't go out what he needs to play the game.
Most exciting pro Bowl moment, Eddie. Many people say it
was Taylor taking out the punter. I said, was it
was it? Or Morstead the punter?
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Remember, yeah, I do remember that. Uh. The only thing
I remember the Pro Bowl was that Peyton Manning had
that famous idiot kicker rant on the sideline, vander Jack
the kicker during an interviewer in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
My favorite Pro Bowl moment was the game you were at, Eddie,
when Alvin Kamara beat the crap out of a guy
at a casino and then was allowed to play in
the game, and they took him into because after the
game was at the final Pro Bowl that they yes
it was.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
That was what a way to go out, glad I
saw that that dog get put down.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
My god, yeah yeah. I went to a Pro Bowl
at a Loja Stadium bowl there.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
I went to God, I don't even know what that was.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I have one of the great Pro Bowl stories of
all time. I was there. You stole something, he stole
No I I No, I did not he did. It
was left for me.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
No, it was not left for you. It was behind
and you said.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It was left I was doing interviews at the Pro
Bowl in Hawaii. I know the story I ever heard
it before, Yeah, okay. And so there was a guy
named Javon Curse, the freak. Yeah, very good player for
the Tennessee Titans. He was a pro bowler and he
was there and it was after practice. It was very hot,
and so he took off his practice jersey and uh
oh no, no, no, that wasn't his lawyer Maloy. Actually,
(27:53):
excuse me. Javon Curse is the guy that signed everything
at the table, including the newspaper. He says, he's the
one that signed the newspaper. Malloy, who was a safety
for the Patriots, he's the guy that left his his
jersey there and Javan Kurs signed it. That's the story, Eddie.
And that was that was so long ago. Andy Reid
was coaching the NFC because he was the Eagles coach
(28:15):
and they lost the NFC championship game, and I was
in the NFC locker room and it was so laid
back in Hawaii. They didn't even they had a team meeting.
They didn't kick me out. I stood in and Andy
Reid team meeting. I think I paid more attention than
the players who were actually in the game.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
That's probably very true.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
They didn't seem to injer me.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Why even have a team meeting at the Pro Bowl.
But back to the point.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It was mostly a pep talk from Andy.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Back to the point of the story. Lawyer Malloy accidentally
left his jersey behind, was in an accident, and then
you decided I'm going to take that. That's stealing it
was left.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
We were the only ones in the bloody stadium, Eddie, but.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
You act like you media guy saw large and you
stole it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I didn't seal anything. He left it, Eddie. He left
it on the damn table and I and everything was done.
We were We're packing up our.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Little radio equipment rything, laying around with Ben around me.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Eddie's a liar, Eddie is this is why people don't
He's the Altuve of the show. He's a liar and
a cheater. Okay, you two enough. Okay, let's sailor to
blind Scott Who's and I have a fun fact? Hit
that fun fact. That's not fun. This is fun.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Hit the fun fact.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
So the Angels have an outfit to name Joe Adell,
who is on pace to break the all time record
for the lowest ops for a player that hit twenty
five or more home runs in a season. Let's go. Yeah,
this would be the worst season in baseball history for
a player to hit twenty five or more home runs.
The record is currently held by Rube ned o'door. He
(29:58):
actually set the record in twenty seventeen. But Joe Adell
of the Angels is on pace to hit a little
over twenty five home runs and his ops would be
lower than rug ned Odor. So there's some Angel history
right there. Light up the halo on that one, Cooper Loop,
Light the halo up, Frog dog, Blind Scott, are you there,
Blind Scott?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to talk on Red Sox
and Yankees. So the Sucks are obviously the most dominant
team in baseball. I don't get why we need to
bring anybody. It's a tradeline trade deadline. It makes until
we're going to bring in some overpaid a hole like
Blake Sneller Jordan Montgomery. The team's shy the way.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
No, No, you gotta make a trade. You've got to
make a trade. Blind, that's a bad take by You
improve the team. You improve the team, get another starting pitcher.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
What we're playing small ball here? Small ball works in baseball. Now,
look at the Yankees. They signed all those big games.
That doesn't that doesn't work in baseball. That only satisfies
their fan base. You know what I'm saying, Boston would you?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
But but you know, if you're in like Kansas City, they
don't make moves at the trade nine. Seattle doesn't usually
make me. The Boston Red Sox are supposed to make moves.
They have a money a cash cow called Finnway Park,
and they have their cable channel which is still making
a ton of money while these other cable channels are struggling.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
They should. You know, who do you know who Duce
Tatum is? I know some people, Well.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Well that's his kid. He'll be in the draft in
twenty years, right or eight fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Jason Tatum's learning and had a golf too. He's over
at the Olympics now, but he's he's a pretty good
golfer too. Maybe these guys, these guys, I don't know
why Jenvin Browning on that basketball team over there overseas.
You know, he got he got ripped off. He's the
best Celtics ever, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
You're admitting he's better than Jason Tatum and Larry Bird.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, Yeah, Larry Bird. Is Larry Bird gonna buy the Celtics?
I heard he might buy the Cellar team.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
He's not gonna how's he gonna buy? How's he gonna
come with five billion dollars?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
The Cheam's gonna be in like a crew. You think
Magic Johnson tries to buy the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Too, That would be a story, That would be a story.
