September 19, 2024 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about Adrian Wojnarowski retiring from being an NBA insider, Mike McDaniel saying the Dolphins have real earned confidence in Skylar Thompson, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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most interesting story, and since I have editorial control, we're
gonna start with this the media musings department, because people
in the business. I am in freaking out. What's going on.
I can't believe it. Oh, I got major shakeup sports
gossip world. I assume you've heard by now, but maybe not.
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NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski no more done as an NBA reporter.
He abruptly announced he's exiting stage left NA.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
NA, NA DA good bye and as is his retirement
from television journalism.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
He's out. He announced it on social media, saying that
he quote no longer is driven to continue being an
NBA analyst and so that's all she wrote, That's it
or all he wrote. He said he wanted to make
a substantial life change, and so that's what he's going
to do. He's not retiring, he's just leaving the NBA
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gossip beat. Instead. Woge will return to his alma mater
as the general manager at Saint Bonaventure. I didn't even
know that was a thing, a general manager. I had
no idea. They probably just made it up for him.
But woj is leaving some serious lettuce, some serious lettuce
on the table. I don't even a lot of lettuce
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on the table. But Woje twenty million dollars that he
was contractually garanteed. If he had just stayed at the
fledgling cable channel out there in Bristol, Connecticut, with the
other wokezers out there, he would have gotten the twenty million.
So let us discuss the question. The question is this.
Give me your reaction to woge walking away from a
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career where he was at the very top for what
he does. You might say that's not valuable. Maybe you
don't care about the NBA insider crowd. But Woje was
at the very top of that business and he walks away.
So where's your reaction. I've got John Candy spoon fed
and Confucius. Yeah okay, well yeah, a little late, it happens,
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all right, So a it is a stunter from out under.
It as my first thought, right, I did not expect
this when I woke up, that this would be the
story that people were texting me about. But you always
wonder with these stories, good job, big money job, what's
going on here? Right? You don't generally leave these jobs.
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Why would you. They're great jobs, they pay a lot
of money there, they're not that difficult. Blah blah blah
blah blah. So is he really leaving on his own terms?
Is there's some kind of scandal that's going to come
out in the coming days and coming months or something
like that. But generally speaking, we don't. Our default position
is we don't believe these type of stories. However, this
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is a little different that I have firsthand knowledge of
the person involved in the story. So it's not your
typical story we talk about somebody that we don't know
at all. But I generally say it's not as it's portrayed.
There's always more stuff involved. It's always more complicated than
what it appears on the surface. Now, having said that
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and having a very small connection to woj back my
first sojourn into television, and I worked at NBC and
briefly for about a year and a half, I traveled
back to Connecticut every year to do TV and Woge,
believe it or not, was a panelist on the show
that I worked on, and so I knew him casually
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and met his son that came up a couple of
times to hang out with us at the TV thing
and actually loved baseball. I remember that. That's what I
remember about Wodre's kid. He loved baseball. I wanted to
be like a baseball GM or something like that. But
knowing how he operates and being around him a few
times over the over that period of time in my life,
it is reasonable that he would be exhausted. And I
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think that's the right word here. While it is an
easy job, the way he did it was slightly different. Right,
There's there's compulsive, and there's like next level compulsive and
all that stuff. The ultimate newshound, ultimate newshound, meticulous, methodical
with his approach, and you don't want to know exactly
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how they make this stuff. But a lot of the
stories that came out early on for Wojes would come
from people who worked behind the scenes. And I know
when I was out in locker rooms a lot, it's
often the people you least suspect that are the ones
that are throwing the dirt and whatnot. But the lifestyle
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that he the way he did it, it was like
the John Candy character from that old movie Planes, Trains
and Automobiles, a lot of traveling, burning the midnight oil
and never getting that deep rem sleep kind of like
what we do here doing overnights. We don't get rem sleep.
We work overnight. But the whole point is you get
those those three am, three thirty am, five am message
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you're sleeping from some trunk executive somewhere, Hey, I got
something for you in our coach or now. Wog mentioned
this is something that did resonate with me because it's
something that I have made a point as I've gotten
older in my life here to highlight that time is
not an endless supply. That was a quote, and it
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is the most valuable commodity have that he turned out
millions of dollars here, assuming there's no scandal, and walked away, Wog.
But because of the time things, he's in his mid
fifties now he's know how long he's got. You figure
you live a long time, but you never know. You
don't know what you don't know, and who knows If
there's some kind of medical thing we don't know about,
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et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But the other thing
I do know a little bit, and I'm not an expert.
I'm obviously in my accountant But from what I understand,
despite the celebrity that woj had, he lived a modest
life in New Jersey there and meaning that he had
built up a rather large rainy day fund, so he
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had fu money to do something like that where he
self funded his four oh one K. And you're making
millions of dollars for many many years there, and even
when he was at Yahoo, he wasn't making millions, but
he was making high six figures. And so you make
that kind of money and you live on a normal wage,
you do the math on that, you have financial freedom
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to take a regular job that probably plays a couple
hundred thousand a year at Saint Bonnie's and you can
live a good life. You know why not? All right? Now?
The other part of this is page two. How difficult
is it going to be to replace woge? Right? Something
people in my business have been talking about. I don't know.
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Those are tough shoes to fill. And the thing about
this I was, I had this Pivanah was coming to
the studio. I was like, well, WOJE. In terms of basketball,
Adrian Wojnarowski is the greatest NBA insider. He is. I mean,
at one point there was like Pete VESSI was the
top guy years ago, off year old. You know who
that name is, Pete Vessie. But Woje is the top guy,
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and so he's right there at the very top of
the totem pole. But at the same time, I can't
help but say he's easily replaceable. That both those things
are simultaneously true. It's crazy to say that. How could
you say that you could just easily replace the greatest
insider per basketball all the time. So the way I
would approach this now, you just go down to the
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forest and you find another enlightened young grasshopper who's motivated
and is willing to put the hours in. But whoever
gets the job. It's one of those deals where, because
of the way this cottage industry has blossomed over the years,
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that you will be spoon fed information just by being
in that chair. Like Woje on his way up wasn't
necessarily spoon fed anything. He had to go out and
get it. But when you get to the very top,
you are then provided all of your meals, all your supplements,
everything you need. And why is that? Because it's the
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lifeblood of the NBA. Adam Silver and his scatterbrain goblin helpers.
They understand. They don't like to talk about this, but
the product in the NBA is a bad product. The
regular season blows and it's just a bad deal. They've
tried to convince the players to play more, and they
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did play more last year and it still sucked in
order to keep fan engagement because everyone goes into autopilot
during the regular season, So in order to keep fan engagement,
it's all about the mud slinging. Who's getting traded. You know,
which coach is on the hot seat, which star players
loathe each other, can't stand each other. That's all the
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juicy goodness. It's not a random Wednesday night when the
Grizzlies are playing the Pelicans. That's not what creates excitement.
