July 19, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the trade that sends Russell Westbrook to the Nuggets and if he will have an impact in Denver, reports that the Trailblazers will be tanking for Cooper Flagg, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird two as we
cracked the whip in our number two as a trade
took place. Does Russell Westbrook improve the Denver Nuggets? Nikola
Jokic supposedly was dying to play with Russell Westbrook. Also,
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the Clippers are they making a mistake. Some pundits are
telling me they're making a mistake by unloading Westbrook. We'll
discuss that. Also, the Portland Trailblazers are in full tank
mode as they try to acquire the rights to the
number one pick of next year's draft, Cooper Flag. Is
this a wise approach? Is that a wise approach? We'll
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go there as well. All of it's coming away right
now here. It is our number two playing the game
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bear with us and pro bouncy ball, we were given
the rare gift of a mid July trade. I assume
you've heard by now if you're interested in this kind
of stuff, but maybe not, Perhaps you missed it. Russell
Westbrook remember him envping with the great stat stuffing performances
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in the history of sport with OKC back in the day.
But Russell Westbrook, who has been kicked out of LA
now officially after playing for the Lakers briefly and really
destroying the Laker roster as the Lakers unloaded a ton
of complementary players for Westbrook who did not play well
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with Lebron. Then he went to the people's team, the
real team in La the Clips, and they have now
said bye bye Asta La Vista, see you later, as
the Clippers have traded the veteran guard to the Utah
Jazz for someone named Chris Dunn. We're not sure who
that is. In a plot twist, though, Russell Westbrook has
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already finagled his exit from Utah as he gets a
contract buyout from the Jazz, clearing the way. Clearing the
way for Russ to ultimately join his final destination, at
least for now, the Nuggets. He's going to be a
nugget as a free agent, so that's where he'll end up.
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So let us discuss the question does Russell Westbrook improve
the Denver Nuggets? They went from champs to chumps? Does
he improve the Denver Nuggets? Russell Westbrook? So, I've got
nineteen nineties sketch comedy, Hogwarts, and ice age, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
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going to fasten our seatbelts. As long ago Clipper broadcaster
Ralph Lawler would say, buckle up first to one hundred wins,
all right, So num Burn, Laura, you jumped the gun
numb burwa there we go. So to answer the question,
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does Russell Westbrook improve the Nuggets in a tangible way?
I am shaking my head, no, shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Here, all the best to my friends in Denver. We've
done very well in Denver over the years. We have
a lot of great fans of the show in the
greater Denver area and all over Colorado that like this show.
In fact, I actually have a food dish named after
me at the Sportsbook Bar and Grill there in Denver,
a couple of locations, although one of them I think
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was closed, but they have a mall of food dish
at the sports Book Bar and Grill. So I am
I'm someone that has a soft spot in my heart
for Denver. But I also when I say, I wish
all of the winking a nod to my friend's endeavor.
You all told me, all of you told me for
years that Russell Westbrick was a turd burger, right, a
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turd burger, and he sucks a terrible at all this,
And now you get to enjoy this, and to me,
it's like a nineteen nineties sketch comedy show in living color.
You get to enjoy the all inclusive Russell Westbrook experience
all to yourself enjoy Like Russell Westbrook at this point
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in his career is not someone that gives you goosebumps
when you watch him play basketball. He's got a big
name and he's got a little game. This is a
little game left now. He still plays like the Tasmanian Devil.
I'll give him that. He can blow past defenders even
at his age, and he's put some miles on the
old Doward. Unfortunately, he can blow by the defender, but
when he gets to the rim, he often futches around
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with the ball and doesn't end up putting the ball
in the basket, which is a problem. And he has
been unable to overcome what we like to call these
sporadic malfunction in his game that when the playoffs come around,
in particular Russell Westbrook in high tension situations, he's like
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the reverse Superman. He goes into the phone booth, he
changes his outfit and he turns in Russell Westbrook turns
into West brick clank any clank, clank. It's a brick
house when he's shooting, and he was terribly That's one
of the worst playoff performances I've ever seen Westbrook against
the Dallas Mavericks. It was so painful, all right, it
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was so painful I wanted to pour bleach into my eyes.
That's how painful was Now Page two, my kid, because
I care are the Clippers? Are the Clippers making a mistake?
I've actually read this. I read that There's two things
that blew my mind about this, this Westbrook story, that
the Clippers were making a mistake unloading well because they
didn't get enough in return. The other thing that blew
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my mind was stories that were planted in the media
that the joker, Nikola Jokic was campaigning to play with
Russell Restbrook, Like, what is up with those stories? But
as far as the Clippers making a mistake, as I
believe I already spelled this out, I can use French
if you want to excuse my French. Hell no, the Clippers.
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What they're doing right now is they're doing the hockey poke.
You put your right foot in, you shake your right
foot out, you do the hockey pokey turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about. That it's additioned by subtraction.
How Chris Donne is a vagabond NBA player. He is
roster spam. He's a hobo hoops hobo. They make a
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lot of money doing that. He's not particularly great in
any area. He's played for a lot of teams. It's
not about him. It's not about him. The Clippers are
undergoing a quantum leap, they are undergoing a metamorphosis here.
The story for them is the same. The Clippers are
in no different position than they were a year ago
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or two years ago. Right, they are at the mercy
of the injury tent. And my advice, Steve Bamer is
the richest owner in North American sport. He's almost got
as much money as the Saudi Wellness Fund. So Steve Balmer,
what he needs to do is pay some of that money.
Call who you have to call, text who you have
to text, email who you have to email, and visit
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a place I call Hogwarts. You might have heard about
it back in the Harry Potter days, because get one
of those healing spells that will magically improve the physical
condition and more importantly, the desire, the want which is
lacking from Kawhi Leonard and James Harden and you only
need you don't need it. In October or November or
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December or January or February March. You only need that
spell from Hogwarts from mid April to late June. That's it.
That's all you need, because that's the time where Kawhi
Leonard disappears in James Harden. It's well documented that he
vanishes in thin air. You're like, where did he go?
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I don't know, hocus polkas He's gone? All right, final point,
we go now to the ras Mataz the next big thing.
A couple of years ago, we were overwhelmed with stories
about the Parisian prodigy and he was going to turn
the NBA upside down, and he played well as a rookie.
San Antonio sucked, but he was really good. So the
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next big thing in the NBA is the incoming duke
freshman Cooper flag Fa Flagg, the prodigy from Maine, who
was already pigeonholed as the number one overall in the
twenty twenty five NBA draft, but his stock is said
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to go even higher now because he played for this
US Olympic select team last week and everyone was getting
all horny to watch him play basketball. So how high
it is? So high the stock of Cooper Flag. That
in Portland, down the Oregon Trail, we are told the
Trailblazers are going to be bad by design. Now the theory,
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of course they're gonna be bad, but they're always bad
in recent years. They've always been bad since they got
rid of Little Bit, but which is like a year.
But in Portland we're so the Blazers are going to
be bad by design in hopes of winning the draft
lottery and landing the flag. Planting the flag, if you will.
