July 9, 2024 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about CeeDee Lamb refusing to answer questions about his contract status, Paul George saying he wanted to stay in LA but felt disrespected, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Sofia Vergara Edition, and more!
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I am not talking to you, well, I'm actually talking
to you, but an NFL player is not welcome. In
the beginning of another night of the Benmahler Show. As
we are in the air everywhere like teammates, as we
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lead this hour, play the hits, mo Man play this.
We're getting a little closer, inch by inch to the NFL. Now,
the NFL is a false start situation because you have
training camp and who gives a rats ass about that?
All training camp is good for is people complaining and
people getting hurt. From from our perspective, I don't work
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for a team. From our perspective, players get hurt, players
complain about their contracts. That's what training camp is. But
our lead is from the disgruntled wide out department to
that category. More drama o rama in a place so
nice they made a soap opera about it years ago,
Dallas Jerry's World. And if you did not follow along here,
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you missed the the details on this may maybe you've
not been following and we're here for you. So there's
a player named C D Lamb, not C plus D.
That's ce d Ee and then Lamb, so the Cowboy
wide receiver for now, for now Ceedee. Lamb got a
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little testy in declaring that he will not answer any
questions about his ongoing contract negotiations. This during a youth
Footbault camp which he's hosting this week in Round Rock,
and he said I'm not doing. I'm not doing. In fact,
he gave the quote you'll get zero answers. He said,
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zero answers. It's all about the kids. He wrote that
on social media. I hope we will all say a
prayer for Ceedee Lamb. He is currently set to play
the twenty twenty four season on the fifth year option,
which means he will make eighteen million dollars. We hope
that it'll work out financially. Now, Lamb is expected to
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be a no show absenteeism for Cedde Lamb. He's not
going to show up the Cowboy training camp. That is
the expectation unless the Cowboys show him the money, and
it does not appear they're going to do that at
this point. So let us discuss the question where are
you at on CD Lamb and his refusal to answer
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questions at a youth football camp about his Cowboys contractual status.
So I've got TJ's Way, Tom Hanks and Redline tour buses,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make an old movie which is
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on in the background here. I don't know it's old.
Well it say it's pretty good movie, The Wolf of
Wall Street? Is that what they think that is? It's
not bad, all right? So anyway, a we'll start here.
Where are my thoughts on Cede Lamb. I don't spend
a lot of time thinking about Ceedee Lamb, but here's
where I am. I find this comical. I find it comical.
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That's the word I'm going to use you because Ceedee
Lamb is in the game. He's in the game, and
yet it appears he does not know how to play
the game. Who goofed? I've got to know seriously, and
this now eve Ta is staggering here right, Ceedee Lamb.
It's very simple. Here's what you do. You go out there,
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you wax poetic, You use your charisma when talking to
the media, and you win the battle. You have the
media fight the battle for you. That's the move. Here
is he doing that? It does not appear that he's
doing that. And as the line goes, you can catch
many many more flies with honey than vinegar, and yet
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he's choosing to use vinegar. And so if you say nothing,
and that's not to say anything wants, but if you
say nothing, you're giving a gift to the media. A
lot of the media's fanboys these days, so it doesn't
quite apply as much as it did in the old days.
But there was this old sports writer as friend of mine,
we'll call the TJ Way. He passed away somewhat recently,
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TJ Simers, and TJ would always explain to me about
how this works. He'd go out and he'd ask tough questions,
and sometimes people would not answer the questions because they
didn't want to answer them. The golden rule is rather simple.
You ask the question, you give the person you're going
to comment about the opportunity to respond to rebut and
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then if they choose not to answer the question, you're
then allowed to write and say whatever you want about
that person. Because you gave them the opportunity, they chose
not to take it, that's on them. It's not on you.
It's on them. You gave them the opportunity, You had
your chance, and you didn't get it done. So to
rephrase that, also, though a no comment is in fact
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a strong comment, I think we can all agree on this,
every man, woman, and child, that a no comment suggests
the very least that you're unhappy. Otherwise you'd give a comment.
Why would you give it no comment, you'd give a comment,
you'd be happy, you'd give a comment. But he's not
giving a comment. So you're upset. And then it also
implies that you're hiding something. There's something that you're upset about,
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and that thing you want to hide. That is what
it implies, all right now page two, Here we go
to Baltimore, where the Ravens figure to be a playoff
team again. They're in the playoffs pretty much every year.
They often don't go very far in the playoffs. So
one of the subplots around the upcoming NFL season is
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whether or not Derrick Henry is still in alpha? Is
he still in alpha? Can he continue to play at
a high level in Baltimore in his thirties, which is
not old in the real world, but as we'd like
to say, in sports, it's old. So at least one
unnamed veteran NFL coach believes that not only will Derrick
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Henry remain a menace in the NFL, he's a Warrior,
but not a Golden State Warrior, because that's a basketball
team that plays in Northern California coach, quoted anonymously, of course,
saying I don't see him meaning Henry slowing down over
the next two years. I don't think he's lost a step.