I think there's a better chance that Magic Johnson to
own the Celtics. There's a better chance that Republicans and
Democrats hug each other and love each other. How about that?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh yeah, Hey, you know it's so hot. Have you
ever smelled one of those barrels from outside a restaurant
when it's one hundred degrees out?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yes, it is disgusting. It is horrible. All not quite
as bad in Boston as it is in New York,
but it's still bad. So anyway you live on the
North End, it's terrible. It's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Hey, when are they going to legalized gambling in California?
It makes no sense that you guys don't have leake
light gambling. It would it would figure that the tax stuff,
it's like that.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I agree with you, well, because they they were going
to do it a couple of years ago, and then
the the Native American casinos were able to block the
gambling companies. I was told it's gonna happen soon, but
I thought it was gonna be on the election in
November in California. I don't know if that's still the case,
but I thank you. I gotta go time, Dog says
weed Man must not have watched Brownie's summer league debut.
(33:04):
I don't know what you'd call it, but definitely wasn't
playing basketball out there. Inca terror writes in from Rochester. Says,
as a certified world famous musician, I utterly approve of
and endorse my boy Benny's musical knowledge. Take that, Lorena,
I just and despite Lorena's criticism of Benny, my radio
(33:26):
crush of her has not diminished. So there is that.
Despite your bad take there, Lorena, he's still still a fan.
Siria Sean The Travels of Siria Sewan. He's in San Diego.
It appears at least he sent a photo claiming he
was in San Diego, and we're very worried about that.
What else we have page down King Roy says possession
(33:49):
is nine tenths of the law. Plus I do believe
finders keepers implies here as well applies here as well
with the jersey. So yeah, uh, Ferdducks is a man
cut cheating in game shows, many times accusing Ben of theeft.
That's rich. Yeah, that's right, but not radio rich because
we don't know that he's alive anymore.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Radio rich.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
But he used to call the show back in the
day from West Virginia. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
As we continue on and on and on. Time Now
for the Insta Trivia of Mallard of the third Degree.
Here's the Insta Trivia show. Hey, oh, Tony of the
Doyers is the second National League player to have at
least fifty extra base hits and twenty stolen bases prior
(34:32):
to the All Star Break. He joins blank, that's the
Insta Trivia the answer next.
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(35:14):
It's Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
And here is the insta trivia, a blatant attempt to
get you to listen a bit longer show. Hey Otani
of the Doyer is the second National League player to
have at least fifty fifty extra base hits and twenty
stolen basis prior to the All Star break. He joins blank,
that is the question. What is the answer? Donkey Sausage
(35:39):
going with George Fatty Hackett is his answer. Willie Mays
from Matt the Warrior Raider, Tom Brady, Rose Fan, George
Costanza from Malaprop Goutt but just the Bobblehead, the Texas
Rattlesnake Stone Cold, Steve Austin, guests by Rob and Vegas,
Bo Jackson from Ike and Roseville, Minnesota, Inspector Gadget from
Milkman Mike in Colorado. Who else do we have? Eddie
(36:02):
the water bottle thief Garcia from the Cowboy Killer. That's right,
Eddie stole a water bottle, that job by him. Shame
on it. When all right, Eddie, do you have an answer?
I need an answer? Hurry up, Bettie, I need an answer.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
Let's go with former White Sox legend Vance Law.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
That's a good name, but incorrect. The correct answer is
the son of a cheater or the father of a cheater.
I should say Barry Bonds.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Father Bobby Bonds.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Bobby Bonds with the Giants in nineteen seventy three. Now
his dad didn't. But here we go, here we go.
It's maller. How about that?
Speaker 4 (36:38):
To the third degree? This is one big gets grilled
all loop Ben.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
The Orioles players are apparently fuming that the team only
had three players selected to represent them at the All
Star Game. Do you think Baltimore should have had more?
Speaker 4 (36:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Because it's a popularity contest and they're not popular, and
you get popular by winning big games in the playoffs
and having your story told and having the baseball community
rally around you. The Oriels have some really good young players,
but they sucked at a time. You cannot suck in
the playoffs that will come. If you win in the playoffs,
you'll get more attention, but you're never gonna getting much
(37:17):
attention as the Dodgers and the Red Sox and the
Yankees and teams like that next.
Speaker 9 (37:22):
There's been a lot of optimism about what the Pistons
have done this offseason, with some believing that they have
finally given Kid Cunningham the space and freedom that he
needs to thrive. Ben, do you expect a breakout season
from Cunningham?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Now he put up empty numbers on a bad team,
He'll continue to put up empty numbers on a bad team.
Instead of being the worst team in the NBA, the
Pistons are now like a little closer to the middle
because they added Tim Hardaway Junior and Tobias Harris and
players like that Malik Beasley. Those are average NBA players.
They're not great. So I'm not gonna get all excited
(37:56):
about the future of the Pistons next.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
One of them made your storylines.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
As the MLB season passes, the halfway point is that
hitting his way down?
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Ben?
Speaker 9 (38:05):
In fact, yes, there have only been two seasons in
history with a lower league wide batting average than this
year's two forty two average. To this point, Ben, what
can baseball do to turn things around?
Speaker 4 (38:15):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
So you should you get a big giant plane filled
up with all the nerds and send it to Siberia.
Send the nerds to Siberia. Coo, that's what you do.
How do we do you pass? That is a win.
I gotta win. That's a win. Win, win, and win
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