So the Blazers tank, call what they're tanking. There's an
intentional act all to get draft rights for Cooper Flag.
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Is this a wise approach? So that would be n
plus oh on this and the math equals know And
here's why. Right as they said in the iconic film
The Ice Age back in the day I was much younger,
it's bad juju. It's bad juju. You don't mess with
the basketball gods. That's what Andrea would tell us from Berkeley.
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You're gargling with boiling hot water. Don't do it. What
is my evidence? The old gangsters of the tank, the
Philadelphia seventy six ers, trust the process, White by Tuckas
with trust the process So the Sixers like they tanked
for years and they won Ben Simmons in the lottery.
They got Joellen Beid in the lottery and that was
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the Booby Prize. Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid for all
of his statistical dominance, it hasn't mattered in terms of
winning and going to the conference finals or the NBA Finals,
they haven't even made a Final four. The Clippers when
they got Kawhi Leonard they made a Final four. Trust
the process tanking did not work in Philadelphia. Is there
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a bigger waste of talent than the Aussie muffed Ben Simmons?
So how's that going? I'm asking for a friend, So
don't bother. Right In the Detroit Pistons intentionally lose games
with Monty Williams to try to get the lottery at
the top pick, even know this year's draft wasn't supposed
to be very good. They thought they were gonna get
the number one pick and they didn't. So this I
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you're gonna get the Nber one pick. That's right. Don't
don't mess around. And unless this is all just professional wrestling,
maybe it is. They rigged the lottery. I'm convinced from
what I've heard, for Patrick Ewing going to the Knicks
and the Knicks didn't win anything back in the day,
and then for some reason san Antonio kept winning at
the lottery. Several times they tank that worked out for them,
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but generally speaking, it does not work. It is the
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We'll get back to the calls coming up here. Momentarily
as we began this hour with a scintillating Russell Westbrook
or west Brick as he is known Mallard monologue. Midnight
Walker from Syracuse says he was once MVP. He's a
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journeyman now and he'll play in the Mile High City.
He used to fly high, triple double all day. Russ
has fallen so far, it's a pity. Ah, he's all right.
He made a bunch of dough and he's fully invested
in the pension. Jordan says, can you please translate your
NBA monologues into NFL terms in the future. Thanks? Yeah,
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whatever you need, Jordan, I'll make sure to do that
in the future.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So, Russell Westbrook, if he was an NFL player, who
would he be? Jimmy Garoppolo? Is that a fair comp
Garoppolo ever won an MVP. But Garoppolo was a starting
quarterback for the forty nine ers, got to a Super Bowl,
had success, and now he's a backup quarterback on the Rams.
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There I go. I think I'm proud of that. I
am proud of that. And now, right off the top
of my head, Jimmy Garoppolo DJ JD of born to
DJ sis I missed the hour two monologue, but I'm
assuming it was decent to good, so I'll give you
an eight out of ten. I'll be catching up during
the next commercial. Oh, thank you, appreciate that. Art Puffin says,
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you put your right foot in, you put your right
foot out, You put your right foot in, and you
shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and
you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about. There
you go, see Mark, the full name guy has crawled
out from behind the refridge a refrigerator. There he's ranting
about nonsense. Let's see who else you have got. Keith
Ocho Textos says, I like how you were very slow
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and careful enough to spell out flagg as to not
be misinterpreted. I've learned my lesson, Keith. There were some
pitchers that tossed the knuckleball back in the day. I
don't remember their names, but I learned my lesson. Yeah,
some people that listen don't listen very closely, and they
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hear what they want to hear, and it becomes problematic.
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
For the best drops in the history of the show.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Will never be played again. For reasons that are beyond
my control. Let's go hello to I do love the
email that I got from that drop though, that people
were convinced I had moved in with Angry Bill and
we were going to Clan rallies, the first Jewish member
of the Klan. Let's say hello to Andrea in Berkeley. Hello, Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
If I was any better, I would still be on vacation,
but I'm not. I'm happy to be back, Andrea. And
I did see that your former Oakland a's Did you
see that? Now? They're moving to Sacramento next year? And
they released the Major League Baseball schedule. Oh, you saw
this all right. So for those that didn't see it,
of course you saw it because you liked the Athletics.
Of course you would. So they released the schedule, and
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normally on the they used to give these things called
pocket schedules out they don't know it or but they
still have the schedule, and they would put the city
the teams of the initials, like LA New York or
OAK for Oakland. But they're not going to use SA
see Sacramento. They're not using LV for Las Vegas. The
athletics abbreviation will be at eight eight, they will be
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the team with no city like that. To me, that's
that's a spit in the face of the people of Sacramento.
If you're gonna play baseball there, you might as well embrace.
You're only gonna be there for a couple of years.
Who cares, but you should use the Sacramento name. I
don't like that.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Yeah, I saw that on one of the sports segments
a little while ago, and I took note of that,
and yeah, they're playing the Giants. You know, they do
a couple of series a season with the Giants. I
think it's right after the fourth of July, and it's like, wow,
that's weird. Usually it's Oak and they take turns at
the Cutlass Seam or Oracle Park, and.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Now it's you know, not that, no, I know, but
I'm saying, if you're they're going to be in Sacramento,
it's gonna take a long time to build that stadium
in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Eight years.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, so they're gonna be there for three years. You
can't say Sacramento Athletics for three years? Who cares? What's
the problem with that? I don't understand, Like, what is
the issue?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yeah, I think it's just, you know, it's sort of
like piling on, like they're just making bad choices and
it's sort of not going their way, even in something
simple that's releasing the schedule once a year. It's just
like it's like egg on their face, like, oh, that's
not a good.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Way to do that, right, well, and not only that,
it's not we will pile on the Oakland Athletics. Who cares?
I mean, can we can have some fun with that?
I was reading I think it was Scott Ostler, the
great columnists to from the Chronicle, Yeah, who wrote that
he was asking a question like a lot of groups
in the Bay Area have been trying to purchase the
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athletics to keep them from moving to I don't know,
I don't know about a lot, but a few people
and trying to buy the athletics to keep them in
the Bay Area and not go to Las Vegas. And
every time, according to him, if I read this properly,
the people that have the money that they're trying to
buy the Athletics have been warned to not go public
with their entry or they'll be crossed off, eliminated from
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the list if they go public that they actually want
to buy the team, So what is that about.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Yeah, that's interesting. I'll have to look into that. It
just seems like there's some bad choices being made. And
they interviewed a couple of other Andy Dolitz, some other
well known sports people to ponder what is going on
with the A's and John Fisher and all that money.
It's just like a very convoluted process and it's too bad.
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I went a couple of weeks ago, was Jerry Garcia
and I the last one they're going to have there,
and it was very poignant to be there, and one
of the bands played I Will Survive, and it'll be like,
well that's appropriate, so.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Uh yeah, yeah, it just it just seems like this
is this is big baseball, big corporate baseball, and there
there's hell bent on getting the A's into Vegas and
they don't want anything to get in the way, which
I don't understand because that would have been a perfect
spot for an expansion team to put a new team.