Close quote. So what is your appraisal? What is your
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appraisal Derrick Henry quote not losing a step. He's a warrior,
he's a menace. What is your opinion on all that?
So my opinion, I'll go first, and you can chime
in on this. In the immortal words of actor Tom Hanks,
believing is seeing and seeing is believing. And I gotta
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see it. I gotta see it until proven otherwise you
have to be pessimistic about Derrick Henry. You treat running
backs much like in real estate. A house gets to
a certain point and it if you're an appraiser of
real estate and you look at the comps in the neighborhood,
you do all that stuff, but you downgrade the house
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as it gets older. The reason you downgraded is more expensive,
the upkeep is more expensive. Pipes are more likely to burst,
things have to be replaced, Things break unexpectedly just because
they're old. That's what I'm now. Running back is disposable position.
It is. It's like a disposable razor. You use it up.
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You like it, but you don't love it. You don't
keep it, you throw it away. That's it, So I
gotta see it. I'm not gonna say that Henry is
gonna be terrible all season.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I don't think that's the case. I believe that Henry
will have some nice performances with the Ravens. But will
he consistently be there? And will he be the Derrick
Henry he had been, the MVP level player he had
been with the Titans. I'm going now my vote is now,
all right, last word here. We quickly head now to
upstate New York and out in Western New York. And
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we have a fair amount of listeners in Western New York.
And I've done Mallard meet and Greece. I did one
in Syracuse. We were in Buffalo long long ago. So
a bizarre story. Now we are told. I want to
make sure I tell you this story properly. So the
Bill's Mafia, say die. We have a fair amount of
Bill's Mafia people that like this show. So the Bill's Mafia,
the most loyal minions of the Buffalo Bills. Some of
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these yahoos have started watching construction of the NFL stadium,
which is being built. It's not going to open for
a couple of years, so it's being constructed right now
as we speak. Now. It started last year, but we
are told as the construction progresses here and there's a
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building with pillars and things you can look at. As
it starts taking shape, more and more people are spending
their time watching the construction of said building. So the
Bill's most diehard fans, the Bill's mafia, showing up to
watch a stadium being constructed. How does this one strike you?
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So I found this to be hilarious. I thought this
was great. Imagine if you will, and this is what
I had in my head. And maybe I'm wrong on
this and you can correct me, but imagine in your head.
In my head, I had the car tune bubble above
my head. You know, you go to certain cities, like
you go to Manhattan and they have the red buses
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that go around, they take you to Times Square, they
show you Broadway Wall Street. In LA. They've got the
Hollywood star vans that go around. They drive by celebrities homes.
You can look at them. Miami, I guess you drive by,
you to see people in bikinis and drinking cocktails on
the beach there in South Beach. But imagine the Red
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Line tour buses for this event. And here we are
helping visitors, out of towners and locals by the way,
discover the best that Buffalo has arts, culture, history, architecture,
just an amazing, all inclusive experience. You jump on one
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of these Red Line tour buses and we'll give you
everything Buffalo has to offer. Will stop and watch concrete
being poured. You can watch concrete being poured into the
Bills New NFL Stadium. How amazing is that? Followed by
we'll have a chance to watch paint dry. Then we'll
have a brief lunch at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo,
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the birthplace of the modern chicken wing. And then we'll
take you to a fun experience of watching grass grow.
And in the winter time we will watch a blizzard,
a lake effect blizzard. All of that part of the
bus tour of buff That is outstanding, fun for all ages,
fun for all ages. Come on out and enjoy the show. Amazing.
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Speaker 2 (14:15):
Be.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
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. And so 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
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player and 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 in the fun of the glamour team in
(15:02):
La the People's team in the hood in Inglewood, right
there at that new end to it to him, couldn't
handle that, so he skidaddled 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
(15:22):
me give you the thumbnail recap. So we have now
learned that Paul George says he never wanted to leave
Los Angeles. The Clippers offered him contracts and 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
(15:43):
that the turning point was the negotiation, that 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, dis respectful. U. First off,
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what was it? How disrespectful was it? Did they make
him have to wash dishes when he played basketball? After
the game, he had to go in the kitchen, clean
up the dishes, maybe vacuum a little bit, wash the cars.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
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
p said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's crazy. This is
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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
(17:03):
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, where in my peripheral vision
I noticed that Eddie Garcia walking over towards the vending machine.
What will Eddie get? Will he get soda? Will he
(17:24):
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 bur w Yeah, Paul George, the word is disingenuous.
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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 open 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,
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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. There are 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, right,
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I understand, I understand the art of negotiation, and that
just being a HOYPOLLOI 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.