All right, last word here, So what is the magic formula? Oh,
wise one, what is the magic formula for the insider
that makes them so valuable? Glad you asked? So it
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is a public service, sports entertainment. It's entertainment, So you
start with that. We like to be entertained. Humans like
to be entertained. Animals don't out in the serengetti. They're
not really looking for entertainment. But human beings, we look
for entertainment, and in short, every man, woman and child
is hardwired to consume gossip. It's just the way we
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are we all get through life. Now that there's been
research done on that that says, part of it's for
our safety, your gossip who might be a threat to you.
In this case, we gossip on what kind of Feedicini,
Lebron James had for lunch yesterday, that kind of stuff.
But gossip is the human equivalent of like primate grooming.
(11:55):
It's the same concept, right, It's the same deal here,
and it's a universal feed sure across the world. Right, people,
human beings all over the world do the same thing.
It was Confucius who pointed out that the gossip monger
is the outcast of virtue, the outcast of reduce. It's
a guilty pleasure, it is. It's everywhere I've worked. People
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gossip at work, right, You gossip about your co workers,
you gossip about your It's just what people do. In sports,
I mean, there's so much of it, and it drives engagement,
which is a big part of it. And so like
sports journalism is kind of a funny thing here, but
it's all form of entertainment, and so we all like
to be entertained, and so they.
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our lead this hour coming from South Florida or in
depth team coverage continues. When a quarterback goes out with
a cushion, we are there, well kind of, so we
know that two a tongue of by Low is not
walking back through that door maybe ever again. And that
is where the Miami football team is preparing for life
(15:12):
sans tua now talking about Low has not retired as
far as we know. However, he is stuck in the
Great Abyss out in the Bermuda triangle and a holding
pattern in the concussion protocol injured reserve, So he's out
at least a month, and that means for the Dolphins.
Skyler is the limit? Is what that means here. So
(15:35):
if you've not been following, maybe not for now anyway,
for now anyway, the Dolphins are all in on Skyler Thompson.
Who Yeah. Mike McDaniel, the Bubbly Dolphin head coach, affirming
the organization is rallying around their backup quarterbacks, Skyler Thompson,
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the seventh round pick, saying the following he said quote
the confidence that the team has for Skyler is real
and it's earned, okay. Coach was effusive with his praise
for the backup quarterback there talking about the hours of practice.
(16:22):
Not a guy. Not a guy we in here talking
about practice, not a gay. Hours and hours of practice
he put in as a Dolphin backup quarterback. So let's
discuss the question, Mike McDaniel, we just laid it out
for it is saying that the Dolphins have a real
earned confidence, real earned confidence in backup quarterback Skyler Thompson.
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As he prepares to start, are you in or are
you out? On this? So I've got fortune Cookie, Red
barn and Ed Sheeran, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are gonna close the blinds,
is what we're going to do. So Na b w
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to answer the question are you in or out on this?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I am out out out on this.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
H Now, this is one of those Malard monologues where
we give the disclaimer. Here we say, well, what else
could Mike McDaniel have said? Seriously?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What? What would you say? And you're not allowed to
be honest? These guys all lie. Do you imagine if
he'd come out and say, yes, my name is Mike
McDaniel and I'm the coach of the Miami Dolphins. We
don't have a quarterback. We're porked. Uh, you're not gonna
say that. So they didn't have a contingency plan. He
can't say that. Though he can't say they didn't have
a contingency plan. They have to make it seem like, oh, yeah,
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we like our backup quarterback, but they clearly didn't like him,
if I'm not mistaken. They brought in a guy named
Mike White who had played for the Jets, and they
wanted him to be the backup quarterback this year. And
then they get ended up getting rid of him because
I guess he didn't look good in camp or whatever.
So they're they're stuck with Plan B, which was really
playing C. Who gets bumped up the Plan B and
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is now Plan A. And so he the coach, Mike McDaniel,
gives a stock answer, next man up, do your job,
support your quarterback, all that stuff. Now, do we expect
Skyler Thompson to be Nick Foles two point zero? No,
we have very low expectations. Now that said, I do
believe in the bumpety bump. I believe in the bumpety bump.
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I'm a fan of the bumpety bump and the bumpety
bump is when the star quarterback gets hurt, you have
a short term a week, two, three weeks possibly where
you can have some success with the backup quarterback. So
there is that, and this is something a winnable game.
No one thinks Seattle's all that good with Gino Smith.
That guy's a turd. So ultimately, this positivety from the
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Dolphin coach Mike McDaniel is right out of a fortune cookie.
It's right out of a fortune You crack the fortune
cookie and it says, don't pursue happiness, create it. So
they're trying to create, right, they're trying to create it.
Speaking new existence and all that mumbo jumbo. Now, page two,
Speaking of Miami, Miami, Miami, there are some social media
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aggregators that claimed Cam Newton was spotted in Miami. One
report even said Cam Newton was at Dolphin practice developing
hot dot dot dot. So the dots being connected. Could
it be a former MVP gonna be the next Dolphin
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fill in quarterback? Well, where do you file? Here's the
question for the esteem panel. Where do you file the
report's connecting Cam Newton to the Dolphins? So I file
this one in the big Big Red barn on the farm,
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the barn on the farm, the big red barn on
the farm. And here's why. Engagement farming. That's what this is.
Engagement farming, nothing more, nothing less. Cam Newton was cooked
years ago. He was cooked the last couple of years
in Carolina. He proved it again with the Patriots, then
went back to Carolina just in case anyone had doubts.
You in the back of the room and said, hey,
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I still blow. And so there was that. So, but
the name still has some pizaz. He's got the funny
hats he wears. He goes down to the haberdasherie and
wears the cute hats and all that stuff, and sure wonderful,
but there's no no interest. That would be That would
be malpractice, football malpractice if you're bringing Cam Newton in.
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But he's got the pizaz, like we said, and all that.
So you tossed the name out, click of a click
and page views go up. Tick tick tick tick tick up,
higher and higher and higher. But no, might as well
call Brett if he'll be in Washington. Maybe he wants
to go play football down in Miami and see if
he's available. Knock yourself out now final point. We go
to boltt Moore, Baltimore. We go and why do we
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go to Baltimore Because Lamar Jackson and the Ravens are
beating themselves. That's what he said. Those are not my words,
Those are not my words. Those are the words of
Lamar Jackson. He said, Hey, we're beating ourselves. Is that
how you see it? So I'm gonna go the F word,
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as in fogg. It's foggy, and this is the default position.
Is my thought, my hypothesis that this is the default
position of every team that was supposed to be good
who's not good. It's not that we're just not good
all of a sudden, it's that, well, we're we're causing
these problems ourselves. And the reason it's foggy is yes,
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Baltimore has a cacophony of penalties and missed opportunities. That
is absolutely correct. But these are the building blocks of bad.
They're the building blocks of bad to the bone is
what they are. Remember those little wooden blocks you played
with when you were a kid. They had the one
two threes in the ABC's on them. Maybe you played
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with my dick. But the self inflicted wounds which is
the default position of Lamar Jackson. And it's really a
bigger issue here because you have the soundtrack to the
Ravens is the edge schering tune. Bad habits, I mean yeah,
bad habits that they have developed here, and that's how
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it goes. Now, regardless of that, you've got a defense
that has given up the most big plays in football.