Baseball is going to expand in the next ten years.
They're going to put two teams in baseball, So you
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can put one in Vegas one in Nashville. That's easy
right now, it's unlikely they're going to put a team
back in the Bay Area because you know, the Giants
are going to raise a hulla baloo, right if they
put a team back in northern California. So that'll be it.
The Giants will be a standalone team there. And then
where else are they gonna put the other team? They
got Nashville and where else? I don't know, Portland, Oregon
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is that big enough? I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Well, they were also talking about how hot it's going
to be playing at the stadium in Sacramento that they
use artificial turf because it's a minor league stadium. I
don't know if you notice that detail, it's like wow.
And then one of the news the weather person said yeah,
it's to about one hundred and ten degrees.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's like okay, so you know, yeah, well that's like
old school. You remember Andrew, the Saint Louis Cardinals and
the Cincinnati Reds and the Pirates. All those teams played
on AstroTurf in the summer, in the humidity and in
the eighties, and it was like an oven. And then
you said everything would melt. The players had to change
cleats because they would melt. It was so hot there
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and the Texas Rangers played, they had to play at
night in Arlington. Oh because and now they have a dome,
but for years because it was so hot there.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Oh, so they did away with astroturfon Well.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
No, some teams have it, but there's very few that
have it, so yeah, mostly grass.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Yeah, that's interesting to here. I mean Sacramento just no
matter how you look at it just does not seem
convenient to you know, expect Oakland A's fans to go
to Sacramento And no, no, it's good.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's just like when the Chargers left. I remember in
the NFL, the Chargers left San Diego to go to LA.
I remember I talked to people that worked for the NML.
They're like, well, yeah, until the Chargers cultivated fan base,
we're gonna have a bunch of po They imagine their heads,
these caravans of fans coming from San Diego to drive
off to LA to watch the Chargers, not realizing that
the hatred that many people in San Diego have for LA.
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And yeah, there are a group of Charger fans that
come up from San Diego. It was not very many.
Now it's not quite the same between Oakland and Sacramento.
But the same constant applies, right. You know, the team's
not coming back, so why you go to Sacramento to
support the team when they're eventually just going to Vegas.
It's a stopover. But we're doing hot A's Talk here.
I am doing this is hot Oakland A's Talk right now.
My god, unbelievable. The show's reached a new law here, Andrea. Yeah,
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my god, you're.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Going to be at the West Sacramento Sutter Health Park
ahead of the team's moved to Las Vegas. It's technically
a mind the League park, so you're very knowledgeable about it,
and you know I know that also, so it'll be
interesting to see what ends up happening. I actually called
in about the full moon.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh the full mom, sorry, buried the lead. Oh my god, quickly,
what is that? What is it a full moon tonight
or what is the full.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Moon on Sunday? Oh twenty first, we have a full
buck moon in Cancer Capricorn.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
That's buck with a bee, yes, correct, buck with a bee, yes,
a good distinction.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I tweeted the farmers all my link.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I know you like them, I do, well.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yes, the full moon and it's meant. It's called the
buck moon because that's when the antlers grow more during
the summer on the deer, and it's also called the
blessing moon. There's several different names, but it's in Cancer Capricorn,
so all the listeners and malan militia with planets and
Cancer Capricorn will feel it more acutely. So we got
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a full moon Sunday, night three, eighteen eight.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
All right, it's gonna be wild wild Sunday and Monday,
Monday and Tuesday. It can be wild time on this show.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
So I wanted to call it tonight because when we
do the show Sunday, the full moon would have already occurred,
but we'll still feel it, remember days before the day of.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And that's right, all right, all right, we gotta leave
you there and thank you Ondas Talk. I'll send that
to my demo tape to get a job on the
A's postgame show. There you go, all right, there, you
knock it out of the park. All right, is the
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actually listening to the show that you're listening to. You
see how that works. So we'll get to the glitch story,
also the wishful thinking. The Jacksonville NFL team has filed
a sixty six point six million dollar lawsuit against the
guy that embezzled all that money, the guy that was
able to get twenty two million dollars. The NFL team
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in Florida State Court has filed a lawsuit civil case
seeking sixty six point six million dollars. Now, of course
the guy has no way to pay that money, but
they claim it's because according to the lawyers in Florida law,
you are allowed to circumvent reclaiming lost funds by filing
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a civil law so you don't have to rely on
the federal government to act on your behalf because, as
we all know, depending on the federal government through anything,
good luck on that. So they move very slowly, and
so the team could seize assets from this guy, who
I did learn is living right now, the former executive
of the Jacksonville football team who is currently living in
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South Carolina. You don't say, yeah, he's at Williamsburg Federal Prison.
I think I drove by that. I drove pretty much
for the entire state of South Carolina. That's a six
and a half year stay at the Gray Bar Hotel
there at Williamsburg in that's a federal penitentiary in South Carolina.
So that's what he'll be. And he has no money.
He can't pay that back. But they're gonna see his
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house and his cars and all that stuff. He'll have
anything that he spent the money. The crazy thing, this
is gonna be a wild movie. This guy went through
twenty two million dollars, but they say most of it
was in eight months. Twenty million dollars this guy was
able to take from the jags over an eight month
That that must have been the greatest eight months. And
this is the ultimate question. If you could do that,
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would you be willing to give up? I used to
be probably gonna serve five years, five and a half
years in jail. Would you give up five years of
your life to live eight months like a rock star
with twenty million? Dont no, you wouldn't do that, all right.
I'm just saying and that's a lot of dough.
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Baseball, we talked about the Tampa Bay Rays getting a
one point three billion dollars stadium opening day twenty twenty eight.
Also some stadium news from college football where the University
of Alabama former coach Nick Sable. Now they're not changing
the name of Bryant Denny Stadium now Blind Bryan of
course for Bear Bryan and Denny feel that I guess
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saying Denny is whoever donated the money to Bill's tam Yes,
that is correct. The air field, the actual playing field
will be Nick Saban Field, which is which is very exciting.
You were talking about the lawsuit the Jacksonville Jaguars seeing
the guy. How about this lawsuit? Apparently Lamar Jackson and
Troy Aikman are fighting over the number eight?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Did see this? This is crazy? It is why are
they doing that?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Lamar Jackson wants the rights to the number eight because
you know, he's selling like merch with the eight and
it's his logo or whatever. And I guess the march
to do this too, even though I mean people remember
Troy Aikman worrying number eight. I don't know, so Troy
Aikman and uh and Lamar Jackson are fighting over the
number eight, which is great.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, get rid of numbers, Eddie. We don't need numbers.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Are there certain things just out there in the like
the public domain that just you can't like get the
rights to.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It's a number? Yeah, I mean, who cares about a number?
So worried about a number? Your name is more important
than a number number. I mean we in here, we're
supposed to be doing a radio show. We talked about numbers, Eddie. Numbers.