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This 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 said he's negotiating for more Money's
what he's doing. But the Clippers, the way I look
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at this, based 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 Clippers were
still gonna pay him thirty million dollars a year for
a couple of years. So when given the contract, Paul
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George said, no, I'm gonna move toambo 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
hogies and cheese steaks and tasty cakes and the Delaware
Valley and those delicious pretzels, and there'll be an absolute
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attack by the Philadelphia fan 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. Clank clink, clank,
it's going to happen. Now, turning the page, we go
to the Bay Area across the country, but will stop
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in Vegas because this story originated from Vegas. And this
after Clay Thompson exits stage left, heading from the Bay
Area to Dallas. Stephen Curry the last man's standing Draymond
Green's podcasting, so he's sitting down. So Steph Curry said
that he only wants to play for the Warriors, whom
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sure allow me to lose excited about that only 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.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
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 in the multiverse, the Warriors continue to bounce down
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a 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 pick the chance to go somewhere else and
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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 just file this one away, file
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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 war is even if he's well
If Buddy Hild plays well, he's a slightly better version
than Klay Thompson at this point because Clay Thompsons washed up.
The Maverick fans 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 because he can do more things.
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And at that point there'll still be a mid level
Western Conference team. All right? Findal 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 owed up to the Team USA camp in Viva
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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 the Celtics winning the
championship this summer has ended the debates. It ends the
debate on his elite status in the NBA. Is that
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how you see it? Is that how you see it?
So even our friend 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 guys know
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right that the answer is you got to shake your
head now. 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 a wonderful thing.
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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, and it's hard to debunk this is
that Jason Tatum. Yeah he won a championship, but it's
the yabbot. Yeah but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
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but yeah, but yeah, but that's an old RAMS coach,
Mike Martz. There is a drop in there, by the way,
the raino 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 yabbut crowd will say, yeah,
but Jason Tatum was dining on a breakfast of lucky charms.
Kellogg's lucky charms is what he had, That's what he
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was eating. As seemingly every opponent of Celtics had a
major catastrophic injury to a star player. Yeah but yeah,
but yeah 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's Celtics were a juggernaut. They
were a wagon. They were magically delicious during the regular season,
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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
like a hobgoblin for big stretches in the playoffs. He
was inconsistent. It was not a case where he said, Okay,
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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
who did that. He's the one that was a warrior,
but not a Golden State worry, and he's the one
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that reached elite status winning Eastern Conference Finals MVP A
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
bus writer. Period stop.
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Here we go, Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
To the third degree? This is one Big Ben gets
grilled a loop.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Ben. The Orioles players are apparently fuming that the team
only had three players selected to represent them at the
All Star Game. I think Baltimore should have had more.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
No, 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 base
ball 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
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never gonna getting much attention as the Dodgers and the
Red Sox and the Yankees and teams like that next.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
There's been a lot of optimism about what the Pistons
have done this offseason, with some believing that they have
finally given Kad Cunningham the space and freedom that he
needs to thrive. Ben, do you expect a breakout season
from Cunningham?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
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
(27:50):
about the future of the Pistons next.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
One of the major storylines as the MLB season passes
the halfway point is that hitting his way down Ben.
In fact, yes, they've 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 1 (28:09):
All right? So heresh, 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 when win a.
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Speaker 1 (28:35):
Let's welcome to our contestants for the game show. Who
do we have here? Let's see we have some big
names on here. Where do I go? Big names here?
There and everywhere. Let's say hello to David, who is
in Alaska. Hello David, good, Thank you, Welcome David. It
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is is much earlier where you are, right, What time
is it? Almost one am?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's early almost one am?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Really, yes, the times I was a little further back
than that, I guess, yeah, it's almost it's like twelve
thirty right right, all twelve forty or whatever it is? There? Yes, sir,
all right, very good? And what do you do in Alaska, David,
I work in the field on the north.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Slope or the state.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Oh, okay, you enjoy that you're not from there. You're
there for work, I assume, yeah, but I'm from the
state of Alaska. Oh you are from Alaska?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
A Native son? Yeah? Yes, sure, very cool. All right,
you're gonna play the game. Who do you want to
partner up with? You got me Ben, You got Eddie
and the Kooperloop. I have you Ben, but I'm gonna
go with Eddie. Well I don't like you. Then you know,
north to Alaska. Okay, that's a bad job by you.
We all make mistakes. We'll have you play and then
(29:53):
Lorena picked one, two or three. Lorena I like number three, Ben.
Oh really? All right? Well you have picked Black Steve
the second from North Carolina. Hold on, so we put
this gey good.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Morning right now?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Like you girl, just all right, calm down, please, Black
Steve keep your pants all right now? Who do you
want to party all with? Driving to work with my
pants off? Okay, well that's wonderful. What anyway, I'm driving
to work with my pants off? You know, I got
to see warmer on and yeah, I think you should
(30:33):
play with Coop. Yes, no, you know what I will
all right, there we go, yeah, Coop, you gotta got
his pants off? Got the twigging berries in the air?
All right? What are the categories? Quickly?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Please?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
What are the categories? All right?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
This is the Sophia Vergara edition of Mallards Amount of Money.