What happened to that defense? You've got Lamar Jackson who's
slinging the ball all over the place but often not
hitting his receiver. In fact, in one statistic, he has
been as bad as Bryce Young, who just got benched
in Charlotte. And so you combine all all those things together,
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and this has been a team that got shredded in
the fourth quarter by my guy, Gardner Minshew. Now I
like Gardner Minshew, but you're a championship team allegedly, and
you just got torn up to bits by Gardner Minshew.
And the defense against Kansas City, say would give him
a pass, but Kelsey didn't do anything in that game.
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And Hollywood Brown's not playing this year for the Chiefs,
and so it's a similar group that they had last year.
And the Ravens were unable to consistently stop the Chiefs
and say, well, yeah, they could have, would have should
have won if the toe's inbounds. Well the toe was
not in bounds, and so that's that's where we are
at this point. So I disagree with Lamar Jackson. That's
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not telling the full story. And the pillars of bad
teams are turning the ball over, making excuses for those turnovers,
not playing defense properly. You know, those are the things
bad teams do. That's why you call them bad when
they play like that.
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Is Mallard, how about the charge the third degree?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
This is.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
What we got here? Cool?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
There are nine teams that have started off the season
zero to two. Yeah, the Rams are one of Which
of those nine teams do you think should feel the
least concerned?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, so there's some of these teams are supposed to
sock like the Giants and teams like that, so you
don't really consider them, Carolina. So I'm the teams that
shouldn't be concerned are Cincinnati and Baltimore because they have
quarterbacks who are supposed to be good. And they're in
a division with the Steelers who don't have a quarterback
and the Browns who have the creepy quarterback. So that's
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your answer, right, and they get to play those teams
a bunch, and so that that would be the answer. Next.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
On Tuesday, Bobby whit Junior became the first shortstop in
MLB history to have multiple thirty thirty seasons. Witch still
only has the second best odds for al MVP, behind
Aaron J.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Judge.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Ben, do you think now that Judge isn't on pace
to hit sixty plus homers that has a chance at
winning the award?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
No? No, if I'm not mistaken, the Royals have been
free fall in free fall, and they might even be
in the playoffs depending on what happens the last couple
of weeks here. But Aaron Judge is about as close
to a lock as he can get. He's like ninety
five plus percent chance. He's the RBI Goblin. He's still
leading baseball on home runs, he checks all the boxes,
plays in New York. He's gonna be the MVP next.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
That's being reported that the NBA is targeting the twenty
twenty seven to twenty eight season for expansion teams to
enter the league, Ben, do you think they'll hit that mark?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yes, Here's why, Coop, because they have had the blueprint
on this going back probably at least ten years. They're
gonna put a team in Seattle, a team in Vegas.
They've got it all mapped out. They have a rough
idea of where the arenas are going to be. I mean,
they've done the footwork on this, the boots on the ground,
so it will happen. How did we know you passes?
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As they went on.
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It's now time for time for Horry Horry Harry wait.
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Ask Bed Twitter said, is your questions on Twitter now?
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And it is asked Ben, Your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour. Want to point out Steve
who called up from the country formerly known as Burma.
Mia mar As, I said, miamar Me and mar Me
and Mark. He says he's a Baptist minister. He's on
a three week Christian mission, and he says this is
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his fourth trip to the country and he sent some photos.
It's pretty cool, man. That's a place I'll never go.
But that's all awesome that you got pictures. That's beautiful
some of the pictures. Ayakoubloop. It is time now for
ask Ben. Your questions are answers.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
All right, we are going to start off with a
question from Cowboy Killer and.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
He wants to know, Cowboy Killer, what crowd.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Did you hang out with in high school?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I was a cool football player back in high school,
so I hung out with the cool kids, played football
and all that. So, yeah, that was my craft, Eddie.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
It was kind of a mix. It wasn't really one
group because I did a lot of different things. I
was in the band, I played football, I had like
my best friend was like Rocker, the full extended dance
it was. It was not It was not one like
specific click.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It was just a group. Is not answering the question, No, Rada,
I hung out with my dance girls. There you go. See,
that's how you answered the question. We had one whole
hallway to ourselves. That's that's the way to do it.
Uh cooble loop Well.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
If that's Eddie's answer, that that's the answer answer I am.
My answer is the same. I was a drifter. I
hung out with what.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You could have just said, I'm a drifter booth. I
wouldn't consider a drifter. Well. I hung out with people
in different groups.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
I hung out with the goth kids sometimes, hung out
with you seem a little, hung out with the nerds sometimes,
and then then the cool kids sometimes.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
All right, what is next year? To ask?
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Being?
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Your questions are answers? Send a question in and hashtag
ask ben on x X marks the spot. How don't
I seem gothy? No, you don't see uh?
Speaker 7 (28:38):
The King Rory wants to know. When is the last
time you willingly wage yourself?
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Willingly somebody had the doctor to make you.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, like, well, when I found out they were going
to pick up the TV show, I started panicking. I
was like, oh my god. So I did weigh myself
and then I went on a standed. I didn't eat
like for weeks at a time. It was ridiculous. So
that would be the last time. A few months back,
what about you, Eddie, I've been I've.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
Actually been doing it a lot recently because I'm I'm
sort of dieting, so I'm trying to keep track of things.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Are you gonna diet in Pittsburgh any? No, No, of
course you better not diet. You're gonna go to the
sandwich shop. You're gonna yeah, yeah, we'll go to Primon.
You go to the one in the Steel District, the
original one that's there's a sign. That's where I met
Pete and Pittsburgh and the bread man and the Doe boy,
all three of them were there. It's a magical night, Lorena.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
I do it all the time for fun. Ben, Well, yeah,
I fluctuate while I sleep.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
If I weighed as much as you did, I would
weigh myself all the time too. What about you, Kobalou?
Speaker 7 (29:42):
I think it was like yesterday?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
All right, now, don't you you weigh less? I was
told in the morning, yes, yeah, right, is what is
our morning?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Right after you wake up, is when you weigh the
least if you digested it all because your.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Body's yeah, you haven't eaten anything yet for the day,
and all right, I don't know what that's. I think
that's ask Ben. Your questions are.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
All right, So I really like this question. I don't
know if if you guys would like it, but mass
whole Mickey wants to know if you could have one
meal prepared by a famous chef, who would it be
and what would you get?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Hmmm, Yes, I don't like the celebrity Anthony Bourdain. He's dead,
so he can't. It would be difficult different.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Yeah, I was wondering that too, like can you pick
somebody dead because in the question, like in the tweet,
he put a gift of Julia Child so and and
she's long dead.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So's she's dead dead? Yeah, like good dead. Yeah, I
don't I don't know. I mean, I I know names
or just I don't know there's a specific meal, but
I mean I'm just like a truck stop like barbecue guy,
I don't know. I mean I love Bucky's barbecue, sandwich
is and uh and chicken fingers and all that. So
I wish I had a great answer, but I I mean,
(31:02):
there's nothing that pops into my mind. I like Emerald Legassi, Bam,
you know that kind of stuff like that guy.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
I mean, I guess I would have to do some
research and find out who the best barbecue chef is.