Let's have some fun.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I gotta get this fun fact in this hour, ready,
because will be this hour? Well, because the the gentleman,
the English gentleman, who's is at the very top, I
believe right now in the leaderboard? Is it Daniel Brown?
Is that who it is?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's correct Brown? So he's doing very well. You know
what his nickname is, Brownie. No, that's not it. That's
a lie. You made that up. That's not no, no, No.
His nickname is Da Vinci code.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Name.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That's a great nickname. That is a wonderful nickname. No,
Da Vinci go you you don't understand. See this is
too nuanced for you. What is the code? What is
the author of the book series?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I believe it's Dan Brown?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And what is the name of the golfer who played
well in the opening round? That's right, so you see, Eddie,
it all relates to Brown Brownie. No, we call him
Da Vincy is what we call him. That's what we
call him. DaVinci came out of nowhere and just dominating
until he goes away and we never hear from him again.
(29:57):
Right at Royal Troon to Troon, I don't know that
sounds like it's a weird name, right Troon.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
No, I've not been to Scotland.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You have none? Would you like to go? I would
like to go?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
All right, very good. We'll have to figure out a
way to get you there.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
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(31:21):
Football video Game that several listeners sent this to me
while I was away and very upset that I was
not here to talk about it. So I don't know,
did you talk about this anyway with Bernie or No
or any of the guys that filled in while I
was gone. It is a video game glitch involving the
Colorado mascot named Chip. I didn't know the mascot for
Colorado was named Chip. I didn't know that. But the now,
(31:43):
how can I describe this on a family friendly overnight show?
So the mascot Chip, which is not the buffalo that
runs out on the field, the live mascot. This is
like an inflatable humanoid mascot. But in the College Football
twenty five video game, you're really in the game because
the the Colorado mascot in a screenshot is standing up.
(32:06):
It looks like the mascot has a tail, but the
tail has wrapped around the mascot's body and is standing.
The tail is Have you seen this, Coop?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
No, But I feel like I know where you're going.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Okay, let me let me send this to your coop
real quick, and then you can. I want you to
describe because I don't know like in the way I
was gonna describe it. It's the tail is standing at attention.
It's it's standing. In the military, you have to have
good posture isn't that what they say in the military.
You have to have a good posture and all that. Right,
let me copy this and then I'll send this over
(32:40):
to coop and hopefully, if everything goes right, it'll take
just a second. Youre bear with me, Bear with me here,
let me hit this year send this over to your coop.
And that's the photo that several listeners have sent me
of the Colorado mascot chip. See that if you click
that that link that should be right there on your phone.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
It's loading up here, still loading all right.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
A little slow there. It's got the Colorado jersey.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Oh man, let me see.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Let me see.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Once you s yeah, that's a that's an amazing mascot
right there. That is uh and the tail, the way
the tail looks there, it really is what it looks like, Ben,
what's that Lorena? What would that be? Lorena looks like
(33:35):
a matchstick? Yeah, well you can say that, yeah, yeah, yeah,
something like that. Sure, why not? All right? Anyway, so
I thought that was kind of we love these video
game game witches. But that is that is tremendous. Number
zero in your program, but number one in your pants,
all right. Anyway, it is the the Ben Malord Show.
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(33:58):
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not two, but three touchdowns in one Super Bowl Yeah,
history of the Super Bowl going back to the nineteen sixties.
Plank the first player to ever score three touchdowns in
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(34:20):
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Here is the Insta Trivia with Mallard of the third Degree,
Warming up right now in the bullpen. Blank was the
first player to score three touchdowns in one Super Bowl.
Keep it simple, It's not that hard. Well, it depends
how old you are. It might be hard if you're
if you have a certain age, you might not know.
(35:54):
But if you've been around for a while, you probably
know exactly who this is. Let's go. Let's go a
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guests by The Midnight Walker, Dennis Herra from Donkey's Sausage.
Lynn Swan guests by the Art of Sports Talk. Ron
po'peel from alf the Alien, Opine of the Pocket Fisherman,
(36:15):
inventor Ross Parrot, the next President of the United States,
Ferducks's vote, Third Party. Who else do we have? A?
Denard span Random baseball player from mister nice guy. That's
his answer, Vitali Klitschko, who is fifty three years young
today late night drug testers answer Booby Clark Bengal legend
from Mallard prop guy. Who else we have? Kelly's Boss,
(36:36):
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Double O Mexican in San Diego, Blind Scott's Plunger from
Mart Puffin. What say you, Addy? I need to add
to Jerry Rice. No wrong, ye, same team, but not
Jerry Rice. The answer Roger Craig Roger forty nine. He's
(37:01):
our running back. There's also a manager of the Giants
named Roger Craig too. All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
All right, what do we have here?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Do Louke fence to me if you've heard this before,
But there are reports that the Jets have major doubts
about Nathaniel Hackett.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Ah, yes, this is Why would that be?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Maybe because he sucks?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
This is the second time we've heard something along these
lines in the past couple of months. Do you think
Hackett lasts the season?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yes, as long as Aaron Rodgers is there. The only
recon Hackett has a job is because of Aaron Rodgers.
Hackett could not coach his way out of a paper bag.
That's wet. He couldn't work his way out of paper bag.
He doesn't appear to know what he's doing this. You're
talking about Brownie James and nepotism. Well, Nathaniel Hackett's father was.
(38:00):
He's an NFL coach and a college coach, so that's nepotism. Also,
he's like the Bronnie James of coaching. Nathaniel Hackett. He
can't coach, but he keeps getting jobs. It's fascinating. So
but he'll be there as long as Rogers is there
this year next.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
In a recent TV appearance, Nick Saban argued that conference
championships shouldn't get our conference champions shouldn't get an automatic
bid into the newly expanded twelve team playoff. Ben do
you agree with him?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I haven't spent too much time thinking about it, but
if Nick Saban says something, I'll probably go the other
way next.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Kendrick Perkins recently suggested that the Clippers should trade Kawhi
Leonard and that Kawhi has set them back ten years.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Do you agree with him. Ben Now, the Clippers made
the final four in the Kawhi era, and I listen,
Kendrick Perkins is very good at engagement, farming and all that.
The Clippers are still a contender. They're a middleweight contender,
but they're still a contender with Kawhi Leonard. And maybe
one year he'll actually be motivated to play in the
playoffs and not sit on the bench and get hemorrhoid.
(39:00):
But no, they should not get rid of him. How
did we do, koobaloo?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
You failed this vision.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That is a win for me, Thank you very much.
He's lying about the loss. He said I won, So
thank you for that win.
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird two as we
cracked the whip in our number two as a trade
took place. Does Russell Westbrook improve the Denver Nuggets? Nikola
Jokic supposedly was dying to play with Russell Westbrook. Also,
(00:20):
the Clippers are they making a mistake. Some pundits are
telling me they're making a mistake by unloading Westbrook. We'll
discuss that. Also, the Portland Trailblazers are in full tank
mode as they try to acquire the rights to the
number one pick of next year's draft, Cooper Flag. Is
this a wise approach? Is that a wise approach? We'll
(00:42):
go there as well. All of it's coming away right
now here. It is our number two playing the game
of musical chairs. Well gom In the beginning of another
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the rare gift of a mid July trade. I assume
you've heard by now if you're interested in this kind
of stuff, but maybe not, Perhaps you missed it. Russell
Westbrook remember him envping with the great stat stuffing performances
(02:30):
in the history of sport with OKC back in the day.