She turns, yes, she turns fifty two years old tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The categories are as follows. Category one, the twenty fourth Day,
Category two, the Cleveland Show, Category three, bottom of the ninth,
and category four.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Modern Family. All right, David in Alaska? Which one do
you want? David? Oh that's modern family? Okay, very good,
Modern family. Black Steve with your pants off? Which one
do you want? Hold on? So ah, the lines are crossing.
Go ahead, hold on, sick black Steve, go ahead, O boy,
(31:36):
do we lose him? You there? Oh? No, your phone?
Can we get another guy with you?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Fants?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Oh? There you are? Yeah, yes Steve? What category do
you want? The first twenty fourth day? All right? All right?
My god? How hard was that? Okay? Everyone, hold on,
don't hang up? Will you guys on? Hold your backup?
Know who you are or maybe you don't know who
you are, but stay on hold because I have a feeling.
Black Steve, the second line is going to drop, but
we will get too. Malor's Mountain of Money, We'll get
(32:09):
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And right to the game we go. We have David
who's in northern Alaska working on the oil in Alaska. David,
you are up, and Black Steve the second is teamed
up with Kooperloop. David is with Eddie and you're on
the air. First here, David, So let's get the party started.
It is the Sophie Vighera addition turns fifty two this week.
(32:50):
And which category did you pick, Eddie? Was it category
modern family? Modern family? All right? Modern family? These sports
figures are all dating someone much younger. All right, we'll
put forty five seconds on the clock. You're on your
way and go.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Former Patriots head coach he won six Super Bowls. Former
NBA point guard, two time MVP with the Sons, White
Guy out of Canada.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Yeah, first name he needed first name, Yes, former Steelers
wide receiver. He was a Super Bowl MVP. He loved
the block, always smiling. Yes. Uh, Sixers Hall of Famer,
nicknamed the doctor doctor J.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
But what's his name? Yes, former forty one, his quarterback.
His last name is the same as me.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
He doesn't know who you are.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Garcia, Yes, greatest soccer player ever from Brazil. One name?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
No, I didn't hear that. He did. I didn't hear it.
I didn't hear it. I don't think he said it
he got didn't hear it? Against sound like? That didn't
sound good? All right? Bo almost rend You didn't run
the table. It's a bad job by you should have
picked me. You would have run the table back up
by you, David. I would have given you better clues.
Those were not great, unbelievable. Black Steve the second you
know you're there, Black Steve the second, Yes, sir, let's
(34:16):
go okay. Uh what was the score on that Lorena
two eighty time? Let's go oh, I guess I won't
tell you.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Then.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
The category that you picked with the twenty fourth day,
is that what you picked? Yes, he'd picked it, all right.
These athletes all wore number twenty four forty five. Second
the clock, you're on your way go.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
The Black Mamba, Toby Brian Uh, the Seattle Mariners, the
Kid King yes, uh, the all time stolen base leader
from the Athletics.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Okay, Uh, the say hey kid he just what Garret No?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
No, uh, the say hey kid he just died recently,
the say hey kid from the from the Mets back
in the day, true giant Williams on the Mets.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You not notice of me? All right?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Uh? Cornerback for the Broncos, he's a Hall of Famer.
Sam Bailey, Yes, cornerback for the Patriots. He won the
Super Bowl. Yes, Oh good recovery there that we were
almost scratted.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
So you don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You don't know who to say hey kid is? Willie Mays.
You know who Camp Bailey is. Okay. You don't know
who Ricky.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You don't know who.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Ricky Henderson is. But you were aware of ty law. Okay,
I got.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
All right, Well, we we have some ground to make
up where one hundred and seventy points, the.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
One that's not the ninth inning is the one I
want to pick Okay, so the Cleveland Show, these athletes
were all born in Cleveland. Will put forty five seconds
on the clock. You're on your way, though, tight ends.
That's dating Taylor Swift. Yes, this guy was a New
York nick. He was banned from Madison Square Garden, New
(35:59):
York Yanks. No a nick nick ban for pick Okay.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
This guy is the lead analyst for college basketball on CBS.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
No oh.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
On cornerback for the New Orleans Saints right now he's
a pro bowler.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Uh, Cyron Matthew.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
No, we're out of time and everywhere Wednesday one a
look at the Slasco Go get some oil, Eddie,
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I am not talking to you, well, I'm actually talking
to you, but an NFL player is not welcome. In
the beginning of another night of the Benmahler Show. As
we are in the air everywhere like teammates, as we
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lead this hour, play the hits, mo Man play this.
We're getting a little closer, inch by inch to the NFL. Now,
the NFL is a false start situation because you have
training camp and who gives a rats ass about that?