Is there such a thing as Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and
whoever whoever that is, you know, we have some brisket.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Oh yeah, briskey, you know there's a time to get
it now. But there's a casino in southern California really
good brisket I talked about on my podcast. Well what
about you, Lorraine.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Well, I didn't realize he actually had a picture of
Julia Child's, but I was thinking Julia Child and her
French onion soup.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That's what I want. That's all you found any good
French onion soup around here in la I haven't no.
Speaker 9 (31:45):
The last good French onion soup I had was it
Red Robin in Oregon, And I don't think that's a
good example.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
There's a place in New York my brother was really good,
but I'm not in New York very often. So I
if anybody knows good French, I love French. It was
so good, Yeah, so good, Coop.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
All right, So I have two answers to this. I
have never been to his restaurant, so I've never tried
his food, but I would really want like something from
Joel Robashan very you know, highly regarded chef. As as
far as the chef that I have tried and I
know I like and the safe bet would be Wolfgang Puck.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
How by the way, an internet search says Aaron Franklin
is the world famous barbecue pitmaster. I've heard of him,
who took the world by storm and his hands down
the best known grill master.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Good what is next? Just to ask man, your questions
are answer for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
This art puffin high art puffin. He wants to know
have you ever dated a co worker pre marriage?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Of course? Yeah, yeah, when I was early on my Yeah,
I did dat two word at the radio station. Yeah.
I think that was a rite of passage, right Eddie,
back in the day when you get a radio. Maybe
not for you, but.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Yeah, I tried, but they weren't interested in me. I know,
I had never dated somebody i'll work with.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Well, I didn't directly work with this person, but they
did work in radio Lorena.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
I don't date Ben, but I have hung out with
multiple co workers throughout my life.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Who Oh, by the way, Eddie, I'm sure you have, Eddie.
You gotta you gotta recreate Eddie. The photo that Alf
found of met at Primani Brothers there with Breadman and
Pete and Pittsburgh cool.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
No, I never have no never really know what never. Well,
it is mostly dudes in sports true sports radio. Yeah,
so the odds are against that anyway. All right, that
is it there it is. Ask men, your questions are answers.
If you like this, we do it every weekend about
(33:55):
this time. If you don't like it, it's only once
a week who cares.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And if you really really like it, we do a
ripoff which is nothing like this on my podcast on
the weekend, so we get that as well. An amazing thing. Yes, yes,
I know shocking.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Back over, Eddy is, It's time now for puck dover.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Hockey.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Although I know there were some media days, Eddie. I
saw my friends in the media were sitting me. They
had media days around the NHL yesterday. I'm tagging Coop
in these T shirt machine gun videos. All right, that's
very important. It is. It really is during God's work.
Speaker 8 (34:32):
We're fifteen days away from the start of the NHL season.
First game of the year will be Overseas October fourth
in Prague, New Jersey Devils against the Buffalo Saber. His
first North American regular season games will be October. The
eighth Pittsburgh Penguins feature all of famer Sidney Crosby agrees
on a two year contract extension. Harry is an average
annual value of eight point seven million.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
His jersey number is eighty seven, so I guess he
likes that.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
Thirty seven year old three times Stanley Cup winner entering
his twentieth NHL season all in Pittsburgh to tro Red
Wings signed young forward Lucas Raymond eight years sixty four
point six million on make eight point zero seven million
per season. Twenty two year old led the team in
points last season. Boston Bruins number one goalie Jeremy Swayman
says he will hold out a training camp until he
gets a new contract.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
He is a restricted free agent.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Sean Higgins, the drunk driver that fatally struck Glub's Blue
Jacket star Johnny Gudrou and his brother, will remain in custody.
He's being held without bond prior to his next court
date that's on October fifteenth. Meanwhile, the Blue Jackets announced
it delby honoring Johnny Gaudreau. All season long. They got
a patch on the jersey, sticker on the helmet and
they will keep his jersey intact in their locker.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Room all season long, with his equipment and his jersey
hanging in there, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Vancouver Cannucts forward Dakota Joshua announced that he was diagnosed
with testicular cancer this summer. Underwent surgery to remove a tumor.
Twenty eight year old will miss the start of the season.
It says he plans on returning to the ice at
some point this season. New Jersey Devil's defenseman Luke Cues
suffered a left shoulder injury and offseason training.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
He's out six to eight weeks.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Dallas Star's top score Jason Robertson going to miss training camp.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
With assist removed from his foot.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Longtime defenseman Alex Edler signs a one day contract, going
to retire as a Vancouver Kentucky played over one thousand
NHL games, over nine hundred of them with Vancouver. The
team's going to honor him before their game on October
eleventh against the Flyers. Other retirements announced include forward Tyler
Ennis after thirteen years, goalies Anti Ronta and Alex Staylock
after eleven seasons and depends on Chris Widman.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
After six seasons.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Tampa Bay Lightning named defenseman Victor Headman as the eleventh
captain in team history, replacing the departed Steven Stamcos. This
will be his sixteenth year all with Tampa Bay. Foe
Headman and the Chicago Blackhawks named Nick Folino as the
thirty fifth captain in team history. He's entering his eighteenth
at AHL season, second in Chicago. Rogers Communication has purchased
Bell Canadian Enterprises thirty seven point five percent stake in
(36:48):
the Maple League Sports and Entertainment for four point seven billion,
giving the media giant a majority state ownership in Canada's
largest and most valuable sports conglomerate. It includes the Toronto
Maple Lea's Toronto Raptors, Toronto e FC, the soccer team
Toronto Argonauts' CFL team, and a couple of minor league
teams as well.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Carolin Hurricanes agree on a ten year naming rights deal.
They're no longer going to be playing at PNC Arena.
Speaker 8 (37:13):
It's now the Lenovo Center if any Stanley Cup champion
Florida Panthers agree to extend their lease at America Bank
Arena through twenty thirty three. And I mentioned yesterday, but
not everybody's listening Toronto Maple.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Everyone listens to every second of the year.
Speaker 8 (37:26):
Toronto Maple's have a new helmet sponsor. Yeah, on their
jerseys now it's milk. It's milk on the jerseys, but
on the helmet this year Oreos.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Oreo helmet sponsor. Now those double stuff Oreos.
Speaker 8 (37:40):
So those regular area it has to be gott to
be double stuff that com on one and then you pucked.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
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so I lead this hour. I think this is the
most interesting story, and since I have editorial control, we're
gonna start with this the media musings department, because people
in the business. I am in freaking out. What's going on.
I can't believe it. Oh, I got major shakeup sports
gossip world. I assume you've heard by now, but maybe not.
(01:57):
NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski no more done as an NBA reporter.