But Russell Westbrook, who has been kicked out of LA
now officially after playing for the Lakers briefly and really
destroying the Laker roster as the Lakers unloaded a ton
of complementary players for Westbrook who did not play well
(02:51):
with Lebron. Then he went to the people's team, the
real team in La the Clips, and they have now
said bye bye Asta La Vista, see you later, as
the Clippers have traded the veteran guard to the Utah
Jazz for someone named Chris Dunn. We're not sure who
that is. In a plot twist, though, Russell Westbrook has
(03:11):
already finagled his exit from Utah as he gets a
contract buyout from the Jazz, clearing the way. Clearing the
way for Russ to ultimately join his final destination, at
least for now, the Nuggets. He's going to be a
nugget as a free agent, so that's where he'll end up.
(03:34):
So let us discuss the question does Russell Westbrook improve
the Denver Nuggets? They went from champs to chumps? Does
he improve the Denver Nuggets? Russell Westbrook? So, I've got
nineteen nineties sketch comedy, Hogwarts, and ice age, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
(03:58):
going to fasten our seatbelts. As long ago Clipper broadcaster
Ralph Lawler would say, buckle up first to one hundred wins,
all right, So num Burn, Laura, you jumped the gun
numb burwa there we go. So to answer the question,
(04:19):
does Russell Westbrook improve the Nuggets in a tangible way?
I am shaking my head, no, shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
No.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Here, all the best to my friends in Denver. We've
done very well in Denver over the years. We have
a lot of great fans of the show in the
greater Denver area and all over Colorado that like this show.
In fact, I actually have a food dish named after
me at the Sportsbook Bar and Grill there in Denver,
a couple of locations, although one of them I think
(04:48):
was closed, but they have a mall of food dish
at the sports Book Bar and Grill. So I am
I'm someone that has a soft spot in my heart
for Denver. But I also when I say, I wish
all of the winking a nod to my friend's endeavor.
You all told me, all of you told me for
years that Russell Westbrick was a turd burger, right, a
(05:13):
turd burger, and he sucks a terrible at all this,
And now you get to enjoy this, and to me,
it's like a nineteen nineties sketch comedy show in living color.
You get to enjoy the all inclusive Russell Westbrook experience
all to yourself enjoy Like Russell Westbrook at this point
(05:33):
in his career is not someone that gives you goosebumps
when you watch him play basketball. He's got a big
name and he's got a little game. This is a
little game left now. He still plays like the Tasmanian Devil.
I'll give him that. He can blow past defenders even
at his age, and he's put some miles on the
old Doward. Unfortunately, he can blow by the defender, but
when he gets to the rim, he often futches around
(05:56):
with the ball and doesn't end up putting the ball
in the basket, which is a problem. And he has
been unable to overcome what we like to call these
sporadic malfunction in his game that when the playoffs come around,
in particular Russell Westbrook in high tension situations, he's like
(06:18):
the reverse Superman. He goes into the phone booth, he
changes his outfit and he turns in Russell Westbrook turns
into West brick clank any clank, clank. It's a brick
house when he's shooting, and he was terribly That's one
of the worst playoff performances I've ever seen Westbrook against
the Dallas Mavericks. It was so painful, all right, it
(06:40):
was so painful I wanted to pour bleach into my eyes.
That's how painful was Now Page two, my kid, because
I care are the Clippers? Are the Clippers making a mistake?
I've actually read this. I read that There's two things
that blew my mind about this, this Westbrook story, that
the Clippers were making a mistake unloading well because they
didn't get enough in return. The other thing that blew
(07:02):
my mind was stories that were planted in the media
that the joker, Nikola Jokic was campaigning to play with
Russell Restbrook, Like, what is up with those stories? But
as far as the Clippers making a mistake, as I
believe I already spelled this out, I can use French
if you want to excuse my French. Hell no, the Clippers.
(07:24):
What they're doing right now is they're doing the hockey poke.
You put your right foot in, you shake your right
foot out, you do the hockey pokey turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about. That it's additioned by subtraction.
How Chris Donne is a vagabond NBA player. He is
roster spam. He's a hobo hoops hobo. They make a
(07:44):
lot of money doing that. He's not particularly great in
any area. He's played for a lot of teams. It's
not about him. It's not about him. The Clippers are
undergoing a quantum leap, they are undergoing a metamorphosis here.
The story for them is the same. The Clippers are
in no different position than they were a year ago
(08:06):
or two years ago. Right, they are at the mercy
of the injury tent. And my advice, Steve Bamer is
the richest owner in North American sport. He's almost got
as much money as the Saudi Wellness Fund. So Steve Balmer,
what he needs to do is pay some of that money.
Call who you have to call, text who you have
to text, email who you have to email, and visit
(08:28):
a place I call Hogwarts. You might have heard about
it back in the Harry Potter days, because get one
of those healing spells that will magically improve the physical
condition and more importantly, the desire, the want which is
lacking from Kawhi Leonard and James Harden and you only
need you don't need it. In October or November or
(08:50):
December or January or February March. You only need that
spell from Hogwarts from mid April to late June. That's it.
That's all you need, because that's the time where Kawhi
Leonard disappears in James Harden. It's well documented that he
vanishes in thin air. You're like, where did he go?
(09:10):
I don't know, hocus polkas He's gone? All right, final point,
we go now to the ras Mataz the next big thing.
A couple of years ago, we were overwhelmed with stories
about the Parisian prodigy and he was going to turn
the NBA upside down, and he played well as a rookie.
San Antonio sucked, but he was really good. So the
(09:31):
next big thing in the NBA is the incoming duke
freshman Cooper flag Fa Flagg, the prodigy from Maine, who
was already pigeonholed as the number one overall in the
twenty twenty five NBA draft, but his stock is said
(09:53):
to go even higher now because he played for this
US Olympic select team last week and everyone was getting
all horny to watch him play basketball. So how high
it is? So high the stock of Cooper Flag. That
in Portland, down the Oregon Trail, we are told the
Trailblazers are going to be bad by design. Now the theory,
(10:17):
of course they're gonna be bad, but they're always bad
in recent years. They've always been bad since they got
rid of Little Bit, but which is like a year.
But in Portland we're so the Blazers are going to
be bad by design in hopes of winning the draft
lottery and landing the flag. Planting the flag, if you will.
So the Blazers tank, call what they're tanking. There's an
intentional act all to get draft rights for Cooper Flag.
(10:42):
Is this a wise approach? So that would be n
plus oh on this and the math equals know And
here's why. Right as they said in the iconic film
The Ice Age back in the day I was much younger,
it's bad juju. It's bad juju. You don't mess with
the basketball gods. That's what Andrea would tell us from Berkeley.