All training camp is good for is people complaining and
people getting hurt. From from our perspective, I don't work
(02:02):
for a team. From our perspective, players get hurt, players
complain about their contracts. That's what training camp is. But
our lead is from the disgruntled wide out department to
that category. More drama o rama in a place so
nice they made a soap opera about it years ago,
Dallas Jerry's World. And if you did not follow along here,
(02:26):
you missed the the details on this may maybe you've
not been following and we're here for you. So there's
a player named C D Lamb, not C plus D.
That's ce d Ee and then Lamb, so the Cowboy
wide receiver for now, for now Ceedee. Lamb got a
(02:48):
little testy in declaring that he will not answer any
questions about his ongoing contract negotiations. This during a youth
Footbault camp which he's hosting this week in Round Rock,
and he said I'm not doing. I'm not doing. In fact,
he gave the quote you'll get zero answers. He said,
(03:10):
zero answers. It's all about the kids. He wrote that
on social media. I hope we will all say a
prayer for Ceedee Lamb. He is currently set to play
the twenty twenty four season on the fifth year option,
which means he will make eighteen million dollars. We hope
that it'll work out financially. Now, Lamb is expected to
(03:35):
be a no show absenteeism for Cedde Lamb. He's not
going to show up the Cowboy training camp. That is
the expectation unless the Cowboys show him the money, and
it does not appear they're going to do that at
this point. So let us discuss the question where are
you at on CD Lamb and his refusal to answer
(03:56):
questions at a youth football camp about his Cowboys contractual status.
So I've got TJ's Way, Tom Hanks and Redline tour buses,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make an old movie which is
(04:18):
on in the background here. I don't know it's old.
Well it say it's pretty good movie, The Wolf of
Wall Street? Is that what they think that is? It's
not bad, all right? So anyway, a we'll start here.
Where are my thoughts on Cede Lamb. I don't spend
a lot of time thinking about Ceedee Lamb, but here's
where I am. I find this comical. I find it comical.
(04:39):
That's the word I'm going to use you because Ceedee
Lamb is in the game. He's in the game, and
yet it appears he does not know how to play
the game. Who goofed? I've got to know seriously, and
this now eve Ta is staggering here right, Ceedee Lamb.
It's very simple. Here's what you do. You go out there,
(05:02):
you wax poetic, You use your charisma when talking to
the media, and you win the battle. You have the
media fight the battle for you. That's the move. Here
is he doing that? It does not appear that he's
doing that. And as the line goes, you can catch
many many more flies with honey than vinegar, and yet
(05:24):
he's choosing to use vinegar. And so if you say nothing,
and that's not to say anything wants, but if you
say nothing, you're giving a gift to the media. A
lot of the media's fanboys these days, so it doesn't
quite apply as much as it did in the old days.
But there was this old sports writer as friend of mine,
we'll call the TJ Way. He passed away somewhat recently,
(05:48):
TJ Simers, and TJ would always explain to me about
how this works. He'd go out and he'd ask tough questions,
and sometimes people would not answer the questions because they
didn't want to answer them. The golden rule is rather simple.
You ask the question, you give the person you're going
to comment about the opportunity to respond to rebut and
(06:09):
then if they choose not to answer the question, you're
then allowed to write and say whatever you want about
that person. Because you gave them the opportunity, they chose
not to take it, that's on them. It's not on you.
It's on them. You gave them the opportunity, You had
your chance, and you didn't get it done. So to
rephrase that, also, though a no comment is in fact
(06:30):
a strong comment, I think we can all agree on this,
every man, woman, and child, that a no comment suggests
the very least that you're unhappy. Otherwise you'd give a comment.
Why would you give it no comment, you'd give a comment,
you'd be happy, you'd give a comment. But he's not
giving a comment. So you're upset. And then it also
implies that you're hiding something. There's something that you're upset about,
(06:51):
and that thing you want to hide. That is what
it implies, all right now page two, Here we go
to Baltimore, where the Ravens figure to be a playoff
team again. They're in the playoffs pretty much every year.
They often don't go very far in the playoffs. So
one of the subplots around the upcoming NFL season is
(07:14):
whether or not Derrick Henry is still in alpha? Is
he still in alpha? Can he continue to play at
a high level in Baltimore in his thirties, which is
not old in the real world, but as we'd like
to say, in sports, it's old. So at least one
unnamed veteran NFL coach believes that not only will Derrick
(07:36):
Henry remain a menace in the NFL, he's a Warrior,
but not a Golden State Warrior, because that's a basketball
team that plays in Northern California coach, quoted anonymously, of course,
saying I don't see him meaning Henry slowing down over
the next two years. I don't think he's lost a step.
Close quote. So what is your appraisal? What is your
(07:59):
appraisal Derrick Henry quote not losing a step. He's a warrior,
he's a menace. What is your opinion on all that?