He abruptly announced he's exiting stage left NA.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
NA, NA DA good bye and as is his retirement
from television journalism.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
He's out. He announced it on social media, saying that
he quote no longer is driven to continue being an
NBA analyst and so that's all she wrote, That's it
or all he wrote. He said he wanted to make
a substantial life change, and so that's what he's going
to do. He's not retiring, he's just leaving the NBA
(02:44):
gossip beat. Instead. Woge will return to his alma mater
as the general manager at Saint Bonaventure. I didn't even
know that was a thing, a general manager. I had
no idea. They probably just made it up for him.
But woj is leaving some serious lettuce, some serious lettuce
on the table. I don't even a lot of lettuce
(03:05):
on the table. But Woje twenty million dollars that he
was contractually garanteed. If he had just stayed at the
fledgling cable channel out there in Bristol, Connecticut, with the
other wokezers out there, he would have gotten the twenty million.
So let us discuss the question. The question is this.
Give me your reaction to woge walking away from a
(03:30):
career where he was at the very top for what
he does. You might say that's not valuable. Maybe you
don't care about the NBA insider crowd. But Woje was
at the very top of that business and he walks away.
So where's your reaction. I've got John Candy spoon fed
and Confucius. Yeah okay, well yeah, a little late, it happens,
(03:55):
all right, So a it is a stunter from out under.
It as my first thought, right, I did not expect
this when I woke up, that this would be the
story that people were texting me about. But you always
wonder with these stories, good job, big money job, what's
going on here? Right? You don't generally leave these jobs.
(04:18):
Why would you. They're great jobs, they pay a lot
of money there, they're not that difficult. Blah blah blah
blah blah. So is he really leaving on his own terms?
Is there's some kind of scandal that's going to come
out in the coming days and coming months or something
like that. But generally speaking, we don't. Our default position
is we don't believe these type of stories. However, this
(04:40):
is a little different that I have firsthand knowledge of
the person involved in the story. So it's not your
typical story we talk about somebody that we don't know
at all. But I generally say it's not as it's portrayed.
There's always more stuff involved. It's always more complicated than
what it appears on the surface. Now, having said that
(05:03):
and having a very small connection to woj back my
first sojourn into television, and I worked at NBC and
briefly for about a year and a half, I traveled
back to Connecticut every year to do TV and Woge,
believe it or not, was a panelist on the show
that I worked on, and so I knew him casually
(05:25):
and met his son that came up a couple of
times to hang out with us at the TV thing
and actually loved baseball. I remember that. That's what I
remember about Wodre's kid. He loved baseball. I wanted to
be like a baseball GM or something like that. But
knowing how he operates and being around him a few
times over the over that period of time in my life,
it is reasonable that he would be exhausted. And I
(05:49):
think that's the right word here. While it is an
easy job, the way he did it was slightly different. Right,
There's there's compulsive, and there's like next level compulsive and
all that stuff. The ultimate newshound, ultimate newshound, meticulous, methodical
with his approach, and you don't want to know exactly
(06:10):
how they make this stuff. But a lot of the
stories that came out early on for Wojes would come
from people who worked behind the scenes. And I know
when I was out in locker rooms a lot, it's
often the people you least suspect that are the ones
that are throwing the dirt and whatnot. But the lifestyle
(06:30):
that he the way he did it, it was like
the John Candy character from that old movie Planes, Trains
and Automobiles, a lot of traveling, burning the midnight oil
and never getting that deep rem sleep kind of like
what we do here doing overnights. We don't get rem sleep.
We work overnight. But the whole point is you get
those those three am, three thirty am, five am message
(06:54):
you're sleeping from some trunk executive somewhere, Hey, I got
something for you in our coach or now. Wog mentioned
this is something that did resonate with me because it's
something that I have made a point as I've gotten
older in my life here to highlight that time is
not an endless supply. That was a quote, and it
(07:17):
is the most valuable commodity have that he turned out
millions of dollars here, assuming there's no scandal, and walked away, Wog.
But because of the time things, he's in his mid
fifties now he's know how long he's got. You figure
you live a long time, but you never know. You
don't know what you don't know, and who knows If
there's some kind of medical thing we don't know about,
(07:37):
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But the other thing
I do know a little bit, and I'm not an expert.
I'm obviously in my accountant But from what I understand,
despite the celebrity that woj had, he lived a modest
life in New Jersey there and meaning that he had
built up a rather large rainy day fund, so he
(07:58):
had fu money to do something like that where he
self funded his four oh one K. And you're making
millions of dollars for many many years there, and even
when he was at Yahoo, he wasn't making millions, but
he was making high six figures. And so you make
that kind of money and you live on a normal wage,
you do the math on that, you have financial freedom
(08:19):
to take a regular job that probably plays a couple
hundred thousand a year at Saint Bonnie's and you can
live a good life. You know why not? All right? Now?
The other part of this is page two. How difficult
is it going to be to replace woge? Right? Something
people in my business have been talking about. I don't know.
(08:41):
Those are tough shoes to fill. And the thing about
this I was, I had this Pivanah was coming to
the studio. I was like, well, WOJE. In terms of basketball,
Adrian Wojnarowski is the greatest NBA insider. He is. I mean,
at one point there was like Pete VESSI was the
top guy years ago, off year old. You know who
that name is, Pete Vessie. But Woje is the top guy,
(09:04):
and so he's right there at the very top of
the totem pole. But at the same time, I can't
help but say he's easily replaceable. That both those things
are simultaneously true. It's crazy to say that. How could
you say that you could just easily replace the greatest
insider per basketball all the time. So the way I
would approach this now, you just go down to the
(09:25):
forest and you find another enlightened young grasshopper who's motivated
and is willing to put the hours in. But whoever
gets the job. It's one of those deals where, because
of the way this cottage industry has blossomed over the years,
(09:46):
that you will be spoon fed information just by being
in that chair. Like Woje on his way up wasn't
necessarily spoon fed anything. He had to go out and
get it. But when you get to the very top,
you are then provided all of your meals, all your supplements,
everything you need. And why is that? Because it's the
(10:06):
lifeblood of the NBA. Adam Silver and his scatterbrain goblin helpers.
They understand. They don't like to talk about this, but
the product in the NBA is a bad product. The
regular season blows and it's just a bad deal. They've
tried to convince the players to play more, and they
(10:28):
did play more last year and it still sucked in
order to keep fan engagement because everyone goes into autopilot
during the regular season, So in order to keep fan engagement,
it's all about the mud slinging. Who's getting traded. You know,
which coach is on the hot seat, which star players
loathe each other, can't stand each other. That's all the
(10:48):
juicy goodness. It's not a random Wednesday night when the
Grizzlies are playing the Pelicans. That's not what creates excitement.