(11:06):
You're gargling with boiling hot water. Don't do it. What
is my evidence? The old gangsters of the tank, the
Philadelphia seventy six ers, trust the process, White by Tuckas
with trust the process So the Sixers like they tanked
for years and they won Ben Simmons in the lottery.
They got Joellen Beid in the lottery and that was
(11:29):
the Booby Prize. Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid for all
of his statistical dominance, it hasn't mattered in terms of
winning and going to the conference finals or the NBA Finals,
they haven't even made a Final four. The Clippers when
they got Kawhi Leonard they made a Final four. Trust
the process tanking did not work in Philadelphia. Is there
(11:52):
a bigger waste of talent than the Aussie muffed Ben Simmons?
So how's that going? I'm asking for a friend, So
don't bother. Right In the Detroit Pistons intentionally lose games
with Monty Williams to try to get the lottery at
the top pick, even know this year's draft wasn't supposed
to be very good. They thought they were gonna get
the number one pick and they didn't. So this I
(12:13):
you're gonna get the Nber one pick. That's right. Don't
don't mess around. And unless this is all just professional wrestling,
maybe it is. They rigged the lottery. I'm convinced from
what I've heard, for Patrick Ewing going to the Knicks
and the Knicks didn't win anything back in the day,
and then for some reason san Antonio kept winning at
the lottery. Several times they tank that worked out for them,
(12:33):
but generally speaking, it does not work. It is the
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The phones are a buzzing, just the content that you want.
We'll get back to the calls coming up here. Momentarily
as we began this hour with a scintillating Russell Westbrook
or west Brick as he is known Mallard monologue. Midnight
Walker from Syracuse says he was once MVP. He's a
(14:55):
journeyman now and he'll play in the Mile High City.
He used to fly high, triple double all day. Russ
has fallen so far, it's a pity. Ah, he's all right.
He made a bunch of dough and he's fully invested
in the pension. Jordan says, can you please translate your
NBA monologues into NFL terms in the future. Thanks? Yeah,
(15:17):
whatever you need, Jordan, I'll make sure to do that
in the future.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So, Russell Westbrook, if he was an NFL player, who
would he be? Jimmy Garoppolo? Is that a fair comp
Garoppolo ever won an MVP. But Garoppolo was a starting
quarterback for the forty nine ers, got to a Super Bowl,
had success, and now he's a backup quarterback on the Rams.
(15:42):
There I go. I think I'm proud of that. I
am proud of that. And now, right off the top
of my head, Jimmy Garoppolo DJ JD of born to
DJ sis I missed the hour two monologue, but I'm
assuming it was decent to good, so I'll give you
an eight out of ten. I'll be catching up during
the next commercial. Oh, thank you, appreciate that. Art Puffin says,
(16:03):
you put your right foot in, you put your right
foot out, You put your right foot in, and you
shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and
you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about. There
you go, see Mark, the full name guy has crawled
out from behind the refridge a refrigerator. There he's ranting
about nonsense. Let's see who else you have got. Keith
Ocho Textos says, I like how you were very slow
(16:26):
and careful enough to spell out flagg as to not
be misinterpreted. I've learned my lesson, Keith. There were some
pitchers that tossed the knuckleball back in the day. I
don't remember their names, but I learned my lesson. Yeah,
some people that listen don't listen very closely, and they
(16:48):
hear what they want to hear, and it becomes problematic.
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
For the best drops in the history of the show.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Will never be played again. For reasons that are beyond
my control. Let's go hello to I do love the
email that I got from that drop though, that people
were convinced I had moved in with Angry Bill and
we were going to Clan rallies, the first Jewish member
of the Klan. Let's say hello to Andrea in Berkeley. Hello, Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
If I was any better, I would still be on vacation,
but I'm not. I'm happy to be back, Andrea. And
I did see that your former Oakland a's Did you
see that? Now? They're moving to Sacramento next year? And
they released the Major League Baseball schedule. Oh, you saw
this all right. So for those that didn't see it,
of course you saw it because you liked the Athletics.
Of course you would. So they released the schedule, and
(17:45):
normally on the they used to give these things called
pocket schedules out they don't know it or but they
still have the schedule, and they would put the city
the teams of the initials, like LA New York or
OAK for Oakland. But they're not going to use SA
see Sacramento. They're not using LV for Las Vegas. The
athletics abbreviation will be at eight eight, they will be
(18:08):
the team with no city like that. To me, that's
that's a spit in the face of the people of Sacramento.
If you're gonna play baseball there, you might as well embrace.
You're only gonna be there for a couple of years.
Who cares, but you should use the Sacramento name. I
don't like that.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Yeah, I saw that on one of the sports segments
a little while ago, and I took note of that,
and yeah, they're playing the Giants. You know, they do
a couple of series a season with the Giants. I
think it's right after the fourth of July, and it's like, wow,
that's weird. Usually it's Oak and they take turns at
the Cutlass Seam or Oracle Park, and.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Now it's you know, not that, no, I know, but
I'm saying, if you're they're going to be in Sacramento,
it's gonna take a long time to build that stadium
in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Eight years.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, so they're gonna be there for three years. You
can't say Sacramento Athletics for three years? Who cares? What's
the problem with that? I don't understand, Like, what is
the issue?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Yeah, I think it's just, you know, it's sort of
like piling on, like they're just making bad choices and
it's sort of not going their way, even in something
simple that's releasing the schedule once a year. It's just
like it's like egg on their face, like, oh, that's
not a good.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Way to do that, right, well, and not only that,
it's not we will pile on the Oakland Athletics. Who cares?
I mean, can we can have some fun with that?
I was reading I think it was Scott Ostler, the
great columnists to from the Chronicle, Yeah, who wrote that
he was asking a question like a lot of groups
in the Bay Area have been trying to purchase the
(19:40):
athletics to keep them from moving to I don't know,
I don't know about a lot, but a few people
and trying to buy the athletics to keep them in
the Bay Area and not go to Las Vegas. And
every time, according to him, if I read this properly,
the people that have the money that they're trying to
buy the Athletics have been warned to not go public
with their entry or they'll be crossed off, eliminated from
(20:02):
the list if they go public that they actually want
to buy the team, So what is that about.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Yeah, that's interesting. I'll have to look into that. It
just seems like there's some bad choices being made. And
they interviewed a couple of other Andy Dolitz, some other
well known sports people to ponder what is going on
with the A's and John Fisher and all that money.
It's just like a very convoluted process and it's too bad.
(20:30):
I went a couple of weeks ago, was Jerry Garcia
and I the last one they're going to have there,
and it was very poignant to be there, and one
of the bands played I Will Survive, and it'll be like,
well that's appropriate, so.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Uh yeah, yeah, it just it just seems like this
is this is big baseball, big corporate baseball, and there
there's hell bent on getting the A's into Vegas and
they don't want anything to get in the way, which
I don't understand because that would have been a perfect
spot for an expansion team to put a new team.
Baseball is going to expand in the next ten years.