So my opinion, I'll go first, and you can chime
in on this. In the immortal words of actor Tom Hanks,
believing is seeing and seeing is believing. And I gotta
(08:23):
see it. I gotta see it until proven otherwise you
have to be pessimistic about Derrick Henry. You treat running
backs much like in real estate. A house gets to
a certain point and it if you're an appraiser of
real estate and you look at the comps in the neighborhood,
you do all that stuff, but you downgrade the house
(08:45):
as it gets older. The reason you downgraded is more expensive,
the upkeep is more expensive. Pipes are more likely to burst,
things have to be replaced, Things break unexpectedly just because
they're old. That's what I'm now. Running back is disposable position.
It is. It's like a disposable razor. You use it up.
(09:06):
You like it, but you don't love it. You don't
keep it, you throw it away. That's it, So I
gotta see it. I'm not gonna say that Henry is
gonna be terrible all season.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I don't think that's the case. I believe that Henry
will have some nice performances with the Ravens. But will
he consistently be there? And will he be the Derrick
Henry he had been, the MVP level player he had
been with the Titans. I'm going now my vote is now,
all right, last word here. We quickly head now to
upstate New York and out in Western New York. And
(09:37):
we have a fair amount of listeners in Western New York.
And I've done Mallard meet and Greece. I did one
in Syracuse. We were in Buffalo long long ago. So
a bizarre story. Now we are told. I want to
make sure I tell you this story properly. So the
Bill's Mafia, say die. We have a fair amount of
Bill's Mafia people that like this show. So the Bill's Mafia,
the most loyal minions of the Buffalo Bills. Some of
(10:00):
these yahoos have started watching construction of the NFL stadium,
which is being built. It's not going to open for
a couple of years, so it's being constructed right now
as we speak. Now. It started last year, but we
are told as the construction progresses here and there's a
(10:21):
building with pillars and things you can look at. As
it starts taking shape, more and more people are spending
their time watching the construction of said building. So the
Bill's most diehard fans, the Bill's mafia, showing up to
watch a stadium being constructed. How does this one strike you?
(10:46):
So I found this to be hilarious. I thought this
was great. Imagine if you will, and this is what
I had in my head. And maybe I'm wrong on
this and you can correct me, but imagine in your head.
In my head, I had the car tune bubble above
my head. You know, you go to certain cities, like
you go to Manhattan and they have the red buses
(11:07):
that go around, they take you to Times Square, they
show you Broadway Wall Street. In LA. They've got the
Hollywood star vans that go around. They drive by celebrities homes.
You can look at them. Miami, I guess you drive by,
you to see people in bikinis and drinking cocktails on
the beach there in South Beach. But imagine the Red
(11:27):
Line tour buses for this event. And here we are
helping visitors, out of towners and locals by the way,
discover the best that Buffalo has arts, culture, history, architecture,
just an amazing, all inclusive experience. You jump on one
(11:48):
of these Red Line tour buses and we'll give you
everything Buffalo has to offer. Will stop and watch concrete
being poured. You can watch concrete being poured into the
Bills New NFL Stadium. How amazing is that? Followed by
we'll have a chance to watch paint dry. Then we'll
have a brief lunch at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo,
(12:10):
the birthplace of the modern chicken wing. And then we'll
take you to a fun experience of watching grass grow.
And in the winter time we will watch a blizzard,
a lake effect blizzard. All of that part of the
bus tour of buff That is outstanding, fun for all ages,
fun for all ages. Come on out and enjoy the show. Amazing.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (12:40):
App Polly Foods Go Here with Tony Foods Go. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
As everybody knows, we're the hosts of the award winning
Polly and Tony foodsc Showy. But instead of us telling
you how great we are, here's how Dan Patrick described
us when he came on our show.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Quick, knowledgeable and funny, opinionated.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
You don't interrupting our promo. Yeah, it wasn't talking about you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You took those clubs totally out of context.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh yeah, Well after this promo, I'm gonna take you
out and beat you.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Let me put this into context. Shut up.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, anyway, just listening to the Polly Antoni Fusco Show
on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Apple Podcasts hoherever you get your podcasts. Yea not going quietly.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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Speaker 2 (14:15):
Be.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
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. And so 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
(14:41):
player and 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 in the fun of the glamour team in
(15:02):
La the People's team in the hood in Inglewood, right
there at that new end to it to him, couldn't
handle that, so he skidaddled 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
(15:22):
me give you the thumbnail recap. So we have now
learned that Paul George says he never wanted to leave
Los Angeles. The Clippers offered him contracts and 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
(15:43):
that the turning point was the negotiation, that 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, dis respectful. U. First off,
(16:05):
what was it? How disrespectful was it? Did they make
him have to wash dishes when he played basketball? After
the game, he had to go in the kitchen, clean
up the dishes, maybe vacuum a little bit, wash the cars.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
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
p said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's crazy. This is
(16:39):
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
(17:03):
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, where in my peripheral vision
I noticed that Eddie Garcia walking over towards the vending machine.
What will Eddie get? Will he get soda? Will he
(17:24):
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 bur w Yeah, Paul George, the word is disingenuous.