All right, last word here, So what is the magic formula? Oh,
wise one, what is the magic formula for the insider
that makes them so valuable? Glad you asked? So it
(11:12):
is a public service, sports entertainment. It's entertainment, So you
start with that. We like to be entertained. Humans like
to be entertained. Animals don't out in the serengetti. They're
not really looking for entertainment. But human beings, we look
for entertainment, and in short, every man, woman and child
is hardwired to consume gossip. It's just the way we
(11:34):
are we all get through life. Now that there's been
research done on that that says, part of it's for
our safety, your gossip who might be a threat to you.
In this case, we gossip on what kind of Feedicini,
Lebron James had for lunch yesterday, that kind of stuff.
But gossip is the human equivalent of like primate grooming.
(11:55):
It's the same concept, right, It's the same deal here,
and it's a universal feed sure across the world. Right, people,
human beings all over the world do the same thing.
It was Confucius who pointed out that the gossip monger
is the outcast of virtue, the outcast of reduce. It's
a guilty pleasure, it is. It's everywhere I've worked. People
(12:17):
gossip at work, right, You gossip about your co workers,
you gossip about your It's just what people do. In sports,
I mean, there's so much of it, and it drives engagement,
which is a big part of it. And so like
sports journalism is kind of a funny thing here, but
it's all form of entertainment, and so we all like
to be entertained, and so they.
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our lead this hour coming from South Florida or in
depth team coverage continues. When a quarterback goes out with
a cushion, we are there, well kind of, so we
know that two a tongue of by Low is not
walking back through that door maybe ever again. And that
is where the Miami football team is preparing for life
(15:12):
sans tua now talking about Low has not retired as
far as we know. However, he is stuck in the
Great Abyss out in the Bermuda triangle and a holding
pattern in the concussion protocol injured reserve, So he's out
at least a month, and that means for the Dolphins.
Skyler is the limit? Is what that means here. So
(15:35):
if you've not been following, maybe not for now anyway,
for now anyway, the Dolphins are all in on Skyler Thompson.
Who Yeah. Mike McDaniel, the Bubbly Dolphin head coach, affirming
the organization is rallying around their backup quarterbacks, Skyler Thompson,
(16:00):
the seventh round pick, saying the following he said quote
the confidence that the team has for Skyler is real
and it's earned, okay. Coach was effusive with his praise
for the backup quarterback there talking about the hours of practice.
(16:22):
Not a guy. Not a guy we in here talking
about practice, not a gay. Hours and hours of practice
he put in as a Dolphin backup quarterback. So let's
discuss the question, Mike McDaniel, we just laid it out
for it is saying that the Dolphins have a real
earned confidence, real earned confidence in backup quarterback Skyler Thompson.
(16:45):
As he prepares to start, are you in or are
you out? On this? So I've got fortune Cookie, Red
barn and Ed Sheeran, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are gonna close the blinds,
is what we're going to do. So Na b w
(17:12):
to answer the question are you in or out on this?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
I am out out out on this.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
H Now, this is one of those Malard monologues where
we give the disclaimer. Here we say, well, what else
could Mike McDaniel have said? Seriously?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What? What would you say? And you're not allowed to
be honest? These guys all lie. Do you imagine if
he'd come out and say, yes, my name is Mike
McDaniel and I'm the coach of the Miami Dolphins. We
don't have a quarterback. We're porked. Uh, you're not gonna
say that. So they didn't have a contingency plan. He
can't say that. Though he can't say they didn't have
a contingency plan. They have to make it seem like, oh, yeah,
(17:53):
we like our backup quarterback, but they clearly didn't like him,
if I'm not mistaken. They brought in a guy named
Mike White who had played for the Jets, and they
wanted him to be the backup quarterback this year. And
then they get ended up getting rid of him because
I guess he didn't look good in camp or whatever.
So they're they're stuck with Plan B, which was really
playing C. Who gets bumped up the Plan B and
(18:13):
is now Plan A. And so he the coach, Mike McDaniel,
gives a stock answer, next man up, do your job,
support your quarterback, all that stuff. Now, do we expect
Skyler Thompson to be Nick Foles two point zero? No,
we have very low expectations. Now that said, I do
believe in the bumpety bump. I believe in the bumpety bump.
(18:35):
I'm a fan of the bumpety bump and the bumpety
bump is when the star quarterback gets hurt, you have
a short term a week, two, three weeks possibly where
you can have some success with the backup quarterback. So
there is that, and this is something a winnable game.
No one thinks Seattle's all that good with Gino Smith.
That guy's a turd. So ultimately, this positivety from the
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Dolphin coach Mike McDaniel is right out of a fortune cookie.
It's right out of a fortune You crack the fortune
cookie and it says, don't pursue happiness, create it. So
they're trying to create, right, they're trying to create it.
Speaking new existence and all that mumbo jumbo. Now, page two,
Speaking of Miami, Miami, Miami, there are some social media
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aggregators that claimed Cam Newton was spotted in Miami. One
report even said Cam Newton was at Dolphin practice developing
hot dot dot dot. So the dots being connected. Could
it be a former MVP gonna be the next Dolphin
(19:43):
fill in quarterback? Well, where do you file? Here's the
question for the esteem panel. Where do you file the
report's connecting Cam Newton to the Dolphins? So I file
this one in the big Big Red barn on the farm,
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the barn on the farm, the big red barn on
the farm. And here's why. Engagement farming. That's what this is.
Engagement farming, nothing more, nothing less. Cam Newton was cooked
years ago. He was cooked the last couple of years
in Carolina. He proved it again with the Patriots, then
went back to Carolina just in case anyone had doubts.
You in the back of the room and said, hey,
(20:25):
I still blow. And so there was that. So, but
the name still has some pizaz. He's got the funny
hats he wears. He goes down to the haberdasherie and
wears the cute hats and all that stuff, and sure wonderful,
but there's no no interest. That would be That would
be malpractice, football malpractice if you're bringing Cam Newton in.
(20:47):
But he's got the pizaz, like we said, and all that.
So you tossed the name out, click of a click
and page views go up. Tick tick tick tick tick up,
higher and higher and higher. But no, might as well
call Brett if he'll be in Washington. Maybe he wants
to go play football down in Miami and see if
he's available. Knock yourself out now final point. We go
to boltt Moore, Baltimore. We go and why do we
(21:12):
go to Baltimore Because Lamar Jackson and the Ravens are
beating themselves. That's what he said. Those are not my words,
Those are not my words. Those are the words of
Lamar Jackson. He said, Hey, we're beating ourselves. Is that
how you see it? So I'm gonna go the F word,
(21:34):
as in fogg. It's foggy, and this is the default position.
Is my thought, my hypothesis that this is the default
position of every team that was supposed to be good
who's not good. It's not that we're just not good
all of a sudden, it's that, well, we're we're causing
these problems ourselves. And the reason it's foggy is yes,
(21:58):
Baltimore has a cacophony of penalties and missed opportunities. That
is absolutely correct. But these are the building blocks of bad.
They're the building blocks of bad to the bone is
what they are. Remember those little wooden blocks you played
with when you were a kid. They had the one
two threes in the ABC's on them. Maybe you played
(22:19):
with my dick. But the self inflicted wounds which is
the default position of Lamar Jackson. And it's really a
bigger issue here because you have the soundtrack to the
Ravens is the edge schering tune. Bad habits, I mean yeah,
bad habits that they have developed here, and that's how
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it goes. Now, regardless of that, you've got a defense
that has given up the most big plays in football.