They're going to put two teams in baseball, So you
(21:04):
can put one in Vegas one in Nashville. That's easy
right now, it's unlikely they're going to put a team
back in the Bay Area because you know, the Giants
are going to raise a hulla baloo, right if they
put a team back in northern California. So that'll be it.
The Giants will be a standalone team there. And then
where else are they gonna put the other team? They
got Nashville and where else? I don't know, Portland, Oregon
(21:24):
is that big enough? I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Well, they were also talking about how hot it's going
to be playing at the stadium in Sacramento that they
use artificial turf because it's a minor league stadium. I
don't know if you notice that detail, it's like wow.
And then one of the news the weather person said yeah,
it's to about one hundred and ten degrees.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's like okay, so you know, yeah, well that's like
old school. You remember Andrew, the Saint Louis Cardinals and
the Cincinnati Reds and the Pirates. All those teams played
on AstroTurf in the summer, in the humidity and in
the eighties, and it was like an oven. And then
you said everything would melt. The players had to change
cleats because they would melt. It was so hot there
(22:05):
and the Texas Rangers played, they had to play at
night in Arlington. Oh because and now they have a dome,
but for years because it was so hot there.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Oh, so they did away with astroturfon Well.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
No, some teams have it, but there's very few that
have it, so yeah, mostly grass.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Yeah, that's interesting to here. I mean Sacramento just no
matter how you look at it just does not seem
convenient to you know, expect Oakland A's fans to go
to Sacramento And no, no, it's good.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's just like when the Chargers left. I remember in
the NFL, the Chargers left San Diego to go to LA.
I remember I talked to people that worked for the NML.
They're like, well, yeah, until the Chargers cultivated fan base,
we're gonna have a bunch of po They imagine their heads,
these caravans of fans coming from San Diego to drive
off to LA to watch the Chargers, not realizing that
the hatred that many people in San Diego have for LA.
(22:55):
And yeah, there are a group of Charger fans that
come up from San Diego. It was not very many.
Now it's not quite the same between Oakland and Sacramento.
But the same constant applies, right. You know, the team's
not coming back, so why you go to Sacramento to
support the team when they're eventually just going to Vegas.
It's a stopover. But we're doing hot A's Talk here.
I am doing this is hot Oakland A's Talk right now.
My god, unbelievable. The show's reached a new law here, Andrea. Yeah,
(23:19):
my god, you're.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Going to be at the West Sacramento Sutter Health Park
ahead of the team's moved to Las Vegas. It's technically
a mind the League park, so you're very knowledgeable about it,
and you know I know that also, so it'll be
interesting to see what ends up happening. I actually called
in about the full moon.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh the full mom, sorry, buried the lead. Oh my god, quickly,
what is that? What is it a full moon tonight
or what is the full.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Moon on Sunday? Oh twenty first, we have a full
buck moon in Cancer Capricorn.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
That's buck with a bee, yes, correct, buck with a bee, yes,
a good distinction.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
I tweeted the farmers all my link.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I know you like them, I do, well.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Yes, the full moon and it's meant. It's called the
buck moon because that's when the antlers grow more during
the summer on the deer, and it's also called the
blessing moon. There's several different names, but it's in Cancer Capricorn,
so all the listeners and malan militia with planets and
Cancer Capricorn will feel it more acutely. So we got
(24:23):
a full moon Sunday, night three, eighteen eight.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
All right, it's gonna be wild wild Sunday and Monday,
Monday and Tuesday. It can be wild time on this show.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
So I wanted to call it tonight because when we
do the show Sunday, the full moon would have already occurred,
but we'll still feel it, remember days before the day of.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And that's right, all right, all right, we gotta leave
you there and thank you Ondas Talk. I'll send that
to my demo tape to get a job on the
A's postgame show. There you go, all right, there, you
knock it out of the park. All right, is the
Ben Mallard Show. I think you already knew that. We
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(25:02):
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actually listening to the show that you're listening to. You
see how that works. So we'll get to the glitch story,
also the wishful thinking. The Jacksonville NFL team has filed
a sixty six point six million dollar lawsuit against the
guy that embezzled all that money, the guy that was
able to get twenty two million dollars. The NFL team
(25:24):
in Florida State Court has filed a lawsuit civil case
seeking sixty six point six million dollars. Now, of course
the guy has no way to pay that money, but
they claim it's because according to the lawyers in Florida law,
you are allowed to circumvent reclaiming lost funds by filing
(25:46):
a civil law so you don't have to rely on
the federal government to act on your behalf because, as
we all know, depending on the federal government through anything,
good luck on that. So they move very slowly, and
so the team could seize assets from this guy, who
I did learn is living right now, the former executive
of the Jacksonville football team who is currently living in
(26:09):
South Carolina. You don't say, yeah, he's at Williamsburg Federal Prison.
I think I drove by that. I drove pretty much
for the entire state of South Carolina. That's a six
and a half year stay at the Gray Bar Hotel
there at Williamsburg in that's a federal penitentiary in South Carolina.
So that's what he'll be. And he has no money.
He can't pay that back. But they're gonna see his
(26:31):
house and his cars and all that stuff. He'll have
anything that he spent the money. The crazy thing, this
is gonna be a wild movie. This guy went through
twenty two million dollars, but they say most of it
was in eight months. Twenty million dollars this guy was
able to take from the jags over an eight month
That that must have been the greatest eight months. And
this is the ultimate question. If you could do that,
(26:53):
would you be willing to give up? I used to
be probably gonna serve five years, five and a half
years in jail. Would you give up five years of
your life to live eight months like a rock star
with twenty million? Dont no, you wouldn't do that, all right.
I'm just saying and that's a lot of dough.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
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Speaker 4 (27:15):
Baseball, we talked about the Tampa Bay Rays getting a
one point three billion dollars stadium opening day twenty twenty eight.
Also some stadium news from college football where the University
of Alabama former coach Nick Sable. Now they're not changing
the name of Bryant Denny Stadium now Blind Bryan of
course for Bear Bryan and Denny feel that I guess
(27:36):
saying Denny is whoever donated the money to Bill's tam Yes,
that is correct. The air field, the actual playing field
will be Nick Saban Field, which is which is very exciting.
You were talking about the lawsuit the Jacksonville Jaguars seeing
the guy. How about this lawsuit? Apparently Lamar Jackson and
Troy Aikman are fighting over the number eight?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Did see this? This is crazy? It is why are
they doing that?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Lamar Jackson wants the rights to the number eight because
you know, he's selling like merch with the eight and
it's his logo or whatever. And I guess the march
to do this too, even though I mean people remember
Troy Aikman worrying number eight. I don't know, so Troy
Aikman and uh and Lamar Jackson are fighting over the
number eight, which is great.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, get rid of numbers, Eddie. We don't need numbers.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Are there certain things just out there in the like
the public domain that just you can't like get the
rights to.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It's a number? Yeah, I mean, who cares about a number?
So worried about a number? Your name is more important
than a number number. I mean we in here, we're
supposed to be doing a radio show. We talked about numbers, Eddie. Numbers.