(17:46):
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 open 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,
(18:11):
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. There are 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, right,
(18:32):
I understand, I understand the art of negotiation, and that
just being a HOYPOLLOI 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.
(18:54):
This 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 said he's negotiating for more Money's
what he's doing. But the Clippers, the way I look
(19:15):
at this, based 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 Clippers were
still gonna pay him thirty million dollars a year for
a couple of years. So when given the contract, Paul
(19:39):
George said, no, I'm gonna move toambo 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
hogies and cheese steaks and tasty cakes and the Delaware
Valley and those delicious pretzels, and there'll be an absolute
(20:04):
attack by the Philadelphia fan 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. Clank clink, clank,
it's going to happen. Now, turning the page, we go
to the Bay Area across the country, but will stop
(20:28):
in Vegas because this story originated from Vegas. And this
after Clay Thompson exits stage left, heading from the Bay
Area to Dallas. Stephen Curry the last man's standing Draymond
Green's podcasting, so he's sitting down. So Steph Curry said
that he only wants to play for the Warriors, whom
(20:52):
sure allow me to lose excited about that only 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.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
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 in the multiverse, the Warriors continue to bounce down
(21:35):
a 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 pick the chance to go somewhere else and
(21:59):
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 just file this one away, file
(22:19):
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 war is even if he's well
If Buddy Hild plays well, he's a slightly better version
than Klay Thompson at this point because Clay Thompsons washed up.
The Maverick fans 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 because he can do more things.
(22:41):
And at that point there'll still be a mid level
Western Conference team. All right? Findal 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 owed up to the Team USA camp in Viva
(23:03):
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 the Celtics winning the
championship this summer has ended the debates. It ends the
debate on his elite status in the NBA. Is that
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how you see it? Is that how you see it?
So even our friend 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 guys know
(23:47):
right that the answer is you got to shake your
head now. 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 a wonderful thing.
(24:10):
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, and it's hard to debunk this is
that Jason Tatum. Yeah he won a championship, but it's
the yabbot. Yeah but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah,
(24:32):
but yeah, but yeah, but that's an old RAMS coach,
Mike Martz. There is a drop in there, by the way,
the raino 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 yabbut crowd will say, yeah,
but Jason Tatum was dining on a breakfast of lucky charms.
Kellogg's lucky charms is what he had, That's what he
(24:55):
was eating. As seemingly every opponent of Celtics had a
major catastrophic injury to a star player. Yeah but yeah,
but yeah 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's Celtics were a juggernaut. They
were a wagon. They were magically delicious during the regular season,
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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
like a hobgoblin for big stretches in the playoffs. He
was inconsistent. It was not a case where he said, Okay,
(25:42):
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
who did that. He's the one that was a warrior,
but not a Golden State worry, and he's the one
(26:02):
that reached elite status winning Eastern Conference Finals MVP A
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
bus writer. Period stop.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Here we go, Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
To the third degree? This is one Big Ben gets
grilled a loop.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Ben. The Orioles players are apparently fuming that the team
only had three players selected to represent them at the
All Star Game. I think Baltimore should have had more.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
No, 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 base
ball 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
(27:10):
never gonna getting much attention as the Dodgers and the
Red Sox and the Yankees and teams like that next.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
There's been a lot of optimism about what the Pistons
have done this offseason, with some believing that they have
finally given Kad Cunningham the space and freedom that he
needs to thrive. Ben, do you expect a breakout season
from Cunningham?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
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
(27:50):
about the future of the Pistons next.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
One of the major storylines as the MLB season passes
the halfway point is that hitting his way down Ben.
In fact, yes, they've 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 1 (28:09):
All right? So heresh, 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 when win a.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
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Speaker 1 (28:35):
Let's welcome to our contestants for the game show. Who
do we have here? Let's see we have some big
names on here. Where do I go? Big names here?
There and everywhere. Let's say hello to David, who is
in Alaska. Hello David, good, Thank you, Welcome David. It
(28:55):
is is much earlier where you are, right, What time
is it? Almost one am?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's early almost one am?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Really, yes, the times I was a little further back
than that, I guess, yeah, it's almost it's like twelve
thirty right right, all twelve forty or whatever it is? There? Yes, sir,
all right, very good? And what do you do in Alaska, David,
I work in the field on the north.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Slope or the state.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Oh, okay, you enjoy that you're not from there. You're
there for work, I assume, yeah, but I'm from the
state of Alaska. Oh you are from Alaska?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
A Native son? Yeah? Yes, sure, very cool. All right,
you're gonna play the game. Who do you want to
partner up with? You got me Ben, You got Eddie
and the Kooperloop. I have you Ben, but I'm gonna
go with Eddie. Well I don't like you. Then you know,
north to Alaska. Okay, that's a bad job by you.
We all make mistakes. We'll have you play and then
(29:53):
Lorena picked one, two or three. Lorena I like number three, Ben.