What happened to that defense? You've got Lamar Jackson who's
slinging the ball all over the place but often not
hitting his receiver. In fact, in one statistic, he has
been as bad as Bryce Young, who just got benched
in Charlotte. And so you combine all all those things together,
(23:01):
and this has been a team that got shredded in
the fourth quarter by my guy, Gardner Minshew. Now I
like Gardner Minshew, but you're a championship team allegedly, and
you just got torn up to bits by Gardner Minshew.
And the defense against Kansas City, say would give him
a pass, but Kelsey didn't do anything in that game.
(23:22):
And Hollywood Brown's not playing this year for the Chiefs,
and so it's a similar group that they had last year.
And the Ravens were unable to consistently stop the Chiefs
and say, well, yeah, they could have, would have should
have won if the toe's inbounds. Well the toe was
not in bounds, and so that's that's where we are
at this point. So I disagree with Lamar Jackson. That's
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not telling the full story. And the pillars of bad
teams are turning the ball over, making excuses for those turnovers,
not playing defense properly. You know, those are the things
bad teams do. That's why you call them bad when
they play like that.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
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Speaker 1 (24:07):
Is Mallard, how about the charge the third degree?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
This is.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
What we got here? Cool?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
There are nine teams that have started off the season
zero to two. Yeah, the Rams are one of Which
of those nine teams do you think should feel the
least concerned?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, so there's some of these teams are supposed to
sock like the Giants and teams like that, so you
don't really consider them, Carolina. So I'm the teams that
shouldn't be concerned are Cincinnati and Baltimore because they have
quarterbacks who are supposed to be good. And they're in
a division with the Steelers who don't have a quarterback
and the Browns who have the creepy quarterback. So that's
(24:45):
your answer, right, and they get to play those teams
a bunch, and so that that would be the answer. Next.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
On Tuesday, Bobby whit Junior became the first shortstop in
MLB history to have multiple thirty thirty seasons. Witch still
only has the second best odds for al MVP, behind
Aaron J.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Judge.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Ben, do you think now that Judge isn't on pace
to hit sixty plus homers that has a chance at
winning the award?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
No? No, if I'm not mistaken, the Royals have been
free fall in free fall, and they might even be
in the playoffs depending on what happens the last couple
of weeks here. But Aaron Judge is about as close
to a lock as he can get. He's like ninety
five plus percent chance. He's the RBI Goblin. He's still
leading baseball on home runs, he checks all the boxes,
plays in New York. He's gonna be the MVP next.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
That's being reported that the NBA is targeting the twenty
twenty seven to twenty eight season for expansion teams to
enter the league, Ben, do you think they'll hit that mark?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yes, Here's why, Coop, because they have had the blueprint
on this going back probably at least ten years. They're
gonna put a team in Seattle, a team in Vegas.
They've got it all mapped out. They have a rough
idea of where the arenas are going to be. I mean,
they've done the footwork on this, the boots on the ground,
so it will happen. How did we know you passes?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
As they went on.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
My done, James Holloween James I won.
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Speaker 7 (26:20):
It's now time for time for Horry Horry Harry wait.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Ask Bed Twitter said, is your questions on Twitter now?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
And it is asked Ben, Your questions are answers for
the rest of the hour. Want to point out Steve
who called up from the country formerly known as Burma.
Mia mar As, I said, miamar Me and mar Me
and Mark. He says he's a Baptist minister. He's on
a three week Christian mission, and he says this is
(26:51):
his fourth trip to the country and he sent some photos.
It's pretty cool, man. That's a place I'll never go.
But that's all awesome that you got pictures. That's beautiful
some of the pictures. Ayakoubloop. It is time now for
ask Ben. Your questions are answers.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
All right, we are going to start off with a
question from Cowboy Killer and.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
He wants to know, Cowboy Killer, what crowd.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Did you hang out with in high school?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I was a cool football player back in high school,
so I hung out with the cool kids, played football
and all that. So, yeah, that was my craft, Eddie.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
It was kind of a mix. It wasn't really one
group because I did a lot of different things. I
was in the band, I played football, I had like
my best friend was like Rocker, the full extended dance
it was. It was not It was not one like
specific click.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It was just a group. Is not answering the question, No, Rada,
I hung out with my dance girls. There you go. See,
that's how you answered the question. We had one whole
hallway to ourselves. That's that's the way to do it.
Uh cooble loop Well.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
If that's Eddie's answer, that that's the answer answer I am.
My answer is the same. I was a drifter. I
hung out with what.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You could have just said, I'm a drifter booth. I
wouldn't consider a drifter. Well. I hung out with people
in different groups.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
I hung out with the goth kids sometimes, hung out
with you seem a little, hung out with the nerds sometimes,
and then then the cool kids sometimes.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
All right, what is next year? To ask?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Being?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Your questions are answers? Send a question in and hashtag
ask ben on x X marks the spot. How don't
I seem gothy? No, you don't see uh?
Speaker 7 (28:38):
The King Rory wants to know. When is the last
time you willingly wage yourself?
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Willingly somebody had the doctor to make you.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah, like, well, when I found out they were going
to pick up the TV show, I started panicking. I
was like, oh my god. So I did weigh myself
and then I went on a standed. I didn't eat
like for weeks at a time. It was ridiculous. So
that would be the last time. A few months back,
what about you, Eddie, I've been I've.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
Actually been doing it a lot recently because I'm I'm
sort of dieting, so I'm trying to keep track of things.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Are you gonna diet in Pittsburgh any? No, No, of
course you better not diet. You're gonna go to the
sandwich shop. You're gonna yeah, yeah, we'll go to Primon.
You go to the one in the Steel District, the
original one that's there's a sign. That's where I met
Pete and Pittsburgh and the bread man and the Doe boy,
all three of them were there. It's a magical night, Lorena.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
I do it all the time for fun. Ben, Well, yeah,
I fluctuate while I sleep.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
If I weighed as much as you did, I would
weigh myself all the time too. What about you, Kobalou?
Speaker 7 (29:42):
I think it was like yesterday?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
All right, now, don't you you weigh less? I was
told in the morning, yes, yeah, right, is what is
our morning?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I know.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
Right after you wake up, is when you weigh the
least if you digested it all because your.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Body's yeah, you haven't eaten anything yet for the day,
and all right, I don't know what that's. I think
that's ask Ben. Your questions are.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
All right, So I really like this question. I don't
know if if you guys would like it, but mass
whole Mickey wants to know if you could have one
meal prepared by a famous chef, who would it be
and what would you get?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Hmmm, Yes, I don't like the celebrity Anthony Bourdain. He's dead,
so he can't. It would be difficult different.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Yeah, I was wondering that too, like can you pick
somebody dead because in the question, like in the tweet,
he put a gift of Julia Child so and and
she's long dead.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
So's she's dead dead? Yeah, like good dead. Yeah, I
don't I don't know. I mean, I I know names
or just I don't know there's a specific meal, but
I mean I'm just like a truck stop like barbecue guy,
I don't know. I mean I love Bucky's barbecue, sandwich
is and uh and chicken fingers and all that. So
I wish I had a great answer, but I I mean,
(31:02):
there's nothing that pops into my mind. I like Emerald Legassi, Bam,
you know that kind of stuff like that guy.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
I mean, I guess I would have to do some
research and find out who the best barbecue chef is.