Let's have some fun.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Fun fact.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I gotta get this fun fact in this hour, ready,
because will be this hour? Well, because the the gentleman,
the English gentleman, who's is at the very top, I
believe right now in the leaderboard? Is it Daniel Brown?
Is that who it is?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's correct Brown? So he's doing very well. You know
what his nickname is, Brownie. No, that's not it. That's
a lie. You made that up. That's not no, no, No.
His nickname is Da Vinci code.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Name.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That's a great nickname. That is a wonderful nickname. No,
Da Vinci go you you don't understand. See this is
too nuanced for you. What is the code? What is
the author of the book series?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I believe it's Dan Brown?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And what is the name of the golfer who played
well in the opening round? That's right, so you see, Eddie,
it all relates to Brown Brownie. No, we call him
Da Vincy is what we call him. That's what we
call him. DaVinci came out of nowhere and just dominating
until he goes away and we never hear from him again.
(29:57):
Right at Royal Troon to Troon, I don't know that
sounds like it's a weird name, right Troon.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
No, I've not been to Scotland.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You have none? Would you like to go? I would
like to go?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
All right, very good. We'll have to figure out a
way to get you there.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
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(31:21):
Football video Game that several listeners sent this to me
while I was away and very upset that I was
not here to talk about it. So I don't know,
did you talk about this anyway with Bernie or No
or any of the guys that filled in while I
was gone. It is a video game glitch involving the
Colorado mascot named Chip. I didn't know the mascot for
Colorado was named Chip. I didn't know that. But the now,
(31:43):
how can I describe this on a family friendly overnight show?
So the mascot Chip, which is not the buffalo that
runs out on the field, the live mascot. This is
like an inflatable humanoid mascot. But in the College Football
twenty five video game, you're really in the game because
the the Colorado mascot in a screenshot is standing up.
(32:06):
It looks like the mascot has a tail, but the
tail has wrapped around the mascot's body and is standing.
The tail is Have you seen this, Coop?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
No, But I feel like I know where you're going.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Okay, let me let me send this to your coop
real quick, and then you can. I want you to
describe because I don't know like in the way I
was gonna describe it. It's the tail is standing at attention.
It's it's standing. In the military, you have to have
good posture isn't that what they say in the military.
You have to have a good posture and all that. Right,
let me copy this and then I'll send this over
(32:40):
to coop and hopefully, if everything goes right, it'll take
just a second. Youre bear with me, Bear with me here,
let me hit this year send this over to your coop.
And that's the photo that several listeners have sent me
of the Colorado mascot chip. See that if you click
that that link that should be right there on your phone.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
It's loading up here, still loading all right.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
A little slow there. It's got the Colorado jersey.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
Oh man, let me see.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Let me see.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Once you s yeah, that's a that's an amazing mascot
right there. That is uh and the tail, the way
the tail looks there, it really is what it looks like, Ben,
what's that Lorena? What would that be? Lorena looks like
(33:35):
a matchstick? Yeah, well you can say that, yeah, yeah, yeah,
something like that. Sure, why not? All right? Anyway, so
I thought that was kind of we love these video
game game witches. But that is that is tremendous. Number
zero in your program, but number one in your pants,
all right. Anyway, it is the the Ben Malord Show.
As we press on time. Now for the inch to trivia,
(33:58):
We'll get to mauth in the third degree. Here's the
insta trivia. Blank was the first player to score not one,
not two, but three touchdowns in one Super Bowl Yeah,
history of the Super Bowl going back to the nineteen sixties.
Plank the first player to ever score three touchdowns in
one single Super Bowl performance. That is the instat trivia,
(34:20):
the answer and Mallard of the third degree. We'll get
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Speaker 1 (35:33):
Here is the Insta Trivia with Mallard of the third Degree,
Warming up right now in the bullpen. Blank was the
first player to score three touchdowns in one Super Bowl.
Keep it simple, It's not that hard. Well, it depends
how old you are. It might be hard if you're
if you have a certain age, you might not know.
(35:54):
But if you've been around for a while, you probably
know exactly who this is. Let's go. Let's go a
page down here, page down on Redskins Legend Timmy Smith
guests by The Midnight Walker, Dennis Herra from Donkey's Sausage.
Lynn Swan guests by the Art of Sports Talk. Ron
po'peel from alf the Alien, Opine of the Pocket Fisherman,
(36:15):
inventor Ross Parrot, the next President of the United States,
Ferducks's vote, Third Party. Who else do we have? A?
Denard span Random baseball player from mister nice guy. That's
his answer, Vitali Klitschko, who is fifty three years young
today late night drug testers answer Booby Clark Bengal legend
from Mallard prop guy. Who else we have? Kelly's Boss,
(36:36):
the Duncan Donuts guy from Milkman, Mike Carnell Lake from
Double O Mexican in San Diego, Blind Scott's Plunger from
Mart Puffin. What say you, Addy? I need to add
to Jerry Rice. No wrong, ye, same team, but not
Jerry Rice. The answer Roger Craig Roger forty nine. He's
(37:01):
our running back. There's also a manager of the Giants
named Roger Craig too. All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
All right, what do we have here?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Do Louke fence to me if you've heard this before,
But there are reports that the Jets have major doubts
about Nathaniel Hackett.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Ah, yes, this is Why would that be?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Maybe because he sucks?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
This is the second time we've heard something along these
lines in the past couple of months. Do you think
Hackett lasts the season?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yes, as long as Aaron Rodgers is there. The only
recon Hackett has a job is because of Aaron Rodgers.
Hackett could not coach his way out of a paper bag.
That's wet. He couldn't work his way out of paper bag.
He doesn't appear to know what he's doing this. You're
talking about Brownie James and nepotism. Well, Nathaniel Hackett's father was.
(38:00):
He's an NFL coach and a college coach, so that's nepotism. Also,
he's like the Bronnie James of coaching. Nathaniel Hackett. He
can't coach, but he keeps getting jobs. It's fascinating. So
but he'll be there as long as Rogers is there
this year next.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
In a recent TV appearance, Nick Saban argued that conference
championships shouldn't get our conference champions shouldn't get an automatic
bid into the newly expanded twelve team playoff. Ben do
you agree with him?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
I haven't spent too much time thinking about it, but
if Nick Saban says something, I'll probably go the other
way next.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
Kendrick Perkins recently suggested that the Clippers should trade Kawhi
Leonard and that Kawhi has set them back ten years.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Do you agree with him. Ben Now, the Clippers made
the final four in the Kawhi era, and I listen,
Kendrick Perkins is very good at engagement, farming and all that.
The Clippers are still a contender. They're a middleweight contender,
but they're still a contender with Kawhi Leonard. And maybe
one year he'll actually be motivated to play in the
playoffs and not sit on the bench and get hemorrhoid.
(39:00):
But no, they should not get rid of him. How
did we do, koobaloo?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
You failed this vision.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That is a win for me, Thank you very much.
He's lying about the loss. He said I won, So
thank you for that win.
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