Oh really? All right? Well you have picked Black Steve
the second from North Carolina. Hold on, so we put
this gey good.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Morning right now?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Like you girl, just all right, calm down, please, Black
Steve keep your pants all right now? Who do you
want to party all with? Driving to work with my
pants off? Okay, well that's wonderful. What anyway, I'm driving
to work with my pants off? You know, I got
to see warmer on and yeah, I think you should
(30:33):
play with Coop. Yes, no, you know what I will
all right, there we go, yeah, Coop, you gotta got
his pants off? Got the twigging berries in the air?
All right? What are the categories? Quickly?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Please?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
What are the categories? All right?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
This is the Sophia Vergara edition of Mallards Amount of Money.
She turns, yes, she turns fifty two years old tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
The categories are as follows. Category one, the twenty fourth Day,
Category two, the Cleveland Show, Category three, bottom of the ninth,
and category four.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Modern Family. All right, David in Alaska? Which one do
you want? David? Oh that's modern family? Okay, very good,
Modern family. Black Steve with your pants off? Which one
do you want? Hold on? So ah, the lines are crossing.
Go ahead, hold on, sick black Steve, go ahead, O boy,
(31:36):
do we lose him? You there? Oh? No, your phone?
Can we get another guy with you?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Fants?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Oh? There you are? Yeah, yes Steve? What category do
you want? The first twenty fourth day? All right? All right?
My god? How hard was that? Okay? Everyone, hold on,
don't hang up? Will you guys on? Hold your backup?
Know who you are or maybe you don't know who
you are, but stay on hold because I have a feeling.
Black Steve, the second line is going to drop, but
we will get too. Malor's Mountain of Money, We'll get
(32:09):
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
And right to the game we go. We have David
who's in northern Alaska working on the oil in Alaska. David,
you are up, and Black Steve the second is teamed
up with Kooperloop. David is with Eddie and you're on
the air. First here, David, So let's get the party started.
It is the Sophie Vighera addition turns fifty two this week.
(32:50):
And which category did you pick, Eddie? Was it category
modern family? Modern family? All right? Modern family? These sports
figures are all dating someone much younger. All right, we'll
put forty five seconds on the clock. You're on your
way and go.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Former Patriots head coach he won six Super Bowls. Former
NBA point guard, two time MVP with the Sons, White
Guy out of Canada.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Yeah, first name he needed first name, Yes, former Steelers
wide receiver. He was a Super Bowl MVP. He loved
the block, always smiling. Yes. Uh, Sixers Hall of Famer,
nicknamed the doctor doctor J.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
But what's his name? Yes, former forty one, his quarterback.
His last name is the same as me.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
He doesn't know who you are.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Garcia, Yes, greatest soccer player ever from Brazil. One name?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
You got it?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
No, I didn't hear that. He did. I didn't hear it.
I didn't hear it. I don't think he said it
he got didn't hear it? Against sound like? That didn't
sound good? All right? Bo almost rend You didn't run
the table. It's a bad job by you should have
picked me. You would have run the table back up
by you, David. I would have given you better clues.
Those were not great, unbelievable. Black Steve the second you
know you're there, Black Steve the second, Yes, sir, let's
(34:16):
go okay. Uh what was the score on that Lorena
two eighty time? Let's go oh, I guess I won't
tell you.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Then.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
The category that you picked with the twenty fourth day,
is that what you picked? Yes, he'd picked it, all right.
These athletes all wore number twenty four forty five. Second
the clock, you're on your way go.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
The Black Mamba, Toby Brian Uh, the Seattle Mariners, the
Kid King yes, uh, the all time stolen base leader
from the Athletics.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Okay, Uh, the say hey kid he just what Garret No?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
No, uh, the say hey kid he just died recently,
the say hey kid from the from the Mets back
in the day, true giant Williams on the Mets.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You not notice of me? All right?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Uh? Cornerback for the Broncos, he's a Hall of Famer.
Sam Bailey, Yes, cornerback for the Patriots. He won the
Super Bowl. Yes, Oh good recovery there that we were
almost scratted.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
So you don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You don't know who to say hey kid is? Willie Mays.
You know who Camp Bailey is. Okay. You don't know
who Ricky.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You don't know who.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Ricky Henderson is. But you were aware of ty law. Okay,
I got.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
All right, Well, we we have some ground to make
up where one hundred and seventy points, the.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
One that's not the ninth inning is the one I
want to pick Okay, so the Cleveland Show, these athletes
were all born in Cleveland. Will put forty five seconds
on the clock. You're on your way, though, tight ends.
That's dating Taylor Swift. Yes, this guy was a New
York nick. He was banned from Madison Square Garden, New
(35:59):
York Yanks. No a nick nick ban for pick Okay.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
This guy is the lead analyst for college basketball on CBS.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
No oh.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
On cornerback for the New Orleans Saints right now he's
a pro bowler.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Uh, Cyron Matthew.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
No, we're out of time and everywhere Wednesday one a
look at the Slasco Go get some oil, Eddie,
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