Is there such a thing as Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and
whoever whoever that is, you know, we have some brisket.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Oh yeah, briskey, you know there's a time to get
it now. But there's a casino in southern California really
good brisket I talked about on my podcast. Well what
about you, Lorraine.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Well, I didn't realize he actually had a picture of
Julia Child's, but I was thinking Julia Child and her
French onion soup.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That's what I want. That's all you found any good
French onion soup around here in la I haven't no.
Speaker 9 (31:45):
The last good French onion soup I had was it
Red Robin in Oregon, And I don't think that's a
good example.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
There's a place in New York my brother was really good,
but I'm not in New York very often. So I
if anybody knows good French, I love French. It was
so good, Yeah, so good, Coop.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
All right, So I have two answers to this. I
have never been to his restaurant, so I've never tried
his food, but I would really want like something from
Joel Robashan very you know, highly regarded chef. As as
far as the chef that I have tried and I
know I like and the safe bet would be Wolfgang Puck.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
How by the way, an internet search says Aaron Franklin
is the world famous barbecue pitmaster. I've heard of him,
who took the world by storm and his hands down
the best known grill master.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Good what is next? Just to ask man, your questions
are answer for the rest of the hour.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
This art puffin high art puffin. He wants to know
have you ever dated a co worker pre marriage?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Of course? Yeah, yeah, when I was early on my Yeah,
I did dat two word at the radio station. Yeah.
I think that was a rite of passage, right Eddie,
back in the day when you get a radio. Maybe
not for you, but.
Speaker 8 (33:04):
Yeah, I tried, but they weren't interested in me. I know,
I had never dated somebody i'll work with.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Well, I didn't directly work with this person, but they
did work in radio Lorena.
Speaker 9 (33:14):
I don't date Ben, but I have hung out with
multiple co workers throughout my life.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Who Oh, by the way, Eddie, I'm sure you have, Eddie.
You gotta you gotta recreate Eddie. The photo that Alf
found of met at Primani Brothers there with Breadman and
Pete and Pittsburgh cool.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
No, I never have no never really know what never. Well,
it is mostly dudes in sports true sports radio. Yeah,
so the odds are against that anyway. All right, that
is it there it is. Ask men, your questions are answers.
If you like this, we do it every weekend about
(33:55):
this time. If you don't like it, it's only once
a week who cares.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And if you really really like it, we do a
ripoff which is nothing like this on my podcast on
the weekend, so we get that as well. An amazing thing. Yes, yes,
I know shocking.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Back over, Eddy is, It's time now for puck dover.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Hockey.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Although I know there were some media days, Eddie. I
saw my friends in the media were sitting me. They
had media days around the NHL yesterday. I'm tagging Coop
in these T shirt machine gun videos. All right, that's
very important. It is. It really is during God's work.
Speaker 8 (34:32):
We're fifteen days away from the start of the NHL season.
First game of the year will be Overseas October fourth
in Prague, New Jersey Devils against the Buffalo Saber. His
first North American regular season games will be October. The
eighth Pittsburgh Penguins feature all of famer Sidney Crosby agrees
on a two year contract extension. Harry is an average
annual value of eight point seven million.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
His jersey number is eighty seven, so I guess he
likes that.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
Thirty seven year old three times Stanley Cup winner entering
his twentieth NHL season all in Pittsburgh to tro Red
Wings signed young forward Lucas Raymond eight years sixty four
point six million on make eight point zero seven million
per season. Twenty two year old led the team in
points last season. Boston Bruins number one goalie Jeremy Swayman
says he will hold out a training camp until he
gets a new contract.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
He is a restricted free agent.
Speaker 8 (35:16):
Sean Higgins, the drunk driver that fatally struck Glub's Blue
Jacket star Johnny Gudrou and his brother, will remain in custody.
He's being held without bond prior to his next court
date that's on October fifteenth. Meanwhile, the Blue Jackets announced
it delby honoring Johnny Gaudreau. All season long. They got
a patch on the jersey, sticker on the helmet and
they will keep his jersey intact in their locker.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Room all season long, with his equipment and his jersey
hanging in there, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Vancouver Cannucts forward Dakota Joshua announced that he was diagnosed
with testicular cancer this summer. Underwent surgery to remove a tumor.
Twenty eight year old will miss the start of the season.
It says he plans on returning to the ice at
some point this season. New Jersey Devil's defenseman Luke Cues
suffered a left shoulder injury and offseason training.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
He's out six to eight weeks.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Dallas Star's top score Jason Robertson going to miss training camp.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
With assist removed from his foot.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Longtime defenseman Alex Edler signs a one day contract, going
to retire as a Vancouver Kentucky played over one thousand
NHL games, over nine hundred of them with Vancouver. The
team's going to honor him before their game on October
eleventh against the Flyers. Other retirements announced include forward Tyler
Ennis after thirteen years, goalies Anti Ronta and Alex Staylock
after eleven seasons and depends on Chris Widman.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
After six seasons.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Tampa Bay Lightning named defenseman Victor Headman as the eleventh
captain in team history, replacing the departed Steven Stamcos. This
will be his sixteenth year all with Tampa Bay. Foe
Headman and the Chicago Blackhawks named Nick Folino as the
thirty fifth captain in team history. He's entering his eighteenth
at AHL season, second in Chicago. Rogers Communication has purchased
Bell Canadian Enterprises thirty seven point five percent stake in
(36:48):
the Maple League Sports and Entertainment for four point seven billion,
giving the media giant a majority state ownership in Canada's
largest and most valuable sports conglomerate. It includes the Toronto
Maple Lea's Toronto Raptors, Toronto e FC, the soccer team
Toronto Argonauts' CFL team, and a couple of minor league
teams as well.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Carolin Hurricanes agree on a ten year naming rights deal.
They're no longer going to be playing at PNC Arena.
Speaker 8 (37:13):
It's now the Lenovo Center if any Stanley Cup champion
Florida Panthers agree to extend their lease at America Bank
Arena through twenty thirty three. And I mentioned yesterday, but
not everybody's listening Toronto Maple.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Everyone listens to every second of the year.
Speaker 8 (37:26):
Toronto Maple's have a new helmet sponsor. Yeah, on their
jerseys now it's milk. It's milk on the jerseys, but
on the helmet this year Oreos.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Oreo helmet sponsor. Now those double stuff Oreos.
Speaker 8 (37:40):
So those regular area it has to be gott to
be double stuff that com on one and then you pucked.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
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